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VOL. XIX, No. 8

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER. 14, 1932

Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1932

PRICE 10 CENTS

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William Butler Yeats
Speaks at Bryn Mawr



Names Lady Gregory, Synge
Leaders of Irish Literary
Renaissance



READS HiS OWN: POEMS



Bryn Mawr had an unusual treat
last Wednesday evening, December
seventh, when William Butler Yeats
spoke on the movement of which he
himself is a leader, the literary Ren-
aissance of Ireland.

The history of Irish society, Mr.
Yeats said, divides into four periods.
The first of these was the long period
of feudalism which ended with the
dawn of the 17th century. Secondly,
the Protestant Ascendancy, “forcibly,
cruelly, but effectively, modernized
the structure:of Irish society.” Irish
national spirit was discovered in the
quarrel with England over the wool
trade, and. found its voice in Swift,
in Burke, and in Berkley whose an-
swer to Hume was “We Irish do not
think so!” Then the rude shock of
the French Revolution awakened the
Irish peasant; he became. the Agrar-
ian Party, and the Ascendancy be-
came the Garrison Party; there were
two parties but no nation. There was
no literature but the Agrarian rhet-
oric which eulogized the virtues of
that party and the vices of the other;
no drama but the Garrison entertain-
ers; and outside of these a few who,
like. George Bernard Shaw, could not
breathe in either party. By the late
19th century Ireland, had produced
four world figures: Berkely, to whom
“earth and all the funiture of heaven
exist in being perceived;” Swift, who
dared to deny the value of life;
Burke, whose repudiation of — the
French Revolution saved Europe from
possible anarchy, and Shaw, the “in-
carnate social conscience.”

Forty years ago the death of
Charles Parnell was the birth of the
fourth period of Irish history, the
period of renaissance. Parnell had
been leader of the Irish party when
the Parnell-O’Shea divorce case had
gone against him, and in spite of re-
election by his own party, Gladstone
had forced his expulsion by com-
manding the party to choose between
their leader and the success of their
cause. Parnell died from sorrow and
from strain, and on his death there
went up from all Ireland the cry that
he had been betrayed. The cause of
the party was lost, and with it the
all-absorbing squabbles over politics
and religion sank into oblivion; and
in their place arose the legend and
deification of this dark, misunder-
stood, solitary man at whose burial
meteors and strange lights were seen
in the sky. Two things had happened
as a result of.Parnell’s life; unity
and passion had come to Ireland.

Literary societies were started in

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Ting Elected President
-6f New. International Club



An International Relations Club
was organized Tuesday evening, De-
cember 13. Vung-Yuin Ting was
elected president; Dr. Fenwick, honor-
ary president; Nancy Hart, secretary;
Sarah Flanders, treasurer. Meetings
will be held every three weeks, and
as the first speaker, for a meeting to
be held the second week in Janu-
ary, an effort will be made to secure
Mr. MacMurry, former U. S. ambas-
sador to China. :

The following were chosen as mem-
bers of a committee to co-operate with
the International Student Committee,
in editing the committee’s. official
magazine, the Student International-
Rebecca Taft, Anna Martin
Findley, and Nancy Hart.

The club will be entitled to obtain |:

speakers from the Carnegie Founda-
tion, and will. receive its publications,
which, if the librarian gives her per-
mission, are to be placed in the New
Book Room, and all faculty members
of the ‘History, Economics, and Poli-
tices Departments will be invited to
become ea officio members.

Cast of “The Royal Family”







Standing left to right:' Bruce Jones as Jo; Susan Daniels as Della;
Sidney Hollander as Wolff; Janet Marshall as Julie; Henry Vaux as Gil
Marshall;:James Stoddard as Herbert Dean. Seated: Del McMasters
as Fanny Cavendish; Philip Truex as Tony Cavendish; Betty Lord as
Gwen Cavendish; and Russell Richie as Perry Stewart.



Royal Family Stage Set ‘Plantation Songs and
Efficiently Constructed | oe
| Spirituals Discussed





The set for The Royal Family was'
designed by Janet Barber from pic-
tures of the set used in the New York
production, with certain changes ne= |
cessitated by the limitations of the:
Goodhart stage and equipment. For!
instance, there was no back exit from! MR. LOMAX IS LECTURER
the balcony; the players having to be!
content with the exits on either side.; Mr. John A. Lomax, who lectured
The stairway in the original produc-| at Goodhart a few weeks ago on Cow-
tion curved down from the balcony, boy Songs, gave a second talk Mon-
but to facilitate construction, this one; day night on Plantation Songs and
was made square with a landing part. Spirituals, many of them unpublish-
way down. Moreover, the position of ,ed, which he has gathered by means
Fanny’s and Julia’s rooms was some-| of his phonograph. The compara-

Splendors of Heaven and Hell,
Old Testament Stories,
Form Subject Matter





Varsity Dramatics and Cap and Bells Club
Give Good Production of “The Royal Family”



_|McMasters Gives Outstanding Performance as Fanny Cavendish;

Other Generations Are Less Convincing; Truex
Overacts Part of Tony CavVendish



STAGE SET IS -INGENIOUS AND WELL DESIGNED



(Especially Contributed by Dr. Stephen J. Herben)’

The standard. of excellence set by the previous performances of the
Varsity dramatics makes it impossible to judge any of their offerings with
the reservations usually assumed in behalf of-amateur productions. Per-
haps the expectations are too high; charity would make one wish, that the

reservations might be applied in thé case of The Royal Family as presented :

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last week-end. It would be.a more pleasing task were the present writer

-required merely to compare the relative excellences of the various players

and to praise the production as\a whole. Unfortunately, there are reasons
why this is impossible and these ‘reasons were apparent during the whole
play. es

There can belittle question of “the possibilities fora -vigqrous and
lively performance inherent in-the vehicle chosen. There is, to be sure,
one extremely - difficult. part. in. the.-play, that of Fanny,-doubly difficult
for a young actress, but the remaining roles offer no greater obstacles than
those, say in the Constant Nymph. Further, the lines are for the most part
sprightly and much of the effectiveness of «the play lies in situation
rather than in very subtle characterization. It is not an easy play to
perform, but it is not an insuperable undertaking:

The title of the play is The Royal Family; as presented, it might better
have been called The Matriarch. Certainly the outstanding member of the
cast and the one whose work most ¢learly remains in the mind was Miss
MeMasters in the role of Fanny Cavendish. There was a dignity and’ com-
petence in Miss McMasters’ portrayal of that austere but not unhumorous
old relic which made her a completely convincing creation. Even the last
scene, dangerous and trying though it be, was negotiated successfully. At

all times she gave her part the careful and intelligent performance which ,

the lines required, sometimes in the face of obstacles not in the script.
Unfortunately, there were only two, instead of three, generations on

the stage. The differences in age between the rest of the cast was more a

matter of make-up than of playing. Wolfe and Gilbert Marshall seemed

f60 much less middle-aged than their parts required, and this is with |

recognition of some fine individual scenes to the credit of both... Other minor
characters were. noteworthy—Gwen
and Kitty were memorable, Stewart
and Dean rather more than adequate.

