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...Book of Job" has been performed before, but never in this section of the United States. The book was restored for dramatic production by Dr. Horace Meyer Kallen '03, whose belief it is that the book was originally written for dramatic production and so presented in Greek form...
Although given in English, "The Book of Job" is presented in the Grecian manner, as the presence of the Greek choregus and chorus in the cast indicate. There is a prologue and an epilogue recited by the choregus, who is the leader of the chorus during the progress of the drama. Settings for the play are designed in the modern fashion, patterned to some extent after those used by Granville Barker in his production of Euripides' "The Trojan Women" in the Stadium a year...
...Wheeler of London, whom Sir Gilbert Murray, the noted translator, terms the most marvelous reader of Greek tragedy he has ever heard, will recite the Medea of Euripides at Parkway Hall, Larch road (near Fresh Pond), this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. Tickets at $1 may be secured at the door. Proceeds of the reading will be given to the French Relief Fund...