College news, April 11, 1934

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VOL. XX, No. 19

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1934



COLLEGE

Jopyright BRYN MAWR
NEWS,

1934

PRICE 10 CENTS





Content of Lantern



Policy of Finding Stu-
dent Interests



STYLE HAS RESTRAINT



(Especially Contributed by Clara
Marburg Kirk) |
» The retiring editors of The Lantern
in their’ final editorial,—called, oddly

tle looking backward not only over
their efforts for“the last year, but also
over those of\their predecessors. Two
years ago the\writing in The Lantern
seemed to thése editors “permeated
with the vagueness of impressionism ;”’
last year the work seemed more defi-
nite, clear and'impersonal. This year,
they_say,.,“‘we had..as.our.purpose..no
less specific a distinction.” The sensi-
ble though somewhat vague statement
that “we have endeavored to convey
our idea that literature derives its
life from being concerned with what
people are interested in” invites one
to.look back over the work of the year
to see how the editors have interpreted"
the interests of their readers.

After turning the leaves of the four
issues edited by this board, one cannot
but be impressed by the fact that
only one article not strictly literary in
character has appeared. during the
year. That is a brief accountof the
International School in Geneva, which |
came out in the December issue. It is
true that the editors made a plea for
an expression of “the tastes and ideas
of all kinds of students” in the hope-
ful editorial of last November, but

Might they perhaps have taken more
drastic measures and actually solicit-
ed articles on such subjects as, for in-
stance, local politics? The Bryn Mawr
School for Women in Industry, study-
ing in France, or summer jobs? It
seems to me, moreover, that a college
publication which is edited and read

‘ment is study, might-reflect-more can-
didly the work which goes on in class
rooms. Except for a very charming
essay on Jane Austen, called The
Stricter Mold, one would not suspect
thgt these writers had anything to do
with class rooms at all. The Lantern
could strengthen and enrich itself im-
(Continued on Page Three)



Miss Park Talks on System
of Lecture Arrangements



. President Park, speaking in chapel
on Thursday, April 5, pointed out
that the basic purpose which underlies
the arrangement of lectures is to over-
come the limitations of a small facul-
ty. The committee tries to bring lec-
turers to the college who are a direct
contrast to the faculty. Preference is
given to men and women who have
had recent personal experience in their
particular fields, because they may
present the students with a new point
of view and give them a fresh out-
look.

This problem of choosing lecturers,
which must be faced every year, has a
certain framework in the. various
foundations, such as the Flexner
Foundation for lectures on the hu-
manities, and the Shaw Memorial for
lectures_on the social sciences. Next
year, the Flexner lectures, which have
covered a wide field, will probably be
‘in the department of English, Fur-
ther opportunities for having inter-
esting speakers at the college arise

public lectures. In arrangements of
this kind, the college has been particu-
larly fortunate. This year, for in-
stance, the students have had the priv-
ilege of hearing James Stephens, Sir
Wilfred Grenfell, and the Vienna
Choir, under those arrangements.
Except for the special addresses to
special departments, the other lec-
tures are provided by the Undergradu-
ate Association. Having no establish-
ed arrangement of lectures, the Asso-
ciation should act as a supplement and
supply speakers who differ from the
others in that their subjects are not
so closely related to the college work.
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IN MEMORIAM

Seated left to right: Nancy Hart, Copy Editor; Sallie Jones, Editor-in-Chief.
Standing left to right: Dorothy Kalbach, Subscription Manager; Constance Robinson,

Editor: J. Elizabeth Hannan, News Editor, Elizabeth Mackenzie, Editor.
|Miss Ely Supervises

Varsity Players Will
Present Pygmalion



‘ntecest’ng Cast Is Co~pos-d of
Alumnae, Students and
Philadelphians



W. COWAN IS DIRECTOR



There has been. a great deal of
campus chatter concerning the presen-
tation of Pygmalion by the Varsity
Players, on Friday and_ Saturday,
April 13 and 14. The principle sources
of this famous attraction are the play
itself, the director (from New York),
and finally the distinguished cast.

The attraction of the play itself
might be more accurately described as
the attraction of Shaw himself, for
indeed he is in his element. The sin-
gular plot of Pygmalion unfolds, in
five acts, the story of Eliza Doolittle,
a cockney flower girl, who met up
with a professer of phonetics and in
three months was able to pass for a
duchess. To point out the significance
of this plot to the undergraduates of
Bryn Mawr would, of course, be quite
unnecessary. We recognize the influ-
ence of good diction whether we are
aiming to pass as duchesses or just as
intellectual snobs. Though Eliza Doo-
little and her diction make up the
subject matter of this play, the com-
plications that ensue are not only pho-
netic. The ideas and actions of the
contrasting’ characters give rise ‘to
very different situations, both comit
and serious.

The direction of the play is in the
hands of William B. Cowan. Mr.
Samuel Arthur King, though not offi-
cially conne¢ted with the play, has
been kind enough to offer suggestions
at several of the rehearsals. If his
past record may serve as any kind of
evidence, the excellence of Mr. Cow-
an’s ability is already established. He

graduated from Harvard and_ since

then. has -done~d?amatic work there,
having directed the Cercle Francais,
and also the Footlighters in Cam-
bridge. He has worked with the Unit-
ed Artists in Paris and with the Sut-
ton Players in New York. At pres-
ent, as director of Pygmalion, he has
selected the following cast:
Miss Eynsford Hill,
Margaret Kidder, ’36
Mrs. Eynsford Hill,
Agnes K. Lake (alumna)
Freddie ovsis casual Nathan Hayward
Eliza Doolittle...Honera Bruere, ’36
Colonel Pickering...... James Lyons
Henry Higgins. ...™Maurice DuMarais
Mrs, Pearce....Etizabeth Meade, ’34
(Continued on Page Six)







A:

Sea Shore Camp Replaces
Bates House This Summer

The Bryn Mawr Summer Camp,
which is taking the place of Bates
House, is to be located this summer
at Avalon, New Jersey. A large house
has been rented in a,location that
seems almost ideal; it is next to a
very good recreation center and di-
rectly on the best beach at Avalon.
The water there is shallow and there
are two life-guards and a doctor on
the beach all day.

The number of children in each
group next summer is to be reduced
to twenty, all of whom are to come
from St. Martha’s House in Philadel-
phia. There will, as usual, be three
groups of children, with four “teach-
ers” to each group. Catherine Bill,
35, is to head the undergraduate
workers. Old Bates House teachers
will be glad to hear that Mrs. Romano
and Minnie Newton are coming back
again as usual. It is hoped that Mil-
dred Grant, who was nurse last sum-
mer, wil] return also.

The twenty children will sleep in
three of the large rooms. Cots and
blankets, some china and cooking uten-
sils, and materials for play on rainy-
days are needed. The children will
not require sheets and pillows. About
$300 in all is still necessary before the
Summer Camp can get under way and
the children can return to the wonders
of life at the seashore. We sincerely
hope that there will be at least one
cow at Avalon. No one who ever at-
tended Bates House can forget the
Long Branch cow. One little boy
thought she was a lion; another one
panted with excitement, after a walk
back into the fields, because he saw a
cow “and teacher, he barked at us.”
The most famous Bates House stories
are unprintable. We might, however,
mention the highly moral -and very
typical one of the little girl who hor-
rified her roommates by starting out
to say “forty thousand curses.’”’ She
had been muttering “damn” over and
over again for quite a stretch of time
when one of her teachers-decided that
this must not go’on.” The little girl
was taken into the bathroom; teacher
mixed her up a glass of soap and
water, and sternly commanded her to
drink it, because she must have her
[mouth washed out for saying bad
words.
then held out the glass and said,
“Teacher, give me some more. I’m
thirsty.”



Business Board Elects
The Business Board of The
College News is pleased to an-
nounce the election of Louise
Steinhart, ’87, as one of its

The litle girl drank it all;—





members.











College Scavengers



Hunters _With Strange Spoils’
Hear Talk on New Russia
at Miss Ely’s



iWO TEAMS WIN PRIZES



At the witching hour of seven-thir-
ty, on Wednesday, April 4, Pem Arch
was the scene of much commotion and
gaiety. Teams for the Scavenger
Hunt -stood~-around~ conspiring and
planning in excited circles, like foot-
ball huddles, while poor lost sheep
ducked in and out among them to find
a home. Everyone was dressed in that
which allowed ythe freéest action in
an emergency; there were even some
Bayrischers in our midst.

The M.F.H., so to speak, Margaret
Marsh, rose to her full height on the
steps and finally, after super-human
vocal efforts, ‘succeeded in separating



the captains from their teams, so that |
she could give them their lists and in- |
structions. They returned, proudly |
brandishing the former, and, after
more huddles, people began scooting |
off in’a hundred different directions
by means of any locomotion available.
Shadowy figures flashed down the
paths and across the grass, searching |
for Joe Graham. Ah, to be one so
sought after.as he was, that night! |
Others, like autograph fiends, patrol-
led the road to the Vill in hopes that
the .Lantern Man would appear to
give them his ‘Signature. Bicycles |
flashed past-aftér pussy. willows. on |
the Main Line, and skates scrunched |
in search of Dr. Gray’s visor or an|
oileloth skirt. People went hilarious- |
ly wild trying to unearth a New York
Times for March 22, and you could see
stealthy souls, architecturally inclin-
ed, feeling the windows and walls of
Txylor-in order to get its plan. Stu-
dents locked themselves in telephone
booths and earnestly entreated any



male friend to.come and_bemade.a}.
fool—ofin.typical._Bryn. Mawr. garb, fT

and perhaps bring with him a high-
ball glass and an Early-Bird alarm

clock. Se

At nine o’clock came the acquisi- |
tions, led triumphantly by the heated |
hunters. On entering Pembroke W8st, |
you might have thought you were in
a side show at a circus, Long-legged
men were there, emblazoned with lip-
stick and clad in sweaters and skirts,
or athletic tunics. One team had even
brought Jimmy, the Greek, from his
native habitat. We might say that
M. Canu and Dr. Flexner looked very,
very well as Bryn Mawr girls, and
that Dr. Fenwick in a white beer suit





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S. V. Benet Speaks
On Reading Poetry



Poetry Gives Us Perception of —_

Hidden Loveliness Seen
by Artists



READING -ALOUD IS ART

Mr. Stephen Vincent Benet, in
speaking on “The Reading of Poetry”
Sunday afternoon in the
pointed out every man’s natural ca-



Deanery,

pacity for reading poetry, the piper

[manner of reading it, and its vitality

fer_readers and writers today. Poetry
itself he called “a sharpening of the
faculties to reveal beauty we have
never seen, an interpretation of life in
magic speech.”

