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Mr. Alwyne Presents
Notable: Piano Recital

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like to give them the benefit of the
doubt. They were driven out of the

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“were several pieces that were not on

_ together were not too highly compat-

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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
COUPERIN..La tendre Nanette

DOAMLANTE 666 is 6 355 Siciliano
Gee OMEN PSU ae sia eis Berceuse

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.
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no more nuts left and people started
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

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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.



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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-
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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



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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-
nomics and home-making of New

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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