College news, December 20, 1933

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7 aN BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., “WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1933 Cer iiicw Nae isar

Noted Critic Explains Vocational Conference Curriculum Committee Comii? in: Geodhans Miss Millay Presents
' : : Mrs.. E. B. White. (Kath- : = _ The Cosmopolitan Club of .

B eginning of Career arine Sergeant, Bryn Mawr, i Prop OSes New Policy Philadelphia sacl duty Reading of Own Poems



Alexander Woollcott Considers
rh Radio Most Rewarding Field .

of Journalism



NARRATES WAR STORY

Mr. Alexander Woollcott, disclos-
ing the Confessions of a. Dying
Newspaper Man last Tuesday night



the topic of his lecture meant’ noth-
ing, although his last job had, it was
true, been on the dying World. He
had tried having no title for his lec-.
tures at all, but he found that that
‘did not work, for when he made that
experiment on New Rochelle, he ar-
rived: to find the facade of their high
school decorated with a pennant read-
ng: “How To Go To the Theatre.”
Mr. Woollcott suggested that they
should go on free tickets” but they
did not seem to care for his attempts
to enlarge upon the title with which
they had presented him, for the next
week was “Better Speech Week” in
New Rochelle!

Mr. Woollcott said that the cur-
rent issue of Vanity Fair contains a
photograph of himself taken in 1892
in Kansas City, Missouri, on the oc-
casion of. some Shakespearean tab-
leaux given by his street; he was cos-

amed as Puck. After looking at
that( picture, he fell to wondering
where he had gone wrong that he
should now be here. The coming to-
gether of himself and his Bryn
Mawr audience required some sort of
an autobiographical explanation. Mr.
Woollcott and his friends often pause
to wonder how it happened that they
should all have come together: in
1907, for instance, Mr. Woollcott was
a sophomore at Hamilton College,
Harpo Marx was a bellhop at the
Seville, and Irving Berlin was a wait-
er in Chinatown; it is pure luck that
they should all be great friends now.

Mr. Woollcott decided to become a
newspaper man at the time when his
picture as Puck was taken, for across
the street lived the lanky and string-
ent Roswell Martin Field, a dramatic
critic and columnist on the Kansas’
City Star. Mr. Field took him to
see his fitst show, Sinbad, The Sailor,
with Eddie Foy. When they arrived
home, Mr. Woollcott announced to his
family that he had decided to go to
the theatre every day thenceforth; it
‘was pointed out to him that this
would run into money, something no
Woollecott ever did, and that Mr.
Field. was able to go because it did
not cost him anything. That decided
him to become a dramatic critic. He
was deflected from his intention only
once, in his senior year at college,
when he decided to retreat from com-
petition and teach. Having been rec-
ommended as the principal of a High
School at Hudson, New York, he went
to tea with the board of directors of
the school. The women were all in
favor of choosing him, but one old man
took him aside and explained confi-
dentially that although corporal pun-
ishment was forbidden by law, the
school could not be managed by any-
one unable to lick everyone in it. At
that moment three husky and burly
boys wending their way from an in-
nocent, if rough, game of baseball
walked down the street; the old man
said: “There are three of the pu-
pils. Do you think you could lick
them?” Mr. Woollcott became a news-
paper man, a :

He first applied for a job on the
Philadelphia Record, but instead of
going to the Managing Editor, he
went to the wife of the Editor-in-
Chief at her home, and asked for a

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- Sale of Books

All the books in the Book
Shop are being sold at extreme-
ly low prices. The books on
sale include many best-sellers
published this fall. And so—
give books for Christmas and |
save money. ae









14) will speak on Magazine
Work and Writing in the Com-
mon Room. in -Goodhart Hall
on Monday afternoon, Janu-
ary 8, at a quarter of fiva
Mrs. White is one of the edi-
tors of The New. Yorker.
Everyone, who is interested is
urged to come. Tea will be
served at half-past four.







Katherine Hepburn Takes
Star Role in New Tragedy

The Lake, written by, Massinghaim
and McDonald, and starring Kath-
erine Hepburn, will open in New York
December 25 and probably run for
some months, so the News offers its
readers an amateur playreader’s crit-
icism of it. At the opening of this
play in Washington all the seats
were bought out by the Bryn Mawr
Club of that city; so we are told; but
we doubt that the New York Bryn
Mawr Club will be able to pull a
like coup as the seats for the open-
ing night in New York are quoted
as high as two hundred dollars. If
you can’t pay quite that, but still feel
that you would like to know something
more about the play, there is a copy
of The Lake on the Playwriting
reserve in the Library. The criti-
cism follows:

In The Lake it has veen the pur-
pose of the authors to preesnt an
emotion rather than an action, and
the entire play has been constructed
to the fulfillment of these qualifica-
tions. The actual action of the play
is important only as it develops the
emotion inherent in jt. Therefore,
in any attempt to.appraise the value
of the work one must accept the orig-
inal premise of the authors — that
life is neither good nor bad, but sim-
ply unadjusted and brutal in its
treatment of those who are seeking
an answer to it. The characters are
all examples of frustration and fu-
tility in its various phases. Some of
the people realize they are living a
farce, and some are too stupid to
realize it. Herein lies the distinction
between the tragic figures involved
and their foils.

The play concerns a young girl,
Stella Surrege, who has been hem-
med in all her life by the ostenta-
tious “gracious living” of her un-
feeling, grasping and stupid mother.
Though Stella has a natural apti-
tude for many things, such as paint-
ing, music, and literature,’ she has
never had an incentive to force her
to develop any one of these talents.
She realizes that she is completely
useless as a member of society, and
that under the bonds of her life at
home she can never expand—either
to fail or to succeed. In love with
a married man, Cecil Hervey, who is
and has been for years living on his
wife’s income, she finally decides to
make a break, at least from the stere-
otyped unattractiveness of her home,
by marrying a man whom she does
not love, but who loves her and has
the obvious advantage of being in the
good graces of her. socially-minded
mother.

