College Ne an VOL. XXI, No. 10 BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1935 J‘opyright BRYN MAWR COLLEGE NEWS, 1934 PRICE 10 CENTS | Varsity Dramatics Is To Be Reorganized Playets’ Club. to Elect Officers of Dramat Board and Make First Play Choice _ ewan. uie COLLEGE CHOOSES PLAY (Especially contributed .by Mar- garet Kidder, ’36.) The Varsity Dramatics board is an- nouncing a change in the organization of dramatics at Bryn Mawr. We should like to form a dramatic society to represent the college. The produc- tions of this society should be, in a general sense, the concern of the col- lege as a.whole, not the work of a group of anxious individuals offered to the college for criticism: The mem- A only those undergraduates who t an active interest in the many sides of play production. But interested spectators should be able to feel that the fullest use is being made of the dramatic potentialities of the college. This society shall elect new members from the succeeding classes; and it shall be governed by officers elected by itself and for itself. We hope’ that the Varsity Players’ club, under a new regime, will become such an or- ganizatio The present dramatic organiza- tion has always aimed at represent: ing the college; but its organization is rather ambiguous. The requirements for a dramatic society at a college must change as ‘the undergraduate body changes and individuals rise and disappear. The history of dramaticy at Bryn Mawr is a singularly varying; one. The present organization is comparatively recent and appears tu be a combination of two elements that do not combine. There are two sepa- rate entities, the Varsity Players’ Club and the Varsity Dramatics board, which represent two distinct and separate executive forces, a small committee that increases itself by se- lecting new members sparingly from the different classes, and a large soci- ety, of undergraduates interested in Dramatics, with a president elected by themselves. But the members of this society are selected by the Dramatics Board. It is difficult to understand the function of one of these bodies when one considers the existence of the other. The dramatics board is self-perpet- uating, like the editorial boards of the College News and the Lantern. It is not a closed corporation nor one little group of serious thinkers; but the choice of its members is a difficult problem since there are no general try-outs as in the case of the Lantern Continued on Page Three bers of this séciety will necessarily _ 4 ~— N. Y. Bryn Mawr Club Gives Vacation Tea The Park Lane, January 3. The Board of Governors of the Bryn Mawr Club of New York entertained the undergraduates at a tea in honor of the members of the classes of 1933 and 1934, The club rooms were pleas- antly crowded with many undergrad- uates and graduates living or vaca- tioning in New York, who attended. The members of the Board of Gover- nors who gave the tea were as follows: Mrs. Howard T. Oliver, 1916, the President of the Club; Mrs. Richard N. Pierson, 1923; the Misses Kath- arine Van Bibber, 1924, and Katharine] C. Ecob, 1909; Mrs. Albert Clay, 1924; Mrs. Orson L. St. John, 1930; H Mrs. Gerald Cutler, 1922; Mrs. John C. Juhting, Jr., 1927; Miss Helen C. i Schwarz, 1919; Mrs. Louis J. Darm- oem, 198 and the Higens Caroline a CON 908, and en’ R. Rich- stn 980. Mrs. Henry E. Stehli, 1927, of the. Membership Committee, ass*stéd those of the Governors who received, while Miss Ella Katherine ‘Berkeley, of the Class of 1933, the Misses Mary Nichols, Barbara Smith, Nancy Stevenson and Marion Hope, of the Class of 1934, and the Misses of the Class of 1935, formed the re- _ ception committees of recent gradu- ates and of erent sneeecet. ary. 7 eA ee Diana Morgan and Sarah Flanders, College Calendar Wednesday, January 9. Vocal Recital by Benjamin De ‘Loache. 8.20 P. M. Goodhart. Friday, January 11. Mrs. Lil- lian M. Gilbreth on ways and © means of: getting jobs. 8.00 P. M. Deanery. Sunday, January 13. Sunday Evening Service conducted by Dr. William Pierson Merrill. Tuesday, January 15. Julien Bryan. Motion pictures on Rus- sia. and Siberia. 8.20 P. M. Goodhart. * Thursday, January 17. Chris- topher Morley. 4.15‘ P. M. Deanery. Library Rules Made For Use of Readers New Rules for Honor Students to Extend Time for Books Instituted - POLICY AGAINST FINES The library has in receni years tried to make its rules lenient enough to give all of Bryn Mawr full use of its books, with as much convenience -to its readers as is possible. At the same time, the librarians have found that to maintain the most efficient and con- venient service it is necessary to en- force thé’ rules rigidly. Consequently an -explanation of the library rules and of the policy behind them is nec- essary at intervals. To prevent popular books from be- ing taken out of circulation too much, a student may take only one New Book Room book at a time, and from the regular stacks she may take out two books of general reading and more books if they are needed for a report. Books must be returned at the-end of two weeks, and may be renewed for another two weeks only if they are returned on time (i. e., before the re- ceipt of a first notice) and if no one else wishes to use them. If books are not returned on time and a notice has to be sent for their -return, they may not be renewed but must be left in the stacks for three days before they may be taken again. If a’ sec- ond, as well as the first, notice for the return of a book is disregarded, the stack privileges of the student are withdrawn for two weeks. This means that all stack books must be returned and must be used in the Stack Room for that period. These penalties are necessary to prevent undue carelss- ness in the use and return of books and to give all users of the library a ‘fair chance to use the books: The policy of the library has always been against penalizing late return of .books by money fines because of the ex- pense to scholarship students; and the removal of stack privileges was adopted as.a fit penalty in that it did not actually deprive the student of the use of books, since she might still use books at the tables provided in the stacks proper. Since the institution of the Hon- ours system, the library has extended its rules so as to permit Honours students to use books over a* longer period of time. Such students are al- lowed to take as many books as is necessary for their work, not exceed- ing thirty at a time, and to keep them for one semester. When signing the ibookeards they must, however, desig- nate that they need the material for Honours. Otherwise, they come un- der the same rules as the other stu- dents. Also, students other than Hon- ours students who are working on long reports may ask-for-and receive the.