College news, March 15, 1933

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VOL. XIX, No. 15

BRYN: MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY,

MARCH 45, 1933

Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS,’ 1933

PRICE 10 CENTS





Regulation in Case of
Repeal is Discussed
Mr. Bohlen and “Dr. Kelsey
Argue Over Protection’
ef Dry States



ARGUMENTS ARE HEATED

Tuesday night, March 7, in Good-
hart Common Room, both sides of the
Prohibition Repeal question were dis-
cussed by two speakers, Mr. Francis
Bohlen, ‘proféssor of Constitutional
Law at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, and Dr. R. W. Kelsey, fo Hav-
erford College. Dr. Bohlen spoke on
“What the Repeal of the Eighteenth
Amendment Will Mean,”

“The question,” said Dr. Bohten,



“is what provision is to be made for

the dry States.” It has been abso-
lutely_demonstrated._that.._Congress
can protect any State against the
violation of State rules, a provision
of the Constitution which has been
made explicit by the Blaine Resolu-
tion. During the Republican cam-
paign, much was made of the state-
ment that the dry States would be
inundated by liquor from wet States,
but Mr. Bohlen thinks that these
States will be drier than ever, be-
cause the local police will have a di-
rect responsibility for the enforce-
ment of their prohibition laws,
“What we have quarreled with is
that Atlantic seaboard habits should
be controlled by other States. Each
group of citizens, the smaller the bet-
ter, should determine its own habits.
The larger the unit for which any
sumptuary law is enacted, the less ef-
fective is it likely to be.” The pro-
tection of dry States after the Repeal
is important, but more important is
the control of the liquor traffic in
the States that decide for Repeal.

_ “We do no want the saloon, but by

returning control to each State, suit-
able laws for every region may event-
ually be worked out. America is sick
of the dogmatism of the present law,
and.she will use the State option as
an experimental laboratory.” The
other nations of the world, especially
in Europe, are trying to limit drink-
ing to harmless light wines and beers
by different systems of restriction.

_ “Thank God, we shall no longer
Be. left alone to stick to a verbal lie.
Every other nation has abandoned it.
Well-meaning fanatics can do more
harm in ten years than people of tol-
erance can undo in a century. My
hope is that by limitation and raising
the price of spirits, as in Denmark,
drinking will be decreased. If. the
enormity of Prohibition is abolished
by repeal, we will have the power. of
dealing flexibly with the problem and
a chance of finally reaching the
ideal.”

Dr. Kelsey, who spoke next, pre-
sented the case for Prohibition. He
said that the Eighteenth Amendment
would undoubtedly be repealed, since
the pendulum was swinging in, that
direction. “To me it is almost im-
possible to understand people who

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Mrs. Breckinridge To Talk
On Frontier Nursing



Mrs. Mary Breckinridge will speak
on her work in the. Kentucky moun-/
tains on Monday, March twentieth, at
four-thirty in the Common. Room.
Mrs. Breckinridge is director of the
Frontier Nursing Service which she
established in 1926 to bring aid ito
the forgotten baék-woodsmen of the
mountain regions. Until recently these
people have been entirely cut | off
from the outside world and complete-
ly ignorant of the ways of our mod-
ern civilization. Mrs. Breckinridge
has done a tremendous piece of work
in showing the people how to} im-
prove their living conditions, ; and
through the help of her “nursés on
horse-back” has been able greatly to
reduce the rate of infant mo:
and prevent the spread of typhoid
fever. She will tell what the Fron-
tier Nursing Service is doing and il-
lustrate her talk with lantern 'slides.

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COLLEGE CALENDAR

THURSDAY, MARCH 16
4 P’-M.--In the Common
Room, demonstration by Gas-

Quota System Kept to
py Prevent Class Halls

ton de Paris of make-up, per- |!Minor Reforms Instituted by
fumes, powders; ete: ~ Council: Hall Exchanges

FRIDAY, MARCH. 17 Mad :
: ade Possible
4 P. M.—Class Swimming ‘

Meet. 3
8.20 P. M.—French Play—Le |P EMBROKES COMBINED

Bourgeois Gentilhomme. | ;
‘ote Muse OA | The Quota Committee of the Col-

lege Council presented its recom-

he Sa ee ee a mendations for reform of the quota
: : : : ; last Wednesday evening, and the
speak on ¥rontier Nursing in long promised action on the question
Kentucky, took place. The committee, which
TUESDAY, Marcu 21 has been considering the problem since

thee Monin the Music Room; the beginning of the year, explained
Odyssey Cruise Movies. the obstacles in the path of any com-
| plete i sei of the grievances of
the pregent system, and presented the
following six resolution, which were
immediately passed by the Council,
calculated to remove minor irrita-
tions: 1. That Pembroke East and
West be combined into one hall under
the quota; 2. That no preference in
general draw be given _ either
| Bettws-y-Coed or Wyndham should

SYSTEM Is EXPLAINED | they reopen; 8. That the six “jun-
| iors in Merior be allowed to move to

(Specially Contributed by Gertrude| other halls regardless of the quota;
Parnell, Chairman Cut 4. That two people of the same class
Committee) living in nents halls may exchange
4 rooms without having to enter gen-
The. omission. of Freshman Week/ eral draw; 5. That within the year
the quota for each class shall remain
set, so that if a girl leaves at mid-
year’s she will leave a full vacancy,
instead of one-fifth of a vacancy; 6.
That there be a more even distribu-
tion of scholarship rooms among the
halls, and that some provision be
made for turning some of the Merion
many cuts per semester as she has | singles back into suites if the stu-
, dents desire it.















Students. Advised to '
Keep Record of Cuts.



Omission of Freshman Week is'
Given as Cause of
Confusion.







this year is to blame for the lack of |

an adequate explanation of the cut |
The cut
committee feels that each student |
should \have exact knowledge of the!
cut system.

system to the freshmen.



Each student is allowed only as)

regular classes per week. Thus, in|
general, a unit course will allow three | It seemed to the committee that

| the quota system in its present form
i [is the lesser of many evils. It is
and a first or second year science) truly realized that the six changes
course five cuts, each laboratory hour) outlined above do not touch the great
cut counting as one-third of a cut. | evils of the ‘quota, which result in
Until the present semester, classes in ).Students being unable to leave a hall
! they. dislike, or obtain a room in the

| hall of their choice. But it is im-
increase the student’s allowance, -al-'ossible to reform the main evils of

cuts, a half-unit course two cuts,

required Diction and Hygiene did not

though they were recorded and count-

ed as in other subjects. Beginning |
this semester, however, two cuts will’ Portionments of the four classes

throughout the halls on a numerical
and impersonal basis is the keystone
of the, entire structure. If the nu-
merical system were entirely given
unlimited cuts within reason. If_any' up, class halls would be the inevitable
penalty is incurred by a student who | result, and the administration is op-
| posed to the developments of such a
| condition. President Park was her-
: self in Bryn Mawr when there were
All excuses, for illness, emergen-| class halls, and it was an unsatisfac-
cies, etc., aré obtainable from the! tory situation at best. Four classes
“Dean’s office. “never fitted into five halls, and the
A student taking excess cuts up to| xg “eg tg peck flung bt

: ; : | the 0 all. so having

ier Mitac 8 oe egal classes all together in one hall builds
on Student Probation. That is, the! ap the\demegracy and geheral socia’

| tolerance of which Bryn Mawr is so

number of excess cuts up to and N~ proud.

cluding one shall be quadrupled and, On the assumption that class halls

deducted from the student’s next se-| are undesirable, the Quota Committee

mes ter’s cuts. The number of rapa attempted to find some means of re-
cuts from one through two and two-| laxing the rigidity of the quota, but
thirds shall be tripled and deducted. |

E | it soon became obvious that there
: ee wiaksocne ane eos could be no compromise between abol-
nd two-thirds is recommended for

