Word: macon
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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...
Since the cast of fifty included Randolph-Macon students only, the male roles were all played by women. But after all this simply reversed the ancient practice, which allowed all-male casts only. A few of the big roles could have stood better acting; yet 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...
...three plays which make up the Oresteia were filmed and produced in color by the Randolph-Macon Woman's College of Lynchburg, Virginia...
...JACKSON MARTEL Macon...
...Macon, Ga. and Champaign, 111. have experimented with a phonic system developed by a Texas schoolteacher named Cornelia Sloop. This also starts with vowel sounds, then goes on to consonants, and within a few weeks, to the rules of spelling. Last year Champaign found that while 43.4% of the pupils taught by the standard method scored below the nation al reading level, the score for the Sloop-trained pupils was only 20.7% below...