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VOL. XX, No. 16.
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1934
COLLEGE
Sopyright BRYN MAWR
NEWS,
PRICE 10 CENTS
19384
Reginald Pole Traces.
Evolution of Theatre’
Goal of Future Is Synthesis of
Arts and Enlargement
of Sensibility
HARMONY IS NECESSARY
Mr. Reginald Pole, speaking on 7'he
‘Theatre of the Future and Its Sign-
posts, in the Deanery on Monday,
said that the evolution of the theatre
was¢toward the synthesis in the the-
atre of music, language, and all the
arts in order to explain the riddle of
the intangible essence of human life
and its adjustment to life around it.
Because people live, breathe, and talk
rhythmically, human life is profound-
ly rhythmic and harmonious. The
great dramatists have co-ordinated
their contemplation.of-.ligfe-eand-their+
representation of humanity ‘in terms
of the theatre with rhythm in order;
to reveal this profound harmony of
humanity.
Drama driginally was a religious
festival or a form of dance, which was
essentially democratic and in_ which
the people participated.
audiences were part of the perform-
anee and the—ehorus- was the—-link
which synthesized the actors and the
poetical reaction of the audience.
Greek and Roman culture took large
parts in moulding Western civilization,
the great Elizabethan drama,
The Greek |
CALENDAR
Thurs., March 8. Clayton
Hamilton will speak on Zhe
Yellow Jacket. Tea at.4.30 and
the talk at 5.00 P.M. In the
Common Room,
Sat., March 10. Varsity Bas-
ketball vs. Rosemont College—
' first.and second teams. Gym at
10.00 A. M.
Sun., March 11. Chapel, Rev. ©
Dr. Malcolm A. Peabody will de-
liver the address. Music Room
at _ 780 P. M. . The service will
be in memony of Quita Wood-
ward, ’32.
Mon., March 12. -Mr. Dhan
Gopal Mukerji will speak on
“The Conflict of the Past and
Present in the East.” Goodhart
at 8.20 P. M.
Tues., March 13. An after-
noon of poetry with some Bryn
Mawr poets. Mrs. Wyncie. King,
Lysbeth Boyd Borie, and the
undergraduate poetry group.
Deanery at 4.00°P:; M.
_aboratory Work Offers
Opportunities for Women
“There is no real halo of romance
about laboratory work in a factory,”
said Mrs. Harold Thurlow in an infor-
mal talk on Opportunities for Women
in Industrial Laboratories on‘ Tues-
day, February 27, in the Common
Room.
like the Greek, arose from medieval
religious and symbolical plays. But
also in Elizabethan times came the
beginning of the modern psychologieal
and cultural spirit, for with the dis-
coveries of the world around~them,
men became aware of other kinds of
people and other ways of thought and
were curious about them. Both the
old ideas and the new were synthe-
sized in Shakespeare.
Shakespeare was more than a dram-
atist: He was profoundly a poet, a
psychologist, and a philosopher, in ad-
dition to a master dramatist. of the
theatre of his own time. He still ex-
ists: because his instinct of represen-
tation’ of life in theatrical terms is
especially true and deep. Symbolizing
in himself the hidden cosmic forces of
humanity, and the spiritual impulses
in the individual, he took simple plots
and infused them with an extraordi-
nary spirit of the universal. He took
the drama form of his own time and
put into it his interest in the amaz-
ing piece of work that is man.
In what is known as his: early ,per-
iod, he wrote Midsummer Night’s
(Continued on Page Three)
Clayton Hamilton Will Talk
on Revival of Yellow Jacket
Bryn Mawr will again welcome
Clayton Hamilton, theatrical critic,
who spoke in Goodhart last year on
Cyrano de Bergerac, to lecture this
Thursday on The Yellow Jacket. That
play, memorable to theatregoers for
the sensation it created on the Amer-
ican stage in New York twenty-one
years ago, and for its successful run
abroad, is an American play of Ori-
ental inspiration and charm. The fu-
sion that bold American technique has
effected in a drama of elusive fantasy
colored by the rich poetry and kindly
philosophy of China, has produced an
American classic that, translated into
a dezen or more foreign languages,
has captivated the world.
The authors of The Yellow Jacket,
George C. Hazelton and Benrimo, pre-
faced the play with a statement con-|
cerning its conception: , “The purpose
of the creators of this play is to string
on a thread of universal philosophy,
love and laughter the jade beads of
Chinese theatrical convention. Their
effort has been to reflect the spirit
rather than the substance.” We can
be sure that this spirit will prevail in
the coming Philadelphia production of
the play. Fortunately, even the orig-
inal scenery and costumes are still in-.
tact, and Mr. and Mrs. Coburn, whose
st triumphant tours of The Yellow
: irs t are associated with the very
fi
acket are bringing with them other
players — Schuyler
-(Continuea on Page Seven)
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But after a beginning with
| routine analyses, and a few years of
| work, there is the opportunity to take
a higher degree and go on into re-
sepia work.
| Mrs, Thurlow described her own ex-
periences as fairly typical. During
the summer before graduating she ap-
plied at the Fairfield, Connecticut,
plant of the DuPont Co.,:and ‘got a
job as analyst. The laboratory at the
plant consisted of the testing bench
and a small mill for developing new
products, and it was her business to
do all the routine chemical anlyses.
She would take various tests on the
leatherette which was made in the
plant and on the new products which
were being developed. These were
for chemical composition and for age
ing. In this connection the physicist
comes in because there is a great de-
mand for new testing machines, as
well as new methods for the chemist.
After the first routine work is
learned one must adapt one’s college
training and use it as best one can,
for the work consists mainly of régu-
lar tests. The next step is to control
work in which one assigns the analy-
ses, discovers new methods of testing
and handles’ sales complaints and
queries of why the goods act in a par-
ticular. way.
There are few women in higher re-
search work now but some have been
very successful in it. - The Eastman
Co., H. J. Heinz’and General Electric
employ women in various laboratory
capacities. But beside industrial work
proper there is a wide range of labora-
tory possibilities. Many women be-
come research assistants to doctors or
do regular hospital analysis. There
are /also the Public Health Depart-
ments, which employ bacteriologists,
and. chemists,” and the Government
Civil Service for chemists, bacteriolo-
gists, physicists or engineers. Exam-
inations are held for the Government
positions whenever there is a vacancy
and those who have registered their
names with the Bureau of Standards
are notified to take them.
Another type of job in industry is
getting literature for research work.
Women are tisually employed for these
positions, which are open in most of
the large companies. There is also an
opportunity in the chemical testing
staff of a big retail company like
Macy’s, which employs four or five
chemists to test goods.
Laboratory jobs have been very
scarce for the last few years, but
things are opening up now and it is
well to send one’s name to some gen-
eral bureau such as the Institute of
Women’s Professional Relations or the
Employment Club for Chemists and
Engineers.
that of the chemical librarian. who.
compiles bibliographies and assists in
Mannitigs Impressed.
by Travel in Mexico
Continuity of Civilization and
Charm of People Stréssed
in Joint Talk °
COURTESY IS UNIVERSAL
At the meeting of the International
Club last Tuesday evening, Mr. and
Mrs. Manning spoke.in turn on Mex;
ico, the experiences they had and the
impressions they gained there during
a month’s trip-last summer.
‘Mrs. Manning experienced in. her
visit to Mexico a feeling of its strange-
ness——“there is no sense that it be-
longs to you”—and, above all; a sense
of the continuity of its civilization.
On climbing the great plateau, and
journeying past gay haciendas.and
acres of beautiful maguey
(used for wine), one gains almost
before one is aware of it the whole
feeling of- the Spanish colonial sys-
tem. The solidity, the weight of the
Spanish “Empire, “undoubtedly the
most enduring empire the world has
ever seen,” can still be felt ini Mexi-
can architecture. This was some-
what modified at Mexico City to suit
the building conditions, for Mexico
City was once a lake. No one has
ever touched rock there, And the whole
city sinks and rises during earth-
quakes. Architecture is, however,
heavy everywhere in Mexico. Even
the -workmen’s houses at the silver
mines are massively built. :
The spot where Mrs. Manning [elt
most strongly the connection between
the Spanish and the Indian civiliza-
tion was at Cholula, a sacred place
of the Toltees, which continued to be
sacred to the Aztecs. Here on top
of each Indian shrine, the Spaniards
popped down a little Christian church
-though with the usual] Andian deco-
rations—so that Indians were, -neces-
sarily, worshipping Christ at the
same time that they worshipped their
gods. :
~ Everywhere in’ Mexico there are re-
mains:—the little towers for defense
and the shrines on the wall out from
Mexico City, the pyramids of the sun
with their flat tops and extraordi-
nary geometrical arrangement at Te-
otihaucan. No remains have given
more accurate information about the
eatliest peoples of Mexico than the
skeletons—dating back to two or three
thousand’ years before Christ—which
have only recently been excavated and
may be seen under the lava cap at
Pedregal. Their skulls are smal] with
no characteristics of the Aztecs who
lived there later. The agricultural
implements beside them show that
they were not completely nomadic. It
is presumed that the first inhabitants
of Mexico were Asiatic: pedples, who
came over the Bering Straits and
down, ten or fifteen thousand years
before Christ; but they left no re-
mains. -—~
The Gulf of Mexico was a sort of
independent sea around which Mexi-
can civilization grew up, especially in
Yucatan. The Mayans arrived at the
highest civilization reached by the
tribes of Mexico, without European
influence. Although .this race still
bears an extraordinary resemblance
to the Semitic peoples, their temples
resemble those of Java. Their written
history started possibly about 500
B. C. This is, however, a matter of
conjecture, as the early Spanish
priests destroyed .all their “heathen-
ish” writings, especially hieroglyphics.
They had a calendar and were well-
versed in astronomy: — =
(Continued on Page Seven) a
Business Board
Competition for positions on
the Business Board of the Col-
lege News is now open. Will
all candidates please see Bar-
bara Lewis, Pem East, between
1.30 -and 2.00, for instructions
concerning the competition. All
those who have not been Blessed
with editorial genius are urged
to come out for the Business
Board, and are assured that
they will “have not a dull
e
moment. :
plants
News Competition
All those trying out for the
Editorial Board of the College
News are requested to come
to the News office ‘in Good-
hart at 6.00 P;: M? on this
Thursday. Candidates are also
reminded that all articles as-
signed for the past week for the
competition must be in the hands
of the editors before that time.
New assignments will be given
out.on Thursday.
Mr. Alwyne Presents
_ Notable Piano Recital
Performance Reveals Delicacy of
| Touch and Sympathy in
Interpretation
VARIOUS MOODS SHOWN
&
(Especially Contributed. by
Peter Page)
1936 Swimming Team
Scores First 47—41
Daniels Takes Diving Cup, Ties
With Bill for Individual
Cup Award.
37 WINS SECOND MELT
The second interclass swimming
meet was much closer in its results
than the-first. 1937, aided’ by the ad-
dition of Simpson and Seltzer, won
two firsts, three seconds, and one third
place to win the meet with a total of
20 points. 19384 and 1936 came in
close behind with 18 and 17 points,
respectively, to/win second and third
places. 1936/led the college for the
two meets with a grand total of 47
points, with 1934 in second place with
41. Thé individual cup award went
to Damiels and Bill, who tied for it.
