College news, March 14, 1934

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VOL. XX, No. 17

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY,

MARCH 14, 1934°

copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1934

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Chinese Stage Art Is
Akin to Elizabethan
Clayton Hamilton Says Yellow

Jacket Gives Escapes from

Uhtra-Realism





IMAGINATION REQUIRED



“It is a stimulating adventure to
see’ familiar things from a non-fami-
liar point of view,” commented Clay-
ton Hamilton in thé Common Room
Thursday, March 8, when he. talked

‘on The Yellow Jacket and compared

its staging to the technique of the
Elizabethans. Any new focus of at-
tention in a dramatic production
makes that production memorable be-
cause of the imaginative work the au-
dience must put into it-—Such-a play
is The Yellow Jacket, produced in the
conventions of the Chinese Theatre.
In all essentials the Chinese theatre
resembles the Elizabethan theatre.
The modern Chinese submit their
characterization to the acting tech-
nique of professional actors, playing
before a paying audience, and that. is
their only link with our xealistic,
highly-mechanized modern sist
Both Elizabethan and modern Chinese
conventions call for a bare platform
and no scenery in the ‘modern realistic
sense. The place and the time ele-
ment must be accepted by the audi-
ence at the playwright’s word. There
are no trees of papier-mache, no
bushes painted on canvas, no backdrop
of scenery: as in the days when
Shakespeare created the Forest of Ar-
den, the audience must live in a real
forest by the aid of its imagination.
Neither the Chinese nor the Shakes-
pearean theatre uses any artificial
lighting. It must have been about
three o’clock in the afternoon when in
the 1602 production of Hamlet, Rich-
ard Burbage stepped down to say,
“Tis now the very witching time of
night,” and in Macbeth, the electrician
juggled no electric switches when Bur-
bage indicated the approach of dawn
with the words, “Light thickens and
the. crow takes wing’ to the rooky
(Continued on Page Three)

French Club Will Present
Annual Play on Saturday





The French Club will present on
Saturday, March 17, “Le,Barbier de
Seville,” by Beaumarchais. The Club
has chosen its plays from the eight-
eenth century only very rarely in the
past, so “Le Barbier de Seville” is par-
ticularly interesting for its relation to
its period.

Beaumarchais’ clever satire on the
social customs of the day immediately
stamped it as a vehicle of the advanced
thinking with the result that it was
banned from the French stage for
some time. Figaro, as the instigator
of most of the action, sounded a new
note in his disregard for tradition and
aristocratic prestige. He shows up the
type of society which led’ up to the
French Revolution.

The present production is being di-
rected by Mademoiselle Rey, who so
ably and successfully in the past has
handled Hernani, Knock and Le Bour-
geois Gentilhomme. Janet Barber is
in charge of the scenery and Cos-
tumes.

The lighting will be very much in
the modern manner. The first act is

~~_to be played: in the half-light of dawn
and the second will also be in half

light with one bar of sunshine. The
last act will depend upon the effect of
candles carried én and off the stage as
the players move about.
The cast includes many names which
are familiar in French Club produc-
tions. It is as follows:
Le Comte Vemaviva. Anita Fouilhoux

Bartholo......... Elizabeth Pillsbury’
Rosine....... ++++++++Emily. Perkins,
Figaro.......... ceecee Janet. Barber
Don Bazille.......... Alicia Stewart

.. Jean Andregg |
L’Eveille................Mary Boyd

Un Notaire.......Margaret Haskell



Vocational Tea Wi.

Miss Wilma L. Shannon, *the
Director of Training at:R. H,
Macy and Company, will speak
on Department Stores in the
Common m in Goodhart Hall
on Tuesday; March 20, at quar-
ter of five.- Everyone who is
interested is urged to come. Tea
will be served at half-past four.







Student Poets Read
Examples from Work

Talent Indicated by Quality of
Verse and Standards in
Self-Criticism



SONNET FORM POPULAR

The modestly entitled Afternoon of
Poetry,-held_ at. the Deanery on Tues-
day, March 138, was in our opinion
from start to finish an unqualified suc-
cess. Many of the audience, who at
the time felt scarcely bold enough to
call continually for encores, said after-
wards that as often as the spirit mov-
ed our poets, there should be a repe-
tition of this afternoon’s performance.
The reading proved conclusively that
creative effort is. not dead or dying
on the campus, but that on the con-
trary fine, finished verse is being pro-
duced by our own fellow-classmates
under our very noses.

The six undergraduates who read
their verses are well-known to us in
other spheres of college activity in the
Lantern, on’ Dramatics, on the News.
Three of them come from the Junior
class, two from the Sophomore,’ and
one from the Senior.

Miss Donnelly introduced the poets
by recalling the wish of Miss Thomas
that there might always be a school
of poets on the Bryn Mawr campus.
Never has that wish come more near
fulfillment than at the present time.
The conviction of us who are naturally
partial to our poets is borne out by
the comment of James Stephens, who,
when he} was here to lecture, read
poems produced by students and gave
them high praise, both here and in
other places. The proportion of
poetry to prose in the Lantern has
always been remarkably high; the
popularity of the Poetry Club and the
prospect of a larger Poetry-Speaking
Society in the near future promise
well for the development on the cam-
pus of an increasing interest in poetry
and the. modern poets.

The most striking thing about the
undergraduate verse as a whole was
its restraint, the conscious discipline
of form to which it was submitted.
Verily free verse has had its day and
is no more. The present generation
seems particularly devoted to the son-
net-form, with the precise checks and
balances which it requires. Stanzas
of short. rhyming lines appeared also
popular, to judge by the reading.

Elizabeth Wyckoff, ’36, opened the
reading with a sonnet, Jeanne d’Are,
smooth in form and with striking pic-
torial effects. Even better’ than the
first were the two sonnets which fol-
lowed, in which the young modern
lover was warned from the high,
stormy passion of the great loves of
old days. The thought in these was
well-sustained and the feeling kept in
check. The originality of phrasing
and the control of form were excel-
lent.

Following Miss Wyckoff, Evelyn
Thompson, ’35, read three poems, My
Prince, Wish, and The Orb. The deli-
cacy of feeling and the sway of the
rhythm in these was’ very good. Ger-
aldine Rhoads, ’35, read one piece,
Jacob’s Ladder, which in idea and ex-.
pression was more strongly rendered
than the poems which came before.
The form, though not restrained, was



well managed up to the clever cate

line.
Clara Frances Grant, ’34, read her
verses, Idol and Nocturne, The mood

of these was complex and somewhat

difficult. The imagery in the first was
particularly fine. Gerta Franchot, ’35,

| showed more versatility of tone in the

poems she read than any of the other

uridergraduate poets. Her protest

against being reproached with - flip-
; (Continued on Page Five)



Un Alcade.........Mary Hutchings]



New Society Planned
for Poetry-Speaking



Group Meeting at Miss Ely’s
Ponders Verse Recitals on

English Model



MRS. VAN DUSEN READS



The inauguration of a poetry-speak-
ing society at Bryn Mawr, to be built
up along the lines of similar societies
in England and‘Scotland, formed the
subject of discussion at a tea in Miss
Ely’s house on the afternoon of Sun-
day, March 11, Van
Dusen, of London, was the speaker.

where . Mrs.

