Cmte bitof relief when all. has. gone off Seer nee Vereen ss & . VOL. XV, NO. 19 ‘BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17. 1929 > PIRICE, Joint Production - - Proves Successful Dr. t, Herben Draided Casting of "The Admirable Crichton’. LACK AMATEUR FEELING (Specially contributed by Dm Herben) “The Admirable Crichtoti” inferior play. . At its best it is a sor¢ of dilute and third-rate Shaw and. at its worst it is intolerable hokum. Al- though a favorite for amateur produc- tions and one which has been offered ‘to Bryn Mawr audiences more than once, it is still a play to read rather than a play to produce. Much of the third act is as nearly unplayable as|_ anything can be. The long and con- templative meal requires the skill of a George Arliss, and more skifl than that is needed to make convincing such balderdash as “Bill Crichton a? ways plays the game”’.or the miser- able lines: about the Babylonian cap” tivity. If to this original difficulty: is added the problem of the sets for acts two and three and the accoustic eccen- tricities of Goodhart Hall, the com- bination becomes onedemanding zeal “aid patiéice on the parts of those who would produce the play. “ How successfully the problems were mét was. observed with satisfaction and’ some ‘astonishment .by those. who attended the .performance on Satur- day night. It fas a performance that reflected great] credit. upon the skill and ingenuity of all those who took part ‘in “its planning and execution. The island scene “which was con? structed the day of the performance is a sample; many worse sets have been seen in Gotham. Perhaps the most fundamental excellence was, however, in. the casting. .With one. exception, each person .,was_beautifully_adapted to play the part assigned. One recalls the finesse of Lady Mary’s acting, the convincing picture of Tweenygnd the rather devastating reality of Lady Brocklehurst.’ Equally was the audi- ence ‘impressed with the eminently satisfactory casting of the visitors, and it was by no means restricted to the major characters. The: whole com- pany: was a well-balanced and _well- ‘thosen grup. Lack: of Diversity in B. M. Voices. Amateur productions are often more interesting to the company’ than to the audience. One often feels a sort ..ofanticipation of something inept, and well. There was none*of that in’ Sat- urday night's affair. On the contrary, from the beginning there was a sense of the=eamplete comfPetence of the whole organization. All that marked it as an obviously amateur company was that the parts representing young - people were played by persons of age required and without the specious youthful mannerisms. of professional juveniles. That, and perhaps a fresh- ness not usually associated with. the theatre. One peculiarity that, the shortness of rehearsal and the lack of stage experience would account for, was the uniformity of .pitch and accent of the Bryn Mawr voices. -This was repeatedly.noted and commented upon by out-of-town visitors. But it is a task to seek” opportunities for adverse criticism. Rather is one inclined to adniire the sound showmanship ofthe prodtiction and the.poise that carried on the scene ‘in spite of an embarrass- ing interruption from the house at the ‘ most inopportune moment possible. It is a-pleasant duty to pay tributé to the individuals who composed the cast, but one is likely to run out of superlatives at an early stage. Crichs ton, who. played his part with assut- ance and vigour, might have been more convincing if possessed of an English accent, but in all else. he left little tangible to be desired. . Brocklehurst and the pale young curate were com- pletely satisfying as was also the act- ing of- Mr. Windust, perhaps the most ee ages ita at ae ot is a véfy] Dr. Swindler Acquaints . Robert Edmond Jones Robert Edmond Jones, artist and designer of stage sets, will speak at college early next week under the auspices of the Speak- ers’ Committee of the Undergrad- uate’ Association. Mr. Jones gave a series ‘of lec- ‘tures through the west two years ago in the interest of the develop-_ ment of the theatre in western cities. ,He alsp gave a seriés of lectures at the summer sessidn of. the University of California dur- ing the season of 1927. He writes very interesting articles on the theater, and among the plays for which he has designed the sets are John Barrymore’s ‘Hamlet, Machi- nal,*Holiday and Serena Blandish. Mr. Jones also designed the | sets for the Metropolitan’s version of the modern ballet, Skyscrapers. College With Breasted In a talk at AVednesday’s chapel in the Music Room, Dr. Swindler ac- quainted the college-with Prof. James H. Breasted and his work. “Probably you all have read a part of Mr. Breasted’s work, and’so it is not un- familiar--to—you;’—Dr.