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VOL. XX, No. 7
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BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, -1933
Sopyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1933
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PRICE 10 CENTS
Mrs. Louis Slade
Lectures on Far East
World’s Great Issues Must be
Determined by Countries
Around Pacific
CHINA IS HOMOGENEOUS
“The crisis of future world history
will lie around the Pacific,” said Mrs.
F. Louis Slade, beginning the fourth
of the Anna Howard Shaw Memorial
Lectures in Goodhart Hall, Monday
night, November 20, on The Far
East. America is a Pacific country;
it belongs more on the Pacific than
on the Atlantic; and it is time that
Americans stopped looking at the Pa-
cific with European eyes, and took
the first, step in putting down
the wall which they have set up to
separate themselves from their Ori-
ental neighbors, China and Japan.
Chinese history traces- back to
2500 B. C., when the Emperor Fu
Hsi invented fishing, hunting, hiero-
glyphics, and marriage. By ' 760
B. C., the year of a famous eclipse,
the Chinese had become settled in
their ways, and current ideas were
much as they are today. Confucius
was not. an original thinker, but the
codifier of Chinese thought.
One of the secrets of the greatness
of China is- its homogeneity, The
people were held together by a uni-
versal way of life. The Emperor was
the Son of Heaven; he ruled China
and the people of China ruled them- |
selves. They paid their taxes and
desired to be free of all governmental
cares. If. the taxes became too se-
vere, they overthrew a dynasty.
When northern invaders threatened
their integrity, they built a. Great
Wall the length of their western bor-
der. China went on.
Japanese history begins 1600 years
after that of China. One of the(first
things recorded of Japan is an’ at-
tempt to take Korea. The Japanese,
unlike the Chinese, were eager to firid
out the doings of other peoples; they
were great observers and assimilat-
fa eee
During the nifteenth and sixteenth
centuries, Japan attenipted to capture
China, and succeeded in taking much
of what is now Korea and Manchuria.
By the seventeenth .century, she had
developed a great military civiliza-
tion, a narrow nationalism which held
sway until America broke in upon it,
under Perry, in 1853. The next fifty
years tell the great story of how
Japan remade herself into a western
nation, measuring up , to western
standards.
The. Chinese and Koreans’ despised
Japan for her westernization;— that
they had underestimated it appeared
in the outcome of the Chino-Japanese
war in 1894, when the Japanese
troops wiped out the army of a na-
(Continued on Page Six)
Foreign Fellowships
- A limited number of fellowships
and assistantships are available to
American students for graduate
study abroad under the international
student exchanges of the Institute of
International Education.
The Institute aims not only to en-
courage further knowledge of the
language, literature, or civilization
of a foreign country, but also to pro-
mote research in the natural and so-
cial sciences. Germany’ and Swit-
ties to Americans interested in these
fields, but students are also sent to
Austria, Czechoslovakia, France,
Hungary, Italy, and Spain.
~-€andidates~ for~ fellowships must
be able to read, speak, and write the
language of the country in which
they wish to study, and should also
have between five and six hundred
dollars ,of their own money to cover
traveling, vacation, and incidental ex-
penses. All applications must be fil-
ed on or before January 15. Addi-
tional information may be obtained
by applying to the Secretary, Stu-
dent Bureau, Institute of Internation-
al Education, 2 West 45th» Street,
New York City.
CALENDAR
Thurs., Nov. 23. Shaw Lec-
ture Conference. Deanery, 2
&o 4 P. M.
Sun., Nov. 26. Mr. J, Law-
renge’ Binyon will speak on
“Chinese Painting.” It will be
illustrated. by lantern slides.
Deanery, 5 P. M. -
Mon., Nov. 27. Fifth of the
Anna Howard Shaw Memorial
Lectures. Miss Jane Addams
will speak on “The Hopes We
Inherit.” Goodhart, 8.20 P.M.
Tues.,..Nov. 28. . Shaw Lec:
ture Conference. Deanery, 2
to 4 P. M.
Tues., Nov. 28. James Steph-
ens will Speak on “Our Overdue
Renaissance.” Goodhart, 8.20
P. M, ;
Mon., Dec. 4. Sixth of the
Anna Howard Shaw Memorial
Lectures. Miss Addams will
speak on “Opportunities of
the New Day.” Goodhart, 8.20
PM,
“isfaction“ was at the
Russia Raises Group
Standards of Living
Fairchild Discusses State
Agrarian and Industrial
Organization
Dr.
WAGES ARE GENEROUS
“The ‘standard of living. of the
masses of the people is the foremost
concern of the Soviet state,’ declar-
ed Dr. Fairchild, conducting a Dean-
ery conference Tuesday, November
14, on The Social and Economic Or-
ganization of Russia at the End of
the First Five-Year Plan. It is in
order to assure every worker a fair
share of the national income that the
government undertakes to own and
direct the means of production.
At the end of the first First Five-
Year Plan, 95 per cent. of Russian
.ndustry is owned outright by the
government, and 75 per cent. of -Rus-
sian agriculture is conducted on great
collective farms which rent machin-
ery from government tractor stations
and are controlled by government po-
litical organizations.
Government direction of economic
activity allows the Soviet to plan for
the welfare of the people as a whole.
Wages are made as generous as pos-
sible, instead .of being fixed at a
minimum living wage plus the mar-
ket price of. labor, as in the United
States under the NRA. The total
Russian payrolls are in proportion to
the total production, and prices are
determined solely by the cost of pro-
duction, Because the whole nation,
acts as a unit, the U. S, S. RB. can
introduce labor-saving machinery and
at: the same time increase wages and
shorten hours without creating un-
employment.
In seeking to extend its control over
agriculture, Russia has, however, en-
countered formidable problems. The
peasants, having taken over the land
from their former masters, resented
zovernment interference. By 1928 the
kulaks had increased agricultural
production, but the government had
no voice in determining what crops
should be sown, and loyal Commun-
ists asserted that the kulaks, who
made big profits in the open market,
were reviving capitalism.
On the other hand, the collective
farms, which were organized to offset
this danger, have not been entirely
successful; the technique of large
scale agricultural management must
still be worked out. Peasant dissat-
1
Heartbreak House Is
Staged in Goodhart|
te ig Speeches Unrelieved by
“Action Render Shaw’s Play
Unsatisfactory
penis “IS UNFEELING
The Hedgerow Players’ presenta-
tion of Shaw’s Heertbreak House last
Tuesday night was the worst_per-
formance of any vlay that has de-
filed the boards of Goodhart Hall in
the memory of the present under-
graduates. It is hard to criticise the
play as it was presented, for there
was no play. It is even harder to
criticise the acting, for when Mr.
Deeter was not on the stage, there
was no acting. It is impossible to
say that the tempo or the action was
too slow, for there was no tempo and
almost no action.
Heartbreak House is described by
Shaw as “a fantasia in the Russian
manner on English themes.’ That
explains a great d He is°satiriz-
ing the Russian fdndness for placing
strangely-behaved people in a. de-
pressing atmosphere, which. makes
them .behave even more strangely;
and for making each character not
only frankly discuss His most secret
faults and emotions, but expound in-
terminable theories about life and
the theme of the play. Shaw’s char-
acters were certainly strangely-be-
haved and placed in a most depress-
ing atmosphere: the startling treat-
ment of the guest from whose unwill-
ing hands cups of tea were wrested
while the woesof the house ‘of Shot-
over weré poured upon her head,
created a Russian atmosphere at
once. Nothing was sacred in fhe con-
versations between the characters:
their proclivities for lying and their
love lives were discussed with equal
zest and frankness. Everyone who
saw Heartbreak House was only too
willing to lament the interminable
monotony of the pseudo- Russian con-
versations.
