3

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three





DIRECTOR’S PAGE

. MAY DAY ANNO UNCEMEN TS



Director’s Committees |
of Students Announced

Mrs. Chadwick-Collins is glad to
announce that the central undergrad-
uate May Day committees have been
appointed.’ The Director’s Advisory
Committee, which includes representa-
tives from each hall, is as follows:

Merion

Alice Raynor, 36

Edith Rose, ’37
Denbigh

Barbara Cary, ’36

Sylvia Evans, ’37
Pembroke East

Gertrude Leighton, ’38

Doreen Canaday, ’36
Pembroke West

Julia Grant, ’38

Eleanor Fabyan, ’36
Rockefeller

Esther Hardenbergh, ’37

Huldah Cheek, ’38
Wyndham

Margaret Otis, ’39
Non-Resident :

Evelyn Hansell, ’36

Sara Bevan Park, ’36

~ Radnor

Frances Follin Jones, A. B.

The Director’s undergraduate com-
mittee on Management is:

Merion

Helen Ott, ’36

Elizabeth Washburn, 37
Denbigh

Pauline Schwable, ’36

Grace Fales, ’36
Pembroke East

Eleanore Tobin, ’37

Eleanor Shaw, ’38
Pembroke West

-Marion Bridgman, ’36

Eleanor Smith, ’37
Rockefeller

Lucy Kimberley, ’37

Barbara Longcope, ’38
Wyndham

Lydia Lyman, ’39
Non-Resident

Ellen Seattergood, ’36
Radnor

Jeannette Elizabeth Le Saulnier,

M.A.

In addition to the Flower Commit-
tee, which was ‘announced last week,
other special May Day Committees
have been appointed. -The-students
who will work with Miss Brady on the
Tumblers’ Committee are Esther Mor-
ley, ’36, and Elizabeth Webster, ’38.

The committee working with Miss
Petts on the Masque in the Cloisters
is composed of Bonnie Allen, ’38, Alex-
andra Grange, ’38, Alice John, ’39,
Eleanor Mackenzie, ’88, Ethel Mann,
88, Dewilda Naramore, ’38, Eleanore
Tobin, ’37, and Mary Whalen, ’88.

The May Day Director is grateful
for the interest students are showing
in signing up for the technical student
committees, and she hopes to announce
these committees as soon as she can
consult the people who will be in
charge of the animals, properties, cos-
tumes and music.



Cards for Friends Names, Addresses

Cards are being sent to the mem-
bers of the undergraduate Manage-
ment Committee of the May Day Di-
rector in all the halls. Will you please
fill them out immediately with the
names and addresses of your friends
who would be interested in coming to
May Day, omitting the names of your
parents and of alumnae of the college.
It is hoped that you will fill out ten
to twenty of the cards arid have them
ready for collection on March 1, so
that the May Day folders may be sent
out in plenty of time.



Tickets on Sale March 22

Tickets for May Day will be on sale
the week of March 22, preceding the
Spring Vacation. The prices for May
Day tickets are as follows:

Adults (one-day tickets; admitting
either Friday or Saturday), $3.00.

Students, Teachers and Children
(one-day tickets; admitting either Fri-
day or Saturday), $2.00.

(Special rate titkets must be pur-
chased in advance through Alumnae
Committees.)

Tickets for reserved seats on the
Grandstand will be: seventy-five cents
each; every reserved seat ticket en-
titles the bearer to a seat in Good-
hart Hall or in the Gfmnasium in
case of rain. The prices of the special
two-day tickets, admitting -both Fri-
_ day and Saturday, and the special

-







Robin Hood

Sara Bevan Park, ’36, has
been chosen for the role of
Robin Hood... —





train rates and schedules for May
Day visitors will be announced later.
No May Day tickets are returnable. |



Tentative Casting of

+



The casting of the eight May Day ;
plays has progressed, and the greater
part of the work is done.
ylek-cn work was done by Mrs. Chad-

ck-Collins, the May Day_ Director, |

leanor Fabyan, President of the
Undergraduate Association, and Edith |
Rose, President of Players’
They estimate that about two hun- |
dred students have tried out for parts |
since the elimination tryouts started |
on Monday, February 10.

This new method of casting for May
Day was adopted because it was felt
from the start that a perfectly impar-
tial method of casting must be used,
and because it was necessary to save
as much time as possible. The stu-
dents have had the double advantage
of having a preliminary casting com-
mittee made up of three people who
know the students and who know
something of the dramatic talent in
the college, and a find casting com-
mittee with Mr. Wyckoff and Miss
Dyer, who do not know the students
and who cannot have any preconceived
ideas of the dramatic talent here.

The method has proved impartial |

and effective. Comparison of separate
decisions reached by the three mem-
bers of the preliminary casting com-
mittee showed their choice to be
unanimous, except in one case where
the committee soon reached an agree-|
ment. At the final tryouts on Satur-
day and Sunday, before the final cast-
ing committee, the judgments of the
preliminary casting committee were)
found to coincide in every case but
one with that of the two professional
coaches.

