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VOL. XIX, No. 11

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BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA.,

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1933

COLLEGE

Copyright BRYN MAWR
NEWS,

PRICE 10 CENTS

1933

 

 

Dr. Beebe Lectures

on Deep-Sea Fish

 

Pictures Phosphorescent Fish
Living Beyond Reach of
Light Rays

 

DESCENDED 2200 FEET

 

In discussing their respective
flights above and below the earth’s
surface, Piccard in a.free balloon 10.3
miles up, where, the pressure is one-
tenth of an atmdsphere, and Beebe in
a bathysphere, down undersea where
the pressure is eighty atmospheres,
the two explorers laughingly con-
trasted the absence of angels above to
the absence of mermaids below. How-
ever, Dr. William Beebe, lecturing in
Goodhart Hall, January 19, said that
he had seen twenty-seven submarine
sights, all alive, and all stranger by

far than those of Alice in Wonder-
land.

Submarine life has been the last.
field of investigation, despite the in-
teresting. fact that human blood is
just like salt water in its constitu-
ents, only three times as fresh. With
diving bells and diving suits the’
greatest depth Dr. Beebe attained was
only sixty feet, and the very greatest
diving record for a human being is a
525-foot dive of one moment’s dura-

tion in a fresh water lake in Ger-|

many. Contrasted with a possible
200-foot depth attainable in a diving
suit, and a 400-foot ‘evel in a sub-
marine, we have Beebe’s descent 2200
feet below sea level in his bathysphere
off the coast of Bermuda last Sep-
tember.

The pvathysphere, as it stands im-
proved after difficult experiences in
uncoiling the thirty-seven turns of
wire is an ultramarine blue sphere
four and one-half feet in
diameter, weighing two tons out of
water. It has quartz windows to with-

‘ stand a pressure of 5,000 tons on the

sphere-—fourteen tons on each win-
dow alone, and a general pressure of
nine hundred ninety-six pounds per
square inch. The temperature inside
is kept at aboyt seventy. degrees,
while outside it is down to fifty-two
degrees, and the=oxygen supply is
regulated by chemical apparatus pro-
ducing exactly two liters of oxygen
per minute, and containing absorbents
for the moisture and carbon dioxide
given off.

At ‘seven hundred feet, all daylight
vanishes, the infra red rays being ab-
sorbed first; at eight hundred feet
only a dirty white line remains on
the spectrum, and at seventeen hun-
dred feet there is no spectrum at all
and the only lights are. the luminous
organs of many of the fish, which
shine with one hundred per cent. cold
light as compared with the three per
cent. of pure light with which the or-
dinary electric bulbs shines. Look-
ing at these luminous fish, Dr. Beebe
pointed out, was like looking at the
planets, especially in the case of a
six-foot fish with red and blue glob-
ules on its tentacles and a line of
portholes on the side of its body.

The naturalist illustrated his talk
with slides of fish drawn by his art-
ists in color from specimens brought
up by trawling and kept in refrig-
eration for’ observation, with moving
pictures of his dives, and of deep sea
fish, and with animated cartoons

Showing the life and development of

some of the fish at too great a depth>
to. be actuall¢ photographed.
He showed drawings of small vari-
colored crustaceans, of brown and
(Centinued on Page Four)

 

Liberal Club

There was a meeting of the
Liberal Club Tuesday- night.
The meeting decided to suggest
to the college the plan. of forfn-
ing a non-partisan political so-
ciety “to replace the Liberal
Club. The first speaker of the
' second semester will be a tech-

nocrat. :

 

 

 

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Four of the cast of Murder in the Red Barn, to be done here in February’
They are here seen singing “Come, Birdie, Come,”

by the Jitney Players.
one of the entre-act divertissments.

 

“Come, Birdie, Come’’

 

 

COLLEGE CALENDAR

Thursday, January 26—Vo-
cational Tea at 5.00 P. M. Miss
Eleanor A. Bliss, Bryn Mawr
21, will speak on Laboratory
Work and Scientific Research.

Friday, January 27 — Last ~

day of lectures.

Friday, January 27—At 4.00
P. M., basketball, Bryn Mawr
1st and 2nd teams vs. Drexel
Institute 1st and 2nd teams.

Monday, January 30 — Mid-
year examinations begin.

Friday, February 10 — Mid-
year examinations end.

Tuesday, February 14—Sev-
ond semester begins.

 

 

 

College Radio Program
Include World Figures

 

A nationwide broadcast over the
National Broadcasting Company
chain will carry the speeches of Dr.
Albert Einstein, Dr. Wm. B. Munro,
and Mr. Henry M. Robinson to the
four corners of the United States on
the evening of January 23, when the
combined colleges of Southern Cali-
fornia present a program in the in-
terest of public opinion. The session,
which will be.centered in the Civic
Auditorium in Pasadena, California,
will present’ the student’s point of
view when H. Rawlins Overton, pres-
ident ‘of the associated students of
the University [ot Redlands, speaks
on “The American Student and His
Relation to WorldjProblems.”