Verse-speaking societies have sprung
up in. Great Britain in the last two
decades, under the leadership of poets,
notably John Masefield, who feel that
the rendering of poetry by word of
mouth is one of the greatest pleasures
it is in its nature to afford, and
who shudder to see this rendering left
solely in the hands of elocution-teach-
ers and strained children on school-
platforms.

Poetry-speaking societies soon be-
came popular in Britain. They were
organized locally in all sorts of places,
one of the most successful being that
in Falkirk, a Scottish mining village.
Large towns were used for centres, at
were held,

when local groups met other local
groups in open competition. At these
festivals, set poems were given out in
each class. for all the candidates to
learn, and these poems were then re-
cited before public gatherings with
poets for judges. The festivals proved
as popular with those listening as with
those reciting. Sound constructive
criticism was given each competitor
after his performance. The most fam-
ous festival was held ‘at Oxford, at
which the Masefields until a few
years ago were always present.

The emphasis of the poetry-speak-
ing societies has always rested on in-.
terpreting a poem from the inside, and
not. through stylized intonation and
gesturing, as taught by the old elocu-
tion-schools. Each person who recites
a poem tries first to capture thor-
oughly the meaning and the spirit of
the poem and then to reproduce that
meaning and that spirit in the lines
as he recites them:’ It is amazing how
an audience ‘will understand and ap-
preciate a ¥eally difficult poem, when
it-is sympathetically rendered by the
speaking ‘Voice. Oral recitation was,
of course, in old days the only way
of making poetry known; the verse-
speaking societies feel that it is still
a more effective, more essential way
than that of the printed page.

A poetry-speaking society at Bryn
Mawr is being enthusiastically con-
templated, as a result of Mrs, Van
Dusen’s talk. If such is formed, the
first meeting will take place informal-
ly in the next two weeks, on a date to
be announced. Prospective members
will undertake to learn a favorite
poem, which they will recite at the
meeting, for which Mrs. Van Dusen
has very kindly consented to be in
the critic’s chair. If the society takes
shape as it is hoped, a public recita-
tion may be held in April, for which
an attempt wil] be made to induce Mr.
Laurence Binyon, noted English poet
and member of the movement, at pres-
ent in this country, to come down and
act as critic. He, in such a case, will
+set the poem or poems to be recited.’

At the close of the tea, Mrs. Van
Dusen herself read some poems aloud,
remarking as she did that we must not
be weak enough to allow ourselves to
sit and read from a book when we
recite. As Miss Coxe remarked, full
lung-power is not attainable by a per-
son in a sitting position. Seated and
with the book before her, Mrs. Van
Dusen nevertheless spoke beautifully
and completely held her audience,
while she passed from songs of Blake
to Milton. and from Milton to the mod-'
erns,—Belloe’s “Do you remember an.
inn,. Miranda?” and Gerard Manley
Hopkins’’ Wildernesses and Gordon

which yearly Festivals



Bottomley’s End of the World. q

CALENDAR

Thurs., March 15. Graduate
chapel. Announcement of Grad-
uate European Fellowship.
Goodhart at 8:40 A. M.

Thurs., March 15. Mr. Charles
Hopkinson will speak on Pic-
tures From the Painter's Point
of View. Common Room at 5:00.
P. M.

Fri., March 16. Varsity swim-
ming meet at Swarthmore. Coi-
lege. Bus leaves Bryn Mawr at
3:30.P..M. All those wishing to
go must sign on the. bulletin
board in Taylor.

Sat., March 17, Varsity bas-
ketball vs. Swarthmore. ~First
and second teams. Gym at 10:00"
Av M,

Sat., March 17. The French
Club presents Le Barbier de
Seville..Goodhart at 8:20 P..M.
Tickets are on sale at the Publi-
cations Office. ‘

Sun., March 18. Violin re-
cital by Abe Berg, through the
courtesy of Mrs. Reginald Rob-
ert Jacobs. Deanery at 5:00
P.M Ae
_ Tues., March 20. Miss Wilma
L. Shannon will speak on De-
partment Stores in the Common
Room at 5:00 P. M. Tea will be
served at 4:30-P.-M.

Tues., March 20.. The movies
of the Odyssey Cruise will be
shown. Common Room at 8:00
P. Mi









Varsity Swimmers Set
for Swarthmore Meet



(Especially Contributed
Daniels, ’34, President of the
Athletic Association)

Friday, the sixteenth of March, is a
gala day for the Varsity swimming
team and for the college. It’s the first
time there has been a swimming meet
off campus. We are going to Swarth-

more, where they have an excellent

by Susan

‘Dr. Mukerji Speaks -
On Need to Meditate

esau Has Saved India
By Reteaching Wisdom
of Contemplation

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|AMERICA NEEDS SILENCE



Dr. Dhan Gopal Mukerji, speaking
‘on The Conflict of the Past and Pres-
‘ent in the East, in Goodhart Halt-on
| Monday night, said that the coming
lof the depression had saved India, for
(it had taught them that the ideal of
‘Western progress in which millions
i had come to believe, was not infallible

‘and had made them return to the old
‘education, which had consisted of daily
|meditation in order to gain control of
‘the mind and knowledge of ‘silence.
| Silence is more than. stillness; it is
deeper and thicker than mere absence
of sound: it is something positive
which arises within man and shuts out
everything but the silences of the
mind... An old. Indian adage says that
i“silence ,within man outweighs all
things and measures the universe.”
It is this belief in the power of
imeditating and of listening to silence
which binds India with the thread of
| unity, “a thread of gold binding a
;string of pearls,” for India is an enor-
/mous and varied country. Every hun-
idred miles brings a change in dress,
\language, and cooking, a. diversity in
|sects and religions, but nevertheless a
profound sense of unity prevails,
which is appraisable not in objective
facts, but in psychic experiences. At
the moment of sundown, the majority
of Indians are silent: they experience
a “literal going into silence.’ Medi-
tation then runs through all of India
jand makes a oneness of living.
| Dr, Mukerji was educated into the
priesthood, and was‘ sent to a place of
study in the mountains of North India
which was run by a--fantastic holy

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re iman. A holy man is one who has
pool and a grand diving board. As seen God face to face, not-merely-one
some of you know, we have brand new| who has led a righteous life, and in

yellow suits with which to celebrate. all of his life Dr. Mukerji has met

All seventeen of us are going in our | but three or four real holy men. As

th f
new suits—which make us a good deal e years pass, fewer and fewer, of

table th b. | them are in existence, for they are all

and fill us with unbounded confidence, |°¢Me called to a higher incarnation.
*! I hi 1 ‘ ,

We have one of the best teams we! this place of study, the boys led a

normal life, ate two meals a day (four
a
have ever had. Its strength has hard |meals if. two teas maybe counted as

ly been tried, and it should pile up meals), and studied, but they sat still
bigger and better: records against At first



"ce SO \for long hours at a time.

Swarthmore has a good all around
team this year. We have a slight edge
on them as far.as our times compare,
but they have not had very stiff com-
petition and in the heat of the fray
anything may happen. According to
times, the events which will be the
most closely contested are the 40-yard
crawl, the 80-yard freestyle, and the
40-yard back crawl. Unfortunately

for us Marian Mitchell will be un-|

able to swim in the meet since she
received a knee injury playing basket-
ball. Porcher will support her team

as she always does in this event. If
Wylie improves:as much as she has}

in the last week, she ought to be able
to beat her record-of 24.4 which she
made last year; at any rate, the 40-
yard crawl will be exciting.

