he College News v enemas ee VOL. XXII, No. 8 BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1935 Gopsright, BREN, MAE PRICE 10 CENTS ° : ; ° ° .- ee 99 e Four Soloists: Selected Colleze Calendar Hilda Smith Discusses Swan” Production Bryn Mawr Is Chief Recipient Under Will Miss Thomas Bequeathed Funds of $280,000 for Deanery, Awards, Annuities’ % ————— ESTATE IS .IN REALTY (Reprinted from the New York Times.) Miss M. Carey Thomas, president- emeritus of Bryn Mawr College, made the college. the chief ultimate bene- ficiary of her estate in a ninety-three page will, filed for probate here today. Although trust funds totaligg $280,- 000 were provided for the college if certain real estate were sold, Miss Thomas revealed that her estate had been reduced to such an extent through benefactions made during her lifetime and by the financial depres- sion that she was not sure how many of the legacies could be paid. The personal estate was listed at “$25,000 and upward,” with the value of the real estate undetermined. The realty, it is understood, consists of 1077 acres in Maryland, most of which is'in wooded land, with seventy-seven acres within the Baltimore city limits. Miss Thomas inherited most of the estate of Mary Elizabeth Garrett, daughter of John W. Garrett, for many years president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. “When my late friend, Mary Eliza- beth Garrett, died on April 3, 1915,” the will states, “and left me her executor and residuary. legatee, she had made gifts in her lifetime that I know of amounting to over $2,000,000, and she made many others probably: that I did not, know of.. She had kept for herself only enough to live on comfortably and continue her support of the causes in which she was inter- ested. She believed that personal gifts made during one’s lifetime were more useful than legacies after one’s-death. Gifts Beyond Safety Limit “In accordance’ with her practice and with what I believe would have been her wishes had she been able to carry them out, I have given away during my lifetime as much, and as it has récently proved, more of my estate than I could safely part with. More- over, the size of my estate and its sufficiency to pay all the legacies I have herewith appended, has been so materially téduced durihg the current -severe financial depression that the ‘payment of ‘the legacies -will depend upon the amount which my executors may realize from the sale of my real estate.” The executors are Mrs, Caroline McCormick Slade, of New York, an alumna and director of Bryn Mawr College; Miss Thomas’ niece, Mrs. Millicent Carey McIntosh, of New York, also an alumna and trustee of the college, and James Barton Long- acre, of this city. © The first part. of the will, which was executed in London.on August 29, 1934, deals with the gifts of personal articles to members of the family of Continued on -Page Four — lance will begin precisely at 8 o’clock. For Handel’s ‘*Messiah”’ On Sunday, December 15, at 7.30 P. M., the College Choj awilh, 3o” the Princeton Choir in a performance ar The Messiah, which will be given in the University Chapel at Princeton. : It will be assisted by four soloists and | twenty-nine members of the Philadel- : phia Orchestra. . é Because of the length of the Ora- torio, the Bryn Mawr performance given on Monday, December 16, will begin at 8 o’clock precisely,. and no reserved seats will be held after 8.25. The chorus will consist of eighty members from the Bryn Mawr Choir and sixty from the Princeton Choir. The soloists will be: Eleanor Eaton, soprano; Anne Simon, contralto; Royal McLellan, tenor; and Leonard Treash, bass. On August 22, 1741, Handel, at the age of fifty-six, began the score of The Messiah. This work ranks among Hiandél’s greatest and was completed in the amazingly short time of twenty- four days. The initial performance took place in Dublin on April 18, 1742, and was not given in London until March 23,! 1743. At this London performance the audience was exceedingly affected by all the music, and at the part of the “Hallelujah Chorus”—‘“For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth’—they were so transported that they all, including the king, rose to their feet and re- mained standing-until the end of the chorus. The tradition of standing for the “Hallelujah Chorus” has always been observed ‘in England since this date. In 1789 Mozart wrote additional or- chestral accompaniments to The Mes- siah to take’the place of the ‘“Con- tinuo” parts which were always im- provised at the organ or harpsichord. The orchestration which will be used at Bryn Mawr will be the Mozart version. The orchestra will consist of the following: Six first violins, four sec- ond violins, two violas, four violincel- los, two double basses, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets and one tym- panum. Busses -To Transport Choir On Saturday morning, December 14, The Messiah. will be rehearsed by both the Princeton and Bryn Mawr Glee Clubs, accompanied by part of the Philadelphia Orchestra and _ soloists. The Bryn Mawr Glee Club and the orchestra will leave Bryn Mawr at 1.30 Sunday afternoon in four busses. A rehearsal of The Messiah will take place in the Princeton Chapel at 3 o’clock. The performance itself begins in the Princeton. Chapel at 7.30 and will last for three hours. On Monday the Princeton and Bryn Mawr choruses will rehearse without the or- chestra at 5 P. M., after which Mrs. Collins will serve dinner to the Princeton Glee Club in the Common Room. The Monday night perform- Low-Brow Appeal In High-Brow Package Makes Books Sell, Says Clifton Fadiman Deanery, December 8.