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VARSITY peimanes TRAINING

Varsity Dramatics, the effort to produce
plays more interesting to act, direct, and
stage, and to produce them with higher
standards of acting and directing, than
under the old system of class plays, is this
year, we hope, to justify its inception. The
School for Scandal, hastily presented last
spring for the Students’ Building Drive, is
soon to be followed by Icebound, a drama of
a small New England town .of today. In4
the-spring of 1926 there will be another play.
Already one great objection to the experi-
ment has been answered. To the complaint
that parts would” be concentrated in the
upper classes, we point to the program of
Feebound: Six roles out of twelve are be-
ing taken by Sophomores, one by a grad-
uate, three by Juniors, and only two (and
‘ ’ both very small parts) by Seniors. For

the Freshmen there is Freshman Show and

‘ the spring production. Likewise on the

Scenery and Costume Committees Sopho-
mors and Juniors are in the majority.

Most important of all, the Varsity Dra
‘matic group this autumn has the privilege
of studying with Miss Robertson. Though
busy coaching the Plays and Players So-
ciety of Philadelphia, she has been so kind
as to come out to Bryn Mawr and work
tirelessly with our cast. One of the few
women directors in. New York, she brings
her knowledge and energy to the use of the
college. For her service to Varsity Dra-
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WHY EVER DO WE DO IT?

Parade Ni ight of course is an institution,
and in itself quite adequate to satisfy the
more primitive side of our collegiate char-
acter. ;

As for the rest of he casual hops and
skits that occasionally. int@rrupt our Sat-
urday ‘nights—is the. game. worth the
andie? When, clad in tennis shoes and
a smple gingham, you walk for two hours
round a bare and brightly lit gymnasium

Smates, you are then neither
a social success, but rather,
the drawbacks of both

 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  

 

tinguished, and not too en-
lass gatherings always cost
orry and effort and time.
we are pretending that it
omatically and suddenly to

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‘ Actors’

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‘the right to independence.

‘ier as Ophelia, ‘Advieune Morrison as the|

Queen, and Charles Waldron as the King.
Other plays beginning is week are as
follows:
dhe Last of Mrs. Cheyney—at the Ful-
ton Theatre, by Frederick Lonsdale, author
of Aren't We All, and Spring Cleaning. Ina

‘Claire is the star, with A. E. Matthews and
Roland Young.

Rha? 5
The Last Night of Don Biecar the
Greenwich Village Theatre, by Rostand, In

the cast are Stanley Logan, Augustine Dun-

can and Violet Kemble Cooper. It «will be
preceded by a one-act comedy, Le Pelerin,
by Charles Vildrac.

Naughty Cinderella—at the Lyceum :The-
atre, a French farce apted by Avery,Hop-
wood. Irene Bordoni is starred. It is “a
comedy of the ey pajama beach life at the
Lido.”

Candida—at ihe Comedy, a return of the
Theatre production, with Peggy.
Wood again. The new members of the cast
are Morgan Farley, who made his name in
Fata Morgana, as Marchbanks, and Harry
C. Browne as Morel.

The Bells—at, the Manhattan Opera
House, a revival by Butler Davenport.

The Master Builder—at the Maxine EI-
liott; This production is an Ibsen revival
for Tuesday and Friday matinees, with Eva
Le Gallienne and Egon Brecher.

The Charlot Revue of 1926—at the Sel-
wyn, with Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Law-
rence, Jack Buchanan and Herbert Mundin.

BOOKS, ATHLETICS AND ACTIVITY
LATELY WON FOR FRENCH GIRLS

M. Cestre Describes Change and
Sympathetic Plays and Novels

 

 

 

At a tea given by the French Club in
last Monday afternoon, M.
Charles Cestre talked about the past and
present position of the average woman in
France, and suggested several novels and
plays by such feminists as Marcel Prevost
and les freres Marguerite for further light
un the subject.

He said that there had been a great change
iv thé condition of women in France in the
last thirty years. Here in America very suc-
cessful efforts have been made to give women
But in France,
less than a generation ago, Marcel Prevost
was writing Les Lettres de Francoise to
plead a girl’s right to read,-to think, to havea
personality. Young girls could keep still, or

occasionally murmur. polite nothings. Other-.

wise nothing was expected—or wanted—of
them,

Now, living senditiias are becoming more
and more difficult. There ate too many

people in France, especially in the profes-

sions. Salaries are small as a consequence;
it is therefore necessarily allowable for
women to earn money, but even twenty years

ago, a middle class woman was ashamed of

the necessity of earning money. Ladies in
‘reduced circumstances did fine sewing at
home, and took it out to sell only under
cover of the night. Women who taught|
were -not received in society—not because
they were not appreciated, but just because
women did not work. In Les Vierges Fortes
Marcel Prevost has studied types of French
women and the effect upon them -of the
hampering conventions just described.

One would scarcely count divorce. among |
phe: beeen of the century, but, in certain

 

new woman is the heroine of La Fille Nou-

welle by les freres Marguerite-the story of

a girl who demands the right to spend her
own money, spends if to make an intérest-
ing life for herself, and finally marries a
man because she loves him. The faste word
in’ the triumph of young girls in France
is said in Les Nouvelles Lettres de Fran-
coise written since the war.

