olleg

 

 

 

 

 

VOL. XX, 'No. 9

. BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA.,

WEDNESDAY,

DECEMBER 13, 1933

 

COLLEGE N

Sopyright BRYN MAWR

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EWS, 1933

 

 

Miss Millay to Give

 

Pulitzer Prize Winner Known
for Libretto and Mastery
of Sonnet Form

 

TALENT SHOWED EARLY

 

With the coming of Edna St. Vin-
“cent Millay to Bryn Mawr to read

from her poems on Monday evening,

another of the great names of mod-|.

ern writing will be signed upon our
register of distinguished visitors.
Those who have heard Miss Millay
read. her poetry will need no fur-
ther introduction to her, but for
those who must take on faith her
ability to read her poetry as well as
she writes it, let it be said that she
has captivated her audiences in the
past as few have done, and that she
is not a writer who is tied down to
pen and paper and to whom are de-
nied the powers of speech. Miss Mil-
lay not only understands the mechan-
ics of the sonnet form, but she also

- understands the implications inher-

ent in it, and in her reading brings
out . all that she sees in the form, as
well as in the thought.

Miss Millay is in herself a strong
argument for the contention that
“heroes are born, not made,” for she
has behind her genius descent from
a distinguished literary family. Her.
mother was a writer of children’s
verse; her sister writes lyrics of great
beauty, which would bring the name
before the public on their individual
merit; and the third sister in the
family, Norma, is an actress of no
mean ability. As a child Miss Millay
wrote verses which were enthusiastic-
ally published by St. Nicholas, and
awarded their gold and silver medals

* with a regularity which must have

made the other young contributors to
the magazine feel a bit futile. At
her graduation from high school one
of her essays in verse received the
graduation exercise prize, and so it
went throughout her college career,
which began at Barnard, but was
quickly transferred to Vassar, where
since her graduation she has been re-
vered as a Daniel come to Judgment.

In Vassar she maintained the even
tenor of her way to the amazing ex-
tent of actually getting a great many

‘things acomplished, such as winning

the Intercollegiate Poetry Contest,

contributing the words and music for

her own graduation exercises (pre-
(Continued %m Page Three)

 

Carol Service
_ The Christmas Carol Serv-
‘jee will be held in Goodhart
Hall on Sunday, December
17, at 7.45 P.M. Dr. Leicester
C. Lewis, Rector of St. Martin’s
in the Fields, Chestnut Hill,
will be Speaker.

The Choir will render the
following selections. There will
also be carols in which the au-
dience is asked to join.

“Here We Come a Wassailing,”
English Traditional
“Christmas Day,”
Vaughan-Williams
“Christmas Night,”
Vaughan-Williams
“Break Forth, O Beauteous

Heavenly Light,”

“Within Yon Gloomy

Manger,”

Christmas Oratorio, Bach
“O Jesu, So Sweet,”....Bach
“Now the Rarest Day,”
“Sleep, Baby, Sleep,”
Czech Carols
“At-the Cradle”.....55 Franck
“Today Is Born Immanuel,”
Praetorious
SELECTIONS from the

MESSIAH ......HANDEL
Aria and Chorus—

“O Thou That Tellest Good

Tidings”

(Solo by Miss-Mary Earp)
‘Recitative and Chorus—

“There Were Shepherds,”

- “Glory to God”
(Solo by James E. Polachek,
34) .

 

 

 

Varsity Hockey ‘Team |
Poetry Reading Here)

Sets Splendid Record

More. Accurate Passing, Better
Stickwork Must Be Urged
for Next Fall

 

 

TEAM IS SOLID UNIT

 

The Varsity hockey team ends its
season with one of the best records
in several years and has more than
lived up to our eXpectations follow-
ing early squad practices. Of the
eight major games played, Varsity
won five, tied two and lost one, but
bowed both to the Faculty and to
Haverford.

Although the season started with
anly six of last year’s “team, Kent,
—_ Brown, Taggart, Bishop and
Rothermel, the incoming Freshman
class produced Bright, Evans, Smith
and Larned, who fitted in so well that
they were playing in regular Varsity
berths at the end of the season. Such

a combination of thoroughly seasoned
veterans and energetic new blood was
a great factor in the production of a
successful team, not only in scoring,
but also in playing technique.

The forward line began a bit slowly
so that the brunt of the work fell on
the backfield, but we were especially
glad to see that, except for one or
two games, the tendency toward in-
dividual playing which was so prom-
inent in last season’s play seemed to
be dying out in favor of a more co-

operative and hence more compact

forward line. Unfortunately we can-
not say as much for the progress in
accurate passing and clever stick-
work, although the William and Mary
game showed what could be done. It
happened all too often that poor pass-
work and fumbles almost gave the
game to the opposing team.

The backfield is the best we have
seen in many a season and, except for
the —All-Philadelphia game, —_ three
points were the most that could be
scored on it in one game. More than
any other part of the team, thé backs
impress one as playing continuously
as a solid unit, not only on the de-
fense, but also in backing/up the for-
ward line attack. To the backfield
and to Smith, playing her first sea-
son for Varsity, and doing an excel-
lent job of it, must go much of the
credit for the successful outcome of
the season. Of al] the team, the de-
fense will be the only part hit by
graduation, as both Bishop and Roth-
ermel, Varsity captain, will be lost
and a hard task it will be to replace
two positions so ably filled by these
two veterans.

With nine of its players left, how-
ever, and with the prospect of more
new material next year, Varsity
should continue its splendid work and
progress next season,

(Continued on Page Three)

 

B. M. Sends Two Delegates
to Washington. Convention

 

Bryn Mawr sent two delegates,
Carmen Duany and Pauline Reed, to
the Middle Atlantic Internationa] Re-
lations Club Convention held in
Washington University. More than
a hundred delegates were present,
representing thirty-five different col-

 

CALENDAR
Thurs., Dec. 14.. Mrs. Hope
Wocds Hunt will speak on The
Drama in Poetry. Tea will be
served before the lecture, Dean-

ery, 4.30 P. M.
Sun., Dec.’ -17.. Christmas
Musical Service. The Rev. Dr.

Leicester? C. Lewis will present
the address. Goodhart Hall
Auditorium at 7.45.P. M,
Mon., Dec. 18.. Edna St. Vin-
cent Millay will read from her
ems.. Goodhart, 8.20 P. M.
Seats are~on sale in the Pub-
lications Office.
Tues3 Dec. 19. Dr. Fenwick
will speak on current events.
Common’ Room, 7.30 P. M.
Wed., Dec. 20.. Maid’s Party.
Gym at 8.00 P. M.
Thurs., Dec. 21.
parties in the halls.
Fri., Dec. 22. Christmas va-
cation begins at 12.45 P. M.

Christmas

 

 

 

Deanery Is Setting
for Sunday Carolling

Mrs.

 

Biddle Reads Christmas
Play ‘“‘The Lady of the

Inn,” as Prologue

 

SESTIVE SPIRIT SHOWN

 

The Christmas Carol Service given
on Sunday afternoon, December 10,
was arranged with much. more taste
and rendered with more feeling than
the choir and speakers were ever able
to achieve in the austere setting of
‘either Goodhart auditorium or the
Music Room. The Deanery has a
charming atmosphere for just such
festive occasions, and the presenta-
tion of a Christmas play was consid-
erably more in keeping with the carol
service than a speaker could possibly

ous years was alloted to him in the
middle or at the end of the program.