She becomes engaged to John
Clayne in just such a spirit, and then
in one beautiful moment alone with
him in the woods (of the country
estate her mother is mutilating in an
attempt to produce a more artificial-
ly and financially desirable place than
her rival) she sees him as he really
is and as he will be as her husband.
From that moment she is complete-
ly his, but, tormented by the knowl-
edge of her hypocrisy in marrying
him when she had been in love with
another, she is unable to give herself
up to him and to the love which has
enveloped her whole being. ,Fin-
ally on her wedding day she tells
him of her affair with Cecil Hervey
and receives complete understanding
from him. For one too short hour
they live together in a world different
from the one she has always known
and then, as they attempt to éscape

the wedding guests and get away un-
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Comprehensive Exams Urged to
Give Broader Knowledge ~
in Major Field



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READING IS IMPORTANT



(Especially Contributed by Dean

di Manning)

A plan for an important change in
the curriculum is at present under
discussion by the Faculty Curriculum
Committee and the various major de-
partments. This plan, of which cop-
ies have been given to all members
of the Undergraduate Curriculum
Committee, would introduce an exam-
ination on ‘certain general fields of
the major subject to be taken by wall
candidates for the A.B. degree in
the final examination period of their
senior year. The examination would
probably consist of three papers of
approximately three hours each to be
scheduled in the first week of the ex-
amination period. Seniors not pass-
ing it would not receive the degree
in that year, but would be permitted
to attempt the examination again in
the fall or later. |

The plan for the Comprehensive
Examination, which might perhaps
better be called the final examination
in the major subject, has been pre-
pared with the object of strengthen-
ing and unifying the work of the
senior year and, to a lesser degree,
the work of the other three years by
giving to the major work a more defi-
nite final objective. The examina-
tions to be successful must test the
power of the students to use and ap-
ply the information which they have
gathered from courses and reading.
A wider familiarity with what has
been written from different points.of
view on the subject matter of the
major courses might be one essential
part of the preparation.

The plan makes allowance for a
considerable amount of time in the
senior year to be devoted to such
reading or to other reading on spe-
cial topics. A Senior would carry
only three unit courses and she would
have, moreover, two full weeks dur-
ing the mid-year examination period
for intensive reading and study and
probably a certain amount of extra
time in May for a general review. It
is also to be hoped that many stu-
dents will find it possible to do a good
deal of general reading in the sum-
mer before the senior year.

Every effort has been made in the

plan to minimize such interruptions
as would be caused by course exami-
nations, but there is no intention of
encouraging students to concentrate
entirely on their major subject in the
senior year. It is the hope of the
Curriculum Committee that Seniors
would feel well able to carry at least
one elective course, whether it be in
a subject totally unrelated to the ma-
jor or in one in which interest has
been aroused through the study of
‘some branch of the major, In the ma-
jority of cases students would prob-
ably also be carrying work in a close-
ly allied subject.
- It is taken for granted that in
those -courses which are not tested
by the Comprehensive, Seniors would
cover the same ground and do ap-
proximately the same amount of work
as the other students, but special
schedules would be arranged in-order
that the review periods and the writ-
ten tests would not conflict with the
periods of intensive work for the
Comprehensive. 4

The junior year would, generally
speaking, be the period in which stu-
dents would complete Second . Year
work in the major and would carry
essential allied work and one or two
elective courses. At the end of the

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Hockey Elections
E. Kent, ’35, has been elect-
ed captain and B. Cary, ’36,
manager of the 1934 hockey
team.

| ton December 29-31 -to discuss. the











Sands in theatrical impersona-
tions, “Our Stage and Stars,”
‘in’ Goodhart Hall, Bryn Mawr
College, Wednesday, January
10, at eight-twenty o’clock,

Mrs. Hunt’s Readings |
Convey Poetic Spirit









Modern Lyrics '‘Emphasized in
Choice of Program—Amy
Lowell Praised



MacLEISH SHOWS VIGOR



Mrs. Hope Woods Hunt gave at
the Deanery on Thursday afternoon
a charming reading of modern poetry.
Mrs. Hunt has that exceptional fac-
ulty of catching perfectly the auth-
or’s meaning and spirit and of in-
terpreting them to her audience by
voice and gesture with both restraint
and understanding.

The poems read were mainly. those
of women and Mrs. Hunt set the
spirit of the afternoon by first read-
ing Amy Lowell’s “Sisters.” “Amy
Lowell,” said Mrs. Hunt, “is usually
called old-fashioned by the moderns,
and the word ‘old-fashioned’ is often
said in a sneering tone, but this
should not be so.” She has merely
dropped out of the ranks of young
experimenters, but those experiments
of hers which are most valuable will
go on in poetic usage. She has blaz-
ed a trail and thrown away a great
deal of dead wood to clear the path
for poets of the present. Mrs, Hunt
caught perfectly the eager, yet mat-
ter of fact, the darting, clear-sighted
spirit of Amy Lowell in her reading
of “Sisters.” Another poem of Miss
Lowell’s “Number 3 on the Docket,”
Mrs. Hunt read, “because it is pure
drama, and, being human, we all love
the dramatic.” Her reading of it
brought out this quality to the full
and she gave an extraordinarily fine
characterization of the farm woman
whose tragedy the poem reveals.

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Conference to be Held
On Students in Politics



A national conference on students
in Politics is to be held in Washing-

question of whether it is the duty of
students to participate in the .social
movements of the times.” Students
from colleges as widely scattered as
Caton, Minn., and California Tech
are expected to attend and Vassar,
Wellesley, and Smith are sending a
delegation ranging from twenty-five
to fifty members. It is hoped that
Bryn Mawr will also be well repre-
sented.

The conference is being sponsored
by such men as Charles A. Beard,
John Dewey, William Alan Neilson,
and Senator Robert Wagner, and is
being organized by such co-operating

organizations as International Stu- }-

dent Service, the League of Nations
Association, the N. S. F. A., the Y.
M. C. A. and the Y. W. C., A.

Although program arrangements
are not yet definite, it is expected
that at the opening session the ques-
tion, “How shall students partici-
pate in politics?” will be discussed
by Daniel Roper, Secretary of Com-
merce; George Z. Medalie, promi-
nent Republican leader; Norman
Thomas, Socialist candidate for Pres-
ident, and Robert Minor, of the Com-
munist Executive Committee, Round
tables will be held on such topics as
national self-sufficiency vs. interna-
tional co-operation, and the future of
democracy under the NRA. Vassar
students will present a play entitled
The American Plan, and it is hoped
that President Roosevelt will consent
to address the conference.

Expenses willbe kept as low as
possible. The registration fee will
be one dollar or a dollar“and a half
at the maximum. Arrangements

-activities.



