. + WRC ty ip Ee TER rack cir tet sha ap EIS Piprerenger ye wh? | ee Deas Se Pics PA SF < Rinseaee b) Gui tial ea aS 7 “ul AS ama Pivtngeon ete THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Three DIRECTOR'S PAGE --- MAY DAY ANNOUNCEMENTS Rainy Day Schedules ' Announced in Chapel Mrs. Collins Pleads Attendance For All Dancing Rehearsals ~” * "From Now On 'Goodhart, April 16.—Announcement of. the progress and preparation for |. May Day were made by Mrs. Chad- wick-Collins in chapel this morning. She announced that the budget is hold- . ing up well and that nearly $5,000 has been taken in by ticket sales through the May Day Office alone. This is ahead of the sale not only for 1932, but even for 1928, and reports have not yet begun to come in from the alumnae who are selling tickets all over the country. Four thousand dollars have been taken out for rain insurance for Saturday, and in case of rain the various plays will be per- formed in Goodhart Hall and the Gymnasium. “The decision as: to where each play was to be given was agreed upon by the heads of the May Day organization and the choice was based on where properties could go and also on the desire to divide the music. Robin Hood, The Deluge and The Creation, The Masque of Flowers, with music and The Old Wives’ Tale will be presented in Goodhart Hall in case of rain, and the Green (which in- eludes St. George and the Dragon) with music, Midsummer’ Night’s Dream and Gammer Gurton’s Needle will be given in the Gymnasium, with a second presentation of Robin Hood to finish the program there so that those who choose to see the plays in the Gymnasium may also see the crowning of the May Queen. In case of rain on Friday the program will be postponed to Monday. Dress re- hearsals will begin in two weeks and the schedule for them and for the general Maypole dancing is as fol- lows: ' Thursday, April 30: 4.15 p.m. Big Maypole dancing on the Green, with band (Friday in case of rain). Friday, May 1: 6 to 7 p. m. Maypole dancing on the Green. Sunday, May 3:-Dress rehearsals of the Plays. (Monday in case of rain.) 2-8—Robin Hood. 3-4—The Creation and The Deluge. 4-5—Old Wives’ Tale. 5-6—Gammer Gurton’s Needle. 6-7—Midsummer. Night’s Dream. Monday, May 4: 8-8.40 a. m.—General dancing (Tuesday in case of rain, Sunday or Monday). 2-3—-Maypole dancing. 4-5—St. George and the Dragon (dress rehearsal). 5-6—The Masque of Flowers (dress rehearsal). Tuesday, May 5: a 8-8.40 a. m.—General dancing. 2.30-6 p. m.—All of the Green (not the procession) with band. Wednesday, May 6: Big 8-8.40 a. m.—General Maypole dancing. 2.30—Procession, Queen’s Court, Big Maypole dances, with band. Thursday, May 7: 2.30—Dress rehearsal of entire pag- eant. (Everybody must be dressed in costume and assembled outside Pem- broke Arch by 2 p. m.) Please watch the bulletin boards for your individual play rehearsals. Movies of the plays will be taken : at dress rehearsals and of the pageant on Friday, May 8. Miss Grayson, Mrs. von Erffa and their helpers have been working stead- ily on the more than 700 costumes which will be used and these promise to be not only more authentic and picturesque, but more varied and more beautiful: than ever before. As soon as Miss Grayson has finished the de- signing and making of the costumes for each play they will be turned over to the casts for the finishing touches under the supervision of Miss Dyer for her plays and Miss Lord for Mr. Wyckoff’s plays. Undergraduates are asked.to-help the Costume Committee and the casts of the plays whenever they have time. _ The paper flowers are all finished _. three weeks ahead of the 1932 sched- ule and the undergraduates, under iss Brydy and “Miss Frothingham, an ©& o = Tumblers’ Costumes __ All tumblers are asked to make sure that their costumes fit them. Any one requiring refitting should report to the _ Gymnasium, MEMBERS OF FACULTY TO WAIT ON QUEEN . Members of the faculty will appear in the May Day Procession as ladies- in-waiting and courtiers in. Queen Elizabeth’s Court. Several other parts will also be filled by the faculty. Following is a list of the participants: * Ladies-in-waiting: Martha Meysen- burg Diez, Clarissa Compton Dryden, Harriett Ferguson, Josephine Fisher, Enid Glen, Agnes Kirsopp Lake, Mar- guerite Lehr, Elinor Amram Nahm, Mary Louise