Mrs. Francis Biddle, known to the
readers of her poetry-as~ Katharine
Chapin, read her own play, The Lady
of the Inn, almost as a sort of pro-
logue to the service, setting the tem-
po for the afternoon and by its posi-
tion in the program preventing the
sustained effect of the singing. from
lapsing either in the middle or at the
end. The play itself, written in a
medieval manner, suited the occasion
and complemented the traditional ele-
ment.in the carols.

Mrs. Biddle did the play as a “read-
ing,” and she is to be complimented
for her rendition. Her costume, her
quiet, even intonation, her easy and
graceful gestures gave to her audi-
ence a dramatic illusion, excellent in
itself, and rare because of the unfre-
quent attempts made to do so difficult
a thing as to keep several charac-
ters on the stage in the_person of only
oné actor. :

The choir,: under the direction of
Mr. Ernest Willoughby, completed
the program with its rendition of
Christmas carols. The arrangement
of the carols was particularly de-
lightful: the inclusion of such a fav-
orite as the ‘“Wassail Song,” in ad-
ditio® to other English traditional
carols, less familiar, although equal-
ly as pleasant to hear, and the vari-
ation secured by a Bach chorale, ‘and
several Czech and Old French carols
made the program diverting as well

leges and universities, making this\gs satisfying in its completeness.

the largest conference of its kind ever
held, a fact which correlates with
the amazing increase in the number
of International Relations Clubs
from 180 in 1929 to 580 now existing
in all parts of the world.

Since the Pan-American Conference
is now meeting in Montevideo, the
central topic of the discussions was
American relations with Latin Amer-
ica. The opening session was held
at the Pan-American Union. The gen-
eral concensus of opinion seemed to
be that some Pan-American organiza-
tion was needed to supplement the
work of the League, but that the
United States is too dominant and
the Monroe Doctrine should be .either
modified or abolished. :

 

Mr, Willoughby is to be praised
for his untiring and expert direction
of the choir; the technique evident
in the various selections made even
the popularly known and sung carols
delightful to hear anew. The “Cov-
entry Carol” is memorable for the
way in which the full, sweet tones
the choir attained in the. sustained
phrases gave intensity to the melody,
written in a minor key, and to the
words, a lament for the “Little
Child.” The contrapuntal singing in
the Bach chorale. was done delicately
and well, and was aptly followed by
a more vigorous Czech carol. .

The “Besancon carol” had a high,
sweet, fantastic melody that lent it-

(Continued on Tage Five)

 

be in the short time which in previ-

Varsity Play Is Enthusiastically Applauded
for Tempo and Unity of Effect as Whole

 

Performance of Knight of the Burning Pestle Called Best Bryn

Mawr Production in Years—Actors Are Praised
a... Without Exception

 

COSTUMES AND SCENERY SHOW AUTHENTICITY

 

(Especially Contributed by Miss
Enid Glen)

The Varsity Players on Friday and
Saturday last gave a thoroug uc-
cessful performance of The. Knight
of the Burning Pestle. Some of. the
audience was heard to say that- it
was the finest production Bryn Mawr
had done for years; others could not
remember anything so good. It was
played with great spirit from the mo-
ment when the Citizen opened the ac-
tion with a bang, and—this was the
most notable achievement of the piece
— with an admirable sense of the
whole effect, setting, directing and
acting, each very fine and complete
in itself, all working closely together
to make the finished and brilliant
whole. :

The scenery and costumes for
which Miss Barber was responsible,
deserve perhaps first mention: the
costumes were beautiful in detail and
color, and in grouping; the setting
was authentic in a neatly convention-
alized way (incidentally, to Miss Bar-
ber, too, must be given the credit~ of
finally deciding, by her enthusiasm,
the choice of the play). The direct-
ing was done with alertness of im-
agination in the details, and again
with a very fine appreciation of the
effect of the whole.

It can have been no easy task; the
greatest difficulty must have been in
maintaining the quick and even tem-
po, but here there were no pauses,
no dragging; the connection between
the parts of the stage onlookers and
the personages of the main play was
briskly kept up, and the difficult First
Act—which introduces a great vari-
ety of characters for the first time
and “has little action, lacking diver-
sions like the stirring fighting in Act
II and the coffins of Act IlI—was
played quickly and enthusiastically,
with every ounce of value extracted
from situations and people. I was
privileged to be present at a rehear-
sal and was impressed by the energy
—mental and physical—and the im-
agination of the directors, and by
the instant and complete response of
the actors.

Perhaps the most difficult parts in
the play are those of Jasper and
Luce. . Miss Bruere played Jasper
very well indeed—a restrained, sen-
sitive performance, every gesture and
movement correctly timed and placed,
the poetry well spoken. She was par-
ticularly good in the very difficult
scene of the testing of Luce, when
for a long time Jasper holds the stage

 

Contributions

Not long ago an editor of the
News wrenched open the box
in Taylor marked College News
and found a letter. She got a
grip on herself and took it out
of the box, expecting to find
it time-yellowed and definitely
passe. What was her surprise
to find that it had been in there
only two weeks and so was com-
paratively hot news.

In regard to this question of
whether the News box is ever
opened by the-slack members
of the board, the News wishes
to announce a new policy of
investigating the box every
Monday evening at six o’clock
to see what the week has
brought forth of. testy com-
plaints or contributions to
Wit’s End, The latter type of
communication is urgently re-
quested; and, in fact, should be
forthcoming: in greater quan-
tity than has been the case so
far.’ Think of the opportunity
to say what you feel, and to
say it anonymously. ‘What,
could be lovelier?

 

 

 

 

| alone, and suffers strange changes of

mood; and she was marvelously con-
vincing as _a ghost. The character
of Luce in the play is ill defined and
hyague, and her changes of attitude
are difficult to play; but Miss Hop-
kinson made her entirely convincing,
a delightful girl, and played the part
with simplicity and charm. She was
at her best when she was pert and
firm in the absurd scene with Hum-
phrey, and again in her soliloquy and
dirge- beside the coffin of Jasper,

Miss Righter was very fine as the
swaggering Rafe; her enunciation was
splendidly clear, her smallest move-
ment ‘in character; she,remembered
‘throughout Rafe’s naivete, and never
exaggerated the absurdity. Miss
Fouilhoux’ Merrythought was delight-
ful—her drunken merriment and
Father Christmas benevolence could
not have been bettered; Miss Kidder
played Mistress Merrythought with
great spirit—she was excellently fus-
sy and furious and ridiculous. Miss
Kellogg’s Humphrey had exactly the
right blandness and gentlemanly im-
becility, not. at all easy to sustain,
while Miss Canaday played very well
the difficult, because so conventional,
part of the Father,—without .exag-
geration, and subduing it carefully
to its proper place in the general
scheme.

Every minor part—the Squire, the
Host, Tapster and Barber, and the
idiotic Michael—was performed with
| care and exactness, with no flagging;
| Miss Stevenson. as little George re-
peated the pleasant ludicrousness of
her very good performance in the
Midsummer Night’s Dream. The
Ladies and Gentlemen of the audi-
ence, impressive and lovely in their
costumes, helped matters greatly by
their attention, and their continual
movement, and enjoyed themselves
during the intervals.