To demonstrate that this speech
could be understood, Mr. Benet turned
at once upon the arguments of those
who claim to be unable to understand
it, saying that poetry is a mental se-

-|eret society to which entrance can be

gained only by painfully recondite
study, or.condemning it as mere silly
mystification. On neither of these
grounds can they rightfully deny com-
prehensicn, for poetical words are
written in the same alphabetical char- 7

acters that are taught in kindergar- ~

ten; the words belong to. the same lan-
guage that is printed in newspapers,
and are used for the same purpose as
in stock reports—to say things. The
only difference lies in the fact that
they say things in rhythm.

Yet no human being can offer ob-
jection to rhythm. \ All his life his
heart beats time, and\when that time
falters and breaks, he dies. Rhythm
is man’s master, but its sway is most
apparent in children, who have not
had time to become bored by the sound
of words and have not been told what
they should or should not like. To
them rhythm is fascinating; they love
the monotonous jingles of Mother
Goose Rhymes, which irritate more
mature ears; they even memorize al-
phabets and rules by reducing them to
sing-song cadences. In children are
also found all the other qualities nec-—
essary for the appreciation of poetry
—love of sensations, an interest in
words for their own sake, and willing
belief.

Strangely, out of all these poetical
children develop many adults com-
pletely deaf to poetry. There are two
reasons for this change. First, in run-
ning after more money and more busi-
ness, men become hard-headed and
have patience only with the strictly
serviceable. They ask of poetry,
“Where does it get us?” True, in
foregoing the reading of it they lose
no percent of their incomes, but they
lose a great percent of the joy of life
—the joy of looking through a door
into a new world.

Again, lack of education causes this

‘Continued on Page Six)



CALENDAR
‘Thursday, April 12: . The
Cotton Shop Sale of Sport
Clothes, Benefit of Scholarship

Fund. Common Room, 2.00-6.00
ae) Ss
Friday, April 138: Varsity

Dramatics presents Pygmalion.
Goodhart, 8.30 P. M.
Pyg-

Saturday,~ April 14:
malion. Goodhart, 8.30 P. M.
Sunday,. April 153: Miracle

Play, Le Miracle de Theopohile.
“Library cloister; 5.00. P. M.

Sunday-Evening Service...Rev....
George A. Buttrick, D-D., Rector
of the Madison Avenue Presby-
terian Church, New York City.
Music Room, 7.30 P. M.

Monday, -April. 16: . Miracle
Play at 5.00 in the cloisters, in
case of rain on Sunday.

Thursday, April 19: Chapel.
Miss Ely will speak on “Women
in Politics.” 8.40 A. M.

Thursday, April 19: Profes-
sor Blanchard on “What Is
Truth?” Common Room, 5.00
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Dance Recital by Jacques Car-
tier. Goodhart, 8.20 P. M.







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- New Faces

We are the new wielders of the pen and sword in-your-midst:
fresh-and eager we come to the fray and to the inspection of the hoar
headed public that has seen many News boards come and go, and go
awry. Our plans for the future are rainbow hued; but before we start

to revolutionize the college—as, of course, every News board must do

in turn—we want to wave the flag that has been passed on to us in a bit
of eulogy over the glorious past, while that past is still undimmed. We
realize the size of the shoes into which we have stepped as no one can
who was never present at the Monday and Tuésday evening melees
Even when we try to be harshly
eritical of last year’s journalistic efforts, sophomorically setting up the
cegais of great literature by which to judge them, we find ourselves
taking care lest we damn with faint praise our predecessors’ facility
at the typewriter... No issue of the News is the work of a lifetime, nor,
was it ever: even last year there were occasions when—to their aston-
ishment as to ours—the copy was assembled on time, and included
sufficient variety in reading matter to amaze our cloistered public.

But besides the versatility and efficiency of the past board, upon
which we need comment little, we must mention the generosity of its
Long after the fun of first writing and making up the News

had palled, they brought interest and inspiration weekly. The News

]’
AL fy poor headin sorrow.-bent, —
\I’ve asked my dreary staacnaten

disguise their sharpness, my dear!

went to press filled to the last bitter inch, even when, for lack of genu-'

ine news at the last minute, they had to write columns out of thin air.
They were generous with their time and effort despite the impending
elasses, reports, and quizzes that they had—even as you and we.

All of our praise may be trite, but ‘it is true. We are not so
dazzled by the prospects for this, our era, as to forget that this under-
graduate organization has survived the periodical changes in policy
only because budding undergraduate journalists have shown rare effi-
ciency and versatility and generosity in serving public opinion on
campus. We know that these qualities were highly characteristic of
the members of the past board; as for us, we can only repeat that we
are fresh and eager to carry on. We have not yet settled upon a solu-
tion of all existent problems, but there will still be a few of us who
will ponder the future of Bryn Mawr every Monday morning. At the
moment of writing we can only say that we shall continue with the
reforming spirit. of last year’s board, except that—as is to be expected
—we shall enlarge upon their editorial program. We shall still agitate
for the removal of the library bushes, but, further, some fine morning
Bryn Mawr College will awaken to find that we have made away with
the forestation in Goodhart.



Speak for Yourself, John

For the past few years we have remarked the voluble and serious
discourse on subjects of current college interest that goes on under
cover of the smoking room late at night, and have noticed in connec-
tion with this the unusual reticence of the thoughtful undergraduate
when asked for any public formulation of her opinion, even though she
may have been the very one thus holding forth. Meanwhile, the faculty
and administrators. are, because of our maiden modesty, put at a dis-
advantage in dealing with the problems whose solution will affect the
undergraduates.

There are comparatively few direct channels of communication
between students and administrators that can provide either student
or administrator with more than a personal opinion. The Letters eol-
umn in the News was provided to, give just such a chance for both to







EGO COME BACK TO ME

'I had a little ego §

That went in and out with ee es

| And then I came to college—

Wwaer can my ego be?

walked up and down the campus,

To say where my ego went.

Once, after all my quizzes
(Which were sixty and below)
I up and cried, “Professors,
Where did my ego go?”

I’ve lost my little ego
That went in and out with me.

‘Oh wretched alma mater,

Did you take this thing from me?
—The Sensitive Plant.

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ANTI-ADVT.
Said Little Red Riding Hood:
“Why, Grandma — what a lot of

film on your teeth!”
“.. . . Heh! Heh! The better to

17?



QUICK WITH THE FLIT

There comes a time when I object,
When speakers let us all reflect—
When questions we are asked to ask.
It is an enervating task:
O me! But I am very weary
Of trying to rake up a query!
—Silence-Lover.



We_ wish’ some successor to Mr,
Wehster would rise to do a series about,;
the Bryn Mawr Girl Who Made Good
on—

developed a technique of writing!
illegibly to the point where it has
become a phobia with her.

2. Our pal—never seen save in the
lib—who does.no reading, who ta;
put it mildly, accomplished the |
feat of doing less than no read-
ing.



LOW ON THE GRASS

Doze, doze, dream and doze,
Summer will come to thee soo-oon.
Those, those, who know grande chose,
Die to a loosing tu-une.

the stew,
Summer will come to thee soo-oon.
So doze on the green, despite whistles
obscene,
Oh Do-oze.
—The Languid Grapevine.



Dear Mad Hatter:

Of such is my temperament that I
agree with you entirely. Tea-cups are
delicious. I had one at Merion Hall
the other day. Ah, such texture! Yes,
texture. That is what food needs.
Strings, I utterly despise in spinach.
I know cooks, yes, I know them. They
just throw bunches of vegetables
whole into their pans; straight from
the market at that! And, Mad One,
how germful they might be. I know
that’s the evil that lies at the bottom
of all measles epidemics. Spinach
strings! Oh, Mad Hatter, how de-
lightful to tell you first of my great
discovery, before I send it to the
American Medical Association. And
another discovery that I have made
—a supreme one: I am almost as
mad as you are! I must make a
confession! I have the same fluttery
quality that hens have when they see
corn.

I heard the sound of shrill, drum-
ripping whistles the other day. I real-
ly thought the fire-brigade had decid-
ed to exchange sirens for them. They
really should, you know. But why

were all these people whistling? I
laughed as LT stood.on-the-new-spr

WIT’S END

Don’t let ’em boil you down deep in,

| out of quiz -books—an invention en-
i tirely my own.
With rapturous au Yrevoirs,





ILL RIME

I say to the souk of the passing
fad.
In modern alot
“You know, the whole world isn’t mad,
But thou Art!”
Py, J oe”

dianetiatio.

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THE HORROR OF IT
In the spring a lady’s fancy
Should by rights be free to roam
On the incidents of Easter
(Spent in Florida or at home).
In the spring correct young ladies
Sit and read a pensive poem

(Continued on Pate” ETEnt),



MIRANDA. |
'|Dramatic .Thunderbolt by Mordaunt

IN SSE ADELPHIA:

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Broad: The Green Bay Tree, “The

Shairp with a Cast of Exceptional
Merit.”

Arbenz, and Charles Francis are mak-
ing it so for Philadelphia.

Erlanger: Blanche Sweet and Ray-
mond Haskett have deserted the films
for The Party’s Over. The cast also
includes Philip Truex, known in these
parts for his college acting.

Forrest: Desiree Tabor, Bartlett
Simmons “and 80 Favorites and-Chor-
us of Real Voices” are reviving Sig-
mund Romberg’s musical romance,
My Maryland, for two weeks only.

Coming Next Week ‘



News of the New York Theatres

column for the first time, we feel some-;
what daunted by the memory of the,
high standard of amusingness set for |
us by our predecessor. However, we |

bad job and is running around filling |
plans for next year, Since the greater |
nothing, and are even invented, we;

{up space, there is little to be gained |
from recounting most of them, but it)
is a most auspicious omen for next |
year’s season that the White Horse.
Inn is apparently at last to be torn |
away from a bereaved London and '



jarms. It has run in London for two!
years, ‘is enthusiastically recommend-

|ed by anygne who has even seen the
queues waiting to get into it, and is)

| dinner-table conversation in New York |
| next winter.

| We also note with interest that

Fein Chain, a play about Vassar, , -

istrangely enough, is to be with us at’
an unannounced future date, which we

fear will probably remain unannounc- |
ed. What with Princeton disporting |
iitself in She Loves Me Not before a}
cheering audience of Princetonians''
reveling in the discomfiture of their |
Dean, and Vassar’s:.more whimsical |
moments about to be immortalized be- '

| fore our eyes, we feel that the moment



lily, dawning. May Day: A Melo-;
drama _of Rain, The-Maypole—on thé
Green, and The Library Beard, occur
to us as unrealized possibilities, but
the great play, the thriller that will
hold all Bryn Mawr and other audi-'

undoubtedly be called The Murder in
the Stacks.

