‘in Goodhart Hall,. announced that ws VOL. XX, No. 10 PRICE 10 CENTS 7 aN BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., “WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1933 Cer iiicw Nae isar Noted Critic Explains Vocational Conference Curriculum Committee Comii? in: Geodhans Miss Millay Presents ' : : Mrs.. E. B. White. (Kath- : = _ The Cosmopolitan Club of . B eginning of Career arine Sergeant, Bryn Mawr, i Prop OSes New Policy Philadelphia sacl duty Reading of Own Poems Alexander Woollcott Considers rh Radio Most Rewarding Field . of Journalism NARRATES WAR STORY Mr. Alexander Woollcott, disclos- ing the Confessions of a. Dying Newspaper Man last Tuesday night the topic of his lecture meant’ noth- ing, although his last job had, it was true, been on the dying World. He had tried having no title for his lec-. tures at all, but he found that that ‘did not work, for when he made that experiment on New Rochelle, he ar- rived: to find the facade of their high school decorated with a pennant read- ng: “How To Go To the Theatre.” Mr. Woollcott suggested that they should go on free tickets” but they did not seem to care for his attempts to enlarge upon the title with which they had presented him, for the next week was “Better Speech Week” in New Rochelle! Mr. Woollcott said that the cur- rent issue of Vanity Fair contains a photograph of himself taken in 1892 in Kansas City, Missouri, on the oc- casion of. some Shakespearean tab- leaux given by his street; he was cos- amed as Puck. After looking at that( picture, he fell to wondering where he had gone wrong that he should now be here. The coming to- gether of himself and his Bryn Mawr audience required some sort of an autobiographical explanation. Mr. Woollcott and his friends often pause to wonder how it happened that they should all have come together: in 1907, for instance, Mr. Woollcott was a sophomore at Hamilton College, Harpo Marx was a bellhop at the Seville, and Irving Berlin was a wait- er in Chinatown; it is pure luck that they should all be great friends now. Mr. Woollcott decided to become a newspaper man at the time when his picture as Puck was taken, for across the street lived the lanky and string- ent Roswell Martin Field, a dramatic critic and columnist on the Kansas’ City Star. Mr. Field took him to see his fitst show, Sinbad, The Sailor, with Eddie Foy. When they arrived home, Mr. Woollcott announced to his family that he had decided to go to the theatre every day thenceforth; it ‘was pointed out to him that this would run into money, something no Woollecott ever did, and that Mr. Field. was able to go because it did not cost him anything. That decided him to become a dramatic critic. He was deflected from his intention only once, in his senior year at college, when he decided to retreat from com- petition and teach. Having been rec- ommended as the principal of a High School at Hudson, New York, he went to tea with the board of directors of the school. The women were all in favor of choosing him, but one old man took him aside and explained confi- dentially that although corporal pun- ishment was forbidden by law, the school could not be managed by any- one unable to lick everyone in it. At that moment three husky and burly boys wending their way from an in- nocent, if rough, game of baseball walked down the street; the old man said: “There are three of the pu- pils. Do you think you could lick them?” Mr. Woollcott became a news- paper man, a : He first applied for a job on the Philadelphia Record, but instead of going to the Managing Editor, he went to the wife of the Editor-in- Chief at her home, and asked for a (Continued on Page Four) - Sale of Books All the books in the Book Shop are being sold at extreme- ly low prices. The books on sale include many best-sellers published this fall. And so— give books for Christmas and | save money. ae 14) will speak on Magazine Work and Writing in the Com- mon Room. in -Goodhart Hall on Monday afternoon, Janu- ary 8, at a quarter of fiva Mrs. White is one of the edi- tors of The New. Yorker. Everyone, who is interested is urged to come. Tea will be served at half-past four. Katherine Hepburn Takes Star Role in New Tragedy The Lake, written by, Massinghaim and McDonald, and starring Kath- erine Hepburn, will open in New York December 25 and probably run for some months, so the News offers its readers an amateur playreader’s crit- icism of it. At the opening of this play in Washington all the seats were bought out by the Bryn Mawr Club of that city; so we are told; but we doubt that the New York Bryn Mawr Club will be able to pull a like coup as the seats for the open- ing night in New York are quoted as high as two hundred dollars. If you can’t pay quite that, but still feel that you would like to know something more about the play, there is a copy of The Lake on the Playwriting reserve in the Library. The criti- cism follows: In The Lake it has veen the pur- pose of the authors to preesnt an emotion rather than an action, and the entire play has been constructed to the fulfillment of these qualifica- tions. The actual action of the play is important only as it develops the emotion inherent in jt. Therefore, in any attempt to.appraise the value of the work one must accept the orig- inal premise of the authors — that life is neither good nor bad, but sim- ply unadjusted and brutal in its treatment of those who are seeking an answer to it. The characters are all examples of frustration and fu- tility in its various phases. Some of the people realize they are living a farce, and some are too stupid to realize it. Herein lies the distinction between the tragic figures involved and their foils. The play concerns a young girl, Stella Surrege, who has been hem- med in all her life by the ostenta- tious “gracious living” of her un- feeling, grasping and stupid mother. Though Stella has a natural apti- tude for many things, such as paint- ing, music, and literature,’ she has never had an incentive to force her to develop any one of these talents. She realizes that she is completely useless as a member of society, and that under the bonds of her life at home she can never expand—either to fail or to succeed. In love with a married man, Cecil Hervey, who is and has been for years living on his wife’s income, she finally decides to make a break, at least from the stere- otyped unattractiveness of her home, by marrying a man whom she does not love, but who loves her and has the obvious advantage of being in the good graces of her. socially-minded mother. She becomes engaged to John Clayne in just such a spirit, and then in one beautiful moment alone with him in the woods (of the country estate her mother is mutilating in an attempt to produce a more artificial- ly and financially desirable place than her rival) she sees him as he really is and as he will be as her husband. From that moment she is complete- ly his, but, tormented by the knowl- edge of her hypocrisy in marrying him when she had been in love with another, she is unable to give herself up to him and to the love which has enveloped her whole being. ,Fin- ally