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plays with the chorus and is part of
it. The chorus is its own orchestra,
beating out the rhythms on oriental
drums, cymbals and tambourines. In
one chorus, shifting rhythms on the
drums altggnate throughout the entire
episode. The different musical modes4
are useg to express most effectively
the meaning of the words that are be-
ing sung. . The mode shifts as the feel-
ing of the verse changes and the types
of dancing change with it. In this
way, Stylized archaic gestures and vio-
lent modern dance movements can be
combined to make up one whole dance

_ form. This joined inseparably to the
The music has}

words and the music.
been composed entirely by Mme. Si-
kelianos and the dancing contrived
and planned by her. ee
The only piece of scenery used will
be an altar in the centre of the or-
chestra on which incense will be kept
burning throughout she play. The

“gostumes are entirely woven by hand

of natural silk and wool, for hand-
woven costumes hang better and are
more effective in the movement of the
dancing than any it is possible to buy.
Those for the chorus of Bacchants are
copied from an ancient Greek vase
painting of maenads dancing in their
orgies. Masks to be worn by the
actors are being modelled.

A Greek tragedy at Bryn Mawr is
a departure from its tradition of giv-
ing Elizabethan plays, but it promises
to be most interesting and exciting.

A summary of the action in The
Bacchae is as follows:

Pentheus, King of Thebes, has de-
clared that he will not honor Dionysos,
God of Wine. From this evolves the
whole action of the play, the reason
for its rich development, and its tragic
end. Dionysos disguised as a mortal,
persuades Pentheus to go to Kithaeron
where his mother, Agava, dances in
the midst of the Bacchants. The King,
led on by curiosity and anger, con-
sents to go. There follows the ironic
scene where Dionysos inveigles Pen-
theus into dressing as a woman—and
thus to be led through the streets of
his city. “I shall be your guide,”
says the God, prophetically, “but an-
other shall bring you back.” And so
in the end he is brought back by the
aged father of his mother, terribly
slain in fulfilment of the prophesy.
The Bacchae, seen from the ancient
view, is a play whose theme is a con-
ventional one—that of retribution. As
seen from the modern view, it is a play
of both comic and tragic elements
whose overtones are incredibly mod-
ern. The cast is given below:
Agave, Mother of Pentheus,

Evelyn Thompson

Pentheus, King of Thebes,
Lucius’ Shero

Kadmos, Father of Agave,
Richard Heath
Tiresias, a Seer........ Arnold Post
Dionysos. .......... Leonide Ignatiev
First Messenger. .Gertrude Leighton
Sstond Messenger...Margaret Kidder



“Pirates of Penzance”
Excellent Production



Continued from Page One

‘and unstrained, and, as was true of

all the ensemble work, especially
“Hail Poetry,” the precision of at-
tack, the balance of parts and the con-
trast of tone bore witness to Mi}.
Willoughby’s. excellent training.

Scenery, costumes and lighting were
all excellent. In short, there were no
faulty details to detract the enjoy-
ment of the audience. One felt, fur-
thermore, that this was whole-hearted
enjoyment, not solely due to loyalty
of friends among the performers, nor
of familiarity with the operetta, but
rather for the performance on its own
merits.

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Maya Civilization Was
Culturally Developed

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oldest being built ca. 420 A. D. This
place has been made a center of op-

erations, and was named by Dr. Mor-:

ley from the Maya word uarac —
meaning eight, and tun, stone.

One of the best preserved of the
Maya pyramids was found in a near-
by location. It was indicated by
a fifty-foot pile of rubbish and over-
growth, which when cleared away, re-
vealed a building 25 feet high coated
with white stucco. The Mayas had
covered it with rubble and ‘it has last-
ed unharmed. In it were several
graves, one of which contained two
very beautifully and skillfully made
vases. The larger of the two, some
16-18 inches in diameter, was in red
and black and had figures of serpents
and jaguars. On the other the potter
had made a mistake in the dating and
instead of drawing a bar, which indi-
cates 500 years, and three dots—each
representing one hundred years — he
had only made a bar and two dots.
Monuments are usually found around
an open court; and when one of these
slabs, which had fallen face up, but
which was nearly covered with dirt,
was dug up, the mark indicating
the end of the ten-year cycle ‘was
found. Dr. Morley knew that there
could be only two more glyphs, those
giving its day and month, and drew
them as he was sure they would be
found. His native workmen were as-
tonished when they finished their dig-
ging and found that he was right, and
since they are superstitious, they al-
most stopped working!

Copan, another city of the old em-
pire, was one of the places where the
Its temple
court had many fallen monoliths which
have now been set up. Some of these
were used to support a cruciform
vaulted roof which was over a treas-
ure room. One handsome polychrome
vase was found here, which had con-
tained something like incense, since its
lid was covered with smoke. It was
here that the famous gold boots, real-
ly the hollow legs of a three-inch fig-
urine, were found.

Near Copan is Quirigua, where both
the American School of Archaeology
and the Carnegie Institution have
worked. A zodmorphic altar in the

shape of a jaguar has been found}







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there, as well. as many fallen mono- | significance, ince it is found in many
liths. One of these is the biggest stone: temples. SfKes go out from it, which
the Mayas quarried, and is 35 feet'divide the turquoise into eight’ pat-
long. It has‘ a carved face-on one)terns. The petalled border is also
side, which is well preserved except | made of turquoise.

for the nose. When the stele was
found in 1882, the nose was in the
dirt beside it; but, although it was
plasteréd on, it had come off by 1917.
Dr.’ Morley again found it and left it
in safe hands, and in .1934 it’ was re-
membered and attached to the face.



