College news, May 6, 1932

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"“Blizabethan Dances

Had Festive Origins



Special Dances Were Done to
Ward Off Evils and
Aid Crops

WHOLE VILLAGE DANCED





The folk. dances of Elizabethan |

times were originally series of figures
arbitrarily suiting the music. As they
developed into a more formalized pat-
tern, many ceremonial and spectacu-
lar dances were presented in connec-
tion with seasonal festivals by spe-
cial—but not in the ordinary sense

professional—performers. These lat-

ter, having a magico-religious function
were done in each village by its own
local team.

Morris dancing was-originally done
in the spring, frequently at Whitsun-
tide,
a boy dressed in girl’s habit, who was
called Maid Marian. Also there were
two musicians. Frequently one of the

dancers, more gaily and richly dress- |}.
ed than the others, acted as “fore- |}
The garments |
of the dancers were ornamented with |
bells tuned to different notes so as to}

man of the morris.”

sound in. harmony. The purpose of
these dances was the, expulsion of

evils and diseases from the parish or |

district. This accounts for the use
of sticks and bells, together’with the
former practice of dancing with
blackened faces (to which the name
“morris,” i. e.,. Moorish, “nigger,”
seems to be due). Thus the origin of
this dance is attributed to the Span-
ish Morisco and its introduction into
England, to John of- Gaunt on. his
return from Spain during the time
of Edward the Third. Many authori-
ties, on the contrary, ascribe Morris
dancing to the Gallic tribes or to the
Flemish. Few, if any, vestiges of it
can be traced beyond the time of Hen-
ry the Seventh, about which time, and
particularly in thats of Henry the
Eighth, the churchwardens’—accounts
showed the importance of the Morris-
dance in parochial festivals.

The Morris dancing depends large-
ly upon comparatively intricate foot-
work for its charm. Its popularity
during the time of Queen [Elizabeth 4s
admirably expressed in a tract pub-
lished at that time; mentioning a
“stranger, which, seeing a. quintes-
sence of all the picked youth, strained
out of a whole endship, footing the
Morris about a May-pole, and he not
hearing the minstrelsie for the _ fid-
ling, the tune for the sound, nor the
pipe for the noise of the tabor, blunt-
ly demaunded if they were not all be-
side themselves, that they vig lip’d
and skip’d without an occasion.’

Sword dancing was done at or near
Christmas —. frequently from St.
Stephen’s day till New Year’s Day—
by teams-of=men>--But-as-the dance
has survived today the essential part
of the dance is a mimic beheadal, ef-
fected-by arranging the swords .in
the shape of a hexagon, and a resus-
citation. It is frequently” explained
as a ceremonial of imitative ‘magic,
representing the death of wint@r and
the subsequent devival of a vegeta-
tion-daemon. It is probably a devel-
opment from the Saltatio armata of
the Roman militia on their Festival
Armilustrium, in, which young men
went, from_village to village, dancing
with swords in ‘their hands, entertain-
ing the householders. The Germans,
later, according to historical accounts,

, and probably the Gauls and the Brit-

ons had a kind of martial dance which
was exhibited at every entertainment,
consisting of dancing among the
sharp points of swords and spears.
The particular dances being done
this May Day have interesting festi-
val origins for the most part. Peas-
cods is a harvest dance. Selinger’s
Round symbolized the beginning. of
the world; the dancers went into the
center to touch a stone by which they
represented the sun. The 29th of
May, of no particular ceremonial im-
portance, depends upon: the pattern
presented by the dancers as a whole,

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Cause and Result

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Shades of Queen Elizabeth Have Been
Revived in Bryn Mawr Country-side



May Day in Merry England Began at Midnight When in Spite of Witches
Village Folk Went to the Woods to Gather the May

SPIRIT OF JOLLITY STILL WALKS ABROAD

- “Now is the month of Maying
When merry lads are playing,
Fa la la la la la la la la.”



This may well be the “hot-cha” age,
but let anyone deny that there’s hey-
nonny-nonny in us yet! If Queen
Elizabeth could return to view May
Day she would, I am sure, feel very
much at home and, seeing herself as
others see her, be greatly flattered.
No doubt she could be persuaded to
reminisce. . . . But not even an auto-
gyro can ore Elizabeth back, and
for an idea of May Day as it was,
though few of us are Peter Stand-
ishes (of Berkeley Square), we must
transform our green for ourselves.

Merrie England, even as we, had
its nuisances. On the eve of great
celebrations, especially Midsummer
and May Day, the witches became par-
ticularly active and, so we have heard,
wished to raid every cowhouse and
take away the milk. As a protection
against these baleful creatures, who
rode around on broomsticks and pitch-
forks, the herdsmen ried everything,
even to tyifg a cross of rowan-tree
wood to each animal’s tail with a
searlet thread. At midnight, however,
all troubles were forgotten in a great
rush for the woods. Lads and lassies,
milkmaids and goosegirls, shepherds
and plowmen, even old men and wives
frolicked all-night in the groves and
returned adorned with leaves and
flowers. Some of them even became
literal walking bowers, or Jacks-in-
the-green, encased inga tall frame of
herbs and posies, with a flag at the
top. They, with the Hobby-horse, who
curvetted and jumped as no horse has
ever done, were great favorites in
the procession, which passed around
the village boundaries, led by Maid
Marian, fairest of the lassies, who
“habited in pretty forest plight,” pre-
sided as Queen of the May. The Lord

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was none other than Robin Hood, who
with? Little John, Friar Tuck and
others of his band, contrasted strange-
ly with the chimney-sweeps, who
clutched shovels and brushes as the
milkmaids did their pails, which were
ornamented with ribbons and flowers.

But the greatest treasure to be
brought back from the woods was the
May-pole, which twenty or forty yoke
of oxen hauled, every ox having a
sweet nosegay of flowers placed om
the tip of his horns. Itself .a noc-
turne in greenery, the pole was raised
in the square, with handkerchiefs and
flags fluttering on the top. Whefe-
upon all fell to dancing about it; all
day long there were sports and games.
The May Queen, who was installed in
pretty state in one of the arbors set
up around the May-pole; watched the
Sherwood foresters engage in quar-
ter-staff bouts. There were also tests
of archery and Morris dances. To-.
ward evening bonfires were lighted in
the streets and stage plays were held.
In these Robin Hood, along with St.
George and the Dragon, played a
large ‘part.
a_certain..Bishop, as the-story- goes,
coming to a certain town on May Day,
found the church door locked. “So,”
he says, “I taryed there half an houre,
and one of the parish comes to me
and sayes, ‘Syr, this is a busy day
with us; we cannot hear you.... The
parish are gone abroad, to. gather for
Robin Hood; I pray you hinder them
rrot. 999

Yet May Day was not only for the

Catherine of Aragon, one. beautiful-
morning, “when the hedgerows were
in bloom with hawthorne,” had gone
forth to gather the May. And meet-
ing the heads of the Corporation of
London, ‘together with the officers of
the Guard, dréssed in Lincoln green,
they had games and revels of their



So popular was he that”

own. Elizabeth, of course, was keen
for May Days. For the year 1559
we even have recorded that forty- two
men in armor were sent by the Iron-
mongers’ Guild “to the May game
that went before the Queen’s majesty

to Greenwich.” er oi

It is indeed hard to understand how
anyone could be averse to such a fes-
tival. Yet there are Puritans in every
age, and none more fervent than in
the Elizabethan ‘times. And _ so
Stubbes, in his Anatomie of Abuses,
speaks of our dear May-pole as a
“stinkyng idol” about which people

“Teape and daunce as the heathen
did.” In fact, so firmly were the
Puritans persuadedy that “Satan,

prince of hell,” was “Lord of their
‘pastimes and sportes” that in 1664
May-poles were forbidden by Parlia-
ment, with the result that a larger
pole than ever before, one 134 feet
high, was set up in 1661 in the Strand,
under the personal supervision of the
Duke of York, flags flying and drums
beating in celebration of the»return
of “golden days” in the person of the
Stuarts. It serves them right, Yet
it-cannot be denied that May Day was
at least of pagan origin and the sweet
May Queen herself a relic ofthe
Roman festival of Flora, goddess of
Spring-time and Flowers. She em-
bodied the idea of renewal and fructi-
fication, for which the May-pole and
every green thing is also a symbol.
As among primitive peoples fertility
of--the crops was often closely con-
nected with mén and women, it is

simple folk. Even Henry VIII and;suite possible that the Saturnalia may

have been one of the steps in the evo-
lution of May Day. At the same
time, this festival embodies a second
and quite different idea—that of puri-
fication.
tion of: the passing’. of winter had

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In the past the interpreta- |

some quite fearful consequences, as



Effect of May Day

Depends on Costumes

600 Costumes Have to be As-
sembled Accurate in
. Each Detail

COLQRS MUST. BLEND
It will take no experienced eye to

discern in the performances of today
the care that has been taken in the







of that part of the work. In a per-
formance in which one depends most-
ly on mass effects for the success of the
whole—and such a performance May

of prime importance, and the actual
designs of the costumes only a slight-
ly less one. The costumers, Mrs. Nel-
son’ and Miss Marian Black, have
worked out their problems on an
amazingly scientic—or should we say
scholarly—basis, a feat which is all
the more wonderful when one realizes
that upwards of six hundred costumes
have to be assembled, if not actually
made.

The costumes of ‘elaias Elizabeth
and her ‘court are in the-tradition of
former May Days, and, although we
are infofmed that they are rented,
some care had to be exercised in. the
selection of harmonious colors, which
is in the last analysis the most com-
plicated and difficult of. the costum-
er’s problems. The costumes of the
dancers on the green and the village
folk, were comparatively simple, as
many of them were handed down from

nitely into’ one period. The dancers
under Miss Cooper’s direction present
a more difficult question, as they are
dressed of necessity in the ¢lose-fit-
ting costumes of the Duncan School
of Dancing. Some difficulties were
‘encountered in making them harmon-
ize with the bright colors of the
groups around them, and yet stand
out, but matters were finally solved
by separating the two types of danc-
ing entirely, so that one tradition
may not be allowed to conflict with
another.

The Masque of Flowers, for which
the costumes are the most spectacular
and luxurious, was supervised by Miss
Janet Barber, who dances as Gallus
in the performance itself. Miss Bar-
ber follows fairly closely the descrip-
tions of the costumes of a masque
performed before Queen Elizabeth at
the marriage of “two noble persons,”
but the designs. themselves are in
rpractically every case original. The
costumes of Silenus, Kawasha, Invi-
erno and the trains of the two gods
are among the high spots of the whole
afternoon, and no account of the cos-
tuming would be complete without
some tribute to Miss Barber for the
designs and to the costumers, proper,
for their execution of them.

