the names of those formerly connected. with. the college—Taylor Hall after ee __ Page = - THE COLLEGE NEWS ~ _ _ THE COLLEGE NEWS. (Founded in 1914) Published « sin during the College Year (excepting duting Thanksgiving, Christmas ‘and; Baster Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest ot Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and gyn Mawr College. es & a . The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part witheut written Peemionen of the Editor-in-Chief. : Editor-in-Chief BARBARA Cary, ’36 Cony Editor News Editor , ANNE MARBURY, ’37 HELEN FISHER, ’37 & Editors CaROLINE C. Brown, ’36 EL@ABETH LYLE, ’37 Mary i SONGS, . "37 JANET THOM, 38 Sports Editors Sytv1a H. EvAns, ’37 Business Manager DOoREEN CANADAY, ’36 . - Assistants CORDELIA STONE, 37 Lucy neta 37 Subscription Manager ALICE COHEN, '386 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 MAILING PRICE, $3.00 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME _—— Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office “We Acknowledge With Pride—” To nearly every person who was so fortunate as to witness any part of the many informal gatherings, private receptions and public ceremonies which marked the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Bryn Mawr College, there must have come a feeling of unrestrained pride in the tributes paid to the college, its founders, its administrators and its alumnae, by the many dignitaries who attended and spoke at the birthday ceremonies. Perhaps the most impressive moment in the. whole occasion occurred when the academic procession moved slowly down the center of Goodhart in all the splendor of its colorful academic gowns and its distinguished delegates and guests. Preceding them came the representatives of all the classes who have ever graduated from the college, taken advanced. degrees or attend at the present moment. As the long column passed by it seemed as if the years, too, were rolling back to the first days of the college's found- ing. -At'the end of this long and animated procession came the two figures who personify to us most closely Bryn Mawr College. The great crowd of guests, deeply moved, .rose to honor the President-emeritus and the Presi- dent of the college and peals of applause resounded back and forth across the huge expanse of Goodhart Hall. After the three ‘noted college presi- dents had addressed the gathering, the climax came when Miss Thomas herself came to the front of the platform and was able only after some effort to stop the enthusiastic applause of the audience ‘and make her address. The thrilling moment of the presentation of the Alumnae gift to the college will perhaps never be equalled, when Mrs. Slade announced that the amazing total of $750,000 had been achieved after the most prodigious work by alumnae everywhere. Great was the excitement when it was announced that District V and the Philadelphia district had passed their quotas. The indefatigable alumnae announced that the Drive will continue until the Million Dollar Minimum is achieved. We know that they will acquire that sum and at the same time we know that it will not be because of chance or good luck. Hard work and tedious routine drudgery, which is unspectacular but absolutely essential to the success of any big effort to raise money, is the key to the victory of the Alumnae Drive. Mrs. Slade for the third time heads a Bryn Mawr Drive and under her competent leadership the goal is in sight. But behind the scenes moves another import- ant figure whose contribution to the success of the Drive and to the organi- zation of the anniversary celebration was invaluable. Without Mrs. Chad- wick-Collins the wheels would not have run so smoothly as they did, and without her inspiration much that was achieved would not have been accomplished. We, as undergraduates, perhaps more than any other group have seen her working day ‘and night week in and week out, cheering us on in our struggle to achieve our quota and dispatching advice and_sugges- tions to the Alumnae in their efforts to raise money. We trust that a well-earned rest awaits her and her staff before they undertake the task of organizing Big May Day. With a renewed sense of the importance of our four years at Bryn Mawr we return to the normal Course of life. What we have seen has demonstrated to us even more clearly than any other event in our lives the responsibility which our privilege of attendance here imposes on us not only in regard to our Alma Mater itself, but to the community of which it is a part. Oe Fitting Memorials ~The announcement by Mrs. Slade last Saturday of two new memorial gifts and of the recent naming of the Library after Miss. Thomas brings home to us-once more the fitness of such action. There can be no better way of commemorating those-who have given of themselves to Bryn Mawr or those who have drawn their happiness from it than thus reminding future generations of their lives and work. ‘Most of the scholarships and annual lecture series are named after alumnae, yet only two buildings bear the founder, and. Marjorie Walter Goodhart Hall after an alumna. Of all the buildings on campus the library is the one closest to the heart of the college. It is rightly named after our great President-emeritus. That the library of the new science building should always recall the years of devo- | tion of Marjorie Jefferies Wagoner is also fitting. And the Quita Wood-| a8 ae PF ee ct the