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VOL. XX, No. 3
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1933
COLLEGE
Sopyright BRYN MAWR
NEWS, 1933
—
PRICE 10 CENTS
Freshman Class Is
Biggest in 10 Years
Statistics Show Average Age Is
17 Years, Youngest Ever
to Enter B. M.
26 STATES ARE INCLUDED
_ In. Chapel, Qctober 17 and 19,
Miss Park discug#sed the statistics of
this year’s freshman class.
“There are 124 freshmen, a. large
class as. all. would know who saw the
long horseshoe of ,red lanterns on the
. Friday of the Lantern ceremony. The
largest class of. the. last ten years
consisted of 129 students; others re-
cently of 128, 127, and 125. Two
years ago the freshman class was
100;-a year ago 111. Nine per cent.
of the. freshmen are non-resident,
compared with the 8 per cent. of the
rest of the college, which is ‘non-
resident. Up to last year the aver-
age had been 6 per cent., and the
change seems surprisingly slight, —
far less than- one might have expect-
ed.
with the college for the non-residents
remains unchanged. att
The freshmen come from 26 states
and from Germany and Mexico. The
largest contribution is from Penn-
sylvania, which sends 238 per cent.
— (about its usual number) and New
Yerk, which sends 20 per cent. (about
its usual number). More interesting,
CALENDAR
W
National Recovery Administra-
tion.” . Goodhart, 8.00 P.. M:
Saturday, Oct. 28. Varsity
‘hockey game vs. Philadelphia
Country Club. 10.00 A. M.
Sunday, Oct. 29. The Rev-
erend Leslie Glenn will speak
in Chapel. Music Room, .7.30
"Fr. wh ;
Monday, Oct. 30. oem
team hockey vs. Merion. ®rick-
et Club. 4.00 P. M.
But the problem of arranging”
_the greatest amount of connection
West Should Study
~ Oriental Psychology
Dr. Haridas Mazumdar Finds
Occidental Hegemony Chal-
- lenged in East —
ARROGANCE STIRS HATE
“The era of the Atlantic is over,”
declared Dr. Haridas Mazumdar, au-
thor of Ghandi the Apostle, in a talk
delivered under the auspices of the
International Relations Club, Tues-
day, October 17. “In the future, at-
tention must be centered on the Pa-
cific, and yet there are not half a doz-
en people in America capable of un-
derstanding the Oriental mind, and
not more than twr Xnglishmen.”
“The phenomenon of ethonocentric-
isiw—i. e., the tendency to judge other
I think, is the fact that only 43 per| pcople’s culture and religion by one’s
cent. come from an area bounded by
New York City and its suburban
region on the north, Washington on
the south, West Chester on the west,
for this region has sent, in the past,
on the average, 65 per cent. From
New _England there are 138. per
cent. (slightly above the average of
12 per cent); Middle West; 16 per
cent. (slightly above the average of
14 per cent.); Far West, 3 per cent.
(slightly under the average of 4 per
cent.) ; South, 10 per cent. (consid-
erably more than the average of 4
per cent).
This is more variation than there
has been for many years, due. per-
haps to the greater variety in en-
trance requirements making possible
entrahce from schools not usually
preparing for Bryn Mawr, and~ the
efforts of the college to find scholar-
ship students from the west and
south.
-There. are a number of new schol-
arships being given this year:
Amy Sussman Steinhart Scholar-
ship for a girl from the Far West;
Louise Hyman Pollak Scholarship for
2 girl from Cincinnati or the Mid-
dle West; four matriculation prizes
rut together to reappear as a schol-
ershiv for a girl from the East.
This year’s class is the youngest
ever to enter Bryn Mawr; for the
first time since 1922 the average age
has dropped below 18, to 17 years and
11 months. Thirteen freshmen were
(Continued on Page Four)
Possible Pay Day Items
Listed for First Month
The first Pay Day will be in the
second week of November and the
Undergraduate Association is pub-
lishing the following list as a warn-
ing to the inexperienced. Figure out
what you have spent and you will
know. about what to expect:
Undergraduate Association dues,
$2.00; Self-Government Association
dues, $0.75. or $1.00; “Times” or
*“Herald Tribune” to date, 5c daily,
12c Sunday; Bryn Mawr League
pledges, on. the blue pledge cards;
Book Shop Bill—for paper, books,
cigarettes, food, ete.; cap and gown,
$7:50 or under; laundry, probably
about $5.00 to date; fines or house
charges, have you. been late or had
guests? College News, $2.50; Bryn
Mawr Lantern, $2.00; second-hand
furniture and books; college pillows;
.. Bates House or Rock, sandwiches;
to the Publications Office for Fans-
low Sportswear or. Lantern - Night
tickets; Athletic Association supplies
ordered after arrival at. College. —
\
.|future is not very pleasant.
