Res) Th Cc “& oe he College News -, VOL. XIX, No. 8 BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER. 14, 1932 Copyright BRYN MAWR COLLEGE NEWS, 1932 PRICE 10 CENTS A. William Butler Yeats Speaks at Bryn Mawr Names Lady Gregory, Synge Leaders of Irish Literary Renaissance READS HiS OWN: POEMS Bryn Mawr had an unusual treat last Wednesday evening, December seventh, when William Butler Yeats spoke on the movement of which he himself is a leader, the literary Ren- aissance of Ireland. The history of Irish society, Mr. Yeats said, divides into four periods. The first of these was the long period of feudalism which ended with the dawn of the 17th century. Secondly, the Protestant Ascendancy, “forcibly, cruelly, but effectively, modernized the structure:of Irish society.” Irish national spirit was discovered in the quarrel with England over the wool trade, and. found its voice in Swift, in Burke, and in Berkley whose an- swer to Hume was “We Irish do not think so!” Then the rude shock of the French Revolution awakened the Irish peasant; he became. the Agrar- ian Party, and the Ascendancy be- came the Garrison Party; there were two parties but no nation. There was no literature but the Agrarian rhet- oric which eulogized the virtues of that party and the vices of the other; no drama but the Garrison entertain- ers; and outside of these a few who, like. George Bernard Shaw, could not breathe in either party. By the late 19th century Ireland, had produced four world figures: Berkely, to whom “earth and all the funiture of heaven exist in being perceived;” Swift, who dared to deny the value of life; Burke, whose repudiation of — the French Revolution saved Europe from possible anarchy, and Shaw, the “in- carnate social conscience.” Forty years ago the death of Charles Parnell was the birth of the fourth period of Irish history, the period of renaissance. Parnell had been leader of the Irish party when the Parnell-O’Shea divorce case had gone against him, and in spite of re- election by his own party, Gladstone had forced his expulsion by com- manding the party to choose between their leader and the success of their cause. Parnell died from sorrow and from strain, and on his death there went up from all Ireland the cry that he had been betrayed. The cause of the party was lost, and with it the all-absorbing squabbles over politics and religion sank into oblivion; and in their place arose the legend and deification of this dark, misunder- stood, solitary man at whose burial meteors and strange lights were seen in the sky. Two things had happened as a result of.Parnell’s life; unity and passion had come to Ireland. Literary societies were started in (Continued on Page Three) Ting Elected President -6f New. International Club An International Relations Club was organized Tuesday evening, De- cember 13. Vung-Yuin Ting was elected president; Dr. Fenwick, honor- ary president; Nancy Hart, secretary; Sarah Flanders, treasurer. Meetings will be held every three weeks, and as the first speaker, for a meeting to be held the second week in Janu- ary, an effort will be made to secure Mr. MacMurry, former U. S. ambas- sador to China. : The following were chosen as mem- bers of a committee to co-operate with the International Student Committee, in editing the committee’s. official magazine, the Student International- Rebecca Taft, Anna Martin Findley, and Nancy Hart. The club will be entitled to obtain |: speakers from the Carnegie Founda- tion, and will. receive its publications, which, if the librarian gives her per- mission, are to be placed in the New Book Room, and all faculty members of the ‘History, Economics, and Poli- tices Departments will be invited to become ea officio members. Cast of “The Royal Family” Standing left to right:' Bruce Jones as Jo; Susan Daniels as Della; Sidney Hollander as Wolff; Janet Marshall as Julie; Henry Vaux as Gil Marshall;:James Stoddard as Herbert Dean. Seated: Del McMasters as Fanny Cavendish; Philip Truex as Tony Cavendish; Betty Lord as Gwen Cavendish; and Russell Richie as Perry Stewart. Royal Family Stage Set ‘Plantation Songs and Efficiently Constructed | oe | Spirituals Discussed The set for The Royal Family was' designed by Janet Barber from pic- tures of the set used in the New York production, with certain changes ne= | cessitated by the limitations of the: Goodhart stage and equipment. For! instance, there was no back exit from! MR. LOMAX IS LECTURER the balcony; the players having to be! content with the exits on either side.; Mr. John A. Lomax, who lectured The stairway in the original produc-| at Goodhart a few weeks ago on Cow- tion curved down from the balcony, boy Songs, gave a second talk Mon- but to facilitate construction, this one; day night on Plantation Songs and was made square with a landing part. Spirituals, many of them unpublish- way down. Moreover, the position of ,ed, which he has gathered by means Fanny’s and Julia’s rooms was some-| of his phonograph. The compara- Splendors of Heaven and Hell, Old Testament Stories, Form Subject Matter Varsity Dramatics and Cap and Bells Club Give Good Production of “The Royal Family” _|McMasters Gives Outstanding Performance as Fanny Cavendish; Other Generations Are Less Convincing; Truex Overacts Part of Tony CavVendish STAGE SET IS -INGENIOUS AND WELL DESIGNED (Especially Contributed by Dr. Stephen J. Herben)’ The standard. of excellence set by the previous performances of the Varsity dramatics makes it impossible to judge any of their offerings with the reservations usually assumed in behalf of-amateur productions. Per- haps the expectations are too high; charity would make one wish, that the reservations might be applied in thé case of The Royal Family as presented : 4 last week-end. It would be.a more pleasing task were the present writer -required merely to compare the relative excellences of the various players and to praise the production as\a whole. Unfortunately, there are reasons why this is impossible and these ‘reasons were apparent during the whole play. es There can belittle question of “the possibilities fora -vigqrous and lively performance inherent in-the vehicle chosen. There is, to be sure, one extremely - difficult. part. in. the.-play, that of Fanny,-doubly difficult for a young actress, but the remaining roles offer no greater obstacles than those, say in the Constant Nymph. Further, the lines are for the most part sprightly and much of the effectiveness of «the play lies in situation rather than in very subtle characterization. It is not an easy play to perform, but it is not an insuperable undertaking: The title of the play is The Royal Family; as presented, it might better have been called The Matriarch. Certainly the outstanding member of the cast and the one whose work most ¢learly remains in the mind was Miss MeMasters in the role of Fanny Cavendish. There was a dignity and’ com- petence in Miss McMasters’ portrayal of that austere but not unhumorous old relic which made her a completely convincing creation. Even the last scene, dangerous and trying though it be, was negotiated successfully. At all times she gave her part the careful and intelligent performance which , the lines required, sometimes in the face of obstacles not in the script. Unfortunately, there were only two, instead of three, generations on the stage. The differences in age between the rest