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VOL. XXI, No. 14
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1935
COLLEGE
Copyright BRYN MAWR
NEWS,
“PRICE 10 CENTS
1935
.Mts. Piccard Relates
Story of Air Flight
‘BB. M. Alumna Accompanies
Husband In Investigation
Of Cosmic Rays
STRATOSPHERE REACHED
Goodhart, Feb. 25.—Mrs. Jean Pic-
card, Bryn Mawr alumna, and wife
of the famous stratosphere flier, Dr.
Jean Piccard, lectured simply and en-
thusiastically on her husband’s work
and on the epochal flight which they
made together as co-workers in 1934.
She has ascended higher into the air
than any other woman and has gath-
ered important data on the nature of.
the cosmic ray, which she and Dr.
Piccard hope to be able to harness for
practical use, even though precisely
what it is cannot be determined any
more than the precise nature of elec-
tricity.
Although her husband was born in
Switzerland,-and taught and studied
on the Continent long before he came
to the United States as an assistant
professor at thé University of Chi-
cago, Mrs., Piccard is an American
both by birth and training. She took
her degree at Bryn Mawr College,
while President Thomas was still in
office, and she remembers as a symbol
‘of the spirit possessed both by the col-
lege and Miss Thomas, a time when
the president, walking by her, said, “I
do not walk so fast as you who are
young; do you go on ahead.” That
was what Miss Thomas always de-
sired, that others should go on ahead
even where she could not; and this
is the goal towards which Bryn Mawr
has aimed, that it should enable others
to go on. In arts and literature, the
purpose has been accomplished, but
not yet in the field of science.
After her graduation here, Mrs,
Piccard studied chemistry at the Uni-
versity of Chicago, where she met Dr.
Piccard. Upon her marriage with
him, his scientific life became hers un-
til-on his greatest experiment and
flight she could act as pilot, first mate,
and crew for him.
To make the construction of the
stratosphere balloon more clear and
logical to the audience, Mrs, Piccard
first showed on the screen pictures of
Continued on Page Five
Day Letter Received
On 1932 Big May Day
-(The following is a day letter re-
ceived Saturday, February 23):
Editor of College New: —
I am sailing within uour for some
months abroad or would’ write to you,
but I have just heard from alumnae
in New York that May Day, the most
beautiful pageant in America, is not
being given ‘this spring because, in
the opinion of Mrs. Manning, as print-
ed in the College News, there is no
director sufficiently experienced at
hand to organize it and this when you
have in Mrs. Chadwick-Collins the
greatest director of «any May Day.
This is always a t¥emendous under-
taking because there is little money
and you cannot have any ¢eficit and
because there is not unlimited time for
rehearsals and yet every detail is
judged by critics of pageantry which
has reached such a state of perfec-
tion as if you had all the time and
money needed. Every May Day has
its own difficulties and at one time in
1920 these seemed to me unsurmount-
able, but you always ‘Jive through them
and ‘if in 1932 there was confusion it
can be understood with an _ extra
Shakespearean play and no Miss Ap-
x plebee for the green and so a new di-
\rector of the green to be trained. And
even the green in 1932 was unsur-
~passed-and with the financial situation |}
as $t was and to have no deficit in
1932 was a triumph of organization.
Mrs. Collins took all that went before
and added her own in the perfect co-
ordination of every detail so that all
who know acknowledge she produced
the perfect May Day and all future
* wnes can only aim to equal that of
1932. : * —
‘ Maup SKINNER.
(Mrs. OT1s SKINNER.)
News Try Outs
The College News announces
the beginning of its regular
spring tryouts for Freshmen,
Sophomores and Juniors who
wish to compete for positions on
the Editorial Board. There are
five or six regular positions
open and there is especial need
for a music critic, and for a
Sports Editor. Anyone inter-
ested should come to the Nes
office in Goodhart at 6.00 P. M.
on Thursday, February 28. \
GARRET MILE Te
Women Write Novels
With Natural -Talent
Sheila Kaye-Smith Says Women
Are Receptive Rather Than
. Creative
NOVEL HAS FOUND PEAK
Goodhart, Feb. 21. —. “Women are
naturally associated with art, yet man
has been the leader and often the sole
performer in art through the ages,”
said Miss Sheila Kaye-Smith, who
spoke here recently on Pioneer Wom-
en Novelists. Why is it that women
have not kept up with men in this
field? It is not the fault of men that
they have achieved more than women.
Perhaps the best answer is that wom-
en are more realistic than men, and
than creative.
Novel writing came closest to their
are receptive rather
particular talents and inclinations and
women have been leaders in this field
from the very beginning. They have
brought new blood and fresh ideas into
novel writing and have done just as
xood work as any of the men.
The first novel was written by Sam-
Fiction had _ been
written before, but there was no at-
tempt made in such stories to show
uel Richardson.
character or analyze emotions, Pamela
was the first appearance of a form of
fiction which was something more than
a pure adventure story. It is a kind
of collection of letters, which are suffi-
ciently connected to show the develop-
ment of character and plot. The book
was meant to be an example of the
art of letter writing, but Richardson
decided to improve the minds of his
readers as well as their epistolatory
style. The theme of the story is one
that is bound to meet the approval. of
all women readers. If only.a woman
is clever enough she can have a man
on her own terms, instead of~ his.
Richardson’s readers were carried
away with the book. They said it
was the morality of it that pleased
them, but the real reason is some-
thing far more subtle. It is his sym-
pathetic treatment of women that won
him so many admirers, and it is not
surprising to find that most of them
were of the fair sex.
Women began to imitate Richard-
son’s style. Not many of them came
anywhere near him in excellence, ‘but
some very good work was done. Only
one American woman, Charlotte Ram-
sey Lenox, began to use this type of
fiction writing. She went to England
as a girl of fifteen and married there
‘very unhappily. She earned her liv-
ing by translating and by writing nov-
els. The Female Quixote is her only
remembered book. She was quite well
known in her time and was féted by
Dr. Johnson on one occasion. From
1750-1800 there was a flood of novels
Continued on Page Four
Infirmary Fee
~The News calls attention to a
mistake in the account about
-the-Infirmary fees last week.
There is to be a decrease and
not an increase in the infirmary
charge of the present year. The
charge is at present $6 a day
after a student has spent four
days in the infirmary. This is
to be reduced to $4 a day for the
remainder of the present year,
after which the new statement
of fees goes into effect.
Pe eed
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Greek Play Chorus Announced
It has been definitely decided that
the Bacchai of Euripides will be put
on at Commencement time for the
benefit of the Million Dollar Fund.
Mme. Sikilianos will direct the play,
and there will be a chorus of fifty
people, which will act as the protagon-
ist of the play and will be stressed
in importance more than is customary
in the usual manner of putting on
Greek plays. The following is the cast
jjof faculty, alumnae and students who
will take part in the chorus:
Petts, Miss Fisher, A. Allinson, ’37;
M. Bedinger, ’85; S. Bright, ’36; L.
Gratwick, ’37; A. M. Graves, ’37; M.
Haas, ’37; M. Honour, ’386; M. Houck,
37; F. Porcher, ’36; E. Vall-Spinoza,
37; M. Askins, ’86; L. Dickey, ’37;
A Grant, 38; F. Lewis, 738; E. Mor-
ley, ’36; ee Steinhardt, ’37; A. Reese,
36; E. Webster, ’88; M. Winternitz,
4388; Ei. Newton; “38; F. Tagpart,
32; D. Seelye, ’38; J. Baker, ’35; B.
Cole, ’38; M. Jackson, ’87; V. Jussen,
37; H. Mayer, ’88; D. Naramore, ’38;
L. Stengel, ’37; A. Waldenmeyer, 35;
A. Woodward, ’36; G. Franchot, °35;
E. Lyle,- 87; M.. Archibald, ’87;. B.
Allen, ’38; C. Aaronsen,’38; E. Bing:
ham, ’386; E. Bock, ’86; A. Crenshaw,
36; M. Flanders, ’37; M. Peters, ’37;
I. Seltzer, ’87; E. Van Auken, ’35;
F. Van Keuren, ’85; H. Wickersham,
°36;. M. Anderson, ’37; M. L. Eddy,
37; A. Edwards, ’37; G. Fales, ’38;
M. Kidder, ’36; B. Lautz, ’37; R. Levi,
’°87; E. Mann, ’38; P. Manship, ’36;
H. Ott, ’36; E. Putnam, ’36; J. Lewis,
$8; KE. Hansell, 86; H. Harvey, ’37;
C. Taylor, ’38.
Miss
Works by Americans
End Pro Arte Series
Grunberg, Piston, and Smith
Rendered in Well Balanced
Performance
TECHNIQUE FAULTLESS
Goode Hall, Feb. 20.—The Pro
Arte Quartet brought its series of
chamber music to a conclusion with a
program ‘composed entirely of music
by American composers, including
works by David Stanley Smith, Wal-
ter Piston, and Louis Griinberg. This
series has been presented every Wed-
nesday and Sunday for a month
through the generosity of Mrs. Eliza-
beth Sprague Coolidge, who is one of
the greatest patronesses of music in
America. Throughout the series the
Quartet has met with increasing en-
thusiasm and approval from the audi-
ences, which have increased as_ the
group verified its splendid reputation
both here and abroad.