The songs were delightfully sung,
especially Luce’s and the boy’s; the
music of most of them was contem-

(Continued on Page Two)

 

 

Shakespearean Authority
Commends Varsity Play

 

The following letter was received
from Dr. Leslie Hotson, professor of
English at Haverford College and
well-known Shakespearean scholar:

The gay burlesque, Knight of the
Burning Pestle, we are told, was turn-
ed off by its author (or authors) in
eight days — a brilliant impromptu.
The Varsity Players have held to the
tradition of pace by turning it on
again after three centuries in a short
couple of weeks of rehearsal. This is
an astonishing “feat of activity,”
highly creditable to the nimble-tum-
bling wits of Bryn Mawr, and most
of all to those who doubled as players
and producers.

Written for sopranos and altos in
the mocking mood, The Knight is per-
fectly suited to the production it
found in Goodhart Hall; and _ its
thumping success marks an undenia-
ble step forward in undergraduate
producing at the College.

The performance has a rare unity
of taste, which could spring only from
a high-degree of .understanding, both
sensitive and robust. The costumes
and the set are an unqualified pleas-
ure. Pantomime in the intervals is
an excellent thing when one has a
stage-audience, and it offers tempting
possibilities for development.

Not venturing in my ignorance to
pass out selected nosegays to individ-
uals, I shall limit myself to one con-
structive suggestion: let all the
words be, heard. On Saturday night
I was in. L. For many of the
speeches, L to me was Heaven, but
for some few others it was little bet-
ter than Purgatory.

Dr. Leslie Hotson.

 

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Vale Interdictum!
It. was with trembling footsteps and fearful apprehensions that

~ the Bryn Mawr faculty approached the scene of the undergraduates’

\

Christmas dance last Saturday night. The last legal restraint. upon
those undergraduates had been joyfully hastened upon the ill-fated
way of all legal restraints, and in the eyes of the faculty anything
might be going to happen. The first week-end after Repeal had ushered
in a supposedly inebriated era which obviously provided an opportun-
ity to celebrate that no undergraduate, cognizant of any liquid but
the accustomed midnight oil, would let slip. The faculty hesitated on |
the steps, looked fearfully upon each other, nerved themselves for
the worst, and plunged into the melee. |

No undergraduate can appreciate their amazement, their relief,
their incredulous joy when they gazed upon that scene of innocent
‘merriment. » With saddened eyes and dispirited hearts, the undergrad-
wates danced stolidly around the-floor; nothing but a life of sad
monotony was left for them; the dangerous and fascinating gaiety
of but yesterday had departed forever. For the undergraduates, who
have known only the era of Prohibition, a decade which placed a
premium on the drinking of illicit liquor upon forbidden premises in
an atmosphere of charmingly possible, but not uncomfortably probable,
danger, all interest in drinking has made a sudden, surprising depart-
ure from daily life. Nothing could be duller nor more prosaic than)
finding wines on sale at every Childs’ restaurant, vintage champagne
on sale in every department store, and the entry into every. former
speakeasy effected with ease and a complete lack of mystery. We
shall soon be faced with the spectacle of weeping New Yorkers linger-
ing broken-heartedly on the well-worn stone steps of their former
speakeasies, and filing small pieces from the forbidding iron gratings
over the peepholes, in memory of a better day when mystery and |
excitement were included in the price of a cocktail.

The Bryn Mawr faculty need have no apprehension. Had they

* but realized that Repeal ushered the days of glamorous drinking com-

pletely out of the lives of their disheartened students, they would have
expected to see exactly the sad sight which met their eyes. The inno-
cent youth and the sweet, young charms of the girl undergraduate
loomed before the stunned perception of the faculty even as it had
been wont to do in the dear old days before the War. No one was
interested in drinking; all who were present did their girlish best to
preserve the standards of a sensible and sober Bryn Mawr; the faculty
may safely settle themselves to welcome the return of the innocent
‘ blue-eyed stare, of the horrified shudder at the thought of sinful cock-
tails and unwomanly highballs, and of the sober, shielded, and boring
youth of a fast-reviving era. So rapidly is this change rushing upon
us that as long ago as last Saturday night, undergraduates were seen
to faint at the dance for lack of stimulants, and were perforce revived,
still for lack of stimulants, by unromantic applications of cold air and
even colder water. We feel that this is a sad, sad state of affairs and
unfortunately very likely to continue ad infinitum. Vale, vale, Inter-
dictum! Ploramus te!

 

FUMGRIOY . ce osc ces Helen. Kellogg
Merrythought...... Anita Fouilhoux
Jasper, Michael, his sons,
Honora Bruere, Margaret Veeder
Tim, George, his apprentices,
Elizabeth Meirs, Nancy Stevenson

Varsity Play Is Applauded
for Unity of Whole Effect

 

Continued from Page One

porary, but it should be noted that
_Mr. Willoughby composed the duet of

' Hott. ieee cake Katharine Gribbel
‘ h that ,

et a the 4 mga ee Tanatercsicee ss Elizabeth Hannan

— ER Oe Haviland Nelson

The thankless and difficult work of
two people whose names do not ap-
pear on the program — of Evelyn
Thompson and Sallie Jones—should
__be recorded.

Altogether, hard work and enthus-
iasm ahd co-operation produced an en-

Luce, daughter of Venturewell, -
Joan Hopkinson

Mistress Merrythought, -
Margaret Kidder
Orange Vendor..... Madelyn Brown
Ladies and Gentlemen: Elizabeth
Terry, Helen Whitney, Esther Jane

tirely, successful and thoroughly en-| Parsons, Florence Swab, Barbara

joyable play. Merchant, Diana Morgan, Elizabeth
Revised cast of Varsity play: Putnam, Myra Little, Helen Harvey,

Prologue........-.. Frances Porcher | Halla Brown, Bétty Lou Davis, Kay

SNS iikve oven cenctie Anne Reese | Boyd.

His Wife....... Gertrude Franchot"| ‘Ruffians: Helen Ripley, Betty

Ralph, his apprentice, Eaton.

» Coffin-Bearers: Esther Bassoe,}
Nancy Bucher, Betty Eaton, Gertrude
Off stage music by Evelyn Thomp-
be syne

 

 

‘Whereas your guppies nourish

VICIOUS CIRCLE

The young and happy pairs domesti-.

wea, 0. aisle
Around New Jersey in suburban
ease; ae

on
dried fleas :
And on the progeny they propagate!

| The smart young couple that has been

around
| Goes to the local movies and the club;
| While guppies for their pleasure go
_ “glub-glub,”
| And swim around, around, and still
~ around.
| And when your sapient man and
mate have done,

‘Their frippery seems somewhat of a

flop:

/The dead lamented guppy floats atop
‘In finny justice for his fishy fun.
| Whereas ‘the social cade insures no

going up

'To heav’n, the guppy-God rewards

the gup!
—Snoop-on-the-Loose.

 

DIRTY LOOK

(Apropos Phillyeand Closer
Experience)

The curtain rises and the footlights

flare—

But behind me sits a playful pair.

The act progresses lustily ahead—

With running fire behind me frolic-

fed.

She has a lovely, lingering baby-

face,—

O me! for battle axe and gory mace;

;He has a tender, tendrilly mustache

That I am much provoked to mangle-
mash!

