Andromeda (play) with Andromeda alone on stage, having been chained to a rock near the sea and near a cave by her father Cepheus, King of Aethiopia, to be eaten by a sea monster. This was to mollify the sea god Poseidon after either Cepheus or his wife Cassiopeia had offended the god. Andromeda laments her fate alone, with only her echo to respond. A chorus of virgins ("parthenoi") appears as Andromeda's lament continues. Then Perseus appears, using the crane to depict his flight on winged sandals, "planting my foot on high, cutting a path through the midst of the ether," having
Saved from the Titanic virtue of the terrible strain she had been under to graphically portray her part." Saved from the Titanic Saved from the Titanic is a 1912 American silent motion picture short starring Dorothy Gibson, an American film actress who survived the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" on April 15, 1912. Premiering in the United States just 29 days after the event, it is the earliest dramatization about the tragedy. Gibson had been one of 28 people aboard the first lifeboat to be launched from "Titanic" and was rescued about five and a half hours after leaving the ship. On returning to