Bryn Mawr ‘is, however; even now
not unrecognized in the eyes of the
theatre, for what Screenland has so
aptly .termed “Bryn Mawr’s golden
eagle,” or to put it more mildly, Miss
Katharine Hepburn, has been awarded
the gold medal for the outstanding
performance of 1933 by the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
for her work in Morning Glory. Not
.to be outdone by Miss Hepburn’s gold
medal, Sam H. Harris has awarded
himself a certificate of prowess for
As Thousands Cheer, which, he swears
before a notary so that there can be
no mistake about it, has in this year
of disgrace, 1933, actually run for two
hundred performances with not one
seat unsold and with an average of
twenty-four standees per perform-
ance. Furthermore, Men in White,
which started out playing to luke-
warm audiences, is now gaining a vio-
lent popularity and is highly recom-
mended at every corner of New York.

The family life of the Brontes, a
subject which dramatists do not seem
able to let alone, is again brought be-
fore our eyes in its more depressing







express their opinions publicly, so that the opinions might provoke
further discussion and interest. _The column has not, however, entirely.

-sueceeded. There have been objections. from the undergraduates to

the necessity of signing letters addressed to the News, and we can see
that the idea of having one’s name so publicly associated with sugges-
tions one has to offer is peculiarly distasteful to the modest undergradu-
uate. Therefore we are changing the organization of the column to
permit everyone to express any opinions anonymously. We reserve

the right to refuse publication, to unsigned letters only provided that

they are too personal to allow us to take the responsibility for their

| publication, or provided that they duplicate other letters submitted in

ideas or opinions.
_ To certify publication, a contributor has only. to sign, as in the
There is no reason why, in so small a college as Bryn Mawr, the
‘and administrators should not know the varying angles of
opinion. And we feel that undergraduate opinion, so





stow opr ing

grass, and they went on with it. I
laughed some more, and still they
wouldn’t stop, even after I’d showed
them that I liked the sound, but that
they needn’t do it any more. They
kept on, so I just turned my back on
them, indicating to them that they
could go now. Boring, isn’t it, the
way people don’t know when to stop?

Well, Insane, Deliciously-delirious
Creature, I will see you at, the next
tea party, and there I will show you
a new way to make paper airplanes

ently should have been subtitled: The
Five Little Peppers and How They
Grew. Clemence Dane, the famous
authoress of A Bill of Divorcement,

in Wild Decembers that the Brontes
could not by the wildest stretch of the
imagination be termed dramatic ma-
terial, but come what may, we may
annually look for a dramatic disaster
let loose on the stage in the form of
the interminable Bronte sisters, wrap-
ped up in moor depression.





resolved and preseitted i in this new

less personal discussion which now



‘sive judgment upon current problems than the vicarious and more or

interest in and frequent contribution to the new coftimn.

column, wouid give.a more conclu-

goes on. Therefore we solicit your

As we plunge into the throes of this |

observe with relief that the fake

has abandoned this year’s season as a | Elgar. .

the newspapers by madly announcing |

number of them habitually come ty |

|brought to our anxiously awaiting |

ences spellbound in their seats, will |

did her best.to prove to all and sundry |.



Broad: Lenore Ulric in her latest
play, Fast of the Sun a
Academy of Music

Friday afternoon, April 13, at 2. 30,
and Saturday evening, April 14, at

‘Siaens Ormandy Conducting
..“Introduction and Allegro”
for String Quartet and String
Orchestra. oe
' Schumann Mahler,
Symphony No. 4 in D Minor,
Scherzo Capriccioso

Movies
Aldine: Catherine the Great, with
Elizabeth Bergner and Douglas Fair-
,banks, Jr. Jr. is not so good, but it
is work seeing for Elizabeth Berg-.,
ner’s performance. :

Arcadia: Fredric March, as a
bad boy, meets. Sylvia_Sidney,_as—a
good girl, in Good Dame. Might be
‘fairly good.

Boyd: The movie version of Death

1, The sweet young thing who has, highly: likely- to."be-the-sole topic of | rakes A Holiday, with Fredric March

and Helen Westley, of Theatre Guild
fame, Recommended, especially if you
didn’t see the play.
Earle: The Show Off, with Spencer
Rec and Madge Evans. Actors not

p to the play.

ee A highly exciting crime and
‘mystery movie, Murder in Trinidad,
| with Nigel Bruce doing his bit to add
to the excitement.

Karlton: She Made Her Bed, a tri-
‘angle movie, with, inappropriately
enough, Sally Eilers and Richard Ar-

Greek and philosophy, chemistry, too, for the Great Bryn Mawr Play is rap-'len ‘carrying the main two-thirds of

the triangle. Sougds dreadful.
Keith’s: Woman Unafraid, show-

ing city life through the eyes of Lnu-

cille Gleason as a policewoman. With

.the added attraction of Skeets Gal-

lagher, it ought to be interesting.
Stanley: Men in White, with Clark
Gable and Myrna Loy. Just as good
as the play, which is saying a lot. °
Stanton: Otto Kruger playing a
criminologist with a dual nature, in
The Crime Doctor, ably assisted by

Nils Asther and Karen Morley. Well *

worth seeing.

Local Movie}

Ardmore: Wed. and Thurs., It
Happened One Night, with Claudette
Colbert and Clark Gable; Fri., Jean-
nette MacDonald and Ramon Novarro
in The Cat and the Fiddle; Sat., Ed-
ward G. Robinson in Dark Hazard;
Mon. and Tues., Moulin Rouge, with
Constance Bennett and Franchot
Tone; Wed. and Thurs., This Side of
Heaven, with Lionel Barrymore.

Seville: Wed, and Thurs., Miss
Fane’s- Baby Is Stolen — Dorothea
Wieck, Alice Brady, and Baby LeRoy;
Fri. and Sat., Laurel and Hardy, and
Charlie Chase in Sons of the Desert;
Mon. and Tues., Mandalay, with Kay
Francis and Ricardo Cortez; Wed: and
Thurs., William Powell, Bette Davis,
etc., in Fashions of 1934.

Wayne: Wed. and Thurs., All of
Me, with Fredric March, Miriam
Hopkins, and George Raft; Fri. and
Sat., Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in

A splendid play, and we hope .
--;Paul-McGrath, Robert Wallsten, Mary .

suspect, by columnists anxious to fil] | Kodaly teen e eee “Hary Janos’: Suite |

oe



Queen Christina; Mon. and Tues., Fly-
ing Down To Rio, with Dolores del
Rio, Gene Raymond, and Fred As-
taire; Wed. and Thurs., an all-native
cast in Eskimo.



a ‘The Economics Club at New Jersey
College for Women has a bank.run by
its student members. It is open daily
for undergraduates to make deposits,
draw loans and cash checks.

—(N. S. F. A.)



At the University of British Co-
lumbia there is a punctuality machine
that flashes a cheerful “welcome” to
prompt students and a sarcastic “late
again”: to those who amble in late. It
was invented by a harassed instruc-
tor.—(N. S. F. A.)

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-Varsity Team Fades

- Out to Poor Finish



Hildipsmais and Kent Maintain
High Standard- Throughout ~-
Hard Season ‘



2ND TEAM STAYS STEADY



Despite our predictions and the ex-
cellent showing which was evident in
the early games, the varsity 'basket-
ball team faded out to a rather poor
finish at the end of the season. The
fairly accurate offense and excellent
team play which marked the earlier
games were sadly lacking in the last
half of the season, and this fault
brought Varsity’s first downfall in
three years when she lost to Rosemont,
‘29-39, :

Faeth and Boyd, whose accuracy
and excellent co-operation have been
important characteristics of a success-
ful team for two seasons, seemed. to
lose their uncanny instinet-for- pre-
cise passes and goals.

The centers began the year slowly,
worked up to standard in mid-season,
but lost out again atthe end. They
seemed to have littld% difficulty in.get-
ting hold of the ball, and did remark-
ably well against the toss-in, but their
passes were extremely erratic, and at
times very slow.

To Bridgman and Kent go the real
honors for maintaining their high
standard throughout a difficult sea-
son. Their interceptions and strong
defense were to be depended upon in
every game, and-it-is because of them)
that Bryn Mawr did not lag even far-
ther behind in the Rosemont game.

In summing up the team as a unit,
we find that the passing was slow,
but direct and usually effective, ex-
cept at the end of the season when it
became extremely ragged. Play, on
the whole, was far from brilliant, the
out-of-bounds especially being very
slow; but the spasmodic rallies after
heart-rending lags proved to be most
exciting and gratifying to the unusu-
ally large number of spectators who
came out for the games this year.

Boyd and Jones will be lost to the
team this year through graduation;
and, although there are several can-
didates for Boyd’s position, there will
be some difficulty in finding a center.

The statistics of the season are as
follows:

Ursinus, 16; Bryn Mawr, 31.

,Remnants, 14; Bryn Mawr, 46.

Philadelphia Cricket Club, 19; Bryn
Mawr, 36.

Drexel, 15; Bryn Mawr, 49.

Mt. St. Joseph’s, 19; Bryn Mawr,
34,

Rosemont, 39; Bryn Mawr, 29.

Swarthmore, 25; Bryn Mawr, 29.

Individual Scores

Boyd, 117; Faeth, 111; McCormick,

66.



The second team fulfilled our proph-
ecies with almost monotonous regu-
larity and except for the Mount St.
Joseph game was far ahead of its op-
ponents both in accuracy and in play-
ing technique, while play was much
smoother and more consistent than
that of the Varsity team. Although
the second team is composed of more
individual players than the first, the
teamwork was fairly good and the
general morale of the team gratify-
ing. The defense was slow but steady
and.the offense once started was at
times even brilliant.

On the whole, lack of really dissin
competition led to careless errors and
did not give the team a real chance
to prove its real excellence. From the
spectators’ point of view the games
may have seemed very monotonous,
but the type of play which the team

showed that it could be depended upon

' in a crisis.

_ Failure to follow in shots, slow
passing and excessive dribbling’ seem-
ed to be-the main criticisms, while
the many changes in line-up through
the season, in addition to the loss of
Pierce and the frequent absence of
Jarrett and McCormick as substitutes
on the Varsity team, added to the gen-
eral confusion at times..

The statistics for the season are as
follows:

Ursinus, 25; Bryn Mawr, 40,

Remnants, 14; Bryn Mawr, 43.

Drexel,.7; Bryn Mawr, 52.

Mt. St. Joseph, 1; Bryn Mawr, 25.

Rosemont, 9; Bryn Mawr, 55. <4

Swarthmore, 18; Bryn Mawr, 34.
Points Scored — Opponents, 90;
Bryn Mawr, 249.



Not Out of the Stacks

We decided the other day that we
would just give up. reading the clas-
sics, that all the emotional catharsis
we were getting from them was prob-
ably what was causing our spring epi-

+demie of children’s diseases, and that,

furthermore, it is useless to try to
catch up on the world’s great litera-
ture throughout the ages, anyhow.
We thought we’d like a few peppy
stories with aeroplanes and radios in
them; it’s awfully hard to get inter-
ested in the togaed and the doubleted
who never knew what the jitters were,
when here we are, all worried about
the return of the mugwump to Wash-
ington.

