Word: phaedra
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Hippolytus of Euripides. An able actor, Dr. MacCracken has appeared before in Vassar plays, has many times amused his students with burlesque speeches on Founder's Day. Last week he donned his mask and buskins and played Theseus, father of Hippolytus who spurns the love of his stepmother. Phaedra. An actress (Phaedra's nurse) who had played before with Dr. MacCracken was Professor Margaret Floy Washburn, famed psychologist, one of the few female members of the National Academy of Sciences (TIME, May 11). Hippolytus was given in the original Greek, with full chorus and a new musical score, in Vassar...