Tony Cavendish is a role that re-
quires more than a boisterous willing-
ness to run about the stage and_ to



Mile. Souberan Speaks of
Visiting Fiji and Australia



(Especially Contributed by Olivia
Jarrett)

what shifted around.

The actual cost of building this set
was very little, as it was composed of ;
parts of old sets used in previous:
years. The first week that the stage |
crew worked was spent in taking,

apart some old French Club: scenery, |
that the lumber might be used over |

| tively recent adoption of Christianity

has caused a great change in the
Negro. A century and a half ago he
had no notion of Anglo-Saxon moral-
ity, and ethics is. still widely sepa-
rated from religion in his mind. Mr.
Lomax said that never during his
wanderings through the South had he

shout. The real Tony, the artist ‘with
a great devotion to his work and to
the’ stage, is in* the last act, but no
one would have known it Saturday
night. All was continuous rant, ob-
trusive rant and, in any case, nat
very good rant. The part was not
well conceived by the player and was

At the French Club tea on Monday,
the second of a series of teas at
which French can be spoken and some
members of the club or of the faculty
will speak, Mlle. Souberan told us
something of her trip to New Zealand
and the crossing of the Pacific, the
name of which had always promised

again. Practically the whole of the: heard any native preacher urge thrift

mercilessly overplayed, both in itself

Berkeley Sqare set was reconditioned,
some of the flats having been cut up,;
and all rearranged. The greatest dif-'
ficulty that was encountered was the

lor “better lives” upon his audience,
but only the splendors of Heaven and
Hell.

Negro Spirituals indicate this pre-

and with relation to the others in
various scenes. Less over-eagerness
and a realization of the possibilities
of the role would have made a great

peetry and beauty.

After a trip across the prairies in
late May, the coolness of Vancouver
was most welcgme, but on reaching

job of painting the -canvas on the| occupation, as they are usually clever
flats. The creamy white of the | paraphrases of the Bible, especially
Berkeley Square set had to be turn-|the Old Testament. The specimens
ed into a rough gray. Four different) quoted by Mr. Lomax show a clear
coats of paint were tried before the| idea of the ridiculous, which. refuses
proper effect was obtained, as the re-| to be stifled by the religious Even
sult after each coat seemed to be! under the influence of formal church
either too white still, or too blotchy,| phraseology, the Negroe’s mind and
or too smooth. Finally Becky Wood emotions, work freely. His fondness
gave the set “the measles” by pat- for highly-colored words and striking
ting dry gray paint over the back-| phrases comes out often in song:
ground tone with a blackboard eraser. “Lightnin’, flashin’, thunder roll, make:

The building of the ceiling was an ™e study ’bout my ol’ soul,” and “I
ambitious undertaking, as it had to be| Want to go to Heaven when the devil

28 feet long and 10 feet deep to cover’ is a-howling.’ He also likes to talk
the stage, which was. unusually large, about death and the “starry crown”
measuring thirty feet across the front | he will get when the “messenger of
and twenty feet across the back of; death comes for to carry me home.
the stage. While it was. under con-| One of the songs Mr. Lomax quot-

struction it occupied the entire stage, | ed was familiar to his audience as a

the Pacific itself, the agreeable cool-
ness became considerably frigid.
There was no heating on the magnifi-
cent Niagara, and the English, real-
izing the power of ‘suggestion, had
put red lighted glass in the fireplaces,
but even this deception was eventual-
ly discovered. Adding to the frigidity
of the atmosphere was the lack of
passengers, of which there were about
twenty on the big boat. Nevertheless,
they felt the invasion strongly when
crowds of home-going Australians and
New Zealanders boarded the boat at
Fiji.

At the Fiji Islands they went on
shore to a native village, where Mlle.
Souberan saw her first cocoanut palm,
with two large cocoanyts at the top.
Upon her asking to drink milk from

and welcome difference.

The part of Julie was miscast most
unhappily. With regard to minor
matters, it was noticeable that the
acting was better when there were
several on the stage than when there
were few. No one seemed to be able
to cross the full, width of the stage
without striding or trudging. The
incidéntal music for the play discov-
ered by Tony was fumbled and cer-
ried no conviction, as a result. A
greater variety of pace would have
helped matters.

The setting showed ingenuity and
good design. One might have wished
fox a rail instead of a solid wall cut-
ting off the staircase from the audi-
ence, to give less of a bisected ef-
fect to characters who ascended be-



and-inconvenienced Miss Latham and
the play-writing class considerably. |
Nine or ten people were required to
hoist it up into place, three of them'|
being occupied in pulling the ropes. |
The making of the bannisters for the
stairway was an interesting bit of |
work, and a great deal of credit is|
due to Dr. Flexner for his valuable,
assistance. The repainting of these;
banisters, which had been done too |
smoothly and was out of keeping with |
the rest of the set, was the only job
left to be done after the dress re-
hearsal.

A carpenter was hired to build the!

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“platform, which supported the bal-

cony and the stairs, which took him
three days to complete. He did a fine.
job, and built it in so many pieces
that it can be put away and then used
again with very little trouble. Lois
Thurston, ’31, who was in charge of
the scenery for the ‘Varsity Dramatic
productions when she was in college,
came back to lend a helping hand.
She worked all day every day, and
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'class song of 1931 and 1932—“I know
moonlight, I know starlight.” Mr.
T. W. Higginson has said of this
song, “Never, it seems to me, since
man first lived and suffered, has his
longing been more movingly ex-
pressed.”