So we surprised the librarian by re-
turning the books we had had out all
year, and started in on Lauren Gil-
fillan’s I Went To Pit College. We

|found it downhill going. Deluded into

some hope for the better by the first
chapter’s opening in Avelonia, we ac-
quiesced to living with a series of
families in the coal regions. It was
all right in the beginning with the
Konnechek’s: they all had hearts of
gold under the coal dust and rags.
But as we progressed with Miss Gil-
fillan, recently graduated from Smith
and masquerading—yes, we said mas-
querading—in dirty ‘sneakers, short
cotton dress, and slight muss, we
found that all the blessed grime-cov-
ered people were less refined, and less
careful aboyt concealing their worse
instincts. The inevitable dirt and a
pitiable rag or two hid none of their
baser motives. They were just grim
and we got to feeling picky.. But
enough of ribaldry! :

Our personal reactions do not, in the
case of I Went To Pit College, give
any real standard by which to judge
the merit of the book. Moreover, if
Miss Gilfillan had, with the masterful
technique of a sob sister, made us im-
mediately pack up to go do social serv-
ice work in the name of communism
or socialism, the tale would lose its
point, As it is, it is an unprejudiced
and almost stenographic account of
the difficulties the writer encountered
am the people in the Pennsylvania
mining district hardest hit by the de-
pression. Her information concerning
the hardships of: the people, her re-
ports showing the various conflicting
groups at work with the people—the
“seabbers” (union men), the com-
munists, the socialists, the police, the
politicians, the capitalists, the abso-
lute good-for-nothings—and -their re-
lations to each other provide fascinat- |

The last of the four stories, “Miss |
Mehaffy,” is undoubtedly the best. Let:
us disillusion you immedfately: it is |
set, for the most part, up in New |
England, where men and women are |
born and die in bed. We eitan'e:
be surprised. if that mayn’t be part;
of its charm. The author seems here
to have captured the breatlf of ordi-|
nary life that gives us so much more!
excitement even than wholesale massa-|
cre. As a matter of fact, the hero-
ine does not die in the end. Is there
any higher praise?

“After having gone through life and
death with Mr. Bromfield, we passed
on. Life became more of an unreal
shadow to us than ever. We read
Sylvia Paul Jerman’s Set Free. The
author has.a firm crisp stylé“that is
a pleasure to read when we consider
the lushness of a d many of her
contemporaries. She should go far
with it: But at present we are none
too sure whether this novel is trag-
edy, or comedy, or melodrama. We
think it is:potentially the last-named,
but it is so starkly handled that the
book isn’t quite melodramatic. It has
strange characters in it: we suspect
that they are deeply psychological, but
we here and now state that it is only
a suspicion on our part, because we
haven’t~ the slightest idéa what the
characters’ driving phobias really are.
All save one—Flood Harris; and we
are fascinated by him. | Throughout
the novel, until, of course, he reforms,
he keeps running off to take cocaine.
That is really fun; at intervals he
sneaks up prayerfully and paints his
throat with the stuff out of a little

ttle (we don’t know how that’s done,
either; it’s ‘an evil we’re missing).
is a great adventure for Flood: he
puts the bottle ’way up on a high
ledge so it is harder to reach, and all |
the while he runs his little obstacle
race to it he asks God to stop him.
God never does. . However, all ends |
well in the last part, “Two Raptures,” |

The Great Literature of the Cen-
tury seems to have been going back
on us. However, we shall try to hold
out. We never know when a_book-
worm with genius will rear its head
underfoot. Meanwhile, we have decid-
ed that I Went To Pit College is very
good; though, of course, you may pre-
fer wading through Shakespeare with |
glossary and footnotes.





Mrs. Kirk Reviews
Content of Lantern





Continued from Page One

~



~~ ~Self-Gov Elections

The following have been elect-
ed officers of the Self-Govern-
ment organization for 1934-35:
President, Susan. Morse, -’35;
Vice-President, Florence Cluett,
35; Senior Member, . Elizabeth |
Kent, 35; First Junior, Member,
Marion Bridgeman; Sétond “gun- Wit
ior Member, Doreen Canaday;
Third Junior Member, Alice ||
Raynor; First Sophomore Mem- ||

‘central image of The Orb remains ob-
scure to me. - Inland ‘Sea catches the
listening attitude of one intent on
hearing an inland sea, and yet the
‘sound goes wrong in such lines as:

“Pale waters are quiet and firm to the
edge of the ground

thin little waves that flatten
ad whisper and die.”

Song' At Sixteen is one of those de-

ber, Letitia Brown; Second lightful achievements of a simpler
i hat Member, Eleanor ‘Emily Dickinson. The two sonnets
opin, |





| deserve reworking: they are so almost-
|good. The concept in the first seems
the best of it, is marked by a certain to me original, though it is sustained
good taste, exactness and restraint, | ‘only through the first eight lines; the
and these, though mild virtues, are. ‘second sonnet: is more complete, but
virtues none the less. The two pieces ‘less moving—perhaps because more:
of prose in the current: issue, wbetgnind sn Tagacdeean But all of these seven
lem and A Child’s Calendar, are ex- | poems are worth publishing, and it is
amples, of this skillful, though not ex-' pleasant in the spring to offer them
perimental, kind of writing. Jerusa-|to us to muse upon.
lem leaves one somewhat puzzled at! That the editors have been success-
first as to the questions of time and' ‘ful in helping to sustain a literary
place. Clarity on these points emerges | ‘impulse among the students, by sup-
on about the third page, however, and plying them with a place to publish
one is’ held close to Vermont scenery | ‘their writing, is enough to make us
and country character. A Child’s;feel grateful to them, though they
Calendar is so Scotch and so childlike have shown less initiative and imagi-
that’ one feels sorry to have “winter” nation than they might have in dis-
settled in a short paragraph.

It. is refreshing to find that there
is a good deat of poetry about the
campus. Seven poems appear in this



i“wider interests” of their readers.



The Colorado School of Mines has

‘deur, yet language is-not-enough. The. —-

‘covering the somewhat mysterious

Tt|

issue, for better or for worse. I do
not. honestly feel that any of these
poems quite hits its own mark. The
Master Said reflects a flow of lan-
guage which has magnitude and gran-

a ruling which prevents sophomores
from paddling freshmen. The sophs
get around the rule by making the





BEST'S

frosh paddle each/\other.
. r (N. S. F. A.)

ARDMORE



LEWISPUN FWEED IN A
CASUAL, TAILLEUR

ing reading. Miss Gilfillan gives us measurably if it should reflect the
few indications of her actual writing rea] intellectual struggles which the
ability in handling her material as students are concerned with, and not
she does; but we must praise her for \depend on the writing of a limited
her initiative and for her courage in| group of distinctly literary tempera-
tackling the subject. | ments.

With Louis Bromfield’s Here Today; It is not altogether fair to the
and Gone Tomorrow, however, we board to say that it has ‘not taken the
have a real.quarrel to pick, and quite | initiative in getting at the elusive “in-
a different one. His four novelettes|terests” of a busy and distracted stu-
included under this title are fiction; | dent body. Such good ventures as the
and as such eliminate for him all the Question and ‘Comment department
problems of non-fiction organization'and the Book Reviews section in No-
and presentation. He can be perfect-| vember encouraged one to look to the
ly conventional about the structure of back pages of the next issue for a
his four pieces, as, indeed, he is; and reflection of the state of mind of the
he can write whatever he feels like students. But neither of these depart-
writing about. We regret to say that ments appeared a second time. In the
Mr. Bromfield’s theme is uninspired. December issue of The Lantern there
These stories of a “raffish era” all re- is an excellent account of the Manet-
volve around the old fatalistic idea Renoir exhibition at the Museum of
that is his favorite. His life must be Art, and a review of one of the less
one continual scribble about old and important New York plays, She Loves
unfulfilled people who must die after|Me Not. But in spite of the fact that
they have had a glorious moment. It a series of exhibits have passed
is a hard life for them: they all have| through the Museum, and that the the-
a sneaking sentimental yearning for atre year in New York has been per-
getting involved in something. big. and haps the best since the war, we hear
great and romantic, and they no sooner no more of art or drama. Instead
do it than—poof!—they are out like’ we find on the back pages of the
a light, and the author can finish off March issue still another excellent
the story with a morbid and conveni- | idea, a Questionnaire. on Education,
ently moral account of what the rest; which one studies with a good deal
of the world thought after they were! of interest though with some bewilder-

all on the subject. ‘prompted the questionnaire, nor who|
All four stories are written accord- | conducted it, nor exactly. how the “re-
ing to just such a scheme. tis the sults” are achieved,— despite several
first we have a mysterious lady in a Pages of explanation which follow the
black dress who tries to poison herself | questions. The board is right in guess-
and faints away in her cups at an ex- | ing that its readers are interested in
clusive speakeasy (in a house that. books, art exhibits, plays and educa-
once belonged to her father) before tion; it might well have held to these
(1) her old spinster school teacher, | ‘subjects more persistently and treated
Miss Jellymann, and (2) Beppo, the! ‘them with more-careful thought.
proprietor, who does not know her, | But, after all, the editors make it
but has secretly loved her with a big! quite clear in their editorials in the
ex-prizefighter love. It all ties up’ November, December and March, is-
nicely in the end. We will leave you!sues that they wish particularly. to



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to figure out how the author works
in his favorite theme.
This first tale having been set in

the second in “Grand,Hotel,’’ and the
third in “Luxury Liber?” They are
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Heavenly Mumps Descend ss — 7 | tumes possible, sent them by the host-|is always expected of him, smiled
- _ Swimming Team ~ or of \a fancy dress party to which

reg Ste
Movie Reviews. .
Catherine the Great is a film we are
glad to have seen, if only for the one
fine thing in it, Elizabeth Bergner in
i the title role. She gives a splendid
Miss Ely Supervises performance as “little Catherine.” In
College Scavengers the first place she is admirakly suited
,to the part—little and cui in all
isenses of the word. From her first
after that, nothing further happened, was most Skoda ak for his appearance she arrests the audience’s

On Ble | Rockefeller Ruth Stokes, ’36, has been
|

elected Captain, and Catherife
Bill, ’35, Manager of the Var-

* sity Swimming Team for 1934-
35.