Although the idea and some of the
lines of the play were memorably
funny, it was difficult to maintain in-
terest in it. In an interesting play,
some character is usually striving
against opposition to gain his desire.
The only character in , Heartbreak
House who was striving to gain any
end at all was the young girl, Ellie
Dunn; in the first act it was explain-
ed that she did not want to marry
her fiance, who was much older than
she, because she was in love with a
younger man whose name she did not
know; but also in the: first act she
discovered that the man she loved
was. Hector Hushabye, the husband
of her hostess. She was so heart-
broken over this discovery that she
ceased to care about anything and
decided to marry her § fiance, Boss
Mangan. He created a little opposi-
tion because Hesione Hushabye had
made him fall in love with her, in an
effort to keep Ellie from having to
marry him. At the end of the scene,
however, he consented to marry Ellie,
and with his consent died ‘all the ele-
ment of conflict in*the play,
The only remaining action was ad-
ventitiously supplied by a burglary
and an air raid. There was no more
action resulting from a conflict be-
tween the characters and force pre-
venting them from obtaining their
desires; for none of the characters
but Ellie ever had any desires and
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Dance
dergrad announces that there
“‘basis~ of the,
1932-3 agrarian crisis, and this year
the government receives only a limit-
ed amount of grain from each farm
as a percentage tax on the estimated
total production; the rest is sold in
the open market. After certain
funds have been laid aside for capi-
tal, the members of the farm are paid
according to days of labor. 3
In order to speed up production,
the Communists have utilized vari-
ous means of securing the co-opera-
(Continuea on Page Four)
°
will be a. dance held in conjunc-
tion with the Varsity Dramat-
ics presentation of The Knight
_of the Burning Pestle on Sat-
urday, December 9. The dance-
will be held in the gym and
the same orchestra that met
with such approval last fall will
again be - en d. Although
the closing hour of the dance
has not .as yet been definitely
established it is certain that it
will begin at 10.30 P. M,
Faculty Books
In connection with the arti-
cle in last week’s News on the
recent publications of the fac-
.ulty and the projects in which
they are now engaged, the edi-
tors wish to state that the basis
for the information was the
‘questionnaires. recently sent
out by the Publications Office.
Some of the faculty who have
done most distinguished work
in their departments have not
yet filled in and returned the -
questionnaires and therefore
no mention of their work: was -
made in the article. It is plan-
ned to. run a_ sipplementary
article as soon as all the forms
have been filed. Also the plan
was to deal only with the re-
cent work of the faculty, and
therefore no mention was made
of the books and publications
which have appeared prior to
the present year.
Little Women Provokes
Enthusiastic Response
Last Sunday’s preview of Little
Women, Katherine Hepburn’s latest
movie vehicle, at the Stanley Theatre
in. Philadelphia, gave proof positive
of its “box-office appeal.” The the-
atre was filled row onrow with rath-
er hard-faced men and their mates,
at first sight an unpromising audi-
ence for a Louisa May Alcott movie.
It scarcely seemed possible that they
had read Little Women in childhood
and were about to engage in tender
reminiscences of it. We anticpated
an uncomfortable two hours sur-
rounded by a sneering audience. But
uch was the potent charm of the
movie that in record time the theatre
was swept with enthusiasm. Noses
were blown at the appropriate mo-
ments; no one laughed at Beth’s in-
pired saccharinity; and all, ‘includ-
ing us, succumbed to the refreshing
influence of the March family for an
hour and a half,
Probably Katherine Hepburn will
never find a role more suited to her
peculiar combination of frolic and
exotic charm, nor Jo March, a more
inspired interpreter of her wayward
character. From the point at which
we. see her reading aloud to Aunt
March to the final fadeout with Pro-
fessor Bhaer, her acting has the per-
fection of art, premeditated yet
sound. One smal] scene in her first
-all at Larry’s house was memorable,
the presentation of Meg’s _ blanc-
mange and Beth’s basket of kittens.
She has done the same type of thing
before, as in the office scene in Morn-
ing Glory, but this surpassed all pre-
“vious” performances. Her acting of
the quick plunges, blurts, and false
starts in meeting and understanding
a new person came from the heart,
not from the diaphragm. The idiotic
hoot with which she finished her po-
lite self-introducticn was a master-
piece in itself.
Although Miss Hepburn 1s not only
announced as the star of Little
Women, but actually plays up to a
stellar pitch, a good supporting cast
was essential and was forthcoming.
The other. actors were very adequate
in spite of the fact that none of them
played well enough to dispute Miss
Hepburn’s dominance of the picture.
Joan Bennett, as Amy, was. good
enough to be called more than ade-
quate, but as her role is typed and
none too attractive, it did not offer
any wide opportunities for acting.
The hardest part; that of Beth, was
done by Jean Parker in a cloying man-
ner, yet that again is as Louisa May
Alcott ,would have wished it. The
only line we objected to was one
chirped by Miss Parker when Jo and
Amy were springing at each other’s
throat—“Birds in their little nests
agree.” That might conceivably have
been changed.
Mrs. March, Marmee, was_ the
least satisfactory person of the cast.
It seemed almost. impossible that she
could have produced’ the - four
personality made the role no more
«Continued on Page Two) «
| Government,
Marches, especially Amy and Jo, Her.
Mrs. Dean Gives -_
Interview on F, P. A.
Publications of Association Give
_ Non-Partisan Views on
Major Issues
BASIS OF FACT NEEDED
In an interview with the News last
Thursday, Mrs. Vera Micheles Dean
gave an illuminating. outline of requi-
sites for work in the Foreign Policy
| Association, with especial reference
to her own career. ,
“My” preparation for college was
most unorthodox,” said Mrs. Dean.
“A business course in Boston was the
only regular schooling I had had. You
will think me very ignorant not to
have gone to school; but I was taught
by tutors in Russia, acquiring a thor-
ough knowledge of the’ modern lan-
guages. My family left Russia for
Finland in ‘1917, before the Bolshevik
party. got_control...There_I- lived for
two years, when my father, who was
optimistic enough to look forward to
a restoration in Russia, sent me to
America to learn business fmethods
and equip myself to enter his firm.
“After taking the business course
in Boston ’and holding’ several secre-
tarial positions, I decided that I must
have a college education. I was ad-
mitted to Radcliffe as a ‘special case’
and majored in government and poli-
tics.” At the end of her four years
at Radcliffe, Mrs. Dean was award-
ed the Carnegie Endowment Fellow-
ship, which took her to Yale to study
International Relations for a year.
Radcliffe then invited her back to
take a Ph.D.; but her actual work
on the thesis, Governments de Facto,
with Special Reference to the Soviet
had to be done .devious-
ly. The material needed for the sub-
ject was in the Harvard Law _ Li-
brary, where women are not allowed
to study, however nicely they behave.
Mrs. Dean, after pulling a few
strings, got inside this male sanctu-
ary and found a quiet and presum-
ably safe place in the stacks.._There
she worked for a year until the mat-
ter was reported to Dean Pound. He
soon put a stop to this breach of. law
and order, and she was firmly eject-
ed, However; although Mrs. Dean
had worked only a year on her the-
sis, she had gathered:all-the mate-
rial she needed and could accept the
expulsion with reasonable equanim-
ity.
After getting a Ph.D. in 1928, Mrs.
Dean entered the Foreign Policy As
sociation, where a former professor
of hers, Dr. Buell, edited the publi-
cations and headed the research staff.
Her qualifications. for..the—position
were a knowledge of the social sci-
ences, facility in dealing with a vari-
ety of. literature developed while
working for a Ph.D., and familiarity
with four languages—French, Ger-
man, Russian, and Italian. When
asked if such an extensive equipment
were necessary for all applicants,
Mrs. Dean said that at least a year
(Continued on Page Three)
Cast of Varsity Play:
The Knight of the Burning
Pestle
By Beaumont and Fletcher
Prologue: Sara Tillinghast.
