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VOL. XLIV, NO. 3

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1958

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1958

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Arts Night To Rise In Fall;

Council Announces Try-outs

Arts Council has scheduled Arts
Night on November 8 this year,
instead. of in .the spring. This
change was in favor of a Faculty
Show, of greater senior participa-
tion, and of a_less-hurried-more-
fun-time for all.

Although the Deans’ Office rul-
ing which does not permit fresh-
men to act in College Theatre pro-
ductions in the first semester, must
apply to the one-act play in Arts
Night, freshmen are encouraged
to try out their individual talents.
The existence of a Dance Club de-
pends on the interest of freshmen,
for example.

Tryouts Scheduled

The one-act play, to be directed
by Sue Gold (Merion), will prob-
ably be one written last year by
a student of the play-writing class.
The play will be announced be-
fore its tryouts in Skinner, these
to be-on Monday, October 20.

The tryouts for the rest of the
program—for those who sing
arias or unusual folksongs, who
play instruments, who dance the

Golliwogs’ Cake Walk or the Rock,

’n’? Roll—will be in the Roost on
Friday afternoon, October 17.
Those interested in trying out, but
unable to do so at that time,
should contact Anne Farlow, direc-
tor of: Arts Night, in Pem West.
All tryouts are open to Haverford
as well as to Bryn Mawr.
Hall Representatives

Instead of appointing members
when time and circumstances dic-
tate, Arts Council has found it-
self embarking on projects ambi-
tious enough, and of general
enough interest, to warrant a rep-
resentative from each hall. The
reasons for and the duties of such
representatives will be explained
here and at hall meetings.

Arts Council in its second year
finds itself enthusiastically sup-
ported less by: the already exist-
ing, independent organizations on
campus, devoted to acting, writing,
singing, than by. those individuals
at Bryn Mawr and at Haverford
interested in furthering the avail-
ability of the arts to the individual
student.

Haverford To Cooperate

The Haverford interest in our
Arts Council is a new one, and at
a meeting here last week, they sug-
gested that much mutual benefit
to each college could be produced
by our working together. Haver-
ford referred to the art exhibits
held at Haverford and at Bryn
Mawr last spring—each virtually
unknown to the other, and neither
well attended. They referred to
talent on their campus, unused
because unsponsored.

‘Varied. Sunday Afternoons

Haverfordians will take part in
Arts Night and help produce it.
They will help us negotiate for
tickets at the Academy, and Bryn
Mawr and Haverford students will
attend concerts and plays in Phil-
adelphia and the vicinity together.
The playreading group on Sunda
afternoons last year dwindled per-
ceptibly; Haverford this year will
be invited too. Our immediate
project is a varied program for
Sunday afternoons — folksinging,
playreading, Chamber Music con-
certs—to be publicized on both

ized soon. Publicity on both
campuses is most important. The
advantage to Bryn Mawr is obvi-
ous. Bryn Mawrters: may meet
Haverfordians on a basis of mu-
tual interest, Each campus may
benefit from a mutual awareness
of activities, and from the sharing
of them.
Reps To Choose Projects ¢
All this is beyond the exertions
of the present Arts Council, con-
sisting of seniors busy heading in-
dependent organizations. The
Ticket Agency, the decorating of
the Roost with student art, the
procuring of movies, and go on,
must remain “‘projects” until there
are enough girls to achieve them.
Each representative will choose
her particular “project”. She need
not have a specific creative talent,
but must enjoy responsibility and
be adventurous enough to explore
new and ever-expanding ideas.

Juniors To Present

Show Inside Out

Escape the horrors of the Re-
serve Room and the. incarceration
of the lab! Enjoy the diversions of
Junior Weekend (at least until the
hopelessness of Monday morning!)
Friday evening at 8:30 the class
of 1960 presents (appropriately)
Inside Out! Following the play
Pembrokes East and West are
holding a joint Open House, to
which stags as well as_ those
claimed for the evening are in-
vited.

Dance In Gym

Following the play on Saturday
evening, also begining at 8:30, a
formal dance willbe held in the
gym from 10 P.M. until 2 A.M.;
music by Ray Carr and his orches-
tra. After the dance the Roost will
be open until 3:30 A.M.

For Rhoads only, there will be
a coffee hour on Sunday afternoon,
in~ Rhoads.

Sloane To Deliver

Talk for Interfaith

Next Tuesday evening in the
Art Lecture Room, Dr. Joseph C.
Sloane will deliver a lecture on
“The Visual Form of. Divinity.”

The lecture, to be held October
21, will be sponsored by the Bryn
Mawr Interfaith Association.

Dr. Sloane, for many years
chairman of the Department of
History of Art, will no longer be
at Bryn Mawr after this semester.
He has accepted a position at the
University’ of North Carolina.
While here he has ‘conducted
courses in Italian Art, Modern
Art, and American Art.

———
Notice

On Wednesday, November 12,

a bus will leave Pem Arch at 7:00

pm. for a trip to the Health

Museum. Two films: Endocrine
Glands, How They Affect You—
and Human Heredity will be
shown.

