Mayor James M. Curley of Boston announced that the Chicago Opera Company will not be permitted to perform Strauss' Salome in Boston during the coming season. This reaffirms a decision which forebade the giving of Salome a year ago.
The opera (a play by Wilde, set to music by Richard Strauss) is said to be "a danger to public morals." The Strauss score, though, has had, in other cities, small public appeal. It is a true masterpiece, but one of recondite perplexities. It moves only persons of considerable musical culture, folk whose morals...
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