mT ae v THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Three French Club Gives Superb- Performance Continued from Page One * The French. Club is also to be con- gratulated in its choice of a play, for | to an audience which is none too quick at understanding French, the presence of pantomimic action is an immense help. Le Barbier de Seville is so filled with action that the point and many of he incidents of the play could be conveyéd through the panto- mime without the assistance of one spoken word, and as a result the audi- ence seemed, to understand what was happening in this play better than in any of the French plays presented at Bryn Mawr in the past. The enunci- ation, however, was amazingly clear and distinct, and most of the clever lines were greeted with roars. of | laughter from the audience. ma It: is difficult to decide which of the | actors deserves the most praise, for each one played her part with natural ability, topped by careful and intelli- gent interpretation. The play was ad- mirably cast:. Miss Perkins and Miss Jarrett were naturally fitted to act their roles as well, we believe, as they could be acted; Miss Pillsbury show- ed a remarkable power of continually sustaining the difficult character part of Bartholo; Miss Stewart had all the proper gravity and earnestness for; the role of Don Bazile; Miss Fouil- houx not only looked and acted the part. of the romantic lover convincing- ly, but showed great versatility in the drunken scene; and the minor charac- ter parts of La Jeunesse and L’Eve- ille, were perfect to the tiniest detail. Miss Jarrett played Figaro with a gay vivacity and enthusiasm, remain- ed in character throughout the play, and succeeded in making the audience | enjoy her part as much as she was | obviously enjoying it herself. Her | lively, rapid movements as she bounc-'| ed merrily around the stage, made an | excellent contrast with the stiffness | and formality of all the other acting. | She showed remarkable understanding | of the French technique of acting, and | great skill in doing it with convincing naturalness. Her own personality was | merged with the character to the ex-| tent that it is difficult to image Fi- garo apart from Miss Jarrett. Her singing was clearly enunciated, pure | ‘congratulated for the natural ease we can do no more but give our high- est_ praise to .an excellent bit of double acting. Miss Stewart, as Don Bazile, spoke in excellent and very clear French and her manner fitted the part per- fectly, but we felt that she did not make so much as might have been! made of the famous “La calomnie” | speech. Her grave tones, her serious | acting, and her somber costume added, however, the correct note of contrast to the more colorful and entertaining parts of the other- major characters. - All the minor parts were well taken, La Jeunesse, played by Miss And- eregg, was a marvelously made up and costumed old man, and spoke with all the cross excitement of old age. Miss Boyd, as L’Eveillé, was stubborn to an amazing degree, and could not have been surpassed in her acting of the yawning scene. Miss Haskell, as the Notary, failed to get over to the! audience the humor of her perplexity over the two marriage licenses for Rosine, but was otherwise entirely perfect in her portrayal of a very French role. Perhaps the most interesting thing about this production was the French- ness of al] the acting: no one would ever have suspected that these were American girls acting a classic French play. The actors also deserve to be| with which they spoke to the audi- ence in asides, not meant to be heard by the rest of the cast. It is not.very easy to speak directly to an audience in order to convey information not intended for the other actors, in an era when, apart from Mr. O’Neill’s better efforts in that line, playwrights generally regard the audience as something not to be directly addressed | under any circumstances, on pain of a lingering death. The staging of Le Barbier. de Seville should bring great credit down upon the shoulders of Miss Janet! Barber, who designed and supervised the execution of the sets. The first set was, so. far as we know, Bryn! Mawvr’s first attempt at a street scene, and the effect of the grey buildings rising to towering heights in back of | the street houses was both austere | and very Spanish. Spanish lanterns were hung outside Spanish grilled windows and the furniture in the in-! terior scenes was authentically Span-| -voice conveyed her high intensity of | and in most cases better than any congratulate Miss Pillsbury on her. ‘mantic lover, the Comte Almaviva, in tone, and done without the slight- | : ; : aut stenin as though she were i y| ish. Interesting contrasts of light and sinaine iuak tow tha toy. of it 'shadow were used, especially in the| : 2 : ? first act; in which the sun hit, the| Miss Perkins acted Rosine with all | windows of the house while the streets the ‘sweetness, youthfulness, capacity | below was still in shadow, and in the for love, and determination whic the ‘fourth act, in which the stage alter- part calls fo Bs and had in addition an | nated between lightness and darkness Seen iat: ecm — Parra |whenever actors entered and exited eer ness and of Algn-| carrying lanterns. atvrung : gn os pin - generally | was always effective and unusually a ai al i rench race; she’ so in the first act, when the hooded might ‘easi tage abled — 2 shee | figures loomed large in the dark light. —— a oe rae her _— 'On the whole, then, this play was vidi saia galt desubigaretthewe Meena’ staged, acted, and directed as well as, feeling admirably, her distaste for aces play either in English or in him was delicately