. Following this, there will be a
tour of the museum. While this
is primarily for the hygiene class,
any others are welcome, students
or faculty. Cost of the bus will be

 

Haverford is anithustastic. “They
have enough interested students
wanting to work with us that

~-Mmany of these ideas may be real-

divided_among those, using it and| _

Pem East Effort
’| By W. B. Yeats
Most Outstanding

by Jana Varvleys

Honors for the most outstanding
play this year
went to Pem East for its presen-
tation of W. B. Yeats’ The Land
directed by
An unusual and

Freshman Hall

of Heart’s Desire,
Agnes Moncy.
difficult play to perform, it was
effectively staged, transporting
the audience into Yeats’ world of
the mystic and supernatural.

Sara Schlesinger caught the
wistful, dreamy quality of the
young bride Maire, who longs to
escape the drudgery and dullness
of the Irish peasant’s life, and is
“weary of the four tongues” of
parents-in-law, husband, and par-
ish priest who dominate her home.
Sara’s diction was excellent, but
her interpretation.was perhaps too
narrow, lacking something of the
lightness and. frivolity demanded
by the role.

Moyra Byrne was an excellent
choice for Maire’s husband Shawn,
the “kind tongue too full of
drowsy love / Of drowsy love and
(Maire’s) captivity.” Shawn’s par-
ents, Bridget (Cecily Martin) and
Maurteen (Stephanie Tashjian),
formed a good contrast to one an-

that is more bitter than the tide”,
the latter with the “tongue that
igs too crafty and too wise”.

Father Hart, the “tongue that
is too godly and too grave,” was

+played by Abbie Brill. Her portray-

al was sufficiently “godly” and
“rave,” but lacked warmth and
force.

The lithe figure, pyxie features,
and melodious voice of Allison
Baker suited the role of the Fairy
Child perfectly. She cast a spell
of enchantment over both stage
and audience, capturing the spirit
of vitality and ‘the lyricism of
Yeats’ verse.

The offstage fairy voices con-
tributed a great deal to the mood
of- the play. Fortunately, no at-
tempt was made to imitate an
Irish accent, as it probably would
have detracted, rather than added
to the beauty of the poetry, which
was for the greater part well
spoken.

other, the former with the “tongue| .

A Convocatidn preceding the
férmal opening of the recently
completed Biology Building in the
Science Center will be held in
Goodhart Hall on Saturday, Octo-
ber 18, at- 2:30.

The program, the theme of
which is “Demands of Modern Bi-

Calendar

Wednesday, October 15:

7:30 — Common Room,
Lecture.

7:30 — Biology Building, Hygiene
Lecture.

Thursday, ‘October 16:

4:30— Common Réom, Interclub
Tea given by Undergrad for
freshmen and sophomores.

Friday, October 17: .

8:30—Goodhart, Junior Show, “In-
side Out.”

Friday, October 17:

Open House Pembroke East and
West.

Saturday, October 18:
2:30—Goodhart Auditorium, UCon-
vocation preceding the opening
of the new Biology Building.
speakers, President McBride,
Dr. James A. Shannon, Director
of the National Institutes of
Health and Dr. Wallace O. Fenn,
President of the American. Insti-
tute of Biological ‘Sciences.
After the’ convocation the
Philadelphia Alumnae will be
hostesses at a tea in the Biology
Building and student majors in
Biology will be available to con-
duct tours of the building.
Saturday, October 18:
8:30—Goodhart, the junior class
presents “Inside Out.”
Saturday, October 18:
10:00—Gym, ~ Undergrad Dance
Shangri-La, following the show.
|Sunday, October 19:
4:30—Common Room, Arts Coun-
cil sponsors Folk- Singing.
Sunday, October 19: —
7:30—Music Room, Chapel, Dr.
' Edward Brubaker of the Taber-
nacle Presbyterian Church, Phil-
adelphia.
Monday, October 20:
7:15—Common Room, Arts Forum.

 

Marriage

 

 

Fhe class which enters Bryn
Mawr next fall will be the first
to enjoy a lessening of the un-
certainties and tension with re-
gard to college admissions which

nimity of many high school: sen-
iors. The change is owing to the
Early Decision Plan soon to be
employed by Bryn Mawr, Barnard,
Mount Holyoke, Radcliff Smith,
Vassar and Wellesley.

Briefly, the plan provides for
the organization of college admis-
sions machinery in such a way
that each college participating in
it will be able to notify, early in
their senior year, scholastically

promising students who have
chosen a particular college
whether or not they are assured of
a place in the particular college.
Salient points of the plan provide
that:

 

should be well under $1.00.
All persons wishing :to mike the
trip must sign up in the dispen-

 

sary by Thursday, October 30,

March of the junior year the
Scholastic Apevade Test of the

 

have seriously disrupted the equa-|—

1. Students wishing to attend a ‘
particular college should take “in| the college,.she is required to give; next day pairs take paint, ladders,

Seven Women’s Colleges To Adopt
Early Decision Plan As Of Next Fall

2. After receiving the results of

this test the student’s college
counselor should advise her as to
the suitability of applying to only
the one college.
38. If a favorable verdict — is
forthcoming, the student should
apply to the college, and in Many
of the junior year should take
three Achievement Tests of the
CEEB.