In the diving, Swarthmore has two

very good people, Michaels and Bur-|

ritt. Michaels does’ both diving and
the 80-yard crawl. She was the big
threat in the diving in the. last two
meets, and has improved. Burritt is
a freshman ‘who gets beautiful height
on all her dives and has good finish.
If our divers can remember to jump
up instead of out, the meet will be
very close. Our difficulty will be con-
trolling our flight in the air, and our
entry, because their board is so
springy; you practically fly up to the
roof without half trying; and flying
is a new experience for us ds our
board makes us pound in order to get
any height.

_ This is the last meet of the year.
It rivals the Yale-Harvard football
games in feeling. Since the Swarth-
more event will be the first off campus
meet in the history of the college, we
should like to be cheered} come all
and see a good meet, whether we win

or lose.
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| Dr. Mukerji’s teacher took him for
long walks on the Himalayan preci-
|pices (and climbing the Himalayas is

| work not for men, but for goats), and
| would sit besidé him at the top of a
imountain for hours and hours, say-

‘ing absolutely nothing except “The

‘lake is white’ when they first sat
‘down. The day Dr. Mukerji said, af-
'ter sitting for three hours, “The Lake
‘is white and the air is good,” he was

|graduated from this part. of his train-~

}

‘ing, for he had proved that he could

| keep his mind on one subject for more

‘than fifteen minutes at a time.

His parents then considered him
‘free from the horrors of excitement,
‘for he was able to think without get-

\ting excited. Thinking is not permit-

;ted to young people in India until
\they can think calmly, for calmness

of thinking gives power to illuminate
dark corners like light, but it does
not give character. Character is the

|result of turning the mind to think of

holiness and of letting it become at-
tuned to harmony. Learning to
meditate is the only training given to

also taught sacred epics and dramas.
Every day they are sent to the temple
to learn ancient poems from the priest,
and in the evenings they’ listen to

(Continued on Page Four) es,



Fencing Tournament

The Women’s Team Cham-
pionship. for the Philadelphia
Division of the A. F. L. A. will .
be fenced in the Gymn Thursday, ..
March 15, at 8 P. M. A team
from the Sword Ciub, two teams |
from Bryn Mawr, and a com: ~
posite team will compete. S
tators are invited. — ft wins









young Indians in science,*but they are ~~.


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: Come All Ye Faithful
Bryn Mawr has always been noted for its attitude of intellectual
superiority, especially. as affected by a certain group of undergradu-
ates,. but ‘the entire college seems. to have-adoptedtheir attitude. of
casual indifference to the outside world of letters, to judge from the
sad showing made by the undergraduates at the lectures and enter-
tainments sponsored by the college. The college authorities have long





made every effort to secjire as lecturers the most important figures in

roster of visiting lecturers of any woman’s college.

the various fields of arf; literature and science and it is a generally
accepted fact that Bryn Mawr boasts by far the most distinguished
But, regardless of
the merit of the victim, the college never so much as bats an eye and
the gentleman comes and goes without seeing more than an occasional

undergraduate tucked in between two Mainliners who have learned to



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‘tinuing to bring such events to the college campus.

attend the Bryn Mawr lectures even if the students have not. This
year there have been a number of outstanding lectures and entertain-
ments offered to the college and, with the exception of the Vienna
Choir Boys, not one of those entertainments has had the support of
the student body. The result of this lack of support has been to raise
serious doubts in the minds of the authorities as to the value of con-
In the end the
aim of the college is to offer its students every opportunity for becom-
ing acquainted with the significant figures in the fields of intellectual
and artistic interest. An education would be very poorly rounded
indeed if it did not include a knowledge of the trends and theories of
the present period and it is through the presentation of such men
as T. S. Eliot, Prof. Milliken and such women as Mrs, Dean and Jane
Addams that an opportunity for observing these trends is offered us.

The immediate answer to this commentary on the indifference of
the students to the opinions of all those other than their undergraduate
selves, will be that it is the admission price that prevents the attendance
of the students. To that answer we have only to point out the Shaw
lectures, which were attended by those students propelled thither by
threats of the economics and politics departments, and by few: others.
‘Those five lectures offered us the opportunity to hear the opinions of
women whose reputation has been well established among those individ-
uals best equipped to pass judgement, and we preferred to go to the
movies or read the.general outline of the lecture in the News. Such
an attitude betrays not an aesthetic disregard for codified learning nor
an intellectual level above that of the benighted souls who peddle their
learning through a lecture bureau, but an immature state of mind
which is hardly worthy of the Bryn Mawr nar Since we have
ostensibly come to college to learn, it would not hurt us to absorb all
the knowledge possible, and strike up at least a speaking acquaintance
with subjects other than our majors. By far the most pleasant means
of acquiring that same acquaintance is by attending the numerous
lectures which are offered during the college year. There are many
undergraduates who complain to high heaven from dawn until dusk
that education is a matter of note taking and of returning those same
notes to the professors at exam time. We rise to point out that those
same students could avail themselves of the opportunities to hear the
distinguished scholars and commentators of the day add interest to
those same notes and postulate different theories from those held. by
the professor.

In the face of student indifference and the expense involved in
bringing important lecturers to Bryn Mawr, the authorities are seri-
ously considering whether or not it would be wise to cut down on the
lecturers in coming years. Whether or not this is done depends on
the reaction of the undergraduates in the future.. We can only say
that if the number of outside personalities who at present lend their
presence to Goodhart is materially diminished, the undergraduates will
be the ones to suffer.in the end, and we urge everyone to consider this
item before they pass up an eminent scholar or commentator in favor
of the movies or the Greek’s. .

Et Tu, Brute? :

The Ides are approaching, and with them augury of unhappy
times. We look confidently forward to an orgy of midsemesters, and
much antisocial activity in the stacks and in the small hours. That
alone, however, will provide a good enough time for all and we feel
- that too much of this good thing may leave us unappreciative.- Fér
us initiate a midsemester quiz ceases to be either instructive or amusing
_ when our professors combine in their inimitable way to assign reports
unscheduled quizzes that descend simultaneously with 0 or perilously

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AH DON’T KNOW WHAT TO
CALL IT
or
A BLUE-PLATE LUNCH

All wrapt up in bread-crumbs,

It sprawls upon my dish;
Ah don’t know what to call it,

But it’s mighty like a fish.

| Underneath the gravy,

Like bits of grinded ice,
Is a mass of globules
That’s mighty like some rice.

And over in the corner,
Shining in the grease,
There lies a wilted vegetable
That might have been some peas.

All this is*on a blue-plate
And sticking in a bunch.
Ah don’t know what to call it,
But it’s mighty like some lunch.
—The Sensitive Plant.



WE SEE RED AND YELLOW

(This is an account by a layman—
one who would not be trusted even
with a stopwatch and a scoring pad.

1I wish: to acknowledge my indebted-

ness for technical information to the
following persons: “the referee, and
those members of the teams, who, by
registering pleasure and pain, en-
abled me to know what was going on:
e. g., the forward who looked blase
wher: all seemed to indicate that She
had scored somewhat.)

