Th e lniuipenninsenanenidaliapsilatillinsshanitinantithstninmasibalishntimedhe compaciecutta ne ee a VOL. XX, No. 14 BRYN. MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1934 COLLEGE Sopyright BRYN MAWR..,«:! NEWS, 1334: ne “PRICE 10 CENTS Shane Leslie Speaks on Authentic Swift] Disguised Handwriting Proven False by Recently Found Manuscripts SWIFTIANA RE - EDITED Shane Leslie, speaking in Goodhart Wednesday evening, February 14, on the subject of recent studies in Swiftiana, gave his attention more particularly to a textual criticism of the pieces in the Swift . anthology “written in Swift’s well-known dis- guised hand.” Because of this fiction concerning Swift’s handwriting the famous Dean is one.of: the worst-edited authors in English literature. He signed his letters, but never his poems. To start from, then, the editor has only half of Gulliver's Travels and half of thé Journal to Stella, definitely in his hand, and available in the Brit- ish Museum. The other half of the latter, a composite of gossip, politics and “gossamer love making,” is pos- sibly in some small cottage bureau. The main task for the editor of Swift is the comprehension of his handwriting, and then the correct at- tribution of the poems in the Swift anthology, frequently in the hand- |. writing of Swift’s contemporaries, The Swiftian manuscripts have had: a remarkably romantic history. When Swift died in 1745, all of his |- books were sold: the six-volume Faulkner edition of 1735 was sold to Lord Synge, it was lost, and reap- peared only to be sold and lost again - until Mr. Leslie recently discovered it. The Chesterfield letters were also eventually sold, and passed down through the Shirley family; these, too, were for some time lost to the world. In all the catalogues of print- ed books in the Shirley library there was no mention of the manuscript. Dr. Rosenbach, however, finally found a reference to it, and sent Mr. Leslie to find the manuscript.._It-was—an arduous task, because the more re- cent generations of the Shirley fam- ily had neglected the library, allow- ing the books to get stuck together like bricks, for the livelier pleasures of kennels and horse-racing. Mr. Leslie had no success whatever in his search here; and it was a stroke first of luck and'then of genius that finally procured the long-sought manuscript. He was suddenly informed of the (Continued on Page Five) Industrial Workers Tell Views on Trade Unions Twenty Bryn Mawr undergradu- ates and fifteen industrial workers discussed the effect of the NRA on trade union organization at the meet- ing of the Student-Industrial Group supper-meeting last Wednesday, Feb- ruary 14, under the leadership of Dr. Fairchild. -The group concluded that alti®ugh government, under the New Deal, may help the workers some- what, workers must still rely on their own efforts to see that codes are en- forced and working conditions im- proved. : The experience of workers repre- _ senting the silk-spinning, hosiery, and paper-box industries showed that the NRA has reduced hours and raised the minimum wage. On the other hand, however, the weekly wage has in- many cases been diminished, and- ~ the pace of the work increased. Two silk spinners told the story of their successful__strike to achieve union recognition. Further requests ~ for a fairer distribution of the work led to a seven weeks’ lock-out on the pretense that the company had no orders to be filled, but when they re- ‘turned to work, they found the situ- ation improved. A hosiery worker, who was an active union organizer, reported that a strike in which she was involved failed, perhaps because it attempted too much, The next meeting is tentatively - for February 28 in the ‘Common Room. The subject will be the func- tions and aims of trade unions, . CALENDAR Thurs., Feb, 22. Vienna . Choir Boys will give a concert. Goodhart_Hall,.8.20 P. M. Tick- ets are on sale at the Publi- cations: Office. Fri., Feb. 28. Class swim- ming meet. Gym at 4.00 P. M. Sat., Feb. 24. Varsity bas- ketball vs. Drexel Institute— first and second teams. Gymn. at 10.00 A. M. Sat., Feb. -24. Freshman. Show. Goodhart Hall 4t 8.30 P. M. Tickets on sale at the Publications Office. Sun., Feb. 25. Mr. Edward M. M. Warburg, of the Museum of Modern Art, will speak on The Artist in the World Today. Deanery at 5.00 P. M. Sun., Feb. 25. Chapel. The Rev. John W. Suter will speak. Music Room at 7.30 P. M. Mon., Feb. 26. Margaret Ayer Barnes will meet all those students interested in writing in the Deanery at 4.30 P. M. Tues., Feb. 27. Miss Rossa B. Cacley, Principal of the Penn Normal Industrial and Agricul- tural School, Frogmore, South Carolina, will speak in the Deanery at 5.00 P. M. Tea at 4.30 P. M. — Please notify Polly Barnitz if attending tea. | Tues., Feb. 27. Mrs. Harold Thurlow will speak on Oppor- » tunities for Women in Indus- trial Laboratories. Common Room at 4.45 P. M. Tea at 4.156-P.-M. ‘Foundation of Fine Printing Miss Park Outlines Plans For Addition to Library At Chapel on Thursday morning, Miss Park discussed plans for a new Library wing and for a proposed change in the present Library stair- case. The 150,000 books in the library, which grow in number yearly by ap- proximately 10,000, make more li- brary space imperative. The idea of building the-wifig® along the unfin- ished back wall of the Cloisters was discarded, for it would. make tthe re- moval of the windows in the pleasant seminary rooms at the ends of the Two long wings extending towards Rockefeller Hall seemed a better plan. These wings have been staked out. They do not come unpleasantly close to Rocke- present wings necessary. feller and will, when completed, en- close a very pleasant quadrangle. The basement only of the wing will be used for books, and will be ap- proached by the present basement passages. The building above will be used by and specifically adapted to the needs of the Departments of His- tory of Art and of Archaeology. It will contain offices for the members of the faculty in these departments, seminaries, class-rooms, a large room where films can be shown, and, along the back line, a permanent exhibition room for all valuable pictures and objects. The main part of the library is not completely non+inflammable and, consequently, some hesitation has been shown in donating valuable ob- jects of art for permanent exhibition there. When the Library was planned, it was intended that the main reading room. should-be a rectangle, unbroken. by the ugly and unnecessary projec- tions formed by the stair-case and the reserve rooms. This plan may still be realized if the present stairs are removed and new flights of stairs built at both ends of the library, or even a single flight, in the style of English colleges, built facing towards Pembroke Hall. The main porch would remain and be utilized perhaps to hold a seated figure of Miss Tho- mas. The books from the reserve rooms would be placed in book-cases rising to the height of the windows around the reading room. Miss Park would like to have this alteration made when the new wings are being built, as it would be less expensive then. Pa Oxford Press Serves Scholarly Interests Laid by Gifts of Junius and Bishop Fell : BIBLES ARE “The Oxford Press has always’ been something more than a commer- cial venture,” said Dr, Herben, in- troducing the exhibit of Oxford print- ing in the Deanery on Monday after- noon, February 19. “It .is and has been a great institution for the serv- ice of scholarship by the dissemina- tion of good books.” © Oxford’s claim to be the home of the first English printer is unfortynately as false as the tradition maintained by Univer- sity College that it was founded by Alfred the Great; but the Oxford Press, if not the second after Caxton’s at Westminster, was among the earli- est in England. The colophon date on the manuscript of Rufinus, On the Creed has been shown by scholars to be an error resulting from a typeset- ter’s omission of one Roman numeral, ten: it is, therefore, 1478 instead of 1468, and not prior to Caxton. The Oxford Press at first had no more than a casual association with the University, as in- early days a “seriptorium” was apt to be found near any intellectual centre. The first Press went out of existence in 1486, after nine years of publishing. Established anew in 1507, it printed for only fourteen months, at the end of which it was suppressed by Wol- sey. The:present Oxford Press was founded in 1585, from which time to the present moment its tradition is unbroken. = For the three hundred and forty- eight years of its existence the Press has the finest records of any publish- ing house in the world: we know every title published in those years and for all of them, with few. excep- tions,, copy is. available. The first FAMOUS title of the 1585 Press was, appropri- ately enough, a Latin one, Moral Questions About Aristotle’s ‘Ethics. From 1585 to the turn of the century, seventy or eighty books were put out by the Press. The vicissitudes of the Press have been many, pleasant and unpleasant. It has always been exceptionally for- tunate in its benefactors, who have endowed it with funds, and more wel- come even than funds, type. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, ty- pography did not keep pace with the advanced output of books. That pub- lishers then were careless about the artistic presentation of their books the horrid condition of Shakespearean dramatic quartos is sufficient witness. No care was paid even to the design of the title-page; the plays were pro- duced on- gray pap¢r with blunt type like Browning’s “scrofulous French novels.” Friends of the Oxford Press, real- izing that more care must be given to the artistry of publication, began as early as 1629 to present it with im- ported Continental types, particularly those of Holland and Flanders. From 1666 to 1672, Dr. Fell, the Bishop of Oxford, endowed the Press with a set of Dutch type, which laid the foundation of fine printing at the Press and exerted an enormous in- fluence in raising the standards of its publishing competitors. Fell, usual- ly remembered by. an opprobrious quatrain, should be more properly re- garded and cherished ‘asa benefactor to printing. His punches and mat- rices are preserved to the present : (Continued on Page Five) ‘Vocational Téa Mrs. G. Harold Thurlow (Esther Dikeman, 1928) will speak on Opportunities ‘ for Women in Industrial Labora- tories in the Common Room in Goodhart Hall on Tuesday, Feb- ruary 27, at quarter of five. Tea will be served at half-past four. ) @.. * — cece neem tn ae some: st een? F nade nd International Club Holds Round Table Discussion The Internationa] Relations Club’s round table discussion of Latin -Amer- ica, held February 13 in the Com- mon Room, was a highly successful experiment. Carmen Duany, ’34, who was re- sponsible for planning the round: ta- le, opened the discussion with a rief account of the International Relations Clubs’ Regional Conference on Pan-Americanism, which she- at- tended in Washington last December. The following students also gave short reports on different aspects of the Latin American question: Lucy Fairbank, Margaret Simpson, Eliza- beth Bingham, Elizabeth Bock, and Grace Meehan. These reports emphasized the diffi- cult “topography of South - America and the large Indian element in the population as reasons. forthe prob- lems which the Latin republics are facing today. Those countries with thé least Spanish blood are the least progressive. Transportation is still very primitive, although the new air- lines are bringing outlying districts into closer contact with the capitals, se that trips which once required months when geo ae canoe or mule train now take y a few hours. In the post-war decade, Latin America enjoyed a brief era of un- precedented prosperity. American banks practically compelled the vari- ous governments to accept loans. The depressign has, however, been par- ticularly severe in Latin America. Since it was impossible to keep up payments on the public debt and the New York banks insisted on receiving their interest, the only way. to re- move the burden of these obligations was revolution. The Pan-American movement, ini- tiated by the United States Govern- ment, has attempted to.foster soli- darity and good-will between Amer- ica and the other republics of the western: hemisphere, but the Latin countries resent American predomi- nance, and the interventions under- taken with a corollary of the Monroe Doctrine as an excuse have aroused hostility.. British and German trad- ers have been getting an increasing proportion of Latin American trade. Proposals are now being considered for continentalizing the Monroe Doc- trine and treating the other republics as partners equally interested in its enforcement. As a follow-up, of this discussion, Mrs. Manning will give a talk on Mexico next Tuesday. —— Miss: King Discusses Gertrude Stein’s Art Impressionists, Cezanne, and Cubists Show Parallels to Her Writing TECHNIQUE IS ORIENTAL In ‘the Common Room, Thursday afternoon, Miss King gave an illum- inating talk on Gertrude Stein and French Painting, which was based on her personal recollections of . Miss Stein and on her wide reading in the authoress’ works. poe ‘Miss King met Miss Stein first in New York through Mabel Weeks, and Estelle Rumboldt, the sculptor. Miss Stein used to visit Miss King in her ~ “penthouse” apartment on 657th Street, cram herself out of. the win- dow to admire the vista of the river and- the buildings, and- finally settle down to talking at length about any- thing from art to psychology. It was about this time that Gertrude Stein and her brother, Leo, passed much time abroad, where they often hap- pened to meet Miss King. An inter- esting story is told of Miss Stein’s falling asleep on the steps of St. John Lateran in Siena, because the day was hot and she was tired. there the scene shifts after a lapse of several years to Paris, where the two had taken a studio. Mr. Stein was selling his fine collection of Jap- anese prints in order to buy paint- ings by the modern French—Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso. Miss King did not see Miss Stein again until just before the War, when she enjoyed looking at new French paint- ing and learned to understand it a little, with the aid of an introduction to Picasso’s dealer. During the War, Miss Stein drove an ambulance in the south of France, and “worked like a dog,” as she, herself, expressed it. And the war-time experiences rever- berate in her work. The next’ meet- ing was in Madrid, where Miss King was working at the Bibliotheque Na- tionale, and Miss Stein was working late at night, and sleeping well into the morning. She gave Miss King her manuscripts of the volumes of portraits. Earlier was the one of Mabel Dodge, which circulated and was imitated so widely at college; but it was then that Miss King form- ed that habit of continuous reading which she considers necessary to get a full understanding of Miss Stein’s writing. Today when Miss King is in Paris, she always goes over to Rue (Continuea on Page Four) Wisdom of Playing Follow-the-Leader Is Driven Home to Bryn Mawr Stag Line The cryptic process by which a stag line unanimously decides to re- nounce the pleasure of rushing nine- tenths of the beauteous damsels gath- ered at any dance for their express delectation has long been a source of wonder and admiration to our un- initiated eye. Football coaches turn green with envy and throw themselves into untimely graves at thg sight of the team spirit and concerted action going to waste along the edges of every dance floor. We, too, have nearly been driven to untimely graves by our attempts to puzzle out, just how it happens. that half an hour after a dance begins, the stag line to a man has selected which girls are to be avoided at any cost. But now that we have been part of a stag line, we are no loriger in a state of be- wilderment: its devious plan of.ac- tion seems to us amazingly clear ard éven ‘more admirable than before. Our recent gymnastic encounter with Princeton’s more vociferous members got off to a most auspicious beginning, as far as we were con- cerned. The first two men we cut in on danced well and were amusingly caustic about the Glee Club, Prince- ton, Bryn Mawr, and men and wom- en in general: the evening seemed to augur well, and we returned to the stag line feeling very pleased with our brilliant discoveries, only to find that every other girl in the stag line had discovered them too and was describing them in lyric terms to the late arrivals. Somewhat daunt- ed, we bared our elbows at a dan- gerous angle and plunged anew into the fray, cutting in at random on every side. After several rebuffs and a terrific kick on the shin, we found ourselves cursing in the arms of a oe be. future minister, who reproved us at length for our language, refused a cigarette on principle, and described to us the iniquitous state of the col- legiate soul throughout five dances and four intermissions! When we finally re-escaped- to—the- stag line, we found its few remaining members laughing gleefully at our obvious discomfiture and looking sad- ly at the other members, who had formed into two bands and were shamelessly pursuing around the floor our two original discoveries. The rest of the evening augured very ill, and in fact went from bad to worse. Our best friend trudged woefully past and practically threw a man into our re- luctant arms; he told us that he was delighted there was no alcoholic bev- erage to be found in the punch be- cause, after conducting a long re- search, he had decided that people who drank were no happier than (Continued on Page Three) Sisgnaaus Oh From. 3 } EEE EAE ee COS, Oe RE Sor Page ‘Iwo . THE COLLEGE NEWS Ae e ry i = : - gorgeous fluty tenor, Listen, lady, IN PHILADELPHIA i ie : have a heart. I have, I said, I can Theatres _THE COLLEGE NEWS_ wi 8 EN D feel it, it’s fluttering. Well he look-| rianger: Anthony Armstrong is (Founded in 1914) ee —_—_—_—_—_———-——"—Fred up -at me then with-such-a—queer in “the mystery drama, Ten ~Minute-— expression and loosened his collar and Alédieye-3+»Roland._Drew, R. age Published weekly during the College Year (excepting during Thanksgiving, LOVELORN said, I’m beginnin g ‘a teat eadtiae a Pre enc e ae Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of » NSharter Editor-in-Chief. Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. The College News is fully protected by copyright. it may be paerioted either wholly or in part w theut written pea of the Nothing that appears in © Editor-in-Chief SALLIE JONES, "34 News Editor J. 