On Friday Daniels started the meet
by breaking her own record of. 59
made the week before by clocking 57.2
seconds in the 80-yard dash, with A.
Van Vechten ahead until: the tasttap,
coming close to the old record with
59.8 seconds.
Bill took first in both the side stroke
and crawl for form, winning in the
latter event over Whiting, who placed
second. 1934 missed Mitchell, who
was out with a bad knee, 2nd who
usually brings first honors in. the
event.
Dunean-swept—thefield—in- the-40=
yard backstroke in 31.8 seconds, to
beat Mitchell’s old record of 32.1, her
classmate, Woodward, close behind in
second place in 82.2 seconds. Jarrett
took third place for 1934.
Simpson led Wylie all the way to
win by .2 of a second in the 40-yard
free style in the first heat, timing 25.6
seconds to take first in the event.
In the diving, Daniels took the cup
for the third year with a total of 40.5
points over Butler’s score
points. Daniels averaged 7.8 points
on the required dives, but received 8.5
on her Flying Dutchman, a spectacu-
lar and nicely executed dive of excep-
tional’ difficulty. Wylie gets nice
height but loses on form and entry.
Seltzer did beautifully on the straight
front and jack, but—to our disap-
pointment—faded out on the back dive
and the half twist. With,a little more
practice she should be able to place
in this event.
Losing out in only one lap, 1936
took the relay, with 1937 in second
place, and 1934 third. .
The results of the meet were as fol-
lows:
80-Yard Dash—Daniels, ’34; A. Van
Vechten, ’36; Evans, ’37.
40-Yard Backstroke—Duncan, 737;
Woodward, ’37; Jarrett, ’34.
40-Yard Free Style—Simpson, ’37;
Wylie, ’36; A. Van Vechten, ’36.
Side Stroke—Bill, ’35; Seltzer, ’37;
Landreth, 734. : ;
Crawl—Bill, ’35; Whiting, ’36; Lan-
dreth, ’34, and Meneely, ’84, and Van
Vechten, ’36, tied for third.
Diving—Daniels, ’34; Butler, ’34;
Morley, ’36.
Relay — 1936 (Wylie, Whiting,
Bridgman, Cohen), 1937 (Evans, Dun-
can, Woodward, Jackson), 1934 (Me-
neely, Butler, Daniels, Landreth).
Totals—1934, 18; 1935, 10; 1936,
17: 19387, 20.
Grand Total—1934, 41; 1935, 22;
1936, 47; 1937, 22. of
1934 — Daniels, Jarrett, Meneely,
Landreth, Butler. 2
1935—Bucher, Hemphill, Lord, Bill.
1936—Van Vechten, Cohen, Morley,
Wylie, Anderson, Bridgman, Whiting.
1937—Evans, Duncan, Woodward,
Jackson, Simpson, Seltzer, Fulton.
of 82.7 |
«- Women
Monday evening Mr. Horace-Alwyne
presented a beautiful and brilliant re-
cital of piano works in Goodhart Hall.
The hall was well filled with an audi-
ence which responded to Mr, Alwyne’s
playing with hearty applause. The
‘concert was consistent with the splen-
did work the pianist has always ac-
complished.
The first part was devoted to the
-musie-of-Bach;-opening with Mr. Al-
wyne’s. arrangement of
Prelude, “Now Comes
Saviour.” Then followed Four .Pre-
ludes from “The
Clavier,” No. 9 in E, No. 8 in E flat
‘minor, No. 22 in B flat minor, No.. 21
in B flat. These were chosen so as
to present various moods of Bach’s
| writings and were rendered with a
‘delicacy and feeling that showed the
the Choral
the Gentiles’
;pianists’s full comprehension of the ~
underlying intention of the work. The
group was concluded with a number
iby Couperin, “La tendre Nanette,”
and of Scarlatti, “Siciliano.” These
possessed a tenderness and lyric qual-
jity to which the audience was readily
| endeared.
' The second group brought forth
some of Mr, Alwyne’s best work. The
group contained a Berceuse aind Im-
promptu (in F sharp, Op. 36) of Cho-
pin, and a Ballade (in D major, Op,
'10); and Scherzo (in E flat minor, Op.
{) of Brahms. The Berceuse was
‘very quiet and the bass part was so
|written and so rendered as to produce
ja dreamy and almost romantic at-
‘mosphere. To the Ballade of Brahms,
in itself a beautiful work, we owe
the success of this group. But the
Scherzo is a rather dull monotonous
piece and its one saving grace is its
strong infusion with the spirit and -
_tempo of Schumann.
| The final group ineluded Liszt, “II
| Penseroso” and “Valse oubilée;” Rach-
maninoff, “Prelude in B minor, Op. ...
32,” Two. Preludes by Scriabin (Op.
\11, No. 15 in D flat) and (Op, 16,
'No. 3 in G flat), and the Scherzo and
|March from “The Love for Three
‘Oranges,’ by Prokofieff. Combined
‘in this group are pieces of deep emo-
ition, vivid imagination and spontane-
(Continued on Page Four)
}
‘Mrs. Manning Discusses
Professions for Women
|
| Speaking in chapel, March 1, on op-
|portunities for women in_ business,
‘Mrs. Manning stressed the point that
everywhere find themselves
;faeed in business with the difficulty
of rivalry with men. Consequently,
'a woman to forge ahead in the busi-
|ness world must have the best train-
‘ing possible—especially in medicine,
|where the school one has attended
;counts enormously at the beginning
‘of one’s career. She must also have
ia good backing and good connections.
With these prerequisites, she may
enter either a branch of work in
|which women have already achieved
success and might even be preferred
to men—as in the medical care of
children—or a branch in which she
is so good’ that she is confident of
rising to the upper rank. In the lat-
-ter sort of work, to put herself on an
equal basis with men, she must have
outstanding knowledge, great person-
ality—especially in the practice of
law—and tireless energy. One is
bound to succeed if one keeps going
in the same direction, even if it is
only by the expedient of wearing out
the rest of the human race. These
three qualities women are quite as
likely to possess as men.
A professional attitude is essential
to a woman who takes her profession
seriously. Many women enter busi-
ness as a fad, only putting a half of
ready. to withdraw at a moment’s no-
(Continued on Page Three)
Well-Tempered .,
their full energy into their work and —
BBs 5 ty wr
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Iu Memoriam
GERTRUDE HOUSTON WOODWARD
Class of 1932
April 21, 1909—March 5, 1934
Bitte, Bitte!
With the advent of the first warm weather the thoughts of the
undergraduates turn as ever to the question of orals and their deathly
toll, and this year brings evidence of their increased depredations
among the seniors. Usually, no students are prevented from graduat-
ing by the orals unless they have actually failed them—usually not
once, but many times. However, this year there is a student who seems
doomed to go down before them without ever having faced them in
actual combat. The case is that of a senior who spent her junior year
in France, and who, through a misunderstanding, did not realize that
she must at least condition the oral to be allowed to take it in the spring
of this year. As the situation stands at present this student who was
allowed to study French at the Sorbonne in recognition of her splendid
work in that subject, is not to be allowed to attempt the German oral
in the spring, thereby automatically losing her degree.
There are two sides to every question and the case of the senior
is no exception. On the side of those who adhere; to the letter of the
rule requiring students to at least attempt the orals before their senior
year are several arguments: First, there is the question of precedent
and iron bound tradition which allows of no exceptions to an enshrined |.
regulation. Secondly, it may be argued that the student should have
acquainted herself with the rulings in connection with the orals before
Thirdly, there is the point that the Dean’s
office did write her to the effect, that she would be required to take the
oral on her return in the fall—a point which must be qualified by the
fact that through incorrect forwarding. the letter did not reach her
until she was on the verge of sailing for the United States in the fall.
In general, the position of those who oppose the granting of an excep-
tion in the present case is that of a defense of precedent and the
immutability of all rules governing the conferring of degrees.
Those who have espoused the cause of the student are asking not
that she be given her diploma without fulfilling all the requirements,
but that she be allowed to attempt to fulfill those requirements: At
present her diploma is being denied her without proof that she is not
sufficiently acquainted with the German language to pass the oral.
To us that constitutes a condition which points to a weakness some-
where in the present rules and regulations of the college. The student
in question has proved by her work in French that she is well grounded
in the fundamentals which govern all languages. She is a language
major, and her record for the year just completed at the Sorbonne was
satisfactory in evéry way judged by the college standards of -merit.
~ Furthermore, she was removed from the campus where a discussion
of the orals and the rules surrounding them constitute regular under-
graduate conversation. A meeting was held during junior year in
which the oral situation was explained, but at that time this student
was in Paris. There were no opportunities at the Sorbonne for a Bryn
Mawr junior to study German, as the obvious reason for her presence
in that institution was to perfect her French. That the explanatory
letter from the administration should have been mislaid for some
months and its arrival delayed to such a time that there was no chance
_..of the student's perfecting her German to the required stage was unfor-
tunate in the extreme, but it cannot be blamed on the student any
-more than on the administration.
The facts of the case have already been reviewed by the college,
and a petition from that studenf that she might ‘be allowed to continue
her German and attempt the oral in the spring’ has been denied. ‘We
have no doubt that the administration gave the matter due considera-
tion, but to them the loss of a degree may not seem as important as
- it does to the struggling undergraduate. We are asking only that the
_ student be allowed to attempt the oral—if she should fail it we would
~ secept, the fact of her not graduating. But, it seems unfair, and
_ hardly in line with the boasted policy of the college that to their good
students go the diplomas, that a student who spent her junior year
abroad in the Sorbonne should be excluded from the final round-up
ee be Geetion v0 the colt aoe bp
a ae
smoke and ashes came flying out. at
me. -Finally I picked my way up
near enough to .poke around among
the remains, and put some papers on
top. But let me tell you all! The
papers burnt and the entire thing
went up in smoke—and there I was
with no fire at all. Was J burnt up
after all that! :
Dearie, I’m afraid I must be off.
I’m reading Mourning Becomes
Electra—a lovely book. —
Oodles of love,
DIVINE RIGHT?
Some trouble with
The kin and kith
In lore and myth
I’ve always had:
The state I’m in—
I’m sure that kin
And kith in sin
-There were, begad.
They’ve always said
That some were wed,
But then I’ve read
That some were not.
When Greek met Greek,
And flesh was weak—
Er—so to speak—
What then, mein Gott?
—Goodness Me.
Clara.
ANTI-SOCIAL
I’ve got a cold
With snivels untold:
I care not a fig
For sprigh.
Mad Hatter, dear, dear,
My trouble is is is is is is so trou-
blesome that I that that I couldn’t to
say it myself. All at alk Gertrude
willingly said it for me to say to you
so you can _tell can tell me what.to
do:
“If: wean weaned and Nanette spoke
she very in a very in a very ina
very very very pointed and exceptional
withstood. The daughter was simple
CHILD’S PLAY
“CWA ARMY, 30,000 STRONG
‘LOST’ IN SNOW”’—headline.
