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Vol. XVII, No. 20

WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1931

Price: 10 Cents

 

 

The Enchanted April
Good Entertainment

 

M. Drake Stars in Cast Drawn
From Bryn Mawr and
Haverford.

 

MISS DYER IS PRAISED

 

Although “The Enchanted April,”

_ being by Kane Campbell, is not so en-
~~tirely~the result of home brewing as the

three one-act plays which preceded its
production in the Varsity Dramatics sea-

son, nevertheless, as presented on Sa atur= |
day nighe it proves to be very good en-

tertainment.- The situation is, of course,
an old one, by means of which the char-
acters.are brought into~contact with each
other for the change in their destinies,
being virtually that of a house-party, used
to much advantage in “The Last of Mrs.
Cheyney” and “The Truth Game;” the
fact that, as in the present case, the house
has been rented by the party, as a com-
mon retreat from individual care, alters
the device but: little.

It was in this portrayal of her cares
that Miss Grant’s interpretation of Lag

“was entirely -as-a-spoilt; diriuatinn-visiiiig:

“member of the aristocracy’ who is so
bored by her mother’s attempts to marry
her off that she welcomes ‘the oppor-
tunity to escape even. with total strangers
quite outside her class, and refuses at
first to acknowledge sincerity even when
she finds it. Miss Grant’s interpretation,
however, ‘especially in the emotional
scenes, as with Briggs—concerning the
portrait, savoured too much of the petu-
lant child, and not enough of the mature
young lady, who, as a result of her ex-
periences, has so depth of motive in
suspecting all professions of love.

Miss Putnam was not forceful enough
as the neglected but adoring Rose Ar-
buthnot, whose refinement turns into
prudishness where it comes into contact
with her. husband’s popular novels: She
did, however, give great charm to the
part, which at all events called for so
little forcefulness that Mrs. Fisher, that
terrifying grande dame of London society,
was not roused by Rose; to whom, in
theory, at least, she must have objected, if
for no other reason than that she was of
another generation. Miss Dodge as Mrs.
Fisher (William) had another oppor-

-tunity to display her gift for comedy;

Miss Dodge was as amusing and convinc-
ing.in her portrayal of the old lady, who
nevertheless cannot resist the humanizing
warmth of the “Enchanted April,” as she
was in the slightly different delineation
” She was
at her best in those moments of defensive
dignity, and as when, being unable to un-
derstand the maid, admirably portrayed
by, Miss Waples, she remarks, “I speak
only the Italian of Dante.”

The best performance of the evening,
however, was given by Miss Drake,
whose part, of course, admitted more
subtlety than that of Miss Dodge. Never
once did Miss Drake seem other than
Lottie Wilkins, the- middle-class wife—of
Mellersh Wilkins, solicitor, with all her
bubbling naivete, optimism and psychic
intuitions. ° She too showed a fine sense
for comedy, and, if anything, even added
to the humor of such lines as: “It (the
castle) has all the modern improvements’
—electric. lights, and battle and
things.” Miss Drake seemed sq com-

Continted on Page Three

 

Send Him to Bates _
“Flower Cards” will be sold

Halide Edib Describes
_ Westernized Turkey

 

Changed Position of Women Is
Unparalleled as Outcome
of Gradual Reform. _

 

EQUALITY ESTABLISHED

 

Madame __ Halide . Edi, speaking
Wednesday night, April 22, in the
Music Room of Goodkart, took as her
subject the development and Westerni-
zation of the social and religious as-
pects of Turkish. civilization. The

change-in-the=position—of-womienis-by}

far the most important result. upon

‘the social structure of Turkey, declared

Madame .Edib... This change has no
parallel; it is not the outcome of a
struggle of a class for its rights; but
of gradual reform, and is more eco-
nomic than intellectual in character.
Islam is not only a religion; it is a
system of life in which every individual
is accountable for his every action directly
to the one God... Before the .advent
of Mohammed, Arab civilization..had
reached a low ebb; polygamy was rife;
women had no rights whatsoever; and
a new moral sefse was needed. This

|Mohammed supplied by the introduc-

tion of Islamic religion. Women’s
position was much improved, although
the existing marriage laws constituted
an, obstacle in the path of further ad-
vaficement; polygamy was still
licensed; divorce was much easier for
the man than for the woman; and the
custom of seclusion had been adopted
from the Persians, The Turks did not
take over this civilization until two cen-
turies after they first came into con-
tact with it.