' The Midsummer Night’s Dream
players may easily be .divided into
two groups. One, the court, are clad
in authentic Greek robes of the time
of Theseus, as nearly as they can be
determined. The Artisans, however,
are wearing what we take to be the
Elizabethan idea of what a Greek
rustic would wear, which all boils
down to something very close to an
Elizabethan rustic laborer’s garb.
The fantastic little helmets that some
of the group wear, whilé they may
look to the uninitiated like a modern
football helmet gone Elizabethan, are
realy an Elizabethan laborer’s cap
gone Greek. (Your error!) Very
few new costumes have been used for
the rustic group,,as it was the gen-
eral consensus among the authorities
that the older they were the better,
and by this standard some of them
are nigh: to perfection. Bottom is
the only offender against this ideal,
as his costume is vilely recent. When
questioned on the subject of newly
made costumes, those in charge noted
—and hoped we would note—that they
had “crinkled” ‘all ‘the Greek dresses

‘models of perfection.
As You Like It presents the most



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THE COLLEGE NEWS

: ~\\May Day Edition



Music Used in May.
Day is Elizabethan

Wind Siitiouaaliiee: Added to
Band Are Better Suited
to Instrumentation

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MR. WILLOUGHBY LEADS

In previous yebrs it has always
been a problem to find the necessary
music for the dances and incidental
music used on the Green. The Col-
lege has never had on record any of
this music as its own property, the
result being that parts for the Band
had to be hired as best they could
and some were not at all in keeping
with the instrumentation of Eliza-
bethan times.

. A change has been made this year
in having more wood-wind instru-
ments in the Band and only sufficient
Brass instruments to help for out-
door work.

The Band this year consists of the
- following:

8 Flutes, 3 Clarinets, 4. Horns, 1
Bass Trombone, 3 Oboes, 3 Trumpets, | |
1 Baritone, 1 Tuba, Percussion.

The instruments used in Elizabeth-
an times, as compared with the above,
consisted of something of the follow-

ing nature:

“Flutes & Fifes.”
(Species of Flute).

“Shawms and Bombards”

- and Bassoons).

“Trumpets.”

“Horns.

“Sackbut” (Trombone).

“Serpent” (Tuba).

Drums; etc. (percussion).

There were many varieties of the
above, but those mentioned are the
forerunners of the instruments being
used at the present day.

Out of the total number of 21 sep-
arate items of incidental music and
the Dances on the green, only 3 dances
could be purchased in print to suit the
ubove combination of instruments and
these had to be rearranged and scores
made of the instrumentation. Mr.
Willoughby has had the task of or-
chestrating 15 of the Dances and has
written specially for this May Day
the three Trumpet Fanfares. In
addition to making up the Scores it
has meant the copying of 333 sepa-
rate sheets of music by hand for the
use of the musicians.

Another Orchestra will play for the
music in the Cloisters and as_ this
‘music is of an entirely different type
the Orchestra consists of a Quintet of
Strings, ‘Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and
two Horns. It was also necessary to
arrange music for these Dances and
the Orchestration has been done by
Mr. Vernon Hammond. This neces-
sitated the making up of one long
score of 11 separate Dances — one

_ score of 4 Dances and a third’ of
a fairly long dance, and in this con-
nection about 100 separate sheets of
music were copied.

Mr. Willoughby and Mr. Hammond
have not only arranged all this music
for May Day in score, but have also
assisted a professional copyist in
making up the individual parts. for
the musicians in order to get the mu-
sic through in time. '

'The announcement of the enseiads

_ of the procession will, be a special
Fanfare of Trumpets and the music
played in the processior will consist
of four well known old Bnglish melo-
dies:

“Come, Lassies and Lads,” “Chel-
sea Reach,” “Bobbing Joe,” “Haste
to the Wedding.”

When the procession is over, there



“Recorders”

. (Oboes

~~ will be another special Fanfare of

Trumpets when Queen Elizabeth and
her Court are ready to proceed across
the Green. During the time of her
procession Purééll’s “Trumpet Tune
in D Major” will be played and as she
ascends the throne a third Fanfare of
_ Trumpets will be heard.
For the entrance of The May Queen
and Robin Hood, Morley’s well known
‘Ballet, “Now Is the Month.of May-
” will be played, and after the
crowning of the May Queen the fol-
‘Jowing will be heard while the whole
qompany Dances round the Maypole:
- “29th of May” (to the Maypole),
r Peascods,” “Sellingers
Round.” :
The Country Dances will be danced
to the following tunes: :
“Confess,”
Mole,” “Parsons Farewell.”

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Dances of the Morrice Men:

“Lads a Bunchum,” “Leap Frog,”
“Bean Setting.” -

The Mariners’ Sword Dance:
“Haxby.”

Morris Jigs for William Kempe and

his partner: ~

“Old Mother Oxford,” “None So
Pretty.”

All the music. arranged for this

‘May Day has been bound in special

folders and is now the property of

Day Festivals.

Mr. Willoughby will be pleased to
give any further information about
the Music that is being used for May
Day and he will be directing the Band
on the Green and Mr. Veron Ham-
mond will direct the Orchestra in the
Cloister.

rs. Andrews Has Idea
for First May Day





Public Appearance and Male
Costumes Were Not
Strict Convention

SETTING ENGLISH





More than a quarter of a century
has passed since May Day “Playes
and Reveles” were first presented at
Bryn Mawr. Like everything suc-
cessful, they have grown and been
elaborated, but this 1932 production,
the eighth of the series begun in 1900,
still breathes the spirit of the Eliza-
bethan Renaissance and of a Bryn
Mawr spring, and maintains the
freshness and spontaneity which have
always been the keynote of the’ fes-
tivities.

The idea of making Bryn Mawr the
scene of a village May Day was first.
conceived by Evangeline Walker An-
drews of the Class of 93, as a means
of raising money for a Students’
Building. The students received. her
suggestions with enthusiasm, and un-
der Mrs. Andrews’ direction, the first
festival was successfully . presented
with only six weeks of preparation.
The sports of the peasantry were re-
vived with careful attention to his-
torical accuracy; the dances of the
milkmaids and chimney sweeps, and
also of the sword and morris dancers,
‘were painstakingly reconstructed
from such books as Brand’s Observa-
tion of Popular Antiquities, and the
music was arranged by an expert.

The second May Day, in 1906, was
much the same as the first, but six
months were spent in preparation,
and more care was given to costuming.
Elizabethan banners were introduced
to decorate the towers, and, depart-
ing from the traditions of the peasan-

‘try to those of the court, the new

cloister gardens were used for the
presentation of masques, among them
The Maaque of the Flowers.

- Miss Elizabeth Daly, of the Class
of 1901, took charge of the produc-
tions in 1910 and 1914. It was she
who first dramatized the life of Robin
Hood in Sherwood Forest. War activ-
ities interrupted the regular recur-
rence in 1918, but in 1920, the fifth
performance was given under the di-
rection of Mrs. Otis Skinner, Cor-
nelia Otis Skinner’s mother, as was

‘also the sixth. The last May Day owed

its success to the combined manage-
ment of Mrs. Collins, Miss Appleby,
and Mr. King,

May Day has become a tradition at
Bryn Mawr and among all those who
look forward to it as “one of the few
really beautiful spectacles in Amer-
ica.” As its founder, Mrs. Andrews,
says: “From time to time, a ‘play
here and there is omitted in favor of
another not tried before, and special
features, like lances, are added which
enhance the beauty of the whole, but
the essential form and spirit remain
the same from May Day to May Day.”

In Mrs. Andrews’ story of the ori-
gin of May Day, it is interesting to
note how important a part was play-
ed by the beauty of the campus and
the style of the buildings.

The question of costumes in 1900
presented the special problem of how
to reconcile Elizabethan attire with
Victorian convention. On this point,
Mrs. Andrews remarks: *“As I look
over the photographs of the first May
Day, I find that the Bryn Mawr Eliz-
abethans were, if anything, over-bur-
dened with clothes, even the most dar-
ing of them, such as Robin Hood and
ld| his merry men, wearing leather leg-



gings and garments coming well to

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the College for use at further May:

Animals Contribute
to Gayety of Gteen



Oxen and Horses Take Part as
Well as Elizabethan
Beasties

ALUMNAE. GET ANIMALS

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Besides the many fake animals,
such as the lion, the unicorn and the
bear, all of which have college stu-
dents concealed underneath their
tawny, snowy-white or bristling hides,
the May Day pageant boasts a num-
ber of real, live animals, some of
which were difficult to obtain and
others to keep tractable and obedient
after they had been obtained.

The little black, brown ‘and white
Toy-fox dog named “Carp” which is
led in by the Man-in-the-Moon in A
Midsummer Night’s..Dream is pr
ably the most well-behaved member
of this group. He is owned by Mary
Catherine Rasch, a non-resident Sen-
ior, who lives in Narberth. “Carp”—
the name is an abbreviation for Car-
penter—is only a year anda half
old, but, despite his extreme youth,
attends classes at college. Possibly
he owes his good behavior, his quiet-
ness and obedience to the discipline
exercised upon him in the biology
laboratory in Dalton, or in the psy-
chology laboratory in the library. He
is reported to have been, even last
year, at his most puppy-ish age, very
well mannered at lectures. “Carp” i
a well-known figure on campus, but
is never seen unless his mistress..is
near at hand.

Those who have seen The Masque
of the Flowers in the library clois-
ters, will not forget the black and
whife goat named “Commission” which
belongs traditionally to Silenus, com-
panion to Bacchus, and -his band of
drunken revelers, and which is tugged
on to the stage by Mary Paul Mac-
leod, a little Bacchante, who is her
owner. Mary Paul is a niece of
Eleanor Morris, an alumna of Bryn
Mawr, who has done a great deal of
work for May Day and was especially
in charge of finding these “property”
animals. The goat was stubborn, ac-
cording to her kind, at the last dress
rehearsal—which was, by way of ex-
cuse for her misbehavior—her first
appearance on the scene. She also
attempted to eat the imitation grapes
and ivy on the costumes and to devour
the garlands. Despite these fascinat-
ing actions, undoubtedly calculated to
gain attention, a by-stander was over-
heard to remark that for a goat she
was generally uninteresting and lack-
ing in “personality.” Her horns were
burned off sometime ago, which ren-
ders her fairly harmless. She is





the knees. However, many were the
hours spent over the troublesome ques-
tions as to whether girls should wear
men’s costumes at all in public—for-
tunately the period that offered
smocks and cloaks helped greatly at
this point; whether materials were
too gaudy or too diaphanous; and
whether the shepherds and rustics
should wear their smocks one inch or
four inches below the knee. And even
though all the costumes had been de-
signed with great discretion and pass-
ed-upon in every instance by an effi-
cient and wise costuming committee,
it was possible for a Philadelphia
critic to say that the Elizabethan
crowd at Bryn Mawr was “as leggy
as young colts;” and for the delight-

ful old farmer who came all:the way +”

from Lancaster to drive his handsome
belted oxen in the pageant to exclaim,
as the procession started, “Never
again will I allow my aoxen’ to see
such a sight as this.”

