Seaeeananteebenet ete niente omen ee ee | ‘SECOND “PLACEZGOES TO 1919 WITH ONLY _BRYN.MAWR, PA, APRIL 25, 1917. Price 5 Cents In spite of an extraordinarily interest- ing and varied program the recital by Miss Edith Wynne Matthison last Satur- day evening, given for the benefit of 1919’s Endowment Fund, was monotonous. It is well known that a dramatic recital is often disappointing and, although Miss Matthison’s uniformly deep pitched voice is highly successful in the portrayal of a single dramatic role, it was not satisfac- tory in the reading of many different poems. The recital cleared $240. Among the selections on the first half of the program were “The Child’s Grace”, by Robert Herrick, very simple and ap- pealing, and Coventry Patmore’s “The Toys”, which showed finely the remorse of the father, who, having sent his moth- erless boy to bed in a moment of anger, is now weeping over him and his pathetic little toys. In her recitation of Shelley’s “Skylark” Miss Matthison portrayed to her audience the poet, aspiring to the heights of song, but in trying for lyrical swiftness she missed the proper lightness of effect. The “Recessional” an Appropriate Encore In the latter half of the evening the se- lections most enjoyed by the audience were “A Musical Instrument”, by Mrs. Browning, “The West Wind” by John Masefield, and Kipling’s ‘“Recessional”, which Miss Matthison gave as an encore. In these poems Miss Matthison reached the height of dramatic expression of the whole recital. The poems from “The Gitanjali” by Ta- gore were typically oriental. The con- trast between the serious beginning and lighter ending was well conceived and rendered. Mr. King said of the recital that Miss Matthison was one of the few actresses with really good diction. THREE RECORDS BROKEN IN ,TRACK—SENIORS CAPTURE HONORS —_—_——_ HALF AS MANY POINTS By breaking three records and winning 95 points the seniors captured first place and a big margin in the preliminary track meet held last Saturday. The sopho- mores, showing up well in the dashes and hurdles, came out second with 40 points, but will have to contest the winners hotly in the final meet if they wish to cut down their long lead and get a chance at the championship. In several events the juniors were obliged to default and their consequent failure to secure a single place will prob- ably not be repeated next week when their entry list is complete. E. Downs and R. Cheney, who formerly starred for 1918 in the dashes, and P. Turle, who won third place as_individ- ual champion last year, were badly cuneiform tablet some time ago in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania and has since been working on. complete account of the creation. both sides. discovery at a meeting of the Oriental M. O'CONNOR TO MANAGE NEWS F. Buffum Chosen Business Manager M. O'Connor '18 was elected manag- ing editor of the News for next year at a meeting of the board on Monday. Miss O’Connor has been on the News since her sophomore year. She is vice-president of Self-Government and was class secretary sophomore year. F. Buffum '18 was elected business manager. She is a member of the Un- dergraduate Association Advisory Board. The two assistant’ business managers from the class of 1919, F. Clarke and C. Hollis, were chosen by competition several weeks ago. This new board will get out the next issue and goes into office to-day. 1912 SECURES GABRILOWITSCH TO PLAY FOR ENDOWMENT FUND Concert To Be in Cloisters—Sounding Board Will Be Built Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who will give a concert May 18th in the cloisters for the benefit of 1912’s Endowment Fund, is classed as “among the four or five leading pianists of the world”. When the Rus- sian Choir tried to give their concert in the cloisters last year the acoustics were too bad. 1912 plans to build a huge sounding board for the occasion. When Mr. Gabrilowitsch first visited this country fourteen years ago he was a player of “wonderful freshness and fire’, one critic has remarked, but his reputation was not made until a later visit. One of the most interesting of his recent exploits was a series of orchestra concerts given in Berlin and Munich be- fore the war illustrating the development of music from Bach to the present day. At the outbreak of the war Mr. Gabrilo- witsch, who with his wife (Clara Clem- ens, the contralto, a daughter of Mark Twain) was living in Munich, was ar- rested as a spy, but fortunately only de- tained a short time. They had to promise not to return to Germany until after the war. Several years ago Mr. Gabrilowitsch wore the usual artistic long hair, but an incident in Chicago convinced him that flowing locks were a source of danger. He was standing near a cigar lighter not well. Prompt investigation led to the discovery that his forelock was aflame. “Rub it out”, cried someone, but he real- ized that while he could play with his hair burned he could not play with his hands burned so he seized a handkerchief and put out the fire. “Since then I have visited the barber at prudently frequent intervals”, he said. ASSYRIAN TABLET DISCOVERED AND TRANSLATED BY DR. BARTON Dr. Barton has recently translated a which he discovered It proves to contain a In size it is about 5 x 3 inches and is written on Dr. Barton made public his (Continued on Page 3) Society this month. when a scream and an odor of something | burning made him realize that all was! |1918 GIVES “BEAU BRUMMEL ” |Four-Act Play Written for Mansfield “Beau Brummel”, a play in four