About two weeks before Spring V4-
-eation one of the Rockefeller resi-
' dents suddenly developed mumps. She
was hustled off to the Infirmary amid |
the clamor of all her friends, who im- |
mediately were sure that they had| ,

mumps in embryo. For about a week |







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» Continued from Page One

until a friend of hers did get that un-" smile. | attention because she is so different
comfortable disease. Then the real; Among the “ unniest bigual was from her piece a of netgae
‘ : ‘Miss Park in ah Alpine hat and cos-!man world, and she has so little in
excitement began, with everybody who :tume with a pair of long skiis. Miss ' common with the members of the
was a “mump contact,” ordered to the | Ward also appeared, blanketed in a crude Muscovite court. From her en-
Infirmary, where she would be given 'haby carriage, with a pink and white trance she draws the sympathy of the
another week of vacation; a “mump bonnet on her head. One team had audience to'her for her shyness and
contact” was one who had danced, eat- brought a very bescwiat oe bro chan ry fens oe
5 : an; clad in cap and gown, looking from that, she makes those frequently

rhs veatileadbea scsooad case. For several days the uproar con- } man being. We hope we won't look iwhole portrait of Cath@rine when she
tinued, with “Are you a mump’?” be- jike that when we graduate. Pauline ‘falls down into a heap of fluff on the
ing the usual form of greeting. ‘Manship was also there: a very Fun- floor to bow to the Empress. Miss
Meanwhile the two genuine “mumps” 2Y Thing, indeed, dressed in a black Bergner does such a small piece of act-
in the Infirmary found that the num- coat and a dark kerchief with a flut-' ing as that with exactly the right edge
ber of their intimate friends was in-| tery hen under her arm. She was of comedy; and later, even when she
creasing hour by hour, Their dancing | V¢TY successful in soothing the fright-|has married the mad Grand Duke
ability seemed phenorfenal; everybody ened fowl. Peter and we see the infinite tragedy
had danced with them “just the eve-|, Yes, it was a hard winter. The of her unbounded and unrequited love
ning before they went to the Infirm- number of long, woolen underdtawers | for him, she is as debonair as ever
“ary.” According to all reports they bore~ witness ‘to~ the fact. That -tea during. the torturing scene when_ she
danced continually in an effort to get cannot be kept warm unless held in a’ tells him in detail about her affairs
rid of a peculiar feeling in their jaws. | thermos bottle was proved conclus- , with seventeen non-existent lovers, un-
ae ; - ‘ively. We all know how the hall fur-| til with her ingenuous gaiety, she has

Tn addition bi Sheir cry eg t oF | niture suffered, by the number of; whipped him into a rage. The scene
yetior = aly ygoher _ 4 Wwe | castors present at the party. The/| reveals her as a woman, clever, charm-|
oe mae sare nae saa brooms did, too, for mere wisps were ing, and yet much too human. We
amount ‘of hegge and had ack rial ‘left for the maids in the morning, would have felt more confident of her
shared. their food ‘with ail their ac-| fter they had been de-strawed by the | happiness if she had not been so sensi-

° : . ica (oo
quaintances, devouring pickles HW | sovreting students. The spring birds | tive.

for bite” with their partners in the: : one acl hand-t or ae hai sight: si ba
intervals between dancing, perhaps beckons . ee, eee RE MI eRe oe Co ee Groreue ve - apt ob
soc , k cae ft the Wantities, and proud owners of fish|the loss of her love, worthless as he
With § subeonscsous ae : ad “| and four-leaf clovers saw them whisk-|was—broke her ‘heart and her audi-|
long dearth of _— dl ; aa ~ amesp away under their very eyés. Bibles,|ence’s, so well was the action sus-
Tea didentrons reault — d this eat Ten Commandments, and ‘pictures of | tained.
erosity was 5 hat they " be a ‘Moses by Michaelangelo, were much! About Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., as
part of vacation in the In oa - : ‘in evidence, as were Roman blankets,|the Grand Duke Peter, we had our
denly snatched from the mi fi . 'darning needles and checker boards. |doubts from the first. We were wary
their friends, prevented eh tend a The Judges were Mrs. Manning, even before we saw the production,
customed dancing, and una aes “yn Miss Ely, Mrs. Chadwick-Collins, and | but, casting all prejudice aside in the |
pickles bite for bite, sda baad , Mrs. King. They sat, impressively |interests of art, we saw him,—and
other: Their dancing partners anq lined on the steps, and watched the/still remained unsatisfied. The role
them large piles of 5 ee strange processions file past, degiding/is a, good one in that the plot makes
the people who knew them by Ae the worth and authenticity ofthe arti- | the Grand Duke a character that
sent them grateful little notes, ‘ yee , cles. They were in a bit of a quan-|Should capture the imagination of any
sgl ye sls eo cee onmens Fy idary over Dr. Ernst Diez. It seemed |movie audience. He is a_ ruthless
that didn’t help Tenens, \that his skipping rope was required; |heart breaker, a reckless liver; and
The “mumps” over in Rock sat feel-' 5) perhaps was it Dr. Diez skipping that alone should endear him to the



ing their jaws with varying degrees of }i, rope? At any rate, many brought|romantics among us. Add to those?

complacency and eating pickles, bite ropes for him to skip, and one team
for bite, with their friends (they had | },ought Dr. Diez with his own. ‘There
found that habit profitable). They’ as indeed a question of great weight
planned their extra weeks in Bermuda | ¢o, the judges to decide.

/qualities, the fact that his tempera-
'ment makes him exceedingly moody,
of a very jealous, suspicious disposi-
tion, and miserably mad because of his

they Are going. ‘Mr. Marshall is sent
to call for Miss Shearer; they take
one look at each other-and promptly
refrain from attending the party.
There follows an extremely exciting
three weeks of a sophisticated love

Latase, at the end of which they dis-

‘cover they cannot possibly endure the
separation attendant on Mr. Mar-
shall’s return to his home in England.
They get married, and the scene shifts
at once toa most intricate situation
five years later, when Mr. Marshall
is going back to America and his aunt
is arriving from America at one and
the same moment. The aunt carries
Miss Shearer off to the Riviera, where
she meets Mr. Montgomery, an_ old
friend from New York, and they in-
dulge, with disastrous publicity, in the
usual blithe, whimsical, and happy-go-
lucky escapades attendant upon Mr.
Montgomery’s introduction into any
picture. From that moment on, the
movie turns on whether Mr. Marshall
trusts Miss Shearer’s faithfulness as
a wife sufficiently to remain married
to her, and it becomes increasingly
difficult to discover just which one
loves“the other at any given time, so
rapidly are changes of heart and
trusting affected on both sides.
Personally we would cross deserts
to attend any movie or play in which
Mr. Marshall ‘appeared, and, although
his part presented him as cross, stolid,
liable to lose his sense of humor on
the least provocation, and most sus-
picious, he still managed to be so com-
pletely charming that we failed to see
why Miss Shearer countenanced Mr.
Montgomery’s—attentions-for an in-
stant. She kept saying that Mr, Mar-
shall had changed and very much for

| ° A
the worse in their five years of mar-

riage, but. we failed to discern any

Mr. Montgomery adeptly provided the

evidence of this reversion to stolidity\

charmingly whenever necessary, and
did spring dances in a bathrobe be-
side the hotel swimming pool with
reckless abandon, but we .could not
help feeling that the ‘sophisticatedly
whimsical note was artificially turned
on whenever the cameras were point-
ing in his direction. Miss Shearer
was exactly as she always is, wore her
usual rather amazing clothes, and if
you happen to like Miss Shearer, ren-
dered a highly satisfactory perform-
ance.

There was nothing unusual in di-
rection or photography in this movie,
and the theme of it seemed to us
rather obviously calculated to suit
Mr. Hays. The movies have now got-
ten down to a fine point exactly how
far they can go in representing an
abandoned love affair as long as. the
main theme is exceedingly moral. The
theme of Riptide seems to be that if
you have led a wild life before you
were married and let your husband
find it out, there will inevitably come
a moment when he will say that if you
carried on like that before marriage,
why should he trust you now? When
played ‘up without any form of inter-
esting psychology or unusual charac-
terization, this point seems to us, to
put- it mildly, just a little banal. In
other words, as you have probably
gathered, we do not think that Riptide
is especially well worth going to see.

D. T-S.

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Boynton Merrill said recently in a
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or New York or wherever they hap- |
pened to be going and praised endless- ;
ly the girls in the Infirmary. And‘
all was fine on the Rockefeller front.
We haven’t heard from all of them
yet, so we aren’t sure of the condition
of their jaws. However, we are al-
most sure that they are able to eat
lemons with their usual] ease. We,
the non-mumps, moan their absence
and bewail our lack of decision. You
see, we’re really mumps, too, only we
didn’t tell anybody. Wonder if
there’s such a thing as mump hoard-
ing?



ee

Miss Park Talks on System

of Lecture Arrangements



Continued from Page One

As it stands now, the students pay
for lectures of this sort through the
undergraduate dues. Thus, instead of
paying admission at each address,we
establish a kind of lecture foundation
for ourselves.

In spite of these favorable arrange-
ments, many just criticisms may be di-
rected against college lectures. From
one aspect, they are so closely related
to routine work that we cannot always
appreciate them in the same way that
we appreciate lectures at home. On
the other hand, they often seem rather

The victorious team of the Scaven-
ger Hunt was that of Margaret Jack-
son and Esther Hardenburg. Susan
Morses’ came second. The teams of
Miss Fabian, Miss Patterson and Miss
Davis received honorable mention. We
might say that it takes great co-ordi-
nation of gray matter and physique
to get the highest scores on a Scav-
enger Hunt.

The hunt ended with ice-cream and
coffee and a delightful talk by Irina
Scariatina, at Miss Ely’s. She has
written two books about Russia, A
World Can End and The First To
Go Back. She belongs to the Rus-
sian aristocracy and was the first-one
of them to return to Russia. She
is very much for the new Soviet re-
gime and believes that the Russians
are really happy now, each having
something for which to work.
told amusing tales of the times she
has lectured in this country; how the
“dear old ladies” who sit in the front
row in their silk gowns, always ask
her to tell them about Russia in five
minutes. She said that uninformed
people, and those who go to Russia but
do not see the country and study its
conditions thoroughly, have no idea of
what is really going on. They tell
terrible tales of death and unrest
which have no real truth. She told of
a time when one “old lady” timidly

She |

own intimations, and you have a char-
acter that might be played as a lesser
Hamlet. But no! Douglas Fairbanks,
Jr., is merely an unattractive otiose
Specimen of decayed Russian royalty
‘who can wear lace and powder well.
| We must say that we did not appre-
ciate his ability to wear clothes, that
any villain with only whiskers and a
high silk hat could play upon our emo-
tions enough to make us boo and hiss
as we did for Mr. Fairbanks, and we
like the he-man array better!

The movie is directed by the same
English company that did The Wives
of Henry VIII, and the direction of
Catherine the Great is comparable to
‘that of the former movie. The cos-
tumes and the scenery are done in
good taste, and they are as picturesque
as those in Henry VIII, and the Amer-
ican movie, Queen Christina. Prob-
ably the movie does not have the gen-
eral appeal of these two other histori-
cal pictures, which draw respectively
; upon the public’s knowledge of Henry
VIII and upon America’s passion for
the great Garbo, but Catherine the
Great compares well with them’ and
is, perhaps, better than they are by
virtue of Elizabeth Bergner’s_ per;
formance, a piece of sheer acting de-
pendent for its effect on no tricks of
personality.—G. E. R.