4, Students ‘who hare submit-
ted an application and tests to the
chosen college by certain dates are
notified in December whether they
are assured admission the following
autumn, with the reservation that
they do not deteriorate scholastic-
ally during their senior year, or
whether they should transfer their
application to the regular admis-
sion group, or should withdraw
altogether from applying to that
particular college.

5. If a student is accepted by

assurance by February that she
will attend that college.

 

CEEB.

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“Demands of Modern Biolegy”
Will Be Convocation’s Theme

ology,” will include addresses by
Dr. Katharine E. McBride; by Dr.

James <A. Shannon, Director
of the National Institutes of
Health, Department of Health,

Education, and Welfare; Dr. Wal-
lace O. Fenn, Professor at the
School of Medicine and Dentistry
of the University of Rochester,
and President of the American In-
stitute of Biological Sciences.

Research and Perspectives

Dr. Shannon will take as _ his
topic ‘Medical Research — 1958.”
“Perspectives in the Biological
Sciences” will be the subject of
Dr. Fenn’s address.

Following the Convocation,
there will be a reception at the
Biology Building, at which Miss
McBride and members of the biol-
ogy department will meet guests.
Biology students will act as guides
through the Building, and tea will

of Philadelphia.
College Encourages Science

The opening of the Biology
Building marks another step in
Bryn Mawr College’s long history
of devotion to and encouragement
of the sciences and mathematics.

Bryn Mawr is one of the few
colleges ‘which from its inception
has taught these subjects on both
the graduate and the undergrad-
uate level. Its first faculty, in 1885,
included professors in three nat-
ural sciences and mathematics,
whose teaching extended from the
freshman year to the doctorate.

Labs In Taylor

In the beginnings, laboratories
were in Taylor Hall, the college’s
only academic building, until the
construction, .in 1893, of Dalton
Hall, a then modern building for
scientific teaching and research.
In 1988 came the inauguration of
the program of coordination in the
sciences, with the building of
the nucleus of a new science
-center, Marion Edwards Park Hall.

Physics and Math Unit

At present, plans are being
drawn up for a physics and mathe-
matics unit, the construction of
which will fulfill the objective of
establishing under one roof all of
Bryn Mawr’s scientific and mathe-
matical studies, both graduate and
undergraduate.

League Sponsors
Workeamp Movie

Camp Committee, brought a movie
and speaker to the Common Room
Monday night. Troy Chapman,
leader of one of the Friends’ week-
end workcamps in Philadelphia,
supplemented the movie, “This
Way Out,” with comment and ex-
planation.

The film was conceived, directed,
and produced by Haverford and
Swarthmore students, who also
did all the acting. A Swarthmore
boy composed music especially for
the film.

“This Way Out” dealt with the
progress of the usual week end
eamp: the students arrive in a

is located (usually in a church);
they cook their own meals, clean
up, mend clothing for relief. The.

plaster, perhaps wall-paper to a:

 

home where the family is ready to
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low-rent district where the camp _

be served by the Bryn Mawr Club

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Allons

THE RAILROAD FARES ROSE THIS SUMMER
— AGAIN, but, still, Bryn Mawr is fortunate, say the
handbooks, the Freshman Week Committee and our parents
in being located only a few miles from a major American city.
Theoretically this proximity offers students easy access to all
advantages of urban culture. One of our Junior Year in
Paris survivors, nonetheless, when asked to compare her
experience abroad with her life here, instantly declared that
the chief advantage of Paris in contrast to Philadelphia was

its almost unlimited opportunity for theatre, ballet and con-
zert attendance provided by reduced rates for students. For
example, the price of a ticket to the Comedie Francaise was,
in American equivalent, about twenty-five cents—one could
go to the Comedie three nights a week.

Here, although we are aware of all the advantages of
urban culture, the big city providing all of these advantages,
with the exception of the Philadelphia Orchestra, seems to be
oblivious to us—a potential audience of 670, only twelve
miles away. Bryn Mawr, in fact, is but one of numerous
schools in the area which would conceivably accept and profit
from any offer of reduced student,tickets, similar to that
made by the symphony. Despite the many comments we
raise about our own lethargy, many of us do take joyous ad-
vantage of the Orchestra reduction, even with the sometimes

‘difficult condition of havifig-to subscribe to an entire series

of Monday concerts. Many of us might attend a few con-
_certs if we.were able to purchase single tickets at the same
rates. In addition to this, we have noted many comments to
the effect that students would like to see more plays, if only
the price of tickets weren’t prohibitive.

Arts’ Council’s announcement last week of a ticket ag-|

ency service on campus is the best news that has yet drifted
from the more rarified world of ‘‘culture’’—and should defin-
itely serve as a needed link. Single students, quiz-and-paper-
bound ‘who are faced with the type of long-range planning
necessary to take them to such an affair as the limited en-
gagement of the Old Vic Company find themselves totally
hindered by practical problems—problems which Arts Coun-
cil will overcome. Now we wonder, perhaps only because we
like our cake with frosting, whether in addition some finan-
cia] arrangement might be perhaps made between Arts Coun-
cil and the Academy of Music box office as well as other Phil-
adelphia theatres. he local flicks consider us a good invest-
ment, two for the price of one—any night.