Terrien, Mary Willough- by. : : Courtiers: Karl Anderson, Richard Bernheimer, T. Robert S. Broughton, J. Alister Cameron, Ernst Diez, Max Diez, Richmond Lattimore, Walter Michaels, Milton Charles Nahm, Hel- mut von Erffa, Edward H. Watson. Faculty who have other parts in May Day. Apothecary—Olga Leary. Playwright—Herbert A. Miller. Dames with Little Scholars—Ma- deleine Soubeiran, Edith Lanmian:-: Morris dancer—Mary Eliot Froth- ingham. Villager—Alice Bookstahler Latti- more. piece of work. The colors, too, are better than before, as they are sharper. The 14,000 printed announcements of May Day have all been sent out, this also in great part due to the help of undergraduate volunteers. One of the greatest contributions on the part of the students is made by the understudies in the plays who have had to learn two parts, some- times two long ones; but as everyone will realize, it is imperative that all large parts be understudied. All available rooms in the vicinity of Bryn Mawr have been taken for the eighth and ninth of May and many of the Philadelphia hotels have been almost filled. If any undergraduates wish to cancel reservations for rooms in Philadelphia and the Main Line they are asked to notify the May Day Office instead of communicating di- rectly with the inn or hotel, because over one hundred requests for rooms have been received which cannot be filled. Undergraduates will not be able to be with their families on Friday or Saturday morning, May 8 and 9, be- cause that is the time when they must be made up. No outsiders will be al- lowed to sleep in the halls Thursday, Friday or Saturday nights and no outsider will even be allowed in the halls on-Friday and Saturday with- out a.special card of admission signed by. the warden of the hall, since all of the halls will be locked as a pro- tection against possible robbery and the maids will admit no one without a card. Mrs. Collins concluded by saying: “When I was thinking last night what words of exhortation I might say to you this morning in regard to the necessity of attendance at the rehear- sals of the big Maypole dances, I rea- lized that everything I could think of saying, I had already said to you. Later on I happened to be reading in The New Yorker some lines by Ogden Nash, so I thought I’d try to para- phrase them. I give them to you with apologies to him and also to you: “So I advise you even at the risk of being pedantic, If you must have an Elizabethan May Day choose one that is probably fatal but certainly romantic, Because it is better to have an au- thentic kind of May Day and be worked to death or anyway half to death Than to have the other kind which is more fun if not more good and keep your breath; One touch of May Day makes the whole world your kin And friends will come from near and far all prepared to grin-— How unfortunate it would be if thoge who came to smile should turn dis- dainful ~ 4 Finding the Bryn Mawr students did “not know how to dang and their - May Day therefore puinful!” . wih. MAY DAY CALENDAR Wednesday, April 22. — General dancing, 6-7 p. m.; St. George, 8-9.30 p. m. (stage); Old Wives’ Tale: Scene 12, 1.30-2 p. m. (outdoors if fine) ; Scene 24, 4-5 p. m. (éutdoors if fine); Scene 12 and 23 and Harvest- ers, 5-6 p. m. (outdoors if fine); Creation, cast singing, 5.30-5.45 p, m.; Deluge, cast singing, 5.45-6 p. m. Thursday, April 23.—General danc- ing, 6-7 p. m.; Morris dancing, 8.30 p. m.; Dargason and Circassian Cir- cle (for all Morris, sword and special country dancers), 8.50 p. m.; sword and special country dancing, . after Dargason and Circassian Circle; tum- bling, 5 p. m.; Masque: Primavera and Cock, 4-5 p. m.; Gypsies, 5-6 p. m.; Shepherds and Maidens, 8.30 p. m. Friday, April 24.—Robin- Hood, en- tire, 3.30-5.30 p. m. (outdoors); Old Wives’ Tale: Scene 31, 1.30-2 p. m.; understudies, 8-9 p. m.; Gammer Gur- ton, cast, 3-5 .p. m.; Midsummer Night’s Dream, mechanical parts, 7.30-8.30 p. m.; Creation, cast, 8.30- 9 p. m.; Deluge, cast, 9-10.15 p. m.; Masque, entire, 4-6 p. m. (Gym). Saturday, April 25.—Robin Hood, entire, 9 a. m.-1 p. m.; Gammer Gur- ton, cast, 11 a. m.