on her wedding day she tells him of her affair with Cecil Hervey and receives complete understanding from him. For one too short hour they live together in a world different from the one she has always known and then, as they attempt to éscape the wedding guests and get away un- (Continued on Page Three) ho pete on eee ec i ta Comprehensive Exams Urged to Give Broader Knowledge ~ in Major Field e* READING IS IMPORTANT (Especially Contributed by Dean di Manning) A plan for an important change in the curriculum is at present under discussion by the Faculty Curriculum Committee and the various major de- partments. This plan, of which cop- ies have been given to all members of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, would introduce an exam- ination on ‘certain general fields of the major subject to be taken by wall candidates for the A.B. degree in the final examination period of their senior year. The examination would probably consist of three papers of approximately three hours each to be scheduled in the first week of the ex- amination period. Seniors not pass- ing it would not receive the degree in that year, but would be permitted to attempt the examination again in the fall or later. | The plan for the Comprehensive Examination, which might perhaps better be called the final examination in the major subject, has been pre- pared with the object of strengthen- ing and unifying the work of the senior year and, to a lesser degree, the work of the other three years by giving to the major work a more defi- nite final objective. The examina- tions to be successful must test the power of the students to use and ap- ply the information which they have gathered from courses and reading. A wider familiarity with what has been written from different points.of view on the subject matter of the major courses might be one essential part of the preparation. The plan makes allowance for a considerable amount of time in the senior year to be devoted to such reading or to other reading on spe- cial topics. A Senior would carry only three unit courses and she would have, moreover, two full weeks dur- ing the mid-year examination period for intensive reading and study and probably a certain amount of extra time in May for a general review. It is also to be hoped that many stu- dents will find it possible to do a good deal of general reading in the sum- mer before the senior year. Every effort has been made in the plan to minimize such interruptions as would be caused by course exami- nations, but there is no intention of encouraging students to concentrate entirely on their major subject in the senior year. It is the hope of the Curriculum Committee that Seniors would feel well able to carry at least one elective course, whether it be in a subject totally unrelated to the ma- jor or in one in which interest has been aroused through the study of ‘some branch of the major, In the ma- jority of cases students would prob- ably also be carrying work in a close- ly allied subject. - It is taken for granted that in those -courses which are not tested by the Comprehensive, Seniors would cover the same ground and do ap- proximately the same amount of work as the other students, but special schedules would be arranged in-order that the review periods and the writ- ten tests would not conflict with the periods of intensive work for the Comprehensive. 4 The junior year would, generally speaking, be the period in which stu- dents would complete Second . Year work in the major and would carry essential allied work and one or two elective courses. At the end of the _(Continued on Page Three) —— ee NS Hockey Elections E. Kent, ’35, has been elect- ed captain and B. Cary, ’36, manager of the 1934 hockey team. | ton December 29-31 -to discuss. the Sands in theatrical impersona- tions, “Our Stage and Stars,” ‘in’ Goodhart Hall, Bryn Mawr College, Wednesday, January 10, at eight-twenty o’clock, Mrs. Hunt’s Readings | Convey Poetic Spirit Modern Lyrics '‘Emphasized in Choice of Program—Amy Lowell Praised MacLEISH SHOWS VIGOR Mrs. Hope Woods Hunt gave at the Deanery on Thursday afternoon a charming reading of modern poetry. Mrs. Hunt has that exceptional fac- ulty of catching perfectly the auth- or’s meaning and spirit and of in- terpreting them to her audience by voice and gesture with both restraint and understanding. The poems read were mainly. those of women and Mrs. Hunt set the spirit of the afternoon by first read- ing Amy Lowell’s “Sisters.” “Amy Lowell,” said Mrs. Hunt, “is usually called old-fashioned by the moderns, and the word ‘old-fashioned’ is often said in a sneering tone, but this should not be so.” She has merely dropped out of the ranks of young experimenters, but those experiments of hers which are most valuable will go on in poetic usage. She has blaz- ed a trail and thrown away a great deal of dead wood to clear the path for poets of the present. Mrs, Hunt caught perfectly the eager, yet mat- ter of fact, the darting, clear-sighted spirit of Amy Lowell in her reading of “Sisters.” Another poem of Miss Lowell’s “Number 3 on the Docket,” Mrs. Hunt read, “because it is pure drama, and, being human, we all love the dramatic.” Her reading of it brought out this quality to the full and she gave an extraordinarily fine characterization of the farm woman whose tragedy the poem reveals. (Continued on Page Three) Conference to be Held On Students in Politics A national conference on students in Politics is to be held in Washing- question of whether it is the duty of students to participate in the .social movements of the times.” Students from colleges as widely scattered as Caton, Minn., and California Tech are expected to attend and Vassar, Wellesley, and Smith are sending a delegation ranging from twenty-five to fifty members. It is hoped that Bryn Mawr will also be well repre- sented. The conference is being sponsored by such men as Charles A. Beard, John Dewey, William Alan Neilson, and Senator Robert Wagner, and is being organized by such co-operating organizations as International Stu- }- dent Service, the League of Nations Association, the N. S. F. A., the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C., A. Although program arrangements are not yet definite, it is expected that at the opening session the ques- tion, “How shall students partici- pate in politics?” will be discussed by Daniel Roper, Secretary of Com- merce; George Z. Medalie, promi- nent Republican leader; Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for Pres- ident, and Robert Minor, of the Com- munist Executive Committee, Round tables will be held on such topics as national self-sufficiency vs. interna- tional co-operation, and the future of democracy under the NRA. Vassar students will present a play entitled The American Plan, and it is hoped that President Roosevelt will consent to address the conference. Expenses willbe kept as low as possible. The registration fee will be one dollar or a dollar“and a half at the maximum. Arrangements -activities. Skill _ in Reading Emphasizes” °° ~ Directness and Sincerity of Her Style RECITES NEW POEMS It is not oftem that