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 #:
000576
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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BEST BROADCASTS OF 1938-39 Hecuba. — You ask, and I know nothing, but I think that ruin is here. Woman 4. — Oh, we are wretched. We shall hear the stunmons. Women of Troy, go forth from your home, for the Greeks set sail. Hecuba. — But not Cassandra, oh, not her. She is mad. . . . She has been driven mad. Leave her within, 0 Troy, unhappy Troy, you are gone, and we, the unhappy, leave you, we who are living and we who are dead. {More women now come out from a second hut) Woman 5. — {Trembling) Out of the Greek king’s tent, trembling I come, O Queen, to hear my fate from you. Not death. . . . They would not think of death for a poor woman. Woman 2. — The sailors . . . they are standing on the prow. Already they are running out the oars. Woman 6. — {She comes out of a third hut, and several follow her) It is so early . . . but a terror woke me. My heart beats so. Woman 7. — {Inquisitive) Has a herald come from the Greek camp ? Whose slave shall I be ? Hecuba. — Wait for the lot drawing. It is near. Woman 7. — {Inquisitive) Argos shall it be, or Phthia ? or an island of the sea ? Hecuba. — I watch a master’s door ? 1 nurse his children ? Once I was Queen in Troy. Woman 4. — Poor thing. What are your tears to the shame before you ? Woman 2. — The shuttle will still pass through my hands, but the loom will not be in Troy. 552