Now that French girls are allowed to read,

to go to the universities, to play games, to

meet men of their own age, their conditions
of living are no longer so different from the
American. Their conventions have changed,
the temperaments which observe them have
not. 2

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SKIT AND DANCING ACCOMPANY
PRESENTATION OF RED BANNER

On Saturday night the Juniors gave the
Freshmen their banner. Class history was
first présented in a skit in the gymnasium.
Constance Jones, as a well ¢voluted class,
stood in” front of Eleanor Morris and
plead her case for the enefit of Kathrine
Adams, gartered and gallused as the.
shade of Mr. Bryan. She began with fresh-
man show, and Mary Dufour did the Oz
Clog. Then Mayday—Janet Seeley—
tumbled in, and was followed )by two
cyncal Morris dancers in slickers and
galoshes, Marion Leary and Carol Pratt.
That was the past history. Then this
year’s Charleston cohort clattered on,
ieaturing Minna Lee Jones, Elizabeth
Lippincott and Carol Platt, Mr. Bryan
fanned himself and collapsed—i927 was
acquited as a case for evolution.

Dancing and doughnuts followed. At
9.30 the banner was presented with the
usual ceremony, and the Freshmen were
guided down Senior row to end the eve-
ning.

CHURCH MUST CREATE SPIRIT
TO BRING ABOUT WORLD PEACE

Sacrifice National Sovereignty, Join
League, Says Rev. Speers

“Shall the sword devour forever? How
long shall it be before thou bid thy people
return from following after their breth-
ren?” This was the text of the Reverend
Guthrie Speers, assistant at the First Pres-
byterian Church, New York City speak-
ing in chapel on November 8.

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day before Armistice Day, and that most

of us call ourselves Christians, I want to
talk to you about real religion as the only
basis for permanent peace. In 1925 A. D.,

with sad reason to know what we are talk-
ing about, we are still asking the question
‘Shall the sword devour forever?’ Do
we understand that the achievement of

“peace depends.on a fundamental change

in our own motives and purposes; and
have we enough courage to follow out
the implications of our prayer for its ac-
complishment? _

“There is no peace without -penitence.
We have tried war and found it both’
dangerous and. unprofitable. Like Abner,
who wanted peace for the time being, to
save his own skin, are our motives insin-
cere and selfish? Have we realized that

war is a sin against God in heaven, in our-

selves, and in other men? Now that we

have the instruments: of peace. at hand,|
leagues, courts, and tribunals, we have no
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We should listen to the appeal of the
most recent plan, a united program of im-
mediate entrance of the United States into
the world court, with a provision for her
withdrawal if, after five years, a treaty has
not been ratified “extending the court’s
jurisdiction and making it compulsory. °
“But we must remember that we have’
been talking about mere instruments, the
value of which rises and falls with ‘the
sp.r.t actuating them, The task of Chris-
tians is the creation of the spirit of Christ
which will embody itself in concrete fact,
and be translated into international activ-
ity. The church must lead. the work of
making present-day institutions: an incar-.
nation of this spirit, to save us from
physical: and spiritual destruction. The
world expects this of the church. How
long shall it be till -we Christians call the

people back from following after their
brothers ?”

 

Dr. Lucke will speak on Tuesday, Novem-
ber: 17, at 7.30 -P.-M., in Taylor: Hall. on
oe a Local Organism of De-
fense.”

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AMERICA’S ENTRANCE’IN THE
WORLD COURT A NECESSITY

“cetaamnronerimnics

(Courtesy of the Yale Daily News)
The political disputes over the World

confused the issue by discussion of details
that the fundamental reasons why America
should join have been too often overlooked.

That ancient institution which we call a

tion. of all civilization. It is the only device
which has been found to work to prevent
war when quarrels became acute.

Before the institution of the Court was
devised even individuals settled their dis-
putes as Cain and Abel settled theirs. When
a dispute becomes acute and cannot be
settled diplomatically, there remain just two
ways of settling it. One is to fight it out,
in which case the stronger man wins irre-
spective of the justice of his case. The other
is to referee it,; that is, to put it into the
hands of a disinterested third party, who. is
not so excited or prejudiced and who is
‘more likely to make a just decision. That
is the fundamental idea of a Court.

The first Court was the patriarch, who
kept the peace within the family. The fam-
ily was the first “peace group.” But to keep
peace within the family was not enough. As
population grew and families crowded each
other it was necessary to keep peace between
the families in order that clusters of families
might live together in a community or vil-
lage. The justice of peace, or his equivalent
in ancient civiligation, was tlie second step.

But it was not enough to keep the peace
within @ village. Inter-village war was still
possible, and in primitive regions, such as the
Philippines before the United States entered,
there was no peaceful method of settling
disputes between villages. The next step
was to cluster the villages into a State, as
Massachusetts grew from its town meetings;
and to institute State Courts to keep the
peace between communities, The next step
was to cluster the States together into a
‘nation and to settle the disputes. ‘between the
States by a Supreme Court. is

‘The record of the Court thus far is Pooh gt
‘It already has more authority than
Supneme Court acquired in the same space

i “mecessary to argue the
question of the League of Nations, to dis-

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