The sponsoring body of student
body pfesidents from the eleven col-
leges and universities of Southerr
California is offering the program in
order to stimulate an objective in.
terest in the big issues of current
events and world interests. They say,
“The sole motive of the student body
leaders of the Southern California
Colleges and Universities in present-
ing this program as well as the pro-
gram of last year, has been to arouse
‘an intelligent interest in world af-
fairs with the hope that such inter-
est will wok ast into rational pub-

HHre-

ay ated

“Epinrne :
Dr. Albert Einstein, who arrived in
Southern California on January 9,
is visiting the California Institute of
Technology and the surrounding edu-
cational centers through the generos-
ity.of the Oberlaender Trust of the
Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation,
which exists for the promotion of
cultural: relations~ between the Ger-
man-speaking peoples and the people
of the United States of America. Dr.
Einstein, who has always: addressed
his American audiences in German,
may speak in English for the, first
time, although it is not definitely
(Continued on Page Four)

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Changes in Squad Result
of Basketball Practice

 

No new entries but several changes !

are the results of the Varsity bas-
ketball practice last week. On Fri-
day, Faeth’s co-operation with Col-
lier,
high scoring, gave her a considerable
lead on Baker, whose passing was
‘hurried and her shooting often wide
of the basket.
ly and even Collier was inclined to

Everyone played wild-

“travel” on her shots.

After trying out several combina-
tions, Miss Grant finally discovered
one which proved to be the most suc-
cessful of the afternoon. _The team
was as follows:

Collier—right forward.
Faeth—left forward.
Kent—center.
Remington—side-center.
Jackson—right guard.
Bridgman—le€t guard.

Although Kent is one of the best
guards on the squad, she should, if
the new tip-off rules are adopted,
make an excellent center, an import-
ant post, and one for which candi-
dates are sadly lacking, due to Long-
acre’s continued absence.

The second team, we also notice,
is beginning to assume definite form.
Meirs and Baker so far have formed
the most successful combination in
the forward positions, with Daniels,
Raynor,and Simons close Btkthd them.
Horsburgh has a slight advantage
over Monroe for the center position,
while James, although small, is ex-
tremely quick on her feet and is giv-
ing Collins a close race at side-cen-
ter. Bowditch is as usual playing

a steady game at guard, but Bishop
sine keeps too far away _from her
forward, leaving her to drop back di-
rectly under the basket to feceive a
pass from the center for an easy
bank-shot.

This week will probably be the final
chance for team tryouts, so watch the
next News for a ‘complete and offi-

“eink ists 0f-the=Varsity<and=Second}:

Teams.

 

« Appointment

A clipping from the Associ-
ated Press, January 14, an-
nounces among the appoint-
ments and promotions at the
Hartford Theological Seminary,
the appointment of Dr. Hor- |
nell Norris Hart, professor - of
sociology at Bryn Mawr, to suc-
ceed: Professor Curtis M. Beer
-on the faculty of that institu-
tion.

 

 

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.|| REVIVE OLD MELODRAMA

her quick, accurate passes and.

Jitney Players to
Come to Bryn Mawr

 

Murder in the Red Barn and
Musical Divertissements
Make Program

 

Swimming Meets to
. Revive Class Rivalry |
Class Cups sdk Panels to be

‘ -Won Again in Interclass
Sports Contests

 

 

 

The Varsity Players have under

taken this spring to bring to!
the college a company of
actors whose work they feel!

is interesting and valuable enough to
call to the attention of the Bryn
These are the Jit-
their
Eastern
seaboard in a great truck, which is
also a portable stage.

Mawr audience.

 

ney Players, best known for
summer work touring the

ing Cheney, with a very definite style |
about them which is both assed

-|and unique.

The play they will present here late|
in February is known as the Mur der |
in the Red Barn, a rousing old-time |
melodrama about a murder and a}
ghost and the triumph of innocence. |
It will bring back to many the the-
atre of the past, and to those of the}
younger generation’ it will reveal the |
changes that. the drama has under-|

 

Jitney - Players present this drama)
| with all its old-time melodramatic ap- |
| peal, with all the furbelows in which!
the theatre used to dress its plays.
It is presented in all seriousness. The
era of the melodrama was a definite
and individual period in the theatre. |
Although these dramas of the past
thrilled_and moved to tears, it is most
interesting to note that the present
reaction is one of comedy, indicating |
both the change of style of the the-!
atre and in the emotional reaction of |
the new audience. |

