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...Havemeyer Collection. She directed that the Museum should also be given "all such other pictures, paintings, engravings, statuary and other works of art as my son Horace might appoint to it." No less generous than their mother, her son Horace and her daughters Adaline and Electra (now Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey and Mrs. James Watson Webb) appointed and appointed until the H. O. Havemeyer Collection was bloated to 1.907 specific objects. More modest than other museum donors, Mrs. Havemeyer specified that her collection was not to be kept separate and sacrosanct but was to be split...
Last year the club presented "an adaptation by George Weller of the 'Electra' of Sophocles, renamed for brevity's sake "Fireman, Save My Child...
...grand triumph, George Weller, internationally known playwright has out-done all his previous efforts. His latest and greatest work, the climax of a happy life is now being performed at the Hasty Pudding. It is an adaptation of the "Electra" of Sophocles, renamed for brevity's sake "Fireman, Save My Child". From the opening curtain to the last bow of smiling actor grim tragedy stalks the scene, tears flow and countless lumps rise in an equally indefinite number of throats. This is all the more remarkable as the adaptation is in reality meant to be a comedy...
...creators of cultured men feel about it, the fact remains that very few students meet those ancient authors of whose distant fame they have heard since their Gore Hall period, until the melancholy days of Divisionals are near. So the Vagabond was pleasantly surprised to learn that Sophocles' tragedy Electra was being presented at Eliot Hall, Jamaica Plain. There he found the ancient drama excellently played against a background of temple and poplars, with a cast directed by a former member of the 47 Workshop. With the altruistic spirit typical of better-class Vagabonds, he sought information...
Members of the University who are interested in the Greek tragedy will be given an opportunity to see the "Electra" of Sophocles in performances primarily for college students at Eliot Hall on Monday and Tuesday evenings at 8.15 o'clock...