Price, 6 Pence ‘Wal. 6, Po. 26 President Chomas Cables Bap Dap Greetings Special cable to the News: “Greetings from Athens to Athene’s daughters at Bryn Mawr. May May- Day be the most perfect of all May- Days, worthy of the students’ best tra- ditions and its splendid cause. Profound- ly disappointed, unable to be present to applaud your success and be proud of you as always. Thanks and best wishes Mre. Skinner and Mr. King.” PRESIDENT THOMAS. Grigin of Robin Hood in Old May Games The play “Robin Hood” as it is pre- eented at Bryn Mawr was compiled by Klizabeth T. Daly, Bryn Mawr, '01, from eld English plays and ballads. It was first presented at May Day here in 1906. The character of Robin Hood is first ‘mentioned in English literature in 1377, ia “Piers Plowman.” From this fact it ie supposed that Robin must have lived @uring the 13th or 14th centuries. Friar Teck is a generic appellation originating from the dress of the order, which was wern tucked about the waist. The May Day games of Robin Hood were introduced in the 16th century for the encouragement of archery and were maually accompanied by Morris dancing. As the practice of archery declined the May games were discontinued and the @haracters incorporated into the Morris @ance Maid Marian then became May Queen and Robin Hood usually acted as Lord of the May. The story of Robin Hood has been preserved chiefly through ballads and plays. The most important of these bal- lads is “A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode” printed in 1510. Later the story was dra- matized; in 1587 by Robert Greene and im 1597 by Anthony Munday in a play called the “Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon.” It was from these sources mainly that Miss Daly got the material for her version. Lois Kellogg, ’20, college song leader and undergraduate manager of May Day, plays the part of Robin Hood; Eliza- beth Vincent, '23, the May Queen, is Maid Marian, and Alice .Harrison, ‘20, retiring president of Self-Government, King Richard. The Sd lives’ Tale @ Plap of fancy and bumor “A pleasant conceited comedie, played by the Queenes Maiesties players....to be sold at the shop over against Saint Giles his Church without Criplegate” is the inscription which appeared on the “Old Wives’ Tale” when it was first printed in 1595. As a poet and playwright, its author, George Peele, occupies an im- portant position among Elizabethan dra- matists. The play itself is a phantasia which combines the charm of the fairytale with an undercurrent of satire. In form it is the “tale of a tale,” for an old wife starts telling her story which her characters continue and finish themselves. Thenceforth the stage is filled with a combination of princes, magicians, dis- tressed damsels and comic characters who act a tale of enchantment and humor. Cornelia Skinner '22 plays the part of Sacrapant, and also in the case are M. Foot ‘21, president of Undergraduate Associa- tion, as Huanabango, and F. Martin ‘23, Freshman President, as one of the Broth- ers. Acting: President Catt Wap Dap to Aid Wrypn Mawr Endowment Special Article by Acting: President Belen Catt May day at Bryn Mawr has always, The reason that the very life at Bryn been an occasion so charming that it Mawr is now at stake is because if we would be worth while, no matter in what |are unable to raise our present endow- cause it were given. There is no time|ment it will be an utter impossibility of year when the campus is more beauti-|that the Bryn Mawr students af the fu- ful and no occasion when the whole/ture will ever have the source of intel- student body gives so vivid an impression | lectual inspiration which has been the of the joy and strength of youth. We en- | special gift of the Bryn Mawr students ter into the spirit which really was the|of the past. The members of the pre- essence of Merrie England and we aban-| sent faculty have stood by the college don ourselves for ae day to the gaiety aaaiiacuahy Not one caaes a a of the village celebration before the days | faculty left us in the years of stress dur- of great cities. But this year the Bryn | ing the war who has not since returned. Mawr May Day has a peculiar import-| But at the present moment if a member ance and significance in that the cause|of the faculty were to leave. it would be for which it is given is the preservation | utterly impossible to find his or her equal of Bryn Mawr as we have known it both |at the salaries which the college can of- in work and play. 