VOL. XLVI, NO. 7 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 1949 Copyright, Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1949 PRICE 15 CENTS Lihom Displays Smooth Staging, Intense Moods. Bishop Stars as Liliom; Scenery, Lights Excellent by Anne Greet, 50 The Bryn Mawr College Theatre -and Haverford Cap and Bells Club production of “Liliom” last Sat- urday night combined proficient -acting with magnificent scenery. Parts of the play were excellent, but as a whole it lacked a certain unity or cohesiveness. There was little conformity of interpretation between the actors, mainly because “Liliom” is a mixture of fantasy and realism, and presents several themes in different stages of de- velopment. Essentially, ‘“Liliom” is the story of a man who can not reconcile his pride with his love for his wife, Julie—his hatred for the responsibilities he must face in married life wth the easy ap- peal of a career as carousel bark- er. The play is emotionally tense, but decentralized “oy sponta themes (such as the contrast be- tween Julie and her friend Marie at different stages in their lives, the picture of workers in Buda- pest and the sort of justice they meet with, or Julie’s own refusal to admit her love for Liliom until after he has died) whose relation- ship to the plot as a whole was left undetermined in Saturday night’s performance. _ Liliom’s character is the only one that is clearly defined by his own dialogue and actions, and by Continued on Page 2 From left to right: Von der Goltz, Bishop, Haring, Kunkel. Specially Contributed by Mabel Louise Lang If anyone has wondered what the News Board broods about in its smoke-filled room in Goodhart every Monday and Tuesday eve- ning, there are now some eighty odd persons privileged to tear aside the veil and tell all. Nor have we come by our information in any underhanded news-scaveng- ing fashion; it was all quite above board, which groaned with a dazzl- ing array of doughnuts and in- determinate punch, at the NEWS party, which was financed by the guests and held at the home of Miss Ely last Wednesday evening. The floor show, in which the News._Board revealed its inner lucubrations and the way in which it adapts the news to its own pur- poses, presented in tense and tragic idiom the plotting of one Milton C. Guy Fawkes against. a Angel Mound, Turtle Carapaces Give Diggers Delightful Summer Specially contributed by Ann Chowning & Alice Shroyer, ’50 We arrived at Angel Mounds in a pouring rain to find that the third member of our group had suddenly decided to go to Arizona instead. In the ten weeks that fol-7 lowed, we frequently wished to join her, but by the end of the summer we had no regrets. Sixteen of us had come to south- ern Indiana to learn, in. the words of the catalogue, “archaelogical field technique.” In our working hours we leveled transits, dug with small trowels through weeds, top soil, and yellow clay, “sexed” skel- —~etons, and made soil- profile-maps: After several humiliating mis- takes, we learned to tell a human skull from a turtle’s carapace and a grain of corn from a drum-fish tooth. Our work was enlivened by “recitations of Wordsworth from Don, by “Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam” from Dick, arid by our director, Mr. Black, who constant- ly told us how much more uncom- fortable we would be when the tassel-flies came. Every time we found a skeleton, we were gloom- ily informed that in fifty years ‘we would be no better than that. The rite offered further disad- vantages in heat and insects. Even worse, we got poison ivy regularly cheered by the thought that, when covered with purple and brown « medicine, we would no longer have to act in the movie that was being made of the expedition. Neverthe- less, we enjoyed ourselves thor- oughly. We argued constantly, ahout genetics and modern art, re- ligion and Roosevelt, the Civil War and bull-fights (but not, to Mr. Black’s irritation, about archae- ology). We learned songs in Czech, Spanish, and German, though our favorite was always “Put a Nickel on the Drum.” Toward the end of the summer we even resorted to “Ghost.” Our greatest dissipation during the week was a walk to the near- by grocery store for ice cream, but on weekends we left the camp for trips to the laundromat-in-Evans- parties on the levee above the Ohio. There~ we watched the stem- wheelers go through the locks and listened to the singing of Pancho’s Costa Rican friends. The relation- ships between the sexes became complicated in a peculiarly arch- aeological manner: bays offered to show us the Big Mound, and one girl was heard to remark: “It must be love; this morning he offered to sharpen my trowel.” We found that at first we were regarded as the products of an Eastern finish- ing school, but by the end of the summer we were cheered to learn that Dick, who was looking for an old-fashioned girl, regarded us as his ideal. Both archaeologically and socially, we felt that we could re- gard it as a summer well-spent. ville and for the moonlight beer-. NEWS Party Mixes Dramatics, Punch, Masks and Prize-Giving | regime which put a premium on | bony fingers and his undoing by \the machinations of an informer. i|Paula Strawhecker as M.C.G.F. was lifelike except for a slightly overstuffed-shirtiness, and the rapt attendance at Joan McBride at Latin Prose Composition poetic fruit in the speaking like- ness of the Informer. ‘Mrs. Man: ning” (nee Gwynne Williams) was overpowering as mistress of cere: monies and not only obliged with a few tender ballads but provided a rousing piano accompaniment to the volunteered vocal rendition (by popular demand) of M. van den Heuvel. Of the many delightful and care. less costumes worn by guests and hosts_alike, space—and_ineffability forbid extended description. There was a rash of Oriental outfits (‘so comfortable over pyjamas”), a pair of skiis wielded with malice aforethought and an eye on the punch bowl, three very weird sisters who by some complicated process of fission produced a fourth sibling and kept muttering infelicitious lines from Longfel- low, a collection of mobile masks that made the most of the wearers’ Continued on Page 3 Litchfield to Talk On London Plans Speaking on “The London Tri- Partite Documents, their Negotia- tions and Implementation,” Dr. Edward Litchfield will address the Political Science 318a class at 2 p. m., November 22, in Room G, Dr. Litchfield was Director of the Civil Administration Division of the Office of Military Govern- ment in Germany and advisor to ‘General Clay. . CALENDAR Thursday, November 17 "12:80 p. m., Alliance Assem- bly, . Dr. Robert Cushman, “Civil Rights and the Loyalty Program,” Goodhart. 8:15 p. m., Philosophy Club Lecture, Dr. Leo Strauss, “Natural Right in History,” Art Lecture Room. % Monday, November 28 7:15 p. m., Current Events, Dr. Caroline Robbins, “Social- ized Medicine,” Common Room. Wednesday, November 30 Morning Assembly, Mrs. Antje Lemke, “Women in Post- War Germany,” Good- bore ' Alliance Presents Robert Cushman On Civil Liberty The speaker at the Alliance As- sembly tomorrow, Thursday, No- vember 17, at 12:30-p:-m:;-will-be Robert E. Cushman, Ph.D., Litt.D., Goldwin Smith Professor of Gov- ernment at Cornell University. Dr. Cushman will speak on: Civil Lib- erty and the Loyalty Program. Dr. ‘Cushman is well-known as an out- standing speaker on Civil Rights questions. Professor Cushman was Chair- man of the Department of Govern- ment at Cornell from 1923-1946. He has been a member of the Board of Editors of the American Political Science Review since 1923, and was President of the American Political Science Assoc- iation in 1948. He was a member of the staff of the President’s -Com- mittee on Administrative Manage- ment in 1986. He is Director: of Cornell Research in Civil Liberties. He is the author of Leading Con- stitutional Decisions (8th Ed. 1946); American National Govern- ment (with §S. P. Orth. in 1931); The Independent Regulatory Com- missions (1941). Strauss To Give Philos. Lecture The Department