Richard Strauss’ Salome is performed in Boston.

Production of the opera proceeds despite objections by the New England Watch and Ward Society, which called it “immoral” and called on Mayor John Fitzgerald to ban it. Fitzgerald responded, “The mayor’s office does not interfere as a rule with the productions of Boston theaters. . . [but trusts] No theater manager will fly in the face of public opinion.” Two years, later, however, Fitzgerald’s successor, George Hibbard, does ban a production of the opera two years later – after receiving a complaint from a Boston woman had seen a performance in New York and found it scandalous.