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DIRECTOR'S PAGE --- MAY DAY ANNOUNCEMENTS



Rainy Day Schedules
' Announced in Chapel



Mrs. Collins Pleads Attendance
For All Dancing Rehearsals
~” * "From Now On

'Goodhart, April 16.—Announcement



of. the progress and preparation for |.

May Day were made by Mrs. Chad-

wick-Collins in chapel this morning.
She announced that the budget is hold-

. ing up well and that nearly $5,000

has been taken in by ticket sales
through the May Day Office alone.
This is ahead of the sale not only for
1932, but even for 1928, and reports
have not yet begun to come in from
the alumnae who are selling tickets
all over the country. Four thousand
dollars have been taken out for rain
insurance for Saturday, and in case
of rain the various plays will be per-
formed in Goodhart Hall and the
Gymnasium. “The decision as: to
where each play was to be given was
agreed upon by the heads of the May
Day organization and the choice was
based on where properties could go
and also on the desire to divide the
music.

Robin Hood, The Deluge and The
Creation, The Masque of Flowers,
with music and The Old Wives’ Tale
will be presented in Goodhart Hall in
case of rain, and the Green (which in-
eludes St. George and the Dragon)
with music, Midsummer’ Night’s
Dream and Gammer Gurton’s Needle
will be given in the Gymnasium, with
a second presentation of Robin Hood
to finish the program there so that
those who choose to see the plays in
the Gymnasium may also see the
crowning of the May Queen. In case
of rain on Friday the program will
be postponed to Monday. Dress re-
hearsals will begin in two weeks and
the schedule for them and for the
general Maypole dancing is as fol-
lows: '
Thursday, April 30: 4.15 p.m. Big
Maypole dancing on the Green, with
band (Friday in case of rain).

Friday, May 1: 6 to 7 p. m.
Maypole dancing on the Green.

Sunday, May 3:-Dress rehearsals
of the Plays. (Monday in case of
rain.)

2-8—Robin Hood.

3-4—The Creation and The Deluge.

4-5—Old Wives’ Tale.

5-6—Gammer Gurton’s Needle.
6-7—Midsummer. Night’s Dream.

Monday, May 4:

8-8.40 a. m.—General dancing
(Tuesday in case of rain, Sunday or
Monday).

2-3—-Maypole dancing.

4-5—St. George and the Dragon
(dress rehearsal).

5-6—The Masque of Flowers (dress
rehearsal).

Tuesday, May 5: a

8-8.40 a. m.—General dancing.

2.30-6 p. m.—All of the Green (not
the procession) with band.

Wednesday, May 6:

Big

8-8.40 a. m.—General Maypole
dancing.
2.30—Procession, Queen’s Court,

Big Maypole dances, with band.
Thursday, May 7:
2.30—Dress rehearsal of entire pag-
eant. (Everybody must be dressed in
costume and assembled outside Pem-
broke Arch by 2 p. m.)
Please watch the bulletin boards for
your individual play rehearsals.
Movies of the plays will be taken

: at dress rehearsals and of the pageant

on Friday, May 8.

Miss Grayson, Mrs. von Erffa and
their helpers have been working stead-
ily on the more than 700 costumes
which will be used and these promise
to be not only more authentic and
picturesque, but more varied and more
beautiful: than ever before. As soon
as Miss Grayson has finished the de-
signing and making of the costumes
for each play they will be turned over
to the casts for the finishing touches
under the supervision of Miss Dyer
for her plays and Miss Lord for Mr.
Wyckoff’s plays. Undergraduates are
asked.to-help the Costume Committee
and the casts of the plays whenever
they have time. _

The paper flowers are all finished

_. three weeks ahead of the 1932 sched-
ule and the undergraduates, under

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Tumblers’ Costumes __
All tumblers are asked to
make sure that their costumes
fit them. Any one requiring
refitting should report to the
_ Gymnasium,

MEMBERS OF FACULTY
TO WAIT ON QUEEN









. Members of the faculty will appear

in the May Day Procession as ladies-
in-waiting and courtiers in. Queen
Elizabeth’s Court. Several other
parts will also be filled by the faculty.
Following is a list of the participants:
* Ladies-in-waiting: Martha Meysen-
burg Diez, Clarissa Compton Dryden,
Harriett Ferguson, Josephine Fisher,
Enid Glen, Agnes Kirsopp Lake, Mar-
guerite Lehr, Elinor Amram Nahm,
Mary Louise Terrien, Mary Willough-
by. : :

Courtiers: Karl Anderson, Richard
Bernheimer, T. Robert S. Broughton,
J. Alister Cameron, Ernst Diez, Max
Diez, Richmond Lattimore, Walter
Michaels, Milton Charles Nahm, Hel-
mut von Erffa, Edward H. Watson.

