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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.

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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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