Besides the play there are the fam- |
ous entre-act divertissements, that are |
really an evening’s entertainment in|
themselves. There is a splendid quar-|
tette of “Come, Birdie, Come,” that |
has been stopping the show ever since |
the Jitney Players started to do it,
six seasons ago. Then there is also |
the rendering by the gentlemen of
the company of ‘Man the Life-Boats,” |
and a Jitney tenor who carols the|
famous ballad, “The Fatal Wedding.” |
All in all the prgoram promises to be}
a most entertaining one and the Play- |
ers hope that the college will prove |
as interested as they themselves are, |

 

 

Danger From Scarlet |

Fever Cases is Slight |

 

In chapel, Friday, January | 20; |
Dean Manning discussed the history |
of the two cases of scarlet fever re-|

gone during the last fifty, years: The|

lor,

|S QUADS ANNOUNCED

 

Two swimming meets, February 24
{and March 38, at 4. 15, will mark the
beginning of a revived interest in class
sports. The class banners, till now
kept in mothballs, are being brought
out to decorate the gym for the event.
Cups are being polished and woodcut-
ters hired to bring the championship
panels in the gym up to.date. To

| keep pace with this interest the Physi-

cal Education Department Kas taken
| the practical measure of having the

It is a small | beam above the diving-board removed
and very enthusiastic ‘company of | so that any variety of diving, fancy ’

young people; headed -by~Alice Keat=| °F »therwise,-is—possible.

The events and rules for the swim-
ming meets.are. as. follows:

Events:

20-yard dash

Side-stroke for form

40-yard back-érawl

Crawl for form -

40-yard crawl

Diving.

Relay—4 lengths; four entries.

Rules:

1—There may be two entries for

each class in each event.
2—No contestant..may enter more
than two speed events, and one
other event; Relay is counted as
a speed event.

38—Anyone desiring to enter the
meet must go in at least three
times beforehand.

Class managers will have squad
practices which will be announced,
and anyone whose name is not on
the following lists and who is inter-
ested may sign up with her class
manager. The meets offers chances
for beginners because of the promi-
nence of form events, so they are urg-
ed to enter. The squads are, at pres-
ent, as follows:

19383 — Jackson, class manager;
Hunter, Balis, Bowditch, Candee,
Eckhardt, Funkhauser, Gill, C.; Mar-
shall, Mullen, Oldach, : Parker, Robes,
Gill, E.; Tyler, Lloyd, Jones, Darling-

| ton, Grausi, Torrance.

19384 — Meneely, class manager;
Baldwin, Bowie, Coleman, Daniels,
Dannenbaum, Gardner, Goldwasser,
Jarrett, Jones, S.; Landreth, Parsons,
Righter, Robinson, C.; Butler, Bredt,
and Parnell.

1935—Bill, class manager; Bucher,
| Cole, Curtis, Davy, Franchot, Hawks,
Hemphill, Hopkinson, Laird, Lane,
Little, P.; Lord, MacCurdy, Morri-
‘son, Page, Ripley, Robinson, N.; Tay-

Waldemeyer, Douglas, Hows,
'Morrow, Munroe, and Swab.
19386—Scott, class manager; Bax-

ported in the college this past week. | ter, Bright, Canaday, Cowenhoven,
Both Gases, the Dean had been ~“in- | Crenshaw, Davis, Goldwasser, Gray,
‘formed, were slight, and this fact,}Harrington, Hirschberg, Knapp, Mat-

tteombined with the progress that has | teson, Merchant, Morley, Noble, Ott,

been .made, recently in the treatment | Porcher, Stokes, Van Vechten, Whit-

{bation preceding some definite symp-

of scarlet fever, make the dan-
ger from this heretofore dreaded dis- |
ease comparatively small.

All the students who had been ex-|
posed, including all of Rockefeller and |
the students who may have had per- |
sonal contact with Miss Flanders ‘on |
her return from the infirmary on!
Wednesday, were given the Dick!
test. Those whose reactions have
been negative have not been quaran-
tined, and the students who have
been_exposed and SP not immune
to scarlet fever are being kept in the
graduate wing of Denbigh or have
been permitted to go home for a per-
iod of ten days—the incubation period
for scarlet fever. The infirmary and
Wyndham, meanwhile, are under)
strict quarantine, and Dr. Easby
holds regular consultation hours for
students in the gymnasium; the swim-
ming pool has also ‘been closed tem-
porarily. .

Since the ordinary period of incu-

toms of the disease is at most’a week,
the possibilities of an epidemic are
practically non-existent. . ; ;

 

 

ing, Wright, Wylie, Kimball,
bury, Heiskell, Kasselbaum,
| ward, A.; Cary.

