So, whatever the others may have believed, Lucy Martin was convinced that she had taken complete charge of Kara’s tableau.
Watching the little girl, Kara in a measure forgot what she felt to be her own unfitness for her distinguished rôle.
Athena touches Odysseus with her magic wand and he changes into an old man, not wishing to be recognized on his return to his own palace. Athena’s chariot is then drawn back into the grove of trees and Odysseus, now disguised as a beggar, once more sets out for his home. The Goddess has presented him with a worn coat which he places over his former costume.
The tableaux did not consume any length of time, scarcely longer than it requires in the telling, nevertheless the entire drama of Odysseus could not be unfurled in a single afternoon’s pageant.
The meeting of Odysseus with the faithful steward, Eumaeus, played by Mr. Fenton, was presented without the details one finds in the story.
Immediately after the son of Odysseus, Telemachus, makes his appearance.
Neither Lance McClain nor Donald had ever acted until to-day.
They had both been fearful that playing together would have its drawbacks, as one is inclined to be more nervous and critical with regard to one’s own family. Actually the brothers were more surprised by each other than they could have surprised their audience.
The change in costume, the gray in his hair, the lines of makeup on his handsome boyish face, gave Donald a look of maturity, while Lance’s slenderness and the fact that he was several inches smaller carried with it the necessary suggestion of graceful youth.
Together the father and son set forth to their home, crowded with the suitors who, believing Odysseus dead, have come to seek the hand of Penelope.