-1 p. m.; Midsum- mer Night’s Dream: mechanical parts, 9-11 a. m:; court, 10-11 a. m.; Masque: North Wind, Primavera, Cock, 4-5 p. m.; Garden Gods and Flowers, 5-6 p. m. Mr. Schumann Composes New Music for Masque Original Score Lost; No Elizabethan Tune Suited to Dance Since music for the Masque of Flowers is not extant, Mr. Hans Schumann, who has been accompany- ing the natural dancing classes here at Bryn Mawr for the past five years, has written special music for this coming production of the Masque. - By doing this he has’ arrived at the per- fect. solution to producing an old masque for a modern audience. If other Elizabethan music than that originally splayed for the Masque of Flowers were used, it would certainly prove to be incongruous, if not ridicu- lous since the dancers are, after all, of a modern and not a mediaeval type. The music would lack the color and miss the harmony that has been de- veloped in three centuries of experi- mentation with technical composition and instrumentation. Music could more easily have been written in the style of Elizabethan dance music, but in that case the tempo would be for- mal and slow, not conforming in the least with the fragile, beautiful move- ment of the dancers. Mr. Schumann believes that dance music must be suited to the dance, but be at the same time worth while as music when it is played apart from the dance. Starting, then, with this ideal, he has composed the Maser» the dancing and suiting it to the per- sonality of the solo and group danc- ers alike. Each piece has its own leit motif expressing the personality of the soloist and is written to fit the capability of the particular dancer. Three of Mr. Schumann’s composi- tions are for the solo dances in the Masque. That for the North Wind is strong, with the muscular strength of the Wind in its phrases. Prima- vera, slender and blonde, enters to a lyric, sweetly flowing piece.” The music for the Cock has a nerygus, jerky movement fitted to his spirifed dancing. And, finally, Mr. Schumann has written a charming gavotte for Primavera and Cock in duet, light, but a perfectly formal gavotte in the old style so that it may be completely in keeping with the Elizabethan spirit. The music for the Garden Gods is rich and dignified, to suit the char- acter of the group of dancers—six tall girls—and it is particularly interest- ing in. its composition, having been written to one tone of one gong, the G of the gong. A waltz form was chosen for the dance of the Flowers, since'the unifying rhythm of the waltz gives a swing and a form to dancing 'by large groups. For the anti-masque Mr. Schumann Silenus and Kawasha with their satel- 5 | Rehearsal Cut No May Day rehearsals have ~ been schedulgd for May 2; thus that weekend is left free for the German Language Examina- tion, the Time sn * Contest and- the rinceton house parties. | Dress Rehearsals The dress rehearsal schedule is arranged .so that all students can see the May Day plays in costume. This provides the only opportunity for undergrad- uates in any play to see the other plays. music, making it form the units tor | has done a perfect accompaniment. |. lites enter to a march, which employs separate motifs for the two gods, a lilting strain for the god of tobacco and a heavy—heady, we should like to say—refrain for the god of wine. Mr. Schumann has also done the music for the Cloister dances that are separate from the Masque. They are completely in keeping with the ‘spirit of the Cloister programme. He has written a very gay polka for the Chimney Sweeps, a composition with a mediaeval Portuguese theme for the’Gypsy dances, and a German “laendler” with a gay peasant atmosphere for the dance of the Shep- herd and Shepherdesses. .@ _ Broadcast on WOR Tune in over WOR on Friday, May Ist, from 3.15 to 3.30. Mr. Otis Skinner will speak on the Bryn Mag May Day, Emily Kimbrough” Wrench, ’21, and Sophie Yarnall Jacobs, ’23, will give a dialogue and a group of students under the direction of Mr. Ernest: Willoughby will sing May Day songs. The songs include: “To the Maypole Let. Us On,” “Now Is the Month of Maying,” “What Shall He Have That Killed the Deer?” “Follow, Follow, Follow Me”; the “Har- vester’s Song” from The Old Wives’ Tale; and “Pottell of Malmsey,” the Gossips’ song from The Deluge. NBC Broadcast The National Broadcasting Company is giving a nationwide broadcast of the actual May Day on May 9th from 2.30 to 3.80. 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