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Harrison Grey Fiske has. secured from Percy MacKaye the stage rights of his play, "Sappho and Phaon," for Mme. Bertha Kalich, who will appear in it as Sappho next season. The play is a poetic tragedy. While preserving in its technique the ancient unitles and in subject matter dealing with legendary and historical persons of the time 600 B. C., it is in no sense archaic, but is essentially a modern drama, whose plotwoven of a few large distinct characters-reveals. a passionate love story. It is set in a single scene, the exterior of a Greek temple overlooking the Aegean sea. During the ac-: tion temple, olive grove, shore and sea are seen successively in the brillance of day, by moonlight and, in the mists of dawn. In the play the Lesbian poetess is a vivid, vital figure that harmonizes with the spirit of her own writings and that rounds out into a perfect embodiment of passion, beauty and genius the fragmentary Aeolic records and legends preserved by us. Sappho attained among ancient women а position wholly unique. Plato called her the tenth muse. Others called her. "The Poetess" as Homer was called "The Poet."