Come on out, fellas;) We see you!
NEW SPRING CLOTHES ONE-
THIRD OF F—advt.
Look out, lady—yer goin’,
gone!
almost
BRIEFS
+ Well! that nearly Killed me, but what} ~-
minded.”
Had Matter so please help.
Sorrowfully,
Bedraggled Intellect.
A PLAINT
To be sung in February blizzards—
when snow gets in your eyes.
When I awake at. morn
I am left forlorn,
When upon the ground,
Swirling all around
Snow is falling down,
Then try in vain to rift
Passage through the drift.
This will be my plea
When all cuts I lose
Snow gets in my shoes.
Then comes a sunny day,
Snow must melt away,
Puddles soon abound,
Trickling o’er the ground
Mud is trampled down.
Still try in vain to push
Passage through ,the slush,
Taylor is too far.
Still all cuts I’ll lose,
Mud gets in my shoes,
Puss-in-Boots.
?
WOMEN OF LETTERS
My dear—
I’ve just had such a time! Simply
awful—I was sitting over in the li-
brary, when suddenly—out of a clear
sky—it came upon me like a wave
FOR THE INTELLECTUALS
Mr. Blank to Speak
Latter Part of Week
Rest of the Deanery
To be Hid in Greenery
Home Team Plays Fine;
Bryn Mawr Backs Shine
Discussion i in Chapel
Of Adam and the Apple
‘i A FAVORITE FISH
| DROWNED IN FORMALDEHYDE
;O woe! but you were lovely, silvered,
| slim,
| Of soulful eye, and streamline fin so
| trim.
| Why, o, my beauty, did you sit that
day,
; That fated day, upon a slimy spray,
! And ever contemplate a little bite
Of hook that dangled shimmering
and white?
O never have I this sad tale’ believed,
How you by shining hook could be
deceived.
Hear! hear! you other dogfish, learn,
That all is not a worm, of such a
turn.
—Dissectress.
From the horizontal point of view
of all Art, I wish to speak my mind.
My mind is not made up because I
have not seen what I wish to speak
about. But it seems a very convenient
time to speak as I have heard that you
are reviewing Four Saints in Three
that the fire needed another log.-So
I dashes up, my dear—you know me,
and seizing the largest—a mere se-
Acts'in this issue of the News. I
do not wish to make myself too plain;
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the spring of senior year.
We fully realize the importance of a rule which makes it impossible
to put off the problem of orals until the last minute. In the end such
a regulation operates to the advantage of the students involved. But,
there are times when even the most beneficial regulation could be abro-
gated to advantage in special eases. In the past students who have
done outstanding work in their departments and who have encountered
unexpected snags at the last moment have been treated with leniency
by the college. Not that the Bryn Mawr diploma has ever graced the
land of one who had not lived up to the letter of graduation require-
ments, or whose friends have not shouted the Battle Hymn of the
Republic at the crucial moment, but the life of good students has been
made more happy by the kindly attitude of the powers—that—be
when the skies were blackest. The powers of the academic council of
the college could be employed to no better purpose in the opinion of
the undergraduates than to allow the student to take her German oral
in the spring in spite of the fact. that she has never taken it before.
No one knows: whether she can pass it or not until she has tried, and if
the student is qualified to pass the examination it seems only intelligent
{o permit her to make the attempt.
The undergraduates have no desire to assail the academic suprem-
acy of the Gods of the Mountain in matters of this sort. They feel
merely that the student in question should be given a chance to lose
her degree instead of having it taken from her by a rule of which she.
was, through extraordinary circumstances, not aware. The seniors
would accept any dispensation in her “favor 4in-the-light of a fully
justified exception, and would not regard it as creating a precedent or
in any way lowering the barriers surrounding the territory of the
orals. Exceptions have been made in the past, and to the student body,
the case of the French speaking senior to-whom the privilege of express-
ing herself through the additional medium of German is denied, con-
stitutes a case worthy of exceptional treatmeft. We are not asking
that any ‘of the graduation requirements be dispensed with in the
present case. We are asking only that the student be given a fighting
chance to graduate instead of having her hands firmly bound behind
pag | back by pink ribbon.
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IN PHILADELPHIA
“Theatres
Broad: . Conrad Nagel and Laura
Baxter in the very funny farce about
a well-behaved lecturer whose badly-
behaved past caught up with him in
Cleveland—Goodbye Again, Is the best
of the week’s offerings.
Garrick: Mr. and Mrs. Coburn
come back to us in The Yellow Jacket.
The charming, but slightly sleep-in-
ducing pseudo-Chinese whatnot.
Erlanger: The three illegitimate
sons of “one of .those. dancers” all
turn out to be like their respective
fathers (who were very different) and
we have Three in One. With Jacque-
‘line Logan and King Calder it goes
along very well.
Coming—March 12
Broad: Alexander Woollcott and
$ccore Kaufman’s joint brain child—
—Confined
The Dark Tower. Jessie Royce Lan-
dis and Alexander Clark have the
leads, and, as they had nothing to do
with the moderate success of this
‘melodrama in New York, we will
make no promises. ,
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Music—Academy of Music
Ballet Russe. Wed. afternoon,
March 7, at 2.45 P. M., and Thurs.
evening, March 8, at 8.30 P, M. Wed.
program will be ‘“Petrouschka,”
“Carnaval,” “Le Beau Danube” and
others. Thurs. program will be “Les
Sylphides,” “Les Presages” — and
“Prince Igor.”
John Charles Thomas will give a
concert on Wednesday evening, March
1; at 8:20: PP: °-M.
Philadelphia Orchestra. Friday af-
ternoon, March 9, at 2.30 P. M.; Sat-
urday evening, March 10, at 8.30
P. M., and Monday evening, March
12, at 8.30 P. M. Leopold Stokowksi
will conduct, and Yehudi Menuhin
will be the violin soloist. Program:
Beethoven....Leonore Overture No. 3
Beethoven,
Violin Concerto in D Major
Bach,
Fugue in G Minor (The' Smaller)
BOCK : 46546 Prelude in E Flat Minor
Bach,
Brandenburg Concerto, No, 2, in F
for solo Flute, Oboe, Trumpet,
Violin and Orchestra.
Movies
Stanley: Clark Gable and Clau-
dette Colbert continue to bill and coo
on the way to Florida on a transcon-
tinental bus—-Jt Happened One Night
—is very funny and gives one hope
for the future of Mr. Gable’s sense of
humor.
Aldine: Anna Sten in Nana, the
“millions of dollars movie,” which is
supposed to be based in some obscure
fashion on Zola’s novel. Not a very
good movie and we thought Miss Sten
less. than her advertising manager
would have us believe as to charm,
ete.
Arcadia: The entire population of
Hollywood continues to have Dinner
At Eight at popular prices. Has been
seen by nearly everyone six times, so
comment seems unnecessary.
Boyd: Ruth Chatterton finds the
state of marriage as difficult as she
usually does in Journal of a Crime,
with Adolphe Menjou. Isn’t there any
character besides that of a jealous
wife that this woman knows how to
portray?
Earle: Along with vaudeville we
have Wheeler and Woolsey in Hips,
Hips, Hooray, which is all about noth-
ing in particular except those two fun-
ny boys. We can’t bear them, but
maybe you can,
Europa: The same movie seems
destined to last_us all season—Forgot-
ten Men goes on showing us the ter-
rible side of the war, which for many
years was suppressed. Seems a lit-
tle superfluous to show them to the
people—might have a special showing
for the government.
Fox: On the stage, “The First Lit-
tle Show” and in the film Devil Tiger
himself looking obligingly at the cam-
era in the epic of man against the
elements and animals. Worse - than
most.
Karlton: Mae Robson as the mis-
erly old lady who loves money and
her son and is dreadful about them
both until she finds that’ You Can’t
Buy Everything. Points’ a doubtful
moral and is not all it should be.
Stanton: Lionel Barrymore and
Fay Bainter in This Side of Heaven,
a mediocre movie, which goes to prove
that the haste with which Mr. Barry-
more is turning out his starring ve-
hicles. is making for waste. ©
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Both Teams Defeat Mount St.
Joseph—Game’ Won After
Close Contest
GUARDS STOP DRIBBLES
On Saturday morning the Bryn
Mawr Varsity defeated the Mount
Saint Joseph teams, 34-19 and 25-17.
Bryn Mawr started out on the de-
fensive against its opponents’ fast
passing, but the guards soon seemed
able to manage the speed and team-
work by intercepting before the for-
wards got under the basket. A few
direct passes through the center and
down to the, Varsity forwards gave
Bryn Mawr the needed ‘encouragement
and defense was abandoned ‘in favor
of a steady.and. consistent offense in
the center and forward courts. Dur-
ing the second quarter, after the
score had see-sawed back and forth
continually Varsity pulled away into
a lead which she never relinquished,
though there were many exciting mo-
ments during the second-half when it
looked as though’ the Saint Joseph
team had found the shooting range
of the basket, and when a_ sudden
spurt of fast passing looked danger-
ous. The guards, however, were on
their toes waiting to intercept and
break up dribbles, and, on the whole,
they were successful, mainly because
the opposing .team used so many
passes to get into scoring position.
Bryn Mawr’s defeat of the Saint
Joseph team makes the prospects for
a-win over the Rosemont team |seem
even brighter. Time will tell and the
breaks of the game may be against
us. Let’s hope not.
The line-up was as follows:
Mt. St. Joseph Bryn Mawr
Regnerey s... 0% Po ke ce Boyd
BONN = ork eis fete iis Faeth
CPN osx enaeens Cir i ade anu ces Kent
Gannon <=. 065% a eer . Larned
THOG™ i cee te r.g. .....Bridgman
McCluskey ..... Le ee Jarrett
Substitutions—Mt. St. Joseph: Lie-
berman for Gannon. Bryn Mawr:
Bennett for Jarrett.
Scores—Mt. St, Joseph:
13; Senn, 6°
27; Faeth, 7.
Regnerey,
Bryn Mawr: Boyd,
The Second Varsity was faced by
a comparatively stronger team than
was the first Varsity, especially in
the guard section. Though Bryn
Mawr took an immediate offensive at-
tack, to lead by ten points at the end
of the half, Smith’s absence in the
second half forced the Varsity on the
defense and Mt, St. Joseph managed
to score ten of its points in this per-
iod to Varsity’s four. Many substi-
tutions by the opposing team also
made it a bit difficult for the forwards
to maintain a consistent teamwork
-and a sigh of relief went up when
the final whistle blew and the game
came to an end. A few more minutes
and the St, Joseph team would prob-
ably have evened up the score. Bish-
_ op and Jarrett were sadly missed, but
we ‘must congratulate both Wash-
burn and Smith for their excellent
work against a strong forward combi-
nation.
The line-up was as follows:
Mt. St. Joseph Bryn Mawr
McGinnis ....... Ce oan eee Pierce
ee Ne: Bt his ees Baker
RUGKED Soh ieenise Ct Meirs
PIGOINS .. 6.6 ees s, c. ....Rothermel
BIPACHO %, 6 sc c's r. g. ....Washburn
UN Goes ae i we Ey Sea rere Smith
Substitutions—Mt. St. Joseph: Regli
for McGinnis, McGinnis for Higgins,
Tractenberg for Dirschall, Cotter for
Smith. Bryn Mawr: Jackson for
Smith.
