e er 4 Z-615 ’ ; } : = ew VOL. ; .. : i VOL: XXV, No: 5 BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1938 GPRYRSNV WWE Se fess |~—- PRICE 10 CENTS = : Entertainment Series Planned By Committee Series Will Include Myra Hess, Ruth Draper, Carl Sandburg TRAPP CHOIR HAS. FIRST ENGAGEMENT The Entertainment Committee of Bryn Mawr College is presenting-a" series of six performances between November and April. The artists who will appear are: the Salzburg» Trapp Choir, on. Monday, November 28; Ruth Draper in the first or second: week in December; Myra Hess on Tuesday, February 7; Martha Graham and her Dance Group on Thursday, February 23; Margery Edwards in March and Carl Sandburg on April 20. Any profits from the sekies will go to the Theatre Workshop. The Salzburg Trapp Choir is com- posed. of eight members of the von Trapp family, who are hailed every- where for the charm and originality of their entertainment. Their pro- gram will be divided into three parts: a capella octet, a serenade of sixteenth century “block-flutes,” and Austrian folk-songs in native costume. ~ Ruth Draper is one of America’s best-known diseuses. After a Lon- don performance, the Times said that ther creations were fresh and full of vitality; ‘When calls were taken at the end, it seemed as though the :cur- tain should rise on a company strung across the stage.” Bryn Mawr .is well acquainted with Myra Hess through her performance in 19387. She is an English pianist with a large and faithful American public, and has received many honors both in England and America. John. Martin writes of Martha Graham in the New York Times, ““When the definite thistory of the dance “comes to be written it will be- come evident that no other dancer has yet touched the borders to which Mar- tha Graham has extended the com-| pass of movement. Not only in a tech- nical sense . . . but especially in the field__of-- creative expressional _move- ment she has made an incomparable contribution,” Marjory Edwards is a 15-year-old violinist from California. She was Continued on Page Four Faculty Publications Professor Broughton’s Roman Asia Minor appeared in June as part of Volume IX of An Economic - Survey aa Ancient + Rome... :. An... article ee Miss...Schenck and Miss Gilman, entitled “Le Voyage” and “L’ Albatros”: The First Text, appeared in the Oc- tober issue of the Romanic Re- view. Dr. Salmony Speaks On Archaic Bronzes | Rise and Fall of Religious Faith Of Feng and Anyang States Traced in Art The Deanery, November 2.—Dr. Al- fred Salmony, professor,of Fine Arts at New York University, gave an illustrated discussion of the archaic bronzes of the Feng and Anyang states. It was the first of two lectures on. Chinese art. The study of ancient bronzes, ac- cording to Dr. Salmony, has been greatly retarded by’ the lack of accu- rate data. .Until 1927, there was practically ..no The «period; ‘meaning and symbolism of many pieces: Were uncertain. Chin- ese. tradition and. mythology | were vague and generally unreliable. Cop- ies, forgeries and. imitations have been continually produced. evér since the sixth century A. D., when the first collections. were .started. Very recently, however, archeologi- cal discoveries in China have enabled ‘modern scholars to reconstruct the history of the bronzes by collecting and comparing inscriptions. Prior to the excavation of the city of Anyang, no Chinese history earlier than the fifth and sixth centuries B. C. was known. Anyang, however, proved to be—the capital of a state dominant in eastern China from about 1400 to 1100 B. C.. Now we know bronze vessels that probably belong to the period of its supremacy. These vessels were sacred, used for nothing but sacrifices to enlist the good will of ancestors or to propi- tiate the deites. They are of many shapes, but usually fall into three catagories: tripods with hollow feet, a shape carried over from Neolithic pottery; tall pots, swelling at the base, with handles and a cover, prob- ably for carrying food; and lastly, fantastic pitcher-shaped containers, covered with animals and used only for the highest acts of religtgn. The decoration_of_these_vessels.-was chiefly fine flat engraving, made from molds and inspired by bone and wood carving, rounded forms raised from Continued on Page Two CAMERA SCAVENGERS END PHOTO HUNT The .Camera Club Scavenger Hunt came to’a close Sunday night, No- vember 6, with a party at Doris Turn- er’s house. Each member had been given a list of subjects for pictures, which were to be taken and printed before that time. In three cases the judges could not agree on which of two pictures was the better, and had to call a tie. Bet-. ty Tyson Hooker won first prize, with four pictures accepted, two of which were-tied..with.-others.... Doris .Turner, Fairchild Bowler, Margaret Kroehle and Ethel Clift also received awards, and an ehonorable mention... went, ,to Christine Waples. The pictures as~A whole showed a surprising amount of interest and humor. Gertrude Ely Outlines : Of Democratic 1938 Platform Party in Pennsylvania Claims Present Graft Trivial Compared With Republican Record in Past In_an interview on the present, po- “litical situation in Pennsylvania, Miss Ely gave-the highlights of the Demo- ,eratic platform and accomplishments as well as-a brief review of the whole situation. That the elections will be over by the time this issue of the News appears we believe will _make|——. little difference to the importance of the-facts gleaned from Miss Ely, who has had ‘to keep well informed on all political developments in the state in order to answer the many questions asked by the audiences at her cam-|; paign speeches. Until 1934, the Democrats in Penn- sylvania had been a minority’in both the Senate and the House for over 50 years. As the state is predominantly industrial, with its rich coal lands and other natural resources, it-has