And with the climax; why, what could
be fitter

Than that from them should come a
timely titter?

|The world is over-populated now,

There’s too much joie-de-vivre around
somehow;

I’d like to do away with many an
elf

Who clutters up the earth with silly
Self—
The puny, petty person who purveys
His criticisms on the hawking ways.
If theatre-goers can’t their passions
bridle,

My own, thus purged, must needs
wax homicidal.

-—One in the Row ‘Ahead.

 

OPEN LETTER

Dearest, dearest Ed:

I want you to be read.
Your honey-bunchest News
I wish to be perused.

If “you would only pander,
o our desire for slander,
Print tons and tons of libel
We’d con you like the King James

Bible.
Alas, alack,
You are so slack,
You have no nose for dirt,
Or else you’fre not alert
In mopping up the slime.
Why stick to the sublime?

—From the Ridiculous.

 

This is a typewriter I see. It has
dirty black keys which make dirty
black marks on the paper and they
are very unpleasant black marks for
more person than one. Often one re-
marks black June bugs on the green
grass of summer. Those are like
| these, but not more like these than
other bugs which can be seen when
summer is a-bloom, But now when
the winds are whistling around the
legs of any one who cannot stay in-
side the bugs seem distant and green
grass can only be seen where there
are heater pipes.

Thank God the Shaw lectures are
over. We almost had to give up Wit’s
End to disarmament. It was a crisis
for three weeks, with everydne
screaming and yelling—one side for

board for drivel. Drivel won’ out.

We hesitate to say much more be-
cause there’s that guy, Woollcott,
coming to make us look pretty sick
with his “Confessions of a Dying
Newspaperman.” We've been sick
for a long time, but we’re not dead
yet and then again maybé we’re ‘not
a journalist, —

 

+ nite if “
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‘THE MAD HATTER.

economics, and all the rest of the

News of the New York Theatres |

While we weré on our self-awarded
vacation last week, which we, spent in;
the “stacks, “and enjoyed immensely in|
spite of the limited character of the!
resenee a the theatre was going on|
down the glory road, and-there came |
to light many plays, but few very |
good ones.

Tobacco Road, the dramatization by |
Jack Kirkland, of the novel of Geor-'
gia back country, which flowed from!
the pen of Erskine Caldwell, succeed-|
ed in upsetting’ the digestive pro- ks
cesses of all that saw it and for that
reason is enjoying more of a success
than one would have imagined... It
deals with a very run-down family
of poor whites who have troubles with
the economic and the natural aspects
of their lives. The chief concern of
the play is to give an accurate pic-
ture “of the primitive human animal |
writheing in the throes of gender” |
and that. it does very graphically.
The feature-of the play is the. acting
of Henry Hull, who takes the part
of Jeeter Lester, the father of the
snakelike brood. Long branded as an
actor who can do all the tricks of gen-
tle folk, enter a drawing room with-
out becoming panicky, and seduce any
heroine almost without attracting her
attention, he has risen. to establish
himself as an actor. and not as a
clothes horse, forever and amen.

Since America has come of age to
a certain extent and we are now al-
lowed by dear Uncle Sam to have a
cocktail before dinner, and a beer be-
fore bed, the plays in which we are
allowed to gaze with reckless abandon
on people drinking on the Left Bank
in Paris have lost some of their point
and even seem a little absurd. For
that reason All Good Americans,
which Laura and S, J. Perelman
wrote, Courtney Burr produced, and
Hope Williams adorns, is really a
rather stupid affair, in which a group
of cynics drink: cocktails and make
witty remarks much in the manner
of milkmen counting empty bottles.
Percy Hammond, who has been young
again in his attitude toward the the-!
atre this season, says of it, “So they |
were rather an entertaining group of
expatriates surrounded by a pink-
ish Hemingway aura of life lived
loosely and to the brim.” Miss Wil-
liams goes through her role without
even disturbing a hair in her head)
and it is all pretty talkative. Why!
all plays about people in Paris insist |
on making all the characters cynics}

 

 

us. It seems hardly possible that |
everyone could have a hangover all |
of the time—even in Paris.

Previous to the opening of these
two rather unimportant pieces the
theatre received two almost simul-
taneous blessings in Mary of Scot-
land and She Loves Me Not. They

jare slightly different in theme and

treatment, but they have several
(Continued on Page Four).

 

Haverford Soccer Team
Trounces Varsity, 3-0

 

On Tuesday, December 5, Varsity
was trounced by the Haverford Soc-
cer team (playing an excellent brand
of hockey in spite of only an hour’s
practice), 3-0.

The weight, height and speed of
the opposing team placed Varsity on
the defensive immediately and only
a few times was it permitted to get
within scoring distance of the goal.
Although the backfield managed to
hold its own during the first half,
Haverford gained confidence and ac-
curacy in the second so that the for-
ward line, led by the Brown cousins,
swept down the field to batter con-
tinuously against any opposition
which Varsity attempted to offer, and
so to the doleful strains of “Poor
Old Bryn Mawr’ rendered by the
male voices from the sidelines, Var-
sity faded slowly out of the picture.

The line-up was as follows:

Haverford Bryn Mawr
Ditshie: 4... ee le Taggart
 Srown >. 1... 2 aera
A. Stokes. ...... OB ss ee shs Kent
T, Brown erred 4 4, sé te cick Faeth
HOOOR: hice ces BTS aoe 4 448 Evans
Sharpless ..... eR vite Bright
Richardson ....l. h.-..... Bridgman
ee ee En Bishop
Trumble ««...;.. 1. f. .....Rothermel
J. Stokes ....... Me. coda s ee

Goals—Haverford :

C. Brown, 1. =

Substitutions —Haverford: Ritchie
for Jones, Bush for eee eh
Mawr: Cary for Lamed. ab

 

all of the time has always puzzled |

 

IN PHILADELPHIA

 

__. Theatres _

“Walnut:
contribution to the theatre family—
Love: ‘Story—with Jane Wyatt, Leona
Hogarth, and Frank Conroy. Jt has
| nothing to commend it and.so far
| nothing to damn it.
69th St. Playhouse: The stock

| company is going in for farce with
' She Got What She Wanted, by George
Rosener. This company -goes along

;in an even fashion, and while, they

,are never very good they are never
very bad, which is something for this.
town. ‘

Academy of Music
Philadelphia Orchestra: Fri. aft.,.
Dec, 15, at 2.30 P. M., and Sat. eve-
ning, Dec. 16, at 8.30 P. M. Leopold
Stokowski will conduct. Program:
Gliere..Symphony “Illa Mourometz”’
Rimsky-Korsakov,

Dance from “Snegourotchka”

“The Bumble Bee”
Ippolitow-Evanow,

In the Mountain Pass

Tschaikowsky..... Romeg and Juliet

Metropolitan Grand Opera Com-
pany: Tues., Dec. 19, at 8.00 P. M.
Opening performance of the current
season with Mmes. Lily..Pons—and
Gladys Swartout and Mms. Martinelli
and Rothier. The conductor will be~
Mr, Hasselmans.

and

Movies
Aldine: Lee Tracy as the Advice
to the Lovelorn editor who needed to
see a doctor himself ,over Sally
Blane. The animal is called Advice
to the Lovelorn, and is probably the
last appearance of Mr. Tracy, due to
his disrobing act staged at a Mexi-
can festival in a Repeal moment. The
studio had to fire him to appease the

Mexican Government.

