Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-06

Strauss "Salome." as given at the Man
haitian Opera House, formed by person
who, after seeing it twice. now is swirl
ing around in a vortex of rebellion ana
signed.
Strauss "Salome," then. is a wart on
the fair cuticle of opera.
Strauss "Salome Is an eruption or
eczema on the peachy skin of poetry.
The Emusic" of "Saiome'' isn't music.
1t isn't even the walls and means of the
lost and damned, as you've been muddy
told. 1t is just instrumental junk
Joachim the great old German vfolinist
who died little while ago. dubbed Rich
ard Strauss the Cagliostro of composers
and the leading little charlatan OF the
modern world. and Herr Joachim was
1t isn't that the music of Salome
lacks in harmony melody and all Of the
other essentials of music.
II Is, simply. that 1t is junk.
And he who writeth this. please TO
understand. is fond of Wagner, Debussy
and the genuine modernists Of the most
modern schools of composition.
The music of "Salome" sounds like
nothing so much as the fishhornings and
the soueakings and ratings of the in
sane mob on Broadway on election night
or New Year eve.
There isn't one-eighth of a seconds up
lift or exaltation in the whole score.
1t is sort of Gargantuam, Cyclopean
mus'cp. joke.
The theme Of "Salome" belongs ex-
clusively to the satanists and the ex-
ponents Of the black mass.
1t is as nauseating as an oyster wharf
In midsummer when oysters are, for
reasons. out of season.
The undersigned saw this "Salome'
twice simply because he was. In the
course OF business and things. obliged to
see IL twice.
With the helm OF benign Providence
and few members Of the Marine Corps
he'll never see IT again.
You've read too. OF the grace and
'spiritual agility" and so on. of Mary
Garden in the "Salome' dance One
critic. moved by some strange poppy or
mandragora. OF which I would like to
have the recipe wrote that Miss Garden
"eminded him in the dance of "a flower
being played upon by southern wind"
All OF which. good Washington. people.
is unstrained south breeze from the
neighborhood of Giesboro Point.
Don't you believe a word of it.
Gertrude Hoffman can dance. and has
danced. nineteen different kinds Of
Saturn rings around Mary Garden in the
Thus ''Salome' the opera which stands
in need OF chloride OF lime.
It's just as we'll to keep these records
clear. If only for the sake of the vet
unborn folks who half a century from
now. will be reading that Sunday Star
column headed Fifty Years Ago In The
Star"
MET Jack Binns. the &C. Q. D." boy
AVA OF the Republic wreck. the other
day-the day after he returned from
Philadelphia. where he went to get some
sleep. They wouldn't let the boy sleep
here-kept pulling and hauling him
around. trying to make him exhibit him
self at vaudeville shows and lobster
palaces, and all that sort Of thing. which
Binns regards as tommyrot of the purest
ray serene
Binns Is chunky young chap. with
fair hair and a good skin and a very
wholesome look about him. Although
an Englishman. you'd never know II.
He knows Broadway better than he does
the Strand. and likes 1t better. too. He
has been in Washington. by the way
went down there during two-week
lay-off year or so ago. Just to have a
hook as he express d it, and he enjoyed