“ me” privilege. Permission has to be given, however, because many books are of a reference type and they should not be kept from gen- eral circulation indefinitely. Hockey Elections Barbara Cary, ’36, and Sylvia Evans, ’37, have been elected Captain and Manager respect- ively of the hockey team for 1935. Mr. Julien Bryan Will Show Russian Movies ae Marriage and Divorce Courts, Homes, Prisons, Theatres, . Aviation Pictured SIBERIA IS Julien Bryan, photographer . and lecturer on Russia, is coming to talk and show motion pictures under the sponsorship of the Bryn Mawr Com- munity Center in Goodhart, Tuesday evening, January 15. The picture which he is going to show, Russia and Siberia, is the sequel to Russia As It Was; Russia As, It Is. Mr. Bryan is just returned with this amazing new record of Russian life from a four-months’ trip, his fifth visit to the Soviet Union. He spent the first two months of last summer photographing in and around Moscow, Leningrad, ancient Novgorod and along the Volga. Finally, leaving these better known parts of Russia he went to Karelia to see the White Sea-Baltic Canal, scene of Madame Tchernavin’s Escape from the Soviets, and 4,000 miles to eastern Siberia to Buryat, Mongolia. After a stop at Irkutsk, the well-known stopping point of round-the-world flyers, Mr. Bryan chartered a small fishing boat for a two weeks’ trip to the fishing collec- tives of beautiful Lake Baikal, a journey that nearly ended in tragedy during a severe storm such as is fre- quently encountered on the lake, one of the most dangerous lakes’ and one of the largest inland bodies of water in the world. From there he contin- ued with much difficulty. over the steppes and through the swamps to the northern Reindeer country of the primitive Tuturi Tungus, a Mongol- ian tribe that migrated into north- ern Siberia from Manchuria a thou- sand years ago and now lives there in a primitive and semi-nomad state. The movies he is planning to show include pictures of homes, hospitals, baby clinics, marriage and divorce courts, actual trials in the people’s courts, Ambassador Bullitt and the Embassy, Czarist prisons in Siberia, Soviet aviation, Maxim Gorky, Nov- gorod. and its churches, Soviet sur- gery, the new experimental theatres where actors mingle with the audience, the remarkable children’s theatres, Lama temples and strange religious Continued on Page Four FEATURED College Calamities The yawning trench in front of the Library which. startled the eyes of returning students is the result of a college calamity. Last Friday a steam pipe burst and repairs were under- taken at once in order to insure heat for the halls. The men worked night and day, so that the repairs are now nearly completed. Mr. Dougherty, the college superintendent, fell into the hole while supervising the work and was painfully injured. The unusually dull lighting in the halls which met us on Sunday night was the result of a grounded electric cable. The college was forced to rely on reserve supplies of electricity and fearing that the reserves might run out candles were supplies to light us to bed. This precaution, however, proved unnecessary. Oxford Bows to Girls American Rhodes scholar, . A Larson, from South Dakota, ecked a century-old Oxford Uni- versity tradition recently, when. he forced the famous Union debating so- ciety to open its rooms to women stu- ‘dents for the first time in its history. At the same time, Oxford men*fitiue4 it’ plain that their interest in co-eds was purely financial. Larson, as treasurer of the Union, persuaded its 800 members to let girls buy breakfasts and afternoon teas in the club’s halls, because their shil- lings are needed to help finance a pro- posed $7,500 dining room. His pro- posal was: accepted only after the American had promised that women “will never be allowed to roam all over the place” and that a special entrance would be provided for the feminine invaders. Engagements and Marriages The Christmas vacation seems to have been most prolific in producing engagements, not to mention a mar- riage. Louise McCormick, ’34, was married to Montgomery Orr at a small wedding in Chicago on January 4. Elizabeth Eaton, ’35, has announc- ed her engagement to Lyman Butter- field. Eleanor Cheney, ’85, has an- nounced her engagement to Robert Graves. Katherine Gribbel, ’34, has announced her engagement to Ray- mond Carter,,and Leidy B. Saul, a former member of the class of ’35 and now a Senior at Radcliffe, has an- nounced her engagement to Frederick Vandenberg. Katherine Pier, ’33, has announced her engagement to Fred- erick Farwell. : Investigation Shows We Are Jazz-Hounds Merion Has Largest Collection With Rockefeller Second in Song Hits Hats off to Merion for the largest and most varied collection of Jazz hits,—some, we must confess, in a sad state of disrepair. We would place Rock second, since it has a cou- ple of drawers of discarded favorites, besides the more recent songs. Den- collection, is reasonably up-to-date. For classical music, however, we must go to the Pembrokes, East especial: ly, where several students have pri- vate collections of the great compos- ers. Wagner and Tschaikowsky are well represented, we found, while some students enjoy German songs and yodelling in their lighter mo- ments. The ideal Bryn Mawr Jazz-lover, as Plato might say, goes in for astrono- my. Almost anywhere one may hear the wheezy hall victrola, generally greatly in need of a new needlé&, croon- ing Stars Fell_on Alabama, I--Saw Stars or Stardust. In most of the halls we also frequently hear Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Love in Bloom. Much to our surprise we found that the hall traditions in victrola playing