Pills-
W ood-

 

‘Professional Players
Open 69th Street Theatre

 

There is'a new theatre in Phila-
delphia quite close’ to Bryn Mawr,
which may prove of great interest to
Bryn Mawr students in the future:
the new 69th’ Street,.Playhouse, lo-
cated at 69th and Chestnut Streets,
where a new company of professional

| players are inaugurating a little the-

atre movement. The company has
taken over a large room and made
of it one of the most charming small
theatres and stages we have seen. It
is exceedingly . well-equipped for the
production of good straight three-act
plays, although hardly for experi-
mental work. The aims of the group
seem to be the production of plays
fitted for little~theatre work in a
professional manner and the stimula-
tion of interest in the theatre in this
part of Philadelphia.
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- hounds will make their kill, but it is also immature.

‘should be able to pass every course she’takes, and if she does not, it is

‘with intelligent resignation, accepting our fate, and devoting our best

Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa.,

 

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Bacchanalia

With the prospect of the next two weeks and their attendant
difficulties before-us;-we-rise-once-more-to-plead-for-an- intelligent atti-
tude toward exams and their numerical outcome. It is difficult not to
tremble, like a frightened rabbit against.the day when the pursuing
Exams form part
of our education and they cannot come as a surprise to anyone. Since
October we have been doing our work, or have not been doing it, as the
case may be, fully cognizant of the final reckoning to come. There is
no reason to regard exams as fabrications of thé devil caleulated solely
to upset our digestions and. derange our minds. Everyone in college

her fault and not that of the system. The semi-annual rebellion against
exams which sweeps the campus reveals an immaturity and lack of
courage which is disheartening. Our screams of rage and pain serve
only to reduce our effectiveness at the crucial moment and interrupt
the mental processes of our friends. Exams are as inevitable as the
change of seasons; we have encountered them before and the majority
of us will do so again.. Therefore, let us face, the coming two weeks
efforts to doing our mentality the most credit with the least weeping
and tearing of hair.

When the marks. are posted the usual wild scramble to see what
we got and who got more than we did will undoubtedly ‘oceur. Bryn
Mawr students have espoused the theory that marks are the supreme
indieation of brains and accomplishment. They get a certain amount
of vicarious pleasure out of splitting hairs, and out of finding out as
much as possible about other people’s marks. It is a form of morbid
curiosity that keeps students rooted to the spot before the lists of marks
long after they have found their own numerical mental capacity. This
Bryn Mawr characteristic is lamentable; it is also apparently incurable.
During examinations Bryn Mawr devotes itself to the worship of marks,
and fo what end? No one is made more happy, and many are made
less so; no one is inspired to work harder or more intelligently. The
college must have some outlet for its pent-up hysteria and the posting
of marks constitutes an appropriate occasion for a numerical baccha-
nalia: As the ancient women ran wild through the mountains of
Greece, just so do the Bryan Mawr students rush screaming through the
halls of Taylor. We are not suggesting that this ancient and well-
loved custom be abandoned, for we have no desire to occupy the role
of a voice erying in the wilderness. Bryn Mawr will go on down
through the ages pursuing its infantile pleasures undisturbed by our
As a small child must have his electrie train, so must a,
We merely recognize the immutabil-

invective.
Bryn Mawr girl have her marks.
ity of it all, and regret it.

t 4

 

The Animal Kingdom

Freshman Show is a long way off, but while class passions are still
slumbering and definite preparations forbidden, it might be well. to
reflect on the extremes to which rivalry over
Those whose memory extends back so far, will recall that last year
Merion Green became the scene of a near riot, several private homes
were invaded, and harmless visitors were trailed while inspecting the
dormitories and admiring the library portraits. Nothing was unfair,
not even surveillance of the show-case, because there’ were no rules.

This year, since there was no Patade Night, all youthful exuber-
ance will be saved. for the Freshman Animal. Who knows what ex-
cesses may not be perpetrated in the traditional struggle next month ?
Class spirit may be mistaken for Bolshevism, suits may be brought for
battery and assault, distinguished lower classmen may be arrested for
conspiracy. The only crime of which they will not be suspected is
pacifism.

To avert such possibilities, we suggest that a committee of class
officers undertake to formulate Freshman Show rules similar to those
governing Parade Night. All activity concerning the aniimal should

participate, two-thirds of the freshmen should be required to know the
song, and some restriction should be placed on the amount of pay sical
violence permitted.

_ The annual game of hide-and- suk is ‘admittedly iitacitie. and
possible even childish, but it is great fun, and one of the things in
college which one would not like to miss. - Accordingly, lest this pleasant
sport degenerate, for want of a few simple rules, into bitter warfare,
we urge that some such pro Is be nape upon as those advocated

the animal may Kad} ~

 

 

 

 

THE LOBSTER QUADRILLE

“Won’t you work a little faster,” saia
the girl across the table—

“I’m afraid I can’t oblige you, this is
as-fast as I am able,

For my lobster’s a bit lively: he likes

to loop-the-loop—”

I know! , But can’t you see

that. he shortly will be soup?

