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The Gollege | News

[Founded in 1914.) :

Published weekly during the college year in tie '
* interest of Bryn Mawr. College

» Managing Editor......, DELIA Surrn, '26
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ITO ALL

As May Day approaches more. closely,
form and order take the place of the ap-
parent confusion which existed af first.
Gorgeous costumes of velvets and brocades
are evolved from much more ordinary mia-
terials, and plays and dances are gradually.

.-Shaped and perfected. For this slow evo-]

lution we have to thank many who have
devoted their time and thought to working
for it. It is natural that those in college
should have worked «hard, hut those to
whom gratitude is especially due are the
. people who have labored as much as we
without any prospect of immediate per-
sonal glory. We shall have relatives and
friends here whose praise’ of our efforts
will be most generous;
hand, who have come from outside to help
will find a more purely vicarious pleasure
in the success of their ideas, for it is they
who have contributed the plans and created
the schemes. With experience and knowl-
edge they have seen ahead clearly to the
ultimate, while we have frequently become
involved in details and have proved suc-
cessful in smaller and less administrative
~ duties.
ciation; first to the director, Mr. King,
‘ who has so skilfully and patiently coached
and directed the play; to Miss Applebee,
too, who has brought order out of chaos
on the green by seemingly tireless work.
And surely all who are wearing wonderful
Elizabethan suits or graceful Grecian
draperies thank Mrs. Skinner’ and Mrs.
Abbott, who created so many lovely cos-
tumes, and Miss Wilson, who gave them
glorious colors, as well as those who helped
‘in the sewing. The chairmen of the origi-
nal May Day Committees and those dis-
tinguished people who have permitted their
flames to be used as patrons and patron-
esses of the festival, command our hearti-
est gratitude. Finally, mere thanks seem
slight to give to Mrs. Collins for the

they, on the other

To them then we offer our appre-

immense amount of work she has done to
“make the consummation of May Day

_ possible,
We are, indeed, very grateful to all those

ve matle- May Day a-potential--suc-.
it only remains for the. weather to
it complete.

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“SOMETHING ACCOMPLISHED” |

Radcliffe pays a charming tribute to her
alumnae which “Bryn Mawr might well
adopt. A sheff or so is set aside in the
library for the Radcliffe Archives, literary
achievements of, former students’ of Rad-
cliffe.
receive enjoyment and possibly encourage-

Thus the present undergraduates

ment from the alumnae, who have made
their mark, and the authors.who have got-
ten into print are thus honored. Surely
our graduates have done many: things in
this line of which-we may be justly proud,
and a shelf in the New Book Room would
not be too much to accord them.

. “ALL MANNER OF EVIL AGAINST
2 YOU FALSELY”, _t.

“When a man loses love for his country,
he is in a worse fix than. when he loses
love for his friends, his parents, his .fam-
ily, and-his.God.”

This is the sweeping statement made in a
pamphlet entitled Bootlegging Mind Poison,
recently published by the New York Com-

+ mercial and distributed by the Legion of

American Watchmen, It goes on to say
that “nowadays there is too much howling
about brotherly love,” a slogan “manufac-
tured in other lands and sent across the
water to this country to destroy the morale
of the Amefécan people, that we, as a na-
We
believe indeéd that a certain Nazarene was
the original author of this ideal.

The writer continues—enumerating the

tion, might in the end be destroyed.”

radical ‘doctrines which are attacking the
foundations of this country and the or-
ganizations which are spreading them.. He
is not original when he writes’on the for-
mer topic, for he says that the radicals de-
sire the “abolition of government, patriot-
ism, private property, all rights of inheri-
which
has been the conservative interpretation of

tance, religion, and family relations,”

progressive principles since the time of
When the writer comes to tell
of the organizations involved, his pamph-

Jefferson.
let waxes .enlightening. We expected to
see the Worker’s Party, the Farmer-Labor
Party, the Non-Partisan League, the paper
known as the Young Worker, and the
Americar Civil Liberties Union on “this
patriotic Index. But we confess that when
we find the Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom, the
Council for the Prevention of War, the
Survey, the World Tomorrow, and twenty-
five college groups, including our own Bryn
Mawr Liberal Club, accused of being the
agents of the “destructionists,”
somewhat surprised. ‘

The whole pamphlet teems with mis-

National

we are

Law)
statements and exaggerations so flagrant

4that no one at all informed on the sub-

jects therein discussed, could possibly take
it seriously. If, however, the majority of
its readers should believe what it says,
‘they will, we fear, consider our harmless
Liberal Club a very branch of that iniqui-
tous Communist-Party. Worse than—this+
is what such a pamphlet will make readers
‘ignorant of the ideals and aspirations of
the toate Movement think of this n new

 

 

MAY-DAY FACTS AND FANCIES

 

May-Day—so .long’ lived through in our
imagination, has at last become an actual-
ity.. In looking back over the last weeks
the irksomeness of endless rehearsals fades
out of memory: and only °recellections ,re-
main of the rather’jolly tjmes we haye had
dancing to old English tunes of enchant-
ing names—Old ; Mole, Sellingers Round,
Parson’s. Farewell—names of a picturesque-
ness not often found in America. Also
this last frantic week of almost continuous
rehearsal has had its more frivolous side.
There is nothing more entrancing than to
try to guess who your fritid. are among
mortals dressed in diverse costumes of
strange hue. One ofthe saving ,incidents
occurred when E. Glessner ’29 dashed
breathlessly into Mrs.\Collins’ office declar-
ing in fervent accents ‘that the long sought
for donkeys, had at last been found, that
she had them hitched outside at the mo-
ment. The hardworking May Day staff
abandoned work and trodped out en masse

‘lonly to behold in- front of Taylor one for-

lorn and frightened donkey and one be-
draggledymule. But to all ironic comments
E. Glessner staunchly replied “that it had
long ears any way.”

That ‘we have indeed had difficulty in
procuring the necessary animals ‘can also
be seen from the following letter:

To Mrs. Chadwick Collins: —

Dear Madam: We received your letter
with check for the same, we thank you
very much, we have two white men to send
with the cattle, but to be candid about the
matter we do not think it advisable to
send the young roan oxen, we have been»
using them. with our spring work, but to-
day, the 26th, while using them to a roller
they got away from our man and broke
the roller up completely, will have to get
another roller, and to send them to Bryn
Mawr before a crowd of people as you
say you will have will naturally excite
them and I think it unsafe. The red cattle
will drive Wherever you see fit to put them
with our driver. We are very sorry about
the young cattle, but if you could see them
perform we do think you would not want
them.

We will likely be at the May Day. fete
on Friday, ‘the 9th.

Yours very cordially,
J. Frank THOMPSON.

While we may have wearied at times of
the daily quota of flowers and shivered in
the icy blasts that so frequently prevailed
during Pageant Rehearsals, we forget this
rougher side in the flippant events of May
Day, which live longest in our memories.

 

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“THE FOUR P.’s” TO BE PERFORMED
ON LIBRARY STEPS

 

Alumnae to Act Old Comedy by
John Heywood

 

An interlude of the year 1540, The Four
Ps, from the pen of John Heywood, “one
of the most ancient dramatic writers of
the English language,” will be acted on the
Library steps by Alumnae players; headed
hy Elizabeth Daly ’01.