-Swindler—began, and went on to say that as a lecturer he was the first choice of the Mary Flexner Foundation, that, | a scholar he is ‘a most distinguished” Orieftalist and historian, and that at present he is director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Professor Breasted _ has | rec€ntly been enabled through endowments to etter into the projects of excavation in the East which are usually handled only by professors of sabbatical leave, and he is at present carrying out his plans in six important enterprises. -A few years ago an expedition: was ar- ranged by Mr. Breasted to trace pre- historic man in Egypt, and the dis- covery of tool§ embedded along the Nile has formed significant proof of the relation of the Egyptians to the ancient EurdPeans. In another site the excavation of Hittite discoveries has led to a classified stratification by pottery, and much important historic data has been gathered. Several groups of scholars’under the direction of Pro- fessor. Breasted are “doing research at various museums all over the world, and at Cairo Professor Breasted finding out the coffin formulae and pyramid inscriptions from which early material the -Book-—of the Dead—was compiled in the eighteenth dynasty. Mi-Breasted is ‘alse hunting ‘down | the fabulous tales of the Orient;* in Mesopotamia: the. sources of these-in= vestigations are paintings, such as of a scorpion- -man, with. castanets, or 2 dog carrying an altar with a leg of lamb ‘upon .it. The’ fable can be traced’ back to 3500 B. C., and in India probably farther. The tales: of our negro population form an inter- esting analogy to this ancient-mate- rial. At Thebes an expedition is under way similar~to~that-of the Metropoli- tan or Boston. Museums. _ Professor Breasted is a very busy man; and it is only the friendMip of the Flexners which has brought him here. The four lectures to be pre- sented at Goodhart Hall form a series named The New Crusade: Thursday, April 11th, Dr. Breasted will ‘speak on “The Place of the Near East_in Hu- man Development;” Friday, April 19th, on “The Scientific Responsibility of America in the Near East and the Salvaging of the Evidence;” Friday, April 26th, on “The Evidence and Man's Conquest of Nature; Tuesday, May 7th, on “The Evidence and_ the Emergence of Social Idealism.” Also, on April 20th, the most famous Ori- entalists are to be gathered’ at the Philosophical Sociéty~in- Philadelphia, and a.debate will be held between Dr. Breasted and former Professor Bar- is ton, of Bryn Mawr. Dr. Swindler spoke besides of the “thrilling” and “exciting” as -well as Linteresting pide.-f-Frafessor— Buesats, Miss Carey. Hon" red Has Been Appointed Head, Mistress of Brearley Sch : ey A IAT: Miss Millicent Carey ‘has been ap- pointed head mistress of, the: Brearley Schoot New York.’ | Miss plans to ‘assume her gew position in October, 1930. Althougl.’Wwe congratulate in Carey |her ‘most heartily, we are thoroughly convinced that we ‘express the unani- mous opinion of .th@&gollege when we say that Miss Carey's departure will be a source of deep regret to us. Miss Carey graduated. from .M awr Bryn in 1920,, and was. given her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins in 1926, after | Studying one year at ‘Cambridge Uni- versity, and three years in Baltimore. She taught English at Rosemary Hall in 1922-23, and since 1926 she has been an instructor in English at Bryn Mawr. : « Last spring Miss Carey was. ap- pointed assistant to the Dean of the College, which position she held dur- ing the first semester of this year. When Mrs. Manning was granted leave of absence for the second sem- ester, Miss Carey became acting. Dean “of the college Self-Government Board - -~ Submits~Annual Statement The Self-Government Board of the past year; under the Chairmanship of Rosamund Cross, has submitted the following statement to the college: “The Executive Board has felt that the college has not understood the full meaning of special permission. In the Self-Government regulations, it is required for “motoring and several other rules, but people seem to regard this as its sole furiction. - Consequently when they want to-do something that hot mentioned the rules, they either do not do it, or else do not try to. get special permission, and break the rule. ‘The Board feels that this is not the real meaning of special per- ‘mission; it exists primarily for cases that are not mentioned in the’ rules, when a person Wishes: to. do’ something for which’ there 7 “a periectty good reason, but w hich, wees ‘net - ‘apply to enough people to havés@ rule about. it. We, therefore, wish, to yirge people to: try to get special permission in- stead of breaking rules when they are doing perfectly legitimate things. “There is still a smalf group ~ of | peaple-who feel that théy"are perfectly “able to take. care of thémselves and s6--are above all rules: This is an absolutely’ selfish attitude = which shows an