Word: atreus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lincoln is the most living and appealing figure in U.S. history because he expresses with the greatest glow the national dream of democracy and freedom. He is therefore, in addition to being a warm, sturdy, exciting human being, a permanent symbol who serves U.S. drama as the house of Atreus served the Greek, or as Faust and Don Juan serve the writers of the world. Lincoln's story is well-known, well-loved, an advantage for the playwright greater than the most smashing plot would be; for an audience bringing with it a quivering mass of associations is ready...
Daughters of Atreus (by Robert Turney; Delos Chappell, producer) is a high-minded, somewhat arty, occasionally tedious and pictorially beautiful synthesis of several Greek legends of family murder, with each of its three acts corresponding to a whole play as handled by Euripides and Aeschylus. It is the first produced play of Author Turney who. now nearing 40, is reported to have nursed its idea ever since he left Columbia University. In the part of Clytemnestra it presents, in her U. S. debut, a German actress of considerable reputation named Eleonora Mendelssohn...
...Turney tells the story, the priest Calchas (Harry Irvine) is clamoring for a ''holy war" to rescue divine Helen from Troy, but the gods will not let Troyward winds blow until the unclean house of Atreus is purged by sacrifice. Iphigenia, daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, is lured to Aulis in the belief that she is to wed Achilles, and Calchas there prepares to sacrifice her. Mad with grief when Agamemnon refuses to interfere, Clytemnestra blasphemes the gods, calls Helen a whore, vows vengeance upon her husband. When Agamemnon returns from Troy after 1,007 days...
...half an hour, beginning at 8.15, the Glee Club and Instrumental Clubs will entertain the guests in the open air triangle formed by Kirkland, Eliot, and Winthrop Houses. The concert program will include a clarinet solo by George R. Shaw, 2nd '34, and guitar trio number by Atreus von Schrader, Jr. '34, Guy S. Hayes '34, and Frank W. Vincent, Jr. '34. Le G. R. Thurber '34, James T. Dennison '34, Francis F. Cary '34, and Von Schrader will make up a vocal quartet...
...Wednesday, June 20, at the annual evening spread in the houses a mixed program will be presented by the Glee Club. During the intermission, members of the Instrumental Clubs will perform. A clarinet solo will be played by George R. Shaw, 2nd '34; Atreus von Schrader, Jr. '34, Guy S. Hayes '34, and Frank W. Vincent, Jr. '36 will make up a Guitar tried which will render several numbers. Le G. R. Thurber '34, James T. Dennison '34, Francis F. Cary '34, and von Schrader will sing in a quartet...