Satan and Hell possess much inter-
est for the Negro’s mind. “They are
real, almost visible entities, not ab-
stracts of the mind.” Satan is a fa-
miliar personage—“Satan’s mad and
I: am glad....Old Satan’s got a
mighty big shoe, and if you don’t
watch out, he’ll fit it on you.” Hell

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vond the landing, but constructional
difficulties doubtless entered in and in
general the scenery and. lighting
were complétely satisfactory.

The play-ywas very well received by
a sympa and large audience,
who evidently appreciated the long
hours of work which its production
represented. It was good entertain-
ment. It should have been stil] bet-
ter.



Carels Sung by Choir;
Miss Earp is Soloist



Sunday evening, December: 11, the
choir presented the annual Christmas
Carol Service in Goodhart. The mu-
sical program, under the direction of
Mr. Vernon Hammond in Mr. Wil-
loughby’s absence, consisted of alter-
nating congregational singing of the



more familiar carols and renditions|

by the choir. _
The interpretations of the two Bach
chorales, Hush, My. Dear, Lie Stilt

land:Slumber and O Jesu So Sweet,

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one of them right from the tree the

“tribal chief shook his head and re-

plied that she might get the milk in
the village, but those two cocoanuts
could not be picked. “They must be
there for the tourists. But I can
climb up, if you would like, and you
can take a picture of me about to pick
one, for one shilling!” The picture
is now one of her prize. possessions.
At New Zealand Mlle. Souberan had
wo days, a Packard and a chauf-
“eau at her disposal to cover the north
island. She got off at- Oakland and

; drove from five, to ten P. M. through
| practically unpopulated land, where

the’ people get up and go to bed with

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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Wed., Dec. ‘14—Maids’ Par- ,
ty: Gym, 8.00 P. M.

. Thurs., Dec. 15-—Christmas
Party in Pembroke West at
8.00 P. M;. 0
Fri., Dec. 16—Christmas Va-

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Adoration of the Magi

Whether or not prosperity is just around ois corner, just at this
moment the main highway is not lined with material luxuries; in many
cases even material necessities are wanting. From every newspaper,
pulpit, and street corner we are exhorted, and quitg rightly, to give of
what we have, because the need is very great and because there. is a
growing conviction that only some greater feeling»of mutual respon-
sibility; or brotherliness if you. would call jit by, ‘another name, can
save our threatened order of things from ruin, Tf seems tous that few
people have failed to be impressed with this lesson that a world-wide
economic depression has taught. The Christmas spirit, which. in many
of us’ has become of late more and more ethical and less religious in
the pure sense of the world, has this year again been translated into
terms of giving something material to some one who needs it because
the season seems to call for an expression of the best in each individual
citizen of the world. What we should like to point out is not any
flaw in this thought, but rather another thought entirely; another lesson
that we think this time of hard experience should teach.
There is an appalling poverty in the world which doesn’t show
in the bread lines in a great city, pinched faces, and ragged clothes.
There is a poverty of even greater importance than material want,
and that is poverty of the spirit. How desperate is this situation may
be demonstrated by the numbers of men and women of education and
eulture who have’ found their lives not worth living in the face of
material loss, to whom evidently either ohyaloal comfort, or material
prestige in the eyes of their fellowmen/Was the greatest thing in life:
the one thing without which one could) not go on. Years of great pros-
perity do not give opportunity for the exercise of spiritual inspiration
as a national movement. If we are dominated by material things our
great communal efforts must be along the lines of commerce and
finance. Social work is apt to become a movement for the material
uplift of an unfortunate class, rather than an attempt to build up the
spiritual fibre of a nation. The lack of such work shows badly m
times like these,-not only in the classes tha are hardest hit by the
stagnation of commerce, but most of all in those classes to whom
the depression is orly comparatively inconvenient. What the world
seems to need more than anything else is either a stoic philosophy that
ean overlook privations, or a little ‘real religion of the spirit, in the
presence® of which these privations ‘are incidental. What we need is
not only to give bread because we are good citizens of the world, but
to give of what spiritual bread we have because we are Christians:

Too many of us are no longer. Christians but materialists with a set of

neo-platonie ethies. The spirituality is gone and there is a erying need
for it to return. Many of us would give of our treasures of the spirit
if we had any, but we have long ago. forgotten even the lack of them.
Faith, hope, and love, justice, prudence, temperance and fortitude; of
these most of us would say today the greatest is fortitude. It was love,
when the teachings of Christ were new. a

The lesson is before us. Slow though we may be, in the end we can
hardly fail to see it. Perhaps it will require another great teacher,
but the lesson will be learned. In the mean time it is to be hoped that
without for a moment relaxing our efforts to improve the material
condition of those we regard as less fortunate than we, we may for a
day or two at- Christmas time take stock-of the larders of our own
souls, and see what we can do for our own inner lives while we are
caring for the outer Jives of others.



good meal.

Bringing together -a group of ‘die
verse personalities, the principals of
whom are all invited to the Jordan’s
for a dinner party, the authors show
how every one of them beneath the
‘amenities of ordinary polite inter-
course,y faces some serious problem.
Each of the guests is supposed to be
easily recognizable in any New York
'apartment house, and no less an au-
thority than Walter Winchell is said
to have discovered all of them in the
first night ‘audience.

If the majority of the cast are more

Theatre Review
Life still goes on—at least so the
new Kaufman-Ferber play Dinner At
Eight would have us infer. © That
the theory must be true, is attested
by the number of Broadway plays
which, during the last few years, have

In Street Scene, the wife might be
unfaithful and the husband murder-
ous, but families still rented tene-
ments. In Grand Hotel, a great
dancer might be forever lonely, but
honeymooners still occupied hotel
rooms: Now, in Dinner at Eight, Oli-
ver Jordan may face bankruptcy, and| like types than individuals, they are
his servants may commit bigamy, but,|at least cleverly drawn and endowed
with the exception of the suicide ac-}with abundant vitality by satisfae-
tor, all the characters still enjoy a (Continued on Page Four)



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WIF’S EXD

INS INF. GESTUCKET
Sie vent aus dolefully
The Arch, so soulfully
Sie vipt sein Nase und
Macht ein Grimace kund
Und dann sie schneezt
As aus Pem East ,;
Sie Kleenexed cross the shtreet,
Und schnifflet in anodder sheet.
“Ach! .Gott!.Kerchoo,” sie -weinet;—
Und on her ills sie pin-et.
Sie. kam ins Inf und sprach
Und coughet and did hack.
“Ich habe ein Catarrh’—
(Mit a cerebral v)—
“Ich....ugh..... .Ich, will
Ein gut, streng Pill.”
Abcr die Nurse dachte
“Nein! Nichtrdas!” Sie fragte
“Will_t du kommen hier?”
Die Jungfrau war ein Steer,
Sie bronco-et und bucket,
Aber war sie ins gestucket.
Und nun sie sitzt ins Bette
Imprisonet in Kette,
Und alle time sie schreiet,
“Ich vish it weren’t so qviet
Warin ich bin gestucket. ~
Frei’ mich: I'll kick the bucket!
Als since I’ve gotten so in Dutch
There’s nothing left of life—not

“much!” _—Campusnoop.



