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12, 1919





MADAME BRESHKOVSKAYA
WILL TELL OF RUSSIAN
REVOLUTION

Has Spent Life in Effort to Rouse
Peasants to Overthrow Aristocracy





DENOUNCES BOLSHEVISM

“Tm a Social Revolutionist and I will
be till I die, but God save us from the
Bolsheviki,” quotes the “Literary Digest”
from Madame Catherine Breshkovskaya,
“the little grandmother” of the Russian
revolution, who will speak Saturday eve-
ning in the gymnasium on “he Russian
Revolution as I Have Seen It.”

Madame Breshkovskaya’s mission in
America is to tell the American people
the truth about Russia, and to organize
help for the 4,000,000 Russian children
orphaned by the war and the Bolsheviki
régime. She wants education, books, and
a chance for the new generation in Rus-
sia.

Has Joyful Welcome at Wellesley

Wellesley College greeted Madame
Breshkovskaya, for the second time two
weeks ago. The undergraduates sang to
her outside President Pendleton’s house,
where she was staying, and three stu-
dents gave a Greek dance. After a
speech of welcome from the president of
the Students’ Association, Madame
Breshkovskaya was presented with $100
from the Wellesley War Chest for the
Russian Orphan Fund.

Siberian Exile for 30 Years

Born of the nobility, Madame Bresh-
kovskaya has devoted her life to bringing
about the Russian revolution. Distressed
even as a child at the condition of the
peasants, she labored to teach and ele-
vate them. Soon after her marriage to

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Miss Allard Awarded Fellowship

Beatrice Allard, last year’s president of
the Graduate Club, has been awarded the
Alice Freeman Palmer Research Fellow-
ship. by Wellesley College for the year
1919-20. Miss Allard is Mt. Holyoke ‘15,
and for the past four years she has been
doing graduate work in Semitic lan-
guages at Bryn Mawr under the direction
of Dr. Barton. Former holders of this
scholarship are Mrs. Pell, Associate Pro-
fessor of Mathematics, and Mrs. de
Laguna, Associate Professor of Philoso-

phy.





“A MERRY DEATH”

COMMUNITY SINGING TO BE
ORGANIZED BY{HALLS

May Day Sing Planned as‘Climax of
Weekly Practices

Community singing organized by halls,
a special “conference” under a Y. M. C.
A. leader on March 28 and 29, and an
inter-hall competition on May Day are in-
cluded in a schedule drawn up last week
at a joint meeting of the Athletic Board,
class-presidents, song-leaders and the
present singing committee.

Class singing will be in no way inter-
fered with by the community singing,
which is open to everyone and makes no
distinction between mutes and others.

Song-leaders, elected by halls from
nominations made by the present com-
mittee, will make up next year’s college
song committee. The chairman will be
the college song mistress, chosen as usual
at the annual elections of the Athletic
Associations. It is probable that part of
the hall drills will be given up to hall
singing, and each hall will compose a col-
lege song for the competition held in the
spring.

The nominations for hall song-leaders
will be made from those attending the
normal classes in song-leading to be given
in the gymnasium by Mr. Robert Law-
repee on the afternoons of March 28 and
29. Mr. Lawrence, who is at the head of
all Y. M. C. A. camp and community sing-
ing, will speak on singing and its place in
the life of a community on the evening of
March 28. His lecture will be followed
by a sing. He may lead an all-
college sing the next evening.

The climax of the weekly college sings
to be held throughout the spring, will
come on the afternoon of May Day, in a
special celebration on the lower athletic
field, probably in connection with outdoor
folk dancing. The halls will come on the
field by companies, and sing the college
song composed by them before a commit-
tee of judges. The winning hall will re-
ceive a trophy to be kept in the hall.

Ninety people came out for the Com-
munity Sing on Tuesday. Lois Kellogg
20, the Junior member of the committee,
led. Several students were picked from

also

the ranks to lead in turn on the platform.
The committee decided on the following
people for the normal class:
B. Krech
‘21, EB. Taylor21, A. Harrison "20
will be chosen later.

B. Cecil *21,
L. Ward ‘21, L. Reinhardt
Others

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C. SKINNER STARS AS BARRIE’S “ ROSALIND ” IN VARIETY SERIES

“Merry Death” Distinctively Staged—‘“ Maid of France”
Proves Poor Choice

A MERRY DEATH
A harlequinade in one act, by Nicholas Evreinov.

