THE COLLEGE NEWS

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: ‘Margaret Ayer Barnes
Recalls Writing Career

 

Development of Technique in
Short Stories and Novels
is Discussed.

 

TRANSITION IMPORTANT

 

Mrs. Margaret Ayer Barnes, speak-
ing in the Deanery, Monday, Febru-
ary 26, directed a sort of symposium
for the members of the college inter-
ested in writing. She told how she
started to write and indicated the va-
rious stages in her development of the
technique of the short story, the play,
and the novel. :

Mrs. Barnes did no! start writing
until seven years ago, when she broke
her back and was confined for a year
in a plaster cast. It was then .that
she wrote some short stories and was
encouraged to publish them by
friends. She took the manuscripts
to Helen Walker, of the Pictorial Re-
view. They were accepted, much to
her surprise, and that. of her family,
who were so astounded that they
made her have the check photograph-
ed before she cashed it. For some
time thereafter she tried sending her
stories to magazines with some suc-
cess, when finally she procured an
agent for her material. ‘es

 

ing the plot in’ spite of--any -precon-

ceived plan the writer may have had.

Mrs. Barnes” found playwriting
very valuable as discipline, because
the form of a play is so stylized. In
plays, as in short stories, there is no
elbow room in which the writer can
make many mistakes, but the author
must mainly exercise his pwers of

emphasis and suppression té/cut out

all irrelevancies. The corrett use of
emphasis and suppression, along with
the ability to make transitions are the
first things for the beginner to learn.

 

Edward*Warburg Shows.
Public Debt. to Artist

 

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they not been occupied with other
things—but Mr. Warburg estimates
that there are no more than ‘thirty
such men in New York City. And
there is a class of business men who
are open to suggestion and influence,
who may really do something to fur-
ther art education — provided, of
i. that the plans are ‘easy to
realize. The third group of museum
visitors is composed of collectors of
wealth and social position who must
be neither discouraged nor antagon-
ized: they are the patrons of art,
as they are also the patrons of let-
ters and medicine.

The rest of the muscum goers be-
;long to the masses, three millions

Having taken up writing seriously|0f whom came to the Museum of
she decided to’ develop her technique| Modern Art to see Whistler’s “Moth-

in’ writing dialogue in fiction

by |**:

”

The famous painting. had, been

dramatizing Edith Wharton’s Age of Put in the exhibit so that the art stu-

Innocence.
of the play she sent it toa playwright-|
friend of hers.
suddenly received a telegram:
cabled Wharton for rights.
the other two acts.”
play, and. then peddled it around the

Write

forties and fifties of New York until |
|many to come see it, and more
;clamor that it should go on ‘the road.
| People want to come to art galleries.

Katherine Cornell took it over.

She started writing Years of Grace,
her first novel, in Statler hotel bed-
rooms she occupied while her
were on tour. The novel, Mrs. Barnes
declared, is not autobiographical, ex-

cept in so far as the characters in it|
| artist.

are the kind she knew in ‘her early
years. She says that she cannot imag-
ine actually putting real people into
books because they are so unwieldy
that they cannot be adapted to the

action conceived in the author’s mind. |

While the author is in the process of
writing, the characters grow and take
on a life of their own, thereby mold-

 

   

 

She finished the |

plays | ©
| times sincere, too often insincere.
|should be propagandized so that the

 

After writing the first act | de nt might see that it did not com-

pare with some of Whistler’s other}

Three days later she| works, much less with thany of the |
“Have| paintings by other less famous paint-
But an account of the amount)

ers.
of -insurance upon
Mother influenced

to

cult of America”

They come in a certain mood—some-
Art

public may appreciate-andhelp the

By a har eh method of analy-

 

 

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it demanded by |
‘the Louvre leaked out, and “the great |

-sis-we-should.-get-.a- more accurate
juggment of what modern works of
art-should-and_awvill last... The scholar,
like the artist, must be idealistic: he
must look not merely for workman-
ship, but for that spark of genius
which will make a work stand apart
from contemporary pieces, adequate
but dull, and last for future genera-
tions, as genius has lasted and been
handed down to us from previous
generations.