of the cast was more a matter of make-up than of playing. Wolfe and Gilbert Marshall seemed f60 much less middle-aged than their parts required, and this is with | recognition of some fine individual scenes to the credit of both... Other minor characters were. noteworthy—Gwen and Kitty were memorable, Stewart and Dean rather more than adequate. Tony Cavendish is a role that re- quires more than a boisterous willing- ness to run about the stage and_ to Mile. Souberan Speaks of Visiting Fiji and Australia (Especially Contributed by Olivia Jarrett) what shifted around. The actual cost of building this set was very little, as it was composed of ; parts of old sets used in previous: years. The first week that the stage | crew worked was spent in taking, apart some old French Club: scenery, | that the lumber might be used over | | tively recent adoption of Christianity has caused a great change in the Negro. A century and a half ago he had no notion of Anglo-Saxon moral- ity, and ethics is. still widely sepa- rated from religion in his mind. Mr. Lomax said that never during his wanderings through the South had he shout. The real Tony, the artist ‘with a great devotion to his work and to the’ stage, is in* the last act, but no one would have known it Saturday night. All was continuous rant, ob- trusive rant and, in any case, nat very good rant. The part was not well conceived by the player and was At the French Club tea on Monday, the second of a series of teas at which French can be spoken and some members of the club or of the faculty will speak, Mlle. Souberan told us something of her trip to New Zealand and the crossing of the Pacific, the name of which had always promised again. Practically the whole of the: heard any native preacher urge thrift mercilessly overplayed, both in itself Berkeley Sqare set was reconditioned, some of the flats having been cut up,; and all rearranged. The greatest dif-' ficulty that was encountered was the lor “better lives” upon his audience, but only the splendors of Heaven and Hell. Negro Spirituals indicate this pre- and with relation to the others in various scenes. Less over-eagerness and a realization of the possibilities of the role would have made a great peetry and beauty. After a trip across the prairies in late May, the coolness of Vancouver was most welcgme, but on reaching job of painting the -canvas on the| occupation, as they are usually clever flats. The creamy white of the | paraphrases of the Bible, especially Berkeley Square set had to be turn-|the Old Testament. The specimens ed into a rough gray. Four different) quoted by Mr. Lomax show a clear coats of paint were tried before the| idea of the ridiculous, which. refuses proper effect was obtained, as the re-| to be stifled by the religious Even sult after each coat seemed to be! under the influence of formal church either too white still, or too blotchy,| phraseology, the Negroe’s mind and or too smooth. Finally Becky Wood emotions, work freely. His fondness gave the set “the measles” by pat- for highly-colored words and striking ting dry gray paint over the back-| phrases comes out often in song: ground tone with a blackboard eraser. “Lightnin’, flashin’, thunder roll, make: The building of the ceiling was an ™e study ’bout my ol’ soul,” and “I ambitious undertaking, as it had to be| Want to go to Heaven when the devil 28 feet long and 10 feet deep to cover’ is a-howling.’ He also likes to talk the stage, which was. unusually large, about death and the “starry crown” measuring thirty feet across the front | he will get when the “messenger of and twenty feet across the back of; death comes for to carry me home. the stage. While it was. under con-| One of the songs Mr. Lomax quot- struction it occupied the entire stage, | ed was familiar to his audience as a the Pacific itself, the agreeable cool- ness became considerably frigid. There was no heating on the magnifi- cent Niagara, and the English, real- izing the power of ‘suggestion, had put red lighted glass in the fireplaces, but even this deception was eventual- ly discovered. Adding to the frigidity of the atmosphere was the lack of passengers, of which there were about twenty on the big boat. Nevertheless, they felt the invasion strongly when crowds of home-going Australians and New Zealanders boarded the boat at Fiji. At the Fiji Islands they went on shore to a native village, where Mlle. Souberan saw her first cocoanut palm, with two large cocoanyts at the top. Upon her asking to drink milk from and welcome difference. The part of Julie was miscast most unhappily. With regard to minor matters, it was noticeable that the acting was better when there were several on the stage than when there were few. No one seemed to be able to cross the full, width of the stage without striding or trudging. The incidéntal music for the play discov- ered by Tony was fumbled and cer- ried no conviction, as a result. A greater variety of pace would have helped matters. The setting showed ingenuity and good design. One might have wished fox a rail instead of a solid wall cut- ting off the staircase from the audi- ence, to give less of a bisected ef- fect to characters who ascended be- and-inconvenienced Miss Latham and the play-writing class considerably. | Nine or ten people were required to hoist it up into place, three of them'| being occupied in pulling the ropes. | The making of the bannisters for the stairway was an interesting bit of | work, and a great deal of credit is| due to Dr. Flexner for his valuable, assistance. The repainting of these; banisters, which had been done too | smoothly and was out of keeping with | the rest of the set, was the only job left to be done after the dress re- hearsal. A carpenter was hired to build the! 1 } “platform, which supported the bal- cony and the stairs, which took him three days to complete. He did a fine. job, and built it in so many pieces that it can be put away and then used again with very little trouble. Lois Thurston, ’31, who was in charge of the scenery for the ‘Varsity Dramatic productions when she was in college, came back to lend a helping hand. She worked all day every day, and (Continued on Page Four) 'class song of 1931 and 1932—“I know moonlight, I know starlight.” Mr. T. W. Higginson has said of this song, “Never, it seems to me, since man first lived and suffered, has his longing been more movingly ex- pressed.” Satan and Hell possess much inter- est for the Negro’s mind. “They are real, almost visible entities, not ab- stracts of the mind.” Satan is a fa- miliar personage—“Satan’s mad and I: am glad....Old Satan’s got a mighty big shoe, and if you don’t watch out, he’ll fit it on you.” Hell (Continued on Page Four) COPYRIGHT The Editorial Board of the College News takes great pleas- ure in announcing to the world at large that it is now fully protected by copyright All ar- ticles, reviews, and editorials ‘ may henceforth be reprinted . only by special permission of the copyright owners. — > vond the landing, but constructional difficulties doubtless entered in and in general the scenery and. lighting were complétely satisfactory. The play-ywas very well received by a sympa and large audience, who evidently appreciated the long hours of work which its production represented. It was good entertain- ment. It should have been stil] bet- ter. Carels Sung by Choir; Miss Earp is Soloist