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VOL. XX, No. 21
BRYN: MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1934
COLLEGE
Copyright BRYN MAWR
NEWS,
1934
cena
Americas Described
by Mr. Culbertsgn
He Hopes for an Ideal World,
To Be Built by Visionaries
Among All Men
TALK IS DREAM VOYAGE
Mr. William Culbertson took us
upon a delightful imaginary flight in
his lecture, “Vistas and Dreams Over
the Americas” on. Tuesday, April 17,
we saw beneath us wide expanses of
country, reaching over the. two Ameri-
can continents. He asked us to im-
agine a world that has never existed,
but some day may come to be: an ideal
world where the different nations wili
be united in peaceful friendship.
First. he took us over our own coun-
try, describing for us the great Rock-
ies and the wide rivers and_ the
prairies dotted with cities of all sizes.
We saw the sources of the rugged
strength that lies behind the civiliza-
tion ofthe United States. Then he
took us southward to Mexico, the land
where Montezuma ruled and Cortez
conquered the ancient Aztec and the
Indian, the land which we see now as
a great country of the Americas.
Among the jungles of Yucatan stood
the rich old ruins of the Mayan civili-
We traveled farther south-
ward and passed over the Isthmus,
where winds the band of the Panama
Canal, “the greatest liberty man has
taken with Nature.” We flew low
and passed ships from many lands,
and. sniffed the pungent air of the
tropics, with its brilliant flowers.
Mr. Culbertson led our imagina-
tion on to the wilds of South America,
where we saw Venezuela and the
mountain highlands of Colombia. To
the east were the vast’ pampas of the
Orinoco, to the south the Amazon Val-
ley. Peru of the ancient Incas spread
in outline beneath. us. There lay the
crumbling ruins of Chan Chan. Very
interesting textiles and potteries are
an older race, even than that of the
Incas. We saw Cuzco, the glorious
Inca capital, where the ancients wor-
shipped the Sun God in their stone
temples. Mr. Culbertson told us that
these people had codes so modern that
they are used even today.
We left the land of Pizarro and flew
on over the Cordillera Range. To the
west lay the desert, ribboned with
streams fed with the snows of the
Andes. There were also the nitrate
and copper mines of Chile, and the
Desert of Atocan, which kills any man
who walks upon it. To the east lay
the jungles and the coffee plantations
of Brazil; to the south, the Argentine
of the Gaucho and “the thousand cat-
tle.’ We traveled above the tall,
magnificent Cordilleras till we reach-
ed the famous~valley of Patagonia,
mentioned in Shakespeare’s The Tem:
pest. In Shakespeare’s day, the sail-
ors and explorers brought back many
tales of the Patagonians with their
“big feet” and of that “land of mys-
tery and storm??. :
-We came to the Tierra de] Fuego
and followed the trail of Darwin .on
his expedition of a century ago, Fin-
ally we reached Cape Horn, “taking
pride, like the devil, in its bad reputa-
Continued on Page Seven
= B. B. Elections
“~~ At the basketball dinner on
Monday night, Betty Faeth, 35,
was elected captain and Marion
1934-35 season. 7
The following teams were an-
nounced by Mary Boyd:
Varsity—Boyd, captain, r. f.;
Faeth, manager, 1. f.; Jones, c.;
» Larned,. s. c.; Bridgman, r. g.;
Kent, 1.-g. :
Second Varsity— Pierce 4 Mc-
-pGoxmigk) yt f-3. Baker. |. f.3
Meirs, c.; Rothermel, s. c.;
Washburn, r. g.; Bishop, cap-
wy
ee
Substitutes — Varsity: Jar-
rett. Second.-Varsity: E. E.
|_—-Smith, Bennett.
- Squad: Evans, Stone, Jack-
is E. Smith, Howe.
a
y/ on Thursday and not on Friday,
pt
Exam Schedule
In order that the examination
in Freshman English may come
it has been decided to shift the
last two days of examinations so
that all examinations at present
scheduled for Friday, June 1,
will come on Thursday; May 31,
and all examinations at present
scheduled for Thursday, May 31, |
will come on Friday, June 1.
A revised schedule of exami- .
nations is being prepared, and
serious conflicts should be re-
ported immediately at the office
of the Secretary and Registrar.
Miss Ely Advises
The Rising Position of Women
Will Assure Their Success
in Government
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MAY MEET OPPOSITION
Miss Ely, speaking on Women in
Politics in chapel on Thursday, April
19, emphasized the difference between
being interested in politics, and act-
ually becoming a candidate. The
League of Women Voters was found-
ed in order that women might get a
non-partisan view of the problems of
women in politics. It is surprising
how confused people are even about
registration. If they wish to vote for
a candidate they know is a Democrat,
they suddenly remember that they are
registered as Republicans, or wonder
whether they are registered at all.
Miss Ely prefers the title “Women
in Government” because government
is the background of politics, and
ideally the only reason for politics.
However, many people “in politics”
think very little about government.
Their problem is: how am I going
to make an impression on my party?
How much graft am I going to get?
One politician said: “I have gotten
where I am now by handing out the
dollars.’ New-comers are told that
they must do that too if they want to
get anywhere.
»Many women now take an active
part in politics and government, Only
lately, however, a woman who had
never voted before, went to the poles
of a very Republican county, and said
that she wanted to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket. “Sorry, this is the wrong
day,” said the man to whom she had
spoken. We have, nevertheless, come
a long way from the days when wom-
en speakers were asked to sit down
when they made gestures like those of
the men. Now women are not just
taken into a party and given positions
on committees. Roosevelt’s choices
were significant. ‘They are chosen for
ability and quality. They are women
who can be trusted because they have
a knowledge of their subject, a disin-
terested view of it, and are determined
to do something in that line.
Often-a story or an accidental inci-
dent causes one to take an interest in
politics. AVhen. Frances Perkins was
walking through a factory one day,
she saw a girl’s hand cut off. From
then on, she was interested in govern-
ment. It is necessary to have, as she
had, the sense of always putting two
and two together, the imagination to
look further. She inquired, and found
that there were no laws to protect
workmen in factories. Industrial men
have always fought them. It is the
women, and above all the younger
and demand of Candidates what they
are going to do about relief or wheth-
er they are going to fight for a mini-
mum wage law. It is they who are
interested in the control and manu-
facture of arms. They:do notexpect
any gain if they stand for something,
and go at the problem tmmediately.
A woman candidate has to meet with
whom the voters know “goes along,”
whom they can trust. A woman
might think up something!
Summer Camp
Elizabeth Meirs, ’35, has been
elected Chairman of the Bryn
Mawr Summer Camp.
Political Activity,
women, who ask for child labor laws,
Mr. and Mrs. Hotson_
Sing Old Madrigals
[Elizabethan Melodies Are
| Marked by Rhythmic Beats
and Contrasts
iSTUDENTS SING ROUNDS
On Sunday afternoon at the Dean-
‘ery Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Hotson, of
|Haverford, gave an informal presen-
|tation of a group of Elizabethan mad-
‘rigals written ‘mostly for community
singing. Ballads and madrigals of
this sort have been made very popular
within the last few years by the Eng-
lish Singers, and it was with the idea
of further popularizing the informal
singing of these songs that Mr. Hot-
son, a professor at Haverford College,
and author. of several books on .the
singer of madrigals to the virginal,
lcame to Bryn Mawr. The pieces they
‘sang and those in which they asked
ithe college to join were characterized
‘by simple, very rhythmic melodies and
‘extraordinarily beautiful words.
| First they sang four canzonettes,
‘madrigals written for two voices, each
‘part of a solo in itself so that the two
|parts blend in a balanced cadence. All
| of the canzonettes had very simple,
-but very beautiful words, and the two
parts were so arranged as to separate
ithe phrases by a strong rhythmic beat.
'The first two of this group were by
i Thomas Morley, ‘“‘When Low By Break
‘of Morning” and “Sweet Nymph Come
‘To Thy Lover.” Both of these selec-
tions were serious in content but sung
‘lightly, so that they attained to.a lyric
flow of words and music. The third
‘of the canzonettes, “Sweet Kate,”
‘written by Robert Jones, was much
‘more humorous in mood; the words ex-
j Continued on Page Seven
!
‘Dr. Knauth Investigates
Criticisms of Infirmary
As was announced in chapel before
the spring vacation, Dr. Marjorie
Strauss Knauth, of the class of 1918
of Bryn Mawr College, and of 1922 of
the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons, and the chairman of the Alum-
nae Health Committee, visited the
campus on March 22 and discussed
some of the criticisms which had re-
cently been made of the Infirmary. Dr.
Knauth has written to Dean Manning
as to the results of her interview witn
the students and her investigations at
the Infirmary. She discussed five or
six specific cases which the students
brought to her attention, and com-
ments as follows:
“T listened to the history of each
case and we discussed the points which
they felt had been unsatisfactorily
dealt with. Three of these invoived
one of the girls present. I told them
that I would look into the reeords and
report to you. I spent two hours with
Dr. Wagoner Thursday evening going
over the medical aspects and the fol-
low-up. I found no evidence of medi-
cal mismanagement in any of the
cases discussed. A difference in meth-
od of treatment from that of the fam-
ily physician did not fall outside the
bounds of good medical .practice,.,in
the cases where the students were able
to give me any detailed report. .
A number of their criticisms were
based on misapprehensions and ignor-
ance, which were quite easy to clear
up.
“Before leaving, the students sug-
gested that better__co-operation__be-
‘tween the students and the infirmary
would promote understanding . and
‘confidence, and to that end they sug-
gested that early in the year Dr. Wag-
oner explain the «infirmary and_ its
methods to. the.freshman class, and
that the undergraduates elect repre-
sentatives through whom the infirm-
ary problems could pass.”
.
[\-sora,sprasitian oad dguht than a.man,| Dr, Knayth. will orgbably be visit-
ing the College’ again in the spring
and would be glad at any time to dis-
cuss the.college health organization
with representatives of the students.
She herself suggested that it might be
well to have a student committee on
health matters in order to present the
student point of view to Dr. Wagoner
-|and Dean Manning. —
Elizabethan period, and Mrs, Hotson, |~
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CALENDAR
Wednesday, April 25: © Dr.
Arthur H. Compton on “Do’ We
Live in ‘A World of Chance?”
Goodhart, 8.20 P. M.
