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STUDENTS GREEK PLAY.

So much has been 50 d in regard to
the Greek play that the reannouncement
OF the dates for its presentation is all
that remains to be said. The play will
be presented at the Lyceum theater, Min
neapoiis, Tuesday evening and Wednes-
day afternoon.
the English translation on the other,
will be for sale at the opera house. The
students have worked hard, Miss BarroWs
has been untiring in her efforts as direc-
treSS, and the Woman's club of Mime
apohs. especially DR.. Cora Smith Eaton
have done everything in their power to
make the performance a glorious success.
Everyone who attends is sure to be pleas
eel, with the educational value and
the artistic effects OF the play.
The characters in The Return of Odys-
Odysseus
TeIemachus
Alcinous, king of Phaeacia
Laodamas, Halius and Ciytoneus, his
Echeneus, "a Phaeacian counsellor.
Ewyalus, Amphaialus and Elatreus,
Phaeacian athletes.
Phemius and DemGdocus bards
Pontonous, page to Alc:nous.
Sultors, elders and pages.
Penelope.
Athene, disguised as Mentes.
Gree.
Arete, queen of Phaeacia.
Nausicaa, her daughter.
EurycleiS, nurse.
Eurynome, housekeeper of Penelope's
house
Actoris, handmaiden
Circe,s nymphs and Nauiscaa maidens
Act !. The house of OdySseuS in Itha-
ca during his absence)
Act II. Circe's palace. (Tableau)
Act III BY the river, on the coast of
Act ". The palace OF Alcinious.
Act Y. The assembly place OF the
Phaeac.anS.
Act VI The house of odysseus (after
The, scenes are chosen with, a view of
introducing as much as possible of the
artistic life of ancient Greeks, the music
dancing and athletic games All of these
and the coStumfng and setting are care
fully studied and reproduce the spirit OF
the classical age with fidelity that de-
lights all scholars, and they have all the
charm of novelty as we'll as beauty of
those less scholarly.
The play would be very enjoyable aside
from its literary and archaeological asso-
Citations, which give it a marked educa-
tional value. The athletic exhibition APP
pealS to many, and the boxing has been
pronounced as spirited as bout at Tat
tersaWs. 1t is not mere imitation, 1t IS a
real contest The same is true of the
other feats of skill. the running, leaping
and discus throwing. The dancing is al
most as athletic and vigorous as the
games, and the combination Of a dance
with playing ball is one which requires
much training and endurance. The first
rehearsals for these parts occasion more
sore muscles than football.
Miss Barrows coaches every portion of
the performance herself, even teaching
the men the games, for the Greek meth
DDS differ considerably from those of the
present. Her versatility is at once ap-
parent.
At sixteen, While student in the Girls
Latin School of Boston, she dramatized
certain portions of the 'Aeneid" and
drilled her fellow pupils in their parts
in the attic of her fathers house. The
project outgreW its humble beginning and
the scenes We're produced in the parIors
of Edward Everett Hale's church before
the Navy John D. Long reading between
the acts his translation of the "Aeneid.
Miss Barrows then went to Greece with
her father DIR. Samuel J. BarroWs, a
Unitarian clergyman, who has also been
a congressman from Massachusetts, fol-
lowing her stay there with a course
in Greek art and archaeology at Leipzig.
Returning to America Miss Barrows
dramatized the story of Odysseus for pro-
dent there, and it was staged under her
direction.
The most interesting production of the
Greek play ever given was last year at
Hull house, Chicago, when the actors
were native Greeks. the merchants and
peddlers of the neighborhood, who enter
ed into the play with an abandon and
pride that gave it an additional charm.
| The Telemachus was a graduate of the
University of Athens although pursuing
humble vocat ton in his adopted coun-
deeply impressed with the performance,
saying that it afforded new thrills such as
modera dramatist might seek in vain
to produce.