The game was an unusually gay

spectacle—the rose tunics and the yel-|!

low contrasted, but did not~clash,.and
as the players darted in among and
into each other and one saw red and
then yellow and then orange, one felt
that an exciting game was to be wit-
nessed. It commenced to be very ex-
citing: the two girls in the center
leaped simultaneously for the ball and
battled in mid-air. One or both got
it; if both did, they jumped some more
—at some points in the game this was
all that happened for minutes at a
time,

Then the ball was eae up and
down the room, and the audience
cheered wildly because one of the
players, placed conveniently near the
end of the room, would throw the ball
into the “basket.” This, then was
called a “basket,” even if the score-
board said two; and the two players
in the middle started the ball off from
scratch again.

Toward the end the sport was real-
ly frenzied. There were several fouls.
They are a lower sort of fun—they
lend a slapstick note to the perform-
ance, but I do not like them... I am
always so sorry—about fouls: the
foulee looks worst first, but when the
referee comes up and literally wal-
laps the fouler’s back and _ shrieks
“foul” at her, my sympathies are di-
vided. When this happens three times
the fouler is “out,” so I hear. I am
not surprised.

However—I have strayed from my
theme: about the frenzy! It was
thrilling*to watch: there-were times
when opposing players really beat the
air and themselves to get a ball, Then
sometimes they did complicated things
with their feet in addition: One
would have the ball—and then anoth-
er, of a different color, would come
up and do a “pas” around her. This
was a signal for the one holding the
ball either to drop the ball or to drop
herself nearer the floor. It was a very
intricate step, and done with consum-
mate skill.

Although not particularly poignant,
in the best sense of the word, the

|/scene was beautiful



and full of
drama!
—Gramma MaeN.
WE LOVE THE CLASSICS
“Somewhere ‘Mangling done here’

‘|stares from the windows, and where

doors are left carelessly open, others
where squalid women sit on doorsteps,
and» girls go to factories in white
aprons.”—Arthur Morrison’s preface
to Tales of Mean Streets.



“From that day . Natasha

Lnever felt Bolkonsky’s side, and the

doctor was forced to admit that he
had not expected from a young gir] so
much fortitude.’—War and Peace.



“Cautiously withdrawing her breast,
Natasha dandled it, handed it to the
nurse, and went with swift steps to-
wards the door.’”—War and Peace.



FROM ONE ESKIMO TO PLENTY
OTHERS
(After 48 hours when the heat sim-

ply would not emerge from our reg-

ister.)

The heat is on!
hours

When we did sit about the icy room,

Muffled in furs to ward off chilly
gloom,

Like the dark Eskimo whom snow
devours;

Nor janitor nor. the high house of
powers

Could breathe a fiery breath into the
flume,

And we sat silent as the day of doom,

While bitter cold embalmed. these
lofty towers.

After those frozen

The heat is on at last! And through

the vent ‘

A sighing warmth of wind comes
eagerly,

To thaw our frosty lashes and our
feet.

And through our chattering teeth we
thus relent,
To shout our snow-unbound felicity—
The heat is on at last! Long live the
heat!
—Peter Whiffle.



INCIDENTS ON THE C-C-CAMPUS

—Turn, young gal—your money or
your life!

—Oh, n-n-no, sir—

—Don’t say no three times to me!

—But s-s-s-s-sir?

—Don’t hiss. It’s not polite in this
country. Only Chinamen do it.

—Sorry, sir.

—C’mon. What are you holding’ be-
neath that black shroud of yours?
Out with the goods!

—Sir, I only have a s-s-s—

—Stop that hissing. Out with it!

—A s-S-s-s—

—By Gad, I won’t be insulted like
that, you snipe! (thrusts gun further
into. victim’s abdomen) . Commmme
onnnn—or T’ll—

—A s-sandwich, sir!

—Dramatic Drip.



The Warden sends us down through
Pem
With much too melancholic phlegm,
An’ there we lie in inf. abed,
An’ on pink pills, thermometers are
fed,
An’ listen to far sounds of Taylor bell,
An’ think of all the things we know
of hell,
An’ then the nurses, hand on pulses,
spout
’Bout germs ’at gets ’em—
An’ they
ne’er
gets
out!

Us and the apes!
Cheero—
THE MAD HATTER.



Moreover these extra assignments, in addition to coinciding with
quizzes, fall due, with unfailing accuracy within the week that some
extracurricular organization has reached the stage of frenzied activity
just preceding the completion of its great production of the year. The

undergraduate is then a pitiable sight.

She has, if we can judge from

her plaintive monologue over early morning coffee, several quizzes in

rapid succession, not to mention a surfeit of reports.

These symptoms

ean indicate only mental indigestion and near collapse.
If scholarship is not to die out among us, avid students as we are,



some organization and spacing of quizzes and reports must be effected.
Unscheduled tests sprung in the middle of March can give no indica-
tion of our work when they coincide with regularly scheduled quizzes;
and thankful as we may individually appear to have all our reports
due on the farthest deadline, we would as a group work more happily
and efficiently on them were we left uninhibited by mob strain and
unhindered from our research by the emptiness of the library stacks
and the overcrowding of the reading room. A few more assignments

injudiciously dated and we shall be found prostrate beneath the guard- |’

jan oatae on the oseed ee:

Soe



IN- PHILADELPHIA

°



Theatres

iividnoes): The Galantiere-House-

‘'man adaptation from the French

about the dancer and her sinful brood
—Three and One, with Jacqueline Lo-
gan and her three young offspring.
Very funny in its own pet, particular
fashion.

_ Garrick: The Yellow Jacket, with
Mr, and Mrs. Coburn. A revival of
the classic comedy in the manner of
the Chinese theatre. Not very excit-
ing, but possessed of a great deal of
quiet charm.

Broad: .A melodrama based on the
celebrated Belgian murder case —
know as “The Peltzer Case.” Alexan-
der Woollcott and George Kaufman
wrote it so they could see what peo-
ple’s flesh looked like when it crept.
Now entitled The Dark Tower it has
Jessie Royce Landis in the featured
role.

Coming March 19

Forrest: The much publicized pro-
duction of the Shuberts—Annina —
with our own Mme. Maria Jeritza back
as the leading lady, and no back chat
allowed. The honored vehicle is the
new operetta by Rudolf Friml.

Chestnut: A drama dealing with
the lives of two medical students ‘and
the love life of one. Entitled Races,

it_is_pretty.sure tobe dreadful,.al-.

though it has an exceptionally fine
cast, headed by Mady Christians,
Earle Larrimore and Stanley Ridges.
We forgot to say that it deals with
conditions under the Nazi regime in
Germany—the general drift makes it-
self fairly obvious.

Broad: Kenneth MacKenna, lately
of Hollywood. and lately the husband
of Kay Francis, in the London com-
edy success, Wife Insurance. With
a title like that we are prepared for
the worst, but perhaps we will be
wrong again.

Academy of Music

Philadelphia Orchestra. Friday af-
ternoon, March 16, at 2.30 P. M., and
Saturday evening, March 17, at 8.30
P. M. Leopold Stokowski will con-
duct the second Bach-Beethoven pro-
gram, which will be as follows:
Beethoven. .Symphony No. 7, A major
Ss a re Suite No, 2, B minor
Bach. Choralvorspeil “Ich ruf’ zu dir”
Bach... .. Toccata and Fuge, D minor

Movies

Keith’s:. The usual enormous stage
show and the movie, J Believed in You,
not worth the film with which it was
taken.