“In The Four Ps, a palmer, a pardoner
and a potecary, with a peddler as umpire,
engage in a contest to decide who can tell
the biggest lie. The potecary does well
but is outdone by the pardoner who tells
how he rescued Marjorie Corson from
hell by promising Lucifer that he would |
see.to it that there would come no more
women to hell. To this:the palmer replies
that he cannot understand why women can

e|be such shrews in hell as he has known

}500,000 of them, yet never seen or known

Jone out of patience, a declaration which at
once secures -him the victory.”

 

3 Synagogue, New York City

 

Betty Howe, 1924 s Sunny Jim

* 8 /
SUNNY JIM AWARD GOES’
$s TO. PRESIDENT OF A. A.

E. Howe,’24, Awarded Frise for Jus-

 

tice, Sportsmanship and Cheerfulness

 

M. Elizabeth Howe ’24 will receive
the Mary -Helen Ritchie Memorial Prize,
which carries with it the title of “Sunny
Jim,” President Park announced in chapel
last Thursday morning.

This award, which consists of a set of
books, is given each year to the Senior
who in the opinion of a committee of her
classmates and the faculty possesses “the
qualities of courage, cheerfulness, fair-
mindedness, good spartsmanship, whose in-
fluence is widely felt, who has the courage
to live up to her own convictions and who
is respected by all.”

Miss Howe has been on the Board of the
Athletic Association since her Freshman
year and was President in 1923-1924. She
was class songmistress in 1922-23 and is
Town Crier in May-Day. °

Scholarships will be published next week.
Maria L..Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial

Scholarship. Value $100. Emily Pep-

per Watts, of Quincy, Mass.

Charles S, ‘Hinchman Memorial Scholar-
ship. Value $500. Anne McDowell Shi-
ras, of Pittsburgh, Pa. -

Elizabeth S. Shippen Scholarship in For-
eign Languages. Value $100. Barbara
Hyde Ling, 6f London, England.

| Elizabeth S. ‘Shippen Scholarship in Sci-

ence. Value $100. (Also the Anna M.
* Powers Memorial’ Scholarship.) Janetta
Wright Schoonover, of Trenton, N. J.

The Sheelah. Kilroy Memorial Scholarship
in English. Value $125. Emily Pepper.
Watts, of Washington, D. C.

The Sheelah Kilroy Memorial Scholarship
in English. Value $125. Anna Clinton
Adams, of Philadelphia, Pa.

Horace White Prize for Greek Literature.
Value $50, Kathryn: Mae Elston, 1924,
of Woodland, California.

Mary Helen Ritchie Memorial Prize.
set of books. Martha Elizabeth Howe,
of Fulton, New. York.

 

CALENDAR
_Friday, May 9
2.30 P, Me—Méy-Day Festival.
Saturday, May 10
2.30 P. M=~May-Day Festival.
8.00 A.M.—Monday’s lectures held on
Saturday. |
8.00 P. M.—Junior-Senior Supper.
Sunday, May 18 .
7.30 PB. M—Chapel led by Dr. Stephen S.’:
Wise, Founder and Rabbi of the Free

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“MASQUE: OF FLOWERS-TO-BE--—
GIVEN FOR FOURTH TIME

 

Play by Gentlemen of Gray’s Inn to
Be Performed in Cloisters

 

Masques, which consisted
songs and dances, frequently allegories in
substance, were very popular in England
They
were performed on many festive occasions
and were, in a. way, a development “of the
Italian, allegorical pageants,
beenyintroduced into England ‘in the reign
of Hegry VIII.

The Masque of Flowers was written by
the Gentlemen of Gray’s Inn, one of the
four great. inns. of court or guilds of
lawyers in England, which was instituted
about the beginning of the 16th century.
The occasion ‘for the first performance of
this masque was the marriage of the Right
Honorable the Earl of Somerset and the
Lady Frances, daughter of the Earl of Suf-
folk, Lord ~Chamberlain. -Of~ the “many
ceremonies and celebrations at the time
of the marriage this was the last; it was
performed on twelfth night, 1614 “at the
Court of Whitehall, ins the banqueting
In the celebration of May Day
here at ‘Bryn Mawr. The Masque of
Flowers seems to have been one of the
favorites, for this year will be the fourth
time on which it has been given: The
cast is:

BON JONSON oscc gs 5 ees Mr. Horace Alwyne
Boia, t MMaAvela.., cap eves G. Leuba
RMS ee Coe ak see E. Neville ’24
Winter, Invierno ........ M. Robinson ’27
MNS ec asc ccieee A. Sanders ’27
awasha-trer tee S. Posey.’27
North: Wind ii.<sa00co es M. Talcott ’26
Pe ee ee a oe gat G. Hayes ’27
RO AGS 66 6S ee G. Batchelder ’27

Flowers—N. Benoist ’27, M. Brooks ’27, H.
Brown ’26, J. Cheney ’27, J. Green ’26,
G. Jenkins ’27, M. B. Miller ’27, A.
Parker ’25, F. Thayer ’27 and M. Wal-
ler:’26.

Rickaby
ay Ee St, John. '25,..D: Tinker: 25, C.
Cummings °25, E. Tuttle ’24, S. Wood
24 and A. Long ’26.

Indians—A. Armstrong ’24, E. Comer ’25,
K. Conner-’24, B. Simcox ’27, J. Lee ’27,
S. -Peet’ ’27,.C. Vanderlip ’27 and G.
Sewall ’27.

Garden Gods (Model School}—M. Foer-
derer, F. Hally and D. Waples.

“ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON” TO
‘BE PERFORMED NEAR PEMBROKE

 

Bryn Mawr Version Comes From Two
Old English Rustic Plays

 

The play of St. George, comprising the
Oxfordshire St. George play and the Lut-
terworth Christmas play, two old English
rustic plays, has heen one of the most fre-
quently enacted plays at Bryn Mawr May-
Days.

It was given at the first May-Day and.
the original costumes used then, in some
instances, are the identical ones used in the
May-Day of 1924. The text of the first
play was written down by the Reverend
who: obtained it
from the lips of one of the performers in
1853. He said that he first saw it acted
in the hall of the oldy VicaragefQouse at
Thame, in the year 1839,, The “man had
performed it as far back as 1807, and his
father had done the same in the previous
century. : Dr. Lee neither -changed . nor
added anything in the text.

' The Lutterworth play comes from
5,

Kelleys Notices of Leicester, London

and was previously performed at Lutter-
worth at Christmas, 1863. ;
The cast is:

Meat Aled cs. 5 sos M. Constant ’25
ee ne ee ae ee J. Palmer '24
Sait: Cetotae 6603s és M. Palache 24
MN APPRON 6 6 66 Gicie eno 5's M. Z. Pease ’27 |
Giant Blunderbore .......... C, Remak ’25
oe. Bane nee M. Whitcomb ’25
“Captain Slasher ............. E. Lomas ’25
Turkish Champion ......... C. Gehring ’25

A Noble Doctor

cai ....R. Godefroy '24

 

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M. Villard, 124, Takes the Part of Alan-a-Dale, in “Robin Hood”

 

PLAY BY BRYN MAWR ALUMNA
TO BE GIVEN ON MAY DAY

“Robin Hood” Adapted From Old
English Plays and Ballads

 

 

Robin Hood will be given on May-Day
just above the upper hockey field.

