Price 5 Cents BEAU BRUMMEL, ACT II.—THE BALL ROOM AT CARLTON HOUSE BEAU BRUMMEL REMINISCENT OF LAST CENTURY MISS CRANDALL REVIEWS JUNIOR PLAY “Beau Brummel,” a Four Act Play by Clyde Fitch. Given in the Gymnasium April 27th and 28th by the Class of 1918 Specially Contributed by DR. REGINA K. CRANDALL CAST The Prince of Wales (Heir Apparent to the Throne of England)......... Henrietta Huff Beau Brummel (prince of dandies), Virginia Kneeland Richard Brinsley Sheridan (playwright), M Gardiner Reginald Courtenay (nephew to the Beau), Elizabeth Houghton Mortimer (valet and confidential servant to the SE oo bb Ce kw a cee eee el Ruth Hart Mr. Oliver Vincent (a self-made merchant), father of Mariana ......... Lorraine Fraser Lord Beenie (8 TOD) 2... cee cea Louise Smith Mr. Abrahams (a money lender), Penelope Turle I II 6 026.06 bce een cces Margaret Bacon on vos cna Ko ee Annette Gest ERUOCN @ WOOUMON cic accceecsccuss Mary Stair Simpson (footman to Beau)..... Helen Walker The Duchess of Leamington..... Louise Hodges Mariana Vincent —.---35 Helen Schwarz a rere Jeannette Ridlon Kathleen (Irish maid of Mariana), Frances Buffum lady. Farthingale .......... Marjorie Williams A French Lodging House Keeper, Marjorie Mackenzie Like “Patience”, “Beau Brummel” be- longs to the last years of the eighteen hundreds when fin de siécle was the favor- ite adjective and came so glibly off the tongue that it persisted several years after the turn of the century. Fin de siécle meant effete, exhausted, possibly perverse. The twentieth century was to change all that. And yet when “Beau Brummel”~ was produced in 1890, Edwin Booth was still playing and Augustin Daly had not yet gone down before the syndicate. During the decade to 1900 the playgoer might see Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, Joseph Jefferson, Helena Modjeska with Otis Skinner, Richard Mansfield, Eleanora Duse, and Sarah Bernhardt hardly past her prime, besides other pleasant visitors from France,—Jane Hading, Réjane, Co- quelin. Ibsen and Shaw crossed the ocean: Mrs. Fiske produced “A Doll's House”, Richard Mansfield “Arms and the Man”, Gilbert and Sullivan continued to provide innocent and delicious merri- ment; Barrie appeared as a playwright with “The Professor’s Love Story” and “The Little Minister’; Pinero and Henry Arthur Jones were established in favour. A Boer War and a War with Spain could not darken the sky. Not altogether so bad a time in which to begin to acquire a taste for the thea- tre; or for the opera, with Nordica, the brothers de Rezke and Emma Calvé! “Beau Brummel” vanished from the stage with the death of Mansfield, as did “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, “Prince Karl’, and “A Parisian Romance”, in which as Baron Chevrial he won his first success. A revival of any of these is as unlikely as a revival of “Rip Van Winkle”. One and all they had the same reason for exist- ence, the opportunity they offer for virtu- osity; an actor who should depart from the traditional impersonations would seem to commit a flagrant offense. These ghosts of the eighteen-nineties do not walk except in an amateur production. Reminiscence could be active last Sat- | urday evening, because the performance was exceptionally smooth. The other characters in the play have no other office | than to exhibit and exalt the central fig- ure; yet the impersonation was always adequate and in some cases unexpectedly interesting. Miss Gardiner, who at the dress rehearsal took Miss Hart’s place as Mortimer, sustained the part creditably and was particularly good in the last scene. Miss Mackenzie as Sheridan fairly resembled the Gainsborough portrait, and her brief appearance as the lodging- house keeper was a neat bit of acting. Miss Schwarz’s Mariana was graceful, sincere and commendably free from af- fectation; Miss Ridlon’s Mrs. St. Aubyn was a delight to eye and ear; next to Miss Kneeland, Miss Hodges deserves praise for a consistently spirited imper- sonation of the Duchess of Leamington and a most contagious and malicious laugh. The two Bailiffs were models of frizhtfulness. Miss Fraser had probably the most un- grateful part in the play, that of Mr. Vin- cent. Only a born