- may be made of our many political and social opinions. tial part of the undergraduate structure. [tm Philadetphia THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Two , : ae THE COLLEGE NEWS (Founded in 1914) Published weekly during the’ College Year (excepting during Thanks- giving, 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. The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without written permission of the Editor-in-Chief. Editorial Board SuSIp INGALLS, '41, Editor-in-Chief VIRGINIA SHERWOOD, ’41 Copy ALICE _CROWDER, ELIZABETH CROZIER, '41 Acnest MASON OLIVIA ‘KAHN, ’41 _ DorA THOMPSON, = Editorial Staff BARBARA BECHTOLD, ’42 MARGARET MCGRATH, Betty LEE BELT, ’41 AGNES MARTIN, '43 MARGUERITE BOGATKO, ISABEL. MARTIN, ’42 BARBARA COOLEY, ’42 AGNES MASON, ’42 ELIZABETH DopGB, ’41 PATRICIA MCKNEw,. ’43 JOAN Cross, ’42 JANET MEYER, 742 FRANCES LYND, 43 VIRGINIA NICHOLS, 741 LENORE O’BOYLE,. ’43 CHRISTINE WAPLES, 42 Sports TERRY FERRER, ANNE DENNY, ’43 Sports LILLI SCHWENK, 42 News "41 "42 "41 ’40 Music 42 Photo Business Board MARGUERITE Howarp, ’41 Manager MARILYN O’BOYLE, 743 RuTH McGovern, ’41 Advertising ELIZABETH NICROSI, ’43 Mary. Moon, ’40 Subscription Board MARGARET SQuIsBB, 41 Manager MARGARET SHORTLIDGE, 741 VIRGINIA NICHOLS, ’41 GRACE WEIGLE, ’43 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 MAILING PRICE, $3.00 SUBSCRIPTIONS-MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office : Peace Council At ‘its last meeting, the Peace Council faced the question of whether its program should include aid to domestic organizations or should only cover war relief. To conceive of the Peace Council as being concerned solely with war aid is to forget its function and the responsibilities laid on it by the Activities’ Drive. The Council was to translate student opinion into some sort of collective n. The position of the Peace Council is not a passive one in bors though in appearances it is deceiving. It has the mechanical job of testing the efficiency of the organizations to which it sends funds. This job could be still more fully worked out, although the establishment of a research committee within the Council has gone far in this direction. j Besides the mechanical job, the Peace Council is responsible for alloting its funds according to campus opinion. This year it has felt that the paramont interest of the students lay in helping war victims, with especial attention to refugee students. But the Council is not and must not be bound to this particular field. Its primary job is to represent campus opinion. » When important issues are overlooked or when there is still a chaos of independent prejudices, the Peace Council must act as the coordinating spur. This year has seen increased activity on the part of all campus organizations and there is little danger that we will lapse into intellectual ruts. As a result of the increased activity, the coordinating capacity of the Peace Council has become active function of this body. To perform this job the Council must provide a place where a synthesis Under such conditions the Council must remain an impartial judge and not take clear-cut stands until the synthesis has been made as in the question of war relief.--The Peace Council, however, is not merely a passive partner in this coordinating process, but is responsible for seeing to it _ that the campus is roused from its many individual prejudices and is required to coordinate and follow out the implication of its thought. The Peace Council, in considering other organizations than those distributing war relief, is only fulfilling its duties. For the Council to fulfill these duties adequately requires more cooperation from the clubs and more recognition from the campus at large. At the moment the organization is thought of too much as another club and too little as an expression of public opinion and a synthesis of our thought. Action A heartwarming and revealing interest in the problems of college entertainment was evidenced by the recent student poll: In accordance “with Bryn Mawr’s traditional ability to face its issues, we suggest that steps be taken as soon as possible to elect the new committee and its chairman. 