Saturday, April 28: Junior
Language Examination in
French. /Taylor, 9.00 A, M.
Tuesday, May 1: Little May
D and Chapel, announcing
Undergraduate Scholarships.
Goodhart, 8.40 A. M.
Wednesday, May 2: Varsity-
Tennis. Game vs. Merion Cricket
Club: 4.00 P. M.
Professor Blanchard
Speaks on “Truth”
Coherence Theory of Truth,
First Developed by Hegel,
Is Defended
JUDGMENT IS STANDARD
Professor Blanchard, of Swarth-
more College, spoke Thursday after-
noon in the Common Room on “What
Is Truth?” He stated and defended
his own conception of the theory of
truth, the coherence theory, which was
started by Hegel and Bradley, and ig-
nored all other contemporary ideas.
Dr. Blanchard said, “That préposition
must be accepted as. true which is
attested by the present body of our
knowledge.” ‘
Truth must be defended by evidence
which meets the standard of truth it-
self, for there is no distinction be-
tween the test of truth and the knowl-
edge of it. ‘Down in our hearts, we
all agree on what we believe is true,
although our formations of it may be
different.” To argue would be impos-
sible, if we did not implicitly refer to
the Same things.
Dr. Blanchard admitted that the
same standard or test might make a
proposition appear __true__at__first
thought which with later knowledge
would be proved false. The coherence
theory proves a proposition true by
means of present knowledge and all
possible ultimate knowledge.
According to Dr. Blanchard, there
are three ways-of judging truth. The
judgment of abstract necessity proves,
for example, that 10 x 10 equals 100,
because all arithmetic and existing
knowledge must otherwise be thrown
away, and we should be compelled to
accept contradiction.
An example of the historical judg-
ment is that, through the testimony
of eye-witnesses, of historians, of doc-
uments, and also through the subse-
quent actions of the governments of
Europe, we must believe that Napol-
eon lost at Waterloo. In an histori-
cal judgment, the appeal to consistence
is essential.
The perceptual judgment is not to
be tested by the standard of coherence,
but by closer observation. A compari-
son is made between the mental judg-
ment and the physical observation;
both are true if they tally. The per-
ceptual judgment brings in the corre-
spondence theory of truth, in opposi-
tion to the coherence theory.’ In the
correspondence theory, truth is not
. |considered as brute fact unchanged by
any mental action, but the informa-
tion gathered by the senses is made
the basis for the first mental judg-
ment, to be checked by the second
mental judgment. It is most import-
ant.to. remember that_in the corre-
spondence theory of truth, judgment
is always proved, not by brute fact,
but by further judgments. Coherence
enters into the correspondence theory
because sense perceptions have to be
proved by it as a standard; the scien-
tist will not accept observation unless
it fits into his accepted system. For
this reason, scientists rejected Sir
William Crooks’ photographs of spir-
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Cartier Recital Is
Unusually Versatile
Dancing Is Modern, Original,
_ Uses Acting to Interpret
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Personalities
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HANDS ARE EFFECTIVE
Jacques Cartier, in his dance recital
in Goodhart Hall on Thursday eve-
ning, convinced an enthusiastic audi-
ence that he is not only an unusually
able and versatile dancer, but also an
actor of great distinction. His flair
for original color combinations and
dance steps startled the spectators,’
who applauded each succeeding num-
ber with increasing approval.
Mr. Cartier is modern in every
sense of the word. Without conform-
‘ing to any school of the dance he has
absorbed influences from-allof.them,
particularly Mary Wigman’s, and yet
maintains an amazing originality in
his strong, masculine dance. Appar-
ently, he believes that dancing should
include more acting and: direct inter-
pretations of moods and personalities
than would be admitted by the rigid
artistry of the ballet or the “flashes of
the sub-conscious’’ Wigman schools.
He has far: to go in developing this
middle path of intelligible and free
dance, but certainly Thursday eve-
ning proved to Bryn Mawr that, even
if he is never a great artist, he will
always be a brilliant dancer and a fine
entertainer.
The most striking thing about his
dancing, next to his lithe grace and
muscular control, was the expressive
use of his hands. In every dance he
secured extraordinary effects with his
strong and delicate hand movements.
In the “Borgia,” he created almost the
entire emotional crescendo by folding
and spreading his hands. This sensi-
tive use of the hands was the link be-
tween the varied numbers on the pro-
gram.
“Fada Fiesta,” the first number on
the program, was very poor compared
to the later ones. Almost musical
comedy in. spirit, with ballet, acro-
batic, and clog steps cleverly inter-
woven, it lacked both distinction and
originality. A ‘Dance At Night” was
in the tradition of Wigman, from the
black, bat-like costume to the swish of
bare feet on the floor and thessilhouet-
ted angles and curves. Here Mr. Car-
tier’s unusual hands were first used
for their artistic effects. In “Domini-
can,” the dancer strode onto the stage
with magnificent devotion, dressed in
a white monk’s cassock; with a red
cross on it. Then, with a quick series
of movements, he clearly portraycd
the intellectual idea of the pious
monk’s surrender to earthly joys in
life. But there were rough places in
this dance because Mr. Cartier tried
too many contrasting effects und too
many abrupt changes. ‘“Sevillianos”
was probably the best actual dancing,
as the theatre knows it, on the pro-
gram, because of the clear lines, the
careful contrast of slow and stamping
steps, the active control, and the flut-
tering and spread hands. But its lack
of inspiration. revealed Mr, Cartier’s
frequent lack of emotional power.
“The Love Song of Dante to Bea-
trice” began sentimentally, but by the
end worked up to a sustained depth of
emotion. Near the end, the held pose
on tip toe with the silver costume
sparkling in the red light had a spec-
tacular effect. “The City Song’ was
the finest mechanistic dance this critic
has ever seen. The bright colors —
blue, red, yellow, and. -white —- the
sharp, cubistic outlines, the perfect
timing, and the hard foot and arm
work gave a splendid interpretation of
city life. :
A Japanese actor, a Borgia, and
Louis- XIV were the three well varied
“Portraits for the Theatre.” As the
Continued on Page Seven sees
The Friendly Arctic
itualistic phenomena’ ~~"
In order to produce a true judg-
ment, not merely the fact which is in
doubt, but the principles on which the
fact is judged must cohere with the
principles of judgment. Science has
to revise its old theories to receive new
facts, as the Newtonian laws were
altered for Einstein’s physics.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson is go-
ing to give an illustrated lecture
on “The Friendly Arctic” on
Friday, April 27, at 8.15 P. M.,
in Roberts Hall, Haverford Col-
lege. The admission price will
be one dollar.
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Entertainment
The Deanery has ceased, this
sanectorum, with mo admittance to the college;
numerous entertainments held there
ineffectuality in the Deanery”
Barnes, returning as an alumna.
year, to be the campus sanctum
and as a result of the
we have begun to lose our “social
, remarked upon by Mrs. Margaret Ayer
We have the entertainment commit-
tee of the Deanery to thank for arranging the series of lectures and
musical programs presented this year.
They have brought us ten pro-
grams so far, including a talk on Chinese painting by Mr. x ‘Lawrence
Binyon, a Christmas play, a lectur
talk on book collecting by Mr. Bart«
lem of the modern artist by Mr.
the theatre by Mr. Reginald
poetry, a violin recital, a talk by
Sunday afternoon of madrigals. Bx
Edward M.
Pole,
Mr:
e by Dr. Frederica de Laguna, a
ym Currie, a discussion of the prob-
M. Warburg, a lecture on
an afternoon of undergraduate
Stephen Vincent Benet, and a
th the speakers and their subjects
were well chosen, and variation was achieved by the informal musical
programs, so that this year’s series
regularly, and will undoubtedly
remaining programs as the reports
spread.
Further,
able to meet and hear speakers infc
draw even larger
drew many of us to“the Deanery
audiences to the
of their popularity have time to
we want to thank the Deanery Committee for making the
It is an unusual and a pleasant advantage to us to be
rmally, in a place so charming in
comparison with the more austere-lecture rooms in Goodhart.
If Squirrels, Then Students 5
A deplorable inconsistency in
Bryn Mawr’s painstaking care of
the grass has been forcibly brought to our attention with the coming of
the Spring.
grass with complete impunity!
The squirrels are actually being permitted to walk on the
In fact,
not only are the squirrels
allowed to crush the lives of our sprouting patches of turf, to trample
on young grass with barbaric cruel
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dinals, the blue birds, and even the
to the students: we see that at a gla
on the green, if the squirrel may tr
ior Row, why may not the humble
the lush sward?
ty, but so are the robins, the ear-
worms. An injustice is being done
nee. If thelowly worm may frolic
ip the hight fantastie all over Sen-
student cool her suffering heels in
If it be said, as it so often has been said, that the elephantine
tread of the lumbering Bryn Mawrtyr seems to gave a remarkably
deleterious effect on the grass, we repeat that an inconsistency is being
perpetrated.
Let, us call a mass meeting of the Bryn Mawr squirrels
in Goodhart, let us rouse the birds from their nests and the worms from
their muddy lairs, let us convoke our animals in their swarming hordgs,
and appoint leaders armed with
grassy riots. Our inculeated sense
our sacred lawés, another squirrel
whistles to control them in their
of logic, our love of order demands
‘that for every squirrel who ventures to set his ponderous paw upon
should whisk down out of a tree,
madly blowing a whistle and chattering irately, to punish the offender.
The Self-Government Association sl
ishments solely to student offenders :
1ould not confine its ingenious pun-
it should face its problems square-
ly and learn to deal with rows of recalcitrant squirrels, birds, and
worms, drawn up in long lines outside the office of the judges, each
noisily or slitheringly awaiting its turn at judgment.
News of the New York Theatres
The magnificent melodrama of yes-
teryear is with us once again. In an
exact reproduction of the original set-
ting, or possibly in the original set-
_.ting itself, P. T.Barnum’s- baroque}.
tear-jerker of the 1820’s is thrijling
audiences, right in the midst of a con-
verted church, no less, at 141 East
55th Street. Seated informally at wood-
en tables, regaled with free beer in un-
ending floods, the audience may break
crockery with impunity, fling any-
thing from tomatoes to rotten eggs at
the top hatted villain, and weep, howl,
ready, famous sportsmen have been
seen to weep copious tears over Kath-
ryn Parsons, the Bowery Nightingale,
as she renders “The Curse of An Ach-
ing Heart;” famous directors have
been carried out in hysterics; and men
ge Rave ot, cenckol p, snifie since|
1929 have rolled under the tables,
howling and clutching beer bottles as
they chanted “Take Me Out to the
Ball Game.” Charles Jordan sings
“refined songs,” Vera Hurst. produces |
is the “accordionist extra-special.”
