_. rounded Virginia Woolf. meni bE - h e | ollege N , 3 | : VOL. XIX, No. 13 BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1933 Copyright BRYN MAWR COLLEGE NEWS, 1933 PRICE 10 CENTS ——— b ! 5 | ba Mrs. Sackville-West COLLEGE CALENDAR || Jitney Players Make | Neus Trace Sophomores Win . S Thurs.—Saks, Fashion Show, | The College News announces : : Speaks in Bryn Mawr)! common Room, 2.00600.” ||F1uge Success.of Drama} tha: ‘competition is now open {| Class Swimming Meet Eminent Novelist Lectures on|| Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence TWO ARE _ DISSIMILAR Thursday night in .Goodhart, Vic- toria Sackville-West* talked, not on James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, as . announced, but on Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence. She said that it was through a mistake of her agent that James Joyce had been -put on her lecture list and that she did not intend to read his books for the sole purpose of: rectifying it. , Of the two authors on whom she was to lecture,-Mrs. Sackville-West said, “I have been wondering how possibly to effect a marriage between these two modern geniuses. There have been many definitions of the word ‘genius;’ none worse than ‘an infinite capacity for taking pains;’ ‘leaping before you look’ is a prefer- able definition; but the best is that ‘genius is the power of seeing life with your own individual vision.’ ” These two writers possess genius of the last type; that is the main point in which they are similar, and that also is what makes them an acquired taste—like oysters. Mrs. Sackville- West confessed that she did not like novels, but added that she has not missed one by Virginia Woolf or D. H. Lawrence since acquiring the taste for their styles. Although the genius of each is alike in being individual, their differences are more striking than their similar ties. Some might explain away these divergences on the ground of sex, supposing the masculine brain to be coldly intellectual and the feminine compounded of sensibility and emo- tion. The reverse is true in this case, as Lawrence is emotional and Vir- ginia Woolf restrainedly intellectual. The cause may instead be sought in the environments of the two. Lawrence’ was the son of a col- lier, who spent most of his life un- derground. The great superiority of his mother provided him with a driv- ing power which sent him through the State schools and then to a high school at Nottingham on scholarship. An atmosphere violently contrasting with the grey life of Lawrence sur- Since her father was Sir Leslie Stephen, she grew up in a circle where all the talk was of books, art, and music. “I never knew Lawrence; I wish I had, for: all,that I know of him is hearsay. He could be almost child- ishly gay in his more charming moods. He was a very restless spir- it, constantly moving about as _ if trying’ to find peace in some corner of the world. Lawrence had a tal- ent for uprooting himself, his few belongings, and his wife; but was at (Continued on Page Four) Rules for Freshman Animal The following rules have been agreed to by representatives of the Freshman and Sophomore classes and apply to all members of those classes this week: (1) Animal must be on campus within twenty-four hours preceding the show. bad (2) Animal tune cannot be orig- (3) Two-thirds of the class‘or the entire cast must know the animal song. (4) There must be at least one rehearsal of the animal song before the show. The rehearsal niust take place on campus. (5) Sophomores are permitted to search anywhere except. top-bureau drawers. : (6) Activities by Sophomores stop when the curtain goes’ up on the first act. (7) Sophomores and Freshmen are requested to be moderate and to refrain from physica] violence. | Fri-—Dr. Rhys ‘Carpenter will speak on “When the Greeks Began To Write.” Goodhart, S20 Fs M. Sat.—Freshman Show, Heav- enly ' Bodies. Goodhart, ~8.20' P.M, Bryn Mawr Defeats Cricket Club Team Varsity Wins 41-35 in Close, Hard-Fought Game Against Experienced Team SECOND TEAM WINS, 31-27 The Bryn Mawr Varsity defeated the Philadelphia Cricket Club in a close-fought game by the score of 41- 35. Dunn was high scorer of the game with a total of 25 points, while Collier was next with 22. The game as a whole was well-played, very close throughout, and, as a result, extreme- ly interesting to watch. Throughout the game, the passing of both teams was excellent and fast, Faeth started the game with three beautiful shots and followed them with two The . Philadel- phia team took many chances at first and the baskets neatly made. perfect free-throws. and missed many goals which might | have been made with the chip-shot. | Collier was a bit slow in getting started because of the height of her guard, but came up in second half. to lead the scoring. Faeth and Collier played well together, as usual, while Longacre and Remington in the cen- tral court positions were a deciding factor in the final socre. The guards had rather a hard time against their more experienced for- wards, especially as Kent-was-missing®” from the line-up. Bridgman and Bow- ditch, however, played fairly well to- gether, but the Kent-Bridgman com- bination has proved to be the most advantageous, since Longacre has come back to the center position. The remaining scheduled games should provide excellent competition and plenty of exciting moments. Come to see them! The line-up was as follows: Pr. 0. C. B.. M. J. Crawford ..... Reh visi Collier monn oe, ss Lh cevens Faeth Mi. Ceawiond ... 