Faculty who have other parts in
May Day.

Apothecary—Olga Leary.

Playwright—Herbert A. Miller.

Dames with Little Scholars—Ma-
deleine Soubeiran, Edith Lanmian:-:

Morris dancer—Mary Eliot Froth-
ingham.

Villager—Alice Bookstahler Latti-
more.



piece of work. The colors, too, are

better than before, as they are sharper.

The 14,000 printed announcements
of May Day have all been sent out,
this also in great part due to the help
of undergraduate volunteers.

One of the greatest contributions
on the part of the students is made
by the understudies in the plays who
have had to learn two parts, some-
times two long ones; but as everyone
will realize, it is imperative that all
large parts be understudied.

All available rooms in the vicinity
of Bryn Mawr have been taken for
the eighth and ninth of May and many
of the Philadelphia hotels have been
almost filled. If any undergraduates
wish to cancel reservations for rooms
in Philadelphia and the Main Line
they are asked to notify the May Day
Office instead of communicating di-
rectly with the inn or hotel, because
over one hundred requests for rooms
have been received which cannot be
filled.

Undergraduates will not be able to
be with their families on Friday or
Saturday morning, May 8 and 9, be-
cause that is the time when they must
be made up. No outsiders will be al-
lowed to sleep in the halls Thursday,
Friday or Saturday nights and no
outsider will even be allowed in the
halls on-Friday and Saturday with-
out a.special card of admission signed
by. the warden of the hall, since all
of the halls will be locked as a pro-
tection against possible robbery and
the maids will admit no one without
a card.

Mrs. Collins concluded by saying:

“When I was thinking last night
what words of exhortation I might say
to you this morning in regard to the
necessity of attendance at the rehear-
sals of the big Maypole dances, I rea-
lized that everything I could think of
saying, I had already said to you.
Later on I happened to be reading in
The New Yorker some lines by Ogden
Nash, so I thought I’d try to para-
phrase them. I give them to you with
apologies to him and also to you:
“So I advise you even at the risk of

being pedantic,

If you must have an Elizabethan May
Day choose one that is probably
fatal but certainly romantic,

Because it is better to have an au-
thentic kind of May Day and be
worked to death or anyway half to
death

Than to have the other kind which is
more fun if not more good and keep
your breath;

One touch of May Day makes the
whole world your kin

And friends will come from near and
far all prepared to grin-—

How unfortunate it would be if thoge
who came to smile should turn dis-

dainful ~ 4

Finding the Bryn Mawr students did

“not know how to dang and their

- May Day therefore puinful!” .

wih.



MAY DAY CALENDAR

Wednesday, April 22. — General
dancing, 6-7 p. m.; St. George, 8-9.30
p. m. (stage); Old Wives’ Tale:
Scene 12, 1.30-2 p. m. (outdoors if
fine) ; Scene 24, 4-5 p. m. (éutdoors if
fine); Scene 12 and 23 and Harvest-
ers, 5-6 p. m. (outdoors if fine);
Creation, cast singing, 5.30-5.45 p, m.;
Deluge, cast singing, 5.45-6 p. m.

Thursday, April 23.—General danc-
ing, 6-7 p. m.; Morris dancing, 8.30
p. m.; Dargason and Circassian Cir-
cle (for all Morris, sword and special
country dancers), 8.50 p. m.; sword
and special country dancing, . after
Dargason and Circassian Circle; tum-
bling, 5 p. m.; Masque: Primavera
and Cock, 4-5 p. m.; Gypsies, 5-6 p.
m.; Shepherds and Maidens, 8.30
p. m.

Friday, April 24.—Robin- Hood, en-
tire, 3.30-5.30 p. m. (outdoors); Old
Wives’ Tale: Scene 31, 1.30-2 p. m.;
understudies, 8-9 p. m.; Gammer Gur-
ton, cast, 3-5 .p. m.; Midsummer
Night’s Dream, mechanical parts,
7.30-8.30 p. m.; Creation, cast, 8.30-
9 p. m.; Deluge, cast, 9-10.15 p. m.;
Masque, entire, 4-6 p. m. (Gym).

Saturday, April 25.—Robin Hood,
entire, 9 a. m.-1 p. m.; Gammer Gur-
ton, cast, 11 a. m.-1 p. m.; Midsum-
mer Night’s Dream: mechanical parts,
9-11 a. m:; court, 10-11 a. m.; Masque:
North Wind, Primavera, Cock, 4-5 p.
m.; Garden Gods and Flowers, 5-6
p. m.