vary considerably. All the halls ex- cept Pem West have an officially pub- lic vic, but not all have publi¢ collec- tions of records. The latter is not such a bad idea we think, as we re- flect on some of the distinctly obnox- ious’ pieces hanging on in the more economical halls. An inspection of the record depositories in the halls which have them reveals that Pu-leeze Mr. Hemingway was once a univer- sal favorite, At least two of the halls own such out-dated numbers: as Kan- sas City Kitty and Seven Years With the Wrong Woman, besides newer se- lections like Here Comes the British Continued on Page Three PEM PREFERS CLASSICS, bigh, though equipped with a smaller Ossinsky Describes Planning in U.S.S.R. Salida from Industry Are Correlated to Form Basis of Yearly Plans LIVING STANDARD RISES Deanery, January 7, 1935, Before a large and interested gath- ering, Mr. V. Valery Ossinsky. de- scribed How Plans Are Made in Sov- iet Russia. Mr. Ossinsky is director of the National Bureau of Economic Accounting which forms one of the two main divisions of the central plan- hing body, the Gosplan. In order to discuss planning as it is done in Russia, something must be said of the social background of plan- ning. The most imperative need in Russia has always been the necessity for a rapid advance in industrial pro- duction. The first step in this direc- tion is the socialization of all means of transportation, production and dis- tribution. The second is a central- ized control of planning under a spe- cial commissariat for each “economic group, leading up to a central plan- ning body. The third requirement is the abolition of classes and social ‘di- visions of labor. An important corol- lary of this is. the raising of the standard of living of the wage earns ers. Planning cannot be either accurate or useful unless there is a correct sta- tistical estimate of the state of the country preceding the’ plan, and these figures must form the basis of com- parison for future progress. In Rus- sia there is a_ speci department which collects and edits these statis- tics, directly connected with the Gos- plan, Each economic unit has to send statistical reports to this department on specific dates in the year. The re- ports go to the commissariat for each industrial group. The commissariats send summaries of these reports to the Central Bureau, which edits them. The Gosplan-also analyzes the -signifi- cance of the statistics and makes them the basis of future plans, In this way the second Five Year plan came into being. After correlating the statistics, the Gosplan gives them to the Central Po- litical Bureau, which defines the limit figures of the future period. This must be done as concisely and accu- rately as possible, and the statistics are then re-expressed to dramatize the aims and purposes of the plan. The foundation of the first plan was the building up of a. sound basis for the social economy. .The most im-" portant method of achieving this was the stimulation of production in the heavy industries, or the _ so-called Group A. The second plan aims at a completed social economy and stresses particularly the greater de- Continued on Page Four All We Know Is That the Papers Say We “Barked” Alarm at Our “Peeping Tom” There seems to be no getting away from the old proverb to the effect that it’s a wise event that knows its own write-up. Once again its truth has they departed in the general direction of the jail. Shortly thereafter; the watchman phoned to say that the man had escaped. © one. went to bed un- been proved, and that on ‘the Bryn |til the warde d- tergpboned and Mawr campus, en teld tha the man was firnily The night bffes e Christmas vaca- 4~-,ti¢a at about The ‘hour of midnight, a student was packing in anticipa- tion of the morrow, her mind flitting giddily over the high spots to come. Suddenly her train of thought was rudely arrested by a GUriowsscraping sound outside her window. She tore werarghtway to the smoking room and eventually, after several unsuccessful attempts, and one solitary return, per- suaded the students there to return with her. They all saw a shadow behind the curtain; getting together they counted ten an@) pulled the curtain bag) you pretty creatures upon the- window casually abou man, surveyi The warden man ¢alled. but firmly ren go ph ree clasped again in the bosom of the law. It is with much amazement that we read in the newspapers that the’ prewler had been observed for more me a month, looking in windows and climbing campus trees. With even more astonishment, we learn that “ten college watchmen tried to capture the intruder,” and that “dogs, the pets of students, barked an alarm.” Now we don’t know what to think. We’re worried about the increase in the number of watchmen: it is a bitter zrivate window- a bit hurt, Page Two vw ® THE COLLEGE NEWS (abstracted from a Collier’s of August date.) “You’re waiting for a trolley. This | Theatre Review We heartily recommend to anyone | who is out for a light evening’s fun | ithat they head straight. for Ina :Claire’s new play, Ode to Liberty. — It: jis an adaptation from a French farce, jcalled Liberté Provisoire, and it has ‘in a way all the faults and all the \excellenees of any good French farce. jit is very light and shallow, with peo- iple rushing on and off the stage, and idisappearing at crucial moments |through innumerable handy doors, but ‘nevertheless it is extremely good fun, ‘and the lines are remarkably clever land amusing. * | As soon as the curtain goes up we see an awfully bored and blasé Miss Claire, looking her most sophisticated jand speaking with a lightness of touch \that is her own inimitable Virtue, who lis doing her best to get rid of her hus- need not be time wasted. You can d0'pand go that she ‘can spend the eve- Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office bj War — Bryn Mawr has always been well known for its determined stand on such questions as the vote for women, and we believe that the time has come for us to develop a definite opinion about the question of the value and the timeliness of pacifist propaganda., There is naturally no one more opposed to war than any intelligent and far-seeing woman must be, and yet we believe that there