Scores — Mt. St. Joseph: . McGin-
nis, 3; Mack, 14. Bryn Mawr: Pierce,
8; Baker, 17.
“The life into which students of to-
day are being led,” said Dr. Henry
N. MacCracken, President of Vassar
College, and a.member of the Board
of Advisers of the National Student
Federation, in a recent address be-
fore the New York Alumnae of the
college, “is not one in which there is
‘ any- demand for their services as indi-
dividuals. The powers of the mind,
in flexibility, concentration, imagina-
tion and energy, are now required, in
this changing world, with the ability
to go on one’s own steam rather than
specialized vocationalism.” The func-
tion of education is to follow rather
than lead, he said—(N.S. F. A.) —
phrases co-ordinate thought to music
and to the riddle of being which
touches the harmony of human na-
eRe
We have the heritage of Shakes-
Reginald Pole Traces
Evolution of Theatre
2 Continued ‘from Page One_ ee
4 j k the blank verse form :
ni ine “9 bi and put into|P°4r® Goethe and Schiller, Ibsen, Che-
it his own exquisite lyric poetry. Ti Ko’ and the Russian ballet, and all
his middle period, he had begun to | that we are working on is the enlarge-
,
‘ment of sensibility and the examina-
contemplate people, to react to life,! 4 pe os
and to represent it. Hd®broke up his, tion inte ‘the constitution of the hu-
One particular intellec-
blank verse, and introduced though lS haere lcs on and 4
humor, contrast and conflict into the) ( ailaat yh y bac Hie
play. In his last plays he used less’ Facaa douse Pegi of T. S. Eliot
blank verse of a different quality, of} od th br ‘ rE of O’N ‘1 Bar
an amazing quality of utterance which | théy thy a priser ‘hia aks rs f
is deeply profound because it effects | . : ea
a perfect balance between music and | PS¥Chological, feverish examination is
ultimate, deep contemplation of that | 20n® and the young people know it.
music. It brings the representation | miyed suiinent must be found yi
of life into terms of the rhythm in 8 hai narmonious seiirtion :
which we live, and Shakespeare’s prin- | 28 ig" all’ very well, but it needs a
; mers ‘background of sanity.
cipal contribution to the theatre was) :
his understanding of how to co-ordi-| We must partake of the beliefs of
nate the use of language ahd the con-/°UF age, but the artist creates his
flict at the base of all art whien repre- | #8° far more than his age creates the
baits Alte: ‘ [exer We will have geniuses in the
A poet gives us utterance of what theatre again, nit ee Ae ssomaliaaita
we'savnot my, Wid die immortality 2" as yet. It is, however, important,
| to
of the second balcony scene in Romeo! oe bin Discarcce for peri vie
and Juliet is derived from its poetry.! TAYSY Oe @ Mees:
eee : .”|ing-ground for philosophers in which
lis- |
Arthur Symons says that in a realis they can ‘represent life around ‘them
j a Id}.
tié. drama, people say what they wou -In.terms.of.the theatre, art, and music.
say in actual lifé, but a poet always | ny, h
‘no| ne theatre must be constructed out
makes them say the most revealing of producers, actresses, dancers, dram:
things that human beings'could say, _.. a
to: ome abother’ under thoes cireum-|°""™ and musicians, but educated
: : people must enter the theatre, and ed-
geet reer. i) the, Sitterctice be- | trated, intelligent citizens must “be
tween poetry and does : itaught to consider the theatre as the
There have been interesting evolu- pepresentation ae the Galseseal acu.
tions in the theatre since the time of |-qjet between man and man, and be-
Shakespeare. Goethe and Schiller, al-|tween man and himself, co-ordinated
though they were romanticists, Lave! with the profound harmony of hu-
us the Germanic serious contemplation man nature.
lof life. But the evolution of the the- |
atre has kept pace with the evolutions Mt
: ' IVit's.
of science, and we cannot escape the}
modern amazing developments of psy-|
chology! the enlargement of sensibil-|
ity, and the perpetual, recurrent, sys-'
tematic examination into the constitu-|tice to, for example, get married, This
tion of the mind itself. They are the light-hearted manner of working has
Manning Discusses
Professions for Women
Continued from Page One
1 . . .
‘principal trends of our generation Biven women a: bad reputation — in
and they started with Shakespeare. | business. A woman should find out
Next in the evolution of the theatre | the professional ethics of her particu-
came Ibsen, a man of tremendous in-| lar branch of work and let her family
tellectual capacity for coming to, 2Trangements interfere as little as if
grips with life. He saw people, with She were a man.
extraordinary clarity and used them! Every profession today except
on the stage like puppets to reveal | school-teaching is well-filled with men.
themselves. He grappled with the so-!Most professions are overcrowded.
ciological’ aspects of his time, sum-| This is, however, a comparative term.
med up’ the modern examination into; The easy professions where brilliance
the constitution of the mind, and rep-|is the most necessary are the most
resented human beings with a myriad | overcrowded, but brilliance can still
of contrasting -characertistics. -Al=
though he rebelled against romantic-
ism, he was a poet and a romanticist
at heart, and it is significant that at
the end of his life, he tried to show in
the autobiographical When We Dead
Awaken that he had lost the ultimate
conveying of universal reality because
he had half sold himself to sociology.
The most important influence in the
theatre since Ibsen’ has been Chekov,
a member of the realistic school, who
suggested realism with exquisite’
touches of illumination. Stanislavsky,
the producer of his plays, managed to
put these moments of illumination into
the acting, for they depend on the
actors to be conveyed, while Shakes-
peare took the burden off the actors
and put his illuminating suggestions
into his poetry. This is why Chekov
is not always .appreciated.
Wagner is also important in the
theatre for having tried to put the
realm of aesthetics known to us
through the symphonies of the mas-
ters, into the theatre in the rational
terms of language. Without Wagner
there would have been no Russian bal-
let, for the Russian ballet tries to af-
fect the same alliance in terms of the
dance. As a young man, Wagner
wanted to wed the theatre and music:
Shakespeare and Beethoven. He
brought the quality of Beethoven into
the theatre, but he did not bring the
quality of Shakespeare. Shakespeare
was tied to Beethoven’s apron strings,
because Wagner was a great musi-
cian and the whole action of his
drama was internal and spiritual. The
whole drama takes places in terms
of music and of human life which
the puppets have to represent, so that'|
it transcends the theatre, as does King as
Lear, but’ it is still important ,be-||
cause it is trying to give articulate
expression to symphonic music.
Shakespeare’s great, glamorous,
magical phrases are in thé nature of
music also, and are attempting to ex-
plain the undertone of human life,
which Emerson calls the “over-soul.” ||
This is a far more difficult task for
the poet than for the composer, be-
cause the poet wérks in terms of ra-
tional language and speech. Shakes-
peare is universally great because his
achievesuccess. — Geographical loca-
tion is a very important. considera-
tion for the young professional at the
start of a career.
A college student, planning a pro-
fessional career which includes three
or four years of definite professional
training, has little time to waste in
thinking over arrangements. She
must decide on her plans now. The
best way to do this is to discuss the
matter with an older person. Miss
Park and Mrs. Manning are always
ready to give advice. Vocational guid-
ance is being worked out more and
more in the larger colleges and uni-
versities. - It is, however, difficult
without a separate bureau, and also
is less needed, unless the vocation is
regarded as part of a student’s aca-
demic training. Mrs. Manning be-
lieves in the right of young people to
change their minds. No kind of pro-
fessional guidance will prevent them
from doing so.
Authorities of Miami University
(Oxford, O.) have reported the theft
from their college library of St. Au-
gustine’s “Quotes Incunabulum,” pub-
lished in 1492, and “Plautus Come-
dies,” published in 1585.
—(N. S. F. A.)
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RICHARD STOCKTON
LETTERS
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|__(The. NEWS is not—responsible—for-
opinions expressed in this column.)
To the Editor of the College News:
Dear Editor:
If we must -have required courses,
let us discriminate and not place Dic-
tion, Hygiene, and Body Mechanics
before the Bible. The Bible is, of
course, a cornerstone of our culture.
Therefore we cannot fully understand
or interpret our literature until we
know the Bible well. Until we have
studied it; we have omitted a. large
part of the world’s greatest litera-
ture and have no right to be critics.
We should have the Bible always in
our minds as a criterion of excellence
by which to estimate other literature.
A careful study of the Bible is in-
spiring not only to the mature liter-
ary student, but also to all types, to a
young mind that understands through
narrative; as well as to’ a mature
philosopher. The. Bible is not to be
read superficially and easily, yet how
many of us have only a superficial
knowledge of it. We are denying our-
selves a great experience by pretend-
ing that we have had it. ‘With a re-
quired course, at least we should all
be exposed to this experience.
Sincerely yours, -
EVELYN THOMPSON.
To the Editor of the College News:
I gather from reading last week’s
News that the faculty emerged from
their conference with the Curriculum
Committee on the. proposed system of
comprehensive examinations, with the
idea that the undergraduates had no
serious objections to the new plan. I
|am_ convinced that-the-undergraduates—
are dissatisfied with the proposal, not
on the ground that it would involve
too much work, but becaues they are
‘doubtful of the wisdom of the theory
of education underlying it. I wish,
therefore, to make the following criti-
cisms and hope that they will ade-
quately express the unformulated dis-
trust of the new plan which we all
feel.
It is my personal belief that a col-~_
lege education should provide a sound,
thorough, informed, and _ intelligent
basis for future ‘specialization. It is |
becoming increasingly obvious that
further training is required after we
leave college in order to obtain a
worth-while job of any kind: an A.B.
no longer is the passkey to a responsi-
ble position, and is generally regarded
as merely the beginning of the neces-
sary training. For this reason alone,
if for no other, an A.B. should be the
certificate that there are approximate-
ly no loopholes in our education, and
that any further work we may choose
to do will be based_on a sound general
foundation.
For this purpose, the present system
of requireds, major and allies is too
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Notable: Piano Recital
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like to give them the benefit of the
doubt. They were driven out of the
| New England States when there were |
“were several pieces that were not on
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ous humor. Mr. Alwyne performed
these especially well and to all of
them the audience responded with en-
thusiasm and so applauded that Mr.
Alwyne played two encores, “Sparks,”
by Mozkowski, and Intermezzo (Op.
76), by Brahms.
Any faults in the recital may be
laid to the program itself. There
a par with the rest. Without a major
“piéce de resistance” the various tid-
bits were not supplementary but con-
stituted the whole of the program and
ible. Mr. Alwyne is greatly to be
lauded for the delicacy of touch, un-
derstanding and interpretation that he
exercised throughout. °
PROGRAMME
I. Bacu,
Choral-Prelude: ‘‘Now Comes
the Gentiles’ Saviour.”