own ethnic standards, is a universal
human quality,’ Dr. Mazumdar, said,
and ‘fa wholesome one if not carried
to excess. When, however, any group
having a legitimate. pride in its own
culture refuses to grant to other peo-
ple the same right of pride in theirs,
ethnocentricism becomes a menace,
as in Germany today.” In reality,
most of the contrasting customs and
folkways of Eastern and Western
peoples are merely different ways of
obtaining the same objective. The
Westerner, for example, shows resent-
ment by some gesture of violence;
the Oriental inflicts injury on him-
self as a protest.
Western people have for the most
part tended to assume an attitude of
exaggerated superiority. This over-
bearing ethnocentricism can be ex-
ylained by the publication in 1857 of
Darwin’s Origin of] Species; the the-
ory of evolution became a convenient
apology for imperialism. Europeans,
finding their arms successful in every
corner of the globe, looked with scorn
at.-the dark-skinned peoples’ whom
they had conquered. Europe, they
felt, was bringing. the benefits of a
more highly ceveloped civilization to
backward lands; 27!lon‘al exploitation
was for the good of the natives.
Although the East, Dr, Mazumdar
maintained, has made a sincere at-
tempt to understand the Western
mind, the West has considered. it be-
neath its dignity to learn how the
Orient functions psychologically. The
West understands the East only when
it speaks with cannon; Japan and
Turkey are respected because they
have guns and are ready to use them.
The beauty of the Chinese mind and
the philosophic depths of the Indian
mind are, on the other hand, unap-
preciated by the West.
The really significant international
contacts today are those reaching
across the Pacific, and unless they be-
come more cordial, the outlook for the
Since
the bulk of the world’s population
lives in the Orient, the prospect of
India, China, and Japan _ becoming
military powers constitutes a distinct
threat to Western hegemony. In or-
der to avert catastrophe, Westerners
must attempt to understand the work-
ings of the Eastern mind by a study
of great personalities like Ghandi
and Rabindranath Tagore.
International Club
President. .Eleanor Fabyan, ’36
Secretary..Sarah Flanders, ’35
Treasurer..Carmen Duany, ’34
Fairer
Committee Explains
Rules for Cutting
System: of Penalties
Makes It Easier to Clear
Past Records
AUDITORS’ CUTS COUNT
(Especially contributed by Joan Hop-
kinson, Chairman of the. Cut
Committe for the College)
The Cut System appears to be one
difficult’ to understand.’ It. is . ex-
plained evéry year to the freshmen,
but it is soon forgotten, not only
among the freshmen but especially
among the upperclassmen. The ma-
jority who overcut do so because they
are careless, or do not understand the
rules. Therefore the Cut Committee
feels that it once more must explain
the system. If every student perused
carefully the following rules, or even
copied them, the overcuts would be
greatly lessened.
RULES: Each student is allowed
as many cuts per semester as she has
regular classes per week. This means
as an average about fourteen
cuts per semester. Unit courses give
one three cuts, as they meet three
times a week, and half-unit courses,
meeting twice, give one two cuts.
First and second year science courses,
such as Chemistry and Biology, give
one five cuts, not seven, as each lab-
oratory hour counts as one-third’ of
a cut. Two cuts are given for Hy-
giene and one-half a cut for Diction.
Students who are doing Honors
work are allowed unlimited cuts with-
in reason.
PENALTIES: The»Cut Commit-
tee felt that students on Senate or
Student Probation had a hard time
clearing their record because the pen-
“alties were too harsh. The penalties,
therefore, have been modified and the]
ncw system of penalization goes into
effect this semester.
Lo student shall be placed on
Senate Probation if she takes more
chan four cuts over and above the
allowance made to her. This means
that during the following semester
she will not be permitted to cut any
classes.
2. Any student who has_ taken
more than eight cuts over and above
the allowance which has been made
to her, shall have a part or all of
the semester’s work cancelled,
3. Any student who overcuts by
one beyond the allowance permitted
her. shall have three cuts deducted
from her allowance for the next sem-
ester, and shall be on Student Pro-
bation. Similarly two overcuts en-
tail six to be deducted the next
semester, and three overcuts entail
nine. A student. who overcuts up to
and including four is on Student Pro-
bation; a student who overcuts be-
yond four is on Senate Probation as
above.
4, Any student who overcuts be-
cause she does not expect to return
to college the following year -will be
asked to leave immediately.