Sunday evening, December: 11, the choir presented the annual Christmas Carol Service in Goodhart. The mu- sical program, under the direction of Mr. Vernon Hammond in Mr. Wil- loughby’s absence, consisted of alter- nating congregational singing of the more familiar carols and renditions| by the choir. _ The interpretations of the two Bach chorales, Hush, My. Dear, Lie Stilt land:Slumber and O Jesu So Sweet, (Continuea on Page Four) | one of them right from the tree the “tribal chief shook his head and re- plied that she might get the milk in the village, but those two cocoanuts could not be picked. “They must be there for the tourists. But I can climb up, if you would like, and you can take a picture of me about to pick one, for one shilling!” The picture is now one of her prize. possessions. At New Zealand Mlle. Souberan had wo days, a Packard and a chauf- “eau at her disposal to cover the north island. She got off at- Oakland and ; drove from five, to ten P. M. through | practically unpopulated land, where the’ people get up and go to bed with (Continued on Page Three?) COLLEGE CALENDAR Wed., Dec. ‘14—Maids’ Par- , ty: Gym, 8.00 P. M. . Thurs., Dec. 15-—Christmas Party in Pembroke West at 8.00 P. M;. 0 Fri., Dec. 16—Christmas Va- cation begins. © ~ ag _ successfully ‘elucidated this premise. 9 Page Two e THE COLLEGE NEWS THE COLLEGE NEWS (Founded th 1914) Published weekly during the, College Year (excepting during Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the. Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. ae pitas. Goons se { Sismasusieo| A ie, 192) LCLPA y J Lesson The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without special permission of the Editor-in-Chief. a + i. Editor-in-Chief - . SALLIE JONES, .°34 News’ Editor JANET MARSHALL, Copy Editor “CLARA FRANCES GRrant,, °34 Sports Editor . Se SALLY Howe, °35 ‘ Editors *33 4 34° CoNSsTANCE ROBINSON, Nancy Hart, °34 GERALDINE RHoaDs, "34 Leta CLeEws, ELIZABETH. HANNAN, 35 ” Business Manager MABEL MEEHAN, *33 Subscription Manager ELEANOR YEAKEL, °33 .. Assistants — \ CarQuIneE BERG, DoroTHY KALBACH, SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 . MAILING PRICE, $3.00 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME Post Office "33 "34 Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Adoration of the Magi Whether or not prosperity is just around ois corner, just at this moment the main highway is not lined with material luxuries; in many cases even material necessities are wanting. From every newspaper, pulpit, and street corner we are exhorted, and quitg rightly, to give of what we have, because the need is very great and because there. is a growing conviction that only some greater feeling»of mutual respon- sibility; or brotherliness if you. would call jit by, ‘another name, can save our threatened order of things from ruin, Tf seems tous that few people have failed to be impressed with this lesson that a world-wide economic depression has taught. The Christmas spirit, which. in many of us’ has become of late more and more ethical and less religious in the pure sense of the world, has this year again been translated into terms of giving something material to some one who needs it because the season seems to call for an expression of the best in each individual citizen of the world. What we should like to point out is not any flaw in this thought, but rather another thought entirely; another lesson that we think this time of hard experience should teach. There is an appalling poverty in the world which doesn’t show in the bread lines in a great city, pinched faces, and ragged clothes. There is a poverty of even greater importance than material want, and that is poverty of the spirit. How desperate is this situation may be demonstrated by the numbers of men and women of education and eulture who have’ found their lives not worth living in the face of material loss, to whom evidently either ohyaloal comfort, or material prestige in the eyes of their fellowmen/Was the greatest thing in life: the one thing without which one could) not go on. Years of great pros- perity do not give opportunity for the exercise of spiritual inspiration as a national movement. If we are dominated by material things our great communal efforts must be along the lines of commerce and finance. Social work is apt to become a movement for the material uplift of an unfortunate class, rather than an attempt to build up the spiritual fibre of a nation. The lack of such work shows badly m times like these,-not only in the classes tha are hardest hit by the stagnation of commerce, but most of all in those classes to whom the depression is orly comparatively inconvenient. What the world seems to need more than anything else is either a stoic philosophy that ean overlook privations, or a little ‘real religion of the spirit, in the presence® of which these privations ‘are incidental. What we need is not only to give bread because we are good citizens of the world, but to give of what spiritual bread we have because we are Christians: Too many of us are no longer. Christians but materialists with a set of neo-platonie ethies. The spirituality is gone and there is a erying need for it to return. Many of us would give of our treasures of the spirit if we had any, but we have long ago. forgotten even the lack of them. Faith, hope, and love, justice, prudence, temperance and fortitude; of these most of us would say today the greatest is fortitude. It was love, when the teachings of Christ were new. a The lesson is before us. Slow though we may be, in the end we can hardly fail to see it. Perhaps it will require another great teacher, but the lesson will be learned. In the mean time it is to be hoped that without for a moment relaxing our efforts to improve the material condition of those we regard as less fortunate than we, we may for a day or two at- Christmas time take stock-of the larders of our own souls, and see what we can do for our own inner lives while we are caring for the outer Jives of others. good meal. Bringing together -a group of ‘die verse personalities, the principals of whom are all invited to the Jordan’s for a dinner party, the authors show how every one of them beneath the ‘amenities of ordinary polite inter- course,y faces some serious problem. Each of the guests is supposed to be easily recognizable in any New York 'apartment house, and no less an au- thority than Walter Winchell is said to have discovered all of them in the first night ‘audience. If the majority of the cast are more Theatre Review Life still goes on—at least so the new Kaufman-Ferber play Dinner At Eight would have us infer. © That the theory must be true, is attested by the number of Broadway plays which, during the last few years, have In Street Scene, the wife might be unfaithful and the husband murder- ous, but families still rented tene- ments. In Grand Hotel, a great dancer might be forever lonely, but honeymooners still occupied hotel rooms: Now, in Dinner at Eight, Oli- ver Jordan may face bankruptcy, and| like types than individuals, they are his servants may commit bigamy, but,|at least cleverly drawn and endowed with the exception of the suicide ac-}with abundant vitality by satisfae- tor, all the characters still enjoy a (Continued on Page Four) Pte ue WIF’S EXD INS INF. GESTUCKET Sie vent aus dolefully The Arch, so