4 If the new entertainment committee is to acquire the stature neces~ sary for concrete and efficient action, it should be treated as a substan- The chairman should be votedon by the. entire college so.that the undergraduates may ’ be made ‘more conscious of “the ' committee's importafice.. As indicated in the |, student poll, the election of the committee should be by halls. This would establish the most direct contact with student opinion, and would, at the same time, keep the committee small enough for efficiency. . It is important above all to arike now while the iron of campus interest is still hot. > 5 Bay, with George Raft and Joan Bennett. : Arcadia: Raymond Massey and MOVIES Ruth Gordon in Abe Lincoln in Il- Opinion Director of Labor School Expresses Gratitude For Contribution The. following letter was re- ceived by the Treasurer of the Ac- tivities Drive, from the Director of the Hudson Shore Labor School: My dear Miss French: Thank you very much for the check for 475.00 dollars, complet- ing the undegraduate. pledge for the Summer School. We have also added Miss Park’s contribution of 200.00 dollars to the undergradu- ate contribution, at her request. This makes a total of 1400.00 dol- lars from your drive this year. We are most appreciative of .the interest that the undergraduates have shown, and I wish there were some way to thank personally all the girls who have contributed. I am enclosing a copy of our folder for next summer’s school. If you think some of the girls who contributed would like to receive copies, I should be happy to send them. : Sincerely, JEAN CARTER. Frost Reads Poetry At Series Lecture Continuea from Page One The second..rule for judging poetry is to-ascertain whether it is as good in verse as its equival- ent.in prose. The aim of the poem must be considered and whether or not that aim was ultimately achieved. Finally, said Mr. Frost, the poem as a whole must con- stitute a phrase since phrase is the beginning and end of form. Mr. Frost concluded by reading a group of’ his own poems, includ- ing: The Birches, Mending a Wall, An Old Man’s Winter Night and Crossroads. In-addition was a group of more recently published poems: A Drumlin Woodcock, De- partmental, Dives. Dive, The Bearer of Evil Tidings and Triple Plate. © Boyd: Mickey Rooney in Young Tom Edison. Earle: Gone With The Wind. Fox: Road to Singapore with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. Karlton: Strange Cargo with Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter and Peter Lorre. - Keith’s: The. Grapes of Wrath with Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell. News: Carole Lombard and Charles Laughton in White “Wo- man. Palace: Northwest Passage with Spencer Tracy and Robert Young. Stanley: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins and Randolph Scott in Virginia City. Stanton: My Little Chickadee with W. C. Fields and Mae West. Studio: Louise, Charpentier’s opera with Grace Moore. THEATRES Forrest: A Night at the Folies Bergere, revue. - Locust St: Clare Boothe’s come- dy Margin For Error with Doris Dudley and Sheldon Leonard. “Suburban Ardmore: Thursday and Fri- day: Carole Lombard and Brian Aherne in Vigil in the Night. Sat- ‘urday: Charlie McCarthy Detec- tive. Narberth: Thursday: Hunch- back of Notre Dame. Friday and Saturday: That's Right, You're Wrong. = *. Seville: Thursday: Allan Jones and Mary Martin in The Great Victor Herbert. Friday and Sat- urday: James Stewart and Mar- garet Sullavan in Shop Around the - Suburban: Thursday, Friday Aldine: The House Across “ linois. Calendar ~* Tuesday, April 9:— 4 Theodore Spencer to lec- ture on the Present State of Modern Poetry, Deanery at 4.30. Current Events, Miss . Reid, Common Room, 7.80. Philosophy Club, Mr. Weiss to speak, Common Room, 8.15. Wednesday, April 1 International Relations Club Meeting. Common Room, 7.30. Thursday, April 11.— Earl Schenck to lecture on Polynesia, Tale of Tahiti, Goodhart, 8.30. Friday, April 12.— Square Dance, A. S. U., Gym. April 12 - 14.— Alumnae Council Week- end. Saturday, April 13.— Informal French Eve- ning, Wyndham. Sunday, April 14.— Art Club Tea, Common Room, 4.30. Rev. Donald Aldrich, Chapel, Music Room, 7.30. Monday, April 15.— Owen Lattimore to speak on America’s Stake in a Free China, Goodhart, 8.30. Tuesday, April 16.— Theodore Spencer, Dean- ery, 4.30. Current Events, Miss Réid, Common Room, 7.30. Jacques Maritain to speak on The Philosophy of St. Thomas Acquinas, Deanery, 8:15. Wednesday, April 17.