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CHRISTMAS 7
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‘cause the occasion calls for it as
because we find it increasingly dif-

ficult to 'think about anything else.
We are so used to having our

‘ Christmas vacation begin on Wed-

nesday that we get into the vaca-
tion spirit long before i its time. It
has its advantages and its draw-
backs.

Easter is the time of worship
and spiritual rejoicing.. Christmas
as most of us know it is human
Its essential
_It_ comes in
the coldest weather, the shortest
and darkest days, It is gray over-
head and: slushy underfoot... But
its. spirit is as warm and glowing
as a fire on the hearth.

They say that Christmas has
lost its spiritual quality. Probably
that is true. It does not corre-

spond, like Easter; with a corre-|

sponding movement in nature. It

- is man’s celebration for man, and

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recently reviewed in the New
Yorker. From a_ distance — that
“seems to be an “excellent and}

he takes the opportunity to give
himself a good’ time. He quite
shamelessly enjoys. getting what
he doesn’t need and giving what
he can’t afford. He defies the season
and common-sense; he laughs at
the charge ‘of being material-
minded and frivolous. Yet look-
ing at the weather-and the world
who will refuse to echo in the
words of that horrible ditty:
“God bless him; he néeds it.”



OUR CIVILIZATION

“The things people choose to
talk about,: and the way they
choose to talk about them indi- |‘
cate the degree of a national civ-
ilization.”” That is the theme of
an-essay by Mr. Albert J. Nock,

amusing-theme, but-when we-stop
to consider its a>plication to our-
selves, it makes us somewhat un-
easy. For if conversation
criterion for national civilization

‘it may serve the sane purpose for
individual civilization. We wonder

just. how civilized: it is for. one’s
conversation to consist of endless
discussions of week-ends and their
ways, of the poorness of college
food, of the, overpowering, appall-
@®g amount of work thrust upon
us by unfeeling professors, and of
our cleverness in evading as much
of this as possible. If we are forced
to conclude that these are the only
things we are interested in, or the
only things we know anything
about, we must admit that it is
better for us to talk about them,
For no one . would advocate
mechan‘cal discussions of remote.

: unfamiliar subjects, that would be



even less civilized. But one of the
first thines college should do for
ais is to broaden and enlarge our
interests as well as our knowledge.
It would be interesting to test the
extent to. which this
plished by a comparison of the de-
grees of civilization of freshmen,
seniors, and gradyate students on
the basis of the subjects and
manner of their conversations.

> should hate to be

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j artist?

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ing character i8 a male, wearing modern

‘| aesthetic ‘assets and played up your

made yourselves as homely as possible, or

something beautiful,-as-for—instance-your+}

| conversation of unpleasant people,

‘dred and sixty undergraduates.

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Communications

(The News is not esponsible for opin-
ions expressed in this column.)

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE

VARSITY PLAYERS
‘Dear Varsity Players:

Here is a wail from an innocent by-
starider—and | “not so. innocent either, if
you “know what I- mean. It is about
“Bellairs”— —not the ‘acting, * which was
much better’ than the play deserved. ‘The
wail concerns itself with the sort of thing
that Rellairs is and represents, also with:
the sort of thing that. might shave been
given in its place.

In a live, experimental. siithteaeia.
full of all kinds of vigorous gmusing and
satirical ideas, why should Bryn -Mawr
College ‘p for-~-three~solid.-acts,: the.

And why, choose a ois to be presented
by a woman’s college, in which the lead-

masculine attire? *

Another-bitter thought with me, is the
ugliness of the production, the ruthless
way in which you have set aside your

deficiencies. Now, what have you ama-
teurs got, that: professional producers
value above all things? As if. you didn’t
know. it—youth, and beauty. And what
did you do. with the two of them in
“Bellairs?” You hid them under wigs
and. make-up, You took the parts of
worldly, sophisticated, middle-aged people,

as fashionable, which isn’t so much better,
and. threw away youspontaneity and
reality, all your natural gifts, for some-
thing artificial, cultivated and, believe me,
very very. hollow.

But ofcourse it is easy to criticize. It
is. And “Bellairs” is not the play. to
make the task nfore-difficult.__So, if-you;
want a chance to come back at me, here
is what I would have liked to see .(A)

production of Aria da Capo (B) some-
thing funny—pantomimes, skits, bur-
lesque on modern life. written and pre-
pared by YOU, (C) if it has to be*three-
acts and ‘modern, a comedy on the type
of Dulcy, in -which:the lead part is play-
ed by a woman. However, I feel that
the three-act play is a mistake. Three
one-act plays would give variety in tone,
caste, ‘setting.. Dunsany, De Musset,
Yeats, Molnar, Schnitzler, Stuart Walker’s
finer things, as his dramatization of “The



Birthday of the Infanta,” are all in, print.
And if you complain: that- these -are too|
“literary,” I can only say that for me
“Bellairs” and his fellows are not literary
enough.