Considering railroad fares which must be reckonéd ‘in
the cost of any theatre evening, while unchaperoned students,
as most of us\are, most of the time, are unable to provide
themselves with any other transportation, and that oppor-
tunities do not pass unnoticed here, viz. the Orchestra, inves-
tigation might be worth its time to Arts Council, Undergrad,
or some other portion of the college able to speak for the
whole student body.

 

Events In Philadelphia

MUSIC:

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner—Academy of Music, Thurs-
day evening.

Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene ee neenemy of Music, Friday
afternoon and Saturday evening.

rHEATRE:

“The Man in the Dog Suit”—Comedy co-starring Jessica Tandy and
Hume Cronyn; opened at the Walnut Monday for-a two-week stay.

“The Marriage-Go-Round”—Will be,at the Locust for ten days begin-
ning this Wednesday; with Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Julie
Newmar—a comedy by Leslie Stevens.

“Garden District”—First performance in Philadelphia of Tennessee
Williams’ two “off-Broadway” one-act dramas; by the Actors’
League, in the Academy of Music Foyer for two weeks beginning
Tuesday, October 14.

‘Comes .A Day”—Continues with Judith Aallnveos at the Forrest, ©

MOVIES:

‘Houseboat”—At the Arcadia from Wednesday (preview Tuesday); a

    

ig a a a

——

_. comedy’ with Cary Grant and Sophia Loren on the banks of the

Reporter Finds
“Kaleidoscopic”

by Betsy Levering

I am uncertain as to what may
be considered a proper interview,
and what, with the same strict-
ness, a book review; the entang-
ling argument arises—which the
art, which the author, and so forth.
Happily, circumstances here per-
mit me to muddle the distinctions,
for I both read Harry Golden’s
Only In’ America, and, by _ pre-
arrangement, talked for some time
with its author. For the accom-
plishing of the latter, the News
provided not its blessing, but an
excuse.

In dealing with Mr. Golden, I
discovered that salient facts could
be: presumed totally irrelevant. In
fact, in a bad moment, I asked
him with an interviewer’s love of
the wherefore, why he had set out
to write, edit and publish a tiny
Jewish sheet; why, most of all,in
the overwhelmingly Protestant
South; and why he had forsaken
news, Jewish or otherwise, to fill
The Carolina Israelite with editor-
ials, anecdotes and highly. person-
alized history and ‘biography. In
reply he quoted the Old Testa-
ment’s frequent injunction to “re-
turn to the land.”

Non-factual

Thus the substance of my “in-
terview” had nothing to do with
the fact (a triumphant newspaper
exposé two weeks later) that Mr.
Golden had once spent 5 years
in jail for mail fraud, or that he
was rotund and jovial. But it was
composed of little brilliants of
thought or story, jumbled almost

“Interview”

.anagramatically.

So it was that he told me
what Alexander had been doing
in the Gaza Strip in 331 B.C.
(conquering Tyre), and suggested
that the general had«neglected to
raze Jerusalem because 1) it
wasn’t worth it and 2) Plato had

perhaps instilled in him some re-

spect for holy places if not for
this holy city.

Tribal God Makes Good

Pieced to this was a causerie on
Judaism. One small semetic tribe
thought up a god named (after a
while) Yahweh, or translated into
Greek, Jehovah. This tribe, that
of Judea, was nomadic and poor;
its necessity and ambition for land
gave to its military endeavors an
importance arid fervor, and con-
sequently success over the wor-
shippers of the prosperous and
peace-loving Baal. Victory in war
was then considered an acceptable
evidence of the strength of a god,
and so Judea’s god was accepted
by some other tribes voluntarily;
or perhaps the Judeans insisted.
In any case, Mr. Golden said, what
a wonderful invention that local
god was—look where he is today.

I was prepared not to be sur-
prised when Mr. Golden said in ay
aside to this enthusiasm, that he
personally would have chosen
Baal, who kept things running

Author Golden
As His Book

smoothly and didn’t demand whole-
sale oustings and slaughters. Jupi-
ter ranked second in his estima-
tion, tired, pestered by his associ-
ates, managing benevolence.

Then he spoke of his friendship
with Carl Sandburg, who also lives
in North Carolina, and of the com-
plaints of some of the young writ-
ers .(whom he called “imitators of
Dostoyevsky”) that Sandburg had
lost his laborite robustness, and
was-no longer-calling. workers to
the cause. There is no -labor
“cause” anymore, Harry Golden
said. At meetings they still sing
the International, but their wives
have fur coats, and they send their
sons to Groton.

Other Tales Told

His conversation turned kaleid-
oscopically to a story of his boy-
hood’s Jewish ghetto of the Lower
East Side, a world in which
“everybody knew what he was”;
the letters he received—“they’re
lonely out there’; Wilson and
Bryn Mawr; the concept of the
virgin-mother; a biography of
Sandburg he plans to write, mod-
eled on Dreiser’s Thoreau.