soulfully Sie vipt sein Nase und Macht ein Grimace kund Und dann sie schneezt As aus Pem East ,; Sie Kleenexed cross the shtreet, Und schnifflet in anodder sheet. “Ach! .Gott!.Kerchoo,” sie -weinet;— Und on her ills sie pin-et. Sie. kam ins Inf und sprach Und coughet and did hack. “Ich habe ein Catarrh’— (Mit a cerebral v)— “Ich....ugh..... .Ich, will Ein gut, streng Pill.” Abcr die Nurse dachte “Nein! Nichtrdas!” Sie fragte “Will_t du kommen hier?” Die Jungfrau war ein Steer, Sie bronco-et und bucket, Aber war sie ins gestucket. Und nun sie sitzt ins Bette Imprisonet in Kette, Und alle time sie schreiet, “Ich vish it weren’t so qviet Warin ich bin gestucket. ~ Frei’ mich: I'll kick the bucket! Als since I’ve gotten so in Dutch There’s nothing left of life—not “much!” _—Campusnoop. —_ % ANNUAL DILEMMA I’ve searched the shops and scoured the stores For gifts to give my relations in scores; ‘They’re nice enough, and often sweet, But why are their tastes so hard to ~ meet? Aunt Mabel ‘likes books. as everyone knows— Yet she never has liked the novels I_ chose; Grandpa is old, and has all that he needs;, How much is the gun for which little John pleads? And as for dear Cousin Tom, whom I haven’t seen for years, There’s no way of guessing if his sock, supply’s in arrears. My allowance must needs be increased by poor father; alone he’d rather. Advertising displays say “your prob- lem is solved,” But—not-when—you’ve got such rela= tions involved. —Pfiffle. As things at this moment stand, We really think Undergrad should take a hand, About girls who bring men to dinner. In Self Gov there’s lation, But an absolute lack of administra- tion, wo” For girls who bring men to dinner. every other ‘regu- They should notice conversation’s’ un- earthly hush; Another victim’s manly blush; When girls bring men to dinner. Constraint’s on all; we'll soon be ' much, much thinner; Some exquisite torture should be de- vised for the sinner, These girls who bring men to dinner. —Sour Apple. PETER GOES A-VOYAGING “My,” said Peter Rabbit briskly, as he popped out of his hole one morning, only to be confronted by a snarling bevy (or covey) of newspa- per men. “My dear public, this is so sudden,” And then Peter pulled him- self up onto his hind paws and gave out a statement. “Unaccustomed,” he began, “as’I am to public heckling ‘there is ndthing I like so much as good, clean publicity. Fun’s fun, you know, but you can’t laugh all the time.” When the newspapermen had that down (Peter waited for them, be- ing thoughtful and anxious to please) he began again. “As my pub- lic knows, I am sure, whatever small fame I may have achieved has in no way changed my attitude. I am, as I always was, open to misconstruc- tion and I don’t want any one to feel that I have forgotten my humble be- ginnings, nor my. dear old father’s ‘last words. I myself shall never for- get them. | It was snowing ‘when he ‘died, and as he looked out over what had been a great forest of cabbages, now only a few barren leaves almost hidden beneath the gently falling I'll buy him some ties that to choose |- News of t Eugenie ,Leontovich, the original Grusinskija of Grand Hotel, is to have the lead in Twenticth Century, the burlesque of theatrical producing by Ben Hecht and Charlés MacArthur. Miss Leontovich has not been on the stage at all since Grand Hotel, and has spent all her time “recuperating from the role.”’ We’re not surprised she had to—we spent a good two weeks attempting to persuade life to go on. after we saw her for the first time. Incidentally, her new _ play marks another forward step in the evolution of the theatre—it is getting of the laugh, clown, laugh, attitude.) In early February, if all goes..well, the mediaeval miracle play will ap- pear on the boards of New ‘York. Martha Graham, the dancer, and Nat- ,alie Hays Hammond will present six miraele’ plays at the Guild Theatre on succeeding Sunday eWenings. Miss Graham will direct and act, while Miss Hamond will design and costume. Romney Brent, the never-to-be-for- gotten Sapiens of The ‘Warrior’s Husband, opened his self-construeted comedy, The Mad Hopes, on December 1, and it closed almost’ at once. Some- ‘| thing seems. to have been the matter with the play, if one takes stock in that Charon of Broadway, Mr. Atkin- son. Then also The Great Magoo found the going rather hard and al- most stopped badly at the eleventh jump, thereby unseating his riders, ‘|Ben Hecht and.Gene Fowler, both of whom landed in the brook beyond the rails. As long as we’re being more learned, let’s call it the Slough of Despond. Walk A Little (ome the Courtney Burr revue, is quite’an acrobat. It is balancing fairly steadily on two legs, Beatrice Lillie and Bobby Clark, and if the wind doesn’t change sud- denly, it may make port before spring- ing a worse leak. The planks had to be spread a-bit to let in a floor of not so good chorus girls and singers, and a ham comedian almost pulled the last caulk. But Miss Lillie and Mr. Clark are superb, and when they are on deck all is well, but they” deserve a better vehicle. A scow is a rather poor place to be as superior as they. Eva le Gallienne is putting on a dramatic version of Alice in Wonder- land at her Civic Repertory Theatre in the near future, in which she will both direct and—act._ Joseph Schild- kraut and Josephine Hutchinson will be in the cast. Of all the things on earth we would like to do, most of all we would like to do an all-star cast of our favorite Alice. Our cast would be somewhat as follows: Boland; the Mad Hatter, Romney Brent; the March Hare} Beatrice Lil- lie; the Dormouse, Alexander Wool- cott; the Mock Turtle, Ruth Draper; the “Gryphon, Mary Wigman; the Duchess, Alla Nazimova; the Queen of Hearts, Constance Collier; the Dodo, Noel Coward; the White Rab- bit, Walter Hampden; the King of Hearta, Ed. Wynn;..the Knave of Hearts, Philip Merivale; the Cheshire Cat, Alice Brady. Direction by Max Reinhart; sets by Norman Bel Ged- des; incidental music by Ravel. (Continued on Page Four) snow, he said to me, ‘My, Peter, there’ s old Mother te sled her chickens again.’ ” Peter could, and feet have. gone on; there was lots more he wanted to say, but he was stopped by a honey- tongued reporter—she was a woman, and Peter had always.thought that only a.woman could really understand the terrible depths in his nature. “Mr. Rabbit,” she said, “could, you spare a few moments of your valuable time (there was a sinister note in that, but Peter missed it)! Could you vis- it our office? The editor would like to meet you in person. He thinks you could serve a very useful purpose, if properly handled (again that note). In fact,” said the woman-reporter, “we are a little short of copy this week.” And Peter said he knew how that was. The up-shot of all this was that our Peter went a-voyaging. He set out like a crusader of ‘old, only lots more sincere. Peter had. a mes- sage and he thought here was his chance to get it across. He had been reading about the power of the press. So the nice woman-reporter took Peter to the newspaper office. Peter came betts-tkmaping. Cheero, mee ne re: New York Theatres | Alice, Mary —THE MAD HATTER. . IN PHILADELPHIA Forrest: Albertina Rasch girls are still being big and rhythmie (respectively, in case you’re nervous) in Irivng Ber- lin’s superior Face the Music. - Broad: Katherine Alexander and the newlyweds ‘are still playing