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Current Events

(Gleaned from Dr. Fenwick’s Talk)

Music Room, February 18.—The
biggest news\of the week and next
to the AAA decision, the biggest
news of the winter, was the Decision
of the Supreme Court in favor of
the constitutionality. of ‘the TVA.
One of the great ideas of President
Roosevelt when he was governor of
New York was to harness. the rivers
of the state and make cheap. electric-
ity. He carried the idea ‘to the
White House and expanded it, into
a Wast project to build several dams
the length of the great Tennessee
River to control the floods and the
erosion which had made a_ waste
tract of the river valley. Muscle
Shoals built it wartime for nitrates
‘and since then idle, was the begin-
ning of the projects. With the new
project went ah entire new deal in
plans for the future fertile valley,
including large sums of money for
dams, power plants at the dams and
housing projects.

The great power companies of the
South objected that the government
would produce cheap power to com-
pete with private business. Cries
of “Socialism” and “unfair public
utilities’ brought mutual accusa-
tions, The Supreme Court was to
‘decide, and by a vote of five to four
stated that the stockholders of a
company could not appeal to the
court and -“‘enjoin” its corporation
not to do something because it was
unconstitutional. That disposed of
the immediate technical question on
which the stockholders of the Ala-
bama Power Company had appealed.
The second decision on the merits of
the case by a vote of eight to one
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dams ™ control navigation under in-
terstate commerce, that the surplus
water could be used for water power,
that this power could be sold to the
public, and that the lines of private
companies could be rented to get the
electricity to the consumer... °The
government as private business has
a right to dispose of its property.
The’ case was, however, limited to
Muscles Shoals, built in wartime, and
therefore leaves many problems un-
settled. Whether
can continue the*entire vast project
for reclamation is’ an unanswered
question.

The neutrality bill was shelved un-

til” May 1, 1937, thus disappointing

many who had«hoped that by limit-
ing U. S, oil exports to Italy to a
peacetime basis the Italian-Ethio-
pian War could be speedily forced
to a close.

 

Miss Pritchett Urges
Photographic Careers

Common Room, February 17.—“If
you are the sort of person who feels
that she must always have perfectly
manicured hands and pink finger-
nails, you may at once dismiss all
thought of taking up, photography
as a profession,” Miss Ida Pritchett
told undergraduates. Photography is
an excellent hobby. It is infinitely
varied; ‘it takes you out of doors,
and it: sets a multitude of challeng-
ing problems. No one, however,
should go into the work profession-
ally until she knows the worst about
it, and those who have done their
own developing do know some of the
worst.

When you have once decided to
take up the work seriously, there is
no use to try to take short-etts, as
any such attem It in an

the government,

ultimate _ loss. First, _ then, Miss
Pritchett. strongly advocated going
to a photographic school. There one

the dirty work. A _ knowledge of
physics and chemistry will proye a
great asset to the photographer, for
it will aid her in varying her meth-
ods and will point where troubles
may lie.

Miss Pritchett suggested that af-
ter this preliminary training, you
should go into an active photographic
studio even if you must do it~ only
as a volunteer. Such work will give
quite a different point of view, as
the student is now looking at the
subject from the professional angle.

When you have completed this sec-
ond course, you are ready. to set out
on a career of real professional pho-
tography. There are several courses
that can now be followed, but sooner
or later the ambitious photographer
must branch out for herself if she
wants to do her own work in her
own way. She who sets out to do
her own work will find: all sorts of
fascinating fields awaiting. her. She
may take pictures for ‘magazine arti-
cles; she may do various still-life
and indoor studies; but the main-
stay of the work in a photographic
studio is portrait studies.

Portraits and still-life work open
up a field of special interest because
it is one in which the photographer
can control the conditions—the light-
ing in particular. The good pho-
tographer must learn to know what
lighting is best for each different
sort of face, for it should be differ-
ent for the old and the young, for
people with round faces and people
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photographer should accentuate an!
angularity or oddity of feature, but!
above ‘all the picture must be true!
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worked in also, *it will be all the| Maryallis Morgan, ’36;

better.

