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...sound effects that don't work properly. The audience begins to arrive and the great citizens reclaim their pillows. White-robed thousands stream in to fill the amphitheater row by row up to the top. At last a trumpet blows, the roar of sound fades into silence--and Medea begins her frightening cry against the fate of woman...
...twentieth century A.D. its nature is obvious: for the play is based upon ideas taken from several Greek myths, those concerning the Argonauts' adventures and the life of Persephone. Thus it is mainly a modern symbolic expression of age-firm Greek ideas analogous to those contained in the "Medea" of Euripides. President Comstock's objection passes over the expression and concerns the characters themselves, so that it must rest ultimately upon the Greek sources of the play...
Banker Dreyfus not only collected the works of great artists, he tried whenever possible to have those works the portraits of great Renaissance characters. There is Philip the Handsome of Spain; Princess Beatrice of Aragon; the Princess Medea, daughter of that great swashbuckler and Bergamese Bravo, Bartolommeo Colleoni; Giovanni Bentivoglio, tyrant of Bologna, and the dashing Guiliano dei Medici, murdered in church by the Pazzi...
...following men also spoke in the contest: F. E. Shea '29, on the "Reply to Corry" by Henry Grattan; G. A. Weller '29 on the Medea of Euripides: T. N. Stensland '28 on "Nominating John Sherman" by James A. Garfield; A. D. Howlett '28, on "Plea for the Old South Church" by Wendell Phillips; Theodore Hall '29, on "The Death of Socrates" by Plato; T. H. Eliot '28 on "The Mystic Trumpeter" by Walt Whitman...
More than ten years have passed since the Treaty of London was signed (1913), when the Powers set the boundary of Turkey-in-Europe along a line drawn from Enos on the Aegean Sea to Medea on the Black Sea. The Powers should have fixed a straight line, because, a little later, the Turks successfully upheld their claim to territory within a curved line that took in Adrianople...