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hearty “Hello, folks!”

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Mother and Dad tonight ...
just walked right in with a

prised and thrilled? Wouldn’t it be fun?

Then get to a telephone this evening and give
your home number to the Operator. (It will

the latest campus news ... find out what the
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isolated and give one the feeling of
just reading one page of a book. Fin-
ally, all lectures are lotteries because,
unfortunately, the spectacle of rows
of women’s faces very often “throws
a lecturer off his base.” Nevertheless,
the students should on no account fol-
low the example of one misguided un-
dergraduate of days gone by, who
went to one poor lecture in the fall
term of her freshman year and never
had the heart to attend another during

_ her sojourn at college.

President Park concluded her talk

she would be grateful
it criticism regarding
of lectures. Whether

raised her hand and said, “Could I
ask you a personal question? Did Sta-
lin kill his wife?” Asa matter of
fact. the wife in. question died of ap-
pendicitis. She ended her talk with
the words that the young people and
workers of Russia now feel that it is
their country and are enthusiastically
happy, living in it. —

Dr Fenwick then rose to the plat-
form and auctioned off the poster with
the caricature of Miss Ely on. it, by
Wyncie King. He said that, all the
great women of history were famous
only in so much as they had associa-
tions with fame, as Helen with Troy,
Cl ra with Caesar, and so forth,
but that Miss Ely was
of herself. And this
‘or : the \





mine “with, Herbert

Riptide

In spite of the supposedly unsur-
passible combination of Norma Shear-'
er, Robert Montgomery, and Herbert
Marshall in one movie, we were very
much disappointed in the pseudo-so-
phisticated and pseudo-glamorous new
movie, Riptide. It is an attempt to
repeat the fascination and allure of
The Divorcee, but the allure makes
a rapid exit out the window when mar-
riage comes in the door, and the rest
of the movie is so involved and com-
plex that it takes three nights’ sleep,
a correspondingly clear mind, and a
week’s rest afterward to gain and re-
cover from the concentration neces-
sary to follow the action.
Riptide. gets off to a promising’ be-
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THE COLLEGE NEWS







Twenty Years Ago

“The World War and the College||

News started almost simultaneously
in 1914.. The News ran for weeks

regular special feature articles de-
tailing the harrowing adventures of
Bryn Mawrtyrs at the front. Miss
Park, Miss Lord and Miss Langdon
were caught abroad at the outbreak
of the war. In their flight to the sea-

gium in a-dilapidated coupe, which
was hitched by ropes to an old plow
horse. When they were about five
miles from the German frontier, an
excited peasant ran up to. tell. them
that the German Army was invading
Belgium. They came to a poplar-lined
high road, and looking up it they saw
the Germans, six abreast, coming to-
wards them. As the News tersely
expressed it: “They were cooking as



they marched and marching fast.” peasant woman took the three women |
into her cabin and gave them cabbage
soup, the first food they had tasted
in twenty-four hours. During the next
day they spent hours at the cottage ,
door asking the refugees about some!
way to escape. Eventually they got |
away by walking back four or five |
miles to the frontier, where a German
Captain, who hoped that there was!
going to be a German-American Alli-|
ance, helped them to make their way |
to Aix-la-Chapelle.

Two Bryn Mawr girls, who had been
caught in Paris, left with two hun-'
dred other people by special train-for
Havre the day after the first bom-
bardment of Paris. They arrived at
Havre in the middle of the night.

Some French and English soldiers, |

who--were quartered there, kindly |
gave them steamer chairs and rugs'|
and guarded them as they slept in the |
streets. The next day the armored |
cruiser Tennessee took them from
Havre to Weymouth. These girls had
exceptional luck. Others also tried to
get away from Paris, carrying the
contents, of their steamer. trunks in
large laundry bags slung over their
shoulders; but found that they were
not permitted to leave.

Miss Reilly, Miss Applebee and Miss
Taylor returned from Europe on the
Carpathia.. Miss Reilly slept-on a
sea-weed mattress, on the floor in a
small waiting room. A curtain sep-
arated the room_in two: on the other
side was a party of fourteen girls and
a chaperone. Miss Applebee and Miss
Taylor slept on deck. When it rained
during the night they had to pick up









Sports Editor -
The News wishes to announce
the election of Barbara Cary,
’36, as assistant sports editor.







their mattresses and run, with fifty
other people, into.a dark corner, Every
morning they were, waked up early by
sailors serpbbing the decks. One of
the millionaires, whe had gotten cab-

ins was heard to say, whilé gazing}

down upon these ladies and, the other
steerage passengers: “Probably some
of these people come from nice clean

homes.” . The idea of mines was so]!

firmly planted ‘in the minds of the
passengers that when a whale spouted
in Mid-Atlantic, some of them scream-
ed and ran to the ship’s officers for
protection. At. one point all hands
were summoned to help paint the ship
grey, for German cruisers were re

ported to be near. A. =

The first issue of the*Vews came
out on September 30, 1914, proudly in-
closing in its pages this peculiarly
alluring advertisement: “Oh, Fresh-
men. Send to your parents dear, and
they will pay for you The College
Nqus.” We would put this down to
sage forewarning of the Gertrude
Stein movement. © Other advertise-
ments were equally appropriate. One
company proudly announced. itself as
“Dealers in Flour, Feed and Fancy
Groceries.” Feed no doubt in those
days took the place which hamburger
sandwiches so amply fill today. We
ran across another:
ful articlés of every sort carefully
selected: Baby Dresses, Caps, Knit-
ted Garments, Jams, Pickles and Pre-
serves.” “Qne-piece bathing suits
and sleeveless suits may not be worn
in the pool at any time,” we are stern-
ly told in another early issue. No sel-
fish self-adornment was permitted in
those days, and excitement was pro-
vided by knitting. ‘The lepers need

mufflers,” cried the Reverend Mr. Hig-

ginbottom, of India, ~“twelve ‘inches
wide and two yards long, the brighter
the better. Striped mufflers or plain,
the only restriction being that much
blue must not be used as it is a low
caste color. These mufflers are wrap-
ped about the head in the day and at



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night the lepers roll themselves up in
them.” Everyone was pleased to knit
mufflers; they had until the end of
college to make them. The lepers, it
appears, were not impatient.

It might be mentioned at this ap-
propriate moment that Mrs. Patrick
Campbell was playing twenty years
ago at the Broad Street Theatre in
Pygmalion, with the, assistance of
Philip Merivale.



Book Reviews





James M. Cain’s short new novel,
The Postman Always Rings Twice,
could scarcely be called a pleaasnt
book. It is the story of a roadside
bum who get work at a hotdog stand
and becomes.the. lover of the Greek
proprietor’s wife. After one unsuc-
cessful attempt, the two of them man-
age to kill off the Greek and are
brought to trial. They are acquitted
through the skill of a very shady
criminal lawyer, and go back to live in
and run the hotdog stand. She is
afraid he will leave her for another
woman; he is afraid she will squeal,
and both of them are afraid of being
The most reveal-
ing part of the book comes in the end
when she has been killed in an acci-
dent, he has been convicted of having
murdered her in order to get the
money her husband left her, and is
worried only that she may never know
he didn’t purposely cause the accident
to happen.

The book seems to have been writ-
ten to tell the story behind such head-
lines in a tabloid as WIFE’S LOVER
KILLS HOTDOG STAND OWNER
and LOVE’ AFFAIR IN HOTDOG
STAND ENDS IN DISASTER. _It
is highly sensational and written
about people so low that they have ab-
solutely no thoughts nor emotions but



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and power that make it remain im-

printed on your memory for weeks af-.
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er doubt the reality of these people
for an instant, but are merely amazed
that such people should exist.

The man and woman sweep obsta-
cles before them with the ruthless
carelessness of savages, and plot‘ the
murder with all the cunning attention
to small detail that is a characteristic
of the lowest form of .criminal mind.
Their love affair is nothing but sexual
greediness, yet it raises the man oc-
casionally to moments of intense rap-
ture in which he comes as near as is
possible for him to feeling the more
civilized emotion of love. The story
and dialogue are written in colloquial,
hardboiled slang, but it is a surprising

fact that within the limitations of a |

small vocabulary, trite phrases, and
unexpressive, monosyllabic words, Mr.
Cain is still able to make the char-



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|acters express a fairly wide variety

\of primitive emotions. They are an-
| gry, suspicious, sick, miserable, un-
‘happy, avid, loving, friendly, and po-
lite, in words that have come by us-
age to be almost entirely without
;meaning, and the book is worth read-
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Cain’s facility of expression within
very narrow limitations. It must be
said, however, that The Postman AI-
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‘feeling that it were much better un-
written, but there is no doubt that it
presents two ,people unmistakably
real and new to literature, describes
|their lives as they understand them,
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either to. justify or condemn them.
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one an find headlines to this effect:
“Magdalen Hupfel scores great suc-
cess in title role of Disraeli.” The
annals of campus events also show
ithat Mrs. Flexner, in both acting and
directing, has continued to live up to
this high standard which she set for

Old. Old-French Miracle Play-
Will be Given in Cloisters



(Especially. Contributed. by Evelyn tions that poetry is made.

Thompson, ’35)

Last year we presented two plays,
the Deluge (acted by the waterleaders , b
and drawers in Aye of Chester in the herself in that difficult role.

XVth century) and the Sepii! crwm | The undergraduate members of the
(acted by the clergy in the church of | cast are by no means lacking in’ dis-
Orleans in the XIIIth®century). S| ‘tinction. Honora Bruere, who takes
these plays were successful we ope | the leading. role of Eliza Doolittle,
that medieval miracle and mystery | has won many dramatic laurels during
plays will become a tradition here, her two years at college. Last year,
This year we are presenting Le Mir- she distinguished herself in the fresh-
acle de Théophile, written by the Pari- man show and in Lady. Windemere’s
sian trouvére Rutebeuf in the second Fan, and this year, she repeated her

‘careers of man are no longer
sword, the distaff,

their place. We cannot apostrophize
the telephone as * thee who linkest ear
to listening ear.” Out of our modern
surroundings “we must make symbols
for these surroundings and for our-
selves.



half of the thirteenth century. Rute- SUCCeSS, as Jasper, in The Knight of Besides the difficulty of, changing
beuf is a representative poet of the *he Burning Pestle. Margaret Kid- terms which poets all over ‘the world
der, the are experiencing now, American

period. His poetry is more lyric than aerate of Varsity Dra-
the matics, has wlso made herself known.

| in the theatrical world at Bryn Mawr,
having acted in the freshman show
and this year’s varsity play.