entire lack of responsibility toward the college.community and to- ward the college itself. ‘ Any set of rules has to be for the community as. a whole* special permission is given for exceptions to these.. The. growth of a strong public opinion and an in- is” in ereased sense of responsibility seem to be ‘the only possible solutions for a: situation that Has existed for a long time. “The Executive Board. feels that this year the college as a whole has shown a much better spirit toward the regulations of the association. This may, perhaps, be due to the fact that practically @hé only rules in existence are “safety rules” such as, any think- ing person can éasily seé are necessary in, a gitls’ college. The Board hopes that this same spirit of to-operation will continue throughout the coming year.” Miss Park Is Ill : Mrs. Manning spoke in chapel on Monday morning, April 8, and told us that President Park had had an opera- tion in Baltimore, and that ‘she was very glad to-report-that Miss Park was recovering. with all due expedi- ence. Mrs. Manning went on to an- nounce that she would be acting presi- dent until Miss Park’s return and that} | she would _,keep..Miss . Park's _ office | | CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 ed’s lectures, . a" a Sey ea Debate With S wartincore The debating team of Bryn Mawr College will meet Swarth- more at eight o'clock on Thursday evening, April 25,- in Goodhart. The affirmative side of the sub-. | ject, This~house deplores the in- flucice of: advertising on public welfare, will be upheld by the Bryn Mawr. representatives, Mary Lambert, Elizabeth “Linn, Adele Merrill; and- alternate, Janet Wise. . k The debaters will speak for. eight minutes each, with. a rebuttal of three minutes. . @ - ~ CY Dean Manning Combines Praise With a Warnin In chapel op Monday Mrs. Man- that Miss splendid progress ning réported Park was ‘making and was getting on as well as possibly could be pected X After issuing such: wel- come news the Dean proceeded to dis- cuss briefly the production of* varsity dramatics on Saturday :evening. Echoing the opinion of, the major- tty, Mrs. Manning ‘said she felt it rather a pleasant relief to Have both sexes represented and to have those “formed by nature” for the parts act- ing \in the various roles. The honors ~Tof the performance she conceded to the male acters, and particularly to Lord Loam, and°to Ernest; Crichton seemed to be not absolutely. at-home in his part, and thus failed to be con- vincing. Phe three sisters were very chafming. Altogether the play. ‘as | wood; although based on a wholly ar- | tificial. situation .and containing dia- logue of a less brilliant sort than that in some of Barrie’s other plays. In regard to a. repetitionof such a delightful experiment the Dean felt 'that a long talk with Miss Park would be necessary before she took’any defi- nite stand upon the matter. In our desire to do things well’ Mrs. Man- ning feared that we would lose sight of the fact’that the ant difficult thing to do well is our own individual Breasted States ‘ Debt of Moderns |Development of Egypt and Near East Traced by » Scientist. ~ INTRODUCTORY TALK On Thursday, ‘hart April 11, in the Good- H. Breasted, director of the Oriental In- stitute “OF the University of Chicago, auditorium, Professor- in Human Development,” the first of a series of lectures -which Professor $ | Breasted is giving under the terms of ~ the Mary Flexner lectureship. Manning Mrs, introduced the well-known Bryn Mawr’s associations with the Flexner family, and the lectureship fund given by Mr. Bernard Flexner, of New York, in memory of ‘his sister Mary, a Bryn Mawr graduate of the class of 1895, .The fund frovides for lectures to be given by scholars inter- ested in. the -humanities, in the broad interpretation of the word, and for the series has been completed. * Ancient Near» East Little Known. . Professor Breasted began ture with .the Statement that the new avorld is abjeetly subject to the past; yet most ‘people are unconscious of the past. The majority af the orthodox thinkers only go Back to the date 1492 in history, and, they gain their largest glinmnering of the Near East im- the Old - Testament’ of . Abraham Moses.. For the women’s clubs thére seems to be a peculiar thrill in the Near East, and they sit in rapt con- tenplation of the fofty truths which issue thetefrom. It unreasonable to revert only to Orientak religion, and to assume_this attitude of false rever- ence to.the Near East as a source of wisdom, 1S CONTINUED ON PAGE 38 achievement; and that the greatest agreaiee arise in an effort’ to learn o do things well by ourselves. So in conynunity productions there’ is always the danger of taking the whole thing too seriously. This year, how- ever, we seey: tO have taken the per- formance in quige the right spirit. 