The Quartet, composed of Alphonse
Onnou, first violin, Laurent Halleux,
second violin, Germain Prévost, viola,
and Robert Maas, violincello, is re-
markable not only fox ‘the individual
talent of its members, but also for
their fine interpretation and the ex-
quisite finish of their work as a whole
which can come only from long years
of musical association. They are
known particularly as exponents of
the modern composers of all nationali-
ties, and have earned from their su-
perb renderings of recent works the
gratitude of all who are interested in
the future of music. Their playing
of the works of all periods. of cham-
ber music has been almost faultless
throughout the series.
This last program was the first not
to contain at least one work of the
better known older composers, and
probably for that reason was the most
interesting as well_as the most fitting
conéluding program for. the artists to
have performed. The difficult techni-
‘eal problems of these new, and in, the
lease of Griinberg revolutionary com-
posers, were overcome with perfect
ease while the spirit of their works
was excellently maintained. The Pro
Arte group seems to have a_ very
strong feeling for the work of the
moderns and for this reason is an
almost unsurpassed performer of their
works in the quartet form.
The first number on the program,
Quartet in C Major, Op 71, by Dayid
“continued on Page rour
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|was amusing and
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|Amusing Plot, Clever Dancing, Good Set
Contribute to Success of Freshman Show
In Spite of Lack of. Unity, Slow Tempo, and Slight Plot,
Spirited Acting, and Finished Dancing Are Acclaimed °
in National Recovery Act
ACTING INDICATES SMOOTHNESS AND CONFIDENCE
An amusingly fantastic plot, effect-
ive sets and clever dancing: made T'he
National Recovery Act set a new high
in Freshman Shows. , The degree of
confidence and smoothness shown by
the actors was quite remarkable for
the type of entertainment. Although
the plot was slight and. the dialogue
dragged at times, most of the show
quite . well-done.
Huldah Cheek, who wrote, direeced
acted and sang in it, is highly to be
congratulated.
National Recovery Act is the story
of the women from the Peola June-
tion Old Ladies’ Home who, acquiring
by force the necessary money from
the Junior League, go to Florida in
search of Ponce de Leon’s Fountain
of Youth. There they find not only
the fountain but Ponce himself, a
most charming gentleman. Having
been_ served the elixir of youth in
Dixie ‘cups, they divest themselves of
gray hair, rheumatism, and squeaky
voices to become young again. After
two years, Lucy Snodgrass end Mamic
‘Botts, the two rivals of the Old La
dies’ Home, have become Elaine Love-
lace and Prudence Hopewell, respect-
ively, and are both campaigning furi-
ously for the presidency of the United
States. Elaine wins, and makes Pru
the commander of the Army and
Navy.
Ponce’s affections, only to have him
won at last by the head of the Junior
League. All of Which would tend to
prove that it’s the perennially young
what gits the White House, but the
League what gits its man.
The plot, though amusing, was not
sufficiently unified; the rivalry for
Ponce seemed too often to be dragged
in by main force, instead of developing
early and building up. The dialogue
was, on the whole, very clevér, and th«
individual speeches were amusing. Yet
several times, as in the first scene,
and, again, in Elaine Lovelace’s lines
in the campaign scene, the tempo was
too slow, and the lines stood out as
separate entities, rather than as foun.
dations to any central point. In the
first scene, the actors seemed to be re-
citing pieces rather than talking to
one another. This may have been part-
ly caused by the fact that the dia-
logue was in verse: rhyming lines are
apt to affect the unaccustomed in that
way.
The acting of everyone was remark-
able for its lack of self-consciousness
or nervousness; no one seemed upset
or awkward, and everyone appeared
to be having a grand time. Sylvia
Wright as Prudence Hopewell (nee
Mamie Botts) gave us a consistently
amusing satire of a tweed-suited, su-
perlatively efficient generalissimo, Her
stride, her voice, her gestures were
all in keeping. Especially good was
College Calendar
riitsday, February 28. Mr.
A. E. Newton on The Develop-
ment of the English Novel.
8.30 P. M, Deanery.
Friday, March 1, Class Swim
ming Meet. 4.00-P. M. Gym-
nasium.
Saturday, March 2. Varsity
Basketball Game with the Phil-
adelphia Cricket Club. 10.00
A. M. Gymnasium.
Sunday, March 3. Mr.
mas Whittemore on The Mo-
saicsof Santa Sophia. 5.00
P. M. Deanery. 4
Sunday Evening Services
conducted_by- Rev. Frederick R.
Grifin: ‘7.15 P. M. - Music
Room.
Monday, March 4. The Mal-
lory Whiting Webster Memorial
The a
Lecture: Dr. Nellie Neilson on
Medieval Forests. 8.20 P. M.
Goodhart.
Both of them compete fo |:
*} anyone reads it in print.
the scene in the office in the White
House, where she sat surrounded by
militant secretaries, and her entrance
in the Gardens in the last act, as a
red-coated grenadier invading a scene
of frivolity, was very amusing.
Grace Fales played the part of Lucy
Snodgrass and Elaine Lovelace with,
much enthusiasm, but in neither case
did she do justice to her role. As
lucy, she was too extravagantly and
artificially coy; as Elaine, she made
the lady far too much of a caricature,
and her gestures were forced.
Falvia Pittroff made an attractive
Ponce, but her role was not empha-
sized enough to #ive her an oppor-
tunity for a great deal. of acting. Rob-
bie Hoxton’s portrayal of Dr. Bush-
man was hilariously amusing. Her
staggering entrance in the first scene
of the second act, carrying her port-
able laboratory, and her tentative love-
scene with Mrs, Whistlebury, stand
out as two of the funniest moments of
the show. Mary Walker and Mary
Whalen, as two Junior Leaguers, play-
ed their parts with much ease and
naturalness. Mary de Wolf, clad in a
negligee, pink bed-socks, and .a lisp,
made the most of a small part. And
may we congratulate Ellen Newton, as
a guide, for her nonchalance in prop-
ping up a wayward palm tree in the
second set?—she almost convinced us
that that is one of the usual duties
of a Florida guide.
The settings, designed by Alice
Shurcliff, were excellent down to
smallest details. ° That for the first
scene—the Old Ladies’ Home—with
its “God Bless Our Home” sign, its
wheel-chair, and dull gray background
was particularly good. That for the
White House gardens was artistic and
glamorous. The lighting was quite
adequate; it was very good in the
Florida set, and effecgive in the Blue
Rhapsody dance. Betty Bryan is to
be commended for her attractive and
Continued on Page Three
Dr. Neilson Will Discuss
Mediaeval Forest Laws
Professor Nellie Neilson, who is to—
speak in the Music Room on Monday
evening, March 4th, is one of the most
distinguished of Bryn Hawr Alumnae
and an outstanding historian in Amer-
ica. She wrote her Doctor’s disserta-
tion at Bryn Mawr, taking as her sub-
ject the Economic Conditions in the
Mediaeval Manors of Ramsey Abbey.
It proved to be an introduction to
the theme which since then has often
claimed her attention: the. local cus-
toms of England.
It is_well known that the common
law of England was based on: eusto-
mary usages, weldéd together and de-
veloped by the practice of the King’s
courts. Professor Neilson “had de-
lighted in the study of customs which
escaped this unifying process and
which remained as primitive islands in
the enveloping sea of common law. She
has also discussed the usages of the
King’s’ courts in learned studies of
huge court rolls and selective “Year
Books.”
Recently she has turned her atten-
tion to mediaeval forests in England,
mapping their boundaries and eluci-
dating the modé of life which was
characteristic of them. The topic is
of general interest because of the body
of. forest laws that gdeveloped from
the King’s unlimited. use and control
over certain forest areas in England.
The fotest laws deal with the contro-—
versies between the peasants and the
nobles over the disputed boundary
lines and over hunting privileges.