All excuses for illness, emergencies,
ete., are obtainable at the Dean’s
office.
It makes it very difficult for the
monitors to take the attendance if
students change their seats. There-
fore, students must abide by the seat-
ing plan or they will be counted as
absent. If a student has been in a
wrong seat, or out of the room while
the attendance was taken, she must
report immediately after that class
to the monitor who took the attend-
ance.
There has ‘been some confusion
about auditors and visitors. Auditors
get counted for cuts; visitors do not.
‘Students should keep a record of
their own cuts each month, so that}.
their own records may be compared
with the cut cards sent them. By
doing. this, and by fully understand-
ing and obeying the above rules, the
students ought not to complain of
confusion. . The Cut Committee has
‘modified the penalization system. In
return it hopes. that the number of
overcuts will materially diminish, _
Elections
The Senior Class announées
the election of the following
officers:
' Sara Miles—President.
Elizabeth Mackenzie—Vice- -
- Président. hae ee
Lula Bowen—Secretary.
The J&nior Class announces
the election of the following
Officers:
Betty Faeth—President.
Betty Lord—Vice-President.
Elizabeth Monroe—Secretary.
Dr. Srcusinen Surveys :
Asia Minor Landscape
Although many students and $a00)-
ty members traveled in out-of-the-
way places this summer, Dr. Brough-
ton, of the Latin Department, after
spending two and half months in Tur-
key, can probably claim to have-spent
his vacation in the most remote and
unfrequented region. He surveyed
most of the country west of the Eu-
phrates in order to acquire back-
ground for a study of texts-and doc-
uments relating to the Roman. prov-
inces in Asia Minor, and reports that
Turkey is “tremendously interesting
for the’ wealth of its antiquities and
the recentness of its decision to ab-
sorb western civilization.”
The plan of his work, which was
undertaken on a special grant from
the Johns Hopkins Fund for Research
inthe Humanities, made it necessary
for him’ to get some idea of the physi-
cal and climatic characteristics of the
country; and he found the variety of
products, the richness of the soil, and
the grandeur of the scenery very
striking. Railroads where possible,
and otherwise trucks were his usual
mode of travel. The latter have be-
come extremely popular in Turky,
and one can go almost anywhere. “in
them. :
-The Turkish people as ‘a_ whole,
Dr. Broughton says, were friendly
and hospitable; a letter of recommen-
dation obtained from the government
at Angora secured the co-operation
of local authorities. In order to avoid
suspicion, it proved necessary to be
sparing in the use of his camera.
“The central government has a firm
grip on the country,” Dr. Broughton |
and “is making rapid head- |
way in its program of Westerniza- |
| Bryn Mawr.
thinks,
(Continued on Page Three>
|| Miss Thomas Holds
Deanery Reception
Nine Hundred Attend Formal
Opening: of Alumnae House
on Saturday
CEREMONY IMPRESSES
The opening of the Deanery as an
Alumnae Hcuse last Saturday after-
noon had. a significance understood
only by those who know the tradi-
tions of Bryn Mawr. As far as what
actually happened is‘ concerned, nine
hundred Alumnae went through the
receiving line to greet Miss Thomas,
Miss Park, Mrs. Slade, and Mrs”
Clark. But even the undergraduates,
who have not had the inestimable ad-
vantage of knowing Miss. Thomas,
felt .h> emotion underlying the re-
turn of the Alumnae to accept the
reward of their work.
recognition by Miss Thomas of the
Alumnae as important to-the past
and future of Bryn Mawr contained
not only a tribute for the Alumnae
as a whole, but an individual: mean-
ing for each woman there.
In the eyes of the undergraduates,
who have found in the college the tra-
dition of .intelligent foresight, schol-
arship, and loyalty which is their
heritage from Miss Thomas, it is ap-
parent that those women who had
the good fortune to actually know her
must have left college inspired with
the love of Bryn Mawr which she
herself felt. Miss Thomas’ gift to
them of her own house is a symbol
of their partnership in her love and
work for Bryn Mawr. Any under-
graduate who talked or listened to
the Alumnae soon realized the inten-
This official .
sity of their gratitude for the gift.
and the pride which they felt in hav-~
ing’ bvéii’ deemed worthy of it. Miss
Thomas could have chosen no way of
symbolizing this partnership which
would have given greater pleasure or
satisfaction to the Alumnae than the
gift of the Deanery. The
graduates, who were honored to be
told by Miss Thomas, when they as-
sembled to cheer her, that she misses
knowing them and their ideas more
than she misses any other aspect of
her college work, feel proud -to re-
ceive so glorious and so fittingly re-
warded a tradition of working for
Behemoths Loom Large in Freshman Class,
Although Percentage of Smokers Is High
The first few weeks. of college the
freshmen are supposedly seen and not
heard... Meanwhile the .Dean, the
President, Dr. Wagoner, Mr. Wil-
loughby, Miss Petts and all the up-
perclassmen are searching warily for
evidences of mental sanity and physi-
zal soundness among thei? numbers.