After such an evening of yaried en-
tertainment and of howling tears and
laughter, the audience is, not permit-
ted to leave without joining in a
wholesale roaring of “A Bird in a
Gilded Cage,” first introduced to a
delighted Bryn Mawr by Miss Dor-
Sun Shines, Nellie,’ an equally
charming epic. The curtain descends
like a. ton of bricks at moments of the
most intense suspense, and -holds the
audience spellbound with the adver-
tisements of Beecham’s Pills, Dr.
Munion’s home remedies, and Ed Pi-
“songs..elegant,”..Ha] Conklin. is the}<
: | Sweet fame.
“heart-rending tenor,” and Bob King
jothy~Sands;~and™ of "Wait Tilt the};
naud’s hair tonic, which are printed
upon its fascinating expanse.
It is not quite so far a cry as it
drama now 7_wallowing. méreily in-our-}-
midst to the announcement of Miss
Katherine Cornell’s proposed reper-
tory season in New York next fall.
Both melodrama and repertory play-
ed by excellent and well-trained com-
panies are old-fashioned institutions
which are all too seldom -with us, and
the return of Broadway to the sheer
theatricality of both forms of. enter-
tainment augurs well for next year’s
theatre season. Any company is
bound to go stale by the hundredth
performance of any play, no matter
how good, and, correlatively, any com-
pany profits by variety of perform-
ances. Miss Cornell is providing her
cast with an“opportunity of playing in
four intensely interesting plays, each
one for a limited period only. They
will be Romeo and Juliet, Ibsen’s Ros-
mersholm, Shaw’s Candida, and Bes-
ier’s The Barretts of Wimpole Street.
Miss Cornell. has been touring the
road for the past winter with these
same four plays, and has met with
such acclaim everywhere that the pro-
duction of each of them may be as-
sumed to be considerably better co-or-
dinated than those which Broadway
has been accustomed to seeing in the
past two years.
Of great interest to Bryn Mawr
is the announcement of the success of
another form of revival, which has
taken England by storm. Gordon
Bottomley’s Acts of St. Peter, a re-
ligious play, in form and production
very much like the old miracle plays,
is being presented to enthusiastic au-
diences in St. Margaret’s Church in
London.
has been built across the chancel steps,
and is approached either from. the
eastern depths of .the church or pro-
cessionally up the aisle from the west.
A chorus of white-robed women is
used to carry on the action, spreading
across the stage between the scenes to
hide the activity of the scene-shifters
behind“them, and parting to present
the next scene. It is significant, in the
light of Bryn Mawr’s success. with
putting on miracle plays, that a re-
vived interest in this formal, conven-
tionalized type of play is being shown
abroad. Certainly, we may conclude
that the public, tired of the mounting
score of failures witnessed on Broad-
way in the past ten years, and grown
wary of taking a chance on most mod-
ern plays, is turning with delight to
any form of the theatre which experi-
ence and hearsay have proven to’ be
entertaining.
IN PHILADELPHIA
Orchestra Program
Stokowski Conducting
Beethoven. Ninth (Choral) Symphony
SUPAUSS ..osieeer ss Deutsche Motette
Bach Choir
The Philadelphia Bach Choir will
sing the B-Minor Mass at St. James’
Church, 22nd and Walnut, Thursday’
evening at 8 o’clock promptly.
Theatres
Broad: Lenore Ulric starts bravely
over again in Pagan Lady, having
abandoned East of the Sun with the
unanimous approval of every critic in
Philadelphia. Pagan Lady bears an
unblushing resemblance to Jeanne
Eagels’ famous success, Rain, but im-
proves on the situation by splitting
the susceptible preacher of Rain into
two, one middle-aged and adamant,
the other young and extremely sus-
ceptible.
Erlanger: Double Door makes a
triumphant return engagement, gaily
displaying all the proper accessories
of a good, exciting melodrama, from
wills and strings of pearls to a most
despicable villainess.
Forrest: The Moon Rises, a new
version of Franz Lehar’s operetta,
Gypsy Love, with -Ethelind Terry,
whose presence has never graced a
Movies
Aldine: Catherine the Great con-
tinues until Thursday, when George
Arliss’ The House of Rothschild
opens. Mr. Arliss is superb, the mov-
ie is authentic in every detail, for
once, and the supporting cast in-
cludes Loretta Young, Robert Young,
|Boris Karloff, and C. Aubrey Smith.
There is aio a Silly Symphony, | The
Big Bad Wolf. Highly recommended.
Arcadia: Robert Montgomery as a
gentleman gem thief, assisting Scot-
land. Yard to catch a maniacal mur-
derer, in The Mystery of Mr. X. Very
good. — ue:
A large wooden platform |’
failure, and Leonard _Ceeley, | of f Bitter, 9
wires END),
THE HAPPY JOURNEY
The class went. over a mountain,
The class went over two mountains,
The class went over three mountains,
To see what it could see.‘
A rock on the’side of a mountain,
Two rocks on the sides of two moun-
tains,
Three rocks on the sides of three
mountains,
It took for Geology.
.—Ditch Digger.
BITS FROM THE TIMES AGONY
COLUMN
“Berthe May Maternity Girdle —
removed from 10 East 46th Street to
665 5th Ave.”—Business is looking up.
* * *
“Chauffeur-Caketaker:
88, college education.” ”
cation is a Good Thing.”
American,
Higher Edu-
GRRRRRRR
I hate sticks and’stones,
I hate rocks,
I hate fossils’ bones—-
They gimme pox!
I hate wads of data
* On a-region,
‘I hate all rock strata—
All the legion!
I hate strict appliance
And all industry,
In the interests of science,
Esp. Geology!
—Nature Lover.
THWARTED GENIUS
I walked me intg@ conference
One bright el siny day,
And lo, my EngNsh teacher
Returned my one-act play.
I left her in a hustle,
And hid me in a shed.
Then in a fearful tremor
I read what she had said.
“This tragedy is perfect;
It has futility,”
I cried aloud! You see I—
I wrote a comedy!
~The Sensitive Plant.
LETTER WRITTEN HOME BY A
FRESHMAN UNDER THE
INFLUENCE OF HER
LONG ENGLISH
PAPER
My dear beloved Maternal Parent,
Now that I have pursued. the dry
and sterile paths of the intellect for
almost a year, I am able to realize the
simple joys of home. Oh, mother, you
cannot imagine with what an enlight-
ened eye I now regard the labors
which once seemed menial and monot-
onous to my callow mind. Now, when
I think of you, performing the sacred
duty of sweeping—the kitchen, I see
the poetry ennobling the humbleness
of your action—the tradition of gen-
erations of self-sacrificing women in
every movement of your hand, the
rhythmic sweep of the broom upon the
floor—the grandeur pervading every
effort to clean this soiled and shop-
worn world.
And, dear ‘tether, do tell Sis that
when I come home, I shall wash the
dishes. Really, it pains me to think of
her at that task, for I know she does
it in a blasphemous mood that de-
grades the beauty of the work. I
know, I was once guilty of equal sacri-
lege. Oh, why did I not always per-
ceive the nobility of that labor? I
who now feel that when I lave a soiled
platter, I am accomplishing one little
particle of the great task of feeding
starving humanity! Oh, to hear once
more the lyrical sound of glass: tink-
ling against glass, to see their pure
crystal shining through the crystal
water, and to lose my soul in the lucid
rainbow depths of a soap-bubble!
What is mere knowledge beside such
heart-felt, human joys? Oh, mother,
ed cn your aide to follow the thorny
path of learning! But I shall return,
humble and chastened, and be
Ever your devoted, penitent daugh-
ter,
Anastasia Mehitabel Esmeralda.
siGNs OF SPRING :
Things ‘fiave come to a pretty pass,
Robins hop upon the grass—
And we are not allowed to.
Soon the needled yellow jacket
Will wing ’round with dinning racket,
And the pigeons early coo.
From the pavement crawls the worm, |’
Continued on Page Four
Continued on Page Six
Not Out of the Stacks |
You must not mind what we say
dose of the Messrs: William’ Faulk-
jner-and F; Scott Fitzgerald We don’t”
really feel like talking snane either of
them.
We shall first pitch into Fitzgerald’s
Tender Is the Night. It has a wonder-
ful veneer of reality. It took us no
time at all to get Rosemary Hoyt, the
“Daddy’s Girl” of Hollywood, and to
realize that the Divers were a fated
pair because of their exhausting devo-
tion to each other. Then we saw Rose-
mary sitting on her mother’s lap say-
‘ing that she was in love with Dick
+ Diver, and we knew the plot was thick-
.ening. Furthermore, we knew that
there was something sinister about
Nicole Diver; or her. pearls wouldn’t
have hung off her brown back the way
they did. Well and good. We licked
our chops, said, “This is going to be
one of those interesting books,’’ and
relaxed. We soon felt drowsy. Dad-
dy’s Gir] did-a fade-out. We went on,
unabashed, to find out what was wrong
with the Divers. Richard Divers was
istudy. We are left with no doubt in
our minds but that as a child she
sucked her thumb, bullied her school-
mates at recess, thought alternately
that she was Tarzan and Cinderella,
dreamed about sea serpents, was gen-
erally ill-behaved to perfectly nice
people and grew up to be a misfit. Dr.
his professional psychiatric manner,
and we find Tender Is the Night fall-
ing into a flat portrayal of the disinte-
gration of a marriage. If it were giv-
ing anything away, we would not tell
you that the end is quite futile.
The idea behind Tender Is the Night
is good, but we have reason to wish
for a better execution. Mr. Fitzger-
ald found his tongue early in life, and
the weary reading public found him in
his early years a joy—but not forever.
It is as if, after The Great Gadsby,
he suddenly sat down to the typewrit-
er and said glibly, “Aha! I shall write
a novel.” The resultant novel is worth
while reading, but not the best. read-
ing. It is written spontaneously and
fairly well, it deals with characters of
a superficial reality that are interest-
ing but not very moving, and it re-
volves around a social problem but
does not present the problem ‘so force-
fully as to move us to reform, nor
does Tender Is the Night resolve the
difficulties of a marriage incompatible
because of psychological forces.