of Philosophy will present a lecture by Dr. Leo Strauss, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chic- ago, and eminent in -the field of political thought on Thursday, November 17, at 8:15 p.m. in the Art Lecture Room of the Library. His topic will be “The Natural Right of History.” - Author of many books and arti- eles, Dr. Strauss is an authority on the political philosophy of Hobbes. As a lecturer, he is well known to Bryn Mawr, since he has spoken here twice in the past four years. Dr. Strauss received his Ph.D. in Hamburg. He has been a Rock- efeller fellow, and a visiting lec- turer at Hamilton, Union, Middle- bury, Amherst, and Wesley col- leges. Prior to his position at the University of Chicago, he was a member of the graduate faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School of Social Research. Chorus to Sing _ At Carnegie Hall The Bryn Mawr Chorus will sing at, Carnegie Hall on Monday eve- ning, November 21, at 8:30 in a program which is being sponsored by the Chamber Art Society. Bryn. Mawr, combined with the Prince- ton University Chapel Choir, will sing the chorus of Stravinsky’s “Persephone”. Vera Zorina, the ballet dancer, will narrate the role of Persephone, and the tenor part of Eumalpus will be sung by Wil- liam Hess. Robert Craft will con- duct. W. H. Auden will read some of his new poems during the course of the program, and there will also be two orchestral works by Stravinsky, which are being played for the first time in the ited States, and one piece by Bartok. Voters Defeat Phi Beta Kappa In Recent Poll Total of 218 Ballots Show 40 Pro, 115 Con The results of the recent poll to obtain student opinion on the es- tablishment of Phi Beta Kappa at ‘Bryn Mawr were announced by President McBride as follows: The different, 1; No, 44; 1951: Yes, 4; Graduate School: Yes, 14; Indiffer- ent, 10; No, 12; 1950: Yes, 5; In- Indifferent, 2; No, 20; 1952: Yes, 7; Indifferent, 3; No, 48; 1953: Yes, 10; Indifferent, 7; No, 31. The totals were Yes, 40; Indifferent, 23; and No, 155; and 218 ballots in all were cast. Those in favor of Phi Beta Kap- pa argued that it would increase incentive to do good work, which opinion was opposed by those who felt that the incentive for work should be-interest in the work it- self. They said that it would aid in professional advancement or job placement and would bring Bryn Mawr in line with other colleges and universities in supporting scholarship. The chief arguments against Phi Beta Kappa were: standards for election to Phi Beta Kappa vary from college to college and within a college from year to year; the present academic honors are suf- ficient; and working for marks might increase, and so might com- petition among students. NAACP Reports On Race Problem Specially contributed by Micki Natalson, °52 An ironic welcome was extended to the delegates who assembled at Dayton, Ohio, November 9-12, for the Eleventh Annual Youth Con- ference of the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of the Colored People. Shortly after their arrival, some Negro delegates were denied entrance to an eating establishment, although there is a state law which forbids such dis- crimination. They were assaulted when they tried to insist upon their legal rights. Although the owner of the restaurant did not know it, his chief antagonist was a legal advisor of NAACP, who is going to see the case through the courts. This unfortunate incident illum- inated—the-task.before the dele- gates. They met their responsi» bility with enthusiasm and deter- mination. After four days of meeting in conference from 8:00 A. M. to 10:30. P. M., they pro- duced. their resolutions for specific action in the fields of education, civil liberties, recreation, employ- ment, and armed forces. The asso- ciation attempts chiefly to combat segregation and discrimination by educational and legal means) In its forty years of existence, ié has done much to secure a free ballot, to stop lynching, to equalibe public education, to halt job discrimina- tion, to abolish transportation segregation, to gain justice in the court, to oppose imperialism, and, more genérally, to promote equal-' ity, security, and freedom. ¥ Page Two THE ,cCOLLEGE NEWS Wednesday, November 16, 1949 . 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Board BARBARA LIGHTFOOT, ’50, Manager Patricia MULLIGAN, ’52 ELLIE .Ew ATHERTON, ’52 Nancy ALEXANDER, ’52 Mary BERNICE Morris, ’52 MaRJyoriz£ PETERSON, ’51 PENNY GREENOUGH, ’50 Mary Kay Lacxrirtz, ’51 GRETCHEN GAEBELEIN, ’5( TRUE WarRREN, 752 — Subscription, \$3.00 Mailing price, $3.50 Subscriptions may begin at any time Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Fost Office Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912 The Room Question The question has come up again, as it has so often in the past two years, of the extent of our responsibilities toward our rooms. Undergraduates feel that once they have paid their residence fees their rooms are their.own, to>keep clean or leave dirty as they will. The administration feels that col- lege rooms are college property, and should be kept in a con- dition which will not dismay visiting alumnae and prospect- ive students. The situation is not grave at the moment, although two halls have been forced to adopt the system of inspection and fines, and complaints about the disgusting litter in the smok- ers are perennial. We may expect increased untidiness as the semester wears on, of course, and the possibility of strict- er measures should be brought at once to undergraduate at- tention. oS We feel we ought to remind the college, however, that the real issue is not merely one of untidiness. Two years ago, when the necessity of increasing residence fees was brought to the attention of the students, we offered to do enough work in the halls to keep the charges down to their present level, which is ultimately the lowest in any ‘of the big eastern women’s colleges. We have the chance to make another choice now: high- er residence fees or a greater willingness to help keep the halls clean ourselves. Few of us would be willing to see the costs of attending college go up, but we cannot take advan- tage of our present agreement with the administration and ss 7 on our own part of it. i for discussion of the whole question. Let us in the meantime reconsider our position, and decide whether we cannot agree to accept fully and freely the terms - the compact we made two years ago. Py Thanksgiving vsiabantvings fat white turkeys wading in gravy; aunts and great-uncles and shining silver. Thanksgiving air smells of brandy, cigars, home-cooking; Thanksgiving conversation is all about family and Christmas shopping. We will go home and wave our drumsticks in gratitude and say grace over the goosepoose, or remain on campus and brood over dry expans- es of crumbly dressing. Whichever it is, wherever we are—— freedom, four days of idle eating and talking are almost upon us. Limp and dozing we shall lie in great armchairs, sur- Tes ty trattier feces cual thinking cin about. turkey and sicicte tMaa | warm and light and exciting and & Foreign | Correspondent by Emily Townsend, ’50 “Be sure to go to Chantilly,” they said, so we went. It surprises me now that we ever got there: four trains in a row escaped our enticements and left without us. Between trains we comforted our- selves with ham and wine, and al- ways got back to the platform in time‘ to see the next one leave. We climbed firmly on the fifth one and admired the red elegance of the third class compartmerit. It* was empty, and we lay down, one along each side. A Chinese entered, reading our device of plush, two harpys couchant, two bouteils de vin elevated, as a distinct invita- tion; we had to repel him with offers of grimy pre-digested cough- drops. The sun was setting as we glided over the fields toward Chan- tilly, we felt inexpressibly roman- | tic and adventurous, the world was full of good things to eat — the least we could do, we said, was spend the night in a haystack