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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.
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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
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