Page Four » THE COLLEGE NEWS ne eee Fe ey Mr. Alwyne Presents Notable: Piano Recital x like to give them the benefit of the doubt. They were driven out of the | New England States when there were | “were several pieces that were not on _ together were not too highly compat- _ don’t see why they have to get back ~ Cortinuéd from Page One ous humor. Mr. Alwyne performed these especially well and to all of them the audience responded with en- thusiasm and so applauded that Mr. Alwyne played two encores, “Sparks,” by Mozkowski, and Intermezzo (Op. 76), by Brahms. Any faults in the recital may be laid to the program itself. There a par with the rest. Without a major “piéce de resistance” the various tid- bits were not supplementary but con- stituted the whole of the program and ible. Mr. Alwyne is greatly to be lauded for the delicacy of touch, un- derstanding and interpretation that he exercised throughout. ° PROGRAMME I. Bacu, Choral-Prelude: ‘‘Now Comes the Gentiles’ Saviour.” “ Four Preludes from “The Well- Tempered Clavier :” No. 9 in E, In modo pastorale No. 8 in E flat minor, Lento No. 22 in B flat minor, Andante mistico * _ No. 21 in B flat, Allegro volante COUPERIN..La tendre Nanette DOAMLANTE 666 is 6 355 Siciliano Gee OMEN PSU ae sia eis Berceuse Impromptu in F sharp, Op. 36 ‘BRAHMS, Ballade in D major, Op. 10 Scherzo in E flat minor, Op, 4 III. Laszr, “Tl penseroso”’ (from “Annés de Pelérinage”’) Valse oubliée RACHMANINOFF, Prelude in B minor, Op. 32 SCRIABIN—Two Preludes: Op. 11, No. 15 in D flat Op. 16, No. 3-in G flat PROKOFIEFF, Scherzo and March, from ‘The Love for Three Oranges” Student Half Baked After Bite by Nut-Loving Rodent “Bit by a squirrel” read the infirm- ary report, “Bit by a squirrel.” The hall cowered in its beds and put down its windows from the top instead of pushing them up from the bottom. This the only way to avoid being bit by a squirrel, or squirrels, if the family happens to be moving en masse. Pembroke West was the centre of most disturbance, as it was a lodger in Pembroke West who had’ been bit by the squirrel and was quite sure she had hydrophobia; that is until she went to the infirmary and they baked it and told her not to worry, to come back the next day and they would take her tonsils out if the wound seem- ed infected. There was nothing more to do about it but bake it, so they baked it. Then the squirrels attacked Merion and did more than biting or scratch- ing. Yes, they were not housebroken and bitterly the Merion girls rued the day when they had not put their win- dows down from the top instead of up from the bottom. The squirrels who got into Merion chewed a paper and then they chewed a picture, and then they left, and the Merion girls were heartily glad. Ibsen said in When We Dead Awaken that men looked like animals because they had made animals their servants and that was the way ani- mals got back at them. But squirrels have never been like cows or horses or pigs, except in Merion, and we at us. There is one nice thing about it though; the squirrels bite us and}. chew our papers, but they never make us look like them, which is a great comfort. If they must get back at us, they do not take it out in making us look like them, and everyone agrees that that would be a great disaster. Still they may have a reason and we THE CHATTERBOX TEAROOM “LUNCHEONS — DINNERS AFTERNOON TEAS 25¢ Phone 576 JEANNETT’S BRYN MAWR FLOWER SHOP, Inc. Mrs. N. S. T. Grammer 823 Lancaster Avenue BRYN MAWR, PA. .-.. no more nuts left and people started picking up nuts which had gohe to the squirrels before, and seemed to them a perquisite of being a squirrel. But then they found out they were wrong and must have been pretty sore. Good Administrator Must Be Decisive, Says Dean “Making decisions,” said Dean Man- ning in chapel on Tuesday morning, “is the most impartant part of admin- istration.” In this respect, in admin- istrative work more than in any other line, one is “born that way” and not much can be done to change oneself. Contrary to the general opinion, secre- farial training is, not the best way to administration. If you are a good sec- retary, the employer will want to keep you in that position, and if you are no good, no one will have any confidence in your administrative possibilities. In business and advertising, perhaps, sec- retarial training is very good, but the best way to administrative work, in education or labor, is good profes- sional training of one kind or anoth- er. A graduate in sociology or law has a good basis for such work. In- business professional training is less useful, since you must adjust to it and find out by experience what it is all about. However, success in business usually means administration sooner or later. It is fairly easy to judge one’s ad- ministrative qualities, although they may differ in quality and quantity and one’s tastes may change. One must be able to make decisions quickly and not change one’s mind too often, but be able to change it pleasantly and easily if necessary, without too much mental turmoil. Some people simply can’t make up | their mind and this is fatal, since the administrator must give a sense of security to those who are working un- der