‘ . ishing it entirely and maintaining it
Senate Probation, and is allowed nO! ynder the present rules. If a slid-

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cuts for the next semester. A student | ing quota for each hall were institut-

= ris . er above _ . ed, the more popular halls would fill
owance is liable to be suspende 6s ‘out their quotas immediately and the
to have part or all of the semester's! ..me problems would result>~Any

work cancelled. Serious over-cutting | systém would be unsatisfactory which
more than five shall have their de- left the final decision up to an offi-

gree or an examination deferred—at cial. It is-necessary in the matter

the discretion of the Senate. of room assignments to deal imper-
Any student who over-cuts because| sonally and dispassionately, or the
she does-not-expect-to return to col-|-immediate “results- would. be- accusa-
lege the following year will be asked] tions of favoritism, or crime and cor-
to leave immediately rather than stay} ruption. The Quota Committee: ex-
and not attend classes. amined every possible detail of the
Students are advised to keep a rec-|-present system, and came to the con-
\ord of their own cuts, to be compared |.clusion that unless the. entire struc-
in case of error with the cut records| ture were to be destroyed and a new
of the Dean’s office. Unless this is (Continued on Page. Six)
done, no corrections will. be made
after the cuts are recorded at the
end of the month.
Any student who is not in her right
seat when attendance is being taken,
‘or who is out of the room at that
time, should report immediately after

be allowed for Hygiene and one-half
Students who
are reading for honors are allowed |



of a cut for. Diction.

is going to read for honors, the ‘pen-
alty is enforced for one semester.





Election -

The Business Board of the
News takes pleasure in an-
nouncing the election of Bar-"
bara Lewis, ’33, as ‘a member of
the Business Board.







Positions .
Miss Charlotte E. Carr, Dep-
uty Secretary of the Pennsyl-
vania Department of Labor and
Industry, will speak on oppor-
tunities for women in positions
associated with industry, in-
cluding: the personnel work now
being done by State depart-
-ments. The meeting will be
held on Tuesday afternoon,
March the twenty-first, at quar.
ter past five, in the Common
Room of Goodhart Hall. Every-
one who is interested is cordial-
ly invited to attend. Tea will
be served at five o’clock. -





the quota. without destroying the
foundation upon which it stands. Ap~



Varsity Dramatics’
Plans Are Complete



Men’s. Parts Are Cast From
Princeton Men for Lady
Windemere’s Fan~



PRODUCERS -ARE CHOSEN



Plans for the Varsity Dramatics
production of Lady Windemere’s
Fan are fast being shaped, now that
the casting has been completed and
the general outlines of the produc-
tion decided. The male parts are be-
ing taken by men from Princeton
University, who have been invited to
take part by the Board of Dramat-
ies. The cast is as follows

Lord Windemere....Charles Trexler

Lord Darlington....Tony Nichol, Jr. |

Lord’ Augustus Lorton,
William Gibson
Coeil Graham.... William Kienbusch

Mt; DUNDY. spas John Duboyse
Mats SOD per i aia Harry Dunham

Other small parts have not yet
been assigned definitely. Mr. Trexler
is well-known in Princeton for his
work with the Theatre Intime, as is
Mr. Nichol, who has just played the
lead in the undergraduate play. Mr.
Kienbusch has also worked with the
Intime, both as actor and as stage
manager. Mr. Dunham is well-known
for his work with the Triangle Club
and is also the vice-president of the
Intime. The other two members of
the cast have had less experience,
but are by no means novices.

The Bryn Mawr production staff
has just been announced and it in-
cludes the following names:

Bleanor Pinkerton, 33........: Sets
Sylvia Bowditch, ’33....Construction
Betsy...Jackson, 83.:.......4. Lights
Maria Coxe, ’34..... Stage Manager

Carrie Schwab, 34......... Costumes
Elizabeth Edwards, ’33,...Properties

The production plans are still quite
general, but it has been definitely de-
cided that the play will be done in
modern dress and in a very stylized
manner. Probably the set will be a
curtain set in black and white, while
the costumes will be black and white
in certain acts and blue and white in
others. In any case, much opportun-
ity for experimentation is offered and
Varsity intends to use that opportun-
ity as exhaustively as it can.

The Board is not able to announce
definitely its plans for a tea-dance
preceding the Saturday performance, |
but if financial conditions permit,
they hope to be able to sponsor such
an affair. This is, again, something
in the way of an innovation, as the
dance will be directly under Varsity
and not under the supervision of the
Undergraduate Board, which ; has
sponsored all dances at college in the
past. The change is due to the prox-
imity of the dates of the Varsity per-
formance’ to the Glee-Club operetta,

‘for which the Undergraduate Board

plans to give an evening dance,



News Candidates

a This week’s assignment for
all candidates for the editor-
ial board of the News is to re-
portthe class swimming meet
on Friday, write an editorial,
and a Wit’s End article, Please
report to the News office Mon-
day at 5.30 P. M., bringing
articles.





Mts. Smith Explains
Financial Situation



Three Crises Are Drops in
Securities, Commodities
and Real Estate



REFORMS NECESSARY



Professor Marion P. Smith analyzed
the ‘current financial situationin two
well-attended chapels, March 7 and 8.
Characterizing the present crisis as
the last of a series which began in
October, 1929; she declared that the
dozens of ‘constructive measurés
which have been taken since March 4
all point toward ‘a ‘permanent uni-
fication of the banking system and a
speedy resumption. of normal busi-
ness.

Although, for want of perspective
and_insideinformation,.it-is—hard—to
pick out the most significant aspects
of the depression, we are beginning
to realize that there have been three
acute crises in a long series of ealam-
itous happenings. The first sign of
trouble was a sharp drop in security
values, which began in October, 1929,
and became most pronounced a year
later. Also, over a period of two and
a half years there occurred a series
of shocks affecting different indus-
tries at different times. Commodity
prices were ‘deflated, first in raw ma-
terials and then in manufactured
goods. With the curtailment of pur-
chasing power, the American public
ceased to invest abroad. Germany
was unable to pay her reparations,
the Allies were unable to pay their
debts“ and by June, 1931, an inter-
national financial crisis had devel-
oped, which severely ‘affected’ British
creditors. England went off the gold
standard and forty-one other coun-
tries followed.

This deflation of security and com-
modity values was accompanied by a
corresponding deflation of wages and
salaries. The early policy of main-
taining the wage scales of employed
men even while thousands of others
were dismissed, was superceded in
the spring of 1932 by a movement
for spreading work among as many
men as possible.

The present emergency, Mrs. Smith
said, is fundamentally a real estate
panic which developed because (in
spite of the fact that business as a
whole had been spectacularly deflat-
ed) real estate men refused to lower
the interest rates on long term agree-
ments. The wholesale bankruptcies
and forecloslres caused by this in-
elasticity aroused vigorous protest
throughout the country. In Iowa,
sheriff sales were obstructed and one
auctioneer narrowly escaped lynch-
ing. In Philadelphia, certain five-
and-ten-cent stores actually went vol-
untarily bankrupt in order to cance}
their leases.

As a result of such difficulties in
both agricultural and metropolitan
districts,. bank credit naturally be-
came frozen, and, beginning last
spring, a wave of hoarding hysteria
swept the country. Although, for
some unknown reason, the panic was
temporarily checked last.summer, it
recommenced in August, and has con-
tinued until the recent climax. Even
on February 25, Mrs. Smith remark-
ed at the conclusion of her first talk,
there were a billion more dollars in
circulation outside the banks than
during the boom year of 1928.

