Laaving no turn unstoned in our look at various strange cinematic attempts at telling the story of ‘Salome’, here’s a reel of selects from one of the strangest–and most eerily lovely–of all silent films. I speak of the Russian actress Alla Nazimova’s 1923 ‘art’ version of the tale. It isn’t really a movie so much as a series of poses,. odd abstract groupings, ludicrously exaggerated performances, bizarre make-up and costume choices…and all of it quite clearly deliberate, an attempt to bring something of the Rusisian Art Theater and the new avant-garde in the arts as displayed in the Armory Show a decade before to the cinematic arts. (By the way, dig the actor playing Herod, who leches grotesquely for his daughter while she’s doing the Salome strut. He looks suspiciously like he was made up to resemble Harry Langdon). Anyway, it’s very much worth a few minutes of your time and you’ll make it what you will. Nazimova bought a big Moorish castle on the corner of SunsetBlvd.  and Crescent Heights that she later turned into the famous famously infamous-bungalow courts ‘The Garden Of Allah’, site of the collapse of many an alcoholic east-coast writers career. Make of that what you will, if you dare..