0; 2. cc, Longacre euseie Fs. S. C. ....Remington Donahue ..i... hi Gy ane Bowditch WtOn 6 ik. L. G. ....Bridgman Score—P. C.'C.: Crawford, 10; Dunn, 25. B. M.: Collier, 22; Faeth, 19. Referee—Miss Perkins. The second varsity defeated the Philadelphia. Cricket Club _ second team by the close score of 31-27. Only once in the third quarter, when Anne VanVechten was lost because of a strained knee, did the visitors get a slight lead on the Bryn Mawr team, and that was soon lost. : Throughout the first half, both teams had many chances to tally, but were either entirely inaccurate or else seriously hampered by the. guards. VanVechten’s close guarding kept E!- liott to one lone basket in the first half. McCormick was often wide of the rim, and took far too many chances on long shots. Baker had a -pood -guard, but- managed~-to~ make many pretty shots. | In the second half, Raynor wag sub- stituted for McCormick and therefore the passes were much quicker and there was less bunching beneath the basket. Raynor should have more confidence, however, because she is (Coatinued on Page Three) Resignation The College News regrets to announce the resignation of Leta Clews, ’33, from the Edi- torial Board. | have ever seen in that hall. for positions on the Editorial Board. Juniors, Sophomores, | and Freshmen are urged to try out.. Those wishing to compete should see Sallie Jones, Pem West. 8-12, .any day in the week. | Murder in the Red Barn is Well! Presented; Entre-Acts ° Are Hilarious DIRECTING IS PERFECT) | Last. Tuesday evening the Jitney | Players presented in Goodhart Hall their famous melodrama of the 1840 period, Murder in the Red Barn. The | Bryn Mawr audience received it with the greatest enthusiasm which we College to Test Methods of Progressive Schools In chapel February 21 President Park announced that Bryn Mawr has decided to co-operate with the pro- It was, | | Sressive schools in an experiment of ee part of the a that! to test definitely the adequacy of pro- the villain should be hissed and the | pressive methods in preparation for héroine applauded, but there. was | college. During a five-year period nothing that compelled the eapamtd beginning in 1935, a small quota of to writhe in their seats with almost | = 7 t : ok di painful hilarity or to encore the en-| * cn ee nah ade ia . tre-act selections time after time. It| "ty entrance requirements will be was really a_ tremendonsly sincere | admitted from a selected list of sec- and spontaneous enthusiasm that! ondary, schools. swept the group, and for this the; Bryn Mawr, Miss Park said, has credit may go to the excellent direc- | Seog bined: pubisind sith i tion and talented performances of | ibieonets + Seow mie aac. ° the production. | type of student it has attracted, and, The play itself was a gem of its | like most of the Eastern colleges, per- kind, typical of the melodrama of| haps because of an antipathy for the its day, but with just enough novelty “lunatic of of plot to keep up the interest of the | : ; | schools, and a natural tendenc }. audience in that part of it. The fact | aban ea Ravnen’ dendsney to £0 that our heroine did hot come outon low trodden paths, has hitherto kept the top of the heap in this life, but | aloof from radical innovations in the rather found her reward in heaven! policy of admission. fringe’”’ progressive | FRESHMEN Wiley Breaks College Record for Yard Craw! Event; locks 24.4 Seconds WIN RELAY The Class swimming meet came to an. exciting climax on .Eriday after- noon with the sophomores winning Wiley, ’36, in her first meet, broke a college record of many years’ standing when she clocked 24.4 seconds in the forty-yard crawl, .4 seconds less than the previous record of 24.8. Waldemeyer, ’35, came in first in the 20-yard dash in 13.2 seconds, with Bronson, ’33, in the-second place, ana Taylor, ’35,.and Whiting, ’36, tying for third place. Torrance, ’33, took first place in'the side-stroke for form with the freshmen representatives, VanVechten and M. Goldwasser, tak- ing second and third places, respect- ively. Meneely, ’34, won the crawl for form with 25 points, but B. Gold- wasser came in a close second with 24.5 points. Wiley was the highlight of the 40-yard crawl, winning by 2.2 seconds over her nearest rival, Bron- son, °33. As was to be expected, Daniels, 734, won the diving with a total of 39.65 points. Her running front was average and she lost to by one point. The frankly | Messimer, ’35, in the jack and tied after a most brutal