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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

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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

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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
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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: — =
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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

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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.

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«- 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-

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}
‘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-
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their full energy into their work and —

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