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s THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 14, 1909. New York Goes Wild Over the Salome of Mary- Garden and Seats Sell for as Much as $20 Actress Dominates Entire Performance With one of the Most Astounding Pieces of Realism Ever Seen. v v ft It t 7 A A 4- J ; ' VI V : ' -2aJj2TJcI:Yc5si:j , . i r U NEW YORK. Feb. 8. (Special Cor respondence.) The topic of the week again has been "Salome." whom we thought, two years ago, had been disposed of for grood and for all. But Cscar Ham mersteln has his own ideas about things and felt that In this work lay another chance to make a frreat. coup. He was not mistaken. That was proven on Thursday night, when the entire house Was so'd out at prices Just double the regular ones which prevail at his house. On the street and In ticket offices seats were selling for 20, and the excitement around the lobbies on the night of the performance was at Its height. While the success of the production rented upon the efforts of many. Mary Garden and her art dominate the entire performance, one might almost say the music itself. Her Salome was one of the most astounding pieces of realism ever enacted upon any stage. It is scarcely possible to describe Miss Garden In this role, as her Interpretation as well as the work Itself Is for the psychopath lst. not for the music critic. In this part she is not the woman steeped In sin whose sensuality is not less vicious than her actual cruelty. Miss Garden takes as her keynote the age of Salome, 15. and follows this out with such logical truth and emotional detail that one Is overwhelmed at her drawing of a natural degenerate, born of a still more degenerate mother. In consequence of which, by Inheritance as well as by na ture, she Is at once a victim of her own passion and the heritage of her inother'a crimes. Salome's passion, which is clearly hys terical. due to her youth and her childish stubbornness, has all the waywardness and iack of responsibility of her tender years. Miss Garden's art Is the one supreme thing In the ' entire production. Long ago she astonished those concerned with niusical affairs by announcing that hh was willing to dance as well as to sing ti.e part, and ever since there has ben much curiosity as to her ability to do so. It must be said that her dance was all that was beautiful, artistic and finished, without even the suggest! veness which might have been expected to creep Into a dance of this period given under these conditions. " Her singing, too, was throughout sat isfying. Notwithstanding the disgust that many must have experienced over lier scene with the head of Jokanaan on the platter, her singing at this time was of exceptional beauty, as was the music. The work was produced In French, not as It was given the last time, which was in the German language, but since, at best, it is a translation, the language did 7iot disturb the atmosphere, especially as Ftrauss represents the music of no coun try In "Salome." and in its atmosphere It comes within the range of the theatrl U tendencies of the French school, al though It lacks the finesse and the sub tlety of the latter. It should be said that as Strauss showed catholicity in tne treatment of his subject, so Campaninl repressed his natural I-atin tendencies in an interpretation which could but awaken admiration for a keenly analytical ' and conscientious Interpretative power. Cam piuitnt's reading had the emotional sweep of the Italian temperamenr, . put intel lect was always present In the straight forward, commanding and clearly defined Interpretation in which the conductor lost none of the nuances or of the crafty subtleness of the wonderful network of sound. The music seemed more within the mental grasp of the hearer than it did two years ago. It may be that Ba rer, Mahler, Debussy and others even more pitiless have forced us to hear fair ly, if not always unflinchingly, their cacophonous messages. Dufranne, as Jokanaan. Intoned the music allotted to him with real beauty and nobility, and Dalmores sang with luscious beauty of voice the part of Herod. His nervous energy, his uneasy, restless, unstable manner, were well measured and impressive. Herodias was well sung by Mme. Dorla. The brilliant audience manifested great enthusiasm at the close of the opera, and many times during the performance it seemed difficult to withhold the ap plause from Miss Garden. I went to see Miss Garden the day following her irreat success, and found her literally burled in flowers in her uptown apartaient. Before she had the chance to ask what I thought of "Salome." I informed the great artist, who is as dazzling in her brilliancy in her home as upon the stage, that I rame to get her opinion of "Salome." "Salome." said Miss Garden, "is a very remarkable role, and I believe that .my interpretation has taken it out of the range of Immortality. Tou caught my idea." continued the singer, who is not one of those to say that she never reads a criticism. "You have already expressed me much as I would express myself. Salome was a degen erate of the worst type. She was a sexless thing and a child. The over whelming passion she manifested for Jokanaan was not one of love and had no relation to that emotion in the least. She was not capable of love. She four.d something here which she couid not have, and her passion to pos sess it was so great that she wrought herself into the frenzy which ended in the 3ceno with the piatter and the head. Her grief is not one of mourning for the dead man whom she desired, it was still a regret that she did not accomplish what she wanted in life." "Will you say something of the mu sic. Miss Garden?" 