'fer. It is not only impossible to find the Bryn Mawr has stood for much in/equal of the present professors at Bryn American education. It has stood for! Mawr, it is practically imposible to find something unique in the education of ‘anyone with academic training who would women. We have been proud of a beauti- | be willing to fill the vacancies. And it is ful campus and buildings beautiful with-| impossible in justice to ask the present in and without, proud of our student | faculty to continue to make the sacrifices body, proud of our high standards for | which they have made, more especially academic work, proud of our intellectual | jn the last four years, in order to con- achievement. But the source of Bry” | tinue to teach Bryn Mawr students. Mawr’s best achievements has been the | We are not asking for endowment as a body of men and women who at one time | favor to the faculty or even in order to or another have made up the Bryn Mawr | ; : : | preserve them fro faculty and have given the intellectual |? islet m from: hardehigs. Thay do es , ; ; not need to stay on the Bryn Mawr camp- distinction and the intellectual inspira- | y ling = tion which is the core of all our pride jus. They can find other lines of work When. Bryn Mawr opened. thirty-Gve |“ hich would enble them to live comfort- years ago the first and most essential | ably and to look forward to real financial benefit, But if the work of Bryn Mawr part of the program for the new college! was that the faculty should be the best | College is to go on, we cannot afford to that could be brought together for a|!ose the men and women who are the college of its size and that it should be | source of our intellectual life and who the equal of the faculties in the men's in-| are deserving of all the recognition we istitutions. That ideal has been achieved. |‘ can give them Director of May Bay is' Mrs. Otis Skinner Mrs. Otis Skinner, the unanimous choice of the students as director of the Bryn Mawr May Day, is herself both act- ress and playwright, and has besides di- rected a large number of amateur pro- ductions. Mrs. Skinner, who was the former Maud Durbin, went on the stage under the tutelage of. Madame Modjeska, with whom she spent two years, including one summer on the latter’s California ranch. From Mme. Modjeska she learned her Shakespearian roles, among them Juliet and Ophelia. She played Jessica when Mme. Modjeska and’ Mr. Skinner were co-stars in “The Merchant of Venice.” After Mme. Modjeska returned to Po- land, Mrs. Skinner joined Mr. Skinner's company, playing with him chiefly in Shakespearian plays. They were mar- ried at the end of the season and after the birth of her daughter Mrs, Skinner retired from the stage, appearing only at intervals since that time. She has play- ed with Mr. Skinner in the dramatiza- tion of Robert Louis Stevenson's “Prince Otto” and in “The Harvesters” of Jules Richepin, which is played in France un- der the title of “Le Chemineau.” She last acted with Mr. Skinner in “The Silent Voice” in 1915. For a time actively associated with the Plays and Players, Mrs. Skinner was the first president of that organization. In collaboration with Jules Eckert Good- man, Mrs. Skinner wrote “Pietro,” Mr. Skinner’s present play, and its author of several one-act plays. Mr. and Mrs. Skinner have lived Bryn Mawr for the past ten years. im Masques Written by Jonson for Nobility Che bue and Crp After Cupid “The Hue and Cry After Cupid” was written by Ben Jonson in 1608 to cele- brate the marriage of Sir John Ram- say, afterward Viscount Haddington, a favorite of King James I, to Lady Eliza- beth Ratcliffe. At the original presentation Venus was pictured as having come to earth from magnificent towering heights in the dis- tance, to search for Cupid. He appears and she is finally persuaded to return on high, when upbraided by Hymen and Vulcan. Masque of Flowers As the “most sumptuous form of en- tertainment of the age,” “The Masque of Flowers” was also presented at a mar- riage celebration, as the “final solemnity” at the Earl of Sommerset’s marriage in 1614. It is attributed to Ben Jonson or to three gentlemen of Gray’s Inn, and it was “acted by their fellows.” There is a slight intimation of the anti- masque, or comic element, in the duel between Silenus, the God of Wine, and Kawasha, the God of Tobacco. This comic strain developed later, in contrast to the masque proper, which was of highly serious and dramatic character. Mr. Placido de Montoliu, Teacher of Jacques-Dalcroze Eurhythmics, has com- posed the dances for the masques, and trained all the performers The part of Silenus is taken by Emily Kimbrough, '21, who was with Margaret Anglin in the summer of 1915 and sang in the choruses of “Medea,” “Electra” | and “Iphigenia” given at the outdoor theatre at Berkeley, California ‘21 Bam = , a Lin 