pros- pered for many years ori the protective principles laid out by the Republicans. As*a result-the State has beén slow || to respond to the.reeds of its workers and the bad conditions in the indus- trial districts. The Democrats’ ‘and other leaders in. social legislation formed a minority and were not influ- ential enough to promote the _neces-||_ sary legislation. In 1937 the Demo- crats finally gained a majority in both the House and the Senate. The Democratic program for 1938, Miss Ely-said, presents definite plans rather than very wide, general: prom- ime It endeavors to obtain a more generous attitude toward the worker | who has, after all, had a large part in| producing the wealth which. many en- - Continuea on Page. Two wit. - Scientific excavation. |: Terry Ferrer, ’40 »|Summer School Work Analyzed by Members Students Arrange Curriculum to Answer Their Present Social Problems ~~ » CURRICULUM DESCRIBED Goodhart, November 1.—The Indus- trial Group meeting held a discussion of the Bryn Mawr Summer School, its purpose and its value. from the point of view of the workers who have gone to it.. The girls at the a representing various ““6rganizations and schools, told what the summer school meant. to them and how it had first made them aware of the prob- lems of their community. The those of the Commonwealth and the Continued on Page Four Paul Green to Speak On Theatre in America (Especially contributed by the Eng- lish department.) Next week the college will have a chance not only to hear a public lec- tute-on-the..American theatre by a distinguished playwright, Paul Green, but to have conferences with him on play-writing, new developments in the theatre, and practical __problems— of marketing plays. On Wednesday evening, November 16, Mr. Green will give the Ann Eliza- beth Sheble: Lecture on. The Iittigina- tive Theatre in America. On Thurs- day and Friday he will stay at Bryn Mawr to discuss the problems that students may bring in. This arrange- ment gives much more opportunity for information and advice than the usual public lecture -followed only by a scat- tered’ discussion in the Common Room, at which a tired speaker and students with little time to formulate questions can hardly be thorough shout the sim- plest problem raised. “Students in the Modern Drama course, the Players’ Club, and others are working with the English De- ‘| pastment -to arrange«the» time»-and place of conferences, and some tenta- tive subjects. These will not include acting as a profession. They will in- clude ;the small local theatre. Any student who is interested in working’ Vided with Mr. Green should speak to the English Department. Copiés of the books by Mr. Green that are in‘the ' Continued on Page Two ~ Plans for Chapel phere will be a Sunday Eve- ‘ning Service on November 13, conducted by Dr. Rex Clements, minister of the ‘Presbyterian Church of Bryn Mawr. The “choir will sing Hallelujah Amen. -from Handel’s Judas: Macca-. baeus. A discussion will follow in the Common Room. This will be the only service in Novem- ber because of the practice for the Christmas Musical Service, to be given with the Church of © the Redeemer Choir on Decem- ber 11. first to .be organized were Camilla Riggs, ’40, and Aliee John, ’39 Leading Toxicologist Gives Lurid Lecture Chemistry and Crime Detection Discussed by A. O. Gettler - In Graphic Detail Goodhart, November 3.—Mr. Alex- ander O. Gettler, professor of toxicol- dgy at Washifhgton Square College, New York University, speaking under the auspices of the Science Club, illus- ‘trated his explanation of the analytic use of Chemistry in- the Detection of Crime with recent murder cases. Mr, Gettler is*empowered by law, in his position: as chief of the Medical Ex- 15,000 annual “violent, sudden and suspicious deaths” in New York City. Whenever a crime has been com- mitted, ‘said Mr. Gettler, it is the duty of the community to investigate the true cause, yet New York is the only city in-the United States where this is done to any extent. With the meth- ods now available, many of the new- est devised by Mr. Gettler himself, his laboratory is baffled by only five per cent of the cases-brought to them. He described the processes used to. de- Continuea on Page Four Mrs. Manning Discusses Mid - Semester Warns Students—Not—to “Watch ming of Dawn” on Eve \ Of First Quiz Music Room, November 3.—In prep- aration for the approaching mid-se- mesters, Dean Manning spoke to a preponderately freshman audience last Thursday. She outlined briefly’ the purposes of the quizzes: to indicate to the faculty whether they have suc- ceeded in making certain points in their courses, to show the student how much she is learning and to fix the pattern’ of-her-courses~in her mind.” “Quizzes should be regarded as trial plained that quiz results are not final, and that, generally speaking, “diaas- ters in first quizzes can.be, overcome.” Many students taking reading courses feel that their first concern should be to review the reading. Mrs. Manning declared the college isqdi- into two groups, those who haven’t finished their reading and those who haven’t begun it. Everyone should review -her notes as a whole, and above all, should learn to select centrated .study. : A- student’s. ‘finial | pre-quiz studying should be made on a basis of brief reading notes cover- ay course. so ag Pew a ad Thiwot. he ar coming “ol the | dawn,” Mrs. Manning warned. “‘Show- manship, the ability to present one’s material effectively arid clearly, is ex- tremely valuable.” The three faculty advisors this year will be Dean Manning, Miss Hawks, Warden of Denbigh, and Miss Mc- Bride, Assistant to the Dean. _ Lists will be posted indicating the students snipe be soiniainiainbaintint ~ aminer’s ‘laboratory, to investigate the |- flights”, said Mrs. Manning.» She ex-) the.most important ‘material for~con-}}" ing. the most essential parts of Peas, : under the supervision of each advisor. Ludiones Gives Fourth Comedy From Plautus Rudens, Translated by Riggs And Ferrer, Makes Fast Moving Farce MISS LAKE MOVING SPIRIT OF PLAYERS Goodhart Hall, November 5.