The pioneers also faced the neces-
sity of letting Bryn Mawr “appear
in a new and very public way,” with-
out impairing her dignity: “News-
paper reporters who appeared on the
campus during the last days of re-
hearsals were told that they could not
take photographs, but that they might
use some of the official photographs,
provided that every plate be return-
ed to the committee, and that stu-
dents taking part in the plays, etc.,
should not be identified by name in
the printed accounts, Personal pub-
licity, they were told, was to be scrup-
ulously avoided; and what seems most
extraordinary, considered from the
angle of today, is that both photogra-
phers and reporters promised to re-
gard the wishes of the committee and
ssc their word.”





being kept in an extra garage behind
the gymnasium, in company with the
lambs which are tended by the shep-
herd in As You Like It, and are bor-
rowed from the estate in Villanova
of. Mr. Henry Scattergood, who is the
treasurer of the college.

The sturdy oxen which pull the cart
containing the flower-bedecked May-
pole are probably of most interest to
the average spectator. According to
tradition, the oxen are supposed to be
“white, with curling horns,” and it is
extraordinary how much more difficult
it is to find a pair of oxen answering
the. above description than it was 15
years ago. In 1920 the oxen came
from within a vicinity of 30 miles

‘around college and were driven here

painfully and slowly over back roads.
In 1924 they came from West Chester,
Pa;; and Mrs. Collins had been able
to inspect them in advance. Last
May Day brown oxen had to be used

-| of necessity, and they were. driven

here by truck from Baltimoreg Md.
They arrived in the dead of night,
and the driver aroused Miss Fisher,
the unsuspecting warden of Pembroke
East, in his attempt to deliver the
animals. These two oxen caused even
greater consternation, as they were of
a sensitive disposition and grew home-
sick, absolutely refusing to eat. The
committee this year has been success-
ful in getting white oxen from Vir-
ginia. They arrived early Wednes-
day morning and have been installed
ever since on the old Collins. estate
across: from college on Gulf road.

sj After all the arrangements had been

made to obtain these oxen, a second
pair was offered to the college, and
their 90-year-old attendant agreed to
accompany them, as he thought he
would make an interesting additional
figure.

The horses which prance at the
head of the grand procession came
from the Delaware County Polo Sta-
ble and are in the charge of a Mr.
Burne. Eleanor Morris, as the King’s
Champion, is riding in the lead, and
following“her on six horses are vari-
ous members of the cast of Robin
Hood—namely, Robin Hood himself,
Maid Marian, the wedding party, in-
cluding Sir Stephen of Trent, Fair
Ellen, Ellen’s father, and the bishop,
Sir Richard of the Lea and a messen-
ger. Mary Catherine Rasch, who is
Sir Richard, was responsible for get-
ting the horses. \ The two ponies are
privately owned, by little Helen Gor-
don Macleod, who is riding one of
them, while her cousin, Ann Morris,
rides the other, both representing out-
riders for the Queen. The ponies, in-
cidentally, are mother and daughter,
and each absolutely refuses to go
without the other. The horses were
chosen for their gentleness, as several
of the riding party were not accom-
plished in this art, although they had
all been on horseback before.

The only other members of the ani-
mal kingdom represented in the pag-
eant belong more particularly to the
domain of birds or fowls. They are
the cocks and roosters t6 be carried
in wicker baskets or cages during
the procession, as if entrants for fes-
tival games such as cock-fighting. The
idea of including the roosters ‘was a
last-minute one, designed to add local
color to the crowd on the Green. As
this article goes to press, the roosters
themselves “have not yet been obtained,

but it is thought that Eleanor Morris |:

will be able to produce them from her
family’s estate. “



Miss Cooper Leads
_ Dances in Cloisters



Miss Isabel Cooper is one of the
mysteries of the Bryn Mawr campus.
Not that she appears in unexpected
places and disappears before your
very eyes in the way of a ghost, but
she has the, silence and_intangibility

of a wraith. And then again there is,

more spirit than matter in the way
that Miss Cooper opens The Masque
of the Flowers, and more floating than
stepping to the gypsy dance. We
know that Miss Cooper went to Vas-
sar, that she graduated, and went
abroad. In Salzburg, Vienna and
Paris she studied dancing with the
Elizabeth Duncan school, and in 1928
she danced in the Isadora Duncan
(Continued on Page Twelve)



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Taylor Hall

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have what you want in stock, we will
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May Day Preparations
Made in Blithe Spirit

Hectic Days of Rehearsing and
Paper Flowers Make Fin-
ished Product

COSTUMES ARB EMC ITING

You who have seen or will see
today ‘the finished production (and
we sincerely trust that it will be
“finished;” at the moment of writing
it is anything but that) “cannot in
the truest sense of the. word appre-
ciate what you are seeing without
some conception of what has gone
into the preparation of it. To those
alumnae who have been through the
mill, what follows probably will be
a stimulus to that charming faculty
of reminiscence; there is nothing we
would be more glad to do than “to
sessions of sweet silent thought, sum-
mon up the remembrance of things
past” —the sessions are always so
much sweeter, we have noted, when
the things in question are very past.

In: the first place the exuberance
was. generated long before the first
green’ leaf appeared on the_ bushes
outside the smoking-room ‘windows.
It was in the merry month of March
that the whole college was asked to
stop what they were doing at the
moment (that being eight o’clock in
the morning one Monday) and repair
to Goodhart, where the question of
to be or not to be was exhaustively
treated by all such as attended this
rather untimely meeting. A vote was
taken’ immediately thereafter in all
the halls, and those who had spoken
against May Day either backed down
or did not dare to cast their shameful
“nays.” May Day was carried by a
convincing majority—at least, it con-





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Queen Elizabeth and
Court Head Pageant

Queen Played by Cornelia Otis
Skinner and Court
by Faculty

PAGEANT IS BRILLIANT

This year Bryn Mawr is beginning
what might well be made a tradition
—the practice of using one of its
actress daughters in the otherwise
purely amateur May Day. Cornelia
Otis Skinner, who will play the part
of the Virgin Queen Elizabeth, is not
only stage but Bryn Mawr bred. Her
connections with Bryn Mawr, May
Day and the stage are interwoven in
such a way that it seems quite natural
for her to return to college in this
role. She has acted the harem of
Henry VIII so often and so well that
she will certainly be able to represent
his daughter in a most authentic
manner.





Miss Skinner is not the only mem-
ber of her family with a May Day.
past, for her mother, Mrs. Otis Skin-
ner, directed two May Days, one” in
1920 and the next one in 1924,° both
of which had a large success. In the
1920 production Miss Skinner played
the part of Sacrapant in The Old
Wives’ Tale (see issue of April 20 for
picture) and was featured in the
News of that May Day as a leading
figure, with the headline ‘Cornelia
Skinner Preparing for the Stage.”
She. left college at the end of her
sophomore year and continued her
dramatic training in Paris the next
year, under an actor at the Comedie

_ Francaise.

Character sketches, which she wrote
and acted, interested. her most, and
her college training probably helped
her in research on the wives of Henry
VIII, which she began to develop a
few years ago. These sketches were
tried out at Knole, Sevenoaks, in Eng-
land, by permission of Lord and Lady
Sackville. Their very enthusiastic re-
ception there encouraged her to bring
them to Broadway, where the audi-
ences were so large that she soon had
to move from the rather small theatre
she had begun in to.one of New
York’s largest.

This year’s tour was her sixth and
one of the most successful, according
to press notices; but we hope she
will find her large and excited crowd
of subjects as thrilling as any former
audience on the great day when the
motley mob assembles and troops
around the campus behind Her Maj-
esty the Queen.

Queen Elizabeth:

Cornelia Otis Skinner.

be HER COURT

Ladies in Waiting: ,

Annie Leigh Broughton, Ruth Fair-
man, Harriett Ferguson, Enid Glen,
Charlotte Howe, Magdalen Hupful,
Liesel Mezger, Mary Louise Terrien,
Hilda Thomas, Genevieve Wakeman.

Courtiers :

T. ‘Robert Broughton, Henry J.
Cadbury, J. Gordon Carlson, Wiiliam
W. Flexner, Gustav A. Hedlund, Mil-
ton C. Nahm, Mary Z. Pease, Nelson
K. Richtmyer, Edward M. M. War-
burg, Edward H. Watson, Roger H.
Wells. ts

Heralds:

Barbara Bishop, 34; Marjorie Field,
32; Denise Gallaudet, ’32; Julia Gard-
ner, 34; Barbara Korff, ’33; Louise
McCormick, ’34.

Queen’s Champion:

Ellenor Morris, ’27.

Pages:

Margaret Berolzheimer, ’35; Mar-
garet Laird, ’35.
> Queen’s Archers:

Irene Huber (Graduate) ; Kather-
iné Fox, ’84; - Elizabeth Pleasants,
32; Ann Willits, ’32.

Beefeaters:

Nancy Balis, 33; Nancy Briggs,
"85; Lelia Brodersen, ’33; Dorothy
Buchanan (Graduate); Luise Evers,
32; Brunhilde Grassi, ’33; Ellen
Nichols, ’33; Frances Watson, ’35;
Margaret Taylor, ’35.