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We. strongly suspect that the college be- lieves we write them for lack of anything else to write about, and although we are greatly ‘tempted to write’ a stock editorial on the subject and reprint it regularly every other week, it is not true that we write continually on this subject in order to fill* up space. We write about it, wishing all the while that we did not have to, because it invariably happens that on the rare occasions when we do battle our way through the snow and ice to the library, we find that the books we want have been missing for the past six weeks, and we are always accused, probably as a shot in the dark, of having taken them! ‘Because we have attempted, somewhat futilely, in the past to create a-commotion and launch a reform in the matter of pilfering books, the library envisions another walrus in its midst and has now: brazenly accused Us of having ‘with sobs and tears, sorted out those of the largest size, holding a pocket handkerchief before our streaming eyes” ! Our Reserve Room privileges will undoubtedly be withdrawn in the near future, and we look with distaste on the possibility of expulsion as the lowest variety of sneak-thief, which seems to loom uncomfortably in the offing. We bitterly regret that we ever mentioned the subject to you, but since we have done so and cannot now deny it, we plead in the voice of one crying bitterly in a hushed wilderness that this unfair, dastardly, nefarious, abominable, craven, cowardly, execrable, odious, and abhorrent practice should cease at once and that the missing books should be returned now before We have to replace them. It is amazing that our slightest word on the subject of examinations and marks _ should meet with reprisals from the faculty, whilé our most vigorous and vehement insults hurled at the undergraduates meet with absolutely no results at all. Speak Up, Ladies! g We have seldom regretted a proof error in the News to the extent that we regretted that which appeared in the editorial concerning marks. The board of the News was in complete agreement with the statements made in that editorial and the qualification which appeared in italics at the end of the article was intended to apply to the appeal We feel that such a mistake was more than unfortunate as those to whom our efforts are addressed are already too often inclined to take what we say with a grain of salt and the mental reservation that the Red element in~this country is on the for an examination in Bible. increase. However, we meant what we said about the inadequacy of the present; system of marking, and we are on the verge of going further in our campaign to advocate that numerical marks be abandoned in favor of a more general system of classification, or that the numerical marks be privately dispensed instead of posted for the morbid benefit of all and sundry who have nothing better to do than stand by the door to the office of the Secretary to the Registrar and watch the parade. The group which gathers around the posting boards never ceases to remind us of the crowds which collect in front of a house where a particularly unpleasant crime has been committed. ‘We have spent hours in this column arguing against a system which makes a student’s marks public property. We feel that it a violation of the privacy of the individual and leads to embarrassment and unpleasant- ness. It also places the student who fails a subject, or who does not accomplish_a creditable mark, in the position of a public curiosity. The chief joy of many of our comrades is making sure that they have passed all their exams and then launching into extensive research to find out who flunked what and how many times. We feel that it is none of their business, to put the matter briefly, and we will never cease to do battle for some system whereby the news will be broken to the undergraduate privately and a bit more gently than at present. However, we have no desire to occupy the unattractive position of one championing a lost cause and we are going to cease our out- bursts on the subject of marks unless in the near future we have some indication from the student body as to their feelings on the matter. If we could arm ourselves with: concrete evidence that we were backed by the majority of the students as regards our criticisms and sug- estions we could accomplish something, but until we are so armed we can-do little beside stir up some lethargic comment in the faculty : stevogholde. “Therefore if the undergraduates feel strongly on the (Wit’s End is not responsible for any problems expressed in_ this column.) Dear Hatter— I met a man from Princeton the other night. Ah me! I guess it must be half a week agone. I loved him the instant I saw him. And he took a great interest in me:- He asked me twice where I came, from— twice during one dance! I was so flattered. He-.was 80 cute, too! I could just see over the top of his head. I would go anywhere for him —even to New Jersey. Only he is so small. Shall I throw convention to the winds—even though he is so small? ; Yearning. No do not throw convention td the winds. Not ‘that. Be quite dis- creet. First of all ask him if, he uses tobacco or strong drink. And if he does, tell him—you know, in a nice motherly way—that that is what is preventing his growth. Then, when he grows, up, your love ‘may ripen into something really beautiful. Dear Mad Hatter— What’s the matter With the undersigned? I have thought That true love ought Always to be blind. Is my youth purveying truth When he says that he Cannot ‘dear’ me When he’s near me— Near enough to see? é —Says my face Makes this the case: Hates a feature mole-y, And abuses And refuses Bonds the least bit holy. “Take, oh take Those lips that make Me shudder, far away”’— Fhe villain quoth And waxeth wroth. Now why? Yours, Didi Day. You are essen- If I were in your Dear Didi Day: tially a romantic. place I would show your boy friend how mistaken he may be: meet. him masked some tinfé—be mysterious, be languorous, and!—whisk him away to church before midnight. Then re- veal yourself. You will find him moved as he never has been before. Dear Mad Hatter— My husband doesn’t love me. He seems stranger and stranger of late. I’m sure something dreadful is go- ing to happen: he says such strange things that sometimes I’m afraid he will murder somebody—yet he is the gentlest professor in State U. Like the other morning—he put his papers in his brief case and said, “Will you please be quiet when you pass oui?” I am terribly scared... Advise me how to hald his love. Worried Wife. Try the cut-comeback. (I enclose our little handbook in State U. col- ors, entitled “College Life in the Raw.’’) Dear Miss Mad-Hatter, I wouldn’t have started to write what’s going to be heart-rending for you and me both, if I just weren’t at the end of my tether. I can’t tell my roommate or even my best friend. It’s not physiological, either. Oh, Miss Mad Hatter, it’s worse. It’s awful. It’s love. I hope you can see the tears which have fallen from my eyes. I’ve drawn rings around them so you can’t miss them. I am sitting here quivering like an aspic leaf. You see, I went to the dance: last Saturday night because I’d seen the most beautiful man in the Princeton Glee Club. He was in the front row and I thought when I spotted him, Oh, my God, girl, you’re done for, ‘you’re gone now. So at the dance I cut in on him six times in rapid suc- cession. This is the awful part— when I was floating with him for the sixth time, all sort of stirred up inside the way you get, he said to me in his faint. I felt all motherly and thrill- ed and I said, Baby, my poor little baby, just sit down while I get you a glass of water. But when I came back he was gone and I couldn’t find him anywhere. What am I to do? I do not even know his name. I for- got it. What.is i proper approach? Iam, Broken Hearted. Broken Hearted: I understand perfectly, dear. Every young girl has these moments. Now, if I were you, I should write a complete de- scription of him on your little envel- ope and send it care of the Princeton Glee Club. That will surely reach him, for I know everyone will - be sympathetic. He will be delighted to receive any fragile sentiments you may care to enclose. Don’t be too violent at first, dear. Love is a fra- gile flower, helped along by tender zephyrs rather than by strong hot blasts of passion. * I am looking for- ward to seeing this little romance bud and will be glad to hear from you when it blossoms, too, +} Dear“Mad. Hatter, My child went to Princeton Univer- sity. It was in the fall that he went to the aforementioned center of learning, but the difficulties in get- ting his trunk closed at that time necessitated a complete rest cure for me. In my absence and without my consent he went to your’ establish- ment with a group of songsters, and now, he wants only to return to Bryn Mawr. I discovered his reason when a former Bryn Mawr student told me that at her College there is a group of aesthetes who indulge in dancing, in costume. My financial embarrass- ments are many, excuse my being per- (Continued on Tage Five) News of the New York Theatres We batted exactly 50 per cent. on the predictions which we made in this august column last week concern- ing the reception that two new plays were likely to receive at the hands of the New York critics. We were borne out in our optimism by the en- thusiastic reviews which The Shining Hour called forth, but we were hard- ly prepared for the ecstacies which the boys in the aisle seats indulged in concerning our own little Dennis King in Richard of Bordeaux. After reading all the papers available in the frantic hope that some brave soul would say that Mr, King is not the answer ‘to the prayers of those who" want to live again the happy hours of the reign of said Richard, we. fin- ally had to give up and take refuge in the thought that we probably wouldn’t have liked it had we been there — but we were here, so that thought had little bearing on the situ- ation.’ Anyway, we shall start by saying what a good play The Shin- ing Hour is, and hope that we fill the column before arriving at the other animal. In that play Raymond Massey, Adrienne Allen, and Gladys Cooper find themselves in a Yorkshire farm- house, alone with sex in a most subtle disguise designed by the author, Mr. Keith Winter. Mr. Massey and Miss Allen are happily married and living a life of patrician ease in commun- ion with the great outdoors; their chief. divertissements being Bach, and steeplechases, in which the man of the house ridés heroically while the lady hopes for the best. Into this pleasant atmosphere slinks Miss Cooper, as the wife of an odd broth- er. The first inkling we had that there was trouble brewing was when we were startled to find the same Miss Cooper in the arms of Mr. Mas- sey in front of the fireplace. -A-hasty glance at the program informed us that trouble most certainly was in the air, and with the entrance of Miss Allen we were sure of it. The re- maining acts “of the o opus were con= cerned with the struggles of the two women to dominate Mr. Massey, who did nothing to resolve the situation, as he was equally willing to be done (Cuntinued on Page Three) ‘celicis ‘which * we have discussed in this column for the past two weeks, they had better communicate with us to that effect. Otherwise, we will turn to lighter subjects and offer up thanks that we are closer to a diploma i in point of time than most. omadlirtnaal needless to say, did not comprise the original New York cast. All about a lad who commits a murder to save his best beloved from a fate worse than death, and then moves the: clock ahead ten minutes and fools Scot- land Yard—maybe. Broad: Rollo Peters and Mabel Taliaferro in Autumn Crocus, a whimsical extravaganza about noth- ing in parti ular. Has a certain ap- peal for those who like to pick spring flowers. _ Convention Hall: The history of the Jewish people done in the form of a drama-pagéant, entitled Romance of a People. The-production has a cast of over 4,000, according to the Philadelphia Record, which means probably 400." Anyway, it’s a very amazing spectacle and will be of in- terest to those interested in the me- chanics of the theatre. Coming, February 26 Broad: Conrad Nagel in Goodbye Again, the comedy hit of last year, in which Osgood Perkins and June Walker starred. A very amusing story about the past who appeared in--Cleveland to harass a_ lecturer. Recommended. Academy of Music Philadelphia Orchestra: Friday afternoon, Feb. 28, at 2.30 P. M., and Saturday evening, Feb. 24, at 8.30 P. M., and Monday evening, Feb, 26, at 8.30 P. M. Issay Dobrowen will conduct. Program: Berlioz, Overture, ““A Roman Carnival” rine iirc: Symphonie Dances Tschaikowsky, Symphony No. 6, ‘“Pathetique” Movies t Fox: A dandy little opus entitled Coming Out Party, with Gene Ray- mond, Frances Dee, and Alison Skip- worth. Is exactly what it sounds like and even the leavening influence of La Skipworth doesn’t help much. Earle: The Paramount film for which a national beauty contest was staged. Called in the inimitable Hol- lywood manner, Beauty For Sale, and has Ida Lupino (Who won), and Rob- ert Armstrong and Buster Crabbe. Karlton: Roland Young in the screen version of Buried Alive.__En- titled His Double Life, it is the story of a man everyone thought was dead and all the fun he had on the sly before the secret got out. With Lil- lian Gish. Stanton: We have a new idea for a story, no less. About a telephone girl and her little ‘switchboard. They call it I’ve Got Your Number and in it are Pat O’Brien, Joan Blondell, and Glenda Farrell. Boyd: Frederic March and Mir- iam Hopkins in All of Me, the usual story of the lovers who fail to get anywhere until the final fade-out in spite of all the efforts of them both. Fair. Stanley: One of the best’ films that has come out for many a moon —Eskimo, with a native cast. The lurid advertisements about “untam- ed,” “unashamed,” “wife trading,” and what not do not keep it from being a very important movie and one not done for box-office only. See it. _Europa: The disturbing movie that consists of the secret films of the nations which were involved in the World War. Entitled Forgotten Men, it is very upsetting. : Local Movies Ardmore: Wed. and Thurs., Katherine Hepburn in Little Women, with Douglas Montgomery. Fri. and Sat., James Cagney in Lady Killer, with Mae Clarke. Mon. and Tues., Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII. Wed. and Thurs., Paul_Lukas_and_ Elissa Landi in By Candlelight. ~Seville: Wed. and Thurs., Girl Without A Room, with Charles Far- rell and Marguerite Churchill. Fri, and Sat., Should Ladies Behave? wit Lionel Barrymore and Alice Brady. Mon., Tues., and Wed., Joan Craw- ford, Clark Gable, Franchot Wayne: Wed. and Thurs., Song, with Dorothea Wieck and Kent Taylor. Fri. and Sat. ancing Gable and Franchot Tone. Tues., Should Ladies Beh¢ Lionel Barrymore and A ‘ ON peescd yn / / THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Three Varsity Wins Easily Over Remnant Team Squad of Alumnae and Agnes Irwin Students is Defeated by 46-44 Score CENTERS PLAY HARD On Wednesday evening, the Var- sity basketball teams defeated ‘the Remnants, two teams composed of alumnae of the Agnes Irwin School, 46-14 and 43-16. Faeth and Boyd, although they had an: unusually good eye for the basket, seemed to have lost their almost un- canny instinct of knowing where the other was going to be, and, as a re- sult, their passwork was rather con- fused and at times even bad. In the fourth quarter, however, they co-op- erated-much-more- easily-and-qtickly, did some nice passing and_ scored some pretty shots. Following up, es- pecially on the long shots, wouid, however, keep the ball in the forward court and hence give many more op- portunities to score. The centers were faced with an unusually strong opposition, as Long- acre and Remington, who held these positions on last year’s Varsity and were one of the best combinations ever to play for Bryn Mawr, were both playing on the Remnant team. Jones and Larned played excellently and,. except for the second quarter, when their passing was not up to the mark maintained a good offense and an un- usually strong defense. The guards played their usual steady game and by tightening up when Yeager was put in during the second half, they managed to hold her to seven points and made it prac- tically impossible for her to get close enough to the basket to score on chip shots. ‘ This was the first game in which} } the official team played as a whole, and it should, we think, be a credit to Miss Grant’s coaching and judg- // ment: The line-up was as follows: Remnants Bryn Mawf Crawford <.. .: De Ee ea es Faeth “McInness .:... Lhe oe eas /Boyd Longacre... ate aE ae Sida A /, Jones Remington. 2.8, C=... 7 / Larned MeCleod ,.....+ NS eer erie Bridgman er), a eee 7 Peas Kent Substitutions — Remnants: Yea- ger for McInness. Bryt/ Mawr: Jar- rett for Bridgman. Scores—Remnants: / Crawford, 5; McInness, 2; Yeager,/7.. Bryn Mawr: Faeth, 28; Boyd, 18. * ~~. Referee—Miss Perkins. Bree one In the second /team game also, co- operation betw¢en the forwards was sadly lacking./ Baker seemed unable to loosen up, pver-shot the basket con- sistently, avd had hard work get- ting the ball to her team-mate. Ii the second half, however, she had dis- tinctly found the range of the net, uch more successfully and stood only one point behind Pierce in total /points. The final score was 43-16. The centers, outstripped in height by/a good six inches, did remarkably well, considering the odds against them, but a little speedier offense would have made their passing a lit- / tle easier and much more accurate. The guards were slow but steady and stuck like burrs to their long- shooting opponents. Here again a little more speed in getting away would have been a great advantage. The line-up was as follows: Remnatts Bryn Mawr THOMAS «63.5. < Woot, sca ees Pierce Mentor fs... | is rer Baker re CoG Es Meirs Longacre ..... rr Perera S Rothermel MIGINGS’ <2. 5 ou Ae ee yk Bishop Pinnery; >. gs Washburn Substitutions — Remnants: Mc- Cleod for Yeager. Bryn Mawr: Mc- Cormick for Rothermel. Scores—Remnants: Thomas, 6; Yeager, 10.. Bryn Mawr: Pieree,, 22; Baker, 21. Don’t use‘the floor as an ashtray. Meet your friends at the Bryn Mawr Confectionery (Next to Seville Theater Bldg.) The Rendezvous of the College Girls Tasty Sandwiches, Delicious Suntory vy Superior ; Varsity Basketball Wins Over Phila. Cricket Club On Saturday morning the Varsity basketball team defeated the Phila- delphia Cricket Club team, 36-19. Contrary to our expectations, the play exhibited was far below the ex- cellence shown in Varsity’s previous two games. The forwards, although shooting well, had lost practically all trace of the unique teamwork for which they are famous. Not until the final quarter did they begin to show any signs of the excellent work of which they are certainly capable. The centers’ passes were either too high or so close to the sidelines gs to make play almost impossible and their defense was decidedly weak. The guards seem to be the only con- sistently good players thus far. Had the Cricket Club forwards made all the shots which they attempted, Bryn Mawr would have énded the game-on the short end of the score. As it was, a final spurt in the last quarter: aid a return to normal’ enabled both coach and-—spectators to breathie /a sigh of relief. 7 Perhaps the fact that two prac- lices and-a game preceded Satytday’s accounts for the slowness and disap- pointing type of play. If that is the explanation, perhaps week’s game will once again prove the truth of our prophecy as to/the outcome and record for the season. The line-up was as, follows: Patina CU C... Bryn Mawr Dillote. 53.4: B /to8 ass Faeth Roberts -;.....: er syixiaeass Boyd Daring: 5.4. 37.