‘What virtue lies in the undistingtished
that
you should load your busy minds with it.
Twenty people, each with a_ beautiful
line to learn would profit more and labor
less than six people each of whom has ta}
jearn ten pages of bad writing. If you.
follow my hesitating advice your “ieee
production will take advantage of the

ortunities you have:..a large stage,
youth and beauty to show off costumes,
a wide variety of talents, and three hun-



Innocent Bystander.



_Lantern Review

Specially contributed - by -Georgianna
Goddard King, '96.)

It is pretty plain that the best thing
in the Lantern is the Sequence at Twenty-
one, the least successful is Diogenes.
Before. explaining -why—in case not
sveryone has’ felt that way—the other
piecés may be considered,

The verse stands at a higher level than
the prose, generally speaking; and that is
as it should be, for poetry, to be at all.
has to be good. .Reformatory takes 4s"
lines-to-build up an impression and tinply!
a protest. It. is still yibrating from the
‘motional experience which must lie back
of every work of art; and the metrical
expression is of the essence of it. Twen-
ty Years After takes about a hundred
lines to present an episode that remains
unsubstantial. It has value, but. the

ages in something which has steel struc
ture and a concrete intention.. To stan:
alone, it should have either easy urbanity
or dry cruelty; and it shouldbe, shorter.
A‘l the prose would ‘bear condensation °
the stories are too loose-woven, given the
size of the Lantern. For a periodical is
a.whote, and the parts of it must be to
‘scale. There might be only one story
ond it might occupy tWenty-odd out of
‘he thirty-one pages, but it still might be
to scale. The Ring, however, has a pretty
‘urn, and the Play is a real comedy of
humours. :



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effect, as Trees in the. Wind, The Grave}

inthe Snow, Late Autumn. Sincerity is
‘in these, as truly ‘as. in the “massive
rhythms’ and. level. march of . Carolyn
Lomsbardi’s gpnnets ‘and “the honest bat-
tering beat of Marcella Palmet’s Illusion.
There are, by the way, two or three metri-
cal pHrases, in this ‘Lantern which
stumble, which the ear and tongue can-
not-solve, though helped by the best Will
in the world.

Pages that- carry some pretty poetry!
provoke three admonitions; (1) Manner-
ism should be unconscious, (2) should
never repeat itself ; (3) and moreover
should mean something. Examples : (1).
The third line in Jseult is off the key;
(2) in t "Poems on. the 1 st page ad-
jacent endings, of “like a” and: “«' a”
make too’ much of a muchfess} (3) wnat)

.Jend do the italics serve in Antique?

New to the Tame Philosopher, the.
trouble being of course t he is tame.
All introductions must go into the ‘waste-
basket, this one is no -exception. The
series might have’ begun with the second
number. It is conceived in the most ex-
acting style of writing in the world, that
demands salt, ripeness,,@oncentration, de-
tachment that demands a great deal—in
quantity and in quality—of the intellect.

-May it in the second installment, be syni-

cal and be cutting! «

As for the poemy-there is nothing par-
dicular to say. Read it over. This is
poetry, © ‘



Miss Peek’s Review



CONTINUED” FROM — PAGE 1

” Thos® of the audience who saw Miss
Dyer as the inimitable Aunt from the
Middle West in last *year’s Freshman
plays were perhaps disappointed in her
rather restrained performance as the
Rev. Mr. Mortimer Scrope. She was’ fio
doubt wise, however, in not at all bur-
lesquing her part-and_in-contenting
herself with an adequate, gentlemarily
rendering of the wholly inadequate but
“equally gentlemanly English curate.
Miss Wiegand played her part with
an understanding and the right degree
of sharpness. In Miss Yerkes’ per-
formance one was ever conscious that
here before one was a character part,
but what else can be done with the
proprietor of ati English pub?