a Goodhart audience receives a poet with such en- thusiasm as that afforded Edna St. Vincent Millay when she gave select- ed readings from her poems on the night of Monday, December 18. For not only did she read well; she read as if she liked to read to us, and she * read so that she could be heard, She © made,. however, no comments in the course of her reading, and it was not until the Deanery session that the stu. dents were able to sound her views on poetry and the modern poets. Avoiding weighty dictums, she re- plied to the inevitable undergraduate query, “What is your definition of poetry?” with the answer she had giv- en to a similar question on a Vas- sar final examination: “Poetry,” she said on that occasion, “is something reverently written by great men and blasphemously defined by undergrad- uates in female institutions.” Miss Millay is convinced that the test of a poem’s goodness is mainly a personal one, to be estimated by — the thrill of emotion which reading it provokes in you or me. A poem may be written on any subject, provided that subject moves the writer so strongly that she fairly has to scream on paper. While an essay must treat of a thought, the first consideration for a poem is the expression of beau- ty, the thought being a secondary matter. To hear Miss Millay read her own work is to realize twice over how’ sincerely and how strongly she has been moved on all those subjects, even the most apparently trivial, of which she chooses to write. Constant sincerity of sentiment is often more difficult of achievement than occa- sional grand passion; and it is this sincerity, together with a keen- sense for the ever-present beauty in the world around her, that constitutes the matter of the poetry of Miss Millay. The artistic skill in choice of word and simplicity of phrase which has always characterized her work be- comes strikingly apparent under the lingering emphasis with which she reads aloud her verse. After reading two short pieces, “Autumn Chant” and “The Spring . and the Fall,” from the volume en- titled HARP WEAVER, the author went on to the “Ballad of the Harp Weay- (Continued on Page Four) Bryn Mawr Club Invites Students to Holiday Tea The News has received the follow- ing letter from Mrs. Helen Riegel Oli- ver (Mrs. Howard T. Olivier) presi- dent of the New York Bryn Mawr Club: Probably by ‘this time each under- graduate has received an invitation to meet the New York members of 1932 and 1933 at tea..on January 3 from four to six at the Bryn Mawr Club. We do hope that you will all be able to come. The Board of Gov- ernors welcomes you to.the Club and hopes-that you will find our quarters at the Park Lane so comfortable and so central a meeting place that you will want to join the Club and come often. We feel that the Club*is very im- . portant as a link between students and alumnae. For us who have grad- uated, it represents the college in New York, making contacts with other Women’s College Clubs, participating in various allied enterprises and serv- ing as headquarters for Bryn Mawr But to you, who are still at college, the Club has a great deal to .offer. The Park Lane is a con- venient place to stay and have meals ov with Club reductions, to entertain. men, and, to all practical purposes, — (Continued on Page Two) + : al Pd (Continued. on Page Four) i + atecesmamictason Page Two THE COLLEGE NEWS a i THE COLLEGE NEWS (Founded in 1914) | WITS END 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 pains Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part witheut written permission of the - Editor-in+Chief. Copy Editor Nancy. Hart, °34.: Sports Editor SALLY Howe, °35 - WE ditor-in- ‘Chief SALLIE JONES, “34 News Editor J. ‘ELIZABETH HANNAN, °34 Editors ELIZABETH MACKENZIE, "34 FRANCES PORCHER, ‘36 FRANCES VAN KEUREN, ‘35 Subscription Manager DorotHy KALBACH, °34 8 GERALDINE RHoaDs, °35 CoNSTANCE RoBINSON, *34 Diana Tate-SmIitTH, 35 Business Manager BARBARA Lewis, °35 Assistant MARGARET BEROLZHEIMER, °35 Doreen Canapay, '36 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 MAILING PRICE, $3.00 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office - 2 5 ; d Fe % interests of being sophisticated and “of the world.” | * Brace Yourselves Whenever any group of undergraduates departs for a Christmas vacation a great deal of advice is always forthcoming from those who feel qualified to dispense it, but this year we feel that the time has -eome for us to call a halt to codified suggestions for. behavior and to think for a moment about just what is expected of us on this particular occasion. We are making our debut into the world of Repeal and our elders and superiors will be watching our every move to see whether| or not we have sufficient good sense to enjoy the altered status of alcohol without making ourselves ridiculous. ~ The ery of the crusaders for Repeal was that it was doing the younger generation untold harm and encouraging them to drink in the The time when that might have been-said has passed, and in the future the mark of what we will, out of respect for antiquity and hope for the future, call a lady, will not be the quantity of cocktails and highballs she can put away without disappearing under the table, but the intelligence and taste which she displays in regard to the choice and consumption of wines, and the restraint which she exhibits in regard to alcohol in general. What none of us born in the era of gin and whisky realize is that they were intended for the consumption of gentlemen at all times, and for that of ladies only upon the occasion of fainting spells, sudden bad news, or the overturn of a“horseless carriage. A lady did not drink whisky and soda with the utter abandon of her escort and we have a suspicion that she will not do it in the future.. However, this was never intended for a Vogue treatise on wines and whiskys, but was intended as reminder that the eyes of the world at large will be upon us in our play as never before, and if we fail to support the arguement of the champions of Repeal that the return of lawful liquor would not drive us deeper into our cups, but on the contrary would pry us at least up to a level with the lip of said cup, we will be making rather childish spectacles of ourselves. The shortcomings of the social behavior of this generation have been blamed on Prohibition by the wets: let us not give the drys a counter-attack by increasing those shortcomings at the very beginning. And in the interests of the néw attitude of youth let us formulate a few rules which might be observed at a formal dinner under the new deal. First, one is not expected to consume the ancient number of cocktails before dinner; secondly, no wine glass should be drained to the very bottom before everyone is seated at the table; thirdly, when the glass has been drained it is necessary to rely upon the intuition of the butler and the grace of the hostess—in other words one absolutely cannot turn full around on one’s chair and shout for another round; fourthly, there is a limit’to the amount of wine one can consume, and, as the dinner must go on, due respect for the order and