This, the only -modern play in existence
with Robin Hood for its hero, was adapted
by Elizabeth T. Daly ’01, from plays writ-
ten by Anthony Munday in 1597 and Rob-
ert Greene in 1587, and founded prin-
cipally on old ballads. In the 1910 May-
Day this version of the outlaws’ qnerry life
in Sherwood Forest was acted at Bryn
Mawr for the first time.

The Earl of Huntington, known as Robin
Hood, is pictured deprived of his lands by
Prince John, who has usurped the throne
of his brother, King Richard-I, and taking
refuge in Sherwood Forest, where his love,
Maid Marian, a lady of the court, has
joined him. We see his encounter with
Little. John, his rescue of Fair Ellen the
bride, for the minstrel Allan-a-Dale, end-
ing in the lovers’ wedding procession.

Then Pritice John appears, fleeing from
the punishment of the king who has re-
covered his throne. He is discovered and
protected by Robin Hood, whom. he had
wronged, - Whereupon. King Richard,. dis-
guised as a monk and accompanied by the
Sheriff of Notthingham and Sir Henry of
the Lea, arrives upon the scene. Robin
Hood stops him and exacts the tribute he
claims from all travelers, only to discover
whom he has robbed when Sir Richard: of
the Lea comes to warn him of the King’s
presence. ~~
“But Richard, conviriced of Robin Hood's
loyalty, restores him to favor and pardons

 

DOROTHY LEE NEW ATHLETIC
HEAD

Dorothy Lee, ’25, has been elected
president of the Athleffc Association’
for the coming “year.

Miss Lee was a member of the
Freshman Committee in her Freshman
year. Last year she was on the Ath-
letic Board. ‘She is now vice-president
of the Junior class, and ‘will be varsity
hockey captain next year.

 

 

Prince John when the latter has shown his
remorse,
Cast,-in the order of appearance:

Date foun 5. sees A. Boross ’25
Robert, Earl of Huntington, Robin Hood,
M. M. Dunn ’25
Wl Scene: a a K. Sihler 725
Pelee PU es cs cee Gs J. Gregory ’25
Ne Wet Oi as M. Wylie ’26
Aslan-ns ale NE ee
Sir Stephen of Trent ........ A. Good ’26
The Bishop of Hereford ..... M. Hale ’25
Pe PUNE es cei aces M. Hand ’27
Pair Fillen’s: Father... 3... M. Nagle .’25

Prince John, brother of King Richard,

Fj H. Grayson ’25
itzwater aegis a F. Watriss ’27
The Sheriff of Nottingham ....B. Dean ’25

The. Earl.of Leicester ...«....V. Hill ’27

Sir Richard of the Lea-....E. Glessner ’25

Merry-Men—A. Adams ’26, N. Bauer ’27,
L. Coffin ’24, C. Dennison ’26, A. Eicks
*25, M: Fischer’24, -E; “Hale: '24, ‘L.
Howitz ’24, A. Johnston ’26, D. Lefferts
26, J. Loeb ’26, S. McAdoo ’26, E. No-
well ’26, A. Pantzer '25, M. Pierce '25,
A. Sanson ’27, E. Smith ’25 and E.
Waddell.

 

“CAMPASPE” REVISED FOR
- MAY DAY PERFO

Romantic Comedy by John Lyly Has
Been Given Before

 

John Lyly’s romantic comedy Campaspe,
will be performed in the’ cloisters of the
Library“on May-Day, alternately with the
Maske of Flowers.

The first edition of Compete had this
title :
ander, Campaspe and Diogenes, played be-
fore the Queene’s Maiestie on twelfe day
at night, by her Maiestie’s Children and
the Children of Paule’s.
don for Thomas Cadman, 1584.”

“A moste excellent Comedie of Alex-

Imprinted at Lon-
The sub-
ject of the play comes from Pliny’s “Nat-
ural History.” Though essentially Eliza-
bethan in its representation of classic an-
tiquity, Compaspe seems to have been well,
known, if not popular in more modern’
times, for there is rather a bitter caricature °
of Apelles and Campaspe by Goya, an artist
of the last century.

Campaspe was ‘played once befgre in the
May-Day of 1914, but in a somewhat dif-
ferent form, for it has since been revised
and changed yw Be atrice Constant, of the
class of 1924,

The cast is:

CITB iis ives bcvaee elke OUOWanGsOl ao
PRP GNIO- ireescdere its L. Garrison ’25
PE ORIG Hs sik A ee E. Molitor ’24
Campaspe ..... ee oe «-..5.. Constant 24
PRODROMION: vi Sock. hv ka M. Castleman ’25
PUIGMONOET iis igh vec yeu ene V. Lomas ’25
MGHODUR fa here nus E. Follansbee ’26
BNO a i ce A. Parmelee ’26
PPOIGUG os hiv s beak Cachan K. Fowler ’25
CO oC a aA EE IU eer A. Shiras ’24
CS RE ce er ear ae ece D. Sollers ’25
POR G ire ee rerer er eee C. Hatch ’26
PII GN voici ccs ee eee FE: Lawrence ’25
PORN ice caietep see enees M. Eberbach ’25
MO ey a es J. Dunham ’27
tie cs oes ry, ee er M. Minott ’24
Poyllus ras C.-Hardy’26
RAPASICHUM fhe ccc eco hnee ees C. Lewis ’24

Captives (men)—A. Dixon ’27, E. Dunne
'26, A. C. Thomas ’27, E. Malaun ’25.
Captives (women)—Annabelle Dixon ’27,
M. A. Cheston ’27, E. Cunningham ’27,

E. Mosle ’24.
Captives (children)—V. Carpenter ’25, G.
Gates ’25.

Foot Soldiers—M. K. Holcombe ’27; J.

Snell (graduate), M. Mandeville (grad- °°

uate), D. Durling (graduate).
Barbarian—A. Lingelbach ’26. :
Priestesses of Hymen—M. Bissett (grad-
uate), H. Converse (graduate), J. D.
Cooper (graduate), S. Duchemin (grad-
uate), B. Framery (graduate), E. Miller
(graduate).

 

 

 

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Kathryn Elston, ’24, as Oberon in
“Midsummer Night’s Dream”

“MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM”

TO BE GIVEN IN HOLLOW}:

Shakespeare’s Play Still One of
Most Successful Comedies

Ever since the first May- Day, the play }
within “A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ has |;
been given as “The Tragicall Enterlude of
Pyramus and Thisby.”

This .version opens with Titania asleep
in the forest. Obergn, angry with her be-
cause she refuses to give him one of her
attendants, weaves round her a spell, so

 

that she will upon awaking love the first |

thing she sees. While she sleeps, five rus-
tics enter and plan to act the play of Pyra-
mus and Thisbe in honor of the marriage
of Theseus, Duke of Athens.