500 class matter 26, 1914 at at Bryn Mawr, rsh. ce at cya ‘March 3. esi << td Mh ohmboal “NEWS” ELECTIONS Kathleen Johnston ’21 was chosen Man- aging Editor of the News for 1920-21 at the annual elections last Monday. Miss Johnston made the News this year. Miss Applebee was elected Business Man- ager. Miss Applebee has been on the News Board since it was founded in 1915, and was Business Manager in 1917-1918. The new board will get out the next issue and goes into office this week. Mrs. Skinner To Mrs, Skinner belongs all the praise that may come to Bryn Mawr from May Day. It was her unfailing energy and en- thusiasm that through the hard weeks of preparation kept the spirit of Merrie Maie alive in the college, and co-ordinated the students into a harmonious working force. On the part of the whole college we want to express our appreciation to Mrs. Skinner and to give her our heartfelt thanks for her work. “Evell_.May,Day” Red riots, threats of a general strike, and organized labor uprisings are the heralds of the first of May in the twentieth century. The impulse that has been common to all ages and all races to rush out into the coun- try and celebrate the return of spring, has been perverted in the over-strained tension of our modern civilization, and to the great majority of the world who have never heard of Chimney Sweeps or Morris Dancers and never seen a Maypole, the word May Day means a further demonstra- tion of the universal unrest of our. troubled times. In remote corners of the old world, how- ever, in country districts of England, France, and Italy, the peasants still continue to celebrate the ancient festival, and in se- cluded spots of America, within the walls of a few schools and colleges, an attempt is being made to revive the spontaneity of old May Day. Bryn Mawr was of the first in this country to start the movement, and it is gradually spreading until soon it will not be vain to hope that when spring comes round everyone will rush out to wind May- poles with the zest of simpler, quieter days, and May Day will become again a people’s holiday for rustic revelling and not an anarchists’ labor day. Behind every great undertaking there stands a great personality. There is some one person with the vision and the power to create, inspiring the many who execute, in those institutions which have lasted long- est and accomplished most. Behind May Day, the Endowment, and Bryn Mawr stands President Thomas. She has been so much the guiding and in- spiring force at Bryn Mawr that to some people President Thomas is Bryn Mawr. This idea is, however, a conclusion which does not do justice to her greater achieve- ment. We who make up the college would say, rather, that President Thomas has made Bryn Mawr a strong, separate entity, the result of her ideas, something above and beyond the ideas of any one person, Through the healthy interaction of vigorous and progressive and determined aims, the college personality has become clear cut and unshakable. It is as outstanding and last- ing as bronze and will stand as a monument to the devotion and power of President Thomas through the years to come. ” Mawr ndaaes. came fron England to the United States in 1902, As head of a small private school in Devonshire, and as director of gymnastics in various Yorkshire schools, the results of her work had been so marked that her friends strongly advised her not to in- terrupt what promised to be an unusu- ally brilliant career in this new field of physical education. But her interest in the development of athletics in America was so strong that after a short visit one summer to study the work of the Sar- gent School, she returned to the United States the following year to carry on her work. At that time field hockey for women was practically unknown in America, and Miss Applebee spent two years among the different women’s col- leges and schools in the Fast, teaching gymnastics and gradually introducing hockey among the students. A specially designed stick was made for her pur- poses by Spalding, and was soon copied in England, where this model is still known as the Applebee hockey stick. In 1904 Miss Applebee came to Bryn Mawr to take charge of the out-door athletics, which at that time were not or- ganized in connection with the gymnas- tic classes. Her success with the ath- letics was so great that in 1906 the gym- nasium work also was placed under her department. So for the past sixteen years Miss Applebee has been a familiar figure on the Bryn Mawr Campus. Not only in athletics, but also in the work of the Christian Association and the College News Board, Miss Applebee’s sustained interest and enthusiasm have