schedule of the courses should be observed. And lastly let it be remembered that formal dinners last a long time and that the combination of all the various wines placed before one has most unbalancing effects if they are treated individually as the first and last liquid to be seen during the evening. We say this in addition as we would hate to hear of any occasion upon which a studént, so overcome by the splendor of the repast, quietly retreated into the land of Morpheus during the dessert. That is absolutely prohibited under the new rules and constitutes a foul for which the hostess is entitled to a free shot. If we keep these few simple rules in mind we should have little difficulty in convincing the world at large that we are not barbarians by nature and that we are only too willing to behave in a dignified fashion if they will give us dignified laws. In order to cover fully any emergency which may arise during the holiday season we have tried _to work out some satisfactory precepts by which we might be guided in case one of our elders broke any of the rules outlined above. “We have been unable to reach any solution that is entirely adequate, but, in case of.a sudden emergency, when collected thought, is impossible, we suggest the application of smelling sdlts to the patient and a witty remark concerning the temperature of the room. Since smelling salts _ were definitely au fait in the old days, to produce them would add just the atmosphere of tradition that our generation lacks. And finally allow us to wish you all A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We assure you we are going to have both. A bird egg collection was recently From the Oklahoma Daily v we read = - added to the University of Colorado|that a public speaking instructor est. ‘remark, “So you won’t talk, eh?” It is one of the best and| flunked a student with the cryptic | most complete in the ) ' MY- COUNTRY NEEDS ME If I were big I’d neither be A soldier nor a sailor; The one is never out at sea, The other’s semi-whaler. I think as a marine my luck From Iceland shore to Libyan, Would please me as it does the duck, To be a bird amphibian. —Fickle’ Female. ra POUARTES KEEPING UP WITH \THE ’ ALUMNAE At the charity performance of Carmen, sponsored by the higher so- cial lights of ‘New York, our favor- ite New York Evening Journal re- porter spotted “Leta Clews looking more than charming in ‘a Spanish shawl and a sombrero.” My! the clothes. unconsciousness of ‘a college girl! THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS My lady slept within her bower One bright December morn, And dreamt of orchids all in flower And May greens newly shorn. When suddenly the silence broke,— She tore a golden lock (Like all the olden, lauded folk) — And stilled the hoarse-toned clock. She leapt from out ter Simmons bed And washed and gan she dress, From which procedure quick she sped, To breakfast—more or less; And there beside her china plate, Were piles of envelopes, Each purple stamp-ed like its mate; ' The one on top she opes. “Alas! Alas,” the damsel wept,: “Look you, my darling, hard— That frightful woman, Smith yclept, Hath sent a Christmas card. I crossed her off my mailing list, A week ago today; And I was so sure if I missed Just her, ’twould be O. K.” The knightly husband sat behind His early morning sheet, He scanned the news, nor knew why pined His love, his duck, his sweet, = “QO Edward, list the boon I beg, Put down your buxom Post, And quit your ham, your wott-boited ege, Your sweetly sereene esac O Edward, Edward, get thee hence Unto the city store, . And get me there with copper pence, A card to please the bore. Post-marked December twenty-four At least it ought to be, Would I had bought just one card more, You should this day be free.” Her husband breakfasted a gulp, Into his coat he slipped, The Post he folded into pulp, And out the door he whipped. He mounted on a trolley-car That stopped at every light, And every light shone red afar, The streets were crowded tight. But finally our hero reached _A big department store, Where all within the salesgirls screeched, To drown the rabble’s roar. But*cards there were none now yet -whole, Each missed an envelope; And all of them had paid the toll Of hargete aunting folk. And so he aia upon his heel, _And walked the store without, To shop where he preferred to deal -—But oh! The fearful rout! Our Edward stalked adown the aisle, _He thrust his long arm through, And grabbed a card, though crushed the while, What card he never knew. He signalled to the lovely maid Who rang up all the cash, But she-to him-no notice paid, _And so the knight grew rash. He leapt across the ‘pressing throng, His buckler straight before, He paid his pence, and rung the gong, eras And shut the pence-filled drawer. -| Then leapt he back mid many sneers And ‘ill will ’mong all men, That lasted him throughout the years, And made him oft count ten. And back he came to his latly fair, She took the Christmas card, And kissed him nor did either care That happy blooming bard With meaning well thereon had writ, ‘“Dear One, be glad because’— Ah, me! The bitterness of it!— “There is a Santy Claus!” —Mme. X-mas. ON CLOSE CROSS-EXAMI- NATION When is the will to woo, They always bill and coo, And when at last they’re wed, As sages oft have said: They have to do their fill, .And then they boo and kill. —One Too Young To Know. GLORIA IN EXCELSIS "Twas the night of rehearsal, over the earth Of sheet ice a-plenty, of friction, a dearth, The big bus was teased o’er the high- ways with care In hopes other vehicles all would be- ware. Inside, the choir kept up quite a chatter, When—Slither! Slide! Bump! Now, what was the matter? Up from their seats they arose in a flash, Threw open the windows to see the great smash, When what to-their wondering eyes should appear But a car on the sidewalk, right close at the rear; And a furious driver, whose “vocab” was slick! They knew in a minute they’d pulled a fine trick. But you know the rest: they gave up the trip, And in great hilarity homeward did slip. and —Con Expressione. LAST-MINUTE CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS For Dad — Our new Razor-Edge collars, outdating the Arrow. For Mother — A _ chemical] set. Makes the most superb smells, stains, and sick people civilization has yet to know. For Sis—Nervous dromedaries. For Junior — Your picture made more personal with a Time caption sprinted underneath it. For Baby—A Muffler. If satisfied, tell others. If not, tell us. (Dieu te blesse, chacune, as Tiny Tim. would say!) —Cheero (and a bit of mock plum. ‘ pudding with Virginia Dare sauce) — THE MAD HATTER. Conference to be Held On Students in Politics Continued from Page One are being made to house students in .4 Washirigton for as little as seventy- five cents a night. Each delegate will arrange for his own meals, but the cost may average as little as a dol- lar a day, thus making six dollars the probable total of expenses in Washington. Information about reduced rates on bus and railroad lines may be ob- tained by writing the Executive Sec- retary of the conference, Kenneth Holland, at 