__THE GOLLEGE NEWS VOL. 6H, NO. 20 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1948 Copyright, Trustees of Bryn Mawr College,1945 PRICE 10 CENTS Alwyne Attains True Sensitivity In Piano Recital Brilliant Humoresque Sparkles With Jazz And Solemnity by Anne Greet 50 Mr. Alwyne in his piano recital at Goodhart Hall on April 8 gave his audience the satisfaction of hearing a pianist play not only with polish and intelligence but with sensitive appreciation of his music. The program started off with a Variation by Liszt on a Mo- tive from Bach’s Cantata “Wein- en, Klagen” and the Crucifixus of the B minor Mass in which Mr. Al- wyne admirably treated Liszt’s ro- mantic interpretation of Bach’s unornamented themes. In pictures at an Exhibition by Moussorgsky he portrayed, with charming im- agery in his tone values, a peasant bumping across the melancholy steppes in his ox-cart, Baba Yaga’s hut hopping about on its chicken legs, the bells ringing out above the Gate of the Bohatyrs. The Scriapin pieces were brilli- ant. The Etude in B flat minor was languorous while the Etude in D flat showed to advantage his nimble playing. Hearing Scria- pin’s Fragilite, one was not aware of the instrument—only of a theme or feeling in..a delicate hushed background of notes. The Medt- ner Fairy Tales, one ending hap- pily and one sadly, were enjoy- able, as were all the Rachmaninoff selections, but the highlight of the evening, if it is possible to choose, was Rachmaninoff’s Humoresque, with its jazz and -windy runs and solemn chords—all played with an air of dignified freakishness. Some of the selections may have seemed almost too familiar to the audience as they glanced over their programs, but once Mr. Alwyne started to play, his careful inter- pretation of every phrase and note gave them new value. Those who did not go missed a fine perform- anee. Feng to Present Chinese Situation Speaking on “The Real Situation in China,” on Tuesday evening, April 20, at 8:15, in Goodhart, Gen- eral Feng Yu-H’hsiang, for many years a most important military figure in China, will explain the civil strife prevalent in China, the reason for the Nationalist party’s loss of ground, and the means of uniting factions and of achieving democracy in China. _, Having enrolled in the army at the age of 12 and rising to become leader of the Progressive forces in the Kuomintang and a member of the National Military Council, the “Christian General” broke last year with General Chiang over the terrorism of the Nationalist re- gime, although he had been the commander-in-chief both in North China and the Shanghai War Zone during World War II. After sev- ering connections with the Nation- alist government, he became a member of the Revolution Commit- tee of the Kuomintang, a group or- ganized in Hong Kong and severe- ly critical of the present regime ‘in China. _ - General Feng arrived in the Continued on Page 2 Katharine Cornell Lunches Here; Macy Aids in Informal Interview by Barbara Bettman, *49 Katharine Cornell has a rule that she gives no formal interviews to college or high-school papers. Oth- erwise, as her manager, former Bryn Mawrtyr Gertrude Macy, re- marks, she would have no time for anything else. But from some con- versation with her at last Thurs- day’s Deanery luncheon, and a good deal more‘with Miss Macy, we learned most of what we would have asked in an “interview.” Symposium Sat. Presents Phases Of Ren. in Venice Specially contributed by Miss Caroline Robbins Dr. Howard L. Gray was one of Bryn Mawr’s most beloved teach- ers. He was professor of history here for twenty-five years and in that time made a host of friends among neighbors, faculty, admin- istration and students of the col- lege. Shortly after his death in the fall of 1945 one of these friends suggested that the department of history should arrange a mem- orial for him of a kind that he himself would have liked and that would give pleasure to the com- munity. The symposium of the Ventian Commonwealth in West- ern Art, Letters and Politics which takes place this Saturday (April | 17) is the result of this suggestion and the gift which accompanied it. Five distinguished scholars will Keep Off the Grass Students, except those who truly enjoy being whistled at, are urged to keep off the grass, which otherwise will not grow on the lawns here, let alone the streets. This rule applies also to ‘Administration, faculty, and graduate students. Antony and Cleopatra goes, west —or starts west—this week, end- ing in Chicago on May 22. Miss Cornell is sorry that the tour can’t extend to