Not much was demanded by this play
in the way of. costumes; the “modern
dress” commandeered here and there on
the campus seemed fashionable, becoming i
and well selected. True, Bellairs’ smock
suggested thie dilettante rather than the
artist, and the property committee

slipped up in providing him with un- ,

mistakable Lucky Strikes and in send-
ing him a Western Union felegram.
The scenery for the first two acts: was
well conceived. It might haVe been
executed with more softness—there
was too little ivy and too much _ red
brick!—but it gave to the Bryn Mawr
stage at last a really professional ap-
The second set was devoid
of artistic feeling, the more surprising
since the scene demanded a studio!
But one was’ pleased to recognize the

\ same’ chintz inside the ~window~ that,

one had for two acts viewed’ from: with-
out. It was rather too bad that with a
complete—-switchboard,—- eleetric - bat- }
teries, spots, footlights, etc, no more-
striking effects could have been
achieved than the rather jerky fall of
twilight, but perhaps. Reinhardt pro-

ductions may be expected ‘later on at |

Bryn Mawr,

It is an old plea, yet one that may
well be repeated, that the Varsity Dra-
matics Committee consider. putting on
plays that are not to be seen elsewhere,
Jrevivals if you like, but in any case
|plays that have some intrinsic literary
and artistic interest. It is surely safer
for the-tindergraduates to depend on
the play to help carry the acting rather
than on the acting to help carry the
play. &

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Harvard Splits

t’arvard University has -accepted a
“3,000,000 gift for the purpose of splitting
'arvard up into small colleges of ‘three
hundred each, a‘ter the manner of Ox-
ford and Cambridge, though adapted
-reperly to American conditions. This
will extend the recent developments under
wh'ch freshmen live by themse’ ves and
unper classmen are more on ‘their own,
freed from lectures and in closer touch
with the professors aes Miscellany.



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jsanity, approached our business mags
ager in Pembroke Arch the other day.

I go upstairs to take the train?”

“The train?” echoed, our business
manager, baffled: but affable, “the
train?” :

why, yes, vs responded . fhe female.;
confiGenciy, *T sn't a ‘the raitroad’
station?’

‘After all, Pembroke dining-room
does resemble the Grand Central Sta-
tion at times, particularly about 1.15
on Fridays. But-we did think thé aca-
demic character of our institution was
written upon its face. Apparently not:
a day ot two later we came upon an-
other woman on the same quest. She
looked very tired. Perhaps she is the
same one. We hope she is not still
wandering about in the fog, like Lucy
Gray.

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Moral Reflections on a Thaw

(As of the W. C. T. U. Year-Book,
about 1880.)
Ah, snow, you were so pure and. clean,
But now your dirty face
In shady corners may be: seen
Confessing its disgrace.
Not all the icicles can tell
Why melted snow is slimy,
Why what was white before it fell,
Fallen, so soon grows grimy.

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We have received our first and only

‘Tailor, and our first and only present
frorii Powers and Reynolds, It’s nice
to be worth something to somebody,
as the goose said when they fattened
him up for Christmas dinner.
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And speaking of the goose, we-were

appalled to see_an adyertisement the other




ies in all t
goose, the turkey, or the squab. Really.
‘we must draw the line somewhere. It
is bad enough having to buy pink silk
lingerie for our mothers and sisters,
and athletic underwear’ for our fathers
and brothers, without indulging in col-
ored underthings for the family fowl.
We can only conclude that this is a
local custom’of the effete East., In
Chicago we buy false teeth for the
and decrepit watchdog, police
whistles for the canary and hip pock-
‘ets for the tom cat, but not lingerie.
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; The*New Yorker is at great pains to

develop the genre of street car con-
versations. We now realize that that
‘ sinister individual. with the listening
look on the Broadway car whom we

really a space writer for the New
Yorker collecting copy. We only feel

‘hurt that our conversation on that day

has not yet appeared’ in print. As we
remember it was particularly sparkling.
But perhaps our English-was too good.
i ‘What we were going to say was
that we ‘too are good listeners. The
Paoli Local chat may lack the speed
and vigor of New York elevateds but
it has a rich suburbap flavor which
gives it something of the charm of the
pastoral. “We were absolutely pre-
vented the other day from finishing our
history reading by a voluble lady
with a 6-year-old child telling a tired
lady with a 3~year-old what was good
for little girls. She described the
figure cut by Annie, a pectiiarly unat-
tractive child, at dancing class, “in her
little bally skirt, and’ she don’t miss 2
step, not she, and looking so lovely.
!' not but what her hair’s kinda straggly.
but she’s got real nice eyes.” (For
Annie’s good name be it said that those
nice eyes were at the moment turned
on her mother with an expression of
deep disgust.) But her mother was not
to be daunted.— “She’s. chewin’. gum.”
(This was obvious.) “I don’t hold to
it, but her poppa guy it to”her. They
do say it’s good for a child. I usually
let her have a chew on the train, jusf
to keep the saliva going.” :
Fortunately at this moment
train stopped with a jolt. So we hope
‘did the saliva. At any rate we did
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a dear by dont
you think?”

“Yes, but so dumb!”
“What do you meant She

‘rates higher marks than you

and I.”

“IT .know; but the other day, :
when I told her I. had just

télephonied

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