The taking of Constantinople has
been called “the losing of the Turks,”

for they began to copy the Byzantine |

civilizatidn-and lost-the simplicity that
had been their strength. It was at this

Continued on Page Three

Madame Edib Grants

 

First-Winner

 

—Photo, Charlotte Fairchild.
MISS M. CAREY THOMAS
President-Emeritus of Bryn Mawr College,
in whose honor alumnae award is named.

\

 

Alumnae Prize Award

° in education,
Will Be Broadcasts i

 

Over a Thousand Visitors Are
Expected at Celebration
For Miss Addams,

 

M’DONALD SENDS LETTER

 

A nation-wide hook-up of an hour and
a. quarter will broadcast the ceremonies
at which the M. Carey Thomas~Prize
Award will be conferred upon Jane-Ad-
dams by Bryn Mawr College on Satur-
day afternoon, May 2.. The broadcast
from 3 to 4:15 will be over WJZ and
associated stations and will be the first
ever made from Bryn Mawr College.

More than 1000 distinguished - visitors
are expected at the ceremony and seats
in Goodhart Hall where the presentation
will be made are being allotted rapidly.
Both President Marion .Edwards Park
and Dr. M. Carey Thomas, President

Interview to News JAtmeritus, will entertain many of the visi-

 

‘When requested to give an inter-
view. to the News, Madame Edib’s
reply was, “Fire away.” Madame
Edib, whom many of us visualized as
an oriental smothered in veils, is on
the contrary an extremely cosmopoli-
tan person.. Shé has traveled exten-
sively, speaks four languages fluently,
and. her views are characterized by a
liberalism: that can come only from
wide experience in many fields.

Our reporter refrained carefully from
asking Madame Edib “her opinion of
America,” but she volunteered the in-
formation. The American audience is,
in Mme. Edib’s opinion, a’ great stimu-
lus to a lecturer, Numerous as its
vices may be, it can never be accused
of inattention. Quick to register dis-
approval, it is equally prompt in mani-
fésting its appreciation. “One feels
that, while one-may thot be approved
of, one is at least heard,” declared
Mme: Edib.. However, the quality in
American audiences which she particu-
larly enjoys is “their heckling.” ‘I sel-
dom enjoy myself as much as'..when
I am being heckled,” was her commeni.
This is, to say the least, rather an un-

usual. attitude for a lecturer to take
and only goes to: illustrate the toler-

jance and good humor of “Turkey's
|foremost woman.’

When questioned as to her views on
co-education Mme. Edib replied that
while its advisability in preparatory
schools and colleges might be ques-

tors at tea which will follow the cere-
monies.__A tribute to. Miss Addams from
Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of
Great Britain, will be read by President
Park as part of the program which will
number among its speakers the dis-
tinguished names. of Dr. John Dewey,
Professor of Philosophy at Columbia Uni-
versity ; Miss Grace Abbott, Chief of the
Federal Children’s Bureau; Miss Frances
Perkins, Industrial (Commissioner of the
New York State Department of Labor,
and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, some-
time president of the National American
Woman Suffsage Association and some-
time president of the International Wom-
an Suffrage Alliance. The letter from
Mr. MacDonald to Dr. Park was received
yesterday and is in the Prime Minister’s
own hand. ,

The M. Carey Thomas. Prize of the
value of $5000 is awarded at intervals to
an American woman in recognition of
eminent achievement. The Alumnae As-
sociation of Bryn Mawr College in 1922
raised the sum of $25,000 “iti honor of
President M. Carey Thomas to found the
award. The prize was awarded for the
first time in June, 1922, to Dr. M. Carey
Thomas, and is being awarded this year
for the second time.