Stanley: Another of those “Hey-
hey ain’t life really the nuts’ movies,
entitled Sitting Pretty, and sitting in
various poses throughout are Jack
Oakie, Jack Haley, Ginger Rogers,
and Thelma Todd.

Keith’s: A sickening thing about
love and all its asininities. James
Dunn and Claire Trevor in Jimmy
and Sally. And as if this wasn’t
enough there is also vaudeville.

Karlton: George Arliss in Dis-
raeli. This is a return of the mag-
nificent picture that came out sev-
eral years and it has lost none of its
| appeal.

Earle: Ed Wynn is in the process
of being immortalized in his fire: hat.
This is The Chief, and in addition

ito the funny man it has Dorothy Mac-

kaill, and Chic Sale, both of whom
disgust in different ways. Their chief
trouble is that they aren’t funny.

Stanton: George Brent deserts his
little wife long enough to be in F'rom
Headquarters, with Margaret Lind-
say. A mediocre but pleasant detect-
ive yarn.

Europa: The South Seas, with all
their advantages, are back in Lover’s
Paradise. This tale revolves around
a Malayan Adonis and the inevitable
chieftain’s daughter, with battles be-
tween sharks and octopi brought in
to make it wholesome.

Boyd: The film adaptation of John
Van Druten’s Behold We Live. It
has become If I Were Free and has
lost much of. the touch that made it
possible. Clive Brook and Irene Dunn
struggle bravely. Much clandestine
love and romantic sacrifice, which
seems to pain Mr. Brook most hor-
ribly.

Local Movies

Ardmore: Wed. and Thurs., John
Mack Brown and Robert Young in
Saturday’s Millions. Fri. and Sat.,'
Jean Harlow and Lee Tracy in Bomb-
shell. Mon. and Tues., Dick Powell
and Anna Dvorak in College Coach.
Wed. and Thurs., Bruce Cabot and
Betty Furness in Midshipman Jack.

Seville: Wed. and Thurs., James
Dunn and Claire Trevor in Jimmy
and Sally. Fri. and Sat., Too Much
Harmony, with Bing Crosby and Jack
Oakie.. Mon. and Tues.,.S, O. S. Ice-
berg, with Rod La Roeque. Wed. and

Thurs., Forgotten, with William Col- — 3

lier, i. and Natalie Morehead.
Wayne: Wed. and Thurs., Tarzan,
The Fearless, with Buster Crabbe.
Fri. and Sat., One Sunday Afternoon,
with Gary Cooper and Fay Wray.

T. Brown,. 2;) Mon. and Tues., Stage Mother, with ©

Alice Brady ‘ind Franchot Tone.
Wed. and Thurs., Golden Harvest,
with Richard Aven, Genevieve To-
bin and ‘pease Morzis. ‘ ig |

 

 

 

‘S. N. -Behrman’s new
* . Philadelphia team, 7-0.

 

 

THE COLLEGE NEWS

 

 

All-Phila. Team Gains ‘Varsity Hockey Team

a8 Victory Over Varsity

 

Opponents Who Play for

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B. M. Struggles Hard Against
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SNOW HINDERS PLAYING Philadelphia ©, C. 1

 

On Saturday morning, in the midst
‘of our first real snowstorm, Varsity
“slid” to its first defeat of the sea-
son in the annual game with All-

Although Varsity never quite ex-
pects to win from a team which sup-|
plies so many players to the All-
American, the' game usually records
the advance made during the season,
—the big aim being to emerge as lit- |
tle scored on as possible. Varsity
played as good a defense as was’ pos-
sible under’ the existing circum-
stances, — two inches of snow and

 

freezing weather, but -was unable to! Seen

block the attack of its opponent’s for-

ward line headed by Howe and the! Bright ................ center half
Kendig sisters. Several attempts ees left half
were made to rush the ball past Mc-| Bishop ....... ccs s eee ces right full

Williams, but were unsuccessful, due

to her splendid work. Kitty McLean’s Sion ‘Smith

phenomena] accuracy “in blocking |
passes and also to Varsity’s tendency
to pass rather than shoot, although
in excellent scoring position. On the!
whole, Varsity failed to live up to

 

the William and Mary game, but did
extremely well. considering. the
weather. "

We must congratulate the few
hardy souls who dared the elements
sufficiently to shiver their encourage-
ment to the team from. the sidelines.

The line-up was as follows:

All-Philadelphia Bryn Mawr

ers. DOItIN. 6. Te OW a

C, Kendie = 7ic3 Pale eee aa

TOBIOM - oc ys C1... Kent
WE -TLOWO “cscs ale ds a ccs eas Faeth
po. Mendig. 5 Te ees Brown
HHOUG is eeek oe Peon, 6 ak aa Daniels
TET 0c gmmmr erase erase cn, .- Bridgman
POW ou sca, Deo a ed Evans
Hamilton ..;...< Eh AP pears Bishop
Mowe 7 | Pa aaa Rothermel]
MIC WHOM 64. 6B cans oe cs Smith

Goals—All-Phil.:
lam, 1; C, Rendig, 2.
Substitutions = Bryn Mawr: Ben-
nett for Faeth.
Umpires — Mrs.
Miss Ferguson.
Time of halves—25 minutes.

Krumbaar and

 

Foreign Policy Association

The topie of the Philadelphia For-
eign Policy Association luncheon to
be held at the Bellevue-Stratford this
Saturday will be Is Communism In-
evitable, John Strachey and George
Sokolsky are scheduled as speakers.

Mr. Strachey is the nephew of Lyt-
ton Strachey and the author of The
Menace of Fascism and The Coming
Struggle For Power. He was Labor
Member of Parliament from 1929 to
1931, and is known as a powerful
speaker and constant contributor to
the leadiig English publications,

Mr. Sokolsky, whose articles on the
Far East appear in the New York
Times, has returned to this country
after fourteen years of uninterrupt-
ed residence in the Orient. He went
to Russia in 1917 to see the Russian
Revolution, but instead edited an al-
lied war paper in Petrograd, as’a re-
sult of which the Bolsheviks request-
ed him to leave. He then pushed on
to China where he met Dr. Sun Yat-
sen and worked with the Shanghai
Students’ Union.

Tickets for the luncheon may be
obtained from Eleanor Fabyan, Pem |
West. The special student rate is
one dollar.
|

Vassar College authorities recently |
secured an injunction against a can-
dy company for making “Vassar!
Kisses.”

 

 

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in better condition than when it start-
| ed, the second Varsity seemed to de-| recalls that “she appeared, when she

‘scend from its early successes, — a
our hopes and expectations following |

 

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(Continued from Page Oney

The following are the statistics and|
final official] line-up of the team:
Schedule: |

Main Line ....... 2 Bryn Mawr 3

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Phila. Country C...1 " 2)
Merion--C.--G.--. 64.2 Ag 2)
Swarthmore ..... 3 s 3)
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William and Mary 0 ee 3 |

All-Philadelphia .. 7 « +
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Individual scores:
Kent—9, Taggart—5, Faeth—4,

Cary—2, Larned—2, Bridgman—1,
Lineup:

Rothermel left full

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Although Varsity ended the season

fact due perhaps to the persistently
bad weather in which the Monday af-|
ternoon games always seemed to take

 

place. The team usually outstripped
its faster opponents through sheer |
weight and push, with Ballard and |
Gimbel leading the attack and backed |
up by a strong solid defense. Except

'for the Main Line game, which Var-!