the West Coast, since she likes it best on the road, but trans- portation costs are _ prohibitive. (Miss Macy told us that Antony and Cleopatra cost $104,000 before the opening curtain ever parted.) Furthermore, Godfrey Tearle must be in England in June. Miss Cornell feels she can talk even to professors now, she knows Cleopatra so well; it is her favor- ite role—but Miss Macy adds that her favorite is always the one on which she is _ working! Kate O’Brien, the English novelist, is currently: adapting her novel For One Sweet Grape into a play for Miss Cornell, who will play Ann de Mendoza. Recalling Jose Ferrer’s vitupera- tive remarks about critics and Mr. John Mason Brown, we asked if 2 Continued on Page 3 7 Colleges Confer; Speakers’ Bureau Established Here Specially Contributed by Karen Knaplund ’49 and Ann Seideman ’49 Almost everything from wash- ing machines to the NSA were top- ics of discussion at the Seven Col- lege Conference held at Movnt Holyoke last weekend. Page Hart, Ann Seideman, Henny Burch and Karen Knaplund, as old and new presidents of Self-Gov and Under- grad, represented Bryn Mawr at the annual meeting of Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount--Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley rep- resentatives to discuss problems common to their campuses. Sweet Briar was the guest college. Bryn Mawr will be the head- quarters for a Seven College Speaker’s Bureau which will facil- itate the exchange of information talk on Renaissance Venice and its influence. Professor Conyers Read will preside at the morning session (10 a. m.), and Professor Samuel C. Chew in the afternoon (8 p. m.). Pictures will be shown of Titian’s Visitors and the audi- ence will get a description of the island city at the peak of its pow- er and its creative activity by Mrs. Ruth Kennedy of Smith College. Professor Z,.. S. Fink of Northwest- ern will discuss the political in- fluence of that stable and wealthy state on such people as Milton, Harrington and other English the- orists and admirers of the Com- monwealth, and Dr. Douglas Adair will present a rather different as- pect of the legend and will show eatly.. American disillusionment with the aristocratic republic. In the afternoon Miss Isabel Pope, well known both as musi- cologist and as romance philolo- gist, will discuss Venetian Music in the early seventeenth century, which the Double Octet will illus- trate. Finally Professor Theodore Spencer, poet and scholar, will talk about Venice as seen through Elizabethan eyes. The Library is showing an ex- hibit of rare books about Renais- sance Venice in the Rare Book Room, and in the Quita Woodward Room there is a further exhibit of books in which Venice is depicted. Pictures of Venice, on loan from History corridor. \ Life, are now being shown in the| | on outstanding speakers on any subject. It was felt that this would be especially valuable to Bryn Mawr in the selection of speakers Continued on Page 3 Calendar Thursday, April 15 12:30—Mr. James P. Hen- drick, “The United Nations and Human Rights”, Goodhart. 8:15—Mr. H. H. Price, “The Phenomenology of Objective Reference”, Common Room. Friday, March 16 8:15—Arts Night, Goodhart. Saturday, March 17 9:00—French oral, Taylor. 10:00—Renaissance-sympos- ium, Deanery. Second session at 3:00 p. m. 2:00—Sophomore Denbigh Green. 8:15—Arts Night, Goodhart. 11:00—Junior Prom, Gym. Sunday, March 18 7:30—All «Student Service, Music Room. Monday, March 19 7:15—Current Events, Mr. Roger Wells, “The Siege of Berlin”, Common Room. 8:00—Mr. Herbert Read, “Abstraction and Realism in Modern Art’, Goodhart. Tuesday, March 20 8:15—General Feng Yu- H’hsiang, “The Real Situation Carnival, Vesper Continued on Page\2 in China”, Goodhart. Children ‘Encounter’ Will be Theme of Year’s Arts Night Show Friday and Saturday nights in Goodhart, Bryn Mawr is offering Arts Night—a program consisting entirely of creative contributions by the students centered on the theme “Encounter”. The Stones of Sorrow, written by Joan Brest ’48, and directed by Sandol Stoddard °49, is a one-act play laid in Mexico. The cast: IEA VUGID ciiccisHsiasins Anita Dittmar "T1B MOTUA ssisiscssasusves June Moyer PASCUAL! © dccssiiscecens Robert Lasday The Double Octet is offering three American folk-songs; fol- lowing it the orchestra will play excerpts from Bach, Gluck, and Vaughn J[Williams. The Dance Group will then offer three orig- inal dances on the central theme. During the intermission, there will be an exhibit of student art in the foyer of Goodhart. The second half of the program