and hair-raising | progressive schools have, however,| With Butler, ’34, for the back dive. murder, was in itself.a welcome! been impatient for a long time with! change. The same might have been the refusal of the colleges to allow said for the character of the vindic- | them to experiment ,in their upper tive gypsy whose daughter had been! grates, and a number of them have, wronged by the dastardly William,) recently, united to win a hearing. and who in order to complete his; At a special meeting of represen- novel revenge stood by and even abet-! tatives from various colleges, the ted William in his vile designs on the] schools pointed out that they could, innocent young daughter of the land-: if allowed to follow out their own lord: watched and aided in William’, |ideas in secondary education, send fall, deep and irretrievable, into the even better students to college than lowest depths of crime; told fortunes! the excellent ones they have sent in that enticed the innocent victim for | the past. This argument proved so William; provided_subtle_and—viru-} convincing that-a_number-of-colleges lent poisons at the proper moment; | agreed to co-operate with the schools and witnessed our heroine’s innocent | for a five-year period beginning in murder of her child—all, all with a| 1935 and fi t students prepared noble purpose of revenge in his heart,! as_ the irortsiv schools. believe as he called heaven to witness. they should Be prepared. The plans The staging was hardly a great! for instruction were to be submitted success. The Jitney Players are, of | for approval to a joint committee of course, famous for their outdoor pro-| school and college authorities, on } ductions, given in the summer on a' which Miss Park serves as the only | small stage in their own truck. The! woman, and with the Princeton Di- equipment they carry with them is) rector of Admissions, the sole repre- very compact, for they must carry sentative of the extreme right wing. all the necessities for their complete | Harvard, Yale and Princeton refus- repertory in one comparatively small| ed to. agree to these proposals, but truck. Hence the scenery, which! fiye women’s colleges have accepted might well have filled a smaller stage,’ with the reservations that they will was inadequate for the large expanse! require all candidates to take the of the stage in Goodhart. Its crude-j Scholastic Aptitude Test, -that every ness was in a way part of its charm,| gir] will be admitted: on the basis of and since it was intentional, can only | her school records, that only a defi- be criticize by the individual as it| nite quota of experimental students’. appeals to him. Personally we were} be permitted to enter, and that the sur rised at the effectiveness of the! number of schools included in the stmfeer produced in those scenes! plan be limited to twenty: Because which depended on atmosphere, and) of the small size of the freshman we were not at all disturbed by the deficiencies, even of the gibbet which collapsed as the curtain was falling on the final tableau. The direction, we have said, was,the great triumph of the play proper (for nothing could be said to approach the entre-act divertisse- ments), and by direction we mean the handling of the typed characters so as to give to them all of the conviction that they had for the generation that first applauded them, and yet to make them supremely comic to the present audience. They. could easily have: been overplayed. It was the fine re- straint of the director, we believe, (Continued on. Page Six) Fashion Show On Wednesday, March 2, Saks Fifth Avenue will hold a fashion show of spring clothes - in the Common Room at 3 o’clock. ~The clothes will be modeled by undergraduates, and orders will be taken for ‘immediate delivery. The- top price on all models is to be $25. class, the Bryn Mawr quota is likely to be very small. Although neither the names of the schools undertaking the experiment nor the plans for. instruction have- been definitely settled, the proposals of the schools interested seem to tend toward either an emphasis on the in- dividual, or an elimination of the barriers between related courses. The experiment, President Park thinks, may or may not prove a success. It seems to offer the student little preparation for the hard _ steady attach undue importance to the stu- dent’s momentary interest. If, how- ever, the freshmen admitted from the progressive schools prove unusually desirable college students, the experi- ment may be far-reaching in its ef- fect on even the most coriservative schools. nificance may be diminshed‘ by the possibility that before the plan goes into effect, the decrease in the num- ber of students who are financially greater elasticityyin the whole sys- -work-done in college,-and-seems to} On the other hand, its sig-| able to attend college may compel a} tem of college*entrance requirements. Her half-gaynor,’ however,. was ex- cellent and gave her 16.15 points, to lead Waldemeyer by more