and suck milk from the goats at dawn. We alighted at Chantilly with- out further excitement, except the discovery that we had been riding first class all along and paying the difference. A man at the station whose horse wore knitted gloves on his ears offered to carry us into the thickest middle of the forest de Chantilly, but we spent all our money on creme Chantilly instead, and walked. We prepared for our rustic night first, though, by buy- ing a knife, reflecting that offers of cough drops might not be ef- fective forever, and that if the polite Chinese could act so in a railway carriage, the ardent Frenchman would not be far be- Continued on Page 3 Curric. Committee Lists Members ss McBride has offered to preside at an open meeting Archaeology .............dess Vorys EHSVIBT sicvsssiesasvessnss Sherry Cowgill FLISGOLY. | iisscsiesieensaie Frieda Wagoner Spanish .... ...Anne Chowning French ........ccceseeeeeeee... len Shure BIOS Y. © sisisssvecvssceue Doris Chambers Chemistry ............Betty Dempwolf Latin and Greek .......... ‘Anne Greet Philosophy ..............Hlisabeth Grey History of Art ..........Judy Nicely PHYSICS 5 sissisiosectanvesseiad Sylvia Hayes POUGHOCS : cvcsscessees Elisabeth Nelidow Economics ...........huUth Metzger German ................Maud Hodgman RUSSIOH | Giccsscdesevccstoved Maryan Rising Mathematics......Betty Jean Conner GOOLOG Yj iccscseicncscssscssies Ruth Young Sociology .......see.....es0is Maconi The Chairman of the Curriculum Committee is Sylvia Hayes, 750. Professor Talks On French Movie Wyndham, November 9th—The first lecturer for the French Club this year, M. Guicharnaud spoke on the The French Movie Today. The movie industry in France is not prosperous, and it has to’'make | films on a very limited budget. This, however, as M. Guicharnaud pointed out, is not as detrimental to the quality of the films as may be thought, as it summons all the ability and ingenuity of the pro- ducer, decorator, technician, stage director of a film. Comparing French films with Hollywood films, M. Guicharnaud said that. Ameri- can films are always technically perfect, but do not have the orig- inality. of a good French film, which has to make full use of all its. potentialities. Another basic difference which M. Guicharnaud brought up, is the literary approach of film makers in the two countries. In France, a great deal of attention is given to the literary quality of the script. Most of the major French writers of the time are interested in the movies, and some have even parti- cipated in it, such as Jean Anouilh, Cocteau, Sartre (The Chips are down), Gide (Symphonie Pastor- ale), Colette (who has adapted her Gigi and Cheri to the screen). M. Guicharnaud then explained the main trends of the French mov- ie of today. Before the war, the tradition was that of violent, real- istic films, in which virtue and honesty were scorned and the cri- minal was the more often praised. During the years of occupation, the Vichy government instituted a type of ‘virtuous’ film, which was a direct counterpart to the vio- lent prewar films. The major ar- tists of the film industry refused to accept this new convention, and sought an escape from it in the representation of the fantastic. To this. type of film belong, among others, Goupi Mains Rouges, Le Corbeau, Cocteau’s L’Eternel Re- tour. One of the new trends since 1945 is that toward a more artistic kind of film. To this trend such mevie producers as Renoir, Carnet, Rene Clair (The Ghost Goes West, It Happened Tomorrow, Le Silence est d’Or) have contributed much. Another trend is toward immoral films, such as Le Diable au Corps. There is also: a general renais- sance of the burlesque movie. Such films are usually pointless, but comic, M. Guicharnaud said. As for the movie of the present day, M. Guicharnaud is afraid that it is on the decline. The tendency now in France is to make instruc- tive films with some moral, usual- ly films about the_lives of histar- ical characters, and this kind of film tends to be tedious. M. Vin- cent, among the first of these, has remained the best. 1927 Psych. Department Relates Weight, Work, Worry and Exams Are you worrying about mid- semesters? Are you also worry- ing about your weight? Some vital statistics relating these two were drawn up back in 1927, when the Psychology department began to wonder, ahead of Vassar, if “everything really did correlate.” The following is reprinted from the November 16th, 1927 edition of the College News: “The Psychology Department has announced the result of its experi- ments on body weights and exam- inations. For the last two years it has weighed students before and after their Mid-Year periods and compared the results in loss or gain of weight with the number of honor points they made that se- mester. The most startling result, which is the same for both years, is that those averaging a loss of one pound or less made the best aver- age in honor points. Those who gain or lose more than one pound did worse. Dr, Leuba, in making the an- nouncement; -explained~ that‘Cal- orimeter test show that purely in- tellectual work has little or no ef- fect on metabolism. Hence, the changes in body weight are refer- red to emotional stress.’ . The loss of weight resulting from emotional stress may have been due to a low class grade and, fear of failure at examinations or to temperamental peculiarities. © The general conclusions to be drawn are that: ‘Students working under a moderate stress, which causes a slight loss of weight do the best. ‘Those that show no loss of weight, or gain, suffer from the lack of optimum emotional stress. ‘Those in which the stress is ex- cessive through fear or tempera- ‘ment. are hindered in those per-| ° formances.’ ” Uneven Interpretation Mars Unity of ‘‘Liliom’’ Continued from Page 1 their effect on the other charact- ers. Partly because he had more to work with, William Bishop in the leading role of the ex-carousel barker gave his part an individ- uality throughout that the other roles lacked. His performance was extremely natural and believable when he wooed Julie on a park bench or plotted with Fiesur in the tintype shop. One of the achieve- ments of the play was the uneasy atmosphere of: growing tenseness. when Liliom and Ficsur were play- ing “21” before the arrival of the man they planned to murder. Bis- hop was less successful in portray- ing emotions that lay entirely out- side his own, experience. The sui- cide scene-and-his-dying..words. to Julie, both very difficult, verged on the farcical, and Liliom’s ob- stinate pride seemed sometimes close to youthful petulance. In contrast, Eritha von der Goltz, as “Julie” the servant girl who marries Liliom and is badly treated by him, was at her best in moments of emotional intensity. Although her actions were awk- ward and she lacked stage presence. from time to time she spoke her lines beautifully. Her scene with Liliom in the park was charming,,. and she entirely overcame the banal lines with which Julie ad- dresses her dead husband and created one of the few powerful scenes in the play. Nancy Pearre as Marie provid- ed some good comedy, and Robin Nevitt, as Ficsur, had a delightful variety of facial expressions and pantomimic gestures) Madame Muskat (like Liliom and Julie, re- luctant to admit her love), is a difficult role, and Molly Whitney Allen created a consistent char- acter — a shrewish, unattractive, middle-aged lady.» But, as the woman who was Liliom’s former lover and who almost persuades. him to leave Julie and return to. the carousel, she lacked dramatic: stature. She might have been por- trayed as less of a scold and more of a menace. The other roles seemed vague and undefined in the minds of the actors. Floyd Ford, as Wolf, Marie’s porter sweetheart, had his. pompous moments, but Delia Fleis- hacker as Julie’s ancient aunt and. Joan Gale as Julie’s daughter were: disappointing.. The Magistrate (Roger Morrell), the Rich Man (Gouverneur Cadwallader), were dull, while the Doctor (Thomas Wood), and the Carpenter (John Meserale) made the _ audience laugh where they shouldn’t have. All the roles were played with the informal natural manner that be- longs with the presentation of dis- tinct individualities, but, except for Liliom and Ficsur, they gave the impression of being “typical” servant girls, old ladies, porters, . photographers, and policemen. The production was beautifully staged—from the prologue with the swaying girls and the flashing. lights of the carousel to the last lonely scene “before Julie’s door.” There was a moment at the end of each scene before the curtain fell, when the action was resolved -into-a~tableau.'The--mostimpres-___ sive of these was a “courtroom in the Beyond” with the figures of Liliom ‘and a heavenly policeman silhouetted against “the crimson fire.’ Although the acting was un- even and the presentation of the play unco-ordinated, “Liliom” was. a provocative performance and well worth seeing. ‘Wednesday, November 16, 1949 + Om LAST NIGHTERS Sadler’s W ells..Ballet Presents Classic Swan Lake by Irina Nelidow, ’50 Not since the days of Diaghileff had America seen the _ classi- cal tradition of the ballet express- ed in the grand manner until the British Sadler’s Wells Ballet Com- pany, with its truly great star Margot Fonteyn, arrived in New York this autumn. No American company, (or rather, no American corps de ballet, for a company is only as good as its corps de bal- let) has as yet shown us the bril- liance, dignity, and simplicity of the classical ballet. True, both Alexandra Danilova “and ~ Alicia Markova, Europeans who have long been dancing in America, are class- ical ballerinas in the fullest, sense of the word, but they have never received anything but mediocre support from the ensemble and, in most cases, the orchestra. The Sadler’s Wells performance of the uncut, four-act Swan Lake on November 10 at the Academy of Music was a revelation of what ballet at its best can be. Swan Lake, one of the oldest and most beautiful of the classical ballets, was first produced in 1895 at the Marinsky Theater in St. Peters- burg with choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov to music by Tchaikovsky. A fairy-tale bal- let (Tchaikovsky wrote on the score that the setting for Swan Lake was “Allemagne dans le temps fabuleux des Contes”), it is, both dramatically and techni- cally, so demanding for stars and ensemble that American compan- ies have had to content themselves to date with giving only the sec- ond act. Swan Lake as performed by the Sadler’s Wells Company _ repre- sented a perfect fusion of all the classical elements: simplicity, grace, technical brilliance, re- straint,.accuracy, and great indiv- idual beauty of line. Each dancer was aware of his or her relation- ship to the whole. Never was there any exaggerated playing to the audience or any clumsy over-em- phasis on the difficult mimed pass- ages, which were handled with dig- nity and conviction. - By far the most brilliant per- formance of the evening was that of Margot Fonteyn as Odette- Odile, one of the most challenging roles for any ballerina. Fonteyn has everything: amazing techni- cal ability, lightness, and grace, great stage presence, and a deep Continued on Page 4 | ' Tilted Lampost Offers Entrance to Chantilly Continued from Page 2 hind in the hay. We wandered through woods and more woods and still other woods, we passed across the great Chan- tilly race-track where the sum- mer sheep were grazing: two of them cracked their heads togeth- er in the agony of love, and a third — presymably a lady though we didn’t stop to look — giggled with her face in a bush. We climb- ed the last fence, ripped our skirts inelegantly behind, and looked down at the chateau in its lake be- neath us. The round green lake, the pink bridge of sunny stone, the spiry chateau yellow in the evening light —and what beyond? We had to find out. But the great green gates were locked for the night, the moat was deeper than we were tall, the ditches were too wide for us to jump, the low walls were cov- ered with bottle glass and barbed wire, and in other places were at least nine feet high. Once we got half way up when the gendarme came by—we pretended very hard to be picking berries. At last we found a fairly private stretch where someone had thoughtfully placed a lamppost at an angle in the walls, and over we went, bare- foot and much admired by the bi- cyclists below. It was a twenty foot drop, but it was worth it. The light was green, and there was mist for air. Down croaked; a fish leaped in the weedy waterway. Green sciim was every- where on the pools, and dead rushes, and the lovely smell of grass rotting in the wet. We came quietly up through the grounds, avoiding the white marble faces in the leaves. Up to the dark green Continued on Page 5 Drugstores and Jersey Scenery Overwhelm New by Francine du Plessix, 52 Sybil Amic, a recent French addition to the Sophomore Class, was vastly disappointed with her first impression of America. Cloud- piercing towers and snow-white skyscrapers filled her imagination, and poor Sybil disembarked in Brooklyn; to find“miles of low, red peeling houses. Sybil -hasn’t...yet| overcome her hatred of Brooklyn. “Que c’est triste!”, she said but a few days ago. “Que c’est laid!” Because she had to get to Bryn Mawr as soon as possible, Sybil spent only one day in New York. Unlike most foreigners, the city of opportunities left little impres- sion on her. She was much more delighted by the scenery on the way to Philadelphia, by the bridges and the highways and even by the verdant pastures of Newark, which she found quite extraordinary; not exactly beautiful, but full of char- acter. “Les drugstores . . . c’est epa- tant!” Of our national features, this is what fills Sybil with the greatest admiration. She finds each Liggett’s a haven of novelty and glamour. Bryn Mawr College, like Liggett’s is “epatant.” French Student rived here a few days late for the beginning of the term, and felt 4 bit lost at first; but being a very self-possessed young lady, she has made friends very fast. So far her only faux-pas have been to bring a blush of shame to those French majors who have realized that Sy- bil’s English is much, much better ginning to feel quite happy in her new surroundings, except for one item of her curriculum. “Je ne comprends rien a ce Chaussere!”, she says, throwing up her arms in anguish. This reporter quite sym- pathizes with Sybil’s antagonism ‘towards the author of the Canter- bury Tales; it must be bewilder- ing, upon one’s arrival to these shores, to be immediately thrown into the mazes of Mediaeval Eng- lish. ‘ On account of her late arrival, Sybil could not get a room on cam- pus, so she is living with Miss Howe, and dining at Pembroke Hall. Here are my heartfelt wishes for a soon-to-come marriage, grave misdemeanor, or even elopement on campus that will leave a room free for Sybil, and give ner a fuller Sybil ar-participation in college life. a on the empty isle d’amour a frog than their French. -So--Sybil-is--be- THE NEWS Sisters and Orientals Add Flavor to Party Continued from Fage 1 bony structure, and young Stephen Lattimore playing Stephanie (com- plete with Peter the poodle) for the night with most engaging Vic- torian manners. Miss Taylor, act- ang as judge, awarded first prize to Stephanie and second prize to M. van Den Heuvel, very smart in negligee and dimpled mask. It was a fine party and served to illustrate that old Greek adage: “For the people who like that sort of thing ,that’s the sort of thing they like.” NEWS Cues Music Fri., Nov. 18 Philadelphia Orchestra, Acad- emy of Music, Broad and Walnut. Ormandy conducting; Casadesu3, piano; Schrieber, Casadesus, Rav- el, Berlioz, Liszt 2:30 p. m. Sat., Nov. 19 Philadelphia Orchestra, same concert 8:30 p. m. Sun., Nov. 20 Tri-County Concerts Associa- tion; Artur Balsam; Piano Sonata Recital, Radnor High School, Wayne, Pa., 8:30 p. m. Admission free. Mon., Nov. 21 Carnegie Hall, New York; Chamber Art Society; Stravinsky; Bartok; Stravinsky’s