acts by Clyde Fitch, will be given by 1918 as their Junior-Senior Supper Play on Friday and Saturday nights of this week. Virginia Kneeland will appear in the title réle. “Beau Brummel” was written by Clyde Fitch for Richard Mansfield and the idea of the play was Mansfield’s. It was first produced at the Madison Square Theatre on May 17, 1890. The 250th performance took place at the Garden Theatre, on January 30, 1891. Clyde Fitch spent a year in London getting local color for the play and studying the period from 1778 to 1840, when the historical Beau Brum- mel lived. Penniless and forgotten after long reigning in society Beau dies in a garret in the play as in real life. Automobiles are requested not to park behind the gymnasium or to drive up be- hind it except until eight o’clock, when the rear door of the gymnasium will be locked. After eight automobiles must drive round by the Gulph Road and enter through the Merion driveway. PASTOR FETLER THE BILLY SUNDAY OF RUSSIA PREACHES AT VESPERS Russian Girl Students Suicides for Lack of Aim in Life Pastor Fetler, the Billy Sunday of Rus- sia, who was sentenced to Siberia for holding tabernacle meetings in Petrograd, drew a vivid contrast between student conditions at Bryn Mawr and in the uni- versities of Russia. Fifteen thousand students, he said, live huddled in one building at the cost of 15 kopecks or 7% cents a day, while many who cannot attend the universities com- mit suicide for lack of aim in life. Pastor Fetler, who is in this country to arouse in- terest in work among war prisoners. in Germany and Austria, came here a con- vict under a four months’ sentence and re- turns a free man by the recent proclama- tion of religious liberty in Russia. FORMER BRYN MAWR STUDENT WANTS HELP FOR BABIES OF PARIS 1S DEPENDENT ON INDIVIDUAL GIFTS Helen Davenport Gibbons ex-’06, who is now doing war relief work in Paris among the children, has sent an appeal to Bryn Mawr College through the News to aid in her work. Since the war began she has taken care of 1300 children. Her work is entirely dependent on individual contribu- tions, and six dollars will clothe one child. Mrs. Gibbons is the wife of Dr. Herbert Adams Gibbons, author of “The New Map of Europe”, and is herself an author. Her recently published “The Red Rugs of Tar- sus”, is a vivid and interesting description | of the Armenian massacres of 1909 from a fresh and unusual viewpoint, that of an outsider on the spot. Her admiration for the Armenians is intense and “The appeal on my sympathies”, she says, “made by the sufferings of the Armenians of to-day peauired that something should be done”. For her work in Paris Mrs. Gibbons wants money especially. Checks may be made out to her order and any supplies may be sent through the War Relief Clearing House, 133 Charieton Street, UNDERGRADUATES DO NOT BAR MERITLESS FROM PREPAREDNESS COURSES May Petition to Continue Patriotic Work MOTION AFFECTS TWENTY-FIVE The meritless will not be barred from preparedness courses by the student body, for the original decision advising that they be kept out was reversed at a sec- ond undergraduate meeting Monday noon. The vote taken at this meeting affects about twenty-five students, who will now petition the faculty to allow them to con- tinue the courses which they have begun. D. Shipley '17, president of the Asso- ciation, read a statement from the Under- graduate Board defending the power of the Association to keep the meritless out of preparedness classes. “There are two courses of appeal’, she said, “who may decide the question, and first comes the Undergraduate Association. The faculty acts as a higher court of appeal”. Last Week’s Meeting Transacts Odds and Ends of Business At the meeting held the Friday previ- ous Miss Shipley announced the cut sta- tistics, which show a much higher rate this semester than last. Twenty-nine stu- ‘|}dents have cut six times while last sem- ester only nine had cut six times. A sense of the meeting was suggested but not passed that the magazine room be moved down stairs to the present Christian As- sociation Library. The bad light in the C. A. Library was urged as a conclusive argument against such a change. A motion was proposed and almost unanimously defeated that the Associa- tion should regulate dress worn at plays where men. were admitted, with a special protest against jumpers. The prevailing opinion was that such a matter was one for individual taste and public opinion. DR. GRAY TRAINS FOR ARMY Will Leave Bryn Mawr Two Weeks Early Dr. Howard L. Gray is planning to leave Bryn Mawr on May 4th or 5th to enter one of the fourteen government camps of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Each of these camps purposes to give 2500 men three months of intensive training, and those who pass the final ex- aminations will probably receive coni- missions in the cavalry, infantry, artil- lery, or engineers. Preparatory to leaving Dr. Gray is giv- ing his classes two lectures instead of one each day. Free Sunday Afternoon Concert Next Week As an experiment two free concerts are being given on successive Sunday after- noons at the Academy of Fine Arts, the first last week and the second next Sun- day. If the venture proves successful such concerts will be given all next win- ter. This week the Schmidt quartet will play. The performers for these two concerts have volunteered their services, but the intention is that next year there will be a fund upon which the management will be New York. able to draw in case of need.