Now we come to a discussion. of the
volume of short stories entitled Dr.
Martino, with “William Faulkner’
apologetically written in parentheses
at the top of every other page. The
author (William Faulkner) made a
bad start, in our opinion, by his choice
of “Doctor Martino” as the first—and
title—story. The title is much too
noncommital, and when we consider
that the story itself is very confusing,
and does not even set a tone or a
mood for the succeeding stories, we
wonder what is up. We cannot hope
to explain what the story may possibly
be about, except that an old man has
some sort of hold over a young girl—
we do not know why—and we suggest
to Mr. Faulkner that in future he an-
notate his short stories. He has a pe-
culiar trick of ignoring the customary
short story technique, inverting the
plan of the story so as to make of it
a long and seemingly aimless intro-
duction, followed by a quick and well-
concealed denoument, which he springs
upon you to see if you are paying at-
tention. Thus When he has a par-
ticularly interesting or complicated
story to tell, it often misses fire. That
is the reason why “Smoke, “Turna-
bout,” and “There Was A Queen” are
they aré’all built upon very ingeni-
ous ideas, and they all portray fasci-
nating characters. “The Hound,” a
short story based upon a much less
clever idea and involving ‘a character
ner’s others, is a good short story.
There is only one character of any im-
.|portance and his motivations are not
complex. The simplicity of the plot
allows us to focus our attention easily,
and be caught up by the sense.of guilt
and horror we feel through a mur-
derer’s thoughts as he hears the tell-
tale howl of the dead man’s dog.
As a last word, we want to tell you
that neither Mr. Faulkner’s style nor
his content are--here at their usual
best.. Doctor Martino is no Sanctuary.
S.3 2 2 &
FIVE STAR FINAL: We have
found a good new book. After read-
ing Stephen Vincent Benet’s
Continued on Bee Six
this week. We are recovering from a’
a psychiatrist, and Nicole was a case-.
Diver let her fall in love with him.in-
not very good, despite the fact that .
|
Pe
bi!
;not—quite.so.well_done.as Mr. Faulk--.
THE GOLLEGE NEWS
¢
| Voice of Bryn Mawr
This column is intended to afford
to the undergraduates, the alumnae,
and the faculty an opportunity of ex
that the compilers of the question- | should like to see a little more of the ||
‘| naire definé their terms more care- development of unknown talent, as we |
fully both in the original questions did last year in Helena’s Husband. |
= pelt the interpretation of the-an- We ‘would like to see plays that are.
swers. We wonder. if there is not,contemporary and as yet untried, like |
some confusion in. their minds be- | Saint’s Day, and for that reason, we’
tween originality and a scope for hope very much that the Playwriting |
thought. class and the class of 1937 will soon
* Tennis Schedule
May 2—Merion Cricket Club.
May..5—Beaver College. -.
May 12—Vassar (at Vassar).
May 16—Swarthmore. ”
May 25—William and Mary.
pressing their opinions about matter
of interest to the college. Letters are
earnestly solicited, and do not need to
be signed. We reserve the right of
not printing unsigned letters, if they
‘present. too personal a point of view.
Required Science
To the Editor of the News:
I agree with the,editorial in which
it was pointed out that a first year
“science course requires too many de-
tails not only for the person who can-
not memorize but also for the person
who, not interested in them, gets noth-
ing,.or néarly nothing, out of such: a:
course. I therefore suggest a required ; The sintenelae a ihe ita |
course to take the place of.the pres- 2
® . | both for the mid-semester quizzes and
ent science requirement, also -to in-| ‘d r + Anat datnatiotn
clude Hygiene, One semester would) ™"° 4-year and nna’ coxa
doy are, on the whole, well-planned and
have hygiene and physiology with : Bic
suitable laboratory work; the as ae of the individual as ne
semester would be a general course in | “S of the common good. In the few
cases where an unfortunate. student
the most important theories of the}. : ‘
rf ‘ig taxed with two or three immediate-
RADNOR HALL.
Acnes Kirsopp LAKE, ’30,
MARIANNA DUNCAN JENKINS, ’31,
VIRGINIA BALOUGH, ’33,
ELIZABETH FEHRER, 730,
* MABEL MEEHAN, ’33,
ELIZABETH UFFORD, ’29,
JEANNETTE LE SAULNIER, ’33,
SUSAN MAY SAVAGE, ’33,
ELEANOR YEAKEL, ’33,
DoroTHY K. MILLER, ’28,
VIRGINIA GRACE, ’22,
EMILY @RACE, ’33.
Exam Schedule |
various sciences, such as the cell
jon a ‘good show. |
well cast, well acted, and well pro-|we hope to become eligible for the em-
lnae and graduate
find an opportunity to show us some|js dead in the theatre. The. compre-
of their work, | . |hensive play, like the comprehensive
; jexamination, is here to stay. No
Pygmalion jlonger can two or three undergradu-
It seems to us that there is a great ates, gathered together in Goodhart
deal to be said for the Varsity Dra- | Hall, represent the Four Hundred,
matic production: of Pygmalion. Te aapiting actresses all. Varsity Dra-
appears logical that the object of matics shall now undertake mass pro-
Varsity Dramatics should be to put duction. The following sections of
Pygmalion was'the code outline the methods by which
duced. The widely circulated theory |blem of co-operation, the Blue Owl.
that more Bryn Mawr undergradu-|2. CHOICE oF Play. .
ates must be introduced into Bryn| .The Bryn Mawr stage can give to
Mawr plays at any cost, even at that|parents and friends a unique oppor-
of good .action, smacks more than a'tunity to see rarely given plays, pre-
little of the rah-rah spirit we pride|sented as they have never been pre-
ourselves on avoiding. Surely alum- | sented before. The selection of the
students, being play should be based on the possibil-
part of the college, have a right to!ity for a maximum of employment
contribute their talent to an organi-! with a minimum of monopoly. The
zation such as Varsity Dramatics. It/ V.D. of B.M.C, proposes, therefore, to
would be foolish to refuse their of-| present a trilogy, to consist of Ben
theory, the Mendelian theory, and the!
atomic theory. This would balance
the “details and trends” of your sur-
vey. Some arrangement could be
made whereby, for instance, a Physics
student would be required to take the
Hygiene semester and be excused from
the other semester. In addition, the
’ Hygiene course would be made more
interesting and meaningful with the
added laboratory work. The new Sci-
m@Ace building would provide adequate
space for the presentation of such a
course.—E..L. L.
Questionnaire
‘To the Editor of the College News:
‘The attitude of the students to-
wards the courses offered by the col-
lege could and should be a useful in-
dex of the value of the courses both
for the faculty and students. The
results of the questionnaire which
were published in the last issue of
the News may have represented that
attitude, but before we are willing to
accept them as an accurate picture
_ of the opinions of the undergraduate
body there are several points which
we should like to have clarified.
(1) What was the exact form of
the questionnaire?
(2) What percentage of the stu-
dents actually answered the question-
naire and what percentage of the en-
rollment of each course discussed?
-Anyone with any experience in the
interpretation of statistics will real-
ize that this is a vital factor for the
value of the results. Moreover, in-
quiries among our undergraduate
friends have revealed the significant
fact that in many of the advanced
courses a large percentage of the
class did not answer at all.
(3) What Was the method by
which memory and originality, de-
tails and trends were quantified in
statements such as “Biology involves
6 times as much memory as original-
ity, 3 times as many details as
trends?” If statistics are to be used
as an indication of undergraduate
opinion, they should be computed and
presented by someone with an ade-
quate training in statistical method.
Besides the specific questions men- ;
tioned above there are some general |
observations which we feel should be|
called to the attention of those who
were in charge of the questionnaire.
From the editorial in last week’s is-
sue of the News we take .it that orig-
inality and a stress on trends are the
qualities to be desired in a course,
as opposed to memory work and the
discussion of details. We quite agree
that the former are highly desirable,
but it should be obvious that trends
are ultimately based upon a mass of
detail, and that originality without
knowledge is pot. only useless, but.
ly successive examinations, the trou-
fers on the ground of a, vague, ideal-| Hur, Strange Interlude, and The Sup-
ble usually lies in that student’s un-|istic, and imaginary principle, he
usual~-combination~of courses, for; We admit that The. Knight of the
which the examinations are dated as| Burning Pestle was more of a success |
best fits the majority of students. But | from the popular point of view than |
in the schedule of the finals this year,!Pygmalion. This success, is, rightly, |
there is an arrangement which seems|laid at the door of its all-student|
neither for the common nor the indi-}cast. Two plays of this type cannot, |
vidual good. This is the postpone-| however, be given in one year.
ment of the Freshman English exam; The idea that any competent is!
until the first day of June. dent actors can be found for Varsity |
| It is only fair that the order of the] plays in the neighborhood of Phila-|
schedule should be altered each time ; delphia is a fallacy, or so we are!
in order eventually to give the privi-|jled to believe after watching Haver-|
lege of early departure to every stu-|ford and Princeton tread the haat
dent. Yet it is only sensible that!of Goodhart. We approve, conse-|
those examinations which involve the|quently, of the choosing of actors!
greatest numbers of students should'!from the Plays and Players Club.
be held first, in order to relieve the!These actors were suitable in age to!
|
pressure on both the faculty and the|their parts, had experience, the cor-
members of their classes. The Fresh-|rect appearance, the correct voices. |
man English examination, which in-|They did not plant themselves in one |
volves a whole class, and that the|spot and cling to it like limpets, nor|
largest class in the college, should be, deliver all their lines at a gulp, em-,
given during the first week at least.|ploying the same tone of voice)
There is another consideration. The | throughout,
freshmen will be required to remove; We did not approve of the choice of |
themselves and their belongings from,the play. Bernard Shaw is a red |
lf he play-goi |
ag to the play-going bull. A play |
the campus as quickly as_ possible
after examinations in order to leave|by Shaw to him is a play by Shaw—|
room for the Alumnae. If the one|as apt to rouse his emotions or sym-,|
test which they all must take were|pathy as a long drink
then, even oe _ might i a good play, but- no-one realizes ate
to stay until the last, many others| Besides, it entails much too much)
imight be able to leave before the final | scene-shifting for a group of panting|
hectic day. amateurs. The time chosen for try-|
outs, and rehearsals also, was bad, as |
Election Results— it prevented several aspiring young,
Many and repeated objections have | actresses from trying out. |
been made about the custom of posting! A word of praise for Mr. Cowan
marks where all can see. People ob-/ Seems in order. Any,one who directs
ject to having the results of their in-| amateurs every night for weeks, con-|
telligence and effort made public. Is|Structing sets at off-moments, and)
it not strange that no one has objected | who then at the very last takes up a
to having one’s comparative popular- typical Shaw leading role and learns
iity announced? We refer ‘to the prac- it in less than a week’s time, deserves |
‘tice of having the numerical results either a bed in a hospital or a ger
jof elections read out loud. It would ; All in all, if Varsity Dramat real-
| spare the feelings of the candidates ly : “trying to oe (a)
land even of the friends of the candi-|Stock criticism against it), we are
‘dates if the order of sp alone were | E0iNE to sit back with a smile and|
jindicated, by first, second, third, etc. | encourage it to keep on trying.
|The sum of the votes for each person | °
lis of no interest to anyone, and cer-| Dramatic Code
jtainly would not be missed if it were) To the Editor of the College News:
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pliants of Aeschylus. This rarely
given-trilogy will make use of a varie-
ty of dramatic talent and a multitude
of undergraduates.