Dr. Neilson’s lecture at Bryn Mawr
will be on Mediaeval Forests in Eng-
land, and the college will thereby en-’
joy her account of the forests before
ara
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in 1914)
Published weekly during the College Year ‘(excepting distan Thanksgiving,
Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of
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The College, News is fully protected
Nothing that appears in
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it may be reprinted either wholly or in part witheut written permission of the
teditor-in-Chief.
Editor-in-Chief .
HELEN FISHER, ’37
Business Manager
BARBARA LEWIS, ’35
: GERALDINE RHOADS, ’35 DIANA TATE-SMITH, ’35
et ° Editors
CAROLINE C. BROWN, ’36 , ELIZABETA\ LYLE, ’37
BARBARA Cary, 36 y "37
5 “ANNE “MARBURY,
Spo¥ts Editor
PRISCILLA HOWE, ’35
% Assistant
| DOREEN CANADAY, ’36
Copy Editor
FRANCES VANKEUREN, 85
Subscription Manager
MARGOT BEROLZHEIMER, ’35
JEAN STERN, ’36
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The Old War Cry
What we like to call our Reading Public has by this time decided
that the News’ lifework consists in writing about the Reserve Room.
Although we feel as if we have been vainly trying to improve manners
and morals for years 1row, we refuse to lay by our righteous indignation
over the homelike way in which books are marked and in which books
disappear.
Therefore, we write again, this time upon the demand of a
large number of hysterical undergraduates.
Our best friends tell us that the books for all of their courses are
missing from the Reserve Room,
have no remedy.
we suggest only a slogan to instil
and that all of the classics have
acquired new and mysterious marginal notes.
For the latter evil,
public conscience: Typewrite, or
print clearly, if you must write in books, but do not inflict your illegible
and eryptic addenda upon us.
We return to the Reserve Room ailment as the more ineurable one.
“or years we have said,
“Tt won't be long now.
Some morning we shall
wake up to find the entire Library gone and the Art Sem particularly
noted for its absence,”
More undergraduate time is now spent specu-
lating as to the whereabouts of Reserve Room and Art Sem books than
voes into any other variety of work or play.
We do not for a moment
attribute the loss or the temporary disappearance of books to anything
but thoughtlessness.
Sincethis is the case, we feel that the undergraduates themselves
would weleome some system whereby a closer check could be kept on
the slips in reserve books.
both the
the
slips,are
hear
or lost.
We suggest as a possible solution that in
Art Sem and he Reserve Room the reserve desks be moved
door so that the lbrarians in charge could see that reserve
left for each book taken out and that the slips are not mixed
Each book being taken from the Reserve Room should be pre-
sented to the librarian, who will take the signing-out slip herself and
check it with the reserve slip if there is any.
Such an arrangement may seem fraught with difficulties, when we
stop in our orderéd ways to consider it.
But it has been-ecarried out in
larger libraries than ours, and in public libraries whose users we pre-
sume to be less thoughtful and co-operative than Bryn Mawr students,
IN PHILADELPHIA
Theatres
Chestnut: Dame Sybil Thorndtke
in The Distaff Side—one week only.
A highly interesting play about a
woman controlling her family and a
daughter who Breaks Away in the
time-honored manner of stage daugh-
ters and comes home with the baby in
her arms and the blood hounds howl-
ing at her heels.
Orchestra Program
Zemachson ........ Chorale and Fuge
Brahms...Symphony No. 2, D Major
Alzeniz-ArboS ......ccee88- Navarra
POOR bi Moto Perpetuo
De Falla....The Three-Cornered Hat
Movies
Aldine: Last chance to see The
Scarlet Pimpernel, unless it makes an-
other mysterious tour of Philadel-
phia’s minor theatres. Saturday:
Folies Bergere, with Maurice Cheval-
ier, Merle Oberon and Ann Sothern.
French accents and French songs and
Maurice ‘abound in fine form.
Arcadia: Wings in.the Dark, with
Myrna Loy and Cary Grant.
Boyd: Society comes in for its
share of Scandal and Publicity in
After Office Hours, with Constance
Bennett and Clark Gable. What with
editors and society reporters dropping
in on Society’s best scaridals, nobody
has much fun.
Earle: The Best Man Wins, with
Edmund Lowe and Florence Rice.
Quite amusing.
Fox: Life Begins At 40, with Will
Seshead We'd go to see Will Rogers
in anything, but this is one of his
__ best.
Karlton: Ricardo Cortez and Vir-
ginia Bruce in Shadow of Doubt. We
feel more than a shadow about this.
Keith’s: One of the epic movies of
all time, David Copperfield, is held
aver for a second week. No one in her
right mind should miss this.
Locust: George Arliss in The Iron
Duke continues on, and probably on
into the distant future. Everybody
is in it from Napoleon to Wellington,
but it is not quite up to George Arliss’
usual. standard. *
Roxy-Mastbaum: Living on Vel-
vet, with Kay Francis, George Brent
and Warren Williams. The triangle
comes in for its share of attention
again, with George Brent and War-
ren- Williams both renouncing Kay
Francis in ‘a’ moment of ‘nobility be-
cause ‘of their friendship for each
other,
Stanley: Rudy Vallee’s latest opus,
with Helen Morgan to assist him,
Sweet Music. Rudy is a college boy
and starts a band, if you can believe
that to be possible. Very good, in
spite of everything.
Stanton: The Mystery of Edwin
Brood, with Claude Rains, Heather
Angel and Douglas Montgomery. We
weren’t exactly fascinated, but ‘Claude
Rains does do some pretty fancy
acting.
Local Movies
Ardmore: Thurs., Fri. and Sat.,
Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Rob-
ert “Montgomery in’ Forsaking~ All
Others; Mon. and Tues., Paul Muni
in Bordertown; Wed. -and_ Thurs.,
Ronald Colman in Clive of India.
Seville: Wed. and Thurs., Here Is
My Heart, with Bing Crosby and Kit-
ty Carlisle; Fri. and Sat., Francis
Lederer and Ginger Rogers in Ro-
mance in Manhattan; Mon. and Tues.,
we’
Aside from the moral and ethical aspects of the ease,
WIT?S EXD
What’s to be done,
With a face like mine?
It hasn’t a wrinkle
Nor an interesting line.
I don’t look worldly-wise,
I don’t look weary,
Even my eyes
Aren’t the least bit bleary.
People in liquor shops
Give me a leer,
And say, “No, young lady,,
You’re too young to buy beer.”
Strangers seem to doubt
That I possess any knowledg@y’
And ask me kindly
If I’ye chosen my college.
Imagine my horrible
Situ-ation,
I’m a Bryn~Mawr Senior
And I don’t look twenty-one.
. —Lone Goose.
ELDERLY REFLECTIONS
It seems to me the: Freshmen
Are really awfully bright,
But then I always think that
Every year, Freshman Show night.
—Dying Duck.
A
ANIMALS
We think the class creatures
Should be picked for their features,—
But they seem to get feebla and feebla,
We thought the Mexican bean
Was too small to be seen,—
But just try to find an amoeba!
ART
The lady on the
Common Room wall,
Lapping up her tea,
Makes me feel, §
To say the least,
Slightly jittery.
—Lazy Loon.
On Ssitt
Repartee has at last descended on
the Bryn Mawr campus! One of our
most revered undergraduates retired
into h¢r bedroom late the other after-
noon, and had embarked upon a pro-
cess of rapid undressing when a knock
was heard upon her door. Thinking
that her neighbor was about to burst
in upon her, the undergraduates called
“Wait till I finish undressing!’ “Lady,
I’m not interested in looking at any-
thing but the walls of your room!” re-
plied one of the well-known’ Bryn
Mawr painters,
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v BIER GARTEN
A lot of red checked napery,
An atmosphere that’s vapoury,
A. mob that has had :
A little too much;
The whole gone jazz mad,
In the mode of the Dutch.
FOR THE SURVIVING FEW
We think it would be better
If the Infirmary
Moved up on to the campus,—
We've all got colds, you see.
Life would be so simple
If the healthy few
Could live ungermed-up at the Inf.
' There can’t be more than two!
There’s lots of room for classes,
We’d get weighed in between.
There’d be no need to brave these
storms. :
No hankies would-be seen.
—Frob be to you.
See you next spring (stop)
Now become snow drop.
Cheerio—
THE MAD HATTER.
Four hundred students of Columbia
University were on record with a con-
demnation of the tactics of William
Randolph Hearst in attempting, they
say, to raise “a red;scare.”’
—(N. S. F. A.) _
Claude Rains in The Man Who Re-
claimed His Head; Wed. and Thurs.,
Broadway Bill, with*’Warner Baxter
and Myrna Loy.