'The music of Strauss Is to me more immoral than the book of Oscar Wilde, Much of It he has done with a brutal touch. admire it, but It is no such setting as Debussy would have given it. Salome, the book of Wilde, h the atmosphere which Debussy could nave handled. It would have been more voluptuous, if you will, more dan gerous, perhaps, but it would have been less brutal. "What do you think of the moral ef feet of producing such a work?" This was the next question I put to Miss Garden, but It happened at the time that she was also receiving the very interesting visit of Mary Shaw, the noted actress, whose labors as pioneer for the Ibsen drama are well known from Coast to Coast. Gracefully Miss Garden waved the question over to the great figure in Ibsen drama and said: "Hero is the woman who was playing Mrs. Warren in Bernard Shaw's drama when It was removed from the boards. "Ask her." Miss Shaw, who was the principal figure in "Mrs. Warren's Profession when this work was forbidden in New York, looked 1'P from the volume of the other Mary s press notices she was reading and said: "I cannot see any reason why 'Sa lome,' at least an interpretation such as that of Miss Garden, could possibly be objectionable, but I do not see things from this standpoint anyway. I be lieve that nothing comes out of a per son except what is already in him, whether this is man, woman or child. I always know from what a person sees in a play what is In the person, and I know that it was in him long before he ever saw the play. It only came out because something made him give expression to it. The person who sees only low things has only eyes and a mind to see low things. If there is danger In a play. It may exist in one like Camille.' not in 'Mrs. Warren's Profession,' and not in 'Salome.' In these, vice Is made so hideous that It cannot- be attractive, and if It awak ens certain emotions, it is because the emotions are' there to be awakened, and the person, not the play. Is at fault. What you call disgusting or re volting plays are seldom dangerous to morals. It is the play which arouses sympathy with the weak and erring woman where danger can lie. For in stance, I consider The Easiest Way much more dangerous, If not more im moral than I do 'Mrs. Warren's' Profes sion,' and It you have seen them both you know that I am right." Salome" is announced for a great many performances, two of which will follow next week, it being scheduled for Wednesday evening and for Friday night as well. One of the welcome visitors to these shores arrived safely last Tuesday from Europe. This was Faderewski, who Is to play about 30 or 40 concerts in America this season. The great artist and his wife are at the Manhattan I Hotel for a week or ten days before the rapid transit tour begins. After his recital in Carnegie Hall next Tues day. Padercwski will play around the East until after his appearance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with whom he wiil make the next tour. The principal item of interest at these con certs will be the new symphony, which 1 at last completed and now under rehearsal in Boston. Paderewski was much interested in the performance of "Salome" and said that he. did not consider that Strauss had made her sufficiently barbaric. Said Paderewski: "Musically, there is nothing shock ing about 'Salome'; Strauss has not painted her as black as she really is. It is my Impression that the music, though very beautiful and skillfully thought out, is too moral, too civilized too cultured! But Strauss' 'Salome' will always appeal to our sentiment. even if it is at variance with our theory. To me there is a lack of the barbaric elemental passion which was one of the salient characteristics of the heroine. Strauss has not fully in dicated the strange personality of the woman, nor the full force of her ani mal nature. "Salome wicked? Impossible; she is quite a tame creature, but wonderfully absorbing withal. Strauss is not as fond of lyric music as I am, I think perhaps the majority of women will not take to Salome because she Is of symphonic nature. Women under stand and admire lyric music,' and the more sentimental the better." One might believe it a long cry from Salome" to woman's suffrage, yet the pianist said to the young woman who interviewed him that he loved to play for audiences who really love music, but not when music Is merely a fad, like suffrage is a fad. To explain himself further he said: , "The American woman is the freest. most perfectly happy woman alive and the pity of it Is she doesn't know it. 'Why, American women are as free as birds. They are worshiped and spoiled and bored to death with lux uries until they are obliged to cast about for some new amusement to while away the time. Look at the Ger man woman! She is still little more than a slave in her own country, and she fears suffrage as a South Sea Island woman fears lightning. There are only a few women in Germany who have dared to demand the privi leges the American woman demands with less need of them. "If women wish to be equal with men, then they must renounce these privileges. But I dislike to see a wom an step down from the pedestal upon which man has placed her and work side by side with him. It destroys the glamour and charm of the rare mo ments he goes to her for comfort and inspiration. 'Oh, yes, indeed. It has not escaped me. this suffrage that has taken Eng land and America by storm; but say to the American woman for me that man needs her encouragement, her Ideals, her views, untrammeled Vby con tact with life. She can do more good for him, herself and the future race by preserving the mystery and charm of her womanhood than by crushing it out by the assumption of masculine du ties and responsibilities." E.MILIE FRANCES BAUER. Apotheosis and Translation of Man All Nature Teaches That Man Is the Builder of His Own Corporeal System. BY R. M. BRERETON. -HH apotheosis or glorification of the Nation's great and distinguished men for their display of noblest moral chivalry, philanthropy and philosophy has always been exhibited by the leading na tions on earth. At the present time the people of the United States are display ing the apotheosis of laudation of Abra ham Lincoln. It should be most inter esting to note this truly natural instinct inherent in mankind alone on the stage of earth life. This innate Influence of the spirit of life in man forms the natural