oe a ae Page 2 ’ _ jn days gone by has fortunately lost its hold. We no longer, unathletic’ _ or Evens, physically or otherwise.— ‘college attitudes. with the aim that abuses ‘be eliminated, not paid for. ‘so to speak, sible exception sable to*college " chicken of dinner’s platter led us to momentous discovery. We unmasked for his warm contribution to our college life. > Ps ‘ set : 1 beeen taly . sy “ete THE COLLEGE NBWS ge é ensnamerstremmennceis saennirrnenetnen rence ‘THE COLLEGE NEWS | —' (Bounded in 1914) Published weekly during the ‘College Year (excepting during “Thanksgiving, Virciyta SHRYOCK, 31 Assistant Editors EvizaBetH Jackson, '33 Leta Crews, '33 Susan. Nose, 32 . Betty Kinpvepercer, °33 Lucy Sansorn, 32 Editors _ Reis Rose Harrrerp, ’32 - Dorornea Perxins; °32 Ceceste Pace, 30 Business Manager Dorotny Asner, °31 Subscription Manager Mary E. FroTHINGHAM, "31 . Grateue: Editor DorotHy ‘BucHaNaNn Assistants Frances Rosinson, °31 Mo.ty Atmore, °32 Yvonne CaMepon,-’32 ELeanor: YEAKEL, 33 ; : . _Esrrter McCormick, ’33 . “SUBSCRIPTION, $250 MAILING PRICE, $3.00 SUPSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME Entered as second-class. matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office | Hazard Series Ends ~ — Tomorrow night brings with it the last of the lectures of Monsieur Paul Hazard, and it is with sincere regret that we find our lecturer’s visit drawing to a close: For five weeks, in spite of uncomplimentary be- haviour on the. part of Goodhart Auditorium, Mr. Hazard has conducted us delightfully through the intricacies of “la Poesie Francaise entre 1815 and 1914,” and we emerge charmed and considerably the wiser. Again the Mary Flexner Foundation has brought us unique experiences and invaluable contacts. a We hope that Monsieur Hazard, as he departs to write his general impressions of Bryn Mawr, will find our “liberty,” our “athletic cos- tumes” and our famous “basketball” pleasant memories—a slight return ee Shien ee Not “Collegiate” The “‘good-old College spirit” which was a requirement of loyalty as, we may be, feel it a duty te_cheer on the teams or to combat the Odds We have redticed our traditions to | a minimum, and Lantern Night and May Day alone embody cherished We have dispensed with all which remotely .savors of the enthusiastic. The “‘collegiate” is at low ae i There is, however, a form of college spirit which wé-cannot afford to dispense with. Last week a notice, showing deplorable lack~in. this: respect, was sent to the halls. The Reserve Book Room’ privileges of Bryn Mawr are in some respects unique. Students are allowed free access to the shelves and great liberty in signing and taking out of books. Such. privileges presuppose a college spirit which shall not allow their abuse, and emphasis is laid on active compliance with the rules. The fin- ing system, for instance, deals with loss of privilege, not- money fines, Both the admission of students to the stacks, and the unrestricted use of.all books are based on the existence of this high college morale. Tt is up to the student body to see that slackness does not contami- nate those attitudes which characterize the students as mature and serious. East Is West ' Pembroke East was impressed and sorhewhat abashed last year when Pembroke West stole a march on it and emerged from the general spring cleaning with-a completely renovated smoking-room. Its smoking-room, had had its face lifted and with more becoming and re- juvenating paint and decoration, equally appreciable even at night by reason of its new indirect lighting—well, many an Easter slipped in to wonder and admire, and: also (we whisper it) to envy. ™~ When this fall brought shower baths to West, the camel’s back was |: broken. An elaborate plan, therefore, is underway in Pembroke East for producing a brighter and better smoking-room. The volufitary con- tributions grew quickly to an unexpectedly large sum. Perhaps this is only the first step and, once the fever sets in,-untold wonders in interior decoration may develop. But for the present, lef us commend this initial move which, we hope, may prove an inspiration to the other halls on campus. We feel that a new smoking-room, degigned to suit the individual dormitory tem- perament, cannot but have q great and glorious effect on the student morale. Certainly, more practically speaking, the indirect lighting system adopted will relieve that part of our physical beings which, with the pos- of the brain, is the most overworked and most