Word: helene
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual spring theatricals of the Hasty Pudding Club will he presented at the Berkeley Lyceum, New York, on Monday and Tuesday evenings, April 7th and 8th. A matinee performance will also be given on the afternoon of April 8. This year's play, entitled, "Helen and Paris, or, the Dade, the Dunce and the Daisy," is a burlesque on the Iliad, and was written by W. K. Post, '90. Tickets have already been put on sale at Thurston's, and may also be obtained in New York at the Harvard Grub, at the Berkeley Lyceum, at the Woman's Exchange...
...King's Fool.Courieo's Comic Opera company began last night its one week engagement at the Hollis St. Theatre in "The King's Fool" an opera which is by no means excellent. The music is ragged and not over harmonious, with but a few catching airs. Miss Helen Bertram as Prince Julius was one of the few redeeming features; her songs were well rendered and her gracefulness received its due applause. Mr. Joseph W. Herbert as court jester amused the audience a good deal, but his drollery was far from being refined. The female fencers went through their exercises...
...sorrow, capable also of chivalrous and tender compassion-Odyssey, the type of resourceful intelligence. joined to heroic endurance. How remarkable too his types of women-"Androwmache the young wife and mother who in losing Hector must lose all-Penelope loyal under hard trial to her long absent lord; the Helen of the Iliad, remorseful, clearsighted, keenly sensitive of any kindness shown her at Troy; the Helen of the Odyssey, restored to honor at her home at Sparta; the maiden Nausicaa, so beautiful in the dawning promise of a noble womanhood-perfect in her delicacy, her grace, her general courage...