begins with 21’s Game, written and directed by Jack Gailey, a “sensu- ous and funny melodrama”; the cast includes: ROWED KANG Assocs Dave Thomas Charles Richards ..Dave Blackwell Herbert Read To Speak Here Qn Modern Art Abstract vs. Realistic First Talk in Series On Art History * “Abstraction and Realism in Modern Art” will be the topic of Mr. Herbert Read, noted art critic and author, in the first of a new series on Art History and Criti- cism to be given in Goodhart on Monday, April 19, at 8 P. M. The lecture will be illustrated. His particular interest is in mod- ern art; he is scheduled to speak at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and will participate in the International Symposium of Noted Writers and Critics at Johns Hopkins this week-end, where he will speak on Coleridge. Mr. Read’s interpretations of modern art are generally based upon the psychological aspects of surrealism and of aesthetics. He believes, according to Mrs. Harper Brown, that “just as the pyramids or the Parthenon express the char- Eliazbeth Kane ....Nancy Kunhardt | @¢teristics and beauty of their re- - Trella Richards Dorcas Baldwin ....Ellen Harriman Marjorie Low, Herbert Cheyette The Chorus will sing a group of féur kyrie eleisons, showing the encounter between old and new. Arts Night will conclude with a group of three authentic dances performed by the Spanish Club. All proceeds from this. year’s Arts Night will be divided between two newly-established funds: the Ther- esa Helburn Fund--and--the—Arts Fund. Curtain time: 8:15. April 17; Week-end Of Art, Prom, Fun The Prom and the now tradi- tional Sophomore Carnival will be gay spots in the weekend of April 17 which begins with the advanee section of Arts Night at 8:30 in Goodhart Friday night. Saturday afternoon from two to five on Denbigh Green, the Greek Olympic Games will visit the campus in the form of this year’s Sophomore Carnival. It will include chariot races, oracles, side- shows, food, and many other events which are still a secret. Another feature of the Carnival will be the election of a “Miss Aphrodite” who will be judged on a campus-wide basis from a group eomposed of one contestant from each hall. “But it won’t necessar- ily be based on pulchritude or any- thing like that,” said Bebe Bord- man, head of the Carnival Com- mittee. There will also be a fac- ulty baking contest, with faculty products to be judged and sold at the carnival. Committee Members Other members of the Commit- tee include: Properties, Swope and Shroyer; Food, Maconi and Li; Costumes, Earle and Ham; Tic- kets, Nelidow and Polakoff;- Pub- licity, Sloss; Business Manager, Chambers. Admission will be $.25 with all proceeds going to the Drive. 49’s Junior Prom = Saturday night is ‘the “sécdnd section of Arts Night at 8.30 and the Junior Prom from eleven to | two in the Gym. Tickets, are on Continued on Page 2 ..Cynthia Schwartz | spective ages, so the New York skyscraper and the streamlined car express the modern age.” In revolt against the mechan- isms of the modern world Mr. Read has also turned his attentions to experimental art and methods of teaching children. He has written a number of books, including Art Now, Educa- tion Through Art and The Innocent Eye. He has been Assistant Keep- er of the Victoria and Albert Mu- seum, editor ofthe Burlington Magazine, Professor of Fine Arts at Edinburgh and a Leon Fellow at the University of London. Essay Prize ‘Manuscripts for the M. Carey Thomas Essay Prize must be left in the President’s office by Monday, May 3. The contest is open to all Seniors, no matter what—their_major—subject,and is awarded for creative as well as critical writing. The Com- mittee hopes that a large num- ber of seniors will compete for the award and that a wide var- iety of papers will be submit- ted. Any subject is permitted. Mr. J. P. Hendrick Will Discuss U. N. James P. Hendrick will. speak on “The United Nations and Hu- man Rights” at the fifth Bryn Mawr College Assembly on Thurs- day, April 15. Mr. Hendrick is at present the Acting - Association Chief, Division of ijlernal Organ- ization Affairs of the Department of State. Mr. Hendrick is a member of ‘the Bar of New York and was in a law firm there from 1928 until he joined the War Department in 1941. For a year Mr. Hendrick worked on plant expansion and Labor Problems. He joined the army in 1942 and was awarded the Legion of Merit. He joined the State Department in 1946 in his present capacity and has also acted as advisor to Mrs. Franklin Roose- velt at sessions of the Commission of Human Rights of the UN.