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...from Alfred's exultant leap over the railing Friday night, and Eubolus' unfortunate, though hilarious, fall off the stage Saturday, this production allowed itself only one major piece of stage drama. In the fourth act, the old crippled woman Mainas (expertly voiced by Joan Tolentino) draws the scene of Iphigeneia's death in a panoply of colors: the yellow beard of the priest, the flowers blue and red and yellow; "I saw the white tents on the ocher sand, / And the staring eye-green sea, and all those men / In their silver breast-plates, and the stones / They laid...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Agamemnon | 10/15/1963 | See Source »

...heart and hand. When he had done and the Party lived, the stenographers and reporters shudderingly discovered that they had let mighty-worded history fly out of the window. The Morrow version of that event, which aims at being "a very appealing piece of fiction," fabricates a Rose Franklin, Iphigeneia of the period, to collaborate with Lincoln on his very lofty plane of motives. Her part is to forswear, at Lincoln's behest, a well beloved fianceé, in the interest of political lubrication. At this she is most satisfactory, as is the centre of interest -save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Bloomington, Ill. | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

Plans have been definitely completed for the performance of "Iphigeneia in Tauris" by Granville Barker's company in the Yale Bowl on the afternoon of May 15. The performance will immediately follow the dual track meet with the University, at about 4.30 o'clock. The play, which will be Sir Gilbert Murray's translation, will be under the direction of the Yale University Dramatic Association. About seven sections in one end of the Bowl will be blocked off for the audience, accommodating 14,000 people. After the stage is erected, a scene will be put up, measuring 160 feet from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPERA TO BE STAGED AT BOWL | 4/16/1915 | See Source »

Professor Morgan will lecture next time upon "Iphigeneia in Art," in the cellar of the library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/19/1891 | See Source »

Greek Reading. Iphigeneia in Taurianland of Euripides (second-half). Professor Dyer. Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 3/26/1887 | See Source »

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