140 Nassau street, New York. Application blanks may be ob- tained from Eleanor Fabyan, Pem West. One of Columbia University’s most ‘| ancient traditions—the annual fresh- man-sophomore tug-of-war — has been abandoned. Lack of interest and interference with traffic on busy streets were given as reasons for they abandonment, News of the New York -Theatres There has been-an influx of movie |actors from Hollywood this fall, bot rit had been taken all in a spirit of fun until Mary Pickford breezed into town and went about delightedly kiss- ing producers on the cheek and an- nouncing that she had returned “to appear in a clean play that will typi- fy the romance” which she feels is back in the lives of us all. She is warming up. to her task of appeal- ing to the better natures of the cos- mopolitans by doing three a day on a vaudeville stage and her vehicle is none other than The Churchmouse, We hate to put in our oar. where there is no water, but we wonder if Miss Pickford realizes that there is a faint suspicion concerning the mor- al welfare of the churchmouse in the minds of most all who have seen it. But she won’t do those scenes,-where the secretary and her émployer—oh! She simply couldn’t do it! *. i Judith Anderson has replaced Jane Cowl in-the cast of Come of Age, the play about Thomas Chatterton which Clemence Dane has just compléted. Delos Chappell is handling the pro- duction, and Miss Anderson will have the support of Stephen Haggard in the leading male role. Just what will be forthcoming when the curtain.rises on this history of the literary genius and forger who had many adventures and many loves before his death by » his own hand at the age of seventeen is a mystery to us. It will certain- ly be something new and different— for us all, including Miss Anderson, and it opens in mid-Jauary. Further proof of the fact that no one can let well enough: alone but must take care that when it rains success it pours instead of merely misting comfortably, is the announce. ment that James Dale has written a play soon to be produced. Mr. Dale is at present achieving a rather rous. ing success as Dulcimer in The Green Bay Tree, and one who has observed his manoeuvers in the interests’ of art find it hard to credit him with the creation of a very red-blooded melodrama, as his Wild Justica is reputed to be. Anyway, it will open soon and has behind it the experi-. ence of a run last season in London. It is laid in an English village dur- ing the dear dead ’80’s when there was plenty going on that the histor- ians didn’t think fit for the eyes and ears of posterity, but those things al- ways leak out and Mr. Dale is giving some of them a healthy push. Miriam Hopkins opened in the Owen Davis drama, about New Or- leans seventy-five years ago, on Tues- day, too late for this edition, but we will be greatly amazed if it does not supply the fuel for a great many critical bonfires and for a great many conversations over the better bars in the gentlemen’s clubs. Others who will dash about ancient New Orleans are Cora Witherspoon, Reed Brown, Jr., Frances Creel, Frederic Worlock and Owen Davis, Jr. Guthrie Mc- Clintic is the producer and no one wants it to go more than that worthy, for the season has been getting along - without his having produced a big hit. And while we are on the sub- ject of Mr. Davis’ play we would like to know if in present geologic time the senior’'member of the Davis fam- ily has ever written a play into which Junior did not project himself. It is -|a pretty picture that springs into our minds at the thought of the Davis family at home. Junior sitting on his father’s lap saying in a_ coddling tone, “Pops, your little man wants to try and make a name for himself for the hundredth time—please be a’ nice Daddy, and write yourself anoth- er play.” And the ‘proud father of all this talent replying, “My little pride and joy, you shall have a play to ruin as much as you can in a minor part just as soon as I have finished this cigar.’ And so we have got many of our plays. (We will | eontinue these intimate sketches of the homelife of the great in our next issue.) Raymond’ Massey and Adrienne Al. len are-returning to our shores in February in Nearer Than I, a play by the English writer, Keith Winter, in which Gladys Cooper will be star- red. Mr. Winter will be remember-” ed as the author of the exceedingly unpleasant, and excessively psycho- logical novel about Oxford, entitled Other Man’s Saucer. However, he ‘succeed in creating a name for him- self by the effort and has now- taken (Continued on Page Three) _ aging .minds, THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Three — Nature of God Shows By Christmas Story Reverend Leicester Cc. Lewis Gives Sermon at Sunday Carol Service SCENE REVEALS BEAUTY “Riddles,” said the Rev. Dr, Lei- cester C. Lewis in his address at the Christmas Service Sunday night in Goodhart, “forms an integral part in human life in stimulating and encour- nds, At the. Christmas. sea- son we are gathered in view of the oldest riddle in the world, one which goes back to the first thought of the first man, and one which may be sum- med up in the question, ‘What is God like?’” A Christmas service of any kind commemorates the answer given by God to man in that this answer is embodied in the Christmas scene. Many answers had been tried before during the history of mankind and had been found unsatisfactory. The earliest answer was found in the phe. nomena of nature. Man fell down and worshiped volcanoes, _ thunder and lightning, and great seas—all of which contained spirits, which, though often harsh and malignant in their treatment of him, were yet con- sidered worthy of adoration, perhaps in propitiation. It was many centuries, before a sec- ond answer was given. It was a ‘ more anthropomorphic conception and found material embodiment in idols, carved from wood and stone. The Greek statues of gods furnish the best examples of this personification of abstract virtues in the form of idols. Mars was the God of War, Venus the Goddess of Beauty, and so on until an entire hierarchy had been created with Zeus, who really contain- ed all the virtues, ruling over them all. This’ answer was also jnade- quate, for who can be enthusiastic over mere abstract principles? As Isaiah said, “Shall I fall down to a stump of a tree?” In the century before the coming of Christ the wisemen gave up seek- ing an answer to the riddle, “What is God like?” and God Himself decid- ..ed to give man an answer, — the _Christmas scene. Curriculum Committee Proposes, New Policy Continued from Page One junior year departments would hold conferences with all their major stu- dents to ensure that the plan of reading for the Comprehensive Ex- amination was fully understood and that students had every opportunity to read such books as especially ap~ pealed to them during the summet. There seems no reason at all to sup- pose that a change in the major sub- ject would be any more difficult un- der the plan proposed than it is at present. On the contrary, since there would be a deliberate effort to con- centrate most of the work of the ma- jor subject