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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...
...presidents chosen were: Barnard, Jean Ross '54; Bertram, Noelle Blackmer '54; Briggs, Thalia Poleway '54; Cabot, Anne Jefferey '54; Holmes, Claire Martin '54; and Moors, Sue Sandel...
...president of City College in New York and also editor of the New York Times. Young John inherited his love of writing and, when he came to Harvard from Exeter in '21, he began composing poetry. President of the Advocate, Finley published his only book of verse, Thalia, a few years after graduation from College...
...cinema. This highly original and highly praised film is at the 55th Street Playhouse off Seventh Avenue. Cocetau's first grand coup, Beauty and the Beast runs through Thursday at the Irving Place (near 14th Street) along with "Ivan the Terrible" and and through tonight at the Thalia (95th and Broadway) along with the superb Italian film, Shoe Shine...
...story she told later, five men seized her, drove her away in an auto, beat her and raped her. Five men of mixed Hawaiian and Asiatic blood were arrested and accused of the crime. When they were let out on bail, Thalia Massie's Kentucky-born, Annapolis-bred husband, with the help of Thalia's socialite mother and two enlisted men, kidnaped one of them-a massive man named Joe Kahahawai. They shot him and drained out his blood in a water-filled bathtub...