And there’s nothing I dislike so
much—in my naivete—

As slimy soup—especially when it’s
nowhere near to Friday.”

yy OB,

‘So she pinced him with her pliers,

and he Mpped a weary claw

As she pried into his. insides for the
contents of his maw,

And cut up his intestines into little
juicy bits,

To please her tete-a-tete companion,
who was now engaged in fits

Of a most disgraceful nature: ag the

‘ latter sadly eyed

The mangled, murdered denizens of
the deep formaldehyde.

She undulated to her feet and writh-
ed across the floor,

With airy little flitterings she ia
out by the door,

Shepassed--clean-out-of--Dalton,and
went rolling on the green,

And nevermore since then hag our
heroine been seen;

But her last words are extant,
farther from Biology

I ever can attain to be, the nearer I
to sanity.”

“The

The lobster is departed, he reigned
two weeks as despot;
Bryn Mawr is glad — let lobsters
lie!—and raise a “Requiescat.”’
Campusnoop.

 

A FREE SOUL
Vunce on a time der war
In die Halle of Bryn Mawr
Ein general Brechen-Aus-
Nein, nein—nichts com der Haus—
Aber mit ein rote Rash
Das macht die Fraulein rasch
Zu rennen an die Nurse
For Better or for Worse.
Sie sagten dass sie waren exposet
An die Magd nun so geroset;
Ganz die Inf sein Schrecken dringt
Als sie vom der Doktor Shrinkt;
Aber sie allen waren gedickt
Und endlich waren aus geschickt,
Sie rompen nun mit feindlich Glee
Outside—around die Infirmarie! - .

—Merionette.

 

FRAGMENTS FROM “ALICE IN
CHEMISTRY LAND,” OR;
THROUGH THE SEP-
ARATORY FUNNEL
Sensuality
What fragrance of perfumes. steals

over my senses;
What sweetest. of noises assails my
ear!
"Tis the odor of aniline as it con-
denses,
*Tis the bubbling of yeast
now changing to beer.
a * ae
Reality
This’ heap of fine glistering flakes—
what can it be?
What wizardly power has now be-
come man’s? :
Can this be pure gold dust I see here
before mey |.
So ttred?
; No; friend—it’s picric;
look at my hands.”

cakes

iv

just

* *
' Hypnos
That rushing of waters, that sibilant
. hiss,
Can lull one to rest with ‘hypnotic
seduction;
Ah, how to extol the sweet, somnolent
bliss

Iriduced by the sound of filtration
by suction?

‘ es :
nN ' Revenge
If you loathe a person, and for him

or her ;
In search of slow tortures you o’er
the world seek, will

: ae ; TY yer find better than this?—
‘be limited to the campus, juniors and se-iors should be forbidden to}: eee ee ne ae

aver
Distilling destructively hast’t an
equal.
~~ —-Adamant Eve.

 

_ SPRING FEVER.
Anent the scarlet fever curse
Things could be a whole lot worse,
Those who can’t pass their “Dick”
test is
Get confined to bt and rest—

 

| In’ other courses—but no matter

WITS END

We’re not complaining—
—THE MAD HATTER.

 

IN PHILADELPHIA

 

‘Lheatrcs

Broad: The theatre returns to the
Sweci, simple, and romantic. with A
Story of Love, with Dorothy Hall and
Kenneth MacKenna, the dramatization
of the Eu-opean novel, Peep Show—
a purely romantic story ef a girl’s
life. Just what we soured moderns
need.

Garrick: Henry. Hull continues to
gambol and: creak through Spring-
time For Henry—a comedy farce
which is really funny—also it’s cheer-
ful to. think that somewhere it’s
springtime for someone.

Forrest: Green Pastures, the one
and only, which no one should miss.
Coming

Chestnut: January 30, Counsellor-
at-Law, with Paul Muni. The saga,
with appropriate variations, of the
rise of a lawyer.

Garrick: January 31, Uday Shan-
Kar and a group of Hindu dancers
presenting a “daring repertoire.” We
saw this crew in Europe and rise to
say that they are atrocious—not even
amusing, let alone artistic.

Forrest: “February 6, Of Thee J
Sing. The -Pulitzer prize-winning
musical satire on American politics,
with original New York cast.

Broad: February 6, Whistling in
the Dark—a new comedy of unknown
traditions with Edward Childs Car-
penter and Louis Gross.

Music—Academy of Music

Philadelphia Orchestra: — Friday,
January 27, at 2.30 P. M., and Sat-
urday, January 23, at 8.20 P. M. Is-
say Dobrowen will conduct and Ye-
hudi Menuhin will be the soloist. Pro-

gram; :
Dvorak ....“New World” Symphony
Beethoven,

Concerto in D Major, Violin and
Orchestra.