indispen-- life: the eye. For were the Lord to say today: “Let there be light,”” He would mean of course indirect light. ~ é Mealtimes can be intellectually profitable, we hold. Only last Sun- day, study of the last banana of breakfast’s bowl and the final piece of a new scientific law, the survival of the unfittest. studying in the main reading room could possibly disturb the| Faculty. From the students’ point of view this arrangement would be most desirable not only for the reasons mentioned in THE News, but for others also. It is to be expected that the halls would be very noisy ort Sunday mornings, since every- one is in them at that time. Therefore in some halls the people who wish to study take the smoking room to avoid the ‘noise and make everyone else go into the showcase. This is obviously undesirable, because it leaves no place in which to re- Letter to the Editor (Tue News és not responsible for opinions expressed in this column.) Editor of Cortece News: Your editorial last week on keeping the brary open Sunday mornings is the ex-| . of an opinion which I think is grevalent among the students. aud that there has been some » om the part of the Faculty that ) isa selfish demand from the stu- on i a ceive guests: All this-complication would; 1|be done away with if the library were) ges are a bit available to those who want to study TRS F sful in getting the library examination ic Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. | / Editor-in-Chief Copy Editor ee 3 by f an G . on ra Theatre Notes. The Theatre Guild presents at the Gar- rick Theatre Turgenev’s. comedy, A Month in the Country, translated from the Russian by M. S.- Mandell, directed by_,the Russian, Rouben Mamoulin * of Porgy fame. The leading role in this ‘play;-which. has..never. “~~~ staged in this country, is played, glamorously, by Mme. Alla Nazimova.. A word about her: Mme. Nazimova came to this country some twenty-five years ago as a .young but already highly-admired Russian actress. From the start she won extrava- gam triumphs with Orleneff’s Russian | Repertory Company in New York and, later, in Henry Miller’s presentations of Ibsen. I wish to remind you of this in order to dim, if not obliterate, your prob- able impression of her as the too-slinky- to-be-nice movie siren. For she is a great artist. and a great personality in the American theatre. — In A Month in the Country, Mme. Nazimova “interprets the. complex psy- chology in-the love experience of.a gen- teel Russian lady.” As Natalia Petrovna, the wife of -Arkadi ‘Serieich .Islaev, a landowner, she has the misfortune to fall in love with her little son’s tutor. Her husband’s ward, Viera Alexsandrovna, also falls in love with the tutor; Mikhail Aleksandrovitch Rakitin, the guest .and life-long friend of Islaev, is in love with tutor, bewildered and proud of her love —and so it goes; when I said complex I -| meant complex. I refuse to tell you the plot anyway. Of Mme. Nazimova’s per- formance I cannot speak too highly ;- she has the intensity and the psychological unrest of the Russian character with whom Ibsen, Turgenev and others have fascinated and disturbed us. It is pos- sibly because she is herself Russian that she tan interpret with such subtlety and finesse the temperamental vicissitudes of [the role she plays. . James Todd plays the part of tutor, the young, the naive, the vigorously-active country boy Although his performance is fresh, he rather overdoes the awkward, bashful slant. The ward is played by Francesca Bruning, a piquant ‘and pretty 4ittle thing, and Earle Larimore as Mik- hail “exhibits a poise and gentleness, a quiet reserve,~interrupted sometimes by sudden flashes of passion, which is both penetrating and almost, perhaps, pathetic. All the characters are indeed pleasing. Cecil Yapp’s performance as a doctor” adds 4 touch of humor which is genu- | inely amusing, particularly in his rela- tions with Henry Travers; a simple old fool who is very simple. I mustn’t forget to mention Islaev, played as I said before by Edward Arnold. This part calls for a blustering, loquacious and commonplace “landowner,” but “Mr. Arnold is given opportunity to prove his real powers in a scene neat. the end when he discovers that Mikhail loves his wife and with an, unexpected generosity offers to sacrifice himself. The child whom Aleksei tutors, by the way, is Islaev’s son, Kolia, enacted in a stiff, conscious way by a little boy named Norman Williams. He isn’t cute and I like cute little prodigies. The settings