— Rudens, paraphrased as Flotsam and’ Jetsam, was the fourth Latin Play to be gifen here, and has done its bit towards perpetuating what will soon be labeled our nicest tradition. The translaters of this year’s play, Terry Ferrer and Camilla Riggs, both 1’40, and the Ludiones gave us comedy as good as any we are likely to get: again until the next Latin play. — ’ Everything about the play was sat- isfying and Plautus seems to appeal as much to the Bryn Mawr student of today as he did to the rabble of ancient Rome. The directing was excellent, .|and informal good acting prevailed. The pace—a_ breathless ‘rush—never altered. The plot was singularly happy. The hero got his -girl, the old man found his long lost daughter, two slaves got their freedom and the vil- lain recovered his property. In fact, as the play ends, the villain, a white slaver, goes with all his gold and sil- ver safely in his hands to dine with the- father of the girl he kidnaped. Fifi Garbat, ’41, had a hard job in the part of Trachalio, the hero’s slave, because the pace @{ the play depended on her. With unflagging, aggressive energy, Trachalio must stick his nose into everything and ferret out facts essential to the next step in the plot. He must forever reveal something te some one, go for Kelp or come for it. He is the stock Plautus slave, an op- portunist, a lover of mischief and, a coward. Tyachalio, however, has, to Jetsam to Labrax, “that scum of the earth, a white slaver,” as the prologue describes him. Labrax was admirably done by Pennell Crosby, ’41, who made ie ‘lof him-a singularly repellant creature Quizzes| with a villainous Brooklyn whine re- lieved occasionally by a snarl. Julia Follansbee, *41, played Daemones, ‘the poor old man who-recovers his daugh- ter, with delicious comedy and with re- serve. She especially shared with Alice John, ’89, cast as Ampelisea, slave to Labrax, a keen, never dormant sense of the comic. Ampelisca was consistently” funny. As she’ gave them, good lines and poor ones were equally good comedy. If. we pick any one place in the play as a highlight, we must pick the scene in which she and the heroine Paelestra, hunt for each other on the beach. Ampelisca’s girlish~cries”and léaps were really a Continued on Page Two _ COLLEGE CALENDAR © ' Thursday, November 10.— Miss Frances Perkins and the Rt. “Hon, Margaret‘ Béndfiéla” * will: speak on The Relation of Government to Organized Labor. Goodhart, 8.20. Friday, November 11.—Ar- mistice Day. , Rose Terlin will ‘speak. Goodhart, 8330 a. m. Discussion, 9-10 a. m. Sunday, November 13.—Rex Clements_ will speak in. Chapel... Music Room,. 7.30. : Tuesday, November 14.—Con- cours Oratoire.” Wednesday, -November 15.— Current Events, Mr. Fenwick.. Common Room, 7.30.. Paul Eliot bal native Theatre .in America. Goodhart, - 8.20. Monday, November 21.—Sec- ~ ond Shaw lecture by Judge Flor- ence Allen. Goodhart, 8.20. _ Tyesday, November 22.—Cur- rent Events, Mr.’ Fenwick. Com- “mon Room, 7.30. Wednesday, November 23.— Thanksgiving vacation begins. yield the role of villain in Flotsam and - : Page. Two Oo THE COLLEGE NEWS * “pes w (Founded THE COLLEGE NEWS in 1914) of Bryn Mawr College. Published weekly durthe the College Year (excepting during Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn \ The College News is fully protected ft may be reprinted. either wholly or in Editor-in-Chief. by copyright. Nothing that appears in part without written permission of the e s Edi ANNE us: XON, ’40 Betty Lee BELT, "41 Doris DANA, ’41 ELIZABETH DOopGE, ’41 Susie INGALLS, ’41 OLIVIA KAHN, ’41 t BarBaRA AUCHINCLOSS, *40 “ Business Manager CAROLYN SHINE, ’39 Nancy BusH, ’40 RuTH LEHR, ’41 Prccy Squiss, ’41 Raitorial Board Editor-in-Chief Mary R. MEIGs, ’39. Ass’t News Editor EMILY CHENEY, 40 Editors NANCY SIOUSSAT, Photographer Doris TURNER, ’39 Sports Correspondents Graduate Correspondent VIRGINIA PETERSON Business Board Assistants Subscription Board Manager ROZANNE PETERS, Copy Editor MARGARET MACG. OTIS, ’39 ELLEN MATTESON, ’40 RutTH McGovern, ’41 JANE NICHOLS, ’40 ELIZABETH PoPE, ’40 oo SHERWOOD, ’41 Prccy Lou JAFFer, ’41 Advertising Manager DoroTHY AVERBACH, ’40 ’40 ”40 LILLIAN. SEIDLER, NANCY SIOUSSAT, “ 40 BreTTy WILSON, ’40 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY MAILING PRICE, $3.00 BEGIN AT ANY TIME Entered as second-class matter - at the Wayne, Pa.,- Post Office Declaration of We are reminded by the imminence of mid-semesters that under- graduates are likely to overwork themselves on such occasions ; in fact, that our attitude to quizzes is indicative of our attitude to college work When one‘is on the verge of taking a quiz, it is hard to as a whole. believe that marks are unimportant ; Mawr, but unless we do, we will start rating ourselves according to our standing in relation to other people, and nothing could be more artificial or more dangerous. To prevent this, we would suggest a philosophy of work based on the fact that in our four years at than we will ever be again. instead of either duty or rivalry. school-days when studying was unpleasant and was done to please our parents by getting good marks, and everybody else. It takes a little while to realize that at college we are studying to please ourselves and that the criterion’ we set up js unchanged by Moreover, here more than elsewhere because of our inde- pendence, hard work should be accompanied by a pleasant sense of fulfillment instead of by a disagreeable sense of duty. any duty here, we would cease to be independent; if we do anything beeause we think it is our- duty, it no longer has any positive value. When we have set our criterion, we