“ Four Preludes from “The Well-
Tempered Clavier :”
No. 9 in E, In modo pastorale
No. 8 in E flat minor, Lento
No. 22 in B flat minor, Andante
mistico *
_ No. 21 in B flat, Allegro volante
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Impromptu in F sharp, Op. 36
‘BRAHMS,
Ballade in D major, Op. 10
Scherzo in E flat minor, Op, 4
III. Laszr,
“Tl penseroso”’ (from “Annés de
Pelérinage”’)
Valse oubliée
RACHMANINOFF,
Prelude in B minor, Op. 32
SCRIABIN—Two Preludes:
Op. 11, No. 15 in D flat
Op. 16, No. 3-in G flat
PROKOFIEFF,
Scherzo and March, from ‘The
Love for Three Oranges”
Student Half Baked After
Bite by Nut-Loving Rodent
“Bit by a squirrel” read the infirm-
ary report, “Bit by a squirrel.” The
hall cowered in its beds and put down
its windows from the top instead of
pushing them up from the bottom.
This the only way to avoid being bit
by a squirrel, or squirrels, if the
family happens to be moving en masse.
Pembroke West was the centre of
most disturbance, as it was a lodger
in Pembroke West who had’ been bit
by the squirrel and was quite sure
she had hydrophobia; that is until she
went to the infirmary and they baked
it and told her not to worry, to come
back the next day and they would
take her tonsils out if the wound seem-
ed infected. There was nothing more
to do about it but bake it, so they
baked it.
Then the squirrels attacked Merion
and did more than biting or scratch-
ing. Yes, they were not housebroken
and bitterly the Merion girls rued the
day when they had not put their win-
dows down from the top instead of up
from the bottom. The squirrels who
got into Merion chewed a paper and
then they chewed a picture, and then
they left, and the Merion girls were
heartily glad.
Ibsen said in When We Dead
Awaken that men looked like animals
because they had made animals their
servants and that was the way ani-
mals got back at them. But squirrels
have never been like cows or horses
or pigs, except in Merion, and we
at us. There is one nice thing about
it though; the squirrels bite us and}.
chew our papers, but they never make
us look like them, which is a great
comfort. If they must get back at
us, they do not take it out in making
us look like them, and everyone agrees
that that would be a great disaster.
Still they may have a reason and we
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picking up nuts which had gohe to the
squirrels before, and seemed to them
a perquisite of being a squirrel. But
then they found out they were wrong
and must have been pretty sore.
Good Administrator Must
Be Decisive, Says Dean
“Making decisions,” said Dean Man-
ning in chapel on Tuesday morning,
“is the most impartant part of admin-
istration.” In this respect, in admin-
istrative work more than in any other
line, one is “born that way” and not
much can be done to change oneself.
Contrary to the general opinion, secre-
farial training is, not the best way to
administration. If you are a good sec-
retary, the employer will want to keep
you in that position, and if you are no
good, no one will have any confidence
in your administrative possibilities. In
business and advertising, perhaps, sec-
retarial training is very good, but
the best way to administrative work,
in education or labor, is good profes-
sional training of one kind or anoth-
er. A graduate in sociology or law
has a good basis for such work.
In- business professional training is
less useful, since you must adjust to
it and find out by experience what it
is all about. However, success in
business usually means administration
sooner or later.
It is fairly easy to judge one’s ad-
ministrative qualities, although they
may differ in quality and quantity and
one’s tastes may change. One must
be able to make decisions quickly and
not change one’s mind too often, but
be able to change it pleasantly and
easily if necessary, without too much
mental turmoil.
Some people simply can’t make up
| their mind and this is fatal, since the
administrator must give a sense of
security to those who are working un-
der her. One develops to a certain
extent along these lines and except for
making decisions one can usually pick
up the other qualities. Organization
can and should be turned over to other
people. In fact, a good test of admin-
istrative capacity is the ability to turn
details over to others. This must be
taken for granted at the start.
Orderliness is not vital, but there
is a gain in having some system in
the beginning, since it aids in making
decisions. Administrative work usual-
ly lacks continuity. One must do many
different things one after the other
and may have to do the same thing
over and over. It is work from which
one can’t escape since’ the responsi-
bility is carried with you.
It is an interesting fact that ad-
ministrators often want to go back to
research work and people in research
want to administrate. This is because
when one is buried in research the re-
action is a desire to take care of other
people’s affairs and conversely, the ad-
ministrator wants more time for her
own pursuits.
The greatest advantage of adminis-
trative work is the wide range of
choice in the next step. One may go
on with it. or go back to professional
work. If one has once made a repu-
tation as an administrator in one type
of work there is a wide choice in
other fields.
If one has the administrative gift,
it is wise to develop it and to take
~ :
the opportunities for it as they come.
or put one’s name in line for them.
One should apply for such positions
her best to externalize this affection
by making the scenes between them
models in marital bliss and happiness.
It is work which one rarely regrats
and it gives. a certain-confidence and
control over one’s own fate. Success
in it is usually more outstanding than
that in any other line. It is good for
one, since it gives insight into life
and the organization of life. One’s
possibilities in it, however, rest al-
most entirely on the ability to make
decisions.
enema
Richard of Bordeaux
In continuation of the growing the-| +
atrical vogue for creating historical
pageants for the public, Gordon Daviot
has given us Richard of Bordeaux re-
plete with Dennis King and trunks
and trunks of magnificent costumes.
It has been said by an eminent Shakes-
pearean that after the Richard II of
the great dramatist there was hardly
any room for another play on the
same theme, but Miss Gordon seems
to have found a great deal to interest
her audience that is not contained in
the Elizabethan version of his life and
hard times. In the current production
Richard is represented. as a man born
in advance of his times, who found it
impossible to adapt himself to the de-
mands of his subjects. Richard was
a very sensitive person, who preferred
the pleasant side of life to its warlike
rigors, and who felt that war was a
crime against civilization. Living in
a period when the clash of arms was
the music to which men lived and had
their being, his suggestions that Eng-
land abandon the continuous wars with
France and conserve her man power
for a better purpose met with sneers
and cat calls. In vain did he plead
with his belligerent uncles to be al-
lowed to conclude peace and pursue a
policy that would make possible its
continuation. They regarded him as
a weakling who was in no way quali-
fied to sit upon the throne of Eng-
land and wield the sceptre that had
graced the hands of his illustrious an-
cestors. And in the end they had
their way, for the realm was raised
in révolt against him by Bolingbroke,
his mortal enemy, and. he was left a
king without a crown.
Miss Daviot has adhered closely to
the historical facts of Richard’s
reign; almost too closely, in fact, and
one is vaguely conscious of a page
whose lower half is filled: with foot-
notes and references to original state
papers as the action proceeds. How-
ever, there were interesting sidelights
to the main theme even in the bare
facts and Miss Daviot has made the
best of them. Richard is not always
portrayed as a misunderstood monarch
struggling, with an _ unenlightened
council that rattles the saber of war
and deadly conflict, but is shown also
in the company of his wife, Anne of
Bohemia (Margaret Vines), and his
best friend, Robert of Oxford (Francis
Lister). In these sequences he appears
as a witty child of luxury who en-
joys basking in the favor of those
who admire him for the very qualities
which annoy the council. Richard is
credited with having possessed a very
lovely wife, of whom he was inordi-
nately fond, and Miss Daviot has done
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She strokes his ‘head ‘and he literally
purrs, while Robert dawdles with mu-
sical instruments and #ds to the gen-
eral atmosphére of the happy home
life,
There are numerous weak spots in
the play and it lacks all the tragic
grandeur of the Shakespearean wovk.
Richard of Bordeauzx is less a tragedy
than a commentary upon. the times
in which the action took place. In the
light of the character of Miss Daviot’s
Richard it seems only natural that the
throne should be taken from him and
given to one more suited to the royal
position. There is nothing regal about
Richard, even when he is surrounded
by his councillors. When he flies into
a rage at the obstinancy of the coun-
cil he behaves more like a small child
than a grown man, and one expects
him to lie down upon the floor and
kick his heels in annoyance. An at-
tempt has been made to follow the evo-
lution of Richard’s character through
the years of his reign, but it is not
altogether successful,
the play lacks the power necessary to
convey the magnitude of the tragedy
that has befallen him and his reactions
to the revolt are garbled and ineffect-
ive theatrically:
Dennis King is a great deal better
as Richard than we had expected him
to be. He handles the lighter scenes
of the play with facility and charm,
and though he is out of his depth in
the great tragic sequences he manages
to refrain from outraging the require-
ments of the part. Miss Vines, as
the Queen, is very poor indeed, and
why Richard was consumed by such
a passion- for her was beyond us. She
moved very much-in the manner of a
sleep-walking cat, and Anne of Bo-
hemia must be spending restless nights
in her grave beyond the seas. Fran-
cis Lister lent little charm to the
character of. Robert of Oxford, and,
although the script makes him an emp-
ty-headed nit-wit, he managed to elab-
orate on the same theme until Rob-
ert emerged as a fitting candidate for
a room-in.a home for the feeble-
minded.
The production of the play is prob-
ably the most outstanding thing about
it. Great pains have been taken to
make it a historical pageant without
peer and the object of the scenery
and costumes is to convey an impres-
sion of magnificence. In spite of
the fact that the England of Richard
was notoriously poor and on the verge
of bankruptcy it managed to appear
as a land of wealth and splendor to
judge from the court of its king. The
colors have been handled carefully in
regard to contrast and the gallery
scene where Richard appears in the
presence of Mowbray and Bolingbroke
is most effective for that particular
reason. But, with all their magnifi-
cence, the costumes are inclined to
convey the impression that there must
have been a very active dry cleaning
as the end of|
establishment in the vicinity of the
palace.
In__general,.then,Richard.of..Bor--....
deaux is hardly a great. historical
drama, ‘for is it a great play of any
sort whatsoever, but it provides a
pleasant evening in the theatre for
those who desire to sit back and re-
lax without having to follow Richard
along too thorny a path. The pro-
duction is magnificent and diverting,
and while the acting has a tendency
to be colorless, it never becomes lurid,
as it well might under the circum-
stances.—S. J.
Gleanings
The Student League for Industrial
Democracy has recently expressed the
opinion that “funds should be divert-
ed from the destructive program of
military education through the R. O.
T. C. to constructive uses.” “It is
an outrage,” the statement says, “that
with schools shut down all over the
nation -we should be embarking on a
program of building battleships. . . .
We desire further to point out that
these relief jobs can be utilized against
radical agitation on the campus by
the simple expedient of withholding
them from anyone who has campaign-
ed against the R. O, T. C. or for
academic freedom. -This is especially
unfortunate’ in~a~-period-when~ the
American student seems at last to
be dwakening from his long slumbers
to an awareness of his social responsi-
bilities."—(N. S. F, A.)
The Department of Home Eco-
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York University’s School of. Educa-
tion has instituted a course to teach
students the intricacies of household
equipment. “Study will be made one
of the underlying principles of the
mechanism of household appliances,”
according to the university catalogue.
The appliances to be studied include
meters, flues, gas ranges, thermostatic
control devices, mechanical refrig-
erators, water heaters,.air condition-
ers, house pipes and some of the more
complicated coffee pots and electrical
table appliances. Each student in the
course will be required to plan a
kitchen and its equipment. .
