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“Top Secret”

It is a kind of sadistic pleasure that one gets when she
sees the awful, omniscient professor, who grades her papers
and exams and tortures her with unanswerable questions
(especially when she is a little behind in her reading), cut-
ting capers on Goodhart stage. It isn’t often that we see the
faculty in the all-together (figuratively speaking), and we
have never before witnessed Miss Nepper dancing with a bust
of Aeschylus, nor Dr. Nahm in a strawberry blond wig, nor
Mrs. Manning buzzing around, unabashedly se that any
“old drone is good enough for her.”

However, it was not only sadistic pleasure that had us
laughing uproariously at the Faculty Show Saturday night;
this other side of the faculty really delighted us. We were
not aware that some of these artists were among us—rich
baritones and tenors, a coloratura soprano, premiers danseurs
and danseuses, and natural comedians. And, it was especial-
ly nice to meet some of the faculty wives for the first time
across the footlights.

There was a spontaneous, informal charm to the Fac-
ulty Show combined with a great amount of good fun so that
the performance was lively entertainment for outsiders as
: well as for the Bryn Mawr student. The faculty are to be
j congratulated for the success of this extra-curricular feature.

The Augean Stables

 

4q oe As we remarked in our April 9th issue, Spring has ar-
_ rived on the campus. | It is now May 14th, but the beauties
of Spring have not yet penetrated into the hall smokers.

Empty coke bottles, grimy cigarette butts, chewed-up

newspapers, dog-eared playing cards, dirty teacups and stale

\: _ food litter the smokers. No maid should be expected to clean

up such a mess. The hall may not be your home, but you
. livei in it eight months of the year.

In May when the greatest number of visitors come to the
college, we are made more conscious than ever of the dis-
_ graceful appearance of the halls. And even the grounds
would be made more presentable if we adopted the Army

 

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Rannells Explains

Personnel Work

) Thursday, May 8. Miss Frances
Rannells, expert in personnel work,
gave a short talk on this profes-
sion at a vocational conference.
Personnel work is necessary for
industry and business, if inter-
is desired, Miss
Rannells said. Often a woman’s
understanding and sympathy would
help her in personnel work, es-
pecially in retailing. In industry,
current labor problems are of a
magnitude such that more often a
man is employed to handle person-
nel,

Miss Rannells explained that
there are many aspects in this
field; training, selection, job class-
ification, and statistics. Although
in the last analysis, people must
be judged as individuals, it is al-
ways important to have standards,
preferably written standards un-
derstood by both “top-manage-
ment” and the personnel office, by
which to organize an office or a
store from the personnel angle.

Characteristics necessary for a
personnel worker, listed by Miss
Rannells, are the ability ito work
through other people, the ability
to sell oneself, the knowledge of
how to talk to men with directness
and deliberation, and the ability to
give not only sympathy but help.

‘Secret’ Discovered
To be Hilarious

Continued from Page 1
timore, Nahm, and Soper. High
points of their repertoire were
“Don’t Sock Your Mother, Boys—
It’s Mean” and a eulogy of the
Bryn Mawr student with the kind
refrain: “They’re damn hard to
teach and still harder to please”.
In all seriousness, it is to be hoped
that ‘(Bryn Mawr will hear more of
Mr. Soper’s voice, perhaps on the
same program with the newly dis-
covered pianist, Mr. Bernheimer.

The quartet retired and the cur-
tains opened to show “Out of
Bounds”, a hot desert island scene
complete with Mrs. ‘Coates’ realistic
backdrop. There two desolate
G. I.’s were “playing sea shells” in
professional style. (The News is
still uncertain where this skill was
acquired). Mrs. Dryden as Chi-
quita Banana, “a graduated nat-
ive”, displayed her (South Sea
charms until restrained by Secre-
tary Linn who felt morally respon-
sible for all on the island, partic-
ularly delinquent Mr. Gates and
Mr. Dryden. The bronzed natives
danced in from the compound to
join in forming a welcoming com-
mittee for Mr. Berry, the Texan
pilot who dropped in from above
followed by his talented passen-
ger, Hallelujah Bulkhead of Hol-
lywood (recognized as Miss Gar-
diner). The glamorous Miss Bulk-
head, rolled on stage (in a wheel-
barrow) by Mr. Watson, complain-
ed strenuously of the attentions of
“that nasty man”, Molotov. Mr.
Chew, it seems, had been making
passes at her all the way across the
ocean. Repelling even the gestures
of the attractive males (Professors
Berry, Watson, Gates, and Dryden)
as they sang “Hubba-Hubba Halle-
lujah”, she stated her motto in
life: “I only give when on the
screen”, Her rather weak voice
may be attributed to the unnerving
situation.

After some lost alumnae had
stumbled around searching for
“girls like the girls we used to be”,
the stage quaked and in buzzed
Mrs. Manning, who sang in a su-
perior tone of Life inthe upper air.
The lusty and majestic voice of the
Queen Bee as she pirouetted around
the stage and the smart patter of
Mr. E. B. White’s lyrics evoked

-merited howls of applause.

The queen bee’s wings and an-
tennae were rivalled only by the
ansparency of Minnie the Mer-| Rad

aid with her glittering (“hand|
made”) tail, the manufacturer of

 

Dr. Humeston Hears
Infirmary Criticism

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patient student confined to the in-
firmary.

The question of whom to contact
in case of emergency was among
the important points to be clari-
fied. Dean Nepper said that the
Staident is first to call her warden.
If unable to contact her, the infir-
mary should be notified immediate-
ly. Finally. the Dean should -be
reached.