— Roger Sherman Loomis, the 1940 Ann Elizabeth Sheble Lecturer, to Speak on Arthurian Ro- mce in Medieval Art, Goothart, 8.30. WIT’S END Copywhoa, or, Spring Cometh Not, She Said etaoin shrdlu emfwyp vbgkqj, pB. The old order changeth, yielding place to Sue. From Pop to Nuts. Sure and it is a cold time of year with the old ones going out and the new ones coming in with the ink scarce dry on their fingers. And what did the Easter Bunny bring you? If we’re not being too sudden. For us the Easter Bunny and Trouble came in like a lion. Fun’s fun but responsibility’s hell what with sabotage in the Power- house, mid-semesters yawning and stretching in the darkness, and on our necks the hot breath of baby chickies and baby duckies. Qh, to be in April, now that Eng- land’s here. Sunspots and electric storms. ,Alarms and excursions. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and To- morrow. If your name were To- morrow Brown would it mean you were going to Florida? Hark! Hark! the lark at Heaven’s gate sings, And Phoebus ’gins to rise. I tried to get up at 7.30 this morn- ing too And found, to my surprise, That Spring, God bless its sudden- ness, Hadn’t come. Now let’s play Postoffice and I’ll be Queen of the May. Except that they’re not having—yes they are, too—At - least. they always. have Little May Day. And if you’re waking, wake me early, wake me early, Mother dear. But don’t wait to see if I’m getting up. Ha, ha! See what we mean about, the old order changing ?. Saturday: Cary Grant-and—Rosa- lind Russell in His Girl Friday. 1 will. provide the informal en- » oe Rice Dramatizes New York In Two on an Island; Play Proves Unreal By Olivia Kahn, ’41 Although Elmer Rice is a native: New Yorker he seems to have a strange conception of his home. town. At any rate in Two On an. Island, produced by the Play- wrights’ Company, he pictures. New York as it might:be visualized by a middle-western farmer who. had never travelled east of the Mississippi. Thertheory that Amer- ica’s biggest city is a hard-boiled metropolis ridden with loose wo- men and immoral Bohemians is. now outmoded and most commenta- tors agree that it fails to take into. account the _ perfectly. normal 6,995,000 people living in the city. This fault would not be important if it were not for the fact that Mr. Rice obviously intends his play to capture the essence of the city. One might suppose that a young man and a young woman from out. of town who have taken rooms at the -¥--M.-G.-A.-and_Y,._W._C_A,, respectively, would meet plenty of nice people of their own age. Even if, as in Mr.. Rice’s saga, they were driven to soda-jerking and modeling as their only means of livelihood they might run across a few respectable, and native New Yorkers. Almost none of the char- acters in Two On an Island are natural so that conceivably there jis some justification for the conclu- sions drawn by the playwright. The two most refreshing and in- spired characters are the visitors to an art gallery who appear for a few seconds at the end of the sev- enth scene, snicker over a risqué painting, and disappear before Mr. Rice can damage them. There is a vague unity to the play but as a rule the scenes bear little relation ‘to one another. In fact, before the play is half over, one is apt to become rather bored with the whole idea. Who cares what happens to Mary and John anyway? hey are a_ mighty smug pair by the end of the last act and it is with condescension that they decide to stay and battle it out with New Xork. It is hard to believe that -York would have any desire to return the com- pliment. The play is well cast and the actors do the best they can under the circumstances. Luther Adler gives the role of the producer its proper share of world-weariness and even manages .to bring some ‘dramatic climaxes into one or two scenes. Betty Field and John Cra- ven play the young couple nicely and the other members of the cast contribute some striking charac- terizations. PHILOSOPHY CLUB TO HEAR MR. WEISS On Wednesday, April 10, in the Common Room, Mr. Weiss will ad- dress the Philosophy Club on The Nature of God and the World. For the two weeks< following Spring Vacation, the logic classes will be held by Dr. Geiringer, who is regarded as one of the world’s most eminent statisticians. Her subject will be Probability and all those ane sh are invited to at- tend:—-—— oi eeteraeaieninsana i paeaeinantttensans tana French House Soiree On April 13-in the French . House at 8.30 there will be a Soirée Francaise. Skits, songs and. recitations .by French House inhabitants tertainment. The admission will be sent to French organ- izations in need of assist- Wayne: Thursday, F Saturday: His Girl Friday. cance.