Wayne: Wed., Claudette Colbert
and Warren William in Imitation of
Life; Thurs., Fri, and Sat., Warner
Baxter and Myrna Loy in Broadway
Bill; Mon. and Tues., Wallace Beery
in The Mighty Barnum; Wed. and
Thurs., Biography of a Bachelor Girl,
with Ann parting and Robert Mont-
gomery. ne
News of the New York Theatres
We are about to burst into. another
gladsome paean about the New York
theatre. Our highest hopes for the
season: have been realized, our—eye
dazzled, our wearied hearts rendered
joyous by the sights” of Elizabeth
Bergner distinguishing’ herself in
Eséape’Me Never! and of Leslie How-
ard being at his most charming in The
Petrified Forest!, We can ‘ask ‘no
more, but nothing can stop us from
saying a great deal more on our re-
spective themes. °
Escape Me Never! is‘ all about Eliz-
abéth Bergner; in fact, Elizabeth
Bergner is and makes Escapes Me
Never! except that the play lets her
down badly in the last act. From the
moment she is hauled upon the scene
into the family drawing room of a
famous Austrian castle, which is hav-
ing its weekly invasion by tourists,
and dashes onto the window sill in-
tending to leap from the window on
the slightest provocation, the play be-
comes definitely ‘exciting. She is
dréssed in a school girl’s uniform _be-
cause, it turns out, that is.all the Sis-
ters of. Mercy had to give her, and
with that as an inspiration she has
been following bands of schoolgirls
_|around the town in the hope of sneak-
ing in on the afternoon tea they habit-
ually consume. It further turns oul
that she is the mistress of the brother
of the boy to whom the daughter of
the castle is about to become engaged.
We admit it’s complicated, but that is
about the only complication that ap-
pears, so the audience manages to live
through it. In any case, both boys
are of the immortal Sangey clan,
made famous by Margaret Kennedy in
The Constant Nymph, and the family
in the castle do not think much of
them, no matter which one is posses-
sed of so reprobate a mistress,
Elizabeth Bergner also has. a baby,
not, however, by the Sanger lad, and
when the family sends its daughter
up to the. mountains to avoid the
Sangers, the two boys, Elizabeth
Bergner and the baby go on a tour in
quest of her, singing and playing their
way in the manner of the wandering
minstrels of yore. Unfortunately, the
daughter falls in love with the Sanger
brother who is in love with Elizabeth
Bergner, and from then on, difficul-
ties and fur fly fast and thick.
The effect of Elizabeth Bergner on
the stage must be seen to be believed.
She electrifies and animates it so fully
with her presence thatan_erupting
volcano would be boring beside her. In
the first two acts, Margaret Kennedy
has given her good lines and plenty
of action; the scene in which she per-
suades the daughter of the castle that
the Sanger with whom she has so sud-
denly fallen in love is after her money, 4
and that the other, and more stable,
Sanger is infinitely superior in every
way, is very skilfully handled from
the point of view of the playwright
(and from the point of view of Eliza-
beth Bergner!).
But in the last act, there is prac-
tically no action, no stake, except a
repetition of the daughter’s attempts
to steal back Elizabeth Bergner’s lov-
er, and nothing but tears and agony
on the part of Elizabeth Bergner,
whose baby has died. The play really
ends with the second act, and we ad-
vise that everyone should see it and
leave precipitately after the descent of
the second curtain, happy in_ the
knowledge that they will be spared a
great deal of pain and boredom while
Elizabeth Bergner bravely struggles
with an hour of weeping.
The Petrified Forest. presents Les-
lie Howard at his happiest and most
charming. As the bored and disillu-
sioned representative of that dead
generation, the post-war young intel-
lectuals, Leslie Howard makes_ ex-
tremely amusing and clever observa-
tions in a gasoline station on the. edge
of the American desert. The play is
by way of being a satire on every-
thing from the American Legion to
young girls in quest of romance, and
contains an amazing creation in the
person of the gasoline station keep-
er’s daughter, who talks about life
and love in France in one breath, and
complains that these “ignorant bas-
tards” around here can’t understand
her in the next. The gasoline station
keeper is a member of the American
Legion and is completely unable to
forget his services to God’s country in
the War, while his father, a veteran
of the Pioneer West, rants on about
the killers of the good old days. His
claim that the Pioneers made the
money to pay for the upkeep of the
American Legion, is one of the most
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amusing moments in the play.
The only real action comes with the
arrival of a gangster, a real “killer”
cut out to suit the.6ld grandfather’s
best-tastes,-who-is—being— pursued by
the entire police force of the country
and conducts a gangster battle with
the forces of law and order right be-
fore the eyes and deafened ears of an
amazed audience. The Killer is mar-
velous: everyone should make a spe-
cial excursion to New York sheerly
for the purpose of watching the last
of the outlaws, a real Man, forsooth,
in action. Although Leslie Howard is
the center of attention because of his
unfailing charm, the Killer and the
old grandfather nearly steal the stage
from him on innumerable occasions.
We regret to state that Leslie How-
ard comes to a very bad end, in fact a
most. sad end, at the hands of the
Killer, but the action which immedi-
ately precedes his sad end is so ex-
citing, what with machine guns being
fired out the windows, while the Amer-
ican Legion in pale blue uniforms is
parked helplessly on the floor at the
mercy of the Killer, that the sad end
of Mr, Howard rather loses its effect.
THEATRE REVIEW
Point Valaine, Noel Coward’s latest
drama, in which the Lunts and Os-
good Perkins have the leading roles, is
an extremely unpleasant play. Dif-
ferent from any of the author’s other
plays, Point Valaine has little to rec-
ommend it; it contains hardly any of
Coward’s brittle and sophisticated
humor, and yet as a serious. play, it
lacks the sincerely moving quality
necessary to its type. The acting.in
Point Valaine is, on the. whole, su-
perior to the play. Osgood Perkins
and Alfred Lunt are excellent in their
parts. Miss Fontanne is not nearly
so good as she is capable of being.
Martin Welford as the young English
lover of Linda Valaine is quite compe-
tent in his role, as are the minor
characters.
The play is the story of a middle-
aged hotel keeper on a tropical is-
land; who, starved for love, has been
having an affair for a number of
years with Stefan, her head-waiter.
When the young English aviator,
Martin Welford, comes for an over-
night stay at the hotel, and is. as at-
tracted.to her as she is to him, Linda
consents to spend the night with him.
Stefan returns unexpectedly from a
trip to a neighboring island, discov-
ers Linda’s unfaithfulness, and at the
conclusion of a stormy scene~ with
Linda, he stabs himself and jumps
into the sea to be devoured by sharks.
Linda is left, forsaken by her dis-
gusted young lover, to live tragically
alone on Point Valaine.. The situa-
tion as a whole lacks reality. There
ig no reason why Linda, after she has
built up such a thriving hotel busi-
ness, should be trapped in the island,
no reason why she should not depart
for places where the pursuit of the
male could be accomplished with less
difficulty.
Mr. Coward, having chosen the
tropics as the background of his play,
makes small use of his setting. The
scenery, designed by Gladys Calthrop,
is extremely effective. Yet nowhere
in the dialogue or in the actions of the
characters is the. oppressiveness of
the tropical climate emphasized; once
Miss Fontanne flutters her collar with
her fingers and mutters that it is hot.
Later on she says that the rain de-
presses her; that is all. The hotel
gives the appearance of a pleasure re-
sort, with many athletic young Eng-
lish people bounding lustily about, as
if they were in an invigorating and
thoroughly pleasant climate. Visitors
are always going back and forth by
boat, so that the Point is not in the
slightest degree inaccessible. —
The management of scenes in the
play is poor. The scene between Lin-
da and Mortimer Quinn is merely con-
versational, contributing little to the
advance of the plot. The interview
between Quinn and Hilda James is
clever and charming, yet it-breaks the /
mood of the whole. In the scene be
tween Stefan and Linda, the empha-
sis is suddenly shifted from Linda’ to
Stefan; Linda’s lines and actions are
ineffectual. Se,
Osgood Perkins is superb as the
cynical ‘novelist. Witty, pleasant, his
portrayal is excellent and the high’
level of his acting is sustained
throughout. His gestures and facial
expressions fit absolutely the , charac-
ter of Mortimer Quinn. In the scenes
with Linda, with the English visitors,
with the interviewer, he portrays with
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Dramatics, Deanery ‘
Discussed in Council
Big May Day“in 1936, Smoking
in Deanery, Greek Play
: Are Debated
QUIZZES TO BE LIMITED
Deanery, Feb. 20—The most ° im-
portant discussion in the February
College Council concerned dramatics
(Big May. Day and the Greek play)
and the use of the Deanery.°*
Tentative plans“Wive been made to
hold a mass. meeting for the discussion
of Big May Day, Tuesday, March 5,
After the meeting a vote will be taken
in the halls to determine how many
students will support and how many
students will participate in Big May
Day next year, and then the under-
graduates can arrange, in consultation
with Miss Park and the Faculty, a
system of ‘rehearsals that will not in-
terfere with academic work. Big May
Day will not’be given this spring’, but
the decision against its being done this
year in no way eliminates its .presen-
tation in 1936. It will not, however,
have any connection with the Alum-
nae Drive in 1936.