mon’ moving. setodery on Oey [WiT?s END The Medias came -down like a hoard on the fold; Their gowns were all gleaming” with ‘purple and gold; And the slant of their caps as they formed a black sea . At once elevated the, college esprit. Like the: crowd about Fenwick Whe speaks in ‘the e’en,, The groups all distinct: With their numerals were seen, Like the rout. that leave’glasses when milk lunch is on, The host of the. morfew had packed up and gone. With unwonted glory our fair cam- pus stood Ablaze with the splendor of cap, gown, * and hood. The foundations of learning from near ‘ and from far Had contributed chieftains to be at Bryn Mawr. They sang it in.song, and they told it in story That the days of our youth were the days of our glory. They praised womanhood as they sel- dom will do, Then quickly rushed off to catch the choo-choo, - From this gathering of magnates, in- spired, we return With firmest of intentions to work hard and to learn; That. when Bryn Mawr is a hundred and Undergrads may see A glorious procession and their hearts will fill with glee. The Great A. & P. B. Company. Cheerio, THE MAD HATTER. Accent on Youth. We have made bold to christen our column with a borrowed name, be- cause it fits so exactly our pur- poses and resolutions. We intend to place an accent on youth in the books we review. This does not mean that we shall offer previews or even that we shall report on volumes ‘still wet from the ink of the press. But it does mean that we shall try to deal with books before the pic- ture of their author in the New York Times literary section has faded from all memories except his’ own fond recollection. People will remember Lucy ‘Guy heart for many months to come be- cause Willa Cather wrote it.- When read with the pleasant thought of her other books in mind, it is per- haps reminiscent of the beautifully restrained vitality that was theirs. In its own merit, Lucy Gayheart is still beautiful, but it is not’ suffi- ciently vital. The landscape of. this story is painted with exquisite de- scription, and too like the landscape Lucy Gayheart herself is painted, in delicate pastel shades. She is not, of course, similarly static, yet she does remain a plane surface, scarcely ever assuming the three dimensions of a living form. As for ‘her lover, Sebastian the singer, he cannot even be seen. When Lucy first hears his voice, she is steeped in a sad, fatal mood, and this mood is all that is ever revealed of him. In each of them, there is an aspect of reality, but never enough to give them life. The bare plot itself is very simple. Its sparse outline must be filled in with emotion if the book is to be com- plete. It is not complete. Where the feeling is still, like that per- meating a countryside lying in the sunset; where it is to be sketched quickly or faintly as among the mi- nor characters, it is indeed perfectly rendered. Where it should be swift and powerful, however, where it should flood the mechanical situation with spiritual energy, it is given only the slow and noiseless motion of a dream. The book is like a curtain with pictures painted on it. The air shines through; it has no solid sub- stance. There is, we feel sure, very solid substance in T. S. Eliot’s new play, Murder in the Cathedral. What that pogo is we nevertheless hesitate Freshman - Elections The results of the elections of the class ut 1939 are as fol- lows: President, Gisenalia Kallen. Vice- -President and Treasurer, Lydia Lyman. + Secretary, Elizabeth Gladding. dral is a poetic dramatization of the murder: and ‘martyrdom of Thomas a. Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. It is somewhat in the manner of''a Greek tragedy: there is a chorus which forebodes the Archbishop’s fate and the sorrow’ it will bring to them, but unlike a Greek chorus, it never comprehends the nature of the strug- gle leading’ up to the catastrophe. the old unities of time and place, but there is an episode which breaks an unspecified unity—the unity of mood. The four murderers of the Arch- bishop advance to the front of the stage after their bloody deed and plead their case in a“ parliamentary prose which suddenly turns the cathe- dral into a modern court of law. Since this transformation is useful for Mr. Eliot’s ultimate ends, it is more justifiable that at first it ap- pears. The contrast of this govern- mental legality with the spiritual truth enacted by the Archbishop is just what Mr. Eliot wishes to em- phasize. Because of the incompati- bility of these two elements, Thomas & Becket chose martyrdom. Although clearer than some of Mr. Eliot’s earlier poetry, the verse of this play is. less lovely. There are little word-patterns in single lines and phrases and larger patterns of recurring lines and rhythms through whole speeches and throughout the entire play; but there is hardly any color in the words, or any. beautifully precise metaphor. Nevertheless, an intense earnestness pervading chorus, characters, symbols, and poetry lifts them all above the commonplace, and now and again raises them to exal- tation. College Editors Favor Roosevelt Editors of college newspapers, magazines and yearbooks favor the reélection of President Roosevelt, ac- cording to the results of a poll re- cently conducted by Pulse of the Nation, a monthly magazine of opin- ion edited by Albert J. Beveridge, Jr. The complete returns, announced No- vember 1, gave Roosevelt 408 votes, Borah, 52; Frank Knox, 26; Herbert Hoover, 