can refuse to be bound by any- Instead of working for marks we can work to derive the —ualtimate-benefit-or—pleasure-for_ ourselves, marks. thing else. _ If we try to set up some kind of individual criterion, we find ourselves adhering to a Pateresque fullness of life Independence it is hard ever to believe it at Bryn college we are more independent Both the latter are relics of our above all to get better marks than If there were a In Philadelphia Aldine: A Man To Remember, the story of a country doctor. Arcadia: Marie Antoinette, a his- torical drama with Norma Shearer and Tyrone Power. Boyd: The Citadel, with Rosalind Russell and Robert Donat. The screen version of A. J. Cronin’s Bee of al. physician, . Earle: , Broadway Musketeers, a melodrama with. Margaret Lindsay “and Ann Sheridan. -- Europa:. Grand Illusion, with Eric von Stroheim, Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnay. < Fox: Brothe? Rat, a romantic com- edy with Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane. ~ Kariton: You Can’t Take It With You, comedy with Jean Arthur, Lio- nel Barrymore and.Mischa Auer. _ Keith’s: There Goes My Heart, with Frederic March and Patsy Kelly. ~-----News; No Man Of Her Own, com- og ‘edy with Clark Gable and_Cafole. Lome" bard. ’ » Suburban Movies Ardmore: Wednesday, Thursday, a Friday, Saturday, Too Hot To Han-/ with Myrna’ Loy and Clark Gable. +1928-29. He has also written” weveraly Thursday, Friday and Saturday, The Ritz Brothers, in Straight, Place and Show. 6 Paul Green to Speak On Theatre in America F : Continued from Page One Library have been placed on reserve on. the table in the New. Book.Room. Mr. Green’s plays are specially inter- esting in their use of native American subjects of. social importance, ang in their imaginative. treatment. A native of North Carolina and a graduate of its university, where he is now Pro- fessor of Philosophy, he has written about Southern farmers, share crop- ers, and negroes. A former soldier himself, he has written about Ameri- can soldiers and peace in, the play Johnny Johnson, recently produced by the Group Theatre in New York. Other well-known plays of his are In Abraham's Bosom, Which in 1926 re- ceived the: Pulitzer Prize for. Drama, and Ther House of Connelly, prodticed! by the New York Theatre: Guild jn novels. Barn- Frail Marked | Interclass Hockey There will be interclass hockey games next Thursday, Novem- ber 10, at 4 p. m, On the fol- - lowing Thursday the winners will meet in the final competi- tion. Dr. Salmony Speaks On Archaic Bronzes . Continued from Page One a called “thread patterns.” Many b from animal formations/there was abstract ornament with the spiral mo- tif predominating, but vegetative ornament never appears. All this ornament was symbolic, re- ligious in character, and, as is to be expected with an agricultural race, principally concerned with natural phenomena, ° fertility and reproduc- tion. The upper part of handles were commonly in the shape of an animal mask - spitting out its tongue, while the lower part was made up of a bird whose head fitted in the ani- mal’s mouth. Only two patterns were possible on the tongue: one signify- ing water and the other the cicada, the symbol of reincarnation. The design stands for darkness, spitting out fertility. The body of the vessel was usually covered with composite animals and abstract symbolic designs, such as the cowrie shell, which was the sign of the female. sex. This ab- straction was made necessary by the complication and ritualization of the art, and the quantities of ornaments forced into so small a space. In 1100 B. C. the art of Anyang dynasty, which came from Shensi Prowince and destroyed Anyang. The center of art was moved to their capi- tal, Feng, and remained there until 771 B. Cy The first five kings tried to imitate the Anyang art, and their bronzes are hardly distinguishable from the earlier ones, except that they are heavier and bolder. This. Early Chou work was, how- ever, more cruel and brutal than that of Anyang or Cheng. It was more robust in treatment and architectural in shape. Instead of a regular se- quence of meanders and spirals, they are used decoratively, in a devitalized manner, as if thetartist were begin- ning to forget their symbolism. The inscriptions are more complicated, and}: the surface is broken by animals and hooked phlanges, making Early Chou almost baroque in character. After 950, the central power broke down almost completely. The result was that bronzes tend to lose most of their religious significance and _be- come impoverished, ornamented with vitalized animals, horizontal grooves and broad figured bands with simple patterns. This style is known as Mid- dle Choy. It lasted until about 600 B. C. Middle Chou was succeeded by Late Eastern Chou, which was . almost purely an art of jewelry rather than ritualistic representation. It ‘used interlaced ornaffiental forms, inlaid with gold and silver and almost with- ‘out animal symbolism. At the same time, highly. naturalistic. statues . of animals and men begin to appear. The final period of archaic ‘bronzes was the ‘Han period, which -began about 200 B. C. and lasted until 200 A. D. The vessels retain their fa- miliar shapes but are much simplified and almost unornamented. What symbolism is left is of an easy fairy- tale nature. The art of bronze cast- ing has entirely ceased to be religious and has become an applied and prac- Vian) art. EXPANSION OF POOL _ACTIVITIES. PLANNED} ( Especially | contributed by Anne ‘Wight, ’39 ‘2 This year swimming - Bryn Mawr’ s , King of Alcatraz, with Gail Patrick and Lloyd Nolan. Monday| and Tuesday, Garden of ‘the Moon, with Pat O’Brien and Margaret. Lind- say. Seville: Wednesday and Thaxeday, Sonja Henie in My Lucky Star. Fri- The trail. leading to the barn is now marked. It -begins at the corner of Gulf Road and Roberts