- Cr is Jones Landell pa Rapley Larned ne ho Oa Bridgman Donahue . if... Ley jiu cae ce Kent Substituvions—P. C. C.: -Rust for Landell. / Bryn. Mawr: Kent for Larned, Jarrett for Kent, Larned for Kent, , Scofes—P. C. C.: Elliott, 10; Rob- hy Ae Bryn Mawr:~ Faeth,- 13; Saale * —_ Mawr Stag Line Plays @ Gaine of Follow-the-Leader Continucd from Page One’ people who did rot drink, that they were in fact much more unhappy and invariably came to A Bad End. This turned out later on to be the same Bad End to which came people who smoked and drank coffee. He, how- ever, had solved the problem of daily living, and wished to pass on to us his solution: every morning he sprang’ straight from his bed into a cold shower, and consumed six plates of oatmeal while showering; he then ran five miles through snow and ice, and returned, feeling very fit, to attend his classes with healthy zest. We found ourselves wishing that he had traversed those six miles practicing dancing,instead of running! _ At that point, the policy of stag lines seemed to us perfectly obvious and most delightful. Like our broth- ers before us, at the first opportun- ity, we abandoned all shame and join- ed the happy bands pursuing our two caustic good dancers. Again, like our brothers before us, we were per- fectly content with the few pleasur- able words and steps which we spent the rest of the evening fighting to gain, and looked with conscious su- periority. upon our unhappy sisters, who had not caught on to the time- honored and approved system of that excellent American institution, the Stag Line. The American system 1s education by the adding machine, according: to Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins, pres- ident of the University of Chicago. NEW — DISTINCTIVE Shirtwaist Dresses Acetate—$5.50 (Rayon Silk—-Washable) KITTY McLEAN The Sportswoman’s Shop BRYN MAWR, PA. , i | torical drama by Gordon -Daviot the Sari ate tl it pence A News of the New York Theatres-+ (Continued from Page Two) wrong—by~-them—both.-—Finaly,;—one of the ladies committed suicide and everything was again under control. It would be difficult to describe ade- quately the general excellence of the play as a whole and the Linden fam- ily can safely be reliea upon to pro- vide an exciting evening of theatre. We now come, as we knew we would sooner or later, to Richard of Bor- deaux, and Mr. King. In this his- answer to the prayers of numerous Peter*Arno dowagers plays the role of the young king of England, who was: (a.)In love with his wife, Anne of Bohemia, thereby stamping himself as. a little bit queer in the eyes of his countrymen; (b.) A.paci- fist, thereby establishing himself as nothing short of a victim of melan- cholia; ‘(¢.) Subject to violent fits of temper just at the moment when he should be calm, thereby causing him to insult his ministers at pre- cisely the Wrong moment; (d.) Con- tinually in a jam, thereby laying him- self open to the exposition of the mod- ern. playwright. The play shows him in his futile efforts to persuade the ministers of state and. the English people that war is a stupid game, and in the end we have the pathetic spec- tacle of the young king deserted by all and dethroned by a_blustering scion of the house of Lancaster? who is a whiz with a battle axe, and con- sequently more to the liking of the English, who are, as usual, anxious to clean up on the French. Perhaps we |" have not made the play sound too in- viting—if not we apologize and has- ten to assure you that we know you will like it, especially Mr. King’s diction is reported to be ex- cellent and crystal clear. The. other plays of relative inter- est that made their appearance on Broadway were greeted with indif- ferent salvos of one thing and an other. Ernest Truex is as funny as ever in a play that is more feeble than usual—Sing and Whistle. It is all about four people and their marital relations and supposed to be funny, but it isn’t—very. Mr. Truex is again the scared little man con- fronted by the hideous monster of attraction for a_ biological opposite. (we hesitate to use the word sex, fearing that it might frighten the gentleman into the.fear that he is a victim of an unhealthy complex), and he deals with the problem in his usual light manner. In this case he and a certain Miss Mathews being hap- pily married to two people who are on an expedition of questionable desti- nation in Harlem, find themselves alone and are so fascinated by the circumstances that they both get quite drunk and do it beautifully. That seems .to be about all there is to the play, and there you are. Those of us who read the’ book, Queer People, awaited with interest the results of its being produced in New York, and much to our amaze- ment it seems to have annoyed the since Phone 570 JEANNETT’S BRYN MAWR FLOWER SHOP, Inc. Mrs. N. S. T. Grammer 823 Lancaster Avenue BRYN MAWR, PA * SUMMER SCHOOL IN RUSSIA... Registration is now open for Summer School Courses at the First Moscow University, 1934 session, July 15th to August 26th. A wide range of courses on social, economic, education- al and language subjects will be given in English by promi- nent Soviet professors. Ten courses, thirty hours. Six weeks’ work, four of resident study and two of travel field work. University credit possible. THE ANGLO-AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF THE FIRST MOSCOW UNIVERSITY inquiries to Institute of —— Education, Two West 45th Street, New York -the silver screen. critics into a state of semi-incoher- ence, which is something of a tri- umph in itself!’ The book and play bothadminister a most unkind razz- ‘ing to all those individuals in any way connected withtHollywood and In the play we see all the supposedly charming, or at least brilliant, denizens of the sun- lit mountains, carrying on the most unattractive affairs imaginable. They are all fat, slimy, crooked, drunk, lecherous, stupid, bawdy, loose, and profane, and as such their entertain- ment value is questionable. Hal Skelly plays the lead and he does quite well considering that he is for- ced to get drunk and stay that way for more than two acts (an act which is much more pleasant in. everyday life than on the stage). The critics hissed it with all their might and main to a man and the ads for the production now read: “They ¢an’t take it.” “They-can’t stand to have themselves shown up for what they are!” and “Why did Queer -People take the worst panning any show has received this season because it _makes fun of the theatre in a bril- liant and trenchant manner.” Maybe so, but our bet is that it is also a bad_ play. Three versions of certain question- able scenes in pictures are now be- ing produced in Hollywood. One is for the general American release, one for the more moderate States such as Ohio and Pennsylvania, and still another for England. —(N. S. F. A.) | Letters (The News is not. responsible for opinions expressed in this column.) To the Editor of the News: It seems unfortunate that the in- telligent attack on the marking sys- tem which appeared in last week’s editorial should have been weakened by such a misleading sentence as that which states that “the majority of the freshman class was relegated to the lower registers of passing marks” in the required courses. Since English Composition is the only course required of all freshmen, it might be helpful to ‘know that of the hundred and seventeen students taking the course only twenty-one re- ceived marks in the sixties and none failed to pass the course. CLARA MARBURG KIRK. To the Editor of the College News: Allow me to congratulate you upon your. editorial concerning _ Bryn Mawr’s lack—an embarrassing one —of a course in the Bible or in Com- parative Religions. ; It is seldom that I feel strongly enough to write you about the ques- tions brought up in your editorials. This... subject,_however,—is--one—-on which I have felt strongly during my college years and since graduation. I am one whose Bible education was left: to “chance and the Sunday Schools,” and I regret it.’ I have con- tinually wished that the college had ‘Continued on Page Five) BE.5.1$ ARDMORE Black | or brown with piece effect front crepe, two- in pink - aaua. ‘i —PASLEL ACCENTS are new and ‘smart on dark crepe ae Best & Oo. Montgomery and Anderson Avenues, 0 Pa. Ardmore 4840 Navy crepe with pink or pale blue pique, black with yellow or brown with pale — blue, sand, Page Four i? .. THE COLLEGE NEWS Miss King Discusses 3 Gertrude Stein’s Art Continued from Page One Fleurus, sits’and stares at paintings, and talks with Gertrude Stein. In-turning to Gertrude Stein’s re- lation to French painting, Miss King said, “My own students, present and past, know all I am going to say. They understand painting and it does not worry them. They are used to taking a- picture for what it is,—and- so why not take a page for what it is? They are used to the’ all-over pat- terns, without relief; without centrali- - gation, in which there is no beginning or end, and in which the top and bot- tom, the left and the right, are inter- changeable: They do not resent this, nor think that the artist was a ‘thim- ble-rigger.’ Consequently, they can employ this same attitude when ex- amining a pattern of words on a printed page.” .