Puck, the fairy servant of Oberon, sees
their rehearsal, calls aside the weaver, Bot-
tom, and claps an ass head on his shoulders.
When the rustics see this apparition they-
run away in terror. Titania wakes, and,
seeing Bottom first, falls in love with him.
- Whe last scene is in the hall of Theseus’
palace, where sits Theseus ‘surrounded by
his court. There the rustics enter and
give their play. Because it is so incredibly
absurd, the Duke is delighted. Midnight
ends the revels.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” was first
acted by the Lord Chamberlain's servants,
and is mentioned in the Palladis Tamia
of Francis Meres in 1598. It has always
been, in its abridged form, one of the
greatest successes of May Day.

.In_ 1906, Miss Schenck was cast for the
part of Bottom, but did not play it. Miss
Cornelia Skinner, ex-1922, who is now
playing in Otis Skinner’s company in New
York, took the part of Moth in 1910. In
1914, Frederica de Laguna, Audrey Sanders
and Gladys Leuba played respectively
Pease-blossom, Cobweb and Moth.

__The ast of the play, which will, take
place this year in the hollow, is as follows:

Theseus, Duke of Athehs..V. Newbold °27:

WE coe cis cc aetls cs L. Barber ’25
NN ey kg M. Ferguson '24
Philostrate, master of the revels to Theseus,

N. Bowman '27
Quince, a carpenter ...... H. Chisholm '25
Snug, a joiner . 6.25 i... G. Schuder '26
Bottom,-a weaver-............ B. Ling '24
Flute, a bellows mender:...K» Brauns '24
Snout, a tinker ............ .. B..Linn '26
Starveling, a tailor ......... M. Pierce '26:

Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, be-

trothed | to ‘Theseus veeeesJe Sullivan '27-
regs) Sey ee M. Dunham '27
NOOR i oivecoecciaais Le WR SS

HISTORY.OF MAY DAY, FROM THE BEGINNING IN
; 1920 TO 1924, TOLD BY ORIGINATOR OF IDEA

 

Mrs, Andrews Tells Difficulties of |
First Pesformance and Later
Growth of May Day

FOR STUDENTS’ BUILDING FUND

 

EVANGELINE WALKER ANDREWS, 1893

Almost a quarter of a century has passed
since the first “Merri¢ May “Games” were
given “by Ye Scholars. of -Bryn Mawr cn
Ye Colledge Greene, Ye first day of May,
Anno Domini 1900;” and at that time, I
:venture to think, no-one dreamed that this
historic revival of Elizabethan sports and
}trevels would. become as traditional a part
-of the life of the Bryn Mawr undergradu-
fates as Lantern Night or the Sophomore
'Play, This production of 1924 is the sixth
fof a series begun twenty-four years ago,
;and produced, on an average of once every
ifour years since that. time.
| One afternoon in March, 1900, a group
iof students, mainly seniors, came to my
jhouse on the campus to discuss the possi-
ibility of giving an out-of-door enterfain-
ment by. means of which a substantial sum
‘of money might be raised towards a Stu-
idents’ Building, needed almost as much
ithen as now. For two hours or more we
discussed plans without producing any that

|seemed to express what we liked to call the

ispirit- of Bryn Mawr; and the meeting
‘broke up, all of us promising that we would
itry to think of something concrete and en-
‘tertaining to present at the mass-meeting
‘to be held the-following evening.

Then while I stood. watching my guests
,as, talking and laughing, they crossed. the
athletic field, climbed the steps on the oppo-
.site side, and drifted—a charming little
'procession—across the campus ‘towards
Denbigh and the Pembrokes—at that very
fmoment the inspiration came, literally our
of the blue sky of Bryn Mawr. Of course!
With an English setting all made for us—
rolling hills and well-tilled fields; grey
stone, ivy-covered buildings of Elizabethan
-architecture; with spring and May coming
‘over the hills, and youth, almost 500 strong,
waiting merely for the word—why not an
Elizabethan May-Day? Not the gambols
of the court with which everyone was fa-
miliar—but those of the common people
with their planting of the may-pole on the
village green, their country dances, games,
and plays, and pageants; with Robin Hood
and his band, .Maid Marian, the hobby-
horse, the worthies nine, and all the gay,
grotesque; and charming festivities and
characters beloved by the rustics of Eliza-
bethan England? It was entirely suitable
that the May-Day sports and pastimes,
suppressed by Puritan Old England as well
as by Puritan New England, should be re-
vived, without its evils, by the adventurous
and talented young Elizabethans of Bryn
Mawr. Such was the idea that took pos-
session of me, as I stood enjoying the color
and rhythm of that little procession of stu-
dents crossing the campus on a bleak after-

noon in March of 1900.

Idea of May-Day Well Received

The suggestion that we should revive an
Elizabethan May-Day on the Bryn Mawr
campus was received by cheers that made
the gymnasium ring with an enthusiasm
that promised success from the start; and
from that moment until May 1—six. short
weeks, one of them a college holiday—every

New York and Philadelphia, worked in-
cessantly, giving most generously of time,
interest, and labor. Having the idea was
a simple enough matter, and more or less
familiarity with the period made not too
difficult the necessary research work and
the arrangement of the programme; but
had it not been for the fine spirit of co-
operation on the part of groups and in-
dividuals, who subordinated personal pref-
erences and worked for the, glory of the
College as a whole, the task of casting,
training, and costuming almost 500 persons

 

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‘undergraduate, and many Alumnae, both in

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poasibid The great danger -that college
work might suffer and the opposition of
faculty and authorities thereby be justly
incurred was minimized by the fact that
the undergraduates, as a body, agreed not
to cut classes f®r any cause except illness,
and that the available Alumnae assumed
the responsibilities of costumes, properties,
rehearsals, business and financial arrange-
ments, ‘Thus the undérgraduates ~ were
‘left more free to dévote themselves to train-
ing for the parts they\were to take in the
production, although the four who served
on the Executive Committee not only served
as class chairmen and maintained at a high
level the esprit de corps of the student
body, but contributed largely to the general
work of organization, and to. the solving
of the new and difficult problems.that con-
fronted the Committee from. moment to
moment,

May-Day in 1900 Was Unusual Program

A special feature of the first May-Day,
and one calculated to create atmosphere,
as we say today in the Moving» Picture
world, was the programme, the cover of
which is: made of a soft, tinted paper and
printed in black, yellow, red, and green
from a design by Miss Violet Oakley. In
the background are the towers and arch
of Pembroke, and one of the old wild-
cherry trees in full bloom; while in .the

foreground vivacious Elizabethans. weave

in and out the gay streamers of the may-
poles. The spirit of the English Renais-
sance and of a Bryn Mawr spring breathes

in evéry detail of this design, which was:

used for the programmes of 1900, 1906, and
1910, and again in 1914 for the cover of
the May-Day Announcement.

It is a cause for great regret that the
original of this design was lost, for it was
to have been one of the cherished posses-
sions of the much-wished-for Students’
Building; but in 1900 the best color -work
was done in Boston and our programme
had to be printed there. -The hand-made
plates from, which were printed the’ inside

-sheets—Elizabethan, as to form, lettering,

 

in so short a time, would shave. been im-

and spelling—were returned in safety; but
unfortunately for all of us, Miss Oakley’s

delightful design never found its way back

to Bryn Mawr. Some day, perhaps, we
may be able to induce her to reproduce it
for all of us from one of the old pro-
grammes.