Road by the cemetery. The markers are aluminum-col- ored metal triangles which spe- cifically indicate direction. In the near future the marking of | the best route to Valley Forge Rae be completed, : thas gone in for novelty; a new in-| structor, a new type of meet and new opponents for the varsity... Slow-mo- tion movies of Olympic Diving have already been shown on the campus. _ This winter the varsity plans to have telegraphic meets. with Vassar and-one. or two. other colleges. Try- outs, will’ be at the Gym on Tuesday, November 15, at either 4.30 or 5.00 Pp. .m. wav id indiana 9 ee a the surface, or designs of slightly|; onzes had lacquer inlay. Aside} was succeeded by that of the Chou! beautiful decorative shtipes, teeming, ; WITS END| DON JUAN (Canto XVII continued) Juan had caught a cold; he felt quite sick, : The fruits of Lantern Night~ and victory. He couldn’t even thi Ulum he planned have, so weak was he. He went to see Miss Gryphon. “Well, poor chick You have a terhp.,”’ she said in sym- pathy. Juan decided that a heart superior Fluttered beneath Miss Gryphon’s dark exterior. It is not wise to struggle or—corinive Against the inf.; you must be recon- ciled. Juan with Hitler instincts still alive, Found himself treated like a back- ward child. (I’d like to see a~ dictator complex thrive Ts Down in that atmosphere of mercy mild.) “From now on,’ murmured “when I’m weary, © I shall be leerier of Dr. Leary.” Juan, “Who’s going to be my professional model? _ Lavender, Miss Lagoon, * Munch?” A nurse came in, armed with a du- bious bottle. “Here are some pills.” “Swallow,” he asked; “or crunch?” “Swallow,” she said severely. fect twaddle, Who ever heard of soda _ before lunch?” Alas, more here than siiiatinge: it would seem, Time is the fleeting shadow of a dream. or, Dr. Per- air; (No one ‘was looking.) Miss La- goon went by. Suddenly feeling very debonair, He .waved his arms and shouted loudly, “Hi!” “My dear Don Juan, where’s your savoir faire?” Said Miss Lagoon, and added with a sigh, “Whoever through an open window hollers, Is automatically fined five dollars.” e “Listen,” he said in utter desperation, “Help me get out of here, tonight, at ten. I’m in the most unmanly situation; . Taylor has need of me, she is a fen Of stagnant students, needing stimu- A lation.” “Well,” Miss Lagoon said, “The con- ceit of men. Certainly not; you might as easily wheedle A camel through the eyelet of a nee- dle.” (To be continued) * Ludiones Give Fourth Comedy From Houtus Guatiiies from Page One triumph. , Terry Ferrer had a most appealing part which, because of a sprained ankle, she was obliged to play with a crutch. She was Gripus, Daemones’ fisherman slave, who turns up at the right time with a large trunk in his fishing net. He plans to buy his free- dom with its contents, but since it turns out to be the trunk which La- brax has lost, poor Gripus gets none of it. While he still cherished his illu- sions, however, he sang to.the tune of Am I alone and unobserved, -a wistful "| little song. climaxed with these lines: “I’ve been thinking out with pleasure. |_ How I’m going to spend my leisure, Buy a house upon a hill, And ’round it build a city, And make it very pretty, ° a ‘And call it Gripusville.” moving spirit of the Ludiones. _ | quite skillful. time. Miss Ely Interviewed On Democratic Party + Continued from Page One joy today.” The Democrats will con- tinue their efforts to make more and more secure the lives of those who “for so many: years have suffered insecurity . through no fault of their own.” “The efforts already made in this di- ‘rection have, Miss Ely said, accom- plished remarkable results’ for the length of time they have been in ef- fect. The accusations of graft made by the Republicans amusé Miss Ely, for she recalls\the years under the Republican controf of the State, For instance, the Republicans fought the use of the voting machine for many years until finally the Democrats -pushed through the necessary legisla- tion in .the interest of honest elec- tions. The Democrats. came into power when the relief need was 4€ its: high- est and when the State, counties, and towns realized the expense could not be met without outside aid. “As ja result of the depression following Hoover’s administration,” Miss Ely. explained, the State had had to spend three billion dollars, an average of over 450 million a year. The county and poor relief taxes in one year, at that time, amounted only to 119 mill- ion and, if the additional money re- quired for relief had had to be raised within the State, taxes would have been increased to four times the orig- inal amount. The Republicans in their denuncia- Continued on Page Three who appeared at the beginning of the second act. After a song to the tune of I am the captain of the Pinafore, _ they were hailed by Trachalio. His flippancy did not impress them, but when he ‘said: “How’s tricks? How’s Davy_ Jones been treating. you?” the first fisherman was moved to reply stolidly: ‘“Nobody’s treating us. Juan had raised his window for more\.We’re starving to death.” Having fur- ‘|ther vouchsafed that they had seen no one, they went off to reappear no more. Listed humbly at the bottom of the program as “Faculty Adviser, Agnes K. Lake, ’80,”’ Miss Lake was the Her job could not be described accurately because of its unbounded. nature. Among other things, she was director, advisor, cogitator and harmonizer in general. Costuming was. nonchalant and Daemones would prob- ably have been in character in a bath- ing suit, but his costume was in itself a nice bit of character interpretation. +The scenery, in the best Latin play tradition, relied mostly for effect upon labels. Somewhere between the audi- ence_and the stage, we read, lay the Mediterranean, and by a sign'a great rock was designated in the middle of the stage. Arcturus, played by Vir- ginia