in- sanely around Paris in Honeymoon. Garrick: The Gershwins’ ae Pardon My English, w: with pack chanan, Lyda Roberti and Si ack ut Amusing, polished and diverting—but. not a-bomb.in our. midst. Music—Academy of Music Philadelphia -Orchestra: Friday, a sense of humor about itself instead /Hyecember 16, at 2.30 P. M.,.and Bas. arday, December 17, at 8.20 P..M. Leopold Stokowski, Eunice Norton, pianist. Wagner, Four exercepts from Siegfried Hindemith, conductor, and Program: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra UVellieg, vin 9 Tod und Verklartng Movies Boyd: Jf I Had A Million. We as- sume that -the title refers’ to a now extinct species of brifhtly feathered bird, or maybe to mere fantasy. An all-star cast, which means it will prob- ably be awful. : Stanley: Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, Sari Maritza and Charles Ruggles are all out drumming up trade in Evenings For Sale, a Vien- nese romance. Grand — from all angles. Earle: Paul Muni having been a momentary success ‘in a chain gang film, here comes Richard Dix (ne the ‘vanishing American), in another, of the chain genre, Hell’s Highway. We hope eternally, but this sounds like crude and not artistic hell. ‘Chestnut: The now famous Ger- man boarding school film, Maeédchen in Uniform. A really marvelous movie that everyone should see. Europa: Kameradschaft, the pic- ture about the inevitability of friend- ship and its disreZard for patrolled political boundaries. Very absorbing and makes one wonder futily what it’s all- about. = Fox: Lowell Sherman as a bogus beauty surgeon goes on making a Mary Boland and the <¢ F racket out of lifting faces for one - purpose or another in False Faces. Not very good, to be perfectly frank. Karlton: Men Are Such Fools. We are told it’s a melodrama, and so are all eternal truths——Anyway, Leo Carrillo is the~star, and he is fairly good. It might be worth investigat- ing to.see through what hole the truth leaks out. Stanton: Boris Karloff, Raymond Massey, Charles Laughton and Melvin Doug- las. A ghost and shiver movie that should be superb, but unfortunately lacks the final something and ends up by being very mediocre. Stanley: The “new what-a-man,” George Raft, in Undercover Man, with Nancy Carroll. A gangster turns po- lice guide to help catch his father’s murderer. Typical and very poor. Local Movies Ardmore: Wednesday and Thurs- day, Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus; Friday, Clive Brook in Sher- lock Holmes, with Miriam Jordan and Ernest Torrance; Saturday, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in Pack Up Your Trobules; day, Washington Merry-Go-Round, with Lee Tracy. Seville: Thursday, Night. Club Lady, with Adolphe Menjou; Friday and Saturday, The Phantom of Crest- wood, with Ricardo Cortez and Karen Morley; Monday and Tuesday, Jack Buchanan and Anna Neagle in Magic Night; Wednesday, George Arliss in Successful, Calamity. Wayne: ‘Wednesday and Thursday, American Madness, with Walter Hus- ton and Kay Johnson; Friday and Saturday, Harold Lloyd in Movie Crazy; Monday and Tuesday, George Arliss in Successful. Calamity; Wed- nesday, Six Hours To Live, with War- ner Baxter. a Gleanings Jacob Gould Schurman, preside ent- emeritus of Cornell University and former Ambassador to Greece and Germany, believes that the diplomatic corps as a careér has great future for American college men, the only diffi- ‘culty being that a man, in order to be appointed to one of these, posts, must have a private income which he is willing to sacrifice—(NSFA.) ‘Read the advertisements! Ld The Dark House, with © Monday and Tues- . we & @ un Sicurday night, following the _ vided for Susie and a sought-after . known. . joys of retribution, if the quality of | ally or not, as the case may be, while ] v “THE COLLEGE NEWS. . b Page Three : |we must not forget the lighting— Dance After Varsity | four spots from each corner of the Play is Great Success >2!cony—or the. decorations, which |had their share in changing the home |of Body Mechanics into a ball-room. Individual Tables, : Orchestra) With Christmas trees in the corners, land’ branches along the walls, it and Double Cutting Show | | would be hayd not to feel.the spirit Good Management of fsb ee even the elements iseemed to have,caught, as witness the ATTEND beautiful Christmas-card snow-storm ‘outside. As for the orchestra, Meyer |Davis. could not haye done better. preseritation of The Royal Family by' ty fact, the only thing we could have Varsity Dramatics, was held the sec-' desired—though not expected—would ond dance in the history of Bryn)have been more food. Still, soup, ice- Mawr, an event which was so entirely |cream, sandwiches and coffee should ALMOST 400 successful that even our Quaker | keep one from starving. Moreover, founders would have nodded their ap- it seemed an excellent idea ‘to serve proval. Here, at any rate, was one;them continuously. case where realization came up to; ‘Looking back over the evening, we scratch, or expectation. Not that|feel sure that not only would our hopes were small; the dance last;Quaker founders have nodded their spring, especially when compared|approval—especially if they had been with the very. tame and ‘slightly! reading the News editorials of late, frumpy tea-dances which up to then'the sight of so many well-groomed, had constituted Bryn Mawr’s sole'/not to ‘say. smartly-dressed Bryn means of expressing her joie de vivre|Mawr girls would have cheered them in mixed company, the dance last |—but, quite won over by the gaiety, spring promised much for the future.! they would have gathered up their The whole college, it seems, what-|skirts and tripped along with us. ever its shyness in other matters,| Perhaps, the next time, they will. At was ready to lend its support to;any rate we, like the rest of the the dance movement; for the party|college, are looking forward enthus- this year every single table was re-|iastically to the spring dance. served within twenty-four hours, and a gathering which would have done credit to the Ritz ball-room—almost four hundred people—pushed its way into the Gymnasium. But the com- parison need not stop here; to many, ourselves among them, the Gym of- fered as much entertainment as, and certainly a great deal more merri- ment than a good many coming-out parties. First of all, we knew our host and hostesses, Mrs. Collins, Miss Collins and Dr. and Mrs. Diez. Then, ‘instead of closing our eyes and plung- ing into.a whirling. mass, we safely —and proudly—marched to a table bearing our very own name, or at least that of a friend. It has always seemed to us that the use of indi- vidual tables was one of the great reasons for the popularity of night- clubs, and we.cannot say enough to express our approval of their intro- duction at Bryn Mawr. Through} them, the lost, or wandering male of | last year’s. dance has been eliminated; the weight can be taken off a good many tired feet; a cozy nook is ‘pro- Mile. Souberan Speaks of , Visiting Fiji and Australia (Continued from Page One) the ‘sun, where strange trees and large ferns which seem like relics of the carboniferous age are to be seen on every ‘side, and where the climate is so mild that there is neither sum- mer nor.winter and the green things bloom all the year around. Arrived at the hotel, she snatched a hasty sup- per and then descended into the caves, which she had come to