pkiabetaeecnene ied aneeeennaeeedtnearaeentoeseet Page Six THE ca NEWS A PR PTR Manning Questions Brn Mawrons’ Wit & Woo, Kind Martinets Pirouette Within Roman Garden. Continued from Page 5 She 3 referred to “The greasy grinds who con their books”, the dance addicts who “jitter cheek to jow!”, ead the unhappy extremes, “No wit, all woo” and “all wit, no woo”. The two spirits, Miss de Laguna in the mummy case and Mr. Adams in the birdcage, sus- tained the pace of the skit with their clever and highly rational re- marks. The Prairie Division of Com- parative Literature consisted of the translation of “Home on the Range” into various languages and accompanying national dances by the appropriate professors. Mrs. Nahm amalgamated the scene. Mr. ‘Watson as an engaging cowboy with his horse Peggy (Mr. and Mrs. Pese) first sang the original version of the song. Then Mr. Po- litzer in Lederhosen sang, “Da- heim, auf der Alm” and did a live- ly Bavarian dance. Miss Esteves danced gracefully to the rhythm of; castanets and longed to be “Hogar én al campo”. Miss deGraaf as a Cossack sang, “Kolkhoz, kolkhoz na stepiakh”; and Mr. MacGregor in kilts executed a beautiful High- land Fling, after expressing a wish} ‘to be “Hame, hame on the brae”, As a glamorous chanteuse, Miss Bree sang, “Chez moi, chez moi dans la prairie”, and they all unit- ed under the direction of Miss Lang as a Bryn Mawr Lantern Girl. After an eight-minute spring va- cation, the audience watched a wel- come repeat from the last faculty show, “Spring in a Roman Gar- den”, with Miss Clayton, Mrs. Lat- timore, Mrs. Leblanc, and Mrs. Nahm as ballerinas pirouetting with stately Roman statues, Mr. Alwyne, Mr. Berliner, Mr. Berry, and Mr. Lattimore. Mrs. Marshall as the nonchalant prima ballerina danced with a bust of Aeschylus - with hands that belonged to Mr. Sloane. The whole scene seemed to be a mixture of beauty and sub- tle, wonderful satire, which could have been repeated nine times over. One of the stars of the show was undisputedly Mr. Dudden, who ap- peared with Mr. Parker between acts as the epitome of academic fashion, and with a complete dead- pan and doleful gaze portrayed the mournful professor who never could do anything right. As “The glass of fashion and the mould of form”, the third leg at a cocktail party, the bored, twitching, and itching professor. in academic garb, Mr. Dudden was superb. The semi-octangle, Mr. Soper, Mr. Morris, and Mr. Leblanc, also provided the faculty show with hil- arious touches. Long to be remem- bered is Mr. Leblanc pouncing on the cymbals with clenched fists, jumping up and down beside the big bass viol, and as Little May Day; Mr. Morris’ gripping emo- or and humorous delivery. never to be forgotten is Broughton’s brief stroll across the lee oeine 6 ety SnD sk y eee on a note of hi- larity, when eight professors, clad in white, pranced down the aisle and danced around the Maypole. Special credit must be given to the acconipanists, Jane Horner, ‘61, Mr. Alwyne, and Mr. Bern- heimer; the students Anne Laid- law, ‘52, and Jill McAnney, ’52, who assisted with lighting and make-up respectively; the other student members of the stage grew, Ann Blaisdell, Helen Dobbs, and Janet Leeds; the. Ticket Sales Committee; and all others con- nected with the show in any ca- pacity. A wonderful feeling possessed everyone in the audience Saturday night, to see the faculty produce such a marvelous show, to buy balloons from Mr. Gilbert with his big red tie, his straw hat, and tre- mendous laundry bag, and popcorn from Miss Bree, and to realize that this was the Bryn Mawr faculty working enthusiastically for two wonderful causes: the purchase of the Scull property and the enter- tainment of their friends, their students, and themselves. All-Beethoven Concert Has Clarity and Finesse Continued from Page 3 hands meant something, and the change in his style from sweeping arm movements to barely percep- tible motions of his forefinger was a revealing demonstration of how he made the Philadelphia Orches- tra one of the foremost in the world. The fourth movement, in which the choral motive begins low in the bass violins, was stirring from the very beginning. When the baritone stands up and announces: “Freunde, nicht diese Tone”, your excitement grows intense and is not relieved until long after the last notes have died away. The soloists, professionals all, varied in musicianship. The baritone and contralto, Mack Harrell and Nan Merriman, were outstanding. The tenor was too sharp and the