Nichols, ’41, climbed to the sky on a ladder, the top of ‘which« was labeled Sky. Other members of the cast who de- serve special mention are: Doris Dana, ’41, as Sceparnio, a crochety |old slave of Daemones; Camilla Riggs, ’40, as the lovely Palaestra; Ptolemio- cratia, the suitably abstracted. and 7} lofty. priestess of Venus, played by Rosemary Sprague, ’41. One of the main reasons for the success of the Ludiones. seemed tg, be that they were having as much fun as the characters they were repre- senting, and most of Plautus’ char- acters do seem to be out for a geod Another reason is the excel- lence of the English version of the play, which was flavorful and full of amusing modern idiom without being overloaded with slang for incongrui- ty’s sake. : D. H. C. Slaves of the French Oral! How many ‘faux pas’ did you notice in the advertisements of © . last week’s News? Mauch to our » confusion .we find. that we maligned the Maison Adolphe - Ps =+—Through--Trachalio’s -doing, Gripus soon loses his trunk and confides gloom- | ily to the audience as he polishes’ a rusty spit: “You people needn’t think you’re going to see a living Gripus this evening if I don’t get back that trunk.” He doesn’t, but he does get ‘his freedom, although ‘he is not _ in the least placated ‘thereby. A very engaging group was ‘the | _|chorus of the Fisherman of Cyrene, et calling their Mr. John, Mn Jabu. Rene Marcel, however, i appalled at our boners: we called him Rene Marce; and‘*| — _ we spelled “ffancais,” ‘“frai- cais”’ . “votre,” “votie”; and “appelez,” “appelz”! With apolo- gies all around, we shall retire - to the nearest .French cpanel ary. THE COLLEGE NEWS CURRENT EVENTS ( Gisiuad a Mr. “Wiiasiak? Just to see what might happen let us imagine the Republican Party win- ning an overwhelming victory in the elections. The Federal Deposit Insurance would not be abolished because of the great protection it affords against runs on banks. The C. C. C. and the A. A. A. would remain, although Kansas and Idaho are divided in opin- ion concerning the A. A. A. “The Republicans won’t lessen the amount of Farm Relief by one dollar, but will probably change its form.” They question a form of farm relief which can find no better means of meeting the problem of over-production than by ploughing under the wasted crops. They would probably increase the amount of conservation relief rather than change it. The policy is to pay the farmers to change from soil erod- ing crops to soil conserving crops. Both the P. W. A. and the W. P. A.. will ‘have to go, as the Republican Party regards them as “superfluous” expenditures. With them old age in- surance would disappear, although unemployment insurance would prob- ably be retained. The National Labor Relations Board would go, ‘since it is-.considered by most Republicans to be unfair to the employer. Immediate injunctions against. sit-down strikes would be put into effect. The government, in its turn, would be restrained from competing with the utilities, as it now does under the T.. V. A. Miss Ely Interviewed On Democratic Party Continued from Page Two tion of the use of Federal funds seem to forget this. Through Federal aid, Miss Ely pointed out, Philadelphia has at last gotten under way a 65-million - dollar program to rebuild and increase the public institutions which the Re- publicans had allowed to become “criminally outmoded and inadequate.” Pennsylvania was the forty-fifth state of the union to take over county and municipal institutions caring for the mentally ill, and this long overdue legislation was finally. accomplished by the Democratic législature. ‘Not only has this piece of legisla- tion meant an increase in efficiency and a cleaning up of graft, but it has also greatly decreased the cost of gov- ernment in the counties and municip- alities. In this way local taxes will be reduced and greater efficiency as- sured. For Philadelphia, another ad- vance in efficiency of government and prevention of graft. is the legislation providing for a city charter to be voted on in the 1939 Legislature. Recently New York has finally acquired a com- parable charter. A really startling achievement of the Democrats is the measure which places the Public Assistance Depart- ment under the civil service with the merit system. This department, with approximately 5000 employees, might have provided a rich source for pat- ronage, and Democratic legislation shows an enormous advance over that of former administrations. No_ one, Miss Ely said, who has not tried tg secure for Philadelphia a better gof- ernment can have any idea of the cour- age, sincerity and hard work these measures have demanded from the Governor and his associates. — The labor laws, and through them the workers’ conditions, have also been improved. Indeed in no State of the Union have as many favorable and lib- eral measures been passed by a leg- islature in as short.a timé as: has been done by the present Pennsylvania ad- ministration. And the budget has been balanced despite all these addi- Continued on Page Four rs Meet your friends at... THE GREEK’S ’ Bryn Mawr next to Theatre Tasty Grill Sandwiches, Refreshments Philadelphia Cricket Club Defeats Varsity Miss Elliott, All-American Goal, Gives Pointers to Bryn Mawr Team On Saturday, November 5, the Philadelphia Cricket Club hockey team defeated the Bryn Mawr Varsity, 5-0. In spite of the decisive score the Bryn Mawr team played one of the best games of its season. Not only has the greater part of the Philadelphia team played together for several years, but it also includes top ranking players of the United States. Two of its members were on the U. S. team tour- ing Australia in 1937, two more were chosen for the Southeast team last year, and Miss Strebeigh and Miss El- liott have been All-Americans for a number of years, Miss Elliott playing goal. Fifteen fouls were called