Jack Watson War
speaker
512 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Jack Watson War’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
The lords are enchanted.
They never saw such part free of motion.
Their souls whirl in the reel and bound the bounding feet.
Herod forgets crown and throne, everything but the fascinations of Salome.
The magnificence of his realm is as nothing compared with that which now whirls before him on tiptoe.
His heart is in transport with Salamay as her arms are now tossed in the air, and now placed a kimbo.
He sways with every motion of the Enchantress.
He thrills with the quick pulsations of her feet, and is bewitched with the posturing and attitudes that he never saw before.
In a moment exchange brothers just as amazing.
He sits in silence before the whirling, bounding, leaping, flashing wonder.
And when the dance stops, and the tinkling cymbals pause, and the long loud plaudits that shook the palace with their thunders had abated, the entranced monarch swears unto the princely performer
Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me I will give it to thee, to the half of my kingdom.
Now there was in prison a minister by the name of John the Baptist, who had made much trouble by his honest preaching.
He had denounced the sins of the king, and brought down upon himself the wrath of the females in the royal family.
At the instigation of her mother, Salome takes advantage of the king's extravagant promise and demands the head of John the Baptist on a dinner plate.
There is a sound of heavy feet and the clatter of swords outside of the palace.
Swing back the door.
The executioners are returning from their awful errand.
They hand a platter to Salome.
What is that on the platter?
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