2 Varsity Players. Grateful for Aid (Specially €ontributed by annabel Learned ) In the absence of full comniittee lists on the program of The Admirable Crich- ton, we would like.to express thanks to:| all those (there a great many ) | gave generous time and un- interest to. the work of pro- duction. The significance of this to Varsity Dramatics stands Gut now be- cause, although we have Jong desired to-avoid-the use of professiédnal work- men, it-was onlythe co-operation. of so many people in this first trial that made the experiment. successful, and the policy possible for the future. With experience and planning, it should be- come a very good thing, both” for dramatics and for the college. A word of thanks must be expressed | to certain other workers on produc- tion, unnamed_as. such, in the persons of the Princeton cast and Dr. Herbeén, who came to the rescue when we were pressed for time, and labored heart- ily, even on the day of performance. |. Most especially has credit been- in- ' adequately given to all that was dofie | by Bretaigne Windust, President of | the Theatre Intime, who not only} acted and directed, but who contrived by his fund of knowledge and untiring work to be a mainstay of every nanan of the production. were who tiring | _ANNABEL LEARNED} | : sme det Chapel ! ' The Sunday evening service of. the | Bryn. Mawr. Leagne will be. led. Dr; Marion Parris Smith on April 21, 3 4 ‘ a ' i ‘ ; ———— —+ —, ae =< | seen jon Z = > rs = . Mr. Duell to Paint ‘As Guggenheim Fellow Will Copy Wall Paintings at: Tarquinia. Ly Mr? Prefitice Duell, of the Depart- ment of Archeology, has been appointed a Guggenheim Fellow for next year to study. Etruscan painting of the fifth century B. C. at Tarquinia, Italy, and to... make _archeologically accurate copies in..color of: the wall paintings in. the. best..preserved tombs of, this... period. This work will - be: similar to that which he did some years ago in con- ‘nection with the. Tomba del Tri- clinio, probably, the finest .tomb oat Tarquinia. The copies which he made of the paintings in this tomb, after being shown. at the anual exhibition of the American Academy in Rome, were reproduced in color in Vol. VI of the Memoirs of the Academy. Tarquinia, the home of the Tarquin kings. and. probably the chief of the twelve cities of Etruria, situated north of Rome near the coast. ‘ The tombs of the aficient necropolis are located along the highway leading southwest from modern. Tarquinia. These tombs are under ground and consist of one or more chambers. The walls: are- .covered with paintings; some of them were most likely done by Greek artists, in which case they is jremain the only..examples of monu- mental Greek wall-painting of the | finest period: They have never been | scientifically studied or accurately copied. Since the tombs are in almost total darkness; the work will. be done -in’ the white light of powerful acetylene lamps which shows the colors in. their true value. The copying will be done at a large scale and in water color, Mr. Duell intends to make some thirty paintings in all; his* special in- terest lies in the technique and meth- ods employed by .the artists and: in t ° the nit mh at their Gapoeal 10 CENTS - spoke on “The Place of the Near East scholar if -a short speech, explaining ~.- publication of these lectures after the, his lec- and al 2 The College “News ee ar eee know.’ ‘We are ‘disillusionéd. © ANl “college has betrayed our trust in it, a (Founded in 1914) Published weekly Saring the College Year in the interest of Bryn Mawy College at. the Maguire Building,+ Wayne, IPa., nd Bryn Mawr College. : ie as * Editor‘in-Chief Erna S. Rice, '30 Copy Editor CatHerine Howe, 730 Editors 4 V. Hosart, °31 V. Suryock 731 Assistant Editors D. Perxins, 32 J. Bunn, ’31 L! Sanporn, 732 R. Hartrievp, ’32 Business Manager - Dorotrtea Cross, 730 Subscription Manager E. Baxter, 730 . Assistants D.-AsHer, °31 M. Armore, °32 M. E. FrorHincHaM, "31 Y. CaMERon, ’32 Mailing Price, $3.00 Subscription, $2.50 3 = ° Begin at -Any. Time Subsériptions “May Entered as -second-class“rivatter at’ the Wayne, Pa., Post Office. WE. INITIATE The influx of mankind through the portals of Rockefeller arch on the day of Varsity play was, per- haps, one of the longest’ steps which our own particular collegiate gen-} eration will - witness during ‘its campus life. ~The fact. that men came to college in past years, were formally signed up for “talks”, and were sat’down in nooks and cran- nies to exert their powers of repar- tee ‘hardly qualifies our statement. Dancing, in itself, was the gbjection of the powers that were in the old days. Amazing it is that the death of fhis prejudice was “not” recog} nized long ago; the fact that it was not- makes.,the inauguration “of a new eta of normalcy’all the more ' Convincing. It is*startling to. real- ize how. young ‘are mariy of our campus