on Bryn Mawr in the first. half in contrast to Philadelphia’s five. The Cricket Club team took excellent advantage of the free shots>thus gained and kept the ball in the Bryn Mawr half.:of the field most of the time, scoring four points. In the second half Bryn Mayr reduced her number of penal- ties greatly, there was'a far evener distribution of the ball on the field, and Philadelphia scored once. The Bryn Mawr team played well together. Both the side halves, Mar- shall and Waples, backed up the for- HAVE YOU | SEEN OUR CHRISTMAS SHOP? 778 LANCASTER AVE. BRYN MAWR Richard Stockton Excellent Lunches 35c; Dinner 50c-60c ward attack forcefully. The fullbacks handled the ball well, but were not as clever in marking their opponents as. the Philadelphia backs. The Bryn Mawr wings, both fast, were bothered by a new experience— their inability to outrun the Philadel- phia. halves. Miss Elliott commented on the fine flat passes by the Bryn Mawr for- wards but felt these plays could be more mixed. She said that the hard- est play for a goalkeeper to break up was an attack of the goal by a for- ward ‘keeping ball very close to her stick. The game gave her occa- sion to demonstrate how a goalkeeper can time her interference to catch a ball dribovled too hard. Although there was little doubt as to the outcome, it was a fine game, with much good hockey. The teams were: BRYN MAWR PHILADELPHIA nds Wintnnk 4 Yc sky Fehr WOADOCK 6% bee's Volvos cede cas Boyd Woolsey ........¢.f... Merryweather SPORT Page Three | POONOE Facets cs Wisvvinvieec Kirk ear L. Wecscrecss ieee WEDS. vc cecus ae ae .. Humphrey BGO fi vices one a me . Strebeigh Marenall ......5 Ei, css . 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NERVES A REST. os RE these busy, trying days for you? .. tress. signals of our. nerves—the.instinc- Do you find yourself, at day’s end, tive urge to rest. So often, we let our irritable, nerve:weary? Take a moment will-power drive us on at a task, hour —study the dog above. He’s resting his after hour, heedless of nerve tension. ee nerves. Even in the midst of strenuous You don’t want your nervous system action-he will stop, relax. The dog does ‘to be a drag. See what a difference it that instinctively, though his nerves are makes when you rest your nerves regu- complex, high-keyed like our own. larly—when you LET UP—LIGHT UP. We, trained for the intense contest of A CAMEL. Fajoy the matchless mildness modern life, are likely to ignore the dis- of Camel’s rich, ripe tobaccos. i : . ° . | ’ Break Nerve Tension as Millions do — 3 “LET UP__LIGHT UP A CAMEL” A QUARTER-MILLION EDDIE CANTOR oa ity ina riot of miles of flying are be- ees cq Pe Monday evening.” ~ hind Mis. Ally Sisson a Americs’s 80%" sng. Each Monday £o 9: 5 ' pores Ke fan, music, an@ SON 7:30 pm E>. os. (left),-air hostess on é : dn oie tg TA deat TWA’s “Sky Chief.” re pan CE. N- -She says: “Caring for’ MA ‘ V. ; BENNY GooD and the world’s reat passengers is a rea King of Swing, 2 exening over strain on the nerves, pi se band—each oe B.S.T., 8:30 butI keep awaynerve ‘R aes reN EO! Ye TORE Settee 6:30 Pm s.T. tension by pausing aed pmC.S-T+,7 —when-I-can._I_let_up — and a up a Camel.” ae e «Page. Four ‘THE COLLEGE NEWS Entertainment Series Planned by Committee Continued from Page One brought to Pittsfield when her teacher, Kathleen Parlow, was given the first violin chair in the South Mountain Quartet. During the first summer, she had a chance to play at the Berk shire Symphonic Festival. She was 1 sensation and as a result was allowed to give a concert in the ‘Pittsfield Audi- *torium. Two years ago she was greet- ed enthusiastically by critics and audi- ence alike when she made her debut in the New York Town'Hall. ~ The last in the series will be Carl Sandburg, “lecturer, poet, trouba- dour.” Some of his best-known works ’ are: Potato Face, Chicago Poems and the first part of his Abraham Lincoln —The Prairie Years. J. Frank Dobie says of him, “There never was a Thinker or Poet easier to talk with or to get to talk alone. That is part- ly because of his eagerness to taste life and understand it and partly be- cquse-of his sympathy for other peo- ple, coupled with a respect—a respect profound, mysterious in itself, yet ele- mentally simple—for the dignity of human life” The series is chosen sicaheabiiai for the interest of the undergraduates. The Entertainment Committee is made up of two representatives from each hall, the President of the Undergradu- ate Association, and the Editor of the News. It is appointed yearly by Mrs. ‘Chadwick-Collins with the help of the President of the Undergraduate Asso- ciation. All seats are reserved. Single seats may be bought before each perform- ance, but the prices will be much high- er. Prices for the series are as fol- lows: nine dollars for the front sec- tion, eight dollars through the first three rows of the back section, seven dollars to row AA, and five dolla: from AA to the back and the balcony. The total charge can. be divided be. tween four Pay Days, beginning in December. Sdiemes School Work . Analyzed by Members -Continued from Page One ios Schools and that of Bryn awr, which was started in 1921 by Miss Thomas and Mrs. William Smith. This was first built on a basis of purely intellectual advance- ment, but later the program was al- ~tered to fit the more immediate needs of the girls. The Summer § School *—lasses are what the girls make them since the- educational board is fifty See? | WINETTE COSMETICS THEY’RE DIFFERENT -~“THEY’RE- BETTER BECAUSE THEY’RE PURE Representative on Campus NANCY SIOUSSAT per cent representative of the workers. The work they do is the work they have asked for. It is one of the policies of the school to have one half of the mem- bers union girls and one ‘half. non- union, At first it was difficult to get union members, but now the situation has. been reversed. In