into the last two years, the possibility of making a change in the middle or at the end of the junior year would be increased rather than otherwise. Undoubtedly, a student who tried to change at the beginning of her senior year would be some- what handicapped unless she chose a subject in which she had already done a great deal of work. But that is true at present. For the first two years the effort would-be to make students diversify their courses rather more than they do under our present requirements. It would be very important for stu- dents to complete their required work early and also be prepared to pass their language examinations at. the beginning of their junior year. In many cases, of course, the German could be passed at the beginning of the sophomore year or even at the end of the freshman year. ..Students would on the whole be discouraged from taking Second Year work in the sophomore year except .when they wished to spend their junior year abroad. The accumulation of cred- its towards the degree would not be possible in the same sense that it is at present, and every one would be expected to carry full work for the last two years. Exceptions might possibly be made for students who lost time through illness in the jun- ior or senior year if they had com- pleted an unusual amount of work by. the end. of the-sophomore-year-but. some: procedure on this point would have to be worked out on the basis of experience. The passing mark for the Compre- hensive would be sixty, and since the students attempting it :would in all cases have completed two years of work in the major subject with marks of seventy or above there seems no reason at all to suppose that the ex- amination would be a more difficult test than the course examinations. That it ought to be a different kind of test is sufficiently obvious and un- less examinations are set which call for a broad view of the subject and for the power to reason about the facts and not merely to memorize them, the whole experiment will be a failure. It seems to many members of the Faculty worth while to make a change which holds promise of greater unity and meaning for the college course as a,whole, especially since it would in- troduce a type of work in the senior year, of which the majority of un- dergraduates at present have but lit- tle experience ‘and which has been found in other colleges to. develop ma- turity ,and ‘independence. Mrs. Hunt’s Readings © Convey Poets’ Meaning Continued from Page One Some of Elinor Wylie’s poems were read next ahd Mrs. Hunt ex- pressed her interest in Mr. James Stephen’s belief that “only lesser poets display emotion, and the great poets speak with passionate utterance, neither human nor personal, but rather anonymous and universal.” In accordance with this theory, “Elinor Wylie has more of the qualities of greatness than any other modern poet.” Mrs. Hunt read two of her ‘sonnets, the fascinating “Eclogue” and a charming little “Elegy.” The next poet whose; works were read is not very well known to most Americans. She was born in 1869, but her poetry was not known until 1923, so she really belongs to the moderns. Charlotte Mew was, how-. ever, praised by Thomas Hardy, Wal- ter de la Mare and many other poets who became her friends and secured a civil lists pension for her. Before this her life was one of exceptional poverty and sickness and was on the whole very unhappy. She died by her own hand in 1928. Her poems, as one might expect, are usually tragic, and it is hard to understand how even a few of them are really gay. They are all delicate and particularly in “In the Fields” and “Sea Love,” two of the poems which Mrs. Hunt read, one wonders how she was ever able to have such an understanding and feel- ing for nature, since she remained for most of her life in Bloomsbury. Besides these two Mrs. Hunt read “Rooms,” “Fame” and ‘I’ve Been Through the Gates,” three poems in her tragic mood. These are from her books, “The Rambling Sailor” and “The Farmer’s Bride.” Mrs. Hunt ended her reading with some of the newest work of that most modern of the moderns, Archi- bald MacLeish. These ‘“Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller’s City” are,.merely amazing when read, to oneself, but as interpreted by Mrs. Hunt, they took on their true life and vigor as well. She read the first and last poems in the book; the last first and the first last, because most people think the first one the best in the collection. This is “Landscapes in the Nude,” an extraordinary poem of powerful symbolism. The last is “Background of the Revolution,” an amazing mass of dynamic impressions, “In these poems,” said Mrs. Hunt, “MacLeish is like Walt Whitman in ‘I Sing America.’ They both have the quali- ties of thrill and harshness.” Mrs. Hunt said that she had_in- tended to read some of Edna St. Vin- cent Millay, but had. decided not. to when she heard that the author would read some of her own poems on Monday. A tradition as old as the univer- sity itself was | abolished recently when President Conant, of Harvard, acceding to the wishes of the_stu- dents in the yard, agreed that the university’s college bells should not ring at 7 A. M. but remain silent until 8.40. Katherine Hepburn Takes _Star Role in New Tragedy & Continued from Page One noticed, their car overturns into the lake which has been’ built by ‘the mother at the expense of the copse Stella loved so well, and which is a symbol of the artificiality and cruel- ty of the life she-has led in. the past. John is killed, but such a blessing as to die with him is denied Stella, and she. has to go on living. when everything within her has died. Cecil comes back to her; her mother plans an immediate trip to Cannes for her health, and suggests that. the family dress for dinner as a cure for her unhappiness. Her answer to all their reiterations that her life has suffer- ed only a momentary setback is to go alone to the lake, where she has been in spirit since the last time she and John were together. The play seems to us to be one of the best and certainly one of the most sincere tragedies which the modern stage has contributed in many a year. The entire tone of the play is set for the tragedy to come—there are no extraneous bits of experience thrown in as fuel for an already flaming fire. The construction of the characters is carried through with the use of a single devise—the lake. The moth- er, Mildred Surrege, conceives the idea because she wants to outdo her rival for social leadership, and be- cause she thinks that gardens are made to be forced to grow to reflect glory and opulence on their owners. Her husband, Henry, is a quiet lit- tle man, who is allowed nothing but what his wife says he may have and her allowance does not include so un- obtrusive an item as love.’ He has attempted to satisfy his desire to love something by creating a little corner of the garden and by feeling the country around him. Lena Surrege, the aunt of Stella, is a completely un- derstanding person, who loathes her opulent sister-in-law for the fool she is and who shares with Henry and Stella the desire'to make of life more than a “Chinese pagoda with drag- ons all over it.” The lake is a symbol of the life which Stella has had to lead and that.it.should be the agency for de- priving her of the raison d’etre of her’ life only adds to the irony and tragedy of the play. If the day for allegory had not passed The Lake could very easily be the Pilgrim’s Progress of our day. As a tragedy of action The Lake will never stand on the action now present in it, but as the tragedy of a mode of living, and a way of think- ing it will hold for a few, and for those it will have a great appeal. But, in order to adapt it to American au- diences there are several things which must be done with it—Cecil must be changed to a.more positive cad — the relationship between John and Stella must receive a great deal more attention and must be made more a definite part of the play. Un- less it is given an importance quite apart from the tragedies that follow it there will be no reason for the later actions of Stella... And the wed- ding scene must go. The dialogue is excellent—on the whole the best modern dialogue that Ihave read in some time, and espe- cially adapted to the characters, and the emotional tone of the play. It is short, choppy, pent-up dialogue which is descriptive of the mental states of the persons involved, and for that reason it is especially satisfactory. Also without sacrificing any of the effect the authors have managed to work into the rather brusque method of delivery of the central character a great deal of feeling and emotion which might otherwise -have been sacrificed. As for the future of the play and Miss Hepburn’s role in it—I can only say that unless Miss Hepburn has gone completely and revoltingly Hol- lywood she should score a great suc- cess.in it... If she has gone Holly- wood she will miss the emotion in the play and it will fail. If she plays the part much as she played that of the daughter in The Bill of Divorce- ment there should be little to criti- cize in her characterization. Miss Hepburn has in The Lake one of the best star roles that has come out in many a moon, and she has its fate in her own two hands. If a prophecy of the period that it will be running in New York may be ventured, I would say three to four months. It is a very good play, but it depends on implications for too many import- ant incidents and American audiences can manage to miss more implica- tions than any other gatherings of people in the world. The Lake seems to me to be a very good play—not a great one—but one which treats of a modern tragedy which has less dra- matic scope, but more connection with the lives of the people that will pay to see it, than the greater tragedies and plays of the century. It is not a masterpiece, but it has a great emo- tional appeal and it also has Miss Hepburn—for hetter or for worse. With many taunts and_ slogans, Northwestern students marched 750 strong protesting the suggested mer- ger of their institution with the Uni- versity-of Chicago. ; News of he New York Theatres (Continued from -Page Two) to plays. Miss Cooper, who has long been a favorite with London audi- ences, will make her Broadway debut in the piece. She has been seen in past seasons in. The Man in Posses- sion, with Raymond Massey, and in numerous other hits. Adrienne Allen was last seen here in Cynara, with Philip Merivale, and Mr. Massey left . the States abruptly after the Nor- man Bel-Geddes Hamlet presented its sponsor with a funeral bill for $150,. 000. Better than any gangster did. even before we had Repeal. : Meet your friends at the Bryn Mawr Confectione (Next to Seville Theater Bldg. 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" a a Page Four THE COLLEGE, NEWS' Noted Critic Explains Beginning of Career Continued from Page One letter of introduction to her husband. She sent him to the Managing Edi- tor, to whom she telephoned before Mr. Woollcott chanced to have gotten all the way out of the house, so that he was enabled to, overhear what she said: He is perfectly willing to clasp her words to his bosom as an epi. taph: “I don’t know whether this | boy will ever be able to write, but | he ought to make a good reporter, be- cause he’s the damndest, nosiest per- son I ever saw.” As it happened, Mr. Woollcetté got his job on The Times, on Which he worked for 19 years; for 13) of them he was a dra- matic critic. Being a dramatic crit- ic is a singular occupation. It was his duty to go to a first night every night, and just as the curtain start- ed to fall, to leap to his feet, tram- pling women and children, to rush to his office with the speed of a glacier, and there to leap at a waiting type- writer, while near him croughed two telegraph operators who wired his criticism to the paper, paragraph by paragraph. The result was that by the time the third paragraph was written, he had forgotten what he had said in the first. He finally broke down. Mr. Woollcott’s advice to the innumerable young people who have asked him how to get where they want to go is that no young person can tell what he will be inter- ested in doing in 15 or 20 years. The field of journalism which now inter- ests him most is the radio, but he could not have foreseen the radio when he decided to be a dramatic critic. Mr. Woollvott described some of the rewards and trials of journalism. All reporters are neurotic because they are hounded by the fear of ty- pographical errors. The New Yorker never has any because it is edited by a maniac on the subject, capable of such vile tempers that a whole office is devoted to nothing but checking | proof. From 18 to 20 pages are sent to press every day, and each page has to pass three individuals, anyone of whom will be shot if any typo- graphical errors are found on any of those pages. But all of Mr.: Wooll- cott’s work was done at midnight, so thathe never had time to see the paper until the second or third edi- | tion; if there was an error, nothing could be done about it then. Slips of type usually produce words of per- fect sartity, as is apparent in his ref- erence to Miss Helen Hayes as wear- ing a “punk” dress, or to Mr. Nathan as a “bottle-scarred” veteran of the war. Such errors are even worse on the radio; when he spoke as_ the “Town Crier,” he frequently referred to himself as the “Crown Tieer.” But one advantage of the radio is that at least the speaker is invisi- ble. Mr. Woollcott realized that. un- til television .is perfected, no Shakes- pearean part, even that of _the—lean and hungry Cassius to Romeo, was beyond him. He did play the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet with Miss Helen Hayes, and only after they had started the broadcast did they realize that they had complete- | ly. forgotten to get a nurse, so that | for the first time, the parts of Romeo | and of the nurse were played by the same person. The rewards of speaking over the radio are incalculable. One evening he broadcast the story of the Christ- mas Eve on the front in 1914, when the Germans were lined up opposite .the English and Scotch along a stretch of Flanders field, at a dis- tance of about 60 yards. The story was told Mr. Woollcott by a young