To recount the interview is al-
most to describe the book, for it
is a compilation (from the Israel-
ite) of just such whims and mental
artifacts. The pieces are both
timely and reminiscent; they revel
in factual details and generalize
with humor and without preten-
gion; they are, in fact, the com-
posite mind of a man who has
read voraciously, constructs ideas
from what he has learned, tempers
them with what used to be called
“wisdom,” and presents them dra-
matically out of context.

Mosaic Successful

If it is surprising that an inter-
view should be so constituted, it
is the more that a successful book
could be made of these self-con-
tained little essays strung to-
gether. One would think the effect
would be rather like viewing a
great and indiscriminate collection
of objets d’art, each interesting in
its own right, but the whole
blurred and stultifying. Mr. Gold
en’s book avoids this to some ex-
tent by rough categorization of
his articles: i.e, one division of
the book contains mostly stories
about Tammany Hall. But most of
all these bits cohere because they
are the work of a definite and
pervading personality.

His. subjects are interesting al-
most without exception; his tech-
nical skill is impeccable, and
rather resembles the way one
would expect O. Henry to handle
today’s baseball game; and Mr.
Golden himself, whether he be met
in a ramshackley house on the
outskirts of Charlotte, N. C., or
by courtesy of the World Bress
is a man who quickens the mind
with a sense of the multitude of
things we may understand, and
the great delight to be obtained

 

in the trying.

 

Bearded At Bryn

Maur! Agog Poet

Urges Less Individuality—Less Hair

BEARDED - - AT BRYN MAWR
by Martie Resnikov
I heave a sigh, both groanal, gruntal “
Upon viewing new appendage frontal
His. masculinity annointed
Man sports a beard oblong or pointed,
I do not utter comments callous
About the beard of Mr. Wallous
‘But do detect students’ chagrin
Red, hairy growth upon his chin
And one that’s come to full grown glory
Can be witnessed in P+Chem laboratory
Summer’s whim and recreation
Winter’s awe or condemnation
(Perhaps to some—point parenthetic
Beard augments appearances aesthetic)

Mysterious, compelling,

 

Phe Blob” and “I Married a Nite Sedan: Outer Space”—Science | fic-
“tion thrillers, at the Goldman beginning Wednesday.

Unquestionably: unusual, undettiably: artistic _

individualistic

Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

The campus-wide United Service
Fund Drive will bé held in Novem-
ber. We would like to take this
opportunity to explain that this is
the one charity drive held during
the year. Every student will be
asked to contribute. At a combin-
ed meeting of the League and Al-
liance boards, representatives of

the charities, that are appealing for _

a share of the proceeds will pre-
sent their cases. Invitations to the
meeting will be sent to those
charities from which the Fund has
received appeals. Any student in-
terested in a cause not at present
on the Fund’s invitation list is
urged to drop a note in campus
mail to us. ss

Mary Lydon
Margaret Hall, co-chairmen
Pem East

Quaker Is Subject

Of ‘Friend Of Life’

Rufus M. Jones, a prominent
Quaker before his death in 1948,
is the subject of a biography by
Elizabeth Gray Vining, trustee of
Bryn Mawr College. Friend of Life,
The Biography of Rufus M. Jones
is published by J. B. Lippincott
Company, Philadelphia. Mrs. Vin-
ing iis well known for another
book, Windows For The Crown
Prince.

The New York Times, in its
October 5 book section reviewed
the book, Elizabeth Vining “ has
produced a solid, sympathetic and
comprehensive biography.
Perhaps a philosopher or theo-
logian would have been more criti-
cal in examining Jones’ ideas, but
Mrs. Vining’s sympathy, which
springs from her own Quaker
background, is not a fault.”

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THE

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Pem East Frosh Take Plaque with Yeats Production;
Others Evoke Sobs, Hilarity,

Rockefeller Freshmen Hall Players
Manage To Face Coward Unafraid

by Ellie Winsor |

“Englishmen have been accused |
of taking their pleasures sadly,”
suggests Noel Coward asa preface
to his sketch “Fete Gallant,” and

he illustrates the premise with a}

medley of characters and incidents
from a vicarage garden party.
The sketch is a mere fragment, a
combination of witty common-
places tangental to the theme, and
there is no dramatic continuity or
order except for the surprise of
clever phrasing.

A wealth of colorful Edwardian
feminine costumes achieved the
atmosphere which is in itself a
witty type setting—and the group-
ing of ladies, maidens (to be dis-
tinguished by whiteness of ap-
parel) and choir boys, multiplied
the impression into one of flocks
of fluttering ladies. The blocking,
however, was to be seconded by
choral speaking which moves the
skit along on the pure impetus of
its humor, but unfortunately the
blending of shrieks and shrills did
not achieve enough precision for
the subject or substance of the
dialogue to disintangle itself from
the harmony. Choral speaking is
one of the most difficult feats for
a director to accomplish, and
choral speaking with humor al-
most impossible within so limited
a rehearsal time—as knowledge of
the lines is only secondary here.

The choir boys, Phyllis Andler,
Judy Jacobs, Rosie Conn, were
better by virtue of their being
only four, and by having had an
opportunity to introduce them-
selves by roguish actions before

 

they came to the front of the

stage.