visit. The guide turned to her just inside the entrance, “Can you remain an hour without talking?” “TI’ll try,’’ she an- swered. .The guide put out the lights and they continued in the black, where only the drip, drip of water into a deep pool could be heard. They climb- ed into a boatvand went off into al- most de2zper da“kness—when ‘sudden- ly, they were suspended in a silent world of stars. The millions of glow- worms which cover the roof in these caves, let down tiny, sticky threads in young man, and a resting-place for| which to’ catch the mosquitoes which Susie and a man who is not so well/are._in the cave, so that there is a Again, we shquld like to/net of tiny threads glistening here compliment the committee—the Misses! and there with drops of water. The Jane and Junia Culbertson (chair- | light reflected in'the still water made man), Miriam Cornish, Anne | a picture which the guide later called Hawkes, Rebecca Perry, Betsy Jack-|the Eighth Marvel of the world. son, Barbara Bishop, Josephine Heis-; The next day, the same guide showed kell and Barbara Korff—on the fur-| her “the only marvel of the world.” ther intelligence oftheir manage-|He took her into a forest of ferns, ment in allowing mutual cutting-in.| where the height ranged from six It seems to us that the great prob-| inches to six feet. The lacy edges of lem of the girls’ college dance has|the ferns are so fine, and reflect ab- been solved. The Bryn Mawr girl] sorbed light in such a manner, that should. from now on _ outshine all] jt is broken up into tiny rays and dif- rivals; her “man” does not suffer at! fused, giving the impression of irri- college dances. And if we lose the descence from no visual source. After seeing the geysers and the hot springs, Mlle. Souberan moved on mercy seems strained after’What we, as the trampled-on sex, are made to) ty Australia. One outstanding im- endure at parties, we may be re- pression remains in the academic ‘warded threefold for our kindness:| mind: the natives of Australia have Who knows? Perhaps the day may come when, even in the outside world, the female will be allowed to cut in, and the wall-flower will: be, along with dinosaurs and hoop-skirts, a thing of the past. It might be remarked that the drawback to. having tables is that there will perhaps be too much “sit- ting-out.” Judging by the difficulty of finding anyone—not the least, one’s “best man”—on the floor last Sat- urday, could the thirty tables have held more than eight people, more would have danced, at least once, with the object of their heart’s desire. We can think of no way of eliminat- ing the difficulty except by forcing each man to carry a banner with his name on it, and to wave it, frantic- been trained to remember their an- cestors back for periods of many cen- turies and their prodigious meméry makes us almost wish we had been brought up by Australian Indians! Ever since 1811 the United States Treasury has had a “conscience fund,” which now totals $650,000. Either consciences were inactive or the honesty of the country was on a high plane from that year until 1827, for no-receipts are recorded for the intervening years. The © usually anonymous donors are appeasing their guilty consciences for all sorts of reasons, ranging from religious expense of the- —(NSFA.) DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DURHAM, N. C. Four/ terms of eleven weeks are given each year. These may be taken consecutively (M.D. in three years) or three terms may be taken JEANNETT’S each year (M.D. in four years). . 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Joyce is bitter, : : i hating Ireland as much as he loves it, which no Member of Parliament, nor) and-hating. and loving. at. the sane town Mayor, nor political official WAS | time, he is “full of veracity.” allowed to hold the chair. The Gaelic; povelation of what sivik: ee nid to the common people is found in once more the national language; they Shawn O’Casey. When his Plough of have succeeded in so far aS they have! the Stars was first produced the the- made Gaelic a Ppauirethent in all atre rose in riot because in one scene schools. Shaw, “Yedts* and George | the Trish flag was brought into a pub- William Butler,.Yeats Speaks at Bryn Mawr (Continued from Page One) Russell, began the Irish Academy of} }i- house, while Mr. Yeats shouted |: 25 full members whose work must be) sternly from the footlights, “You have on Irish subject matter, and 10 as-) gisoraced yourself again!” Lennox sociate academicians who must be ONgopinson started a school of drama Irish birth. The Academy is needed | in Cork, whose. first. plays. were so to fight fanaticism; it hopes some day ‘brutal that they are no longer pro- to be able to offer money prizes for ‘ duced, but at the time they. satisfied writing; and it hopes in time to dis-|the need to dverthrow, illusion. Since cuss politics with “some Irish 20V-| even theh’ there were some things that ernment.” The Irish theatre began! ould not be put into plays, we find with Frank Fay, a “stage-struck more novels than plays fighting for clerk,” for whom’ Yeats wrote his first! tp. new literature. play, anid Rees brother, William Pay, Of poets those best ‘representing an electrician, who played Lady Greg- ee ; ; ; the change in literature are James ory’s comedies. Women’s parts were ’ : ees Stephens, author of Dierdre; Fra filled from a society of patriotic la-j| ~, Reena : : ; O’Connor, of Grey Eye Weeping; dies who were teaching the children : . James Pierce, who had the courage to from the streets that the root of all ’ : i] Siskind de huak the al ‘write a few hours before his execu- sc alr © play” tion “The Beauty of the world hath ers were overworked and broken down | A |'made me sad”; and those wandering ; : va an fend gana thm bY ports who wer all with the Cathe mentee : one artistocracy in the seventeenth i peas century. First of the leaders of this liter- | . : ary renaissance is Lady Gregory, who’ Ending his lecture Mr. Yeats read put the whole mass of Irish ie ee pats een aC a ture, mediaeval tales full of ancient, | a — —_— - . splendour and superstition, into the| hollow lands and -hilly: lands,” Ro- present dialect. Dialect was associ-| ated only with comedy as used by the | entertainers. But Lady Gregory, be-! lieving that an author must give the | people only his best, and trusting that ewe ay || Lending Library— they will in time come to understand | Fivst Editions The Country Bookshop 30 Bryn Mawr Avenue Bryn Mawr, Pa. that best, triumphed by her persever- | is f Rose Tree, song of the rebellion of 1916, and An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, anselegy to Robert Greg- ory, son of Lady Gregory. The University of Kentucky will publish pictures of the ten professors . receiving the most student votes in the space usually given to popular co-eds in the forthcoming edition of their annual.—(NSFA.) An Exclusive Residence for Young Women of Brains! 