23; Norman Thomas, 23; Governor Alfred Landon, 22, and other candidates from “I to 8. The separate poll for parties showed: Democrats, 386; Republi- cans, 183; Socialists, 45; Independ- ents, 20, and Communists, 10. The Democratic party led in all sections of the country except New England, where the Republican party was ahead. Complete returns are listed in the November issue of Pulse. News of the New York Theatres Pride and Prejudice, which opened in New York Monday night, is one of those rare plays to which the ad- jective “delightful” can accurately be applied. It is an adroit and faithful adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name by Helen Jerome, presented by Max Gordon. Every de- tail is carried out with the utmost care: the Jo Mielziner sets are charming, the costumes are quaint and colorful, and the casting is very near perfect, That excellent actress, Miss Adri- anne Allen, late of The Shining Hour, plays Elizabeth in a live and charm- ing manner. It is Miss Lizzie, you remember, who. furnished the preju- dice in the story, while the hero, the artistocratic Mr. Darcy (played by Colin Keith-Johnson) ovided the pride. These two. characteristics standings, tending to sepakate Miss (played in a masterly fashion by Lu- cille Watson) is convinced that Liz- force her into a marriage with a re- volting clergyman-cousin. Mrs. Bennet by.no means confines her - ‘matchmaking efforts to. Miss | Elizabeth, but also occupies hersel very much with her two younger daughters, Jane and.Lydia. Miss Jane is played by Helen Chandler, who| \ of | manages to be very, very sweet and still very likeable. Her romantic There is no serious deviation from 1| day and Wednesday, The Dark Angel. [Seville Thursday, Claudette Col- make for a great many \misunder-} zie will be an old maid and tries to — attention of the audience as do those of her sister. Although it is definitely out of date for a young girl to go ‘into a physical decline because of an un- requitted affection, one sympathizes her Charles goes away to London. One finds oneself becoming posi- tively maudlin with sympathy for poor Mr.,Darcy when Elizabeth turns him down in the second act, although everyone knows very. well that not only he, but every eligible character in the play will find himself attached to th¢ object of his affections by the time the final curtain descends. It is a tribute to the fine, acting of the company that the audience is sincerely moved by this old-fashioned story. So we are sure that, unless New York is much.less. sentimental than we think it is, Pride and Prejudice, will be a real hit. In Philadelphia Theatres Chestnut Street Opera House: Love Is Not So Simple, a Theatre Guild comedy with Ipa Claire and Dennis King, in Philadelphia for two ‘weeks, beginning last Monday evening. Forrest: Rose Marie, one of Amer- ica’s most famous operettas, started its two-week run Monday night. A special matinee of Noel Coward’s Bit- ter Sweet is scheduled at this theatre for Armistice Day, next Monday afternoon. Garrick: Alla Nazimova, Ona Mun- son, McKay Morris and others in a revival of Ibsen’s Ghosts, opened Tuesday night and will run till Satur- day. Monday night George Kaufman and Katherine Dayton open their play, First Lady, at this theatre for a two weeks’ run. First Lady is reputed to be a political satire and stars Jane Cowl. \Metropolitan: The last week of per- formances of The Great Waltz, which ran fof almost a full season in New York last winter. - Broad: Opening next Monday, No- vember NM, Frank Craven and June Walker in\For Valor, a modern com- edy. and John Halliday. Arcadia: O’Shaunessy’s Boy, a sad, sad comedy, with Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery. Boyd: A new version of The Three Musketeers, with Walter Abel and Heather Angel. aS Two-Fisted. Roscoe Karns Earle: and Lee Tracy Europa: The Legend of \William Tell, Conrad Veidt Fox: Metropolitan. The critics say that Lawrence Tibbet is at his\ best -Karlton: Little America, or \the Rover Boys With Admiral Byrd \in the South Seas. Keith: Barbary Coast. Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea and Edward G. Robinson Stanley: She Couldn’t Take It, a melodrama, with George Raft menac- ing Joan Bennett. Stanton: The Last Outpost. Gary Cooper in a pith helmet, Claude Rains Local Movies Ardmore: Wednesday and Thurs- day, Top Hat; Friday, Dolores Del Rio in I Live for Love; Saturday, Tom Brown and Richard Cromwell in Annapolis Farewell; Monday, Tues- bert in She Married Her Boss; Fri- day, Naughty Marietta; Saturday, Nancy Carroll in After the Dance; Monday and Tuesday, Nino Martini in Here’s to Romance; Wednesday, Call of the Wild, with Clark Gable. Wayne: Thursday, Friday and Sat- urday, Call of the Wild; Monday and Tuesday, The Bishop Misbehaves. Dr. Loir, of Le Havre, France: “If rats could be given intelligence tests they would rate higher than the ave- rage man.” Dr. Gilhousek of the University of Southern California: “There is abso- lutely no basis for comparison between rats and human beings.” Dr. Loir: “Rats outwit humans at every turn. The best trapping meth- ods merely encourage polygamous hab- its, since traps catch the males that roam while the females stay with the * bacon ss (We give you “this in icioiiaaen with our policy of keeping strict. at- count of what the best minds are cng ) : very sincerely with little Jane when: Ka x Movies Aldine: The\Melody Lingers On, a musical, with Josephine Hutchinson ° roy