SS 4 a The College News — VOL. XVIII, No. 19 & WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1932 . { | Price, 10 Cents Pageantry of May Day Only Nine Days Away Newspaper Photographers and Movie Representatives Spread Publicity MANY FACULTY IN’CAST Only nine more days till. Queen Elizabeth again returns to Bryn Mawr and the “playes and revels” begin. Everywhere are signs of the approaching festivities. Tall knights in clanking armor parade across the campus, .a corps of photographers ar- rives daily, and the northern side of: Laylor has long been shadowed by a huge grandstand. The regular . aca- demic routine continues uninterrupt- ed, but along with it there is a bustle of preparation for the 6th and. 7th of May. The pile of clippings which has ac- cumulated in the Publication Office would seem to indicate that thé whole world knows this is Big May Day year at Bryn Mawr. Mrs...Collins .veports that the publicity has never been more. successful. Five big movie companies are sending representatives to make sound recordings of the Fri- day performance. Camouflaged vans will be parked at the Deanery to hold the apparatus. A leading Stanley- - Warner official has promised that the May Day newsreels will be run in all Stanley houses the following week. Four of the most important officials in the movie industry expect to at- tend the actual celebration, which they consider the most interesting event of its kind in the country. There will also be spectators in the audience from the English Folk Dancing Soci- ety. Although not many seats have been sold for Friday, three-fourths of the grandstand is already reserved for Saturday. Undergraduates are urg- ed to make their reservations now, as additional grandstand seats will be “Mme: Gerda Borgesen, who delighted | + F a, erected only in case the space now available is all reserved at the end of the week. A great deal of interest’ has been aroused among students in prepara- tory schools. The highest singie sale, seven hundreds dollars, was made .to a preparatory school. At another, in Philadelphia, Mrs. Collins obtained permission to discuss May Day for five minutes, if she would first lecture on candidates for the presidential election, in place of a speaker who could not keep his engagement. The bargain was accepted, and her speech aroused a notable enthusiasm. On the flower-covered float, which Mrs. Collins promised earlier in the year, will be ensconced Jean Francois Canu, Frieda Wagner, Elsa Wells and A and B, twin children of Mrs. Emily Kimbraugh Wrench, drawn by Mar- ion Turner. ©The Eleanor Morris children will ride on ponies. (Continued on Page Five) Personals The first news of Mr. Horace Al- wynne, who is traveling abroad, to reach Bryn Mawr came through the London Daily Mail. “Taormina.—In H. Bowdoin’s Vil- la Rocca Bela, a concert was given on ‘St. Patrick’s day in aid of the funds of the Anglo-American Church. It was arranged by Mr. Gilbert Brown and the program was a select one. “Mr. Horace Alwynne, director of music at Bryn Mawr College, who was warmly welcomed by nearly 200 ‘peo- ple, showed the technique of a masier of the piano. Mr. Alwynne was as- sisted by Mme. Brevee Copyn and the audience with songs by Handei, Gounod, Liszt, Kreisel, Doret. Some violin pieces were played by Mr. Mar- iano Tribuni, soloist of the Hotel San Domenico, who was. greatly. applaud- ed and obliged to give encores.” Ruth Crossett, once of the Class of 1982; is to be married in Chicago on}. April 30, to Mr. T. French, of Cleve- |, -g/dand, Ohio. wee . . e% we oo —International News Photos, Inc, MAY QUEEN AND ROBIN HOOD * Cornelia’ Drake, 33; Margaret Righter, ’34 1935 Freshman Show Music Given Victrola Recording (Specially Contributed By Burbara Lewis.) The music of the Freshman Show of 1935 has at last been recorded; it has found its place in the sun. On Friday evening at nine o’clock we pre- sented ourselves at. 501 Madison ave- nut, entertaining an idle hope that we might be peacefully admitted to the Great Home of the Royal Broad- casting Company. The ringing of the night bell over a period of a quarter of an hour at length bore fruit in the appearance of an aged night watchman, who, uttering a few small curses, decided to admit us to the sacred precincts — this, after a good five minutes of scrutiny. Such small measures as the colleg@~ may take to insure themselves of our whereabouts after dark (signing out book, special