—(N. S. F. A.)
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At the University of Florida exact-
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Page Five
Sparks Fly as Genius Burns —
in Throes of Yearbook Toil
#« Perhaps no one but the editors of
the Senior Yearbook is interested to
know that it has gone to press, Per-
haps no one is interested to know
that there is a Senior Yearbook. To
such we say: there is, has been, and
will be, while tradition lives and flour-
ishes on this campus, an annual of
the graduating class, possibly and
preferably humorous. ‘True, many
members of a class have no desire to
see their portraits, taken during quiz-
time, reproduced en masse, or to find
their eccentricities made public after
four years of mutually-protective si-
lence. There are, however, great-
hearted individuals in every. commun-
ity, who for the love of labor ‘will
tackle any prospect, however unat-
tractive. Of such a mould are year-
book-editors produced, Only a few
arise in every generation,
It occurred to us to interview the
Yearbook-Editors informally, that is,
to listen at the window of the News
Office, from which so much informa-
tion and invective is regularly foisted
on the ears of the casual passer-by.
The final meeting of the staff before
the copy went to press appeared to be
in progress. ;
“M——.,,” says -C , “have you got
your Athletics with you?”
“No,” replies M——. “I’m not quite
finished, but I’ll give it to you in
Shakespeare class tomorrow.”
“Hell,” says C-——, “we wanted it |.
tonight. _We have to criticize it.”
“We can do it after dinner Wednes-
day,” says S ;
“Listen,_M——.,””__bellows...C_-—,
“vou get that in tomorrow or you'll
hold up the whole show another week.
Now where is B I have to speak
to her about the Ads. I’ve got a letter
here from Frank about engraving that
I can’t make head or tail of. Oh,
there, B——, have you got the engrav-
ing ‘sheet? Well, I gave it to you,
didn’t I? Oh, s-o-r-r-y, here it is.
Now, give me a ruler. 8% by 6%,
that sounds funny — are those the
measurements A got before. M ;
measure this page, wilf you No, here,
this. Not the copy-sheet, you egg.” °
“Well, now, what about the Dedi-
cation? I personally think last year’s
was terrible. lLet’s write one to fill
up at least six or seven lines. Now,
suggestions. S , what do you want
in the Dedication?”
“Say something about her popular-
ity on campus,” says S ‘
“Yes, the interest she has in the col-
‘lege,’ adds M——.
“And her European fame,” contin-
ues C——, “we mustn’t forget her Eu-
ropean fame. How does this sound—
‘She is known abroad and loved at
home!’ ”
“Lousy,” shouts S and M ;
“Well, say something yourselves,
idiots.”
“Just change what you’ve got a
little, C——,” says S , “turn it
around a bit.”
“Yes, leave out the ‘abroad’ and ‘at
home,’ ” suggests M——.
“Well, let’s leave that and get on,”
declares C——, “TI’ll finish it myself.”
“Now here’s my Drama. You look,
at it, M ; S——’s seen it already.
I’ve. tried to mention every damned
member of the class who’s ever taken.
part in plays.”
“But do you have to mention every-
one, C——?” says.M d
“It’s much better to,” says C
“It’s their Yearbook; they want to see
th®mselves in it, don’t they? And be-|
sides an awful lot of our class have’
done work in- drama.”
“T haven't,” says M——.
“Yes you have, silly,” says C -
“vou were property-manager in Fresh- |
man Show, even if you don’t remem- |
ber it.”
. “Well, I think it’s very good,” says |
M——-, “it’s long, of course . . .”
“QO. K.,” says C——, putting it,
away. ;
“Now, where is the Prophecy? Some |
of it’s rewritten, M , so you’d bet- |
ter look it ,over. _We cut out what
you didn’t like about X and Y, though |
we still think it’s pricelessly funny."
says. C ‘
“Well, C »’ says M , “you
know jolly well this yearbook is com-
ing out the first of May, according
to.our plans for early delivery, and
if you want to be miserable your last
month in college, I don’t.”
“We'd better go around wearing
chain-mail-under--our*-gowns,” says
S—. “Dr. Herben might know
where we could get some. I’m not
going to have spent one year of my
young’ life doing honors and then be
knocked dead on a dark night before
I get a degree out of this institution.”
“Now, M , where’s your May-
ic
“but I don’t know if you'll like it,|
.i“Fire away,” says S ;
|C
Day poem? You’ve had that assign-
ed since God knows when,” starts
afresh.
“Well, I’ve got it here,” says M
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Caen
“Let’s hear it, silly,’ says C—-—.
* * *
“It’s not what I expected, M 1
said a Chaucerian parody,” says
“T will not parody the classics,”
says M , with sudden vehemence.
“IT. think it’s damn funny,” says
S—.
“That settles it,” says C ;
“Now, who’s going up. to Newark
with me -on Saturday?” says C .
~ “Not me,” says M “T went last,
time and I hadn’t my sleep the night
before, what with working on my copy
to get it in on time. I will not listen
to our Year-book nonsense being read
aloud in a New York Pullman ear.
simply won’t, so you two can settle
it between you, and what’s more, now
we’re all through, I’ll just tell you
this: I don’t think there’s one funny
thing in this yearbook except our
pictures.”” With which she left.
““Hell’s belts, we don’t think
either,” says S and C——, “and
why..we. ever said.we’d do. this,..we
don’t know.”
We watched the Editors striding up
the hill from Goodhart. We followed,
making up our mind to buy a. Year-
hook. .
SO
Be kind to the grass!
Wit’s End
(Continued from. Page Two)
it seems silly to be: plain when you
don’t know what being plain means
nor whether it is better to be plain or
complex. The question is. whether
Four Saints in Three Acts will last
or whether it is a flash in your pan
and should be put in the circus.
As one has said who has been peer-
ing over my shquider as I hit the
keys, and the words were said _ sol-
emnly, not harshly, but. solemnly,
“There is no virtue in anthologies,
in- the Ides of March, in the Infirm-
ary, or in the writings of Gertrude
Stein, you will add in a moment. But
the writings of Gertrude Stein cannot
be included in that flash in the brain-
pan, as they have to do with the fu-
ture and only fortune tellers, who
were outlawed by a statue of Oliver
Cromwell, can tell. what. is going to
happen to Four Saints in Three Acts. ,
It belongs to our children and our
children’s children. It may even be-
long to the second childhood of our
own generation and so we will have to
sit around and wait.
—Cheero
- THE MAD HATTER.
Princeton University males, in a
recent. poll on what. living man. they
would like to be if they had a choice,
chose Pres, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and
Hitler.—(N. S. F. A.)
Cases of dual personality are very
common in this country, according to
Dr. Herbert Goddard, of Ohio State
University.— (N.S. F. A.)
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barking on the following article that | gil Thompson with great pleasure, |
Page Six —
THE COLLEGE NEWS
‘saints half indoors
; nal :
Reviews interlocutors, and rushing to the foot-
: lights, said in a voice of excitement,
vs
~~) *just a minute,” ard rushed away. In
'a minute nothing happened.
The reviewer realized before em- we were listening to the music of Vir-
Four Suints in Three Acts
there are those far better qualified having managed to stop hearing Miss
to attempt a review of the opera by Stein’s nonsense and onto the stage
Miss Stein and Mr. Thompson. We came six Harlem snake hips artists,
do not assume an intelligence on our, who proceeded to do their stuff, with |
part equal to that demanded by the Alexander Smallens doing his best to! which he plays very well indeed. That |
eators of Four SAINTS IN THREE impersonate Cab Calloway in the or-
Ahkors. We offer the following as the chestra pit. The angels stood around,
_the great. showmen. of history,
frank opinion of a layman who spent around, around literally. half indoors
an afternoon at the theatre viewing and half outdoors and gazed énrap-
what she took to be nothing more tured until it was over and then went
than what it seemed to her. If we back to their games.
have allowed the work to pass quietly! As for the action, then, we are not
over our head that is to our infinite jn a position to enlighten the general
discredit and certainly not to that of public. The program placed the four
the artists involved. But, we may say acts as follows: I. “St. Theresa half
in defense that we have read the arti- indoors and half outdoors.” II.
cles-of the better. critics and have dis- “Might it be Mountains if it were not
cerned in them no profound under- Barcelona.” III. “Barcelona: St.
standing of Miss Stein and her work. Ignatius and one of two literally.”
After three hopelessly. confused IV. “The Saints reassembled and re-
hours spent at the theatre watching enacting why they went away to stay.”
an excellent negro cast perform Ger- There you have it.
trude Stein’s opera, Four Saints | For us the high light of the after-
Three Acts, we came away with the noon was the music, which would have
conviction that, together with Tex been much more enjoyable if Gertrude
Rickard and Barnum and Bailey, Miss | Stein had never come into the picture
Stein stands at the “head of a list of at all.. The voices are splendid, and
who the choruses have been trained with
give the public their money’s worth) an eye to the spiritual strain in the
even if the tender offered is worthless. music. Mr. Thompson has taken his
Perhaps we are not in tune with the inspiration from the Gregorian chants
modern trends in art and music, and and created a score admirably suited
perhaps we are simply stupid and il- to the negro voices. Mr. Smallens
literate, but after the twenty odd: conducted the orchestra with great
saints had cavorted around the stage’ skill] and the third act, in which a pro- |
for each of the four acts we were con- cession brought the complete cast into
vinced that Miss Stein has succeeded action, was the great musical moment
in perpetrating the most gigantic of the afternoon. The musical side of
hoax upon the American public that the production is in a way reminiscent
has seen the light of day since Steve of Green Pastures, as regards the
Brodie either did or didn’t jump off use to which the negro choruses are
Brooklyn Bridge, Four Saints in: put.