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On the sugges- | tion from Mr. Yeats that there were too many other critics of French lit- | erature for Synge to make a, success of it, but that the Aran Islands of- fered a field for writing, Synge went | to-the islands where an old man greets | the traveler on the shore, saying, “If any. gentleman has done a crime we will hide him.” There Synge wrote | the Playboy of the Western World. | When this play was produced the’ theatre had to be guarded by police’ against the Agrarians’ belief that the virtue of the peasant was outraged, but in the,end the play was accepted and the first victory won for liberty of thought. The Irish literary renaissance was}! begun by three Protestant writers be- | cause until the founding of the Na-| tional University twenty-five years | ago, there was no university where a | Catholic would go to receive educa- | tion. At the time of Synge and Lady | Gregory the first great Catholic writ- | er was being trained in the midst of | a controversy between Parliament and | the Irish Catholic Church. James | Joyce ,quarreled with his father and| his teachers and finally left Ireland, | | | } | | } yy ‘y | Bryn Mawr 675 | | | | | ff JOHN J. McDEVITT : a Y PRINTING _—_. Z = SS é Shop: ee i, y = Po De / P. O. Address: Bryn Mawr, Pa. aj ust ies Comma Meet your friends at the Bryn Mawr Confectionery (Next to Seville-Theater Bldg.) ‘he Rendezvous of the College Giris Tasty Sandwiches, Delicious,..Swndaes, Superior Soda Service Mu8ic—Dancing for girls only rs } &}- dapuis we a da Yo. Fess ast Wossrene st | MRS. RICHARD PATTON’S SHOP 1 4 oa, « \ : i acon DRESSES LINGERIE Ms Sizes Sizes 7 12 - 20 Z Christmas Suggestions for the Girls and Boys f0 ARDMORE- ARCADE _N@ SNAPS PHONE 1225 ARDMORE, PA. : A ~ Chaqnus rt $ gne il da doSaspoin S Con Des Larnemas : os plus chic , avant qu ma pou Wais dors vimnemt Das \|; 2 Qoxfess, ces patitis chausswus de pluis, = yi ples voit? plea out , ().3 WON j | ahas Comama ume plume, \ Mp. i um \ — / bik ACG. U.S. PAT. OFF, tees NO BUCKLES + NO FASTENERS. \ t : > aa ie , € mantic Ireland’s in the Grave, The - “ Page Four, THE COLLEGE NEWS PRE arene Varsity Overcomes Faculty Hockey Team Faculty: Enthusiasm Fails to Penetrate Varsity Defense in Annual Battle SCORE IS FIVE TO ONE } ‘ The annual Facuity-Varsity hockeya game, with practically the entire stu- dent body and on the sidelines, start- _ed off with its accustomed’ excitement when the referee called a free hit against the faculty for kicking. Dr. Watson’s policy was “Take time,’”’ while his efforts to stop the ball, that is by standing in front of it, were painful t6 say the least. Af- ter Brown had recovered from the effects of her collision with Dr. Metz- ger, Dr. Watson ran the length of the field, dribbling the ball indiscrim- inately with both sides of his stick. But ‘the Varsity “Four Horsemen” were ready for him and managed to your _ get-the ball back to the Faculty circle, where Collier made a clean shot past Dr. Crenshaw’s guard, and a few min- utes later Kent tallied another goal for Varsity. The whistle for the end of the half blew, leaving Dr. Turner and Dr. Richtmeyer looking sadly over the fence. A collision had lifted the ball fifty feet in the air to come to a peaceful rest at last in the second team hockey field. The second half began with shouts of “Hey! Hey!” and “Home run!” echoing from the _ sidelines. Dr. Broughton’s conscientious passes were a great help to the Faculty, while the speed, enthusiasm, golf tactics and su- perior weight of the whole team were such that Varsity rushes and spec- tacular players were few and far be- tween. Varsity’s “wait for mistakes” policy, however, resulted in a total score of five points and their defense held. the Faculty scoreless. Once more Dr. Wells’ proteges departed, bowed in defeat—but wait until the Faculty-Varsity basketball game! The line-up was as follows: Faculty © Varsity ae Teas fc ed Ws cic os es Brown Bee. VERON ic dis Ee b.0.6 0 0 thee Kent Dr. Blanchard .C. F. ....Longacre Mr. Carlson ...R. I. ....Remington Mr,King—--3-7 R.-W........ Stevenson Dr. Broughton .L. H. ....Bowditch Collier Dy peer” Re Ge iki Ullom Dr, Richtmoyer .G. f+ 6.6... Bishop Dr. Metzger ...R. F. ....Rothermel mr; Weereuew -.. Ge ies Jackson _. Goals—Faculty, 0; Varsity, Kent, 2; Collier, 2; Longacre, 1. Royal Family Stage Set Efficiently Constructed {Continued from Page One) made many flying trips to Philadel- phia in search of sadly needed mate- rial. Once she came back loaded down with some thirty pounds of canvas. Although a great many, people came down to work on the scenery, no one came regularly enough to be properly trained and broken in. The freshmen, on the whole, showed the most inter- est, but unfortunately they were un- able to work. Sylvia Bowditch, who was in charge of the actual construc- tion, said that the more people who would come down the next time the better, as well-instructed workers would be needed to carry on next year. She added that a vote of thanks was dye. Jimmy James and Betty Laird, who were constantly busy on the stage. Faith, Blythe and Eaton deserve cred- it for their assistance in taking down the set after the performance. The play was over at eleven-fifteen and at eleven-forty all the flats had been piled up in the storeroom, and’ the]. floor-cloth was being swept. One must not forget to mention that the “rhin- ies” from Haverford helped in this rapid cleaning up. Due undoubtedly to the splendid or- ganization achieved by those in charge, all the details of the stage | machinery went off without a hitch. | Plantation Songs and No fuses were blown out, and no one fell off the wabbly ladders which led up to the balcony from the rear. Sev- eral amusing things occurred back'! stage, though, which might bear tell- | is merely another department of the ing. The great Danes,- which were| World around us—“Oh Hell is deep loaned by the Choate Kennels, were |2nd Hell is wide, Oh Hell ain’t got $1 99 s,s fo.ever poking thir noses into the'?° bottom nor side,” and it is easy 1 ; ’ cage of the parrot, and getting bitten. | for sinners to lean on Hell’s gates and (The parrot, by the way, was rented | eit nen —— ome Pet Store at. $1 per day.) |. #eaven and its Angels are no less. Meee The t ee cae rd ek vee fe fitnd! or "shoes ats tiouble about the food—éspecially the Angels wear? Don't wear none, cause eggs, which some one is reported to| they walk on air.” Behind the Pear- have described as actually purple in ly: Gates stretches a Promised Land color—for the dogs rushed.in as soon! 0f Rest—‘“When I get to Hkaven, I as they smelled food, and the cast, won’t have anything to do, but walk was lucky if there was ‘anything left! ’round the streets and shout Allelu- when they got through. Those who! iah!” “If Satan is an enemy,” said witnessed the play might be interest-| Mr. Lomax, “Jesus is a familiar ed in knowing that all the door-slam-| friend, a solace in time of. trouble.” ming was done by an official door-| He quoted lines to illustrate this atti- slammer, and the door in question was | tude toward Jesus, lines which when of the regular Goodhart doors. The | repeated four or five times, form bell-ringer had some difficulty in ring- | stanzas: “The wind blow East, the ing the proper bell at the proper mo-| wind blow West from. Jesus,” “Jesus ment. But aside from the fact that} Will bring you milk and honey.” “Mas- the crew backstage had to wade ter Jesus, give me a little broom for through piles of clothing and flower| to sweep my heart clean.” boxes, all of which were important | Two creeds, the Methodist and Bap- as props, everything went off quite|tist, include most Christian Negroes. smoothly. | “Some say John was a Methodist. Spirituals Discussed (Continued from Page One) | Bible gays John was