been an in- valuable asset to the College. In 1911, during the difficult period when the Christian Union and the League for the Service of Christ were trying to unite to form a new organization it was large- ly due to Miss Applebee’s inspiration that the plan of joining the two organi- zations was formulated and_ carried through. In all her relations with Bryn Mawr students, past and present, Miss Applebee has always stood for high standards in athletics and college activi- ties, good sportsmanship, and the best interest of the whole college. The dancing on the May Day green has been under the direction of Miss Ap- plebee, who plays the role of a Watch- man on the green. BETTY WEAVER IS “SUNNY JIM” Honors Go to D. Pitkin and J. Flexner “Sunny Jim” for 1920, the winner of the Mary Helen Ritchie Memorial prize, is Betty M. Weaver, retiring president of the Athletic Association, Acting Presi- dent Taft announced in chapel last Fri- day. The George W. Childs Essay prize for the best writer in the Senior Class goes to Doris E. Pitkin, editor-in-chief cf the Review, with honorable mention for Alice Harrison, President of the Eng- lish Club. Jean Flexner, daughter of Dr. Simon Flexner, wins the Brook Hall Memorial Scholarship for holding the bighest average in the Junior class. The “Sunny Jim” prize is awarded to “a Senior, preferably in the upper half of the class in grade, spirited, efficient, faithful, and an all-around student.” E. COPE ATHLETIC PRESIDENT President of the Athletic Association for the year 1920-1921 is E. Cope ‘21, whose nomination was made an election at the meeting last Monday night. K. Woodward ‘21 is Vice-President and H. Rice '23, Sec- retary. Members of the Athletic Board are, E. Cecil '21, Senior member; E. An- derson ‘22, F. Bliss ‘22, and A. Nicoll ‘22, Tunior members. Giorie gicecites dated 1416, The popularity of this character, adopted as tutelary saint of England under Edward III, made him well known and his play consistently performed from such early time. St. George is still played by mum- mers on English holidays. St. George, born in Palestine, rose ‘to high rank in the military profession un- der Diocletian: When the emperor mani-. fested hostility towards Christianity, St. George remonstrated against the empor- er’s course of action. He was immediately arrested, tortured, and put to death. The pagan element of the dragon episode did not come into the legend until the sixth century. The proximity of the saint’s birth-place to the scene of Perseus’ res- cue of Andromeda connected the two tales in the minds of the people. The play of St. George itself is a link connecting natural drama with the miri- cle plays and saints’ plays, and an import- ant factor in the development of the Eng- lish chronicle play. Under the guilds in the fourteenth century it took the form of a procession, half social, half religious, in which the characters and others passed through the town to a field or forest, where the combat took place. As a bid for popular approval, when religious su- pervision had been removed, humerous elements such as the quack doctor and supporting grotesque characters, were introduced. AUTHORITY ON ENGLISH DICTION DIRECTOR OF PLAYS As the “man behind the scenes,” the man who has coached the plays in the May Day fete, Mr. Samuel Arthur King, non-resident Lecturer in English Dic- tion, has been untiring in his efforts to show the college at its best in this, the fourth May Day in which he has man- aged the plays. Mr. King started his academic work in this country by lecturing at Johns Hop- kins University and the University of California, while at the same time he gave Shakespearian recitals. In 1902 he was appointed to Bryn Mawr to have charge of the work in English Diction. BRYN MAWR WILL SEND 26 DELEGATES TO SILVER BAY Eleven Juniors, seven Sophomores and seven Freshmen have been chosen by the board and membership committee of the Christian Association to represent Bryn Mawr at the annual student con- ference at Silver Bay. Dean Smith has been invited to be a delegate. The con- ference this year will be held June 21 to July 1. The delegates: 1921—C. Bickley (Pres- ident of the Christian Association), J. Peyton, M. Taylor, E. Donnelly, K. Walker, H. Hill, P. Ostroff, J. Lattimer H. James, M. P. Kirkland, E. Cecil. . 1922: M. Speer, M. Voorhees, S. Hand, E. Hobdy, A. Nicoll, P. Smith, S, Kirk- bride. 