Skill _ in Reading Emphasizes” °° ~

Directness and Sincerity

of Her Style
RECITES NEW POEMS

It is not oftem that a Goodhart
audience receives a poet with such en-
thusiasm as that afforded Edna St.
Vincent Millay when she gave select-
ed readings from her poems on the
night of Monday, December 18. For
not only did she read well; she read
as if she liked to read to us, and she





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read so that she could be heard, She ©

made,. however, no comments in the
course of her reading, and it was not
until the Deanery session that the stu.

dents were able to sound her views

on poetry and the modern poets.

Avoiding weighty dictums, she re-
plied to the inevitable undergraduate
query, “What is your definition of
poetry?” with the answer she had giv-
en to a similar question on a Vas-
sar final examination: “Poetry,” she
said on that occasion, “is something
reverently written by great men and
blasphemously defined by undergrad-
uates in female institutions.”

Miss Millay is convinced that the
test of a poem’s goodness is mainly

a personal one, to be estimated by —

the thrill of emotion which reading it
provokes in you or me. A poem may
be written on any subject, provided
that subject moves the writer so
strongly that she fairly has to scream
on paper. While an essay must treat
of a thought, the first consideration
for a poem is the expression of beau-
ty, the thought being a secondary
matter.

To hear Miss Millay read her own

work is to realize twice over how’

sincerely and how strongly she has
been moved on all those subjects,
even the most apparently trivial, of
which she chooses to write. Constant
sincerity of sentiment is often more
difficult of achievement than occa-
sional grand passion; and it is this
sincerity, together with a keen- sense
for the ever-present beauty in the
world around her, that constitutes the
matter of the poetry of Miss Millay.
The artistic skill in choice of word
and simplicity of phrase which has
always characterized her work be-
comes strikingly apparent under the
lingering emphasis with which she
reads aloud her verse.

After reading two short pieces,

“Autumn Chant” and “The Spring .

and the Fall,” from the volume en-
titled HARP WEAVER, the author went
on to the “Ballad of the Harp Weay-

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Bryn Mawr Club Invites
Students to Holiday Tea



The News has received the follow-
ing letter from Mrs. Helen Riegel Oli-
ver (Mrs. Howard T. Olivier) presi-
dent of the New York Bryn Mawr
Club:

Probably by ‘this time each under-
graduate has received an invitation
to meet the New York members of
1932 and 1933 at tea..on January 3
from four to six at the Bryn Mawr
Club. We do hope that you will all
be able to come. The Board of Gov-
ernors welcomes you to.the Club and
hopes-that you will find our quarters
at the Park Lane so comfortable and
so central a meeting place that you

will want to join the Club and come

often.

We feel that the Club*is very im- .

portant as a link between students
and alumnae. For us who have grad-
uated, it represents the college in New
York, making contacts with other
Women’s College Clubs, participating
in various allied enterprises and serv-
ing as headquarters for Bryn Mawr
But to you, who are still
at college, the Club has a great deal
to .offer. The Park Lane is a con-
venient place to stay and have meals

ov

with Club reductions, to entertain.
men, and, to all practical purposes, —



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interests of being sophisticated and “of the world.” |

* Brace Yourselves
Whenever any group of undergraduates departs for a Christmas
vacation a great deal of advice is always forthcoming from those who
feel qualified to dispense it, but this year we feel that the time has

-eome for us to call a halt to codified suggestions for. behavior and to
think for a moment about just what is expected of us on this particular

occasion. We are making our debut into the world of Repeal and our

elders and superiors will be watching our every move to see whether|

or not we have sufficient good sense to enjoy the altered status of
alcohol without making ourselves ridiculous.

~ The ery of the crusaders for Repeal was that it was doing the
younger generation untold harm and encouraging them to drink in the
The time when
that might have been-said has passed, and in the future the mark of
what we will, out of respect for antiquity and hope for the future, call
a lady, will not be the quantity of cocktails and highballs she can put
away without disappearing under the table, but the intelligence and
taste which she displays in regard to the choice and consumption of
wines, and the restraint which she exhibits in regard to alcohol in
general.

What none of us born in the era of gin and whisky realize is that
they were intended for the consumption of gentlemen at all times, and
for that of ladies only upon the occasion of fainting spells, sudden bad
news, or the overturn of a“horseless carriage. A lady did not drink

whisky and soda with the utter abandon of her escort and we have a

suspicion that she will not do it in the future.. However, this was
never intended for a Vogue treatise on wines and whiskys, but was
intended as reminder that the eyes of the world at large will be upon
us in our play as never before, and if we fail to support the arguement
of the champions of Repeal that the return of lawful liquor would not
drive us deeper into our cups, but on the contrary would pry us at
least up to a level with the lip of said cup, we will be making rather
childish spectacles of ourselves.

The shortcomings of the social behavior of this generation have
been blamed on Prohibition by the wets: let us not give the drys a
counter-attack by increasing those shortcomings at the very beginning.
And in the interests of the néw attitude of youth let us formulate a few
rules which might be observed at a formal dinner under the new deal.
First, one is not expected to consume the ancient number of cocktails
before dinner; secondly, no wine glass should be drained to the very
bottom before everyone is seated at the table; thirdly, when the glass
has been drained it is necessary to rely upon the intuition of the butler
and the grace of the hostess—in other words one absolutely cannot
turn full around on one’s chair and shout for another round; fourthly,
there is a limit’to the amount of wine one can consume, and, as the
dinner must go on, due respect for the order and schedule of the
courses should be observed. And lastly let it be remembered that
formal dinners last a long time and that the combination of all the
various wines placed before one has most unbalancing effects if they
are treated individually as the first and last liquid to be seen during
the evening. We say this in addition as we would hate to hear of any
occasion upon which a studént, so overcome by the splendor of the
repast, quietly retreated into the land of Morpheus during the dessert.
That is absolutely prohibited under the new rules and constitutes a
foul for which the hostess is entitled to a free shot.

If we keep these few simple rules in mind we should have little
difficulty in convincing the world at large that we are not barbarians
by nature and that we are only too willing to behave in a dignified
fashion if they will give us dignified laws. In order to cover fully any
emergency which may arise during the holiday season we have tried

_to work out some satisfactory precepts by which we might be guided

in case one of our elders broke any of the rules outlined above. “We

have been unable to reach any solution that is entirely adequate, but,

in case of.a sudden emergency, when collected thought, is impossible,
we suggest the application of smelling sdlts to the patient and a witty
remark concerning the temperature of the room. Since smelling salts

_ were definitely au fait in the old days, to produce them would add

just the atmosphere of tradition that our generation lacks.
And finally allow us to wish you all A Very Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year. We assure you we are going to have both.