It is worth while for the student
of photography to go to museums and
see how painters work out their por-
traits. She ‘should study the infin-
ity of lighting effects, for every
painter uses a different effect.

Nobody can tell you how to take
your pictures, nor what equipment
to. use. You must choose for your-
self. Miss Pritchett prefers large
cameras. Her. big camera is six and
a half inches by eight and ‘a half,
and her smaller one is nine centi-
meters by twelve centimeters. If
you get used to using a large camera,
it proves almost: impossible to go
back to a small one.

Photography is an excellent field
for women. It is one of the few pro-
fessions in which they can success-
fully compete with men. They come
in contact with all sorts of people;
and the variety in subject matter
and in methods of printing is almost
infinite.

 

Tentative Casting of
Plays is Announced

 

Continued from Page Three

Second Brother, Ruth Stoddard, ’39;
Charlotte Peirce, ’37, and Barbara
Merchant, ’86 (two out of three to be
chosen, the third to be a Merryman in
Robin Hood); Senex or Erestus, Hul-
dah Cheek, ’38; Huanebango, Matilda
Tyler, ’38; Corebus, Margaret Fair-
bank Bell, 89; Venelia, Suzanne Wil-
liams, ’38; Lampriscus, Mary Eliza-

beth Reed, ’37; Sacrapant, Gertrude.

Leighton, ’38; Furies, Mary-Louise
Eddy, ’87, and Elizabeth Shovlin, 736;
Delia, not yet cast; Eumenides, Lois
Marean, ’37; Wiggen, Mary Sands,
38; Church Warden, Doris Frank,
38; Sexton, not yet cast; Zantippa,

 

Celanta,
Elizabeth .Wyckoff, ’86 (understudy,
Suzanne Williams, ’38); Head in the
Well, Amelia Forbes, ’37; Ghost of
Jack, Margaret Kidder, ’36; Fiddlers,
not yet cast; Harvesters, M. Askins,
36; R. Atkiss, ’36; E. Bailenson, ’39;
K. Bingham, ’38; H. Cotton, ’37; P.
Schwable, ’36;  L. Steinhardt, ’37.
Ten more harvesters will be announced
later.

Gammer Gurtons: Needle
Diecon, Constance Kellogg, ’39;
Hodge, Letitia Brown, ’387; Gammer
Gurton, Edith Rose, ’37; Chat, Pau-
line Manship, ’86; Tyb, Jill Stern,
36; Bayle, Agnes Allinson, ’387; Dr.
Rat, Grace Dolowitz, 89; Cocke, Joan

Howson, ’38; .Scapethryft, Anne
Woodward, ’86; Doll, Lillian: Ran-
som, ’39.

Song during. the
Helen ‘Shepard, ’38.

The Creation

Creator, Barbara Colbron, ’37; Eve,
Mary Howe DeWolf, ’388; Adam, Mar-
garet Otis, ’39; Serpent, Frances Fox,
38; Angel, Alys Virginia Welsh, ’39;
Dolor, Sarah Ann Fultz, ’37; Misery,
Anne Leigh Goodman, ’38; Heavenly
Spirit, Alicia Stewart, ’36 (if not in

intermission by

St. George); Prologus, Ellen New-

ton, ’38.
The Deluge

Deus, Helen Kellogg, ’86; Noah,
Ellen Stone, ’86; Noah’s Wife, Eloise
Chadwick-Collins, ’39; Ham, Jose-
phine Ham, ’37; Ham’s wife, Barbara
Cary, ’386; Japhet, Jean Rauh, ’39;
Japhet’s wife, Olga Muller, ’37; Shem,
Sophie Hunt, ’36; Shem’s wife, Caro-
Lne C. Brown, ’36.

Gossips: Irené Ferrer, ’87; M.
Anderson, ’36; A. Biddle, ’39; E. Bing-
ham, ’386; J. Devigne, ’38; L. Esta-
brook, ’39; H. Hamilton, ’39; M. Hart-
man, 38; M. Howson, ’38; L. Russell,
38; C. Wescott, ’38; A. Wight, ’39.

 

 

 

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