Persephone with Vera Zorina,' William Hess, Bryn Mawr Choir, Princeton Un:- versity Chapel Choir. Art Art Museum of Phila., Parkway. Ming Blue and White: porcelain of Ming Dynasty; Oct. 28 to Dec. o—--— Faces and Fashions: portraits and actual costumes of 19th and early 20th centuries. Theatre Locust, 1411 Locust St. Signor Chicago with Guy Kibbee. Last day Sat., Nov. 19. The Phila- delphia Story; Sarah Churchill, Jeffrey Lynn. Two weeks begin- ning Nov. 21. Walnut, 9th & Walnut Sts. The Man Who Came to Dinner. Monty Woolley. Last day Sait., Nov. 19. Metropole; Lee Tracy, Arlene Francis. Two weeks begin- ning Nov. 21. Shubert, 250 South Broad. A Night in Spain; a musical re- vue. Last day, Sat., Nov. 19. Blossom Time. Two weeks begin- ning Nov. 21. Forrest, 1114 Walnut St. Continued on Page 5 Murder In Cuneiform It was late afternoon, and the professer sat quite still in his Li- brary office. Darkness was coming on ,and the winter light cast a single ray on a fragment from. the palace of Asshurbanipal. The only sound was that of retreating foot- steps in the corridor. Every after- noon at this time the professor was accustomed to sit peacefully and reflect on the Assyrian past, but now a look of frozen horror replaced his usual contemplative smile. For the professor’ was quite, quite dead. * * * Far away in another room of the Library,..another. professor locked something away in a drawer, and reached for a Chesterfield with a shaking hand. * ok * The next morning the faculty cloakroom was in a twitter. An excited group huddled around timid little Doctor Orry, who had never been much noticed before except in learned journals. He had just published a brilliant article on the neuroses of plant molds, but even this experience had not pre- Continued on Page 4 The Bryn Mawr Hockey Varsity | played their match against Beaver on Wednesday, November 9. The game was very exciting, but the final results were against Bryn Mawr, 3-1. Nancy Blackwood made the only goal. Unfortunately, the second team also lost, 3-1, with | Louise Kimball scoring the only Bryn Mawr point. The Bryn Mawr teams both played well, but Bea- ver had the advantage of size and speed. On Friday, November 11, the Bryn Mawr Third Varsity avenged the college against Beaver by beat- them, 5-1, in a beautifully played game. Ellen McIlroy scored four of the goals, and Lenchi Abell scored the other. With the coming of winter, other sports are beginning to organize themselves. Tryouts have been scheduled during the next few weeks for the Basketball, Badmin- ton, and Swimnting teams. The Badmintod . tryouts will be held on Monday, November 21, and Tuesday, November 22 from 4:00 till 5:30 in the gym. The cap- tain this year is Anne Iglehart, and anybody interested should see Anne if they can’t make the try- outs. Swimming team tryouts will be held in the gym pool on Thursday, November 17, and Tuesday, Nov- ember 22 at 4:00. If your are un- able to attend tryouts see Linni Lee Warren, this year’s captain. There will be tryouts for the Basketball team on Monday, Nov- ember 22 at 8:80 in the gym. This year’s captains are Emily Town- send and Sue Savage; so if you have any difficulties getting to tryouts see them. Continued on Page 4 Page Three : Between the Leaves “Design of Democracy” Clarifies Values In Politics by Hanna Holborn, ’50 The Design of Democracy, a new book by Professor Laurence Sta- pleton of Bryn Mawr, represents an attempt to re-interpret and to formulate the principles and ap- plication of democracy in the light of modern needs, institutions, and attitudes. This purpose is at once an admirable and a difficult one; admirable in its implicit recogni- tion of the necessary re-evaluation of democratic standards, but made . difficult by the problems of expres- sion,-for.it-is all too easy. to. be- come either trite, sentimental, or overly pedantic in writing on such a subject. The book is organized into a series of sub-topics, each present- ing a different perspective on the subject at hand. Thus there are chapters entitled “Equality,” “Freedom,” “Literature in a De- mocracy,” “The Economic Basis of Democracy,” and so on. The final chapter, “Towards Democratic World Government” sets forth the possibilities for international liv- ing and organization on the demo- cratic plan and makes a plea for the establishment and maintenance of world order. Miss Stapleton’s writing is at times extremely good, but the book is rather uneven. The tone is some- how too measured; the style has perhaps been reworked too often, and in an effort to present her case with the utmost clarity, the author has let some of the life go out of her work. As a result, the thought seems oversimplified and not sufficiently concrete in many cases. In this way, The Design of Democracy just misses being the exciting and stimulating work it might have been. Use of Tradition But much of the book is excep- tionally interesting; it is made so by the great sincerity and integri- ty of the author herself. Her mind is a comprehensive one, and she has not been content to concen- trate merely on.one aspect of the problem; on the contrary, her wide reading and constructive use of past tradition have enabled her to look intelligently and objectively at almost every possible side. Such excellent use of the thought of the past is rarely seen today in writ- ings on political affairs; these either distort or scorn it. Miss Sta- pletion, on the other hand, has ef- fected a valuable synthesis be- tween her knowledge and contem- nerary experience. Continued on Page 4 NEWSlang Says ‘Jump On Joan!’ by Barbara Joelson, °52 There is Russian, there is Ital- ian, there is Greek, and then there is Newslang. It has no major de- partment and can’t even be used .to-pass_an oral; but: it-is-extreme- ly exclusive, decidedly distinctive, nd positively picturesque. Its vo- cabulary list would be something like this: NEWSLANG LAYMANESF Head - Headline Jump Cont’d headline Drop i Sub-headline Break Phrase dividing article This novel approach to language results in some very amusing re- marks on the part of those who speak it. Lest the wit be destine? to die within the cold walls of the newsroom, I present herewith a sample: Questioning: Have you a drop for the tea? Militant: Jump on Joan! Even more vehement: Jump on her head! Continued on Page 6 Page Four THE COLLEGE NEWS j » Wednesday, November 16, 1949 Poll-watchers Find Strange Peace| Even on River Front at Elections by Nima Cave, "50 Interviewed on the recent poll watching, Eva Jane Romaine °52 commented: “We had a calm time and we learned a lot, in fact more than you learn in a year-long pol- itics course”. Eva Jane and Helen Woodward ’52, were among a group of college students who, un- der the aegis of the Committee of 70 were assigned to cover elections in Philadelphia last Tuesday. The two Bryn Mawrtyrs were given four districts in fifteenth ward, one of which they never found. The theory is that three represen- tatives of the majority party, two of the minority supervise the elec- tions,--the.