Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-07-05

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tlon from William Well announcing
his appearance in this city at some
period during the approaching theat-
rical season.
This band is one OF the finest musi-
cal organizations ever appearing in
this city and We'll is director OF
strong personality and artistic en-
thusiasm.
MILWAUKEE, June 81. = Senators
John @. Spooner and Robert NJ. La
Toilette are to tread the boards OF
the stage, not In person, but through
their counterfeits, who are to appear
10 play which Claiming Pollock is
about to write. The drama is to be
founded on the political light In the
Republican party in Wisconsin in the
last six years. The scenes will be
laid In Madison, Milwaukee and WASH
ington. Mr.. Pollock says he was led
to the project through acquaintance
with Miss Fola La Toilette, whom he
met while she was playing with Ada
Rehan and who told him Of her
fathers rise.
The production OF Agamemnon Of
Aeschylus at Harvard College, recen-
tly, has aroused more comment in the
world OF letters than any drama which
has been produced on the contempor-
ary stage. The following account OF
this classic event was written especi-
ally for the LEDGER and will give the
reader an idea Of the magnitude of the
performance and its worth as goth
century literary accomplishment.
"Thiry-five hundred people sat on
the hard concrete seats Of the stadium
at Harvard in the cold drlzzling rain
last Saturday afternoon and listened
to the wonderful presentation Of
"Agamemnon" In the original Greek,
by Harvard students; yet their enthui-
siasm was not dampened. And again
on Tuesday afternoon another three
thousand people, scholars, students,
enthusiasts, assembled from many
states both near and far to witness the
successful revival of the greatest Of the
tragedies OF the "Fathers OF Trag-
edy."
The afternoon was perfect as 1t
should have been to make true
Aeschylus assertion, "Justice guides
everything to Its destined end' for a
more perfect performance, more per-
feet environment it would be heard
for the human mind TO conceive. In
the horse shoe bend Of that classic
amphitheatre we sat and gazed upon
q scene which was so real that we
drifted out Of the now, back through
% centuries to long ago and saw not
the stadium and Its little company Of
Harvard students but Argos and the
palace OF Agamemnon other Argive
elders, not the Charles river glistening
just beyond, but the Aegean sea and
In the distance surely Ilion.
From the moment the bronze skim
ned watchman appeared upon the roof
Of the palace Of Agamemn0n until the
pair Of guilty lovers disappeared into
the palace we were lost to the present,
Everything was Greek even unto the
slightest detail Of structure or cos
tune. 1t was wonderful In concep-
tion, wonderful In executive. That
great concourse Of nearly, four thou
sand people sat for two hours and q
half as though under some mystic
spell and not a word was lost, not
syllable but was distinctly heard in
the fullness Of Its musical rythem by
every breathless listener.
Those who have read "Agamemnonh
either In the original or in translation
cannot gain as adequate conception
of the greatness the majestic beauty Of
this great masterpiece as was given
by this wonderful presentation, The
palace at Argos In oil It's classic beauty
was the background;just In front were
four pedestals upon which were life
sized lusts Of Aeschylus, PraKiteles
Hermes, Apollo and Jove each wreath
ed with garlapds, Directly In front