suggested, and her } versatility was. apparent in ley | = changes of tone, pitch, inflexion, and | gesture whenever she spoke to the) Count.: | Miss Pillsbury, as the cross, caret | cious old miser, Bartholo, had perhaps the hardest part of all to sustain, but | she never faltered for an instant. Her | cross, querulous, quavering voice was a marvel of characterization, her stiff, aged walk never changed except to be intensified into a run, and she man- aged to make the audience sorry for her without making them sympathetic with her.. The slight touch of ridicu- lousness in her love-making to Rosine after the fainting scene made lightly amusing a bit of acting which is rather hard not to overdo. As a mat- ter of fact, her whole part could easily have been- overdone, and we a Theatres, shops, and the goings- on about town are just a few blocks away when you stop at Hotel Tudor: And it’s in Tudor City, New York's smart residen- tial community. A new hotel— 600 rooms—all with private bath. Single rooms $2; double $3. Special rates by the week. ability to sustain it at just the right pitch. ae Miss Fouilhoux, who played the ro- did the nicest bit of acting in her Bryn Mawr career. She was never ridiculous, as amateurs attempting to play romantic lovers so often are, but kept the audience’s sympathy con- tinually with her and acted her love scenes with a convincing competency unusual in an amateur. Hers was the big scene of the play, judging from the enthusiasm of the audience, and we firmly assert that we have never seen an irrepressible, care-nothing, voluble, and. -thoroughly charming drunken man better played. When we add to this, that it was delicately conveyed in her acting to the audience Two blocks east of Grand Central 304 East 42nd St. Murray Hill 4-3900 The costuming ;> that her drunkenness was assumed,| Fred F. French Management Co., Inc. French that we have seen at Bryn Mawr.—D....T._S. hiieieiibechis CAST Le Comte Almaviva. .Anita Fouilhoux FORO 6s evince, Olivia Jarrett Bartholo? 7.7733 i, Elizabeth Pillsbury POUR is iss eck cds Emily Perkins DON TRORUO. .6i ca bs Alicia Stewart La Jeunesge......... Jean. Anderegg Ty URE ok ees selene Mary Boyd Un Notaire ...... Margaret Haskell Un Aleade ...2%7). Mary Hutchings Divigée par...o6.dcic-< Mlle. Maud Rey Décor et Costume...... Janet Barber Bryn Mawr Swimmers Conquer Swarthmore Continued from Page One The 40-yard free style seemed to be fated at the beginning. - After one bad start the field finally got under way, with Wylie leading at the turn. On the final lap, however, Michael, the. Swarthmore ace, slowly drew away and though Wylie made a great spurt at the end, a collision gave Simpson second place and Wy- lie and Heathcote tied for third posi- tion. Swarthmore took first and third places in the tandem with Cohen and Woodward coming in. second. Whit- ing and. VanVechten.got. off to a nice start, but broke in the middle of the pool to come in fourth. ] The diving was ‘anticipated with great excitement, for there was no doubt but that Swarthmore held the advantage on its own board. How- ever, though Daniels got off to a bad start on her first required, her form and-entry-on-her-other_requireds and optionals gave her first place in the event with 69.45 points. A close sec- ond, Stokes was’ showing excellent form, but lost out on her front one- and-a-half as her final optional, and ANNOUNCES jt - FLAVORED WITH They've made wine for ages— but it took Lucien Lelong to find the cleverest use for it—in a lipstick. Smooth and subtle as the finest vintage of France— sparkling and alluring as the red, . red wine—you've never known such a lipstick! All shades $1. Visit Lucien Lelong’s Lipstick Bar in your. favorite store.- not: up 4 ‘spite of “he unfamiliar diving board, brought her total to 69.3 points. Bur- -}| ritt, of Swarthmore, took third-place with a total of 67.85 points, bowing to both, Stokes and to Daniels in the op- tionals. On the »whole, Swarthmore got much more height than Bryn r, hut approach and entry were scratch. Bryn Mawr, in seemed (|! get excellent control when once stared. The relay seemed a bit anti-climac- tical after the diving, but much to Swarthmore’s excitement, its> team won out in 1744.8 seconds. Stokes and Smith were even at the end of the first lap, but Swarthmore drew away in the next two and Daniels _}was unable to make up the gap on the last. Thus ended our -first outside ath- letic meet and no more worthy team could have represented the college in such an event. May we have many more of them, for in the spirit of fair play, especially in basketball and swimming, it is a distinct disadvan- tage to our opponents to have to play us always on our own territory, The events were as follows: 80-yard Free Style — Daniels, VanVechten, Heathcote (S). “\ 40-Yard Back Stroke—Woodward (B), Huntington (S), Porcher (B). Medley Relay—Bryn Mawr. (But- ler;-Waldemeyer,.Hemphill,. Wylie). Crawl For Form—Whiting (B), Keyes (S), Harvey (S), and Bill (B). Tandem Crawl—Highly and Heath- cote (S), VanVechten and Whiting (B), Siccard and Huntington (S). 40-Yard Breast Stroke — Walde- meyer (B), Smith (S), Jones (S). 40-Yard Free Style—Michael (S), Simpson (B), Highly (S), and Wy- lie (B}. Diving—Daniels (B), Stokes (B), Burritt (S). Relay—Swarthmore (Smith, High- ly, Heathcote, Michael). The University of Arkansas is well represented in the councils of. the State’s legislators, for Neal King, .a freshman in that institution’s school of law, is a member of the House of Representatives of Arkansas. He is but 26 years of age, and has taught in public schools of Arkansas for a number of -years. 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