Arcadia: Three very popular stars
—Miriam Hopkins, George Raft and
Frederic March—labored in vain to
make All of Me a good movie, for
they couldn’t rise above the limita-
tions of the story, which is the eternal
triangle a littlé cockeyed,

Karlton: Claudette Colbert and
Herbert Marshall run around in tiger
skins in the lost-on-a-desert-island
themed movie, Four Frightened Peo-
ple. Mary Boland and William Gar-
gan help to make the picture pleasant
going.

Fox: Sally Eilers; Zasu Pitts and
Charles Starrett make Three on a
Honeymoon and even with the peer-
less Pitts it is very flat. It is sup-
posed to be a comedy, we gathered,
but the only funny thing in it is the
graceful movements of Miss Pitts.

Earle: Victor McLaglen and Ed-
mund Lowe recall the days of What
Price Glory with No More Women,
the saga of two tough gentlemen and
the women who come into and are
thrown out of their lives. Not bad.

Boyd: A story of “Real People,”
with Jean Muir and Donald Wood.
The story concerns three women with
diametrically opposed characters who
struggle to find happiness on and off
a farm. The title is As the Earth
Turns and it refers to the seasons that
bring new life to land and the hearts
of men and women, etc.

Stanley: The tremendous produc-
tion which is putting black-face Al
Jolson on the red side of the ledger
for a. change—Wonder Bar. Kay
Francis, Dick Powell, Ricardo Cortez
and Dolores del Rio go to make up
the cast of the opus about the pro-
prietor of a huge establishment called
the Wonder Bar. All pretty Holly-
wood and correspondingly cheap.

Aldine: Anna Sten continues to
hold forth in Nana, the corrupted Zola
adaptation of a story of a lady of the
streets who rose to be the music hall
queen of Paris, and then got hemmed
in by her various loves. Not too
good.

Europa: The suppressed war film
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Page ‘Three ;





~Rosemont Team Wins~
Over Varsity, 39-29

Bryn Mawr Sustains First Bas-
ketball Defeat in Last
Three Seasons

SWARTHMORE IS NEXT

On Saturday morning, the Varsity
basketball team took its first defeat
in three years when it bowed to, the
Rosemont team to the score of 39-29.
Although Rosemont has the best all-
around team of any of Varsity’s op-
ponents, we really feel that Bryn
Mawr had an even chance to come out
on the long end of the score.

Rosemont led at the. quarter, 8-6,
after steady, accurate and not too
fast passing, and an uncannily good
eye for the basket had netted them
a point almost at every attempt.’ Bryn
Mawr, however, although she had the
ball oftener fhan Rosemont, seemed
unable to find the range of the bas-
ket and as a result lost many oppor-
tunities to even up the score.

Varsity was still behind at the half
by four points; but staged an excit-
. ing rally in the third quarter to be
only two points behind. In the third
quarter, the rose team pulfed away
into a lead which Bryn Mawr was un-
able to match and the final whistle
brought defeat,.not because Varsity
was not a good team, but because
‘Rosemont was better.

In-the first half, Rosemont rarely
missed a basket, but in the second
missed several easy shots due to a
crooked basket. On the whole, had
Bryn Mawr made only a few of the
lost points, she could, we think, have
won out in the long run. A great deal
of credit should go to the guards, who
stood up unusually well against the
stiff offense of the Rosemont forwards,
for whom the word fumble scarcely
existed. Rosemont tied Swarthmore,
but the latter team was beaten by“Ur-
sinus, who lost to us, 16-31. No one
knows what will happen on Saturday,
but come out and sée another heart-
rending game which is bound to pro-
vide as much excitement as_ last
week’s.

The line-up was as follows:

- Rosemont Bryn Mawr
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Bonniwelle:. . i455 1-£,

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Substitutions — Rosemont: Farrell
for Locke, Locke for Farrell, Locke
for Stoll.
Scores — Rosemont:
Bonniwell, 21.
14; Faeth, 15.

Wenger, 18;
Bryn Mawr: Boyd,

Fortunately for the second team, the
Rosemont team lacked accurate for-
wards, although their passing was of
the same quality and speed as their
first team.’ As it was, Bryn Mawr
took an early lead, which she never
relinquished until the final whistle,
and the referee announced a score of
55-9.

Although accuracy is a distinct ad-
vantage, the second team forwards
could view with envy the smoothness
and efficiency of their opponents’ pass-
work. Not only was Varsity’s passing
extremely ragged at times, but also
the forwards’ failure to follow in their
shots lost them many points; not that
this mattered in the long run, but
they are a great help when falling
behind.

The line-up was as follows:
Rosemont Bryn Mawr
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BR, Danning ....6. hows : Meck
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TION ics cies §,:C.3%698 “Bernett
TOUS ck 5 oi a sie de T..2. . cae Jarrett
MacDonald ...... Lica venc es Bishop

Substitutions — Rosemont: Crow-
ther for Farrell, Carroll for Dunning,
MacDonald for Fitzpatrick, Duffy for
O’Donnell, ’ Gallaghan for Stevens, D.
Dunning for MacDonald. Bryn Mawr:

Stone fér Meirs, Jackson for Stone,|

Smith for Bennett.

~ .Scores—Rosemont: Farrell, 4; Dun-
ning, 3; Carroll, 2. Bryn Mawr:
Baker, 27;, McCormick, 28.



Exactly 200 University of Michigan
students are doing research work un-
der Federal Emergency Relief Admin-
istration grants.

West Virginia University faculty
members conduct annual fire schools
to aid » in training village firemen
through the state.

~



aes Stage Art 1s -—____——
Akin to Blizabethan

Continued from Page One

wood.”

Our nearest way to seeing a per-
formance of this sort lies west to
Chinatown in San Francisco. The
Chinese developed their stage methods
long -before the age of Shakespeare,
but, having found their technique thor-
oughly effective they did not, as did
the English-speaking people, succumb
to progress and “ride madly off in all
directions.” They continued in» their
traditions to the present day.

This convention, practised still in
San Francisco, gave rise to Benrimo’s
idea of writing a play in which the
characters would be imaginatively
Chinese and which would be set forth
according to the conventions of the
Chinese theatre. Benrimo’ was then
working for David Belasco, and that
great producer was interested in real-
ism to the extent that, when he wanted
a typical restaurant scene for The
Governor's Lady he bought the equip-
ment for the whole set from Child’s
central manufactory. He paid so
much attention to realistic settings
that he forgot that “Heard Melo-
dies are sweet but those unheard are
sweeter;” he neglected the develop-
ment of character within the play to
make the pancakes in the window
real. 4

Benrimo realized that this sort of
production eliminated the only real
reason for the existence of the the-
atre and so he sought a collaborator
of literary gifts to write a simple fan-
tasy of life from the cradle to the
grave, that would rehearse theatre-
goers in the conventions traditional
from Shakespeare. Finally he found
George C. Hazelton, a writer with a
lovely command of language, a man
of charming, wistful humor,’ and to-
gether they produced The Yellow
Jacket in 1912. From its first per-
formance it was recognized as an ad-
venture in modern playwriting.
Charles Frohman predicted that it
would be seen everywhere in the world
and that prediction, incredible in that
the world had never heard of any
American playwright, was fulfilled. It
played’ two hundred nights. at the
Duke of York’s in London, was there
seen by Max Reinhardt, who translat-
ed it into German. Its German pro-
duction was seen by Stanislavsky,
who. had it translated into Russian.
Similarly it was translated into Span-
ish, Czechish, Magyar, Finnish, Flem-
ish, Swedish, Dutch, Chinese, and Jap-
anese. The Yellow Jacket was liter-
ally an American production that had
toured around the world.

