Best broadcasts of 1938-39 (1939)

Record Details:

Title:
Best broadcasts of 1938-39
Date:
1939
Publisher:
New York : Whittlesey House
Volume:
Best broadcasts of 1938-39
Leaf #:
000575
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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THE TROJAN WOMEN Country lost and children and husband. Glory of all my house brought low. {She begins to get up) Oh, this aching body . . . this bed. . . . It is very hard. My back pressed to it . . . Up! Quick, quick. I must move. Oh, I’ll rock myself this way, that way, to the sound of weeping, the song of tears, dropping down forever. O ships, O prows, swift oars, out from the fair Greek bays and harbors over the dark, shining sea, you found your way to our holy city, and the fearful music of war was heard, the war song sung to flute and pipe as you cast on the shore your cables. Who am I that I wait here at a Greek king’s door ? A slave that men drive on, an old gray woman that has no home. O wives of the bronze-armored men who fought, and maidens, sorrowing maidens, plighted to shame, see . . . only smoke left where was Troy. Let us weep for her. As a mother bird cries to her feathered brood, so will I cry. Music. Mantle. — The door of one of the huts opens, and a woman steals out, then another, and another. Woman i. — Your cry, O Hecuba . . . oh, such a cry . . . What does it mean ? There in the tent we heard you call so piteously, and through our hearts flashed fear. In the tent we were weeping, too, for we are slaves. Hecuba. — ^Look, child, there where the Greek ships lie. . . . Woman 2. — They are moving. The men hold oars. Woman 3. — O God, what will they do? Carry me off over the sea in a ship far from home ?