1923: A. Clement, A: Smith, D. Me- serve, H. Dunbar, H. Rice, R. McAneny, E. Rhoads. Substitutes (in order of choice): G. Carson, '23; C. Baird, ’22; D. Klenke, ’21; E. Philbrick, '23; M. Bradley, ’23. PUPIL OF DALCROZE AT HEAD OF MASQUE DANCING Mr. Placido de Montoliu, who coached and composed the dances for the mas- ques, is the only authorized Director of the Dalcroze system of Eurhythmics in the United States. He is a graduate of the Jacques-Dalcroze college of Rhyth- mic Training in Hellerau, Germany. President Thomas engaged "Mr. de Montoliu to come to this country to teach Eurhythmics at the Phebe Ann Thorne Model School, at its opening in the autumn of 1915. He has also had classes at the college. gr code, tage ee ‘milkmaids and sweeps, will dance before Queen Elizabeth and her court today on the Maypole Green. es The country dances of the villagers and the “quality” are dances which were popular “from court to cottage” in Queen Eliza- beth’s time, “Sellengers Round” or the “Beginning of the World” being especially mentioned as her favourite. Most of the dances had songs to accompany them, the words of which were often adapted to the times. A version of “Hey, Boys, Up Go We,” is a loyalists’ song against the Rump Parliament : “Then come, my brethren, and be glad and eke rejoice with me; Lawn sleeves and rochets shall go down and hey, boys, up go we.” The twenty-ninth of May, a May dance was renamed to celebrate the date of the Restoration, when that day became a holi- day and took for some time the place of the first of May. The day is still observed in England and is called Oak Apple Day, be- cause Charles, fleeing after the battle of Worcester, escaped his pursuers by hiding in an oak tree. The milkmaids were among the last con- spicuous celebrators of May Day. Dancing in groups from house to house, they were accompanied by a man bearing on his shoulders a huge pyramid of silver flagons, cups, and salvers, which was called their garland. May Day was the only holiday of» the chimney sweep boys. The stars, which they wore on their tunics as they danced through the town, drew attention_to the fact—that working always at night, they rarely saw the light of day. Accompanied by Jack-in- the Green, a traditional figure whose head was covered with tufts of green foliage, they pranced to the drum and piper. As late as fifty years ago there were few villages in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire which did not support their own teams of Morris men. These dancers often travelled all over England, some even going to Lon- don and dancing before taverns and at fairs. Morris dancing is said to be a relic of a primitive religious rite “connected in some occult way with the fertilization of all livy- ing things.” A typical dance of this type is Bean Setting. The Morris is probably an offshoot of the sword dance of which the sticks are modern substitutes. DEAN SMITH IS QUEEN BESS Hilda Smith, '10, Acting Dean of the college, takes the part of Queen Eliza- beth in the court group of the May Day pageant. Miss Carpenter, Miss Sabin, Miss Irvin, Mlle. Trotain, and Mlle. Chalufour are ladies in waiting. Her cour- tiers are Dr. Crenshaw, Dr. David, Dr. Derry, Dr. Fenwick, Dr. Gray, and Dr. Savage. This is the first year in which members of faculty have taken parts in May Day. Miss Smith, who holds the degrees of A. B. and A. M. from Bryn Mawr, studi- ed also at the New York School of Phil- anthropy, and Columbia University. She organized the Community Center at Bryn Mawr, directing it from 1916-1919. NINE DAIES WONDER TO DANCE William Kempe, the Nine Daies Wonder Morris man, is represented by Jeannette Peabody "19, who dances at the St. George play and on the green. Kempe, a celebrated ‘ comic player known to have acted with Shakespeare, danced the Morris from Lon- don to Norwich in nine days, accompanied by Tom the Piper. Miss Peabody trained the Morris dancers who took part in the féte. She has studied under Cecil Sharp, who collected the old dances and has tried to revive the custom of country dancing in England. Wal. 6, Mo. 26, May"7, 1920 BD Bryn Mawr College Newes Cornelia Skinner, daughter of Otis Skinner, as ‘“‘SHacrapant”’ Ars. Otis Sinner the leading part in “The Old Wives’ Tale”’ Director of the Bryn Mawr Map Dap Elisabeth Wincent Lois Kellogg, “Robin Hood,’ and Chairman of the “Maid Marian’ and Queen of the May Students’ Map Dap Committee Department of Nursing Connected with the Barnes Hospital, St. ell ae lige rate and the Wash-. ington University Dispensary. The University offers in a three-year course, experience in every branch of hos- pital service. Theoretical instruction is given in the Washington University Medical School and in the class-rooms of the Training School. Clinical instruction in the hospital wards. Special arrangements. can be made to prepare those who expect to do Public Health and Social Service work after grad- uation. Six months