This ‘““Who’s Who in the Cast” gives

dramatic, and. particularly in
prayers to Notre Dame is beautifu

and moving.
The story is a familiar one. Théo-
phile, a good priest, has not been giv-'

different tongue.
' the mouths of Englishmen.and Ameri-
cans expresses different meanings. To

changed and “aeodlexated physically . the top and” cia oa back to the cen- ”
and ‘mentally, his emotions have re- ter of the stage with the typical Hep-
mained the same, and it is of his emo- burn stride, snapping her fingers boy-"|
But with ishly as she goes:
the altering times, the terms for the. when she finally gets out what she is
expression of emotion have altered.’ being worked up to say, is much too
Now the symbols for the three great;surprising and funny to tell ‘you
“the! about, but the scene is worth seeing,
and the plow.” even without the denoucment,
These are outdated, and we as yet Miss Hamilton’s imitation of Hep-
have found -none of our own to take burn’s awkward, lanky movements.

guin dance, callgd The Byrd I nfluence, |
the inimitable
English Juvenile Players, in which
the actors all talk at once in English
accents with incredible rapidity and:
complete unintelligibility, and a skit
called Laughter on the Air, in which
\a band of paid laughers is led in an
poets have the difficulty of writing iniorchestral and highly artistic accom-'
a language at once English &nd a | paniment to the very poor wise cracks
The same word in|of a comedy team. The high point of |





Summer School
Eleanor Fabyan, ’36, and
Agnes Halsey, ’386, have. been
elected as the Bryn Mawr un-
dergraduate assistants to the

Summer School this year.

The denouement,







for smart people, cleverly and satirically

pointed up the bored attitude sup-
| posedly pertaining to all smart people.
Memorable also are a charming pen-. While we have seen cleverer revues
than New Faces as a whole, for it has
some rather pointless skits, we have
never seen one that was more filled
‘with ‘boundless enthusiasm and con-
viviality. No, one in the show is
starred, everyone has an equal chance
to attain fame, and, as a result, the
youthful, whole-hearted effort put
‘into the acting makes it a revue well
worth the seeing.—D. T-S.

Afternocn with the



the first act,. however, in our eyes,’

was The Gangster Influence, in which From Stanford University comes the

news that women students of that

en the bishopric he expected to receive
as reward for all his good deeds. In
his disappointment and by the per-
suasion of his wicked friend, Salatin,
he sells his soul to the devil. Soon.
afterwards when he is told that he has
been elected bishop, he undergoes a
spiritual struggle, in which Notre
Dame is victorious and peas
soul is saved.

The play was acted outside on
church by the laymen. In the square |
in front of the church a platform .was
built for the occasion. Burghers and
students acted, keeping as much of
the church convention as possible. The
“mansions” or doors built at the back
of the platform, like niches for each
character, were a vestige of the church
convention of dramatization. VAnoth-
er convention was that heaven, where
God, Notre Dame and the angels stood,
should be on the left and the mouth of
Hell full of devils on the right, with
the other characters in between. As
we shall present the play in the clois-
ters we shall not have a platform and |
shall use the arches of the cloisters
as the “mansions.”

For help in the choice and direction
of this play we are obliged to Miss
Marti and Mrs. Frank. This play,
modernized by Gustave Cohen, was
given last year at the Sorbonne with |
great success. We are obliged to Mr.
Willoughby, who has written the
chants for the beginning and end of
the play, and the angel’s solo which
announces Théophile’s victory.

Director, Evelyn Thompson.

a rather meagre picture of the col-
laboration of talented people working
on Pygmalion. A more complete il-
lustration of it will be offered to those
who atend one of the two perform-
ances which come at the end of this
week.



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'S. V. Benet Speaks
On Reading Poetry



Continued from Page One

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insensibility. Just as in music an un;
trained ear, howsver fine, cannot ap-
preciate a symphony, so in poetry a

mind accustomed only to Mother,
Goose cannot leap successfully to!
Shakespeare. Of course, poetry
taught in schools, but as “a language |
deader than Sanskrit.” It dei
‘either as material for toilsome mem-
ory exercises or as a “cadaver for
grammatical dissection.”
joyment can possibly be obtained from ,

such study, it is still enjoyment for |

only one sense—sight, while poetry is |
‘directed to the ear as well.

| In order to appreciate poetry, it
'must be read, not mutilated. The be-
ginnings must be simple, and _ then
variation after variation must come,
because monotony should be avoided

and because “variety is not merely the '

spice of life, but a condition of life.”

‘Again, poetry must often be read
‘aloud, in order that different meters
can be recognized. There is no need
for the reader to classify these meters
technically as the poet must. If the

former can merely identify the simple '

‘rhythms of childhood jingles when he

‘lections from his

is]

If any en-'

use words in an entirely native way,
to form them into themes entirely con-
gruent with this age, is the work of
American poets today, and at this task
they are laboring mightily, so that
from all this activity may eventually
‘come a great poetry typical of us.and
a magic speech for all the world.

To demonstrate the poetical work
going on at present, Mr. Benet’ con-
cluded his lecture by reading three se-
own book, John
Brown’s Body: the invocation, the
‘description of the death of Stonewall
| Jackson, and the sketch of a Southern
plantation mistress.



Theatre Review

It was only with the greatest diffi-
iculty that we have waited for this
,week’s News to come out and give us
ia chance to urge you to make tracks
immediately for New York to see New
| Faces. Té has_allsthe youth and en-
etveaatine ofan excellent college show
_plus the professional finish which they
usually so sadly lack, and since no one
in it is starred, it also offers the
excitement of picking out for yourself
from numerous possibilities the peo-
ple in it who are undoubtedly going
‘to reach fame. We personally are
placing large bets on Imogene Coca,
whose facial expressions are equalled,
-and not we may add, excelled, by Bea-
trice Lillie -alone, on Nancy Hamil-
‘ton, who not only wrote most of the
cleverest skits, but acted and sang
two exceedingly funny take-offs on



Imogene Cgca and Charles Walter, '
dressed up as a small but very tough
boy and girl, sing a. remarkably amus-
ing ballad about their success in kill-
ing off school teachers and playmates
galore in their attempts to be their
gangster-“papa’s-little pride and joy.”
The second act gets off to a flying
start with Marvin Lawler’s remark-
able tap-dancing, contains the hit song
of the show, Youre My Relaxation,

and is raised to an even higher tempo

by a superb skit, Six Managers in
Search of An Actress—As They Never
Are: This skit presents an actress’
office to which all the famous mana-
gers, Guthrie McClintic, Max Gordon,
Jed Harris, Daniel Frohman, and
Noel Coward, all of them very well
taken off, come flocking, only to be
turned away by a hard-boiled secre-
tary, who asks them what they have
produced, and assures them that Miss

three weeks and is looking for a
blonde producer anyway. The vicious

ing this skit is a joy to behold.

delight which the actors take in play-

The high point of the second act is
People of Taste, a delightful take-off

school will be-permitted to visit men’s
dormitory rooms. President Wilbur,
who had previously décreed that wom-
en should not be allowed in the men’s
dorms, decided to make a test case of
an__annual.formal, announcing that
the student$ would be placed on their
honor. Thé only restriction was that
the déors be left open.—(N. S..E. A.)



deine: to college is called “The
great American racket” by President
Ralph Cooper Hutchinson, of Wash-
ington and: Jefferson College, in one
of the most scathing denunciations of
the present higher educational system
and its students, issued within the last
few months.——(N. S. F. A.)



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LUCIEN LELONGS

Smith is out of town for the next:

of smart people, done in black -and.,
white clothes with fascinating light-|
ing effects against a black cyc. The
remarkable part of this skit was the,
consistent smartness in looks and be-|
havior of all the actors; and the sub-|
sequent ballad, J Hate Spring, sung |
by Nancy Hamilton ‘as one of the,







Costume designs, Janet Barber.

Cast:

Théophile, Alicia Stewart.

Salatin, Evelyn Thompson.

Satan, Olivia Jarrett.

Evéque, Fredricka Bellamy.

Pinceguerre, H, Ripley.

Pierre, M. K. Boyd.

Notre Dame, Diana Morgan.

Angel, Isabel Seltzer.

Angel (singing offstage), J. Macom- |
ber.

finds them again in some of the
world’s great poetry, he has learned
his ABC’s and can pass on to the ap-
preciation of complicated structure,
and finally to the internal variations
‘of such structures. The ability to enough to carry ingenue songs.
‘feel the melodic differences in the’ Fyrom the moment the curtain goes
moods and textures of two different yp on an attractive and very young
\pieces of blank verse, .or the changes ' cast explaining to the audience that
in tone and theme within one poem, ‘they are all new faces and hope you.
‘constitutes a great part of the under-' will like them, everybody on the stage
: ‘standing of poetry. ‘and in the audience has an awfully
Varsity a aycrs Will Those whose understanding has been ' good time. There is a very amusing
edie a through lack of such training will |scene, called Katharine Hepburn Gets
Y8 not understand why anyone should jn the Mood for “Little Women,” in
‘take such trouble about mere verses.! which La Hepburn, played by Nancy
src —Tyaantetls —— Willfam Cambell cats can take a man to the library,| Hamilton, who also wrote the skit, is
é { on ut you cannot make him think.” If (being induced to say something ap-
Mrs. Higgins, ‘he thought, he would realize that there | parently of great moment. © Violins
Magdalen Hupfel Flexner (alumna) |js a human need not satisfied by facts|are played, one old lady is carried in
Parlor Maid. Elizabeth Washburn, 37! —a need for magic. This want poetry in an armchair, then two old ladies
The names of men as well as wom-' supplies, for it is magic speech, hold-| are carried id on cots, cradles and
en, and of alumnae as well as under-'jng out not only escape from every-| spinning wheels are produced, but all
graduates, give the cast a variety day life, but a heightening of every-|to no avail. Every time Miss Hep-
that makes it immediately interesting. day senses to perceive unguessed love-| burn gets herself keyed up to the cru-
As to the men, they hail neither from liness and truth discovered by far cial point, she cannot quite go over
Princeton nor Haverford, but are greater minds. All literature does this | : :
members of the Plays and Players’ to a degree, “but where prose is dif-,
Club in Philadelphia. In this active fuse, poetry is succinct; where ey
Little Theatre, and in other com- rhythms of prose are slow and earth-
panies, they have gained stage experi- ly, poetry is flying flakes of fire.”
ence which ensures their -ability.| In the present machine age, how-
Though there are no accessible bulje- ever, there is supposed to be no magic.
tins such as the College News. in Nevertheless, in this industrial Amer-

smart, bored people; on Marvin Law-
ler, whose tap dancing succeeded in
stopping the show, and on Edith Sher-
idan, who manages to combine un-
usually good looks with a voice sweet





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The two alumnae of the cast are.
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Flexner. The former is now a graduate

student in archaeology. Mrs. Flex-|-__
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‘Fan last year, acquired, in her under- |
graduate days, a very high repute- |i

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Campus Notes





Dr. Miller spoke at the Foreign
Policy luncheon in Columbus, Ohio, on
The Relation of Czechoslovakia to the
Present Austrian Situation. Dr. Mil-
ler emphasized the point that the sup-
port of Austria and Hungary by, Mus-
solini and the proposed revision of
boundaries is creating a very tense
feeling and that the Czechoslevakians
are likely to resist any attempt at
revision.