A bird egg collection was recently From the Oklahoma Daily v we read

= - added to the University of Colorado|that a public speaking instructor






est. ‘remark, “So you won’t talk, eh?”

It is one of the best and| flunked a student with the cryptic |
most complete in the )

' MY- COUNTRY NEEDS ME
If I were big I’d neither be

A soldier nor a sailor;
The one is never out at sea,

The other’s semi-whaler.

I think as a marine my luck
From Iceland shore to Libyan,

Would please me as it does the duck,

To be a bird amphibian.
—Fickle’ Female.
ra POUARTES
KEEPING UP WITH \THE ’
ALUMNAE
At the charity performance of
Carmen, sponsored by the higher so-
cial lights of ‘New York, our favor-
ite New York Evening Journal re-
porter spotted “Leta Clews looking
more than charming in ‘a Spanish
shawl and a sombrero.” My! the
clothes. unconsciousness of ‘a college
girl!





THE KNIGHT BEFORE
CHRISTMAS
My lady slept within her bower
One bright December morn,
And dreamt of orchids all in flower
And May greens newly shorn.

When suddenly the silence broke,—
She tore a golden lock

(Like all the olden, lauded folk) —
And stilled the hoarse-toned clock.

She leapt from out ter Simmons bed
And washed and gan she dress,
From which procedure quick she
sped,

To breakfast—more or less;

And there beside her china plate,
Were piles of envelopes,

Each purple stamp-ed like its mate;
' The one on top she opes.

“Alas! Alas,” the damsel wept,:
“Look you, my darling, hard—
That frightful woman, Smith yclept,
Hath sent a Christmas card.

I crossed her off my mailing list,
A week ago today;

And I was so sure if I missed
Just her, ’twould be O. K.”

The knightly husband sat behind
His early morning sheet,
He scanned the news, nor knew why
pined
His love, his duck, his sweet,
=
“QO Edward, list the boon I beg,
Put down your buxom Post,
And quit your ham, your wott-boited
ege,
Your sweetly sereene esac

O Edward, Edward, get thee hence
Unto the city store, .

And get me there with copper pence,
A card to please the bore.

Post-marked December twenty-four
At least it ought to be,
Would I had bought just one card
more,
You should this day be free.”

Her husband breakfasted a gulp,
Into his coat he slipped,

The Post he folded into pulp,
And out the door he whipped.

He mounted on a trolley-car
That stopped at every light,
And every light shone red afar,
The streets were crowded tight.

But finally our hero reached
_A big department store,
Where all within the salesgirls
screeched,
To drown the rabble’s roar.

But*cards there were none now yet
-whole,

Each missed an envelope;

And all of them had paid the toll
Of hargete aunting folk.

And so he aia upon his heel,
_And walked the store without,

To shop where he preferred to deal
-—But oh! The fearful rout!

Our Edward stalked adown the aisle,
_He thrust his long arm through,
And grabbed a card, though crushed

the while,
What card he never knew.

He signalled to the lovely maid



Who rang up all the cash,
But she-to him-no notice paid,
_And so the knight grew rash.

He leapt across the ‘pressing throng,
His buckler straight before,

He paid his pence, and rung the
gong, eras
And shut the pence-filled drawer.

-| Then leapt he back mid many sneers

And ‘ill will ’mong all men,
That lasted him throughout the
years,
And made him oft count ten.

And back he came to his latly fair,
She took the Christmas card,

And kissed him nor did either care
That happy blooming bard

With meaning well thereon had writ,
‘“Dear One, be glad because’—

Ah, me! The bitterness of it!—
“There is a Santy Claus!”

—Mme. X-mas.



ON CLOSE CROSS-EXAMI-
NATION

When is the will to woo,

They always bill and coo,

And when at last they’re wed,

As sages oft have said:

They have to do their fill,

.And then they boo and kill.
—One Too Young To Know.



GLORIA IN EXCELSIS

"Twas the night of rehearsal,
over the earth

Of sheet ice a-plenty, of friction, a
dearth,

The big bus was teased o’er the high-
ways with care

In hopes other vehicles all would be-
ware.

Inside, the choir kept up quite a
chatter,

When—Slither! Slide! Bump! Now,
what was the matter?

Up from their seats they arose in a
flash,

Threw open the windows to see the
great smash,

When what to-their wondering eyes
should appear

But a car on the sidewalk, right
close at the rear;

And a furious driver, whose “vocab”
was slick!

They knew in a minute they’d pulled
a fine trick.

But you know the rest: they gave up
the trip,

And in great hilarity homeward did
slip.

and

—Con Expressione.



LAST-MINUTE CHRISTMAS
GIFT SUGGESTIONS

For Dad — Our new Razor-Edge
collars, outdating the Arrow.

For Mother — A _ chemical] set.
Makes the most superb smells, stains,
and sick people civilization has yet to
know.

For Sis—Nervous dromedaries.

For Junior — Your picture made
more personal with a Time caption
sprinted underneath it.

For Baby—A Muffler.

If satisfied, tell others.

If not, tell us. (Dieu te blesse,
chacune, as Tiny Tim. would say!)
—Cheero (and a bit of mock plum.

‘ pudding with Virginia Dare
sauce) —
THE MAD HATTER.



Conference to be Held
On Students in Politics



Continued from Page One
are being made to house students in

.4 Washirigton for as little as seventy-

five cents a night. Each delegate will
arrange for his own meals, but the
cost may average as little as a dol-
lar a day, thus making six dollars
the probable total of expenses in
Washington.

Information about reduced rates
on bus and railroad lines may be ob-
tained by writing the Executive Sec-
retary of the conference, Kenneth
Holland, at 140 Nassau street, New
York. Application blanks may be ob-
tained from Eleanor Fabyan, Pem
West.