foundation and threshold of the moral and religious lffe of civilized humanity. It opens to our view the true and the beau tiful features and scenery of the eternal world of mind and spirit, which we all need so much of in living our present coarser physical existence. When more fully taught and developed, this innate consciousness of mind and of Its eternal life enables the soul of man to "pass through the valley of the shadow of death" without fear of finality or anni hilation. This valley is only a ghostly shadow and not a reality. This supreme consciousness of the awak ened mind of the human soul is well illustrated in the Hebrew story of Enoch, who lived on the earth stage of life 3M6 years, and "walked with God" during 300 years of that period (Gen. v:lW. This beautiful and inspiring story and example of what is called "translated life" of man, clearly shows uo that trans latlon or evolution applies only to the quality of the material or substance which constitutes the temporal body or outward Incasement of the ever-living mind of the human soul. Four thousand years after Enoch, Jesus taught the same all-sufficient truth, "The Kingdom of God is within you": more over, he declared in needed illustration. "God is a spirit; flesh and blood cannot Inherit the kingdom of Cod; he Is my lather and your father; he Is not the nod or the dead, but of the living." Recent scientific researches show 'that the all-pervading ether forms the A to Z of all known substance called matter. Specks or atoms of ether conjoined with electricity become the differentiated ob jects of all materialized matter. Stars and planets and every material object thereon and therein, animate and inani mate, are electrified masses and atoms of translated forms of ether. The mind of man, with its marvelous individualism, as well as those of every materialized ob ject now on earth, such as crystal, tree, plant, flower, bird. fish, reptile and beast, display the remarkable apotheosis and translation of corporeal manifestation to suit the living conditions of earth life. The mind of the soul or spirit In each is the real and only builder of Its etheric body. We thoughtlessly generalize this innate individualized will and power of corporal construc tion far too much by teaching that providence or God does it all for us. Primarily this doctrine of paternal ism is true; but all the same the power and mind Is a divine gift and attri bute of each soul, and which by the law of nature makes man the builder pt his own corporeal system to suit the earth stage of existence. inus oy the will and power of the mind of his soul roan constructs the muscles of heart, lungs and digestion to be in constant action without fatigue; whereas the brain. nervous system and secular muscles which are con trolled and exercised by the will of the objective mind become exhausted and tired and so need intermittent periods of rest. As the mind of the human soul pos sesses this Innate will and power to frame and maintain its body during Its destined period of earthly existence. why should It not possess the same for the next stage of existence? That next stage can be no more wonderful than Is the present one of translation. We have a beautiful ana striking il lustration of physical translation an nually before our eyes in the Insect world. We see its individualized mind, will and power in the stages of egg. caterpillar and butterfly. In the first stage Its physical body is fed and developed out of the yolk; In the next out of the leaves of its own se lected plant, and In the last out of the nectar of flowers. These are the boun daries or limits of its available trans lations of etheric substance of body. Jesus was a close observer of both physical and psychical nature, and surely we all should be the same. He tells us to "consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; which toll not, neither do they spin; that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." Moreover, Jesus called him self far more often the "Son of man" than he did the "Son jpt God." By this we may understand that God Is truly the man in human knowledge and ac ceptance: for such is both the Hebrew and Christian origin of man on earth: 'In the image and after the likeness of God made he man." God is spirit, and, therefore, man must be a spirit. and If so an heir of the eternal spirit of life. To be a pessimist, or believer in the finality of man's spiritual existence is tantamount to the denial of the im mortality of the spirit of life In crea tion; since each object of mind and life Is but an atom or ray of the sphere of spirit "Who is above all, and through all, and is In us all." If the individual atoms or rays of the spirit sphere can perish, the whole must ultimately be annihilated. Thus we learn from nature and ra tional thought there can be no death to the soul of man, and, therefore, no mortal fe'ar or-doubt. As spirit and mind is all-pervading and eternal, so is Its all-pervading etheric substance of manifestation" eternal. Its etheric quality of texture in coarseness and fineness is measureless, and so is suitable for any stage of ex istence In the "many mansions" of the kingdom of spirit This Is surely a logical hypothesis and supportable argument for the con tinuity of human life which no Hebrew or Christian church in this 20th cen tury should seek to undermine by the maintenance of long-established irra tional dogmas. 'O Grave where is thy victory? o Death, where Is thy sting?" Begotten and offspring of the eter nal spirit of life and love, and gifted with the mind, will and power of evo lutionary translation of etheric sub stance of body, man is a veritable god by nature: "He cannot file, but live and bless the Lord, his father, who has been his dwelling place in all generations." LILLIAN LANGTRY; AUTHOR Noted Actress to Break Into Fiction With Publication of Book. LONDON. Feb. 13. (Special.) Lady de Bathe, better known to the world at large as Mrs. Langtry, has written her first novel. 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