so- prano too weak, but together the four voices blended in a magnifi- ‘cent way that must have been in- tended by the composer. pure Manning Says Confusion Helps Passive Attitude Continued from Page 2 just as much the business of the faculty as is the problem of better lectures or textbooks. In part it may be that too many lectures, too massive a presentation of facts have whetted the apetitte for knowledge and killed initiative. But there are probably deeper rea- sons for the passive attitude of college students in the United States which are connected with the distractions of extra-curricu- lar activities and a general con- fusion about the purpose of a col- lege education. It used to be told of the first students of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Workers in Industry that if an instructor cut a class, his lodgings were be- seiged by indignant and insistent tions; and Mr. Soper’s lovely ter The Time Is Fine Right Now The Food is Good and How! The Hearth: Bi nstianiadl Cempliments of the HAVERFORD ‘PHARMACY Haverford, Pa. Sa! Wednesday, March 14, see 4 NSA ee =| Negro Enrollment oo NSA poll, taken earlier in the year, showed that a good ma- jority of Bryn Mawr students were in favor of encouraging qualified Negro students to apply. On the basis of this result, the NSA com- mittee is writing letters to pros- pective freshmen, telling them about Bryn Mawr. The National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students has sent us a list of Negro girls who are consider- ing applying to Bryn Mawr. If any student is interested in writ- ing such a letter to one of these gitls, please inform Jackie Lindau, Denbigh, immediately. The re- sults of the other questions asked on the poll will be reported later. Sheble Speech Features Poetry Critic E. Tillyard Continued from Page 1 ‘(An honorary member of the Modern Language Association of America, he is the author of many books on poetry, and several vol- umes on Shakespeare. The latter include Shakespeare’s Last Plays, Shakespeare’s History Plays, and Shakespeare’s Problem Plays, and she authoritative Elizabethan World Picture, a depiction of life in Shakespeare’s time. Mr. Tillyard is one of the leading critics of po- stry, and is credited with the re- discovery and editing of Wyatt’s poems in The Poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt. Some may iknow him through his work on the poetry of Milton, and the books The Miltonic Setting, Milton, and Milton’s Cor- respondence and Academic Exer- cises. Lamb’s Criticism, two vol- umes of Poetry Direct and Oblique, on the nature of poetry, and Five Poems, 1470-1870, help to show the diverse nature of Mr, Tillyard’s work, Juniors Choose Slate For UG Vice President Continued from Page 3 member of Chorus and the Chapel Committee; she is chairman of this year’s Junior Prom, a permission giver, secretary of the Spanish Club, and representative of the Spanish department on the Cur- riculum Committee. Nancy Alexander, who was an alternate for president of Under- grad, was manager of the fresh- man hall play and business man- ager of Freshman Show her fresh- man year; last year she was busi- hess manager of Maids’ and Por- ters’ Show, and class secretary. This year she has been Common Treasurer and in Junior Show. Paula Strawheeker starred in the Freshman Show as well as be- ing on its script committee in her freshman year. She has been on the NEWS staff and Board since the second semester of her fresh-| , man year. She headed Rockefeller Hall’s dance committee for 1950; next fall, she will assume the du- ties of copy editor of the NEWS. visitors wanting to know when the work would be made up. Such hunger for knowledge does not often survive in sophisticated circles but if even the vestiges of it remained it would produce a race of better teachers. Helen Taft Manning C. Pratt Finds Patterns Relate Art & Individual Continued from Page 1 percipient. Pratt maintained that there is present in the objective pattern of a work of art a quality which the percipient can recognize as anal- ogous to, or related by analogy- ogous to, or descriptive of, an emotional state or mood. Emotion and the work of art are related by analogy; musie sounds the way the various emotions feel. Pratt said that he believed that there are certain patterns common to the emotions of the individual organ- ism and works of art in auditory and visual fields. H. Manning Moderates Panel Talks on Russia Continued from Page 1 There are very dim chances of an easy peace. Both