Miss. Millay to Give
Poetry Reading Here

 

Continued from Page One

sumably: because she could not bear

| the ones then in use) and. ended it}!

al up- by walking out of the portals
lin the spring of 1917 with a diploma
tucked firmly under her am,

The same year as her graduation
saw the publication of her first vol-
ume of verse, Renascence and Other
| Poems, which attracted'the attention
of all the thoughtful readers of. mod-.

| ern verse. Renascence, the title poem

| of the book, had‘seen the light of day
in 1912 when Miss Millay was noth-
ing more than a school girl, and was
the feature of The Lyric Year,.an

‘anthology published by Frederick

Pinney Earle and Mitchell Kinnerly.
After 1917 Miss Millay was in New
York investigating the secrets of suc-
cess and how to achieve it in the big
city, together with a small army of
young hopefuls. She lived in a lodg-
ing house on: Twelfth Street in the
Village, and supported herself by
writing short stories under various
pseudonyms. She later joined ithe
Provincetown Players in the capac-
ity of playwright and actress and dis-
tinguished ‘herself immediately as a

‘rather amazing person by not coming
|to rehearsals, or coming yery late if

she made it at all. One of her friends

| appeared at all, one or two hours in
arrears,” and then proceeded to make
up for her sins by “her complete un-
derstanding of the pantomimic de-
mands of the part.”

Her second book of verses, A Few
Figs From Thistles, appeared in 1920
and Second April followed in 1921.
Both of these volumes were the occa-
sion for much hurrahing on the part

i Sity lost 3-1, the team took the of- | of the reviewers, but the high point
|

|

 

 

fact that only three points were scor-
ed upon her throughout the season.

Daniels, Gribbel, Carter and Jones

will be lost to the team next season, |

but here again old and new material |
/nigh impossible of accomplishment.

from the Freshman class will play
a large part.

Schedule: “+
Howe, 4; Has-! Phila. Country C..

*

1 Bryn Mawr 3}

Gtn F. S. Alumnae 1 ¢ 6
Merion C, C. .... 0 . ae
Mein Line 33.3: 3 ef J
Philadelphia C. C. 1 2s 3

Gtn. F. S. Alumnae 0

6

Individual Scores:

Ballard—4, Taggart—3, Gimbel—7,

Harington—2, Cary—g, Bridgman—
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Taggart | fensive at all times and rarely was, in the applause came in 1923 with the
Larned; the goal guard threatened with a
| continual drive,—as is shown by the

‘appearance of The Harp Weaver,
which received in ‘addition to the
plaudits of the multitude the Pulitzer
Prize for poetry.

Not content to: be a famous poet-
ess, Miss Millay launched herself in
1926 in a project which seemed well

Although in ill health she devoted the
entire summer of that year to the
completion of The King’s Henchman,
the libretto, for an opera composed by
Deems Taylor. The work was a suc-
cess and Miss Millay holds the unique
distinction of being the only woman
to have an opera performed in the
Metropolitan Opera House.

Miss Millay’s works have followed
each other with a ‘regularity encour-
aging to an army of admirers, and to
her early publications have been add-
ed Buck in the Snow (1928), Fatal

| Interview (1981), and The Princess

Marries the Page (19382). And to the
distinction of being both a poetess and
a best seller Miss Millay has added
that of being a distinguished reader

 

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of poetry. William Lyon Phelps has
said of her, with a si w of his usual
intuitiveness, “her poetry is interest-
ing because it comes from an inter-

esting mind,” but the undergraduates
will no longer be forced to accept the
dicta of the leading contributor to
Scribner’s concerning the genius and
accomplishment of Miss Millay,. for

 

she will be
to come and hear at 8.20 P. M. on

Monday night. Tickets are on: sale
at the Publication Office and the pro-
ceeds are to go toward defraying the
expenses of the Bryn Mawr Memo-
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THE COLLEGE NEWS

 

News, of the New York Theatres

 

 

 

(Continued from=-Page Two)

things in common before we go on
to particulars.
women who. have very good minds,
but who prefer to pass up the life of
the mind for a few well’ managed mo-
ments of hapiness of one kind and
another with such contrasting char-
acters as the Earl of Bothwell and
any personable Princeton undergrad-
“uate. Both come to no good in the
end, but both have a very nice time
when they aren’t threatened with the
block or the house of correction, and
the audience likes them, although
they are really not very decorous.

As to particulars—Mary of Scot-
land is a sincere: attempt by Max-
well Anderson to present Mary,
Queen of Scots, to the public as her
admirers picture her—as a very beau-
tiful woman, who preferred to be a
woman rather than a queen. In con-
trast to this characterization and in
conflict with it, Mr. Anderson’ has
created a scheming, unemotional
Elizabeth, who is every inch a queen
and not even a millimeter woman.
Helen Hayes has come back from
Hollywood to do Mary, while Helen
Mencken is the Elizabeth, and the
two of-them do: more to make the play
seem real present-day drama with
deep’ emotions running through it
than any two actresses we have seen
at work in many a day. Philip Meri-
vale plays Mary’s Bothwell and it is
~no wonder that Mary had an unfor-
tunate habit of giving up to him to

Both “revolve~around4

 

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the infinite annoyance ‘of John sik
who just didn’t understand about
life.

As for the hilarious frolicking of
the undergraduates in She Loves Me
Not: Although the story takes place
in Princeton, the inspiration for it
all was the Little Eva episode of New
Haven, which occupied the interest
of undergraduates from here to the
coast some time ago. As _ everyone
doubtless remembers, a very nicely
constructed gal from Philadelphia ar-
rived in New Haven and had such a
good time and got: such welcome’ at-
tention that she moved into. Van

‘Sheff and lived for several weeks in

a sort of brotherhood with the boys.
Everyone concerned enjoyed him-
self enormously, and there were
deep regrets when the Dean stepped
in and a few of the boys stepped out.
The author of the play was in Paris
and read of the incident in the Paris
Herald one fine day and decide to col-
lect the details and do a play. But
in the manner of only The Herald
there were no further installments on
the subject, so Mr. Lindsay made up
the end, and fixed things to suit him-
self and so we have a riotous three
acts of the youth of America in the
throes of getting educated, and’ the

 

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last scene takes place neither in the
receiving’ room of a reform school,
nor on the gangplank of an around-
the-world steamer.