Music and Dances Carefully Planned

Elizabethan music proved to be difficult
to assemble and arrange, and we should
have fared badly in this respect. had it not
been for the expert knowledge and. assist-
ance of the late Dr. Hugh Clark of the
University of Pennsylvania, who not only
orchestrated the music for the songs and
dances, but trained and directed the vari-
ous musicians’ and directed the orchestra
on May-Day. In this connection I recall
with real gratitude the fact that when some
of the union musicians struck because of
the long hours, of the Elizabethan revels—
they were not Elizabethans—the~ musical
clubs of Haverford .College came to ‘th
rescue, donned cloaks and caps, marche
our pageant, and furnished much of the
music with which we made this May-Day
an historic, as well as a very merry, one.

Then, too, the dances of the milkmaids
and chimney sweeps, as well as thé sword
and_morris dances, had to be worked out

painfully from such books as Brand’s Ob- |

servations of Popular Antiquities, published
in 1813; for not until many years later did
a.Cecil Sharpe arise to give us invaluable
books’ of accurate music and the detailed
figures of the traditional country and mor-
ris dances of England. The many and
varied dances of this-sort-which were given
for the first time at the May-Day of 1920

added a new and yery beautiful feature to4

the spectacle, and are. to be given again, in
even greater numbers, i in this ieee of
1924. .

And. then the deseitnnh of costumes. and
publicity. Bryn Mawr was about to appear
in a new and very public way, and it was

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e “Ladie of the May,” Played by
Sylvia Walker, ’27

MASQUE OF “LADIE OF
THE MAY” TO BE GIVEN

 

Performance to Alternate With Those
of St. George

“The Ladie of the May,” written by Sir
Philip Sidney and arranged by Elizabeth T.
Daly, ’21, for performance at Bryn Mawr,
will be given in the angle of Pembroke-
East alternating with St. George. There
will be three or four performances of the
masque-each afternoon on next Friday and
Saturday.

The masque was: written by Sir Philip
Sidney for an Elizabethan May-Day.
Queen Elizabeth was at Wanstead making
one of her frequent visits to her favorite,
the Earl of Leicester, who made great
entertainment for her. The revels were
very elaborate and nearly rivalled the mag-
nificence provided for the Queen on her
famous journey to Kenilworth. Among
Elizabeth’s train was Sidney; young, noble,
gallant, and devoted to his sovereign. De-
siring to please her, he wrote “The Ladie
of the May” in one night.

The first masques were merely dances
done in costume, which later came to have
songs and dialogue. The story of “The
Ladie of the May” is rather slight, being
the tale of the love of Therion, a Forester,
and Espilus, a Shepherd, for the lovely
Ladie of the May. She is unable to de-
cide between them, saying “I like them
both; and love neither.” She takes her

problem to Queen Elizabeth to solve, ac-—

companied by her lovers, and many coun-

Ary folk.

Therion and Espilus, the lovers, sing in
turn before the queen, each telling of his
great love, in the hope that she will choose
him as the husband of the May Ladie.

|The Queen decides on Espilus, the shep-

herd, a cautious, wealthy man, in prefer-
ence to the adventurous Therion, whose
only fortune lies in the forests.

The Ladie of the May and Espilus then .

lead a country dance joined by the shep-

‘herds and shepherdesses and the play is at

an end.

The cast is: Queen Elizabeth, M. Cooke
’24; The Mother, A. Linn ’26; The Ladie
of the May, S. V. Walker ’27; Therion,

-E, Nelson ’27; Espilus, C. Swift ’27; Rom-
‘bus, A. Woodworth ’25; Lalys, M. Wood-

worth '24; Dorcas; M. Du Four '27; Rixus,
M. Boyden ’25; Ladies always with Queen
Elizabeth, P. Brown '26, H. Hopkinson ’26;
Courtiers, E. Duncan ’27, C. Keyes (grad-
uate); Court Ladies, L. Anderson (grad-
uate), M. Castellani (graduate); Guards,
M. Angell '24, R: J. Lustbader (graduate),
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for the May-Day -committees to see that
nothing was done that was not highly cred-
itable to her. Newspaper reporters who
appeared on the campus during the last
days of rehearsats were told that they could
not take’ photographs, but that they might
use some of the official photographs, pro-
vided that every plate be returned to the
committee, and. that students taking part
in the plays, etc., should not be identified
by name i _printed accounts. Personal
publi they were told, was to be scrupy-
ously avoided; and what seems most ex-
traordinary, considered from the angle of
today, #s that both photographers and re-
porters promised to regard the wishes of

‘the committee and kept their word.

Today, when we are accustomed to see
women of all ages wearing street gowns
fourteen or more inches from the ground;

or dressed. for sports in bloomers or

breeches ;~ or daffcing rhythmic’ and ball-
room dances in the scantiest of clothing—
it is difficult to realize that as late as 1900
such things. were _not- only “not. done,””-but
that-storms of criticism were aroused be+
cause college girls even ventured to” wear
their sport skirts an inch above their shoe-
tops. At that time Bryn Mawt students
playing men’s parts in men’s costumes were
not allowed to go out on the campus to
have their photographs taken; and at Vas-

_ sar, the students met the various prohibi-

tions by wearing men’s coats and vests with
thg@ir own long dark -skirts, or by masking
the unmentionable trousers by means of
small black aprons. ©

As I look over the photographs of the
first May-Day, I find that the Bryn Mawr
Elizabethans -were, if anything, overbur-
dened with clothes, even the most daring of
them, such as Robin Hood and his merry
men, wearing leather leggings and garments
coming well to the knees. “However, many
were the hours spent over the troublesome
quétions as to whether girls should wear
men’s costumes at all in publie—fortunately
the period that offered smock’ and cloaks
helped greatly at this point; whether ma-
terials were too gatidy or too diaphanous;
and whether the shepherds and rustics
should wear their smocks one inch or four
inches below the knee. And even though
all the costumes had been designed with
great discretion and passed“upon.in every

-inStance by an efficient and wise costuming

committee, it was possible for a Philadel-
phia critic to say that the Elizabethan
crowd at Bryn Mawr was “as leggy as
yoting colts”; and for the delightful old
farmer who came all the way from Lan-
caster to drive his handsome -belted, oxen
in the pageant to exclaim, as the proces-
sion started, “Never again will I allow. my
oxen to see such a sight as this.”

First May-Day Has Fair Weather

May-Day of 1900 dawned bright and
clear, and almost with the sun, students,
faculty, neighbors, and college workmen,
were assembling to help decorate the floats,
and to give the finishing touches to the
may-poles, especially to the rose-wreathed
pole that was to have the place of honor
in the middle of the green. Neighboring

farmers arrived with sheep and lambs for |
“the Senior play, The Lady of the May;
and children from far and near were on}

hand with their donkeys and ponies, proud
to have them ridden by the Nine Worthies,
without whom no English May-Day was
ever complete.. By noon the campus pre-

 

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sented the appearance of agvillage fair. ~

Thanks to the generosity of the late Mr.
Ely, always a staunch ad-
mirer «and supporter of the College, the
procession was allowed to form in his beau-

tiful rounds of “Wyndham”; and just as]

the bell in the tower of Taylor Hall struck

three, a blare of trumpets sounded, and |

twelve heralds came through. the arch of
Pembioke, announcing the approach of the
pageant. The first May-Day revels at Bryn

Mawr had begun. Many of those who

took part in the May-Days have said that

the thrill they experienced when for the

first time they found. themselves. trans-

formed into Elizabethans and saw the pro-

| cession about to move, made. them forget
everything except*the fun of the experience
and the real jey of living.