One of Columbia University’s most

‘| ancient traditions—the annual fresh-

man-sophomore tug-of-war — has
been abandoned. Lack of interest
and interference with traffic on busy
streets were given as reasons for they
abandonment,





News of the New York -Theatres
There has been-an influx of movie

|actors from Hollywood this fall, bot

rit had been taken all in a spirit of
fun until Mary Pickford breezed into
town and went about delightedly kiss-
ing producers on the cheek and an-
nouncing that she had returned “to
appear in a clean play that will typi-
fy the romance” which she feels is
back in the lives of us all. She is
warming up. to her task of appeal-
ing to the better natures of the cos-
mopolitans by doing three a day on a
vaudeville stage and her vehicle is
none other than The Churchmouse,
We hate to put in our oar. where
there is no water, but we wonder if
Miss Pickford realizes that there is
a faint suspicion concerning the mor-
al welfare of the churchmouse in the
minds of most all who have seen it.
But she won’t do those scenes,-where
the secretary and her émployer—oh!
She simply couldn’t do it! *. i

Judith Anderson has replaced Jane
Cowl in-the cast of Come of Age, the
play about Thomas Chatterton which
Clemence Dane has just compléted.
Delos Chappell is handling the pro-
duction, and Miss Anderson will have
the support of Stephen Haggard in
the leading male role. Just what will
be forthcoming when the curtain.rises
on this history of the literary genius
and forger who had many adventures
and many loves before his death by »
his own hand at the age of seventeen
is a mystery to us. It will certain-
ly be something new and different—
for us all, including Miss Anderson,
and it opens in mid-Jauary.

Further proof of the fact that no
one can let well enough: alone but
must take care that when it rains
success it pours instead of merely
misting comfortably, is the announce.
ment that James Dale has written a
play soon to be produced. Mr. Dale
is at present achieving a rather rous.
ing success as Dulcimer in The Green
Bay Tree, and one who has observed
his manoeuvers in the interests’ of
art find it hard to credit him with
the creation of a very red-blooded
melodrama, as his Wild Justica is
reputed to be. Anyway, it will open
soon and has behind it the experi-.
ence of a run last season in London.
It is laid in an English village dur-
ing the dear dead ’80’s when there
was plenty going on that the histor-
ians didn’t think fit for the eyes and
ears of posterity, but those things al-
ways leak out and Mr. Dale is giving
some of them a healthy push.

Miriam Hopkins opened in the
Owen Davis drama, about New Or-
leans seventy-five years ago, on Tues-
day, too late for this edition, but we
will be greatly amazed if it does not
supply the fuel for a great many
critical bonfires and for a great many
conversations over the better bars in
the gentlemen’s clubs. Others who
will dash about ancient New Orleans
are Cora Witherspoon, Reed Brown,
Jr., Frances Creel, Frederic Worlock
and Owen Davis, Jr. Guthrie Mc-
Clintic is the producer and no one
wants it to go more than that worthy,
for the season has been getting along -
without his having produced a big
hit. And while we are on the sub-
ject of Mr. Davis’ play we would like
to know if in present geologic time
the senior’'member of the Davis fam-
ily has ever written a play into which
Junior did not project himself. It is

-|a pretty picture that springs into our

minds at the thought of the Davis
family at home. Junior sitting on his
father’s lap saying in a_ coddling
tone, “Pops, your little man wants
to try and make a name for himself
for the hundredth time—please be a’
nice Daddy, and write yourself anoth-
er play.” And the ‘proud father of
all this talent replying, “My little
pride and joy, you shall have a play
to ruin as much as you can in a
minor part just as soon as I have
finished this cigar.’ And so we have
got many of our plays. (We will

| eontinue these intimate sketches of

the homelife of the great in our next
issue.)

Raymond’ Massey and Adrienne Al.
len are-returning to our shores in
February in Nearer Than I, a play
by the English writer, Keith Winter,
in which Gladys Cooper will be star-
red. Mr. Winter will be remember-”
ed as the author of the exceedingly
unpleasant, and excessively psycho-
logical novel about Oxford, entitled
Other Man’s Saucer. However, he
‘succeed in creating a name for him-
self by the effort and has now- taken

(Continued on Page Three)




_ aging .minds,

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three —





Nature of God Shows
By Christmas Story



Reverend Leicester Cc. Lewis
Gives Sermon at Sunday
Carol Service



SCENE REVEALS BEAUTY

“Riddles,” said the Rev. Dr, Lei-
cester C. Lewis in his address at the
Christmas Service Sunday night in
Goodhart, “forms an integral part in
human life in stimulating and encour-
nds, At the. Christmas. sea-
son we are gathered in view of the
oldest riddle in the world, one which
goes back to the first thought of the
first man, and one which may be sum-
med up in the question, ‘What is
God like?’”

A Christmas service of any kind
commemorates the answer given by
God to man in that this answer is
embodied in the Christmas scene.
Many answers had been tried before
during the history of mankind and
had been found unsatisfactory. The
earliest answer was found in the phe.
nomena of nature. Man fell down
and worshiped volcanoes, _ thunder
and lightning, and great seas—all of
which contained spirits, which,
though often harsh and malignant in
their treatment of him, were yet con-
sidered worthy of adoration, perhaps
in propitiation.

It was many centuries, before a sec-
ond answer was given. It was a



‘ more anthropomorphic conception and

found material embodiment in idols,
carved from wood and stone. The
Greek statues of gods furnish the
best examples of this personification
of abstract virtues in the form of
idols. Mars was the God of War,
Venus the Goddess of Beauty, and so
on until an entire hierarchy had been
created with Zeus, who really contain-
ed all the virtues, ruling over them
all. This’ answer was also jnade-
quate, for who can be enthusiastic
over mere abstract principles? As
Isaiah said, “Shall I fall down to a
stump of a tree?”

In the century before the coming
of Christ the wisemen gave up seek-
ing an answer to the riddle, “What
is God like?” and God Himself decid-

..ed to give man an answer, — the
_Christmas scene.



Curriculum Committee
Proposes, New Policy



Continued from Page One

junior year departments would hold
conferences with all their major stu-
dents to ensure that the plan of
reading for the Comprehensive Ex-
amination was fully understood and
that students had every opportunity
to read such books as especially ap~
pealed to them during the summet.

There seems no reason at all to sup-
pose that a change in the major sub-
ject would be any more difficult un-
der the plan proposed than it is at
present. On the contrary, since there
would be a deliberate effort to con-
centrate most of the work of the ma-
jor subject into the last two years,
the possibility of making a change in
the middle or at the end of the junior
year would be increased rather than
otherwise. Undoubtedly, a student
who tried to change at the beginning
of her senior year would be some-
what handicapped unless she chose
a subject in which she had already
done a great deal of work. But that
is true at present.

