The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-07-14

livered her long speech of thirsy-,hree lines with beauty and pathos which gave one new perception of the felici- tous language of Homer. and Hector was magnificent The ehild's shrinking fron his helmet was an exquisite touch. Other scenes from the Had were priam on his way 10 the Achaean cam" arranged by Poyn;er and Wa,ts). and Interior of tke Ten, of Achilles. where the hero. griev- ing for pasroclus-around him Brseis, the Nerelds and others-sings the beau tiful elegy. Hail, glorioss splnt. and hearken."
 Priam was represented by the famous Shakspearean reader Brandan, and his pleading for the dead body of his son
 Hectorl was veg effective. But the closing scene was, perhaps, the grandes, the mourning over Hector. The stage is here filled with Greek women standing around the thiekly shrouded form. oi which no part of the flesh IS seen. As one after the other. Cassandra, Hecuba. Andromaehe and Elen. utter their lamen- ,a,ions-each followed by weird refrain from their ladies-;he audience was pro- focadly moved. Some tears fell even. and one could have wished ,ha, Shak- speare could have witnessed what vas possible to Us as 10 the player in Hamlet who broke into tears at Heoubas sor- rows Last nigh, Hecuba was a great deal 10 us she was represented by Mss E. Guest, whose mastery of Greek eN- preston was no; surpassed by that ot any one present. One could recognize n .b .h i;era;ed arra.gnment of the gods by Ho- net, and later poets, under which they cruna!e away. Besides these gneving women shrouded. their heads bent. their hands clasped. sits the marble Athene. her beautiful oN-cyes sublimely indiffer- eIi 10 the woes ot mortals, her hands mo;ionless. She seemed type of all the relentless syrnpa:hitiag forces of nature. II she had only had the good luck :o be always represented Tn Greece Is she was IF one t4bieae last night by Miss E;hei CcNon. she nigh, have been as ;enderly apos,rophized by the poets as she was y Renan. in his long prayer to her when he nrst stood or the Aero pciis
 The Had occupied the iiss; par; ot
 
 voted to :ac Odyssey. and as may De magnet, here the resources U. beatty and grace n London were drawn upon to ] s;a-,l.ng ex;en, Foynter. George slmonds. he sculptor husband nt the Boston lady already mentioned who ap- peared n severa. of the ta5leauN@. lro- fessors Newton and Deianat:e hal pu, their classical heads together ;e make the most of these beauties and the result IS really wonderful. Oiysseus was finely represented by Lyonel Tennyson. and when he came back 10 Penelope dis gulsed as an aged pilgrim his resem 5lance 10 his father vas singular. There rose and moved and reclined and sang before US all these fair visions that flled Al lantis with dreams ere l; went to pieces. and who remained still to haunt the eyes and ears of those who sailed with Colum- bus. When the curtain revealed Gree mingling the cup for Ulysses. there was murmur of irepressible admiration around the room. so beautiful was she and when Calypro was revealed there was burs, of applause The sirens and the nymphs-nyrnphs of fountain. of river. of fsrest-aad the maidens O, charming Nausican. succeeded each other. in tab leau. the naked. sandeied feet peeping from beneaia their foarn-woven and sun- woven rai.neni. rntil we were all fairly won away from London. borne away 10 dTeaiEland and went away convinced tha, all those stories Odyssegs told iene.- ope of how he resisted those lovely crea- .ures were evidences of the extremes to which mythology can go. No douo, Penelope was simple-heaued The graphic ,ableau of,he staying f,he woers who had paid their addresses 10 his wife during his long absence shows tha, Ulysses was somewha, diTeren, from some other people. Last week man arrived here from California who wen, of from his wife twen,y-eight years ago. His wife did no, hear from him, married again. was widow with children by the second marriage, whom she supported by work The Californian Odysseus came back with a fortune, made love again to h.s Penelope, asked no questions aoou, her wooers, and has Jus, returned 10 Eldorado, taking her and her children with him.
 Sixty ladies and eighteen gentlemen were engaged in this, the frs, represen. tation ever known of he grea, epics oi Homer. The majority of them are ac- 9uain,ed with the Creek language. and the others were coached with grea, care They all knew their parts perfectly. and there was no mishap of any kind. The costumes were as perfec, as the 5es, classical archaeology of England could devise. and ,he grouping had employed the study of some of the frs, artists through several weeks. The gentlemen fulfilled he requirements of ndelity to Gree.s cos:crae with admirable courage. their arms. knees and legs being cute bare. The lades. of course. could hardly venture 70 De equally resolute as to all tn. desalls of ;heir Athenian sisters dress; but he English woman IS ap, 10 be innocen;ly bold when she has an in- tellec,ual and artistic task before her. and one rarely sees ordinary actresses in classic parts adhere .o the anc.en; cos tunes so fai;hfully as these ladies a, Cromwell house They were swh.,e- armed as or-, r-.-iE h.-a ,.--r,1j