The Legend of Orpheus

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A beautifully colored film of the ancient Greek myth, showing Orpheus in his descent into Hades in an effort to regain his dead wife, Eurydice. Orpheus, poet and musician of Thrace, son of Apollo and of the nymph Calliope, possessed a magnificent voice with which he captivated not only the animals, and plants, but even the very stones. On returning to Thrace after the expedition of the Argonauts, in which he took part, he marries the nymph Eurydice. After some time he loses his wife, and applying to the King of the Infernal Regions in his despair he implores the latter to restore her to him. The Master of Hades being touched by the broken-hearted husband's appeal, restores Eurydice to Orpheus on condition that the latter will not try to look upon her face until he regains earth. Although the condition imposed is a most difficult one, Orpheus carries it out to the letter until they have almost regained the region of light, when, at the earnest request of Eurydice, he turns and looks at his loved one. Immediately she is torn from his arms, and his grief is terrible to witness. But on the intervention of Cupid she is restored to his arms and the grateful pair return to earth with joy in their hearts.