-representatives..of..tho Committee of 70 watch them and a policeman, a safe 100 feet from the poll watches everybody. The students, -usually working in groups of two, must _inveigle themselves into the good graces of the judge of elections since they are not really supposed to be in the polling place at all. This is accomplished by assuming a win- ning girlish demeanor, and a string of foolish questions. The opening line is usually, “We are college students and we were wondering ... ”. According to Helen and Eva Jane this system worked beautifully: in fact tthe judge would not only explain the machine in detail, but presented them with pictures and pamphlets on the subject. Since then they’ve had many dreams in which the Jamestown voting apparatus fig- ured prominently. The only un- pleasantness that they encountered in their own ward was a fight in which a Republican committeeman was accused of pulling a lever down for a ‘helpless woman’, Sadler’s Wells Corps Excel in Swan Lake Continued from Page 3 sense of drama. In the second act she stressed the regal and’ swan- tike, rather than the feminine, ‘as- pects of the enchanted Odette’s personality, while her Odile in the’ third act was a triumph of mal- ignant seduction. In the last act Fonteyn achieved an ideal balance in the representation of the three- sided character of Odette. Ably partnered by Michael Somes as Prince Siegfried, she danced with indescribable subtlety, dignity, and brilliance. Fonteyn’s and Somes’ grand pas de deux in the third act was a masterpiece of technical skill and sparkle in the classical manner. Michael Somes, although not a great dancer, is an extremely: com- petent one, with an excellent sense of rhythm. His elevation is quite remarkable, but he occasionally lacks fluidity of line, and is too static in his miming. Worthy of special attention was Alexis Rassine. Dancing a minor part in a first act divertissement, he displayed relaxed grace and ex- ceptional lightness, althought , he needs to acquire more control. The corps de ballet was on its toes (no pun intended) every min- __ute, For precision, clean line, and sureness of technique, no Ameri- ican corps de ballet can touch this British one. These dancers all carry conviction when they are on stage. One -feels that they are really dancing, not merely following the directions of the ballet master. The orchestra, excellently con- ducted by Robert Irving, played with spirit and feeling throughout. Leslie Hurry’s sets were charming, as were for the most part his cos- - tumes, although the swans’ head- dresses were unbecoming to the al One cannot help wondering after a performance if even the State Ballet, which has kept the old ballet tradition and Not satisfied with this, our staunch heroines decided to go down to the waterfront. They had heard of people coming out of polls with handfuls of money and they actually witnessed one of these cases. They saw equally blatant examples of malpractice on both Republican and Democratic sides. One Democratic committeeman told a woman that her husband couldn’t vote unless he pulled a second lever. In the 13th ward they came to a poll with a typical machine set-up complete with a cigar smoking boss. Eva Jane and Helen politely and innocently ask- ed to see the judge of elections and were told to-go... . However, ‘these experiences were quite mild since one district had continuous fighting all day. The Committee of -70, nevertheless, considered it a comparatively un- eventful election. Gym Dep’t. Schedules Winter Sports Tryouts Continued from Page 3 The Gym Department would like to announce that any Upper-class- men wishing to go to any gym classes, if they do not make a team, will be gladly welcomed, provided the coach is given an ap- proximate” idea of what classes théy are planning to attend. For those interested in Skiing, bbthere will be a Ski Movie shown by Willie Hischman, courtesy of Mitchell and Ness, at 4:30 on Thunsday,. November 17 in the Music Room of Goodhart Hall. There will be no charge; so come one, come all. This year the Intermediate Ten- nis Class decided to play some matches if they could be arranged. Last Thursday, November 10, the Class played Chestnut Hill and won ‘every match. The Manager of the team is Z. Kuser and the As- sistant Manager is N. Newlands. The team consisted of the follow- ing players: H. Manice, N. New- lands, Z. Kuser, C. ‘Cheston, ‘P. Austin, C. Perkins, C. Sonne, Lin- dau, B. Dawes, Turnbull, Comely, Leeds, Oliver, Goldring, Corbin, Shoemaker, and McCulloch. Stapleton Re-assesses Values of Democracy Continued from Page 3 There are several particularly striking discussions of individual problems. For example, the dis- cussion of equality and its relation to qualitative superiority is very well handled, as are also those dealing with the progressive char- acter of law, with the problem of socialism and capitalism, and with that of freedom and the necessity of circumstances. The most impres- sive element of all, however, is the tone underlying the book as a whole: a tone of thoughtful and constructive liberalism. Behind this attitude lies a deep understanding of the essential flexibility of dem- ocratic thought and of its modes of realization. This implies neither a criticism of the essential pre- ‘cepts of democracy nor a totally but rather a practical recognition that, as times and: their needs change, the ideals and institutions of democracy must be reinterpret- ed to meet them, if democracy it- | self is to preserve its positive and vital character. acy Compliments of the : ag Haverford Pharmacy Haverford ‘different assessment of their. value, |~ ‘Bard's s Kye View Why do they keep on studying From seven p.m. till four? Why do they read so many books? They never did before! Why are the movies empty? Where have the bridge games gone? What happened to the noisy crew That used to talk till dawn? Why are the dates they speak of Not with. Harry, Joe, or Ted, But dates of kings and battles, Of acts and trends instead? And why the worried faces At Taylor’s mournful chime? The reason is quite simple... It’s midsemester time! Tonight the moon is ‘cream cheese mote than ever, And anything can happen. The clouds are huddled arqund the moon; The stars are bits of glass Framed starkly by the lattice of the trees. The path is not the old path under the moonlight, Though jit curves and twists the same, But the ghost soundlessly ap- proaching is the old ghost Who walks on such a library night as this. by Paula Strawhecker, ’52 Lovely, luscious, lingering hoagies; Onion strips evade the bite Salami slices, lettuce leaflings Sustenance to dispel the night. Have I French and Survey reading, Have I Zeno’s words of charm, Have I idiotisms to conquer? With hoagies I can fear no harm. I am master of my evening, Captain of my hoagie ship. Bring the bicarb and the aspirin-- Will you join me in the trip? Murder In Cuneiform Continued from Page-3 pared him for his new notoriety. “Murder here? Why, it’s un- heard of!” shrieked Miss Lemmon, who read Erle Stanley Gardner in her closet secretly at night. “Poor Professor Shotwell,” said Mr. LeRoy, who oniy had an M.A. ‘There are so many full professors I’d rather see go.” “But how did it happen?” “And when?” Nobody quite dared to voice +o question uppermost in everybody’s mind: “But who?” * * * “What time did you find hin, | Orry?” Smith was unpopular with his English students as well as his fellow professors, and there was a distinct note of hostility in Orry’s voice as he replied, “As I was leaving for bed at eight o’clock.” “And just what made you go in there?” persisted Dr. Smith. “I wanted to return his book to him—Theory and Practice, Plant Molds in the Palace of Asshurbani- pal.” “Oh,” said Dr. Smith. * * * Down in the morgue, a bewilder- ed coroner staggered back from the slab. “My God, he was drown- -ed!” he said. * * * Just at that very moment, a painful scene was being enacted in the President’s office. The Pres- ident was very much upset. “T have always had the highest ad- miration and respect for Professor Shotwell,” he said. “He was a great scholar, and is an irreplace- able loss to the Hiram Homer Hopper college community.” He wiped his presidential brow. * * * He will need to wipe it harder || later. Continued next week. Ellis Reports On Oxford Scene, Depicts Studiousness, Austerity (Ed. Note: We reprint some ex- cerpts from a letter of Jean Ellis’, now studying at St. Hilda’s ‘Hall in Oxford on the Catherwood Fel- lowship from Bryn Mawr. We owe the letter to the courtesy of Mrs. Marshall.) To sum up my feelings about Oxford in one sentence would be difficult, since there are so many different facets to life here... Frankly, I’m having a marvelous time . . . There are times when I can think of no place I would rather be, such as the afternoon when a heavy rainfall ceased and a double rainbow, both parts of ‘| which formed perfects arcs, ap- peared behind Magdalen tower, or the day when I arrived“and looked out the window