For the first two years the effort
would-be to make students diversify
their courses rather more than they
do under our present requirements.
It would be very important for stu-
dents to complete their required work
early and also be prepared to pass
their language examinations at. the
beginning of their junior year. In
many cases, of course, the German
could be passed at the beginning of
the sophomore year or even at the

end of the freshman year. ..Students

would on the whole be discouraged
from taking Second Year work in
the sophomore year except .when they
wished to spend their junior year
abroad. The accumulation of cred-
its towards the degree would not be

possible in the same sense that it is

at present, and every one would be
expected to carry full work for the
last two years. Exceptions might
possibly be made for students who
lost time through illness in the jun-

ior or senior year if they had com-
pleted an unusual amount of work

by. the end. of the-sophomore-year-but.

some: procedure on this point would
have to be worked out on the basis of
experience.

The passing mark for the Compre-
hensive would be sixty, and since the
students attempting it :would in all
cases have completed two years of
work in the major subject with marks
of seventy or above there seems no
reason at all to suppose that the ex-
amination would be a more difficult
test than the course examinations.
That it ought to be a different kind
of test is sufficiently obvious and un-
less examinations are set which call
for a broad view of the subject and
for the power to reason about the
facts and not merely to memorize
them, the whole experiment will be a
failure.

It seems to many members of the
Faculty worth while to make a change
which holds promise of greater unity
and meaning for the college course as
a,whole, especially since it would in-
troduce a type of work in the senior
year, of which the majority of un-
dergraduates at present have but lit-
tle experience ‘and which has been
found in other colleges to. develop ma-
turity ,and ‘independence.



Mrs. Hunt’s Readings ©
Convey Poets’ Meaning



Continued from Page One

Some of Elinor Wylie’s poems
were read next ahd Mrs. Hunt ex-
pressed her interest in Mr. James
Stephen’s belief that “only lesser
poets display emotion, and the great
poets speak with passionate utterance,
neither human nor personal, but
rather anonymous and universal.” In
accordance with this theory, “Elinor
Wylie has more of the qualities of
greatness than any other modern
poet.” Mrs. Hunt read two of her

‘sonnets, the fascinating “Eclogue”

and a charming little “Elegy.”

The next poet whose; works were
read is not very well known to most
Americans. She was born in 1869,
but her poetry was not known until
1923, so she really belongs to the
moderns. Charlotte Mew was, how-.
ever, praised by Thomas Hardy, Wal-
ter de la Mare and many other poets
who became her friends and secured
a civil lists pension for her. Before
this her life was one of exceptional
poverty and sickness and was on the
whole very unhappy. She died by her
own hand in 1928. Her poems, as
one might expect, are usually tragic,
and it is hard to understand how even
a few of them are really gay. They
are all delicate and particularly in
“In the Fields” and “Sea Love,” two
of the poems which Mrs. Hunt read,
one wonders how she was ever able to
have such an understanding and feel-
ing for nature, since she remained
for most of her life in Bloomsbury.
Besides these two Mrs. Hunt read
“Rooms,” “Fame” and ‘I’ve Been
Through the Gates,” three poems in
her tragic mood. These are from
her books, “The Rambling Sailor”
and “The Farmer’s Bride.”

Mrs. Hunt ended her reading with
some of the newest work of that
most modern of the moderns, Archi-
bald MacLeish. These ‘“Frescoes for
Mr. Rockefeller’s City” are,.merely
amazing when read, to oneself, but as
interpreted by Mrs. Hunt, they took
on their true life and vigor as well.
She read the first and last poems in
the book; the last first and the first
last, because most people think the
first one the best in the collection.
This is “Landscapes in the Nude,”
an extraordinary poem of powerful
symbolism. The last is “Background
of the Revolution,” an amazing mass
of dynamic impressions, “In these
poems,” said Mrs. Hunt, “MacLeish
is like Walt Whitman in ‘I Sing
America.’ They both have the quali-
ties of thrill and harshness.”

Mrs. Hunt said that she had_in-
tended to read some of Edna St. Vin-
cent Millay, but had. decided not. to
when she heard that the author would
read some of her own poems on
Monday.



A tradition as old as the univer-
sity itself was | abolished recently
when President Conant, of Harvard,
acceding to the wishes of the_stu-
dents in the yard, agreed that the
university’s college bells should not
ring at 7 A. M. but remain silent
until 8.40.





Katherine Hepburn Takes
_Star Role in New Tragedy

&



Continued from Page One

noticed, their car overturns into the
lake which has been’ built by ‘the
mother at the expense of the copse
Stella loved so well, and which is a
symbol of the artificiality and cruel-
ty of the life she-has led in. the past.
John is killed, but such a blessing
as to die with him is denied Stella,
and she. has to go on living. when
everything within her has died. Cecil
comes back to her; her mother plans
an immediate trip to Cannes for her
health, and suggests that. the family
dress for dinner as a cure for her
unhappiness. Her answer to all their
reiterations that her life has suffer-
ed only a momentary setback is to
go alone to the lake, where she has
been in spirit since the last time she
and John were together.

The play seems to us to be one of
the best and certainly one of the most
sincere tragedies which the modern
stage has contributed in many a year.
The entire tone of the play is set for
the tragedy to come—there are no
extraneous bits of experience thrown
in as fuel for an already flaming fire.
The construction of the characters is
carried through with the use of a
single devise—the lake. The moth-
er, Mildred Surrege, conceives the
idea because she wants to outdo her
rival for social leadership, and be-
cause she thinks that gardens are
made to be forced to grow to reflect
glory and opulence on their owners.

Her husband, Henry, is a quiet lit-
tle man, who is allowed nothing but
what his wife says he may have and
her allowance does not include so un-
obtrusive an item as love.’ He has
attempted to satisfy his desire to love
something by creating a little corner
of the garden and by feeling the
country around him. Lena Surrege,
the aunt of Stella, is a completely un-
derstanding person, who loathes her
opulent sister-in-law for the fool she
is and who shares with Henry and
Stella the desire'to make of life more
than a “Chinese pagoda with drag-
ons all over it.”

The lake is a symbol of the life
which Stella has had to lead and
that.it.should be the agency for de-
priving her of the raison d’etre of
her’ life only adds to the irony and
tragedy of the play. If the day for
allegory had not passed The Lake
could very easily be the Pilgrim’s
Progress of our day.

