The evening world. Newspaper, August 8, 1908, Page 7

‘ , ——- ——s. MAGAZINE + STORY ED By Charles Darnton. HAT a pity that Osear Wilde should have read hig Bible so diligently, or, worse still, that Richard Strauss should have read Oscar Wilde at all! For out of their works has come the Visitation of Salome, and already | seven dancers are posing and wrig- gliing as the daughter of Herodias, three of the unblushing sisterhood with legs as bare ag the day they | got them. When Wilde dragged Salome from her clotstered seclusion Into the limelight by dramatizing that acrobatic young person he sowed a! eeed that threatens to beat the tiny acorn as a producer of a whopping big crop, It looks, in fact, as though Salome had “cornered the market” all by | herself, alone and unashamed, with the ald of a few beads, a “property” head of John the Baptist and a little capital A talk about Art, The same New York that rafsed its hands {n holy horror when a Salome in fleshings | interpreted th usie of Richard Strauss {s now staring and staying in silence while y 1s young Women in their own sking are “Interpreting” themse! for the edification of summer showgoers. | Six young women and one man—or rather a “female {mpersonator"— | are cavorti ads and writhing on the “boards” to show how idden fru That some of them Sug | gest the han of re se doesn't detract from their lofty purr heir managers are high priestesses and | priests of sensi know how to ister to the needs of thej box-office. In the more and 8 cases of this precious new cult not the dance but the shock's the ng about papler mache he are th fonalism ¢ fact, La Sy “opened to poor bust-| A Question of Cights. | ness.” but_ on the second night phe began the game some! house was packed. I am told t this Proctor’s One moved La Sylphe to tears. At! weeks ago at Houndre atremand now Baloming be dances tn tghts—a her professed be naked truth about Misy Hort. | 1, Miss Faust and Miss Tanguay | s that they are as sensational as bare | skin can make them, Pelow thelr beads! | they are—themselves, and when their | gauze skirts are at half-mast In the! Bh To my h ewe : whirlmg moments of their unrest they Beedrranbies Are even more sq. It ts worthy of note that two Salome Up e ‘is dancers in Fourteenth street wear ee both Ught# and sandals, Fourteenth ean 5, apparently, has more respect | sito and Eva ‘Tanguay ot tbe Albam-| ieties than Broadway or| we nave thrown tguts and discretion| UPper Seventh avenue, One of tho ra hay downtown Salomes ts at the Dewey Theatre, where legs might be expected to Nour. the other at a dime mus- eum—where Salome belongs along with other freaks, And yet these Four- teenth street daughters of Herodias| are eminently respectable when It comes to @ question of comparative Cement Salome Ts Sincere. The dime museum Salome !s the only | > pretends to Justify her exhib! | giving the ‘dance of the seven) She may not have seven—I lost! ount and my Interest after a short it {t 1s evident that she means Her {nterest In Poor John, how- oon whirled away In a harm- | dance, At the Dewey, La along without @ head y devotes herself to an that may mean anything | Like the ten-cent Salome at | nuseum, she {9 at least sincere, ng by the gyrations farther up- ance of the seven vells’’ {s driven into of her ap- was don in thi Maud Alla its pose Some years ag A polite | st Was too tame for New York Ss} shown hese same dancers as Three of the dancers, who, we as others W 4 e las the Skin Salom | feel fearfully bundled | 1 probably ne vell through a lorgnette Js ever pure! In her new dance, La Sylphe, now at | F 7 ee Keith & P ‘ifth Avenue a- ’ A ° ; t t BY “Hel” with a Clinwing Echo, ego's owas trom the vets by sho he Harter couldn't sew yom of midwatch of Jo! tist's death night rests on the in f.ont of the “back drop," nme quotes a bit of Serip- jture to let you see what La Sylphe is iriving at, and then this tall, slender young woman, swaying and bending like | of “art” until Sylphe caused Jt to|a willow in a storm, fascinates you with | echo In the box-office, where !t has been | dancing that makes you wonder what making a clinking sound ever alnce/she has done with her bones, In all] Salome came to town, As a matter of! her remarkable movements she stee She was In Black and White ex by Jack Bryans “And 80 you refuse me?” "Fes, man w'at goed under a hat like dat!" | "What are you hanging around the Kitchen so much for?” ‘Oh, well, you see, I might w @ cook some day, and that plur ding does smell so good!" r could marty pud- Chickens Piucked by Fans, | HICKENS are now plucked in a wholesale manner by the use of pno C machinery. , There ts a receptacle in which the fowl ts placed after being killed, and Into thts are turned severaj cross-currents of alr from ele- trle fans revolving at the rate of 5,000 turns per minute, In a few seconds the tird Jy stripped of Its feathers, even to the tiniest particle of down, and the | machine is ready for enother, matic OOOO O00 Ake < of fi aa aa 2 Lotla Faust clear of sensational sm and step by step inqualified admiration, There » ghastly head to make your eyes f “ Circulation Books Open to All,” “NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1908. t | crawiea across the stage on Thursday night, with her trailing legs rigid and skirtless, and finally seized tha hi head with eager hands, a woman near me turned away from the aight with the exclamation: "Disgusting!"’ After all, a papler-mache “head 1s ; What our imagination makes it. An- other person might mistake the object on the tray for a plum pudding and ‘he Hammerstein Salome for a hungry girl, yet at the same time It ts not exactly a pleasant sight wriggling toward the “property” head lke an eel, her eyes fixed and a thin, on her Ups. But the ral impression given by Miss ‘off- |mann {3 that Salome was born on the Chicago Midway and that life ts one mad whl. The press agent sends word that Miss He nn {s going to f<ypt and the Land, where {t {3 ention Holy the rulns or wh ay still remain of Ix He goes on to sav t 8 3 e tlme to a careful study of Salome, a to see Miss Hoffmann | “ Circulation Books Open to All,’ OOO! ory Brvan, Taft and Roosevelt, comeS Most of them), {t must ba confessed through the mails with the announces | that she looks rather foollsh In her ment that the only male Salome in cap-| "dance." Miss Faust has always tivity ts anxlous to dance for the Sa- shown a great deal of back, {f not Joma championship, and that he '8) backbone. in her work, but now—well, ready to bet $10” that he is the best my pencil! must draw the line some: Salome in the business. Oh, marshmal- | where! Her defense may be that she, lows! | ke the others, is dancing for s9 much When it comes to a question of danc-/a head, not Jolin the Baptist's. To be ing, La Sylphe ts the only one who can exact, she waltzes with the Casino head really claim acquaintanceship with Sa- | yery and treats It kindly, And then, when she has taken the inevitable flop, she receives her reward from the downcast eyes, ag shy < pair of lome from the feet up. Faust and Tanguay ‘Visions.’ d never known (hat M audience ike going back home. above all things she desires to visit Faust is a dancer, and after see! tents Hoffmann and the Rorrors, the land where the real Salome lived. at the Casino I am still in With the !rrepressible Tanguay—she + Let her g0, by all means! of the fact. But I can truthfully say of the rammeiled waist and the Gertrude Hoffmann, on the other) Another press agent in employ of she 1s the prettiest and most demure pompine it is another case of “l seems to strain every muscle to Julian Eltinge. the “female imperson- @alome now enga n elevating the, Don't C: which sie sings by wa give you the horrors. H 3 the most at whose Salonie on pox-ottica receipts, With all her) of preparation, perhaps. for her Sa- Viclous Salome in town. When she'the devoted papier ef! charms, however (and you can seeilome “turn.” It 1s impossible to go foogdm! No, 3—The Blithe Slid- ing Scale Touch,” HIS one works AG- cording to a rt of fade-away ystem. He re- ninds you of the Yennesseean who, after Mr. Cleve- ind’s first Inaugu- ation, swooped ywn upon Wash- gton to nall the mbassadorship to He stuck tor al CLARENCE CULLEN “sussia- around months, becoming seedier every day, un- til at length he found that he couldn't even get a job as cuspidor cleanser In the Treasury Department. Ascertaining which, he slouched Into Mr, Cleveland's office one day, looking pretty ruef tad tnquired of the President Yo! don't happen t’ have ary pair o’ ol’ | nd that’s not wukkin’, have you, "The Sliding-Scale Toucher barnacles on you until, when you buy, he obtains a flash at your roll, (Most of them en- tertain the tra that, after you ve had the temerity to parade your roll are bound come across for their bit; for what excuse on earth wil) you for fusing to tear off?) busy as a fox terrier a hole tn a tin roof then have Then he gets pup trying to and manuf. badinage something as follows He—Aiways got It on you, haven't you? I never cut vour trail vet t you did ve all of the world’s money in your nankeens, Where {s your vate, personally conducted n now, and do the Secret Service people bother you much? You —— Clarsnce Cullen, «ectsans Tells A XIGCDODOO @ FOC OO He-Righto. Fellow ought to keep a |few dollars always sunk in the kick in case of a pinch, That's me, too—until they clean me. Glad I happened to falt against you, old Colin horse. I went to the mat for a bunch of Brooklyn Rapid Transit on @ two-point margin a coup, ot days ago, and now I couldn't sen her a pound of candy if I out of a nickel- think—yes, I tt me about fifty to get me ov ers until to-morrow noon. noon I'll be the sure-enoug ined chamois crag, and | pole—will 1 o'cloc convenient for you?