the beginning the idea was that “the workers must know of the imminent changing social industrial order if they intend to par- ticipate in shaping the new order.” Miss Fairchild, brought out the fact that in 1923 the phrasing of this was altered in that the word “changing” was omitted. Sophie Friede, from Denmark, talked on the contrast between her country and America, and the marked differ- ence there is in the interest given to workers’ education. ..The. Americans show little enthusiasm for education, while in Denmark there is a marked demand for intellectual development.. For about.a century, workers’ educa- tional system has gradually material- ized. The schools are not based on propaganda as they are here and are not political instruments. This rise of interest among the Danish for edu- cation and for better ways of living has turned them into a less _self- centered people. The girls who have been to Summer School have since taken a much more active part in the different organiza- tions which concern them. ‘Summer Schools reach the real leaders of communities, but further work thust be done to reach the ‘‘choosers” of the leaders. Education must be made still more widespread, and even great- er interest must be aroused if the American workers are fully to realize their share in the working out of de- mocracy. Leading Toxicologist Gives Lurid Lecture Continued from Page Ona termine death by drowning, death in the présence of carbon monoxide, and death from volatile substances: Before Mr. Gettler devised. his HENRY B. WALLACE Caterer and Confectioner DINING ROOM Estimates given- 22 and 24 Bryn Mawr. Avenue Bryn Mawr, Pa. es GREEN HILL FARMS City Line and Lancaster Avenue Ardmore 3600 A reminder that we would like to take care of your parents and friends, whenever they come to visit you. For reservations: C. GEORGE CRONECKER 37 Pembroke East QUESTION: Why Do You Like Penit? WHERE ASKED: Almost Any Campus ANSWERS: Oo PUNDIT. Phi Bate: FLU/DITY ENABLES ME TO EXPRESS MY MOST FUGITIVE REFLECTIONS 2 oz. bottle, 15¢ with chamois p FLORA aaa DAUB, Ar? Mayor: PENIT HAS SUCH A BEE-YEW-TIFUL BLUISH GREEN COLOR AND | ADORE THE BOTILE DESIGN! PENIT? OW. SURE. 2) IT WAS A CINCH FOR THE YANKS! = method, all corpses found in water were “drowned.” In 1918 Mr. Gettler found that the salt content of the blood that' has just come. from the water-filled lungs is different rom that of the normal’ blood. The water stops the heart-action before all the blood van be diluted. An analysis of the blood in the two sides of the heart Shows whether there is more salt than normal—drowning in salt water—or less—drowning.in fresh. If there is no difference the conclusion is either that the victim drowned in a tidal river or that he had stopped breath- ing before entering the water. ‘In the latter case further clues would be~in- vestigated. Mr. Gettler explained the delicate method by which as little as three tile substance, can be extracted from the brain for analysis. He told ofstwo men who were found dead in a. base- ment with a number of open cans of an inflammable rubber cement. Each had a five and two tens in bills wrapped neatly in his pocket. They had been hired as arsonists but their fuel had asphyxiated them before they could light the fire. In citing cases of death-from clegpsing fluids he warned his audiengé o avoid them but to use the a_ well-ventilated room. : Mr. Gettler’s methods are satisfac- tory for the city of New York and for ‘the adjacent communities which consult him.. There are, however, few other cities which have up-to-date ar- ALBRECHT’S FLOWERS ARDMORE, PA. 12 Lancaster Avenue Tel. Ard. 2850 drops of ether, or any similar vola-| rangements for determining the causes of sudden deaths. of ‘present-day coroner’s reports Cleveland, Ohio. dead.” Another, “this could be as- sault or diabetes.” “23135: found in alley. Lobar pneumonia.” In New York, until the establishment of the post of Medical Examiner in 1918, the list of the 65 coroners since 1898 in- cluded eight undertakers, two plumb- ers, one milkman, one butcher. Of the 18 physicians on this list, none were in good standing in their profession. The, definition of the coroner system, said Mr. Gettler, is “active ignorance,”’ He read from a list in Miss Ely Interviewed On Democratic Party Continued from Page Three tional improvements and relief costs. The feat becomes almost a miracle when one recalls the debt of 65 million inherited from.the Pinchot ‘adminis- tration. According to the Democratic plat- form these efforts to establish fair taxation, to economize in governmental costs by thorough study and applica- tion of modern methods, to improve public institutions and to better the “Case 22964: Found laborer’s conditions will be continued in the future. The aid given now to the farmers in the marketing of their goods and the attempt to solve the’coal probfem will also be carried further by the Democrats. Miss Ely believes we should: “try to discover whether or not all the people are receiving the benefits that should be available under a democ- racy.”. She considers ignorance and indifference about the conditions under which the great majority of our-people live ‘to be the most dangerous\idis- ease” of a democracy. : Miss Ely concluded by saying that she believes that this great majority of the people are’ “aware of” and “orateful for’ the attention their problems have received from the Presi- dent. and the Governor of Pennsylva- nia. She then quoted the remark, “Everyone seems to..be against» the President except the electors!” E. Foster Hammonds, Inc. 4 # - Radios Music 0} @ Records 829 Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr Breakfast Lunch MEET YOUR FAuENDS The Bryn Mawr College tea Room for a SOCIAL CHAT AND RELAXATION Hours of Service: 7.30 A. M.—7.30 P. M. 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