VOL. XLIV—NO. 8

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1958

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1958

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Edward III Called
“Story Of People,”

Power, Suffering

“If a man. had no power over
other men, there could be no suf-
fering such as Edward knew.”
“Marlowe’s) Edward II: Drama of
Power. and. Suffering,” was. the
title which Professor Clifford
Leech of Durham University gave
to the Ann Elizabeth Sheble
memorial lecture, which he deliv-
ered in Goodhart Auditorium at
8:30,, November 17.

To understand a play such as
Edward II, Professor Leech point-
ed out, it is necessary to keep in
mind the author’s “neutrality.”
Modern directors tend to pick out
one major point in a play and to
eliminate everything which con-
flicts with their opinion of what
the author meant; thus, audiences
go to the theatre to see “not
Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but the
Hamlet that a certain actor or
director. has decided to give them.”
While an Elizabethan dramatist
probably was attracted to a sub-
ject in the first place by its affinity
with his own: outlook on life, in
the process of composition his
interest was held by the story it-
self, and he might introduce other
ideas, even those contradictory to
what scholars would consider his
theme. Edward II is “a story of
people, not a demonstration of the
Tudor Myth,” and belongs to its
characters as much as to _ its
dramatists.

Foreshadowings of Marlowe’s
treatment of power and suffering
may be found in his earlier play
Tamburlaine. The quality of opin-
ion to the character of its hero—
for some, the personification of

~~ Marlowe’s own aspirations and

 

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therefore a sympathetic figure; for
others, a monster, at whose down-
fall one should rejoice—is bound
up with Marlowe’s conception of
the nature of power. At times
Marlowe does come close to identi-
fying with his hero, and Professor
Leech believes that the play sub-
ject first appealed to him as an
opportunity to dramatize his am-
bitious dreams. But the play also
shows a great fascination with
man’s ability to inflict and endure
suffering. Insofar as Tambulaine

Continued on Page 6, Col. 1

 

Calendar

Wednesday, November 19: Final
Marriage — Hygiene Lec-
ture.

Thursday, November 20: Miss
Elizabeth Hoppin of Mademoiselle
Magazine will meet persons inter-
ested in the College Board, Art,
and Fiction Contests at tea in the
Deanery.

Friday, November 20: Bryn
Mawr College Theatre and Haver-
ford Drama Club present “King
John”, directed by Robert Butma.

Saturday, November 22: Second
performance of Shakespeare’s
“King John.”

Sunday, November 23: 7:80,
Music. Room, chapel, Rev. Robert

James of Temple University will
speak, chorus.

Monday, November 24: 7:30,
self-government exam for fresh-
men.

Monday, November 24: 8:30 p.m.,
Ely Room, Wyndham, Kurt Latte
of the University of Gottingey will
present the Lily Ross Taylor £46
ture on “The Development of the
Roman Legend.”

Tuesday, November 25: Mr. Fer-
rater Mora will present the last
in his series of lectures, “What
Happens In Philosophy.”

Wednesday, November 26:
Thanksgiving holiday begins after

 

the last class.

 

Ferrater-Mora: Philosophy Requires
More Publicizing, Less Vulgarizing

Having discussed philosophy
from the inside and outside, Mr.
Ferrater Mora in his third lecture
undertook to treat what happens
to philosohpy or: the state of
philosophy in conemporary society.
To describe his conception of this
society, Mr. Mora imagined three
huge figures on a canvas which dif-
fered among themselves but pos:
sessed in common a’ backrgound
and a frame. These, he said, were
analogous to contemporary society,
considering his three previous di-
visions.

No matter which society we

Roman Legend Is
Theme Of Lecture

Kurt Latte, Professor in the
University of Gottingen, will de-
liver the annual Lily Ross Taylor

 

Lecture on Monday, November 24,.

at 8:30 p.m. in the Ely Room
Wyndham.

The subject of his lecture will
be “The Development of the
Roman Legend”’—Professor Latte
will discuss the development of
the peculiarly Roman qualities
which formed the basis of national
“ride in Augustan times.

Now at the Institute for Ad-
anced Study in Princeton, Profes-
-or Latte is a scholar of wide
range in many fields of Greek and

Roman studies.