privilegés; yearly the life at college approaches the norm of the kind of life that one would lead at home. ' Regulations are becom- ing less: stringent and more’ sane. : The fact that Bryn Mawr has sanc- tioned and carried through a tea dance, on its’ very campus, 1s but another milestone in the good fe- gime of a self-government of com- mon sense. Long may it progress! EEO di CAMPUS CUT Campus-cut ‘college clothes : what are they? We are always ‘having to face encounters with advertise- ments of them. The Saturday Eve- ning Post brims over with high-J member class Sales literature on the subject. But still we are in the dark. We can oniy: suppose that Hart, Schaff- ner and Marx Brothers wear them when giving exclusive interviews. to College Humor. ee We are a college. At least so we are told:——-And. yet: there. cer- tainly -are-no--campus-cut. college clothes. to be seen; no manifesta- tions in the round that can strictly be classed, as collegiate. We see.a bandana: and exclaim exuberantly “Ah, a type at last, The campus model’ discovered!” . But disillu: sion follows .swift. There, is no consistency. Beneath’ the bandana appears a most exquisite. silk dress, unmarred stockings, shoes straight froi—_the—Follies—via —I._Muller. Worthy “of Fifth Avenue or. even Broadway, all except fer the head- gear. Or again, our eyes fixed in discouragement on the sodden turf, we see striding towards us sneak- ers itr the last-stages—of decompo- sition, rising from these, bare legs, purple with cold, bruised from hockey. Collegiate! But -no; above these legs looms a fur coat. sable and ermine. And pethaps the most depressing vagary of all is a head made up of dangling, sophisti- cated earrings, an indubitablé and impeccable wave, hibiscus: lipstick, with underneath the sordid, unes- capable reality of a sweat-shirt. Apparently there is no collegiate type. We have searched far. Our ‘lambent ambition was aroused by the advertisements. We believed, was a perfect whole. But now we |o’clock required’ mood to the nine- * were required from eight o’clock to “we hoped, that somewhere there is vagary, all is caprice. And the- * Our ‘intellectual entertainment is}. something of a hash; protoplasm and poetry, Mussolini: and music, hygiene and _ history all ‘spread themselves benevolently’ through mind to be so diStorted. Taylor is supposed, ta have trained us well in the art of ies Ha “our mentality’ —for instanee, from the eight-\ o'clock élective mood, yet our brain convolutions ‘are not really well enough developed... * But the whole affair can be looked at from another angle. Sup- pose a single solid Taylor mood one—no, I thank you. Suppose after dissipating ourself, upon ‘Goddhart and ,Breasted on Tues- day, that pleasure must-*also be sought on Wednesday and Thurs- day, ‘etcetera. ‘ Decidedly, if only to avoid mania, we shall have to keep on with our Goodliart-Taylor mince- meat. 4 Please Sign The News. wishes to call atten- tion to its policy of publishing only those letters which come to | it with the authentic signature of the writer. In cases where the writer does not wish his name published in the columns of the News, the letters will be printed - anonymously, and the members of the Board will be under oath of 4° Secrecy coneerning the name of ' the ‘writer. We do wish it under-\1. stood, however, that. under ng/-| | conditions will we print leet which come to us unsigned. r COMMUNICATIONS isnot. responsible _ for ! ._CHE..NEWS opinions expressed in this column. | To the CoLLece News: | Many “of us. have found the Bryn | Mawr Club and are enjoying it—that | We want you to find this quiet spot in this what prompts this note, to you. noisy city. y us \. Dtring. the summer when you -come to town-you will find ‘no place so re-: dining room;,and during the winter no place so cozy as the fireplace in the liv- ing room—and tea, toast, marmalade and cookies are only thirty-five cents! | The club is beautifully decorated. | The bedrooms are dainty and comfor- table, and there is a library with many new books of all kinds, 2’ dues. are. nominal: Out-of-town s, ten. dollars .a year; ’resident members, twenty © dollars .a year. Furthermore, you cannot find a place to stay as nice as the Bryn Mawr Club for as little as it cgsts you there. 1929--come, take a lingering look, be able to resist the charms of the Bryn Mawr Club! : JosEPHINE Stetson, ’28. ‘IN PHILADELPHIA The Theatre © Adelphi: Twists about This Thing Called. Love’ cleverly. worked out in an amusing comedy.’ ; Broad: Fritz Leiber in. Shakespearian repertoire. . oe : Erlanger: A musical The Houseboat on the Styx. It is based on the stories of John Kendrick Bangs. Lyric: Helen Hayes runs the whole facetious’ and comedy, gamut of serious theater invher very popular play, Coquette. Keith’s: Irene Bordoni is still .troop- ing in Paris, one of the brightest of last Year’s hangovers. Paget Walnut: Blanche-Yurka in*Ibsen rep- ertoire. Miss Yurka-is said to base her acting, as far as possible, upon the prin- ciples of Sarah Bernhardt. Garrick: George M. Cohan’s - Billie returns. a Chestnut: Blossom Time—the musical tlife. of Shubert. Sa ler E * Coming... Broad: Eva Le Gallierme in Reper- tory; opens April 22.00% 2h] Lyric: The Whispering Gallery; opens, April "ee: eth fe wae {mnt cprigen anther bn mae Sine ete se » freshing asthe garden opening off. the le drink a “spot” of teaf and you won't | ~ Sincerely yours, Oe Forrest :_.4__Night_in [7 enice-—a new |: Shubert-Keith: Alice. Brady “ins |—— Stanley : A beardéd ‘John Gilbert. ap- | pears -in Desert Nights, a ‘Story of revenge. ; | 4 Stanton:. The movie version of The Goodhart; it is difficult for our|Canary’ Murder Case. Masthaum: Another mysterious thriller; Phe~Beltamy- Trial Boyd: The Broadway Melédy is, of course, a story of the stage, and is one of the best of this winter’s movies. : Aldine: Moderns return.to relieve one of the greatest spectacles of Biblical days in Noah’s Ark. Fox: A_ story of sacrifice and a mother’s love, -blossoming in a_ night club, but pure for a’. that;»Not Quite Decent. . os Fox-Locust: Speakeasy. Little: Sybil Thorndyke plays the part of Edith Cavell in Dawn, an excellent o ,| picture which hds ‘aroused international discussion. : Film Cinema Guild: A German’ film, never before shown in Philadelphia, The Man Who Cheated Life. Coming Masthaum: . Close Charles. Rogers.- Fox: Trent's Last-Case, and -Géorge Jessel in’ person; opens April 22. Fox-Locust: True Different opens April 22. _ Stanley: Let’s Celebrate; opens April 2: : ¢ Harmony, . with Eyes; The Orchestra The Philadelphia Orchestra with Sto- kowski conducting will play the follow- ing French program at the next to last pair of concerts,, April 19 and 20: Cesar Franck—Symphony in D minor. Bizet—Excerpts from: ‘‘L’Arlesienne.” Debussy—La. Cathedrale Engloutie. Febvre-Longeray—"S t @fe pour «le Pecheur de Lune.” ‘| Derbies dot the campus. The Pillar of Salt: 2 nf é LJ +: phhe. romantic. .season...is..1"99n...Us again. Unmistakable sigtis! ~ “What ‘are they,.you say? Well, for one we have been waked up each morning for ‘the past week by billing and coo- ing, Billie Dove and Billet Doux, or maybe they have ‘other names, have conceived a sudden passion for each ‘other. Not being Nordic they tell eath other ‘all about it in no uncer- tain terms. ‘‘Let’s sit and ‘talk about you,” wafted from the smoking room « so-called héads. (You can see that we are very bitter!)+ Anyway, it’s all very threserved ‘and undignified and damned sentimental. Why can’t their windows, “must have gone to their. tr = ol! oy ‘g a e ‘ = F ee ° : c : ‘a . — ’ “ a eu env oe ; sree iy "7 F Beis Page 2 ee - THECOLLEGENEWS : uy MINCEMEAT i - "Love at, last! _He is the king of Babylon and I 11am a Christian .slave.” “Well, ig, that anything to make | bridge player, who had just trumped | her partner’s trick. “ec jommebnenrte, ... PUPPY.” »..stormed ...Cissy, stamping’ all her “hiindred “littte” feet; and ran out slamming the door behind her, She hasn’t been'seen since, and we expect she is now. at Princeton. We are sorry that fate snatched her from us, but at least she is still in an, intellectual atmosphere. We couldn’t have stood it if she had made a mésalliance? Oh, still another outcome of the ad- vent of spring, Lot, who has always been intensely romantic, has taken a third wife. At his age it is deplor- able, but, after all, Nature and all* that sort of thing. Anyway, it is good love be’ strong and silent? Nasty|the Farm blog won't be so horrid to -gutter: snipes! : poor Mr. Hoover. Frankly his new Homo sapiens” has. fallen, too.! wife isn’t half so nice and clever as ispearly this year. It’s all the fault of Varsity Dramatics and the ‘Theatre ra down ang decided-to go intime too. onan eee 25 Cissy Centipede can hardly be blamed for what she did. How should she, a wee, feminine « thing; be ex- pected to keep, her head (or rather heart) when all about. were losing theirs. Anyway she eloped. She met him at the tea dance, love at first sight, just like the movies... She ran into the smoking room, her “eyes gleaming like the stars, and with her voice husky with emotion, claimed: “Oh, world, I cannot hold thee ‘close enough. CX The season | Intime... All the rest of Princeton also.t. his last one. His- taste seers ‘to be idegenerating as his years mount up. Miss Rachel Wallenstein and Miss Rosie Wappelheimer made their bow to the beau monde of Bryn Mawr on Saturday afternoon. They were clad largely in tennis socks and berets, and > protected against the inclemency of April showers by trench coats.. This new costuine it is hoped will be taken up soon by the moré conservative of the younger set, owing to its obvious practical -advantages. - One of the minor advents of the afternoon was that of two Princeton men, R:~-and R. W., it was. rumored, whose good standing was instantly established. by the, Phi Beta Kappa rank of one of | their distant. relatives. | Lot’s Wife Just the right note right in that a that is ~ "That Pp re ven actually. refreshing. oe And -, just the right note in the: So many. things are not quite ‘this perplexing world, touch of authority is: ” Baap eee ere eae why people of sensi- tive taste hold. fast to Camels. erfect blerd strikes j scale ‘of cigarette /enjoyment. ‘ Most’ Immoral Lady; opens- April 22. Roe pe ag” sucha fuss about?” growled.a sour -~ i } g for the wild oat crop, and now maybe .