Word: queens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Irish League, and as the representative of the Irish Nationalist Party, of which he has been leader for the past 27 years. He is a man of broad education and experience, having studied at the College of the Immaculate Conception, Athlone, Ireland, the place of his birth, and at Queen's College, Galway, where he graduated in 1866 when 18 years...
...more than three thousand people. The weather conditions were perfect, so that the elaborate costuming of the cast and the brilliant stage setting appeared to the best advantage. The acting, likewise, showed noticeable improvement over that of Saturday's performance, particularly that of the Trojan princess, Cassandra, and the queen, Clytaemnestra. F. H. Birch 2L., in the long and difficult role of Leader of the Chorus, executed the part admirably...
...their choral odes express the popular feeling of the men of Argos in regard to the events portrayed there. Agamemnon soon returns from Troy, bringing in his train the Trojan captive, Cassandra, of whom Clytaemnestra is jealous. Despite the king's request to have the prisoner treated gently, the queen orders her roughly into the palace. Cassandra foresees her tragic fate, but is unable to persuade the men of Argos that she is being lured to death. In despair, she enters the gates of the palace, which later are thrown open, and the queen is seen exulting over the murdered...
Following is the program for the Pop Concert at Symphony Hall this evening: First Appearance of Conductor Gustav Strube. 1 March, "Queen of Sheba," Gounod 2 Overture, "Merry Wives of Windsor," Nicolai 3 Waltz, "Freut euch des Lebens," Strauss 4 Fantasy from "The Huguenots," Meyerbeer 5 Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 2, Liszt 6 Valse and Pizzicato from Ballet Music, "Sylvia," Delibes 7 Andacht for Violin, Harp and Organ, Johnson 8 Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah," Saint-Saens 9 Overture, "La Gazza Ladra," Rossini 10 a. Album Leaf, Strube b. Dalliance, Strube 11 Selection, "Yankee Consul," Robyn 12 March, "King Karl," Unrath
...heritage of Iphigenis, daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytaemnestra, was a calamity provoked by successive violations of the law of God. Deceit, treachery, fatal ambition, adultery, the atrocities, of revenge that studied the refinements of retaliation, the murder of a husband, of a daughter, of a father--these form the tale of the house of Agamemnon. Of this line the most tragic figure is Agamemnon, who slew his daughter as a sacrifice, and, upon his triumphal return from the Trojan war, was ignominiously butchered by his faithless queen. Such, in short, is the plot...