Russia and we think that this is not primary. There will be a continuous strug- gle between American and Russia to see who can gain the leadership in Europe and Asia. To maintain peace, the United States must have “active humanism” and “iron- nerved patience”. We should aid. Europe and Asia economically, raeher than emphasizing only mili- tary expansion. According to Dr. Horter, the Russians want to expand to sur- rounding lands, such as the Ruhr and the Dardanelles. They fear that a third world war would knock out Russia as the past wars killed .Germany, Italy, and France. They covet the balance of power which the United States controls. With a. constructive approach, we can make peace with Russia within the next five years. Mrs. Manning presented the “historical point of view”. Com- munism is a religion diffusing it- self over more territory than any religion has before. We can not “wipe away’ Communism, but must live with it. We can not de- stroy Communism as we destroy- ed facism. Communism is much more permanent than fascism ever was. In the future, we will have to tolerate people who have dif- ferent ideas than we do. Russia is expansionist and peace within the next five years is si improb- able. CALENDAR Continued from Page 1 Sunday, March 18, 1951. 7:15 p. m. Chapel, Rev. Harry Meserve. Monday, March 19, 1951. 4:00 p. m. Rev. Meserve will lead an informal discussion in the Common Room. 8:00 p. m. E. M. W. Tillyard of Cambridge will deliver the She- ble Memorial Lecture in Good- hart Hall. His subject will be “What Do We Really Get Out Of Shakespeare ?” Tuesday, March 20, 1951. 4:00 p. m. Debate with Bow- doin in the Common Room. 8:30 p. m. Vera Micheles Dean, Shaw Memorial Lecturer on “In- dia.” Wednesday, March 21, 1951.. 8:45 a. m. Marjorie Beckett, graduate student. Morning as- sembly on “Student Activities in the University of London”. ~ FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE || A biography based on private papers and letters never hefore ENGAGEMENTS Margaret B. Hunt, 53 to ‘Wil liam Landis. Nancy Martin, ’49 to David Mor-, gan-Grenville. MARRIAGE Martha Blankarn, ex-’51, Alexander — — Satiric Drama rama Unfolds Terrors of ‘Tom Thumb” Continued from Page 1 wing, under the coat-of-arms of a cow chewing a bone, is a large male figure, in‘ feminine under- wear; onstage, Queen Dollalolla is. “weighing her virtue against Tomi Thumb”, in soliloquy; before this, the Bailiff (Bob Reynolds). has just. delivered the speech of a dying man, with a veddy Briitsh accent! Then a break, and a discussion, Shall Suzie eat an apple at one point in the play? “A banana.” someone suggests. “Too gro- tesque!” “Popcorn?” “Can’t you see that face in a watermelon?” Then back to work. King Arthur (Bob Chase) enters with square padding showing through his regallyjrobed chest. An apolo- getic, “Sorry, I couldn’t get it off ‘in time.” Suddenly, the buxom Amazon Queen, Glumdalca (John to Kittredge) chases Tom Thumb around the stage, in and out of Ann Blaisdell’s lovely period set. “Miss Richardson, are you afraid of Ods’ Bods?” And so on and on, rehearsing, perfecting, correct- ing. It looks like a pretty good ‘thing for only 60 cents admission. Try Undergrad’s Fashion Show on for size! Come to the Ely Room, Wyndham, contrib- ute 50c to the DP Scholarship Fund, get tea, and gaze on the spring fashions. The time is 4:30 p. m., Thursday, March 15. Student Petition Seeks 3:30 Permission For All Continued from Page 1 sibility on the part of the students. It is hard to see any essential difference between signing out un- til 3:30 and not going to the dance, and going to the dance for five minutes thus obtaining a legal 8:30 signout. Indeed, the differ- ence seems to be only a matter lof having bought a ticket to the dance. Thus this Self-Govern- ment rule is governing financial matters. We do not believe that the dances would suffer from this revision since the people who enjoy dancing will still attend. As we see it, the only way to prevent. violation of this rule as it stands. would be to close the gym doors at. 1:30 and alow no one to leave be- fore 2:00. On those few weekends ‘lien. special permission is granted, we should like to see extended permis- sion for all, or at least some re- vision of this rule as it is now obviously inadequate.” -This petition is signed by sixty- five undergraduates. | | Special Invitation fer Spring Vacation You are invited ‘to visit a Katha- rine Gibbs School during your vacation. 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