° pr Bak, oe _— ° v . * - c! ° * ~ * 4 te = . 8 5 * * : : * ht eee ene LHE COLLEGENEWS he Page $ ” . = : ‘ 4 e o : 6 Mr. Miller. Selaine vision. - From the theoretical side Spring Spares Begun Robert. Hichens in his over- -painted | clock), but only “in the last few: years ‘Wall Street to College On Wednesday: afternoon, April 0, . Mr. Henry Wise Miller spoke on “Speculation i Wall. Street” at the - Common Room tea at Goodhart Hall. The many. uses.of.the. term “money” are misleading to the general public. “Call money” is a Short term loan called in by the brokers every twenty- four ‘hours, and its rate varies from day to day. There are two groups of figures available showing the amounts of such loans: first, that published by the Federal Reserve Banks, and sec- ond, that published by the Stock Exchange itself. : Money loaned in this way formerly came ftom bank contributors. All the small banks eventually sent their money in to New York banks, who loaned it to the Stock’ Exchange, whose’ seéurities are among the best in the world. Now. we have entered a new phase of business, and holders of surplus wealth loan directly. This a new type of credit expansion has taken place, and business has grown ‘beyond present understanding. “Phe Federal Reserve Banks exer- cise a certain amount of control over speculation. They use various minor means of ¢ontrolling rates, and bring into play a restraining police super- _ | there ‘is grave doubt whether capital” If thus used is desirably employed. the business man.were without : the Exchange he would probably put his money outlays into _ factories: and: where he could not readily get at it. “Wfien, the’ ‘same money is, used on the Exchange, eveti if the firm fails, the money is still in use somewhere. Speculation is dangerous now, how- ever, because it is ithpossible to tell what relation prices bear to Géup - (Cigarette No. 3) had won. Old Gold’ was given 63 first choices, which was 11 per cent ahead of — Cigarette No. 2, 34 per cent ahead ~of Cigarette No. 1, and 53 per cent ahead of Cigarette No. 4. the names of to smoke the A éroa of Yale upper- a Maaastion comparing the . \ four leading cigarette brands. The four leading cigarettes . . . paper sleeves to conceal their brand names. * “Masked’’ with fantasies, which lack terrestrial facts. Most university classicists are inter- ested in the Near East from. the stand- point of Greece and Rome and the Egyptian despotism; miost historians are concerned only with the Near East of the Crusa? there is a very. limited knowledge of the ancient Near East due to the recent discovery. of history.. In 1869-the first book was written on Ninevah and. Babylon, and only a few years earlier, cuneiform writings and hieroglyphics were trans- lated. . In 1829 the first skeletons and implements Of the Stone Age were unearthed in the Nile valley. These discoveries are symbols of a past so appallingly remote that we are unable to adjust our, minds. and thoughts to i ‘ Civilization Emerges in Egypt. 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In fact, one is a eae) wee be~.., ‘to the whole company when one re- members the performances of Fisher, the two younger sisters, and others among the minor parts. Comment was repeatedly made upon.” the smoothness of the performance, its balance and the restraint with which the parts were played. Scenery and Props Both Good. One group of collaborators whose work was ‘apparent but who did not have a chance to receive the applause which they merited ,was the technical corps. To them credit is due for the fatiguing work of building sets, shift- ing Scenery, collecting properties and making possible a thoroughly admir- “able production. And, finally, to Miss learned and Mr. Windust, who managed and coached the play, is due not. only p-aise for their accomplishment, but thanks for. an enjoyable evening. _. The whole affair was in the nature of an experiment. Not everyone was sure that the difficulties of collabora- tion, much of it at a distance of, fifty miles, would. be overcome. But the serious eagerness to work and com- petence of the two groups to do things togetlier overcame all of the problerhs as they arose