The Yellow Jacket is not just an-
other play, nor was it an ordinary ex-
perience in 1912. It was as excit-
ing an adventure as it is now. The
play has the absolute magic of the
theatre; the poetic language creates
an atmosphere, the characterization
peoples the stage, and there’ is no elab-
orate imitation of actuality to detract
from the stronger reality the audi-
ence creates in its imagination, There
is no scenery and no front curtain:
all arrangements and rearrangements
of furniture and properties are made
in full view of the audience by the
“Property Man’’—supposed to be in-
visible. He is invisible to a Chinese
audience, but not to us. We laugh at
him when he throws a block of.wood
to the wife when the action calls for
her having a baby in her arms.

But we laugh ourselves gradually
into a. fondness for these conventions,
and in thé famous love boat scene ‘we
are charmed into believing that two
bare chairs are a boat, and that the
sound of rubbing sandpaper is/the rip-
pling of water under a moonlitsky..
This is greater art than ultra-real-
istic imitation of ordinary life. Every-
day monotony is what we seek to es-
cape by going to the theatre: that
is why The Yellow Jacket stands as
the greatest American play. ,



A speech professor at Florida State
College entered his afternoon class
with a speech disorder, walked to the
board, wrote, “I know when I am de-
feated. . Will see’ you next. time. .Good
oo Aas

Because of the fact that the period
of sun spot/of the past years has
come to an end, McGill University
astronomers predict a long, severe
winter.

A formula has been developed by
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
scientists by which it is possible to
predict how tall children will be.



—News-of-the New tek Stresinas

A. great deal has been happening
in the world of the theatre since we
last published our weekly attempt at
a bulletin, but the most outstanding
event has been the entrance once again
of a Congressman into the realm of
grease paint. Last year the govern-
ment machinery for suppressing pub-
lic enemies was urged to get in mo-
tion against the critics, who were ac-
eused (by Representative Sirovich,
who has written many plays, the most
successful-of which lasted the full
three acts on the opening night) of
murdering the American drama by.
their ferocious attacks on what they
did not have the mental equipment to
identify as good art. This year one
Mr. Dickstein has mounted his soap
bex in the nation’s capital to initiate
a bill prohibiting the free importation
of foreign actors into this country. The
idea behind all this is that at present
there are many American actors

‘starving, while the British and Con-

tinental stars feast and make merry
when not appearing in the smash hits
of the town. Mr. Dickstein feels, for
example, that if Marlene Dietrich
were safely at home in a German con-
centration camp that Clara Bow would
have a chance to create Catherine the
Great of Russia and feed her husband.
Or again, if. Philip. Merivale were in
England leading the hunger march-
ers, that the recently unemployed Al
Jolson would make a perfect lover for
Helen Hayes.as Mary, Queen of Scots.

The bill as proposed would exclude
foreign actors of all sorts, kinds and
descriptions except those~“of distin-
guished merit and ability,” who might
appear, with the permission of the
Secretary of Labor, in plays requir-
ing “superior talent.” Besides the
great limitations which the passage
of that bill would place upon the
American theatre, there is the ques-
tion of the committee which. would



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pass’ on aie merits of the- actors to oe

admitted to the country. Everyone has
been amusing himself by making up
tentative committees, and we offer
ours as one which includes those best
qualified to pass on the artistic value
of actors. It is as follows: Michael
Romanov, Samuel Insull, General
Johnson, Babe Didrickson, Aimee
Semple McPherson, Emma Goldman,
Gertrude Stein, Laurel and Hardy,
Congressman Black, and Rin-Tin-Tin.

Furthermore, we have amused our-
selves by choosing the American ac-
tresses and actors competent to fill
the roles now taken by foreign lumi-
naries. We should like to see Clark
Gable as Henry the VIII; Jean Har-
low as Queen Christina} Robert Mont-
gomery as. Frankenstein; Wallace
Beery in any of Noel Coward’s roles;
and Rin-Tin-Tin as all the animals in
Bring ’Em Back Alive.

The Bronte sisters, who have sup-
plied the material for more plays in
the past year than Queen Elizabeth
or post-war decadence, will be back
again in Dan Totheroh’s Moor Born.
The last play on this theme was Clem-
ence Dane’s little brain child in which
Katharine Cornell was to have ap-
peared; but some kind fate seenis to
have restrained her for the time be-
ing. In the new offering Helen. Ga-
hagan. will play Emily Bronte,
Frances Starr (The Lake) will be
Charlotte, and Edith Barrett will be
Anne. Glen Anders will also be pres-
ent for the first act, at the end of





which, in the bette Bronte tradition,
he will probably sink to an alcoholic
grave. There is another opus due to
arrive any moment entitled The
Brontes, which makes the subject fair-
ly clear. It has always seemed. wise
to us to make the title of a play in-
dicative of what the audience may ex-
pect, but in this case we think it
would have been better to call the
thing something like Mad Dogs and
Englishmen—

There is at present a great battle
raging between those who feel that
John Wexley’s drama, They Shall Not
Die, is a fair representation of what
went on in the trial of the negroes
for rape in the now famous Scotts-
boro case, and those who feel that the
play is just another example of what
happens when the imagination of a
playwriting young man gets the bet-
ter of him. It cannot be denied that
the sympathy of the audience is deftly
won over to the cause of the negroes »
in Mr. Wexley’s play, but there are
many of our honest citizens who do
not need to attend the theatre to feel
that a great injustice has been done
the condemned negroes. Whatever the
answer, the fact remains that Ruth
Gordon, as the accuser of the negroes
who recants at the crucial moment
and declares that they are not guilty
of rape, and Claude Rains, as thé
great Jewish criminal lawyer who de-
fends the boys, both give perform-
ances which raise They Shall Not Die

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News ‘of the: New York Theatres



(Continued from Page Three)

above the level of a mere propagand-|

ist play.

As Varsity Dramat prepares to pull
itself together and canvass the Main
Line for all available bums who have
had acting experience, in preparation
for the.forthcoming spring play, there
comes the news that Yale and Vassar
have both distinguished themselves by
producing very significant plays dur-
ing the past month. Yale did one of
the great post-Revolutionary plays (of
the Russian theatre—Michael Buga-
kov’s In the Days of the Turbine—
with a cast composed entirely of un-
dergraduate actors with the exception
of the one feminine role, which was
taken by Blanche Yurka. Richard
Watts, of the Herald, journeyed up to
New Haven to pass judgment on the
performance and came back to report
that the Yaleys had seen their efforts
crowned with success, and that their
production did not need to have the
apologetic phrase “for amateurs” used
to explain or to offer an alibi for en-
thusiasm in connection with the pro-
duction. Vassar also has gone Rus-
sian to'a certain extent, for the Ex-
perimental Theatre offered one of the
new Russian plays not long ago and
it was greeted with considerable en-
thusiasm by its audience. It’s all very
interesting indeed, and as we bend
over our History —s we some-
times wonder—

Gutherie McClintic opened the much
discussed Sidney Howard play about
the fight against yellow fever, Yellow
Jack, last week and although the crit-
“jes stuck to their merciful tactics and
said rather non committal things about
it, we gather that the whole thing was
something of a disappointment to
those who had hoped for a great
drama of sacrifice and dignity. The
dignity completely disappears at times
and we find every scene ending with
the melancholy notes of taps, and
there is one curtain when the bugle
blows and the American flag falters
and folds upon its mast overlooking
the scene of death and destruction. A
little too much Hollywood for us, Like
the pigeons in all Armistice scenes.