Citizen: Margaret Kidder.
His Wife: Anita Fouilhoux.
Ralph, his apprentice: Mar-
garet Righter. —
Boys: Agnes Halsey, Mar-
garet Halstead,
Venturewell: Doreen Cana-
day.
Humphrey: Helen Kellogg.
Jasper: ~Honora Bruere.
Merrythought: Anne Reese.
Michael: Margaret Veeder.
Tim: Elizabeth Meirs.
George: Nancy Stevenson.
Host: Katherine Gribbel.
Tapster: Elizabeth Hannan.
Barber: D. Haviland Nel-
son.
Luce: Joan Hopkinson.
Mistress Merrythought: Ger-
trude Franchot,
ie
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Catullus must have been a’ man
Who got around the town,
And Horace surely’ didn’t don
The earliest night gown;
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Themselves, they played the lyre,
Their love-knots weren’t tied for them
By some well-meaning sire.
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And doubtless great Asinius,
The famous napkin-thief,
| Had been a luring yes-man—
He’d doubtless just as lief—
Entered as second-class matter. at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office
But how could he arrange it,
And how could he confess?
No. wonder Latin’s dead long since—
Without a word for “Yes.”
. —Snoop-on-the-Loose.
Lions Nice to Mice
Although the faculty have always been extremely gracious in
their reception of the editorial moans and groans which ayise from
time to time, they have never. been so speedy to accept our supplica- |
tions as in the case of the pleas which were published last week. The
professors not only accepted our editorials in the spirit in which they
were written, but backed up their claim to a sense of humor by lending
more than an amused ear to it all.: As a consequence students report
a revision of the work assigned in several courses, and in one instance
a professor even went so far as to alter a quiz to be given in the near
future. Every member of the faculty has been more than willing to
ILLITERATE GOBBLE FROM
AFAR
(After James Whitcomb Riley, That
Great American Poet)
The quiz books are a-flyin’
An’ the brow is bein’ beat,
An’ the undergrads are dyin’
On their coldly clad. two feet,
more to increase admiration and respect for them than-their reaction | An’ their fingers are a-inkin’
to the recent editorials. . ei — fountain-pen, :
We wish to express the appreciation of the entire student body | ‘a ogy
to those members of the faculty who took the suggestions seriously O80 Aur thie- claadmnas docs in Taylor
issuing from the college as a whole. There are some who feel that we| Are shet long past the bell,
were merely giving vent to our own personal grievances which had|’Cause the prof has turned a jailer,
welled up-after a quiz which did not amuse us. We. hereby rise to An’ there is no further knell:
state that while there are many facts of life which have escaped us! Yes, the young uns all are busy
during our residence within the college, we have learned that the edi-| 4 there are no festive pranks;
a anette : ae ane a But they’ll soon stop bein’ dizzy,
torial column should be subject to public opinion and not utilized asa’ 4), jes’ say their hearty thanka!
place to air personal joys and sorrows. We have never ceased to; —Wicked Wit.
struggle to establish the editorial page as the “vox populi” of the |
college, and we hope that those professors who regarded our ‘last edi- | I think that I shail never
torial’ as blatant exhibitionism, will reconsider and accept our word;A cow as purple as a tree,
that they expressed the feeling of the majority of the students on OS ete ten ee
Meals are et by fools like me
But why does Applesauce have to
be? —Querylous.
see
subject.
It has always been our contention thatthe faeultyaeeept.theout-
: |
bursts of the column in the spirit in which they are offered, and never |
has that contention been more fully borne out than in the present case. |
We admit that at times our sense of humor goes a bit rampant, but we |
beg indulgence on the grounds that the mouse cannot leap at the lion, to be met by us rising youth. If
: ; ne i . . OIE Eas there i Ww itti
without a smile on his face. We leaped with a smile and a prayer and | the ee to warrant knitting,
s ae it t ie: adan Ho: aan j if there is no crisis-in-our-home-town
’O? peeelve ‘ . . ig 6 | bs swer O ‘aver. SAV :
we received a smile in return and the answel our pray ; ’Y' \to be -met, there\ are still problems
that we are grateful and that our respect for the minds which guide | toy the real scholar, puzzles for the
us has increased immeasurably would be an admirable é¢xample of! preat..and hitherto ungratified femi-
But in this case we must indulge in it for lack of|nine curiosity. And we are fortunate
‘to have that ever with us: else how
should he dare to broach the prob-
| lem—practically insoluble—which is
-performed on _ the hockey _ field. see ae ate wis ded Moai’
Lieutenant Luecke hada high estima- ; y y g :
Stated as simply as such a ponder-
ition of the value of the setting-up eat :
‘ exercises which formed. a chief part me testi tes pape bers
Byn Mawé celebrated the signing of these drills, and said that the girls | ver ons silly cantis teabble. wei
e . ° ° > > Y f . bs os ’ =
of the Armistice in 1918 in a man- performed them as well as many of | os ante Dabs ~
ner quite in keeping with the tra-|the soldiers in long-established mili- oni dune ae peters
ditions of the college,—in a manner natal — : idents, secretaries and. treasurers (not
reminiscent of such ceremonies as, While we are on, the subject 2 gl GV Oe
Parade Night and Little May Day. ercise, it might be amusing to men-| and Nizams of the Afghan Woolies).
The students were awakened between tion the fact that roller-skating was Now, of course, we know what the
four and four-thirty in the morning,| taken up with a Vengeance during | president does: he (or she) is wear-
and ran in excited groups through|the fall of 1918,.and the winter of ing a black tie or button earrings or
the corridors in various stages of 1919. It had apparently been drop- | a goldlaced cape. And we know that
deshabille.
There is always some new problem
understatement.
better powers of expression.
Fifteen Years Ago
Eventually some sort of | ped from the athletic program since the vice-president is never there. But
order was established, and they as-| 1913, that aly just before the War, ah! the poor-benighted sec’y-treas-
sembled on Taylor steps-te-hegin the and was revived as a popular form urer!
Peace Jubilee. With the clanging of exercise. In fact one hour of
of Taylor bell and the wailing of skating was accredited as one hour | opens. Sad sight! The poor soul,
the Power-house siren as a_ back- Of required exercise by the Gymnas-/ joor deluded soul, starts to flutter its.
ground, they sang patriotic songs as,;ium Department.
they marched in a body down to Low |
Buildings, where Mrs. Smith greet-!up to take the place of conscript-/ to rise.
He (..or she) sits on the side-'
|lines to rise hesitantly as the meeting | play was attributable to the play and
tile lives, unknown, unhonored for
their posthumous gifts to our civil-
ized state.
- . Cheero—
THE MAD HATTER.
IN PHILADELPHIA
Theatres
Garrick: Hall Johnson’s Negro
music-drama of two, lovers torn by
the religious controversies in a small
southern town. The,.famous choir
makes the musical sequences really
stirring.
Forest: Billie ‘Burke presents an-
other edition of the Ziegfeld Follies,
with Fannie Brice, Willie and Eu-
gene Howard, etc.
* Academy of Music
Philadelphia Orchestra. Fri. af-
ternoon, Nov. 24, at 2.30 we M. (Ra-
dio Concert), Saturday evening,
Nov. 25, and Monday evening, Nov.