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ANNUAL DILEMMA

I’ve searched the shops and scoured
the stores

For gifts to give my relations in
scores;

‘They’re nice enough, and often sweet,

But why are their tastes so hard to
~ meet?

Aunt Mabel ‘likes books. as everyone
knows—

Yet she never has liked the novels
I_ chose;

Grandpa is old, and has all that he
needs;,

How much is the gun for which little
John pleads?

And as for dear Cousin Tom, whom
I haven’t seen for years,
There’s no way of guessing if his
sock, supply’s in arrears.

My allowance must needs be increased

by poor father;

alone he’d rather.
Advertising displays say “your prob-
lem is solved,”
But—not-when—you’ve got such rela=
tions involved.

—Pfiffle.



As things at this moment stand,

We really think Undergrad should
take a hand,

About girls who bring men to dinner.

In Self Gov there’s
lation,

But an absolute lack of administra-
tion, wo”

For girls who bring men to dinner.

every other ‘regu-

They should notice conversation’s’ un-
earthly hush;

Another victim’s manly blush;

When girls bring men to dinner.

Constraint’s on all; we'll soon be
' much, much thinner;
Some exquisite torture should be de-
vised for the sinner,
These girls who bring men to dinner.
—Sour Apple.

PETER GOES A-VOYAGING

“My,” said Peter Rabbit briskly,
as he popped out of his hole one
morning, only to be confronted by a
snarling bevy (or covey) of newspa-
per men. “My dear public, this is so
sudden,” And then Peter pulled him-
self up onto his hind paws and gave
out a statement. “Unaccustomed,”
he began, “as’I am to public heckling
‘there is ndthing I like so much as
good, clean publicity. Fun’s fun, you
know, but you can’t laugh all the
time.” When the newspapermen had
that down (Peter waited for them, be-
ing thoughtful and anxious to
please) he began again. “As my pub-
lic knows, I am sure, whatever small
fame I may have achieved has in no
way changed my attitude. I am, as
I always was, open to misconstruc-
tion and I don’t want any one to feel
that I have forgotten my humble be-
ginnings, nor my. dear old father’s
‘last words. I myself shall never for-
get them. | It was snowing ‘when he
‘died, and as he looked out over what
had been a great forest of cabbages,
now only a few barren leaves almost
hidden beneath the gently falling



I'll buy him some ties that to choose |-

News of t

Eugenie ,Leontovich, the original
Grusinskija of Grand Hotel, is to have
the lead in Twenticth Century, the
burlesque of theatrical producing by
Ben Hecht and Charlés MacArthur.
Miss Leontovich has not been on the
stage at all since Grand Hotel, and
has spent all her time “recuperating
from the role.”’ We’re not surprised
she had to—we spent a good two
weeks attempting to persuade life to
go on. after we saw her for the first
time. Incidentally, her new _ play
marks another forward step in the
evolution of the theatre—it is getting

of the laugh, clown, laugh, attitude.)

In early February, if all goes..well,
the mediaeval miracle play will ap-
pear on the boards of New ‘York.
Martha Graham, the dancer, and Nat-
,alie Hays Hammond will present six
miraele’ plays at the Guild Theatre
on succeeding Sunday eWenings. Miss
Graham will direct and act, while
Miss Hamond will design and costume.

Romney Brent, the never-to-be-for-
gotten Sapiens of The ‘Warrior’s
Husband, opened his self-construeted
comedy, The Mad Hopes, on December
1, and it closed almost’ at once. Some-

‘| thing seems. to have been the matter

with the play, if one takes stock in
that Charon of Broadway, Mr. Atkin-
son. Then also The Great Magoo
found the going rather hard and al-
most stopped badly at the eleventh
jump, thereby unseating his riders,

‘|Ben Hecht and.Gene Fowler, both of

whom landed in the brook beyond the

rails. As long as we’re being more
learned, let’s call it the Slough of
Despond.

Walk A Little (ome the Courtney
Burr revue, is quite’an acrobat. It
is balancing fairly steadily on two
legs, Beatrice Lillie and Bobby Clark,
and if the wind doesn’t change sud-
denly, it may make port before spring-
ing a worse leak. The planks had to
be spread a-bit to let in a floor of not
so good chorus girls and singers, and
a ham comedian almost pulled the
last caulk. But Miss Lillie and Mr.
Clark are superb, and when they are
on deck all is well, but they” deserve
a better vehicle. A scow is a rather
poor place to be as superior as they.

Eva le Gallienne is putting on a
dramatic version of Alice in Wonder-
land at her Civic Repertory Theatre
in the near future, in which she will
both direct and—act._ Joseph Schild-
kraut and Josephine Hutchinson will
be in the cast. Of all the things on
earth we would like to do, most of
all we would like to do an all-star cast
of our favorite Alice. Our cast would
be somewhat as follows:
Boland; the Mad Hatter, Romney
Brent; the March Hare} Beatrice Lil-
lie; the Dormouse, Alexander Wool-
cott; the Mock Turtle, Ruth Draper;

the “Gryphon, Mary Wigman; the
Duchess, Alla Nazimova; the Queen
of Hearts, Constance Collier; the

Dodo, Noel Coward; the White Rab-
bit, Walter Hampden; the King of
Hearta, Ed. Wynn;..the Knave of
Hearts, Philip Merivale; the Cheshire
Cat, Alice Brady. Direction by Max
Reinhart; sets by Norman Bel Ged-
des; incidental music by Ravel.
(Continued on Page Four)



snow, he said to me, ‘My, Peter,
there’ s old Mother te sled her
chickens again.’ ”

Peter could, and feet have. gone
on; there was lots more he wanted
to say, but he was stopped by a honey-
tongued reporter—she was a woman,
and Peter had always.thought that
only a.woman could really understand
the terrible depths in his nature. “Mr.
Rabbit,” she said, “could, you spare
a few moments of your valuable time
(there was a sinister note in that,
but Peter missed it)! Could you vis-
it our office? The editor would like
to meet you in person. He thinks you
could serve a very useful purpose, if
properly handled (again that note).
In fact,” said the woman-reporter,
“we are a little short of copy this
week.” And Peter said he knew how
that was. The up-shot of all this was
that our Peter went a-voyaging. He
set out like a crusader of ‘old, only
lots more sincere. Peter had. a mes-
sage and he thought here was his
chance to get it across. He had been
reading about the power of the press.
So the nice woman-reporter took
Peter to the newspaper office.