will always be wars as long as there is anything worth fighting for. In regard to nations, the difficulties that occasion wars are economic and social, and we believe with a firm convietion that as long as economic and social injustices are allowed to exist, there will be wars, and pacifist movements will be unavailing. In the present economic condition of the world, with Europe in a state of unrest over the economic injustices which the Treaty of Versailles admittedly failed to solve, there is no value in pacifist movements urging disarmament. America is still the strongest and richest country of the world, and for this reason an analogy may be drawn between our position in respect to armaments and the follow- ing hypothetical case: if a man were to leave his business every eve- ning with a million dollars and walk unarmed down the street to deposit it in a bank, he. would soon be attacked by gangsters; if on the other hand, he were to put the money in an armared car and drive it to the bank, the gangsters would realize that there was little use in attacking him. In the same way, America by preserving the full force of her armaments is essentially discouraging war, at least against this country, because other countries are afraid to attack us. It is admittedly true also that European countries are at the present time hesitant about embarking on a war, because every country is so well armed that there would be little possibility of any one country benefiting by such a war. If the time should come that the causes of war, the economic and social injustices, were removed, a pacifist movement would be not only valuable but timely. It would be more sensible than at the present time, because there would be a possibility of preventing wars, since there would no longer be any occasion for them. Therefore, we believe that, it would be more valuable for Bryn Mawr to direct its energies toward a movement to end the economic and social injustices prevalent today then toward a pacifist movement. There are organ- ized movements in the United States for the spreading of informa- \. tion and the arousing of opinion about these prevalent injustices and \ their almost certain effect in the production of wars. This would dertainly be a field in which the efforts of Bryn Mawr might profitably be‘employed as a necessary intermediate step in the work of prevent- ing war. — and Peace The time has come to talk of many things, and more, to do many things, if we account ourselves intelligent college women. We cannot help but.see around us the grave disturbances which threaten war. Likewise we must note the attitude which the youth of this country, and particularly the students of all of the larger colleges and univers- ities, are taking towards national and international attempts at stabil- ization of peace. Bryn Mawr has not as yet taken any stand regard- ing any of the ce movements started in this country. We have sat baguemtich MAD patty while peace leagues and pacifist demon- strations have eome>to play a very important part teh activity elsewhere and in the formation of public opinion evrywhere. It.is high time that we took some stand upon the problem of war | prevention. We-ean not afford to be indifferent to the situation,. and we can afford still less to let ou thinking upon the matter be unin- _ telligent. We are pacifistic in ofr leanings, but our resistance to war _ propaganda and promotion is fo passive as to. be indicative of no spirit, and to be worth nothing. We are too ready to incline to pacifism simply as an academije ideal or as a policy dictated by our own selfish and cowardly desife for a comfortable and safe existence. This sort of self interest and/ academic idealism is instinctive, but it oss formulation of opinion. We have aw enough to turn our s that the waste and ptally, but that its we must very hat we can to is also the yes ate err pinst militarist actical,\hum- your exercise without attracting the attention of the police. Try this: rest! the weight on both feet equally. Then | away like a flagpole, shifting the/ weight slowly from one foot to the other, .without thrusting the hip out. | Occasionally raise the released : foat and swing it about, but always, always | pulling the abdomen in.” “At the beach is an excellent place | to practice corrective postures. Sit | cross-legged in the sand, back straight, ! and try raising from this position doz-'! ens of times without touching the’ i ground with the hands, but holding! them out straight in front of you. In; the free-and-easy environment of the! beach even more eccentric behavior | than this passes without comment.” | This sort of thing might work while | waiting for a professor to come to! class—but always, gemember, always! keeping the chin up! A CONVERSION . Once, in Scotland, a Turk Did most wickedly shirk So pious a work As going to Kirk, But his neighbor, named Burke, Was so shocked by the Turk He set out with a smirk, Armed with zeal and a dirk, For the vale full of murk Where the heathenish Turk Was accustomed to lurk. By a fortunate quirk Of his luck, Mister Burke | Stole by stealth through the murk Unobserved by the Turk, Seized his throat with a jerk | Drew his threatening dirk And snarled out through his smirk: “You shall go to the Kirk “Or you’re stabbed with my dirk!” So the heathenish Turk Went with Burke to the Kirk. —Irksome. OH WHERE, AND OH, WHERE, ! HAVE THOSE PRETTY | BUSHES GONE? “What ig the matter with the Lib?” The puzzled student cried. “That earth is surely very odd, And in the way, beside.” “Why, don’t you know,” the answer was, “They’re looking for those bushes— Our archaeologists, I mean. They seem to want to push us Into some excavating project. We know they cannot find Those victims of the News’s wrath, It would be too unkind.” Optimist. There’s a new song being featured by one Walter Keefe (we think that’s the name. . . unless it has an O’ with it. In any évent, he’s the one who popularized “The Man on the Flying Trapeze”) called “You Can Trap Peas With Mashed Potatoes.” . Which brings us to our wit’s end, and the anhoxrism-for-the-week Trapped peas! knife Is worth two such—in common life! Cheerio— THE MAD HATTER. One péa_ upon e jing ‘Claire, who has left