27, at 8.30. Leopold Stokowski con-
ducting. The program: 4,
EAT Sh Ter ees Carnival
Franck...... Symphony in D Minor
Debussy ..L’Apres-midi d’un Faune
OOVEl :. . iecea es “Daphnis et Chloe”
Local Movies me
Ardmore: Wed., Wild Boys of the
Road, with Frankie Darro. Thurs.,
|Fri., and Sat., Ronald Coleman and
Elissa Landi in Masquerader. Mon.
| and Tues., Night Flight, with Clark
Gable, Helen Hayes, Robert Mont-
gomery, Lionel] and John Barrymore.
Seville: Wed. and Thurs., Walls
of Gold, with Sally Eilers, Ralph
Morgan, and Norman Foster. — Fri.
and Sat., Zasu Pitts and Slim Sum-
‘merville in Her First Mate. Mon.
and Tues., Worst Woman in Paris,
with Adolphe Menjou and Benita
Hume.
Wayne: Wed. and Thurs., Three
Corneréd Moon, with Claudette Col-
| bert, Mary Boland, and Richard Ar-
len. Fri. and Sat., Penthouse, with
Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Phillips
|Holmes. Mon. and Tues., Paul Robe-
‘son in Emperor Jones,
Paasctaad:
te
| (Continued from Page One) -
she had lost hers. They were mere-
_ly a group of people talking monot-
!onously about nothing, and even ob-
_jecting to what little adventitious ac-
; tion did oceur, on the ground that it
|disturbed the-even tenor of their
‘lives. Hesione Hushabye summed up
lthe verdict of the audience on the
characters when she asked her fath-
‘er to come help her entertain “all
_these impossible people.”
'. In between the small amount of ac-
_tion came numerous, incredibly long
and wordy scenes, played between
two or three characters sitting heavy-
‘ily on opposite sides of the room, and
not sufficiently interested in what they
were saying even to get up and ap-
proach each other to enforce their
points. Every sentence that was
‘spoken fell to the floor in a dead si-
‘lence, bounced several times while
‘the actors sought for inspiration, and
was finally picked up by anyone who
House Is
Staged in Goodhart
ntion Eparchs of the Red Tape dared to risk the disapproval of the
others by remembering what he had
to say next. As a result, the con-
!versational scenes dragged intermin-
ably, and. were rendered even more:
baffling to the audience by the in-
distinct pronunciation of what did
, happen to be said.
How much of the failure of the
‘how much to the acting is hard to
say. A play should not have to de-
ale paper and drop tea and chicken-sand- | pend on excellent acting to carry it,
The new activites which sprang’ wich crumbs in an embryonic attempt | but if the characters had been well
And then what happens? Is: portrayed and if their ‘parts had
ed them holding a flag. There Pres-| war-work were many and various.) the unfortunate ‘allowed to read the! meant something to the actors, the
ident Thomas and Dr. Fenwick gave; For example, a_ varsity orchestra | minutes of the
a mad rush to the Hockey field,| This orchestra was run on the same omitted. .
where there --was
around a bonfire until dawn.
With the end of the War, the col-
lege returned to its habits. Such
‘wartime measures as conscript-war-
work were abolished, and the normal
peace-time activities renewed. All
.the war activities were ‘not abandon-
ed at once, however, for there was
an item in a November issue of the
play at college events. Moreover, secret of the sec’y-treasurer.
there seems to have been something |
who had obtained a grade of 80-84! lions of minutes remains for us, Are
in Freshman English, or a lower! they cherished as monuments of lit-
rade which contained the figure “8”! erary expression. for the sec’y’s
in it somewhere. The candidates for | grandchildren? Do they repose, tied
admission to this club were required! in blue ribbon (faded) in the arch-
' ng; What more scholarly enterprise
called the “Hinglish Club.” Thé~only} could a curious feminist wish? The
girls eligible for this were seniors | mystery of the final disposal of mil- | conveyed the impression not that she
College News which mentioned the
praise given by Lieutenant Lucke, of
the U. S. Medical Corps, to the stu-
dents on physical development drills,
cs <
enter tryouts which were held on
‘the side-steps of Taylor, and con-
sisted in one-minute speeches on the
| ives of record offices? Or do ag-
“Pathos in Alice-in-Wonderland.””
. Wee tas i
gressors fuel their furnaces’ with
‘those invaluable remains? We shal!
‘have to start our work soon or not
: ' previous meeting? No.) play might have meant something to
addresses. Following this there was|of nineteen pieces was organized.| They are omitted. They are always! the ‘audience.
Miss Rieser, playing
And no-one ever does hear, Ellie Dunn, was supposed to be so
snake-dancing | lines-as the Glee Club, and was -to’ more of them. They become the soul: heartbroken
in her disillusionment
about love that she motivated the en-
tire play. Her acting was so un-
feeling, stiff, and immature that it
‘| was too heartbroken to care about
anything, but that she did not know
how to show that she cared. When-
ever she was most deeply stirred by
emotion, she carried a chair from one
side of the stage to the other; this
method of expression shows admir-
able. restraint but not. very great
range. Hesione Hushabye was by
no means so fascinating that the au-
dience could easily appreciate the
devastating effect she was supposed-
ly having upon ‘the men. Her fail-
ure to convey this fascination added’.
to the general ,mystery about the
meaning of and reasons for the ac-
tion of the play. Although Lady Ut-
terwood was obviously miscast, she
deserves great credit for her attempt
to point up the Bohemian atmosphere
of the house through showing her dis-
gust with it; the stage, however, was
so dead that her disgust seemed exag-
gerated.
Mr. Deeter’s portrayal of Captain
Shotover, Hesione’s father, was so
good that the other acting seemed by
comparison even poorer than it was.
Whenever he was on the stage, the
audience became interested in the
play and the tempo rose. His voice,
his walk, his makeup, and his every
gesture were in character, and, un-
like the others, he seemed to under-
stand his part and to have the abil-
ity to play it. The character of El-
lie’s father, although a rather minor
and ineffectual part, was fairly well
done; Mr. Walton, like Mr. Deeter,
remained in character, and was, fur-
thermore, the only member of the
cast to maintain consistently clear
diction. He was rewarded by the
gratitude of the entire audience. Mr.
Gatchell’s portrayal of Boss Mangan
was good in that he gave the neces-
sary impression of being essentially
unattractive; in the hypnotism scene.
of the second act, his acting was in-
telligent and expressive, but by the
third act, it had been so affected by
the unco-ordinated, disjunctive acting
of the others, that his departure for
the gravel pit, where he was blown
up, was almost unnoticed.
The play seemed to have had little
direction. In the last act, the char-
acters drew themselves up side by
side in a straight line across - the
stage, with their eyes and _ feet
straight ahead, and talked yet again.
They were obscured by an almost
‘total darkness, so that their voices
issued from the gloom not only un-
intelligibly but mysteriously. The au-
dience had no idea what the actors
were doing, and the actors did noth-
ing to enlighten them. Perhaps the
most pertinent criticism possible of
the third act, which might well be
applied to the play as a whole, was
uttered by an elderly lady as the cur-
tain rose on the dark stage: “Oh,
look, they seem to be in a fog!”
—D. T.S.
Little Women Provokes
Enthusiastic Response
—_+———
Continued from Page One
prominent than that of Hannah, the
housekeeper, who had only a few bits
to play.
The men of Little Women were, of
course, overShadowed by the female
interest, but all of them—Larry, his
grandfather, and Prufessor Bhaer —
were fond and attractive guardians
for the March women. Larry was _
acted nicely by Douglass. Montgomery
—not the usual “juvenile lead”—and
we liked him even after he had gone
to Italy, grown a moustache and tak-
en the irritating Amy to wife. Paul
Lukas, as Professor Bhaer, almost
reconciled us by his bluff and fasci-
nating manner to Jo’s marrying him
instead of Larry.
