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...approaching New York production of Sophocles' "Electra", which is to take place on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House on May 3, and 4, recalls memories of the first time a Greek tragedy was played on an American stage, when in 1881 Harvard undergraduates produced Sophocles' "Oedipus...
Some of Professor Murray's works are his translations of the plays of Euripides from the Greek into English poetical form. Beginning with the "Bac- chac" and "Electra", he completed nearly all of the existing plays by the Greek dramatist, and the verse translations were acted at the Court Theatre in London from 1902 to 1907. Other important books by the English classicist are his translations of Aeschylus and Aristophanes, "Hamlet and Orestes" in 1914, and "Euripides...
...supreme function of poetry seems nearly lost- the function of making thoughts clearer than ever words were meant to make them. The more enjoyable poems are the simpler: the richly oriental "And in the Hanging Gardens"; the ironic "The Wedding" (of Arachne with her prey) ; The vampire in Woman, "Electra" and the brave "Teteléstai": I am no King, have laid no kingdoms waste, Taken no princes captive, led no triumphs Of weeping women through long watts of trumpets; Say, rather, I am no one or an atom. . . . . . . Well, what then? Should I not hear, as I lie down...
...Verde Islands, using much less power, but faster and more cheaply than the ordinary long distance system can send from London to Paris. He utilizes waves previously unused. " Wireless is still in its infancy," is his message to the world. Marconi now plans another trial trip on his yacht Electra, off the coast of America...
...complete directional control of radio. He is working to perfect a system by which radio messages will be received only by the persons for whom they are intended. His experiments, extending over a considerable period, will soon be put to the acid test on his specially fitted yacht Electra, on which he will cruise down the coast of Europe and Africa. Messages will be sent from Wales and other distant places to test his theory. The secret is being closely guarded, but the method is said to depend on a new kind of receiving instrument, whereby stations can tell...