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...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, his son Orestes is a curly moppet, his daughter Electra (Joanna Roos) a grown girl. His wife has taken Aegisthus as her lover, is quick with his child. Clytemnestra hacks Agamemnon to death in his bath; Electra recovers his body from a dunghill and buries it. In the last act Orestes returns from exile to slake Electra's brooding hatred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Just three months old, the twin-motored, ten-passenger Lockheed-Electra City of Memphis was on its regular run from New Orleans to Chicago, Chicago & Southern Air-Lines' sole route. At St. Louis, motors and controls were examined, found perfect. After getting a weather report which noted a 2,000-ft. ceiling at St. Louis, low-lying fog along the way and unlimited visibility at Chicago, the City of Memphis had soared off into the dark at 9:56 p. m. with a fresh pilot, a copilot, six passengers. One of the latter was Captain Vernon C. Omlie, oldtime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: One of Those Things | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...homes both in New Orleans and San Antonio, Tex., occasionally takes a look at Rodessa's oil derricks from his new $60,000 Lockheed Electra plane, equipped with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Railroad & Rodessa | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...somewhat dulled last week by the sudden necessity of abandoning one of its oldest lines-a Mexican subsidiary named Aerovias Centrales. Started in 1929, it served Los Angeles, El Paso and Mexico City where it connected with P. A. A.'s South American system. Using five Lockheed Electra monoplanes, it claimed the fastest airline schedule in the world (175 m.p.h. average), never killed a passenger. In face of a 1932 law that no foreigners could fly Mexican transport planes, Aerovias Centrales persisted in employing only U. S. pilots. Not until last June was that law enforced. Then radical Brigadier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pan Am In & Out | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...Good news awaited the President when he returned to Washington. A new yacht, the Coast Guard patrol boat Electra, will supersede the wooden Sequoia to carry him on his weekends afloat. Advantages of the Electra: steel hull, 165 feet overall; 15 knots; enough space not only for the President and guests but also for his Secret Servants. Budgeteers expected some saving in the $87,166 which it cost the Government to operate the Sequoia in fiscal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Nov. 18, 1935 | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

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