—“It is very rarely that a really great book. be- comes a best seller,” said Mr. Clifton Fadiman, literary editor of the New Yorker and consulting editor of Simon & Schuster, New York publishers. The subject of his discussion was “Why Best Sellers Sell Best,” and he gave a very systematic answer by enumerating eleven ways in which a book can be made by the author, pub- lishers and others into a best seller and describing thirteen appeals which make a book popular with the reading public. Among publishers, the most simple formula for writing a best seller is _ “wrapping low-brow appeal in a high- brow package.” Everyone likes to read traditional melodramatic ro- mances, but they enjoy most those which are not only well wriften, but . injeeted with some real or fallacious philosophy. Charles — s The Fountain had a very simple plot which could be compared with a typical Kathleen Norris story, since it con- sisted of a narrative of the emotional experience of two people who wanted to be married, but were prevented by certain practical considerations. Mr. Morgan filled in this framework with a goodly amount of badly under#tood and oversimplified Platonism and Neo- Platonism which was of considerable satisfaction to the readers and prompted the publishers to bill The Fountain as a philosophical novel. The Bridge of San Luis’ Rey is an- other example of a similarly written book. Some other appeals of all descrip- tion which may or may not be wrapped in deceptive coverings are sex, the better life, timeliness,- scan- dal, fear and the illustrious reputa- tion of the author. The sex interest is a significant one, because often Waediaodas, December 11: In- dustrial Group Supper. ‘Com- mon Room, 6.30 P. M. College Council, Miss Park’s House, 6.30 P. M. Saturday, December 14: Mr. Hensche will. demonstrate por- trait painting for the Art Club. Common Room, 10 A. M. ° Sunday, December 15: Per- formance of The ‘Messiah. Princeton Chapel, 7.30 P. M. Monday, December 15: Per- formance of The Messiah. Good- hart Hall, 8 P.M. Tuesday, December 17: Bryn Mawr League party for chil- dren of the Summer Camp: 4.30 P. M. . Restoration Drama Is Sharply Defined Field Major Dobree Believes Comedy Reflects That Era Better Than Tragedy. FORM CYCLE COMPLETED Goodhart, December. 9. — Restora- tion drama is* a large, yet clearly limited literary field, said Major Bon- amy Dobrée, noted English author and critic, in giving the Sheble Lec- ture for 1935. Between the years 1662 and 1720, both comedy and tragedy completed a neat cycle of form which was uniformly peculiar to the time, yet clearly differentiated within itself. Unless this simultane- ous unity, and variety is understood, there can be no appreciation of the Restoration theatrical art. Tragedy in general can be defined as a means man uses to test himself against the horrors with which he is beset. It is a picture of something splendid meeting ruin and defeat. It is man pitted against fate. In the case of comedy, the definition may be given as man’s attempt to regard himself as an individual in society. It is necessary, however, to make dis- tinctions under this definition. First comes free—comedy,_in-which people are completely irresponsible and life is a mere game. In this form there is no purpose other than amusement, but in the second and more common type, there is an aim to cure men’s excesses by criticism and satire. Rar- est of all is the third type, the comedy of . disillusionment, which contains the pity of. tragedy under the surface of laughter. Restoration comedy appeals _ to modern taste far more than Restora- tion tragedy, because it is more alive; it comes nearer to every-day existence. For any art to live, it is requisite that it deal with the crucial problems of its time. That is not to say that art must solve these ques- tions, or pose them, but it must use as its material the emotions arising from them. If the emotions are truly vital in the beginning, they can never become dead or obsolete. Al- though there may be lapses of power because of ignorance or prejudice, vitality will renew itself. Restora- tion tragedy, however, seemed to evade crucial problems and to offer instead an escape from them. By in- version, then, it actually did reflect its period, but comedy reflected directly. Although superficially concerned with fads and affectations, comedy was actually centered on the danger- ous condition of sexual libertinism which was manifested in court cir- cles. All Restoration gentlemen were not rakes; many were prim and proper and read theological disserta- Continued on Page Three Mid-Y ear’s Schedule Posted The Dean’s Office wishes to call attention to the schedule for the mid-year examinations which has been posted recently. Students are requested to con- sult the schedule at once and report conflicts immediately to the Dean’s Office, in order that all difficulties may be cleared up before the Christmas holi- 7. Education of Workers Common. Room, December 5.— Hilda Smith, director of the Federal Workers’ Educational Bureau in Washington, traced the history of edu- cation for workers and discussed Gov- érnment educational projects. Bryn Mawr College, with’ Miss | Thomas as its head, made the first and successful attempt to provide sys- /tematized training and general infor- mation for workers, in the Bryn Mawr Summer School. Other colleges and universities in the mid-west, Califor- nia and the south followed. with sum- mer schools and evening classes. In the east the same thing happened, especially in New York City. Miss Smith related the exciting story of one large elass for men and women that was held for a while in the New York Museum of Natural History: it was at one time strenuously objected to as radical and ejected before being approved by an official investigation. Such cases were numerous. The Hearst papers particularly made, and still make, a practice of exploiting any rumor of radical activities. Miss Smith spoke also of the diffi- culty that college people met every- where at first in gaining the confi- dence of the workers and convincing them of their genuine concern and their intention of trying to be sub- stantially useful. But the workers who attended the schools- declared en- thusiastically and continued to declare that the experience was the most won- derful of their lives. It released them particularly from total bewilderment and from the common feeling of lone- liness. The students at the Bryn Mawr Summer School, for example, came to learn with: the feeling that they were emissaries, responsible to their associates, and must bring back for them all the knowledge and train- ing which they could get, in order to apply it to their personal, family and economic difficulties. Teachers are in great demand to carry on this work properly. The Federal bureau—the FERA—has re- cently been trying to’ train large eroups of unemployed_teachers:direct- ly for workers’ education, besides sup- plying