Tentative casts have been made up
for the plays, and Sally Park, ’36, is
definitely cast for Robin Hood and
Jane Lewis, ’38, the May Queen, for,
Maid¢ Marian in Robin Hood. Ger-|
trude Leighton, ’38, has been definitely
cast as Sacrapant and Huldah Cheek,
88, as Erestus in The Old Wives’
Tale.

The tentative casts for the plays
follow: g

Robin Hood

Little John, Frances Porcher, ’36;
Robin Hood, Sally Park, ’36; Will
Scarlet, Doreen Canaday, 36; Friar)
Tuck, Anne Reese, ’36 (understudy, |
Fanny Hoxton, ’38); Maid Marian,|
Jane Lewis, ’38; Alan-a-Dale, Dor-
othea Wilder, ’37; Sir Stephen of
Trent, Edith Anderson, ’36; Bishop of |
Hereford, Mary Hinckley ‘Hutchings,
87; Fair Ellen, not yet cast; Fair
Ellen’s Father, Anne Toll, ’39; Prince!
John, Sylvia Wright, 38; Fitzwater,'
Lucy Kimberley, ’37~ King Richard, |
Frederica Bellamy, ’36; Sheriff of
Nottingham, Fanny Hoxton, ’38; Sir
Richard of the Lea, Jean Cluett, ’37;
Sir. Henry. of the Lea, Madge
Haas, ’37.

Robin Hood’s Merry Men will in-
clude: R. Bennett, ’36; H. Bridgman,
89; A. Brown, ’86; A. Chase, ’38; J.
Grant, ’38; M. Harvey, ’39; E. Hard-
enbergh, ’37; J. Horsburgh, ’36; E.
Smith, ’°37; M. Swift, ’36; D. Peck,
89; E. Shaw, ’38; A. Roberts, ’387; A:
Raymond, ’88; M. Van Hoesen, ’39;
J: Matteson, ’36, R.‘ Stoddard, ’39;
B. Merchant, ’36; C. Peirce, ’37; M.
Bakewell, ’38, and S. Evans, ’37.

Midsummer Night’s Dream _

Quince, Winifred Safford, ’37;
Flute, Margaret Veeder, ’36; Starve-
ling, Virginia Jussen, ’37;° Svug,
Doris Turner, ’36; Snout, not yet cast;
Bottom, Elizabeth Washburn, "37;
Titania, Isabelle Seltzer, 37; Oberon,
Susanna Winslow Perkins Wilson,
’88; Puck, Madelyn Brown, ’36; Greek
Guards, not yet cast; Theseus, Nancy
Angell, °’38; Hippolyta, Elizabeth
Lyle, 37; Lysander, Rose G. Bald-
win, ’37; Hermia, Gordon Grosvenor,
39; Demetrius, Elizabeth Terry, 36;
Helena, Caroline de Lancey Cowl, "39;
Philostrate, Dorothea Seelye, ’38.

Saint George and the Dragon

Captain Slasher, Doris Hastings,
°39; King Alfred, Alicia Stewart, ’36

Plays is Announced.

The pre-|

Club.

(if not in The Creation) ; His Queen, '
not yet cast; King Cole, Margaret
McEwan, ’39; King William; Edith:
Fairchild, ’86; Saint George, not yet
cast; Giant Blunderbore, Laura Mus-
ser, 37; Little Jack, Louisa Bright, '
37, or Laura Jennings, ’39; Turkish |
| Champion, Mary Riesman, ’39; Dra-
'gon, Louise’ Dickey, ’37; Doctor,
| Esther Abbie Ingalls, ’38; Guards,
|not. yet cast.
Masque of Flowers

Speaking parts:

Invierno? Eleanor Sayre, 38; Sile-
inus, Helen Fisher, °387; Kawasha,
| Lydia Lyman, ’39.

The Old Wives’ Tale
Antie, Frolic and Fantastic, Vir-
ginia Lautz, ’87; Margaret Halstead,
|’36, and Delia Marshall, 39; Clunch,
‘Anne Erwin Ferguson, ’39; Madge,

Esther Basse, 386; First Brother and
Continvied on Page Hight

May Day Committees
Discussed at Council





Students Without Merits May
Have Minor Parts. Needing
Little Preparation



President’s House, February 12.—
At the first meeting of the College
Council since early in December, the
plans for May Day were discussed
at length. There was also quite a
detailed review of the whole question |.
lof undergraduate’ reports and papers.
Plans for entertainments in the. fu-
ture and the matter of signing in
at first and last classes before and
lafter vacations were also mentioned.
| The progress made in the plans for
|Big May Day was reported by, Mrs.
Chadwick-Collins. The tryouts for
the plays have been remarkably well-
jattended and over 250 have been
|heard. There has been great enthu-
siasm evident and the amount of act-
ing ability which has been demon-
jstrated has been quite remarkable.
| The enunciation, however, has been
disappointing except in the case of|
the seniors. For outdoor speaking
the importance of clear enunciation



to the

-in the vicinity.



‘cannot be too strongly emphasized.