Three Acts is amusing because it is words the music would be sufficient re-
mad, and it is diverting because it is ward for an afternoon at the 44th
different, but it is not significant. To Street Theatre.
that statement the more determined; ‘yo staging of the opera is effect-
aesthetes will not agree because they! su and-manages to be different and
have been so hoodwinked by the whole i “modern” without being ridiculous. In
performance that they prefer to think other words, the staff which has taken ;
they understand it, and that those the words of Miss Stein and has put
who do not are insensitive and unin- them on the stage as an opera has
telligent. We are frank to admit that gone a very good piece of. work the-
we did not have the slightest idea | atrically. They are all sound crafts-
what was going on from the opening’ men and their work has the stamp
to the final scene, but'we joined in of competence which even the words
the game and énjoyed ourselves. Per- and the general idea cannot obliterate.
haps those who do net understand the The cast is magnificent, and it isto
opera should not attempt to comment the endless credit of the negroes as
upon it, but it is our conviction that', conscientious race of: artists that
in that case not a word would appear ‘the actors play their parts with con-
in print on the subject. 'viction and sincerity, although the
As for the opera and what went on.’ poses into which they fall and the
The first act, so the program tells us, words they speak are patently beyond
is “Avila: St. Theresa half indoors them. The cast gave Four Saints in
and half outdoors.” The curtain rises Three Acts a convincing performance,
on a very effective scene with the cast and as we sat listening to them go
of negro saints and (we suppose) an- through hours of singing nonsense we
gels assembled either in the moun-|could not help wishing that a sincere
tains or close to them. The mountain| craftsman had written what they
atmosphere is supplied by a cello-| were engaged in projecting.
phane cyclorama provided by the Du- We enjoyed the opera, but the time
pont Cellophane Company in high
If one could only blot out the’
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and half outdoors | absorbed in the action and involved in |
‘came one of what we took to’ be the|the varying emotions as they were'
projected before us.
| The’ story concerns a_ gentleman
‘farmer who lives happily in York
Again ‘shire with his younger brother (Derek ‘
| Williams), his maiden sister (Mar-
jorie Fielding), and his very grand
‘wife (Adrienne Allen).. He divides
| his time contentedly between the
‘breeding and riding of horses, and
the more sedentary delights of Bach,
does not detract from the. pleasure
!with which David (Raymond Massey) |
lives his life, for Judy has taken good |
care to see that he should never dis- |
cover that lack gf deep affection for |
her. Into this atmosphere comes Mar- |
‘iella Linden (Gladys Cooper) as the:
'wife of an older brother, and the dis-|
‘aster which the audience senses as
‘part’ of her lugguage is not long in|
‘making its appearance. In the words
of Judy, there are always people in’!
the world who seem to be made for |
one another and David-and Mariella '
‘are the examples that prove the rule. |
| Having no desire to bring tragedy and
‘unhappiness in her wake Mariella |
‘fights against the love that she can-
‘not long resist, but in the end her
| Struggles are cut short by the sacri-
fice of Judy, who steps under the fall-|
ing wall: of a. barn...In the last act.
‘David makes a determined attempt to|
put aside all thought of Mariella as!
‘a penance for- the tragedy he has!
caused, but she points out to him that
‘in that case Judy would have died in‘
‘vain, for she had no desire to stand |
in the way of his ultimate happiness. |
The ending is left more or less to,
one’s imagination, for Mr. Winter is!
not one with, the school of dramatists |
that believes that the audience should |
be forced to pursue every train of |
action to its bitter end.
Seldom, in our opinion, has as com-!
/petent a cast been gathered tégether
_Lexacting,-and_the new. plan does not
he is not actually in love with his wife :
y . 'free units.to take them.
‘suggest that the system of Allies
‘ed courses *ghould not be gequired of |
spirits. A robin’s egg blue, it remain-
ed with us throughout and with the
change of lights in the different acts
provided an excellent background for
the shifting saints.
The Saints Theresa were attired in
in tomato red velvet, with huge tomato
red 1890 hats, from the edges of which
dangled gold tassels. They came upon
us separately—the second one under
rather peculiar circumstances. We
were fascinated by a curtained bower
effect in the middle of the stage dur-
ing part of one scene with the. first
St. Theresa when someone stepped up
and uncurtained the thing and there
was the second lady serenely painting
a big pink Easter egg pinker.
St. Ignatius, played by Edward
Matthews, was more modest in his
maneouvers and did nothing spectacu-
lar other than be his Steinesque self.
As to what the four acts were about
we are still in the dark. ‘ There were
changes of locality, and apparently
something was going on but for the
life of us we couldn’t find out what
it was. Miss Stein did her best to
enlighten us in the dialogue, and
through the words to Virgil Thomp-
son’s music, but we just did not catch
on. We were informed, for example,
in a tense moment by .a very serious
saint, that “the Envelopes are on the
trees,” “that St. Theresa was literal-
ly,” and that there were “many pig-
eons on the grass, Alas.” At another
point in the proceedings the music
ose to a crescendo, and the ensuing
silence was charged with electricity
for us—what next? Then out from
the wings and through the mass of
spent in the theatre did not change! play was that Judy was a swell per-
our belief that Miss Stein is an eX-' 04 and that the fact that David pre-
tremely clever woman, who has plumb-' torred another was another bit of evi-
ed the gullibility of the American edence of the abyssmal stupidity of
public to its depths and discovered anijon who never know when they are
easy way to make a name for herself well fixed. In spite of a very sympa-
and a lot of money at the same time. | thetic performance by Miss Cooper
No one will ever challenge her own 4s Mariella it was with Judy that’ we
hggheyenta - — pe pa :. |found our greatest entente, and we did
fellow Boivage oot aa he 26 Sea she |2ot accept the inevitability of David’s
didn't know the meaning of what meio fue ith the equanimity of Judy.
wrote beyond ‘that th bli 1 are us this failure of the playwright
tine fo 9 bai v “5 pa et ae ito attach the major portion of the
ough aye Re iS streets Ae, (audience's sympathy to Mariella was
cgi <7 —the woman next tO’ 4 flaw in the construction of the play,
us followed the entire opera with '¢ , :
the Scord!—S. J. ‘for unless Mariella occupies the role
The Shining Hour |
There are two schools of thought}
concerning The Shining Hour, the|young brother and the very real grief
play whose purpose it is to convey|which he felt over the death of his
the tragic and the comic aspect§ of sister made us feel very closely con-
life in Yorkshire when the placid at-|nected with the Linden family at that
-mosphere of the country is disturbed
by the arrival of ‘a lovely half British
and half Dutch lady. There are those
who credit Keith Winter with having
written a sincere and moving play
which betrays not only an accom-
plished talent on the par of the au-
thor, but a deep sense of the materials:
out of which God’s creatures are fash-
ioned. There are others who find the
happiness and the unhappiness of the
characters hollow and insincere, and
whose thoughts stray toward the ex-
its in the middle of the third act. We
belong quite frankly to the first cate-
gory, for we found ourselves deeply
interested in the fortunes of the Lin-
dens from start to. finish, and there
was not a thoment when we were not| -
later be done. The proposed compre-
hensive system is certainly not a step
in that direction.
; DIANA TATE SMITH.
LETTERS |
(Continued from Page Three)
|
change it in the direction of more
| freedom, , Each of us knows in what
‘lines her knowledge is deficient and
what she needs to learn in order ‘to
‘have a sound and intelligent educa-
‘tion. We have all had to omit many
(courses which we knew we needed,
‘because they did not ally with our
major subjects and we had not enough
I wish to
IN PHILADELPHIA
(Continued from Page Two)
Local Movies
Ardmore. Wed. and Thurs., Design
For Living, with Gary Cooper, Fred-
eric March and Miriam Hopkins, Fri.,
Zane Grey’s The Last Round-up, with
Randolph Scott. Sat., Paul Muni in
Hi, Nellie, with Glenda Farrell. Mon.
and Tues., A Man’s Castle, with Spen-
cer Tracy and Loretta Young. Wed-
and Thurs., Marion Davies and Bing
Crosby in Going Hollywood.
Seville. Wed., Goodbye Love, with
Charlie Ruggles and Vera Teasdale.
Thurs., Fri., and Sat., Carolina, with
Janet Gaynor and Lionel Barrymore.
Mon. and Tues., Paul Lukas and Elis-
sa Landi in By Candlelight. Wed.
and Thurs:, Flying Down to Rio, with
‘|Dolores del Rio and Fred Astaire.
Wayne. Wed., Carolina, with Janet
Gaynor and Lionel Barrymore. Thurs.,
Frontier Marshall, with George
O’Brien. Fri. and Sat., The Private”
Life of Henry VIII, with Charles
Laughton and the wives. Mon. and
Tues., Beloved, with John Boles. Wed.
and Thurs., Little Women, with. Kath-
erine Hepburn.
should be abolished, and that the lit-
erature, science, and philosphy requir-
péople who happen to have done a
sufficient and intelligent amount, of
work along those lines before enter-
ing college. None of us is so unintel-
ligent that she will fail to recognize |
the value of those courses and will!
refrain from doing more work along
those lines if she knows that she needs
the training.
I do not believe that college should
provide a specialized training in a
field which we should know sufficient-
ly thoroughly to pass a comprehensive
examination in it. Specialized work
cannot be done well by a great part
of the undergraduates: because they
have not the background necessary
for it, and are always feeling the
strain of doing advanced work when
they do not possess all the training
and: information that it presupposes.
It is not my purpose to suggest that
the major system should be given up
completely, nor that we should be let
loose to fiddle away our time in easy
courses, but I do believe that we should
be given more free units to fill up
the gaps in our knowledge and obtain
the sound background on the basis of
which really intelligent, worth-while,
and. valuable specialized work could
In letters sent to the undergraduate
political organization of more than
100 colleges and universities in vir-
tually every State, the Harvard Lib-
eral Cli deplores the failure of the
Senate Committee on Elections and
Privileges to bring action against Sen-
ator Huey Long and seeks a unified
student appeal for an immediate in-
vestigation of the charges brought
against him by the people of Louisi-
ana.—(N. S. F. A.)
under oe roof to such mental advan-| ee 4 “
tage as in The Shining Hour. Ray-'| .
‘mond Massey plays the sensitive |
David with great restraint and with!
little of the aggressiveness that has |
made him overplay several of his parts |
of recent years. He does go a bit off |
the deep end when his nerves get the
better of him in the third act, and we
found it hard to believe that he could
lose control of himself to the extent
of reviling the dead Judy with such},
terrifying earnestness when he finds
that her death has barred the way to! N ay W eee G E T . E T
his possible union with Mariella. : :
There are those who feel that Mr.
Massey leers when put to it to por- To Telephone Home?
tray emotion and we must admit that
he gave us a bad start, once or twice You’veE dragged your furniture around...
when we thought the cadaver of Gid-
eon Wyck was with us once more, but and your room is fixed ... and you're all
he has a disarming manner to offset 5
the ghoulish expression he often straight on your schedule and text-books. One
wears, and for us it added rather than . ° o
detracted from the effectiveness of his more detail and you'll be set for the college
characterization. year.
| Adrienne Allen as the wife was al ,
lexcellent and the one conviction which It’s the telephone. Here are some simple
‘we never lost th hout th ti :
a ee ae matters to attend to for your own and the
| Family’s advantage:
: Locate the nearest telephone.
First > The Family will want to know
its number to call you if neces-
4 sary.
Look in the Directory or ask
Secon > the Operator for the Station to
. 4 .
Station Night Rate to your
- home town.
vi) J p> Make a “date” with the folks
uv
to telephone home each week.
: (At the same time, ask them
‘of heroine the play becomes a pro- : h
‘tracted exposition of the final tri- eyo my Forerer he eharee-)
jumph of vice over virtue. Fourl A) p> Make a It of the telephone
Derek Williams was excellent as the numbers of your home-town
friends. Ask “Information” for
those you don’t know. You
never know when you may
want to call them.
precise moment. The other characters
were well: cast and went about their |- ° =. an
business with the assurance and ease And the rest is easy. Just ere the Operator
which is a mark of distinction in the). the, name of the town and the number you
theatre of the present. The entire
performance possessed a distinction, want. If you telephone after 8:30 P. M. you
both in the writing and the acting, *
wtih WA Want ts Make Th Shag | can take advantage of the low Night Rates on
oe an important evening in the| ° Station to Station calls. These mean a saving
eatre. :
£7 of about 40 per cent!