The class of 1937 has proved. really
impressive, from the seven, who, ac-
cording to’infiriiary reports, are over
five feet ten, to the average freshman,
who’ towers exactly 65.7 inches.
Eleven are overweight, seventeen are
underweight, but in general they are
Amazons to please the physical edu-
cation department. More _ postures
are listed as very good than very poor,
and more are classed as good than
poor, while the majority are, as ever,
fair in this respect.
And, what is nearer to our hearts,
we are assured that we shall rest in
peace this year. ‘The freshmen are
excellent. sleepers;..the.—majority.. of
them sleep seven to nine hours per
night and.a great many, eight to ten.
Only two—we’ hope they don’t livé
along a corridor that is Grand Cen-
tral Station for frequenters of the
last Paoli local from town — suffer
from insomnia.
After that long night’s rest, break-
fast table conversations promise to
progress quite happily as regards the
perennial subject of operations, For
only twenty-two freshmen are in full
possession of, their tonsils, and only
two of all one hundred twenty-fqur
have dental cavities in need of repair.
The percentage of smokers among
the entering class is higher than us-
ual: .. Seventy-four..freshmen-smoke,
the majority of them approximately
one to six cigaretes daily.
No freshmen were rejected on ac-
count of ill health, and the report of~
the freshman medical examinations,
held the first two weeks of college by
Dr. Wagoner, seems to promise gen-
eral good health among the members
of that class. In view of this report
and the fact that this year the col-
lege suffers no initial handicap of a
nearby infantile epidemic, the
pect is decidedly encouraging.
The statistics of the freshman
physical examinations, especially con-
tributed by Miss Josephine Petts,
follow:
From the point of view of their
backs and feet the freshman class is
above average.
their posture is potentially good. It
is to be hopéd that this year they will
learn something of the theory of
movement which is, at the moment,
their weak point.
Three freshmen were excused by
Dr. Wagoner from taking the swim-
ming test. Three were unable to pass
it, but only one of these is an abso-
lute beginner.
The distribution of the ‘freabnews
in their sports this fall as as fol-
lows:
« Required Elective Total
IS 43 6 49
Tene 6 ites 47 12 52
2 re 23 12 35
wencing ,..;.. 7 1 8
Swimming ... 5 2 7
beers 2 2
That is to say. that -
under-
pros- ~*
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Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa.,
President-Emeritus Thomas
For the many students and alumnae, who attended the opening
of the Deanery as an alumnae house, the occasion came as the climax
to the long and glorious career of that greatest of all Bryn Mawr
women—President-Emeritus Thomas. And it was not without emotion
that those whose privilege it has been to know and admire her gathered
to pay her tribute. Miss Thomas stands today as the embodiment
of the ideals of scholarship, humanitarianism, and graceful living—
ideals to which she has dedicated her life. During her many years as
President she directed the college with that wisdom and foresight
which have earned her a place among the great educators and leaders
of the century. But, what are more important to us than her material
achievements, are the ideals for which she stands and which have be-
come, through her, part of the college tradition.
Those of us who. came to college after Miss Thomas’ retirement
have felt her presence.as an inspiring’ genius, and her standards of
living and thinking have been handed down to us in the spirit of the
college. Miss Thomas is, and always shall be, Bryn Mawr. The great-
est tribute, therefore, that we as undergraduates can pay her is: to
uphold the tradition of the college and to realize that our association
with her, distant though it be, has passed on to us the responsibility of
carrying a standard which she raised and bore with such eredit
during her years on the campus.
Literary S peakeasies
The peaceful routine of the Library is once more upset by occult
manifestations: ~Many~—of-our- modern authors have-heard—of Bryn
Mawr’s preoccupation with emending the classics and have engaged
emissaries amoug the undergraduates to remove their books from our
dangerous premises. Since the thitd of October, the rate of disappear-
ance of a:ttobiographies aud noyéls from the New Book Room has
touched an unprecedented high; ‘and it seems possible that we are to
be the victims of literary blockade. I‘ is a peculiar failing of most
authors that they would rather not be read than be revised.