The National Committee is- backing
the Greek play that is planned for this
spring, and arrangements are being
made to run a special train from New
York on the Saturday preceding Com-
mencement. This means, that the dress
rehearsal will probably have to be held
on the Friday or Saturday preceding
examinations so that one performance
can be held on the Saturday after-
noon after examinations, and another
on Garden Party afternoon.
Mention at the meeting. was made
‘of the misuse.of the Deanery. Smok-
ingeat~the larger lectures cannot be
allowed in future because there ‘is
yractically no way of disposing of
MH nted cigarettes.
The Council meeting ended with
a Slight discussion -of -the: use of’ re-
serve books and of the plan to reduce
the. number of quizzes.. The difficul-
ties of checking on reserve books, and
particularly the books on reserve in
the Art Sem, have become so annoying
to librarians and students alike, that
an undergraduate library committee
to work with the librarians is being
planned. As to quizzes, the policy of
the administration has always been
to put them.in as short a time as_pos-
sible, and to‘permit professors to give
or not give quizzes in second year
courses. As it is, the objections of
faculty members and undergraduates
and the fact that it is impossible to
schedule all important lectures out-
side of the quiz period have reduced
the midsemester schedule to three and
a half weeks. A further reduction,
such as has been proposed by the Un-
dergraduate Curriculum Committee,
would seem highly advisable. .
Bugs at Bryn Mawr
An interesting campus phenomenon
has occurred :°
.. Merion has literally gone bughouse.
One of our inveterate nature lovers
brought home a cocoon last fall and is
now the proud possessor of two hun-
dred praying mantises, which she is
at present keeping in Dixie Cups and
plans to transfer later to a wire cage
for display purposes. The insects are
in fine condition and, fortunately, for
the collector, very few were killed or
lost, strayed or stolen in the trap-
ping. If the small mantises are prop-
erly fed and eared for, they will prob-
ss eee
most fearsome insects in- captivity.
Other plans are afoot in Merion
among the ‘hobbyists. Among the
other interesting hobbies thgt~° are
starting ‘is insecticide-collecting.
Mrs. Manning Speaks
On Senate Warnings
Marks System Has Advantages
Since it Permits Accuracy
In . Grading
RECORD, JIS, EMPHASIZED
Goodhart, Feb. 21.—Dean Manning,
speaking in Chapel on the system of
marks and Senate warnings, said that
the object of any system of marking
is to give the student an estimate of
her success, and to show her. in ‘the
clearest and fairest way possible just
how she measures: up to‘standards. If
a student is definitely below the col-
lege requirements, the Senate, a_body
consisting of the full professors and
those of the faculty who have taught
| for a long time, may send her a warn-
ing, and impose upon her any penal-
ties up to exclusion that it sees fit.
The college system of marking has
some obvious advantages, particularly
because it allows great accuracy on
the part of those who give the marks.
When the plan of marks on the, High-
Ter some general system.
general ‘rather than numerical marks,
and Dean Manning herself would pre-
The cel-
lege system of marks assumes that
perfection and absolute ignorance are
possible and estimates each student’s
place between zero and .100:~ What-
ever system of marks we might advo-
cate it should be based on the sort of
subjective tests which are now being
given. These examinations. are much
fairer than the objective, yes-or-no
tests, because they determine what one
knows, and how one can “put it
across”. In “such examinations organi-
zation is the most important factor.
If a. student’s* work is unsatisfac-
tory, shg will receive a warning from
the Senate telling her how and why
she -is deficient and what her future
course should be. A student must re-
ceive more than 60 in half her work,
and should be well above 70 in the
first two years of her major subject.
The second year is especially import-
ant, and if a student does well then,
she may pull up poor first year marks.
Although this policy is hard to. work
out, the college tries to give all stu-
derits a chance and will sometimes let
those who had first picked the wrong
major and then changed to another,
finish in five years instead of in the
regular four, A student. should pick
her major by: the end of her Sopho-
more year, but if she makes a mistake,
the college does not want to make her
drop out without a second chance, In
Credit, Credit, Merit, and Pass basis |-the case of a failing student the Sen-
was tried, the faculty objected because
it did not. give them a chance to show
variations and shades of difference in
their grades. It is important to re-
member that marks are the judgment
of one person only, and that conse-
quently too much attention may be
paid to them. It is probably better,
ably grow up into the largest and|therefore, for the student to receive
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ate feels that she should either go. to
|a different sort of college, or else stay
here and be given every opportunity to
keep up. If, therefore, the Senate
puts a student on probation, it is giv-
ing her the opportunity to improve her
weaknesses, and it, expects her to take
advantage of thfs. Its emphasis is
record
on the student’s permanent
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original costumes’ throughout
show.
the
Ethel Mann produced excellent re-
sults as the dance director. The num-
ber done by Pru and her aides was
clever and the Blue Rhapsody number,
which was both ambitious and artistic,
presented an effective. whole. The
dancing of Miss Mann herself in the
Blue Rhapsody was splendid, although
the chorus was a bit uncertain, They
had every excuse for being so, how-
ever, for the dance was extremely dif-
ficult. The tango by Miss Whalen and
Miss Pittroff in the last scene was
very smoothly executed.
The songs, written by Helen Shep-
ard and Eleanor Shaw were not espe-
cially distinguished. Both campaign
song's were catchy and amusing, and
the love-song at. the end was notable
for its lyrie qualities. *
National Recovery Act was a good
show, thoroughly enjoyed by all. We
liked the idea, and we are especially
pleased with the. implication. that. the
Fountain of Youth enables one to be
clairvoyant and to know the popular
songs of three years in the future. We
liked the .way Miss Lovelace kissed
her- hands to her admiring friends;
we liked the small episode of Dr.
Bushman and Mrs. Whistlebury, the
Blue Rhapsody dance, and a_ great
number of the lines. In fact, we. liked
almost everything about National Re-
covery Act, including the amoeba,
which: entered to the tune of “Pop
Goes The Weasel.”
—A. M.
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Others may disappoint. I never do. I’m always mild, always
fine to taste—because I’m made of fragrant, expensive center
leaves, only. Furn your back on top leaves. I do. They’ re raw,
bitter, stinging. Turn your back on bottom leaves because these
coarse, sandy, grimy bottom leaves don’t belong in your smoke.
Before I consider it worthy, every leaf must be a center leaf, .
mild, fine-tasting, fragrant. That’s why /’m your best friend.
LEAVES...CENTER LEAVES GIVE YOU THE MILDEST SMOKE
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Barth's Age Debated
By Dr. Alfred C. Lane
Maximum Age Is Placed at Ten
Billion Years, Minimum at
Two Million Years
MINERALS ARE STUDIED
Goodhart—Music Room — Feb. 22.
—The age of ‘the earth is not known
today, but scientists are: working to-
ward a determination of its age by
studying present geologic activities
and calculating with them’ as a’ basis
the minimum number of years our
Co eketh can have been in existence, de-
claved Dr. Alfred C. Lane, professor
of geology at Tufts College. He is a
famous investigator and writer on the
mathematical aspects of geology and
is now engaged in the study of geo-
logic time. He believes*that the mini-
mum age of the earth can be traced
back two or three million years, but
that it is probably. not older than ten
billion years. 2
The methods for determining the
ageof the earth can be classed gen-
erally as periodic, progressive and
paroxysmic, as may the forces at work
in shaping the geologic features of the
earth. A study of the records of
changes due to these forces in con-
nection with ‘calculations based on
their present activities is the subject
of Dr. Lane’s investigation of the age
of the earth.
The age of the rocks which form
the earth may be seen in the sharp
teeth of high mountains such as the
Grand Tetons. But these mountains
are obviously much younger. than the
older and more complex -hills in the
east, particularly along the New Eng-
land coast. To calculate the age of
mountains the rate of wearing away
must be known; it has been deter-
mined in three different regions of the
United States. In Stewart. County,
Georgia, a gully two hundred feet deep
was commenced by a.drip from a barn
roof a hundred years ago. At Niagara
Falls there are recérds of the wear-
ing away of the escarpmént at the
approximate rate of five feet per year.