buildings and money. Miss Smith confined herself at the tea to giving the essential outlines of all these problems. A ‘complete and detailed discussion and explanation of the subject was afforded by her sub- sequent formal lectures on December 5, 6 and 7. Artist To Paint During Lecture on Technique’ Mr. Henry Hensche, of Province- town, Massachusetts, will give a lec- ture and demonstration of painting technique in the Common Room at ten o’clock on Saturday morning, De- cember the fourteenth. He will paint the portrait of a student and will .ex- | plain step by step the actual process of painting. This unusual opportun- ity to study the technique of painting in actual work is a gift of one of the directors of the college and is open to all who are interested.. Members of the Art Club are particularly invited. Mr. Hensche is a working artist of excellent standing from the well- known colony at Provincetown. He was one of the most brilliant pupils of the late Charles Webster Haw- thorne, after whose death he took charge of the latter’s school, now called the Cape Cod School of Paint-. ing. He is highly recommended both as an artist and as a lecturer who has much new material to offer to his audiences. He is particularly in- terested in the use of color, as a re- cent statement of his on_ color technique proves: “Through color tones forms are created, and the worth of a painting depends upon the fine- ness of these tones.” Self-Government Election © The Self-Government Associ- ation announces the eleetion of Sarah Meigs, ’39, to the Execu- tive Board. * Shows Upward Trend | Play Choice Judged Poor, Whole Without Serious Defect or . - Highlight —_—_ INDIVIDUALS ACT WELL Goodhart, December 6.—The per- formance of Molnar’s The Swan by the Varsity Players and the Cap and Bells of Haverford proved that the ° faults which marked Pygmalion and Cymbeline have been almost eradicat- ed and that the ability which dis- tinguished The Knight of the Burn- ing Pestle has not completely passed away. The play had neither glaring defects nor obvious highlights. ‘The in- dividual performances were, as a rule, superior to the play as a whole, which lacked a unifying force. That the play itself is a poor choice for amateur players was proved more than once, and shown significantly by the hero- ine’s misinterpretation of her role. The play concerns itself with the plot of Princess Beatrice, head of a deposed royal family, to marry her daughter to the heir of a reigning house. Complications which arise through the presence of a tutor in love with the daughter and. who stirs her heart throughout the second act, threaten to prevent the intended match; needless to say, the swan-like daughter of the house, having settled her faint cardiac qualms, prepares to glide toward her rightful position in royal circles. Isabelle Seltzer, in the leading réle of Alexandra, never seemed to be at home in her part. She was the swan who should glide gracefully over the waters, “proud and dignified,’ but who should “never touch the shore.” The difficulty with Miss Seltzer was that she continually bounced back ‘and forth on the shore with great rapidity and little grace. Her gestures were too often forced and artificial. In the second act, where she was supposedly overcome by one glass of wine, Miss Seltzer discarded the more obvious gesticulations and acted with more ease and presence. The best performance in the play was that of William H. Reaves, Jr., in the role of Prince Albert. Excel- lently made up,and costumed, he ap- peared completely at ease on the stage Continued on Page Five Radio Work Requires .Technical Experience Common Room, November 6,—Mr. Frank Arnold, former director of com- mercial development of the National Broadcasting Company, addressed a number of Bryn Mawr students on the possibilities of positions in the execu- tive side of broadcasting work. That | the advertising business. field, as it exists today, is a part of Broadcast- ing as a medium for advertisement has become amazingly successful and profitable since 1926 when WEAF and WJZ merged to form the NBC net- work. Entertainment connected with com- mercialism seems to fit into the in- tuitive knowledge women have of what people will like. This is exceedingly necessary, for the success of radio is entirely dependent on the audience. Mr. Arnold sincerely warned those women who are seeking positions after graduation from college that at least a year of training is needed in any field to learn the language of some particular business. If a_ college graduate is interested in an executive position in a large broadcasting sta- tion, she must have training in a small local station in order to gain a knowl- edge of its terminology and technique. Mr. Arnold stressed seven types of positions which, with effort and intel- ligence, can be obtained if one is will- ing to start at the bottom and work up. The lowest rung of the ladder is the clerical job. There are 200 women who now hold this type of position in NBC. Last year 600 ap- plied for the job, but most of them were turned away because of lack ét training. A large station does not have the time to take new material . Continued on Page Three Continued on Page Six 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 ot Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part witheut written permission of the Editor- in-Chief. - — — ° Editor-in-Chief . : & ¥ BARBARA CARY, 36 Copy Editor ANNE .MARBURY, ’37 Editors CAROLINE C. BROWN, I att ELIZABETH LYLE, ’87 Mary H. HUTCHINGS, ’37 JANET THOM, ’38 JANE SIMPSON, ’37 ~ SUSANNE WILLIAMS, Sports Editors SyLvia H. EvANs, ’37 * Business Manager Subscription Manager DOREEN CANADAY, 36 ALICE COHEN, ’36 Assistants News Editor HELEN FISHER, ’37 38 "38 38 37 37 ETHEL HENKELMAN, MARGARET HOWSON, DEWILDA NARAMORE, ’38 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 MAILING PRICE, $3.00 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME : Post Office LOUISE STENGEL, AGNES ALLINSON, = Entered as.second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., "Recovery From Cymbeline Program” The presentation of The Swan last week-end demonstrated .conclusively to the few who saw it that the reorganization of Players Club has not been in vain. Many members of the “new blood” distinguished