credit ig offered to pupils holding a degree from this college. Classes are organized for the fall, winter and spring terms. Address peguities to Superintendent of | ) AND . a STATIONERS LLG 411 FIFTH AYE- OPP THE PUBLIC LIBRARY SEND FOR BARGAIN CATALOG _ 600 Kingshighway, St. Louis, H. W. DERBY & CO. 13th Street at Sansom Women’s Shoes and Hosiery Exclusively H. W. DERBY & CO. 13th Street at Sansom Philadelphia ARAMOUNT _ | SESSLER’S BOOKSHOP 1342 CHESTNUT STREET 1314 WALNUT STREET MILLINERY UNDERWEAR PHILADELPHIA BLOUSES SWEATERS BOOKS PICTURES Phone: Walnut 1329 Footer’s Dye Works 1118 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pa. Offer their patrons Superior Service in CLEANING AND DYEING FRIENDS ARCH STREET CENTRE 304 ARCH STREET Philadelphia ’Phone, Market 1571 A hostelry for Friends and their friends. Rooms by night or weekly rate. Public Restaurant. 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HE Academy, under new management, has been thoroughly renovated and is being conducted for the convenience of the colleges and schools. We have twenty-five (25) of the finest horses to pick from including hunters, saddle, and driving, also polo ponies. Every one of them gentle and safe. Best equipment. Competent, courteous and prompt attention from high class help. Beginners taught driving and riding in our inside ring (which is being enlarged), also jumping and polo. New roomy box stalls for boarders. Pupils taught (English style) by instructors of both sexes. Chaperon always on hand. ing Academy Inspection invited H. GRAHAM CONOR, Proprietor Telephone, B. M. 686 HOODOO ODO OOO NOONE OOOO Soda Counter | Specializing in Youthful Models NOTICE Franklin Simon & Co. A Store of Individual Shops Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Sts., New York Will Exhibit at the MONTGOMERY INN Bryn Mawr, Pa. MONDAY May 17th TUESDAY May 18th A Selection of New and Exclusive SUMMER APPAREL For Women and Misses Featuring Class Day Dresses Coats, Wraps, Street Dresses Afternoon and Evening Gowns Skirts, Shoes, Riding Habits, Underwear, Negligees, Etc. Suits, Blouses, Sweaters Apparel selected with discrimination and to meet every social requirement for immediate wear or for the vacation in the mountains, at the seashore or camping. AT MODERATE PRICES a a lala si ‘rales, Like ‘the general ‘pageant, “the masque has the dance as its essential feature; for the pageant, however, the common people form the background, while the masque is presented to the no- bility at the court, who often take part with the professionals. As the old tournament became less, se- rious, the knights dressed up as charac- ters in chivalric literature. From this habit developed the court masquerade, the ancestor of the masque. The influ- ence of the masquerade was strengthen- ed by folk mumming, when performers rode to court on horseback to entertain royalty with dumb-show and dancing. Soon crude attempts were made to stage the masquerade, and in the six- teenth century songs and speeches were introduced, interspersed with “daunce with timbrels” and accompanied by “a heavenly noyse of all kinde of musick.” When allegory, symbolism and mythol- ogy were admitted, the masque proper began, which reached its height in the days of King James and Queen Anne. Under the Stuarts the masque was recreated by combining literature and art into dramatic form, largely through the genius of Ban Jonson. Stage ma- chinery and decoration were provided by one of England’s greatest architects, Inigo Jones, ‘THE PAGEAN OF JEPHTE’ ACTED FOR FIRST TIME IN AMERICA “The Pagean of Jephte” or “Jepthte‘s Daughter,” presented by the alumnae, is an old English Morality play. Today’s performance is the first in many cen- turies, as the manuscript was only recent- ly discovered by Dr. Carleton Brown, professor of English Philology, while doing research work in England. Dr. Brown was at Bryn Mawr from 1906 to 1917, and is at present at the University of Minnesota. The plot is drawn directly from the story in the Book of Judges, where Jephte, one. of the Judges of Israel, vows to give as a thank-offering for victory, the first person who comes to meet him on his return from battle; similar plots are found in the fairy-tales of many coun- tries. The play has never been printed, and is therefore known only to a few of Dr. Brown’s friends. The play has been coached by Miss Elizabeth Daly, ’01, the manager of the last May Day. “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM” PRESENTED IN SHORTENED FORM A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as it is being produced this afternoon, is a shortened version of the original play, combining the