Banners Lend Atmosphere

Such was the character and spirit of the
first May-Day, -and the second was much
the same; but quite aware ot our short-
comings in 1900,.we took six months for
the production, and put more. thought and
time on costumes and the coaching of the
plays and dances. The Elizabethan ban-
ners which now decorate the towers of the
various buildings date from #1906, and do
pmuch toward creating the proper atmos-,
phere. Then owing to the fact that by May
of 1906 the beautiful cloisters of the new
library were firlished we yielded to the
temptation of using the cloister garden,
and departed from our May-Day of the
common people of the court—the Masque
of Queens, the Masque of Flowers, and
the Masque of Cupid.

Thus, although the May-Day of 1900,
both in its choice of plays and dances, and
in the crudeness and simplicity of its cos-
tumes, Was more accurate from an histori-
cal point of view, that of 1906, with its
‘costly masques- and more elaborate ‘cos-
tumes, has proved to be the type to which
the Bryn Mawr May-Day conforms. From
time to time,.a play-here and there is

‘in Bryn Mawr

 

omitted in favor of another not tried be-
fore, arrd special features, like dances, are
added which enhance the beauty of the
whole, but the essential form and spirit re-
main the same rom May-Day to May-Day.
The productions of 1910 and “1914, were
most ably directed by Miss Elizabeth Daly
of the Class of 1901, who not only, helped

with the original production, but arranged:}

the verson of the Robin Hood plays which
has been used from that time to this. The
fifth and sixth productions owe their di-
rection to Mrs. Otig Skinner, who though
not a Bryn Mawrtyr, academically speak-
ing, ifiterprets our ideals so sympathetically
and is so entirely one of us in spirit and
association that we claim her as one of otir
very own. :

Mary of. the more conservative friends
of the College who refused to lend their
names for the first production, became later
most enthusiastic supporters of the May-
Day; but from the moment of its inception
there was one who-has always had faith
students and_ stimulated
them to put fort their best efforts for the
College. Anyone who has had the privilege
of studying the Elizabethans with President
Emeritus Thomas, and has seen the lovely
campus.-and.. the -beautiful- buildings -grow
as if by ‘magic under her hand, knows that

 

at ‘heart-she herself is a great Elizabethan,

and that in the last analysis, the inspiration
of our Ekzabethan May-Day sprang from
the atmosphere and environment which she

has created at Bryn Mey.

IN PHILADELPHIA

Theatres

- Adelphi: Francine Larrimore in “Nancy
Ann,”
Lyric: “Top Hole.” &
Garrick: “Running Wild.”

Broad: On Friday and Saturday, the
Mask and Wig Club in “That’s THat.”

 

LEILA BARBER TO BE UNDER-
GRADUATE HEAD

The president of the Undergraduate
Association for the coming year will be
Leila Barber '25. Miss. Barber wash
the Publicity Committee of the Ctiris-
tian Association, Sophomore year, and
this-year—was.-secretaryof_theUnder-
graduate Association, chairman of- the
College Poster Committee, and a mem-
ber of the Advisory Board of the Self-
Government Association.

 

 

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MAY DAY AUDIENCE TO SEE —
OLD ENGLISH SWORD PLAY

 

Dance With Traditional Characters
: to Be Performed

 

The Revesby Swerd Play, to be played
on the Green, is an adaptation of the sword’
dances which the Anglo-Saxons tcok over
from their German. forbears, and which
they danced without hope of remuneration,
except in the form of applause, at Revesby.

The preface to the play reads: “The
morrice Dancers acted their merry danc-
ing, etc., at Revesby, in their ribbon dresses,
etc. and two men from Kirtley, without
any particular dresses, sung the song of the
Landlord and Tenant.” The play as it will
be. given on May-Day has been cut to in-
clude only the parts that have direct bear-
ing on the dance. The original dance,
called Old Nag, has been lost, and the
sword dance has been substituted. Origi-
nally, also, the players did the dance, which
was continuous, but this has been changed
so that there are dancers apart-from-the
characters, who do the dance interrupted

INTRICATE MORRIS DANCES TO

BE PERFORMED ON MAY DAY

Dances Collected by Mr. Sharpe
From Old English Villagers

 

Among the sweeps,. the “hobby horses”
and milkmaids, three sets of Morris dancers
will perform before Queen Elizabeth on
May-Day. Four dances never before done
by women, Bean setting, The Flowers of
Edinburgh, from Oxfordshire; Leapfrog,
from Bleddington, and Lads a Bunchin
from Adderbury, will be executed.

Mr. Charles Rabald, the representative in
this country, of Mr. Cecil Sharpe, who. is
head of the English Folk Dancing Society
and has encouraged the custom of Green
dancing among the English villagers, has
‘been the coach, assisted by Miss Applebee
and Miss Trevelyan.

The origin of Morris dancing is a matter
of dispute. Some authorities have sug-
gested that it originally came from the
Morisco, the dance of. the Moors, which
was supposedly introduced into England by
John of Gaunt; while others claim it was

‘| Waite. ’26, J.

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24, E. Pearson 24, B. Jeffries ’26, A. Mat-
thews ’27, E. Scott ’27, H.’ Stokes ’27; the
second: F, Begg '24, W. Dunn ’25, F. Jay
'26, G. Leewitz ’26, M. Cruikshank ’27, M.
Leary’27, H. D. Potts:’25;.and the,third:
M. Faries '24, S. Leewitz '24, H. @rnish
'25, H. Hough ’25, M. Spaulding ’26, F.
Bensberg ’24. The hobby

horses are: M. Hammond '24, N. Du Pont

.|'25, and’ M. Huber ’26.

MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM»
TO BE GIVEN IN MOoLLow

 

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4

Oberon, king of the fairies...K. Elston '24
Titaniag queen of the fairies.S. Walker '26

 

PUK icc i va ter een c cs pee OREO 24

Pease-Blossom ..Mary A. King
oy COBWED 5 65. Alice V,. Welsh
Fairies

) Moth ..Eloise Chadwick-Collins
| Mustard Seed... .Norah J. King
f eee cis J. Leonard '27
Lvenens iad A. Mongan ’27

é

Greek Guards

MASQUE OF “LADIE OF THE
: MAY” TO BE GIVEN

 

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4

M. Lytle ’25; Pages, Marian ‘Barber (Model
School), Mildred Barber (Model School) ;
Shepherds, A. Anderson ’24, M. Lv Free-
man ’24, E. Henschen ’27, K. McClenahan
27, E. Ryan ’27, L. Sanford ’24; Shep-
herdesses, E; Briggs ’24, F. Chase ’26, L.
Andrews ’26, R. Pearce 24, M. Pilton ’27,
C. T. Robinson '27; Huntsmen, M. _E.
Gantenhé@in (graduate), E. Pillsbury ’27,
E.. Nichols ’26, E. Reynolds (graduate), G.
Schoff ’27, R. Tatham ’24; Goddess of the
Horn of Plenty, M. Storrs: (graduate).

