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THE COLLEGE NEWS

(Founded in 1914)

Published weekly during the College Year (excepting during Thanksgiving,
Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of
Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College.













Editor-in-Chief
Rose Hatrievp, °32

Copy Editor
Susan Nose, 732

Editors

Leta CLews, '33 Crara Frances Grant, 734
Anna Martin Finney, '34 Saiz Jones, '34
° Mo uty Nicuots, ’34

Business Manager
Mo.tty Armore, 732

Subscription Manager
Yvonne. CAMERON, 732

Assistants

Eveanor YEAKEL, 733

Carotine Bere, 733
J. ExvizapetH Hannan, 734

Maser. Meenan, 733



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Election or Selection.

_. The wisdom of democracy has been in question for some time. In
the resolution ‘of the election: problems which will arise at college during
the next few weeks and throughout the country during the coming year,
an answer will. be found for the democracy-challengers. Tithe: national
campaign, the result will probably be too much influenced by party slogans
and interests..There_is not, however, much party material at hand to
help in deciding college elections. Platforms have very little significance
in class offices—the most important factor is generally the relative popu-
larity of the candidates. Although some positions do call primarily for
those characteristics which lead to popularity, there are others in which
such qualities are not essential.
The ‘needs of the office must be: considered first. A girl may be
required who can organize, who carries responsibility well, who has busi-
ness ability, who has social graces. If the requirements of the office are
thoroughly understood by the voter. the possibility of a mistaken choice
becomes correspondingly less. Complete discussion of the a¢complish-
ments and potentialities of the nominees is the next essential step—the
_-nuimber-of-a-candidate’sfriends-is no-index of her ability to fill_a certain
position.

Unfortunately, even after these two measures have been taken, there
may be a few who still base their choice on the respect in which they
hold popularity. This is a-form of hero-worship which probably cannot
be checked even in a small community. The only alternative to a wise
and considered election is appointeeism. Where the community is in-
‘capable of selecting a responsible officeholder, the appointing power is
necessary and desirable. In a college group which has been officially
chosen because of its intellectual. potentialities, offices to be filled by
appointment would -be a sad and undemocratic commentary. —
‘way, however, the class and college offices must be held efficiently. It
is in the hands of the voters to determine. whether the election method

is best.



_.. Do We Care?

We wonder how many of the News readers may have seen Harold
J. Laski’s article in the July Harper's entitled “Why Don’t Your Young
Men Care?” and.were struck, as we were, by the extreme aptness of his
remarks. Doubtless, we are somewhat bold in presuming to apply some
of these remarks to “our young women,” but, in this day of skirted sav-
ereignty, we may be forgiven our enthusiasm.

First, be it known, by no means are we sounding a clarion call to
don the garb of a politician and sally forth to the fray. Nor do we de-
sire to arouse an interest in politics academically, interesting and vital
. though the subject may be. Mr. Laski definitely. brings out as his thesis

that we are. sufficiently interested in the academic problem, but only
slightly in the immediate and pressing issue; that is, the undergraduate
“studies politics as he studies biology, or the fine arts, or the elements of
enact. erie 7
He is right in saying that we gibe at our institutions and-our leaders
and do nothing to improve them. Referring to the somewhat moribund
Liberal Clubs found in many of our universities, he compares them with
-the many and robust English student groups. “IT look back,” he writes,
to the vivid life of the political clubs in English universities, their meet-
ings, their discussion groups, their vivid pamphlets, their eager concern

about the next step in political action.” They are not, one gathers, solely’

radical bodies, but “clubs” based on the British parties, and probably all
intervening shades of opinion, meeting real questions in miniature Par-
liamentary debates, making themselves familiar .with those matters on
~ which thinking people wish to be informed. Ns ee
-Our-“cynicism” will, no doubt, go so far as to raise the question,
“What can we avail by getting-overheated over matters about which we
know practically nothing, and who cares to listen anyway?” Obviously,
no one is going to listen to us now, nor will we lay Congress prostrate on
the floor of the Capitol, but the effort is commendable’ and presumably,
efficacious results will, in due time, appear.
Certainly, the question is up to us, if not to solve, at least to help in
arriving at its solution. The Presidential campaign is relatively near at
hand, and it is not too early to make a start in watching and studying
the situation. That Bryn Mawr undergraduates have evinced as imme-
diate an interest in politics as we have we owe largely to Dr. Fenwick’s
Current Events lectures. Let us take advantage of our numerous oppor-
tunities, many of which we will not have again, and realize that, after a
college education, we are “charged with high civic obligations we must

seek at all costs to fulfill.”