The solo parts, on the other
hand were able to take full advan-
tage of their lines, and carry
themselves by virtue of the humor
already in the dialogue and be

Continued on Page 4, Col. 2

Non-Res Students
Enact ‘Roommates’

by Barbara Broome —

Roommates, an adaptation of
the play Sorority Sisters present-
ed by the non-resident students,
proved to be one of: the bright
spots of Friday evening. The
dormitory scene came complete
with a bridge player looking for
a fourth and much of the success
of the play was due to the fact
that the members of the audience
could see themselves and _ their
friends portrayed on the stage.

Nancy Rhea, as the new room-
mate with PROBLEMS, gave an
excellent performance, and Mar-
lene Bronstein, Sandy * Goldberg,
Norma Cohen and Joan D’Arcy as
her very much concerned friends
did admirable jobs. Sue Adams
handled well the only real char-
acter part in the play, that of
Mrs. Reinhart, the well meaning
but rather dizzy house mother.

All the characters were convinc-
ing and realistic. They treated
their roles not only with a sense
of the comic but also with the
necessary understanding and sym-
pathy. Good acting, good direct-
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Bear, Rabbits Star
In Rhoads’ Drama

by E. Anne Eberle

The more it shows, tiddley-pom,
it comes from Rhoads, tiddley-pom
—oh bother. That won’t do at all

éonsidering we have that eleven-|

o-clockish feeling and would like
to get on to Rabbit’s House for a
little something, but we did want
to say something about how ter-
ribly Christopher Robbinish Lou-
ise Sobler was on Friday night in
Rhoads’ delightful presentation of
Winnie the Pooh.

Pooh himself would probably
say that A. A. Milne had already
provided some wonderful dialogue
with which to go on Expo-what-
ever-it-wases, and all Rabbit’s
Friends and Relations would have
agreed out of sheer force of habit.
And Owl, Bonnie Kevles, complete
in academic cap and gown, would
have said something much _ too
lengthy to print, except perhaps
that he for one had at least tried
to maintaian some dignity in the
affair, which Roo and Kanga, com-
plete with clothespin bag, defin-
itely had not.

Piglet was quite as pink and as
meek as ever; possibly overcome
by the brave musical offering of
Barbara Weinstein as Pooh, which
opened the performance. Eyore
(Louise Weingarten), we must ad-
mit, was a bit smirkier than us-
ual, but it must be quite difficult
to get one’s tail thanklessly-numb-
ed in a gallant life-saving attempt
without a bit of a smirk here and
there.

It is difficult for any of us Pooh-
type Bears with Very Little Brain
to imagine Christopher Robin &
Co. as anything other than the en-
trancing sketches created by A. A.
Milne, but the Rhoads production
is to be commended for its wise
adherence to simplicity in allowing
dreamy viewers to be transported
back to their youth last year, or
maybe last week, when they most
recently read the Pooh classics.
Ho-hum—bother—no one home at
Rabbit’s—wonder if: his honey
i] eee

Denbigh’s “Farce”
Fulfills Own Title

by Lois Potter

Denbigh’s play, Let There Be
Farce, deserves bouquets all
around: for (Stephanie Condon,
stage manager, whose simple and
clever sets established an atmos-
phere and captured audience at-
tention as soon as the curtain went
up; for Katherine Yablonsky, di-
rector, and Mimi Gisolfi, advisor,
who were responsible for a remark-
ably: unified production and whose
skillful blocking kept the play
from getting tangled up in its own
clothesline; above all, for the act-
ors, whose unquenchable vitality
carried them even through mo-
ments where every other line came
from the prompter.

Among the actors, Frankie
Guthrie as Gertrude showed an

outstanding gift for comedy, not

merely in speaking her lines, but
in a constantly changing facial ex-
pression and sense of timing
which made even the draping of a
stocking over the clothesline seem
eloquent with meaning. Helped by
a well-padded cosume, Gail Shin-
dell played the old hag Luella with
shrewdness and vulgarity. Dayle
Benson whined and wheedled ap-
pealingly as the thief, and the fight
between Gertrude and him did not

The other characters, Mrs. An-

 

Continued on Page 4, Col. 4

uspense and Passion

Pembroke West
Enjoys Enacting

6 hd 7
Hyperbolic Farce
by Eleanor Winsor

The Pembroke West Freshmen
‘enjoyed theirplay;~ this was un-
mistakably obvious, and this kind
of humour from within can ac-
complish much by itself even over
and above the play chosen. “The
Dear Departed” is a farce and a
hyperbole, and was approached
and acted in just that spirit, espe-
cially by Nina Southerland and
Abbey Trafford, the principal char-
acters.

While grandfather, the dear de-
parted, lies stiff and cold upstairs
his daughter Amelia and her hus-
band Henry await the arrival of
sister Elizabeth and her family,
Amelia betraying that there is no
little animosity among the surviv-
ors. She persuades her husband to
assist her in appropriating some
of grandfather’s possessions, to
the candid and priggish horror of
Child Vickie, in an astounding
flaxen wig. The possessions include
a remarkable. kimona clad statue,
Yvonne Chan.

