tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912529977982751506.post9069610740692122405..comments2024-01-30T00:12:13.163+00:00Comments on ORNAMENTAL PASSIONS: Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue W1Chris Partridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14883064324795042491noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912529977982751506.post-6500581953786376912009-09-22T11:18:15.556+01:002009-09-22T11:18:15.556+01:00Thanks for that, EPB. I suspect the girls are deri...Thanks for that, EPB. I suspect the girls are derived more from T. Simpson's fevered imagination than any specific classical precedent, however. Also to send a subliminal message to passers-by as to the entertainments offered within (and I'd have paid money to see them in the musical comedies that the Apollo specialised in when it opened).Chris Partridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14883064324795042491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912529977982751506.post-20579382684599891792009-09-22T10:38:50.962+01:002009-09-22T10:38:50.962+01:00If they're the Muses, then the one with the sc...If they're the Muses, then the one with the scroll is either Calliope(Epic Poetry) or Clio (History), and the one with the Lyre or Cithera is either Terpsichore (Dance) or Erato (Lyric Poetry; she can't be Euterpe (Music) as her attribute is an aulos (reed pipe). The other two are Thalia (Comedy) and Melpomene (Tragedy), although its more usual for them to have comic and tragic masks.Exit, Pursued by a Bearnoreply@blogger.com