Continuing her analysis the next
morning, Mrs. Smith attempted to de-
scribe the exact nature of hoarding. ,

‘Anyone who takes money out of a

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Wanted

Odds and ends of yarn, any
color, quantity, or quality, to
‘be knit into six-inch squares for
crazy quilts. These will be
used to cover the babies of the
South End, who are now being
wrapped in newspapers in or-
der to keep them warm. Please
bring any contributions to Miss
Grant at the Gym or to.Sylvia
Bowditch, Rockefeller, .











class to the Dean’s office.

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Intelligent Economy
By the time this editorial appears the banking situation of the

country will, we hope, be much clearer.

If the administration econ-

tinues in its firm emer gency policy we have every reason to believe that
it will be, and when the banks reopen for regular unrestricted business,
the effects of the universal appeals for a growth of confidence and a

campaign against fear will begin to show.

These appeals have been

made by practically every American in public life from the President

on down, and we have no intention of echoing them.

to be said has been said and with
than we could muster.

All that there is
far more eloquence and authority

We do, however, wish to apply the spirit of

these appeals to the situation at college.

Most of us, while we are affected by the economic crisis, are af-
fected so indirectly in comparison with those in the world outside of

college that we could almost be said to be untouched.

We have, for the

next few months’ at least, no problem of food or of shelter, which is

more than can be said of many people.

Our greatest problem at the

moment is that of the best method of spending, or not spending, the

small amounts of money we haye at our command.

There is no really

important hoarding problem to be dealt with, as few of us have enough

money to make hoarding worth while.

There is a seemingly great

willingness to spend money, and a problem only in procuring enough
to spend. There is, nevertheless, a definite economy program staring

most of us in the face.

because we simply haven’t the means.

down.

It is here that we feel an appeal can and should be made.

We cannot-spend as we have spent in the past,
The question is where to cut

In the

first place, while we feel that it is ridiculous to give to charity money
that we actually need to remain economically sound, we do feel that
the first cut in a student’s budget should not be in the money she

habitually gives to those more needy than she.

The necessities of life

are probably a lot fewer than most of us think, and it is a good time
to learn to distinguish between those things we cannot get along without
and things which are dubiously beneficial luxuries at best. These really

should be sacrificed in a crisis like the present one, and without appear-

ing too sanctimonious we should like to suggest the money thus saved

can be given away without great privation.

This is not by any means

a startlingly new thought, but it is surprising how few of us have ap-

plied it intelligently.

We cut down on week-ends and then spend: the

difference on-clothes or something else that is delightfully cheap just

now.

balances, but we do not stop to figure out just what to do.

We all of us feel that something should be done about our bank

We save

here and spend there without much rhyme or reason.

We also are apt to let the depression become a positive disease.

It

has started in us the same type of fear that makes hoarders in thé world

~ outside.

Every time any new expense is suggested in college, a ery of

terror goes up against it that is usually somewhat out of proportion to

its size and importance.

Will Rogers, in commenting on the national

situation, wiade what we think was an excellent remark, when he said
that the thing that had saved the banks of the country and given him
. new hope in thé whole American people was the sense of humor hey

had shown in the banking crisis.

A sense of humor and a sense of

proportion are much the same thing.



* IN PHALADELPHIA
Theatres a

Garrick: . An_ excellent English
company headed by ‘Muriel Colbourne
and Barry Jones in Shaw’s complete-
ly rewritten comedy, Too True To Be
Good. Everything has been changed
except the title, and it is now recom-
mended.

_ Chestnut: The very melodramatic
saga of the wrong woman and the
man who loves her. A Trip to Press-
burg, with Roger Pryor and Kath-
érine. Wilson.

69th Street Playhouse: John Van
Druten’s There’s Always Juliet. The
action takes place in modern London,

' where an American architect loves an

English “debutante” surrounded by

amusing people. With Joseph Moran].

and Virginia Curley.
; Coming—Monday

Chestnut: Rachel Crother’s New

j Meet,



York’ comedy success, When Ladies
in which two women love the
same man from opposite sides of the
fence. Excellent.

Forrest: Glenn Anders and Dor-
othy Stickney in the:story of every-
day life in an everyday home—An-
other Language. Very good.

Academy of Music
Philadelphia Orchestra: Fri. Aft.,
March 17, at 2.80 P. M.; Sat.. Eve.,
March 18, at 8.20; Mon. Eve., March
20, at 8.20. Leopold Stokowski will

conduct. Program: 4
Rachmaninoff... .Island of the Dead
La Monaca ee Dances from

The Festival of Gauri

Wagner. .Siegfrieds’ Rhine Journey,

-Siegfried’s) Death and Brunn-

‘hilde’s Immolation from Got-
terdammerung.

Rachmaninoff will give a concert

‘on Saturday afternoon, March 18, at

wires END

A BRYN MAWRTYR VOTES
(or, The Futility of It)
The hoi polloi went rushing in
And stuffed the ballot boxes;
A Bryn Mawr grad stood by: awhile
To ponder social poxes.
“If only I had taken math—
And learned to differentiate,
Or hadn’t cut that reading quiz
On inner workings of the State,
I might be able now to fix
My mind upon my vote,
Instead of wondering about
Statistics too remote. °
O tempora! Vox populi! »
And I neglect to mention
The polylemmas started
At the suffragettes’ convention.
What, Woman now would vote to vote
At every State election,
Or second motions to promote
Feminine intellection?”
She was blase, and uninformed,
And wouldn’t vote to poll,
So quickly turned upon her heel
And stepped out on her
sole.



—Campusnoops



Financiers are on the spot,
But our State is not so hot.
O, pity the Bryn Mavr girl!

Week-ends are definitely fewer.
New York has almost lost its lure.
O, pity the Bryn Mawr girl!

Our cash the Pay-Day Mistress seeks,

We haven’t a dime to go to the
Greeks.

O, pity the Bryn Mawr girl!

Dear directors of shaky banks,

To you we'll offer our deepest thanks,,

If you'll pity the Bryn Mawr girl!
—Sour Apple.



SONNET TO A BONNET
Although right now the cold and win-
try days
Proclaim the furtherance of dreary
spring,
Long drawing out with drooling mist
and haze
The dingy dampness that must
with it bring
Fond thoughts of furbelows and bows
Designed to deck the newest of the

frocks;
Great streamers, strings, and knots
and rows
Of - ribbons, fruit, nasturtiums,
phlox,

Particularly on the featured hats,
Tall, stately, Babel towers arising
high,
Designed to be worn with matching
spats.
(And, we’ve no doubt, a loud and
glaring tie!)
O bonnet mine! Just like a layer
cake
You loom afar.
ACHE!

—Unscrambled Egg.

I eat my hat—AND



They say that there are only three
more days left before the return of
beer, and we can’t help wondering
just how immediately that will affect
us. We hadn’t any too sanguine hopes
until those peculiar pretzel-like crack-
ers appeared on the dinnet table in
a certain-hall. on Monday night: Now
there is nothing we wolildn’t believe.

Cheero,

THE MAD HATTER.



2.30 P. M.

John McCormack will give a con-
cert on Tuesday, March 21, at 8.15
PM,

Movies

Locust Street: The last week of
Noel Coward’s panorama. of the
twentieth century, Cavalcade, with
Clive Brook, Diana Wynward, and
Beryl Mercer.

Stanley: Warner Baxter, Bebe
Daniels, and George Brent in Forty-
second Street. The backstage version
of a production, with all the compli-
cations.

Boyd: A really superior lion and
‘man movie—Buster Crabbe (Olympic
swimmer) in King of the Jungle.

Stanton: George Brent, Zita Jo-
hann, and Frank Morgan live six
days of life and love aboard funery
Liner.

Karlton: Paul Lukas. in Grand.
Slam, with Loretta Young. »

Keith’s: : The usual litter of vau-



| torial in last week’s “News a

written.



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LETTERS

(The News is not responsible : for
opinions expressed in this column.)



To the Editor of the College News ::

I was deeply stirred by your edi-
am
writing to congratulate you on your
splendid attitude and to extend to
you my heartfelt sympathy for the
unfeelingness of the campus.