permission, etc.) were as nothing compared to the elaborate precautions taken by the night watch- man. It was with the greatest religf that we noticed, as we signed in, the names of the staunch members of the Princeton Triangle Club Orchestra, on the sheet above. When we arrived the orchestra was well under way rehearsing the Ani- mal Song; the sons of old Nassau were in shirt sleeves and tuning up their tubas in careless abandon. Frances Messimer and. Marjorie Wood, the pride and hope of Bryn Mawr in this enterprise, were caught sight of through the smoky air, and escorted to the microphone with such gallantry -as will doubtless never be duplicated. They then embarked on a .highly commendable rendering of the piece, now entitled Wrong Again. The lyrics had been re-written, and the line once sung as “Phoenix! Phoe- nix! Phoenix!. Phoenix!” was sung sotto voice, “You’ve got my heart— please give it back.” (This is only (Continued on Page Six) Lantern Board Contest _ The Lantern Board wishes to announce that the contest for _the new Freshman and Sopho- more members will close on May first. Each candidate is asked to submit two pieces of creat- ive and two of critical writing. _The names of the new mem- bers, together ‘with Christo- ‘ pher Morley’s decision on the writing, which has appeared in the Lantern during the year, will be announced in. the May issue. es Trends Converge to International Style’ Structural Necessities and Engi- neering Plans Are Important AMERICA IS SCORNFUL “The keynote of the International Style,” said Philip Johnson in_ his third lecture before the Modern Art class Tuesday, April 19, “is summar- ized in J. J. Roud’s remark that ‘Ev- erything answers the why.’ In expla- nation of this school it is therefore necessary to emphasize the importance of logicalness and functionalism.” The movement might be said to have start- ed with the re-integration of archi- tecture by a few isolated individuals, such as Schinkel and Richardson, af- ter the decline of Baroque, but the various constituent trends did not converge to a single focus until 1931. The International Style is clear and pronounced, has a discipline of its own and is largely dependent upon engineering. Impressionism and Neo-Plasticism might be mentioned as elements in the composition of the new style (in addition to the Viennese School, the "the-Neéw Tradition, all 20th Century movements discussed in the last lec- ture). Impressionism, 1919, was short-lived, and represented a release from all conventions, especially from the restraints of the New Tradition. The main principle -of Neo-Plasticism is that of abstract intersecting planes —of planes floating in space. It com- pletely discounts the laws of gravity in its extreme lightness and apparent disregard for supports. From this point of view it is the true herald of the International Style. Of the four important European men of this school, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, J. J. Roud and Mies van der Rohe, the first,.a Swiss, has been the best known modern archi- tect since 1922. He considers a home a machine in which to live and de- signs no ornament which is not vital- ‘ly necessary’ for human~needs. He | achieves his effects by the beauty of one large plain surface of ordinary re-inforced concrete against another. Many of his houses are built on poles, placed at regular intervals. then, become the basis for his design, and their underlying rhythm is car- ried out in the house. J. J. Roud, formerly a Neo-Plasticist, uses stucco as a building material to avoid the (Continued on Page Six) ‘Showed beautiful form and amazing These, TT Cornelia Otis Skinner playing “Wives of - Henry VIII” Interviews Member of News Famous Alumna Was More Successful in Dramatics Than in Athletics, But Active in Everything; Enjoyed Whole of May Day, Including Paper Flowers and Trying on Costume ANNE BOLEYN’ IS HIGH SPOT OF PERFORMANCE The matinee performance of Miss Skinner’s Wives of Henry VIII was played to a very enthusiastic, gcapac- ity house. She opened the afternoon with five of her original character sketches. The first, a Southern girl in the Sistine: Chapel, was an amus- ing representation of a very unin- telligeat but beguiling young woman, who is touring Roma and points in the vicinity, with chaperone and party. It | was thrown into the shade, however, | by the next selection, which was ¢all-" ed “On the Beach at Barbados.”