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Show ; 1 Greek Drama to Give Broadway SosetJiing New Comedy Has Given Phi la-. la-. delphiajit Plain Spoken Piece c By RICHARD M ASSOC K KRW YORK Greek drama Is romlng to Broadway and the wlse-acrea wlse-acrea are wondering what tha police po-lice will think about It. The play Is Aristophanes comedy. "Lyaistrata," which philadelphians .have found a plain apoken little piece about the means tha Athenian women took to end war and keep thetr husbands at home. Titillated by reports from tlie Pennsylvania city. New Yorkers have been traveling there to get a Treimlnary eye-and-earful of Fay TUintar, Mar lam Hopkins and other oth-er of the cast," The production' ta sponsored by the Philadelphia Theatre association, associa-tion, which now seems to be a corpora cor-pora te nam for the heir of Pr. Horace Howard Furneaa Jr, its Dr. Fumesa, wealthy aon of a fjhakeepearean authority and him-"""Weti" him-"""Weti" a ,eenoleT" 4ewnet--a--oee4eaTr-a"I modem revivals of the older claa-alra. claa-alra. but Inalated that they have appeal. ap-peal. He ehoee "Lyalatrata"' as the flrat. Rehaaraala bad barely be-f;un be-f;un when he died. Thla column's correspondent on he Pbiladelphlan rlalto reporta that Vurnesa was the sole financial barker bark-er of the production, which has coat thouaanda of dollars, and that his helra are carrying: on. One of tliem. Kate Jayne Davis, ta aecretary and another, Fati-man Fumees, la vice areoldent of the association. The play, adapted to the American Ameri-can by Ollber Brides, New York ritlc, haa been given an elaborate getting hy Norman Bel Oeddr. The Hellenic Influence already haa appeared this season In other rttetlc efforts. Msro Connelly, finding- Greclsn simplicity In the relations of negro fiindamentallata with their Ood. put The Green Pastures- together very much as Homer did la bis day with similar material. Tha theatre guild likewise went jack to tha daya of tha old Greek rsgedlra In producing "Hotel Uni-Trrae" Uni-Trrae" without an lntermlaalon. Thornton Wllder'a novel. "The Woman of Androa." haa even firmer root a In Greek antiquity, coming aa It does from a play by Terence, who . took It almost bodily from the Greek Menander. ' |