Foreign Language Press Service

Benefit Drama

Saloniki-Greek Press, Jan. 23, 1936

The dramatic performance sponsored by the Ladies of Holy Trinity Parish for the benefit of the school treasury was a tremendous social and financial success. The operetta "Y Xelogiastra Tou Tsopani" was presented by the Athenian Dramatic Group, which has been entertaining Chicago's Greek community for the past few months.

During the intermission a group of young Greek girls garbed in the colorful costumes of the motherland and led by a young Greek boy wearing a foustanella [national men's costume] aroused the enthusiasm of the audience when they danced various types of peasant dances. The participants were.....

Mrs. Alexandra Nicolatsea, president of the Ladies' Society, who helped to make this benefit such a great success, is to be congratulated. The Greek community of Chicago will be fortunate to have other affairs such as this, that do so much to raise our cultural and spiritual plane.

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