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In some |-

Pe Shubert: Ilse Maryenga in the inter-

final. week. A good musical comedy—
and that’s about all:

national musical comedy, Princess Charm-
ing. Romantic operetta of amorous “in-
trigue in a mythical kingdom—both gay
and charming. 2

Chestnut Street: The House Beautiful
with Mary Phillips and James Bell.
Romance of Modern Age contrasted with
that of the age of chivalry. ;

Coming—October 19

Tomorrow. Glen Anders and _ Zita
Johann. . Fair. ‘

Broad: Stratford-upon-Avon Company
in Shakespearean repertoire. Well worth
seeing.

Erlanger: Earl Carroll's Vanities.
Same as usual and mildly irritating at
times.

Shubert: Al- Jolson in The Wonder
Bar. Has a cast of stars and the ac-
claim of Europe and New York. Should
be good if you Jike Jolson.

October 20
Walnut: Shakespeare’s Hamlet with a
brilliant ‘cast headed by Raymond Mas-
sey. Directed by Norman Bel Geddes
and promises to be high light of the cur-
rent season. ‘

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October 26

Forrest: Schumann-Heink in the Shu-
berts’ production of The Mikado. Wel
wish her well.



Music

: Academy of Music

Philadelphia Orchestra: . Friday after-
noon, October 16, and Saturday evening,
October 17. Leopold Stokowski, conduct-
ing. _ Program:
WOE fini Overture “Euryanthe”
eg Seen freee Unfinished Symphony
WV RNG cassacsccrcseccscor ney sesesess Siegfried Idyi
sino Sh. | SSRtESRA Eat Tod und Verklarung
_October..17—a{ternoon,-Fritz=Kreisler:

Coming—Academy of Music —

October™22-"Philadelphia Grand Opera
Company presents Tannhauser.

October 29: Eleker#.

Conductors Stokowski,
Goossens. .

October 26: First of New York Phil-
harmonic Symphony Society Concerts.
Conductors: Toscanini, Kleiber, Walter.

Reiner and

Movies

Keith’s: Eddie Cantor and Charlotte
Greenwood in Palmy Days. Typical of
Mr. Cantor.

Fox: Wicked—a melodrama in which
Elissa Landi and Victor McLagen start
their married life under false pretenses
and therefore suffer and suffer.

Grand: The Squaw. Man with Warner
Baxter and Lupe Velez. Pretty drear.

Arcadia: Sylvia Sidney and William
Collier in a faithful production of Street
Scene. Extremely good.

Mastbaum: The~-Road to Singapore.
William Powell and Marian Marsh chose
as the scene for their romance a nice hot
jungle in Ceylon.

Earle: Homicide Squad with Noah
Beery 4nd Mary ‘Brian. A gang story
centering around a maniacal, killer with
a -sentimentat -streak-which- gets him in
no end of trouble.

Stanley: George Arliss in the title role
of Alexander Hamilton. Historically ac-
curate and ‘well handled.

Stanton:- Cedric Hardiviche in an
authentic version of The Dreyfus Case.
The true story of the. French artillery
captain-—extremely interesting.

Karlton:-Ann~ Harding and~ Leslie
Howard in Devotion. ~ English drawing-
room picture.

Europa: The Five-Year Plan. Mod-
ern Russia it silent films with lecture in

‘English.

Local Movies

Seville: Wednesday and Thursday,
The Star Witness with Walter Huston,
Chie -Sale- and Frances Starr ;Friday
and Saturday, Caught with Richard Arlen
and Franees Dee; Monday and Tuesday,
The Birth of a Nation with Henry Wal-
thall and Lillian Gish. _—

Wayne: Wednesday and Thursday,
Their Mad Moment with Warner Bax-
ter, Dorothy Mackaill and Zasu Pitts;
Friday.and Saturday, The. Public_.De-



The Pillar
of Salt







Garrick: Philip Barrie's Tomorrow and |

Pipe Comfort
(With apologies to Prince Albert)

That certain something which bright-
ened our return to elbow-grease and the
Stygian fluid this fall was Miss Park’s
announcement that our happy family had
been blessed with new pipes. We were
inspired anew to cleanliness, but our
dreams of marble baths with sunken tubs
and mirrored walls went gurgling down

the drain when we found that the new
pipes carried not only the clear waters of
the mountain streams, but in addition a
large part of the. mountainside itself.
When sitting in the tub we were vaguely