At this point, the obvious move
for the great men of Hollywood is to
oduce a whole cycle of Louisa May
Alcott-—Jo’s Boys, Little Men, Rose
in Bloom, ete., with perhaps a contin-
uation by imitators of her style. One
thing is certain, however, no one but
Katherine Hepburn will ever be able
to play Jo, and no one will want to
unless she craves sweet oblivion,
—J. E. H.
Musical Service
The evening service of Sunday, No-
vember 19, filled the Music Room to
capacity. It was a service of 16th
and 17th century music from begin-
ning to end, even the hymn tunes
having been written in that period.
It seemed a fitting occasion to insti-
tute the new hymnals, which have
been needed for such a long time. Af-
ter serious consideration Mr. Wil-
loughby chose the Oxford American
By mnal, which pleases everyone by
its beautiful blue binding as well as
by its contents. '
The choir sang both accompanied
and unaccompanied selections, which,
like the organ solos, were varied and
beautifully rendered.
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three
Varsity Wins Game
Bryn Mawr Keeps Opponents on
Defensive for Greater
Part of Play
SECOND
TEAM WINS
In a fast game played on Thursday
afternoon in below freezing weather,
Varsity defeated Rosemont, 7-0. With
only a few exceptions, play centered
in the Rosemont ‘half of the windy
field. y
Soon after the beginning of the
game, Kent started the afternoon’s
scoring with a well-placed shot to the
corner of the goal. Varsity contin-
ued to press the offense and the Rose-
mont goalie was kept busy stopping
. the vigorous, if not always effective,
rush of the Bryn Mawr forwards.
The backfield was seldom on the
defensive, its chief work being to
back up the attack,—a welcome re-
spite from its hard work in the previ-
ous games. A goal by Taggart and
one by Faeth were followed’ closely
by Larned’s score from scrimmage.
‘The Rosemont backs cleared the ball
to the wings, who carried it several)
‘times into Bryn Mawr territory, only
‘to find the attack -halted before the
Bryn Mawr goal-keeper was reached.
The second half found Varsity con-
tinuing the attack, but with less suc-
cess. The co-operation between the
forwards was not up to the excellent
performance of the first half. The
‘backfield was kept busy by deter-
mined ‘Rosemont drives, which nearly
resulted in scores. Despite the fine
defense work of Durning, the Rose-
mont goal, Varsity accounted for two
more goals before the whistle blew.
The line-up was as follows:
Rosemont Bryn Mawr
Fitzpatrick. ....r; w. ......Taggart
Bonniwell ..... {bee Larned
Ber hin is-eres 7 SHR. Sea PENT 9 Kent
Coe ig | aN rer Pgs Plage gs Gowers Faeth
MM 4 sn ve en ee ae ee Brown
TE 365. ow con ge | Pie Bridgman
Wenger = ov... Oo Sewers Bright
O'Donnell ..... ee ea Evans
Monagan ...... Bias Bishop |.
McDonald ..... a ere Jackson
Durning ....... eae Colbrun
Substitutions — Rosemont: Redin
for McDonald. Bryn Mawr: Bennett
for Taggart, Cary for Larned, Dan-
iels for Bridgman, Seltzer for Jack-
son.
Goals—Bryn Mawr: Taggart, 1;
Kent, 2; Larned, 2; Bright, 1; Faeth, |
* |
On Monday afternoon, the second
Varsity defeated the Philadelphia
Country Club. Second Team, 3-1.
In the first half, Varsity was suf-
ficiently enthusiastic to show a fairly
good brand of hockey. In the second
half, however, cold) and darkness
Mrs. Dean Gives News
Interview on F. P. A.
Continued from Page One,
of “graduate work ani thorough
knowledge of a second language are
essential. “Radcliffe is excellent for
‘}graduate work, but Yale is best for
International Law.”
The research- associates, eight in
all, not only do resarch, as the name
implies, but write articles for the
F. P. A.’s three publications and give
lectures. Mrs. Dean edits the publi-
cations for organization and _ style,
“not in a dictatorial manner.” The
weekly Foreign Policy Bulletin is_the
one for which articles. must be writ-
ten at top speed, often ‘with no more
than a few hours’ notice. The style
(of the Bulletin is suppo to be clear
and swift, but not c@loquial, the gist
of the article coming) vin the first sen-
tence, as in newspaper writing. Opin-
ions may be expressed in this publi-
cation,a deviation "from the otherwise
non-partisan rule of the F. P. A.
Leeway is allowed by a line on the
“successes -in-making. forecasts was &|
.tempt..to build up.a. background .o
the proportions ‘of a scholarly mono-| from Philadelphia, so it finally found
graph, is then submitted. to special-| its way to the head of the League
ists for criticism and. their sugges-| Opium Board — ultimate fate un-
tions incorporated. One of many | known.
In\answer,to a query on the extent
report on Cuba, which was published | of her lecturing, Mrs. Dean said that
just before Cuba began its non-stop} she spoke most frequently before un-
revolution. Saverednaiee and women’s clubs. “I
The World Affairs Pamphlet, a’! | prefer to talk to students because I
third publication, is a new _ series! | get an immediate and critical reac-
started two years ago, “which is de- | tion from them. The interest of a
voted to a popular interpretation of | women’s club is apt to be artificial,
major international issues.” These | supported by little background.”
three pamphlets are sent out to five} When asked if thé Bryn Mawr reac-
hundred newspaper editors in an at-'tion had been either immediate or
| critical, with: the implication that it
information on foreign affairs! had been neither, Mrs. Dean. defend-
throughout the country. There are'ed the conferees by explaining that
so many cross-currents in foreign re-| they had not studied International
lations that it is impossible for many| Relations, so not only was the mate-
editorial writers to gain a compre-| rial new and the terminology unfa-
hensive and non-partisan idea of | miliar, but there was little basis for
events. | Starting discussion. “It was much
An excellent since-the-war library' easier after the first week, because
owned by the F. P. A. is of.service|; then I saw that it was necessary to
in editing the material, for it con-
tains all the League of Nations’ doc-
uments and documents in the differ-}
give basic information first and then
discuss.”
As to the International Club that
dampened. its spirit somewhat and | masthead, describing the Bulletin as
the result was a muddle of sticks: and |
fresh balls with a few moments of.
| “An interpretation of current inter-
national events by the. members of
excitement. when the Country Club| the Research Staff.
team managed to come within strik-| A second publication, Foreign Pol-
ing distance of the Bryn Mawr goal.| icy Reports, published fortnightly, \is
The line-up was as fellows: conducted in a less hurried manner,
Phila, C. C. Bryn Mawr | for it is in a sense a prophecy. of
Slatheny «06s SM neck os Raynor | what ir going to “break” in interna-
Pe ee ne at Gimbel} tional affairs, in the near future.
gE ELETS i eee Bennett | “Each Report presents, with ade-
“Sires creer ee eee: 7 Cary quate documentation, the historical
ai aus wins i rn Carter| background, as well as the contem-
COTO ee T Te isa Gribbel| porary phases of some one interna-
, ee ORY wasted Daniels} tional problem.” Weekly. conferences
POYNATA: ccc iss baat Hemphill | are held by the research board to de-
PUAN 5 60s Yt the Jackson| cide which country or movement is
BON WARE oon og Le eG Seltzer | about to loom large in the news, and
BONWOTZ 2... iss a apr ereg ® Colbrun | then subjects are assigned to each
Goals—Phila.. C. C.: Brown, 1;] associate in his or her own field. The
Bryn Mawr: Cary, 3 ampleted article, which may assume
nen
a
the cigarette that's
long...and just knocked
?em cold.
“I smoke Chesterfields all
the time and I’ll tell the
world...they’re milder!”