 

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French or Flemish in origin, The most
generally accepted theory, however, is
that the Morris is a survival of some early
pagan festival, perhaps in honor of Spring.
. Morris dancing has had a. chequered his-
tory. It was attacked first by the early
missionaries and then temporarily abolished
by Cromwell; revived with new enthusiasm
under the Stuarts and continued until the
middle of the Victorian period, when it be-
gan gradually to die out.

Aswlate as 1898, however, it still sur-
vived in the minds of one or two old men
in: little villages in Gloucestershire and
Oxfordshire. Mr. Sharpe succeeded in col-
lecting “4Mid piecing together the tunes and
fragments of the steps from these old
dancers, who seeming to have forgotten
the dance, knew again. the steps when they
heard the tune. If he could not get the

by the action of the cast.

The fool prefaces the play with an in-
vitation to the “gentle lords” to ‘see his
play, and then intrgqduces the characters.
Finally he calls in the Music Man, who
plays for the dance. The dancers form
and execute their first movement, which
ends in their intertwining their swords to
form a star-shaped figure, called “the lock,”
which is proudly exhibited to the audience
by one of the dancers. The fool gazes
with surprise at it, and the second time
it is formed, he: snatches it away, much
to the annoyance of the dancers, and holds
it aloft, claiming that it is a looking-glass
in which he can see the face of a fool.
While he argues this with Pickle Herring,
a dancer regains the “lock,” and they con-
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his head. In fulfilment of the threat made
by Pickle Herring, and in spite of his pro-
test, he is killed, and the dancers stick their
swords into his dead body, but he miracu-
lously comes to life and carries off the
heroine, Cicely. The dancers, joined by
two more, jig, while the actors slip away,
and the dancers finally go off, carrythg fhe
“lock” in triumph.

Sword Players:

tune, he usually found it impossible to re-
construct the dance.

Handkerchiefs are waved in some of the
dances, while in others sticks, peeled wil-
low wands, are clashed together. All the
dancers wear bells bound to their legs
which jingle merrily during the intricate
figures of the Morris. In olden times, the
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Pamela copnis: "24; i “Old ‘Wive’s Tale”
PEELE’S “OLD WIVE’S TALE”
TO BE GIVEN IN HOLLOW

Large Cast to Enact Story of Sencarer
and Two Lovers _

 

 

A play within a play; The Old-Wive’s
Tale, will be ‘presented as it was in Eliza-
bethan times, on Bryn Mawr’s “ May-Day,
in the.second hollow, above the Varsity
hockey field.

Its author, George Peele, was one of the
famous writers in that period of prolific
verse and prose and eight years before
Shakespeare had begun to produce he had
won applause; for his Arraignment of
Paris, which was followed by some five
plays, of which one was The Old Wive’s
Tale. Peele was described as a gentleman
who had gone .to Oxford and attained
some reputation as a poet there. It is
probable also that he was @actor as well
eas a: playwright.

This play had fallen into oblivion, but
was -revived and described in Warton’s
edition of Milton’s minor poems, where
he calls attention to the fact that Milton
probably borrowed part of the situation
for Comus. Later commentators believe
that both adopted the incident from a com-
mon source. The play is of the type of
romantic comedy that delighted Elizabethan
audiences, with stock characters such as
Sacrapant who might have been a model
for any-of the sorcerers of the time. The
name is misspelled, and should be Sacripant
as in Ariosto according to Alexander Dyce.
+ The-play arises from a tale told by “the
old wife,” Madge, to two boys who have
come to her house for Shelter for the night,

The sympathy is supposed to lie with the
-Swaggerer, Huanebango, and Corebus.
The characters who act Madge’s story are
first two brothers, wandering in search of
their sister, Delia. She has been carried
off and bewitched by the wicked sorcerer,
Sacrapant, who has also changed shape
with a young man and compelled him to
“be man by day and bear by night..
sweetheart has been made mad, and wan-
ders aimlessly through the woods.

_ The brothers receive advice in cryptic

© cross, and as a bear
at night. . ee Mecclies, a wandering |
~ knight, he also gives advice, and through
- it Eumenides is prompted to pay for the
_ burial of a dead man, whose spirit returns

ously. slain, those*under his spell released,

His |

 

contagion

>

Needless to state, thesenchanter is ingeni-

and the wandering knight and. Delia, as
well as the rest, live-happily ever after.
The cast:

 
 
   
   

L. White ’24
M. Smith 27

PeCrROR A auviiseiratyoe
Calypha,-the first brother, ....

Thelea, the second brother .,< res ’24
Eumenides ,.... ss inuawlee Fo FR, Coyne "24
Prestiie (Senex) .......: B. Spackman "26
ESUMOTISCUB \ 5A o Cask ass O. Saunders ’25
ree ee ere rn L. Ford ’24
BOONE lise ibes eek eee ins Aw Pratt ’24
eee ae ena Gaia heirs E. Walton 725
ehurce Warden 30)... 06.5. A. Tierney ’26
Sexton 25

Bile pei ela swe H. Henshaw

+, DeLaguna ’27

Furies—A. Newhall ’27, M. Arnold ’26, C.

Quinn ’26..
Pe Ag hoe see ce E. Tefft ’24
Venelia «...... Reni he os bi R, Tubby ’24
MN si 5s ae Ae ok head E. Sullivan ’24
OSS ari ere eee rea Cr R. Foster ’25
eee a ee PESTER E> McKee~26
Nh i ta erst i era E. Mallett ’25
cen RR ISNRIE ING is RAI ear I. Wallace ’24
Clunch, the smith ........ .M. Rodney ’24
Madge, his: wife ........ M. Tucker, grad.
The head in the well .:.... C. Quarles ’25

K, Shumway 725
Brodie _’27

s vesoain oN oie
Harvesters—Men—B. Schiefflin.’27, K. Neil-
, son ’24, F. King ’26 and S. Sturm ’26.
| Women—M. Brown ’25, M. V. Carey ’26
and B.-Rosenau-’26.

 

NEWS IN BRIEF

Beatrice Pitney ’27,- was efected first
Sophomore member, B. Dean ’25 second
Senior member, E. Gibson ‘27 second
Sophomore member arid H, Hopkinson ’2¢
second Junior member of the Christian As-
sociation Board at a meeting of the Chris-
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Return

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HENRY CAVENDISH
1731-1810

English chemist and physicist,

of whom Biot said, ‘He was
- the richest of the learned and

the most learned of the rich.

Hislast great achievement was

his famous experiment to de-

termine thedensity of theearth.

 

 

 

oa

In this age of electricity
the General Electric
Company has blazed
the trail of electrical pro-
gress. You will find its
monogram on thé giant
generators used by
lighting companies;
and ‘even on the lamps
and little motors that
mean so much in the
héme. It is a symbol
of useful service, P

He first made

| water from gases

i

Henry Cavendish, an eccentric millionaire
recluse, “who devoted his life to research,
was the discoverer. of the.H and the O in
H.O.: In fact he first told the Royal oe
of the. existence. of hydrogen.

He found what water

was ‘by dasldisir it

himself, and so became one. of the first of ny

the synthetic chemists.

