* “ss Page Two THE COLLEGE NEWS . THE COLLEGE NEWS WIT’S END yy ae Curend- Coils (Founded in 1914) - > . vie ene Hee Guu xea' dering a Gua Ue, MICE 'N MEN : ONE gpg ag 2 id 0 e ig } - fa'the oe ee een Discussion! The ery goes up,|Du Barry Was A Lady Fails senile aolh re ties cee ot the Pa. and Bryn Mawr College. : The College News is full. appears in it may be reprinte permission of the Editor-in-Chief. rotected by copyright. either wholly or "i ig Nothing that Nn part without written News Editor Susiz INGALLS, °41 Betty, Lez Bext, *41 EvizaABeTH CROZIER, °41 ELizABETH Dopce, ‘41 Anw EL.icott, *42 Joan Gross, °42 : Ouivia Kann, *4T MARGARET MAcRATH, "42 Photographer Litt SCHWENK, °42 “ Business Manager Betty WiILson, °40 ISABELLA Hannan, "41 RuTH Lexp, “41 Peccy Squiss, '41 Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief EmiLty CHeney, *40 \ Editors Sports Correspondent CHRISTINE WAPLES, °42 Assistants BARBARA STEELE, °40 Subscription Board Manager RozaNNg Peters, *40 _ Copy Editor Suite Popeg, *40 IsaBEL Martin, *42 AGNES MASson, °*42 RutH McGovern, *41 Janz NIcHOoLs, *40 HELEN Resor, °42 VIRGINIA SHERWOOD, °41 Dora THOMPSON, °41 Music Correspondent TERRY FERRER, “40 Advertisin Manager RutH Mc OVERN, °41 Betty Marie Jones, *42 MARGUERITE Howarp, °41 e«™ Vircinia NICHOLS, *41 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME MAILING PRICE, $3.00 Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office One Democrat eae | A clear division will face the voters at the next presidential election only if, as Democratic nominee, a man is selected who will consolidate and further innovations along the New Deal line. He may be expected to run against a Republican nominee stand- ing on the planks of repeal of reciprocal trade agreements, sharp fall of government control of business, lower taxes on business profits, and reduced funds for employment projects—and funds spent according to state, not Federal authorities. Republicans are in a fair way to recapture the political aggressive which they lost in 1932. Theirs is the definitive pro- gram. They have reasonably obscure, reasonably popular possible candidates in Dewey and Taft. And, so far, the Democrats are in default. Garner and MeNutt—the case with Wendell Wilkiebeing- too obvious for mention—represent nothing so much as two citizens who would be happier if they simply relaxed and voted for. Dewey or Taft. Neither wish to carry forward the projects by which the present Democratic party has made itself a political force. Only one man who has yet been mentioned can. and will do that: P¥esident Roosevelt. For those of .us who wish to vote a Demoeratie ticket (1932 to 1940 style)—and in addition those of us who want tu see a victory by the Democratic party—President Roosevelt is the only candidate. : In Philadelphia - | Plum, a well-known Danish ‘ THEATRES FORREST: DuBarry Was A Lady, musical comedy, with Cole Porter songs. LOCUST: Hot Mikado, with Bill Robinson. December 4, Ruth. Chat- terton in Tonight We Dance. WALNUT: Coming December 4, the once-banned Mulatto. MOVIES ALDINE: The Housekeeper's Daughter, a comedy.with Joan Ben- | nett and Adolphe Menjou. BOYD: : Ninotchka, with Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas and Ina Claire. CAPITOL: Laurel and Hardy in The Flying Deuces. EARLE: The Secret of Dr. Kil- dare, with Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore. - t ERLANGER: Hitler—Beast of Berlin, anti-Nazi propaganda. FOX: Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell in Day-time Wife. -KARLTON: The Private Lives af ‘Elizabeth.and Esse, with’ Bette ie Miss Plum to Sing + Miss Henriette Bagger --mezzo-soprano will sing a Davis’ and Errol Flynn. KEITH’S: Deanna Durbin in First Love. PALACE: The Real Glory, ad- venture in the Philippines, with Gary Cooper and David Niven. STANLEY: James Stewart and Jean Arthur in Mr. Smith Goes Té Washington. STANTON: Allegheny Uprising, with Claire Trevor and John Wayne. STUDIO: Rasputin, with Harry Baur, Pierre Willm and Jany Holt. \ “MAIN LINE ARDMORE: Wednesday and Thursday: Wallace Beery in Thun- der Afloat. Friday, Saturday, Sun- day and Monday: Loretta Young and David Niven in Eternally Yours. Tuesday and Wednesday: Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in Babes in Arms. SEVILLE: Wednesday: The Rains Came, featuring Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power and George Brent. in Our Leading Citizen. Saturday: The. Ritz Brothers in Pack Up Your Troubles, EA eae SUBURBAN: Starting Wednel- day for a week’s showing, Don || Ameche and Alice Faye in the tech- nicolor vehure Hollywood -Caval-; cade. “WAYNE: -_group-of Danish; German-and ; ee ae | omen, starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Rus- sell. Thursday: The Ritz Brothers in Pack Up Your "Troubles, Fri- day and Saturday: Artie ‘Shaw and Thursday and Friday: Bob Burns| Wednesday: The|cent. bie seaboenern 140 Ley TAreee bodyr ¥ ‘ling of the tumbrils, only to sink back, bruised, beaten. But again it rises. With its tradi- tional and somehow rather beauti- ful feeling for self-expression, the mind is now grappling with a new form of exhibitionism. The indi- vidual is recrudescing and it is im- portant to see that the thing doesn’t get out of hand. Actually, a girl simply doesn’t know what to think these days. When. it gets so that she sits in the library thinking that the scaffold- ing over the new wing looks like a guillotine, it is time for a reckon- ing. After all, Charlotte Corday wasn’t built in a bathtub. Two alternatives are open to her.. She can take up her knitting, blacken her front teeth and await the rumb- Or she can rise, seagreen and incorruptible, ready to express herself or die, crushed, in the attempt. Once ex- pressed, of course, the idea must be erushed.-so that she may be mis- tress of her soul and captain of whatever she has always wanted to be captain of. All right then. The girl is out of the library and the idea is crushed, awaiting development. The first thing for her to do is find a first year lecture course and then find its professor. She must engage him in discussion, by no means allow- ing him to engage her, if you know what we mean. The discussion en- tered upon and the ‘engagenient avoided, she may find that she has to hedge and the hell with it. Un- less, of course, facts come easily to her, in which case the hell with her. -By now her compatriots, jealous of her brilliance, -have de- cided to rise to power. She, sensing the situation, will return to the library which she should never have left in the first place, the old silly billy. But it is too late and as she ais into the tumbril, which is almost unable to bear the weight of her plus her unrealized ideas, unwrit- ten papers and unborn children, let her try and remember who it was that said: “It is a far, far better thing I do now than I have ever OS eg C. G. Fenwick Appointed To Neutrality Committee Continued from Page One in the face of the European war. Enforcement of this declaration will give rise to many_ technical problems upon which it is desirable that the American Republics take a united stand. -The committee will discuss these problems and en- deavor to find a common basis of agreement. Discussions, will in- ¢Glude such questions as whether armed merchant ships are to be ad- mitted to neutral ports on the same footing as unarmed ships or whether they are to be regarded as in. a class with warships. The January meeting at Rio de Janeiro is solely for the purpose of organizing the committee and adopting methods of procedure. It i¢ not expected to sit permanently in Rio but will conduct its business chiefly by cable corfespondence. Ideal Girl Formula Made by Princetan cael to a summary "com- piled by the Nassau Sovereign the ideal girl at Princeton comes pretty close to resembling — a formula. Thirty per cent of the girl should be intelligence, said the Princeton baljotors, and only 17 per cent: vi- tality. Friendliness rated 14, per Originality and atin were equally important at 11 per cent apiece. The girl’s make-up should contain seven per cent glamour. bierd Sodetnabie essence of “home- To Pan Out Despite Merman Talent By Olivia Kahn, ’41 The. audience at the Forrest Theatre last Monday night was quictly unenthusiastic when B..G. De Sylva’s Du Barry Was A Lady opened with a fase, instead of a bang and dragged its way labori- ously through two over-elaborate, over-costumed acts.. The construc- tion of the show never quite jelled. The title suggested the producers had at last found the ideal role for Ethel Merman, so it was doubly disappointing that the whole show fell Cole. Porter, who in the past has turned out come of Miss’ Merman’s best shows, was content to scribble a few un- inspired numbers and let it go at that. Friendship and But In The Morning, No! will be the delight of Merman enthusiasts but they can be sung effectively by few other singers, The show is based on the old theme of the Mickey Finn magic carpet. There is nothing especially new in the use of this device, and Du Barry and Louis are mentioned repeatedly before the journey to the 18th century France is taken. The first and last portions of the show add ‘very little to it and are far too long for the interest they command. It might well improve the presentation as a whole if the ceene in the washroom at the Club Petite were omitted. There are too many big dance routines whose only purpose seems to be to allow Raoul Pene. DuBois ample opportunity for designing flamboyant costumes. His taste for magenta satin has swept aside customary bounds of good taste. Ordinarily, costwmes serve to en- hance the rest of a musical show but in this extravaganza they over- power everything else. The super- lush colors and materials of the central scenes contrast with the al- most burlesque costumes worn in the first part, which is set in un- pleasant oranges, greens and reds. Ethel Merman does her best to pull up the show. If Du Barry Was A Lady is a success on Broad- way, which seems doubtful unless it is revised, its producers should present Miss Merman with a gold medal, for it is undeniable that her special brand of charm is the only truly bright spot in the show. She sings and acts with her usual ex- hiliration and almost makes us be- lieve that we’re seeing a_ really first-class show. Bert Lahr is fair but a trifle tiresome. His earthiness may be enter- taining in small doses but it be- comes rather boring when spread out thickly over two acts. so flat. Even Main Line Organizes British Relief W ork Auxiliary No. 1 of the South- eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Red Cross for British Relief Work has been organized on the Main Line with Mrs. Robert Strawbridge as Chairman. She has asked for the co-operation ‘of the students. Mrs. Charles J. Rhoads, the wife of the Chairman of the Board>of Directors of the College, has made wool. which, together with instruc- tions, will be distributed by Mrs. Rhoads at Mrs. Chadwick-Collins’ Twill be. served Mrs. Strawbridge hopes that, be- ginning Saturday, December 9, 20 people, students or wives of the faculty, will be willing to come to ithe Red—Cross Headquarters in Ardmore on Satarday morning (a eee = ee 4 : a donation of a large quantity of house on Thursday from 3- 6. Tea | ————_—_—_——_—_ neutral vessels of Holland and Scandinavia, ‘and even of Japan and Italy. International law frowns’ on the use of unanchored mines that may float into the paths of neutral merchant vessels. But Mr. Fenwick stated that it cannot be expected that rules for the con- duct of war will be upheld under pressure of military necessity, by a country with its back to the wall. When Germany finally admitted the laying of the mines, Britain retaliated by decreeing that no neutral may carry goods exported, from Germany. Up to this time imports only had been excluded. Britain’s object is to prevent Ger- many from selling abroad. Then, because Germany has no gold, and no medium of exchange except gogds, she will be prevented, if the besa is effective, from buying broad. A This retaliation hits Holland as well; Dutch vessels have been carrying German trade. _ Result: protest by Holland to Britain. It is possible, Mr.. Fenwick suggested, that thi¥ protest is dictated by Hit- ler, who holds over Holland the weapon of threatened invasion. Turning to domestic news, an up- set is observed in industry. At Chrysler motors 57,000 workers are striking. Distribution of the 1940 model-of Chrysler Motors’ cars is being delayed: » The strike began.in a new way; it was first a slow-down strike. This summer, Chrysler workers complained that the tempo of the assembly was too high for endurance. They agreed to slow’ produetion. Slow-down was effected; negli- gent workers were discharged; the C.1.0.. called a general Chrysler strike. The strike of the 57,000 has continued through the fall, causing hardships to workers and their families. Chrysler is willing to compromise, but the C.I.0. is de- manding organization under C.I.O. of the foremen. The foremen have always been the personal representatives of the owners in the factory. Should they become representatives of labor, the workers would have control of the factory. The matter is a in joint conference of Chrysler and labor representatives. What seems to be a: present ex- treme liberalization of the Supreme Court, in contrast to the court as it was in 1934, is/Seen in a decision handed down this week. With an eye to the clean-up of litter, Mil- waukee, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Worcester had passed laws for- bidding distribution of leaflets in the streets. Four citizens of Mil- waukee, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and ° Worcester, respectively, were ar- rested and came at length before the Supreme Court. : The Court declared the city laws unconstitutional, inasmuch as they were a first step in the restriction , of freedom of speech and press. Mr. Fenwick raised the question: Must a nuisance be .tolerated be- cause its elimination will restrict freedom of speech in certain places where perhaps it is inexpedient for the general welfare? A new remedy is being tied for one aspect of the farm problem that has been occupying ‘legislators since 1917. This remedy attempts to effect some distribution of sur- plus commodities by giving people on relief 50 cents extra purchasing power on the dollar, provided. that... they use ‘the $1.50 to buy” surplus commodities, The plan is being put on trial. in. several cities. . articles. as surgeons’ coats and surgical towels. which are very much in demand.. Mrs. Chadwick- Collins is to be in charge and transportation will be arranged. - “Anyone willing to help please send her name to the Resident Di- rector’s Office in Taylor Hall.