I am particularly pleased at. the
Romantic Movement that you have
inaugurated in college editorials..You
succeed in being at once impartial
and yet not cold. Your words are
impersonal and yet call up myriads of
associations. Your editorials are to

| the point and yet their style is limpid,

flowing, florescent.

I was violently moved by the
tien crusade against bushes called
p by the white passion of student
opinion. How truly disgraceful it
is that the college hag left you hold-
ing the lamp!

Your editorial on the quota sys-
tem was also no less than immense.
The titanic way in which you point-
ed out that something should-be done
was conclusive: you made -it abso-
lutely: something should be done. Is
it not degrading to think that the
college should ‘have deserted you so
scurrilously, you who have at their
own request come out so firmly with
the bold doctrine that we have a prob-
lem here and that we really ought to
do something about it.

Rare there is the matter of clothes,

hich you are no less to be con-
Hal obeeoel The majority of the col-
lege members was indeed disgusted
at itself for wearing aprons, hair-
ribbons, slacks, going about as. it
were with running noses or, as it
were, cloister-begrimed toes, To
think ‘that they should have denied
their feelings as soon ag your edi-
torial came out.

And then your stand against at-
tempts at intellectualism. How stu-
pidly some people enjoy their work!
Work after all is something which
we all admit should not be gripping,
but griping. And people who talk
about their work! Really! It would
be bad enough’ alone, but when it in-
terrupts the bridge game, too! Words
really cannot express my: feelings on
that subject.

I don’t think I need go on to show
point by point how I feel about your
paper. May I only say in conclusion
how much I admire the fine courage
of your editorials and how much en-
joyment I have derived from perus-
ing your columns.

“Must go beagling now.

Love, BUGS.*
*Elizabeth Rendall Kindleberger, 2d.



To the Editor of the College News:

In reply to some criticism made
of the last week’s College News, a
member of the editorial staff has in-
vited us to write a letter in which
we can voice our sentiments and give
constructive criticism. Moreover, a
happy statement in last week’s edi-
torial that “the medium for self-ex-
pression in the News is open to ev-
eryone” prompts us. '

First of all the copy editing: let
us look through the last edition. Dr.
Carpenter’s lecture, which was one
of the most outstanding events of the
year, and a real scholastic’ contribu-
tion to Bryn Mawr, was given a posi-
tion subordinate to Saks Fashion
Show, which is of doubtful interest
to the majority of the student body,
and of little importance. We feel
that this is aninsult to Dr, Carpenter
and to the standards of Bryn Mawr.
Greater care should have been. given
to the composing of this page. Dr.

-Carpenter’s lecture deserved a place

of honor on-the front page and a two-
column head. May we cite another
example of lack of proportion? In
the News of March 1, two front page
headings are given to athletics and
Dean Manning’s chapel talk on nu-
merical marks is placed on page. 3.
This is hardly: in line with the policy
which the News Board has advocat-
ed in the past, since several editorials
have been devoted to marks. We do
no wish to be too critical. We feel
that the News of November 9, 1932,
is an example of good taste in com-
position.

In regard to the editorial policy
of the News, we do not criticize the
subjects of your editorials, but the
bombastic manner in. whith they are
Furthermore, if you could
prove that your editorial criticisms

ee Seed

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-work like~a‘ slave for: it.



are as applicable to the majority of
your readers.as you state, we would
be delighted to uphold you. Unfor.
tunately we do not think that~ they
are, nor can we point with pride to
your “new -policy,” as stated in the
November 30, 1932, paper, that “im
mediately before every major vaca-
tion there will appear a devastating,

insulting and vitriolic editorial cal- |

culated to stir up enough commotion
in the world to make conversation
edsy for students during said: vaca-
tions.”

Not being on the Board ourselves
we claim no merits in style. But we
feel that anyone ‘who has passed the
Freshman English course should be
able to write comprehensibly. Just

what do you mean, in your editorfal--

of March 1st, by “But no one loves,
and no one woul be caught dead ab-
sorbing the theory of a celestial fund
of learning from which the favored
ones are equipped with a gamma ray
in the intellect that enables' them to
see through human superstitions.”

And perhaps Mr. King would teach

us how “to snort at a fetish.”

In concluding, may we also make
a -plea for greater accuracy and
thoughtful selection in your headings.
In the March 1 edition you speak of

Mrs. Sackville-West. As we all know, |

she is either Miss Sackvillé-West or
M#§. Harold Nicholson: : And we feel
that Miss Bruere in the review of
the Freshman Show deserves to be
headlined at least as much as Miss
Jones in the article about the Varsity
Players’ Club’s production of “The
Saint’s Day.”

Yours sincerely,

Eleanor R.- Eckstein, ’33;
Jane Parsons, ’34; Elizabeth Cham-
berlayne, ’35.



To the Editor of the College News:
It has been the feeling of a dis-
creetly murmuring minority that The
News has been on the path of inocu-
ous decadence for no little time, but
that now a point has been reached
where action seems imperative. This
action has consisted in pointing out
typographical errors, questioning
page placement and. editorial content,
and in every way possible entering
upon a campaign of destructive criti-
cism.
There is a certain dignity that The
News has expressed in its editorials,
which is rather flattering in view of
the fact that it is metaphorically
spoken of as “the mirror of campus
thought and opinion.” It is the bar-
renness of these sources that war-
rants the hanging of a little crepe;
the ‘willingness to belittle when it is

no secret that The News board will -

welcome with open arms and as one
of their number anyone showing the
slightest ability,

Sigwed:

Joan Hopkinson, ’85; Adeline Fur-
ness, 735; Nancy Nicoll, ’85; Sally
Hupfel, ’85; Barbara Baxter, ’36;.
Betty Walter, ’34; Isabella Hellmer,
33; Agnes Halsey, ’86; Grace Mee-
han, ’34; Marjorie Wood, ’35; M. E.
Grant, ’33; Polly Cooke, ’34; Helen
Whitney, ’35; Eleanor Cheney, ’35;
Marie Swift, ’36; Elizabeth Monroe,
85; Florence Cluett, ’85; Virginia
Cooke, 35; Gertrude Franchot, ’35;
Ellen Nichols, ’33; Jeannette Markell,
’33; Marian Mitchell, ’34; Kitty Gri-
bell, ’84; Jean C, Porter, ’35.



To the Editor of the College News:

I do not think there is any doubt
that the last Freshman Show was a
complete success from the viewpoint. |
of the audience; and, after- voicing
this opinion, most of us’ can say rio
more. I, however, have had an op-
portunity to observe the Show partly
from another angle—namely, its ef-
fect upon the freshman class—and iH.
is this phase which I believe to be
open to adverse criticism.

Most upperclassmen look back upon
their own Freshman Shows as the
greatest factor of that year in uni-
fying the class. For the first time
(and probably the last!) the entire
class worked as a whole, everyone
learned to know everyone else, every-
one was enthusiastic over a distinctly
class project, and everyone felt it a
privilege to belong to her class and
I doubt
very much if this prime purpose of
a Freshman Show has been fulfilled
this time. Happily for the delighted
audience, but unfortunately for. 1936,
its show was run almost entirely by
certain individuals in one or two
halls, who made no apparent effort

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Architectural Field
Offers Opportunities



Combination of Common Sense
With Designing Ability is
Main Requirement.

IS DIFFICULT



COURSE



“Architecture is not a narrow kind
of job in any sense,” said Georgina
Pope-Yeatman in the Common Room,
March. 9,.during her talk on the pos-
sibilities in the fields of architecture
and landscape gardening for college
graduates. ‘It’ is work in which there
is never much money, for the fees
are not high, but one can experience
professional pride, get satisfaction in
doing something, and can follow an
ideal by making what one does, beau-
titul.”’

