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The Greek Play "Electra."

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Sophocles' play, "Electra," which was given yesterday afternoon at the Hollis St. Theatre, will, if arrangements can be made, be given next week in Sanders, and therefore mention of it here will not be out of place. The play is performed exclusively by students of the American Academy of Dramatic Art, and yesterday afternoon they reflected much credit upon their school by performing difficult parts of the tragedy with great carefulness and impressiveness. Agamemnon, on his return from Troy, had been murdered by his wife, and her paramour. Orestes, son of Agamemnon, then a child, had been rescued from the clutches of his father's murderers by his sister Electra, and sent into Phocis. Eight years later he returns to take vengeance for his father's death, and by the aid of the god Apollo, succeeds in his purpose and leaves the guilty pair dead at their own door.

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