Page Six ~~ THE COLLEGE NEWS ” 4 7 | LEAGUE NOTES - - | The ‘sale of Grenfell articles this’ year eovered a period of six weeks in- stead of the usual two, but conversely the net result was less than ‘last year. Since this is true also of the Grenfell Shop iM Philadelphia, that. news i# not as discouraging as it appears. The falling off is attributed to . the lack of Labrador weather. A suni of over $100 was “made this year: As always, the League is in need of more help in the shape of volunteers among the undergraduates. for. its various activities. This is especially true of the Americanization Commit- tee, headed by Catherine Richards, ’°39, which has been. robbed: of two. active members by the*French Club play. Eight people. are required and . she ‘hopes that ‘two’ volunteers will “. eome forward to replace those who are not strayed but stolen. The Haverford Community Center has been functiéning with the help of WPA workers, but students who can plan their time: to go regularly are ‘still needed. The chairman, Virginia Hessing, ’38, is counting on the help of the freshmen once the, Show is a thing of the past. The new. chairman ,of~ the Blind School, Jane Braucher, ’39, reports that so far the work has been very successful. A special effort is to be made this year to continue the reading to the blind up to the last passible minute before the final examination ose as ‘ Report Entertainments! The P-+anwit-g—Committee _ wishes to remind all under- graduates who are presenting atty type of public entertain- ment on the campus that they must report to a member of the Committee. A Faculty at Large. Dean Manning left Monday, Febru- pary 15, to attend the meetings of the National Association of Deans of Wemen in New Orleans and will go from there to Washington for meet- ings of the Alumnae Council on Feb- ruary 25, 26 and 27. Miss Dorothy Walsh, of the Depari- ment of Philosophy, has had The Philosophical Implications of Histor- ical Enterprise in the February 4 is- sue of the Journal-of Philosophy. period. The Maids’ Activities, under Elea- rior Taft, ’39, will be concentrated on the play under the direction of Huldah Cheek, ’38, but classes are held for them now in knitting and gymnasium work. . One maid is anxious for music lessons, but it has not ‘as yet’ been possible to Srange this. The Bryn Mawr Camp fund was materially increased by the proceeds of the Square Dance on Friday. The Committee, headed by Mary Eliza- beth Reed, ’37, assisted by Anne Ferguson, ’39, cleared between 45 and 50 dollars. oye ti imma am Theater Review “Maxwell Anderson’s Tlié “Masque of Kings is a good play, well acted, which \moves to a powerful conclusion, al- though the direction which the trag- edy is to take is not clear unt1 late in the action. The play is essentially the personal tragedy of Rudolph, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian. Empire and the destruction of his ideal. _ Partly from the disinterestedhess of this ideal, which is to rule with jus- tice and tolerance for all, and partly from a _ poetical standpoint without ever losing, dramatic power, the play derives.a certain dignity which. adds to its tragedy. « This personal tragedy involves the empire, personified by the Emperor ,and Empress, and in an entirely dif- erent way, by Rudolph’s mistress. It is the presentation of the separate goals of these three secondary people ning. The first thought presented in Empress to leave the Empire to a capable heir, and the second is Ru- dolph’s superficial desire to escape all responsibility and to_live only for his Reb, The central theme, Rudolph’s ideal, enters when he is persuaded to revolt against his father to seize the crown. The second act ends with the material success of this plan. The fact that his‘ideal still awaits trial i is somewhat obscured by the fact from its language, which is very fine | | wipe out. opposition—that any man in which weakens the play at the begin- the. play is. that of the Emperor and | New History Society Offers Essay Prizes ae" Subject is Lisarmament be Achieved?” ‘In the belief that the silent popula- tion of the earth has been too long acquiesent, the New History Society| is offering the’sum total of ‘five thou- sand dollars to the entire population of. the globe for the best papers of not more than two thoysand words, on the subjcet: ‘How Can the People of the .World Achieve’ oo Dis- almament?”’ The prizes offered are as follows: First world prize ...1,000 dollars cessor seems to be fulfilled. To hold his position with any. degrée of safety, Rudolph realizes he must ruthlessly his or his father’s position must be a tyrant in order to maintain security. He refuses to accept this imposed condition. and gives tp the revolt. His one remaining support—love—is knocked from under him on’ discover- ing that his mistress ‘was first sent to him by -his father as a spy on his activities. His mistress, who depended entirely on his love, kills herself when he loses faith in her. Rudolph refuses to re- turn to. cqurt as the heir, to join the “masque of kings,” and completes his death, which has already been ‘“How Can Universal 2. League Election. The Bryn Mawr League takes _ pleasure in announcing“the elec- tion of Jane Braucher, ’39, as chairman of the Blind School Committee and Christie Golter, 39, as assistant. te 600 dollars 400 dollars Six continental prizes of two hun- Second world prize.. _ Third world prize.. dred dollars each will be awarded ' for the best papers respectively from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Mexico, South and Cen- tral America and North America. with no restriction as to age, nation- ality, race or religion and regardless of academic or educational affiliations. 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