‘reminded of the feel of sand* on the

beach, so we shut our eyes and dreamed
it was summer again, until we were
wakened by the plumber’s knock and
apologetic blow of the nose—for each
bathroom..in. Pembroke has its own ever-
ready plumber who lives, we suspect, in
the closet With the mops. This morning
we spent in the hall because,-driven from
the tub, we were prevented from return-
ing to our clothes by six merry painters
sitting on the sill’ They at least -have
their uses, such as to keep the sun off
our faces in the morning and to spice
our studies with the financial problems
of the. Main Line.._And now -we-have
begun to suspect that those intersecting
ribbons of new grass on the campus are
merely a strategy of the powers-that-be
to keep us off the grass—and the Fresh-
men seem to be right in with them judg-
ing from the number of times we were
ordered off the grass during Freshman
Week in spite of our hoary age. Our
cry--goes—up, ‘‘where_may._.we..go, where
find a stone to rest our head?” Pursued
as we are by the Wrath of God, we, have
turned to the last resort, the Pillar of
Salt.

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Query: What’s wrong
ture?

with this pic-

“The. women’s disarmament motorcade,

numbering more. than fifty automobiles,
swung into the White House grounds
behind. a_uniformed band, playing military
marches.”—From the New York Times.



First Musical Service
Draws Large Audience



The first musical service of the year
was held last Sunday evening and was
welcomed by a large audience. It is

‘not often that oné has the combination

of so fine a program and such splendid
interpretation. -As a matter of fact,
one usually has to go to Bethlehem to
hear Bach chorales. The choir’s ren-
dition of “Now All the Woods Are
Sleeping’ was perhaps the climax spot
on the program; the singers, in re-
sponse to Mr. Willoughby’s conduct-
ing, showed great sensitivity to cli-
mactic values, Here, as_in Mozart's
“Ave Verum,” the tone was nearly
flawless. There was a slight lack of
precision of attack in “Jesu, Joy of
Man’s Desiring,” which, however, was
compensated by the sure-footedness of
“Where’er You Walk.”

Mr. Willoughby’s organ selections
offered. great variety, ranging from
sixteenth to~-twentieth— century com-
posers. His five Bach numbers, in-
cluding the very difficult “Toccata and
Fugue in D Minor,” were played with
his usual skill and fine feeling for
mood, as, for example, the reflective
eh rut’ gu. dir.”

The program was as follows:
Organ—‘Prelude in G Major”....,.Bach
Chorale Preludes—

“Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu. Christ,”

Bach

SEER RPPICT PTI seitcsscckesciscisssssies Bach
Choir— “pe

“Where’er You Walk”’............ Handel

WAVE: VORUay orig dicssticsscda Mozart

Chorale with obligato for Organ—
“Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” Bach
“Holy Father, Cheer Our Way”

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Letters
Tue News is ‘not responsible for any
opinions which appear in this column.

But, though names need not be printed, .

they must be made knawn to the Editorial
Board. _ As the following letter is deemed
to be of some interest to the undergrad-
uate body, it is being printed with .the
request that the name of the author be
submitted to the Board, according to
precedent. sar!

October 10, 1931.

To the Editor of the CoLtteceE News:
College customs such as Parade ‘Night,
May Day, and Lantern Night are cher-
ished by us not in proportion to their
value as shows. for outsiders, but in pro-
portion to their richness of meaning to
us: Their very traditional character en-
dears. them to‘us, but more particularly
are we captured by the inherent beauty
and dignity of the ceremonies; and the
fact that we are privileged to participate
in them, as in some significant rite, makes
For this

reason the last Lantern Night lost noth-

them all the more precious.

ing by the absence of a crowd of spec-

tators, and, in fact, became rather a

‘beautiful, intimate thing of our own.

