Word: electras
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...Margaret Anglin seem to have no meeting place that is not the result of hyper liberalizing the meanings of each. There has been headline material in both within the past two days: the Stadium in the settled matter of wooden seats. Miss Anglin in her plan to produce the Electra of Sophocles in the Greek temple of Roger Williams Park in Providence. Connection between these unlikes lies in the out of door drama, of which Miss Anglin is now America's greatest exponent, and of which the Stadium in more felicitous years was America's best known amphitheater...
...Browning, and Shakespeare, one better was given shortly after the World War. And the classical play has not absented itself from classical setting, for the "Iphigenia in Taurus" of the company of Granville Barker likewise saw worthy performance in appropriate surroundings. Within the year Miss Anglin's "Electra" has been produced in the Greek Temple of Berkeley, California, out of door stage of the University of California. Thus the fear of commercialism, natural suspicion when the stage touches the college closely, is a bugaboo of timidity, rather than a corollary common to all such intimacies...
...twentieth century revival of classicism Miss Margaret Anglin will appear in Sophocles' well known play. "Electra" in atmosphere much like that which characterized Sophocles' productions during his lifetime. The play will be given in the open all in Providence, R. I, on June 26 and 27. In the Roger Williams Park...
...Sophocles: Electra," Professor Gulick, Sever...
...incredibly incomprehensible piece blends music and dubious drama in an expose of what the smart set do at Palm Beach. The most credible thing about it is the rumor that it was produced by the sons of the author, Mrs. Sarah Ellis Hyman, as a tribute to their mother. Electra. Actress Margaret Anglin lately received a gold medal for having "kept her work characteristically pure and noble in nature" (TIME, April 4). Last week she played the part of a Greek woman, Electra who, to avenge her father's death, spurs her brother on to slay their adulterous, murderous mother...