her husband and jdays because he cannot escape without ning with a man whom her husband supposes to be her lover. The man is an old family friend and is stand- ing there in extreme discomfort while. the husband, a typical French type, with no sense of humor .and an over- burdening pompousness, ‘accuses him of being Miss Claire’s lover. Miss utterly refuses to return to him, is extremely bored by the whole proced- ure and goes to sleep on the sofa, when suddenly there is a great fuss on the street below and an inspector of po- lice appears to say that a dangerous Communist has escaped and is hiding in their house. The inspector goes up on the roof to look for him, and after further complications the inspector, himself, turns out to be the Commu- nist. He finally hides in Miss Claire’s apartment and stays there for several involving her as his accomplice. The Communist, who is played by Walter Sleazak, is intensely scornful of the bourgeoisie and determined to convert Miss Claire to Communism. In the course of his stay with her, he becomes gradually converted to the excellence of bourgeois food and bour- geois comforts, while Miss Claire, whom he persists in: boring with his propaganda speeches, finally falls in love with him and thwarts a care- fully laid plot by which he had meant to escape. The Communist has al- ways prided himself on the. fact that he has no time for women in his life, but the subtle fascinations of Miss Claire soon provide quite a problem for him, and he succumbs to her charms, but not without a very amusing struggle. In the last act, the old family friend and supposed lover of Miss Claire as- sists the Communist to escape from the country; Miss Claire, after decid- ing to join the Communist in Spain, persuades her husband, who has dis- covered the Communist is in hiding in her apartment, to help the Communist get away on condition that she return to her married life. The final lines of the play, in which she tells her hus- band that she must go out to buy a sweater and some strong’ walking boots, which are quite obviously to be used on the proposed walking tour of Spain with her Communist, . confirm the audience’s ‘suspicions that she is merely using her\husband for her own nefarious ends. ,-” There-are a dxeat many very amus- ing situations. in their fathers. THE COLLEGE NEWS ‘ * Page Three Voice of Bryn Mawr -To the Editor of the Gotlege News: Since there are certain misunder- standings about the Loan Book ‘Rules we submit them below.* The argu- ment has been advanced that there have been changes in the regulations and that the students have not been sufficiently advised. There have been no changes in the past fifteen years except to strike off rule after rule as they were found There is, however, this difference in the situ- ation;- that there have simply been more infringements this year and of such a nature that the work of the whole student body has been affect- ed. When a single copy of a book, in which assignments have been made to a class, is taken surreptitiously to a student’s room and kept for weeks, something must be done to discipline the student who took it. In the case of less violent infractions of the rule, we find “students. who receive notices for the return of books and simply drop them into their waste-baskets and thus make the Loan Desk Li- brarian spend valuable time writing second notices. : We have tried to devise penalties which would be effective and still per- mit the students to keep the books in question. We are very much against the idea of money fines. The sins of children, in these times of financial depression, should not be visited on Of course, in the opin- ion of the busy Loan Desk Librarian, slow torture would be just retribution. Since such a punishment is a bit; out of date and might seriously deplete the numbers of the student body, we have compromised on the present rule. It seems to be the best solution of a troublesome problem. We might add for the benefit of those who object that there are no printed rules, that five years ago the Reference Librarian wrote a Library Handbook and Reference Guide, but lack of college funds prevented its publication. However, the rules are fully explained orally to the entering classes every year and that ought to be sufficient. Experience has shown that our few rules are just ones. They were made for the good of the majority. They _ will be enforced. They must be obeyed. = MARY LOUISE TERRIEN, Loan Desk Librarian. The Reference Librarian finds that fewer students have asked for help in their work this year. She hopes that there will be'a change in this re- spect, also, and that they will feel free to ask for her assistance, The enor- mous business of writing overdue no- tices can always be interrupted to help the students in their problems. Mary LOUISE TERRIEN, Reference Librarian. *Editor’s Note: The article on the library rules is printed on Page One of this issue. Maids’ Glee Club Sings Carols and Spirituals Every year, during the week before Christmas, we look forward to one of the pleasantest of our Christmas en- tertainments, the singing of the Maids’ Glee Club. It sings at every hall, at Miss Park’s house, Yarrow, Low Buildings, and at Faculty Row. This year, the Glee Club sang a group of Christmas carols, and then quite a number of spirituals. The carols were much better sung than ever before, and the spirituals were very lovely; the solo singing in the spirituals had a clear, high quality that was truly beautiful. The men’s voices, which were a new feature of the glee club, added depth and volume, and considerably increased the beauty of the total effect. It is extremely pleasant for’ those of us who have heard the glee club for four successive years to notice its very great catettionest. The excel- lent training that H. Ripley, ’35, has given it was particularly evident this year, in the excellent singing of the carols. We congratulate her on her very successful teaching and have high hopes that Irené Ferrer, ’37, her assistant and successor, will carry on the tradition. The New England International Relations Conference was held at Wellesley College (Mass.) recently. There are 492 active clubs in the United States at the present