than five points in the final score. The meet came to a thrilling close with the freshmen winning the relay in 59.4 seconds. (Continued on Page Four) French Club to Present Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme On Friday, March 17, at 8.20, the French—C€lub—will present Le Bour- geois Gentilhomme in Goodhart Hall. This play is one of Molieres’s most hilarious comedies, satirizing the so- cial climbing “of a “nouveau-riche.” The pivot of action and the unity of interest center in the vanity of Mon- sieur Jourdain, who strives to imi- tate his social superiors. ° The play was written at the com-... mand of Louis XIV, who wanted merely a framework for the Turkish ceremony, which burlesqued an em- bassy of Turks to the French court. This ballet-aspect was of more im- portance in the opinion of the court than the comedy, but Moliere so modified the material which he was given, that the Turkish ceremony be- comes the climax to Monsieur Jour- dain’s vanity. The French Club is using the orig- inal music written for the ballet by Jean-Baptiste Lulli. A modern adaptation of the“tsual classic stage set will be used. In -the classic setting the entrances are from the back of the stage, but in this mod ern set, the entrances are from the side. There will be three.steps, the width of the stage, leading up to a ‘platform, on which most of the action will take place. The roles are as follows Monsieur Jourdain, bourgeois, Olivia‘ Jarrett Madame Jourdain, sa femme, . Anita Fouilhoux Lucile, fille de M. Jourdain, Alettia Avery -Cleente;-amoureux de -Lueile, Betsy Pillsbury Dorimene, marquise...... Jane Fields Dorante, aimant de Dorimene, . Caroline Lloyd-Jones Nicole, servante de M. Jourdain, Lee Mandell. Covielle, valet de Cleonte, Catherine Bill Maitre de musique..Margaret Tylea Maitre d’armes....... --Marie Hayes Maitre a danser...... Mary Skeats © Maitre de Philosophie. Alicia Stewart Mademoiselle Rey is directing the - play, as she hag done so competently for the last three years. “ | Page Two THE COLLEGE NEWS a THE COLLEGE NEWS (Founded in 1914) Published weekly during the College Year (excepting during ‘Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. eu silage (nN 2) ALL tPA J Chess oC ne The College News is fully protected by Sopyright. Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without written permission of the Editor-in-Chief. fh ‘Charter | ( Editor-in-Chief Copy Editor SALLIE JONES, '34 CiaRA FRANCES GRANT, °34 News Editor Sports Editor JANET MARSHALL, °33 SALLY Howeg, °35 Editors ELIZABETH HANNAN, '34 GERALDINE. RHOADS, °35 Nancy. Hart, *°34! CONSTANCE ROBINSON, °34 “Subscription Manager Business Manager ELEANOR YEAKEL, °33 MABEL MEEHAN, °33 Assistants CAROLINE BERG, *33 DoroTHY KALBACH, °34 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 MAILING PRICE, $3.00 SUBSCRIPTIONS: MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office v The Light. That Fails There are always certain individuals in every community who. imagine themselves to be possessed of extraordinary genius, intelli- gence, or perception which elevates them above the common herd and enables them to watch the little children play with a tolerant smile. This is unfortunately true at Bryn Mawr-ewhere the long and honor- able tradition of learning is often misinterpreted by students as one of intellectual snobbishness. Bryn Mawr has built up a tradition of being almost impossible to achieve and extremely difficult to continue in and some of our citizens tend to add to this myth. of impossibility, and’ once inside the gates assume an air of intellectual superiority to us and to all mankind. Just what they consider themselves to be proving it is hard to imagine. They adopt an attitude of walking encyclopae- dias in the smoking-room, but only the more ebwvilized subjects are in- eluded within their holy pages. They spend their time discussing the optional reading in a course, frowning upon those of us who don’t suffer acutely from the intellectual altitude of the third floor of Tay- lor, and they regard any subject’ which receives wholesale acclaim, be it a book, play, movie or invention, as a publie fetish upon which to snort indignantly. Why students who come to Bryn Mawr feel that it is incumbent upon them to adopt this pose of intellectual. rarefica- tion is beyond us. We are all in college to get an education, but it will be worth very little to us indeed if we lose our humanity, socia- bility and world sympathy in the process. There is no creature more unpopular in any community than one. who knows more than anyone else does, and is his own chief witness to that effect. College is a close community, composed in the main of cheerful souls who are not above cutting intellectual corners at times, and who would rather talk to a professor about the movies and prohibition at hall teas than about the fourth dimension and the stratosphere. We all want to learn or we ~ would not be here, but most of us are inclined to assimilate what» we can