Book Review
Claudius .The God, by Robert
' Graves, continues the account of the
i\life of the Emperor Claudius, third
ruler of the Roman Empire after
‘Augustus. Like J, Claudius, to’ whi

I The first “hesthetic developrhent of | it is the sequel, it is told in aa si
the Maya occurred at Yaxchilan. person, the raconteur being Claudius
There is found a temple with the only himself. Beginning with the events
extant figure of a svated human idol.|jmmediately follewing his succession
ae ate Pk mic nt the temple rites, | to the throne, it continues until his
Be te ere ee ere
This ceremony has three episodes, G6 cous talad te rego i oe
piercing of a neophyte’s tongue by peat sa eth fia of
the priest, the passing of a cord of ,

thorns through this hole, and the pres- | Mark. Antony through his mother, and

entation of the salvaged blood to the hey Mescae ceib and Alger by
serpent ‘god. | adaption,o ugustus. e grew into

. |manhood during Augustus’ ‘sovereign-
scat Seating ens thr tly ad caved the rans of is orm
higher sculptural level gvas reached peas rien glen prigrhae, a
at Piedras Negras which captain OW |perors were moray ‘yerered, x
lent figure is that. of a corn deity ee se ont, and —! gant;
kneels to sow the_corn seed. Bie ee parts a ee iV
ae pe pacing te se hen & Claudius. Claudius had always
he sows, a female deity rises to i ve nye Se ae van republic fe
lca tie ssh ck Bietens Wave and he was convinced that the
there are four representations of the pecnle, would te parent sneer S
same theme, a figure seated crosswise ested wierd ee Consequently,
in a niche, all made within 145 years. tes wer vee & — oh A daa hid
Between the first and the last there Fe oe tine imei? to be draggés
a very striking fmprovemdnt. ay. (out from behind the palace drapes to
though in the first the Gicla waa veny | be crowned with the gilded oak-leaves
narrow and the figure poorly aropor siagiloia soars : :

tioned, by the time of the fourth, 145! The beginning of his reign was
years later, the figure was well devel- | happy for him, personally, and for
oped and a secondary one was intro. | the rest of the empire. He started to

duced. One of the best pieces of Maya | fill the treasury, built a port, and oo
carving, both in technique and in de. ,quered Britain, leading an attack him-
| To add to the accomplishments,

sign, was found here.. It is a carving |S°' Toi onal ade fy
of a king seated on a throne and eure | he mAOase $0-De DADDY MOEN. AMF

rounded by attendants. In nine dif. , the first time in his life, after two
ferent places the figures were sculp- | Previous attempts. But his wife, Mes-

tured completely in the round, so fine Salina, turned out to be quite a dif-
was the Maya technique ‘ferent creature from the loyal help-
'mate he imagined her to be, and with
The new Maya empire centered in : . spre
the north of the Yucatan peninsula, ee even ome Bed 1 en
where the Carnegie Institute has been was changed’ completely a tak the
developi h hich roject : ;
developing the Chichen Tt, pole! ow, sel-seapect with his rennet fo
as pictures te nea GF Suey her, and his old longing for a republic
os ; > yeturned. He ceased to take an active
Se sadale hic gamete dae he interest in the affairs of the state, and
: n . xcavated, : . : :
: : _married the mother of Nero, his suc-
ant finaly ee Pile ay ey hes cessor. She, his fourth wife, became
ee : his murderess.

is id glee a ecto een} “Although Claudius The God is writ-
: : : in th me easy narrative style
mental frieze.- In the latter, the Tem- ee pana ce ey fe a
Sat ar Rell ee pe interesting to the average reader. for
: : . First, it devotes a great

completely destroyed, and was conse- ee 6
quently very difficult to put together.







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It has a big stairway with serpents SUMMER
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vide the big door into three parts.
Between the top of the steps and the
door there stands a Chae Mool, a fig-
ure on which offerings were placed.
In this temple’s ceremonial cache a
vase was found which’ contained a
jade sphere and fragments of a tur-
quoise mosaic. The latter has been
put together on a wooden disc similar
to the original one which has rotted
away. It has a sandstone disc in the
center, which must, have had religious

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deal of time to describing - military
campaigns, and second, there are no
admirable characters.but Claudius in
the story.» But on the other hand, the
personality of the emperor himself is
revealed much more clearly in this
second book than it was in J, Claudius.
One: notices his faults and his. vir-
tues, and one is conscious of more
feelings than that of sympathy, which
was all that was inspired for him in
the first volume.
Pilates 8



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Albert Einstein Praises

The Late Emmy Noether



way, the poetry of logical ideas, One
seeks the most general ideas of op-
eration which ‘will bring together in
simple, logical and unified form the
largest possible circle of fotmal ‘rela-
tionships. In this effort toward logi-
cal beauty, spiritual formulae are dis-
covered necessary for the deeper pene-
tration. into the laws of.nature.

Born in a Jewish family distinguish-
ed for the love of learning, Emmy
Noether, who, in spite of the efforts of
the great Gottingen mathematician,
Hilbert, never. reached the academic
standing due her in her own country,
none the less surrounded herself with
a group of students and investigators
at Gottingen, who have already be-
come distinguished as teachers and in-
vestigators. Her unselfish, significant
work over a period of many years was
rewarded by the new rulers of Ger-
many with a dismissal, which cost her
the means of maintaining her simple
life and the epportunity to carry on
her mathematical studies. Farsight-
ed friends of science in this country
were fortunately able to make such
arrangements at Bryn Mawr College
and at Princeton that she found in
America up to the day of her death
not only colleagues who esteemed her
friendship but grateful pupils whose
enthusiasm made her last years the
happiest and perhaps the most fruit-
ful of her entire career.

ALBERT EINSTEIN.

Princeton University, May 1, 1935.





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