a Baptist, too.” Carols Sung by Choir; | Their sense of the ridiculous is char- Miss Earp is Soloist | acteristically mingled with these re- | ligious creeds—‘I went to the river | to be baptized, but I stepped on a were both chatacterized by a sweet-| root and got capsized.” ness and fullness attained by the | Although rules of conduct enter very slightly ‘into Negro faith, the skillful blending of tones. The con-| **’ y ltralto. solo following this, O Thou|¢Vils of gossiping and dress are often That Tellest Good Tidings, from Han- pointed out in their Spirituals—“You see those:sisters dressed so fine. They del’s Messiah, sung by Miss Mary)|*** : ae Earp, contrasted nicely with the pre- ain’t got Jesus on their mind.” In one song an interesting list of sinners ceding selections because of its essen-| * tially dramatic quality. At the very} }§ urged to get ready for Hell: Hypo- beginning of the solo Miss Earp was| crite, Schemer, Liar, Backbiter, Crap- a trifle weak: despite the richness | Shooter, Hikatic (Heretic), Chicken- and depth of her voice the legato ef- thief, Watermelon-swiper—“You just fect by which she later heightened! #8 well get ready!” the sweeping movement of the music; One pathetic revelation of the Ne- which culminated in the chorus was! gro’s thoughts comes out in his songs, here noticeably absent. On Christ-|said Mr. Lomax.~ He longs for a mas Night was noteworthy for the | white skin—“Oh, who will glove my combination of humming and singing’ lily-white hands when I climb to the which ‘gave such effective shading.; golden stair?”—and feels the injus- Today Is Born Emmanuel, accom-/tice that he suffers—“White folks go panied by the Belov String Quartet,, to college, Nigger go to fields. White and combining contralto and soprano! folks learn to read and write, Nigger solos with the chorus, was a remark-| learn to steal.” The appeal which ably well done piece of contrasting! songs of this type have is illustrated tonal effects. Following this, the se-| by the fact that Mr. Lomax heard quence of solemn and more or less | the following refrain sung in church: quence of solemn and impressive| “Ain’t it hard, ain’t it hard to be a classical hymns was broken by the) Nigger, ain’t it hard when you cain’t spontaneity of the traditional Was-|get your money when it’s due?” sail Song. | Mr. Lomax told of attending a Ne- This particular carol service, al-/ gro Baptizing, a ceremony which though not so successful in the ar-|evokes the most blood-chilling Spir- rangement and selection as previous! ituals, as well as the most joyous, in ones, was successful in the interpre-| the congregations repertoire. This tations of the individual selections. |sudden change from tragedy to low Appropriately enough, the Rev. comedy is characteristic of the art of Joseph Fort Newton, Co-Rector of St. | song-making BMONS. the Negro and James’ Church, in Philadelphia, dis-|©XPlains part of its charm. | cussed the three. great hymns of the| Bible: the Magnificat, the Benedic- | tus and. the Laus Deo. The first-: mentioned he cited as a song of indi-| vidual, personal, religious experience,| Since the weeks. preceding, Christ- vital and profound in its meaning.) mas are always. a touch dull from the This song of Mary’s, steeped in po-| theatrical angle, we have shot our etry and philosophy, an interpre-| bolt in this great column. Anyway, tation of her visions and sufferings,| the theatre isn’t sprouting except for confounding though it may have been to her, is illuminating to us.; The/on December 23. Dont’ miss that. Benedictus widens the influence of religious experience and shows its na- tional significance. Its majestic mu- sic is the portrayal of the national- | ism of Israel—the passions, dreams, hopes, and prayers of a people. With the Laus Deo, the circle is spread (Continued from Page One) News of the New York Theatres (Continued from Page Two) Read the advertisements! GREEN HILL FARMS . City Line and Lancaster Ave. still farther and the light of the rec rraaaaa aae world touches the most-distant coun- Luncheon ....... $1.00 tries of the earth, bringing a hope oS eee ons 1.50 of international peace with the evi- dences of the unspent force of re- ligion. Shore Dinner every Friday $1.50 No increase in price on Sundays or holidays - Advertisers in this paper are relia- ble merchants. Deal with them. COLLEGE INN AND TEA ROOM. SERVICE 8 A. M. TO 7:30 P. M. Daily and Sunday Philip Harrison Store BRYN MAWR. PA. : . Gotham Gold Stripe _ Silk Hosier), $1.00 _ Rest Quality Shoes f in Bryn Mawr Next Door to the Movies V.INCHEON, AFTERNOON TEA AND DINNER ~ ALA CaRTE AND TABLE D'Horre ; ‘GUEST. ROOMS _.PERMANENT AND TRANSIENT _ STUDENTS’ CHARGE.AGCOUNTS © | Some say John was a Jew, but the|’ Katherine Cornell’s arrival in Lucrece | A LA CARTE BREAKFAST we Theatre Review (Continued from Page Two) tory casting. To be sure, the Italian and the Don Juanish actor whose for- tunes are on the wane has not quite the interesting profile which the lines describe (the Barrymores seem to be a perennial inspiration for the firm of Keé. ion @_ a @ Uberppebut™ G.oF guerite Churchill,. who plays Paula Jordan, is as lovely an _ ingenue as one could ask for, and the other ‘parts are well taken. The fundamental seriousness of the play is hidden by the smoothness which is expected of every Sam Har- ris production, and by the veneer of sparkling dialogue which is taken for granted in every Kaufman-Ferber ve- hicle. However, this superficial gay- .ety hardly suffices to hide a sense of futility. The only characters who are not~anhappy are the ones who are utterly lacking in what Jane Aus- tin would call sensibility. The eleven scenes and seven sets leave a kaleido- scopic, |hurried feeling, for each one might serve as the nucleus or back- ground of another full-length play. The authors’.implied belief, that.no matter what difficulties one faces, the dinner table will afford consolation, seems rather open to criticism. What if one suffers dyspepsia? Neverthe- less, like its predecessors from the Kaufman-Ferber pen, Dinner At Eight is excellent entertainment, and one of the best offerings of the cur- rent season.—E. N. H. The Cornell Newspaper informs us that students who fall asleep in the library »at Swarthmore College are given warnings, after three of which they are fined—(NSFA.) chauffeur seems rather too sinister, Gleanings Describing the scene of an exam- ination at Oxford, Mr. Geoffrey M. Wilson, a member of the Oxford de- bating team touring the East under the auspices of the National Student Federation, said in a recent interview at West Virginia University: “First, we all light our pipes and. sit around discussing the subject for about three quarters of an hour. Then we start can always ask your next-door neigh- bor who will probably have something you don’t know.” In answer to a horrified American gasp; he contin- ued, “This is all expected. You see, you can’t write a paper unless you know a little something about thé sub- ject. They just want to check up to see what you’re doing.” —(NSFA,) President Hoover definitely carried all the Little Three colleges in the Straw Vote conducted by the Am- herst, Wesleyan and Williams papers last week. In two out of the three colleges, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate, received second place. 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