Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-06 | Page 3 | Ancient Theatre may have Classic Plays

ANCIENT THEATRE MAY HAVE CLASSIC PLAYS rLORENCH. Italr. Aii(. Iv The old Roman theatre at'Fleeole will thla autumn. au-tumn. If praaent plana are carried out. be uaed aaJn for the purpose It waa ort(lna!ly ao well constructed many centuriee aj-o, it wll witneaa the pro- ductlon of a eeree of plays, but thla time ha (tone aeata win be filled. It le ! hoped, by Utter day- tourist a who wtU j find interest in the novel Idea. Oa- brlele d'Annunato ia (Ivins hla support to the project, and it la probable that one of hla tragedies will be la the repetory. Thla ruin of the days of Roma la , beautifully located , In the ancient ; Etruscan town that atanda upon the ' olive-covered hllla above Florence. It baa admirable acoustic properties. Nineteen tiera of atone aeata atlll re- ' main In a aemrlrcle thirty-seven yards In diameter, while Just below these are three more rows of special aeata uaed In olden times by persona of rank. It la proposed, beginning next September, Sep-tember, to (Iva performancea every spring and autumn when the weather in Italy la particularly agreeable. In addition to the d'Annunao play, the . first aeries of produciiona will include a Greek claaslc tragedy; a melodrama, ! probably Orpheua by Monteverde, and a drama from the pen of modern 1 Italian writer.