La Sylphe

She was “surrounded by a most pretentious scenic setting and bathed in every conceivable kind of gloomy light.” “The rise of the curtain displays a scene of gloomy, ghostly interest in which passing clouds and lightning flashes spasmodically obscure the moon. In the midst of this elemental tumult Salome makes her appearance, a dejected, remorseful, desolate being some to an even more desolate spot to cast herself in a despairing effort of soul sacrifice at the feet of the monolith.”

La Sylphe

“The curtain that rose on Salome’s remorse disclosed a stage setting adapted by Wallace D. Lambelle from the following Bilbical quotation: ‘ And they departed into a desert place by ship – Mark vi, 32.” “La Sylphe was prudently dressed in fleshings, as if fearful of climatic contrasts between Harlem and mid-Broadway, and was adorned with beads, plates, and much gauze.”