Word: cisterns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starts all the trouble in the Strauss version of Oscar Wilde's play.' It is at his birthday banquet that Salome suddenly revolts against his slimy glances, goes on to the terrace where John the Baptist (in the Strauss text Jokanaan) is chanting his denunciations from a cistern prison. To see the saint Salome beguiles a young Syrian officer to let him out. John talks about Christ. Salome does not even notice when the Syrian stabs himself. But jittery old Herod steps in the Syrian's blood and Salome must dance to soothe him. She can have...
...waive his big royalty so that she. along with Baritone Nelson Eddy (Jochanaan) and Conductor Fritz Reiner, could give last week's performance for the jobless. Two hundred of them, organized as the Musicians' Symphony (see col. 1), sat and played on the stage last week where the yawning cistern should have been to hold Jochanaan prisoner, where two dark cypress trees should have stood sinisterly against an Oriental sky. Jeritza and Jochanaan were conventionally clothed but if she had worn veils and he a hair- cloth tunic the performance could not have caused more excitement. The audience stayed long...
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...Kerrville, Tex., when Eleanor Allen rode a horse into a soft, cistern the girl was saved with a ladder, the horse removed by filling the cistern, floating...
...wrappers, looking "like some tropical bird whose plumage had been dimmed and ruffled by captivity and whose cage was not kept as clean as it should be." It was at her irrational house with the Spink boys and girls that the best fun was to be found. Making the cistern water overflow from the attic and tobogganing with it down the stairs was a panacea for all childish ills...