Word: clytemnestras
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...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...
...music impressed Philadelphians as being astoundingly fresh and vital. Gluck borrowed his characters from Euripides but he gave them new life. His Iphigénie aroused real pity when she prepared to sacrifice herself to the demanding gods. Clytemnestra was a fury as she uttered her defiance. The warrior Achilles provided another stirring climax when he swore to fight the fate that seemed inevitable...
...Philadelphia production left little to be desired. The one setting by Norman Bel Geddes was impressively stark and simple. The characters were expertly portrayed by such singers as Rosa Tentoni (Iphigénie), Cyrena van Gordon (Clytemnestra), Joseph Bentonelli (Achilles), Georges Baklanoff (Agamemnon). For the dances Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey supplied excellent choreography, won great applause. Again Philadelphia Orchestramen proved their superiority to routine opera players...
...Hopes (by Romney Brent; Bela Blau. producer). From Romney Brent, a mad little player, could well be expected a mad little play. Pomposity is a Brent specialty, and the name of his heroine, an extremely fey matron, keys the whole comedy-Clytemnestra Hope...
...long-suffering husband dropped dead in his soup plate when she absentmindedly toasted Germany at a dinner in the Russian Embassy. The play finds Clytemnestra, her two antic sons and more sensible daughter inhabiting their villa at Nice, broke. Even the daughter's practical U. S. suitor cannot keep Mrs. Hope from buying on credit everything she fancies, blackmailing the maid out of back wages, formulating grandiose schemes for selling "her poor little home" to an unborn literary club. With a pleasantly insane gleam in her eyes, she falls out with everyone, instantly makes up does housework...