BYRON CENTENNARY.
. I CELEBRATIONS IN ATHENS. A MOONLIGHT RECITAL. (Received 2 p.m.) ATHENS, April 20. -An outstanding episode in connection with the Byron centennary celebrations was one in which thousands of Byron"s admirers gathered by moonlight in the acropolis, when throe hundred of the prettiest girls in Athens, dressed in elnssical robes, came, two by two, from the Partheon and sang Byron's "Maid of Athens" to Gounod's music. Recitations of Byron's poems followed. — (A. and X.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 94, 21 April 1924, Page 5
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