 

Added Understanding Of Turkish City

Result Of Past Season’s Excavation

by Diane Taylor

The University Museum’s current
exhibit of Phrygian art from
Gordion, Turkey, and a further
clarification of Gordion’s place in
history are the latest results of
the past seasons’ excavations at
“the capital of King Midas.” Miss
Machteld J. Mellink, Associate
Professor of Classical Archaeol-
ogy, continued her excavation ‘of
the Lydian mound and fortifica-
tion walls—undaunted bythe neces-
sity of digging “underwater” with
a pump—in an effort to fill in
Gordion’s history between about
700 and 550 B.C.

After the Cimmerian attack at
the beginning of the seventh cen-
tury, resulting in the overthrow
of Midas’ Phrygian kingdom, the
main city mound was left desert-
ed. In the course of the seventh
century the smaller Lydian mound
to the east was settled and forti-
fied’ with a mudbrick wall, set on

_ stone foundations and strength-

 

Excavation of the

 

   
 

 

protecting Lydian tumulus_ re-
vealed the full 12-meter height of
the wall—120 courses of mudbrick;
evidence of further attacks on
Gordion after the initial Cimmer-
ian invasion, and perhaps of a
surprise attack around 550 B.C.

(dated by Lydian pottery), was
supplied by hundreds of bronze
arrowheads found’ embedded ‘in the
wall. Dr. Rodney S. Young, direc-
tor of the excavations, would like
to connect this battle at Gordion
with the war between Cyrus the
Great of Persia and Croesus of
Lydia.

‘Miss Mellink’s primary concern
in this season’s and next summer’s
excavations is to trace the forti-
fication wall as it dips beneath the
alluvial clay and the present water
table, to find out whether it once
connected with the main city
mound or whether the Sangarios
River, now to the west of Gordion,
perhaps once flowed between the
city et and the Lydian mound.

Canstaiiad on Page 6, Col. 4

 

choose today we find certain basic
characteristics which all have in
common, and Mr. Mora believes
these will be enforced in the fu-
ture. Three divisions are useful:
Unification, Massification and
Technification. All three are close-
ly related; each one is supported
Continued on Page 4, Col. 1

Common Treasury
Reports On Dues

by Sue C. Jones
Common Treasurer

For what may possibly be the
last year, the Common Treasury
dues for 1958-59 will again be
$6.50 per student. Half of this
amount will be charged to each
person on the next payday and the
remainder on March 11. This
money represents the students’ con-
tribution to the financial support
of the major organizations on cam-
pus. A detailed breakdown of the
total budget, which amounts to
over $4350, has been posted on
the bulletin boards in each hall.

Of the $6.50 per student, $2.49
will go to Undergrad, to pay for
such various items as the salaries
of the hall announcers and payday
mistresses, Parade Night, May
Day, Curriculum Committee, Open
Houses, and many others, Anoth-
er $1.44 will go to A.A. to pay for
food and transportation for the
teams, Awards Night, and club
support. Self-Gov will get $.79
and League $.62. The Alliance will
receive $.97, most of which will
be spent on speakers and a major
conference to be held in the spring.
The remaining $.19 will go to
Arts Council~for concerts and
poetry readings.

The total budget figure of $4350

Continued on Page 5, Col. 3

Lafuente To Give
Spanish Art Talk

Dr. Enrique Lafuente Ferrari,
Director of the Museum of Modern
Art in Madrid, and Professor of
History of Art at the Escuela
Superior Central de Bellas Artes
de San Fernando, will lecture in
Spanish on Spanish art in the Art
Lecture Room in the Library on
Thursday, November 20th at
8:30 p.m.

Dr, Lafuente is a participant in
the Foreign Leader Program of
the International Educational Ex-
: cé of the Unit
States “ Department of State.

    

 

by. Alison Baker

The Bryn Mawr-Haverford co-
alition has put a great deal .of
thought, work, and_ inspiration
into the production of Shakespeare’s
King John, slated for this week-

“lend. The curtain rises at 8:30

‘Friday night, and .7:30 Saturday
night in Goodhart Auditorium.
Jinty Myles, president of College
Theatre, says that as far as she
knows this wii! be the first time
that King John hes ever been done
without cuts by anateurs.

King John is usua:iy conceived
of as an historical play, but the
basic intention of College Thea-
tre’s interpretation is not to so
restrict it, but rather to emphasize
its universal truth by removing
the definite period setting in favor
of one more symbolic. Thus inter-
preted, King John becomes a mor-
ality play, transcending the limita-
tions of any fixed time.

