Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1909 — WOULD BAR SALOME [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOULD BAR SALOME

Ministers Call Upon Mayor to Stop Mary Garden’s Performance. ~ Philadelphia. Feb. 9.—At a meeting of the Protestant Episcopal rectors a protest against the presentation by

Oscar Hammerstein of the opera Salome was signed by Bishop MackaySmith and thirty-one clergymen. Bishop Mackay-Smith said: “Of course I have never seen the opera, and all I know about it is what the papers say. Judging from their accounts of Mary Garden’s Salome.’ I think the city would be better off without It." The Congregational ministers adopted a resolution calling on the mayor to stop the proposed performance.

MARY GARDEN.