Pierrot. . Lucile Babcock, graduate.
Harlequin Bertha Ferguson ‘21
Doctor Bessie Ostroff ‘21.
Columbine Sidney Be'ville '18.
Death. Helene Zinsser ‘20.

Stage Manager, Marguerite Krantz ‘19.
THE MAID OF FRANCE

A play in one act, by Harold Brighouse.
eanne G'Arc......... . Lois Kellogg ‘20.
lanche, a Flower Girl...... Virginia Park ‘20.
Paul, a Poilu..... Victoria Evans '?1.
Fred, a Tommy., Marjorie Warren ‘21.
Gerald Soames, an English

Lieutenant..... ..+++Mary S. Goggin ‘21.
A Verger.... Bettina Warburg '?!.
: { Rebecca Reinhardt '19.
Carolers , Millicent Carey ‘20.

| Elizabeth Matteson ‘21.
Stage Manager, Helen D. Hill ‘21

ROSALIND

A comedy in one act, by J. M. Barrie.
Dame Quickly Mary Ramsay ‘19.

Mrs. Page Cornelia Skinner ‘22
Charles

Emily Anderson ‘22.
Stage Manager, Marjorie Martin ‘19.

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The “Rosalind” of Cornelia Skinner
and the effective, impressionistic staging
of the first play on the program, Evrei-
nov’s harlequinade, “A Merry Death,”
made Varsity Dramatics last Friday and
Saturday, the subject of unanimous con-
gratulations to all the producers, notably
Mrs. Howard Rollins Patch, who coached,
and Dr. Gertrude Rand, who managed the
lighting. The actors in the second play,
“The Maid of France,” by Harold Brig-
house, labored under tremendous difficul-
ties imposed by the mawkish sentimental-
ity of plot and lines.

“A Merry Death” Skilfully Staged

The. striking setting for the Russian
play in reds, purples, black and white,
toned by skilful lighting produce a
definite single effect of luminous dark-
ness, won “A Merry Death” the distinc-
tion of artistic novelty.

Lucille Babcock,
“innocent,” Pierrot, characterized
part completely than of
actors in the play. Bertha Ferguson ‘21
interpreted Harlequin, trifling with Pler-
rot’s Columbine to the minute of his
death, more by movement and attitude
than by speech. A Columbine of great
grace and vivacity, though of small range
of emotion, was pictured by Sidney Bel-
ville "18. Passya Ostroff ‘21
highly satisfactory doctor

In the grim antics of the difficult death

to

malicious
her
the

the

as

more any

proved a

dance, Helene Zinsser ‘20 created the il-
lusion of the skeleton with unusual skill.

Maid of France Realistic

The Jeanne d’Are of Lois Kelloge ‘20,
at first immovably realistic as the stone
statue, and later the living Maid, saved
“The Maid of France” from worse than
mediocrity.

The stained glass saints of the cathe-
dral windows were worthy a better set-
ting than the distractingly spotty stone
wall in which they were set.

The actors and managers of this play
are to be commiserated on its unfortunate
choice, for which they were not responsi-
ble.

Rosalind Nearly Professional
Cornelia Skinner's spirited and mag-
netic characterization of Barrie’s popular
actress, middle-aged in private life, is a
memorable one for the Bryn Mawr stage.
Her acting the savoir-faire of the
professional with very great spontaneity
and charm.

Miss Skinner’s great
Charles of Emily Anderson

had

skill

‘9

made the
seem ex-
ceptionally callow and boyishly sincere,
qualities wholly in keeping with the part.
Mary Ramsay '19 proved a satisfying and
matronly old housekeeper for the famous
actress.

Miss Skinner daughter
Skinner. Mrs. Skinner helped
up the casts on Friday evening

of Otis
to make

the

is

B. M. THEATRE A POSSIBILITY
The possibility of building a cheap the-

atre for college dramatics will. be dis-
cussed at an Undergraduate meeting.
The classes would lend the necessary

money to the Undergraduate Association,
which would borrow on a _ corporation
basis instead of paying the office each

time for the erection of a stage. Starting
the auditorium of the
Building immediately will be an alternate
possibility considered.

The question of enlarging the scope of
the Schedule Committee to include con-
iference with the Office Committee about
' dates of plays and other entertainments

wing Students’



| will be discussed