The length of a man’s life can be
‘accurately predicted by an examina-
tion of his eyes, Dr. Felix Bernstein,
of Columbia University, maintains. It
is done by testing the “accommodat~
ing power” of .a person’s eyes. _ ig
™ —(N. S.. F. A.) ne
ae THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Seven
Mannings Impressed
by Travel in Mexico
Continued from Page One
The later civilizations’ on the pla-
teau derived from this Mayan civiliza-
tion, in much the same way that Ro-
man civilization took over that of
Greece. The plateau peoples adopted
the Mayan plumed serpent and were
strongly influenced by the unbroken
tradition of the Mayans.
The Aztecs came comparatively late
in the history of Mexico and made lit-
tle contribution to civilization. ‘The
people whom the Aztecs conquered—
Toltec, the Aztecs called them—left
extraordinary remains. They were
warlike and “extremely unpleasant,’
in contrast to the present-day Mexi-
cans, who are, said Mrs. Manning,
“the most peaceful and geritlé people
I have ever seen.”
In 1516, the “iron fist” of the Span-
ish empire crushed the Aztecs. After
Philip had conquered them, all wealth
—consisting mostly of precious stones
and metal—went to Spain by way of
Mexico, largely through the pictur-
esque little port of Acapulco.
Mr. Manning, who gladly assumed
the responsibility of expressing “the
Manning enthusiasm about Mexico,”
said that it was not -the continuity of
Mexican civilization but the quality of
the Mexican people that he felt the
most in Mexico. Old Spain and New
have for him the same charm—al-
though he was unwilling to admit the
possibility of being charmed until he
was twenty-nine years old, when he
finally and very unwillingly left Bos-
ton and saw the West for the first
time. hat a small Spanish inn, he and his
More alluring than the strangeness | friend, since they spoke no Spanish,
and “something foreign” to be found }looked up the word for lamb-chop in
in Mexico—typified by the old Indians'their phrase-book. _ Mr. Manning
holding banana stalks filled with or- courteously asked the landlady for a
chids, that one sees from the ‘train;lamb-chop; she looked at him blank-
window,—are the people. New Mex- ly; he repeated the word again and
ican and old Mexican, new Spaniard again with no seeming success. She
and old Spaniard, share the spirit of | smiled when he gave up in despair,
democracy and of family devotion. left the room and in a short tinie
They are kind, gay, unhypocritical,} returned,’ bearing, with the aid of a
cruel at times, above all picturesque. little girl behind her, sixteen lamb-
Flandreau, in his delightful book on! chops. She' had mentally added up
Mexico, calls them “always pictorial | his demands, one by one. Mr, Man-
and always dramatic,” though at first ning was not horrified, but, on the
everyone in Mexico looked to him like|eontrary, delighted when, while he
a home-made cigar. As a professor|was watching the people come from
from Swarthmore put it: “I can see | church on Saint’s Day in Santa Fe,
how a Mexican Indian might kill you | New Mexico, his cook, Rita, approach
—but he would always do it courteous-|ed him and said in loud, democratic
ly.” In Mexico even a gruesome mur- tones: “’Ello, Freddy!”
der in a gutter looks like a scene; The so-called degenerate Spaniard of
from a comic opera. ’ ' Mexico does not look at all degenerate
but is tall and rather blonde. The
average Mexican is plump and grace-
ful with rounded modelling and keau-
tiful little hands and feet. Not ef-
They are completely non-pecuniary.
If one plans to give a dinner party
on a fiesta day, he will not find a single
servant in the kitchen to prepare the
“awful”—and indigestible — Mexican
food. If, however, the host tells his
servants he is going to give a fiesta,
he will find the whole village helping
in his kitchen, not for money but just
for the-fun of it.
They have worked out an extraordi-
nary development in the art of living:
—courtesy. Courtesy to the Spanish
Indian and to the Mexican is a “com-
plete democratic recognititr-of fellow-
ship with another human being.” Mr.
Manning loves to be courteous. He
practiced the gentle art all over Spain
once in a thirty-day expedition, with
an uncourteous but charming friend.
feminately, but delicately formed, he
has marvelous — and. surprising—
muscles. He is so interesting and de-
lightful to watch that the visitor to
Mexico acquires the plaza and _ bal-
cony habit immediately; and to. sit
and watch the passers-by becomes
one of his greatest diversions. An
American engineer’ said of them,
“Even when they ain’t doin’ nothin’,
you always feel as if they was doin’
somethin’.”’ They might be summed
up in one word—fascination. They
are completely unlike us.
We tend to think of the “Mexican
Government as decadent because it
has not gone through the stages that
other governments_have, in process of
evolution—as for example the parlia-
mentary stage of government “which
is now being given up in Europe. The
original Mexican form of government
was, however, fortunately very similar
to the Spanish. The Mexicans never
had to work out a government for
themselves and interrupt civilization
in the process, but simply to keep their
own government and appropriate any
minor needful changes from Spain.
Spain never had much power in the
small Mexican communities. The
Mexicans always feared a central gov-
ernment that might attempt to con-
trol these more or less independent
communities.
Clayton Hamilton Will Talk
-on Revival of Yellow Jacket
Continued from Page One
Ladd, the original “Daffodil,” and
Arthur Shaw, the creator of the
“Property Man” to recreate the orig-
inal.
Clayton Hamilton is presenting Mr.
and Mrs. Coburn in The Yellow Jac-
ket because he is genuinely interested
in giving the world-famous American
play to the present theatre-going pub-
lic of this country. He comes to speak
in the Deanery, on the afternoon of
Thursday, March 8, from his knowl-
edge of the American theatre and his
enthusiasm fon the Hazelton-Benrimo
play, to restore our confidence and
pride in our native playwrights. The
play opens this week, Tuesday, March
5, at the Garrick, with a special re-
duction on $2.20 seats to the College,
if tickets are obtained through’ the
Publication Office.
Movie Review
After having seen Anna Sten lurk-
ing on the theatre page of the Herald
Tribune in assorted attitudes of seduc-
tion for some weeks, and having been
told that she is the obvious successor
to Greta Garbo, and that she will end
up by putting the Soviet Republic on
its feet socially, we finally téok our-
selves to see the famous Nana. We
were able to rush out after the “first
five.minutes and wire Garbo not to
worry too much, and then to return
and enjoy a picture which was no bet-
ter than mediocre at best, but which
had a certain spirit ‘about it which
came, to its rescue at\ the crucial
points.
Although the story of the girl who
rose from poverty to riches as the
toast of theatre-loving Paris, and es-
pecially of the male element, is sup-
posed to be adopted from the novel of
Zola, that worthy would have a hard
time indeed picking his brain child out
of a line-up as it has turned out, As
the queen of the revues of nineteenth
century Paris, Miss Sten is called
upon to sing one of the better modern
torch songs to the effect that “That’s
Love,”*--and~ -her~-manoeuvers smack
loudly of Hollywood from start to fin-
ish. There is no denying that Miss Sten
is possessed of a coquettish appeal,
but it can hardly be raised to the level
of the famous “sex appeal” of our dra-
matic film sirens. She has lovely eyes,
which monopolized the camera to a
(Continued on Page Bight}
ARE
Those p
are a sign of jangled nerves
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If you’re the stolid, phlegmatic
sort of person who doesn’t feel
things very deeply, you’ll prob-
ably never have to worry about
nerves. But if you’re high-strung,
alive, sensitive—watch out.
See whether you scribble things
on bits of paper, bite your nails,
jump at unexpected noises—
they’re signs of jangled nerves.
So be careful. Get enough sleep
—fresh air—recreation. And make
Camels your cigarette. :
For Camel’s costlier tobacc
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CAMEL CARAVAN featuring Glen Gray’s CASA LOMA Orchestra and other Headliners Every Tuesday and
Thursday at 10 P. M., E.S.T.—9 P. M., C.S.T.—8 P. M., M.S.T.—7 P. fd., P.S.T., over WABC-Columbia Network
EN ae TERETE,
—
Page Eight
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Movie Review
(Continued from.Page Seven)
great extent. We were treated to fif-
téen minutes of Miss Sten with her
lacquered eyelids clamped tight shut.
Then one eyelid began to flicker dra-
matically, and while we clutched the
arm of our seat with anticipation one
eye actually opened and.several gal-
lons of Murine poured out before Miss
Sten could pull herself together and
blink with surprise and pleasure. The
beauty of the Russian star is hardly
classic, nor is her acting anything
from foreign finds who are spirited
out of their happy homes and present-
ed with a fancy contract by producers
who feel they can put anything over | Mr. Atwill steps in as the foundation
on-the-American public with enough
publicity. She commits no histrionic
atrocities, and she manages to appear
very charming throughout, which is
about all we can think up to say about
the’ three million dollar Goldwyn. in-
vestment.
The cast which supports Miss Sten
is composed chiefly of Phillips Holmes
and Lionel Atwill. The former is less
objectionable than usual as the young
French officer who falls prey tothe
charm of the famous Nana. They
| have not the usual affair, but a love
affair, if we are to‘take them at their
| word, and it is all too idyllic until
lof ‘all ‘virtue, describes Nana as “a
| gilded fly” and has his nephew tvans-
ferred to Algeria out of harm’s way.
It all starts out as an unselfish ges-
ture, but very soon the righteous An-
dre becomes nothing more than a mere |
man, and in a few feet of film the)
lover of Nana. This leads* to terrible
the |
nephew comes back from Algeria, and |
complications, * especially when
Nana shoot& herself to ease-the ten-
sion. The final shot is more or less:
aeons ¥y
typical of the entire production—both
men leaning over Nana as she lies
dying, and trying to hold her hand find
themselves suddenly. holding. each
other’s hands while the cause of all
strife and dissension passes on to her
reward.
There is really nothing about Nana
| which is at all worthy of the attention
| which it has received, but we shall un-
doubtedly be accused of being a jeal-
ous sex ‘on the basis of that remark
as the stronger sex like Miss Sten and
think she is a splendid actress. Ah,
well, we ‘can always turn to. Buster
Crabbe.
_Approximately thirty-five tons of
coal are consumed every day at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy;-and-eighty gations of water per
man is used daily. The Institute has
one thousand employees for twenty-
six hundred students.
—(N. S. F. A.)
McGill University (Canada) stu-
dents have turned out in such num-
bers for ping-pong matches that the
school has built a special bleacher sec-
tion to accommodate all spectators.
—(N. S. F. A.)
Feed the squirels!
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From the Diamond Horse-Shoe of the
Metropolitan Opera Housé
Saturday at 1:50 P. M., Eastern Standard
over Red and Blue Networks of
NBC, LUCKY STRIKE will broadcast the
Metropolitan Opera Company of New York
in the complete Operas,
Time,
“Salome.”
“Pagliacci” and
THE JOY
x And good taste is one great pleasure
_you find in every Lucky Strike, for
only the finest Turkish and Domestic
tobaccos are used in Lucky Strike...and
OF GOOD TASTE
only the center leaves. They are the
mildest leaves, the most tender. Every
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The Cream of the Crop
“The mildest, smoothest tobacco”
. NOT the bottom leaves—they ’re inferior
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