in as friendly and as intelligent a manner as ‘possible.. The most brilliant people ever turned out by Bryn Mawr have been recruited largely from the class of students regarded by: our pseudo-intellects as unimaginative creatures who did their work without shouting from the housetops, spoke not whereof they did not know, talked normally to professors out of class, and did not consider it putting one foot in the gutter when they admitted a liking for those things acclaimed by the unenlightened public. They left college with something more than a diploma and they left behind them a stronger tradition for. true - learning and its attendant humanity. The students: however, who ~Struggle under a misconception of what the ivied walls of the college stand for, go forth into the world, with comparatively empty heads, and even more vacant hearts. They are all bluff—all sham—and the world is quick to recognize and despise the intellectual snob whose nose is elevated too high to catch the temper of the times. Nor do our superior beings fool anyone in ‘college with all their blowing of the trumpets of the mind. We are all deeply attached to our smoking- room philosophers and philosophies, and we can understand and ab- sorb their gentle teaching. But no one loves, and tio~one would be caught dead absorbing the theory of a celestial fund of learning from which the favored ones are equipped with a gamma ray in the intellect that enables them to see through human superstitions.._Let these crea- tures go off and dance their dances in the cloisters, and leave us our stupid but pleasant life of appreciation of what goes om around us, untroubled by any knowledge of human fallacies of taste, learning and criticism. We are all human beings, and most of us, ineluding our superior brand minds, love the simple things in this world, afid epen our mouths in pain or praise at the same things. that attract or “repell the outside world. Why don’t “we all admit it? Why must .some of- us go along maintaining a pose that cannot be very comfort-. able, and certainly isn’t very effective? Nothing is more appealing than a_little whole-hearted enthusiasm, and a display of it has never ‘ yet stamped anyone as an idiot. We are not advocating a college of Girl Scouts, all cheering every green thing to the sky, we merely sug- gest that some of our cloistered friends stop bluffing, and applaud when they feel like it, instead of holding themselves within the glassy realm of reason from dawn till dark. The Seniors at Wellesley College “Green things must grow.” - apy member of their class. | —(N. SFA) | (N. 8. F. A) - |The worthy mascot of the green ‘We do not study in the stacks at all; Freshmen at Lynchburg College, have elected Will Rogers as honor-/| Virginia, have chosen as their motto, wit’s END| TO THE OFFERER OF UNSOLIC- ITED ADVICE, ETC. Before you venture to advise The Freshmen or to criticize We suggest that you might glean, (Without creating much commotion) A somewhat more inclusive notion Of what’s within the bounds of knowledge Taught at this respected college. Peruse perhaps Old English Lit (For Sophomores). You -will find in it The ,Phoenix, Copaecnit’s tion, Which gives an adequate description. (2?) produce- “This phoenix. beast” we blush to see From candidate for an A.B., Really have you never heard That the creature is a bird? Morcover, why restrict the choice To facts or science. Let thé voice Of fancy speak, or rampant rev’ry. Dalton comprehends not ev’ry Creature, living or extinct. And those which roam the far pre- ~ cinek Of Art Sem, Pembroke gate, Rock. stair Are valid even though they wear A fabulous significance. You can’t deny that they enhance The glamour of the place, so why May one not bounds of fag deny? Must the Phoenix be rejected Since jin lab he’s not dissected. ¢ —Griffin. ERRATUM (Profuse et ceteras to Minor Bi) Blood is red, Blood is blue, Blood is black— All quite true. Vertebrates’ red, Vergil’s black, Royalty’s blue To the* poet hack. But the dogfish Has it red, Contrary (sad!) To what I said. —Campusnoop. CONSOLATION O ye who groan o’er science course required, Who, eloquent and bitter, desired Immediate destruction of the Dean Or any so degenerate and mean To force a free-born girl who simply hates To test unknowns, break rocks, or measure weights, ™ “ To sit in Daltons’ grim, ill-lighted ~ labs And curse the while she impotently jabs At some poor dogfish stretched out stark and dead, And brings to light what it’s been lately fed; =~ Oh, ye who marvel at the lunatic Who, out of all the courses she may pick, Elects to major in a science and Dedicate her heart and Kead and hand And all her afternoons to such a fate— Oh, listen, ere you pity her sad state: We gpend our‘ days in Dalton, that is true— sit and work, of course,—but so do you. have no thirty-page reports to write— , We never find ourselves in such a plight; need not read and read, and then compile A bibliography in length a mile; We have no “passim reading,” thank the Lord, Or any reading list that leaves us floored; : We never-stare at pictures on‘a wall; oft We We We We don’t attend a Goodhart speech : perforce; We never track a fragment to its, source. 