Word: salom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cartoon of the week in Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda (Communist Youth Pravda), organ of Communist juvenile associations: A naked Salomé presents a bloody tousled head to Messrs. John Pierpont Morgan and John Davison Rockefeller...
...Salomé labeled: The American Federation of Labor...
...Salomé, his third opera, first produced in 1905, was a literal sensation. Because of the realistic power with which the composer treated the theme, for which he chose Oscar Wilde's necrophilistic version, U. S. presentations were banned for some time after the first Metropolitan hearing in Manhattan. But victrola records were allowed to popularize the "Dance of the Seven Veils"- and in Europe the opera at once took front rank. Followed Elektra, whose unpleasant theme, being classic, caused less offense; then Der Rosencavalier, an entirely new departure in its Rabelaisian farce of both libretto and score...
...Chicago Civic Opera Company began a 10,000-mile transcontinental tour. The first .stop was scheduled for Boston, then Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chattanooga, Cincinnati, Tulsa, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Wichita, Kansas City. Mefistofele, Boris, Cléopatre, The Jewess and Salomé will be featured...