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...beginning of the "Agamemnon," the first of the series of the trilogy, the hero's return from Troy is anxiously awaited at Argos. The play opens with a nocturnal view of the palace at Mycenae, from the roof of which a watchman details in picturesque prologue, the long weariness of his watch for the beacon light, that should announce the fall of Troy. At length, seeing the beacon flash out, he shouts the good news to the people in the palace, but not without a dark word of foreboding for the future. Twelve old men of Mycenae, who form...
...finally be assigned: Agamemnon, A. L. Benshimol '07 P. H. Noyes '06 R. A. Moore 1G. Clytaemestra, H. S. Wyndham-Gittens '06 Cassandra, A. S. A. Brady '08 Coryphaeus, F. H. Birch 2L. Herald, D. Gardiner '07 H. C. Washburn '06 Aegisthus, A. L. Benshimol '07 L. Carroll 1G. Watchman, M. C. Clapp '07 B. H. Gordon...
...Department of the Classics in June, 1906, are being considered provisionally in the following order: Agamemnon--P. H. Noyes '06; Clytaemestra--H. S. Wyndham-Gittens '06, R. A. Moore '05; Cassandra--A. S. A. Brady '08, H. G. Beyer, Jr., '06; Aegisthus--A. L. Benshimol '07, L. Carroll '06; watchman--B. H. Gordon '08, M. C. Clapp '07; herald--D. Gardiner '07; coryphaeus--H. C. Washburn '06, W. H. Freeman '06, A. L. Benshimol '07, C. W. Cate...
...preliminary trials for acting parts in the Greek play "Agamemnon," which the Department of the Classics intends to produce in June, 1906, will be held this afternoon and tomorrow at 3.30 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. Candidates for the parts of the watchman and herald should report today, and candidates for all other parts tomorrow. The judges will be Professors H. W. Smyth, C. B. Gulick and W. F. Harris, and Mr. George Riddle, of Cambridge, public reader and former instructor in the University, who took the leading part in the "Oedipus Tyrannus" of Sophocles, which was produced...
...play gives opportunities for splendid acting in the parts of Clytaemestra, Cassandra, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, a watchman and a herald. It is hoped that all students who intend to compete for the acting parts or for the chorus will take the opportunity of hearing Professor Goodwin's reading in order to form a clear idea of the play. The competition is open to any one and no special ability in Greek scholarship is required, nor is previous experience in acting demanded. A trial of candidates will shortly be held, when passages selected by the candidates will be recited. Further information...