of my room. to see the Cherwell and St. Hilda’s gar- den with the spires and domes of the older colleges: in the back- ground. . I have been enormously im- pressed with the seriousness with which all English girls approach their work, but sometimes I am afraid they are missing a great many experiences which a residen- tial college has to offer. There is no real community spirit, even though the Junior Common Room is a semi self-governing body. Con- versation over coffee turns ‘on the subject each girl is reading, and it is only by perseverance that the topic can be changed. The attitude is understandable, of course, since so few of the women applicants to the University are accepted and NOTICES Fulbright Applications Students are reminded that ap- plications for financial assistance to study abroad under the Ful- bright Act are due in the Dean’s Office by Wednesday, November 30th. Morning Assembly At the morning assembly on Wednesday, November 30th., Mrs. Antje Lemke, one of the German Experts, will speak on “Women in Post-War Germany.” NSA The NSA Board wishes to re- mind the college that anyone in- terested is welcome to attend the weekly meetings of the Board, held Wednesday evenings at 7:30 in the Rhoads Showcase. those who come are on the whole bent on making their stay success- ful .:.°. If you read Time you may have noticed the article about Oxford and the Americans here. The whole situation is really a tempest in a teapot, since the Rhodes scholar who wrote the article did so at the request of the editors of one of the University magazines, but. nevertheless, some of his remarks. were very much to the point while others are sheer nonsense. Any “anti-Americanism” that exists is centered in a very small group of die-hard Communists who believe the U.S. is trying to provoke a war with Russia and few of this group~- feel-..personal- animosity towards American students. - I have been fortunate and haven’t encountered any of the difficulties which face many Amer- icans here . . . Altogether, the more I hear of difficulties the Americans are having here: such as not having enough language background for the field in which they had planned to work, insuffi- cient knowledge of their own field to begin research, the more grate- ful I am to Bryn Mawr “re- quireds” and all! I’m completely in love with Blackwells, the largest of the many bookstores where you can wander at will just looking. I’ve already bought far too many books, but it’s so hard to resist . .. “Bod- ley” of course is magnificent, and a mediaevalist’s playground... . The devaluation was a ter- rible blow, and the people are sit- ting around waiting for further austerity regulations and rises in prices ... The University expect- ed a general election immediately and are terribly disappointed be- cause it doesn’t look as though there would be a dissolution be- fore spring. Naturally, feeling is. especially strong here, since no election means that the students are losing a chance to exercise their double vote. (The seats for Oxford and Cambridge in Parlia- ment are only awaiting royal con- sent to be abolished.) . Please say hello to the peo- ple at college for me and excuse this jumble . .. This is a case where the first will be the worst and I promise not to do it next time... Movies F The next movie on the Wednes- day afternoon series will be pre- L sented by the Child Psychology o Department. Its title is Neurotic W Behavior in the White Rat. Winter Sports E Tryouts for the varsity squads r in winter sports are being held be- fore Thanksgiving: Basketball, Sf. Monday and Tuesday; Swimming, f Thursday and Monday; Badmin- ren ton, Monday and Tuesday. JE ANETT’S Continued on Page 6 @ EVENING DRESSES $25.00 UP e COCKTAIL DRESSES , @ SPORTSWEAR e SKIRTS | FRANNY HOWE, Inc. > ° . i. Just beyond the ‘Blue Comet’ 652 Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr B.M. 3577 | Wipe off that frown Don’t let quizes get you down Relax ! Escape is what you need Come on down with all speed . 7 Wednesday, November 16, 1949 THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Five We look at his picture and we Who is this man, this What and how is he? Into the blue ?’ are limp. Adonis? Out of the night? Ideal indeed, but real? For years he has been languish- ing, exquisitely tailored, in the bottom drawer of our file. Some- times we opened the drawer, cau- tiously, when’ we were all alone, and we’d peek. ‘Then we’d close the drawer, wordlessly. Then we'd open it again, and so on. In short, he intrigues us. And if anyone, anyone at all knows who hess, DRESSES - SUITS - BLOUSES at Nancy Brown 28 Bryn Mawr Ave. (under the Country Bookstore) MEET AT THE GREEK’S Tasty Sandwiches Refreshments LUNCHES — DINNER |“When did you come in?” It’s very near Thanksgiving time— Perhaps you'll be a guest So how about a hostess gift I’m sure we have the best! RICHARD STOCKTON BRYN MAWR “DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS” by Mrs. Francis Trollope COUNTRY BOOKSHOP BRYN MAWR AVE. - BRYN MAWR, PA. Tilted Lamp Post Offers Entrance to Chantilly Continued from Page 3 moat and tne great yellow castle. We dropped rocks in the water, '|dabbled our feet in the fountains, danced and made faces at the }| Statues, climbed the broad sweep- }|ing steps to the high terrace, all alone in the vast pleasures of the chateau de Chantilly. “Mesdemoiselles — par ou etes || vous entrees? Prenez garde — le _|ehien!” We were completely start- led. The guard had stolen up be- hind us, a huge revolver in his f| belt, an immense Belgian shep- herd on a steel leash at his side. He was even more frightened than We were — no one, apparently, had ever broken.through the great defense before. “Par ou etes vous j entrees,” he kept screaming, “and ‘| who told you you could come in?” Frightened, we conferred in Eng- lish. “We came in this afternoon,” we said at last, “we didn’t know they closed the gates so early.” “At three o’clock,” all innocence; “what time is it now?” “Par ou etes vous entrees” he screamed again; “we weren’t open at all today.” We ‘| thought of bribery, but had spent our all, gorging on creme Chan- tilly. “Nice dog,” said Judy, hoping to make peace, but the brute gnaw- ed her elbow so the blood ran out. “He’s trained to kill,” said the guard. “If he’d found you in the ground you’d be dead now. Get out.” We turned to go, mopping Judy’s blood and murmuring nasty words. The great dark yew maze on our left looked doubly intriguing, mysterious . . . We had to see it. Quickly we ducked away and ran toward it, hoping to lose them in the dark. No luck. They brought us back to the gate. “He likes blood,” said the guard pointedly. But at the gate there was more trouble. The porter had to be pull- ed out of his soup and he was furious. “Par ou etes vous en- trees?” he screamed. This time we pretended we didn’t speak French. “Give me your names and addresses,” was the next cry, and Where To Go For Art, Movies, Music, Theatre Continued from Page 3 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Be- ginning Thurs., Nov. 17 and con- tinuing through next week. Villanova Field House. Jacobowsky and the Colone] Sun., Mon., Tues., Nov. 20, 21, 22 Movies Bryn Mawr Theatre. Thur., Nov. 17 Eugene O’Neill’s The Long Voy age Home;. John Wayne, Barry Fitzgerald. Fri., Sat., Nov. 18-19 White Heat; James Cagney, Vir- ginia Mayo. Sun., Mon., Nov. 20-21 Thieves Highway; Jackpot. Tues., Wed., Nov. 21, 22 Bank Dick and-Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. Ardmore--Theatre Thur., Nov. 17 to Sat., Nov. 19 Sword in the Desert. Suburban Theatre Thur. to Sat., Nov. 17 to 19 Anna Lucasta. Sun. thru Thur., Nov. 20 to 24 Top of the Morning, Bing Cros- by. Studio Theatre: Market above 16th: Starting Tues., Nov. 15 The Marx Brothers Soup and Animal Crackers. we gave false ones. “Passport numbers” — and then the game was up. American arrogance, the ambassador, our families . . . all the makings of international scan- in Duck]; dal were here. ‘“Laissons - nous sortir, mon bonhomme,” we