. Programme . itt (Born at Biamont (Meurthe-et-Moselle), France, September 28, 1870; now living in Paris.) La Tragedie de Salome, a mute drama in two acts and sevenscenes by Robert dHumieres, with music by Florent Schmitt, wasperformed for the first time at the Th64tre des Arts, Paris, Novem-ber 9,1907. There were also first performances of a one-act comedy,Sensational Article, by G. Casella and Andr6 de Fouquieres, anda comedy in two acts, Le Dernier Troubadour, by Maurice Souli6and Jean Thorel. The cast of La Tragedie de Salome was as follows: H^rode, ; Jean-Baptiste, M. Lou Van Tel;
. Programme . itt (Born at Biamont (Meurthe-et-Moselle), France, September 28, 1870; now living in Paris.) La Tragedie de Salome, a mute drama in two acts and sevenscenes by Robert dHumieres, with music by Florent Schmitt, wasperformed for the first time at the Th64tre des Arts, Paris, Novem-ber 9,1907. There were also first performances of a one-act comedy,Sensational Article, by G. Casella and Andr6 de Fouquieres, anda comedy in two acts, Le Dernier Troubadour, by Maurice Souli6and Jean Thorel. The cast of La Tragedie de Salome was as follows: H^rode, ; Jean-Baptiste, M. Lou Van Tel; Salom6, Mme. (sic) LoieFuller; Herodias, Mile. J. Zorelli. Miss Fuller danced the dance ofpearls, the dance of the peacock, the dance of serpents, the dance ofsteel, the dance of silver, and the dance of fear. All the other per-sons in the drama, wrote M. Edmond StouUig, dwelt immovablein looking at Loie Fuller. What could they have done better? * Killed in 1915, fighting for France. Complete Financial Service. Main OflSce, Court Street Old Colony Trust Company Boston, Massachusetts MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 529 TThere was nothing to do except to admire with open mouth. Theamiable Jules Clarietie wrote for Le Temps (November 5, 1907) ahighly eulogistic article about a rehearsal of this performance,which may be found in Loie Fullers volume of Memoirs publishedin French some years ago and in an English translation (1913) (pp.^81-288). There is a picture of Miss Fuller in the Dance of Fear.(Miss Fuller before this had mimed Salome in a pantomime byArmand Silvestre and Charles Henry Meltzer, with music by GabrielPierue at the Comedie Parisienne, Paris, in March, 1895.) The^orchestra at the Theatre des Arts was a small one, too small for thecomposer to realize his intentions. He afterwards put together sev-eral episodes to form a suite in two parts for concert use. The orig-inal score was to the present one as a sketch to a picture. The suitewas first performed at a Conce
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