The age of the falls can be calculated
from the records. Again in Bryce
Canyon, Utah, Professor Pack -has
studied.the roots of trees on the edge
of the cliff as they turn back with the
retreat of the escarpment; he has dis-
covered that the wall is wearing away
at the rate of one foot every fifty
years and that since the Niocene age
the cliff has retreated one hundred
miles; therefore, these canyons are at
least twenty-fivé million years old.
The periodie method. 6f measuring
geologic time can be simply illustrated
with the annual rings of trees, which
have been used to date cliff dwelling
ruins in New Mexico and Mesa Verde.
Many rocks: have similar complicated
bandings where the smaller lines may
represent annual rings and the larger
bands periodic fluctuations over many
years. In the chalk. cliffs of England
where black flints alternate with the
white rock, the silica deposits may be
due to colder water currents which
would give this periodic cyclic effect.
Along the Baltic coast of Germany
there are great areas of sand ridges
which form each at the rate of one
every thirty-five years, and by follow-
ing these inland the total time neces-
sary for these to have formed can be
computed.
In the field of radioactive minerals
we may have a method of determining
geologic time which is independent of
the fluctuations of climate, These ra-
dioactive minerals explode atoms and
slowly disintegrate. But each of the
different elements disintegrates at a
different rate and the rate is meas-
ured by the half-life of the element.
It is known from the number of atomic
flashes per second that a deposit of
uranium will be half gone in four and
a half billion years, that in the next
stage two of the elements, UX and UZ,
will be half gone in 23.8 days and 6.7
hours, respectively, that the half life
of ionium, the next stage, is 110,000
years, and that of radium 1,580 years,
while the derivations of radium disin-
tegrate even faster into lead, where
the radioactivity is gone.
“®< Radioactive material discolors mica
in the same way that it does a pho-
tograph, leaving not a round spot but
‘a number of rings. There are also,
generally speaking, four different
kinds of uranium which come down to
four different leads. If one could join
the right uranium to its lead, and
knowing the rate of radium decay and
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Congratulations
The College News. wishes to
congratulate Dr, and Mrs. Ru-
dolph Kirk on the birth of a
daughter, Susanne Brooke.
that the faster the disintegration is,
the further the atoms are thrown in ex-
ploding, and therefore the bigger the
rings on the mica are, one could calcu-
late accurately on this basis the age
of the minerals. From the comparison
of different effects of alpha rays on a
photographic plate, one can calculate
by the rings that the material is at
least 870 million years old. From the
fact that ‘thelium is given off in uran-
ium disintegration only when the rate
of exploding is high, one can discover
from cases of small helium residue the
age of the material’ The oldest rock
known has been analyzed by such
methods and discovered to be about
1800 million years old.
The springs in Yellowstone Park
have been found to be radioactive, and
the mounds which they build up are
more or less radioactive depending on
their ages. The bottom layers of the
Terraces were only very slightly ra-
dioactive. From these facts Dr. Lane
calculated that 15,000 years-had pass-
ed since the glacial period. He check-
ed his calculations by measuring tem-
peratures in the descent of a 5,200 foot
mine shaft, where he found that the
lower temperatures seemed to be ad-
justed to a surface temperature of
freezing, while above 3,000 feet there
seemed to be a wave down from the
surface indicating higher surface tem-
peratures. Knowing the rate at which
heat- waves move through the earth,
he was able to prove the accuracy of
the date he had obtained for the termi-
nation of the glacial period.
The age ‘of the layer of granite
which underlies all the continents can
determined from the veins which
are formed by the oozing out of sub-
terranean gases. From the knowledge
of the layer of viscous lava underly-
ing the earth’s crust and also from
he
\the fact that most earthquakes come
from a depth of less than fifty miles,
the theory has been suggested by two
eminent geologists that strains accum-
ulated at a depth of more than 200
miles may cause mountains to rise.
Works by Americans
End Pro Arte Series
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Stanley Smith, is dedicated to Mrs.
Coolidge. It is not so original a work
as may have been desired, for in many
ways it recalls the Dvorak quartet
performed earlier in the series, but it
is nevertheless a very neat and pleas-
ant composition. The negro spirit has
been carefully suffused throughout to
give an extremely enjoyable melodic
effect, which the artists brought out
to its best advantage in a fine rendi-
tion,
The Quartet in C Major, No. 1
(1933), by Walter Piston, was per-
haps the most interesting piece on the
program. The instruments were nice-
ly balaneed, as was the three move-
ment structure of the whole, with the
smoothly melodic adagio in contrast
with the vivacious first movement and
the vigorous third: movement. ~The
careful composition and the beauties
of the work received a_ superlative
performance by the Pro Arte group,
while the feeling of the adagio was
exquisitely rendered.
Four pieces by Louis Griinberg,
dedicated to the Pro Arte Quartet,
concluded the regular program. These
were a highly interesting and enter-
taining display of expert musician-
ship, which held perhaps more charm
for the musicians in the audience than
for the average listeners.. The Pro
Arte ensemble played these short
pieces with excellent technique, fine
feeling and spirit, particularly in the
many surprises of the brief finale,
allegro giocoso,
In response to continued applause,
a composition by Mrs. Elidbeth
dience, was played. It proved that
Mrs. Coolidge’s-sympathetic patronage
of the art comes from a profound un-
derstanding based on successfully cop-
ing with its: problems as seen in her
very excellent composition.
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California Discours
Give Topic Subjects
Perfect Knowledge of French,
Research, Literary Study
Mark Speeches
PRIZE WINNER REPRINTED
Students who are interested in the
concours oratoire (see College News
of February 13) may be interested to
know what topics were used for..dis-
cours at the University of California.
The subjects chosen by the five run-
ners-up included: “Le Cid” de-Cor-
neille, Frangois de Curel, Mon roman
favori “Adolphe”, La Corse, and La
portée ou signification historique dela
"*Comédie humaine”... Each discours
lasted about a quarter of an hour and
all of them showed individual re-
search, a fine appreciation of litera-
ture and a_ perfect . knowledge of
French.
The prize-winning’ discours: was that
of Miss Charlotte Cerf, on Adolphe.
The discours, which was over nine
hundred words long, cannot be re-
printed entire, for lack of space. The
following are excerpts from the
speech: 4
“Nous avons vu, que le propre d’une
oeuvre tragique est de nous offrir une
représentation de la vie humaine dans
toute sa plénitude et dans toute sa
complexité. En _ effet, nous nous
soucions peu en lisant cette oeuvre,
que l’action se passe en Fologne au
début du 19e siécle, qu’Adolphe soit un
fils de famille, et Ellénore une femme
plutot mire . . ce ne sont pas 1a
les éléments essentiels du romain, et
auteur, comme je vous lai déja
indiqué, l’a trés bien compris. Ce qui
importe, c’est l’analyse de la situation
et des caractéres. Ici, c’est la nature
humaine qui nous est présentée, non
d’une fagon particuliére, mais dans sa
portée universelle. Le but de l’inter-
prétation de la vie ici, n’est’ point
obscurci par la prédominance, de traits
exceptionnels et accidentels. Tels que
Yauteur nous les donne, la sitg@ation
est de tout temps, les personnages sont
de toutes les époques; l’oeuvre, dans
son sens le plus profond, est ]’éternelle
et humaine tragédie de lincompati-
bilité fondamentale des émotions de
homme et de la femme qui s’aiment.”
Miss Cerf went on to show that
Adolphe; although it-is a great analy-
sis. of human emotions, is not the
product of long years of practice. “Car
Benjamin Constant était un “homme
politique qui occupa ‘une. place im-
portante dans le parti liberal sous la
Réstauration: . .et Adolphe est son
unique roman.” The second point the
speaker made was that Adolphe is
essentially an autobiographical novel;
and in connection with this she con-
sidered the problem of the identity of
Ellénore—-whether She was patterned
after Mme, de Stael or Mme. de Char-
riére or Mme. Lindsey.
The discours concluded with Miss
Cerf’s reasons for choosing Adolphe to
speak about. “De nos jours, il n’est
plus‘difficile de reconnaitre que ce livre
est le véritable chef d’oeuvre du roman
d’analyse, et une des sources essen-
tielles, non seulement d’une phase du
romantisme, mais encore de_ toute
notre littérature d’aujourd’hui. Car
je ne veux pas penser, je ne puis pas
penser que ce.cri du coeur soit tout
simplement une manifestation de plus
de la soudaine découverte du “Moi”
RICHARD
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romantique. Au romantisme.de Con- |
stant se méle un intellectualisme qui
n’est point. de cette souche. Ce qu’il
y a de personnel dans cette oeuvre a
été faconné par le génie de l’auteur}
participer en quelque sorte a:
pour
l’université dont se revélent tous les
grands sentiments humains, ‘traduits |
en littérature, de tout temps.”