fairy scenes, the play at court, and the take-off on Pyramus and Thisbe. It is the only play which has been repeated in every May Day. The parts of the fairies in Titania’s train are taken by children from the Model School, which was opened in the autumn of 1915 as a part of the graduate Department of Education. Betty Weaver, '20, who plays the part of the comedian, Snout, received the “Sunny Jim” prize this year, and is the retiring President of the Athletic Associ- ation. MAY QUEEN DAUGHTER OF HEAD OF ROCKEFELER FOUNDATION. Miss Elizabeth Vincent, '23, who is Queen of the May today, and “Maid Mar- ian” in “Robin Hood,” is the daughter of President George E. Vincent of Rocke- feller foundation, Miss Vincent is the first Freshman to be crowned May Queen in the history of the college. She had a large part in the writing and production of 1023's Freshman show. | " Significan icant as a spring festival | of all wena May. Day goes tek to the rst oO May Day goes back to the rustic “| merrymaking of Queen Flizabeth’s Eng- land and to an origin in pagan mythol- ogy. The custom of bringing home May- blooms arose from a conception that a branch of May was a symbolical repre- sentation of the genius of vegetation and fertility. The gods and spirits of ancient times had their habitation in the trees, and these gods had the power to make the crops grow and the herds multiply. It was therefore natural for an ignorant peasantry to believe that the same power and influence existed in the cut branches of the trees. The custom of bringing home a May pole probably originated in this ancient tree worship. Often a pole was planted before each house or carried from door to door to give every household its share of blessing. In some districts of England the May pole became an all- year-round institution, holding equal rank in the village square with the par- ish church and the parish stocks, and was redecorated each year with fresh gar- lands. Observance of the first of May as a floral festival, and the rite of choosing 2 May Queen, date back to the Roman Floralia, or May games in honor of the goddess Flora. Protest against the May merry-mak- ing was entered by the Puritans of the seventeenth century, and John Stubbes in his “Anatomy of Abuses,” calls the May-poles “those stinckyng idols—about which the people leape and daunce, as the heathen did.” As a national English testival May Day waned in popularity, but in many remote villages the old cere- monies linger on, and rustics still con- tinue to “usher in the May.” In Hert- fordshire and other country districts, school children to this day form proces- sions to choose a Lord and Lady of the May, and go about begging money “for the May.” A custom prevails in Scotland of go- ing out on the hills to bathe the face in the early May morning dew. Pepys records in his diary that “my wife hath learned that May-dew is the only thing to wash the face with.” In central Europe the eve of May Day is synonymous with Walpurgis Night, when peasants believe that witches ride through the air on broom- sticks, and so fasten May-blooms over their doors as a protection against witch- craft. Bohemians lay hawthorne on the thresholds of cow-huts to catch the witches on the thorns. Swedish peas- ants burn fires on mountain-tops as a relic of witch-burning times, and as a symbol of burning the last traces of win- ter. Southern Europeans still set up May-poles. The French plant the “mai” before the house of a person they wish to honor. In Italy the custom of “sing- ing the May” has given rise to a dra- matic development, the “Maggio,” where peasants dramatize and act out old popu- lar stories. GRADUATES GIVE “NICE WANTON” Coached by Mrs. Otis Skinner, the play presented by the graduate students, “The Nice Wanton,” is one of the best of the Elizabethan period for continuity and completeness. It is a “Preaty Interlude,” licensed to the printer in 1560, but prob- ably written before this date. The theme of the play is pointedly brought out by the pious son who quotes from “Ecclesiasticus“ for the edification of the audience, the warning of Solomon, “Spare the rod and spoil the child.” Margaret Knapp who takes the part of Master Iniquity had a prominent part in dramatics at Cornell. Muriel Barker, the wayward son, and Mary Price, the pious son, are British scholars from Newn- The Margaretta May Women's and Misses’ TOGGERY SHOP 1600 Chestnut St. Philadelphia — Get the Winning Silks! 