« To illustrate her point Miss King read a paragraph from Henry James’ Wings of the Dove, chosen at random, A _ fur- ther illustration -may be found by examining the development of dia- logue in English novelists, from Trollope and George Eliot to James and then Hemingway. In the dia- logue_of the former, the sentences have beginnings, middles, and ends, and the characters involved answer each other in logical sequence. In the dialogue of the moderns, however, the sentences often begin with the middle, and the characters answer, for example, the thing before the last, or the next to the last question due to be asked. The exponents of. this new form point out that so things happen in life,—not necessarily in se- quence. Gertude Stein thinks that these repetitions and castings-back are the manner in which one thinks, but in which one does not talk, be- cause people simply do not, For this reason thoughts cannot be written down until they have been’ worked over into a logical order. A mare’s nest was stirred up in the last Atlantic Monthly over the ques- tion of automatic writing, to which type of writing none-of Miss Stein’s work belongs, rfor to that of free as- sociation.. “Automatic writing gives what the person is not aware of feel- ing, whereas this is what the writer and reader are equally aware of.” Writing of this sort, created under the influence of hypnosis, is compar- able to some of the work dohe by the painters ‘Sur-realists in their struggle for pure spontaneity. Miss Stein’s work is not like this, for it is deliberate in structure and direction. In fact, it is just as conscious as Pater’s style, though at the opposite extreme from this: “Frankly, it seems to me much more like ‘The Dark Night-of the’ Soul,’ except. that_is poetry, and this is. pure prose; that is emotion, and this is a mirror-image of something mental going on.” Miss King read a selection from Lucy Church Amiably in illustration of her showed how what was point, and actually there to be read, was merely It isn’t cowardice — it’s jangled nerves a sort of libretto, requiring an or- chestration in the mind of the reader. There is one question which Miss King is often asked:. “Is Miss Stein’s work a joke?” it is absolutely in good faith; as with Swift, one must recognize the irony.” Another question; whether or not it is easier to read and understand when one is used to it, must also be answered in the negative. One must always work over any fine bit of lit- erature in order- to get the most out of it. One should start to under- stand Gertrude Stein by parallels. Living in Paris, in the midst of painting, she could not help being affected by the. successive influences which affected painting. The first parallel lies in her affinity to impres- sionism, with its all-over, flat pat- terns, its lack of relief and centrali- zation, and. its passion for the mo- mentary image. The work of Ce- zanne affords a second parallel. His canvases. reveal “a composition and adjustment of tensions which are three-dimensional,” and there are no interstices. “Trying to make excerpts’ from Gertrude Stein, is like trying to pick those plants which run a long root underground with stems coming up here and there. If you give a tug, the whole comes.up,.roots--and all.” .Miss King read three short pieces, “Dinner,” “Celery” ‘and “Pheasants,” from fender Buttons, to show how mutilated such fragments become when removed from their con- tent. The third parallel is to be found The answer is “No, in the work. of*the Cubists, who were always her closest friends, especially Picasso and Braque, and Matisse — although he is not properly one of them. The interpenetration of masses in’ Cubism has~become™interpenetra= tion of time in Gertrude Stein’s prose; the object is used only as a point of departure. The “Essay on Braque” in Geography and Plays is a story with the events left out, but the rela- tions of the characters and their dia- logue left in. It is like the work of Braque in his later period. Miss Stein’s use of concrete details ap- pliquéd to the main structure resem- bles the work' of the Dada-ists or of that group of Cubists who actually pasted bits of cork or newspaper clip- pings on their canvases. By the Sur- Realists, she was influenced toward spontaneity, freshness and whimsical- ity, and toward the use of drchestra- tion. “Just as at operas and plays, the text gives you only the libretto, which is completed by what proceeds on the stage, so here, the orchestra- tion lies in the suggestions, over- tones, and connotations.” Gertrude Stein should be read a- loud, for the greatest’ understanding and pleasure can only be procured if one lets oneself go and follows the rhythm. ““One cannot take the word as a unit, nor the phrase, nor the sentence, There are no units. It isa whole long rhythm.” , Words are more replete than their definitions, from which cannot be grasped the entire meaning, with its implications and associations. The interlace and repe- titions beat out the pattern of the music, as in* Ravel’s- Bolero. One must recognize the particular feeling of words—the kinaesthetic difference between “up” and “down:” that sug- gestiveness of — words~.which.causes reverberations and Arouses associa- tions. . The use of repetitions and particip- ial constructions of becoming, is part- ly to get the long wave rhythm, which is not the rhythm of the suspended sentence and the involved and invert- ed clauses. Yet after reading enough, one does know what it is all about. “It is that technique of dry realism with the irony and the poig- nancy; it is right American in the tradition from Mark Twain through Sherwood Anderson and Ring Lard- ner. It is a sort of pioneer style, and with pioneer thrift, Miss Stein wastes nothing. She employs all the impli- cations, the half-recognized, the long- the nursery rocking-chair, the inter- mittently-remembered experience of thought and feeling, the divagations of the questing reason, the infinitesi- mal realities ‘that -are the stuff of experience. She has no inlays of handsome words. like ‘crystalline’ or ‘inimitably ;’ she keeps a level surface, a “Muster ohne Ende,’ just alike at both ends and in the middle; it is of the oriental pattern, not’ of Gothic, with its governing principle of su- premacy and subordination.” Miss King read at one time or an- other, from nearly all of Gertrude | Stein’s books. How areY OUR nerves? TRY THIS TEST SS SS 6 No one likes a sudden, unexpected noise. But if you jump or even wince uncontrollably at such a time—check up on yourself. Itisn’t cowardice. Itisn’t timid- ity. (You’ll find many ex-service men doing the same thing.) It’s jangled nerves. Get enough sleep—fresh air—rec- reation. And make Camels your cigarette. For you can smoke as many Camels as you want. Their cost- lier tobaccos never jangle the nerves of the most constant ‘smoker. COSTLIER TOBACCOS Camels are made from finer, MORE EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS than any other popular brand of cigarettes! | A “TUNE IN! 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Unsophisticated Farce of Underclassmen VIRILITY IS EMPHASIZED (Especially Contributed by Helen Ripley, ’35) The Princeton Glee Club concert Saturday night began with a rather peculiar series of exits and entrances by the various members of the chor- us, but when the lights were finally dimmed, the concert began in earnest with a traditional greeting song. The singers did not get really into the spirit of the occasion until the second group of songs, and they showed the results of their training too much throughout the:evening. The effect of training was evident in their clear enunciation and good tone, which usually resulted in a_ well-balanced whole; but one felt that the expres- sion of every word and the phrasing of every- bar had been arranged weeks beforehand and drilled in so thoroughly that all sense of spon. taneity was gone. The hard work which had, to all ap- pearances, been expended on the program, seemed to us wasted because the music, almost without exception, was not worthy of any college glee club.. Some of the audience said they had gone merely for a good time and did not want to hear “real’’ music, but we feel very strongly that if a concert is being given at all, the pro- gram should be up to the level of those performing and of those listen- ing. This concert was unworthy of attention musically. Such pieces as “Goin’ Home” are pleasant (although much more so in their original set- ting), but we have heard them for many years sung by school choruses and local organizations. Princeton should be able to sing something bet- ter than what might be sung by the Sunday School class at a church social! We might add that Princeton was defended by several people who said that they knew the concert would contain this kind of music, and so were prepared to enjoy it. It seems to us that a new standard should be set so that through Glee Club con- certs we might hear satisfying music —just as amusing perhaps, but with some musical content. We would make the same criticism of the solo- ists, who certainly had sufficiently good technique to try something. more worthwhile than their actual offer- TT The Gilbert and Sullivan was the best part. of the’ program from a musical point of view, though the “Chorus of the Peers” had none of the spark which belongs to it and the proper effect of the middle section of the song was lost because the basses could not be heard. “Invictus” is another song in which we have been drilled from childhood, and it seems rather eee te to give us such familiar doctrine; how- ever, the execution of it was good and the proper climaxes were nicely emphasized. The number from The Gondoliers was well placed at the end of the first half of the program, be- cause it helped to cheer along both us and the performers, if we may judge from their expressions. The second half of the program was supposed, we gathered, to show us that. the Glee Club members were really just normal men, for they ‘seemed very proud of the humor pre- ceding the accordion duet. We, for- tunately, were feeling rather hilari- ous, too, but even our hilarity did not prevent us from wishing that the concert might not descend to a farce. We are agreed that the accordion and: banjo duets were good, but feel that their place was in the gymnasium . and not in Goodhart. The Sea Chan- ties were amusing and very well done, with evident enjoyment on the part of the performers—but they are not worthy of the efforts of a col- lege Glee Club. The last group on the program may explain the whole concert, as a collection of songs which a gathering of essentially virile college men might sit down and sing on the spur of the moment. Certainly most of the pro- gram was not worthy of serious study ‘for the concert -stage. Perhaps ‘> is ' | Princeton was afraid that we would not like more serious music, or per- haps they were incapable of giving it to us. They showed, at least, that they can sing intelligently and with is good. We also commend the fact that they entrusted themselves to an undergraduate conductor, who was very competent. The Glee Club had every opportunity of giving us a pleasant musical evening, and they | succeeded to some extent in doing so; but we hope that next time their ability will be used in a more defi- nitely musica] program. Shane Leslie Speaks on Authentic Swift Continued from Page One existence of another house belonging to the Shirley family, and was given a day in which to search it before the new owners should move into it. This search proved equallye fruitless, until Mr. Leslie thought of the house- keeper’s room—a sanctum to which so many precious things naturally grav- itate. And there it was—folio after folio in the handwriting of the Temple ‘Memoirs. Ten or twenty were as- suredly Swift’s, and one—very like Swift’s—was guessed to be the miss- ing part of the correspondence with Stella. Now, the only signature of Stella—that to her will—had been burnt, and so Leslie searched the Temple family library. He found a |letter. with Stella’s signature, and on 'the other side of the paper another letter, written by Rebecca Dingley, | Stella’s chaperone and companion. Stella’s handwriting was obviously not like that of the receipts in the British Museum, whereas the hand- writing of Rebecca Dingley was that of the script on the. journal, The history of Swift’s correspond- ence with Vanessa is equally strange. On her death she left her letters and the poem, “Vanessa,” to Bishop Berk- eley, and when the people of Dublin heard the rumor that he had destroy- ed them, they felt deprived of a great literary monument. Berkeley, how- ever, must have:changed his attitude after reading the letters, for he passed them on, and they were published with a fair amount of accuracy in their entirety. They disappeared again; in 1716 Robert Peel saw them for a moment, and then they were lost until they-went into the Morrison collection of autographs, in which Mr. Leslie saw them. They have been stolen more than once, and the arms stamped on them have obviously been cut out. The only clue to their identity was a loose envelope ad- dressed to “Miss. Leslie, my own home,.my own family,” which refer- red to the poem “‘to my own home” in the Kensington Museum. Now that the character of Swift’s well-known, and scarcely disguised, handwriting has been established, the editor possesses a canon of criticism of Swift’s work; and light can be thrown upon many Swiftian contro- versies in the edition upon which Har- old Williams is at present working. One of these controversies centres around Swift’s supposed neglect of Stella. Why did he not marry her? Mr. Leslie says that he simply put his career before women: he had to make a choice, and he had an inher- ent dislike of the poverty and sor- didness of the clerical life which marriage would have forced upon him; but there is no doubt that he loved Stella. Mr. ‘Leslie points out the autobiographical elements in Gulli- ver’s Travels. The entire piece, read so often as mere political satire or asa children’s book, is full of deli- cate aHusions, exquisite memoirs of his soul. Stella must have had the apologia read to her as she was dying and have realized that Swift’s tender description of the school mistress was a tribute to her alone, couched as had been the sentiments in the letters they exchanged, in a curious, looking- glass language and furthér concealed by a naive inversion of ideas. Her death, and that of Vanessa before Swift’s own death, increased the acerbity of the champion /£ Irish freedom. Bitterest of all and most superb of all of Swift’s poetry are his lines on his own death: “The Dean is dead—- Pray what is trumps?—” Write us a letter sometime — any- time. expression,.and_ that. their technique | LETTERS (Continued from Page Three) ative Religions. ricula? Is there, any reason why Bryn Mawr should not do likewise? The course should not be com- es | } employee of the Press. ‘of the paper may be seen in that on | offered an elective course in Compar- | which the fine’eleventh edition of the Is it not true that: Eneyclopacdia Britannica is printed. Smith and other first class ¢olleges” . include such a course in their cur- ' The Oxford Press has conferred as well as received notable benefits. Its service to scholarship is spectacular, | of its manufacture is so -carefully ing through a continuous existence of guarded that it is not known to any |almost four hundred years. A, specimen | Wit’s End \ (Continued from Page Two). | sonal, and I have no money left with: iwhich to buy an elaborate dancing | costume. As I should like him to .and often thoroughly disinterested. | ,ayo costume—and a proper one— i It will never get back the money it pulsory, Many individuals, doubtless, | put into the fifty-volume series of The feel neither the need nor the desire’! Sacred Books of the East, of which for it. May I say, however, that it|the most beautiful is the Coptic New ! is my personal opinion, formed by | Testament, a work for which there certainly be a popular one. conversation with my contemporaries | js naturally very little sale. The last on the subject, that the course would; copy of this book was sold at the standard price of 12/6 in 1907, one My heartiest endorsement is of-; hundred and. ninety-one years after fered to that project. The suggested | the publication of the first and only NEEDS! Sincerely yours, MOLLY ATMORE TEN BROECK, '32. “| has been the production of the great- | Oxford Press Serves Scholarly Interests the New English Dictionary. Continued from Page One elective course is one of Bryn Mawr’s | edition. | By far the most outstanding serv- | ,ice to scholarship of the Oxford Press (est monument in lexicography. ever ‘seen by our own or any other age, The _Philological Society commenced col- i lecting slips for the N. E. D. in 1857; moment; they were put to work again | the work was only recently complet- in the nineties of the last century. ied. The Society could find no pub- Another benefactor of the Press jlisher to touch the scheme, until the was Francis Junius the Younger, who | Oxford Press, when approached, ‘said collected unusual types for use in scholagly publications, Gothic, Run- ic, Icelandic, and Saxon founts, which /came out in 1882, five years from its | are still available, although nowadays | beginning. The Society had by that | generally replaced by Roman face »time three and a half million slips | with special markings in books of this | of examples illustrative of words to | From such a start, however,|/be included, a number which was class. 'it should and would be done. The first volume of the Dictionary the Oxford Press took its Germanic | thirty-five times the amount original- tradition of book-printing. ‘ly intended. The N. E. D. was car- After 1632, when it received a/Yied through with amazing speed. It Charter of Privileges from the Crown, | WS first sold for four or five hundred the prosperity of the Oxford Press dollars, but can be bought now in the was assured. This charter confirmed :thin paper edition, printed from the the monopoly of the Press, along with |Same plates, for twenty-one pounds, | that of Cambridge and the Royal | oF a little over one hundred dollars. Printer, to the publishing of Bibles | This was a most valu-| Printing in sixty different alphabeti- | a ls able concession, as the demand for '¢al languages, each requiring sepa- | !"- The |rate and distinct cases of type. Al-|to answer them. in England. Bibles was exceedingly great. results of necessarily hasty printing are often dull, but occasionally di- verting, as in the case of the notori- ous “Vinegar” Bible of 1717, which takes its name from its most glaring misprint, that of ‘vinegar” for “vine- yard” in Our Lord’s parable. The Oxford Press is at present though..printing suffered a relapse in | the eighteenth century, it was only | temporary. In recent years, publish- | ers have grown steadily more con- | scious of the necessity for producing beautiful books... The Oxford Press This lat present employs the best tyopgra- Bible contains errors on an average;Phers and type-designers obtainable. of one to every ten pages. It has revived beautiful old types like In 1637, the Oxford Press barter-|the faces of John Baskerville or of ed its monopoly of Bible-printing | Fell. Bruce Rogers designs books with the London Stationers’ Com- | for the Press which will be sought pany for a sum of about two hundred | eagerly as rarities in the near future. pounds a year. That the transaction | The Press is represented annually in was a bad bargain for Oxford soon | the typographic exhibition of the fifty appeared, since the Londoners by large-scale production could undercut the prices of the Oxford Press, and make their fortunes at the same time. The matter was remedied by. the Ox- ford Press in 1673, when its mana- gers induced Guy and Parker of the rival company to combine with them- selves. Guy had already gained enor- mous wealth, some part of which he applied to the founding of a Hos- pital in London. Seventeenth-century printing pro- duced books of rare beauty. One of the most frequently printed and pop- ular books at that, time, next to the Bible or even ranking along with it, was Clarendon’s History of the Rebel- lion. This work sold in such numbers that the proceeds enabled the Oxford Press to set up new quarters in the Clarendon Building in 1713. Up to that date, the Press had been for a half century established in the Shel- donian Theatre. It remained in the Clarendon Building until 1832, when it moved to its present situation. In the Clarendon Building, the presses were divided into the Bible Press and the Learned Press. The profit from the Bibles balanced the loss from the learned books. .The Press still makes its money mainly on Bibles, in which it has achieved a unique degree of perfection. Its proud boast is a standing offer of one guinea to ‘any person who can find an error in-one of its Bibles. The Oxford Press has its own foun- dries, binderies, and paper-mills. Fig- ures from fifteen years back give some idea of the scope of its produc- tion, when in one year 100,000 skins of animals were used for binding, and 400,000 sheets of gold leaf for letter- ing alone. The supremacy of the Press depends largely on the secret method it possesses for manufactur- ing a paper, very strong, very thin, very absorbent, of a uniform color, and opaque texture. It is very hard to find a combination of these quali- ties in any one paper, and the secret { best books of the year, upholding at the present day the tradition which it has established in English print- ! for this soulful dancing, and find it | impossible, I ask you kindly to see that ,my child is not enrolled in any danc- ing class at Bryn Mawr College. | I hope that your maternal ‘instinct | will be aroused by my plea, and that |you will expunge my, son’s name | from all dancing lists. Motherly Anxiety. ! Dear, dear Motherly Anxiety, I am | flattered by your faith in me. Your | problem is really unique: it must be | wonderful to have a son who is so | precocious in the finer arts. But this i great sensitivity of the young to the "good and the’ beautiful. presents a challenge to the mothers of Prince- {ton.° And I firmly believe that there ‘is ‘a better solution for it than deny- | ing to the future citizens of this great country the chance to become great aesthetic leaders. | I am enclosing under separate cov- ;er the Bryn\ Mawr athletic leaflet ‘on “How to Wrinkle, Pin, and Cut,” because, from your splendid descrip- tion of your son, I. think he would jtake a genuine interest in learning |to make himself a costume. Sewing, 'as done,at Bryn Mawr, is quite sim- ‘ple, and I am quite sure your boy ‘will be quite an adept under the ‘tutelage of the Bryn Mawr >Aes- ! | thetes—should he find that the direc- itions need demonstration. ( DO NOT YOU, TOO, HAVE 'PROBLEMS? Are you not some- ‘times at your wit’s end? Send.them We will be glad, nay, delighted, Cheero— THE MAD HATTER. Said David Seabury, New York psychologist, at Chicago recently: “Everybody will be insane by 2139 A. D., if the. present increase in in- sanity is maintained.” He said that statisticians have reached the con- clusion that here has been a 380 per cent. increase in insanity during the last 10 years.—(N. 8S. F. A.) Wellesley College offers its girls a course in automobile mechanics in which they may:satisfy their curiosi- ty and requirements for graduation at the same time.—(N. S. F. A.) -who wrote “Adam of Helen of Troy.” - beginning in read this newest novel by Should FRESHMEN marry REDHEADS? MIMI was a redhead... and Alec was a freshman (and a bachelor—of arts). You'll see why Alec pro- posed to Mimi over the breakfast table, when you John Erskine, the man and Eve” and “The Private Life This book-length novel is a new, added value that begins in next Sunday’s New York Herald Tribune. You get the start of this brilliant story in the Magazine Section plws nine other sections of news, comics, features. Read “Bachelor— of Arts” by JOHN ERSKINE next Sunday's _ NEW «2 YORK : Herald asia Tribune 3 4 be Page Six oy THE COLLEGE. NEWS Shadow Puppets Act Out Chinese Legends} _ Figures Carved m~Donkey Skin Use Conventijonalized Stage Gestures Bae Zt ART NOW DISAPPEARING (This review of the performance of the Red Gate Shadow Puppets in the Deanery, February17, under the auspices of the Ghinese Scholarship Committee, is especiaily contributed by Vung-Yuin Ting. It will be print- ed in the next issue of the STUDENT INTERNATIONALIST. ) An amusement which bears a great resemblance to motion pictures and which has preceded them by, some two thousand years is the Chinese Shadow. Puppets. time the Emperor lost his most beau- tiful and graceful dancer in the court and could not be consoled; he demanded his magicians to bring her back alive*with the penalty of death if it was not carried out. This was the origin of the puppets:..The artists and players were so clever that the Emperor was pleased and the shadow puppets were installed as one of the chief amusements of the court and of the official households. The puppets and scenery are ex- quisitely carved out of donkey skin, painted with bright colors and lac- quered. They result in almost trans- parent colorful figures which con- form to the types of characters seen on the Chinese stage;—scholars, war- Direct from the It is related that at that riors, maidens, officials, and also ani- mals, These are placed against a white screen, usually of Chinese pa- per, occasionally of fine white silk, with a projecting Jight some five feet away from the screen. Oil lamps had always been used (before the in- troduction of electricity) which gave a delicate, soft illumination, showing up the colors beautifully through the semi-transparent figures. The pup- pets are not manipulated by strings from above, but by stiff wires from below. The acting is accompanied ‘by music, noises, conversation, and occa- sional explanations. The subject. matter is usually a story or a Fegend, which is familiar to every Chinese mind. The daily life of people with their sorrow and happiness ig portrayed. The element of the supernatural enters in quite frequently; as when the spirits of two lovers, for example, are trans- formed into a pair of birds or butter- flies;-or ag when the members of the Heavenly court are incarnated into, human beings as a.punishment for misdemeanour. There are also stories for children like Why the Dog Chases the. Cat, and the adaptation of How the Elephant Got His Trunk. All in all, they atford a great deal of amuse- ment, especially for the women and children, who are confined within the walls of the courtyards. Of course, these puppets have the ’ a ike, fn ney lly lish i cit. eli THE CHATTER BOX : TEA ROOM Luncheons, Afternoon Teas and Dinners Delicious Home Cooking SOOO a ee” many shortcomings of ordinary pup- yets,-plus the additional limitation" of one view (only two dimensions are represented, usually side view). But in spite of these handicaps there are clever puppeteers who can present the characters with extyeme dexterity and realism. The fight between the dragon and the elephant is an ex- ample, or the crumpling down of a burning house. However, there aré elements which have to be taken for granted, or otherwise they seem in- congruous and ridiculous. There are movements and gestures, the signifi- cance of which can hardly be under- stood by the uninitiated. But when a type of play has lasted for two thousand years in a country, it is nat- ‘ural that conventional movements are developed which are traditional and taken for granted by the natives, and which are utterly incomprehensible to foreigners. Unfortunately, with .the influx of |, western civilization and its amuse- ments, the younger generation in China is looking upon its own amuse- ments as antiquated or with indiffer- The Weaving Maid First Sister Second Sister : r The Western Mother : ‘The Heavenly Messenger ~~" aE ence, if not with scorn. They have forsaken the Chinese theatres and are now crowding the movie houses, The. shadow puppets can now only be seen in Peiping and. some -parts-of~Shansi (a province in North China). There Scenes are very few experts left in the pro- | I. Prologue duction of puppet shows. II. - Beside a Stream Afternoon Program, 3.00 P. M. III. In Heaven 1. The Feast of Lanterns IV. The Cowherd’s Cottage 2. The Sword Dance’ from the|V. The Bridge of Magpies ite Snake” Peg | he Elephant Got His Trunk .—A Chinese Fable 4.': The Drum Dance Intermission 5. The Cowher and the Weaving Maid—The Legend of the Stars Characters in‘ the Prologue Chien Hsin, A Student....Lu Ping Characters in the Play The Cowherd 4 The ‘Cow At the close of the afternoon per- formance tea or ice cream was served at twenty-five cents per person. GREEN HILL FARMS City Line and Lancaster Ave. Overbrook-Philadelphia A reminder: that we wodld like to’ take care of your parents and CECELIA’S YARN | man ca. whenever, | y come to SHOP Seville Arcade . Li B. a { BRYN MAWR .- PA, Pe ot Manager. PHILIP. HARRISON STORE BRYN MAWR, PA. Gotham Gold Stripe Silk Hosiery, $1.00 Best Quality Shoes in. Bryn Mawr NEXT DOOR TO THE MOVIES FANSLOW Distinctive Sportswear . Stetson Hats for Women . ARDMORE TEA ROOM os S | ee 85c - $1.25 | le d’hote ae | Oo Luncheon 40c . 50c + 75c Meals a la carte and t Daily and Sunday 8.30 Ay L. to 7.30 P. M. BRIDGE, DINNER. 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