time. Varsity Dramatics Is To Be Reorganized son yy from Page One or Co eye News board. The advan- tage of’ such an éxecutive committee is that its members are those most interested in the work, and their small number makes it easier to do business quickly and efficiently. The Dramatic board decides upon the large spring and fall plays, arranges the details of their production and generally fur- thers the course of dramatics at Bryn Mawr. The: Varsity Players’ Club is a so- ciety of about 40 members. Its bresi- dent is automatically a member of the Dramatic Board. There are gen- eral try outs for membership. Any one may sign up for Players’ Club at the beginning of the year in whatever capacity they wish, and selections are made at the end of the first semester, on the grounds of the work done in the fall. A member of Players’ Club may experiment in producing one-act plays, and the club may make plans for speakers or outside performances in Goodhart; but Players’ Club has no part in the choosing of the big spring and fall plays, beyond the voice of its president on the Dramatic board. We propose to make Players’ Club the dramatic society of: the. college. If its members are undergraduates interested in dramatics and able ma- terially to contribute to the production of plays, it seems unnecessary for the Varsity Dramatics board and Players’ Club to be separate organizations. A small executive body is necessary to the existence and efficiency of a large society; but there is no reason why those officers should be ‘cut ‘off from the organization so that they limit it instead of carrying on its work. The Dramatics board is to become a com- mittee of the officer's of Players’ Club; and the President of Players’ Club is thus President of Dramatics at Bryn Mawr. The new members of the ex- ecutive board are to be elected by all the members of Players’ Club. This may combine the efficiency of a small executive board with the support and abundance of ideas of a large group. The choosing of a play, has always been the hardest problem before the Dramatic . board. The choice can hardly be made by a large number of people as it requires a great deal of reading and discussion and experience with past successes and failures. Yet the opinion of the large majority can- not be ignored and we feel that per- sons who are interested enough to give up a large portion of their time to rehearsals and who are active in a performance should have some part in choosing the play. This spring, we are about to make the following ex- periment. The spring play is to be discussed fully at a meeting of all the members of Players’ Club, and all possible suggestions obtained. The executive committee of Players’ Club, consisting of the late Varsity Dra- matics board and its new members elected by Players’ Club, shall choose three plays from the suggestions at the meeting. There will be plays that they consider equally interesting and desirable to give. These three plays shall be put to a general vote of the whole college, being an attempt to find out what sort of play the col- lege would like to see as the work of its dramatic society, and what type of performance it is willing to sup- port. Players’ Club Elects The Players’ Club wishes to an- nounce the election of the following members of the class of 1936: Agnes Halsey, Peggy Halstead, Sally Park, Margaret. Veeder, Pauline Manship; and from the class of 1987, the fgl- lowing: Letitia Brown, Edith Rose, | Barbara Colbron, Olga Muller, Sophie Hemphill, Winifred Safford, Mary Hutchings, Helen Harvey, Anne Fultz, Laura Musser, Agnes Allinson, Alice King, Josephine Ham, Ruth Wood-| ward, and Esther Hardenburgh. GREEN HILL FARMS City Line and. Lancaster Ave. Overbrook-Philadelphia A: reminder that we would like to take care of your. parents and friends, whenever they come to visit you. L. E. METCALF, Recent Student Weds ‘Henrietta Scott, a former member of the class of 1936, was married to Howard Morris Stuckert at her home in Chestnut’ Hill on the afternoon of January 8. Mr. Stuckert graduated in 1934 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is the head of a chemical manufac- turing company. Mr. and Mrs. Stuck- ert will live at Narberth, Pa., and Mrs. Stuckert plans to take several courses at Bryn Mawr second semes- ter of this year. Investigation Shows We Are Jazz-Hounds %. Continued from Page One and Stormy Weather. Merion believes in saving every rec- ord that anyone ever left and conse- quently by now there ‘is a fine collec- tion of chipped and. even _half-broken or warped records. Such is the fate of Underneath a Beach Umbrella with You.and Not for all the Rice in China. So constant are the Merion- ites in their affections, however, that they still keep the latter as one of their favorites. Anything Your Lit- tle Heart Desires, The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon and Me sem to be particularly appreciated in Merion. Our exhaustive research has revealed that here there are-two of the 19385 Freshman Show songs, Wrong Again and At Last. This hall is the sole proud possessor of such ancient records as Life is just a Bowl of Cherries, This is the Mrs. and The Wooden Soldier and the Painted Doll, besides many others of the vintage of The Chant of the Jungle (1929). The tales of the heroism-of Abdul Abul- bul Ameey and the poignant tragedy of Franky and Johnny may still be heard here as well as that unique dit- ty, The Song of the Prune. Just to be cosmopolitan they have several Spanish songs besides the hits of Maurice Chevalier with his French atmosphere. We might add that Mer- ion is the only hall that devotes a special room to its two vics and its dancing enthusiasts. Rock has two vices also and a goodly number of discarded records. Its in- mates must know some songs very well, we surmise, for besides the few previously mentioned general favor- ites, Rock sems to prefer only The Continental, and Strange. There is ample opportunity, however, for branching out,:or perhaps back would be more accurate, to Sing Something Simple, Bottoms Up, or Betty Coed. We also found here records of Shakes- peare’s songs, like When Daisies Pied and Violets Blue from Love’s Labour Lost. Taps, sung by Schumann- Heink, and