themselves in acting roles and also in the equally difficult functions of staging, costuming and business management. The offices were distributed more widely and equably than in the recent past and the entire production was vastly improved by the presence of a professional acting director. . Unfortunately the entire “Recovery from Cymbeline Program” could not be accomplished in a single production. The appeal to the college at large in the choice of the play was very laudable and democratic in spirit but not very wise theatrically. The average student does not have sufficient knowledge of the requirements of the stage to choose intelligently nor does she have time enough to acquaint herself with the plays.open to voting. In the future the Varsity Dramatics Board might adopt a course midway between the extremes of arbitrary selection and open plebiscite. By circu- lating widely among all the undergraduates for a week or two, the members could uncover the tastes or. preferences of the college at large, but could retain the ultimate selection in their own more competent hands. The employment of a professional director vastly improved the general level and finesse of the entire production, but the suggestion may be proffered that in future the director’s duties be extended to include all'the technical details as well as the acting. The codrdination of all the committees is a difficult but necessary task which requires a clear delineation of duties and authority to produce a uniform production. _ Codperation with Haverford proved itself successful and pleasant for all “concerned. The minor difficulties were on the whole adequately over’ come and the presence of good men amateur actors on Goodhart stage was sufficient reason alone for future dramatic efforts with our neighbor. The “presence of Haverford, however, was doubly good in its effect, for while it improved: the production and added realism to many roles, it added to the conviviality and entertainment of the evenings which are, after all, the | principal purposes of their being. The Writing on the Wall The recently completed quiz period gave the first opportunity to stu: dents and faculty to see how the arrangements for shortening the mid- semester examination period and decreasing the number of quizzes worked out. On the whole the plan was successful, for not only were a number of unnecessary quizzes eliminated with the complete approval of the students and instructors involved, but also the length of time occupied by the exam- inations was reduced to three weeks, with a few exceptions. There remains one important problem which is caused.by the manner in which many of the professors present quizzes to their classes. This | year the difficulty has been even more pronounced, perhaps because of the contrast between this situation, and the satisfaction so widely felt about the changes made in the organization of the quizzes in other respects. In a great many cases the professors come to the class at the hour of the quiz and write the questions on the board. If there are more than one or two questions, the actual copying on the blackboard takes quite a few minutes This amounts to a serious loss of time to students who have only one hour in which to answer the questions set. Confusion frequently results, too, when the class is told that certain questions must be selected from various groups. This méans that they must wait until all the questions are on the board before they begin to write. To end this condition, individual students should be provided with written copies of the questions as is done in the case of mid-year and final examinations. This would obviate misunderstandings about which questions are to be answered and would prevent mistakes caused by inability to read what is on the blackboard. The faculty members are busy people and perhaps this is asking too much of thtm; but since the college mimeographs _examination papers for finals, it might arrange to do quiz papers for those professors who do not have the time to make copies of the questions for their classes. , cheentees RRR prisoners enrolled have had only one or two years of high school training, Minneapolis, _Minn.—Prisone at innesota’s Stillwater Penitentiary Editorials Praise Work of; President Thomas|| Reprinted from the New York Herald-Tribune, Wednesday, Decem- ber 4, 1935. Brilliance and grit are not a usual combination. More often than not the sensitivity of the brilliant person dis- qualifies him for the rough and tum- ble of pioneer: effort. It was not so in the case of Miss M. Carey Thomas. She, more than any other woman in her generation, was responsible for the social acceptance.of higher educa- tion for her sex. Bryn Mawr College is her monument, the peer today of i any under-graduate institution in ‘the Mand, ‘ The extraordinary spirit which gal- vanized her purely feminine personal- ity became manifest in her, teens when she began storming the academic cita- del, then almost exclusively the pre- serve of the male. She-contrived first to enter Cornell University from which she was graduated with honors at the age of twenty. By a special vote of the trustees she was admitted the next year to Johns Hopkins, where she was permitted to attefid lectures behind a screen. Undaunted;~she began sam- pling the universities of Europe, fighting gamely for her deserts as a scholar and finally attaining them in the form of a Ph. D. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Zurich. Bright girls of today who look upon a- college education, and whatever duties beyond that they wish to pursue, as a natural sequence of their record in school may well pause in veneration of this daring lady who broke the ice for them only fifty years ago. With such a background of trium- phant struggle and scholarly training it is not to be wondered at that Miss Thomas should build Bryn Mawr into the institution it has become. As its co-organizer and dean for nine years, and as its president for twenty-eight, she molded it to her will, adding to its undergraduate department a_ post- graduate curriculum leading to a Ph. D. and holding the whole to the highest standards. Thus Bryn Mawr is not simply a girl’s college, however competent to its purpose, but a dis- tinguished theatre of learning. Typically enough, Miss Thomas, while president, was known to her fac- ulty and to the whole academic world as among the most rigid of disciplin- arians. But she was equally’ ‘famous for her selection and encouragement of talented young teachers and espe- cially young men teachers, for she never carried her strong feministic leanings to the point of discrimination against the male. Equality was her goal and she had the wisdom to see that in attaining it for her students she. must enlist the best brains in their service regardless of sex. And yet, she was the first head of a woman’s college to come out pub- licly for woman suffrage—as long ago as 1896—and for sixteen years there- after she was president of the Na- tional Collegiate Equal Suffrage League. In 1898, as a condition of a gift to its endowment, she forced the Johns Hopkins Medical School to ad- mit women on equal terms with men. A great champion she was, but with a perspective which made her a person even greater than her cause. We can think of no higher tribute. Reprinted from Philadelphia Eve- ning Bulletin, Tuesday, December 3, 1935. Womankind—particularly the wom- en of the United States—owe .an in- calculable debt to M. Carey Thomas. Dean of Bryn-Mawr at 26, coming direct from her studies abroad, at Leipsic, at Goettingen, at Zurich and finally at The Sorbonne; ten years later she was made president of that institution, elected to the Board of Trustees in 1908, and president-emeri- tus since 1922; much of the develop- ment of that now noted College for Women was.of--her making. and the widespread influence of the school traces back to her genius and her de- votion. And farther reaching ever than that, or at least in channels -|other than that, in every movement that has been worth while in the ad- -vancement of the women’s opportunity ‘and in’ the broadening of women’s who are enrolled in University of Minnesota extension courses have a higher scholastic ‘average than day students - the same courses. _ Although the panes number of the their grades show that 70 per cent sphere of activity during more than B, with the subjects studied falling ‘|about half and half between -urtiver- sity and high school courses, — om her influence have had a part. Equality of Intellect In Women There is significant interest in recol- lecting ‘that she was one of me ‘iret News Resignation The' News regrets to announce — “the resignation. of Lucy Kim- : berly, sports editor, from the Editorial Board. young women students to enter Cor- nell, from which she was graduated in 1877; that from there she went to Johns Hopkins, where she was the eniy woman permitted to enter the class in Greek; that she went to-the University of Leipsic and completed its course in three years, only to be denied her degree “on account of her sex”; that she went to Goettingen and found her ‘opportunity similarly cir- cumscribed, and thence went to Zu- rich, where there had been precedent in the recognition of women’s intellec- tual ability, and received the “summa cum laude” which she had earned. And then after.a year at The Sorbon- ne she came back home. to take the position of dean of Bryn Mawr, and largely to organize and to build a college for women. And thirty-nine years later, as she was retiring from the active presidency of that college to continue on the Board of Trustees and as president-emeritus until her death, she said: * One of the biggest things ‘ac- complished in the struggle of women for higher education is the revelation to the world that the minds of men and women are the same, not,.different; that they require and can assimilate the same intellectual food; that there is no sex in intellect, and that, tested in any way that col- leges and universities can devise, « women do, at least, as well as men. That sevaiion was her-mission in the world, and she devoted her life to its service. When, in co-operation with her intimate friend, Mary E. Garrett, of Baltimore, she was a lead- ing factor in raising a fund adequate for the opening of Johns Hopkins Medical School, it has been said (by Dr. Florence Rena Sabin) that “while the money for this fund was in the main contributed by Miss Garrett, far more important than the actual gift of money were the conditions under which the fund was given and accept- ed. Miss Thomas laid down the con- ditions which were to be met, a college degree or its equivalent, a knowledge of physics, chemistry and biology, pro- ficiency in foreign languages and the admission of women on the same terms as men.” Bryn Mawr and its achievements constitute the exemplification of her ideals, a Hope and Aim In Work of Bryn Mawr Miss Thomas was an intimate friend of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and a pioneer in the advancement of the movement for the exténsion of the suffrage to women, wk€n its vision was in the far distance. For eight years she was the president of the National College Equal Suffrage As- sociation. But she did not beliewe that equal- ity was something to be conferred upon women by statute, whether in the extension of the franchise or otherwise. She believed that there was inherent equality in women and that those who had the higher endow- ments of mind were as fully entitled as any man to every opportunity and means for its development. Her hope for Bryn Mawr, in her own words. was “that it shall become more and more a college producing women who may best serve their generation, a col- lege that may attract more and more the A and A-plus girls.” It was her desire and purpose that the educa- tional opportunity for women should stand parallel with the educational opportunity for, men, confident that in the competition, if it were to be that rather than a joint endeavor, women would justify every anticipation. Today, that truth generally is ree- ognized, although old prejudice has not altogether disappeared. Women in the practice of medicine and in the laboratories as well, women in the law, at the bar, occasionally on the bench; women in the pulpit,-in the service of the press; women in science, in all branches; women in business, often as executives; women in political equal- ity, as voters, in elective and appoint- ive offices, as administrators, as lead-| ers. The slogan “equality of sex,” glibly spoken today, when so much