If one is planning to be a profes-
‘gional architect, it is wise to com-
plete a four-year college céurse first,
studying mathematics, through cal-
culus at least, history of art, archi-
tecture, and drawing. A college back-
ground often enables a student to go
through a professional schoo] in four
or even three years, although the
regular length of-time-is-five.A-girl
who is not a graduate of a co-ed
school should choose a co-ed school
of architecture because she -will re-
ceive there better training in business
‘contacts which will be helpful when
she is actually working. @

For one interested ‘in architecture,
the course at a professional school
can afford a great deal of pleasure
and enjoyment, although classes often
last from nine to five, with addi-
tional preparation to be done in the
evenings. There is consequently no
time for social activities. Problems

in design are assigned which sdme-
times take as long as six weeks to
complete. There /are, ‘moreover, ex-
aminations to..be .passed in most
States before a draftsman can be
registered and sign his drawings:
Little distinction is being made in
the business world between men and
»women architects. “A _ professional
attitude will get anyone a job some-
where.” A girl who is planning to
go into the profession of architec-
ture must appreciate the résponsibili-
ties attached to it. People of. dif-
ferent potentialities are needed to run
an office: successfully; for..example,
the expert on materials, the designer,
and the business executor. “The
kmore you know about design, the
more you have to go’on, for the great
thing in architecture is design, and
common sense goes with it.” Archi-
tecture is undoubtedly a field full of
opportunities, but Miss Pope-Yeat-
man closed with the remark that “it
would, perhaps, be better to go into
some occupation in which there were
not already so many girls from Bryn
Mawr.” i



Of the 542 going abroad this year
150 go to America, 131 to Japan,
121 to France, 74 to Germany, 29 to
Belgium, 28 to Finland, 3 to Canada,
3 to Sweden, 2 to Italy and 1 to India.
There is a great decrease in the num-
ber going to Japan ;in 1931, 671 went
there.—(N. S. F. A.)



&

It seems funny that in these times
a scholarship which pays over six
hundred dollars should go begging for
someone to use it. But such is the
case up at Yale, and no. one has held
it since 1919; in fact, no one has
even applied for it. The catch is
that the applicant must be christened
Leavenworth.—(N. S. F. A.)





Mrs. Smith Explains

Financial Situation



Irom Page One)
is considered unsound,

(Continuea

bank which

| and puts it into another bank, is not
thoarding, she said, but anyone who

withdraws money from a bank on the
basis. of unverified rumors, withdraws
money from a bank and hides it .where

it will be out of circulation, is guilty
of hoarding, and is performing an
unsocial act under the influence of
sheer hysteria.

~~Before the inauguration, ‘the coun-
try was swept ‘by a hysteria of such
proportions that in six days one-
sixth of the nation’s available cur-
rency had been. withdrawn, and at-
tempts of mayors and governors to
deal with local emergencies by. bank
holidays only .involyed contiguous
areas in similar difficulties, which
were increased by the flight of sthe
dollar and consequent drain on our
gold reserves. Mahy Americans were
shipping gold to Europe for safety,
and Europeans were selling American
securities and demanding gold in
payment. ‘ ”

To meet the emergency which these
developments created, the new Presi-
dential cabinet was immediately
sworn in, an embargo was placed on
gold exports, and a national bank
holiday was declared. Other con-
structive measures. were immediately
proposed, such as the issuance of scrip,
the expansion of the currency, and
the improvement of the banking sys-
tem with inclusion of all banks in
one national system under stringent
Federal control. Thus the crisis may
result in the adoption of much-need-
ed reforms, which otherwise would
not have been secured without years
of agitation.



LETTERS

(Continued from Pagg Two)
to include the whhble class
Show, either in the play itself or in |
the “behind scenes” duties. These|
less talented or less favored members |
of the class could scarcely be expect. |

edo feel very interested in the class |
< fim which they were excluded. :
As it was handled, the Freshman
Show served only to dissatisfy and |
disappoint many a freshman. In view
of this, it cannot be called a complete |
suecess. |

How unfortunate that such a thing
should have befallen 1936!—the poor
class which missed Freshman Week,
Parade Night, and now, in part, the
chief ‘benefit of Freshman Show. And
to cap the climax, they did not even
have the privilege of getting excited
over their animal. It seems a pity
that 1935 did not make a gallant
gesture; at least, and indulge in a!
few harmless tricks, such as hiding |
under beds, in~ order to lend the
proper atmosphere, which certainly
was lacking until the very last day.
For the sake of the freshmen, who
naturally expected some activity over |
their animal in view of the tales they
had heard about past years, I prefer
1934’s strong-arm methods to 1935’s
ladylike aloofness.

I also object to the anvertionmenite
by Jeannette’s for Freshman. Show
flowers. In two halls on campus it
is a tradition that flowers for the
freshmen on this occasion ‘should “be
a complete surprise to them. This
is scarcely possible in the face of an-
nouncements and posters concerning
them. In the future I think that such
advertisements should be barred.

Sadly enough it is too late to do
anything for 19386. We can only hope
that incoming classes will not be al-





in * the!

| lowed to miss the fun: that 1936 has

been deprived ofg ’

ELEANOR YEAKEL, ’33.



Regulation in Case of
Repeal is Discussed



(Continued from Page One)

think the privilege of drinking is
precious above all others.” Repeal
will put us back where we were be-
fore, trying the same panaceas, and
making the samé mistakes. Since the

question cannot be settled by academ-

‘ie discussion, the nations will prob-

ably take several generations to learn
that successful industrialism and the
liquor traffic do not jibe.

In reply to a remark made by Dr.
Bohlen about the wave of crime caus-
ed by prohibition, Dr. Kelsey said
that it might be partly traced to the
anti-Prohibition’ propaganda, “th¢
greatest piece of peacetime propagan-
da in the history of the world.” It
has aimed at breaking down respect -
for this law, and indirectly has un-
dermined every law, by encouraging
the people, through movies, newspa-
pers, and magazines, to disobey part
of the Constitution. z

‘Prohibition, at its worst, has made
conditions better than before. Gren-
fell, Evangeline Booth; Jane Addams,
and other prominent welfare work-
ers, say that there is less drinking
among the workers than before the
amendment. The Wickersham Com-
mission, in its majority report against
Repeal and return of the saloon, said
that there had been a real and sub-
stantial improvement in the lives. of
those with whom the social worker
comes into contact. . “If Prohibition
has made drunkards and law-break-
ers, it has done it only in the sense
that the Ten Commandments make
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Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS -









Book Reviews





The birth of a new column in the
News is likely to be met with sneers
and catcall; I shall, then, .endeavor
to stay at a safe distance from ‘all
the bright young things who might
be upset.or_misled....Some new books
that should, we hope; meet with
approval:

Texts & Pretexts, an anthology
with commentaries, by Aldous: Hux-
ley (Harper &, Brothers, $2.50). An
excursion of Mr. -Huxley’s mind
among the emotions of people of all
times. Recommended ‘to all readers
and collectors. :

First Lesson, James Aston’s_ sec-
ond novel (Chatto & Windus, $2.75),
is a much more mature and polished.
effort than They Winter Abroad,
which had a marked success last year
in England and America. The story
of a Cambridge Don, who goes to
Italy for a holiday and finds, instead,
adventure of the oddest sort. Anoth-
er Nymph Errant.

Fanfare For Tin Trumpets, by
Margery Sharp (Putnam, $2), is a
gay and witty novel for the readers}
of the Waugh school. A novel which
is a popular success in England.

The book for bored and tired peo-
ple has arrived on the scene. Appius
& Virginia, by G. E. Trevelyan (Put-
nam, $2). For readers of: His Mon-
key Wife and Lady Into Fox. The
author is the first woman to be
awarded the Newdigate. Prize for
English Verse at Oxford. A first.
novel which has everything. We can’t
sings its praises too loudly.