3. EMPLOYMENT AND Hours. oF
Work.
No girl shall be cast for more than
one part in one act of any play. Since
Strange. Interlude. has 9 acts, this
rule will employ 9 times as many
women as the old system. No girl
shall-act~ both the speeches in~ dia-
logue and those in soliloquy. A sec-
ond undergraduate must be employed
for each part to deliver the solilo-
quies. This will lighten the burden
of Memory-work and develop Broad
Trends in acting. A girl having a
small part (e. g., in a mob scene in
BEN HUR) may.have a fraction of
a large part too, provided that the
minor, part really gives some indica-
tion of the major work.
Chorus work must ,be featured.
That is why we propose to add The
Suppliants to Ben Hur and Strange
Interlude. The protagonist or star,
in the Aeschylus play is a chorus of
fifty women. Under the limitation of
hours clause of the code, at least 150
girls could be employed in ‘one-third
of the trilogy alone.
4>-TRYOUIS. A
All tryouts must be public and ad-
vertised in the College News and the
New York Times at least a week be-
fore they are held. The system of
secrecy and favoritism (holding try-
outs in the bathtub at midnight and
asking your best friends) must be
abandoned. Selection of the success-
ful candidate should be by a majority
show of hands. As an example, we
suggest that the tryouts for the lepers
in Ben Hur be held three times, Mon-
day, Wednesday and Friday, from
twelve to two, in order that girls. tak-
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guess
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THE CLASSIC REEFER
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omitted. Such a change in the an-| We beg to submit the following pro-
nouncing of elections would not in-
volve any complications, and could
'so easily be accomplished, that we
'see no reason why it should not be
brought about very soon.
Experimental Dramatics
After seethg the Varsity Dramat’s
admirable production of Pygmalion,
which we thoroughly enjoyed, we still
want to put in a plea for more experi-
mental and amateur dramatics. It
seems to us that where numerous un-
dergraduates are gathered together
who evidently feel an urge to exhibit |
posal, a direct growth of your com-
ment in last week’s issue of \the Col-|
lege News on the production of
Pygmalion.
In accordance with the spirit of the!
times, we outline our new policy for
Varsity Dramatics in the form of. a
code for the recovery of the drama
at Bryn Mawr. It follows:
PROPOSED CODE FOR VARSITY
DRAMATICS
1. PURPOSE.
It shall be the aim of Varsity Dra-
matics at Bryn Mawr (hereinafter
referred to-as the V.D. of B.M.C.) to
on forever.
fully, that there’s
demand for it.
dangerous. Originality is, after all,
a much rarer quality than the opti-
mist may’ believe. Independence of
thought and a capacity for critical
judgment are just as desirable and
usually of more permanent value. As
to the complaint that many courses
discourage students from continuing
in the field, one must make allow-
ances for difference of taste and in-
terest. We might even suggest that
in some cases this may be a consum-
matign devoutly to be wished, from
the point of view of the student as
wel] as of the faculty. Consider how
difficult it would be to choose one’s
major if, all subjects attracted one
equally. ‘
their: ability as actors or carpenters,
there should be more plays put on
which have not been tried before and
which’ offer an opportunity not for
starring but for large casts. We have
gathered in conversation. that this
opinion is shared by several members
of the English department; they
agreed with us in saying that while
they were delighted to see such excel-
lent acting on the Bryn Mawr stage as
in Pygmalion, they really congratulat-
ed Miss Marti and Miss Thompson and
the cast of Le Miracle de Theophile,
for giving us a play which we would
not often have an opportunity to see
elsewhere, and* doing it very well.
While it is no doubt pleasant to see
'relieve the unemployment of actresses
We would suggest in conclusion
a good imitation of Broadway, we vidualism are outworn. Laissez Faire
on campus by spreading the work;
that is, shortening the hours and
sharing the parts. Every undergrad-|
uate should have a chance to act even!
if she is not very good (in fact, even |
if she is rotten—Varsity Dramatics
should represent Bryn Mawr and if
Bryn Mawr is full of bad actresses,
the productions ought to be bad, be-
cause here the play is not the thing,
the undergraduate is the thing.) To
effect recovery from temporary Shav-
ian despondency and the prevailing
dramatic depression on campus, the
V:D. of B.M.C. must abandon plays
with few or no characters and single
stars, These dramas of rugged indi-
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——~——Wit's End
Continued from: Page Two
We write papers for the term,
All too shortly ge®é.
We do not wish to malign
Every little vernal sign
With a “boo.”
But we have no present worries
- That in Gotham snowy flurries
Continue.
; —Anti-Birds.
SALON ADVICE
To have beauté
Become Sautée.
A RED-HEADED WOMAN
4 (was the cause of it all)
O never shake your gory. locks at
me!
I never know what then it is I see—
And in the wee hours peering o’er
the bedhead
Insomniac, I see a nightmare red-|.
head.
CONEYAD
The ‘rabble roared and o’er the span-
ning plank *
The rioters rushed“ downward flank
on flank
To ballast down the iron bound Hud-
son Ship —
To take the Coney Island springtime
trip.
It was a fairish day, all bright and
hot,
The\passengers were sportive (though
some not)—
They glanced with sparkling eye upon
the deep
(Their fellows o’er the Times fell fast
asleep).
But after the unnumbered great
galaxy =
Of tourists who had reached the pier
by taxi
Had settled sunning on the narrow
prow,
Some children came intent to start a
row:
The little ones were much with grime
be-tinged,
The sub-umbrellaites within them
cringed,
They hid behind the News That’s Fit
To Print,
And recognized no democratic hint.
The eldest of the youthful Gotham
crew,
Arranged in phalanx line his faithful
few—
“Chees! Lookit! Dese is some guys—
wot you tink?
Jus’ lookit dat old sissy-panned young
gink,
I guess dat we can chase ’em off. dis
place,
Wat say, youse guys, le’s give ’em all
a chase.”
He spake, and with the spoken words
gave grin, :
His fellows answered with an eager
din—
They shoved in on the side-aligning
: bench
And.skunk-like breathed out garlic-
loaded stench.
Quick as a lightning flash the slender
spinstek,
Who looked as_if she might be of
Westminster,
Shrank to a smaller size in smaller
space,
And made a wry and scarcely jovial
face.
The little fiends clasped hand in grimy
hand,.
And tossed their bathing suits, so out
the sand
Came sprinkling on the ones. who’d
come to see
The stolid statue of Miss Liberty.
The rubberneckers gazed with grow-
ing dread
Upon the native kids, as I have said,
—tUntil the” scenic-railway "shore was
reached
{And at the wooden pier thegship was
__-beached. —.--—-—-=---—- a
Then what a melee! It appeared
almost
As if upon that man-bedotted coast,
The entourage of tourists must needs
stand
Upon the motley trash and fruit
strewn sand,
For there was nowhere for one to sit
down
In all the great expanse of Coney
town.
Among the other passengers there
was
A callow youth be*bearded with small
~« fuzz,
Who bore upon his strong right ar
* a girl, .
Of buxom face and lovely blondined
curl,
With lipstick of a famous rubber
stamp ’
Variety—aha! . . and what a vamp!
He saw the crowd, they took a needle
show’r,
And on th’ emergent, he began to
_glow’r:
The beach was full—he bared a gold-
filled tooth ©
And. elbowed on into the fray less
ruth—
(His lady’s name was really Adeline—
Be not mistaken by the “ruth-less”
rime).
He raised a mighty fist and therewith
biffed—
There was a small and seemly
wid’ning rift,
He pulled a left, a right, a side, a
: front—
Went down a biggish man and then a
runt,
The Cohens, ea, them all he
slew;
The Goldbergs and ‘th Smiths went
rolling, too,
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rope, .
He waded on with ever conqu’ring
liana lope. ‘ " sales a
But there his lady fair was truly
scared,
And finally the naked truth she bared,
A landsman she, she could not, would
not swim—
She could not—but alone hold on to
him. :
The fuzz be-bearded oped his mam-
moth: mouth
And looked to north, to east, to west,
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to south,
He seemed a little er—ah—er—ah
- dashed,
He turned his.toes in and the water
splashed:
“It’s gonna rain. I guess we’d best
Continued on Page Five
One of the scientific discoveries of
the past’ year that has caused many
of the research workers to ponder
long’ and labor late is one made by
Prof. Harold C. Urey, of Columbia
University. For his discovery of
“Heavy Water” he has been awarded
the’ 1934 Willard Gibbs Medal of the
Chicago section of the American
Chemical Society, and he is the young- |
est. man ever to receive this. honor.
His discovery promises to rank among
the great achievements of science. |
“There are no dope addicts on the
University of Arkansas campus,” Dr.
A. A. Gilbert, of that institution’s fac-
ulty, said in connection with National
Narcotic Education Week.
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A delicate but important question arises: Is there any male society
There is among the family and camp boys a
guaranteed minimum of: Haverford College seniors, 1; Haverford College
juniors, 1; Haverford College sub-freshmen, 1; Cornell men, 1 (all war-
ranted handsome and sociable); plus whatever others good fortune may
bring. Besides these, and several very charming young ladies belonging
to the family, there are always some very interesting professional men
and women, bankers, doctors, lawyers and such.