has been ere it is* but commonplace, does not compare in the richness of thought and idealism, with the equality of.opportunity for education and ad- vancement to which M. Carey .Thomas dedicated hersélf more than fifty years ago fhen she deciared that there is no sex in intellect and that it is woman’s inherent right to improve the talent with which she was endowed. Tributes will. be paid to her emi- nence as an eduéator, to her particu- lar achievements at Bryn Mawr. But the inspiration to that paramount field of service was her. ideal - of woman, of woman’s capacity for achievement, and her right to full op- portunity ‘for the development of that capacity. To quote her own words again, Bryn Mawr’s mission was “to produce women who may best serve their generation.” ai In Philadelphia Broad: Kind Lady, with Lucy Beau- mont, distinguishes itself as well in Philadelphia as-it did at the end of last season in New York when Grace George played the lead. Chestnut: Gilbert Miller’s produc- ‘Ition of Libel, with Colin Clive, seems to disappoint the Philadelphia critics | somewhat, although its producer still has faith in its success when it opens in New York. Forrest: Eva Le Gallienne opens her repertory next Monday night for one week only. Rosmersholm and Camille will be the principal attrac- tions, although it is rumoréd vaguely that Miss Le Gallienne will do “‘two Spanish plays” as well. Garrick: Personal Appearance, in its third week, is definitely established asa hit. Academy of Music: The Philadel- phia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski, will play the following: Borodin’s. On the Steppes in Central Asia, the Rhapsodie on a Theme of Pagnini of Rachmaninov, and Tcheh- kovsky’s Symphony Number Five. in E Minor. Rachmaninov will be the soloist. Movies Aldine: Crime and Punishment un- doubtedly suffers from being released at approximately the same time as the French film Crime et Chatiment, but the critics have not been able to agree which is really the better movie. This American version of Dostoiev- skys’ novel is especially notable for the fine, sustained performance of Peter Lorre. ' Areadia: Mutiny on the Bounty, about which everything has been said. With Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone. Boyd: George Arliss in a minor success called Mr. Hobo. Starts Fri- day: Whipsaw, with Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy, a most singular team of players, one might. remark, in an opus which has so fay. been a Holly- wood secret. It is fervently to be hoped that it is not very similar to Riptide. : Earle: Stars Over Broadway, a mu- sical comedy featuring Jane Froman and James Melton, a new star re- cruited from radio; who also suffers from the facial contours of Mr. Law- rence Tibbett. Friday: One-Way Ticket, with Peggy Conklin, star of the stage production of The Petrified Forest. Europa: La Maternelle continues. This is a popular French film about some waifs and their nursery school nurses. Fox: Thanks a Million, with Fred Allen and Dick Powell. Friday: The Man Who Broke the Bank At Monte Carlo will open at this theatre. Ron- ald Colman stars. Karlton: Splendor, in which Miriam Hopkins is sacrificed for the sake of Joel McCrea’s inhuman family. Keith’s: A Night At the Opera, the Marx Brothers’ latest. Palace: Peter Ibbetson, with Gary Cooper and Ann Harding. Stanley: Annie Oakley, a movie about the girl who became a synonym for a free ticket, with Barbara Stan- wyck in the title role. Saturday : ,/ J John Howard gets his first real chance in a vehicle by the name of Millions in the Air. Stanton: James Cagney in Frisco Kid, and, startit'g Saturday, Rochelle Hudson in a lively gangster film called (by the Will Hayes ‘ office) Show Them No Mercy. ~— e “a | THE COLLEGE NEWS _ Page. Three 6 Fast Varsity Loses To Philadelphia 4-0 Quick Passing, Interchanging’ ~ Holds Skillful Opponents To Low Score GROUND HARD, SLIPPERY The Varsity Hockey team played its last game on Saturday against the! All-Philadelphia team and was de- feated by a score.of 4-0. Varsity played its best game of the season because of the fact that the opposing team, including seven All-American players, was the strongest it has met this year, and played a game which was remarkable for brilliant passing and fast dribbling. Varsity’s passing was unusually accurate and fast, and even though the ground was hard and made the ball bounce unexpect- edly, the Bryn Mawr players were successful in picking up hard passes. The ground was so slippery that most of the players fell down when- ever they tried to stop suddenly, but they picked themselves up quickly and started off again. Notwithstand- | ing the fact that the Philadelphia team was much faster than Varsity and often got away to’a clear field, their free shots were always stopped by the goal-keeper, Leighton. The goals that they did make were all shot from a confusing scrimmage in the circle. The college team is to be _congratulated on holding its skillful opponents to a mere 4-0 victory. ‘The forwards played very well as a whole and their team-work was particularly good. B. Cary, playing her last. game as -captain of the team, played excellently as center for- ward and got away to some very good open-field runs. M. Bakewell, in the left inside position, picked.up passes well from the backs and got rid of the ball.at the right time. Her passes to the center and out to the wing were well-placed behind the defend- ing backs. Jane Carpenter, playing right inner, seemed somewhat weak in her handling of the ball, but kept better control as the game went on. She sometimes failed to send a pass to Taggart who was often free and ' waiting for it, but this was obviously because of the fact that it was the difficult side to which to send a pass. The few times that Taggart did get the ball she handled it very well and sent good passes to the forwards in the shooting circle. The team-work. on the part of the backs was even better than that of the’ forwards. Their quick inter- changing was particularly useful when a fast opposing forward started down the field with the ball. M. Bridgman played her best game of the year as right half. She made one of the most brilliant plays of the game when she brought the ball out of the circle after a penalty bully. P. Martin, in