We would not dream of deploring the intellectual sympathy and
acquisitive instinct of those emissaries who are helping modern authors
to protect their books from our revising pens. There can be no dowbt
that such conduct is admirable. But somewhere in this vast student
body, there must exist a few other literary spirits capable of feeling
‘an unifterpretive enthusiasm for a modern book. In the interests of
the few, we advocate the immediate foundation of literary speakeasies,
where books too precious to be left in the jeopardy of the New Book
Room may be read in a more appreti e atmosphere. We feel that
Bryn Mawr’s interest in Modern Literature would certainly increase,
were we but allowed to read it in the lairs of the protective book-
hoarders, and we humbly sue for a card of admission and a lesson in
the password. The college so seldom sees a modern book these days,
for few—very few—have been lefv behind by the hoarders, that we are
certain a brilliant and amusing company would be assembled at the
first opportunity to read them. The picture of Miss Donnelly greeting
her Autobiography of Alice B, Toklas with cries of joy after a sad,
long parting could not but bring a ly rie pleasure even to the heart of
a hoarder.
against Washington, D. C., than was
News of the New York Theatres
its parent,” while the great Brooks
Activity continues unabated. along
proper place in the leading farce of
the highways and byways of Broadg-
way and in spite of all the prophecies
that the public would be in a col-
lapsed state from over-exertion after
years of inactivity, and would desert
the theatre as too strenuous a diver-
sion, more and more good plays ap-
pear and’ more and more public
springs into being.
_.The, most important opening of the
past week was that which brought
the dear old government back into its
the country. William Gaxton, Lois.
M and Victor Moore appeared |
yy |ioy that the Win
in the Kaufman-Ryskind sequel to Of
oe 1fae: whieh known At de)
Atkinson, who would rather suffer
death in the night from an infernal
machine than do anything so plebe-
ian and primitive as admit a whole-
hearted liking for anything except
himself, asserts that it is low comedy
instead of low satire, as he calls Of
Thee I Sing, and that although there
is a brilliant first act, the second act
gets out of hand, and “the authors
get too overwrought to be funny and
the satire is undisciplined.” So there
you have it, and the only solution is
to see it for yourselves. The cast is
as cheering as ever _and we note with
“a er Save
sent of tp prestienl
WEARY QUERY
My dear, confiding Lovelorn Ed.:
‘O, tell me why my sweetie said
To go away, and dropped her eyes,—
There’s nothing wrong, they adver-
tise:
I’m not one of the “four-from-five,”’
I’m the sort of wire that’s 1 auetiat
“live”;
I read the odvartlaineet hooey—
I use Ipana and Lifebuoy,
And Pepsodent and Listerine
(To me like nitroglycerine).
I’m not bow-legged, not knock-
kneed, —
I have no unconventional creed
(I. e., ve never been a Buddhist,
Nor shal] I ever be a nudist);
I’m not a critic of the kulak,
I drink my noontime glass of Zoolak,
And have my luncheon sandwich
toasted |
And keep myself on late news posted..
And yet, Dear Ed., I’m still lovelorn,
And rue the day that I was born.
What can I—under yon round sun-—
Have for my sweetie further done?
Unless, just as she dropped her
* eyes,
I should have yielded to surmise,
And done as I was really fain,
And stooped, and picked them up
again?
—Snoop-on-the-Loose.
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“MATERNITY WARD BENE-
FIT ENLISTS MEN’S AID”—Her-
ald Tribune. O ho! What brought
this on? Babies, Just Babies, or a
new “we do our part’ code?
“PROHIBITED ON BOARD-
WALK: Sitting on Railings, Dogs,
Bicycles, Baby Carriages, Persons in
Bathing Suits—Coney Island Sign.”
We object conscientiously! Who
says we can’t sit-on persons in bath-
ing suits? It’s done! Even in over-
populated Coney.
Sign on Pfiladelphia boarding
house: “Rooms with Private or
Semi-private Bath.”
Three in a tub! Did I or did I not
pay for a private bath? My semi-
privacy must be respected,
From the Help Wanted columns of
the Ledger (oh, yes! we read ’em
regularly): “Refined young lady
wanted to interview prospects for
Woodlawn Cemetery.”
Let’s go, Friends, with a
Cheero—
THE MAD HATTER.
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Jed Harris’ Green Bay Tree, with a
cast’ composed of such reliable per-
formers as James Dale and Lawrence
Olivier, who has recently been re-
claimed from the- movies which not
only threatened to ruin his acting,
but also gave him many raw deals.