Peter came betts-tkmaping.
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—THE MAD HATTER.

. IN PHILADELPHIA

Forrest:
Albertina Rasch girls are still being
big and rhythmie (respectively, in
case you’re nervous) in Irivng Ber-
lin’s superior Face the Music.

- Broad: Katherine Alexander and
the newlyweds ‘are still playing in-
sanely around Paris in Honeymoon.

Garrick: The Gershwins’ ae
Pardon My English, w: with pack
chanan, Lyda Roberti and Si ack ut
Amusing, polished and diverting—but.

not a-bomb.in our. midst.

Music—Academy of Music
Philadelphia -Orchestra: Friday,

a sense of humor about itself instead /Hyecember 16, at 2.30 P. M.,.and Bas.
arday, December 17, at 8.20 P..M.

Leopold Stokowski,
Eunice Norton, pianist.
Wagner,

Four exercepts from Siegfried
Hindemith,

conductor, and
Program:

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

UVellieg, vin 9 Tod und Verklartng
Movies
Boyd: Jf I Had A Million. We as-

sume that -the title refers’ to a now
extinct species of brifhtly feathered
bird, or maybe to mere fantasy. An
all-star cast, which means it will prob-
ably be awful. :

Stanley: Herbert Marshall, Mary
Boland, Sari Maritza and Charles
Ruggles are all out drumming up
trade in Evenings For Sale, a Vien-
nese romance. Grand — from all
angles.

Earle: Paul Muni having been a
momentary success ‘in a chain gang
film, here comes Richard Dix (ne

the ‘vanishing American), in another,

of the chain genre, Hell’s Highway.
We hope eternally, but this sounds
like crude and not artistic hell.

‘Chestnut: The now famous Ger-
man boarding school film, Maeédchen
in Uniform. A really marvelous movie
that everyone should see.

Europa: Kameradschaft, the pic-
ture about the inevitability of friend-
ship and its disreZard for patrolled
political boundaries. Very absorbing
and makes one wonder futily what
it’s all- about. =

Fox: Lowell Sherman as a bogus
beauty surgeon goes on making a

Mary Boland and the



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racket out of lifting faces for one -

purpose or another in False Faces.
Not very good, to be perfectly frank.

Karlton: Men Are Such Fools.
We are told it’s a melodrama, and so
are all eternal truths——Anyway, Leo
Carrillo is the~star, and he is fairly
good. It might be worth investigat-
ing to.see through what hole the truth
leaks out.

Stanton:
Boris Karloff, Raymond Massey,
Charles Laughton and Melvin Doug-
las. A ghost and shiver movie that
should be superb, but unfortunately
lacks the final something and ends up
by being very mediocre.

Stanley: The “new what-a-man,”
George Raft, in Undercover Man, with
Nancy Carroll. A gangster turns po-
lice guide to help catch his father’s
murderer. Typical and very poor.

Local Movies

Ardmore: Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Marlene Dietrich in Blonde
Venus; Friday, Clive Brook in Sher-
lock Holmes, with Miriam Jordan and
Ernest Torrance; Saturday, Stan
Laurel and Oliver Hardy in Pack Up
Your Trobules;
day, Washington Merry-Go-Round,
with Lee Tracy.

Seville: Thursday, Night. Club
Lady, with Adolphe Menjou; Friday
and Saturday, The Phantom of Crest-
wood, with Ricardo Cortez and Karen
Morley; Monday and Tuesday, Jack
Buchanan and Anna Neagle in Magic
Night; Wednesday, George Arliss in
Successful, Calamity.

Wayne: ‘Wednesday and Thursday,
American Madness, with Walter Hus-
ton and Kay Johnson; Friday and
Saturday, Harold Lloyd in Movie

Crazy; Monday and Tuesday, George

Arliss in Successful. Calamity; Wed-
nesday, Six Hours To Live, with War-
ner Baxter.

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: |we must not forget the lighting—
Dance After Varsity | four spots from each corner of the

Play is Great Success >2!cony—or the. decorations, which

|had their share in changing the home
|of Body Mechanics into a ball-room.

Individual Tables, : Orchestra) With Christmas trees in the corners,
land’ branches along the walls, it

and Double Cutting Show |
| would be hayd not to feel.the spirit

Good Management of fsb ee even the elements
iseemed to have,caught, as witness the
ATTEND beautiful Christmas-card snow-storm
‘outside. As for the orchestra, Meyer
|Davis. could not haye done better.
preseritation of The Royal Family by' ty fact, the only thing we could have
Varsity Dramatics, was held the sec-' desired—though not expected—would
ond dance in the history of Bryn)have been more food. Still, soup, ice-

Mawr, an event which was so entirely |cream, sandwiches and coffee should





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successful that even our Quaker | keep one from starving. Moreover,
founders would have nodded their ap- it seemed an excellent idea ‘to serve
proval. Here, at any rate, was one;them continuously.

case where realization came up to; ‘Looking back over the evening, we
scratch, or expectation. Not that|feel sure that not only would our
hopes were small; the dance last;Quaker founders have nodded their
spring, especially when compared|approval—especially if they had been
with the very. tame and ‘slightly! reading the News editorials of late,
frumpy tea-dances which up to then'the sight of so many well-groomed,
had constituted Bryn Mawr’s sole'/not to ‘say. smartly-dressed Bryn
means of expressing her joie de vivre|Mawr girls would have cheered them
in mixed company, the dance last |—but, quite won over by the gaiety,
spring promised much for the future.! they would have gathered up their
The whole college, it seems, what-|skirts and tripped along with us.
ever its shyness in other matters,| Perhaps, the next time, they will. At
was ready to lend its support to;any rate we, like the rest of the
the dance movement; for the party|college, are looking forward enthus-
this year every single table was re-|iastically to the spring dance.

served within twenty-four hours, and
a gathering which would have done
credit to the Ritz ball-room—almost
four hundred people—pushed its way
into the Gymnasium. But the com-
parison need not stop here; to many,
ourselves among them, the Gym of-
fered as much entertainment as, and
certainly a great deal more merri-
ment than a good many coming-out
parties. First of all, we knew our
host and hostesses, Mrs. Collins, Miss
Collins and Dr. and Mrs. Diez. Then,
‘instead of closing our eyes and plung-
ing into.a whirling. mass, we safely
—and proudly—marched to a table
bearing our very own name, or at
least that of a friend. It has always
seemed to us that the use of indi-
vidual tables was one of the great
reasons for the popularity of night-
clubs, and we.cannot say enough to
express our approval of their intro-
duction at Bryn Mawr. Through}
them, the lost, or wandering male of |
last year’s. dance has been eliminated;
the weight can be taken off a good
many tired feet; a cozy nook is ‘pro-



Mile. Souberan Speaks of
, Visiting Fiji and Australia



(Continued from Page One)

the ‘sun, where strange trees and
large ferns which seem like relics of
the carboniferous age are to be seen
on every ‘side, and where the climate
is so mild that there is neither sum-
mer nor.winter and the green things
bloom all the year around. Arrived
at the hotel, she snatched a hasty sup-
per and then descended into the caves,
which she had come to visit. The
guide turned to her just inside the
entrance, “Can you remain an hour
without talking?” “TI’ll try,’’ she an-
swered. .The guide put out the lights
and they continued in the black, where
only the drip, drip of water into a
deep pool could be heard. They climb-
ed into a boatvand went off into al-
most de2zper da“kness—when ‘sudden-
ly, they were suspended in a silent
world of stars. The millions of glow-
worms which cover the roof in these
caves, let down tiny, sticky threads in
young man, and a resting-place for| which to’ catch the mosquitoes which
Susie and a man who is not so well/are._in the cave, so that there is a
Again, we shquld like to/net of tiny threads glistening here
compliment the committee—the Misses! and there with drops of water. The
Jane and Junia Culbertson (chair- | light reflected in'the still water made
man), Miriam Cornish, Anne | a picture which the guide later called
Hawkes, Rebecca Perry, Betsy Jack-|the Eighth Marvel of the world.
son, Barbara Bishop, Josephine Heis-; The next day, the same guide showed
kell and Barbara Korff—on the fur-| her “the only marvel of the world.”
ther intelligence oftheir manage-|He took her into a forest of ferns,
ment in allowing mutual cutting-in.| where the height ranged from six
It seems to us that the great prob-| inches to six feet. The lacy edges of
lem of the girls’ college dance has|the ferns are so fine, and reflect ab-
been solved. The Bryn Mawr girl] sorbed light in such a manner, that
should. from now on _ outshine all] jt is broken up into tiny rays and dif-
rivals; her “man” does not suffer at! fused, giving the impression of irri-
college dances. And if we lose the descence from no visual source.
After seeing the geysers and the
hot springs, Mlle. Souberan moved on



mercy seems strained after’What we,

as the trampled-on sex, are made to) ty Australia. One outstanding im-
endure at parties, we may be re- pression remains in the academic
‘warded threefold for our kindness:| mind: the natives of Australia have

Who knows? Perhaps the day may
come when, even in the outside world,
the female will be allowed to cut in,
and the wall-flower will: be, along
with dinosaurs and hoop-skirts, a
thing of the past.

It might be remarked that the
drawback to. having tables is that
there will perhaps be too much “sit-
ting-out.” Judging by the difficulty
of finding anyone—not the least, one’s
“best man”—on the floor last Sat-
urday, could the thirty tables have
held more than eight people, more
would have danced, at least once,
with the object of their heart’s desire.
We can think of no way of eliminat-
ing the difficulty except by forcing
each man to carry a banner with his
name on it, and to wave it, frantic-

been trained to remember their an-
cestors back for periods of many cen-
turies and their prodigious meméry
makes us almost wish we had been
brought up by Australian Indians!



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he dances. As it was, even those who
did not devote the whole evening to
giving their guests a “whirl”? get a
chance to dance with only a few peo-
ple. As for meeting anyone—.

While we are throwing bouquets,

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conversion to petty thievery at the’

where in thirty years he has not re-
turned. The old Agrarian party hated
| England and loved Ireland with a blind
‘love full of illusions. Joyce is bitter,

: : i hating Ireland as much as he loves it,
which no Member of Parliament, nor) and-hating. and loving. at. the sane

town Mayor, nor political official WAS | time, he is “full of veracity.”
allowed to hold the chair. The Gaelic; povelation of what sivik: ee nid

to the common people is found in
once more the national language; they Shawn O’Casey. When his Plough of
have succeeded in so far aS they have! the Stars was first produced the the-
made Gaelic a Ppauirethent in all atre rose in riot because in one scene
schools. Shaw, “Yedts* and George | the Trish flag was brought into a pub-

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(Continued from Page One)

Russell, began the Irish Academy of} }i- house, while Mr. Yeats shouted |:

25 full members whose work must be) sternly from the footlights, “You have
on Irish subject matter, and 10 as-) gisoraced yourself again!” Lennox

sociate academicians who must be ONgopinson started a school of drama
Irish birth. The Academy is needed | in Cork, whose. first. plays. were so
to fight fanaticism; it hopes some day ‘brutal that they are no longer pro-
to be able to offer money prizes for ‘ duced, but at the time they. satisfied
writing; and it hopes in time to dis-|the need to dverthrow, illusion. Since
cuss politics with “some Irish 20V-| even theh’ there were some things that
ernment.” The Irish theatre began! ould not be put into plays, we find

with Frank Fay, a “stage-struck more novels than plays fighting for
clerk,” for whom’ Yeats wrote his first! tp. new literature.

play, anid Rees brother, William Pay, Of poets those best ‘representing
an electrician, who played Lady Greg- ee

; ; ; the change in literature are James
ory’s comedies. Women’s parts were ’

: ees Stephens, author of Dierdre; Fra
filled from a society of patriotic la-j| ~, Reena
: : ; O’Connor, of Grey Eye Weeping;
dies who were teaching the children : .
James Pierce, who had the courage to

from the streets that the root of all ’ :

i] Siskind de huak the al ‘write a few hours before his execu-
sc alr © play” tion “The Beauty of the world hath

ers were overworked and broken down | A
|'made me sad”; and those wandering

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an fend gana thm bY ports who wer all with the Cathe

mentee : one artistocracy in the seventeenth
i peas century.

First of the leaders of this liter- | . :
ary renaissance is Lady Gregory, who’ Ending his lecture Mr. Yeats read
put the whole mass of Irish ie ee pats een aC a
ture, mediaeval tales full of ancient, | a — —_— - .
splendour and superstition, into the| hollow lands and -hilly: lands,” Ro-
present dialect. Dialect was associ-|
ated only with comedy as used by the |
entertainers. But Lady Gregory, be-!
lieving that an author must give the |
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Varsity Overcomes

Faculty Hockey Team



Faculty: Enthusiasm Fails to

Penetrate Varsity Defense
in Annual Battle



SCORE IS FIVE TO ONE
} ‘

The annual Facuity-Varsity hockeya
game, with practically the entire stu-
dent body and on the sidelines, start-



_ed off with its accustomed’ excitement

when the referee called a free hit
against the faculty for kicking. Dr.
Watson’s policy was “Take
time,’”’ while his efforts to stop the
ball, that is by standing in front of
it, were painful t6 say the least. Af-
ter Brown had recovered from the
effects of her collision with Dr. Metz-
ger, Dr. Watson ran the length of
the field, dribbling the ball indiscrim-
inately with both sides of his stick.
But ‘the Varsity “Four Horsemen”
were ready for him and managed to

your

_ get-the ball back to the Faculty circle,

where Collier made a clean shot past
Dr. Crenshaw’s guard, and a few min-
utes later Kent tallied another goal
for Varsity. The whistle for the end
of the half blew, leaving Dr. Turner
and Dr. Richtmeyer looking sadly over
the fence. A collision had lifted the
ball fifty feet in the air to come to
a peaceful rest at last in the second
team hockey field.

The second half began with shouts
of “Hey! Hey!” and “Home run!”
echoing from the _ sidelines. Dr.
Broughton’s conscientious passes were
a great help to the Faculty, while the
speed, enthusiasm, golf tactics and su-
perior weight of the whole team were
such that Varsity rushes and spec-
tacular players were few and far be-
tween. Varsity’s “wait for mistakes”
policy, however, resulted in a total
score of five points and their defense
held. the Faculty scoreless. Once
more Dr. Wells’ proteges departed,
bowed in defeat—but wait until the
Faculty-Varsity basketball game!

The line-up was as follows:

Faculty © Varsity
ae Teas fc ed Ws cic os es Brown
Bee. VERON ic dis Ee b.0.6 0 0 thee Kent
Dr. Blanchard .C. F. ....Longacre
Mr. Carlson ...R. I. ....Remington
Mr,King—--3-7 R.-W........ Stevenson
Dr. Broughton .L. H. ....Bowditch

Collier
Dy peer” Re Ge iki Ullom
Dr, Richtmoyer .G. f+ 6.6... Bishop
Dr. Metzger ...R. F. ....Rothermel
mr; Weereuew -.. Ge ies Jackson

_. Goals—Faculty, 0; Varsity, Kent,
2; Collier, 2; Longacre, 1.



Royal Family Stage Set
Efficiently Constructed



{Continued from Page One)

made many flying trips to Philadel-
phia in search of sadly needed mate-
rial. Once she came back loaded down
with some thirty pounds of canvas.
Although a great many, people came
down to work on the scenery, no one
came regularly enough to be properly
trained and broken in. The freshmen,
on the whole, showed the most inter-
est, but unfortunately they were un-
able to work. Sylvia Bowditch, who
was in charge of the actual construc-
tion, said that the more people who
would come down the next time the
better, as well-instructed workers
would be needed to carry on next year.
She added that a vote of thanks was
dye. Jimmy James and Betty Laird,
who were constantly busy on the stage.
Faith, Blythe and Eaton deserve cred-
it for their assistance in taking down
the set after the performance. The
play was over at eleven-fifteen and at
eleven-forty all the flats had been

piled up in the storeroom, and’ the].

floor-cloth was being swept. One must
not forget to mention that the “rhin-
ies” from Haverford helped in this
rapid cleaning up.

Due undoubtedly to the splendid or-
ganization achieved by those in
charge, all the details of the stage



| machinery went off without a hitch. | Plantation Songs and

No fuses were blown out, and no one
fell off the wabbly ladders which led
up to the balcony from the rear. Sev-
eral amusing things occurred back'!

stage, though, which might bear tell- | is merely another department of the

ing. The great Danes,- which were| World around us—“Oh Hell is deep

loaned by the Choate Kennels, were |2nd Hell is wide, Oh Hell ain’t got

$1 99 s,s
fo.ever poking thir noses into the'?° bottom nor side,” and it is easy

1 ; ’
cage of the parrot, and getting bitten. | for sinners to lean on Hell’s gates and

(The parrot, by the way, was rented | eit nen ——
ome Pet Store at. $1 per day.) |. #eaven and its Angels are no less.
Meee The t ee cae rd ek vee fe fitnd! or "shoes ats
tiouble about the food—éspecially the Angels wear? Don't wear none, cause
eggs, which some one is reported to| they walk on air.” Behind the Pear-
have described as actually purple in ly: Gates stretches a Promised Land
color—for the dogs rushed.in as soon! 0f Rest—‘“When I get to Hkaven, I
as they smelled food, and the cast, won’t have anything to do, but walk
was lucky if there was ‘anything left! ’round the streets and shout Allelu-
when they got through. Those who! iah!” “If Satan is an enemy,” said
witnessed the play might be interest-| Mr. Lomax, “Jesus is a familiar
ed in knowing that all the door-slam-| friend, a solace in time of. trouble.”
ming was done by an official door-| He quoted lines to illustrate this atti-
slammer, and the door in question was | tude toward Jesus, lines which when
of the regular Goodhart doors. The | repeated four or five times, form
bell-ringer had some difficulty in ring- | stanzas: “The wind blow East, the
ing the proper bell at the proper mo-| wind blow West from. Jesus,” “Jesus
ment. But aside from the fact that} Will bring you milk and honey.” “Mas-
the crew backstage had to wade ter Jesus, give me a little broom for
through piles of clothing and flower| to sweep my heart clean.”
boxes, all of which were important | Two creeds, the Methodist and Bap-
as props, everything went off quite|tist, include most Christian Negroes.
smoothly. | “Some say John was a Methodist.

