THE COLLEGE NEWS (Founded in: 1914) Published weekly during the College Year (excepting. ducing Theakeiviac, Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. Editor-in-Chief Rose Hatrievp, ’32 Copy Editor Susan Noste, 32 ~ Editors : Leta Crews, °33 Cara Frances Grant, 734 Anna Martin Finpiey, '34 Savile Jones, 34 Mou.ty Nicnots, 34 Business Manager Motty Atmore, '32 Subscription Manager Yvonne CAMERON, 732 Assistants . ELeanor YEAKEL, 733 J. EurzasetH Hannan, 734 Carouine Ber, 33 Masec Meenan, 733 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 MAILING PRICE, $3.00 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME a Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office Attention, Freshmen! * Don't be discouraged. We know that for the past weeks your main interests-have been the forming of-your class, the opening of the academic. year, and perhaps a slight curiosity about the_upperclassmen. Upper- “G@assmen on the other hand have béen alritost “exclusively occiipiéd “in cramming for orals, deferreds, and, we blush to admit it, conditioneds. You ‘must find it amazing that the harassed creatures who have usurped the smoking rooms are apparently uninterested in the beginning of an- other academic year and the birth of a new class. Your impression is “away: from~ the _campus.-- THE COLLEGE NEWS -- Letters to the Editor Tue News is not oo for any Opinions expressed in this column. To the Editors of the Cottece News. Dear Ladies: . As an undergraduate in college I used to marvel at the interest the Alumnae displayed for your vehicle of information. True, I could myself en- tertain a very high pitch of enthusiasm for it, but that was different. at the “scen® of the crime”; I knew the people who were taking part; and I was I felt 1t a sort of sacred duty to keep your chronicle as a record of the things which were happening about me. But these others puzzled me. I spent last year away from college, although I’m not yet an alumna, and the reasonableness of this apparently inexplicable phenomenoh began to be clear, Perhaps you might be interested in my own reactions to. the News from a distance, although I had better add that they were stimulated less by criti- cism than by curiosity: In the first place, the every-day re- cording of the goings-on at college gives the expatriat a sense of commu- nion with the principals and their im- mediate audience, whichis; alas; too easily broken with the last view of: 7 ROK Arch. In the second, the. edi- | torials and the letters written about college problems help to. keep one, aware of the spirit of friendly contro- versy which characterizes the best thought, and which is regrettably rare vere are probably right. The arrival ¢ of over a hundred new faces seems less and Jess remarkable to the he .upperclassman as she sees it repeated it yearly. ‘This situation fortunately is confined to a short period. Therefore we ~-want to assure-you all that the-upperclassmen: will, sooner or later, evolve into a tolerable sort of human being who is genuinely glad for the oppor- tunity to be at college again and to make enthusiastic new acquaintances. You Freshmen have been told frequently this summer that you are very smart to be able to enter Bryn Mawr. You have been examined and catalogued by every device known to man. You have been welcomed by Miss Park and the Student Association and given lengthy assignments -by-yourprofessors:”You~have-begynto find responsibilities clutching you. We feel nevertheless that this-has not made. you full-fledged mem- bers of the student body for Public Opinion has not yet acclaimed you. The News hastens to take over this pleasant duty, and in its capacity as the Voice of Public Opinion.to congratulate your infant class and wish you well. | c This Thing Called Infantile \ It-is-net-often that-one has the pleasure, or at least the opportunity to have the entire college at hand over a week-end. Usually the Big, ‘Happy Family is broken up, in a great rush for the 1:08. Now a wee gerni (so they tell us), whose name, by the way, is much too long for it, has come along to keep children from their parents, let us say, and we must be content with only a foster mother.. Sometimes life seems hard, but in this case not unfair as well. For, granted the initial risk of letting us come back on schedule, there is little danger if we sit with our fingers crossed and await the demise of the wicked germ. At any rate, we are not complete prisoners, and Philadelphia, besides being compara- tively safe, is rising to’the occasion with a number of amusements. As for not receiving visits from those who are under suspicion as living in an infected district, one cannot deny the wisdom of the course. If the First. Frost keeps avoiding us, it might be desirable for the college to establish an amusement park, or some such thing. The invet- erate week-enders, not knowing how to work over a week-end, and too proud..to_go.athletic, soon. ecoming- sated with sleep, might otherwise break out into pie-bed making and other forms of the Practical Joke to relieve themselves of the surplus energy. At present, however, we are not too unhappy, and, what really matters, we are teeming with health. Good: for us! ‘The Week-end Book Service, Inc.” , (From, The Publishers’ Weekly, September 26, 1931) “A thriving rental library service and retail beok trade is carried on by this shop whose customers wad ten times as many books as they. make trips to the bookshop. The proprietors, three young women, have built up their business among people who are seldom at home. Miss: McKel- vey, originator of the business, when she found no position waiting for her upon graduation from Bryn Mawr in 1928, created one.. She rented an office and printed lists-of .books. she-hoped would-interest-her-friends-+ Her entire service was conducted by mail,‘and assumed profitable pro- portions by-the first.Christmas after her early fall opening. Caroline Schauffler, Smith, ‘28, soon joined Miss McKelvey, as did Caroline Mason Smith, Bryn Mawr, ’28, who suggested that they i incor- porate and sell stock: a unique feature in a shop that does not maintain a chain of stores. The shop is down a comfortable step or two from the street level. It is long and roomy and light. Leisure is spelled by every chair and bench; shelves .are casually placed, not crowded together; tables are inviting, not in the way; there is no stuffing, no piling. As one comes he.sho _invites ‘ ani “Mawr in-other parts of the world. acceleration of thé pulse when the names of one’s pet friends and profes- sors: are flung across. the_headlines,’ or in-the marriage notices, and the pathos of owrold* friend, Cissy. important is the expansive feeling that here is one paper which the family can’t monopolize (although you might be pleased to know that my great aunt quoted «an article from your paper in a_very learned discussion of. “Condi-}- tions in Russia,’ which she delivered before her literary Ladies’ Aid). Hoping that this research may shed some light on the case @t hand, I am, very sincerely, A PropicAL DAUGHTER. of Bryn ‘We are grateful for this very cheerful letter to Mrs. Manning from Sheema Zeben, be—enjoying—herself—in We at.college like to hear who—seems to Munich. Studentinnienheim, Kaulbachstrasse 49 ae August 3, 1931. ‘Dear Mrs. Manning: Here I am in Munich, and very comfortably and respectably settled. This is-‘the women students’ dormitory and. by far the cleanest, cheapest and most wholesome way of living here. Unfortunately the university is closed for the summer holidays, so that I have been compelled to study pri- vately. For nine hours’ teaching in the week, I pay. These consist of voice, piano, music history and literature of | the late Tomantic period. Four hours a week I devote to language exchange. The rest of the time I practice, study, go around the city. Munich is very beautiful and I love it. Life here is much simpler than in America—fewer conventions, und alles ist doch so gemuetlich. Every one says “Gruss Gott” and if you know a few words like “fabelhaft” or “dunkles Bier” or “sehr gemuetlich” then I think you cannot be unhappy here. I have learned to speak briskly and be very direct about things so that | don’t have to, talk in literary. German construction, and consequently I am ‘never taken for an American: It’s such fun. The first thing I did when I arrived was to buy a map of the city, and I hayen’t been lost since. Last night I was quite excited and pleased to hear Strauss conduct some of his own music. I had been here a week before havy- ing met anyone from home, then sud- denly at Mozart's “Zauberfloete” I ran into Betty Doak and Bobsie Totten. ~ Theyare both aufder—Durchreise-nach+awfully-much-hearing-trom-you: One “eerie move of late typifies the policy of the shop. In follo ing out their plan to go to the customer if he does not come to them, the shop presented a book display at the Tockland County Garden Show. We note with no little gratification this flattering review in The Pub- . lishers’ Weekly, by Ken McCormick, of the Doubleday, Doran Book- shops, Inc., not only because recent alumnae have so distinguished them- ~ selves in business but, more: personally, because Helen McKelvey, i. e., Be nie was ao of the: News in 1928. The News offers ‘its con- roprietors, and reminds present undergraduates that the pcr the , Rome. Gradually I am learning the beau- tiful things of this city. It is simply packed with museums but I ‘find things ‘like the English Gardens and the Isar Strand very lovely, and when one feels lonely, they are better than staring at some Reubens., : I shall write you again before I leave Week-End Book Service, Anc..~ in 29) Madison Avec: Manish. It yoo bars any instructions € Even more, The Pillar of Salt We know, after an hour’s meditation uninterrupted except by six hall Vic- trolas—at least we presume they are hall Victrolas, we know they are all Victrolas—that there is a Lot to do with the Pillar of Salt. Peace Caravan if one‘were not blessed with the giggles of Becky Wood, and a chance to write up chapel would make us sprout wings and fly. Speaking of taking the air—and hot air at that—have you noticed bits of feathers gracefully moulding the youth- ful face and calling themselves the Empress Eugenie? Well, if you haven’t, try this one on your friends (figuratively speaking, of course): “Oh, say can you see A Eugenie on me?” , —sometimes they just can’t see it or they just can see it, but anyway it is necessary to speak to the waitress in Gernian before they will: stop laughing. i. e., if you didn’t pass the oral last Saturday try —French..-Then—there’s another. to. the effect that—- “Empress Eugenie, Was a meéanie To only cover half, her beanie.” And here’s another toadstool sprouted from that summer heat and moisture, “Ballyhoo.” You may be one of those who can “talk with kings and keep | your virtue’ but-Baltyhoo—wilt throw+/ you—it doesn’t talk. But just remem- ber. that if one copy of the CoLLEGE News were sold for-each-c of Bally- hoo leaving the news¥tand, we'd all retire from Bryn Mawr a far different type of Hot Heiress and the News, in- cidentally; would go with'us. We do hope you've read thus far because this is the type of advertising gag that sells our paper. Lot’s.-WIFE. ° . In Philadelphia Walnut: Leslie Banks in ~~ Ronald Jean’s Lean Harvest. Fresh from ‘an enthusiastic Lofidon showing—deals with Love, Lucre and Life, thereby leaving little to be dealt with. Forrest: Meet My Sister, with Nancy McCord, . Walter Slezah, and. Harry Welsh. A musical sophisticate down from_a_six_months’_run_in- NewYork. Chestnut Street Opera House: The House Beautiful with Mary Phillips and James. Bell. Rather like it sounds. Shubert: Princess Charming sorith Ilse Marvenga and an excellent supporting cast. A new musical romance which promises much, Garrick: Theatre Guild presents Rachel Crother’s light and charming comedy, As Husbands. Go—also down from New York with excellent original cast. ' Broad: Madge Kennedy arid Otto Kruger in Noel Coward’s Private, Lives. A grand comedy and worth even a ride on the Paoli local. Dgh’t miss it—it’s too--swell. Erlanger: Joe Cook in ay musical hit, Fine and Dandy. One of the best of its kind. Coming October 19 . Garrick: Tita Johann and Glenn An- ders. in Tomorrow and Tomorrow— bréught by the Theatre Guild. ,Philip Barrie’s ‘piece de resistance—has its points. Erlanger: Earl Carrell’s latest Vani- ties. Just what you would expect of them-——need we say more? Broad: Stratford-upon-Avon Festival Company “from “Shakespeare Memorial Theatre... Will do two weeks of Shakes- peare with their usual competence. Per- formances of The Merry Wives of Wind- sor, A Winter’s. Tate, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, King Henry IV, Part One, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Music Philadelphia Orchestra. kowski, Musical Director. Leopold Sto- First concerts It would be} no trial to write an editorial on the. ‘The Five-Year Plan’ Reviewed _ The Five-Year Plan, the picture which is now playing at the Europa Theatre in Philadelphia, is one of the most in- If you would like to know about Rus- teresting we have seen in years. sia’s great experiment, or if you would. like to™know more than you do, we recommend this picture. It is a really grand epic of, the Soviet Government’s struggle to rebuild the country. Spon- sored by the United States of Soviet it is entirely authentic and and gives the Russia truthful, inside dope which only a privileged few are al- lowed to see. Don’t worry about the language; the explanations are in Eng- lish and do not presuppose a _ thor- ough knowledge of the Five-Year Plan on the part of the audience. It is in- teresting and ‘vital to everyone, and all you Economics and Politics and Sociology students, think how pleased Dr. Smith and Dr. Fenwick and Dr. Hart will be when you display your great fund of knowledge of the subject after you have seen The Five-Year Plant | Medical Opportunities Dr. Virginia Kneeland Frantz, 18, the Board of Directors, Bryn Mawr College, will speak next week, at a time to be announced later, on the op- portunities’ for women in medicine. All--who- are—interested--are- cordially invited to hear Dr. Frantz’ in te Com- mon Room in Goodhart: a ofthe season, Friday afternoon, October 9, at 2:30 sharp; Saturday evening, Oc- tober 10, at 8:20; Monday evening, October 12, at 8:20. Program: Excerpts from L’Orfee; Lulli, Ballet Suite; Pur- cell, Trumpet March; Vivaldi, |’Estro Armonica, Concerto Grosso in D minor ; Rameau, overture to tragedy Castor ct Pollux; Handel,--Water Music; Bach, (1) Fugue in G minor, (2) Preludi in E flat minor, (3) Choralvorspiel, “Wir glauben all’ in-einen Gott,” (4) Choral- vorspiel, “Nun komm der Heiden,” (5) Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Coming October 17: Fritz Kreisler at the Academy of Music for one concert in the afternoon. ‘ Academy of Music:. New York. Phil- harmonic Symphony Society will give five concerts: October 26, November 24, December 14, January 25, March 7; Tos- Swell photography. Keith’s: Eddie Cantor in Palmy Days with. Charlotte Greenwood. The “laff king” again. Arcadia: The Squaw War-with War- ner Baxter, .Lupe Velez, Charles Bick- ford and Eleanor* Boardman. Concern- ing the problem of inter-racial’ marriage. -Mastbaum: Ann Harding in Devotiorr with Leslie Howard. The story of a young-English girl who gave everything to fove|and then. met the wife. Earley The “Big Gamble, Boyd. Faust in Manhattan. Stanley: George Arliss as the stormy aristocrat in Alexander Hamilton. The story and political consequences of Ham- ilton’s affair with the lovely Mrs. Rey- nolds. Production stressed over story. Stanton: Loretta Sayers and Jack Holt in Fifty Fathoms Deep. A tempestuous romance ending up at the bottom of the sea. : Karlton: Merely Mary Ann with Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor.: Not too interesting—in fact, not at all inter~ esting. Europa: Official Russian Soviet film, The Five-Year Plan. Grand: Vaudeville program headed by George Jessel. Young as You Feel. Movies—Local Seville: Daddy Long Legs with Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter; Friday and Saturday, Lowell Sherman and Mae Murray in High Stakes; Monday and with Bill Also Will Rogers in’ i canini, Walter and Kleiber to conduct. Movies Fox: Edmund ‘Lowe in The Spider. , . Psychic solution to murder mystery. istant-in the: Department of. Surgeryjc =~ You don’t know how thrilling it is to re- ceive a letter here. ~ The ‘Germans are very. poor but they are a grand people and | love being with them. You have my best wishes for your own well-being this summer. I hope you are having a happy; - satiatying time. Sincerely, or geagestions I should appreciate a SHEEMA ZEBEN. — ; er eee Tuesday, The Runaround. Wayne: Wednesday and Thursday, The Miracle Woman with Barbara Stan- wyck; Friday and Saturday, Plastered with Bert Wheeler and -Rob- ert Wolsey; Monday and Tuesday, Huckleberry Finn with: Jackie Coogan and Mitzi Green. ‘Ardmore: Wednesday, Bad Girl with Jane Dunn and Sally Eilers; Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Maurice Chevalier in Caught ‘s .