Dr. Mukerji. Speaks.
On Need to Meditate

pe mS
Continued from Page One

plays on the rooftops. As a result,
every Indian carries in his head an
average of about five hundred lines of

noble literature, even if he is com-.

pletely unable to read.

In India many people teach. their
children immunity to fear of animals.
The children are sent into the jungle
at night to ligfen, and when their
minds are calm enough to hear tkem,
two very still noises can be heard:
that of the grass sighing like a child
dreaming, which means that a python
is moving in the grass, and that of the
wind whistling through the feathers
of an eagle, which is incredibly beau-
tiful. The most terrible of the jungle
noises is the roar of a tiger in the
distance after he has finished his kill;
that is the roar of God. But the ani-
mals become quieter and quieter at
midnight, until finally there is still-
ness and nothing is moving. Then

comes silence, and when a man hears,

that, he loses the ability to fear, for
he has heard something so great that
he can no longer feel any emotions.

Every morning at four when Dr.
Mukerji was a boy, his family arose
to -meditate.._Suddenly a white silence
would come in the panther-black sky,
then a garnet flower would blossom,
and then there would be cataracts
of light and the sun would’rise. The
family would stand up and_ talk. to
the Sun, saying:

“Be thou our advocate before the
silence of God, O Sun,” and would re-
cite the hymn of creation: -

“In the beginning nothing was, be.
cause everything was. Darkness with-
in darkness, . . The silver of the
night was not split. Death was not
fear.¢

“Ts the-universe founded on every-



thing or on nothing? ‘No one knows, | tory has given us to play. Dr. Mukerji
but He -knows;-and-the -moment “we: has-been--asked--whether-it_is_possible

say He knows, He knows not.”

Into this meditation, and culture of |
believing that nothing can matter,
came the middle-class English idea of
progress, of living without prayer, rit-
ual or meditation. One million In-
dians went to the War and came back
wanting to give~up thinking and all
the old things; their power grew enor-
mously. It was perfectly unthinking
of them not to believe that this world

is a place in which to make your soul |.

so pure that you will not need to be
reincarnated, but they wanted tem-
poral happiness. The Gandhi move-
ment rose to stop them, and was suc-
cessful, but India is. different now.
The depression has come and they
have learned that progress is not in-
fallible. The whole of India knows
that this world cannot be made proof
against suffering, so they are going
back to the old education, to meditat-
ing every day, to getting control of the
mind, and to feeling silence. It is the
beginning of the salvation of their civ-

ilization, for hey realize that prog-

ress cannot save a people without self-
control. Lack of self-control will-turn
the firiest culture into a reeking sham-
bles. At last they have again found
serenity of mind, and if a man has
that, he can live anywhere and _ find
the blessings of civilization.

Now that India is saved, what about
America?. We have a great euiture

before and behind us, but if we doy

not listen to our
never find the

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Page Five







Book Reviews







BRAZILIAN ADVENTURE, by Peter
Fleming.
“T fell ill, I died. I buried. myself.
_ Would that others who write sea stor-
‘jes would do as much,” said Stephen

Leacock, and we gave a rousing cheer,
having fed ourselves to satiety with
all the he-man sagas that came out
in our earlier adolescenée.’ But now
we must recant. Brazilian Adventure
_ is like no other of its kind: it is less
fantastic than Carveth Wells or Harry
Foster or the lost Jove-life, Richard
Halliburton; it is not so dull or intri-
cate as Harry Franck or Alexander
Powell. ' There is none the big
blasphemous virility of the former
category of adventurers in Peter
Fleming, and we don’t vagabond about
the’ world having the harrowing nar-
row escapes that we suffered with the
authors last in our interdicted list.
Fleming has written a travel book on
his experiences exploring in South
America with such urbane humor that
we naturally turn to the Traprock
series and Mark Twain for compari-
son. They are both humor of a cer-
tain sort, but Dr. Traprock is too ex-
' aggerated for our taste, and Innocents
Abroad smacks of an outdated era in
travel: we-cannot pass fair judg-
“ment. We can only give blind praise
to Mr. Fleming for his original ap-
proach and his entertaining style.
_ The writing in Brazilian Adventure
is neither poignant nor beautiful: the
author’s touch is vigorous to the point
of occasionally overstepping gram-
matical“conventions. The organization
of the book appears at times danger-
ously loose, and we begin to fear that
the writer has forgotten where he is
going next. The chances are that he



doesn’t know; but his irresponsibility
is infectious, and, knowing that neith-

,er in the writing nor in the actual ex-

perience did the author-explorer know
what.step-was_next.in order ie ex-
pedition’s amazing search for Faw-

cett, then lost seven years in unex-.

plored jungle territory, we still bless
the providence that made Peter Flem-
ing an Englishman with an Expensive
Education, a sense of humor, and the
adventurous habit of reading the
Agony Column of the Times regu-
larly.

No, no one could wish suicide and
self-burial upon a travel writer, who,
like Fleming, left off being the editor
of a literary journal and became one
of “TWO MORE GUNS,” room for
which was advertised in the lengths
of a London Agony Column.—G., R.



THE GAY LIFE, by E. M. Delafield.
(Submitted in News Tryout) —
The Gay, Life, E. M. Delafield’s lat-
est novel; belongs to the Riviera school
and is concerned with a group of peo-
ple in a French hotel who are unat-
tractive and totally devoid of wit or
charm. It is better written than most
of its kind, and the character drawing
is excellent. However, there is great
doubt as to whether the characters are
worth portraying at all, since they
have litle to recommend them. The
book is a series of episodes, petty in-
rigues and desires among people who
are bored with life, yet still are try-
ing to get the most out of every min-
ute of it. There is a sense of utter
futility throughout the whole story,
a general disgust with human kind.
The novel is definitely not amusing,
in contrast to-most of its kind, and
ats theme is hardly important enough
to -be-tragic.
ing why on earth it was written.
The Moons, Hilarf and Angie, are
an unscrupulous couple whose only





is an unpleasant character, of whom

It leaves one wonder=



enjoyment in life is sheer ohicraioad
pleasure. They have been married
for two years and are thoroughly
bored with éach other. Denis Waller

an excellent: psychological. study is_
made, He-lies and cringes and dram- ,
atizes his every action. He has built
up such an elaborate system of self- |
pretense of his whole life that not:
even the understanding sincerity of |
the woman who almost loved him

Chrissie Challoner, could penetrate it. |
His painful self-consciousness and |
shame for his upbringing make him |

been the keynote, suddenly has turned |
to the type of novel where the char-
acters bellow their emotions in no uh-|
certain or very pleasant terms. It |

‘requires real talent to write complete- |

ly and clearly in undertones, and this

talent E. M. Delafield definitely pos- |
'sesses, but it is wholly submerged in

The Gay Life.