Spirituals Discussed



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| Bible gays John was a Baptist, too.”
Carols Sung by Choir; | Their sense of the ridiculous is char-
Miss Earp is Soloist | acteristically mingled with these re-
| ligious creeds—‘I went to the river
| to be baptized, but I stepped on a
were both chatacterized by a sweet-| root and got capsized.”
ness and fullness attained by the | Although rules of conduct enter

very slightly ‘into Negro faith, the

skillful blending of tones. The con-| **’ y

ltralto. solo following this, O Thou|¢Vils of gossiping and dress are often

That Tellest Good Tidings, from Han- pointed out in their Spirituals—“You
see those:sisters dressed so fine. They

del’s Messiah, sung by Miss Mary)|*** : ae
Earp, contrasted nicely with the pre- ain’t got Jesus on their mind.” In
one song an interesting list of sinners

ceding selections because of its essen-| *
tially dramatic quality. At the very} }§ urged to get ready for Hell: Hypo-

beginning of the solo Miss Earp was| crite, Schemer, Liar, Backbiter, Crap-
a trifle weak: despite the richness | Shooter, Hikatic (Heretic), Chicken-
and depth of her voice the legato ef- thief, Watermelon-swiper—“You just
fect by which she later heightened! #8 well get ready!”
the sweeping movement of the music; One pathetic revelation of the Ne-
which culminated in the chorus was! gro’s thoughts comes out in his songs,
here noticeably absent. On Christ-|said Mr. Lomax.~ He longs for a
mas Night was noteworthy for the | white skin—“Oh, who will glove my
combination of humming and singing’ lily-white hands when I climb to the
which ‘gave such effective shading.; golden stair?”—and feels the injus-
Today Is Born Emmanuel, accom-/tice that he suffers—“White folks go
panied by the Belov String Quartet,, to college, Nigger go to fields. White
and combining contralto and soprano! folks learn to read and write, Nigger
solos with the chorus, was a remark-| learn to steal.” The appeal which
ably well done piece of contrasting! songs of this type have is illustrated
tonal effects. Following this, the se-| by the fact that Mr. Lomax heard
quence of solemn and more or less | the following refrain sung in church:
quence of solemn and impressive| “Ain’t it hard, ain’t it hard to be a
classical hymns was broken by the) Nigger, ain’t it hard when you cain’t
spontaneity of the traditional Was-|get your money when it’s due?”
sail Song. | Mr. Lomax told of attending a Ne-
This particular carol service, al-/ gro Baptizing, a ceremony which
though not so successful in the ar-|evokes the most blood-chilling Spir-
rangement and selection as previous! ituals, as well as the most joyous, in
ones, was successful in the interpre-| the congregations repertoire. This
tations of the individual selections. |sudden change from tragedy to low
Appropriately enough, the Rev. comedy is characteristic of the art of
Joseph Fort Newton, Co-Rector of St. | song-making BMONS. the Negro and
James’ Church, in Philadelphia, dis-|©XPlains part of its charm. |
cussed the three. great hymns of the|
Bible: the Magnificat, the Benedic- |
tus and. the Laus Deo. The first-:
mentioned he cited as a song of indi-|
vidual, personal, religious experience,| Since the weeks. preceding, Christ-
vital and profound in its meaning.) mas are always. a touch dull from the
This song of Mary’s, steeped in po-| theatrical angle, we have shot our
etry and philosophy, an interpre-| bolt in this great column. Anyway,
tation of her visions and sufferings,| the theatre isn’t sprouting except for
confounding though it may have been
to her, is illuminating to us.; The/on December 23. Dont’ miss that.
Benedictus widens the influence of
religious experience and shows its na-
tional significance. Its majestic mu-
sic is the portrayal of the national- |
ism of Israel—the passions, dreams,
hopes, and prayers of a people. With
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Theatre Review



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tory casting. To be sure, the Italian

and the Don Juanish actor whose for-
tunes are on the wane has not quite
the interesting profile which the lines
describe (the Barrymores seem to be
a perennial inspiration for the firm of
Keé. ion @_ a @ Uberppebut™ G.oF
guerite Churchill,. who plays Paula
Jordan, is as lovely an _ ingenue
as one could ask for, and the other
‘parts are well taken.

The fundamental seriousness of the
play is hidden by the smoothness
which is expected of every Sam Har-
ris production, and by the veneer of
sparkling dialogue which is taken for
granted in every Kaufman-Ferber ve-
hicle. However, this superficial gay-
.ety hardly suffices to hide a sense of
futility. The only characters who
are not~anhappy are the ones who
are utterly lacking in what Jane Aus-
tin would call sensibility. The eleven
scenes and seven sets leave a kaleido-
scopic, |hurried feeling, for each one
might serve as the nucleus or back-
ground of another full-length play.
The authors’.implied belief, that.no
matter what difficulties one faces, the
dinner table will afford consolation,
seems rather open to criticism. What
if one suffers dyspepsia? Neverthe-
less, like its predecessors from the
Kaufman-Ferber pen, Dinner At
Eight is excellent entertainment, and
one of the best offerings of the cur-
rent season.—E. N. H.



The Cornell Newspaper informs us
that students who fall asleep in the
library »at Swarthmore College are
given warnings, after three of which
they are fined—(NSFA.)

chauffeur seems rather too sinister,

Gleanings

Describing the scene of an exam-
ination at Oxford, Mr. Geoffrey M.
Wilson, a member of the Oxford de-
bating team touring the East under
the auspices of the National Student
Federation, said in a recent interview
at West Virginia University: “First,
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discussing the subject for about three
quarters of an hour. Then we start

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horrified American gasp; he contin-
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you can’t write a paper unless you
know a little something about thé sub-
ject. They just want to check up to
see what you’re doing.” —(NSFA,)



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all the Little Three colleges in the
Straw Vote conducted by the Am-
herst, Wesleyan and Williams papers
last week. In two out of the three
colleges, Norman Thomas, Socialist
candidate, received second place. In
all cases the combined yotes which
Roosevelt ‘and Thomas received did
not nearly equal the -ballots for
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