the difficult position of center half, played a really excellent game of hockey. She successfully brought the ball out of the circle and carried it up to her forwards when the opposing team was just about to shoot, and also supported her own forwards in their shooting. circle. She was, perhaps, the playei most responsible for keeping the ball around the Philadelphia goal as much Local Movies Ardmore: Thursday, George Raft in She Couldn’t Take It; Friday, Ad- miral Byrd in Little America; Satur- day, The Three Musketeers, with Wal- ter Abel; Monday and Tuesday, Henry Wilcoxon in The Crusaders; Wednes- day, Kay Francis in I Found \Stella Parrish. Seville: Thursday and Friday, Law- rence Tibbett in Metropolitan; Satur- day, Edmund Lowe in King of Broad- way; Sunday and Monday, Jack Ben- ny in It’s In the Air; Tuesday and Wednesday, Miriam Hopkins in Bar- bar Coast. Wayne: Thursday, Miriam Hopkins in Barbary Coast; Friday and Sat- urday, Jack Benny in It’s In the Air; Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Law- rence Tibbett in Metropolitan; W-dnesday, Richard Arlen in Let ’Em Have It. ‘ JTEANNETTE’S Bryn Mawr Flower Shop, _ 823 Lancaster Avenue | Bryn Mawr 570 as it was. half, was a little weak in her inter- ception but she showed herself to be invaluable in backing up her wing. M. Jackson played in the position of right back with her usual steadiness and determination—faculties which are seldom found ina pame as tense as this one. L. Bright, at left back, showed that she could play both a fast game and an accurate oné; and her rapid shifting from one side of the field to the other was a great help in’ keeping down her opponents’ score. Gertrude Leighton upheld her repu- tation as a good goal-keeper and con- tinually stopped the excellent shots of the All-American forwards. The few short, quick flicks that did get past her would have been impossible , to stop. This is .the last game for some of the team who graduate this year, and we know that the team will feel their loss when they come back to play without such players as Cary, Taggart, C. C. Brown and Bridgman. Goals: H. Howe, 1;° Toulman, 1; M. Howe, 2. Line-Up ALL-PHILA. BRYN MAWR POUEV cc 5 osu 5 POW ovis Taggart Fi TLOWC. 6. ss r, i 3... Carpenter Townsend....., Oe lia ea Cary M. Howe...... eae ORS RCH Bakewell TPOUIMIAN. 6. RoW sia Hasse PIBAUON ¢ 6. 4 es 1 eae) s On Bridgman Taussig......+ G We yea ern Strebeigh...... ine eee S. Evans SHIDIEV. 6. oes Be Oe a8 hike Jackson Hamiton,..... lL Di kas L. Bright WiNOt eda vik Oa Leighton \ Restoration Drama Is Sharply Defined Field Continued from Page One tions rather than plays. "From them no dramatic material was drawn, nor were the completed dramas addressed to them.. The theatre was a snobbish art, representing one clique and pre- senting “itself to that one alone. That one fashionable group believed in the impossible possibility of rationalizing the emotions. Practicing its belief, it disregarded morality and pursued a strictly improper course of life. Comic playwrights found such a situ- ation adaptable to an ancient satirical theme springing from the paradoxi- cal nature of man, half animal, half divine. In the years after the World War writers again repeated this theme to embody the same flagrant question of sexual license and the i same futile attempt to subdue passion to reason. Because of such similar problems and similar. treatment, the Restoration literature is linked to that of our own time, and we are far more capable of understanding it than were the pious Victorians. The world which the inverted reflec- tion of tragedy revealed was one of disillusionment inevitable after the conclusion of a long, Civil War in conditions much like those which had existed before it ever broke out. Combined with this feeling of frus- tration was an aesthetic doctrine pos- tulating the epic as the highest form of poetry, tragedy as epic poetry un- der another name, and the duty of the epic as the celebration of valor, beauty, and love. Since the examples of valor supplied by the recent war were too close, too obviously ugly, too related to ordinary men, traged- ians were forced to turn to ancient, exotic days. There as well as any- where, beauty could be found to praise, and there only was pure love. Because of the rarity of such ethereal affection at the time, it was especially needful that tragedy should celebrate true love, for art should supply what actuality lacks. _ Both inversely and immediately, therefore, Restoration drama was conditioned by Restoration England. The distinctions within the conditions were introduced or emphasized by the individual authors. Because he had a nimble wit and a quick ear for prose, Etheredge, the first of the grea‘ S. Evans, playing left comedians, developed the free comedy form. In The Man of Mode, his most successful play, the characters. are gay, fantastic creatures whirling air- ily and thoughtlessly through’ life as if through an elaborate ballet. Like all the figures of Restoration Comedy, they belong to the town rather. than to the country as the Elizabethans did. Since, then, his plays were so light and unphilosophical, Etheredge expressed ne deep convictions, except that life should be enjoyed, and en- joyment should be made an art. He thus missed one of the principal characteristics. of his fellows, who worked: with the second type of é¢om- edy—the comedy of humors. They did .not, like Jonson; attack the in- herent vices of mankind, but they did lash at all acquired follies in an effort to present a saner view of life. When Wycherley, who was attracted to both the Puritanical austerity of the masses and the gay immorality of the court, tried to ridicule man’s in- nate and superficial failings at the same time, he did not succeed. The savage vituperation which he piled up in speech after speech made sur- prisingly good stage effects, but not good literature. Only in The Coun- try Wife did he arrive at unity. His powerful, tortured mind here worked itself out to a delicate balance of feel- ing which he offered as an antidote to the extravagances of the time. Congreve was the greatest of the comedians. Because he was half a poet, he was able to unify his material and to create life out of it, although it was fast becoming obsolete. ‘The sexual