Grandad isn’t dead, as we might
guess, but, after some heated fam-
ily discussion, comes in very alive,

Continued on Page 4, Col. 3

Merion Exclaims

To. Hell With You

by Frederica Koller

To Hell With You, a comedy-
farce by Frederic Witney, was the
offering of the Mérion Freshmen.
This play dealt with a woman’s
dream of her descent into hell, her
meeting with Beelzebub, and her
subsequent return to reality.

While the sets were of the
simplest nature, they served the
production well, The step ladder,
fire extinguisher, and gray back-
drop created a hellish atmosphere.
The’ costuming was_ effective;
numerous sets of red underwear
made their appearance on_ the
other devils, Beelzebub looked par-
ticularly realistic in black pants,
red sox, and a red and black
blazer.

Although the entire cast did a
commendable job, special mention
‘should be made of Betsy Jones’
portrayal of Beelzebub and Diane
Campuzano’s Linda—the woman
of whom Beelzebub remarked,
“Hell is your spiritual home.”

The play itself was an interest-
ing and highly amusing piece with
most of the humor being derived
from the comments of an off-stage
voice. And, on the whole, the Mer-
ion Freshmen did a creditable job,
despite the usual prompting diffi-
culties causing the action to lag
somewhat.

The freshmen, their advisor, and
director showed wisdom in the
selection of such a_ piece which
was easily adaptable to the short
rehearsal schedule allotted for the
production of these plays. All fac-
tors considered, To Hell With You
was thoroughly enjoyable.

East House, Inn
Stage Barrie Play

by Lois Potter

Barrie’s Shall We Join’ the
Ladies? .was a good choice for
East, House and the College Inn,
as it calls for a large cast of
characters, only one of whom has
any great number of lines to
learn. On the other hand, however,
the play is a difficult one to do,
precisely because of the size of
its cast and the need for creating
an atmosphere from the reaction
of the characters to each other.

To the actors’ credit must go
many fine individual performances
in minor parts; for the atmos-
phere, one can only regret that
ten hours of rehearsal were not
quite enough time to combine
these many separate talents into
a unified whole.

Barrie was right to leave his
mystery unsolved. When there are
twelve suspects, practically indis-
tinguishable from one another, the
audience. does not, in the space of
a one-act play, get interested
enough in any of them to care
greatly which one is guilty.

The only objection one can offer
to the’ way the ending was
handled in this particular perform-
ance is that the scream was per-
haps not the right kind of scream
for the occasion. There are so
many screams, squeals, and as-
sorted signs of fright during the
dinner scene that the final one
must be extra-horrible to. produce
its effect: perhaps..a. weird—cres-
cendo ending in gasps and a
gurgle.

As Smith, Marilyn Rubel was
chiefly responsible for keeping the
play moving, and, handling the
part very well, played with dead
seriousness and a suggestion of
menace beneath a suave exterior.
| Not surprisingly, the ladies were
able to do more with their roles
than the men, who had. to. devote
so much of their actirig ability to
playing men that there was little
room left for playing individuals.
Two dashing exceptions were Alice
Hooker as Captain Jennings and
Marianna Pinchot as Sir Joseph;
as Mr. Preen, Helen Rodnite was
agreeably fatuous in a fatuous
part. Among the ladies, Diana
Myer; Carol Lemon, Marilyn Kil-
burn, and Rob Colby were particu-
larly effective.

Others in the cast were Mimi
Armstrong (Mrs. Castro), Susan
Zebley (Mr.-Gourlay),;-Mary- Beebe
(Mr. Vaile), Laning Pepper (Mrs.
Preen), Betsy Barber (Mrs.
Bland), Sasha Siemel (policeman),
and Sue*Johnson and Lynn Mc-
Carthy, who deserve especial
praise for excellent performances
in the silent parts of Dolphin and
the maid. .

East House and College Inn, and
their director Kitsy Cushman, ad-
visor Tony Killip, and stage man-
ager Carol Levenson, are to be
commended for the choice of a
play giving many people the op-
portunity of acting, for some fine
individual talents, and for some
delightful moments of high
comedy. :

 

 

Radnorites Contrib
With Production O

Radnor’s contribution to the
evening’s entertainment consisted
of stark realism which sometimes
verged on the melodramatic. En-
titled The. Hard Heart, the play
dealt with an industrial town in
the throes of new conflicts between
labor and management, a deplor-

ute ‘Stark Realism’
f ‘The Hard Heart”~

The Son (Marilyn Ottenburg)
seemed most decidedly to belong to
the Beat, Beat Generation—he
strutted around like a real, hon-
est-to-goodness hoodlum sporting
a carpe diem philosophy. His rest-
lessness presumably caused by the
social unrest led him to participate

 

-able-situation which at once estab-.
lished an explanation for the’ de-
nouement of theplay.

 

during which he throws a stone at
= Continued on Page 4, Col. 1

| most.hot-bloodedly in the rebellion,
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Page Four

THE

COLLEGE NEW

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Wednesday, October 15, 1958

 

MORE HALL PLAYS

RADNOR
Continued from Page 3, Col. 5

the window of the Big Business
Villain who is of course the fault
of it all.