’

Cavendish concluded that the atmosphere :

contained elements then unknown.

‘conclusion has ‘been verified seal ‘the: dis- eee
covery of. argon and other Base, .

The Research Laboratories of the General |
Electric, Company have found .a. use. for

argon in developing lamps hundreds of

‘times brighter than the guttering. candles:
which lighted Cavendish’ Ss. ee:

 

  
 

 

i
t
t
if

 

 

- and is seen entirely from her viewpoint.

: ee for the lost Delia.

 

9

THE COLLEGE NEWS _. :

 

Pamela copnis: "24; i “Old ‘Wive’s Tale”
PEELE’S “OLD WIVE’S TALE”
TO BE GIVEN IN HOLLOW

Large Cast to Enact Story of Sencarer
and Two Lovers _

 

 

A play within a play; The Old-Wive’s
Tale, will be ‘presented as it was in Eliza-
bethan times, on Bryn Mawr’s “ May-Day,
in the.second hollow, above the Varsity
hockey field.

Its author, George Peele, was one of the
famous writers in that period of prolific
verse and prose and eight years before
Shakespeare had begun to produce he had
won applause; for his Arraignment of
Paris, which was followed by some five
plays, of which one was The Old Wive’s
Tale. Peele was described as a gentleman
who had gone .to Oxford and attained
some reputation as a poet there. It is
probable also that he was @actor as well
eas a: playwright.

This play had fallen into oblivion, but
was -revived and described in Warton’s
edition of Milton’s minor poems, where
he calls attention to the fact that Milton
probably borrowed part of the situation
for Comus. Later commentators believe
that both adopted the incident from a com-
mon source. The play is of the type of
romantic comedy that delighted Elizabethan
audiences, with stock characters such as
Sacrapant who might have been a model
for any-of the sorcerers of the time. The
name is misspelled, and should be Sacripant
as in Ariosto according to Alexander Dyce.
+ The-play arises from a tale told by “the
old wife,” Madge, to two boys who have
come to her house for Shelter for the night,

The sympathy is supposed to lie with the
-Swaggerer, Huanebango, and Corebus.
The characters who act Madge’s story are
first two brothers, wandering in search of
their sister, Delia. She has been carried
off and bewitched by the wicked sorcerer,
Sacrapant, who has also changed shape
with a young man and compelled him to
“be man by day and bear by night..
sweetheart has been made mad, and wan-
ders aimlessly through the woods.

_ The brothers receive advice in cryptic

© cross, and as a bear
at night. . ee Mecclies, a wandering |
~ knight, he also gives advice, and through
- it Eumenides is prompted to pay for the
_ burial of a dead man, whose spirit returns

ously. slain, those*under his spell released,

His |

 

contagion

>

Needless to state, thesenchanter is ingeni-

and the wandering knight and. Delia, as
well as the rest, live-happily ever after.
The cast:

 
 
   
   

L. White ’24
M. Smith 27

PeCrROR A auviiseiratyoe
Calypha,-the first brother, ....

Thelea, the second brother .,< res ’24
Eumenides ,.... ss inuawlee Fo FR, Coyne "24
Prestiie (Senex) .......: B. Spackman "26
ESUMOTISCUB \ 5A o Cask ass O. Saunders ’25
ree ee ere rn L. Ford ’24
BOONE lise ibes eek eee ins Aw Pratt ’24
eee ae ena Gaia heirs E. Walton 725
ehurce Warden 30)... 06.5. A. Tierney ’26
Sexton 25

Bile pei ela swe H. Henshaw

+, DeLaguna ’27

Furies—A. Newhall ’27, M. Arnold ’26, C.

Quinn ’26..
Pe Ag hoe see ce E. Tefft ’24
Venelia «...... Reni he os bi R, Tubby ’24
MN si 5s ae Ae ok head E. Sullivan ’24
OSS ari ere eee rea Cr R. Foster ’25
eee a ee PESTER E> McKee~26
Nh i ta erst i era E. Mallett ’25
cen RR ISNRIE ING is RAI ear I. Wallace ’24
Clunch, the smith ........ .M. Rodney ’24
Madge, his: wife ........ M. Tucker, grad.
The head in the well .:.... C. Quarles ’25

K, Shumway 725
Brodie _’27

s vesoain oN oie
Harvesters—Men—B. Schiefflin.’27, K. Neil-
, son ’24, F. King ’26 and S. Sturm ’26.
| Women—M. Brown ’25, M. V. Carey ’26
and B.-Rosenau-’26.

 

NEWS IN BRIEF

Beatrice Pitney ’27,- was efected first
Sophomore member, B. Dean ’25 second
Senior member, E. Gibson ‘27 second
Sophomore member arid H, Hopkinson ’2¢
second Junior member of the Christian As-
sociation Board at a meeting of the Chris-
tian Association last Wednesday.

Facial and Scalp Massage Superfluous Hair Removed
Manicuring Shampooing

M. E. Rainsford

Hair Dressing Parlor for Ladies and Gents
7 STATION AVE., ARDMORE, PA:

TELHOEPNE 1822

 

 

 

COLLEGE
STUDENTS

From SOUTHAMPTON, $77.50
ry 2 hours from London

 

 

° EUROPE
at the low rate of 5 1 62: -50

To PLYMOUTH, $85, Pioars from London

U. S. war tax additional

and

Return

in thethird class of the palatial
S.S.““NEw AMSTERDAM,” sailing
from New York, June 28, 1924

To BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, $ 90
From BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, 100
| 3} hours from London

N exclusive trip arranged for

College Students on the modern
S.S. New AMstERDAM—the second
largest ship of the Holland-America
Line. A college orchestra, a special
promenade deck, a separate deck
for girls and their chaperons, deck
chairs,and the pre-eminent Holland-
America cuisine assure pleasant and
comfortable travel at a minimum
cost.

For full information apply to

Student~Third-Class Ass'n

Student Travel Bureau
111 College St., New Haven, Conn,

 

 

 

 

 

ad .

 

 

 

 

 

HENRY CAVENDISH
1731-1810

English chemist and physicist,

of whom Biot said, ‘He was
- the richest of the learned and

the most learned of the rich.

Hislast great achievement was

his famous experiment to de-

termine thedensity of theearth.

 

 

 

oa

In this age of electricity
the General Electric
Company has blazed
the trail of electrical pro-
gress. You will find its
monogram on thé giant
generators used by
lighting companies;
and ‘even on the lamps
and little motors that
mean so much in the
héme. It is a symbol
of useful service, P

He first made

| water from gases

i

Henry Cavendish, an eccentric millionaire
recluse, “who devoted his life to research,
was the discoverer. of the.H and the O in
H.O.: In fact he first told the Royal oe
of the. existence. of hydrogen.

He found what water

was ‘by dasldisir it

himself, and so became one. of the first of ny

the synthetic chemists.

’

Cavendish concluded that the atmosphere :

contained elements then unknown.

‘conclusion has ‘been verified seal ‘the: dis- eee
covery of. argon and other Base, .

The Research Laboratories of the General |
Electric, Company have found .a. use. for

argon in developing lamps hundreds of

‘times brighter than the guttering. candles:
which lighted Cavendish’ Ss. ee: