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VOL. 21, NO. 21

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1955 __

‘County Fair’ Theme

BMC-Drinceton Chorus Concert
Includes: Work Of D. Hindemith

especially contributed by
Suzanne Jones, °57

Saturday’s choral concert in
Goodhart Hall, presented by the
Bryn Mawr College Chorus and the
Princeton University Chapel Choir,
was designed to give visiting par-
ents an idea of the work done by
the Chorus during the year.

The first .part of the program,
performed by the Bryn Mawr
Chorus under the directionof—Mr.
Goodale, included selections famil-
iar from Sunday night chapel serv-
ices and the recent concert with
Lehigh. Notable among these were
three excerpts from Katherine D.
Fisher’s cantata, “The Lamp on
the Stream,” which saw its pre-
miere performance here on March
5. Effectively and expressively
sung, the group was both repre-
sentative of the whole work and
satisfying in itself.

Church Music

The Princeton Choir, under Dr.
Carl Weinrich, presented a selec-
tion of church music. The numbers
were characterized by a wealth of
harmonic and dynamic effect, car-
ried out with sureness and control.

The choruses were combined un-
der Mr. Goodale’s direction to con-
clude the program with three sec-
tions from the requiem “For Those
We Love,” Hindemith’s

 

musical ':

setting of “When Lilacs Last in
the Dooryard Bloom’d,” by Walt
Whitman.

The poem, written to commemo-
rate the death of Abraham Lincoln,
is both an elegiac representation
of the country’s grief at the loss
of its leader and a joyous song of
praise for death, the “strong de-
liveress.” Paul Hindemith, -who
had taken refuge in this country
from—the—-Nazi~regime; set the
poem to. music in circumstances
similar to those under which it was
written—after the death of Frank-
lin Roosevelt and the end of the
Second World War—with the ob-
ject of recreating in music the
complex feeling of the words.

Orchestra Lacking

The excerpts as performed Sat-
urday lacked the orchestral parts
for which, along with those of
chorus and soloists, the work was
intended, but they were saved from
any impression of incompleteness
by the skill of Mr. Alwyne at the
piano. The piano arrangement, far
from being a simple accompani-
‘ment, demanded ‘a display of virtu-
osity that would have been an
achievement in itself, and Mr. Al-
wyne not only overcame its diffi-
‘culties but made it an essential,
expressive force in the perform-

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Originality And Variety Are Found

Present In Dance

by Anna Kisselgoff, ’58

It was certainly a great pleasure
to attend the:concert given by the
Dance Club last Friday night.
Combining freshness, enthusiasm,
and originality, it served to prove
that Bryn Mawr’s creative instincts
are not as dormant as they seem
to be.

A well-chosen program was
largely responsible for this. The
first half consisted of folk dances.
The first of these was a Hungarian
dance “Verbunkos,” described in
the program as a dance which was
“used to recruit soldiers into the
army”. Accordingly, the members
of the Dance Club marched on
stage in a well regimented forma-
tion, clad in bright colored jackets

and helmets, and black leotards}

and tights.

Leora Luders, costume director,
is to be commended for the good
use she made of the basic leotards.
The “Verbunkos”, with its kicks
and stamps, consisted mainly of
basic character dance steps, which
were performed rather well.

The second dance, the Hungar-
ian “Ritka Buza”, was. brief but
charming. Fortunately, the daxc-

ers. made good use of their facial
expressions, since it wotid be auite R

easy for a traditional dance of this
type to become stilted.~~ |

The third number, “Of Palestine,”

alternated the traditional Palestin-
ian dances, “Hora and Mayim,”
with the Hora being danced twice,
and the Mayim between the two
Horas, Re
_ Hank Dane, of Haverford, prov-
ed an able accompanist on the ban-
jo. ny

The next dance, “La Jota”, Span-
ish peasant dance, was not as well
executed.as the previous ones, The
line formations seemed to be hard]

 

 

Club’s Concert

to keep, and the “feeling” for the

dance did not come out too well. |
However, this is a defect found,

even among many professional
dancers, who, if they are not Span-
ish, find that type of dancing ex-
tremly hard to do.

The last folk dance “Of the
U. S.”, was a pleasure to watch.

Dressed in straw hats, jeans or |

bright skirts, the dancers execut-
ed theatrical variations of basic
square dance steps, employing reg-
ular square dance formations. This
was a fast moving dance where
the dancers were visibly enjoying
themselves. It was a number mark-
ed by lively dancing and lively mu-
sic, provided by Hank Dane and
Bob Benjamin.

With the exception of the last
dance which was arranged by Dina
Bikerman, all the folk dances were
directed by Mrs. Yolanda Brutten.

The second part of the program,
which was devoted to modern
dance, started off quite well with
Leora Luders dancing in her own
“Indecision”. By ‘synchronizing
her body and facial expressions
perfectly, Leora demonstrated that
she was an excellent mime with a
flair for the comic.

The next number, “Love Per-
haps, or a Baby Bird,” was an in-

terpretation of an original poem.

by Anne Mazick, performed by
Anne, Violet Shaw, and Dina Bik-
erman. This was an ambitious
work, but because of the reliance
upon gestures and voice, it can riot
be classed in the strict dance cate-
gory.

‘Mary Vorys’ dance, “Scarf,”-per-
formed by herself and Wendy Kap-
lan, was danced without music. It
was a well-thought-out piece of
choreography, centered about the
Continued on Page 5, Col. 6

Of Soph’s Carnival

“County Fair” will be the theme
of the Sophomore Carnival, Bobbie
| Burrows and Gwen Garland, car-
nival co-chairmen, recently an-
nounced.

Held on the afternoon of Maids
and Porters Show, April 23, the
carnival will begin at 2:00 near
Taylor with the traditional fresh-
| man_float parade. Judged by Mrs.
Marshall, Professors Sloane, Dud-

den, Leblanc and Ferrater ‘Mora,
the floats are made by the fresh-
men in each hall.

Auction, ‘Booths

itself will be held on Denbigh
Green or in Goodhart, if it rains.

The carnival will feature an auc-

tion, “with articles-contributed by
the faculty, and booths similar to
those found at fairs and carnivals.
Each hall has..charge of at least
one booth.

Admission will be by a general
admission card, which will be
bought at. a central booth and
punched at individual booths.

The general committee members,
all sophomores, include: Ginny
| Gavian, Nancy Coyne, Caryl Shar-
| low, construction; Joan Brandwein,
| Suzanne Knowlton, souvenirs; Mit-
zi Wiseman, Betsy Miller, refresh-
ments; Margie Milbank, float par-
ade; Rabbit MacVeagh, Epsey
Cooke, publicity; and Ann Ander-
son and Bobby Zwart.

 

 

Louise Breuer has been nam-
ed to head Freshman Week
Committee and welcome the
Class of ’59 this fall.

 

. CALENDAR

Thursday, April 21

8:30 P.M. Panel on Social Work
| sponsored by the League. Com-
mon Room.

 

Friday, April 22

» 8:18 P.M. Arts Night. Skinner
‘Workshop.

“La Nuit En Rose”, masquerade
party, Wyndham .

Saturday, April 23
| 2:00 P.M. Freshman Float Pa-
' yade, followed by “County Fair”,
Sophomore Carnival on Denbigh
Green (Goodhart in case of rain).

8:30 P.M. Maids and Porters
present “Carousel”, Goodhart.

10:30 to 2:00. Junior Prom,
“Picnic”, Gym.

Sunday, April 24

7:30 P.M. Dr. Morton Enslin
speaks at chapel service. Music
Room.

8:30 P.M. Haverford College
Friends of Music, Mme. Agi Jam-
bor will play works. of. Bach and
Beethoven.

Monday, April 25
7:15 P.M. Miss Robbins will

Events.. Common Room.

Thursday, April 28
_ 8:30 P.M. Frederick A. Pottle,
editor of Boswell’s London Jour-
nal, will give the Ann Elizabeth
Sheble Memorial Lecture on “Bos-
welt Revalued.” Goodhart Hall.

8:30 P.M. Linus Pauling, Prof.
of Chemistry, California Institute
of Technolggy, will speak on the
“Structure of Proteins”.

| sored by Sigma Xi.

 

After the parade, the carnival]

 

, again. Overcome by remorse and
‘afraid of Julie’s anger, Billy stabs

Maids & Porters

One of the most exciting of this
'weekend’s events will be the pres-
entation of Carousel by the maids |
and porters. The show, adapted
from Ferenc Molnar’s Liliom, has
been cut slightly, but all of the
plot and most of the details of the
‘original remain.

- The story concerns a mill girl,
Julie, who falls in love with Billy
Bigelow, the barker at a carousel,
‘Although he has recently lost his
‘job, they marry. When he discov-
ers that she is going to have a
‘baby, he still has no job.

In desperation, Billy accepts the
‘proposition of his evil friend, Jig-
ger, to hold up the mill owner
while he is on his way to deliver
the payroll to a ship captain. The

 

mill owner, however, protects him-
self from the two with his gun;
Jigger escapes and is never seen

himself.

Thru Backgate

The next scene is in heaven:
Billy has been let in, but only
through the back gate. He is told
by the friendly starkeeper that he
has one chance to atone for his
sins by doing something good for
someone on earth.

Billy comes to earth, where he
sees his daughter, Louise, now fif-
teen years old. He tries to make
her a present of a star, but be-
comes angry when she refuses the
strange gift, and slaps her, thus
ruining one chance to redeem him-

 

self.

But his time isn’t up yet; he
goes to Louise’s high school grad-
uation, where ‘the preacher is
speaking on the cruelty ‘of hatred.

Give ‘Carousel’.

Adaptation of F. Molnar’s ‘Liliom’

(He is referring to Louise, who is
shunned by her friends because
her father was a robber.)

The entrance of Billy, now in-
visible, and Julie, who realizes who
has offered the star to her daugh-
ter, and the closing song, “You'll
Never Walk Alone,” end the show
on a wistfully happy note.

Arts Night Offers =

Sartre’s “No Exit”

8:13 p.m. on Friday, April 22,
was selected as the most-propitious
moment to raise the curtain on
Arts Night. The program offers a
sampling of Bryn Mawr talent in
music, dance, painting and drama,

, all for five dimes or the equivalent.

It will take place in Skinner Work-
shop.

An assortment of ballads will be
sung by Chris Flint who will ac-
company herself on her autoharp.
There will be two dance numbers:
“Shattered Image” with choreogra-
phy and dancing by Dina Bikerman
and Violet Shaw and an amusing
solo by Leora Luders.

Art Exhibit

Art in the form of drawings and
paintings, can be seen during in-
termission.

The second half of the program
will be a reading from Jean-Paul
Sartre’s, No Exit. The play deals
with the “hell” which faces a man,
a nymphomaniac and a lesbian.

Mary Darling will direct the
reading. Fritz Janschka will su-
pervise the decor, and Ann Brit-
tain will arrange the art exhibit.
Tam Birchfield and Ann Morris are
chairmen of Arts Night.

 

Revisions Of College Election System —

Discussed During Legislature Session ~__

At an open college legislature
meeting on Wednesday, April 13,
students discussed possible altera-
tions in the present college election
system.

Although not presented at this

 

--speak~-on Churchill “at Currént’

 

Spon-'
Park Hall. j|the class, although Patsy noted

meeting, a complete petition elec-

‘tion system has been drawn up un-
der the leadership of Patsy Fox. ynder which the College News

This system would have an election
committee (not a nominating com-
mittee) as a supervisory board. |
This committee would set a date
for petitions to be circulated and |
would set a minimum time for cir- |
culation, perhaps five days. To be’
eligible for an office a_ student
would have to secure twenty-five
names on her petition.. Either the
gir] desiring. to run for office or a
friend could start the petition.
Signing the petition would mean
an endorsement of the candidate.
A student could endorse only one
candidate for each office.

~The — organization bdéard ~ for
which the candidate was running
would then make up a list of ques-
tions to be presented to her. Her
answers, petition and a list of her
activities would then be publish-
ed, through the hall, the College
News, or class meetings. A col-
lege assembly, with presidential

candidates speaking in their own
behalf, could also be held.
Narrowing would be done through

 

that the additional work involved
in running would mean that fewer

and more interested people would

run, Voting would be done through’
the halls. Students would not be
forced to vote, but could abstain.

Potts Presents Idea
Nancy Potts suggested a system

would be the machine through
which the college would learn
about the candidates and would
vote; The Newg would print a
special election issue, publishing
the lists of candidates which were
previously submitted to the News
through the organization boards
or whatever method was consider-
ed best. It would also print state-
ments by the candidates and their
pictures.

The next week’s issue would in-
clude ballots, through which stu-
dents would vote for candidates
for all offices. The News would
either announce these as soon as
votes were tabulated, or would
print the winners in the next
week’s issue.

At the meeting the questions of
the desirability of complete college
elections and of ipso facto mem-
bership were also brought up.

 

‘Miss Robbins will speak on
Sir Winston Churchill in Cur-
rent Events this Monday.

7:15 Common Room