theme had ceased to be the most pressing contemporary prob- lem, yet this was the theme which Congreve used. -About it he had only one thing to say, and he said it over and over; that simple, honest love alone is desirable; that artificiality and libertinism are foolish and vi- cious. Even though he tried to reform the world, Congreve did not expect it to reform. He was disillusioned and sorrowful for all mankind. Through his best comedy scenes there always runs a thread ;of. sadness which is expressed as a fear of too great reality, as a desire to keep life at a safe distance. To make existence a little more graceful and poetic, to maintain a somewhat more polite balance of affections, seemed to him the only way to make life bearable. As well as thus bringing the moral- ity of Restoration comedy to its height, he brought the -medium—to—an unsurpassed excellence also. He was a master of prose. After him, writers ceased to believe in the pos- sibility of rationalizing the emotions. While keeping the same cynical form, they allowed sentimentality. to creep in and destroy the form. Restora- tion comedy was ended. The tragedians of the Restoration began on a basis as impossible as that of the comedians; and just as the comedy could endure only while believed in, the tragedy was doomed to decay as soon as its ideals of chivalrous love and beauty were ac- knowledged to be impossible. In the first place, the form and content of the tragedies were ill-suited. The form was classical; the content, ro- mantic. To agree with the material used, the ancient elements of pity and fear had to be altered; fear being changed to admiration, and pity limited to the calamities of true love. Love was treated as more important DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DURHAM, N. C. Four terms of eleven weeks are given each year. These may be taken consecutively (graduation in three years) or three terms may be taken each year (gradu- ation in four years). The en- trance requirements are intelli- gence, character and at least two years of ‘college work, in- . cluding the subjects speci for Grade A Medical Schools. Catalogues’ and _ aoplication forms may be obtain-d from the Dean. b Bryn Mawr 2025 MAISON ADOLPHE PERMANENT WAVES | $5.00 and $7.50 | 876 Lancaster Avenue Bryn Mawr ‘there with equal extravagance. © than anything else inthe world. Honor, friendship, faith, were nothing to. it. When love did not rule the. stage, the valor of old Rome paaded None of the tragedians was more mad than Lee. He was actually mad, and by his very insanity, he was im-| pelled to aim at the absolute. Noble ; passion, vice and horror never ap- peared to him except in their extreme ; aspects., Since the elaborate scenery, | the fantastic problems, and the im-, possible psychology of his art were | already set for him, he could only perfect them with his peculiarly ap- propriate talents, but there -yet re- mained one thing he could introduce —words. He used words with unbe- lievable wildness and force. If Wag- ner had been living to write the music, Lee would have written opera. Dryden was a greater architect than Lee; his plays are balanced baroque structures decorated as pro- fusely as possible. He himself con- fessed that the elements he worked with were mere nonsense, yet out of them he. still constructed great art. Although ‘he carried artificial pretti- ness to its limits, he was always in| control of that prettiness. He could | express profound thought in its nar- row bounds.or he could use it as a mere exercise for perfecting the language. In spite of the foolish ma- terial he was forced to use, through it he was able to express a serious, characteristic Restoration— philosophy —a philosophy of disillusionment. By virtue of this similar sense of frus- tration, in both forms, Restoration comedy and tragedy are actually re- lated after all, although superficially unlike, and are actually vital, al- though the tragedy at least often | seems to be outmoded. | Clifton Fadiman Lists Best Seller’s Appeals Continued from Page One, books which have this appeal will sell | for this reason alone in spite of the} fact that they have much literary merit. Nijinsky, by the dancer’s wife isan example of such a book. -Ulys- ses is another. Europa is selling now for much the same reason, although the critics have recently discovered that it is not such a masterpiece as they once proclaimed it... The fear element is carried over from the advertising industry: people read such books’ as 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs and Emily Post’s Etiquette be- cause if they did not they would be afraid of the consequences. Books which have few of these, ap- peals can be made best sellers by many kinds of publicity. Books which are banned by ‘such organizations as The Society for the Suppression of Vice often become best ‘sellers as a result of the publicity attendant on the action of suppression. James Branch Cabell became a popular author only after his novel, Jurgen, was banned. The sale of Ulysses received a similar impetus. Ordinary and high-pressure advertising acts in the same way. The Book of the Month Club. selections usually receive a great deal of free publicity by the members of the club. During the years 1930-34 twelve of the twenty-four best sellers were Book of the Month Club selections, Little things like the personality of the author, preferences of celebrities and change of titles have great effects on the sale of books. Trader Horn and Count Keyserling’s two-volume work:'on philosophy became popular partly because of interest in the ec- centricities of their authors. Presi- Continued on Page Four EEE EEE GREEN HILL FARMS. City Line and Lancaster Ave. Overbrook - Philadelphia A cordial invitation is extended to the Alumnae of Bryn Mawr Col- lege to stay with us during the period of the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration. Green Hill Farms is a very excellent hotel and is sure to please th¥nost fastidious. L. ELLSWORTH METCALF, 2 Manager. i i i i a a a ee pon . BEST'S MONTGOMERY & ANDERSON AVES., oes a on the head! black with green and shades of green. - Easy Parking 4 4 ay ade in France on “TWISTEE” A BIT OF KNITTED MAGIC THAT - MAKES A HAT! 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