Max Miller’s second novel, He Went
Away for a While, is also to be rec-
ommended. He is the author of 7
Cover the Waterfront, which was
very popular. Moods and musings
while camping alone in California.

Two new books for celebrity hunt-
ers. No Phantoms Here, by James
L. Hodson (Faber & Faber, $2.75),
and These Moderns, by F. R. Dumas
(Humphrey Toulmin, $2.75). Short
sketches of famous people abroad:
Gertrude Lawrence, Maurois, Mor-
and, Colette, Mauriac, Dorgeles, Coc-
teau, Huxley, Sherriff, Cochran, Tal-
lulah Bankhead, and many others.

James Joyce’s fragment from Work},
In Progress, Two Tales of Shem &
Shaun (Faber & Faber, $1.25), is now
ready for Mr. Joyce’s followers.

Mr. Francis Stuart’s third novel,
Try the Sky (Gollanez, $2.75), is even
better than his excellent Pigeon Irish
and:The Colored Dome. For readers
of fantasy and distinguished writing.

G. B. Shaw’s new venture, A Black
Girl in Search of God (Dodd Mead,
$1.50), is for all Shavian bugs. Per-
sonally we don’t like Mr. Shaw, but
then, neither do some other people.

D. H. Lawrence’s last volume of
prose, The Lovely Lady Viking
Press, $2.50), is recommended for all
readers of England’s would-be mys-
tic. One should read Lawrence with
his tongue well planted in“his cheek.

Mary Butts has a new novel to
her credit, Death of Felicity Taver-
ner (Wishart & Co., $2.75). We like
this sort of reading and advice your
stealing, borrowing, buying, a copy.

Alfred Kreymborg, the poet, has
written a novel with the dubious title,
I’m No Hero (Morrow, $2.50). A
glorified kaleidoscope of modern life
in New York played by Mr. Roose-
velt’s forgotten man.

One Moye Spring, by Robert Na-
than (Knopf, $2),is not to be missed.

—Alastar. |



“The Narrow Corner, by W. Somer-
set Maugham. Doubleday, Doran
Co, ms,

“Short, therefore, is man’s life, and
narrow is the corner of the earth

Dr. Saunders might well have had
during one of his soarings into the
infinite on the wings of opium. The
doctor, an Englishman of mysterious
past, who had evidently been crossed
off the medical register in London,
and who had built up a large “prac-
tice in the small Chinese city of Fu-
chou, is the back-bone of The Narrow
Corner, a rapidly moving, adventur-





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ous tale of the East. It is not the
orient of Pearl S. Buck, which is com-
posed of -natives.— workers in the
flooded rice fields:and the cormorant
fishermen on their barges; it’ is the
Orient as seen through the eyes of
outcasts from ‘the West, Danish,
Swedish, the English bits of human
driftwood, men who found theniselves
unable to cope with 20th Century real-.
ity in the occident.* The or of
past ages, the languid charm of the
tropics, and the mystical religion and
philosophy of the East are cleverly
woven together, and then.covered with
a subtle, ironic humor, which is, per-
haps, the chief note which the book
strikes.

A. roguish fate suddenly draws to-
gether an ill-assorted group of péo-
ple only to plunge them unexpectedly
uito tragedy. The first of the group,
Dr. Saunders, whose motto was “Live
and let live,” had achiqved thereby a
certain self-sufficiency over his fel-
lowmen. A person was to him like a
page from an interminable book, and
some degree of aesthetic pleasure, of
humor even, was to be derived, he
felt, by observing people’s actions
and trying to fathom their charac.
ters. With shrewdness and clever-
ness he had met life face to face, and |
had- conquered it> On Kana-Meéira,
twin islands in the Kanda Sea, ‘on
his long journey home from perform-
ing an eye-operation on a wealthy
Chinese trader and_pearl-fisher, he
was thrown in contact with Captain
Nichols, a shifty-eyed, unscrupulous,
but genial pirate, troubled’/by dys-
pepsia and haunted by his shrewish
wife,—a man who would think noth-
ing of knifing a friend if a few hun-
dred quid were at stake. With the
skipper, was Fred Blake, a socially
prominent accountant, from Sirney,
hiding from justice on account of a
murder which he had been trapped
into committing. Young and naive,
he took life very seriously, placing his
faith on position, and reputation. He
worshipped Erik Christessen, a great
hulking Dane, in the employ of a
trading company, whose powerful
physique contrasted strangely with
his sensitive, idealistic mind. Erik
roamed through a dream-world, such
as one might find in the Arabian
Nights, which was peopled by the stal-
wart Portugese soldiers who had gov-
erned the tropical island of Kanda
in its dim past, when _ prosperous
Dutch merchants had built “marble
palaces” amid —its—jungle— growths.
Erik and Fred formed two angles of
a triangle, of which Louise was the
third. Louise was the daughter of
Frith, the owner of a nutmeg plan-
tation. With her heavy ash-blonde
hair and sunburned skin, her dignity
and remoteness, she was like a god-
dess out of an Icelandic Saga. Some-
thing was bound to.happen when such
unusual people came together. It
must suffice to say here that it was
Fred who unwittingly precipitated
the tragedy by disillusioning Erik in
regard to ‘the ideal which ahe had
formed of Louise. Then fate, having
accomplished its ruthless purpose,
scattered these people again, and
withdrew from the scene, leaving a
feeling of futility and hopelessness in
its wake.

Dr. Saunders, was the on-looker at
this puppet-show, and amused him-
self in a not sympathetic way in
watching their helpless antics. Death
and misfortune to others left him
unmoved—so detached and aloof was
he from the things which are the
very foundations of most people’s
lives. Reality and dreams were one
to him, and he reflected, consequent-
ly, as he looked back on this episode
“that if the richest dreams the imag-
ination offered were to come true, in
the end, nothing would remain but
illusion.”—C..B. R.



THE STAGE IS SET

By Lee Simonson |

To those who are interestéd in the
modern theatre, its accomplishments





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its aims, and its future, Lee Simon-
son’s book, The Stage Is Set, offers a
most interesting adventure. Mr. Si-
monson’s approach to the subject of
scene-design is a most unusual one;
he is qualified to write on the sub-
ject by the place he holds in the pro.
fession as a director of the Theatre
Guild, and one of the most success-
ful and significant designers of the
theatre today. He is’also qualified
to analyze the situation in general by
the extraordinary background he pos-
sesses. He is a Harvard graduate,
having majored there in Philosophy
under the famous professor, George
Santayana; and he has been both a
sceni¢ artist and a “painter of easel
pictures.” In the first section of: his
book he attempts to turn his. back-
ground to use in the task of orient-
ing the part of the -scene-designer in
the theatre today, yesterday, and to-
morrow. He says in his preface,
“That I fail to see the theatre exist-
ing under an unclouded heaven of
yesterday or tomorrow is, I think,
due to a remark made to me by
George Santayana twenty-five years
ago when I was taking his course on
Plato. I had written my semi-an-
nual thesis on some aspect of Socra-
tes’ teaching, and, feeling the need of
a~climax, concluded in words to this
effect: ‘How marvelous to think gf
these epoch-making thoughts evolved
by a few friends, in simple raiment,
conversing in a little courtyard, un-
der a blue sky.’ The paper was re-
turned with a single comment. In
the margin opposite the words ‘blue
sky,’ Santayana had penciled an af-
terthought, ‘Perhaps. it was raining.’
Perhaps it was.”