" :

Calendar

Friday, May 1: May Day exercises
and scholarship announcements.
Saturday, May 2: Presentation of
the M. Carey Thomas Award to

 

Teations-

Negro Intellectuals Stress Inequality of
Opportunity for Race in All Fields

 

Discrimination in Labor and Edu

cation Must Go—Demand Oppo-

sition to Segregation——Problem Has
National Aspect.

 

CONTINUED WHITE. DOMINATION THREATENED

 

A splendid conference poorly attended
was that on the Economic Status of
Negroes in Goodhart last Saturday, April
25. Less than a dozen Bryn Mawr stu-
dents were present at-any gne time. In
addition to the B ryn Mawr. studgnts dele-.
“attended from Vassar, Johns
Hopkins, Swarthmore, George Washing-
ton, Howard University and Cheney
Normal School. A number’ of the col-
lege maids came: As a result of the
conferehce the Liberal Club has a deficit
of forty odd dollars.

The speakers, all but one of whom
were _Negro,-included a number of the
most. Outstanding Negro’ intellectuals in
the country. Their speeches stressed the
inequality of opportunity for the Negro

industry, politics, prestige,
living. They suggested
political and industrial remedies. Some

of them expressed their belief in the ulti-
mate triumph of colored races over Ww hite.

‘The conference was divided into three
sessions. Professor Patterson, of the
University of Pennsylvania, presided at
the morning session (10-12:30) which
was concerned with the subject of\Eco-
nomic Conditions of the Negro in Amer-
ica. The speakers were Walter White,
Secretary of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People;
Alain Locke, of the Department ‘of
Philosophy of Howard University, and
Ira Reid, Director of the Research De-
partment of the National Urban League.

The subject of the afternoon session
(2-4) at which Miss M. P. Smith, of the
Department of Sociology at Bryn Mawr
presided, was The Negro and— Labor.
Alice Dunbar Nefson, of the Inter-racial

 

Whitaker’s First Revue
* Wins Crowd’s Applause

 

Tuesday night, April 21, in the gym-
nasium, the College had an entertain-
ment which we might call “something
new and different,” if the expression
were not too trite and inadequate to
apply to such a rip-snorting, synco-
pated song-and-dance revue. as John
Whitaker’s ‘Ravin’ Rhapsodie.” ;

The “Alabama Blue Blowers,” the
orchestra “with the Southern’ Soul,”
led by Dave Brown, was unique in its
composition, including, as, it did, not
only a piano with Jethro “Jelly-roll”
Whitaker at the keys, two saxophones
and a banjo, but also an innovation in
the line of drum and cymbals,. namely,
a washboard, pie-plate and frying pan
struck by thimble-fingered Walt, and
what we think must have been a tin
can.with a funnel, blown by Bassoe.
They “opened the program with
“Dinah” and.“I. Want a Little Girl”
Then the —“Melodee Four”- of W.
Johnson, A. Jenkens, William John-
son, and O. Stanley, who, by the way,
may be heard over the radio station
N. B. C. from the Walton Roof, of-
fered “Mammy,” “You're the One I
Care For,” and “Gonna Have a Happy

| Time,” -with all the verve and snappy

syncopation one could desire, with
some boop-boop-a-doops and hot’cha’s
thrown in for good measure.

This was followed by the orchestra,
now playing “Bye Bye Blues” and
“Old Man Blues.” |The dancing team
of John and Jelly- -roll Whitaker ‘to

Comnittee of the Society of Friends, and
Philip Randolph,- of the Brotherhood of
Pullman Car’ Porters, spoke. The most
important session was that in the eve-
nirig (8-10) when J. B. Mathews, Sec-

and -W. BE. B,

s, spoke, -

tion, duBois, editor of

Crist

lows:
Mr. Walter White

Although the race problem in Amer-
ica is largely economic, it has other
cultural, social, educational
and political: It.was not until the slave
trade that the idea arose, especially in
England and the United States, that
the white race is superior to the black.
To protect profits, scientific thought at
that time was prostituted., The idea
of white. superiority yo continued
along -with the canal ian of black
labor. Recent attempts have beer

aspects,

ferior one in order that there may be
an excuse for giving Negro children
less education than is given to white.