He does not stop here, however,
but proceeds to the man’s garden
to contemplate the green apples—
either because of the symbolism or
because he was hungry; the moti-
vation for this act remained some-
what obscure. Suffice it to say
that he was shot during his botan-
ical stroll; and his remains were
brought ros his mother, who refus-
ed to cry because it would not
have been in accordance with the
Son’s philosophy.

Others involved in this slice of
the cold, cruel world “were the
Father (Zino Pisarko) who was
a good-natured if not too bright
“immigrant” type; some workers
who added to the confusion (Betsy
Anagostikas and Sue Nelson); the
inevitable Girl Friend (Evy Gut-
man) who bore the inevitable name
of Lucille and who seemed too in-
nocent and ingenuous to.be mixed
up with such a wicked, wicked
group of “Beats”; the Brother
(Nancy Rotenburg) and the Little
Boy Victor (‘Barbara Mounterey).

The Mother (Martha Webb) was
the only character who was not en-
tirely stereotyped; as a matter of
fact, the movement of the play re-
volved largely around her. The
interpretation was a satisfactory
one, for it was underplayed—hap-
pily, else any attempt at realism
would have been lost in a maze of
melodrama,

In conclusion, let it be said that
the cast did its best to make the
play palatable and to clarify the
obscurities by their restrained de-
livery; however, one might wonder
whether the choice of a lighter ve-
hicle might not have been more ad-
visable. ”

 

ROCK

Continued from Page .3, Col. 2
carried by comic momentum cre-
ated for them. All the solos han-
dled their parts consistently’ in
that they refrained from attempt
at augmenting Mr. Coward by
British accent—which of course
would have been desirable, but in
the rehearsal time almost impos-
sible to achieve evenly throughout
the cast.

The portly vicar, Heddy Fair-
bank, and his curate, Ellen Zetzel,
carried their delightfully moribund
humor off with a relish, with the
newly affianced curale taking a
slight edge, perhaps by the situ-
ation.

Anna Kimbrough, as the vicar’s
wife, came nearest to catching the
sophisticated statement and tone
that one associates with Coward.
To begin she had an advantage in
that her “Church Parade” speech
contained the telling and climactic
lines of the skit.

Ten hours is constantly before
all of us when. we see Hall Plays,
and they are really more. enjoy-
able by virtue of this imposed con-
sistency than anything more
labored could be. This time limit,
however, is perhaps not enough
considered in ~ the selection of
plays, though when anything par-
ticularly ambitious succeeds it is
also the more successful. This play
was, considéring all, a good choice
by virtue of its contrast to the
other selections and its opportun-
ity for several members of the
class to appear on stage. The only
improvement might have been in
the assigning of choral parts to
single members of the cast, keep-
ing the chorus of voices for re-
frains. The characters were en-
enjoyable in direct proportion to
thier lines which speak well for all
their performances. The director,
Kate Niles, seemed to be quite

 

PEM WEST
Continued from Page 3, Col: 4

though perhaps alcoholically hazy,
and reveals an engagement to a
near-by bar maid who thereafter
becomes his heir. The first climax
is far funnier than the second.

By far the best line in the play

s “Shall we go see the body, or
shall we have tea?” The rest of
the humor was paler, but in the
same vein. Mainly it was created
and sustained by the acting.
Amelia kept a brassy accent, but
displayed some remarkable grief
upon occasion. Mr. Jordan, less
aggressive, had the delightful qual-

ity of a rather sleepy rag doll.

The secondary characters, Cissy
Rattigan as Elizabeth and Marian
Coen as Mr. Jordan, were rath-
er more stereotyped, but quite
enjoyable. Unfortunately grand-
father failed to conceive a definite
notion of his wpart—the more
noticeable because he had a nice
place of decadent senility suggest-
ed for him to drop into and he
failed to accept the suggestion;
his red night attire still made up
for much.

The costuming was appropriate,
and the varieties of black humor-
ous; although the children’s proper
attire was perhaps the most in-
genious,

This type of play is needed in
every freshman selection, and: al-
though it has less chance of a
victory than some, those who pro-
vide it deserve the rousing ap-
plause and laughter they invari-4
ably gain,

 

aware of the importance of good
stage blocking and made some ef-
fort to keep the action stylized
and continuous.

 

DENBIGH
Continued’ from Page 3, Col. 3

gus (Judy Samuelson), Mrs. Hen-
derson (Barbara Paul), and an
anonymous voice (Robin Berman),
blended well into the general mood
of the play. Good makeup and cos-
tumes (the work of Dabney Gard-
ner, Charlotte Brodkey, and Mar-

tie Birnbaum) completed the slop-
py appearance of all the charac-
ters.

There was remarkably _ little
wrong with the Denbigh produc-
tion, and ‘iost of what there was
belongs as much to the play as to
the players. Let There Be Farce
is leisurely at best; at its worst
it tends to drag, and this drag-
ging was of course accentuated by
the frequent pauses for prompt-
ing. Also, the spectator does not
really get involved in the double-
crosses practiced by the rather
unappetizing characters. But these
reproaches may apply equally well
to any farce presented, and for-
getfulness is a common malady of,
hastily-rehearsed performances.

Whether the play was worthy of
their talents is not important,
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