This I have quoted because I feel
it to be typical of the very sane and
critical view Mr. Simonson has taken
about the place of his chosen work.
He contends that the theatre will
never be saved by the new apocalyp-
tic fervors in the hearts of those who
have “envisaged the theatre- continu-
ously on the pti of damnation or
the verge of an apotheosis.” He
pokes magnificent fun at the “the-
atres’ theologians” who produce all
sorts of new panaceas,’and are still
producing them, in order to free the
mind of the playwriter, which is, as
Mr. Simonson points out, inherently
free. To the end of placing hig €rt
in its proper place in the great com-
posite Art of the theatre, he attempts
an analysis of the whole panorama
—every side of the-art, playwriter’s,
actor’s, designer’s and. audience’s. He
traces the rise and fall of the twen-
tieth century creeds, showing how
and why they always fell short of the
great revolution they attempted. He
ridicules the scene-designer as a
prophet and scene-design as an inde-
pendent art. And finlly he presents
a critical history of the theatre. In
the preface he states his purpose as
follows: “This book will attempt to
deflate some of the pretensions lent





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to the scene-designer, by his mentors
and well-wishers. This effort has led
me not to the theatre’s mythical fu-
ture, but to its past, immensely falsi-
fied by so many. apologists of the
‘new art of the theatre’ in their de-
termination to make the present a
door-mat on which the designer can
wipe his muddy pilgrim’s feet before
crossing the threshold of.an imminent
golden age. I have always been skep-
tical of the existence of golden ages,
whether past or future. The
scenic methods of the hallowed past,
I have found to be quite as prag-
matic as'our own. I have
collected the evidence from the many
available but scattered sources that
have not, I think, been correlated be-
fore, in order to demonstrate that the
doctrine of a lost art of the theatre,
once nobler and purer than our own,
is no less a romantic myth than the
noble savage.”

In the process of fixing the modern
theatre into its place in relation to
the whole history of the theatre, and
the scene-designer in his place in the
hierarchy of the art, Lee Simonson
has done a fine piece of research in
theatrical history, and evolved what
seems to me a fine definition of the
purpose and aesthetic methods of the
art of the theatre. His knowledge is
ither scholarly or practical and im-
mediate, and in either case there is
a keenness of perception and humor,
and_deftness in the handling of his
material that makes his book as fas-
cinating to read as it is instructive.
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Bryn Mawr Varsity Ties
Rosemont in Fast Game







Bryn Mawr Second Team
Beats Rosemont 41-32;
Game is Rough








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(Especially Contributed by
E. Jackson)

In spite of its total defeat last
year, Varsity, playing a fast game,
was able to hold Rosemont College to
a tie, 27-27, in Saturday’s match,
The game was extremely exciting and
the outcome in doubt until the last
minute when Faeth, taking time to
shoot, despite the fact. that her guard
was entangled in her legs, made a
pretty drop shot to stave off defeat.

The team was not up to the stand-
ard it has set in other games. Collier
and Faeth were rather erratic, mak-
ing quite a few shots ‘which bounced
off the rim of the basket. Their
guards were very good and as a re-
sult they tended to pass back and
forth in the corners:-away from the
basket.

In the center Remington played a
neat, fast game. Her passes to the
forwards were far more accurate
than the week before, but. they still
could be improved upon. Longacre
was slow, both in getting free and
in passing, showing a decided lack of
practice, which broke down the unity
of the team.

Bowditch and Bridgman were very
good. During the first guarter they
seemed a little slow and quite a score
was piled up on them. Once they got
on to the passes of the Boniwell sis-
ters they stuck like glue, and forced
them to shoot from the far corners,
M. Boniwell, the Rosemont captain,

. who was playing her fourth game
against Bryn Mawr, was unable to
make her high score of other years,
due to the excellent playing of Bridg-
man, who was on her toes all through
the game,










































The Rosemont team was well-bal.
‘anced, and since they have taken ad-
vantage of the ‘new rules, their
guarding was very effective.

Next Saturday is the big game ot
the season against Swarthmore. It
will in all probability be very close
and hard-fought and extremely well
worth watching. We were gratified
to-seé a small cheering section last
week and hope it will be larger next



time.

Bryn Mavr Ist Rosemont 1st
OCU Oe 6a kk fh. M. Boniwell
OCoiier 63. ..44 Di ics D. Boniwell
Longacre ....: ; eC, ee Toebe
Memington: 688i Ci 6 05s ci Kerwin
Bowditch .. 4:5. Ciera. Creamer
Bridgman ..... (Ee A Sk Dundon

Score — Bryn Mawr, 27. Faeth,

22222; Collier, 222221222. Rosemont,
27. M. Boniwell, 22222222; D, Boni-
well, 221222.



The second varsity game was not
as close as the first, but none the less
exciting. . It was quite fast and rath-
er rough.

Again the forwards did not seem
to function. During the first half,
Meirs and Baker were unable to get
together and when they did pass, it
was always in the corners. .If Baker
improves her teamwork and plays a
less individualistic type of game she
will make a good forward, for she is
usually very accurate. The combina-
tion of Meirs and McCormick in the
second half worked much better and
placed the team well in the lead. -

The centers played a nice game in
general, but then passing to the for-
wards was rather erratic, especially
Nichols’ deep passes under the’ bas-
ket. The Rosemont side center was
very quick and got the ball from
the-center a good deal of the time.

As in the first team game, the
guards were the best. Except for a
few times when they got left behind,
they stuck well and broke up the
Rosemont passing. Little played the
best game this season. She was
quicker and more accurate than usual
and showed vast improvemnt,

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Maurice Colbourne Gives .
- ithe female members, in long “white

Interview on Shaw Play |
| beards. In speaking of the much dis-

It is very seldom that the News’ cussed faults of construction of the
finds a production in Philadelphia in- | play, Mr. Colbourne rehated an inci:
teresting enough to deserve the spe-| dent which will go to the hearts of
cial attention of the student-body, | members of the playwriting class. He

but on those rare occasions when it said that while he was writing it,
does, every attempt is made to collecv | Shaw had told him that he alan hav-

: : : ing a terrible time getting his char-
interesting and. important material acters-off thd stage in the last. act—
about that production and to present! an act whifh Mr. Colbourne admit-
the material to the student body | tcd to be one of the most poorly con-

through the News’ columns. This! structed in the whole history of dra
week there is playing in Philadelphia /Matic writing—unique and most in-
an English repertory company under | teresting for just that reason, Mr.
the leadership of two of England’s | Colbourne saw Shaw again, a short
foremost. actors, sarry Jones and/| time after the play had gone into re-
Maurice Colbourne. The company | hearsal, and questioned him about his
has already played a week in. The! Solution for the problem of getting

Queen’s Husband, and opened this | his actors off. “Oh,” replied Shaw,
Monday a two-week run of Shaw’s| “IT got them off all right. I just sent
last play, Too True To Be Good. Per- | them off.”
haps the greatest interest of this per- | We wish to say only a word about
formance is that the version to be!|the plays and the director and the
presented is the outcome of the revi-| tone of the performance by them we
sions Shaw himself and Messrs. Jones | witnessed last week. This the most
and Celbourne have made after wit- | subtle, most finished, and most satis-
nessing the New York production and: fying acting we have seen in Phila-
the many productions in England,| delphia since the year One, and there
both in London and in the Malvern’) are very few New York productions
Shaw festival. Not only does the that can touch it in the matter of al)
script differ somewhat from the orig-| round ‘excellence. The voices of the
inal one, but the angle of attack in | cart are superbly trained and well
entirely different, while direction is} worth the price of admission. It is
perhaps the greatest departure of all. | . company fet we think no Bryn
They are intimate friends of Shaw| Mawr student who is in ‘any way in-
= ag oe him and they are also | terested in the theatre should miss.
Englishmen. It will be interesting to | BS
compare these two production of the |
latest play from the pen of the Irish |
sage, one by the Theatre Guild, the) (Continued from Page Two)
other by an English Repertory Com- | deville, and State Trooper, with Regis
pany, and it will be even more in-| Toomey and Evelyn Knapp.
teresting, we feel, to watch a group! Europa: Two features—The Theft
of highly-talented English actor-pro-| Ff the Mona Lisa and China Express.
ducers at work. ae _ | Fox:* The old story of Shanghai
It was our priviiege to interview | prnress retold in Rome Express.
Mr. Maurice Colbourne, who plays! faprle:
one of the most important parts in show, and Lee Tracy and Gloria
the Shaw play, and who has oe Stewart are “breezy and full of fun”
a most wore we on his im- | in Private Joneg,
pressions and knowledge concerning | ‘
the “real Bernard Shaw.” While. he, Local Movies
was most discreet in his comparison | Ardmore: Wednesday and Thurs-
of the two performances, it was quite | day, Barbara Stanwyck in The Bit-
evident that his interpretation dif-| '” Tea of General Yen; Friday, Ed-
fers greatly from the Theatre| mund Lowe in The Devil Is Driving,