Many think that lynching ot Negroes
results only from the: dssault of white
women. In less thari.twenty per cent,
of lynchings is this the case. Lynch-
ing is a means of terrorizing the Negro,
of “keeping him in his place.” It has
grown along with the use of the cotton
gin, and with the industrial Revolution.
Before the. Civil War lynching was
rarer\than it is now because Negroes
had a cash value:

In the South the Negro is” disfran-
chised by various devices. He is de-
prived of opportunity for education by
the apportionment of school funds.
Where thirty dollars is allowed for a
white child, a, little over’ one dollar is
provided for a black. As the marginal

to suffer from business depression.

The Negro problem must be. studied
both as an intra-racial and a national
problem, ° Until the \problem is. intelli-
gently discussed, there .can be no free-
dom for labor here or\ anywhere.

Mr. ira Reid
The criteria for an accepted eco-

nomic ‘status are accumulation _ of
wealth, standards of ‘living, political
activity, cultural contributions and

It is irritating to hear, as one often
does, of the great progress of the
Negro in the last sixty years when so
much greater-progress is necessary. A
few Negroes have wealth but a Ford
could buy up the group. Standards of
living are very low. The death rate is
higher than, the high birth rate.
Negroes are forced to live in areas of
deterioration. In education the doors

closed. As the least stable group of
society, Negroes are hardest hit by de-
pression. White workers force him

out of even “Negro jobs.”

The -industrial schools for ‘Negroes
are out/of date.. They do not teach
the problems of modern industrial. so-
ciety. Educators are unwilling to take
Negroes all the way. The larger tech-
nical schools exclude Negroes. Those
Negroes who have been educated by
philanthropists cannot be provided with
the jobs for which they are fitted.

 

 

House.’ By sending these cards
instead of flowers to those in the
Mikado whom you wish to re-

children to the seashore this sum-
mer when they will need it so
much. The cards will keep fresh
much longer than flowers, and the
‘Bates House Committee will be
able to make summer work much

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; | _more effective.._____}}readily ‘to that" which+is new,”

 

tioned; “it was “absolutely necessary in
universities.
so much to offer each other in the field
of research and study, that co-opera-
tion. makes possible advances which
would otherwise lie beyond the abili-
ties of either,” was her opinion.

“The youth of America has always
impressed me as being extraordinarily
well balanced, and as possessing those
qualities which enable it to adapt itself

“Men and women have]

~—Jane~Addams~at 3 o'clock:
French oral.
Varsity tennis team plays ‘Vassar
at Vassar.

Friday, May 8: Glee Club presents
“The Mikado.”

Saturday, May 9: German oral.
Tea dance.
Glee Club presents
kado.”

Friday, May 15: Last day of lec-

“The Mi-

 

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the “ture of “t-aughing at-Life-shook
a mean foot at an audience of over a
hundred (and this despite Glee Club
rehearsals) which stamped and shouted
its: approval.

Dave Brown not only leads the _or-
chestra but also seems to be able to

time in some pretty fast-moving steps.

walks of New York” and. “Africana,”

rand here we want to be quoted as. say-

 

Continued on Page Thrée

tap and toe dance at one and the same |

He has been featured in. “The Side-|

The speeches were. in substance as~fol-

jade to prove the Negro brain an in-.

man in industry) the Negro is the first .

methods of-production and distribution. -

to the better schools and cdlleges are.

retary—of—the~-Fetlowship oF Reconcilia-

 

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Lantern Elects

Charlotte Ejinsiedler has been
elected the new Editor-in-Chief of
“The Lantern.” From the Fresh”
man class. Miss. Bredt and Miss |
Coxe have been chosen for the ‘edi- ©
torial board. hibit Anne Bur:
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