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...Navy Lieut. Thomas Massie had left the party early, alone. Later, Massie went looking for her at the home of a friend, but she was not there. Massie then phoned his own house, and his wife answered. In a voice so distorted by anguish that it was scarcely recognizable, Thalia Massie cried: "Come home at once! Something terrible has happened...
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...
...small but rather decorative set--featuring a superflous canopy resembling the top of a disembodied four-poster--was designed and effectively lighted by William Schroeder. Edith Shroeder's and Thalia Boyajian's simple, colorful costumes and William Sleator's pleasant incidental music both made modest contributions to the evening...
John H. Finley '24, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, while on the way to his Harvard doctorate managed to find time to write the masque Thalia; or, A Country Day (1929). A charming if overwritten work, Thalia was most recently performed by the HDC Actors' Laboratory...
Over the years such oldtime outlaws as Dante's De Monarchia and Arius' Thalia have been quietly removed from the Index. Last week the Congregation of the Holy Office took another step toward a possible reform of the Index: it allowed an Italian publisher to bring out an annotated version of Les Miserables...