Hail, Hail, The Gang’s All Here and the soft Italian air, Santa Lucia, are languishing neglected to- gether in a heap with My Blue Hea- ven and Cab Calloway’s Harlem Holi- day. There are comparatively few. vic- trola addicts in Denbigh, but they do have quite a variety of records. If one is too fed up with J Never Had a Chance, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Love, or Love Locked Out, there is always the possibility of a change to the lively strains of You’re An Old Smoothie, Doin’ the Uptown Lowdown or La Cucarocha. Our jaded nerves are occasionaly ‘pacified by Good-night Sweetheart, old.as it is, or Lonely Lane. Sometimes a German enthusi- ast plays Zwei Herzen or Das kommt Nur Einmal, and it is_ possible, though not often done, to hear that Eadie was. a Lady, or listen to the “ft costs no more to live In the very heart of town—with all the modern comforts and EM conveniences! The suites (one mand two: rooms) are large and alry, with Pullman kitchen and bright bath. You will have to see them to appreciate them. Of course, rentals are not beyond your budget. CHAS, @. KELLY _ plaintive question, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? There -is less communal spirit in Pembroke than in the other. halls, and music lovers provide their own records and, we imagine, needles, instead of leaving them to the ravages of time and carelessness. Not only has Pem West no public vic, but there are very few people who seem to play one at all, The radio suffices for the major- ity. It is possible, however, to hear Cavalcade, I’ll String Along with You or J’ai Deux Amours, along with se- lections from Mozart and Wagner’s operas. In Pem East, we found, there are several generous souls, who ‘some- times give regular concerts on the hall vic. The Pathétique, The Nutcracker Suite or The 1812 Overture from Tschaikowsky are available, as is also The Unfinished Symphony. If one is in an operatic mood, selections may be heard from Tannhduser or Caval- leria Rusticana, while two fortunate individuals sometimes favor the hall with selections from Jolanthe, Pirates of Penzance and H. M. S. Pinafore. German folk-songs and yodelling rec- ords are frequently played. The less serious music is also represented, by Noel Coward’s Mad Dogs and English- men and much of the previously men- tioned jazz. The above observations, we feel, should interest not only the inmates of the halls, but also the innocent out- siders. Let him who “can’t stand jazz” be very careful when. he enters Merion. or Denbigh or Rock, and -cir- cumspection is urged on those visitors to Pem who are. bored by classical mu- sic. We conclude, therefore, that with care anyone should be able to enjoy old songs, classical music, or modern jazz at some one of our fair halls. (Hours when victrola playing is al- lowed will be furnished on request.) Theatre Review Continued from Page Two nist announces to Miss Claire in the course of a love scene that when he goes to Spain with her, he will give up his Communism and they will live on a little farm in the Pyrenees, while he raises chickens and she dce3 the cooking, washing, and brings up the children. The horror with which: the ultra-sophisticated Miss Claire, who has quite obviously never cooked nor washed anything in herélife, let alone ever considered the possibility of hav- ing children, regards this program for their future life may be imagined, and the amusing part of the scene is the rapidity, with which Miss Claire, who has objected from the beginning to his Communist propaganda, per- suades him that he must never, never give up active Communism, and must certainly never settle down to domes- tic life. Ode to Liberty is rather a trivial play, and is not so good a vehicle for Miss Claire as either Grounds for Di- vorce or The Last of Mrs. Cheyney was, but it is amusing, swift, smooth- ly done, and extremely sparkling. It is a play which we would not have missed seeing, and we recommend it to your attention for a very pleasant evening, ah D. T-S. Campus N otes ’ Dr. Broughton read a paper on Roman Landholding in Asia Minor at the meeting of the American Philolog- ical Association at Toronto. ° * * * Miss Swindler presided during the second afternoon session at the meet- ing of the Archaeological ‘Institute of America in Toronto.. She, nnin, to lecture on ‘February secon in the Metropolitan Museum in New York on Petra and the. Ancient Caravans. * * * Dr. Ernst Diez spoke in Toronto on The African Root of Roman Archi- tecture: a short discussion of the in- fluence of the Province of Africa and Carthage on architecture after the Roman conquest. He pointed out par- ticularly the tendency of,the Romans to use African architectre in their baths. * * * Dr. Bernheimer read a paper on The Lamb and the Cross in Mediaeval Art and their Derivation from er- ian Art. * * * at the meeting of the Modern Lan- guages Association in Philadelphia, was on Hrothgar, Beowulf, and Grendel. * * * Di. Max Diez was secretary to the Germanic group at the meeting. * * * Dr. Fenwick was the guest of honor and after-dinner speaker at the Jack- son Day Dinner at Narberth on Jan- uary eighth, * * * Dr. Blanchard read a paper which he wrote in collaboration with H, M. McCurdy in Pittsburgh at the meeting of the American Society of Zoologists and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, on the study of the development of the Melanophors Dopa technique. Meet your friends at the Bryn Mawr Confectionery (Next to Seville Theater Bldg.) 