As for the plans for the future
there are still many hopefuls ¢hamp-
ing at the bit to get their money out
of safe keeping, and the holiday sea-
son promises to be one jammed with
openings. John Wexley, who wrote
The Last Mile, about death row in the
penitentiary, and Steel,, about just
that, has got all worked up overthe
Scottsboro case and has a play com-
ing on entitled They Shall Not Die.
It is coming on later.than most and
wil] have a February opening. Eu-
gene. O’Neill’s new opus, which he
has described as “fa modern miracle
play,” is due soon, It is called Days
Without End, and in it are Earle
Larimore and Stanley Ridges. It is
another of his strange plays appar-
ently; for both these men play the
same person—just different aspects of
him, that’s’ all, gentle reader. It
seems that they share the dialogue to

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the extent that one starts and anoth-|
er finishes the lines and so on until
the audience is too baffled to care.
One of the bright spots of the cur-
rent season for all of George Ber-
nard Shaw’s lately developed scoffers
has been the complete and. almost
triumphant failure for his new play,
On the Rocks, which just opened in
London. | To quote a few of the re-
viewers" gives us infinite pleasure—
Ivor Brown found it “cold comfort in
a world of hot contentions,” and goes

10 Downing Street the. play pre-
serves a “continuity of inaction.”
Robert Garland suggests that they
cast Ed Wynn and Lyda Roberti in
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Shaw’s works are needed, allow us
to. present a list of those’ we think

would fit in well with the pattern of
his_plays—Mae.West for.A Woman's
Profession, Aimee Semple McPher-
son for Candida, Jean Harlow for
Arms and the Man (if only for pub-
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three Olympic Skating Championships,
Jaffee has brought the highest skating
honors to the U.S.A. Asked recently if
he was a steady smoker, Jaffee said,““Yes
—but that goes for Camels only. I have
to keep my wind, you know, and
healthy nerves.’

You’ve often seen his name and picture
in the papers—Jaffee, the city-bred boy
from the U. S. A. who beat the best that
Europe had to offer, and became the
skating champion of the world! Speak-
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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five

 

 

Psyche and Health Is
Topic of Chapel Talk
Dr. Dunbar Declares Lourdes
Miracle Cures Show Power
of Emotions

 

 

HAVE MEDICAL VALUE

 

In Chapel Sunday evening, Dr.
Helen Flanders Dunbar talked on
Psyche and Health, Including Obser-
vations Made At Lourdes. “We are
just beginning to learn something
about the power of emotion in the
prevention of illness, not only disease
of the social order,”. said Dr. Dun-
bar. “We talk a great deal about
knowing and thinking, especially in
connection with college, and knowing
and thinking are old problems of phil-
osophy.” The-question of real impor-
tance is, however, what makes men
free to think and act.

Emotions so far have been oyer-
looked as agents in thinking and /act-
ing, although common experience
shows what a large place they oc-
cupy in these spheres. The Scholar
who avoids emotion in his pursuit of
knowledge shows a marked /tendency
to become dry and uninspiring; and
rare. is the professor who feels in
a Way we can understand, and is still
free to think and act. ‘Our genera-
tion is one of professors of psychol-
ogy, who pay a great deal of atten-
tion to mental tests and seem to for-
get the emotions.”

There is a small town called Lour-
des in-France, where the relation of
emotion, thinking and acting are un-
usual. Greatly. differing opinions
have been expressed about——this
French village where almost a mil-
lion pilgrims go yearly to receive

 

physical and spiritual aid. “The most
striking thing about it is that it is
completely ordinary. The miracles
which occur there cannot, therefore,
be attributed to the ‘suggestive or
healing power of beauty. Yet Lourdes
seems ordinary to the outsider, and
one who has pentrated to the homes
of the townspeople will hear tales of
miracles done by Our Lady of Lourdes,
told with mediéval fervor and awe.

Pilgrimages are made to Lourdes
from every / part of the Catholic
world, — mostly from Italy, France,
Spain, and Belgium. Every-three to
five days during the April to Octo-
ber season; fifteen hundred new pa-
tients pour into the two hospitals, and
many/ others, who make the pilgrim-
age from piety only, fill the hotels.
The pilgrimages are run on a sched-
ule by priests and doctors of the dif-
ferent groups, masses, processions,
and bathing each being performed at
a certain time.

The hospitals at. Lourdes are dank,
uncomfortable buildings, where pa-
tients in all stages of illness lie pa-
tiently, with the minimum of dtten-
tion from the ‘few attendants. The
scene invariably outrages every in-
stinct of visiting phySicians, but soon
they come to see these sick people,
who gaze so steadily at the image of
Our Lady, as unaccountably happy
beings who show an uncomplaining
spirit entirely Jacking in our super-
efficient hospitals.

Once or twice a day all the pa-
tients go to church on stretchers. As
the slow pocession passes through the
village street, the onlooker is impress-
ed by the peace and happiness of ev-
eryone—“and those who die on the
way look only a little happier than
the rest.” Needless to say, many
people go away from Lourdes cured
of~-nervous disorders; but “these do
not -have the status of “Miracule,”
the sick who have been cured instant-

‘ganic diseases.

 

ly and permanently of incurable or-
Both the medical bu-
reau that has been set up at Lourdes
to observe the cases of reported mira-
cle and the Catholic church are un-
interested in psychic cases.

“But for our purposes the medical
aspect of Lourdes is of secondary im-
portance. The important thing is
that psychic forces without the help
of scientific method, and many of the
tools for healing that science has giv-
en us, and indeed in disobedience to
many of the principles of science, are
making. people happier and freer to
act.”

The handling of emotions should
be not only a moral and educational
problem, but also medical. Depres-
sions, emotional conflicts and nervous-
ness are often concealed by emotion-
ally sick people as unpleasant to talk
about, but, like sick organisms, if let
go too long, they may have serious
consequences. Lack of concentration,
instability and a sense of inferiority
may all be traced to unhealthy emo-
tional states. Furthermore, emotion-
al conflict may cause organic diseases
as well as interfering with freedom
to think and act.

The present economic depression is.

a problem for science, but not: for sci-
ence with a -psychic blind-spot. -“Sci-
ence has brought 1s far, but science,
in setting the standard of pure
thought eliminating emotion, has con-
structed a grand, powerful Pompeii
at the side of Vesuvius. If we fail
to realize. this, it is only because we
are too busy to step out from the
traffic of the lighted streets to see

.the smoke rising from the volcano, be

it to ponder on the havoc potential in
the next war, or on the chaos of blind
feeling seething behind many of the
finely trained minds around us. It is
emotion that’ makes us free to think
and act and it makes us think and
act.”

noteworthy for the full tones of her |

 

“Hark, The Herald Angels
Sing”
hoir
| “Shepherds Shake Off Your Drowsy

Deanery Is Setting | Hymn:
for Sunday Carolling | rw

 

Continued from Page One

: eee eer Besancon Carol
self—well-to-the eee of -the~choir: “Master in This Hall”. .Old French
The two apt a i ages “King Herod and the Cock,”
panied by Mr. Willoughby at t Worcestershire

piano were distinguished by a fast | uo, Christmas
tempo and a sort of folk-dance rhythm| atts by Vaughan Wee
with a joyous refrain. Unfortunate-! Solo by Jane E, Polachek, ’34

ly, one of the few definite breaks in! Christmas Night”. Vaughan-Williams

the. singing occurred in the first of | Hymn: “The First Noel”. Traditional
these, the old French “Masters in|

the\ Hall.” But the second, “King!
Herod: and the Cock,” was one of the)
most enjoyable selections of the af-;
ternoon.

Day,”

 

The remedy for professorial tardi-
ness at the University of Bologna in
'1158 was to withhold the professor’s
| pay for the class at which he arrived

If this, be the truth King Herod said, | ct Motorfigiagr sc gerade’ Pghy

That thqu hast told to me: |

The roasted cock that lies in the dish, | | was late, he ‘had to teach the class
Biall: crow: fall dene tires. ! regardless, but without any *emun-

O the cock soon thrustened and feath- ' eration for his. efforts. In addition

eed. well, ito fixing their salaries, students hir-

By the’ work of God’s own hand: ied and fired professors, went to

And he did ¢row full senses three | CLARRSS st taey plessed and changed

Te Nie Aiih eeabk hk MIA ate | their professors if they tired of their
original instructors.

