Word: heroding
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...Rainsford when he went to breakfast on Monday with his spiritual client, the late John Pierpont Morgan. One public performance of Salome was given that night. Then the elder Morgan asked for a special Metropolitan directors' meeting and the wanton Salome was banished. Not until last week was Herod permitted another birthday...
...King Herod's birthday 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...
...with her, subsides to an eery dissonance while she sings to the head. It was then that Soprano Ljungberg came nearest to realizing the music's grim intensity. She crouched on the floor, reproached the thing gently, sang to it ecstatically. Tenor Max Lorenz was a picture-book Herod instead of the crazy neurasthenic that Wilde and Strauss intended. Dorothee Manski (Herodias) had to pinchhit for Karin Branzell who was taken with gallstones (see col. i). Baritone Friedrich Schorr wore Jokanaan's haircloth shirt, sang resonantly. Tenor Hans Clemens (the Syrian) stabbed himself neatly...
...years she has wanted above all things to sing it in New York. But the Metropolitan Opera Company would not permit Jeritza or any other soprano to behave like Salome on its respectable stage, to shed seven veils one after the other in the notorious dance before King Herod or to grovel before a horrid head of St. John the Baptist. Once, 25 years ago, it attempted to give Salome and Dr. William Stephen Rainsford, the late Mr. Morgan's spiritual adviser,? was so upset that a directors' meeting was called, the opera withdrawn from the repertoire because...
...Mary Mooney, 84, mother of California Convict Tom Mooney, called at the White House. Told that the President was too busy to hear her plea for her son's release, she left her appeal in manuscript. Other visitors last week who did see the President: Jay Herod, 10, San Francisco violin prodigy, Alayne Brown, 15, St. Louis sharpshooter. ¶ President Hoover signed a bill which will cause the distribution to the needy of 4,000,000 bu. of Farm Board wheat through the Red Cross. The Red Cross will have the grain milled and should it all be used...