Women Write Novels .
With Natural Talent
Continued from Page One
modeled after Richardson. The rank
and file were distinctly inferior, but
were nevertheless widely read through
the agency of circulating libraries,
which are the bane of English auth-
ors to this day.
It remained for°a woman, Fannie
Burney, to take the novel out of the
artificial and sentimental rut into
which it had fallen and to instil new
life into it. Her education was good |
and she knew a great many intellec- |
tual people. She was an excellent |
observerY had a good understanding of
people, and, above all,
sense of humor, Her best known novel
is Evelina. She got around the diffi-|
culties of the letter writing style most |
admirably. In later years she fell too
much under the influence of Dr. John-
son and her work became practically
unreadable. She influenced Jane Aus-
ten. greatly and this may perhaps be
called her greatest contribution.
The novel took another turn about
this time when there arose a tremen-
dous demand for stories of the roman-;
tic and picturesque type. Women led
in this attempt to recreate history |
which had heretofore been thought un-:
couth and barbarous. Clara Reéve’s
Old English Baron is typical of these |
historical novels.
ent of this school was Mrs.
cliffe, who wrote a series of “shockers”
which thrilled her generation. They
were harmless and entertaining and
were immensely popular. Some peo-
ple thought them harmful and started
to write novels with a moral purpose.
The “Blue Stockings” were such a
group. Their leader was Mary Woll-
stencraft, a great exponent of women’s
rights. The reformers wrote in a very
dull style and did not succeed in driv-
ing out the more exciting “shockers.”
Jane Austen led the novel
The greatest expon-
hated artificiality above all things, and |
did not allow herself the use of any-,
thing uncommon to heighten her stor- |
ies. She went straight to life for her
themés and never wrote about things,
with which she was not familiar. Thus |
we get an absolute sense of reality..
called
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had a keen |
Rad-:
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again to the paths of reality.+, She!
“six masterpieces in miniature.” She
| painted the lives only of particular ~
classes of country people.
| The canvas. was widened by such
people as Mrs. Gaskell and George
Eliot. The former is interesting for
iher writing about labor conditions and
industrial life, while the latter was the
first to write about country folk with
| sympathy and understanding.
| The Brontés are not pioneers be-
cause they blazed no new trails and
have had few followers. Charlotte had
ithe greatest talent, but Anne, who is
often disparaged, is- thought by some
to be very great. Emily, who wrote
in @ more concentrated st¥le, was que
brilliant.
;The next turn which the novel took
was along introspective lines. It be-
gan to be concerned with things of
the mind. The psychological school of
Freud threw new light on the work-
a of the human mind. This concen-
trated peoples’ minds on the question
| of what others were thinking about.
| Ohe of the first people to try to ex-
[press this in writing was Dorothy
‘Richardson. She described the life of
a girl from the-inside and made a
study of her, mind. It.is hard, how-
jever, to see what Miriam’s mind is,
for it is so overlaid with details. May
|Sinclair saw this idea and took it.
‘over and made it better technically.
‘The most notable writer in this field
| now is, of course, Virginia Woolf.
| Hers are stories of the mind and
‘events as seen through the mind of the
‘central character. This gives us an
| intimate approach to the character.
The novel has gone as far as it can
go. What else is there for it to show
‘us? Whatever development is reveal-
‘ed we may be sure that- women: will
have a part in realizing it.
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University here refused to attend
classes. The strike began with the
first year* law students who were sus-
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they did not return to classes at the
end of this time, they would be expel-
led automatically. All other law, med-
ical and arts students thén joined in
the strike and a settlement has not yet
been. reached.
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Page Five
Mrs. Piccard Relates
Story. of Air Flight
‘ -Continued from Page One
the earliest balloon models. In 1783,
Moptgolfier built the world’s first bal-
loon and ascended with it into the air.
Although it was satisfactory for his
little’ excursions, it was nevertheless
very imperfect. It lacked a valve to
control the inflation of the bag, and
the sole means of managing the de-
gree of altitude was by throwing bal-
last over the side of the,cage. More-
over, the balloon was enclosed in a net,
to which the gondola was attached.
In altitude flying, the extra weigt, of
the net is a: hindrance; its ropes are
easily torn by the expansion of the
bag; and they are apt to break away
from the cage if this is subjected to
any strong pressure.
August Piccard, the brother and
fellow-worker of Dr. Jean Piccard,
planned a balloon on entirely different
principles. He hung his cabinet on
the lower catenary of the balloon it-
self. A valve was built-on the top of
. the bag and controlled by a rope run-
ning down through the. balloon into the
gondola. In order that it might not
There was much danger in prepar-
ing for the ascent. The valve rope
stretching down through the balloon
might becorhe entangled half way, and
then the gas would have to be let out
again, as half way up in the ‘balloon
was a height equivalent to that of a
seven story building. The bag might
become unevenly inflated. The infla-
tion was guided by a system of rais-
ing and lowering flags, and at each
lowering of the flags the men holding
the inflation ropes walked forward a
specified length; then inspectors: walk-’
ed all around the bag to see that the
ropes were even.
Another ‘danger was that when the
hydrogen collected in the top. of the
| balloon, which was to be only 1-6 full,
the empty material below might be
sucked together or up toward the top.
As this had occurred in previous bal-
loons, Dr. Piccard had iyvented for
his bag an appendix much larger than
usual held by a steel ring and stopped
by a cover easily unfastened by a long
rope. Mrs. Piccard held the rope dur-
ing’ the inflation and, when the order
was. giver, pulled it and let air rush
in to fill the lower part of the bag.
The hydrogen and oxygen of the in-
rushing. air did not unite in a fire,
be injured in inflation or in taking off,,)since they were not in the propir pro-
this. balloon. was. anchored to the
ground by a most elaborate system, of
ropes going to the posts, which could
be released only from the balloon it-
self. -To do this was. Mrs. Piccard’s
job; she perched on top of the gon-
dola, and simply exploded each rope
with two inches of TNT and an elec-
tric motor to set it off.
portions.
The metal gondola of» the balloon
was curiously painted; the upper
hemisphere was white and the lower
black. This coloring was to regulate
the temperature inside and to keep the
heads of the occupants cold while their
feet should be warm, for the black
absorbed heat from the earth, while
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the white reflected back ‘the heat from
the sun. To regulate the breathin:
quality of the air inside the gondola,
tanks of oxygen were carried, but only
in their inner casings, as no weight |
not absolutely necessary’ was allowed
on the ship. Various chemicals were
exposed to absorb the carbon dioxide
and the organic compounds resulting
from human breathing, while other
chemicals were used to dry the air.
Of the instruments in the gondola,
those for measuring the intensity and
frequency of cosmig rays’ were most
important, as the investigation of
these rays, rather than any altitude
record, was the purpose of the Piccard
flight. Dr. Milliken, of California, had
constructed an ionization chamber for
discovering the intensity of the cosmiic
rays, and this was installed in the
gondalo, but it was of use only in the
case of the harder rays. The Bartow
Research Foundation provided guide
counters designed by Dr. Swan, which
were most helpful, Each of these con-
sisted of a tube, a wire, and two elec-
trodes. When a cosmic ray entered
the tube, it ionizéd the gases ,there,
producing an _ electric current. Al-
though the current was feeble, it could
be magnified by radio tubes and made
to almost anything at all. The Pic-
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the rays was determined. By these
counters vertical and horizontal rays
and rays at angles of 60 degrees and
30 degrees were recorded. The bal-
loon itself was rotated in the air bya
propellor so that rays in all quarters
of the compass as well might be stud-
ied. It.was found that in the strath-
osphere horizontal rays are very com-
parable to vertical, and there are 50
per cent; as many horizontal as verti-
cal rays. Thése discoveries reveal the
effect of earth’s magnetic field on the
cosmic ray.
Outside the gondola hung a baro-
gram to register the altitude of the
flight. It was sealed up and could not
be unsealed on landing except in the
presence of respectable witnesses to
testify that the seals were unbroken
until that minute and that therefore
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Rabbits’ feet may be the pet good
luck pieces of most football players,
but Eddie Rolen, sophomore basket-
ball forward of the Michigan State
College five, trusts his fate to a bed
caster. Rolen carried a bed -caster
throughout high school as a good luck
omen, and he still retained it when he
became a member of the Spartan
squad. “When: he enters a gante he
always hands the caster to Edward
Kemp, student manager,’ for. safe-
keeping. Very few are allowed to
handle it because of fear the special
charm it is supposed to’ hold
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ELIZABETH CAGNEY,’35
“STUDIES ARE HARDER than they used to be,”
says Bissett, ’35. “Competition in all outside activities
is keener. I’m studying law myself—insurance law. The
prospect of combing over old case histories at night—
reading up on dry precedents and decisions — is pretty
heavy going—especially as I’m tired to begin with!