—and put the \baok in your hand Ye ome leaping tre eet You at in the afternoon be “Now, He Isn't Leoking—Thanks!” ‘his wife's out bamboo me about ten—enough to nudge mo by for the chophouse dinner this evening—and 1'li forgive you. You— He-Oh, you're making you're Ittle occasional trip up and down the iine, paying up dead horse, hey? Well, it they're as glad to see you as they wera to see me when I settled last week for three hundred worth of past-and- sone eats and lap-ups, they'll dike out tier plants in bunting, Seeing that you've g pur little disbursing list all made out, thou harpoon you e and Vil dart the ftiniph back to W morning by messenger vs no dream, old boy. could shake liows If I one-tenth of the fel- is route for about a tenth what they owe me I'd be motor-boat- | ng right now on Lake Lucerne with an incognita Elinor Glyn princess, Oh, | well, the poor devils needed the kale and 1 didn't have the gizgard to refuse to slip {t to ‘em. Don’t worry, then, old chap, Under the existing circumstances T wouldn't pull more than a twospot oft | or roll for anything, your spoke Atty) jYou- —— n Cane} pry we you had He—-How's that? If you'd take a chance and re field's old place in Saratoga? Ha ha!!} » yes, thank: buck'll do for But you're the mad wag. Perfect! ‘en That fellow over there in | scamp. If that bundle you broke out al. Na ey is minute ago wasn't a Joingates then Tl, °° o—will be cook my own pills from now i) a im hen, twe ll kee * (Orr tiong ¢ : til to-morrow os 4 1 He-—-B'jinks, af ws Ww 3 1 M n k for a and a ee four days and; Yes y yw she's yelling for mo’ the wad for @ fellow to live ta a f town, do its, chietly for the reason that, a you clippo! Stop that blushing wind-up, kes y 1 u feel that ‘ony. you! Ob, weil, then, you caa! you're getilng a bargain, Seven Dancers Notw as the Daughter of Herodias MAGAZINE* STORY | SECTION. 6 Posing TOO OOUUOOOOOOOU000R under her, her ekirc meanwhile fica: ng in the breeze of her activity, end er sturdy underpinning convincing you that she looks much better in her ‘favorite white tights than out of them, | The “Vision of Salome" she gives you ls generous, to say the least, Seriously this bare Salome business suggest? animalism more than Salome or anything else, Furthermore, ft | threatens to turn the stage into an um |dressing room, Before long, If this sort of thing keeps up, we may have !Into deta!l about Miss Tanguay'’s cos-| "Salome choruses’ {n our musical tume, ‘There really isn't mneh to talk| comedies. Worst of all, The Visita. about. A few beads, an “Intermiaaton,’’| tion of Salome will give the good a gauze skirt @eat Hves clese to na-| people who never go to the theatre j ture don with the dance some reason for decrying the stage, | And what a dance! It ts a foyour| If the Skin Selomes were all dropped Into a well the stage might be saved lessly out of the running after the ishing embarrassment—or, on second lap. But the eyes of the head move thought, they might be sent across tbe a riittle Tanguay ehild| ry where the ever-watehful mos- She hops about! qulto could be trusted to administer had built a fire] Jersey {us of the summer variety, revel, a wild rsem& with Poor John | OO Ou | Soca) : Soul Cruelty - As Ground for Divorce | | of thelr only ch! a boy, was given to By Lilian Bell. the father, who, broken-hearted and ECENTLY a humiliated, devoted his lite to that R : tress * how did this vamptre-wife avenge for dive 5 3 | AB r vunds— time her company played in the mouicruelty) clty where she had undergone her tnl- aps some ti whe sent for that little son | people Will make of hers, allowed him to see his mother a Joke of this and In the broadest of playa, plied him wit wax quite merry champagne and cigarettes and dee over it, But to} me it forms one of} the very best grounds for di yorce I have ever} heard of. And the most intangible to! t no woman who has ever} gone through with tt would hesitate to / declare it eriellest form of cruelty | | the mind of man ever devised | There are ma to strike a woman or to abuse her c yet who wil] endeayor by every ¢ cunning and compulsion to > will of a proud woman, Just pleasure of seeing her soul in hurnlla- | tion before his own baser spirit, and an ts describe, Ye men who W ak tho for the her |who will not hesitate to hurt {through mental ill-treatment of her children, Compared to such a man the lent who knocks a woman down ts a} | gentleman. The wor pul cruelty ts thing abo ? Enjoying Her Humiliation, n yolng soul until, when fee tose to go with hie are now speeding gether. cue . whi isband and father ominitted te Xes pred ofteneat umagina- brulant (i moag women ap wie whose h isband pro her vallius and protecte Age and on a A e ‘ rove other mem, The custody {) her arti goudust with