The singing under the Arch seemed
even more impressive than usual, except
Thé
Juniots were, as_ usual, unnecessarily
feeble in. their rendition, while the Soph-
omores seemed to have missed the spirit
of the thing entirely. No doubt~dread-
ing accusation of the unforgivable sin

for two rather lamentable flaws.

of sentimentality, they partially destroyed

the pleasure of the singing by their
entrance.~~-In~perfect~accord—with... their.
characteristic disdain for. various tradi-
tions, they chose to mareh between the
row of Freshmen in chain gang forma-
tion. After all, .perhaps: Lantern Night
was rather humorous, and ‘the Sopho-
mores did feel self-conscious about march-
ing to their places with the three other
classes. watching them; but in any case
their usual lack of sense of propriety
was more than ordinarily. disturbing on
this occasion. If the Sophomores would
apply their undoubted cleverness and
originality in other directions, the college
would probably be more impressed.
(Signed) A’ SPECTATOR.



To the Editor of the Cottece News:
- The Week-end Book Service, ~collec-
tively and personally, was most surprised
and pleased to find itself on the editorial
page of the CorteceE News. It/‘is a dis-
tinctly enjoyable sensation to. find myself
remembered in the old haunts.

However, I am sorry to have to dis-
appoint the News in its high opinion of
me, because I never did reach the ex-
alted state of editor. Cornelia Rose was
editor in 1928, and I was copy editor.
To balance this lack of glory, on the
other hand, the News can claim credit
for Caroline Smith, who was also on
Editorial Board in -1928. Truly, the
Week-end Book Service owes its all (or
at least two-thirds of itself) to the CoL-
LEGE News.

Very appreciatively yours,
Heten F. McKetvey.
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Dr. Simpson. Speaks in

Swarthmore on Mexico

On October 15, 16 and 18 at 8:15
P. M. Dr. Eyler N. Simpson, Mexican
representative of the Institute of Cur-”
rent Affairs, will lecture on Mexico in
the Friends’ Meeting House at
Swarthmore. The subjects of his lec-
tures are as follows: ;

‘Thursday, October 15:—Mexico, the
land, the people and the culture; Fri-
day, October_16—Americanism crosses
the#Rio- Grande;.Sunday, October 18—
Mexico, headed where?

Dr. Simpson. is, by’ his training and
experience, exceptionally well qualified
to speak on this subject.

The William J. Cooper Foundation
of Swarthmore College, under whose:
auspices these lectures are to be held,
cordially invites anyone who is inter-
ested to be present at these lectures.
No card of admission is required.





In Philadelphia 6
- -Eocust : Opening Saturday, October 17, Fine and Dandy. One of the season's
best.

with The Greeks Had a Word for .It—
cast headed by Catherine Dale Owen.
A comedy centering around three typical
Follies girls. Amusing in spots, - in
~ others merely annoying. ain
Walnut : Grace George in her new and
extremely amusing comedy, A Golden
Cinderella. A wealthy woman, tired of
leading a cloistered existence, decides to
» step out and see what it’s all about. Good

and Otto Kruger in Private Lives.
Smart, sophisticated and gay—best thing
in town. x ane ‘

Garrick: Final week of the Theatr
Guild’seAs Husbands Go.
from Dubuque, Iowa, go to Paris—and
then the fun begins. —

Forrest: Meet My Sister enters its

Two matrons



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Broad: Last week of Madge Kennedy |:

| Gaynor. *

fender ‘with Richard Dix; Monday and
Tuesday, Travelling Husbands with
Evelyn Brent and Frank Atherton.
Ardmore: Monday and ‘Tuesday,
Secrets of a Secretary with Claudette
Colbert and Herbert Marshall; Wednes-
day and Thursday, Silence with Clive
Brook; Friday, The Bargatn with Lewis
Stone and Doris Kenyon; Saturday, The
Last Flight with Richard Barthlemess ;
Monday and Tuesday, Merely Mary
Ann with Charles Farrell and Janet





(Tune “Veser )-

Organ— :
Solemn Melody.......... Walford Davies
Prelude de “La Damoiselle Elue,”

Debussy

Adumaio Casta bile \....5:icciisssaieess Tartini

Gagliarde —. cciccccsviscssssisssciscsieccats Schmidt

Choir—“Lift Thine Eyes,”~

: Mendetssohn
Chorale—“Now All the Woods Are

NE 6 i ciciessnsciviscianmimnabetinnioch Bach
Organ—“Toccata and Fugue in D

Minor i... nti atcoainis oe ann Bach



Lantern Announcements

The Lantern wishes to announce
the election to the Board of Caro-
lyn Lombardi and Leta Clews, and

* the return to it of Arine Bur-
Nett. En

A box is being placed on the
door of the Lantern Room in
Goodhart where contributions may
be left. ae

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