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Show "ELECIRAEASON'S TREAT Remarkable Interest Being Taken In The Forthcoming Production at Nlbley Hall. Iittbrcst, In tho production of "Elec-tra" "Elec-tra" at Nlbloy Hall noxt Monday night Ip increasing dully .It Is considered as tho dramatic and musical event of the season . . Tho, muslp of "Elcctrn" Is tho latest and hy somo considered tho most brll- II an cqiuposltlon of one of the greatest great-est living composers, Strauss, whoso fame ordinarily rests on his musical setting of Salome, Enoch Ardcn and Bh?etra but fow realize that he la regarded as the founder of a now school of realistic music. Of thatext volumes might to writ-tqp.J?Vof. writ-tqp.J?Vof. Gilbert Murray says of thy central figures of tho tragedy" Thero Id no woman's charnctor In tho range of Qreek tragedy so profoundly stud-fed."Slnco stud-fed."Slnco Homer's cple version slmpiynnd grandly told ho three Grecian dramatists Eoschylns, Sophocles So-phocles and Euripides have each given n dramatized version of the theme. Tho text, howovcr, which Is used by StrausH is of recent composition by tho German dramatist Hugo Von Hoffmansthal full of barbaric splendor nnd IntonBO poetry. Tho artists ar-tists presenting this work, Mrs. Bell, Mr. Splcker, Mr. Thatcher and Mrs. Sloan aro too well known to neod comment In this paper .Already the advanco sale of scats Is largo and wo are glad to sco that Logan appreciates appre-ciates tho exceptional opportunity of hearing this great masterpiece, Mpn-day Mpn-day evening, Jan. 30th, Nlbloy Hall. |