ON THE GREEN

Country Dancers:

Men—Gabriel Church, ’34; Elinor
Collins,’33; Isabel Eckardt, ’33; Anna

*Findley, ’34; Betty Goldwasser, ’34;

“>

Josephine Graton, ’32; Cornelia Hir- |.

ons, ’34; Anne Holloway, ’35; Nancy
Horn, .’35; Louise Landreth, ’34; Ger-
trude Longacre, ’33; Christine Mc-
Cormick, ’35; ‘Grace Meehan, 734;
Harriet Moore,’32; Susan Morse, ’35;

4

Marie-Louise Van Vechten, ’85; Edith
Watts, ’33. |
Maids-—Jeane Darlington, ’33; Eliz-
abeth Edwards, ’85; Elizabeth Gut-
mann, ’32; Rose Hatfield, ’82; Marian
Hope, 34; Pauline Huger, ’32; Fran-
ces Jones, ’34; Katherine Kiel, 35;
Kate Lefferts, ’833; Mary. Maccoun,
32; Elizbeth Mackenzie, ’34; Cora
McIver, "a; Evelyn Remington, ’33;
Betty Seymour, ’35;- Jane Sickles, ’32;
Elizabeth Sixt, ’33; Sara Suppes, ’34;
Rebekah Taff, ’33. Sn

_ Jacks-in-the-Green:

Elizabeth Colie, ’85; Dorothea Per-
kins, ’32.

Chimney Sweeps:

Ruth Bertolet, ’34; Halla Brown,
34; Mary Chase, ’33; Elizabeth Con--
verse, 32; Anita de Varon, ’34; Eliza-
beth Edwards, ’83; Elizabeth Mather,
35; Katherine McClelland, ’32; Ade-
line Peek, ’33; Janet Seeley, ’27;
Florence Swab, ’35.; Margaret: Dan-
nenbaum, ’34.

Morricc Dancers:

Lula Bowen, 734; Nancy Bucher,
35; Ruth Davy, ’85; Eleanor Eck-
stein, ’33; Harriette ‘Hunter, ’33;
Laura Hunter, ’32.

Foole—Louise Balmer, ’33.

Mary Foote, 382; Winifred McCul-
ly; ’32; Helen McEldowney, ’35;°Sara
Miles, ’84; Helen Rorke, ’34; Alice
Yarnelle, ’32. of

Foole—Louise Esterly, ’33.

Maizie-louise Cohen, ’33; Margaret
Collier, 33; Pauline Engle, ’82; Mar-
garet Haskell, ’84; Helen Leidy, ’33;
Rosamund Robert, ’33.

Foole—Sarah Gibbs, ’33.

4 Hemphill, ’85; Catherine More, ’32;



Lenchen Coughlin, 34; Lydia | garet Simpson; ’35; Vung-Yuin Ting,

Katherine Pier, ’88; Nancy Robinson,
35; Helen’ Whitney, ’35.

Foole—Jean Porter, ’35.

Sword Dancers:

Jean Anderegg, ’34; Beatrice Blyth,
35; Helen Bowie, ’34; Virginia But-
terworth, 82; Florence Cluett, ’35;
Virginia Cooke, ’85; Betty. Faeth,.’355.1

Gertrude Franchot, ’35; Priscilla
Howe, ’35; Elizabeth Kent, ’35; Jean-
ette Le Saulnier, ’83; Margaret

Marsh, ’34; Diana Morgan, ’35; Shizu
Nakamura, ’35; Cary Page, ’35; Beu-
lah Parker, ’33; Rebecca Perry, ’35;
Frances Pleasonton, ’35; Marie Ann
Richards, ’85; Constance Robinson,
"34; Lucille Shuttleworth, ’32; Mary
Swenson, ’83; Margaret Tobin, ’35;
Elizabeth Walter, ’34.
Tumblers:

Ella Berkeley, ’33; Sylvia Bowditch,
33; Mary Boyd, ’34; Marna Brady,
Alice Brues, ’33; Beatrice Butler, ’34;
Frances Carter, ’34; Miriam Cornish,
"34; Mary Curtis, ’35; Carmen Duany,
’34; Elizabeth Eaton, ’35; Sarah Flan-
ders, ’85; Elizabeth Jackson, ’33;
Nora MacCurdy, ’84; Franees Messi-
mer, ’35; Marion Mitchell, ’84; Nancy
Nicoll ,’35; Lucy Sanborn, ’32;. Mar-

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35; Marjorie Wood, ’35.

Hobby Horses: :

Mary Elizabeth Laudenberger, ’34;
Harriet Mitchel, ’34. .

Stilt Walkers:

Cordelia Crane, ’32; Katherine
Franchot, ’32; Elizabeth Ulman, ’33;
Margaret Reinhardt, ’32. —

Stroling Singers:

“Peggy Boomsliter, ’85;. Catherine

Gay, ’34; Anne Hawks, ’35; Gertrude

Woodward, ’82.

Unicorn: Leta Clews, ’33.

Beggar:

Devil: Phyllis Goodhart, ’35.

Bears: Catherine Bredt, ’34; Em-
ily Smith, ’33;

and

Theiy Trainers: Sarah Fraser,
34; Lillian Russel, ’34.

Milkmaids: :

Margaret Evans, ’32; Susan Har-
din, ’32; Isabella Héllmer, ’38; Jean-
ette Markell, ’33.,

Village Folk:

J. Bradley, Clarissa Brown, Chap-

Eva Levin, ’34. ’



pell, Cole, Corliss, Crumriné, Detwil-

er, Dowling, Gates, Glancy, ‘Goetz,
Hedlund, Holt, Ilott, M. P. Jones, Lew-
is, B. Little, May, Medrick, G. Mee-
han, Rawson, Snyder, Waldenmeyer,

Weygandt. !
Townsfolk: ;
Baker, Bedinger, Bernheimer,

Christine Brown, Cambell, Dubrueil,
A: Nichols, Oppenheimer, Patterson,
Pettus, Turner, Snedicor, Weld.



Not So |
Simple as it Seems

We will never again be convinced
that rehearsing is pure fun—it’s not.
The time when you are actually on the

Rehearsing



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| ing, actually ‘smiling, my dear, too
brave, I think the woman should have
|a medal for, it is rather flowerlike of

” THE COLLEGE NEWS
| her to get up God’s worst hour of the

‘we rs END
“ |day even if-it-is only once a year.

The Mad Hatter, wishing to make | Well, she ern nt keep it ~
er de P : A ere ,long, so we tactfully fa mystical-
ed i til a flndaioc tert oo [atid deals p- MacleitelbenDewer: Let — Shakespeare take the
the assistance of all her, his, or its| Where all one’s dear classmates shiv-| | : ‘
friends and some one who after the|cred in the dawn and looked pretty With Jaques: All Bryn Mawr’s a
pestering they recéived will probably | P™@awnish, I may say, in caps and =
not consider themselves in that cate-| S0Wns. And all the Bryn Mawr students .
gory any longer, a set of all-star casts; You know darling I never could merely phi llers, | :
for the May Day playes'and reveles.|sing and I may say the damsel next They have their cutdays and their





_ The Cat Goes Shakespeare
And in this merry month of May,
When there is nothing you can say
That Shakespeare hasn’t said before,
The Campus. Cat will be your guide
Till you have every maxim tried,



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Te Salutamus :
The News wishes to extend a cordial Elizabethan welcome to all those
that are paying their first visit to Bryn Mawr and to those who are returning

Robin Hood ....... Mahatma Ghandi: lutely funereal with May-baskets and
as alumnae or friends of the college. May Day is the greatest and most] Little John... “Little Man” Hitler |D2ked meats; I mean chipped beef.
famous of all the many customs of Bryn Mawr, and it is the sincere hope of Friar “Tuck -. >. Greta-Garbo}-™2s feeling the Amazon. too strong
all those who are taking part in this present production that we may add| Will Scarlet.......... “Red” Grange| #4 terpsichorean after wolfing bowls
something to the lustre of its tradition. We have enjoyed preparing for|Allan-a-Dale ...........Rudy Vallee|°! Strawberries my dear I raided the
these playes and reveles and er desire nothing more than that you enjoy|Fair Ellen...... Leopold Stowkowski| Sideboard, and by the time we got
watching them. We hope that you did not forget your tickets and have to| Merry Men: Charles G. Dawes, | *°™P!n& REORER She HA Cle he. Sone

go home after themy.that you are impressed with the way we take to Englishe
folke dancing like ducks to water, that: you locate the resting places of all'the
plays, and that your daughter, niece, granddaughter, aunt, first cousin, sec-
ond cousin, or third cousin covers herself with -histrionic or terpsichorean
glory. .
~"""The" finished” product known as May Day is not conjured up over-
night by a few potent phrases murmured over a crystal ball. It is the result
of willing but exhausting effort on the part of everyone connected with the
fete. However, the work that goes into May Day comes back to one as a
thrill when the procession moves under Pembroke on the day itself. May
Day is an event in everyone’s Bryn Mawr existence. In the enthusiasm of}
the moment, the uninitiated are too apt to praise those who actually act or|
dance before their eyes, and forget those gifted persons who taught them|
how. to act'and dance. No student can fail to realize that it is these gifted,
persons, perhaps more than the students themselves, who. deserve. the. plaudits
of those that come and enjoy May Day. It is through the News that the}
student body. wishes to pay tribute to the gifted and inspiring leadership of |
Mrs. Carolyn Chadwick Collins who in her capacity of Director of May
Day is latgely responsible for the creation which you have come to enjoy.
Mrs. Collins has won the admiration of everyone about her by her enthusi-
asm, her efficiency and her charm. Truly “'tis not hard to follow, with
such a one to lead.” ’ ‘

Much credit must go also to Samuel Arthur King, who directed the six
plays which are being presented. Those who have worked under him can-
not fail to appreciate his very real ability to create from a muddled collection
of lines, actors;-stage business-and-properties,a play. May Day without!
Mr. King would be unimaginable. The organization and training of the|
dancers on the gteen and in the cloisters has been under the leadership of
Miss Josephine Petts, and she is entitled to a great deal of praise for the
finished whole she has produced. :

Mr. Ernest Willoughby is responsible for the arrangement and orches: |
tration of all music used in connection with the dancing and the pageant.
One has only to attend the green to realize the excellence of his work.

We hope you enjoy May Day and are enthusiastic about ygur day.
The entire fete is for you, and we hope you like it.







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whether legal or illegal drink is man’s |

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greatest. enemy—wW hee!

Stanley: * Warren William and}
Sidney Fox in The Mouthpiece. The
tale of the lawyer for the underworld |
who keeps thugs out of jail and gets!
paid for it, until a little Southern sec-

retary—but, see it yourselves. |

Theatres and Movies
in Philadelphia

Forrest: A revival of The Student
Prince: The music is as ever, but the
company is mediocre.

Garrick: Vivienne Segal and
Charles Purcell in The Chocolate Sol-
dier. A very creditable performance,
which wil] amuse anyone._



Keith’s: James Cagney in The
Crowd. Roars. .An opus about auto-|
mobile racing and Mr. Cagney, who is
a demon with cars and women. Lots |
of action—with the cars.