5 The portrait of a fat-faced, ugly boy Need not fill us with sheer esthetic | IP % ; We spare ourselves transports of | 2 ecstacies O’er some dull-looking babe upon, the knees 4 Alligators, yaks, storks and gryphons, Of any unattractive primitive. O satisfying science, please forgive These slaves who boast their free- dom from thy chain, And do not see the freedom we attain. —Adamant, Eve. BIRD, BEAST, OR FISH? Heavenly bodies? Sounds like a star! Ah mé! How I, wonder what» you are So all night long I dreamt of zoos, Dinosaurs, dachsunds, protozoa in 00ze, Emus, ant-eaters, wallabies, And.eels, Newts, efts, poodles, bandicoots, and seals, Wapiti, boks, koodoos, and chamois, Tapirs and mongeese, lizards from Miami; Pekinese, snipes, cobras, and pythons, Of boa constrictors in embraces lewd, Of octopi and hippos and skunks to be eschewed. All day long I- searched for lairs, I prowled about and tore my hairs. Bird, beast, or fish? I counted ten And inhaled deeply; but to my ken Came nothing—either’ cooked for\ | food, Or destined or deserving to be Zooed! There’s nothing left but to throw my bestiary And myself in the nearest estuary! —A Spirit of ’35. HEAVENLY BODIES At last we know the title of The Freshman Show this year, And if we didn’t know it was The Freshman Show, I fear We’d think it an advertisement For something meant to gladden The heart of Earl Carroll, or Perhaps Bernarr Macfadden. —Adamant Eve. Heavenly Bodies sounds to us as though 1936 were going’ feminine on us—and only three years ago the class animal of 1933 was: homo sapiens! Sic transit gloria mundi. . Cheero, THE MAD HATTER. IN PHILADELPHIA. Theatres Forrest: . Of Thee I Sing, with William Gaxton, Lois Moran, and Victor (Throttlebottom) Moore. Our exemplary government takes a ‘ride —and what a ride! Garrick: The Queen’s Husband comes whipping into town advertised as an “international comedy hit.’ That is a little too comprehensive— as we hear it didn’t go over. amgng the virgins of Bali—but it’s funny. Chestnut Street: Roger Pryor and Katherine Wilson in A Trip to Press- burg mit beer and pretzels. Very widely heralded from European ‘shores — Pressburg is apparently a swell spot. \ Academy of Music ri. aft., March 38, at 2.30 'P. M., and Sat. eve., March 4, at 8.20 P. M., Leopold Stokowski will conduct and the piano soloist will be Abram Chasins. Program: Schumann.Symphony No. 4, D Minor OCnbeine 25. 63a Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Weener, - 2... 6dr. Das Rheingold Mon. eve., March 6, at 8.15 P M., Philharmonic Symphony Society of- New York, with Arturo. Toscanini conducting. Program: Beethoven .......~<; Symphony No. 3, E Flat Major (Eroica) Waeter oa Overture and Baccha- -» nale from Tannhauser Wagner....Prelude ‘and Love-Death’ from Tristram and Isolde Thurs. eve., March 9, at 8.20 P. M., Philadelphia Orchestra concert for youth. v Movies _ Earle: Loretta Young in a great movie of the feminine unemployed— ‘in more ways than one, Employees’ “Entrance. “Give me a job at any|. price.” And she almost paid and paid because -thé world is full of blackguards. Keith’s: A veritable hot-bed of (Continued on Page Three) Corpulent campus cops, almost a tradition at Yale,-have been told they must reduce their waistlines. The university's health department has issued an order requiring them to ‘| report in the gym for daily workouts. News of the New York Theatres We opened our mouth wide last | week and deftly. put our foot in it when we declared that Tallulah Bank- head’s new play, Forsaking All Others, had’ apparently perished in the garden State of Maryland. Not at all—it opens tonight amid. sur- roundings second in glamour and ce- lebrities only to the premiere of De- sign For Living. All of Miss Bank- head’s admirers and sympathizers are flocking to see the eye of Heaven wink—and it will disappoint. : American. Dream, the Theatre Guild’s trilogy of our American’ life conceived by George O’Neil, is not a success in spite of its first act Pil- grim’s Progress and its last act orgy apparently not ‘of champagne, lust, and manias with varied prefixes. The tale follows a family from 1650 to 1983 and the general impression \conveyed is that time has not been ind ‘to the man- ners'and morals of our race, It’s dis- couraging, but one cannot resist sug- gesting that Mr. O’Neill may live in. some bad neighborhood, and so got his brain addled. We assure him “that it can’t be as bad now.as_he paints it, or we wouldn’t have men like Roosevelt, Ed Wynn or Adolf Hitler. ; The great drama of reciprocity amid the tender passions, Design For Living, is to run until May 27, or thirteen weeks longer, to be expan- sive. There will be no road: tour, nor will there be a London produé- tion. The reasons for confining the comedy to the limits of Manhattan are obvious — imagine Philadelphia