were fixed sails and a
rudder.

Before reaching the place along the shore where the boat, built by
Odysseus on the island of Calypso, was to land, a storm was supposed
to beset the hero. The audience beholds him struggle with the storm
and then reach a safe harbor.

On the shore he piles up branches and lies down upon a bed of leaves.

A short time passes and Odysseus sleeps.

This opening scene in the tableaux Donald McClain insisted was the
most difficult in the entire program. During the rehearsals he had
been possessed by the fear that he would not be able to produce the
illusion, so that his audience would not take him seriously.
Therefore, the tableaux would begin and end in disaster.

Don need not have troubled. Very handsome and heroic he appeared, his
dark hair grayed to represent the age of the Greek hero who had
wandered so many weary years after the siege of Troy.

While Odysseus slumbers the Princess Nausicaa and her maidens come
down toward the river. Unaware of the sleeper, they begin washing
their clothes in the river and afterwards spread them out to dry in
the sun.

Victoria Drew, as the Princess Nausicaa, wore a gown of bright blue
with a Greek design in silver braid. Her bright red-gold hair was
bound in a silver fillet. Her maids were Margaret Hale, Edith Linder,
Martha Greaves and Julia Murray. Their costumes were white and
crimson, yellow and green.

In making a careful study of the costumes worn by the early Greeks,
Miss Frean and the Troop Captain had been surprised to find that white
did not play so important a part in their dress as they had supposed.
Together with their love for the beauty of line and form the Greeks
possessed an equal love for color.

Nausicaa and her maidens begin a game of ball on the sands. The
princess misses the ball and as it rolls into the water she gives a
cry that awakes Odysseus.

He comes forward and asks Nausicaa's aid.

Together they move toward the palace of the Sea-kings, when the first
tableau ends.

The second scene shows Odysseus seated inside the tent narrating his
adventures to the good King Alcinous and his wife, Queen Arete.

Again the voice of the interpreter recited further lines from the
Greek poem:

"Hither, come hither and hearken awhile, Odysseus, far-famed king!
No sailor ever has passed this way but has paused to hear us sing.
Our song is sweeter than honey, and he that can hear it knows
What he never has learnt from another,