Mr. Schumann Composes
New Music for Masque



Original Score Lost; No Elizabethan
Tune Suited to Dance



Since music for the Masque of
Flowers is not extant, Mr. Hans
Schumann, who has been accompany-
ing the natural dancing classes here
at Bryn Mawr for the past five years,
has written special music for this
coming production of the Masque. - By
doing this he has’ arrived at the per-
fect. solution to producing an old
masque for a modern audience. If
other Elizabethan music than that
originally splayed for the Masque of
Flowers were used, it would certainly
prove to be incongruous, if not ridicu-
lous since the dancers are, after all, of
a modern and not a mediaeval type.
The music would lack the color and
miss the harmony that has been de-
veloped in three centuries of experi-
mentation with technical composition
and instrumentation. Music could
more easily have been written in the
style of Elizabethan dance music, but
in that case the tempo would be for-
mal and slow, not conforming in the
least with the fragile, beautiful move-
ment of the dancers.

Mr. Schumann believes that dance
music must be suited to the dance,
but be at the same time worth while
as music when it is played apart from
the dance. Starting, then, with this
ideal, he has composed the Maser»

the dancing and suiting it to the per-
sonality of the solo and group danc-
ers alike. Each piece has its own leit
motif expressing the personality of
the soloist and is written to fit the
capability of the particular dancer.
Three of Mr. Schumann’s composi-
tions are for the solo dances in the
Masque. That for the North Wind
is strong, with the muscular strength
of the Wind in its phrases. Prima-
vera, slender and blonde, enters to a
lyric, sweetly flowing piece.” The
music for the Cock has a nerygus,
jerky movement fitted to his spirifed
dancing. And, finally, Mr. Schumann
has written a charming gavotte for
Primavera and Cock in duet, light,
but a perfectly formal gavotte in the
old style so that it may be completely
in keeping with the Elizabethan spirit.
The music for the Garden Gods is
rich and dignified, to suit the char-
acter of the group of dancers—six tall
girls—and it is particularly interest-
ing in. its composition, having been
written to one tone of one gong, the
G of the gong. A waltz form was
chosen for the dance of the Flowers,
since'the unifying rhythm of the waltz
gives a swing and a form to dancing
'by large groups.
For the anti-masque Mr. Schumann



Silenus and Kawasha with their satel-

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| Rehearsal Cut
No May Day rehearsals have ~
been schedulgd for May 2; thus
that weekend is left free for the
German Language Examina-
tion, the Time sn
* Contest and- the rinceton

house parties. |



Dress Rehearsals

The dress rehearsal schedule
is arranged .so that all students
can see the May Day plays in
costume. This provides the
only opportunity for undergrad-
uates in any play to see the
other plays.



music, making it form the units tor |

has done a perfect accompaniment. |.









lites enter to a march, which employs
separate motifs for the two gods, a
lilting strain for the god of tobacco
and a heavy—heady, we should like to

say—refrain for the god of wine.

Mr. Schumann has also done the
music for the Cloister dances that
are separate from the Masque.
They are completely in keeping with
the ‘spirit of the Cloister programme.
He has written a very gay polka for
the Chimney Sweeps, a composition
with a mediaeval Portuguese theme
for the’Gypsy dances, and a German
“laendler” with a gay peasant
atmosphere for the dance of the Shep-
herd and Shepherdesses.







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_ Broadcast on WOR

Tune in over WOR on Friday,
May Ist, from 3.15 to 3.30. Mr.
Otis Skinner will speak on the
Bryn Mag May Day, Emily
Kimbrough” Wrench, ’21, and
Sophie Yarnall Jacobs, ’23, will
give a dialogue and a group of
students under the direction of
Mr. Ernest: Willoughby will sing
May Day songs. The songs
include: “To the Maypole Let.
Us On,” “Now Is the Month of
Maying,” “What Shall He Have
That Killed the Deer?” “Follow,
Follow, Follow Me”; the “Har-
vester’s Song” from The Old
Wives’ Tale; and “Pottell of
Malmsey,” the Gossips’ song
from The Deluge.



NBC Broadcast

The National Broadcasting
Company is giving a nationwide
broadcast of the actual May
Day on May 9th from 2.30 to
3.80. For further details see
the Radio Time-Table, Ss



Colored Movies

Colored movies will be taken
of the entire pageant and black
and white ones taken of the
plays as a record of this May
Day.











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