THE COLLEGE NEWS o Page Five Fm smi weno me Seemann 2 —— anon rmane eo _ ae == Second Varsity Wins Re oe ABS Morton, C.| ‘Leslie Howard makes extremely |everywhere pervades the play and is|stone this reviewer might have us be- Two-Basketball Games Smith creer. eee see Darling | amusing and clever observations in a; here brought to a very subtle cliniax. lieve. , ot ah are eo oe gasoline station” is positively painful. Phe shar tg chi er Me iit IS Your theatre news reports do a Gymnasium, Feb. 27.—The Second| ©, 2S20UrM -+---: eh es > Cee i a} Nery Mien weiter. F ernaps, However, | gross injustice not only to the-plays : ; DARIO ices sss eo Aare Morton |/ 9 not saying that the fact, is un |the prospective theatre-goer would|they discuss, and to those who might Varsity defeated the Philadelphia Col- lege of Pharmacy and Science in an easy game by the score of 64-18. Bryn Mawr showed its heels to the chal- lenge of the visitors, playing sound basketball in spite of the numerous shifts in the opponent’s line-up. On Saturday morning, the second team continued its good start with a victory over the already worn-out Philadelphia Cricket Club team, 25-6, in a game consisting of two eight-min- ute halves. On the whole, we were glad to notice that a little more co- operation was used in both the games this week, not only by the forwards, but also the centers. We would like to see, however, a little better passing and a little re accuracy. = The line-ups were as follows: Bryn Mawr P. 0. Pe ands; no Co ERS eee Tot as Kleckner Me MTIATO. ok sec fol Saas Kapec mien ee Oe Bright, DOWER Sivek Pie “Be rane Melcher Washburn ....... r. g. .... Rubenstein Bree tbe ek Finnigan Goals—P. C. P. S.: Kleckner, 14; Kapec, 2; Melcher, 2. Bryn Mawr: Seckel, 6; Maynard, 28; Baker, 30. Substitutions—P. C. P. S.:. Melcher for Kapec, Bennett for Kapec. Bryn Mawr: Baker. for Seckel, Seckel for Dewes, S. Evans for Little. PC, C, A Pee Disston Bryn. Mawr Baker Substitutions — Bryn Mawr: Jack- son for E. Smith. Goals — P. C. C.: ton, 6. Bryn Mawr: kel, 16. Disston, 4; Mor- Baker, 9; Sec- Voice of Bryn Mawr Editor of the Collége News: It is too bad that readers of the News must be discouraged from seeing three, or any one of those three, very good plays simply because the write- ups of them in the last week’s News were so very bad. I refer to Escape Me Never, The Petrified Forest, and The Distaff Side, especially to the lat- tex two. % What any reader wants to know is what the play is about, with a brief sketch of the plot, and a general criti- cism of the acting and staging in- volved. She wants it to be written in a straightforward and easily under- standable manner, so that she will know exactly what she is getting in for when she goes to see it. But your reviewer tries with all her might to write in true collegiate style which, of course, implies that the criticism of relatively unimportant details is over- stressed and because of numerous quirks. of speech; a false impression of the whole is given. To introduce The Petrified Forest by saying that true, but simply that it is unduly em- phasized, and isolated meaninglessly from its subordinate place in the whole. And instead of glibly saying that Leslie Howard is the “center. of attention because of his unfailing charm,” I would refer you to a review in the Literary Digest of not long ago: “It has been held against Mr. Howard that his especial trick in the theatre was that of remaining virtually mo- tionless while the others in his~eom- panies acted themselves to _ pieces around him. This, it has been said, naturally focused attention and, of course, approval, on him...It is true that he is a master of understatement in performance, that others do act themselves to pieces around him, but in The Petrified Forest he is forced to the extremity of his talents by a shrewdly chosen company. And when the play ends, and he still is the su- perior in aéting, it is further glowing |] tribute to his powers.” While it is not your purpose to review as. thor- ‘oughly as this in a “News from the New York theatres” column, still it might be wise to attribute some intel- ligence to the cast of the play you are recommending when they deserve as much praise for it as this one does. To say that “the sad end of Mr. How- ard rather loses its effect’? because of the excitement. and action around him, shows a lack of appreciation of the sensitive handling of irony. which like to know what sort of acting it is that the play calls for—why it ‘is that Elizabeth Bergner “electrifies and animates” the stage so complete- ly. It would only take a few more lines of space and would give the reader. a more complete idea of the play. 19 And lastly, did the person who wrote the one-sentence summary of The Distaff Side ever see the play? Unless it has been radically changed within the last few weeks, the daugh- ter does. not “Break Away in the time- honored manner of stage daughters,” nor does she come ‘home “with the baby in her arms and the blood-hounds howling at her heels.” The figure of speech, if such it is, is completely ir- relevant to the point of the story. And incidentally, the “woman controlling her family” is not the Miss Murd- BRYN MAWR Luncheon 40c - 50c - 75c Meals a la carte Telephone: Bryn Mawr 386 otherwise attend them, but also te yourselves and the News in general. I am not alone in the feeling that more thought should be put into the writing of these articles and that their © derogatory, blasé collegianisms should be reserved for times and places to which they are better suited. With humble apologies, NANCY WESCOTT, ’38. The first American institution of higher learning to offer a course in medical instruction was Columbia University ( York City). The first lectures in this course were giv- en on November 9, 1767. It would take 508 years for one al son to complete all of the courses how being offered by Yale © University’ (New Haven, Conn.). COLLEGE INN TEA ROOM Dinner 85c - $1.25 and table d’hote Daily and Sunday 8.30 A. M. to 7.30 P. M. 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