Movies
Aldine: Coming Friday—the three
Barrymores in Rasputin and the
Empress. The tale of the mad monk
who ruled the Romanoffs. All seats
reserved—two shows daily. Recom-

mended purely on the basis of our
Barrymore passion,
Europa: Louise,
The authentic
well done.
Boyd: Ruth Chatterton in Frisce
Jenny—a throw-back to Madame X—

Queen of Prussia.
story of her life—

the tale of a street-walker, and the

on she raised never to know her.
Mother love combines with the earth-
quake to make a fair picture.

Fox: Edmund Lowe and Victor
McLaglen in Hot Pepper, a New York
comedy, about Park Avenue papas,
hotcha queens, and “the rear-admiral
of rum-row.” Very funny, but not
at all original.

Stantem: Boris Karloff goes on put-
ting bad ideas into little children’s
heads in The Mummy. The tale of
a well-buried prince who bounced
back 3000 years later to search for
his lost love in a most ungentlemanly
way. Not as good a thriller as it
should be—but* has its moments.

Stanley: An authentic picture of
prison life, in which a plea is made
for the honor system and less brutal-
ity—Twenty Thousand Years in Sing-
Sing. Not very pleasant.

Keith’s: The Unwritten Law—a
mystery drama with Greta Nissen,
Lew Cody, Louise Fazenda and Skeets
Gallagher. - With that.__cast there
should be -plenty of mystery—but we
question the drama.

Karlton: Eddie Cantor bull 'fights
and puts his foot in his mouth gen-

erally in The Kid From Spain.. Fairly:

funny.
Earle: Friday. Carole Lombard
in a “knock down and drag out” ro-

T emon: No More Orchids. Good for
its type.
Fox: Friday. Face in the Sky,

the tale of a romantic young sign-

painter and a country girl. Some-
what asinine.
Coming
Locust Street Theatre: February

2. Noel Coward’s famous Cavalcade
—the screen version’ with Diana

Wynward and Clive Brook. The saga}

of a British family from 1900 to the
present day.~a A film everyone should
see. ;
Local se rom

Ardmore: Wednesday and Thare-

day, James Dunn and Boots Mallory|

(Ci ni on- Page Three)

|put on a show all its own.

 

News of the New York Theatres

Design For Living with Noel Cow-
ard and the Lunts, opened last night
before an enthusiastic audience, and
once more we have a goal to pursue
clear-eyed. We are going to see that
play, if we have to turn into a
clothes’ moth to do it.

Noel Coward’s first nights have
not always been successful, nor has.
his path to glory been devoid of
thorns. He entered upon his stage
career in England.at the tender age
of twelve, not because he was talent-
ed, but because his family was finan-
cially embarrassed. He batted about.
the provinces in -everything imagin-
able, including Chdrley’s Aunt, until
the war ‘broke out. Returning from
abroad he appeared ‘in several plays
and wrote’ The Vortex. When the:
time came to produce that opus, no
manager would buy it, and Mr. Cow-
ard, backed by Michael. Arlen, put
it on independently. The Vortex. was
greeted with enthusiasm, but such
was not the case with Sirocco and
Home Chat. On those occasions the
gallery threw all manner of flora
and fauna, and raised healthy voices
in open derision. Even the orchestra
patrons joined in, and the audience
However,
Mr. Coward soon learned the likes

‘and dislikes of the public and has

not had a failure for many moons.
Playwriting class, please note—and
prepare for a long, hard struggle be-
fore attaining the heights.

The theatre in the dear city is
undergoing its usual January decline
and there is not much going on. Dear
old Tallulah Bankhead starts Eorsak-
ing All Others in Wilmington next
week; Jimmy Durante, Hope Wil-
liams and Lupe Velez are in rehear-
sals for Strike Me Pink; and the
Guild is getting ready to launch two
more productions simultaneously. The
first one will not be This Side Idol-
atry, by Talbot Jennings, as origin-
ally announced, but George O’Neil’s
cycle of one-act dramas, American
Dream. Along with this trilogy about
three periods in our history and their
tragedies et al., will come Both Your
Houses, by Maxwell Anderson.

Pardon My English, which was
taken off the boards for revision af-
ter its Philadelphia engagement,
opened last Friday in a blaze of glory
with George Gershwin conducting his
own music, and everyone gamboling
happily around. Also A Good Wom-
an, Poor Thing, with Irene Purcell,
closed a one-week’s run on Saturday,
That animal opened in Philadelphia
during Christmas and the majority
of the theatre critics, both official and
unofficial, declared it was a ‘worthy
piece”y,and prophesied great things
for it. ¥ooks like mistakes can issue
from even the center of the universe.
The present plan is to revise it and
put it back in the spring.

The way producers take failures-
before-their-time off the boards “for
revision” has always amused us. It
reminds us of the _ not-so-popular
young thing who excuses herself to
go upstairs to powder her ‘nose and
then never comes back. Most plays
never return after being revised, and
it has always been our secret convic-
tion that they are thrown in the. ash-
heap as soon as a dignified exit has
been. achieved through the theatrical
back door. Maybe not—watch for A
Good Woman in the spring, and if ‘it
doesn’t show..up, mark up one for us,
as against all the black marks we’ve
got.