lieutenant, who had been present and heard after the men had crawled into their bunks, the sound of Silent Night played on an accordion in the Ger- man trenches; ~The whole front lis- > tened. When the tune died down, the silence was broken with Onward, Christian Soldiers, played Cockney mouth organ from the Al-| lied trenches. Until about midnight | the concert lasted; then the lieuten- ant was aroused by a sentry, saying, “Something funny has happened, Sir. | We were patrolling the hedge when someone said in English, ‘Why don’t we have a party tomorrow? Here: are some cigarettes.’” The next morning all of No Man’s Land was - full of troops, swapping breakfasts and taking photographs of each -high~black-hats~of-the- French may=+ | Lear: | someone else was about to play the in sl other’s lieutenants. They held a mas- querade in the silk parasols and the ors, which they had swiped on their way through French villages, and a football game was arranged for the next day. But by the next day, word had gotten back to the brigadier-gen- eral and orders came to fire at a cer- tain time. The orders were carried out and some young German soldiers who were out talking peaceably along the front were unfortunately mowed j|down. That end | Ahe fraternizing on the Western front, but the inter- esting part of the story to Mr. Wooll- cott was that the next day after broadcasting it, he received a letter from. a telegraph operator in New Jersey, saying that he had turned on his radio the night before, happened to hear that broadcast, and was writ- ing to Mr. Woollcott because he had been the sentry who woke up the lieutenant and told him = about the message that Christmas Eve. Mr. Woollcott believes that Eugene Field was perhaps the greatest of all newspaper men. He was a dramatic critic in Denver City and was held in awe by every actor. At one of Mrs. Fiske’s first performances in Den- ver City, he threw a bunch of vio- lets at her feet when she came out to take her bow, and pulled them back on a string as she bent to pick them up.. He practiced the cough with which Modjeska punctuated the dy- ing scene of Camille until he had it to such perfection that every whoop from the stage was answered by an antiphonal response from the audi- ence. But perhaps Mr. Field’s great- est claim to fame was his criticism of Preston Clark’s portrayal of King “Last night, Mr. Preston Clark played King Lear. All through the five acts, he played the king as though under an apprehension that ace.” Bryn Mawr Club Invites Students to Holiday Tea Continued from Page One be chaperoned. Our rooms are delight- ful for tea, or as a meeting. place or resting spot between appointments, or dressing room if you are going out to dinner. The Membership Committee, Mrs. Louis Darmstadt (Ruth Rickaby, 1927), Chairman; Mrs. Frederick A. 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A tale told by a young boy of his mother is mat- ter asking tenderness, not passion; calling for description, pictorial rath- er than suggestive. Tenderness and pictorial portrayal of a scene are two qualities in which Miss Millay excels; while deep passion she does not choose to handle, and imaginative sug- gestion she relies on little. Perhaps nowhere does the clear, precise quality of her description or lthe sentiment concealed beneath an. apparently innocent pictorial sketch come out so well as in the closing stanzas of The Harp Weaver: | v “There sat my mother , With the harp against her shoulder, Looking nineteen And not a day older, A smile about her lips, And a light about her head, And her hands in the harpstrings Frozen dead. And piled up beside her And toppling to the skies, Were the clothes of a king’s son Just my size.” In the “Ballad of the Harp Weav- er,” Miss Millay is seeing and tell- ing a story through the eyes and lips of a child. The dwice is a fav- orite one with her, and her handling of the shades of feelings, of a young girl particularly, are always thor- oughly convincing. Single incidents or thoughts she renders in complete sincerity, pictorial or emotional. The snatches, “From A Little Sphinx,” are trifles, but trifles perfect of their kind, because the momentary doubt or gaiety; delight or secretiveness of a child does not demand, in fact, of itself forbids that reflective analysis of mood, which wé cannot but feel constitutes a definite lack in the more ambitious emotidnal efforts of Miss Millay’s serious lyrics and of her sonnets. “Exiled” and “The Buck in _ the Snow,” from the volumes, SECOND APRIL an THE BUCK IN THE SNow, represent Miss Millay in serious “Exiled” brings out the poet’s love for the tangible things of the seashore—the “green piles growing Under the windy wooden piers,” the “bobbing barrels,” and the “black sticks that fence the weirs’”—and the | happy emotion that springs from re- creating the well-known picture in her mind’s eye. “The Buck in the Snow” achieves a clear and beautiful- ly drawn pictorial effect; the con- scious subjection of the thought on death to the beauty of the scene de- FANSLOW Distinctive Sportswear Stetson Hats for Women ARDMORE 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 visit you. L. E. METCALF, Manager. ing: it is a You'll have time to see only the best plays in New York during the Christmas holidays: So of course you’re planning to visit MEN IN WHITE it’s the only modern drama that’s a striking success: it is now in its fourth month: it is one of two plays to have received the four-star rat- serious contender for the Pulitzer Detnas not to see it is to ‘miss the most stirring theatrical experience of this amazing season. BROADHURST THEATRE—+4th street west of Broadway Eves. 8:45 p. m.—Seats 50c to $2.50 (plus tax). Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:40 50c to $2 sos | scribed well illustrates Miss Millay’s conviction that beauty in a bia? ‘al- ways comes before thought. '“Portrait By A Neighbor” was the piece chosen by Miss Millay to be read from the volume, Figs From Thistles. The effect of the poem herg consists in a series of. cleverly con- structed little pictures, which afford by way of illustration a certain unity: of thought. Miss Millay read two new poems, “Sappho Crosses the Dark River Into Hades” and “Apostrophe to Man,” which are to be published next year. The one is a skillfull handling of a tender passion; the other is inter- esting because it was written, reflecting that the world is ready to go to war again.” It’is not a serious poetic effort. Miss Millay concluded her reading by «presenting Two Slatterns. and a King, which she designates’ “a moral interlude.” The poetry, she pointed out, is informal doggerel, but the moral of the poem is a serious -one. LUNCHEON, TEA, DINNER Open Sundays | Chatter-On Tea House 918 Old Lancaster Road Telephone: Bryn Mawr 1185 BRYN MAWR “on | The play is typical of much of her lighter work. Through a rather tri- sented, an old, old moral is brought out,—the great theme of Chance. Her skill lies in the simplicity with which the case is put, and the effortless di- rectness with which she drives home her point. 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