atid costumes in this play were designed by M. S. Duzinsky and are remarkable for their quaint charm, originality, and beauty of color and ar- rangement. The second scene in act Hae Another Room, is particularly enchant- a Don’t miss this one. Iri Philadelphia Broad ::Mr. Samuel, the dramatic char- acter study, adapted from the Comedie Francaise success, The Merchant of Paris, with Edward G. Robinson in the title role. f ig } Garrick: A Month in the Country. Re- viewed in this issue. Forrest: Berkeley Square, “an adven- ture in infinity,” with Leslie Howard and Margalo Gillmore. The atmosphere of the eighteenth century is successfully cap- tured in this delightful fantasy. Shubert: Ed Wynit is Simple Simon in the musical .extravaganza for which Rodgers and Hart wrote the lyrics and music. Harriet Hoctor heads the sup- porting cast... ‘ce Walnut: Grace George in The First Mrs. Fraser, the witty comedy of divorce and ‘remarria; Presented by the Pro- —_ - Broad: The Schwab and Mandel play, Trade Winds. Chestnut Street Opera House: The Piket 4 4 Natalia, Islaev also loves her, the naive |, Calendar November 6—Mr. Pierre de La- nux, Director of the Paris In-— formation Office of the Leagug of Nations, will speak on “T _ Federation. of Europe’. in th Common Room at 4:30 P. M. Lecture in Gaodhart Audito- rium by Monsieur Paul Haz- ard at 8:15 P. M. This lecture 4 concludes the Mary Flexner Foundation Series. November 7—Senior Freshman Treasure Hunt. November 8—Varsity Hockey game with Rosemont. November 10—Dr. P. C. Chang will speak on “Whither China —The World Significance of China’s Transformation” in the Music Room at 8:00 P. M. November 11—Professor Susan Kingsbury, Director of the Carola Woerishoffer Graduate Department .of Social Econ- omy and Social Researeh, will speak on “A New Social Order in Russia,” in Goodhart at 8:00 November 13—Dr. Mildred Fair- chield,, Associate «in ~ Social Eccnomy and Social Research, will speak on “A New Indus-- trial Order in Russia” in Good- hart at 8:00'P. M. This lec- ture and that on November 11 are sponsored by the Graduate Club of Bryn Mawr College. November 14 Sophomore- Freshman party. November 15—Varsity Hockey gaine’with Swarthmore. _ November 16 — A Memorial Service for Dr. Theodore de Laguna will’ be held in the Music Room at 5:15. A musical service of the Bryn Mawr League will be held in the Music Room at 7:30... > 7 Ibert ....Concerto for ’Cello and Orchestra GON oct Cal niosene Schelmo Alban Berg Movies Aldine: Africa Speaks, an exploring pictyre with some genuine thrills. The sound effects are very good, and the killing of the porter. by—a-tion is hair- raising: . . Mastbaum: College Lovers, a collegiate comedy with a football plot. Marion Nixen, Jack Whiting and Guinn Wil- liams headthe cast. Fox: Laughter; with Nancy Carroll and Frederic March. The-theme is mod- ern, city life; dialogue supplied by~Donald Ogden Stewart. Bows Keith’s: Clara Bow in Her Wedding Night with Charles Ruggles and Skeets Gallagher. A composer is too popular with the girls. Stanley: Bert- Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in Half Shot at Sunrise. They are doughboys with the A. E. F. in Paris. Stanton: John Mack Brown as the fa- mous Western bandit Billy the. Kid, with Wallace .Beery and Kay Johnson. Earle: The Widow from Chicago, a crook drama with Edward G. Robinson, Neil Hamilton, Alice White. Boyd: A film version of James Oliver Curwood’s. River’s End, with Charles 3ick‘ord and Evelyn Knapp. Karlton: For the Love O’ Lil, based on the Liberty cover series by J. Leslie Thrasher. With Jack Mubhall, Sally Starr and .Elliott Nugent. Local Movies Ardmore: Wednesday and Thursday, Gloria. Swanson in What a Widow; Fri- day, Way of All Men, with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Saturday, George O’Brien in Last of the. Duanes. Wayne: Wednesday and Thursday, Three Faces East, with Constance Ben- nett and Eric von Stroheim; Friday and Saturday, Jack Oakie and Jeanette Mac- Donald in Let’s Go Native; Monday and Tuesday, Queen High, with Charles Ruggles and Ginger Rogers. Seville: Wednesday and Thursday, Queen High; Friday and Saturday, Rich- ard Arlen in Santa.Fe Trail, also Mitzi Green; Monday and Tuesday, Silent Enemy, a picture of the Ojibway Indians in time of famine. Radio . Thursday, 6:00 P. M.—Professor Stephen P. Duggan speaks on “Russia: The Re- versal of Social Values.” WCAU. | Friday, 8:00 _P. M.—Orchestral Concert: | Jessica Dragonette, soprano; Cava- fiers Quartet. WEAF’S network. - Saturday, 1:15 P. M.