As a tragedy of action The Lake
will never stand on the action now
present in it, but as the tragedy of
a mode of living, and a way of think-
ing it will hold for a few, and for
those it will have a great appeal. But,
in order to adapt it to American au-
diences there are several things
which must be done with it—Cecil
must be changed to a.more positive
cad — the relationship between John
and Stella must receive a great deal
more attention and must be made
more a definite part of the play. Un-
less it is given an importance quite
apart from the tragedies that follow
it there will be no reason for the
later actions of Stella... And the wed-
ding scene must go.

The dialogue is excellent—on the
whole the best modern dialogue that
Ihave read in some time, and espe-
cially adapted to the characters, and
the emotional tone of the play. It is
short, choppy, pent-up dialogue which
is descriptive of the mental states of
the persons involved, and for that
reason it is especially satisfactory.
Also without sacrificing any of the
effect the authors have managed to
work into the rather brusque method
of delivery of the central character
a great deal of feeling and emotion
which might otherwise -have been
sacrificed.

As for the future of the play and
Miss Hepburn’s role in it—I can only
say that unless Miss Hepburn has
gone completely and revoltingly Hol-
lywood she should score a great suc-
cess.in it... If she has gone Holly-
wood she will miss the emotion in the
play and it will fail. If she plays
the part much as she played that of
the daughter in The Bill of Divorce-
ment there should be little to criti-
cize in her characterization. Miss

Hepburn has in The Lake one of the
best star roles that has come out in
many a moon, and she has its fate
in her own two hands. If a prophecy
of the period that it will be running
in New York may be ventured, I

would say three to four months. It
is a very good play, but it depends
on implications for too many import-
ant incidents and American audiences
can manage to miss more implica-
tions than any other gatherings of
people in the world. The Lake seems
to me to be a very good play—not a
great one—but one which treats of
a modern tragedy which has less dra-
matic scope, but more connection with
the lives of the people that will pay
to see it, than the greater tragedies
and plays of the century. It is not
a masterpiece, but it has a great emo-
tional appeal and it also has Miss
Hepburn—for hetter or for worse.



With many taunts and_ slogans,
Northwestern students marched 750
strong protesting the suggested mer-
ger of their institution with the Uni-
versity-of Chicago. ;

News of he New York Theatres
(Continued from -Page Two)
to plays. Miss Cooper, who has long
been a favorite with London audi-
ences, will make her Broadway debut
in the piece. She has been seen in
past seasons in. The Man in Posses-
sion, with Raymond Massey, and in
numerous other hits. Adrienne Allen
was last seen here in Cynara, with
Philip Merivale, and Mr. Massey left .
the States abruptly after the Nor-
man Bel-Geddes Hamlet presented its

sponsor with a funeral bill for $150,.

000. Better than any gangster did.
even before we had Repeal. :



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Noted Critic Explains

Beginning of Career



Continued from Page One

letter of introduction to her husband.
She sent him to the Managing Edi-
tor, to whom she telephoned before
Mr. Woollcott chanced to have gotten
all the way out of the house, so that
he was enabled to, overhear what she
said: He is perfectly willing to clasp
her words to his bosom as an epi.
taph: “I don’t know whether this |
boy will ever be able to write, but |
he ought to make a good reporter, be-
cause he’s the damndest, nosiest per-
son I ever saw.” As it happened,
Mr. Woollcetté got his job on The
Times, on Which he worked for 19
years; for 13) of them he was a dra-
matic critic. Being a dramatic crit-
ic is a singular occupation. It was
his duty to go to a first night every
night, and just as the curtain start-
ed to fall, to leap to his feet, tram-
pling women and children, to rush to
his office with the speed of a glacier,
and there to leap at a waiting type-
writer, while near him croughed two
telegraph operators who wired his
criticism to the paper, paragraph by
paragraph. The result was that by
the time the third paragraph was
written, he had forgotten what he
had said in the first. He finally
broke down. Mr. Woollcott’s advice
to the innumerable young people who
have asked him how to get where
they want to go is that no young
person can tell what he will be inter-
ested in doing in 15 or 20 years. The
field of journalism which now inter-
ests him most is the radio, but he
could not have foreseen the radio
when he decided to be a dramatic
critic.

Mr. Woollvott described some of
the rewards and trials of journalism.
All reporters are neurotic because
they are hounded by the fear of ty-
pographical errors. The New Yorker
never has any because it is edited by
a maniac on the subject, capable of
such vile tempers that a whole office
is devoted to nothing but checking |
proof. From 18 to 20 pages are sent
to press every day, and each page
has to pass three individuals, anyone
of whom will be shot if any typo-
graphical errors are found on any of
those pages. But all of Mr.: Wooll-
cott’s work was done at midnight, so
thathe never had time to see the
paper until the second or third edi- |
tion; if there was an error, nothing
could be done about it then. Slips
of type usually produce words of per-
fect sartity, as is apparent in his ref-
erence to Miss Helen Hayes as wear-
ing a “punk” dress, or to Mr. Nathan
as a “bottle-scarred” veteran of the
war. Such errors are even worse on
the radio; when he spoke as_ the
“Town Crier,” he frequently referred
to himself as the “Crown Tieer.”

But one advantage of the radio
is that at least the speaker is invisi-
ble. Mr. Woollcott realized that. un-
til television .is perfected, no Shakes-
pearean part, even that of _the—lean
and hungry Cassius to Romeo, was
beyond him. He did play the balcony
scene from Romeo and Juliet with
Miss Helen Hayes, and only after
they had started the broadcast did
they realize that they had complete- |
ly. forgotten to get a nurse, so that |
for the first time, the parts of Romeo |
and of the nurse were played by the
same person.