Karlton: The Wiser Sex,
Claudette Colbert. and Lilyan Tash-!
man—the usual wise-cracking what-
not about women and men that love

Coming—May 9
Garrick: Mourning Becomes Elec-
tra, with its New York cast. An ex-
cellent melodrama, no more, no less.

Movies
_ Fox: Joan Bennett and Donald

with |

\p Or May Day With Topsy!
‘ie evening making rather scrawny pa-

_and I hadn’t been asleep two minutes,

it hadn’t been so bad, and dear Dr.
Gray, and how ‘aesthetic the Library
can look and all in spite of lumps
in the mattress and not a bit of ink
in Taylor. where after all a girl needs
\it most. Well, anyway, what I am
trying to say-is, I felt morbidly senti-
mental for a while. Then we filtered
into the dining-room, which was abso-

Cheero!
Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen,
Margaret Sanger

wee ee J. D. Rockerfeller
White Oxen,

Marie Dressler, Polly Moran

Robin Hood

mele DeMeIe....s . Marion Davies

servative British veneer was obvious-
ly cracking, and I finally went ber-
serk, too, savage, angel, tearing
streamers and flinging thoroughly re-
laxed violets and suddenly crashed
into»-Dr. Haddock; my dear, the most

Theodore Dreiser, Joseph Stalin
Ernest Hemingway.

The Maske of Flowers
eg, or Primo Carnera
Primavera’s Flowers: Jack Demp-|

sey, Strangler Lewis, Jim™ Londos, |

Firpo. Wires
Winter Chief Justice Hughes | utterly shocking arguments about God

North Vind... Huey P. Long | in class. Well he stood his ground like



Kawasha ..... Vice-President Curtis | * aha -. brat acne beds : va
WE fo eens Bishop Cannon | Pat dere serine — : gr we ee"
Bacantes: Mabel Walker - Wille-| ‘#i”, you are a complete Pagan!" an

brandt, Smedley Butler, Volstead. I had one of —. a tend ~~
The Old Wives’ Talé too uncontrolled and threw a stou

Secs Will Rogers | SP™8Y of Japanese cherry-blossoms at
The Ghost of Jack, te poor se akin! think he
“Legs” Diamond (Late) | was rather attracted, because we’v

The Face in the Well. Jean Harlowe | been rather pals ever since.

Pe is Senator J. Ham Lewis! Well, we finally got the orgy under
IAG ee ky Senator Heflin| control and sank chastely into the
TN is 5 sce teeaesnts Senator Borah | astigmatic red plush of Goodhart, and

As You Like It | there was Miss Park, looking wildly
Rosalind, 'refreshed after a nap and a shower,

Queen Marie of Roumania/| and, of course, little Topsy didn’t even
a aaa ries Alfred E. Smith/ get even a whiff of a prize too medi-

Touchstone, the jester, |ocre and interesting, but clapped and
Bishop Manning | clapped till my hands were loathsome,

Jacques, the melancholy philosopher, | too tingling, and then we rolled hoops.
Gene Tunney | Well, darling, I don’t know if you’ve

The Banished Duke....Tom Mooney | ever heard about our hoop-rolling, but
mm es ss Bertrand Russell | it’s quite the climax of the hour, too

St. George and the Dragon | musty and traditional—I mean the



ee oe James Walker} hoops; they actually fall apart when
the Dragon .:. ;.:.. ‘Samuel Seabury | you hit them, my dear. I had one rath-|
Gant Blunderbore...... Ernest Truex |er a lamb, that dated back to 1900,
King Alfed OO Al Capone; simply covered with ribbons and bon
His Queen ...:......,.Bugs Meran | mots; childish, I know, but rather

Captain Slasher ....Calvin Coolidge | sentimental. Well, it collapsed utter-
Midsummer Nights’ Dream ily, at least sixteen fragments, which

Oberon ...... Gen. Von Hindenburg) was rather disconcerting, as I was go-
ee Belle Livingston ing to give it to the most precious
OGM ee Babe Ruth; sophomore, my dear, a virginal crea-
Cobweb ~.se. Andrew Mellon | ture, *with golden curls, and .then I

Peaseblossom George Bernard Shaw rather bumped my head against a.
ee oe ce Toscannini | tree. Well, we finally sorted out the
Mustardseed .....Albert Einstein screaming mob and found the objects
Pyramus (Bottom), ‘of our affections such a climax, though

Alfalfa Bill Murray I always say the kissing\ is too unsani- |

FHieby- (Pinte Dolly Gann tary. Well, my dear, it was too hor-
: : ' \rible then because we had to go to
MY DEAR, TOO SAVAGE ‘classes and suppress all that fascinat-
| ing savagery, and then there was
nothing left but a couple of utterly
devastated violets.

Topsy who apologizes to A. P.
Herbert.



Well, my angel, after a too dramat-

per flowers, I crawled into the downy

| divinely stern man we had always had | -

Out damned Sun, out I. say!
All the storm clouds in the wide
world :
Could not sweeten this dry, dead
grass.
With that noble Prince of Denmark:
To dance or not to dance that is the
question,
Whether ’tis nobler on the green to
suffer
The pangs and tortures of outrage-
ous hunger,
Or at the Tea Room end them !
And yet again:
The Play’s the thing—
| Wherein we see the talent of each
King!
Polonius says a good word:
Costly thy costume as the times
afford,
But not expressed in fancy, last
year’s. model,
For sometimes -dress alone *ro-
claims the man!
And there: is a Juliet in each of us
when she murmurs:
Oh, Mrs. Collins, wherefore art
thou busy?
Deny thy meeting and refuse -thy
bids, :
And for the like which are no part
of thee—
Just take-a rest !
—The Campus Cat.
It’s not that I am cynical, °
'Or even over-skeptical,
For by nature I’m as gentle as a
flea.
But it does seem rather silly
Not to try to gild the lily,
When you’re acting what you cannot
really be.
I have gone to dress rehearsals,
Watched carefully apt disbursals,
Pretty poses, natural dances, wild
and free,
But in all my weary ramblings,
My long arch-falling standings,
I’ve never seen a she-look like a he.
They lower their sweet voices,
Utter soul-inspiring coises,
And stamp about like Sharkey on a
spree,
But they must preserve their beauty,
They feel it is their duty,
I suppose, to present friends and fam-
ily; : ;
To let beneath their hoodlets,
Show all. their-super-ringlets,
Which brand them absolutely for a
She. .
| Tuck *’em back, stout-hearted fellows,
| Make your face chime with your bel-
lows,
| Be consistent, remain manly — pity
| me,



—The Lazy Loon.

And here, dear public (we are a
at least we have a real public), is our
column, much longer and more scin-
tillating, even, than usual. We would

.| like to make some very apt and rather

= awed to*think that for one issue '

Cook in The Trial of Vivienne Ware.
A pretty obvious murder mystery, in
which Miss Bennett is very lovely and
even more stupid.’ Plenty of what the
movies call“action.”

, Chestnut Street Opera House:
“Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, “Lio-
nel Barrymore, Joan Crawford and
Wallace Beery in Grand Hotel. A
marvelous production, with splendid
acting.- All seats reserved — call
ahead of time.

Mastbaum: Ruth Chatterton in
The Rich Are Always With Us. A
satire ‘on the New York rich, which
is both amusing and charming.

Stanton: The Wet Parade, with

~Lewis Stone, Walter Huston, Jimmy
Durante, and’ an all star cast. The
“to drink or not to drink” problem of
America is thoroughly discussed in
both tragedy and comedy. The gen-
eral conclusion seems to be that
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them.

Boyd: Sylvia Sidney and Chester
Morris in The Miracle Man. A very

rconfusing tale about certain visious |

souls who=intend’ to exploit an old

faith-healer, bit whg,are instead con-

verted by him and become his helpers.
Earle: The Famous Ferguson Case,
with Joan Blondell. “The inside story |
of an actual love slaying.” Sounds
a bit.rough for Philadelphia, but all
the action is probably in the. title.
Europa: Another’ movie about!
Soviet Russia—Golden . Mountains. |
Excellent, full of’ good dramatic situ-
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. ‘

‘sad little sophomore, looking danger-

‘I couldn’t get near a cup of coffee for

early morning, and, of course, it was

two, I swear, at the outside, when a

ously green in the pale light of morn,
poured water down my neck and scat-
tered a few limp violets over my
couch, my dear, too virginal. After a
couple of delicious naps, I clambered
forth, muttering this is a great day
and a Great Cause, feel utterly rheu-
matic and groggy, and, anyway, the
green little creatures were making
mad noises in the corridor. My dear,

simply hours, I always say people’s
mouldiest traits are rampant in the

a. bit chilled and. sandy when I did
get it, then: we waded through the
utterly: liquid dew to the president’s
house.

Really, the too bitter humor of the
situation was only relieved by the. ap-
pearance of Miss Park, encrusted in a



|—well, poignant—remark at this
: To be Sung to the May Pole | point, just to polish the thing off. The
To the Maypole let us on. | bon mot we had in mind was that you
‘I have three corns and one bun-yon.; (especially, you of the younger gen-
Walk, please, to the lower green, -eration), while you may have come to
Where your costumes won’t be seen. | scoff, will most surely remain—we
‘ean’t say to pray; but we could alter

These rehearsals, who can amend i), couplet to: And you who come

them, oe q to scoff, may come again to stay. Or

Five dollars fine if you don’t attend) ¢,. the more adult audience: And
them, \

'you Who come to scoff, may find it
Round the Maypole let us on, |gay. The first has a_ threatening
Sure, it’s my foot, but just step on. | sound, and the last isn’t: as good as
; | we could manage, but on _ second
'thought the idea is hardly worth go-
jing into very deeply, as if you had
-|ecome to seoff, you probably wouldn’t
have come anyway. Nobody is pay-
ing gate fees these dreadful days to
scoff, so it all boils down and away
in ‘the end. Anyway—cheero, to all
of you.

Coming at you! Come, sweet lass,
Come and stumble on the grass,
Come and trip me on the green,
Where no lads will e’er be seen. -

There alway, from the break of day,
All those dance who cannot pay ($5),
“Keep together!” Hey, sweet lass,
Must you kick me as we pass.

—--__The Sweet Ydm Queen.



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“St. George and the |
Dragon” Given Again,



Mummers’ Play is Based on Two|
Old English Country
Plays

ORIGINAL TEXT. USED|E

St.
“of the most frequently given of the
May Day plays at Bryn Mawr, is
composed of two old English country
plays—the | Oxfordshire. St: George
play and the Lutterworth Christmas
play. The text of the St. George was
written by the\Rev. Frederic George





George and the Dragon, one

Lee, who obtained it from one of the!

performers in 1853. Dr. Lee said
that he first saw it acted at the Old
Vicarage House at Thame in the year

of 1839. The man.had performed it
as far back as 1807, and his father
had done the same play in the pre-
vious century. Dr. Lee neither
changed nor added anything in the
text.