 

College Choir to Sing
Parsifal With Orchestra

 

One of Dr. Stokowski’s ambitions
has been to give a concert version
of Parsifal in its entirety without
cuts. In this connection Parsify will
be given at the Academy of Wusic,
Philadelphia, on Friday, March 31st;
Saturday, April 1st, and Monday,
April 3d, by the Philadelphia Orches-
tra, with members of choral societies
of Philadelphia and various other
groups drawn from nearby colleges.

In order that the complete work
may be presented each concert will be
devoted to a different act. The whole
of the College Choir of 54 members
has been invited to take part and will
sing the chorus of “Flower Maidens”
at the concert on Saturday, April 1st |
(8.20 P. M.), when the entire second
act will be given. : “a.
Rehearsals w wens Collec Choi
commenced last week, m

 
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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three

 

 

Experimental Writing

Answers Serious Need |

 

Course “Enables Student to
Choose Her Particular

Field in Writing

 

The cry of a great many ‘Bryn
Mawr students has been most happily
answered this year by the addition
to the college curriculum of a class
We have
had _ up to. this time, instruction in

in experimental writing.
e

various specialized fields, criticism,
poetry, short stories,. and in “some
years plays, but. never before has the
immature but aspiring writer, who
has not yet found her particular field,
had the opportunity to experiment, to
compare, and. eventually to discover
the nature.of her especial talent.
Miss Cornelia Meigs, who is so well-
known from her delightful children’s
stories, is giving the course this year
known as Experimental Writing. The
class meets once a week, taking up at
each discussion a different type of
writing, essays formal and informal,
description, biography, historical nar-
rative, short story and novel construc-
tion. -Reading--from-—contemporary
authors in these varying types of
prose is assigned for each week, and
each student turns in a composition
of her own in prose or in poetry as
she chooses. Both the original pa-
pers and the reading are discussed in
class for the purpose of formulating

 

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the requirements necessary for each
type of writing.

The purpose of this course is three-
| fold,..to give the student practice, to
awaken her to thoughtful criticism,
and, above all,:to enable her to find
that.field of writing for which she is
best suited. The requirement of a
pap_r every week in an assigned form
trains the student to write facilely

'and with whatever material she may

have at hand, and. prepares. for a
journalistic career or for the day
whcn her publishér may tell the pdp-
ular author what-her next book must
be in order to satisfy the demand of
her public. Critical reading and dis-
cussion of popular contemporary au-
thors helps one more than anything
else to discover what one likes,yor dis-
likes in current literature and for
what tangible reasons. Finally, by
uncurbed experiment and by compar-
ing the results, the writer finds her
limitations and her ability, and starts
herself in the field where she is most
likely to succeed. In this experiment-
ing and first venture the student is
_ helped by the actual experience and
impartial judgment of Miss > Meigs,
who corrects the papers and discusses
with each student her progress arid
her failures in frequent interviews.

The class, although new. this_year,
is attended by twelve students. It is
encouraging to know that so many
people who have the definite inten-
tion of writing, will have gained valu-
able experience and training by the
end of the second semester, when
each student has completed a long

 

pieces of work in that field in which
she ‘has chosen to specialize. We can-
not voice loudly enough our appreci-
ation to the college for initiating this
course, and to Mi-.s Meigs for con-
senting to struggle with such eager
but untrained material.

 

Miss Park is Guest of Honor

President Park will be the guest

of. honor at a dinner to be given by
the Bryn Mawr Club in New York
on Wednesday evening, January 25th,
in the private dining rooms’ of the
Park Lane. About one hundred mem-
bers of the club and their guests are
expected: at the dinner.
’ The Bryn Mawr Club moved in Oc-
tober from the club house at 213
East 61st street, to its present lo-
cation. at the Park Lane, 299 Park
avenue, New York.

Board of. governors.of the Bryn
Mawr Club, 299 Park avenue, N. Y.:

Mrs. Bolt Lowry, president; Mrs.
Howard T. Oliver, vice-president;
Miss Katharine Van Bibber, treas-
urer; Miss: Alice Newlin, secretary;
Miss Jean Palmer; assistant secre-
tary; Mrs. Louis Ellinger, Mrs. David
Goodnow, Mrs. William S..: Hardie,
Miss Caroline F. Lerow, Mrs. Fred-
erick .:A. Dewey, Mrs. John C. Juh-
ring, Jr,

 

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IN PHILADELPHIA
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(Continued from Page Two)

 

in Handle With Care; Friday, Nancy
Carroll and George Raft in Under
Cover Man; Saturday, Richard Dix
in Hell’s Highway; Monday and Tues-
day, Central Park, with Joan Blon-
dell and Wallace Ford; Wednesday
and Thursday, Clark Gable and Jean
Harlow in Red Dyst; Friday, Rob-
ber’s Roost, with George O’Brien;
Saturday, Silver Dollar, with Ed-
ward G. Robinson.