MILDER the cigarette that TASTES BETTER
ent fields of research into which the
F, P. A. is divided. Mrs. Dean now
surveys Russia, Italy, and interna-
tional law; “I used to have China at
first. I was happy to be rid of it—
a very Kid field.”
The F. P. A, is only too willing to
act as a clearing-house of informa-
tion. oninternational affairs. With
the resources that it has, analyses of
current happenings and_ bibliogra-
phies for reading and reports can be
sent. on request. One of the most
difficult questions received to date
came“on a penny postcard from a
Philadelphia lady: “Dear Sirs — I
have just ‘started my daughter to
school in Philadelphia and _ should
like to have all available information
on the white slave traffic.” No one
could be found to father this cry
has been revived in our midst, Mrs.
Dean suggested that it might easily
form a nucleus for debates on foreign ».
or internal affairs, “Debates are val- ©
uable, however, only if the debaters
have a background of authentic in-
formation, Students should follow at
least one newspaper and the F. P. A.
publications, which are prepared with
a view to their needs. It should be
possible to pick up ideas for debates
at the Philadelphia F. P. A. luncheon
meetings—but again, a background
of fact is necessary. A course in In-
ternational Relations might fill the
need. At ‘any rate, just listening is
ngt enough. The only way to formu-
late opinion is to discuss.”
A question on the value of the
Peace Caravans and crusades to get
(Continued on Page Four)
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,© 1933, Licextr & Myans Tosacco Co.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
x
Russia is Governed =
by Communist Party
Sissies Lead Dieesision 1a
Russian Diplomacy and
Political Set-Up
7 REPUBLICS IN UNION
Speaking in the Deanery last
Thursday, Mrs.. Dean gave a resume
of the political set-up in the Soviet
Union and discussed Soviet foreign
policy.
The real power in Soviet Russia
is held by a party not mentioned in
- the Gonstitution:—that of the Com-
munists.-. As in- the case of the Fas-
cist party, the Communist party is
the only political group legally func-
tioning in the government.
The party now has a membership
ef about one million and a_ half
adults. There are nevertheless about
10 million Communists among the 160
million Russians, if the -Konsumal,
18-21 years old, the young Pioneers,
14-18 years old, and the Octoberists,
up to 14 years of age, are counted.
An examination on the aims and
achievements of the government must.
be passed by everyone who wishes
tv enter the party. The candidate |
studies a sort -of “political gram-;
mar.” His character and career are
above all taken into account. Many;
people who would have been admit-
ted to the party for unimpeachable
political conduct hesitate to under-
take to live up to the personal and
civic standards of .life required by!
the Communists. “Communists are
supposed to set an example to the
population both as. citizens and as
human beings.” They are the “shock
troops” to be counted on by the
government in all emergencies. The...
coma
whole party is subjected to periodic
“purges” from within, in the course;
of which the personal and political |
record of each member is scrutinized. |
|
About 50 per cent. of the party
consists of workers, 10 per cent.|
of peasants, and the rest of intel-|
lectuals. This is a reasonable pez-
centage, for the Bolshevist group!
made its start in the factories. Sta-|
lin himself was a worker. Since Len- |
in’s death and Trotsky’s exile, most |
of the leaders of Russia have been |
workers.
The government feels that indus-|
trial workers are the most natural |
leaders and therefore usually selects |
them for office. © Consequently. the |
Soviet state can be criticized in that!
it is distinctly a class ‘state. poids:
trial workers still form a minority in)
comparison to the agricultural pop-|
ulation. Stalin, however, has made}
the point that a strong government
is needed to make the step between |
Capitalism and Communism. There |
is no hypocrisy about it.
There is one representative for |
25,000 workers, although the peas-|
ants have but one for each 125,000.
The workers vote directly, the peas-|
ants indirectly, through some inter-|
mediary body. About 54 per cent.|
of the Union Congress is made up of,
workers, 26 per cent. of peasants, |
and the rest of intellectuals. .Seven-
ty-five per cent. of the members of |
the Congress are Communists.
Party cells, consisting of three or!
more members, in factories, villages,
or wherever there is an organized
-government, are the Official mouth-
pieces of the party. Before the show
of hands, which opens the elections,
these cells explain the issues. A slate
is then put up of candidates for elec-
tion, predominately Communists.
Other nominees can be suggested, but
the slate is usually elected. The
whole tendency in Russia teday is to
place the country on a functional
rather than a geographical basis of
election. Consequently, if organized
workers vote in their institutions,
such as factory workers in their fac-
tory, they can better control the ac-
tions of their delegate when he re-
‘turns from the Union Congress.
_Elections—start-at-the— bottom _of
the system in the U. S. S. R. and}.
pyramid up to a centralized power.
Franchise is given only to the “toil-
ing masses.” The .disfranchised,—
about 8 million strong,—include those
who hire laborers for profit and those
who produce nothing either intellect-
ually or by physical work. Discrimi-
nation against the ¢ of the
were
admitted in schools. There were sad|
cases even two or three years ago
of children’s repudiating their par-
ents because of their beliefs.
The administrative machinery , of
Soviet.-Russia—is-frictionless...The
party prides itself on maintaining
one distinct line of policy at one
time:—the “Party Line.” Discussion
is allowed until a policy is adopted.
After that, it is strictly discouraged
as has been shown by Tretsky’s ex-
pulsion. in 1927. The small body of
officials at the top of the governmen-
tal .system which. replaces Congress
when Congress itself is not‘ in session
is known as the Central Committee.
It is divided into three bureaus :—the
bureau of organization, the political
bureau which formulates the party
policy to be carried out by the whole
government, and ‘the _ secretarial
bureau.
Stalin, the ruling spirit, almost the
dictator of the Communist party (al-
though scarcely any Soviet: will ad-
mit that he does moré than make dec-
larations of important policies) holds
but one position in the government:
in the Council of Labor and Defense.
The closest to, him in power is not
the present Premier, but the secre-
tary of the Ukranian Communist
Party. The U. S. S. R. has control
of everything but health, justice, and
culture. These come under the R. S.
S. F. R. and are in great part man-
| aged locally by the different repub-
lics.
The Soviet government has been
since 1923 (officially) a federation.
There are seven republics, each made
jup of a different race or nationality.
Each republic is allowed wide free-
dom of cultural autonomy. There. is,
however, political centralization all
over the country. The government of
each republic is modeled on that of
the Union.
Although all seminaries and schools
of theology have been closed so that
no more Orthodox. Greek - Catholic
priests can be ‘trained in Russia,
there is general religious toleration.
It is indicative of. the loss of religious
interest on the part of the Russian
people that they. have raised "no pro-
test at this elimination of formal re-
ligious education. Foreign churches
of all sorts are allowed. The group
in the United States which objects to
recognition of Russia on the grounds|
that the Russians are atheists
consequently, in error.
Our policy has. always been to
recognize foreign powers first and: ne-
gotiate afterward. President Roose-
velt has reversed this procedure. The
question of debts is a difficult one.
If the Soviet government promises us
payment, it is under treaty to pay
other states also, notably Germany.
ff, on the other hand, we cancel the
debt, in hope of trade, there will be
protests from ofher countries. We
have not acceptéd Russia’s assertion
that ‘the Communist government’ is
not responsible for the Kerensky debt
made under a previous government,
or for private debts. Litvinoff is at-
tempting to adjust private claims by
the General Electric system of ‘exaet-
ing a higher interest on new trade
and using that towards. debt pay-
ment.
Although Russia prefers our mod-
ern machinery to that of Germany
and Great Britain, with whom she
has been trading, she is unable to pay
us in goods, unless we open our mar-
ket to her. She has been employing
the pound sterling from her very fav-
orable balance of trade in Great
Britain to pay off an unfavorable bal-
ance in Germany. But now, because
of Canada’s complaints that Russian
lumber rather than Canadian is being
imported into England, Great Brit-
is,
THERE’S ONE BEST TIME
To Telephone Home?!