.



At the spring meeting of the New
York branch of the American Psycho-
logical Association on April 11, Dr.



Turner read a paper on Early Non-



Tropistic Visual Qrientation in the
White Rat. Dr. ‘Turner worked™ on
six rats, about two weeks. old, and
found that young rats have practical-

ly as good a sense of-direction.at the

moment they open their eyes as later.
Further experiments are in progress
to determine the absolute accuracy of
the perception of direction, form ‘aad
brightness in rats at this early age.



Dr. Richtmeyer read the results of
his research on The Cleavage of Gly-
cosides by Catalytic Hydrogenation
at the meeting of the Organic Chem-
istry division of the American Chem-
ical Society at St. Petersburg, Flor-
ida. Dr. Richtmeyer will continue his
research on the subject and will pub-
lish the results in a near issue of Jour-
nal of the American Chemical Society.



Dr. Theodore de Laguna’s article

on’ The-Problem ofthe Laches~is-in-

the April issue of Mind. _



Pragmatism and Pragmaticism, ‘the
fifth volume of the collected papers
of Charles Saunders Peirce, will be
published this month by the Harvard
University Press. Dr. Weiss is edit-
ing it in collaboration with Charles
Hartshorne, of the University of Chi-
cago. Volume V should be of the
greatest interest to the general pub-
lic, according to Dr. Weiss, since it
contains all Peirce’s published papers
and many of his unpublished ones on
Pragmatism. It is the only original
American philosophy, of which Peirce

was the founder and in which he was|

followed by William James and John
Dewey, who changed the meaning of



Page Seven

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it. John Dewey’s review of the book
will -appear--in-an-early._issue_of_the
New Republic. Sige ae
Dr. Weiss \also has an article ap-
pearing this month as one of a num-
ber of credos of academic and non-
academic philosophers in American
Philosophy Today and Tomorrow.



Dy, bury and Dr. Ernst Diez at-
tende meeting of the American
Orien ociaty in Philadelphia.



Miss Noether and Miss Lehr went
to the Eastern meeting of the Amer-
ican Mathematical Society in New
York;. Miss Noether took an active
part in the discussion.



Dr. Tennent attended the meeting of
the Board of Fellowships of the Na-





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_ VoiceofBrynMawr



This column is.intended to afford

i. to the undergraduates, the alumnae,

and the faculty an opportunity of ex-
pressing their opinions about matters

‘of interest to the college, Letters are

earnestly solicited, and do not need to
be signed. We reserve the right of not
printing unsigned letters, if they pre-

“sent too personal a point of view.



Posting Marks

It has always seemed to us that
there was a simple solution to the
moot problem of the posting of marks.
It is valuable to see the lists of marks
in your classes because so long as we
do not have a standardized system of
marking, it is impossible to judge the
value of any professor’s estimate of

_ your work without seeing the way his

marks run. On the other ha it
seems unnecessary to attach th
of the people to the mark¥,"4
should be a way of provi the one
jnformation without the \gther.

For this Yéason we sugtest that a
list of the marks in each vlass should
be posted, but without any names at-
tached to it, and that each girl should
be sent her own marks privately. In
this. way each girl could refrain from
disclosing her marks if she» so wished,
but would still be able to obtain any
information she wanted on the run of






the marks in her classes by looking,

at the-posted lists. Personal marks
would thus be kept secret and yet the
real value of any mark could still be
discovered.



Going to Lectures

Bryn Mawr is the only woman’s col-
lege that offers the inestimable oppor-
tunity of going to hear outside lec-
turers. When people like Mrs. Dean,
Jane Addams, Shane Leslie, and
James Stephens are brought to a col-
lege, it would seem reasonable to ex-
pect that the whole undergraduate
body would turn out to hear them.
As a matter of fact, lectures are
very poorly attended by the students,
and most of the audience is usually



made up of people from outside the
college. As a result, the college does
not dare on its own resporfsibility to
*bring-alj-the famous people they
might, because they are afraid that
the students will not turn out to hear
them and that they will lose money
which they can ill afford to lose.

. We wish to suggest that since this
is possibly the only opportunity many
of us will ever have of hearing many
of the people who come to Bryn Mawr,
we should try to schedule our work
so that we would be enabled to at-
tend ‘the lectures. If each student
made a habit of reading over the list
of lectures for the next week, which
is always ,posted on _ the ~ bulletin
boards in every hall, we might be able
to avoid finding ourselves in a perfect
jamb of work on the night of a lec-
ture that we did want to hear. The
only reason most of us do not go to
lectures is that we are in a temporary
jamb and simply cannot take the time.
If we were to plan ahead more than
we do with reference to the lecture
schedule, this situation might not oc-
cur so frequently. ;



Freshman English
It has always been our belief that

.Freshman English was ‘supposed to

be a course in English Composition,
but we are rapidly becoming convinc-
ed that it fails to give as good an Eng-
lish training as is either possible or
necessary. We feel that there is not
one of us who would not be grateful
for a really stiff training in construc-
tion and style, and it is unfortunate
that Freshman English gives us too
little of either. They seem to assume
that our schools will have provided
us with a training in the fundamental
characteristics of good writing so
thorough and comprehensive that the
college .needs merely to elaborate
upon our foundational knowledge.
For the majority of us this assump-
tion is unfounded, and we are en-
abled to go through college-never feel-
ing quite sure of the proper treatment
of participial sentences, of infinitives
used as subjects, of clausal construc-
tions, and of the proper usage of



“shall? and.’ “will,” Uof. “only” cand





“merely,” and of ‘due to.” It is never
drilled into most of us that—sentences
should not end with prepositions, that
dashes can be used-only ‘in certain spe-
cific cases, that dangling participles
may make intensely amusing reading,
and that there is a distinction of
meaning between “The man, who was
walking,’ and “The man who-~- was
walking.” :

We believe that lectures on sentence
structure and on style should be given
as the most important part of the

‘they are more hindrance than help.
No system of marking is foolproof.
Obviously, such fine distinction cannot
-be made-in the work-of considerable
‘number of students .as to make numer-
| ‘

‘ical marks of any great value. And
‘a more general grading into. High
Credits, Credits, etc., would in a large
‘class prevent any intelligent graduat-
‘ing of marks.

| Therefore we should like to see our-
| selves treated as the mature students
/we are supposed to be. We may. as

Freshman English course, and that | well learn now to ge used to being
instruction in writing should not be ‘hired and fired according to a person-

confined entirely to interviews. It is;
possible that while we are taking}
Freshman English, we may never!
make the mistakes or run against the,
problems which will turn up to bother |
us later, so that individual.instruction |
does not necessarily cover all the pos-|
Sible needs of each person in the elass. |
The writing of reports in later years |
would he considerably simplified if wo!
had been so thoroughly drilled in Eng-_
lish construction that the usual. prob-
lems never turned up to troubles us.



More Marks

Weare to be listed not only amung
the conscientious objectors to having
our marks noised abroad by their pub-
lic announcement, but among those
who do not see the particular value
of definite marks at all. We can see
their advantage in prep school, de-
spite the fact that some of the better |
prep schools do not give marks: they |
are one of the recognized standards by
which a college board of admissions
judges the students’ ability. But col-
lege marks are valueless for anything
we may do after college. Provided we
do anything, we shall prebably-either
go jéb-seeking in the wide, wide world,
or we shall do graduate study. No
business executive is going to be in-
terested to know what we got in
Philos, Latin Literature, or Baby Ger-
man. And certainly no graduate
school will admit us on the basis of
our college marks and fail to demand
the more important ‘qualification for
advanced work—namely, the recom-
mendation of our professors.

While we are in college, moreover,





nel department’s judgment of our
work and ability; and what is better
fitted to ‘guide us along just such a
path in our work than private con-
sultation with the faculty rather than
a rigid marking system?



Playwriting

There are no words which are ade-
quate to express the gratitude of the
Playwriting class to. Miss Florence
Waterbury, the donor of the course.
We feel that she has given us an in-
valuable addition to the college, and
only wish that she would put in an
appearance in our midst some Tuesday
afternoon to observe the results of her
generosity.

The course gives a thorough train-
‘ing in practical technique, but it does
more than that. It teaches the stu-
dents to think in terms of the theatre,
to recognize dramatic material in
stories and events, and to write plays
with incredible rapidity, as is often

necessary in professional work when, .

an act of a play must be rewritten
during the week of.the tryout. The
course is also an excellent basis for
work in theatrical ¢rificism and in
playreading for producers.

To those who have been wondering
why none of the playwriting products
have yet appeared in dazzling lights
on Broadway to be hailed by raptur-
ous critics as the Great Play of the
century, we can only say that it is an
auspicious ‘omen for our future suc-
cess that the Playwriting class is fast
learning just how much work, plot-
ting, characterization, and rewriting
are involved in the achievement of a

really professional play, There ig no
girl in the class, however, whofhas —
not attained, under the encouraging
tutelage-of+Miss Latham,a_surpris-
ring facility at writing plays, and we
again repeat from the depths of our
gratitude that we cannot sufficiently
thahk the college and Miss Waters
bury for providing us with such a
thoroughly pleasant and _ profitable
way of spending Tuesday afternoon.



Wit’s End



(Continued from Page Two) |

Which reminds them of vacation
(Spent in Florida or at home).
Tenderly they suck ice-cream cones,

Lightly bat a tennis ball,
Read the wildest newest novels,

See a movie when these pall.

PEnvoi

Not for us these gentle pleasures,
* Not for us this normal life,
Spring for us is but & chapter

In the long year’s gruelling strife.
Flora’s whim and Zephyr’s caper

Are submerged by quiz and paper.

—The Lone Goose.





| hate to think that Ogden Nash
Should condescend to print such trash
As “There goes the wapiti”
“Hippety hoppety” a q
For just the sake of unpoetic cash. ™
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An yes >,
Poetry Nashish
Resembles hashish!



From our humble station in Wit’s
End we take this avenue, which alone
‘is open to us, of revenge. Now be
sure you don’t forget to tell anybody
about this—but, do you know, there
| has been a proof error appearing in
the News for two years now? . To get
back at the proof readers and the
+ wisterberie we hereby offer a prize for
the discovery of said error: to the
first person to spot it we shall give
first prize. We shall take a picture
of you gnashing a teacup to send to
your friends for a Christmas present.



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