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Examples from Work | Iw



Continued from Page One

ithe finest of the poems pay by Mrs.
| King. The feeling of there being too
much. of everything in life is one to
which we are at present particularly
| sympathetic. Interior caught perfect-
‘ly that spirit which grows~on-every-
one with age, the sense that happiness
\is contained in a very few essentials,
and these the most familiar in. our
| lives. The uninterest of the spirit
‘while the body fought with sickness

was keenly portrayed in Wound, Ma-
| ture control of form and thought and
| tecling appeared in these and other
| poems read by Mrs, King—The Cock,

pathetic, but his deceit and morbid pancy, A Cautionary Tale for a Hu- | The Measure, For Them the Night,
introspection render him completely | morist and His Airs, was cleverly sa-| and Aged Vine.

despicable.

love affairs, but losing her attraction |
for men.

for women. He is the object of a.

|

strife between Angie and Carol. Dul-|

Carol Romayne is an An- |tirical, using unexpected rhymes to}
gie Moon grown older, yearning for steat effect. The Epitaph of the poem | |lightful.

‘was full of telling lines. Her Song!

‘satiric is pointed.
Margaret Kidder, ’36, closed the un-!

Mrs. Borie’s child’s verse was de-
Each poem was short and
‘centered in one, clear-cut line. Sorry,

Huciland is her son Pat-! Was in serious-vein and simpler fqrm. Simon, pictured young Peter barring
rick’s tutor, living by his magnetism | Her lyrica] touch is as true as her Heaye

Xeni s’ gates to the gardener, who
“had so often checked him from playing
‘on his cherished plots. In Too Salty

cie is an hotel child, forced to insinu- | dergraduate reading with her Song at! ‘the boy wonders why God didn’t think
ate her way into the guésts’ daily | Sixteen, really written at that age. ‘of sugaring the sea instead — that

lives.

The Morgans, an attractive | :The atmosphere of critical maturity | would have been so much more pleas-

English family, are the only normal | | which she created in the poem was de- | ant for him when he went swimming.

people in the novel.

There are various lightful.

She confirmed the conviction |

| Peter’s Family Tree reveals a strange

other characters, shown by a sure and| which had been growing on us as we! ‘number of Peters in the world and

keen gift for description, which is|listened to the reading, that the un- | their still stranger occupations.

wasted on them.

dergraduates, who feel themselves at |

Only
Just Me, My Tapioca Table, Cater-

The plot is rather usual, The Moons all endowed with the poetic instinct, | pillars, and The Weatherman were
are desperately in debt and trying to! are working very hard for clear, re- | other poems read by Mrs. Borie, catch-

get out of it by fleecing their all-too-|
wary friends. The older woman is
protestingly losing her young lover.
There is also the misunderstood ado-
lescent, suddenly and harshly disil-
lusioned about his mother’s morals, |
the difficulties of Buckland, atracted }
by Mrs. Moon and forced to pretend
love for Carol, and the terrors of
Denis, who fears to have his cow-
ardly past exposed. There is eshte
new. here.

One wonders why Miss Delafield,
who heretofore has writen charming
English novels, in which restraint has



strained expression.and mastery of |
form.

Following the undergraduates, Mrs.
Hortense Flexner King, of the Eng-
lish: Department, and Mrs. Lysbeth
Boyd Borie, of the Class of 1925, read
numerous selections from their pub-
lished and unpublished verse. Mrs.
King’s: poems are already known to
many of us. Mrs. Borie read from
her two volumes of child’s verse, writ-
ten for her son, Peter, when he was
young. Both poets were enthusias-
tically encored.

Surfeit and Interior seemed to us

ing the varied, deeply felt, though
momeatary, moods of the child.



We are infinitely cheered by the
disclosure of Dr. David Segel, of the
Federal Board of Education, that
the myth about the 12-year-old av-
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out to about 17, because there are
3,000,000 at the 12-year level and
about 40,000,000 at 17 or above men-
tally. Of the latter group about
10,000,000. are awfully smart fellows
‘because their average is above 23.







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THE COLLEGE NEWS

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The Yellow Jacket

When in China do as the Chinese
do: we were almost tempted to burst
into our one Chinese word, and do a
spirit dance on the long; long “stairs
to the Garrick peanut gallery, after
absorbing an afternoon of Yellow Jac-
ket atmosphere. Our five hours, spent
years ago in the gloomy atmosphere
of a real Chinese theatre in San Fran-
cisco, were not, it seems, in vain. We
can bear witness to the fact that The
Yellow Jacket is, except for the lan-
guage and the length, Chinese. The
cymbals might, of course, be bigger,
and the girls’ costumes might look a
little less like basement store bar-
gains.

The audience might laugh a little
less. We are inclined to believe, after
reading an interview with Mr. Arthur



Shaw, that this talented and veteran
property man tries a little too hard
for laughs while keeping his ear cock-
ed for his ninety-eight cues. It de-
tracts from the dreamy romance—of
old China, so well produced by the un-
usually beautiful voices of the actors,
and the soothing, if pseudo-Chinese,
music heard offstage to hear an Amer-
ican audience constantly snorting and
‘snickering in its hearty American
way. There are scenes where the prop-
erty man is meant to be funny; when,
for example, he wearies of holding out
the little sprig of cherry blossoms for
Daffodil to sniff, and withdraws it:so
unexpectedly that poor Daffodil is on
the verge of falling on his beautifully
powdered nose; or, when the property

man stands on a chair ‘and holds up
a bamboo stick, and is a weeping wil-







low tree—and a very bored one at
that. But in-such a scene as that in
which the hero climbs a mountain
made of chairs we no longer laugh
good-humoredly, and rather find it. in
our hearts to wish that Mr. Shaw
would take, himself and his feather
duster off, and go choke quietly on a
bowl of fish bones or some poisoned
hashish.

Fortunately the audience does ap-
preciate the flower boat scene, into
which, enter, perhaps, some of the
loveliest lines in the play. Mrs. Co-
burn’s remarkable: parting with her
wooden block of a baby, too, evokes
only occasional gurgles of glee. We
have nothing but admiration for Mrs.
Coburn. Her acting is restrained and

dignified. It is, however, a trifle un-
fortunate that the babe over which





she. sheds so many motherly tears,
should bear the name of “Wu Hoo
Git.” ‘Wu Hoo Git” repeated over
and over, even in the most seraphic
and_melting tones, strikes—a—slightly.
wrong note.

Next to Mrs. Coburn, we like lady-
like Daffodil the best. His white-
painted hands and red nails, his pluck-
ed eyebrows, his heart-warming sneer
and his pretty little feet combine to
make us feel more sorry than glad
when brawn conquered brains and “Wu
Hoo Git’’ casts him off his throne with
one flying tackle. It would seem from
“Wu Hoo Git’s’” antics and character
that young heroes are the same the
world over.

The mellifluous Mr. Coburn exas-

perated us a bit at-the end when he
introduced the cast, one by one, for all

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the world like amateur night at a local
theatre. We think, too, that the proud
authors of this opus packed the play
too full of those “quaint Chinese cus-
toms:”there-are too many symbolic:
dances, too many- tricks of the trade.
They tend to distract one’s Attention,
and make one remember the world’s-
famous Yellow Jacket not as a mov-
ing and beautifully acted play, but
rather as clever vaudeville.

—F. C. V. K.



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