Guild’s. One of the innovations is the with Wynne Gibson; Saturday, Jack

appearance in the last act of a char-} Holt in Man Against Woman; Mon

acter made up to look as much as pos- day and Tuesday, They Just Had To
iGet Married, with Slim Summerville

sible like Shaw himself—to. speak a/
Wednesday and

line that is all too obviously Shaw! 22d Zasu Pitts; ;
speaking for himself. This-make-up|_/hursday, No Man of Her Own, with

was in no way indicated in the script | Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.
and we asked Mr.-Colbourne whether: / Seville: Wednesday and Thurs-





IN PHILADELPHIA



| not dressed the whole cast, including |

Jack Pearl heads the stage |

Shaw had not objected to so vital an

the announcement of their intention |

innovation. He replied that, despite |

| day, Face in the Sky, with Marian
| Nixon and Spencer Tracy; Friday

and Saturday, Warner Baxter and

Miriam ‘Jordan in Dangerously
Yours; Monday and Tuesday, No
More Orthids, with Lyle Talbot and
Carole. Lombard; Wednesday . and
Thursday, Edmund Lowe and Victor
McLaglen in Hot Pepper.

Wayne: Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Boris Karloff in The Mummy;
Friday. and Saturday, The Penguin
Pool Murder, with Edna May Oli-
ver; Monday and Tuesday, Maedchen
in Uniform; Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Hot Saturday, with Nancy Car-
roll and Cary Grant.

in the London papers before they sail-
ed, no protest had -come from “the
Shavian White House.” He added
that he had almost hoped there would
be some protest, as he longed for a
chance. to answer one if it did appear
with the remark that Shaw might
consider himself lucky that they had



Little | Spares. Monoghan

Score — Bryn Mawr, /41. Baker,
1222. ‘Miers, 2222122222. Rosemont,
32. Impink, 22222222291; B, Wen-
ger, 2212; R. Wenger, 22.

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News of the New York Theatres | Music, will have the principal role,
Going to the theatre is about to| Words and Music will be presented

become a far more complicated) in New York by a new company
amusement than it has been for some} either this spring or in the early fall.
time, if Prohibition ever does get | Max Gordon is alfo hard at work on
throttled; and the “liquor interests”’ the new Joe Cook show, formerly
are successful in their present nego-) titled The,Gay Nineties, but at pres-
tiation for several: New’ York play-, ent called Hunky Dory. In the fall
houses. The plan is to remodel said’ he plans to put on his second straight
theatres to include a bar and a res-| dramatic piece (Design For Living
taurant. A glorified ‘Vaudeville show,; is his first dramatic venture), a play
on ‘the pattern of a review, will be| by Clare Kummer, entitled Only With
opened to drama lovers for better or You. Roland Young, who has been
worse, with tables placed strategical. | an endless source of merriment in the
ly between the stage and bar. It all| movies (This Is the Night, etc.) will
sounds like a golden plan, but we are: have the lead.
inclined to draw our sword to pro-| Péggy Fears has taken over a lit-
teét.the theatre from the final ignom- | tle waif and stray of this season, and
iny of having its climaxes punctu-| is planning to inject into it new life.
ated by the popping of champagne | Around Christmas time, if you have
corks, and its pathos interrupted by| a memory for details, you will ‘recall
befuddled inebriates.° So far the that Philadelphia witnessed a. play
thirsty American public has been able | called A Sto*y of Love. After its Phil-
to restrain itself from’carrying quart adelphia engagement it went into se-
bottles to the ‘theatre, and diving; clusion (which is really more to its
under the seat for a quick drink be- credit than anything it has done) and
tween the lines, but now the saloon| we thought it had breathed. its last,
is not only coming back, but it is to} Not at all; Miss Fears, elated by the
invade the sanctum sanctorum. Ap- (Continued on Page Six)
SUMMER

parently the inhabitants of the top
FRENCH SumMen

galleries are no longer to be the only
ones who can’t catch the show.

John ’Krimsky and Gifford Cochran, oye Rapetowch ved eae oon
who had such an overwhelming suc- PR ir cin Old-Countr
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sponsoring the stage production of spoken. Elementary, Inter-
Die Dreigroschenoper, the English mediate, Advanced. _Certifi-

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translation of the German adaptation | f tainments, sight-seeing, sports, etc.
of Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (if any | § Fee $140, Board and Tuition. June 25-
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system of class halls and self-deter-
mination installed, the major griev-
anccs could not be removed. _ It
would be impossible to accommodate
all the people desiring entrance to a
popular hall, under any system, and
the one now in force seems to be the
best that can be designed to fit the
general circumstances.

As to the situation which has aris-
en in Merion Hall through some un-
foreseen fluctuations in the quota, it
seemed only fair that the Juniors now
in the hall should be allowed to move
into the hall of their choice, unless
Juniors from other halls decide to
move into Merion. If all the Juniors
should move cut of Merion it would
result in an unfortunate situation, as
there would be no Seniors in the hal)
next year. The administration hopes
that some students will move in and
help equalize the quota, which has
gone far astray in that particular
hall. Whatever may be the outcome
of the situation this spring, the Pres-
ident and Registrar intend to reas:
sert the quota as soon as possible in
Merion, and maintain it.

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that the minor re.:orms; instituted will
.elieve some of the discontent. If stu-
dents. will take the* quota into ac-
count; when making .their rooming
rlan., and accept it as the most sat-
sfactory solution to a difficult situ-
ition, the committee hopes that the
ducstion will resolve itself. In the
m leges are being investigated and any
possible improvemnts will .be made
in the system from time to time.



News of the New York Theatres



(Continued from Page Five)

widespread triumph of her Music in
the Air, has been doing archeological
work in the dust of Broadway, and
after some effort she unearthed our
little gem. It has been renamed
Champagne Supper and has a cast ot
John Buckler, Dorothy Hall, Eugene
Powers and Charlotte Granville. The
show has had rather a significant
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Hope, Williams, Jimmy Durante
and Lupe Velez opened with great
success last week in Strike Me Pink,
and it is now the most popular musi-
cal show in New York. It also sets
one back the dark age price of $6.60,
so a review of it will not appear in
this plutocratic sheet for some time—
we hope to get in on the movie ver-
sion, Mr. Durante makes his usual
noises, Miss Velez waves her mid-
section about after the best traditions
of the Rio Grande, and Miss Williams
bounces. around looking Junior
League so artfully that one reviewer
said, “One of the best of the bargains
in musica] extravaganza’s busy base-
ment.”—(The word bargain ts here
us d onomatopoetically.)

The version of The Beggar’s Opera
which John Krimsky and Gifford
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the jagged pieces into a box already filled with
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and do an Oriental dance in the glass without in-

jury.

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lution of alum water and thoroughly rub them
with pulverized resin before they appear. They
throw the freshly broken glass around the edges of
the platform. The glass on which they actually do
dance is very thick, heavy, and filed or ground so
that the sharp edges are rounded off. The girls
just pretend to dance on the sharp glass.

Source: “Magic Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions’’

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