The Lutterworth play came from
W. Kelley’s Notice of Leicester, Lon-
don, 1865, and was previously p ry
formed at Lutterworth at Chiiatinas:
1863.

The present play was given at the
first Bryn Mawr May Day, and the
original costumes used then in some

“Masque of Flowers”
Given in Cloisters



Written by Gray’s Inn Lawyers;
Acted at Wedding in
1614

IS MOSTLY DANCING

For the fifth time at Bryn Mawr,
the Masque of Flowers will be pre-
sented in the library cloisters on May
Day. The Masque of Flowers, a typi-
cal masque consisting largely of séngs

and dances, with a background of al-
legory, adds to May Day the exuber-
ant light-heartedness of Elizabethan
England. Almost like our “Follies”
in its arrangement, it characterizes
the fresh abandon of thé sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries. This par-
ticular masque was written by the
Gentlemen ‘of Gray’s Inn; one of the
four great guilds of lawyers at that
time. The Masque of Flowers was
“the last of the solemnities and mag-
nificences “which were performed. at
the court of Whitehall in the banquet-
ing house upon twelfth night, 1614,
at the marriage of the Right Honor-
able. the Earl of Somerset and the
Lady Frances, daughter of the Earl
of Suffolk, Lord Chamberlain.”
Apart from the acting, which is



Miss Dyer’s assistance, the canada

progressing well under Mr. King, with.



tive dancing, under Miss Cooper’s
direction, and the unusual costuming
arranged by Janet Barber will lend
an air of spontaneity to the perform-
ance, ‘The dancing tits into the lines
of the play readily, and the anti-
masque, besides acting as a foil to
the masque, adds to the spirit of rev-
elry, which characterizes the masque
as a whole and in which is embodied
the character of an Elizabethan May
Day.

MASQUE OF FLOWERS

North Wind: Isabel Cooper.

Winter: Juliet Kibbey, ’35, from
Bishop Schoo}; La Jolla, Calif.

Spring (Primavera): | Florénce
Taggart, ’32, from Rosemary Hall,
Greenwich, Conn.; a recent student
at the Elizabeth Duncan School fn
Salzburg, Austria; former class song-
mistress, member of the Glee Club.

Gallus: Janet Barber, ’83, daughter
of Lucy. Lombardi, 704; from Miss
Madeira’s School, Washington, D. C.;
member of the Freshman Show Com-
mittee, designer of the sets for Berke-
ley Square, member of the Varsity
Dramatic Board, a student during the
summer of Professor Franz Cizek, of
the Viener. Fiurstgemeche Shule, in
Vienna.

Silenus: Lucy Fairbanks, ’35, niece
of Nathalie Fairbank Bell, 705; from
Miss Wright’s School, Bryn Mawr.

Kawasha: Germaine Bree, gradu-
ate student, from the Sorbonne; a



player in this year’s French Club
production, Knock. . c

Ass: ‘Eleanor Yeakel, ’33. ,

Silenius”—~Potlowers : Diana Tate-
Smith, ’85; Haviland Nelson, ’34;
Marjorie Lee, 34; Susan Savage, ’33;
Mary Burnam, ’32; Jean Donald, ’32;
Eleanor Pinkerton, ’32.

Kawasha’s Followers:

Tobacco maidens—Dorothy Kalbach,
84, and Christine Brown, ’34.

Elizabethan dandy—Barbara Smith,
34,

Indians—Elizabeth_ , Chamberlayne,
85; Jean Morrison; 735;
Kehdig,:’33; Grace Dewes, ’32.

Garden Gods: Molly Barrows, Isa-
bel Cooper, Betty Knapp; ’382.

Flowers: Phyllis Simms, ’32; Ger-
trude Parnell, ’384; Caroline Berg, ’33;
Susan Torrance, ’83; Ruth Reuting,
Elvira Trowbridge, ’34.

SPECIAL DANCES

Gypsies—Isabel Cooper, Catherine
Bill, *°85; Suzanne Halstead, ’34; Eu-
genia Harman, ’82; Laura Hurd, ’34;
Elizabeth Edwards, ’33; Janet Seeley,
27; Phylis Simms, 782; Florence
Swab, ’35; Caroline Wright, ’34.

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cases are the same ones that are |



cast of the play is as follows:
King Alfred: Ruth Elizabeth Prugh,

1988, Batavia, N. Y.; the Batavia
High School.
His Queen: Charlotte Tyler, 1932,

Philadelphia; the Springside School, |
Philadelphia; The Mikado, The Pi-|
rates of Penzance and Patience; sis- |

ter of Mary Tyler Zabrisky, 1919, |

and Mary Tyler Paul; ’22.

St. "George: Harriet Valentine
Flagg,.1938, Bangor, Me.; the Bald-
win School. 5

King William: Elizabeth Louise}
Meneeley, \1934, Troy, Ne Yip the
Ethel Walker School; The Mikado and |
Berkeley Square.

The Dragon:
Little Rock, Ark.;
High School.

Giant Blunderbore:
1935, New York, City;
School.

Captain Slasher:

the Little Rock |

Marie Hayes, |
the Brearley

School and Rosemary Hall; Hernani

and Knock.

Turkish Champion:
dleberger, 1988, Flushing, L. I.;
Chandor’s School, New York City;
The Pirates of Penzance and The
Mikado.

A Noble Doctor: Mary

Taussig, 1938, St. Louis, Md.; the
Mary Institute, St. Louis.

In charge of the music: Charlotte
Tyler.

Gutrd understudies: E. R. Cross, |
1935, Bernardsville,.N. J.; the Brear- |

ley School; niece of Emily Cross, ’01.

Mary Elizabeth Grant, 1933, Saginaw |

West Side, Mich.; Miss Madeira’s
School. Anne E. Webster, 1934, Den- ,
ver, Col.



Mr. King is Experienced *
Director of ‘May. Day Plays:



Mr. Samuel Arthur King has been
Director of Plays in the Bryn Mawr
May Days since 1906, the present one
being his seventh. His regular work
at the college is training of the speak-
ing voice and the interpretation of
Shakespeare.

Mr. King had a long stage eéxperi-
ence both in stock seasons and tour-
ing, part of the time being associated
_in England with Professor John *Mil-

sa Mr. Herman Vezin and Mr. Wil-

jam Poel, after which he took the
M: A. degree at the University of
London in 2nglish and Literature.
He Was then jnvited to give a series
of lectures, combined with Shake-
spearean. recitals, before the Johns
Hopkins University, of ‘Baltimore. ’
This was the turning-point..in* his
career from the dramatic to-the aca-
demic, for President Gilman said to
“him, “If you care to lecture on the
technique of speech, the whole country
. is open tosyou.” When President M.
Carey Thomas soon after brought Mr.
‘King to Bryn Mawr, -the college be-
came “the pioneer” in required work
for the voice. \

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»* The Mikado. She is now president

Forest Scenes Acted

‘ women.
‘ 1599 or 1600, when its author had

_sall. meet. and match, and the final

‘plays for May Day. Miss King is a

‘the Haverford English Club. She ap-

president of her class during their

_ Hall, Wisconsin, where she was presi-

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May Day Edition





From “As You Like It’”’

Women in Disguise, Exiles, and
Pastoral Scenes, Make
Romantic Comedy

HAS TWO SINGING ROLES

As You Like It-belongs to the sec-
ond period of Shakespeare’s writing,
the period of the Romantic Comedy,
lyric passages and admiration of
The play was written in









not been affected by the substance of
his later tragedies. It was taken di-
rectly from Thomas Lodges’ love
tract, Rosalind, but to this was add-
ed the atmosphere of the’ forest that
belongs essdntially to the English
rountryside that Shakespeare knew.

| It is only the Forest of Arden
cenes from the play that are given
fat Bryn Mawr May Day. These con-
sist mainly of playing “those of the
vost off against “those of the coun-
try” and ending up with everyone tru-
ly happy. Rosalind, disguised as a
boy, is in the forest with Touchstone
land Celia, seeking for Orlando, who is
in exile with the banished Duke. They

scene of the play is a conclusion for
the “Eight who, must take hands, To
join in Hymen’s bands,” although
‘judging from some of the satire of the
play they are scarcely expected to live
happily ever after. The old Roman-!
tic themes of women in disguise and
courtiers in the country make this
part of As You Like It particularly
suitable to May Day.

Rosalind: Played by Mary Agnes
King, daughter of the director of

junior at the Shipley School and there
played the part of Rosalind last fall.
A year before she took the part of
Portia in The Merchant of Venice,
and.she has had other parts in the
two plays So This Is London _ and)
The Romantic Young Lady. We hope |
that Miss King will have a part in|
the next big May Day, when she will
be a Junior at Bryn Mawr.

Orlando: Played by Rebecca Wood,
33. Miss Wood was prepared by the
Catlin School, Portland, where she
played the part of, Orlando as-a less
mature actress. Since then she has
worked on the: stage crew of Varsity
Dramatics and sung ir’ the chorus of
The Pirates of Penzance and the title
role in, the Glee Club production of



of the Junior Class and president of
the Undergraduate Association for
the coming year.

Touchstone: Played by Olivia Jar-
rett, 34. -Miss Jarrett was prepared

enne of this year’s Freshman Show, |

Wrong Again.

Corin: Played by Mollie Nichols,
34. Miss Nichols went to the Ship-
ley School, where as a member of the
dramatic club she had parts in Come
Out of the Kitchen, So This Is Lon-
don, etc. She was president of the
Freshman class last year and played
in The Road to Mars and the Fresh-
man one-act plays. She was in Var-
sity Dramatics’ production of The
Uncommon Thief and’in Romeo and
Juliet, with the Haverford English
Club, this fall, and is secretary of
Self-Government. .

Amiens: Played by Virginia
Speed, ’32. Miss Speed prepared at
Louisville Collegiate School, and has
one of the two important singing parts
of the play for which she is qualified
by being a member of the Glee Club
and an enthusiastic voice pupil. She
took part in the production of Pa-
ti.nce two years ago.