said sternly, and he let us. It was a long scary walk back to the station, and we had missed the last train to Paris. We could not see a haystack anywhere, but there was a double bed and a Continued on Page 6 Your Christmas Portrait BY ROBERT JONES Phone BM 3598 Today 989 Glenbrooke Avenue at Conestoga Road if only she’d worn a 7 Anne Boleyn would have kept her spouse Von ow, blouse! i, - | G MUMy pony pinuse ae q stores ie. : See them in Philadelphia at LIT BROS. - WANAMAKER’S ~ ‘Free booklet: ‘WARDROBE TRICKS”. Write Judy Bond, Inc., Bept. M, 1375 Broadway, New York 18 % What To Do Jobs For Next Year Seniors and Graduate Students who live in New York State. The Civil Service Commission an- nounces opportunities for Manage- ment Assistants and Professional] and technical assistants, for those with courses in: Economics, Poli- tics, »*Psychology, Bacteriology, Chemistry. Salaries for some posi- tions begin at $2346; for others go over $3000. Closing date, Decem- ber 10th. Information at the Bu- reau of Recommendations. On Campus Jobs Now Open Campus sales agents needed for new preparation for washing sweaters and socks; for china mugs with college seal and name on them; for YEAR magazine. Summer Jobs Counselors” for” Pinecrest Camp; Naples, Maine. All skills and gen- eral counselors. Interviews can be made in New York City during Thanksgiving and Christmas holi- days. Watch these. notices for news of the Job Weekend, February 24 and 25, 1950. Civil Service Examinations Chemists, Physicists, Geologists, !course. and Mathematicians: An £xamin- ation for Physical Science Aid has been announced. Positions around Washington only. Seniors and graduate students may qualify for salaries of $2974. Applieations must be made by December 138th. Blanks in the Bureau of Recom- mendations. Training Course The University of Pittsburgh announces its retail store training See the bulletin board outside Room H. Phanksgiving Vacation Babysitting Please sign now for babysitting jobs during Thanksgiving weekend if you are planning to be here. This will be an active weekend on. account of the Army-Navy game and family visits. The Reserve table in the Library now has books and pamphlets about job-hunting and job ideas. Save the weekend of 24th and 25th of February for the Job weekend. Does nobody want to sell “Wool- Doo”? DRESSES GOWNS ‘MISS NOIROT 821 Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr, Pa. | A+ Fine - Shop - in A - Fine - Community You will like our BLOCH FRERES Handkerchiefs in white and prints DINAH FROST’S Xmas and Every Day Cards 814 Lancaster Avenue BRYN MAWR JEWELERS WATCH, CLOCK, AND JEWELRY REPAIRING Elgin American Compacts Ronson and ASR Lighters Bryn Mawr 4597 Gaebler’s Black and Gold Inn, btm me: = State Tax a? Reg ‘ & Gaebler’s Black & Gold Inn at Columbia is the favorite off- campus haunt of University of Missouri students. That’s be- cause Gaebler’s is a friendly place, always full of the busy atmosphere of college life. There is always plenty of ice- cold Coca-Cola, too. For here, as in college gathering spots everywhere—Coke belongs. \ Ask for it either way... both trade-marks mean the same thing. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY The Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company © 1949, The Coca-Cola Company Page Six THE COLLEGE NEWS Wednesday, November 16, 1949 Surrey Complains That Canines About Campus Have Fur Troubles by Anne, Greet, °50 a bull dog with horrid and bristly forehead was walking past taylor his hair was a failure he walked like a sailor a blister of black sat on his back and we thought of Surrey once soft and furry but now her skin shines pinkly in- between the hair that isn’t there she said one night it might be a blight “in the NEWS please note i need a new coat one that’s hirsuteous all shiny and beauteous” but that any old fur would do for her “fur of yellow that’s pale and mellow color of mustard é or drooping custard tufts off a bustard spots like a fawn if they’ll stay on are enormously pleasing and keep one from freezing fur that’s brown and doesn’t fall down or instead a glorious red i don’t much care as long as it’s there dogs of green aren’t often seen but i wouldn’t carpel even at parple do you think that gin makes fur grow in? would oat cakes help a declining scelp? or has anyone at all an extra shawl that i can borrow ’ to hide my sorrow? the year grows older the days are colder BRIGHTEN UP! Costume Jewelry and Scarves joyce lewis Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr — JAKE’S HARDWARE STORE Hardware for every need 918 Lancaster B.M. 0979 © Sweaters ® Slips, Stockings © Hand Sewn Loafers at PZ"ILIP HARRISON Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr Your photographic needs at the PHOTO. CENTER e FILMS @ CAMERAS @ FINISHING 810 Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr like oak and alder im getting balder a disgrace to emily and to my femily nobody could call me a fussy dog” she said “BUT i do like a little bit of hair on my head”. = re A The Double Octet The members of the Bryh Mawr Double Octet have been choyen for the year 1949-1950. They ‘follows: First sopranos: P. Field, ’51 B. J. Connor, ’50 C..Schiller, .’52 R. Gottli¢b, ’53 Second sopranos: ~G. Williams, *50 F. Putney, ’50 L. Kimball, ’53 J. Pennypacker, ’52 First altos: N. Alderfer, ’51 A. Farnsworth, ’51 G. Gaebelein, ’50 A. Ludwig, ’53 Second altos: E. Gunderson, ’51 N. Greenewalt, ’50 E. Glassberg, ’52 M. Is. Culver, ’53 e as 4 NEWS Jumps, Drops, Decapitates Reporters Continued from Page 3 Pleading: Can’t cut her head? Frustrated athlete: My jump is too short. Vicissitudes of life: miserable break. Strange request: Will you count her heads? Variety is the spice: fll try a different head. Versatile: Are you working on her foot ie '—~Good Neighbor policy: Jump on the Foreign Observer. .Descent from the air: Drop on Liliom. Pursuing. Lady Luck: See if you can get a better break. , Aggressive: Break in between the leaves. Playground leader: Will take charge..of the.jumps? Lost and found: Where’s Lili- om? ‘Common. complaint: your head? And so Newslang progresses from week to week; sometimes suggest: ive, often obscure, but never, ever can it be said that it is dull. ,we That’s 2 you Where is COMPLETE YOUR ROOM with @ LAMPS e FURNISHINGS ! at | Suburban Hardware 836 Lancaster Ave. NOTICES \ Continued from Page 4 Registration in Classes Students are reminded that they must sign the class lists in their last class before Thanksgiving va- cation and their first class after it. Infringement of this regulation will be dealt with by the Dean’s office. No NEWS There will be no News this com- ing week. The next issue will be November 30. Bridge Tournament The Intercollegiate Bridge Tour- nament is being held again this year. Preliminary rounds must be played off by February, and the Tilted Lamp Post Offers Entrance to Chantilly Continued from Page 5 promise of creme Chantilly for “|-breakfast. We took it: While we fought the bed bugs and_hydro- phobia, while we dropped the love- ly creme in our coffee and spread it on our croissants, not the old castle nor the green islands and the mists behind filled my mind, but the cry of the porter as we ran through the gate “Pas meme de pourboire, sales garces.” Mary G. McCrystal MATERIALS & NOTIONS HOSIERY & UNDERWEAR 842 Lancaster Ave. sixteen highest ranking eouples will play in the finals at |Chicago in April. Watch further notices Free Movie | If anyone is interested in attend- ing, free of charge, the special showing of the new Goldwyn movie described in the News last week, would she please get in touch with us at once? | ae For Blue Mondays try Hot Fudge Sundaes! at BRYN. MAWR @ PRESCRIPTIONS @ REPAIRS at Wm. P. Krugler Optician Bryn Mawr Nat’! Bank Bldg. Hours: 9:00 to 5:30 SENORITAS !!! THE MEXICAN SHOP will help you give your room a South-of-the-border accent! SUBURBAN SQUARE | ARDMORE . SMOKE MY CIGARETTE, WON'T YOU? THEY'RE MILDER—MUCH MILDER." “THE GREAT A : LOVER” PARAMOUNT HAMBURG HEARTH |