—Football: Illinois- Army, WABC; 1:45, Harvard-Michi- .. gan, WJZ; 1:45, Pennsylvania-Notre 9:10 P. M, — Symphony Orchestra, - Walter-Damrosch conductor, WEAF'S In the New Bookroom “Years of Grace,” by Margaret Ayer Barnes. Houghton Mifflin Co. A novel which’ should be. of excep- Bryn “Mawr is “Years of Grace,” by Margaret Ayer. Barnes. Not only is the scene of ‘one of the earlier parts ‘tof the boek laid on the Bryn Mawr campus at Commencement, but there is a certain atmosphere of quiet and dignity, of straightforwardness, and of maturity pervading the entire story which suggests college influence in reminiscence. To a Bryn Mawr reader the spiritual affinity is imme- The story is a long and rambling one, moving gently“ and» sympatheti- cally through the life of Jane Ward, whose contacts with her own genera- tion and those of her parents and chil- dren are those of a woman of intelli- gence and spirit. Jane’s sympathies are inevitably with her.own generation, which enables her to.estimate the pre- usual fairness. The young Jane is a ing person, eager for knowledge of beguty, and refreshingly innocent— teristics which she retains all, her She falls in love with Andre a brilliant French boy, whose youthful seriousness, and intuitive com- prehension of’ moods and _ situations Imake ‘shim: a_ delightful ‘character. Jane’s idyllic love for him remains a definite factor in her attitude toward || life, until she meets him again after her children have grown up, and finds him an earthly Andre, very French, and sophisticated, very different from her pleasant companion. The story loses a certain youthful flavor with this iconoclasm but the cause ..of realism gains. _and--coffipassionate woman, who re- fuses to judge people conventionally. Of the mother of a friend who has committed suicide because she has lost her lover she says: “It’s just tragedy. Never disgrace. She loved him.” Then comes her ‘marriage to Stephen, who is tender and loving, and deserves ad- miration and respect, though he is:lack- ing in-the romantic qualities. With Jimmy, husband of her best friend, -++Agnes, “she captures for a moment - glamor and passion, but she refuses her chance of happiness with him be- cause her love for him will not allow her to betray her code of decency. Her defense of her position is not senti- mental but based on a real conviction: “Love’s the greatest safeguard in life ‘against evil. I won't do anything, love_in_the eye.*~Jimmy is a clever and niischievous boy who-has somehow been mistaken. for.a-’man. His-care- fully-hidden sensitivity, his champion- ship of lost causes, his disregard for conventions, make him an irresistible gypsy, who is “always wonderful and always in the wrong.” _ Jane’s, children introduce complica- tions into her quiet life which leave her with a feeling that her careful cultiva- tion of self-respect and grace in living CONTINUED ON PAGE 3. ; Industrial Group (Contributed by Margaret Waring, ’32) The first meetirig of the Industrial Group of the Bryn Mawr League was held in the Germantown Y. W. C. A. on October 22. The small number of Bryn Mawr students found the many industrial girls eager to talk. After the supper the group sat around the fire and talked about plans for the year. They decided to try and see why there is unemploy- ment, and why industry is slack. They planned to start with a study of the tex- tile industry of which most of the girls ate representatives, and devote three meetings to the discussion of this subject. The girls have had practical experience and it is a grand chance for us to knock the corners off our economic theories and see if they work. One is struck by the optimism of the girls, who never know when they are going to lose all, their income. One keep entirely to economic. subjects; it ing of plays and poetry, and for talks on singing and art. ; The Industrial Group gives a cordial invitation to all students—undergraduate or graduate—who are interested in eco- ‘nomics. The next meeting will be held in Goodhart Hall.on November 19 at Se en ae a a aa dei tional interest to those.connected--with <== diately apparent—it may be a delusion. but she possesses a clearsightedness_ ceding and following ones with un- © Jinimy,_if I can possibly help ity-that will*keep me_from looking any one. I notices their eagerness for the cultural | side of life. The group decided not to plans to have several meetings for. read- | 6:30. All those who are interested should me Jane develops into an understanding