—(N. S. F. A.)

This was folldwed by Miss Pola-|
chek’s solo, the rendition of which was |

 

“The idea that girls are an inspira-
tion for a football player to do big-
'ger and better things is a hoax,”
,)8ays Coach Michael Percarovich, of
Gonzaga University.

singing as nicely contrasted with the|
humming accompaniment of.the choir, '
and for the amount of feeling which’
the singer injected into a “carol in its
words and music’ so much like a
chant.

 

 

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Hymn: “O Come, All Ye Fantail’
The Choir
“The Wassail Song,”

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“The Coventry Carol,”

English Traditional
“A Babe in Bethlehem’s Manger,”

English Traditional
MO PERU OO WWHEY cen csccss ss Bach
“Now the Rarest Day”..Czech carol
“Sleep, Baby, Sleep’”....Czech carol

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Page Six.

THE COLLEGE NEWS

 

 

 

stable peace.”” The Women’s Interna-

 

COLT Far ERI ENCOUN —
se Bi li: ee oe ee

Disarmament Is Held |

Essential for Peace

 

~Miss Balch Discusses. Economic |

Causes of War at Final

Show Conference |

TARIE FS ARE IRRITANT: |

 

 

Speaking at the conference in the
Deanery Library on December 7, Miss
Balch said, “Total disarmament is not
at present possible; but only ..with
complete disarmament will there be

tional League is working first for ar-
bitration, then for a sense of secur-

ity, and finally for complete disarm-
ament. It is preposterous that civil-
ized people should prepare for war,
the outcome of which is always.so un-
certain. War is not the method for
countries with as powerful instru-
ments as those that have been devel-
oped in recent years. Modern men
are too sensitive for war and too close |
together mentally and racially.

A first-class war now would ra
much worse than the last, which re-
duced the world to greater chaos
than ever before, changing govern-
ments, even causing national bank-
ruptcy, as in the case of Austria.
Even if another war did not entire-
ly eliminate the human race, there
would undoubtedly be a tremendous
waste of civilization. ‘ Imaginative
factors play. a larger part in inter-
national friction than in interior fric-
tion. The vastness of the sacrifice,
the danger, excitement and the tra-
ditional glory of/ warfare appeal to
the romantic in/man. No men with
the power to make war would enter

 

 

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, bling instinct..

“No one denies that ec onomic rivers

lests enter into perhaps Bll war,” As
| fow -yearsage, “the—landed—interests
in Mexico, typically represented by |
i Hearst, incensed by the new Mexican

| constitution forbidding ownership of

private property of sub-soil value,

were eager for war, although the |

| banking interests, represented by Mr.
Morrow, desired peace and a stable
Mexico that could pay its debts. In
spite. of Hearst’s scare head-lines, the
situation was cleared up by President
Coolidge’s firm support of Mexico’s
rights and the Senate’s vote for arbi-
tration, perhaps the first unanimous
vote in their record.

There is no simple explanation of
war or peace. All economic motives
have to be dressed up in some sort
of ermine. One cannot put an end to
greed, a great cause of war. It is
more conceivable that some adjust-
ment may be made of another great
cause—tariffs. “Tariffs,” says Miss
Addams, “are static wars.” ‘The pub-
lic attitude towards tariffs is very
ugly, uninstructed, and unintelligent.
When, for example, some years ago
we placed a tariff on pearl-buttons,
the Roumanian pearl-button makers
were compelled either to starve or to
emigrate to the United States, since
their only way of making a living
there had been taken from them. The
tariffs should be changed, but slowly,
with every change voted a consider-
able time in advance.

Imperialism, too, is an irritant for
war, but often it leads rather to ar-
bitration than to war, to intrigue
rather than to military aggression.
France and England arbitrated over
the question of the colony of Moroc-
co. Colonies, even if much desired,
are often very..expensive luxuries to
a nation, for they sometimes export

more to other countries than to the war complication of the Ruhr, a bar- | lizing.

: gain which was taken advantage of
Eyrope believes that we profited by | by Poincare. These cases seem to
the war because she sees only the | prove that_a large nation. would be
fever of war prosperity; not the bad | safe if unarmed.
depressions before and the long: slow|~ The most useful aspect of sanctions
fever of depression after the war.! js the threat inherent in them. Sanc-
According to Miss Addams, our stand- | tions would never. have to be used if
ard of living rose only after the first | they were large enough to be recog-
depression which followed. the war. ‘nized as effective. Litvinoff’s plan

The possibility of stability is great. | for disarmament, if not perfect, seems
er if there are no weapons in any; better than the British, but his coun-
country. There can be no war unless | try lacks the prestige of membership
people are not only willing to fight}in ‘the League. It is, however» con-
but also prepared to fight. The. only | ceivable that. Russia, Italy, -and Ger-
vlarge “business interest that. will -al-| ; many may make proposals outside
ways profit by war is that of muni- ' of the League. Germany’s proposal
tions. For other interests that might! up to date has not been reduced to
be involved, such as oi] and water-| writing. Italy’s idea of a central
ways (e. g., the Panama Canal), the ,lcading group of small powers seems
possibility of profit is uncertain. ; impracticable.

The only, internationa] legislation| ‘Perhaps the most notorious arma-
now valid on munitions is that pro-; ment scandal since the war was that
hibiting the giving of guns to Afri-'| of Roumania a few years ago. At
cans. Although the public is now be- one point in the Russian-Roumanian
ginning to recognize the danger of | dispute over intervening territory the
public armament, there has never | Russians were reported to be mobi-

|
le -ountry which owns them.
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——$—_—-— = *t
Various organizations -pre-
pared to journey to Bucharest in or-

der to protest against the war. The,

_Archbishop;however,.-gave-out the

news that a contract for munitions
had been signed and there was no
more talk of war. Then scandal de-
veloped. The letter of the Roumanian
general in charge of making the con-
tract was found, in which he accused
the munition firm of not making it
worth his while to have signed the
contract with them rather than with
a cheaper Dutch firm. An investiga-
tion was made. It was found that

| the Roumanian goverriment had: paid *

a foreign munition company an ex-
orbitant rate for.useless munitiéns
(the shot purchased did not fit the can-
nons)’ for a war. that. was not im-
nending. The general committed
suicide.

 

A Denison University regulation
reads: “The student may be rein-
stated only if absence is caused: by
long continued illness or death.”

 

been any effective campaign “against

 

private manufacture of munitions.
Trade unions have taken a definite
stand, as in England when they
struck against handling munitions
during the time when war with Rus-
sia seemed imminent. It is intoler-
able that our taxes should be spent
to keep up our armaments.

Even the head of the Secretariat
of the League of Nations supports to-
tal disarmament as a much easier so-
lution than piece-meal balancing of |
armaments between nations. Small
countries, although not less coveted
than large ones, have smaller arm-
ies. Iceland is so little that it is safe
without soldiers or a navy. Unarmed
Luxembourg suffered no abuse dur-
ing the war, in contrast with armed
Belgium. Disarmed Germany has
been respected, except for the post-

 

 

 

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