Thus alone can the scholar foster
art. By no means whatever can he
affect the emotional opinion of the
public. Fortunes are spent on “works
of art,” but little of the money helps
the good artist to bring into existence
really good art. This state of affairs
must be brought to the attention of
the class that has money, but so aften
lack culture. The pupose of art ed-
ucation,,then, must be to establish a
class that. is not dependent upon per-
sonal opinion alone, but can also rec-
ognize the opinion of the scholar, and
acquire a vision of real art—art of
good workmanship combined with the
genius that makes it grefit.

 

FIFTEEN YEARS. AGO

 

Everyone may now heave‘ a great

 

sigh of relief upon hearing that in
'February of 1919 the period of pro-
digious Red-Cross knitting was
brought to a_ close,—that period of
seventeen months in which, accord-
ing to the New Yorker e timates,

helmets
d out.

flers, and wiistlets

| turn:

were

 

the Red Cross
“stack ncedles”

more of knitting, for
| issued ordets to

as

 

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JEANNETT’S
BRYN MAWR FLOWER
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N.S. T.-Grammer
$23 Lancaster Avenue
BRYN MAWR PA

Mrs.

 

 

Meet your friends at the
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(Next to Seville Theater Bldg.)
The Rendezvous of the College Girls

Tasty Sandwiches, Delicious Sundaes,
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some 10,000,000 swe aters, socks, muf- |

This means that virtual- |

|
ily every man in the army must have
received at least one article knit by |

“the tireless fingers of the. women |
| who chose this way of aiding to win
|the war.” We will soon hear no

 

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soon as the wool supply was exhaust- | enly Peter, to wander about the cam-
ed. We wonder what it must have ' |.pus these days he would undoubtedly ©
felt. to have been one of those sweat-' meet many relatives. At classes, in
ers which was apparently ordered to ‘the village, and, above all, at dinner
go through life minus one sleeve or he could not fail to recognize his lit-
a back. With the end of knitting, | tle sister, telling her even from afar
however, the War work was not over, | | off by: her fuzzy wig and “glorious
for comfort-kits were given out to! | emancipation from the conventional
be filled. ‘hook and eye.

It was apparently in February of | “Whether, by temperament or by
this same year that the News start- | physique, she is an athlete par excel-
ed its now traditional policy of com- | lence, and loves to dress ini character,
ing out on Wednesday instead of on} refusing: to abandon even at dinner
Thursday. All the previous readers | the costume of her kind, Especially
of this &lumin will be delighted to | does she cling to the kindly gym shoe,
learn that the Junk Committee, men- delighting in the soft scuffling sound
tioned before, made $3.08 by selling | it makes in Taylor and along the vil-
670 pounds of newspaper, rubber and lage asphalt. Of all-articles of dress,
scrap-paper, which huge sum is @!| however, a_ battle-scarred middy-
part of their yearly contribution of | blouse is the favorite, though now ser-
$20 to the Chinese Scholarship at St. | 'iously rivalled by the T-shirt for eve-
Hilda’s School in Wuchang, China. | ‘ning wear.

(No, the items in this paragraph are| “Jt may be that Slovenly Peter dur-
not in the slightest degree connected ing his recent years in the army has
with each other.) Signaler Thomas | been forced to depart somewhat from
Skeyhill at a tea given in his honor! the ways of his youth. If so he will
by the History Club recalled the ver- | probably be grateful to his little sis-,

dict pronounced on Bryn Mawr by |ter for keeping up the family tradi-
Colonét Roosevelt. Skeyhill had en- tions.”

gaged in a. discussion. of the colleges ;

for women with Roosevelt on a train,

and upon asking him which one he
Distinctive Sportswear
Stetson Hats for Women

considered the greatest, Roosevelt re-
ARDMORE

 

plied, “Why, Bryn Mawr, of course.” |
The foll-wing roprinted editorial |)
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who rememb-r the great “Bryn Maw: ae me seed }
scandal” of last year in regard to
dress on-camjus, Note c specially the Fe
similarities in the sentim nts exprcss- ‘GREEN HILL FARMS
ee in this to tho-e expressed last City Line and Lancaster Ave. &
| year, Overbrook-Philadelphia
“Were our childhood friend, Slov-
we — A reminder that we would like to
PHILIP HARRISON STORE r | take care of your ‘arents and
bRYN MAWR. PA | friends, whenever they come to

visit you.
Cothany Cold Strip: ?
Silk Hosiery, $1.00 \ ,
Bist Quality Shoes L: B.. METCALF,

in Bryn Mam Manager.

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