and left a ‘pleased audi- ence convinced of. the success of the ‘venture. It brought together two dra- matic companies of similar aspirations and ideas‘ to the profit of both and it was_the hope of the audience that this “will not be their only_venture_ to- “Lady Mary getiier. For the benefit of those who did not see the play, the cast of characters, in the-—order—of__theit_..appearance,.is, printed below: Hon. Ernest ‘Woolley, a Bretaigne Windust Crichton Joshua Logan Lady Catherine....Barbara Humphreys Rauy Agatha. ...;.,..:. ote Frances Hand ee eee Ethel Dyer at, LOTHeIne 30220...00 Erik Barnouw aura soba ‘Charles E. Arnt Lord Brocklehurst....Elbert Borgerhoff Mrs. Perkins =. Anne Burnett Dery a ia Joseph Hibben as meerewawneynne eee Alfred Dalrymple Pighey? eee Myrtle De Vaux Simmons ....................€larissa Compton Jeanne seinen sede Elizabeth Young lo): EOS aaa aera pInraS tana Robert J. Smith Jane . Marian “furner ce UT TT ea a emo we Mary Drake Officer . x ROOCTE Ge Omit Lady Brocklehurst, Elizabeth Bigelow a THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE A Professional School for College Graduates . whe Academic Year for 1929-30 Opens — Monday, October 7, 1929 De HENRY ATHERTON FROST, Director 53 Church St., Cambridge, Mass. at Harvard Square 7 Rend that as “gee aand women, stuc... . By Chester S. Williams. , One of the’ most interesting phe- nomena I saw in Czecho-Slovakia was the afternoon, four o’clock mass move- ments toward the coffee-shops to ’sip coffee and browse newspapers. Men in MO CEES, young and old, professors and priests, typists and athletes, sit for hours in these coffee shops devouring—no, not meat and drink—but page after page of many newspapers and_ periodicals. ‘ful. separation from the Czecks,”’’ but rather that, “the editor sees very The coffee shop with its‘ supply of newspapers is, of course, 4 European institution, but I have never seen the people of*any country flock to these “flews watering places” in such num- bers, or interest themselves in such a great number of different papers.. Even the street cars in Prague are hung with newspapers for the weary business men coniing home from the office, or perchance for his maid. One of the many wonders of the city to me was the student reading room at the so-called “Akademicky Dum” or ‘student union house. Over | one thousand six hundred newspapers | and periodicals .are_ regularly available to the students, and these publications come from almost every nation, in almost ‘every language. German, Russian, French, American and English papers are there in great numbers. Furthermore, every chair in. the vast room is occupied from opening to closing. The greater pro- fin unheated rooms, study their books | Portion of the students were reading | newspapers when I was there, but there are a great number, who,. living ‘in this reading room. An interesting rule of the room gives some idea of the tenacity with which these stu- dents pursue their-study and reading. It is: “Students leaving the room for ‘lunch cannot hold chairs for more than one-half. hour.” : ' This strange situation—people read- ing so many different papers every day—should be explained by certain facts, which define the European newspapers. The periodicals are on the whole official organs of political parties; trade unions-and societies for social or economic reform. , They -ate not, strictly speaking, newspapers in the American or English sense of the Fact and fancy, news and edi- comment; reports and pfopa- word. torial made |" presenting The reader , No 992 8) news 1s pretense Of made. iS ac- Gifts of Distinction Diamond and precious stone jewelry. Watches and clocks. China arid glass- Imported and domestic novelties. ware. Fine stationery. Trophies. Class rings and pins. A WIDE SELECTION FAIRLY PRICED J. E. CALDWELL & CO. CHESTNUT STREET AT JUNIPER PHILADELPHIA E xceptional Value ha tlin— {606 Chestnut School and Sports Wear Brown calf, genuine alliga- tor saddle. Also white buck tan calf saddle with gristle rubber sole and. heels. _A practical shoe and decidedly seasonal: ganda are nixed up in all the stories. | “pure | =a & 1! They Read the Papers in Prague | (uainted with the facts in the lights | clearly ‘the importance of the recent) fore, ,be satisfied with subscribing for of the paper's ‘purpose ard political | moves of the Slovakians toward inde-| and reading one paper, even if it sup-- ‘pendence. In an economic’ way it means—" and.so’ on-into the realm of editorial comment and ‘even definite propaganda. The intelligenf citizen cannot, there- | house. philosophy. -He is not told that, “according. to so ae Slovakians are about to seek merely. so the a peace- ports his own opinions. He must be acquainted with many points of view if he would try to approach the truth. GPEND those WEEK ENDS end VACATIONS atthe + A.W.A. CLUBHOUSE =