comedian could have continued to “wobble” plausibly during the Beau’s interminable soliloquy. Miss Houghton, who acted the part of Regi- nald, the Beau’s nephew and Mariana’s lover, had to find compensation in a pic- turesque costume and a somewhat over- vehement action for lines of insuperable dullness and sentimentality. Miss Huff deserves credit for not attempting a more realistic portrayal of the Prince. Reminiscence found sustenance through- out the course of the play; in the pres- . ence of Miss Kneeland’s “Beau Brummel” (Continued on page 2, colume 2) TRACK MEET GOES TO 1917 H. Harris for Third Time is Individual Champion SIX B. M.'S AWARDED 1917, with 27 points over 1919, won the track meet last Saturday. 1919 won sec- ond place and 1920 won third. The seniors’ success was largely due to the spectacular performances of H. Harris, individual champion and holder of the in- dividual track cup now for the third year. Miss Harris won three of the six B. M.’s awarded this year in track. Two B. M.'s went to M. Scattergood '17, and one to A. Stiles '19, winners respectively of third and second places in the individual cham- | pionship. A B. M. is given in track for breaking or equaling a record, or win- | nine one of the three places in-the-indi- vidual championship. H. Harris, winning first place in six events, made 44 points for her class and broke by two inches her last week’s rec- ord of 31 ft. 11% in. in the hop, step, and jump. She failed to break her last week's record of 4 ft. 4% in. in the running high jump. G. Hearne ‘19 won second place in this event, with the prettiest jumping seen on the field. (Continued on page 3, column 1) WILL SPEAK ON “QUAKER IDEALS” Authority on Mysticism This Year's Founder’s Lecturer To-night Rufus M. Jones, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at Haverford and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Bryn Mawr, will deliver the annual Founder's lecture at eight o’clock in Taylor. His subject is “Quaker Ideals”. Founder's lecture is arranged yearly in memory of Dr. Taylor by the directors of the college. A member of the Society of Friends is always the speaker in order to give the students some idea of the Friendly principles. Four years ago, in 1912-13, Dr. Jones spoke on the same oc- casion on “Four Quaker Innovations”. The lecture was not given last year. History of Mysticism, Dr. Jones’ Field On the history of mysticism Dr. Jones is the highest authority in this country, and, on some phases of the subject, in the world. In his lecture to-night he will touch upon the mystical element’ in Quakerism ‘SENIOR PRESIDENT IS “SUNNY JIM” M. O’Shea Wins Essay Prize MAY DAY AUDIENCE HEARS SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED Constance Sidney Hall, senior presi- dent, was applauded as “Sunny Jim” by an enthusiastic May Day audience yester- day morning in chapel when President Thomas announced her the winner of the Mary Helen Ritchie Prize. The first George W. Childs Essay Prize went to Monica Barry O’Shea ‘17 and the second to Janet Grace '17. Thirteen undergradu- ates scholarships, four to 1918, five to | 1919, and four to 1920, were announced: SCHOLARSHIPS | James E. Rhoads Junior Scholarship Helen Prescott, 82.797. James E. Rhoads Sophomore Scholarship Marie Litzinger, 89.931. JUNIOR SCHOLARSHIPS | Anna Hallowell Helen Coreene Karns, 78.022, Thomas H. Powers Enid S. MacDonald, 77.333. Mary E. Stevens A. M. Snavely, 74.800. Special Maria Hopper of $150 from Extra Fund E. M. Howes, 73,177. SOPHOMORE SCHOLARSHIPS | Mary Anna Longstreth A. F. Preston, 79.448. Ist Maria Hopper J. N. Cochran, 79.034, 2nd Maria Hopper M. M. Dent, 77.793. SENIOR SCHOLARSHIPS Anna M. Powers Marian O’Connor, 77.293. Brooke Hall Memorial Margaret (|. Timpson, 87.28. Special Simpson Scholarship Ella Mary Rosenberg, 81.42. Elizabeth Duane Gillespie Scholarship, in American History K. T. Sharpless, 78.233. | i | | } | NATIONAL HYMN BY DR. DE LAGUNA GIVEN TO 1918 Dr. de Laguna has presented to the class of 1918 a national hymn of which words and music have both been com- posed by him The music, arranged for two parts, was composed years ago, but the words have just been written at sa att eon oe oe