The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-27
STADIUM OPENING
ATTRACTS INTEREST
.Thc Trojan Women" to Be
Given Saturday by Gran
Vile Bankers Company.
CAST WILL BE NOTABLE

cre,, interest Is being shown in the
.,,,ire Of the municipal stadium at
IN, College Of the city OF New York on
saturday afternoon. when Granville
marker and the company gathered by
him will act The Trojan Women OF
ru-,pIdes before an invited audience.
.rn. Trojan Women will be repeated
=, Wednesday and "Iphigenia in Tau
ola" will be given Monday afternoon
.,a Saturday afternoon OF next week.
", only Is the College OF the City
=, New York interested in the perform
,,css hut Columbia University and
y,v York University too. These open
-. festivals were made possible through
,hs invitation OF Mayor Mitchell. who
snpo,nted a committee to have charge
=, them. Of which otto II. Kahn is
chairman.
Irlah Mccarthy. Edith wynne Mat
,hlsor. Chrystal Iierne. Gladys Hanson.
Ijonel Braham and others are In the
.ss, Already plays have been given
a, Yale and Harvard.
THE Trojan Women and ''Iphieenia
a, Tsurls' are among HI greatest OF
N. Greek dramas. They were written
n, ruripides. Roth were first per-
formed between the years Az and AIS
n c. The English TRANSACTIONS are by
prof Gilbert Murray of oxford Uni
y,rsI,y. England, In the first perform
,pces OF all OF whose translated Greek
rlays Mr.. Barker or Miss Mccarthy
ms participated as player or producer.
Great war Play.
There Is something timely in a great
cpen air performance of Tho Trojan
Women" before an American audience
Of many thousand persons at a moment
xhsn the eyes OF the world are GEN.
,,sd on Europe. when the sympathies
n, neutral nations are concentrated In
sIleyiatlng the sufYerings of war. THE
Trojan Women" has been said to be
the greatest war play ever written. since
n contains a message for peace and n
pl,a for consideration for women and
children in times of international strife.
The scene % the play is outside the
walls Of Troy and the play obtains its
title from the fate of the Trojan women
who bore the trials after the fall Of
their city.
"Iphigenia In Tauris'' Is a romantic
rather than tragic drama. 1t begins
with a tragic situation and rises to a
scene Of great dramatic power. ending
IN the happy escape from the Taurians
OF the Greek maid Iphigenia and her
brother orestes.
The new municipal stadium In which
these performances will he given was
designed by Arnold w. Drummer. The
outside dimensions are $50 by 1875 feet.
Il, tu n ~, n ,nhgthaatra 81 allinffna1
form. and though constructed primarily
for athletic purposes 1t Is admirably
suited to the demands OF the Greek
smphitheatre. There are twenty tiers OF
seats surrounded by a great colonnade
O. sixty-four Doric columns sixteen feet
high. The %colonnade Is terminated by
two pavilions. The two main entrances
on Amsterdam avenue. n at 136th
street and the other at l3Sth street, are
spacious and handsome. The stadium
VIII seat about 5000 persons and there
will be standing room for 1900 more.
Portable Greek stage.
NJ. Barker will place a portable Greek
stage or setting In the area In front o.
q. stadium. This stage Snd the
costumes worn by the principals and
chorus have been designed by Norman
Wilkinson. an English stage artist, whose
designs for "a Midsummer Nights
Dream At Wallack's last winter called
forth so much discussion. There will he
special music for the choruses of both
Plays composed by Prof. David Stanley
Smith Of Yale.
Following the performances at the
New York Stadium Mr.. Bsrker's com
rany will appear In a new open air
sadium at the University OF Pennsyl-
0aRtA .- 49,. a A.l l. alaaA
Memorial Stadium. Princeton University,
June II and June u. giving perform
srces Of "Iphigenia in Tauris" and
"Trojan Women" In the order named.
The Mayor has written as follows Ia
NJ Barker:
~ am very much Interested In the plan
fr producing Pro Murray's TRANSACTIONS
~ 'lphiRsnia' and The Trojan Women
under your dictatorship In the new
stadium OF the College OF the City OF
New York. which has been erected
through the generosity of Adolph
Lewisohn.
I am especially interested in the op-
ror'unity which 1t Is proposed to afford
70 the students Of the College OF the
city Of New York and OF the higher
grades Of the public schools to witness
these productions of the great Greek
d-dmas. II augurs well for the future
O. he stadium OF the city's own college
that II should be opened under such
tlspices.
Il attach much Importance to the sue
CO.'S OF your plans. not only because OF
weir immediate educational value bu,
Is an Inspiration to make the new
Stadium OF the city College - centre for
great dramatic productions intended &c
appeal 10 lar"e audiences"
Mr.. BRrker's Reply.
IN his reply Mr.. Barker says that he
80 Mrs, Barker elijah Mccarthy have
os''vered in the City College Stadium
an almost perfect pattern OF a Greek
NEAR" His letter continues:
believe that Greek plays themselves
rligly treated, are still living things
IN" Trojan Women surely might have