You’ t agree, once you’ve tried it, that half
past eight is the time to telephone home.
At half past eight the day’s rush is over.
Your time is free for a leisurely telephone
chat.
At half past eight the same is true at home.
It’s the best time to catch the family all to-
gether.
person.
* At half past eight (and this is most im-
portant) low Night Rates go into effect on
Station to Station calls. You can then save
as much as 40% on your call. For example:
If your home is 100 miles away, a three-min-
\
ufe connection will cost only 35 cents!
eRe...
TO TAKE ADVANTAGE
st LOW NIGHT RATES...
Call after 8:30 P.M., and be sure to mak
a Station to. Station. call, ‘
That means, ask the Operator for your
home telephone, but not for any specific
If you’ve fixed a date in advance, the family
will be sure to be there.
Charges may be reveraed.
THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA
tion. of the workers.
ain has begun to demand trade equal-
Although we, for our part,
fiid Russian lumber, and manganese
ization.
cheaper and better than American,
we are obscuring the issue :—whether
we do or do not want to trade—by
claiming that the Russians lower the
price of their products by employing
forced or convict labor. -Neverthe-
less, importation of Soviet lumber
would help with our deforestation
difficulties. ww
In the Far East, the fact that rec-
ognition is in the air has somewhat
moderated Japan’s aggressiveness.
The new: Japanese Ambassador to
Russia is a friend of the Soviets. The
only danger is that the Manchurian
elements may again explode while
military forces are still in power in
Japan.
Russia Raises Group
Standards of Living
Continued from Page One
Educational
propaganda, now more subtle than
hitherto, is employed on a lawge scale.
Nearly 65 per cent. of the factory
workers are. organized in voluntary
shock brigades for social competition.
Fear of foreign invasion, the desire
of. promoting the cause of Commun-
ism and adding to the glory of Rus-
sia, the pressure of the party cell
and the force of public. opinion are
also motivating factors, which oper-
ate with varying strength on differ-
ent individuals.:
On the whole, the Soviet empha-
sizes sucial materialism; -a higher
group standard of living is repre-
sented as the only way by which an
individual can better his own condi-
tion. As a result, every phase of life
is tied up with the state, and as eco-
nomic and administrative machinery
is developed, the liberty of the indi-
vidual is correspondingly dimin-
ished.
2
Mrs. Dean Gives News
Interview on F. P.A;
(Continued from Page Three)
pledges of passive resistance from un-
+-dergraduates brought a decided an-
swer from Mrs. Dean: “The culti-
vation of an anti-war attitude is val-
uable, but it is of use only in a cri-
sis. The F, P. A. is trying to allevi-
ate the danger before it: reaches the
crisis. It: analyzes the different is-
sues at stake and takes, not the sen-
timental, but the practical, point of
view. The most important. way to
get peace is through education in the
facts of international relations. :. For
example, it is idle merely to say that
we should have peace in the Polish
Corridor; or to call loudly for dis-
armament, but overlook .. conflicting
political issues, as the United States
has a marked tendency to do. One
cannot preserve peace without a
sound knowledge of the facts of- each
case.”
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Md ‘inereases their distaste for it. The| This arrangement was the idea of| easy and. fluent, and every word was| “A live. bacterium reported found
One Act Play Given sole’ solution ‘is to draw lots, and} Olivia Jarrett; who was the efficient | understood,—by those who could un-|in a meteorite by Professor Lipman,
By German Students. to his despair, the older, Jakob, is
_—_—
Heiraten Delights Audience
by Informality
ENUNCIATION IS FEUENT
(Especially Contributed by Catherine
. Bill,. ’35)
There are two things close to the
minds and hearts of nearly every stu-
One of these is our
professors, who are always ‘omnipres-
Accord-
could have
dent in. college.
ent; the other is marriage.
ingly, hardly anything
been better calculated to please than} and Louisa, live happily forever} The German was all amazingly PHILIP HARRISON STORE ne Poy Bs gall oman and
the delightful one-act play, Hiner | after. Z os BRYN MAWR, PA. wey li enever they come to
Muss Heiraten, which four students| The play’was given in one end of Phone 570 Se aoe orire
j ® ery, ‘
gave last Wednesday evening in the| the Common Room, which made a per- JEANNETT’S : Best_Ou ality Shoes L._E. METCALF,
Common Room.. This is the story of feet informal Little Theatre; and, in- BRYN MAWR FLOWER in Bryn Mawr Manager.
cidentally, we might suggest. that SHOP, Inc. NEXT DOOR TO THE MOVIES
two dignified and scholarly profes-
sors, played by Kay Boyd and Diana
Morgan, whose erudite life is spoiled
by the order of their worldly aunt,
_ Joan Hopkinson, that, one of them
must marry her niece, Louise, Paul-
ine Reed.
\the fated, one. He is. faced with the
| problem .: of mentioning his plans to
Performance of——Einer—--Muss+bouisa;-to-whom~ he has never spok-
en.
beyond him, Wilhelm, ‘the younger,
agrees to break the ice.
So, while Jakob listens from his
corner in order to learn the tech-
nique required, Wilhelm proceeds to
make .love to Louisa. He works up
his part a bit too well to suit Jakob
who tries to interrupt,.but his in-
terference is not wanted and the aunt
comes in to find Louisa in Wilhelm’s
arms. She is slightly-astonished, as
she had understood that Jakob was
to. be the lucky man; but he in great
relief resigns his claim, and Wilhelm
more of the one-act plays be given
there, since this experiment proved
so very successful. The red curtains
of the windows and the familiar
screens, chairs and table, with the
addition of a desk, made a beautiful
natural library for the two-scholars.
As the situation is completely
instigator of the play, as well as a
most successful director.
Kay Boyd and Diana Morgan play- |
ed the parts of Jakob and Wilhelm
most amusingly. Miss Boyd’s act-
ing matched her beard and old frock-
coat. perfectly, amd Miss Morgan’s
awkwatd love-making was quite schol-
arly.. Joan Hopkinson was the old
aunt, and her inimitable, common-
sense abruptness, set off perfectly
the abstractness of the gentlemen.
The sweet and girlish Louisa was
played with quite the right conscious
coyness and airy frills by Pauline
Reed. We must remember, ‘also, to
mention ‘the back-stage workers,
Louise Meneely and Laura Hurd, for
their indispensable help.
Mrs. .N. S. _T. Grammer
823 Lancaster Avenue
BRYN MAWR, PA.
derstand. But a knowledge of Ger-
man was not at all necessary to the
enjoyment of. the play; for more than
half the fun was in the really excel-
lent pantomime and intonation. Of
course, it was not at all a highly-pol-
ished, professional performance. Nor
was it supposed to be, but the actors
caught the spirit of the play and
interpreted it most satisfactorily.
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FLYING EIGHT DAYS AND NIGHTS without.a stop, Frances
TO BREAK RECORDS
IN THE AIR!
RACING ACROSS AMERICA in 10 hours and
51 minutés, Col. Roscoe Turner recently
added a new West-East transcontinental’
speed record to the East-West record he
won earlier this year. ‘‘ Like most pilots
I smoke a lot,” says Col. Turner. “I
smoke Camels for the sake of healthy
nerves, and I enjoy them more.”
HE FLEW AROUND THE WORLD ALONE! Wiley
Post climbs out of the Winnie Mae at
Floyd Bennett Field as the whole world
applauds his skill and marvelous physi-
cal endurance. ‘‘Smoking Camels as I
have for so long,’’ says Post, ‘‘I never
worry about healthy nerves.”
