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The Trojan Women*
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Announcer. — Great Plays !
Music. — Fanfare of trumpets . . . majestic music in overture during following announcement.
Announcer. — The National Broadcasting Company presents Great Plays — a series of famous plays selected to show the development of drama from the sunrise performances in ancient Athens down to the contemporary theatre. Mr. Bums Mantle, dean of American drama critics and known throughout the country for his yearly volume of Broadway’s best plays, will act as commentator at today’s production of “The Trojan Women,” by Euripides. Mr. Bums Mantle.
Mr. Burns Mantle. — The first production in the Great Plays series which the National Broadcasting Company will present is “The Trojan Women,” by Euripides, translated into the modern idiom by Miss Edith Hamilton, who declares that even though this play was written 2,350 years ago it remains “the greatest piece of anti-war literature there is in the world. Nothing since, no description or denunciation of war’s terrors and futilities, ranks with ‘The Trojan Women,’ which was put upon the Athenian stage by Euripides in 416 B.C.” On this afternoon’s broadcast you will hear Miss Blanche Yurka, distinguished for her portrayal of classic roles, who will appear as Hecuba in “The Trojan Women.”
So we ask you to come with us to ancient Athens and attend a premise of this great play. As quick as thought we eliminate the centuries and invite you to be seated in the Theatre of Dionysus, in Athens, 416 years before the birth of Christ.
Music. — A swift cadenza suggestive of flight through time and space. . . . effect of huge throngs of people in stadium . . . fade for noises of the time.
* Copyright, 1937, by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. National Broadcasting Company’s adaptation for radio, copyright, 1937, by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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