Hymen: Played by Jane Polachek,
34. Miss Polachek was prepared at
the Horace Mann School in New York
and has the other important singing
role in the production. She also, takes
voice lessons and had an important
part in the 1934 Freshman Show, as
well as playing Pitti-Sing in The Mi-
kado last year. She is a member: of
the choir and has charge of the mus-



i¢ in this production:

Duke, living in Exile: Played by
Barbara McCauley, ’35. Miss Mc-
Cauley went to the Catherine Bran-
son School in California, where she
was active in dramatics. At college
she has been manager of the Fresh-
man Show this year and a supporter
of the Vilaphone Co.

William: Played by Susan Dan-
iels,.’34. Miss Daniels went to the
Shipley School. She is on the Athlet-
ic association here at college and has
starred on the swimming team for
two years, winning the diving cup

this year.
Oliver: Played by Sally Hupfel,
85. Miss Hupfel prepared at the

Emma Willard School in Troy, New
York, where her dramatic career was
variegated but not extensive. She
will be remembered as the sister of
Magdalin Hupfel, ’28, present warden
of Denbigh.

Jacques: .Played by Elizabeth Han-
nah, ’32.. Miss Hannah prepared at
the Friends’ Select School, where her
interests were more journalistic than
dramatic. She was absent last year
on her Junior year in France.

Audrey:* Played by Miss Sheble,
892. Miss Sheble was prepared at the
Germantown Friends’ School, where

her interests lay in, elocution rather |’

than in the actual performance. She
has been absent from College a year

--|and~-has--playedonce before in The



Legend of Robin Hood
Found in Old Ballads

May Day Version of Story Was
Written by Bryn Mawr
Alumna

—_—_—

MAY QUEEN IS MARIAN

Although Robin Hood, Maid Mar-
ion, and the Merry Men have always
had an important part in the May
Day pageantry, it was not until the
performance of 1910 that the outlaw’s
life in Sherwood received dramatic
presentation. In that year, Elizabeth
T. Daly, B.M., ’01, the chairman of
the May Day Committee, adapted the
old Robin Hood ballads and plays as
the basis for the version which is
now being performed for the sixth
time.

The legend of Robin Hood and his
band was ‘preserved in England by
numerous: ballads, the most import-
ant of which is A Lytell Geste of
Robyn Hode, 1510. Later, two Robin
Hood plays appeared, one by Robert







Old Wives’ Tale.

Foresters: Played by .Emmaline
Snyder, Mainard Riggs, Martha Tip-
ton, Sarah Smith, Constance Gill,
Grace Holden and Frederica Oldach.



T :
Green, in 1587, and another, entitled
the Downfall of Robert, Earl of Hunt-
ingdon, by Anthony Munday, in 1597.

Robin Hood games were introduced
into the May Day festivities of the
sixteenth century in order to encour-
age archery. But as the practice of
archery declined, the games were dis-’
continued, and the characters incor-
porated into the Morris Dance. Maid
Marion became the Queen, and Robin
Hood the Lord, of the May. It is this -
tradition which is followed at Bryn
Mawr.

ton, N. J. Before entering college
she attended L’Ecole Fontaine, at’
ton, N. J. Before entering college she
attended L8 L’Ecole Fontaine, at
Cannes, France, and Miss Fine’s
School, in Princeton. In thé Fresh-
man Show last year she had one of
the male leads. Her training in dra-
matics was obtained principally at the
Perry Mansfield Camp of Dramatics
and Dancing, Steamboat Springs, Col.
Her mother was Renee Mitchell, B.
M., 1900. . e

Cornelia Drake, ’33, the May Queen,
is, of course, also Maid Marion, She

‘comes from Miami, Fla., and prepar-

ed at Shipley, where she was active
in dramatics and worked often under
Mr. King’s direction. Among the
plays in .which she appeared are

(Continued on Page Ten)



eae







by the Greenwood School, Baltimore, |
where she had a lead in Fashion, as

a member of the dramatic club. At’ ©

Bryn Mawr she had a part in the
Freshman one-act plays last year, but |
more notably she has played in Les |
Femmes Savantes, and this year she
had the lead in the French Club pro-
duction of-Knock.

Celia: Played by Caroline Schwab,
"34. Miss Schwab went to Milton
Academy in Massachusetts, where she |
played men’s parts in Belinda and|
Pomander Walk. She appeared to
Bryn Mawr in the ingenue lead in the
Freshman Show last year and this
fall took the part of Juliet ifi a pro-
duction, of Romeo and Juliet ,with

peared in the Varsity Dramatics pro-
duction of The Uncommon Thief last
year and has since been elected treas-
urer of that organization.

. Jacques: Played by Miriam Dodge,
33. Miss Dodge was prepared at the
Windsor School in Boston, where she
was active in dramatics. She attend-
ed the Gloucester Little Theatre and
School of Dramatics two summers ago
and since coming to college has play-
ed in the Varsity Dramat. productions
of The Constant Nymph, The Devil's
Disciple, Humpty Dumpty and’ The
Enchanted April.

Sylvius: Played by Rebecca Dav-
iis, ’°32. Miss Davis went to the Bryn
Mawr School in Baltimore, where she
received voice training ard acted in
several plays. At Bryn Mawr she was

Freshman Year.
_ Phoebe: Played by Elizabeth Lord,
°35. Miss Lerd comes from Kemper

dent of the dramatic club and will be



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‘A Midsummer Night’s
Dream’ Known by 1598



Fairy Scenes and Rustics’ Play
of Pyramus Chosen From

7 Comedy
CHILDREN PLAY FAIRIES





A Midsummer. Night’s Dream was,
beyond alf doubt, written by William
Shakespeare about 1598 and was first
acted by the Lord Chamberlain’s com-
pany of players in London. The ex-
act date of its composition has net

been established, but it was first men-:
tioned in Francis Mere’s Palladis Ta-.

mia of 1598: “As Plautus and Ter-
ence are accounted the best for Com-
edy and Tragedy among the Latines,
so Shakespeare among ye English in
both kinds for the stage; for comedy,
witness-his.Midsumer Night’s Dream

.”’ The play was entered in the
Stationers’-Register on October 8,
1600, and the first quarto version ap-
peared the same year. Since the es-
tablishment of the tradition of May
Day at Bryn Mawr, in 1900, Midsum-
mer Night’s Dream has. always been
given.

As_ it is.presented on, May Day,
Midsummer Night’s Dream contains
only those scenes which: concern the
“rude mechanicals” and the fairies.
In the abbreviated version, Theseus,
Hippolyta. and the two pairs ‘of lov-
ers,,around whom the action centers
in the play proper, serve only as’ spec-
tators at the rustics’ “Tragicall In-
terlude of Pyramus arfd Thisby.”

*The Bryn Mawr presentation opens
with the scene in which the crafts-
men are assigned the parts they are
to play in an interlude to be present-
ed before the Duke and Duchess of
Athens on their wedding day. The
second scene finds Oberon, king of the
Fairies, enchanting Titania, the Fairy
Queen. He is angry with her be-
cause she has refused to give him one
of her attendants to whom he has tak-
en a fancy.
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head into that of an ass. Titania is
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immediately falls in love with him
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In the last scene the rustics present
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Pyramus and Thisby, and would
wring the hardest heart. After the
two lovers come to their unhappy end,
they arise and the entire company
entertains the court with a bergo-
mask,

The play was directed by Ethel
Chouteau Dyer, Bryn Mawr, ’31, un-
der the supervision of Samuél Arthur
King, Director of Plays. The ‘music
is under the supervision of Laura
Richardson, Bryn Mawr, ’30, and the
song—“‘You spotted snakes with dou-
ble tongue”’—in Act II is rendered
by Esther Maddux Tennent. Maria
Coxe, ’34, is in charge of the proper-
ties.

Who’s Who -in the Cast

Quince: Janet A. Marshall, ’33,
lives in Winnetka, Illinois. She pre-
pared for college at New Trier High
School, Winnetka, where she was act-
ive in-dramatics. and journalism.’ At
Bryn Mawr she is news editor of the
College News, on the executive com-
mittee. of the Varsity Dramatics
board; and"the author of one of; the
prize-winning one-act plays written at
college, and has had parts in several
plays, the latest being that of Kate
in Berkeley Square.

Snug: -Elizabeth Hannan, ’34, lives
in Albany, New York, and prepared
for Bryn Mawr at the Albany Acad-
emy for Girls; where she was active
in dramatics, “chiefly in the capacity
of policemen and off-stage noises,” to
quote Miss Hanan. She is now a
member of the editorial staff of the
College News, and vice-president of
her class.

Snout: Joan Hopkinson, ’35, lives
in Boston, Massachusetts, and has been
preceded at- Bryn Mawr by three
sisters. She prepared for college at
the Winsor School, Boston, where she
took part in dramatics. At Bryn

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Mawr she was at the head of the
costuming and aided in designing the
scenery for her Freshman Show.
Bottom: ° Sallie Jones, ’34, is the
sister of Betty Jones Tytus, Bryn
Mawr ex-’21, lives in Granville, Ohio,
and prepared for Bryn Mawr at Rose-
mary Hall, Greenwich, Connecticut,
where she was active in athletics and
dramatics. At Bryn Mawr she play-
ed one of the leads in her Freshman

Show and was production manager |

of Berkeley Square. :She is at pres-
ent editor-in-chief of the College News
and a member of the Varsity Dra-
matics board. : °

Flute: Nancy Stevenson, ’34, lives
in Yonkers, New York, and prepared
for college at the Shipley School,
Bryn Mawr, where she was prominent
in athletics and in the first rank of
the school’s actresses. At Bryn Mawr
She was toastmistress of the Fresh-
man banquet and has been elected this
year’s chairman of the banquet-to-be.

Straveling: Maria: Coxe, ’34, lives
in Philadelphia and attended the Ag-
nes Irwin School, where she took an
active part in all dramatics. At Bryn
Mawr she wrote and directed her
I'reshman Show, wrote one of the
prize-winning Freshman plays, was
stage-manager for the French Club
play, and appeared as Mrs. Barwick
in Berkeley Square. She is also on
the editorial staff of the Lantern.

Titania: Nora Joan King is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Kng,
of Bryn Mawr, and is now attending
Shipley School. This year marks her
third appearance in, May Day. In
1924 she was a fairy and in 1928,
Titania.

Attendant-to~ Titania: Jane Mor-=
ris is the eight-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney S. Morris, of
Daylesford, Pa., and the niece of El-
lenor Morris, Bryn Mawr, ’30.