The best thing to do is to organize a party of four to six, although
two girls would have a splendid time.* We can promise you /as strenu-
ous or as easy a holiday as you please.
nd this summer to explore a wild piece of wilderness as yet
by us. We shall be delighted to take along a pa
young ladies, preferably during the second or third week
Denbigh, about the Camp;
unt, ask Maryallis Morgan, De igh, who was
“af *The ladies of the family promise to satisfy mother on the matter
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throughout America is the announce-
tent of “the Ladies’ Home Journal
that it will present an award of
$1,000 to the organization which dur-
ing the year 1933 performed the most
constructive piece of community
service. Offering the youth of the
country, as it does, an opportunity
to demonstrate their public spirited-
ness and their interest in commun-
ity affairs, it will undoubtedly enlist
much support among student organi-
zations, the sponsors of, the contest
believe.—(N. S. F. A.)
' For the third successive year, In-
ternational Student Service is offer-
ing to representative students in the
United States the opportunity to
spend from three to six weeks in Eu-
ropean work camps at the invitation
of foreign students. The camps this
summer will be held in Wales, Hol-
land and Switzerland from July to
October—(N. S. F. A.)
A correspondence course in the
handling of natural gas has been add-
ed to the University of Kansas Ex-
tension Division—(N. S. F. A.)
Fred Waring, the popular dance
maestro, will judge a beauty contest
to be stagedon the Ohio University ~~
campus by that institution’s yearbook,
v
“ThE puzzle of whether of not there
are “canals” on Mars will .soon be
solved when a 200-inch telescope is
conipleted at Corning, New York.
Woman is the stronger sex, Mary
Sydney Branch, of Western College,
claims in a recent book published by
the University of Chicago press.
An inquiry ‘made at Harvard re-
vealed that. male students carry on
their person an average of 22 cents.
The average at Miami University is
six cents.—(N. S: F. A.)
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Subject of a. recent group debate
at Concordia College in Moorhead,
Minn.: “Resolved, that a house burns
up and not down.” is
Co-eds Beware! A librarian of the
British Phrenological Society recent-
ly maintained that flat-headed men
are conceited and faithless.
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Then get to a telephone this evening and give
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“THE COLLEGE NEWS
“Page Five
Wit’s End
: Continued from-Page Four
£ go home”’—
And so up ends the story of the poem.
The sub-umbrellaites were awf’ly
tired;
The little children were all well
be-mired;
The blondie and her handsome Brook-
lyn swain,
Had seen that it was going soon to
rain,
And thus, with denouement in: short
disclosed,
We have. of all the characters
disposed :
They all went back to New York City
propah—
Or else to family life and Momma,
Poppa.
* —Wary Sailor.
DUTY VS. LOVE
I got my courses figured out,
But now I spend hours. belating
I parcelled out my wéek
Specific times to eat and sleep,
Set-hours-to-do- Greek;
Five minutes each for’ cigarettes,
Four hours’ work each night;
October-June; it was to be,
A strictly non-stop flight.
But tell me, mischief-making gods,
(Sight’s clearer fygm above). 2 :
What earthly good do schedules; do
To someone who’s in love?
—Lazy Loon.
BALLADE FOR DEAD LADIES
Once there were days when I was a
menace
At tennis;
But now let my shins requiescant in
pace
From hockey.
I once used to spend seasons starring
At sparring,
My skating.
You once couldn’t keep me from
winning
An inning. ae
But lorig years succeeded in dimming
My swimming.
Senility, dear, has precluded, in short,
‘Any sport.
—Lounge Lizard.
THE DANCE OF LIFE
This endless disillusionment—
We really feel it sorely;
For every Jacky Cartier
Must there be Mary Morley?
+—Dying Duck.
HOME OF THE BRAVE
(parenthetically, within a reservation)
The Injun is a copper gent
Who lives within a flimsy tent,
Who lives there for the Injun cause,
With all his horrid Injun squaws.
IDEA FOR THE SONG WRITERS
O my itsy papoose,
Is she scared of the moose?
You know you’re not done for,
What have I my gun for?
We will put up his horns,
The mantlepiece above,
And eves and even morns,
We'll live in igloo love.
—Mahook of the North.
AIN’T NATURE GRAND?
I have a pair of pigeons
Who like to’sit and coo,
(They start to love at dawning,
Not end then as we do),
I have a little woodpecker
Who starts his little tricks,
When working gals most need their
sleep :
.(To be exact:—at six).
My friends the sparrows fight it out
At each and every hour.
Guess I might just as well pack up
And move to a bird tower.
—Lone Goose.
I have been hunting for birds,—for
many birds. I want them to sing to
me~-in--the-morning:
battalion, which I will call the Hedge-
Sparrow Hessians, and another, the
Ruffian -Rooks, to line themselves on
my window sill and scream violently
at one another until I am raised to
such a fury that I will be able to write
my final year paper on the Hygienic
Cleaning and Care of Typewriters.
But how to catch the birds? I have
been hiding behind the Library Bushes
each morning at dawn, in hopes of
finding matinal worm hunters. It’s no
use, though. They sense my presence,
so to speak; they have a peculiar feel-
ing of suspicion for those bushes. So,
earnest readers, dear, any birds will
be accepted joyously, if you will but
thrust them through the News office
window, carefully wrapped in: yellow
paper so that they will not flutter and
disturb the peace. :
Cheerio,
THE MAD HATTER.
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THE. COLLEGE NEWS _.
|
| terttess against the enemies. The Rus- |
Twenty Years Ago
had its difficulties, as an angry sub- into this war by their leaders, not suf-'
scriber’s letter bears witness: x el Bors Teas
{
“I write to protest against your very |2%¢ #bout and it Is indeed pitiful to,
careless proof-reading. A paragraph |
lnes ouae : estas Seo and look forward to the tidiness and |
issue was so altered when it appeared
that it became sheer nonsense and at}
points quite the opposite of what had,
been written. . . . You will have few:
contributors in the future if you can-,
not give assurance that you will print
what is sent you without any altera-
tions. Luckily, a bad reputation is
ONG.
“When the regiments move out or}
food, cigars, etc., but what we can
not established by one offense especial- Never have in sufficient quantities at
ly if the first offense serves as a warn-| flowers. ‘Just one more flower" is all}
ing.” Apparently it did; or else the tney ask for, over and over again, oneal
young lady’s next letter was unprint- as they go marching by, with a rose |
able in their gun, flowers everywhere, and |
The voice of-Bryn.Mawr-rose-to:ah the cannons almost hidden under |
angry shout many and many.a time in
the columns. of the early Newses.
“We feel,” cried the editors, “that the
students who went to Billy Sunday’s
revivalist meeting in the Presbyterian
Church, knowing that large numbers,
would attend and who sat in reserved
seats were doing something unfair in
inevitably coupling the name of the
College withthe. Revival. meeting.”
The College News agreed with the’
Cornell University paper, which did
not approve of the “Evangelist of,
slang” because he gained his effects!
by arousing the hysterical emotional- |
j : : : president, the author tells of ‘“the|
rn Sats of u Uodtvateley spaaea.,caTicatuse-ote who believed himself to |
{ ’ . A \
tion is to teach men “to rise by Macias poiahag iad Fig nd
power of their intellects. ithe Lord’s Anointed; and the man—
. Bryn Mawr was rising rapidly by | one who, ‘having done all that a man
the power of its intellect. In a debate could, suffered all that a man must,’ ”
between 1916 and 1918 it was proved put the last predominates throughout
that movies (admission in those days the work. He is portrayed clearly and
was 5 or 10 cents) were distinctly not! without prejudice by an intimate and
beneficial: that they catered to the qiscerning friend, who, although she
crowds by vulgar sensationalism and jas g great admiration and affection
emotionalism, produced eye strain, for Wilson, can still percéive, unblind- |
spread diseases, corrupted the young, oq, his virtues and faults alike. Miss |
constituted a danger to girls and were| Reid explains the causes which gave!
almost totally uncensored. This has pirth to myth and caricature, and
convinced us;:we have decided not t0| which lie in the man. himself.
go to “Little Women.” It is interest-| The picture of the president re-
ing—but disillusioning—to find that’ ceived by the reader is that of a bril-
Ruth Chatterton was playing in 1914 | jiant and witty man, warm and sin-
at the Broad Street Theatre in “Dad- cere in friendship, but coldly disin-!
dy Long-Legs.” _ |terested in mere acquaintances. In-
The self-goyernment rule, during terested in learning for its own sake
this winter, was*amended to read and for the pleasure he derived from
“that students shall not ride, drive OY it, he was unable to sympathize with
motor after dark with men (not chauf-' people who were not. Wilson had
feurs) unchaperoned, or in a hired ve- been brought up with people who were |
hicle or without two other girls.”"We serjous, extremely intellectual, firm of
are a bit puzzled about what the rule | purpose, and conscious of duty. As
must have been before it was amend- 4 consequence, he was mentally older
ed; and also in what category of the than most people of his age, and was
human race the Self-Government As-'totally shut out from the exuberant
sociation sternly*placed chauffeurs. |pleasures of comradely gatherings: he
A letter from a.former Graduate’ delighted in, but could never wholly
Student at Bryn Mawr, the daughter! share in them.
of the Professor of Medicine at the | The brilliant scholar and adminis-
University of Berlin, presents the trator was extremely childlike in ordi-
other side of the war story. nary dealings with people. He liked
“We can never forget those first/to be surrounded by intimate friends,
days of August. The Russian Army with whom he could feel really at
was marching up along our Eastern home, and in his friendships he was
border and for two days we waited be-| exceedingly exacting, demanding love
fore the Castle window for the Tsar 8 and unswerving fidelity. He was quite
answer, whether or not he would with-| idealistié about the people to whom
draw his troops from our frontier.|he was devoted, endowing them with
—. and wena bap sO. (qualities they never’ possessed and ex-
emnly moving up ana@-down Unter den | necting them to fit into his mold. Sub-
Linden, waiting to hear and preparing) tleties of character he was incapable
for the utmost, the cathedral bells | of perceiving. People who were not
began to ring and: called us in for | very close to him, or who disliked him,
prayer, a short prayer and the most did not interest him at all; in his deal-
powerful singing of our old Lutheran) ings with them he was impatient and
war hymn: ‘Ein feste Burg ist unser |jntolerant. For this reason, he some-
Gott.’ A few minutes later the Cas-'times seemed lacking in tact in diplo-
tle doors opened, and the Tsar’s tele-| matic relations.
gram and immediately afterwards our; ‘Wilson was idealistic about the
Emperor’s order, ‘Zur Mobilmachung state in the same way as. about
der gesammten Streitgrafte,’ was friendship.. He himself was interested
read aloud. : lin politics as an instrument for the ad-
“After one powerful cheer the peo-| ministration of justice, a means for se-
ple went home, solemn and quiet as curing as many advantages as possible
they ‘had come. Everyone went to/for the people as a whole. He could
work, and work they did, so tremen-/ never quite comprehend the attitude of
dously that within a few days we had|those who entered politics for purely
peaceful and try so hard to cheer up|
their wives and children that it makes |
one forget the trains and trains full |
of wounded and suffering men that|
come in, likewise an endless string.”