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‘THE COLLEGE NEWS
Te
\
Years and Years Ago
‘ We have sadly neglected the Phil-
istine’s literary side in our attempt to
view Bryn Mawr through his eyes,
when it was young and unsophisti-
cated. Love stories were very much a
la mode back in nineteen hundred. The
tender passion seems to have disap-
peared of late, if not from our lives,
at least from our publications.
—>— corsinitiiens eypyeaptenaatagene”, WP -—— oi EN
{
i
have been shaken long enough over
the fire of learning, they burst into
nice fluffy kernels which—to complete
the simile—are eaten up as soon as
we go out into the world... ... If you
try to swallow anothet person’s
ideal in addition to your own, you are
very likely to choke yourself and die.”
“Choice epigrams fall from the lips
of the characters like pearls, similes
; Undeveloped ideals, and when. these
off with a thousand apologies to Poe,
and a few appropriate verses such as
“Quel abimo, quel abimo tu _ in
onores!” — A. de -Musset, and
“O, she has fallen into a pit of ink”—
Much Adb About Nothing. This story
is a very gory- affair,*full of mad
ha-has and exclamation points. “Mis-
ery is manifold,” it begins. . “The
world is shrouded in a pall of liquid
blackness. Blackness hovers over Tay-
ed: “Father, what is Bryn Mawr? oi
“Bryn Mawr, my gon,” replied Mr.
Holliday, removing his spectacles, ‘is
an institution for the enlightenment
of young womén where they make tea
every afternoon.” : t
THEATRE REVIEW
Continted from Page Two
i
sti e falls weeping about the stage and
does little else.:One feels no especial
sympathy for her; one cannot, not’
knowing -her;--In-the scenes on the
hotel veranda, with her guests, she
is remote, cold, unenchanting. The
fault is in part that of the play-*
wright; her dialogue is poor, and her
lines lack force. Yet Miss Fontanne
should be. able to inject some real ¢mo-
tion into the part; even her facial ex-
4 “Through Fire and Water” de- and figures of speech adorn their|lor tower and obscures the insignifi- deft touches an observing, clever, yet pressions are meaningless. It cannot
di scribes the typical heroine furbishing most trivial: communication,” as thi cant gables of the Infirmary.” The| kindly man. be that Miss Fontanne is unsuited to
herself up for the typical young man. Philistine critic puts it. She ends her | heroine has ‘a fearful monomania. “I| Alfred Lunt, as Stefan, gives us|tragedy; witness her superb perform-
Petes tinea oa a << Bh)
rie Rip eo 0s et
“Half an hour later a card bearing
the name of Mr. J. Hartley Harrison
__was lying on the study table and the
mirror reflected a délicate oval face,
made even prettier than usual by its
slightly, conscious expressions and a
red rose in the soft dark hair.” The
slightly conscious expression was
probably what got him. In 1935, we
bend our efforts toward looking as un-
conscious as possible, especially when
expecting callers.
They were very frank about ‘their
interests then. Etiquette for the Elite
advises the Timid. Freshman thus. —
“In punctuating the sentence you give,
‘I saw a young man yesterday crossing
the campus,’ I think I should make a
dash after the young man.”
Their attitude was pretty similar
to-our own in regard to pictures of
campus life by people who have never
lived it. They.criticize severely an
Elsie Dinsmorish sort of lady who
wrote a book about Smith College, in
which a freshman. discourses to ‘a
friend as follows: “Your idea of col-
lege, then, is that it resembles a huge
corn popper into which we throw our’
criticism with a ‘touch of .the college
spirit so conspicuous years ago:—“It
may be argued that Smith and Bryn
Mawr are very different, and that the
picture Miss Fuller gives us may_per-
fectly well be true of that.college. In-
deed we do know there is a difference,
and we cannot help feeling that there
is about our college an atmosphere of
muon greater dignity and earnest-
ness.” We. hope Smith took that in,
and digeated it properly.
The Philistine was much more leni-
ent in reviewing the Bacillus of
Beauty, another novel of campus life,
laid at Barnard this time. The tale
treats of an ugly undergraduate, who
becomes with the aid of a bacillus,
administered by the biology profes-
sor, the most beautiful woman in the
world. The ladies of 1900 apparently
preferred excitement to humdrum
moral value.
Everyone imitated all her favorite
writers with great enthusiasm thirty-
five years ago. “With apologies to
somebody or other” precedes a good
quarter of the Philistine’s stories,
plays and poems. The Crime starts
never was a happy girl,” she says.
“My baptismal name is. Heliodora. My
family name I suppress, though, alas,
they have doubtless changed it. Why
should they totter under the disgrace
of bearing my title—mine!—since I
languish in a padded cell in the asy-
lum of the Criminal Insane?” She
was in a: bad way when she first got
into college. “I entered—ha! ha!—
yes, I entered, but in what a fearful
bodily ‘and mental condition! My
forehead pale, my eyes sunken so as
to be almost invisible, my shoulders
bent like those-of:an octogenarian, I
entered these gloomy halls. . My
melancholy | eyes drove the professor
to the verge of lunacy, my dome-like
brown and sunken cheeks gave me a
look of feverish intellectuality.” And
so on to the horrid close.
Rollo at the Fudge Party is much
more cheerful: “Rollo,” said Mr. Hol-
liday, one fine morning, “brush your
hat and get a clean pocket handker-
chief. I am going to take you to Bryn
Mawr.”
Rollo did as he was bid and. when
they were seated in the train he ask-
a fine portrayal of a rather pathetic
animal. One feels the same sympa-
thy for him that one would for a
wounded beast, poignant, yet not in
the least human. In the first scene
of the third act, his reactions are
those of a suffering infant or dog, ir-
remediable and aching. As he enters
playing his accordion, the audience,
-|knowihg what is in store for him, is
moved by a pity that is akin to hor-
ror. This scene, rising to the point
of his committing suicide, is’ com-
pletely his.
It is Miss Fontanne ,.whose charac-
terization falters throughout. . She
seems unsure, out of sympathy with
the character she portrays. Obvious-
ly Linda Valaine is.supposed to be an
extremely attractive woman; we see
that.through the attitude of the other
characters. Yet nothing she does
warrants the near-reverence that she
is accorded, Forced to wear a red
wig, spectacles (and unbecoming
sports dressés, ‘the actress walks
apathetically through her role, with
little or no personality. In the scene
with Stefan, which should be hers,
ance in Elizabeth the Queen. . There
seems ‘to be no obvious or adequate
&xplanation for the actress’s failure .
to make something of her role.
Point Valaine as a whole is feeble
and unconvincing. Badly managed
scenes and generally poor dialogue,
except in the case of Mortimer Quinn,
make it lack reality.. There are sev-
eral elements in it that are .to be
found in many previous Coward
plays: Mrs. Birling, the oppressing
mother, illustrates on a minor scale
the theme of The Vortex; the novelist
is the same type of character as those
in Design for Living; the screaming
young Englishwomen have frequently
run across a Coward stage. We wish
Mr. Coward would cling to the type
of ~play in which he excels,—the light
sophisticated comedy. We “wish the
Lunts would find a better play where
Miss Fontanne could charm us by her
voice and gestures once again, and
where Mr. Lunt could be a human be-
ing. As it is, Point Valaine is un-
worthy of Mr. Coward and a waste of
time for the Lunts, as well as for the
audience. A. M.
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the right kinds of, Turkish tobaccos
for making Chesterfield Cigarettes is
a business in itself .
Ww? have buyers in all the to-
bacco markets of Turkey and
Greece, including Xanthi, Cavalla,
Smyrna and Samsoun.
MEY Fh
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And at Smyrna Chesterfield
has built the most modern to-
bacco plant in the Near East.
Here the spicy, aromatic Turkish
leaf is sorted and graded under the
eyes of our oWn tobacco men. |
Then it is put away to age in its
own climate for two years or more
to make it milder and better-tasting. |
When you blend and cross-blend
the right kinds of aromatic Turkish
tobacco with mild ripe home-grown — ff
tobaccos as we do in Chesterfield |
you have...
the cigarette that’s milder
_the cigarette that tastes better
” Handling Turkish sahecce li in
the Liggett & Myers modern
factory at Smyrna, Turkey.
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