The Director of May Day plans to|
have two special undergraduate com-|
'mittees to assist her, each of which |
| will have two representatives from
| each hall, as well as a non-resident
‘member. There will be an executive,
committee whose function will. be to
report any specific difficulties in any
part of work for May Day, as well
as to discuss more general problems
as they arise. The second commit-
| tee will be concerned with the man-
jagement of the drive to secure the

names of people to whom May Day}
| bublicity ‘should be sent. This com-
; mittee will also secure people to help
| with the addressing and stamping of
| these circulars, and to assist in other
| special tasks in preparation for May
|Day. In addition to:the two com |
| mittees mentioned, there are volun-|
teer committees for Properties, Cos-!
itumes, Music and Animals. They |
| will be chosen from the lists of those!
| who have signed up. There will be
ja representative from the Property
and Costume Committees attached to
each play. The Animal Committee
will search the countryside to secure
the many animals which are needed,
in addition to superintending their
care while on the campus. Mrs. Col-
lins reported that she had secured
four white oxen for the pageamt for
‘the first time in the history of May
Day.

Miss Park and Mrs. Manning
brought up the problem of the parts
which people without their merits
can take. As a general rule they
may not take parts which require
a regular amount of rehearsing over
a long period of time. There are







and which require very little prac-
tice. The strolling villagers, stilt
walkers, the bears and their. trainers
and the hobby horses all contribute
greatly to the atmosphere of May
Day. Such parts can be filled by
persons not allowed to take heavy
parts, or by those who prefer to
have small ones. Mrs. Manning
stated that it probably would be pos-
sible to give a regular pgrt to a
‘student who had her merits for the
last semester, but who still did not
have all her merits.

many small parts which are pleasant| .





Mrs. Collins asked. the undergradu-

'

ate members of the council to report
students: that there . was
absolutely no possibility of accom-
modating parents in the Deanery

for May Day as all the rooms were

reserved months ago. She reported
that there is almost no room _avail-
able in many of the inns and hotels
It will be one of
the tasks of the management commit-
tee to secure a list of available rooms
which students may secure for their
parents that. weekend. Miss Park
stressed the fact that absolutely no
one but studgnts themselves will be
allowed. to stay in the halls during
the week of May Day. All the rules
about allowing mothers or sisters
or alumnae to stay overnight in the
halls are not in effect for this event,
because having any outside guests
in the hall only adds to the confusion
and disorder of thé May Day prep-
arations.

The discussion of the problem of
reports and papers centered around
two distinct but nevertheless related
points. The first question was the
date on- which papers are due. The
second dealt with the number, scope
and type of papers assigned. Mrs.

Manning felt that the system of re-'

quiring that papers are due the day
of the examination in the course was
not very satisfactory. It meant that
many students spent a large part of
the examination period writing re-
ports and papers instead of prepar-
ing for their examinations. Per-
haps it would be better to have all
papers due on the last day of lec-
tures. The granting of extensions
which run into the examination pe-
riod proper should not be allowed,
LLL 5 ATE



Mrs. ‘Manning felt, since this coallt
not remove the primary difficulty.
With the consent of the Dean and
the instructor involved, extensions
might be given in the future to the
first day of the second semester, or
to Commencement Day, although in
the former case it was to be hoped
that it coyld be avoided, because the
student needs a vacation between the
end of Midyears and the beginning
of the second-term. This: plan is
tentative of course, as the ques-
tion must be decided by the Faculty.

Miss Park asked whether there
were too many reports required of
the students. The general feeling
seemed to. be that reports were very.
valuable and that as a rule the pro-
fessors. worked out a_ satisfactory
arrangement with their classes with
regard to the nature of the report
and the time when it was due. Sev-
eral were of the opinion that papers
frequently came back without ade-
quate critical. analysis, and some-
times even without a mark or com-
ment of any sort. The whole effect
of the work. is lost if the student
has no way of telling how well she

has handled her material or whether

the style was satisfactory.

A suggestion that students be al-
lowed to cut their last class before
vacation was brought up. It was not
discussed in detail, but was left for
the next meeting. Miss Park did
point out, however, that Bryn Mawr
has not allowed this type of cutting
because the college year is so short
that it is necessary to have all the
students in attendance regularly dur-
ing the, entire time in which lectures
are scheduled.







BESTS

—_enenereeeee™m™

ARDMORE

MONTGOMERY & ANDERSON AVES.,

ARDMORE, PA. Ardmore 4840

Easy Parking

This Spring it’s smart to wear

MANNISH FELTS
To SET OFF YOUR
FEMININE COSTUMES

this season’s fashions.

f Nate your cue from the Gibson Girl who is

exercising such a pronounced influence over

Set off your ee
charms with a masculine hat on top of/your

curls. Wear the Gibson Girl’s own sailor, or a

becoming version of the homberg borrowed

from our young men of 1936.

Best’s presents

these two important hats tailored in felts to go
with your soft tailleurs or your tweeds. Grey,
navy, brown, or black. Sizes 21 to 22¥.