The rewards of speaking over the
radio are incalculable. One evening
he broadcast the story of the Christ-
mas Eve on the front in 1914, when
the Germans were lined up opposite
.the English and Scotch along a
stretch of Flanders field, at a dis-
tance of about 60 yards. The story
was told Mr. Woollcott by a young
lieutenant, who had been present and
heard after the men had crawled into
their bunks, the sound of Silent Night
played on an accordion in the Ger-





man trenches; ~The whole front lis- >

tened. When the tune died down,
the silence was broken with Onward,
Christian Soldiers, played
Cockney mouth organ from the Al-|
lied trenches. Until about midnight |
the concert lasted; then the lieuten-
ant was aroused by a sentry, saying,
“Something funny has happened, Sir. |
We were patrolling the hedge when
someone said in English, ‘Why don’t
we have a party tomorrow? Here:
are some cigarettes.’” The next
morning all of No Man’s Land was
- full of troops, swapping breakfasts
and taking photographs of each







-high~black-hats~of-the- French may=+

| Lear:

| someone else was about to play the

in sl

other’s lieutenants. They held a mas-
querade in the silk parasols and the

ors, which they had swiped on their
way through French villages, and a
football game was arranged for the
next day. But by the next day, word
had gotten back to the brigadier-gen-
eral and orders came to fire at a cer-
tain time. The orders were carried
out and some young German soldiers
who were out talking peaceably along
the front were unfortunately mowed
j|down. That end | Ahe fraternizing
on the Western front, but the inter-
esting part of the story to Mr. Wooll-
cott was that the next day after
broadcasting it, he received a letter
from. a telegraph operator in New
Jersey, saying that he had turned on
his radio the night before, happened
to hear that broadcast, and was writ-
ing to Mr. Woollcott because he had
been the sentry who woke up the
lieutenant and told him = about the
message that Christmas Eve.

Mr. Woollcott believes that Eugene
Field was perhaps the greatest of all
newspaper men. He was a dramatic
critic in Denver City and was held in
awe by every actor. At one of Mrs.
Fiske’s first performances in Den-
ver City, he threw a bunch of vio-
lets at her feet when she came out to
take her bow, and pulled them back
on a string as she bent to pick them
up.. He practiced the cough with
which Modjeska punctuated the dy-
ing scene of Camille until he had it
to such perfection that every whoop
from the stage was answered by an
antiphonal response from the audi-
ence. But perhaps Mr. Field’s great-
est claim to fame was his criticism
of Preston Clark’s portrayal of King
“Last night, Mr. Preston
Clark played King Lear. All through
the five acts, he played the king as
though under an apprehension that

ace.”



Bryn Mawr Club Invites
Students to Holiday Tea



Continued from Page One

be chaperoned. Our rooms are delight-
ful for tea, or as a meeting. place
or resting spot between appointments,
or dressing room if you are going out



to dinner.

The Membership Committee, Mrs.
Louis Darmstadt (Ruth Rickaby,
1927), Chairman; Mrs. Frederick A.
Dewey (Elizabeth Braley, 1914),
Mrs. Frederick Conger (Elizabeth
Mallet, 1926), Mrs. Henry E, Stehli
(Grace Hays, 1927), Miss* Sarah
Fraser (1934), reminds you that if
you join the Club while you are in |
College, you escape the initiation fee
—and the undergraduate membership
is only five dollars a year.

We are looking forward to meeting
you on January 3 and we hope |
that you will use the Bryn Mawr]
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Miss Millay Presents
_ Reading of Own Poems}



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er” itself. The ballad is one of Miss
Millay’s finest pieces. The subject
is well-suited to her style. A tale told
by a young boy of his mother is mat-
ter asking tenderness, not passion;
calling for description, pictorial rath-
er than suggestive. Tenderness and
pictorial portrayal of a scene are two
qualities in which Miss Millay excels;
while deep passion she does not
choose to handle, and imaginative sug-
gestion she relies on little.

Perhaps nowhere does the clear,
precise quality of her description or

lthe sentiment concealed beneath an.

apparently innocent pictorial sketch
come out so well as in the closing
stanzas of The Harp Weaver: |
v
“There sat my mother ,
With the harp against her
shoulder,
Looking nineteen
And not a day older,
A smile about her lips,
And a light about her head,
And her hands in the harpstrings
Frozen dead.
And piled up beside her
And toppling to the skies,
Were the clothes of a king’s son
Just my size.”

In the “Ballad of the Harp Weav-
er,” Miss Millay is seeing and tell-
ing a story through the eyes and
lips of a child. The dwice is a fav-
orite one with her, and her handling
of the shades of feelings, of a young
girl particularly, are always thor-
oughly convincing. Single incidents
or thoughts she renders in complete
sincerity, pictorial or emotional. The
snatches, “From A Little Sphinx,”
are trifles, but trifles perfect of their
kind, because the momentary doubt
or gaiety; delight or secretiveness of
a child does not demand, in fact, of
itself forbids that reflective analysis
of mood, which wé cannot but feel
constitutes a definite lack in the more
ambitious emotidnal efforts of Miss
Millay’s serious lyrics and of her
sonnets.

“Exiled” and “The Buck in _ the
Snow,” from the volumes, SECOND
APRIL an THE BUCK IN THE SNow,
represent Miss Millay in serious
“Exiled” brings out the poet’s
love for the tangible things of the
seashore—the “green piles growing
Under the windy wooden piers,” the
“bobbing barrels,” and the “black
sticks that fence the weirs’”—and the
| happy emotion that springs from re-
creating the well-known picture in
her mind’s eye. “The Buck in the
Snow” achieves a clear and beautiful-
ly drawn pictorial effect; the con-
scious subjection of the thought on
death to the beauty of the scene de-

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You'll have time to see only the
best plays in New York during the
Christmas holidays:

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| scribed well illustrates Miss Millay’s

conviction that beauty in a bia? ‘al-
ways comes before thought.

'“Portrait By A Neighbor” was the
piece chosen by Miss Millay to be
read from the volume, Figs From
Thistles. The effect of the poem herg
consists in a series of. cleverly con-
structed little pictures, which afford
by way of illustration a certain unity:
of thought.

Miss Millay read two new poems,
“Sappho Crosses the Dark River Into
Hades” and “Apostrophe to Man,”
which are to be published next year.
The one is a skillfull handling of a
tender passion; the other is inter-
esting because it was written,
reflecting that the world is ready to
go to war again.” It’is not a serious
poetic effort.

Miss Millay concluded her reading
by «presenting Two Slatterns. and a
King, which she designates’ “a moral
interlude.” The poetry, she pointed
out, is informal doggerel, but the
moral of the poem is a serious -one.





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sented, an old, old moral is brought
out,—the great theme of Chance. Her
skill lies in the simplicity with which
the case is put, and the effortless di-
rectness with which she drives home
her point. She endeavors always to
reduce emotion from the complex to
the simple, making up by sincdetity
for what shé may thus lose in depth.



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