Marsalis and Louise Thaden set the world’s endurance
flight record for women. Miss Thaden says, ‘For some
years I’ve smoked Camels. They taste better.”” Also a
Camel fan, Miss Marsalis says, ‘‘I’ve never changed be-
cause I can’t afford to take chances with my nerves.’
MATCHLESS
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Steady Smokers lan to Conmels
it i-more fun.to know, because
of the greater smoking pleasure
they find in Camels. Camels are
milder... better in taste. They
leave no ‘‘cigaretty” aftertaste.
Men and women who are famous
for their brilliant flying agree
about smoking and healthy
nerves. ‘‘I never worry about
healthy nerves,” they say, ‘‘be-
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They. cannot afford to make a
mistake in choosifig their ciga-
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~
ut at it
Change to Camels...and see for
yourself that they do not get on
your nerves or tire your taste!
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Copyright, 1933,
B. J. Reynolds Tobaceo Company
Page Six
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Mrs. Louis Slade Gives
Lecture on Far East
Continued.from Page One
tion, whose old dowager Empress had
“taken the money from the gunpowder
levies to build her summer palace.
Japan took over Korea, saying that
all she desired was to secure there
for herself an Open Door in trade.
When she had obtained. her Open
Door in Korea, Japan proceeded to
take over, under similar pretenses, a
strip of Manchurian coast, known as
the Liao-tung Peninsula. Hereupon,
Russia, who had been thwarted in
Europe and was still looking for an
ice-free port, stepped in, and, backed
by France and Germany appealed to
Japan to move out. Japan could do
nothing else but consent; immediately
Russia herself moved in, with China
agreeing, for the Chinese have never
feared the Russians as they do the
Japanese. oh
In 1900 came the Boxer Rebellion,
to rid China for ever of the “foreign
devils.” Japan for the first time
was asked by the Western powers to
help them do a job, in assisting for-
eigners in China, and she did it well.
In 1904, the Russo-Japanese War
arose over the immediate difficulty of
Korea. Russia entered the war, hav-
ing no idea of her foe’s strength. The
hireling’ armies of the Tsar were
routed, and the Japanese were given
back the Liao-tung Peninsula.
The Great War marked a milestone
in the history of Japan, because then
for the first time an Asiatic power
was asked to come in and help the
white race settle its troubles. In the
aftermath of the war, Japan suf-
fered as did all modern Western eco-
nomic states. With growing indus-
try; her. ever-increasing population
needed outlets. Natural outlets .in
America and Australia- were closed
to her, and closed insultingly. Amer-
ica’s Exclusion Bill was a direct slap
in the face to Japan.
After the war, Japan saw in China
and in Manchu¥ia a great potential
market; ‘in Manchuria, too, a great
potential source of supply, She decid-
ed to step into Manchuria, in the
manner of freebooters in: that coun-
try. from.time immemorial, and_se-
cure for herself its markets and re-
sources.
Although the League of Nations
propounded a theory, which was new
and entirely unexpected to Japan,
she went in. She agreed with, the
rest of the world powers, too, at the
Washington Conference of 1922 in
promising to join them for protecting
and ensuring the integrity of China.
She signed, but not wholeheartedly,
the Kellogg-Briand. Pact.
Meanwhile, China had overthrown
the Empire and created a Republic.
Foreign powers were pushing her
desperately hard, seizing her land, im-
posing on her unfavorable treaties;
she thought that perhaps a Republic
might straighten ‘matters out. “Dr.
Sun Yat Sen; in his lifetime not much
understood in China, had neverthe-
less a great Chinese following; he
looked toward some developments in
the Russian manner, some’ possibil-
ity of the: Chinese people creating
their own China.
Sun Yat Sen was much in sympathy
‘all over China.
with Soviet doctrines and methods,
and had Russians put in authority
He left three prin-
ciples: nationality, socialism,
democracy, and a name sacred in
China today. After his death, how-
andj
1931, the Japanese seized Mukden. At
that time, there was great talk of . dis-
armament in the world; the Japan-
ese representatives to the World Dis-
armament Conference had. been ap-
pointed,°and the Japanese’ Secretary
ever, China went completely in the|of State was sincerely hoping that
other direction, and drove out all!
Russians.
China had never tried expanding |
the conference would - succeed.
A clause in the Japanese con-
stitution provides that, at any time,
to the north; her push had always|for the safety of the country, the
been ini:a southern direction. In the| military may act with the consent of
last years of the Republic, she tried
desperately to unify herself.
The; edge of the civil government.
the Emperor, but without the know]l-
This
War Lords, of course, continued to!is what happened when the Japanese
play their own games, and in North-!
ern China, there remained the diffi- |
cult’Manchurian situation.
troops took Mukden, while the Jap-
anese civil authorities in the city
| were in ignorance of what was go-
Ten years: ago, Japan seemed to| ing on. P
have its Manchurian relations well,
worked out, since the War Lord of|
Manchuria, Chang Tso Ling, was a|
When, |
Japanese friend and vassal.
The capture of Mukden caused tre-
mendous distress in China. She im-
mediately appealed to the League,
but as the League and the United
however, this lord grew rich and prom-| States would not stand together,
inent, he inclined away from Japan
and toward Northern China. Chinese
were encouraged to drift up
Manchuria in large numbers, because
of hard times in their own country.
Chang Tso Ling made friends with
the Nanking government, only to be
very promptly blown “up — it is
thought, by the Japanese.
The son of the dead War Lord,
Hsueh Liang, though brought up by
the Japanese, also became friendly
with the Nanking government, and
drew away from Japan. The Man-
churian population grew more and
more Chinese; China accepted Man-
churian allegiance. Then, while the
world waited anxiougly to see what
would happen, on September 18,
. i}
Into |
nothing came of the appeal. Japan
was asked to retire from Manchuria
and she refused. A commission, ap-
pointed to. ‘consider the _ situation,
drew up a report which contained a
terrific arraignment of Japan, who
was, after all, only taking a page
out of our own history.
The Japanese seizure of Rukden
dealt a blow to us both from the
standpoint of China, and of the moral
advance of the world. China -retali-.
ated with a boycott against the Brit-
ish at Hongkong,
Japanese so seriously that Japan had
to send a fleet down to Shanghai in
an attempt to stop it.
The Japanese fleet made a serious
and against the
blunder at Shanghai. On. the “excuse
of a Japanese monk having been kill-
ed in the streets, they opened fire
on the city: from the harbor, with-
.out..havinggiven-the—Nanking-—-gev--~
ernment time to consider its answer
to the boycott question.
At the. present day, Japan is, eco-
nomically, in a terrible plight. Her
industries are crippled; her markets
in China, and in India, too, are gone.
She is trying to recover by deter-
minedly pushing into Mongolia, and
is at present bargaining with Russia
for the Chinese-Eastern Railway.
Her home finances are in a muddle.
At the same time, the Chinese -are
pulling together :as never. before, in
a way that bodes ill for future
friendliness with Japan.
Japan fears the naval development
of the United States as a_ direct
threat to herself. She is afraid, too,
of the significance of American rec-
ognition of Russia... China, with
Chiang Kai-Shek still in the saddle,
is against yielding anything to Ja-
pan. What the secession of the south-
ern province from China. may por-
tend, one cannot foretell.
America, meanwhile, is caught in
a great crisis between national de-
sires and international aspirations.
She cannot go on building a _ tariff
wall, shutting off the Orient from
herself... Until she is willing to take
a definite step of goodwill by find-
ing, for instance, a better way of
giving back the Philippines, which
would speak louder to Japan than
adherence to any pact, peace with the
Orient will never come. :
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