her. One develops to a certain extent along these lines and except for making decisions one can usually pick up the other qualities. Organization can and should be turned over to other people. In fact, a good test of admin- istrative capacity is the ability to turn details over to others. This must be taken for granted at the start. Orderliness is not vital, but there is a gain in having some system in the beginning, since it aids in making decisions. Administrative work usual- ly lacks continuity. One must do many different things one after the other and may have to do the same thing over and over. It is work from which one can’t escape since’ the responsi- bility is carried with you. It is an interesting fact that ad- ministrators often want to go back to research work and people in research want to administrate. This is because when one is buried in research the re- action is a desire to take care of other people’s affairs and conversely, the ad- ministrator wants more time for her own pursuits. The greatest advantage of adminis- trative work is the wide range of choice in the next step. One may go on with it. or go back to professional work. If one has once made a repu- tation as an administrator in one type of work there is a wide choice in other fields. If one has the administrative gift, it is wise to develop it and to take ~ : the opportunities for it as they come. or put one’s name in line for them. One should apply for such positions her best to externalize this affection by making the scenes between them models in marital bliss and happiness. It is work which one rarely regrats and it gives. a certain-confidence and control over one’s own fate. Success in it is usually more outstanding than that in any other line. It is good for one, since it gives insight into life and the organization of life. One’s possibilities in it, however, rest al- most entirely on the ability to make decisions. enema Richard of Bordeaux In continuation of the growing the-| + atrical vogue for creating historical pageants for the public, Gordon Daviot has given us Richard of Bordeaux re- plete with Dennis King and trunks and trunks of magnificent costumes. It has been said by an eminent Shakes- pearean that after the Richard II of the great dramatist there was hardly any room for another play on the same theme, but Miss Gordon seems to have found a great deal to interest her audience that is not contained in the Elizabethan version of his life and hard times. In the current production Richard is represented. as a man born in advance of his times, who found it impossible to adapt himself to the de- mands of his subjects. Richard was a very sensitive person, who preferred the pleasant side of life to its warlike rigors, and who felt that war was a crime against civilization. Living in a period when the clash of arms was the music to which men lived and had their being, his suggestions that Eng- land abandon the continuous wars with France and conserve her man power for a better purpose met with sneers and cat calls. In vain did he plead with his belligerent uncles to be al- lowed to conclude peace and pursue a policy that would make possible its continuation. They regarded him as a weakling who was in no way quali- fied to sit upon the throne of Eng- land and wield the sceptre that had graced the hands of his illustrious an- cestors. And in the end they had their way, for the realm was raised in révolt against him by Bolingbroke, his mortal enemy, and. he was left a king without a crown. Miss Daviot has adhered closely to the historical facts of Richard’s reign; almost too closely, in fact, and one is vaguely conscious of a page whose lower half is filled: with foot- notes and references to original state papers as the action proceeds. How- ever, there were interesting sidelights to the main theme even in the bare facts and Miss Daviot has made the best of them. Richard is not always portrayed as a misunderstood monarch struggling, with an _ unenlightened council that rattles the saber of war and deadly conflict, but is shown also in the company of his wife, Anne of Bohemia (Margaret Vines), and his best friend, Robert of Oxford (Francis Lister). In these sequences he appears as a witty child of luxury who en- joys basking in the favor of those who admire him for the very qualities which annoy the council. Richard is credited with having possessed a very lovely wife, of whom he was inordi- nately fond, and Miss Daviot has done PHILIP HARRISON STORE BRYN MAWR, PA. Gotham Gold Stripe Silk Hosiery, $1.00 Best Quality Shoes in Bryn Mawr NEXT DOOR TO THE MOVIES Meet your friends at the Bryn Mawr Confectionery (Next to Seville Theater Bldg.) The Rendezvous of the College Girls Tasty Sandwiches, Delicious Sundaes; Superior Soda Service Music—Dancing for girls only FANSELOW visit you. Distinctive Sportswear Stetson Hats for Women L. E. METCALF, Manager. ARDMORE Seinen GREEN HILL FARMS City Line and Lancaster. Ave. Overbrook-Philadelphia A reminder that we would like to take care ‘of your parents and friends, whenever they come to Katharine Gibbs: School SPECIAL: COURSE FOR COLLEGE Secretarial and Executive - Training Course begins July 9 and September 25° For