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~ Book Reviews
siti
WOQDROW WILSON |
The Cariouture, the Myth, and the|
Man, by Edith Gittings Reid.
In this biography of the famous |
.a_gigantic army ready.to.fight,-were+personat-gain:—“Wilson’s-own ideal,”
able to feed and clothe and nurse
them. Boys pulled the milk cart, be-
cause the horses were given for the
soldiers; women conducted tram cars,
because the men were getting ready
says Miss Reid, “ ‘the God within him,’
was peace and unity of purpose, held
down to earth by just laws.”
The biographer traces carefully
las Fairbanks, Jr., Colleen Moore, and
|turous females.
and early youth, together with his ed-
Mawr, where he was wretchedly un-
professor and then president of
|see, as we have here in the east, how Princeton, the governorship of New|
friend. The style is lucid and flowing, |
able book.—A. M.
IN PHILADELPHIA
Continued from Page Two
Boyd: Melody’in Spring, with Lan-
land and Ann Sothern, is scheduled |
to open Wednesday, but Katherine |
Hepburn in Spitfire may be held over
for another week.
Earle: Wharf Angel, a lurid tale
with Dorothy Dell and Victor McLag-
len. Not so good. Opening Friday,
Success At Any Price, starring Doug-|
Genevieve Tobin. Not very good
either,
Europa: Boris Karloff in The
Ghoul is held over until Thursday,
when Gow, The Headhunter, opens.
Very, very poor, we fear.
Fox: All Men Are Enemies, a war
story about an English boy and a
Viennese girl. Pretty “hackneyed.
Opening Friday, Wild Gold, starring
John Boles.
Karlton: Sing and Like It, with |
Zasu Pitts, Ned Sparks, and Edward;
Everett Horton ridiculing racketeers,
kidnappers, amateur actors and dra-
matic critics, all lumped together un-
der the heading of people who take
themselves too seriously. Should be
very funny. Friday, The Countess of
Monte Cristo, starring Paul Lukas, |
Fay Wray, and Reginald Denny,
Stanley: 20 Million Sweethearts, |
with Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers. |
All about the inner workings of radio!
broadcasting, with radio scouts dis-!|
covering people right and left. Dick'|
Powell gets dragged from obscurity
into the hearts of twenty million rap-
Probably pretty sick-
|
ening.
Stanton: Registered Nurse, reveal-
ing the love life in a medical center in
its more romantic aspects. Bebe Dan-
iels is the beautiful trained nurse wife
of a drunken wastrel, with disastrous
consequences to numbers cf roving
doctors. Appallingly poor.
Local Movies
Ardmore: Wed. and Thurs., Fred-
ric March and Sylvia Sidney in Good
Dame; Fri. and Sat., Six of a Kind—
Burns and Allen, Charlie Ruggles,
Phone 570
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| Wilson’s whole history: his childhood
to go; women and children went out
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in and take the places of all those |
that were strong enough to go and |
Beat...
“Exams, of course, are quite out of
the question, not only because of their |
selfishness, but because there is no-
body there to examine you. .
“Victories are received more or less
as a matter of course. We know there
is no alternative. It is either win or
perish, and we feel too strong—we
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——-Bven in the eatly days, the News’ Sians-are-pitied-as-poor-devils,-driven--ueation;~his—professorship—at~Bryn/son Skipworth; Mon. and Tues., Bo-|
‘lero, with George Raft and Sally
ficiently educated to‘ know what they ‘happy, his radicalism and defeats as|Rand; Wed., Hal LeRoy and Rochelle
|Hudson in Harold Teen.
Seville: Thurs. and Fri., an all-
they are willing to be made prisoners! Jersey, and finally the presidency of | native cast in Eskimo; Sat., Kath-
the United States and the tragic years! gpine Hepburn,
cleanliness of our prisoners’ camps. | before his death. While carefully con-| Bdna May Oliver in Little ‘Women;
The French we can also understand | sidering the political questions and | Mon, and Tues., His Double. Life; with
and their old desire for revenge; but crises in which he was involved, Miss | Roland Young and Lillian Gish; Wed.
ithe bitterness is great towards soar et rept ber: = ee alan Thurs., Ruth Chatterton and
character as nad a devote {Adolphe Menjou in Journal of Crime.
Joan Bennett, and
Wayne: Wed. and Thurs., Moulin
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Franchot Tone; Fri. and Sat., David
Harum, with Will, Rogers and Louise
Dresser; Mon. and Tues., T.ionel Bar-
rymore and Fay Bainter, This Side of
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Not Out of the Stacks
Continued from Page Two
Shore’s Daughter, we are immensely
‘of the San Francisco Barbary Coast,|cheered about the future of. litera-
ture.
In the first place, in reading it, we
were able to discard-our glossary of
psychological terms and
read straight through without dozing
off. Secondly, there was nothing
which led us to believe that the only
way to get any sense out of the novel
was to apply a cryptogram method to
‘it, using other punctuation, words, or
spelling to get at the meaning. We
feel that nothing can compare with
reading Mr. Benet’s novel, and finding
for that contention, anyway.
~ The main trouble with the book is a
difficulty the author could scarcely
have escaped. The style is.as lucid as
Willa Cather’s (in Obscure Destinies,
not Shadows on the Rock), and be-
cause the writing is incisive and the
characters are well conceived and pre-
sented from the first page, we are
left suspended at the end. Like other
novels taking their characters from
the gracious nineties through the war
and into the empty post-war world,
‘James Shore’s Datighter leaves the
reader with a living impression of the
nineties, but merely a diagrammatic
sketch of the characters living as our
contemporaries. We cannot make up
our mind whether Violet Shore is more
real as the wide-eyed little girl who
played with yellow and black trains,
or whether we can see her really alive
now—her cold jewels glittering on her
bosom. Maybe we are dreamers (yes,
all of us), and aren’t seeing our con-
temporaries in the right light, or
maybe we’re remembering Violet
Shore as.a little girl in the same way
that we forget the. fallen woman,
Becky Sharp, — for the impertinent
creature who came out of Miss
Jemima’s.
In any event, we wish you’d read
James Shore’s Daughter: we can then
'get together and people it from life
{|—and our acquaintances.
‘Francés Perkins, Secretary of La-
bor in President Roosevelt’s Cabinet,
was known as Fanny Cora Perkins
when she was a member of the Mount
Holyoke College, class of 1902.
in it no characters that behave as if
they had taken. Lydia Pinkham prep-
arations since they had been put off
the rations prescribed by Dr. Holt’s
book on raising babies. Thar’s real
gold in their hearts!
James Shore’s Daughter is, in fact,
written so convincingly that we think
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Mr, Benet is wise in prefacing it with
“The characters in this novel are pure-
ly fictitious.” If he hadn’t told us
that, we should have suspected that
this novel by.Mr. Benet was autobio-
graphical, especially since it is writ-
ten in first person. However, we sup-
pose we must forego the pleasure of
thinking that the author has led the
interesting life of Gareth Grant, and
that he has known such fascinating
people as Violet Shore (in the title
role) : the humor is much too objective
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Japanese actor impersonating the god
of the winds and the rain, Mr. Car-
tier showed a strong influence from
the Orient and Ted Shawn. Here the
outstanding elements were the hand
movements again and the spectacular
costume with its white mask, red robe,
blue-figured shirt and trousers, Yed
peaked hat with silver streamers, and
two great silver fans. In the “Bor-
gia” he shifted, by means of a striking
scarlet velvet costume, from the Orient
to Renaissance ftaly, where Rodrigo,
Borgia waited like a vulture for the
aged Pope’s dying gasp. With no act-
ual dancing, but with highly expres-
sive face, feet, and hands especially,
Mr. Cartier presented the cruel, avari-
cious devil, and at the end reached a
high point of artistry when, the old
Pope dead, Rodrigo donned the white
papal robe and superciliously signed
the cross. As Louis XIV conductin
the “Royal Rehearsal,” Jacques Ca:
tier proved that the dance as well as
the drama can have humor and satire.
With clever acting and an eye to the
small details of dress, gesture, and
mannerism he satirized deliciously the
- dandy king and the ballet, and only
occasionally descended to the obvious.
In the final two numbers Mr, Car-
tier adapted two dances from the Hopi
‘Indians, a medicine Mescal and a war
‘dance. In both he adhered closely to
the Indian costumes, with but slight
theatrical license. But in both he
and power that the Indians have. Per- | are the stops.”
haps—it—was—because—such “dances To vary the program still more, Mr.