Seville: Wednesday and Thursday,
Scarlet Dawn, with Douglas Fair-
banks, Jr., and Nancy Carroll; Fri-
day,. Three on a Match, with Joan
Blondell and Warren William; Sat-
urday, Little Orphan Annie, with
Mitzie Green and Buster Phelps;
Monday and Tuesday, Me and My Gal,
with Joan. Bennett and Spencer
Tracy; Wednesday and
Thirteen Women, with Ricardo Cor-
tez, Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne;
Friday, Men Are Such Fools, : with
Leo Carillo, Vivienne Osborn and Una
Merkel; Saturday, Age of Consent,
with Eric Linden and Dorothy Wil-
sor. :

Wayne: Thursday and Friday,
Ann Harding and Richard Dix in

 

 

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| The Conquerors; Saturday, Heritage
of the Desert, with Randolph Scott
; and Sally Blane; Monday and Tues-
day, John Barrymore, Billie Burke and
Katherine Hepburn in A Bill of Di-
vorcement; Wednesday anfl Thursday,
Herbert Marshall, Kay Francis and
Miriam Hopkins in Trouble in Para-
dise;; Friday and Saturday, James
Dunn and Boots Mallory in Handle
With Care.

 

A school to teach girls how to be-
come ideal wives has recently been
opened in Tokyo, Japan. It is known
as the brides’ school and is trying to
counteract the widespread movement
in Japan to bring women into «the
various professions.—(NSFA.)

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

 

 

Dr. Beebe ‘Lectures >,
on Deep-Sea Fish|
(Contiitied

trom iage One)

yellow squids with long graceful
arms, of squids of the color of light
blue glass, of one squid with orange
bull’s eyes on its tentacles, of a black
umbrella squid named after himself,
and of a squid covered with lights,
each of which was blue, yellow, and
red. One specimen had iridescent fins
and luminous blue hieroglyphics on its
body characterizing its species.
Among the eels he pictured were black
ones with truncated tails and long
beaks, and opaque ones with huge
jaws and very slender bodies. One of
the most amazing sights at this great
depth is a fish with a light on its
tentacle and luminous mucus on its
teeth, making it appear like a Chesch-
ire cat in the dark. The chin tenta-
cles of one specimen are frequently
ten times longer than the fish itself,
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hooks and three yellow lights at the
end. ,

With animated cartoons, Dr. Beebe
illustrated the extraordinary capacity
of the stomachs of many of the fish,
and also the phenomenal development
of what he called “stalk-eyed fish,”
in the course of whose growth their
eyes, which grow on the end of
stalks, are. broken off and drawn in
by the optic nerve and fastened on
the sides of the head.

Another cartoon showed the abil-
ity of small red shrimps existing be-
low the depth at which light pene-
trates to emit a light screen to blind
their opponents, just as a moving pic-
ture of a fight between two octopi
showed the latters’ trick of shooting
forth a screen of sepia ink for pro-

College Radio Program :
Include World Figures

 

(Continued from Page One)

known whether this will be possible.

The ptrogram~ will start at 7.45
P. M. with Rice Ober, Occidental Col-
lege, president. of the Southern Cali-
fornia Student Body Presidents’ As-
sociation, presiding. He will intro-
duce Mr. Overton, who will represent
college students on the program.

The Germah savant and father of
the relativity theory will be intro-
duced by Dr. Robert A. Millikan, No-
bel Prize Winner and pioneer in.Cos-
mic Ray research work.

Henry M. Robinson, who is to fol
low Dr. Einstein on the speaking pro-
gram, is the well known banker, for-
mer member of the Supreme Eco-
nomic Council and the Dawes Plan
Committee, and . chairman ‘of the
American delegation to the Interna-
tional Economic Conference in 1927.

The symposium is to be concluded

by, the consideration of the political
aspects of the world situation by Dr.
Wm. B. Munro, noted authority on
history and government.

 

Professional Players

Open 69th Street Theatre

 

(Continued from Page One}

The company is just getting its
start—the permanent company is not
quite assembled, and they are still
feeling out their audiences for the
type of. play that will be best well-
received. It is probable that they
will do high comedy and, once they
get under way, do it quite well. In
any case the Playhouse: is near
enough to Bryn Mawr to be especial-

 

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by a gentleman have the privilege
of dancing free at Pierre’s, which is
right above the theatre, afterwards.

 

At Wittenberg University three
blonde co-eds debated with three dark-
haired girls from the institution on
the subject that brunettes were ‘more
intelligent than blondes. The ero.
nettes won, proving their point.

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