The Washington herald., 1913-03-24

/ be given each afternoon and evening
of this week in connection with the pro-
duction of the magnificent Cleopatra"
film. "Antony's Victory" "Antony's
| Love Song" "In Cleopatra's >Barse."
| ''Cleopatra's Death" Suite de Ballet
selections from grand opera of Cleo
patra," Oehmler; Festival March," Men
delssohn; Solitude" Gruenwald; War
March," from "Athalia." Mendelssohn:
"Mascagnis Farewell Vogler.
Awarded Third Prize, 81.
| Cleopatra Queen of Egypt. family of
the Ptolemies. B. c. $3.50, the synonym
for bewtChery, beauty. and allurement
| with the enchantingness of Psyche. the
| charm of Venus, and the wiles of De-
lilah. charmed Romes greatest men. and.
with her mystic powers. caused events
to weave for her an immortal niche in
the worlds hall of fame-history.
! Cleopatras meeting of Antony, where
| in the passionate love of a love-hungered
woman burst forth in burning fury. was
the most important event in her life.
SiCkened of her infant, brother-hus-
| band, and despairing for love, she beheld
| Antony as a possible husband. Then it
was her world. once dark, grew bright:
| then the heart of that wonderful woman
leaped like the fountain of youth: then
passion consumed that Egyptian Queen
and that Roman general. to the lasting
discontinue OF both.
This was the most important event in
Cleopatra life. Without that meeting
there could have been no Illicit love. no
pursuit by Caesar, no battle of Actium,
no death by serpent, and no marvellous
train of events which history records.
would ever have been woven around that
enchanting enchantress of the Nile.
RHODA WATKINS lio Clifton Road.
Awarded Fourth Prize, $3.50.
The most important event in Cleo
patra's life was not her birth. nor death.
for all are born, and all die. But all did
not achieve as did she. Was the death
of her father her accession to the throne.
her marriage to her infant brother. her
fratricide of him. or the meeting OF
Antony or Caesar that event? None of
these. They We're mere preludes to what
followed Just as the Introductory acts
of a drama are inferior to the climax.
What event was II. then, which induced
chronoligists to miscroscope Cleopatra $
life for embla zoned portrayal on his
tory's page? The most important event
in her life, as well as one of the great
est transpiratiOns of all history, was
when she deserted the fleet, and brave
Antony seeing she had flown, followed
thinking all was lost, suicided with a
serpent That event, truly, is the great,
est of all events in Cleopatra's life, one
of the most brilliant lights in history's
vast arena, and the event which inspired
historians to behold the mighty, mys-
terious, magical, powerful beauty of the
woman, whose wonderful winsomeness
brought mighty men law and caused ma
tions to tremble.
EDWARD r. STERLING,
Senate Office Building.
To each of the winners of the third
and fourth prizes announced today two
orchestra tickets are also awarded.
Among other winners of orchestra tick
est are Walter L. Fowler. Mrs. Clara
Empey, Mrs Mary f. Cohen, Denis A.
Lane, Helen Gardner. Margaret Brown.
B. Began. Clinton Robb, Randolph ].
Smith, Mitchell ]. Won Preissig, E. NJ.
Agnew, Merritt MacWhorter, Charles ].
Simpson, J. III. Terrell, James A. Page,
r. c. Levy, A. Beverly Burrows, Bruce
Warden. Miss Sarah Babcock, and Mrs.
Louise Myers
Three Iezzanine Box Awards.
To Mrs. Webb, of IT'S L Street North
west; " E. Dulin, 1727 Fairmont Street
Northwest and John L. McMaster, 1925
T Street Northwest, there has been
awarded each mezzanine box at Gar
den Theater. Each box has six seats,
and are for Monday, Tuesday, and We'd
neseday. respectively.
Announcement will be mad. in tomor-
rows Washington Herald of the winners
of the first and second prizes, the re-
manning mezzanine boxes. and num-
her of the orchestra seat tickets winners.
All tickets and prizes will be mailed to-
day and Tuesday by the Cleopatra ed
itor.