two young women from among us... young women whose way to acting culture has lit... And how greatly people here differ over the meaning and the echo of this word... acting!...

The tongues of reality often wrong the truth, which the sickliness of this reality obscures!...

I return and say: wanted, two young women — from the college and from the university... from the shades of culture and of light. For the roles of Europa and Miri in the play Cadmus.

Five of us met in the office of The Woman's Voice... The centerpiece of our necklace was Mrs. Edvick Shayboub, the editor-in-chief, and there were Miss

• Dark — black of hair and eyes

• 22 years of age

• Height: 172 cm

• Weight: 62 kilos

• A student in the final class at Beirut College for Women

• She has taken part in several performances; the most important role entrusted to her was that of "Ophelia" in Shakespeare's Hamlet

Jinan Jaroudi

The first to come forward for the role of Europa Jinan Jaroudi

and Mr. Nizar Miqati and Mr. Kamel Kostandi and I... One subject brought us together... namely, paving the way for the birth of a theater in Lebanon... I shall not enlarge upon it, for the importance of the theater is too well known to need explaining.

Mrs. Shayboub announced to us that The Woman's Voice would take up the attempt to find the two actresses — this apart from whatever help it can give the project... The magazine will therefore take upon itself the receiving of applications, each to include a good photograph of the candidate together with a brief sketch of her (on the model of the one sent in by Jinan Jaroudi and printed with this article).

The picture of Europa — I could almost draw it... She is truly beautiful... slender of figure, with a delicate soul stirred by an emotion like the surging deep, not knowing where to alight with it: in the nest of her love, or in the courtyard of her greater homeland?

As for Miri, Europa's governess and Cadmus's wet nurse, her advancing years have made her forget the coddling of love and its tender turnings.

She is mighty, stubborn in her patriotism... yet Europa remains her greatest care, and she pours out love and devotion upon her while Europa, in her grievous ordeal, is lost between No and Yes. Miri — in her face there is a power of expression, and goodness... in her body a fullness, and in her speech resolve and confidence...

Miri and Europa: two roles awaiting their mistresses...

So who will come forward?? The Woman's Voice awaits the applications and the candidates.

All this in the service of the theater...

We all want that theater...

The greatest share of the credit for the success of great men belongs first to their patience and perseverance, and second to their natural gifts. For genius trembles before patience and toil, and lofty talents lay down their arms at the feet of great diligence; and therefore it has been said: genius is patience, perseverance, and brilliance.

An Italian poet said: Patience is the supreme courage by which the victor is distinguished, and it is the great virtue with which the striving man arms himself against fortune.