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Fair Ellen and her Father. The Earl of Leicester. — Merrymen The Bishop Merrymen Prince John King Richard Sér Richard Fitzwater ; Alan-a-Dale. Little John. Will Scarlet. Sheriff of Nottingham. Sir Stephen. Merrymen. Friar Tuck. Merrymen. Megpoic Dancers with May Queen’s Crown. Maypole and Dancers. Seen CARR Jeek ia Green and Chimney Sweeps. Puck. Deeania and fairies driven by Oberon. Greek Guards. Theseus. Hippolyta. Demetrius. Helena. Hermia. Lysander. Philostrate. Ontiace. Flute. Snout. Starveling. Snug. Bottom. Tom Piper. Walitam of Kempe, the Nine Daies Wonder. Meerte Dancers. Fool and Hobby Horse. Sacrapant. Three Furies. Wagon driven by Fantastic, Antic and Brolic containing Calypha, Senex, Delia, Wenclia, Zantippa, Eumenides Ghost, Cel- anta, Madge, Head and Lampriscus, Pianked by harvesters, and fiddlers. Clunch, Church Warden, Sexton. Corebus, Huanebango. Country Dancers & Maypole Dancers. Hymen followed by Priestesses. Cupids driving Cart. Float with Venus, the three Graces, Cyclops bearing the world, Vulcan, Cu- pids and Zodiacs, flanked by other Zod- dacs walking. Bridal party who will witness masque. Shepherds and shepherdesses and their lambs. Milkmaids and their Swains and their Cow. Players of the Pagean of Jephte. Morris dancers and the fool. St. George. King William. His Queen. King Alfred. Tark. Doctor. Captain Slasher. Giant Blundabore and Little Jack. Dragon. Ploat with Gallus, Spring, Northwind and Winter. Garden Gods and Flowers. Silenus and Kawasha followed by their trains. Country Dancers. Morris Dancers. Autolycus and a piper. Ishmael. Delilah. Barnabas. Zantippe. Eulalia. Jadge. Wordly Shame. Iniquitie. Jurors and cart. Prologue and Prompter. Jurors and Spectators The Village Town Crier. Tumblers, Jugglers and Stiltwalkers. Man and Bear and Jester. May Day Revellers and Dancers and Village Folk. of the buildings, designed by Steward- son and Cope, is Jacobean Gothic. The grounds were laid out by Olmstead | Brothers, who made the plans of Central | Park. The site of the college was discovered by Dr. Taylor one day while he was taking a walk. As he stood on the crest ing meadows and woodlands, he exclaim- ed, “This is an ideal place for a woman’s college.” From that time, he bent all his energies towards the erection of the buildings, making daily visits from his home to the grounds to superintend their construction. Taylor Hall, the cen- ter building on the campus, was named after the founder. It was completed in 1897 and combined a library, laboratory, class rooms, and professors’ offices. Merion Called Cottage No. |. Merion Hall, the building north of Tay- lor and facing the green, was the first dormitory put up and was then called “Cottage No. 1.” The original plans were modified because of the expense, but by 1885, “Cottage No. 1” was finished, its total cost being $66,725. The first grad- uate from Bryn Mawr, the one member in the Class of 1888, the twenty-four members of the Class of 1889, and all the instructors, among them Dr. Scott, pro- fessor of Mathematics, lived in this hall. The Owl Gate, main entrance to the college for pedestrians, is formed by the central tower of Rockefeller Hall, the newest of the halls of residence. Rocke- feller, which adjoins Pembroke West, is the gift of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, and was opened in April, 1904. A central pow- er house built the same year was part of Mr. Rockefeller’s gift, and furnishes heat, electric light, and hot water for the col- lege buildings. With the gateway tower joining Pem- broke East and West, Mr. Cope and Mr. Stewardson, according to an article by President Thomas, created the first of the beautiful college entrance towers in America. The grey stones are built into the wall of the buildings in a particularly artistic way, many of them laid in by the architects themselves. The Library, a Jacobean Gothic build- ing of the period of 1630, forms three sides of a closed quadrangle. The main reading room of the library was modeled according to President Thomas’ suggestion, after the dining hall of Wadham College, Oxford, presenting the exterior aspect of an English college chapel. CORNELIA SKINNER PREPARING FOR CAREER ON THE STAGE Cornelia Otis Skinner who takes the part of Sacrapant in the “Old Wives’ Tale” today. is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Skinner. Starting her stage experience at the age of ten, when she played “Puck” in the “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Miss Skinner has taken part in many amateur theatricals. With Mr. George Tryler’s company, she played on the professional stage last summer in two productions. “A Young Man’s Fancy” and “Made for Money.” She will continue her training in Paris next year, under an actor at the Comedie Francaise. 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