The fear that clawed at the hearts of
all that have seen Mr. Harris in ac-
tion. was that his love of the porno-
graphic and his wandering taste at
the crucial moment would make of
The Green Bay Tree a horrendus piece
that would. haye no. dramatic value
and would lurk snarling in the lower
depths. To say that Mr. Harris has
done himself proud in his production
and that he has shown all the artis-
tic perception and taste that could be
| desired would hardly be an exaggera-
tion, and he has given to the stage
a notable production. It has _ been
called “An absorbing experience in
theatre-going—an inspiring study of
the disintegration of character — an
excellent production that boasts both
dignity and taste.” There seems lit-
‘tle more to say on the subject except
that as the public applauds so the
producers react and the current de-
mand is for entertainment that does
not have to rely upon the more un-
pleasant facts or life, but can stand
on its own feet and move under the
seen nothing but life in all its stages
—from birth, accompanied by a host
of white doves; to make it all seem
slightly more pleasant than it is, to
Braanes and ah, eretstic all sorts
power of its artistic merit. We have)
‘ting’ entertainment, but as long as
people go into gales of laughter at
the piece de resistance of Chie Sale
et al, just so long will that tone pre-
vail. :
_ As for the plays which are to
brave the spotlight this week—there
are nine.. None of them look as if
they will stampede the critics, but
they will be of interest in that
Blanche Yurke (Spring and Au-
tumn), Fay Bainter (Move On, Sis-
ter), and an number of old loves will
appear. Vicki Baum’s newest work
The Divine Drudge—is to be seen
with Mady Christians, Tamara Geva
(who has never been™in her right
mind since she stopped doing those
time-arresting dancés with Clifton
Webb), Minor Watson, and Walt
‘Abel. It was given a try in the sum-
mer stock and was not a success in
any sense of the word, but it may
have been revamped,
Philip Truex, of Haverford and of
Bryn Mawr, in the Varsity Dramat
productions, is scheduled to make his
stage debut in New York on Wed-
nesday when The World Waits, a
new and somewhat bitter diatribe
about the exploring racket. by George
Hummel, opens with a cast headed
‘| by Reed Brown, Jr.
The future promises even more
plays of merit and all the stars of
many moons are dusting off their tal-
plays of the past two years, and are
preparing to fight for their place in
the newly risen sun of the theatre. Pola
Negri is lurching into town in A Trip
To Pressburg, which is under the flag
of the Shuberts. It tried but failed
last season, and for some reason they
were not satisfied with the thorough-
ness of the process and are relying
upon Miss Negri for the finishing
touches. Rachel Crothers has a new
and apparently grand play in Talent.
It requires an actress who can sing
and age twelve years in the three
acts, and the only thing holding up
the production is the scarcity of such
animals. The rumor now is_ that
Norma Terris will be given the part
on the strength of her performance
in the revival of Showboat last year.
Max Gordon has the script for Dods-
worth, Sidney Howard’s adaptation
of the Sinclair Lewis novel, and in-
tends to launch'it in the near future.
He also has the great combination
of Laura Hope Crews and Roland
Young in Her Master’s Voice under
his guidance at the moment, and is
feeling very cheery about it all. Alex-
ander Woollcott, who has had noth-
ing but bitterness in his life as a
dramatist, has collaborated with
George Kaufman, who has an epi-
demic of successes continually threat-
ening his peace of mind, and together
they have turned out The Dark Tow-
er, a melodrama about the world of
the theatre, which, was once known
as Snake in the Grass. However,
since that time symbolism has taken
its place in Mr. Woollcott’s religion
and the title was changed to suit his
new mood. Basil Sidney, Leona
Maricle, and Margalo Gilmore will be
in the key spots when the curtain
rises.
The main concern of all of us at
the moment seems to keep up with the
theatre, which has been loitering in
the dust for so long that all this
sprinting on the turns seems hardly
fair, and we are relying on more like
Nancy Carroll and her school to
bring a few things into town that
we can ignore and so catch a little
sleep from eight to twelve.
Grad at Home
Dean Schenck, Miss Robinson, Mrs.
Keator and the Graduate Students
will be at home in Radnor Hall on
Wednesday afternoons throughout
the winter beginning November 1. All
members of the College, Faculty,
Staff and Students, Graduate and Un-
dergraduate, are cordially invited to
these informal teas, which will be-
gin at 3.30 for the benefit of people
with 4 o’clock classes. No cards will
be sent out.
Sasee: Navy Day.
The Naval Service .at Philadelphia
Navy Yard has asked to have an in-
\vitation given to the faculty and
¢ Br Mawr College to
Yard on Navy. Day,
Navy Yard will be
pass ts
bition j Pwned ‘Sat., Will” Rogers in
ents which were not needed in the|
Nils Asther.