‘should-be'done around a cedar fire in and Mrs, Hotson sang their next selee-
the desert with shrill, coyote-like cries, tio, to the lute. ‘The song, “Fain
and because no white man can capture would I change that note To which
the madly hammering rhythms of the ‘fond love hath charmed me,” the words
Southwest Indians; but even with'of which are anonymous, the music
these barriers discounted, Mr. Cartier|hy Tobias Hume, % well-known mili-
failed in his interpretations of the tary figure in the Irish wars of Eliz-
Hopi dancers. In both dances he ex- 'abeth’s time, flowed to a slow, steady
hibited marvelous control and agility ‘rhythm suited to the banjo-like accent
and proved himself a splendid dancer, of the accompanying lute.
but he failed to catch the driving*; T ; . oe
duenks af he tena Indianen tt. ¥. | he program continued with a mis
|cellaneous collection of songs, some of
‘them written for three or four parts,
Mr. and Mrs. Hotson L ‘but none the less effective when sung
Sing Old Madrigals'by two people. The first, Robert
> Jones’ “Farewell, dear heart, since I
| must needs be gone,” is used by
pressed the delicate irony of a man’s |Shakespeare in Twelfth Night: it is a
dying of love. The singers concluded | slightly humorous sketch of a lover,
the. group with “Go Ye, My Canzon- miserable at first, gradually getting
ettes,’”’ less interesting for ‘its words,'!some sense of reality; and in this case,
but, again, having a strong melody. ‘with the clash of sentiments, the two-
Mr. and Mrs. Hotson then'presented | part singing brings out very amusing-
a three-part song or round, “Sopho- ly the contrast. “Strike up the Tabor”
cles.” The song had a lovely plaintive, was an interesting piece, because of
tune, which was all the more effective-/the Morris dance rhythm which it
ly brought out when Mrs. Hotson employed, and the two pieces, “Cuc-
sang it to a recorder. These pipe-like|koo” and “The Nightingale,’ were
instruments, made of boxwood, came ‘also notable for their tricks in rhythm,
in sets of four, ranging in size as they} both of them changing from a smooth
ranged from high to low in pitch.|running cadence into the quick stac-
They were much used in Shakespeare’s|cato refrain of bird calls. Mr..and
time for informal singing, as when| Mrs. Hotson ended their part of the
the Players in Hamle¥ came in with] program by singing, “Jon, Come Kiss
them and Hamlet asked Guildenstern | Me Now,” a song of domestic infelicity
to play upon one—“’Tis as easy as|owing to some misbehavior. on the part
lying: govern these ventages with|of the wife (and) (or) -the husband,
your finger. and thumb, give it breath;and Thomas Morley’s “Sing We En-
with your mouth, and it will discuss; chanted,” a joyous song on the happi-
ge
Continued from Page One
most eloquent music. Look you, these ness of married life.
The afternoon was concluded with |
other-madrigals sung by the students | ter” We saw political strife wiped
present. All were sung as rounds in
either two or three parts; the individ-
ual parts were very simple, but the |
group: singing added great richness |
and variation to them. Besides “The |
Great Bells of Oseney,” “Margery,
Serve Well the Black Cow” and “Joan,
Come Kiss Me Now,” they sang. the
song from Twelfth Night, “Hold Thy
Peace, Thou Knave,” and a round com-
bining a hymn with a drinking song
most incongruously;' “Donnes.a, boire
ale bon companion. . Alleluia, Alle-
luia.” ;
Americas Described
By Mr. Culbertson
.
Continued from Page One
tion.” We turned back and saw to the
northwest the: sheep pastures and ly-
ing in the mountains of Ultima Es-
peranza, Sacramento, the fascinating
lost city of the Caesars, so-called be-
cause the man who told the biggest
tale about it was named Caesar.
From our vantage point above the
tall peaks, we were not hampered by
time and space. Mr. Culbertson asked
us to imagifie a world of dreams, built
of bright hopes for the future. As
Prospero said, “We are such stuff as
dreams are made on,” and our dreams
may well become the reality of future
generations. So, from our imaginat-
ive position, we did not see the petty
quarrels and intrigues that went on
below, nor did we feel the bitter wars |
between high and low lasses. We}
saw “man united in a tommon effort |
to govern himself and conquer. mat-.
away and justice dealt out equally to
everyone. All races were as one na-
tion.
From the ‘“‘cloud-capped towers” we
seemed to hear the appeal of the
South American and Anglo-Saxon
leaders, the appeal] for friendly and
united countries. Cervantes spoke for
the Latins, and Shakespeare for the
Anglo-Saxons. Cervantes saw life
much deeper than we do. He saw the
“differences which divide the, human’
soul.” In Don Quixote and Hanilet
are symbolized those people who “are
visionaries, who take no part in the
petty intrigues of life, but who under-
stand the smallest inward meanings
of justice and perceive great issues in
those things which others would pass;
by. The Sancho PanzaSsand the Fal~
staffs of life are those who run the
business and political ends of. the\
world, forgetting higher loyalties and
becoming involved in the closed circles
of national powers. They are the
sheep. The hope of the world lies in
the other group, the class of people
with great souls of their own. We
must be optimistic, however, for even
in the sheep there is a little of the
quality of the Don Quixotes and Ham-
lets. We must believe man has within
his mind and soul an ability to con-
trol the situations which have been
produced through the exercise of his
power. It will be’a long, hard road,
but if we have the potentiality to cre-
ate a world from our “cloud-capped
towers” of imagination there must be
some hope.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS pred
Campus N dies
€/ Dr. Carpenter spoke in Boston dur-
ing Easter Vacation as Charles Eliot
Norton lecturer for the Archaeological
Institute of America. At the Mus-
eum of Fine Arts, Dr. Carpenter’s
subject was: The Modern Appeal in
Ancient Sculpture; at the Fogg Mus-
eum in Cambridge, he spoke on The
Lost Statues of the Parthenon.
Dr. Helson and Dr. McKinnon at-
tended the meeting of the New York
branch of the American Psychological
Association, where Dr, Turner read a
paper last week.
Mrs. Kirk attended the Vassar
Alumnae Conference.
Eleanor Fabyan, ’36, was_ elected
chairman of the committee to con-
sider the admittance of Russia to the
League of Nations at the model
League of Nations ‘Conference at
Bucknell University last week-end.
The other members of the Bryn Mawr
delegation were M. Haskell, ’34; N.
Hart, ’34; G. Meehan,. ’34; B. Cary,
36; E. Bingham, ’36, and M. Hutch-
ings, ’°37. They represented China.
An article by Phyllis Goodhart, 85,
on the Ambrosiana Library in Milan,
which is second only to the Vatican
among the great libraries of Italy, ap-
peared in last Sunday’s Magazine Sec-
tion of The New York Times. The
Ambrosiana is not — a ite! but
a picture gallery, containing draw-
ings by Michalangelo, Raphael, Vero-
nese, Titian, and Leonardo da Vinci.
,Voice of Bryn Mawr
Continued from Page Three
ing laboratory courses or honors work,
should all have a chance‘to show how
they. would disport ~themselves as
lepers.
5. THE SEX QUESTION... .
Since all. plays of the trilogy have
male parts and since the only way to
avoid the sex question would be to
give Maedchen in Uniform year
after year, we propose. the | fol-
lowing: the male prisoners of Phila-
delphia prisons, a genuine organiza-
tion for which the wardens and the
State are directly responsible, and
whose activities are restricted and su-
pervised, can be conscripted for the
male parts of these plays.
6. OTHER TYPES OF WORK. . .
Seenery, carpentering and painting
and shifting should be done entirely
by undergraduates. The employment
of graduate students, faculty, or
alumnae, or any: other aliens to Bryn
Mawr, is strictly forbidden. The cur-
tain, however, shall be raised and low:
ered repeatedly during the intermis-
sions, providing extra work for the
stage managers and permitting those
shifting scenery to disport themselves
in the public eye.
IN CONCLUSION.
The V.D. of B.M. C. begs that the
above code be given serious considera-
tion before the public hearing, to be
iri td in wHiataainte Street Sub-
urban Station. We _ hope - that the|
Blue Owl will soon be nesting in Tay-
lor Tower, that Varsity Dramatics
may be returned to its true heir and
begetter, the Forgotten Woman, the
undergraduate.
productions
I. Organizations
have co-operated:
taking speaking parts dur-
ing the year in the two
with which: we;
2 alumnae. '
V. Members of the undergraduate
body contributing to the pro-
duction of Pygmalion.
(a) Construction: at least. .32
19
1932-33: of whom 17 did an ap-
Respectfully yours, (1) Haverford, Caps ~ and preciable amount of
THE GIRLS’ FRIENDLY SOCIETY, Bells. work.
Committee on Reorganizations. (2) Princeton University, no (b) Scene shifting ........ 20
dramatic
Dramatic Statistics
Varsity Dramatic presents the fol-
lowing statistics: .
I: Number of Bryn Mawr under-
graduates acting in major
productions:
1932-33; two productions:
(a) total number of parts tak-
en by Bryn Mawr under-
~ 1933- 34: é
(2) The Plays
zation.
III: Direction:
1932-33:
Pay COREL LiL | Sete rere gree aren gr ergy: 17
: (1) Alumna.
(b) total number of speaking ‘
. (2) Alumna.
parts taken by Bryn Mawr 1933-34:
undergraduates
(c). number of individuals tak-
ing part in the two pro-
ductions
(i. e., two of these un-
) Undergraduate.
(2) Professional.
eee eer eee eee eee
Bryn Mawr faculty.
(1) No men acted in the play. |
and Players
Club of Philadelphia, an
amateur dramatic organi-
Bryn Mawr faculty.
IV: Casting of Pygmalion,
number of undergraduates try-
~~ ing out (on two nights) .18
organization, | « of whom 15 worked for
| more than one night.
(a and b) total number of
undergraduates employed,
backstage giving approxi-
mately one to fifty hours
OUIECE. iva yi cue veer 43
number * giving — considerable
WIG Oe ae 25
(c) eostumes: total. number
CnPALCE ees 4
number giving considerable
PING = va bles veces 3
(d) Business Manager oa
(e) persons employed on light-
ing and properties acted
also on construction and
shifting crews and are in-
cluded in that number.
ae a " number of women’s parts (f) Acting: speaking parts
ay ee p Sak aie 1% (speaking) in the play.. 6 taken by undergraduates 4
cae eer eee ee number of undergraduates total number of parts taken by
ing speaking parts
1933-84; two productions:
originally cast for speak-
undergraduates 6
eg eae pene 5 Grand total of . undergraduates
(a) a ee ieee Ho for non-speaking. parts.... 2 contributing to the produc-
ee een . ser total Page : cee oe i 7 VOR Vein seus ee 54
: : one undergrad-
(b) Ce ie ae _— vate was forced to per cent of college....... 14%
Poi ir Fogel 91 withdraw on March Grand total of undergraduates
(c). number. of individuals ap- se sv onan ——e —_ Te
anion
we” ‘eaaieasia in the women’s parts: per cent. of college...... 842%
d) numbe
(d) si ~
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