The posters advertising King
John are a preview of the playing-
card motif which is used on a
larger scale in the set, to under-
line the basic currents of symbol-
ism in the play. Two thrones are
the only furniture, one on each
side of the stage, with a playing-
card in back of each, These cards
distinguish the French and English
kings by a fleur de lis and a lion.
The English royalty will fit the
pattern in robes of red, black,
gold and white; their French
counterparts will wear blue, black,
gold and white. Of the other char-
acters, the landsmen in beige
show their kinship with the earth,
and characters such as Constance,
who represent neither the French
nor the English, will wear black
and white.

At the back of the stage, be-
tween the two thrones, there
stands a series of five Tarot cards.
These are fortune-telling cards of
Egyptian origin, and have a power-
ful symbolism in relation to King
John, ‘The first is death, one of
the strongest currents in each
character’s thoughts and speech.
The second card, depicting a wom-
an holding open a lion’s mouth, is
representative of force, The lion
reminds us of Richard Coeur de

Lion, ‘whose influence is felt
throughout the play. The third

is the House of God, and the fourth
the Pope. Pandulph amply displays
this power by his two-facedness
and angry threats of excommun-

-transcribed by

College Theater to Present
‘King John’ This Weekend

ication. The Wheel of Fortune,
which is the fifth of the Tarot
cards, with.a beggar on the. bot-
tom of the wheel and a prosperous
man ‘on top, is referred to most
specifically in the Bastard’s speech
on Commodity. In painting these.
cards for use in the set, Jinty and
her helpers made a special effort
to reproduce the older-looking cql-
Continued on Page 5, Col. 3

Ormandy To Lead
Tri-College Chorys

The Three College Chorus of
Bryn Mawr, Haverford and
Swarthmore will sing with the
Philadelphia Orchestra on Decem-
ber 5 and 6 at the Academy of
Music in Philadelphia. Mr. Eugene
Ormandy will conduct the student
chorus in the “Magnificat” by Jo-
hann Sebastian Bach. Approxi-
mately 300 students will take part
in the concert. Times are 3:00 p.m.
Friday, December 5, and 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 6.

This is the second year in a row
the Tri-College Chorus has sung
with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
The chorus has had two rehearsals
with Mr. Smith, Ormandy’s assist-
ant, and will have three with Mr
Ormandy, two of these in the
Academy with the orchestra.

The program is all Bach. The
first piece will be the “Chaconne”
Louis Gesenway,
and performed by the orchestra.
This is the first time this selection
has been presented.with this_.ar-
rangement. Second will be the
“Magnificat.” Soloists will be Patti
Jean Thompson, Soprano; Ethel-
wyn Whitmore, Soprano; Anne
Stackhouse, Contralto; Wayne
Conner, Tenor; and Barry Hanner,:
Baritone. The third selection will
be the “Brandenburg Concerto No.
2.” Soloists from the orchestra
will be William Kinkaid, Flute;
John de Lanci, Oboe; Gilbert John-
son, Trumpet; and David Madison,
Violin. For its fourth number the
orchestra. will play a Suite from
“The French Suites” transcribed
by Arthur Honeggor. The program
will conclude with the “Toccata,

Intermezzo and Fugue in C Major”

transcribed by Eugene Ormandy.

 

Tickets can still be had by writ-
ing to the Academy.

 

The Bryn Mawr College Friends
of Music will present the Philadel-
phia Brass Ensemble in a weekend
of workshops and concerts at the
college on December 8 and 9.
Members of the ensemble partici-
pating are Samuel Krauss, trum-
pet; Seymour Rosenfeld, trumpet;
Mason Jones, horn; Henry C.
Smith III, trombone and Abe Tor-
chinsky, tuba.

The first of the two abies
will be held in the Music Room on

concerns the techniques and mech-
anics of brass instruments. The
second workshop, a survey of the
literature and the history of brass
instruments and a demonstration

Friends Of Music Schedule Concerts,
Weekend Workshops At Bryn Maur

4:00 and 5:30 p.m,

On the evening of December 9
the ensemble will give a concert in
Goodhart. Auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
Tickets for this event and the oth-
ers will be available in the office
of public information on the second
floor of Taylor during the week of
December 1,

 

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rehearsal will take place in the
Music Room on the 9th between