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It’s short, snappy, inexpen- sive and certainly bound @Caill 100 miles for 60 * Rate; for 50 : for —— Dr: Herben’s paper, which he read of Triturus torosus by means of the Page Four 4 . THE COLLEGE NEWS Dr: Julien Bryan Will Show Russian Movies > Continued from Page One rites..in..Buryat,. Mongolia,. Siberian gold mining, fishing collectives, Sha- man witch doctors ‘and family life in the Reindeer country, the White Sea- the collective farm, a trip down the Volga, and scores of other interesting subjects. & Mr. Bryan is extraordinarily well equipped .by experience to - lecture. Since his high school days he has worked continually with the camera. He left school in 1917 to serve ‘at the front with the French Ambulance Service. He came back from abroad with such interesting hurhan interest pictures that he was immediately sent on tour through the country at the age of eighteen, to talk about his ex- periences and show his pictures. Af- terward he returned to Princeton Uni- versity and while still there studying ‘he wrote his. war diary, Ambulance 464, which was published by Macmil- lan. Following this, he spent three years in graduate study at Union Theological Seminary and at Colum- bia University where he specialized in child psychology. He made his for- mal lecture debut in 1932-33 with Bur- ton Holmes, showing the picture. Rus- sia As It Was; Russia As It Is. Tickets for his Bryn Mawr lecture are available at the Publications Of- fice for $1.25 and $1.00. Ossinsky Describes Planning in U. S. S. R. Continued from Page One velopment of the light, or consumers goods industries, called Group B. The raising of the standard of living will be part of this development. The fig- x ure which limits everything else, capi- tal investment, shows ‘an increase of 1.6 times for the second ‘plan over the first. There is to be an annual in- crease in total production of- 161%. per cent., but Group B must increase 18% per cent. to Group A’s 14% per cent. These figures are based on the results obtained under the first plan, not on an estimate of .what will be possible under the new one, This is done not only from a desire to make the fulfill- ment of the plan easier, but also from a desire to create reserve capacities. The plan for the second Five Year Period was discussed in geographic units by the various regional plan- ning bodies, who then sent in their completed plans to the central body by July 10, 1932. These ‘were dis- cussed and revised in a series of con- ferences of representatives . of all phases of economic life. . The time al- lotted to the welding together of all these plans was too short and an ex- perimental first year, 1933-34, was needed to test the’ validity. of some parts of them. : The plan is interesting because it is the ‘product of discussion ‘among literally hunndreds of thousands of in- dividuals, and it is safe to say that planning extends down to the smallest collective farm. The Soviet Govern- ment is esentially economic, and the people follow the progress of its plans with the keenest interest; the opening of .a-big -new--blast.furnace.in-far..off Siberia is front page news in Mos- cow. Looking at the contents of the plan from the plan-making point of view, we find that the first volume con- sists of industrial plans. The second volume shows the geographic eloca- tion of productive resources. All cap- ital investments are controlled by the central government, which not only Pdetermines what the total figure for capital investments shall be, but also decides on the allocation of capital in each industry. The figures used as a basis for comparison are those for the value of commodities’ in 1926-27. An examination ‘of the plan itself reveals the fact that it covers thir- teen separate points and touches al- most every conceivable phase of life. First comes a discussion of capital in- vestments ‘which includes a detailed account of all new construction. Other points define the amount of goods to be produced in industry and agricul- ture. ..The requirements of transpor- tation and communication are next analyzed. The sixth point is of par- Evenwg or Pajama Sandal's It's smart to be comfor -' table in these low-heel Sandalfoot hose #1.50~%2.25 pair slippers, and you cari wear them a full size smaller # 5.25 (tinting $1.00), gold kid $410.00, silver kid #9.00 Claflin 1606 Chestnut Street White satin is ticular importance and holds a place in the second -plan- which it lacked in the first. It deals with basic norms in the technique of production, and has.three. purposes, the first-of-which is to define the grade of teehnical per- fection; the second deals with the use of eexisting technical apparatus, and the third woncerns the standards of quality for the goods produced. ‘The seventh point defines the num- ber of workers in each industry, their conditions of labor and wages. Next comes the reduction of costs of pro- duction, which forms an essential part t of the last two points.. As an im- portant part in improving the living standard comes the plan for increas- ing the turnover of goods. Housing and municipal construction, public health, and education are other sig- nificant parts of the plan. The thir- teenth and concluding point is the plan for a single unified financial sys- tem; which is designed to co-ordinate the activities of the state, cities, banks and trade unions. Trade unions are important because they havé a very |” large budget, which covers pensions, old age, sickness and unemployment insurance. Certain important figures and. bal- ances in connection with the plan are not published, but are kept in the files of the Gosplan. These are called syn- thetic figures and represent possibili- ties rather than figures, such as the published ones, which must be fulfill- ed. Some of the most important of these are for the balance of accumu- lation and corisumption; of productive equipment with distribution in units; and of labor and trained workers ap- portioned to the need of various in- dustries. The most important bal- ance is the plan for the increase of real wages balanced with production. Plans of such a scope as these and having such a binding force are pos- sible of realization in the fullest ex- tent only in a country organized po- litically and economically as is Soviet Russia. The chief interest of for- eign observers must. be with a view to establishing such a plan as part. of a government like that of the Soviet Union. © DUKEUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DURHAM, N. C. Four’ terms of eleven weeks are given each. year. These may be taken con- secutively (graduation in three years) or three terms may be taken each year (graduation in four years). The entrance requirements are _intelli- gence, character and at least two years of college work, including the subjects specified: for ‘Grade A Med- ical Schools. 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