The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-12-07
MORALITY IN MAsQI GRADE

MORALITY IN MAsQIEKADE
lazy Garden is large somewhat fat, very
1Ar person. with an artistic temperament
- voice She has only To make the call.
i MI the wild echoes come ringing like u
~ chorus Battle cries and despairing walls
La Rhine maidens tha4-%would give steam
|lntle laryngitis are pomped up by her lungs
- the ease anu continuity with which SIX
|mths' old baby engages to give the stiily night
expression. lust now Miss Car
kA5is engaged in the extra-heayy training OF
Hing her em,bonpeint through the sinuosities
ENGalome and all the world of the wicked
|eAIities is up In arms. Hence, much adter-
.ng for Miss Garden, ard - press agent worked
EMJth the news. The game plays itself, from
1T and police court, and the Garden WAKES
EAnd happy under the fervent rays OF pub
Ia speak of the wicked moraiitles, because 1t
7EGAtcago that first discovered the ultra wick
n OF the Garden "Salome,' The play hay
$nfAted on police sensibilities in the Windy
other cities stood aghast at the very pros
k0f Its production. Baltimore, for instance.
sit wished "Salonle" and Mary. did not
IN could stand the ladys Interpretation.
n. Louis. before it permitted il, engaged d
- performance for the Morality Squad
shluecoats. Manifestly, whether Garden Is
LII to morals not, is not question which
I'D properly resolved b. such judges Man
y also, Ii there is hurt in her productions.
1t possible way - extend their influence
the system of undue emphasis upon what
md what she means
111ene'' itself is not SO much immoral Us It
hid taste, considering the religious pre-
az the people. lis music IS sensuous. and
290tif 10 that of a peryerse passion. The
o dance can be either symbolic or sue-
1e, according to the genius or the perspiea.
0k the performer Women like Mary Gar
rive II The physical instead Of the mental
They are thus enabled to prostitute au
that is at least artistic by the iusistenee
which misguided authorities biare forth
16ake attractive the Incidental vjciousness 81
performance
&is whole matter OF fSalome' and it's recur-
II exploitation had It's birth in the whimsical
6ery of New York The most wicked city
E1he country became, some years age rarely
y wonderfully yirtuors. The Salomea which
E&ofused to witness VAS then merely obieez
<Mnb1e on account Of the subject matter OF the
ate.
Rber Of different reasons The "salome
oeFs, followed In a numerous and nauseous
1p. What the great city had spurned, it
lily embraced and glorifed. AS result. the
m Of shocking play performed BY actresses
SBineers. each of them seeking to exceed the
ID In the indecency Of its Interpretation. What
III sane treatment would have ben q short
run has become national influenza
kxctIy as the purvey ors of this sort of pub
6ehauchsry gain the advantage OF hystereal
nciation do they gain in real power 10 do
m the masses whose purity is yet Of a sort
6Afer smireh The really successful play
I'd Il has always beef that which presents i
nv and tender picture Of the average simple
AZ is the hardest play to write because Il is
nost obvious For the lack Of 1t, the sa
~ gain their pernicious vogue. given prom.
NJ, advertisement and notoriety hy a great
Of weil-meaning. persons who do not rec
- that the peryersa production will die Of
Mn weight except and only as it is made t,e
~ OF attack of a 1erverse masquerade OF