IN PHILADELPHIA
Theatres
Garrick: Otis Skinnéx)and Queen-
ie Smith in the grand old tale of
Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This is the same
company which won such praise for
its work during the famine last year
and should be seen.
Broad: Madame Alla Nazimova in
Doctor Monica, a play dealing with
three women, a doctor, an architect,
and a servant, and their attitude to-
ward life, the men they love, ‘and
their work. Notable chiefly for Nazi-
mova, who is a tower of strength.
Walnut: Florence Reed ventures
into comedy for the first time in a
new play, Thoroughbred, a tale about
the fashionable racing set of Long |
Isfand, in which Miss Reed plays a
lady owner.’ It should be excellent
and very amusing.
Chestnut: Ina Claire and Earle
Larimore continue to do justice by the
hilarious Biography and to make it
one of the most amusing and polished
comedies of many moons.
Forrest: Max Gordon presents
Gowns By Roberta, with a Kern-Har-
bach score and Lyda Roberti, Ta-
mara, Sidney Greenstreet, and Fay
Templeton. Somehow it all sounds
garbled. and not very attractive, but
maybe it isn’t.
Coming, October 30 :
Garrick: Corinne Griffiths in De-
sign For Living, with the original
New York production- intact—that is,
without the trifles of Lunt, Fon-
tanne, and Coward, who after all, are
not vitalk ,Ugh! sounds like a
wake. ‘
Academiy of Music
Philadelphia Orchestra. Fri., Oct.
27, at 2.30 P. M., and Sat., Oct. 28,
at 320. P, MM. Alexander Smallens
will conduct and Sophie Braslau will
act as soloist. Program:
Mozart, ;
Symphony No. 41, C. Major
(Jupiter). se
Manion. ..... Songs of a Wayfarer
PROMONOIT. 05s cascve Seythian Suite
SHAWINEEY. 0.5 co ees The Fire Bird
Movies
Boyd: Jean Harlow does the best
work of her career in Bombshell, with
Lee Tracy. She plays a movie act-
ress with all the trappings, and a>
love for home and babies as well, and
it is grand.
Keith’s: Lilian Harvey, who
thinks it speaks well for American
men that most of them are married,
makes her debut in a musical what-
not—My Weakness, with Lew Ayres
and Charles Butterworth.
Europa: The Red Head, a remark-
able French picture that one has to
see to comprehend. An outstanding
piece of work.
Stanley: Warner -Brothers give
the public no time to cool off and
rush back with Footlight Parade, in
which Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and
Jimmy Cagney do their part to make
it a very acceptable two hours.
Karlton: The Kennel Murder Case,
with Jack La Rue, Helen Vinson and
Mary Astor, in which Scotties and
Philo Vance solve the impossible rath-
er well.
Stanton: The rather disappoint-
ing drama about the icebergs goes
on—S. O. S. Iceberg. Rod LaRocque
heads the cast and it does not do
the material justice.
Earle: Vaudeville continues to
predominate with a sad thing called
Midshipman Jack flickering on. Fred
Waring and his Pennsylvanians are
(at the head of the bill and have al-
ways attracted us.
; Local Movies
Ardmore: Wed. and Thurs., Kath-_
erine Hepburn and Douglas Fair=
banks, Jr., in Morning Glory. Fri.
and Sat., Marlene Dietrich in Song
of Songs, with Brian Aherne. Mon.
and Tues., What Price Innocence,
with Jean Parker. Wed. and Thurs.,
Kay Francis and Edward G. Robin-
son in I Loved A Woman.
Seville: Wed. and Thurs., Double
| Harness, with Ann Harding and Wil-
liam Powell. Fri. and Sat., Be Mine
Tonight, with Jan Kiepura. Mon.,
Tues., Wed., Doctor Bull, with Will
Rogers. :
Wayne: Wed. and Thurs., Storm
At Daybreak, with Kay Francis and
Fri., Sat., Mon. and
Tues., Tugboat Annie, with Wallace
Beery and Marie Dressler. Wed., -
“
THE COLLEGE NEWS
4
Page Three
Varsity Scores Over
Phila. Cricket Club
Victory of 3 to 1 Obtained in
Spite of Poor Teamwork
‘ and Passing
SECOND TEAM WINS, 6-1
On Saturday morning, Varsity won
their game with» the Philadelphia
Cricket Club by a score of 3-1.