There were several complaints
to the same purport that parents
were not informed properly or soon
enough about the student’s illness.
Miss Nepper answered this by ex-
plaining that such information is
handled by the Deans who, on re-
ceiving the facts of the case from
the infirmary, send a full report
immediately to the family. Many
also objected to the fact that they
were not informed about their di-
agnosis, temperature and medica-
tion by the infirmary. Dr. Hum-
eston again answered that the in-
firmary was always ready to tell
the student and to answer questions
about her illness.

Dr. Humeston concluded that it
would be very helpful if a student,
on hearing adverse rumors about
the infirmary, would come to the
infirmary (before repeating the
rumor), to find out the facts of the
case. It would also help, she said,
if upperclassmen would not influ-
ence freshmen against using the
Infirmary.

Faculty Discloses

Credits for Show

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Nancy Greenewalt and Maud Hodg-
man for running the lights. Mrs.
Coates painted the backdrop for
the skit, while Miss Bacon was in
charge of properties and sound ef-
fects for the first act. Make-up
for Top Secret was done by Mr.
Thon, ‘Mr. Cuttino and Dr. Mac-
Kinnon. ‘Curtain puller was Mr.
Broughton!

Mr. Morris Blackburn, who is in
charge of the Art Workshop, made
the posters announcing the show.
Mr. A. Van Hollander of the Dis-,
play Department of Gimbel Bros.,
Philadelphia, contributed the post-
ers announcing tthe various acts.

The managing committee for Top

Secret included Mrs. Nahm, Miss
Nepper, Miss Lang, Mr. Lattimore,
and Miss Yeager. Copies of the
songs are on sale in the Bookshop,
as are several posters, if they are
found.
‘Proceeds of the performances
netted well over $1000 for the ben-
efit of the Undergraduate Quota
of the Bryn Mawr College Fund.
Mrs. David acted as (Business Man-
ager.

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Mrs. Crenshaw’s coy manner
charmed both actors and audience.

Hallelujah proved false. to her
motto and had Mr. Chew and the
audience worried for a while. This
couple seemed to learn “coopera-
tion”, with a view to “saving the
family”, but the act was.ended with

, Violence as the blue-jeaned natives,

perhaps rebelling against having
to learn “at least two languages”
rose up in revolt, escaped from the
compound and demanded the right
to wear grass skirts “everywhere”.
By the time the second act began
‘Mr. Frank had succeeded in flunk-
ing 50% of the exams and was the
object of admiring glances from
the other members of the cast. He
retired to. his accustomed chair as
the quartet came on for a splendid
rendition of “Picture 84’, followed
by a lyric description of “A Ph.D.
at Bryn Mawr”. The verses were
somewhat dubious but all came out
surely on the catchy refrain which
is being et all over the cam-
pus:
“Radnor Hall is just like Oxford,

eat Radnor Hall is just like Cambridge,
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nor Hall is like the Sorbonne—

 

Continued on Page 3

E. M. Forster Reads
Musical Passages

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Continued from Page 1
small theatre in Italy. The scene
described” was a picturesque one;
the interior of the theatre, back-

to friends and relatives whom they
spied in the crowd, the prima
donna.of the evening, a coloratura

the audience, and receiving them
back again. Mr. Forster explained
that this singer was actually Mme.
Tetrazzini, and that he himself
had been present at the perform-
ance depicted in his novel. Since
the event was a very early one in
the long and successful career of
this artist, Mr. Forster hesitated
to tell her, in later years, that it
was she whom he had portrayed
in his book. As.it turned out he
never did.

The next selectiaa was from
Passage to India, and dealt with
the section on the Malabar Caves.
The author explained that these

 

which is to be highly commended. |

caves served the same purpose as
a motive or theme in music. He
had, in fact, treated them with just
such an intention. They keep ap-
pearing, and reappearing, througn
the course of the novel, until the
catastrophe is reached. Mr. For-
ster explained that as far as voic-
ing any opinions on the problem
of India went, his novel did con-
tain an element critical of nation-
alism.

An essay entitled My Wood was
read next which proved to be an
amusing dissertation on “the effect
of property upon the character.”
“Property,” announced Mr. For-
ster, “produces a man of weight!”

The final excerpt which the au-
thor chose for his audience was a
description from MHoward’s End
concerning a group of people who
have gone to Queen’s Hall, Lon-
don, to hear a performance of
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony The
effect of the music as it penetrated
each person’s ears was minutely
described. As one character put
it: the andante movement of the
symphony “was just like all of
Beethoven’s other andantes.” _
| The audience was loath to let
|Mr. Forster stop, and continued
| applause urging him to read one
more selection. By popular re-
ee he concluded by reading the
section from Passage to India de-
scribing the bridge party.

 

Professors Discuss
Philos. of History

Continued from Page 1
lectical realities: _ ontological an-
tithesis, organic rhythm and_ the
process of religious reconciliation.
In a dialectical scheme history is
seen as the unfolding of a great
power which is not man. It makes
the mistake of removing the actor
from the scene to make the dream
more impressive.

Speaking on “Political Philoso-
phy in History,” Professor Leo
Strauss, of the New School for
Social Research, pointed out that
until the 18th century the idea of
political philosophy as a_ neces-
sary and legitimate presupposition
was _ non- existent.
Strauss explained that the modern
conception of political philosophy
and political history as a unit goes
back to a misconception of the 18th
century view. Through this analy-
sis, Dr. Strauss showed that po-
litical philosophy and history have
been joined erroneously and that
in the future the two will be sepa-
rate.

Professor John H. Randall, Jr.,
of Columbia University, discussed
“Historical Determination” and
“Historical Decision.” “Historical
determinism is only half the

‘it must be joined with historical
decision.” With determinism alone
the fact that there are no histor-
ieal factors except human actions
is overlooked. (What men can and
will do is determined not by their

 

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drops, the shouts of the spectators —

engaged in throwing flowers into:

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story,” asserted Professor Randall, _