amusements. DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE. ‘MEDEA.’ - - ‘MEDEA.’ • Damo Sybil Thorndike herself can rarely have appeared to better advantage. .The part of the tempestuous and revengeful Medea —“ a savage bride, won in far seas, and left ’’—was one upon which the whole success or failure of the presentation hinged, but every word and every change ot emotion of the wild Eastern women was portrayed with such subtlety and artistic insight that Medea hold all eyes.— 1 Herald. DAME SYBIL AT HER GREATEST. HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. ■ Direction J. C. Williamson Ltd. By arrangement Cherniavski Bureau, London. TO-NIGHT, at 8, In response to innumerable requests, for one performance only, The Famous Greek Tragedy, - 8 THE MEDEA OE EURIPIDES.’ The part of Jason, Leader of the Argonauts and husband of Medea, was taken with conspicuous success by Mr Lewis Casson. As “the world-wondered lover and the brave,” he made a picturesque figure for Medea to heap her scorn upon, and he was at his best facing her taunts.—* Age. ‘ MEDEA.’ No Play in the whole litcra- ‘ MEDEA.’ turo of the Tragic Drama con- ‘ MEDEA.’ tains so much unrelieved pas- ‘ MEDEA.’ sion and vengeance as this ter- ‘ MEDEA.’ rific play. PRECEDED BY A Series of Classical Dances by MICHAEL and HESTER MARTIN-HARVEY. •“Mr Michael Martin-Harvcy and his wife are great artists. Their conception of the dance is original, only to be compared with the great Isadora Duncan’s way of interpreting music through the medium of tho dance—with music and dancing as equal arts and not suffering one to predominate.”—(‘ Daily Mail.’) ‘MACBETH’ TO-MORROW. ‘MADAME PLAYS NAP’ SATURDAY. Plans at Bristol. Day Sales Rialto.
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Evening Star, Issue 21320, 26 January 1933, Page 11
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