that won’t allow eighteen little men to play baseball on Sunday watching Leo and Otto play “Gilda, Gilda, who’s got Gilda,’ within the sacred confines. Eva Le Gallienne has transplanted her Civic Repertory group from Fourteenth Street to the New Am- sterdam and the venture has proved highly successful. At present Alice in Wonderland is the major drawing card, but plans are under way to pro- duce Chekov’s melancholy and moan- ing requiem of a passing generation, The Cherry Orchard, with Alla Nazi- mova portraying Mme. Renavsky. Miss Le Galliene will take the part of Varya, Paul Leyssar that of Gaev, and Josephine Hutchinson that of Arya. The present plan is to open this new effort in May, and alternate it with the ever-prosperous Alice. Victor McLaglen, the little man from Hollywood, is contemplating a return to Broadway in a new play, entitled American Plan. The play concerns _a-speakeasy and a®yery su- perior bouncer, who can put art into ‘the most stereotyped job—just Mr. McLaglen’s type. A great many of the film’s celebrities are returning to the stage for the time being: Tal- lulah Bankhead, Charles Laughton and even Nancy Carroll, who is hold- ing forth up in New England in Pres- ton Sturges’ new play, Child of Man- hattan, Just what is going on over in Lon- don and in Switzerland where our theatrical play-boys are cavorting is a little vague. Peggy Wood, just back from London to appears here in Saturday Night, says Romney Brent. (Sapiens from The Warrior’s Hus- band) is in London writing a libretto entitled Nymph Errant, which Charles B. Cochran, the British king bee producer, will put on. Last week we asserted sturdily that Cole Porter and Ray Goetz were working on a play by that name high up in the snows, and we still believe it: We admit that last week we got a little confused on one or two points, but considering everything we have de- cided that anyone running a theatre column among the theatrigal wolves of Bryn -Mawr runs a ¢ertain physi- cal and mental risk, the strain of which can only be borne by one pos- sessed .of enormous, if unjustified, confidence in oneself. Following this line of defense we have survived shakily through almost a season, and we are hoping that our castles won’t crumble at least till the weather’s warmer. Therefore, in order to con- ciliate conflicting repofts we suggest that possibly Mr. Brent. in the fog, and Mf. Porter and Mr. Goetz in the snow, are co-operating on a sin- ‘gle masterpiece, of else that the won- ders. of modern science have failed ~ and they know not of each other. Any way you look at it, we’re right. ~ THE COLLEGE NEWS | tions can be given in “yes” and “no” Numerical Marks Are | form; but at present, the only method Discussed in Chapel used in college. education is the ex- a . yresults depend to a great extent on Measurement - Makes ° Known) the setter and marker of the exami- Limitations and Extent nation. This system is a “riot of in- of Our Knowledge dividualism” and rough guesswork, — parallel to the. diagnosis method of even the best modern surgeons. No other way of testing critical powers and judgment is possikley and so we must be content with this very in- adequate one.. “The curious thing is that there is very little question that college marks measure intellectual .competence, which includes the fol- lowing: Ability to work steadily; or effectively, and powers of organiza: tion, ‘selection, and expression.” «Continued from Page One) sixes and sevens with the world be- cause he: could not decided what he wanted.” The Huxley introduction to his Letters insists that he had a mes sage, but he was too muddle-headed [ a philosopher to deliver it. He fail- ed as a propagandist also because he was apt to become shrill and strident. There were conflicts in his philoso- phy: he preached physical violence, but loathed war; he wgs an individ- ualist, but urged community life as the ideal state. “That is why I al- ways sigh when I come to a passage showing him about to launch into a tirade. The only message I have ever found is. his real hostility toward things of the mind. It was not knowledge, but feeling and emotion that he admired. He saw feeling as a flow’ without any edges going from one person to another.” Lawrence’s outlook is shown by his idealization of ancient peoples. The Etruscans would probably have sur- prised him by their lack of the idyl- lie-if-he-had_ever known them; how ever, there are lovely, lyrical pas- sages in his Etruscan Places which prove his gift for describing. land- scape and climate in a visual and tactile vein. Depth of feeling, not conscious style, supplied him with the right word. Although some criti- cisms of poetry in his letters are extremely acute, they are not couched in the critical ‘jargon. “Literary— no, Lawrence was never that. He wrote as a bird might sing. On the other hand—the bad sidé of the pic- ture—when he was writing propa- ganda, the critical faculty being lack- ing, he ranted.” He was accustomed to say, and this illustrates