' In spite of the ‘fact that this was
Varsity’s second victory, we are sorry
to say that it did not measure up to
our last week’s expectations. Except
for a few spasmodic plunges, which
resulted in quick and efficient goals,
the forwards spent their time rush-
ing aimlessly about the field, out of
position half of the time, and letting
the Yellows take the ball out from
under their noses. the other half. Al-
though the Cricket Club team lacked
both wing players, its stickwork, pass-
ing, and general offense was far su-
perior to that of the Bryn Mawr
team, and but for the splendid work
of Smith at goal, Varsity might have |-
been left far behind. .We realize,
however, that the absence of Taggart
and Faeth on the forward line might
have been the partial cause of the
general confusion and the lack of any
definite plan of attack.
The line-up was as follows:
ae Book Shop
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typewriters are being sold by
the College Book Shop at cost,
less the rental that has been
taken in on them. The Book
Shop ‘must sell them in college
because the Remington Com-
pany will not allow them to be
sold outside in view of ‘the
great reduction.
DAPUNE nis sss Rit ee Bishop
Punter... i408 | Oe Paaeere yr Rothermel
Freeman ,...... | Seer: E. Smith
Goals—Phila. C.: C., Pierson, 1.
Bryn Mawr, Kent, 2; Bennett,’ 1.
On Monday afternoon, the second
Varsity hockey team won a soggy
victory over a Germantown Friends’
Alumnae Team, 6-1.
The line-up was as follows:
Germantown Bryn Mawr
JONES Gas ToOWs es Taggart
acess a tae Gimbel
WEGIOS cect Ore sca Ballard
1 EO ire gS areas Stevenson
OT SRR rep | FE Seneca erence Simons |
WHE ices Rees as Gribbel
Randall. ....... HS: Venice Daniels
Hitschler ..:.:. WW eta Hemphill
MAIDIOY® Soi ecus r. f. ..Van Vechten
Goodman ...... ae Saree ae Jackson
ORTOY isc ene: Colbron
Goals — Germantown: Miller, 1;
Bryn Mawr: Taggart, 3; Gimbel, 2;
Dr. Broughton Surveys ~
Asia Minor Landscape
"Continued from Page One
tion. It has stamped out banditry
and established a new system of pri-
mary education to replace the old re-
ligious instruction. Tourists are
welcomed, but the people are still too
Oriental to understand what the
tourist demands. .A_ friendly local
mayor is quite willing to provide a
meal of eggs and curdled milk fpr
a traveler, and will even himself eat
out of the same bowl’ in accordance
with the. best ancient rules of hospi-
‘tality, but only in one or two places
did the/use of Flit show any genu-
ine infiltration of Western ideas.”
“The number of antiquities in
Asia Minor,” Dr. Broughton declar-
ed, “ruins, inscriptions, ‘old .coins —
RICHARD STOCKTON
GIFTS
BOOKS
PRINTS
Ts siesiniinsataiiseeniieinsiita cia
The Country Bookshop
30 Bryn Mawr Avenue
is tiuly amazing.” In the course of
his survey he saw the Temple of Au-
gustus at Ankora, which bears the
mcst important Latin inscription in
existence;. the quarries of Synnadic
marble, used for buildings in Rome;
and the new excavations of the Ro-
man market-place at Smyrna, besides
many others. Hitherto the Turks
ward ruins.”
have been utterly unaware of the sig-
nificance of their antiquities, but now
the famous Roman theatre at Aspen-
dus, shown in older pictures as over-
grown in trees, has been cleared of
vegetation and forbidden to the use
of animala—which “constitutes a rev-
olution in the Turkish attitude to-
—— -
—,
From the. way you turned,out to our
exhibit, and the nice things you said, we
know you were pleased with the clothes
we'd brought. We’re fond of them, too—
wemakeaspecialty of hand-knit sweaters,
~man-tailored hats, clean-cut tweeds. And
like you, we’re all for bigger and better
Glamour in the evening. The next time
you're in the neighborhood of our Fifth é
Avenue or suburban stores we hope
Philadelphia C..C. Bryn Mawr Harrington, 1. Substitutes — Bryn|| Lending Library— Bryn Mawr, you'll pay us a Visit. We’re sure to have
ae pane oe ee eS Simons — Harrington for Stevenson. First Editions Pa. something excitingly new to show oa.
ae ae ef Carey | Time of halves—20 minutes.
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CON a ja eee ee B tt
sey ooey yew COLLEGE INN AND. TEA ROOM ra
iis a Evans SERVICE. 8 A. M. TO 7.30 P. M. | a habit on the campus —a hobby at Best’s
OW. Ga ee anne Bridgman Daily and Sunday
| ee ern Lo a ei cet Bright |.
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: Luncheon, Afternoon Tea and Dinner Pest Se Co
CECELIA’S YARN | , , ss heaps .
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