catalog address College Course Secretary WOMEN 90 Marlborough St. BOSTON NEW 247 Park Avenue _ 155 Angell Street _ PROVIDENCE YORE oe She strokes his ‘head ‘and he literally purrs, while Robert dawdles with mu- sical instruments and #ds to the gen- eral atmosphére of the happy home life, There are numerous weak spots in the play and it lacks all the tragic grandeur of the Shakespearean wovk. Richard of Bordeauzx is less a tragedy than a commentary upon. the times in which the action took place. In the light of the character of Miss Daviot’s Richard it seems only natural that the throne should be taken from him and given to one more suited to the royal position. There is nothing regal about Richard, even when he is surrounded by his councillors. When he flies into a rage at the obstinancy of the coun- cil he behaves more like a small child than a grown man, and one expects him to lie down upon the floor and kick his heels in annoyance. An at- tempt has been made to follow the evo- lution of Richard’s character through the years of his reign, but it is not altogether successful, the play lacks the power necessary to convey the magnitude of the tragedy that has befallen him and his reactions to the revolt are garbled and ineffect- ive theatrically: Dennis King is a great deal better as Richard than we had expected him to be. He handles the lighter scenes of the play with facility and charm, and though he is out of his depth in the great tragic sequences he manages to refrain from outraging the require- ments of the part. Miss Vines, as the Queen, is very poor indeed, and why Richard was consumed by such a passion- for her was beyond us. She moved very much-in the manner of a sleep-walking cat, and Anne of Bo- hemia must be spending restless nights in her grave beyond the seas. Fran- cis Lister lent little charm to the character of. Robert of Oxford, and, although the script makes him an emp- ty-headed nit-wit, he managed to elab- orate on the same theme until Rob- ert emerged as a fitting candidate for a room-in.a home for the feeble- minded. The production of the play is prob- ably the most outstanding thing about it. Great pains have been taken to make it a historical pageant without peer and the object of the scenery and costumes is to convey an impres- sion of magnificence. In spite of the fact that the England of Richard was notoriously poor and on the verge of bankruptcy it managed to appear as a land of wealth and splendor to judge from the court of its king. The colors have been handled carefully in regard to contrast and the gallery scene where Richard appears in the presence of Mowbray and Bolingbroke is most effective for that particular reason. But, with all their magnifi- cence, the costumes are inclined to convey the impression that there must have been a very active dry cleaning as the end of| establishment in the vicinity of the palace. In__general,.then,Richard.of..Bor--.... deaux is hardly a great. historical drama, ‘for is it a great play of any sort whatsoever, but it provides a pleasant evening in the theatre for those who desire to sit back and re- lax without having to follow Richard along too thorny a path. The pro- duction is magnificent and diverting, and while the acting has a tendency to be colorless, it never becomes lurid, as it well might under the circum- stances.—S. J. Gleanings The Student League for Industrial Democracy has recently expressed the opinion that “funds should be divert- ed from the destructive program of military education through the R. O. T. C. to constructive uses.” “It is an outrage,” the statement says, “that with schools shut down all over the nation -we should be embarking on a program of building battleships. . . . We desire further to point out that these relief jobs can be utilized against radical agitation on the campus by the simple expedient of withholding them from anyone who has campaign- ed against the R. O, T. C. or for academic freedom. -This is especially unfortunate’ in~a~-period-when~ the American student seems at last to be dwakening from his long slumbers to an awareness of his social responsi- bilities."—(N. S. F, A.) The Department of Home Eco- nomics and home-making of New York University’s School of. Educa- tion has instituted a course to teach students the intricacies of household equipment. “Study will be made one of the underlying principles of the mechanism of household appliances,” according to the university catalogue. The appliances to be studied include meters, flues, gas ranges, thermostatic control devices, mechanical refrig- erators, water heaters,.air condition- ers, house pipes and some of the more complicated coffee pots and electrical table appliances. Each student in the course will be required to plan a kitchen and its equipment. . —(N. S. F. A.) The famous false teeth of George Washington, which were displayed at the Century of Progress, are thé property of the University of sco land’s_dental_school. At the University of Florida exact- ly thirty-nine freshmen were prom- ised the freshman class presidency during the active campaigning of “rush week.”—(N. S. F. A.) CECELIA’S YARN SHOP . 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