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Flags & Electra. Late that afternoon, in the splendid open-air theater of Epidaurus, Jackie sat in rapt attention on a stone bench while actors of the National Theater of Greece performed an emotion-packed scene from Sophocles' Electra. "I don't speak Greek," she said after the performance, "but I know Electra and other Greek tragedies very well from studying them at school." As the North Wind pulled out of Epidaurus harbor and headed for a long weekend among the Aegean isles, Jackie stood in the stern, waving farewell with a tiny blue and white Greek flag...
...being a poor man with only a small apartment in Athens. the Premier delegated his friend Marcos Nomikos, a wealthy shipping magnate and a member of the Greek parliament, as substitute host. Nomikos put the North Wind and his villa in a seaside suburb of Athens (with a splendid, theatrical view of the distant Acropolis) at Jackie's disposal. While Jackie and her friends sunned and swam at the villa, units of the Greek navy patrolled the sea. a mile offshore, waving off intruders. When chartered yachts, full of newsmen, came too close, an excitable officer aboard a navy...
...unusual chapels: the Chapel of Unity, designed for use by all denominations of Protestants, and the Guild Chapel (the Chapel of Christ the Servant), which will be dedicated to industry, trade unions, guilds and management associations. Already in use is a small Lady chapel in the crypt, its altar splendid with a bronze and glass cross by Sculptor Geoffrey Clarke, who was obviously inspired by the charred timber cross still standing in the ruins. In the crypt each day, lunch-hour services are held for a congregation of 400 to 500. The congregation plays an important part in these services...
MUSICALS. On balance, Camelot has a far more engaging score than was at first conceded; with a splendid cast and sets, the troubled book is almost overcome. The most charming musical around remains Irma La Douce, the freshest Carnival!, and Bye Bye Birdie and Fiorello! are both unpretentiously funny. Do Re Mi has Phil Silvers, but despite the inspired help of Nancy Walker, book and music combine to make this a lot less entertaining than Bilko reruns. As for Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, it is a national monument made of sugar, and should appeal to anyone...
This summer an effort will be made to recover the scattered bones of the bison, which was apparently butchered at the site. The muck of the springs is such a splendid preservative that even traces of pollen and animal hair as well as the fine bone specimens have been recovered, according to Miss Irwin. Work at the site is dangerous, as the muck tends to trap students in the same way it sucked in animals...