Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the past half century Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, has built up an extraordinary reputation as one of the most active centers of ancient Greek study in the country. The prime stimulus was Miss Mabel Whiteside, who functioned as a local Thalia, Melpomene and Terpsichore rolled into one. She and her students of Greek put on some 40 productions of Greek drama in the original language. In the spring of 1954, she fittingly climaxed 50 years of teaching at Randolph-Macon by presenting, not one more Greek play, but three--Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia, the mighty...
...Jeannette Hume had a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this made more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
...spasmodic English narration was not always satisfactory. In the Agamemnon portion particularly, the narrative was simply superimposed on the dialogue, with the result that one could not understand either the Greek or the English. At other times the Greek was momentarily faded out. I thing a better solution (if a narrative was necessary at all) would have been to present an English summary at the start of each play and then let the drama go right through in uninterrupted Greek...
...completed movie, its blemishes notwithstanding, emerged as an impressive artistic accomplishment and a lasting tribute to Miss Whiteside's 50 years of inspiring zeal and unflagging dedication. And the film is evidence that, in one place at least, the ancient Greek language, far from being dead, is not even moribund...
...TRANSATLANTIC AIR service is planned by Greek Shipowner Aristotle Socrates Onassis, who will pay an estimated $2,500,000 for a 20-year concession to run Greece's ailing airline, T.A.E. (TIME, Aug. 6). Onassis' deal with the Greek government stipulates that T.A.E. start serving South Africa and the Far East by 1958, fly to New York by 1959. Onassis will spend some $10 million for expansion, is trying to buy three DC-7B and two Convair 440 airliners...