the atti- tude of the inspired poet, “I don’t know a thing if I don’t know it here,” hitting himself on the solar plexus. It is doubtful what he would have accomplished if tuberculosis had not carried him off at the age of forty, whether he would have founded an arcadian: colony or a flourishing school of disciples. What smallj amount of lucidity he possessed was sapped by his illness. “It was a grea\ pity that he set up to be a thinker at all. If he had been content to be an artist, he would have avoided his regrettable stridencies.” The contrast between D. H. Law rence and Virginia Woolf was more definitely marked by Mrs. Sackville- West because she was able to give a very personal impression of the lat- ter. It was said by someone who saw Virginia Woolf at a concert that she was “like a frozen falcon, so alert, yet so still.” Although she is beauti. ful, her beauty is not conventional, rather “her face is like a transpar- ent alabaster vase through which a light shines.” She has great dignity and distinction, but is gay and witty, “a terrible tease, who loves to dig people out of themselves, rather like a corkscrew.” Her writing she does in a cellar with a leaky roof. Unliké most cel- lars it contains the: overflow of a printing house (the Hogarth Press). as well as country produce (strings of onions, apples and potatoes) from:|. their cottage in the country. She, herself, is constantly being edged into a smaller space, which threaten- ed to vanish not long ago. Mr. Leon- ard Woolf, her husband, suggested storing the family motor in her cel- lar, at which she asked, “If you put the motor in here, where am I to sit?” “You can sit in the motor,” said he. Miss Sackville-West’s comment was that this © perhaps accounts for A Room of One’s Own. “Mrs. Woolf is the experimentalist par excellence, never content to do the same thing twice.” an. austere judge, her father, she served -a severe apprenticeship, and did not publish until she was over But under GREEN HILL. FARMS City Line and Lancaster Ave. Overbrook-Philadelphia “#8 we ewe Shore Dinner every Friday $1.50 No increase in price on Sundays 2 or holidays League Election The Brgn Mawr League an- nounces the election of Betty Bock as Second Freshman Member of the Board. thirty; an unsual act of self-re- straint. The Voyage Out was a con- ventional first novel, relating the ‘se- possible line, and written in grave, ! measured English. Night and Day, | her second book, might have been | written by a contemporary of Trol-{ lope. But a short story, The Mark on the Wall, published between these quence of events in the straightes. | | Woolf’s is that one ought to be able to. write without consciousness of sex; she quotes Coleridge in support of it—‘a great mind,is always androgy- nous.” ‘Most of ‘all she wants to see the fusion of the two worlds, the man’ggworld of activity and the wom- an’s of poetry and charm.” That, rather than impressionistic writing, is her: contribution—feminine sens} bility .plus masculine control. Her | mind comes up to the ideal of Cole | ridge. — : In spite of having this perfect -in- tellectual control, she is. not a cold writer. To the Englishman the word Bloomsbury is synonymous’ with two novels of the traditional school, er ” “gritty,” and other unpleas- should have shown much to the crit- ics; it was her first experiment in| her own peculiarly recognizable style, and was, in addition, “the very first| site. | —she does love life and people. It baby of the Hogarth Press.” Jacob’s Room grew out of it, a book | “brilliant in the way that stained-| glass is brilliant, finished, and fused | finally into’a picture, a design. It'| ” man. method, as they did Impressionism in Art, but Mrs. Dalloway created less indignation: and much abuse for an artist to en- large the bounds of our conscious- ness. The Waves still puzzles me; I recognize the beauty and richness of the writing, but I cannot read it with the same pleasure as her others.” Mrs. Sackville-West confessed to a feeling of uneasiness since receiving | a letter from Mrs. Woolf lately, “I'm | writing a new novel. My word, how ant adjectives. Such a jidgment may ‘hold true concerning Aldous Huxley, but her temperament is exactly oppo- “She has excitement about life iis,a fallacy to suppose that because you are intelligent, you have no blood in your veins. She has no sham ro- mance, but is looking out for true is not a story, but a novel way of | romance and seems to be finding it.” producing the biography of a young, Mrs. Many people disliked this | lecture with a prophecy of the fu- Sackville-West concluded her ture, “One may discern the begin- nings of a reaction against the awful “It -takes—a- little time; sterility of the Aldous Huxleys.” It is traditional that “the show most go on,” regardless. Fresno State College players, staging one of their productions the night an earth- quake rocked the Pacific West, upheld the tradition in true trouper style. Although frightened, the amateur players continued to