Oberon: «Elizabeth Utley Thomas,
’32, is the daughter of Elizabeth Ut-
ley, ’03, and lives in Pittsburgh, Pa.
She attended the Thurston Prepara-
tory School at: Pittsburgh, where she
was active in dramatics and president
of .student government. At Bryn
Mawr she is prominent in French
Club, having appeared in all of. their

(Continued on Page Hight)



Many Alumnae Return to Help
Athletic and Dramatic
Faculty Directing



The picture of May Day is not com-
plete without some mention of those
people who have devoted. themselves
tirelessly to its perfection. They are
scattered about in many. and varied
departments, but it is their combined
work which is behind the present fete.

Miss Grace R. Kitselman, first as-
sistant to the Director of May Day,
was of invaluable assistance in han-
dling the publicity and looking “after
the details of the production.

Ellenor Morris, Bryn Mawr, 1927,
was in charge of compiling the pro-
gram and also arranged for all the
many animals employed.

Gertrude Bancroft, ’30; Margaret
Patterson, ’30, and Mary Oakford,
31, and Mrs. Charlton Williams were
in charge of the sending out of an-
nouncements arid of the ticket sale
and reservations.

Mildred Buchanan Bassett, ’24, one
of Bryn Mawr’s most distinguished
alumnae, was in complete charge of
the May-pole dancing. Mrs. Bassett
was on the All-American hockey team
in 1927, and is perhaps the greatest
athlete Bryn. Mawr has ever produc-
ed. She has been associated with
Miss Constance Appleby, who was for
such a long time the much-loved di-
rector of Bryn Mawr physical edu-
cation. \

Assistants to the Director of the
Green were: Miss Isabel Cooper, of

the Duncan School of ‘Dancing, who
trained the gypsy and_ shepherd
dances; Miss Ethel Marion Grant,
Bryn’ Mawr hockey and _ basketball
coach, and member of the All-Ameri-
can hockey selection committee, who
worked with the folk dancers; Marna
V. Brady, Bryn Mawr swimming in-
structor, who took charge of the tum-
blers and the graduate students; and
Janet Seeley, Bryn Mawr, ’27, who as-
sisted in the training of the tumblers
and dancers. Miss Seeley was a dis-
tinguished athlete at Bryn Mawr, a
member of the hockey, basketball, la-
}crosse and water polo teams, and the
possessor of her college blazer, the
highest athletic award given, by her
Junior year. This is Miss Seeley’s
third May Day, for she took part in
’24 and trained tumblers in ’28,

All the directors of the green are
to take an active part in May Day.

(Continued on Page Bight)
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May Day Edition



Little May Day Hel
April Twenty-ninth

May Baskets, Hoop. Rolling, and
Hymn to Sun Begin
Morning .

Little My. Day, with its traditiona
ceremonies, as’sacred as those of Lan-
tern Night or Senior Tree Planting,
was celebrated Friday morning, April



‘29, apart from the festivities of Big

May Day. The sophomores, dressed
in white, were up at five-thirty to
prepare coffee and rolls to be served
to their sister class in the smoking
room. At six they trooped through

the dim, quiet corridors singing their
“Waking Up Song,” pausing outside
the doors of the various seniors to
let each sophomore deliver her May
basket and to wish her senior a cheery

-good morning. The light blue bas-

kets, with their. two-colored bows,
were supposed to be filled ‘with wild
flowers, but due to a late spring they
contained lovely, but domestic, jon-
quils, daffodils and pinks. After their
quick “Continental” breakfast the
seniors presented Miss Park a May
basket of yellow May Day paper tu-
lips and then, clad in their caps and
gowns, mounted Rock Tower to sing
their Magdalen College Latin Hymn
to the sun. It is an impressive sight
to see the black-and-white mass stand-
ing silently on the tower, awaiting
the tolling of Taylor bell to commence
the hymn, with the’sun slowly rising
higher and higher. When Rockefeller

“was first built, President M. Cary

‘Thomas suggested this custom, which
is so similar to the tradition of Mag-

“dalen Tower at Oxford.

After the singing the - seniors
marched in pairs, swinging their bas-
kets, down the steps to the dining
room for a class breakfast, and at
the bottom of the steps their presi-
dent, Miss Josephine Graton, runner-
up for Big May Queen, was crowned
Queen of Little May Day by Harriet
Mitchell, president of the sophomore
class. The other classes returned to
their various halls for the traditional
breakfast of strawberries, chipped
beef and rolls... Afterward everyone
turned out onto Merion Green to
watch the-seniors, led by, the Bryn

’ Mawr town band playing “To the May

Pole,” “one-two-three hop” -up the
walk from Rock to their May pole on
the green. This year, because of Big
‘May Day, only the seniors wound
itheir pole with its light blue-and-
white streamers, while the other
classes formed an enormous circle and

danced around them in an impromptu

manner. When the dancing was over

iss Park presented Miss Graton with
ia. mecklace “from the tomb of the
Pharaoh”..and said that she hoped it

- would act as a symbolic chain to bind

her to her class and to Bryn Mawr
as a whole, helping moreover to bring
back pleasant memories. ‘A second
necklace was given to Harriet Moore
for her splendid work this year as
‘president of the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation.

Chapel followed this, at which Miss
Park announced the holders ofthe
various fellowships and scholarships
for next year and also the cum laude
list for all four classes. The May





“A Midsummer Night’s
- Dream” Known by 1598



(Continued from Page Seven)

dramatic presentations. She also
played Paulina in the Constant
Nymph, 1930.

Puck: Elaine King is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Kng, of Bryn
Mawr and attends Miss Laing’s
School. She was cast as a fairy in
the 1928 May. Day, but illness preyent-
ed her participation.

Peaseblossom: Janine Daudon, age
seven, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Rene Jean Daudon, of Bryn Mawr.
She attends the Haverford Friends’
School and is appearing in May Day
for the first-time.

Cobweb: ~ Lois. Wells is the daugh-
ter of Dr. and Mrs. Roger H. Wells,
of Bryn Mawr.+ She attends Baldwin
School, and this is her first appear-
ance in May Day.

Moth: Charlton Yarnell Jacobs jis
the six-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Regniald Jacobs, of Avon road,
Haverford. She is attending the
Baldwin School in anticipation of a
career at Bryn Mawr. .

Mustardseed: Maysie Morris is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
S. Morris, of Daylesford, Pa. She is}
the niece of Eleanor Morris, Bryn
Mawr, ’30.

Theseus: Esther Jane Parsons,
34, lives in Weehawken, New Jersey,
and attended Miss Ransom’s and Miss
Bridge’s School in Piedmont, Califor-
nia, where she was a member of the
Dramatic and Glee Clubs. This is her
second appearance as Theseus, having
played it at school. ii :

Hippolyta: .Anne -P. Denton, ’35,
lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she
attended Miss Laurel’s School. She
is a member of the Bryn Mawr Choir
and Glee Club, and wrote the ex-
tremely popular music for her Fresh-
man Show.

Lysander; Carolyn Lombardi, ’32,
is the daughter of Ethel Peck, Bryn
Mawr, ’04, and lives in San Francis-
co, California. She attended ‘Miss
Ransom’s and Miss Bridge’s School
in Piedmont, California. She is at
present a member of the editorial staff
of the Lantern.

Hermia: Ruth Millikan, ’32, lives



baskets looked fresh and spring-like,
massed’ together on the stage. The
seniors circled around the auditorium
with their. gayly beribbonedfhoops, in
anticipation of the coming hoop-roll-
ing down Senior Row after Chapel.
After the seniors had bestowed the
cherished hoops upon lucky under-
graduates, the classes formed a quad-
rangle under the trees of the Row
and sang their respective Waking Up
Songs and Class Songs, as invited to
by the seniors.

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at North Dighton, Massachusetts, and
prepared for college at House in the
Pines, Norton, Massachusetts. She is
at present vice-president of the Un-
dergraduate Society, secretary of her
class and of the Science Club.
Demetrius: Nancy Squire, ’34, lives
in New York City ands attended the
Wadleigh High School. At Bryn
Mawr she is a member of the French
Club and had the part of Jean in
Knock, the latest French Club pro-
duction. sass

Helena: Constance Colentan,. 34,
lives in Hingham, Mass. She pre-
pared at the Hingham High School
and at Thayer Academy at Braintree,
Mass., where she played on the tennis
team and was a member of the dra-
matic club.

Philostrate: Anne Lukens, ’35,
lives in Conshohocken, Pa., and at-
tended the Agnes Irwin School in
Philadelphia. She was a_ specialty
dancer in her Freshman Show and is
Assistant Advertising Manager of
the Lantern.

Greek Guards: Ellen Shaw; ’32,
and Matilda McCracken, ’33.

Court Attendants: Alexandra Lee,
33; Ella Rutledge, ’32; Peggy Booms-
liter, ’35.



Many Alumnae Assist in-
May Day Preparations



(Continued from Page Seven)

Mrs. Bassett and’ Miss Grant are to
do special Morris jigs together on the
green; Miss Seeley is dancing with
the chimney sweeps and gypsies; and
Miss Brady will join her tumblers in
their tricks.

The costuming is the work of Mrs.
Aro Danforth Nelson and’ Miss Mar-
ian Black. It is to them_that the
praise of the entire audience should
go, for they are responsible for the
brilliant and charming appearance of
the pageant.

Mr. Samuel Arthur King, while su-
pervising all the plays, entrusted the
actual direction to Ethel Chouteau
Dyer, Bryn Mawr, ’31, and Marion
Turner, Bryn Mawr, ’31. While in
college Miss Dyer acted in and direct-
ed numerous plays.. She attained the
honor of the presidency of Varsity?
Dramatics in her Junior year and held
it until graduation, and proved her-
self a finished actress and an able di-
rector. She directed A Midsummer
night’s Dream, As You Like-It, and
The Masque of the Flowers. ;

Marion Turner, ’31, is .remember-
ed chiefly for her performance as Eu-

’28 May Day. She was also presi-
dent of her hall and president of the
Glee Club in her Senior. year. She
had under her direction Robin Hood,
The Old’ Wives’ Tale, and St. George
and the Dragon.





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by courts in Berlin, Germany, thus
giving a further set-back to those
reformers who would banish this cus-
tom of German student life. Although
student duels have declined greatly
since the war, they still hold a strong
place in the life of certain student
groups. Recently a student was re-
leased by a court, although his oppori-
ent had died as a result of the battle.
Sabre cuts are still worn with pride

and even a feeling of superiority by
many who otherwise are modest. and

year students.

Duelling corps are similar to Nica
ican fraternities, except in their ac-
tivities. Duels are held secretly. The

but the heads and faces are left un-
protected. Usually a club physician
and servant is present. The young-
sters fence until both have received
scars large enough not to be asham-
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hurt, they join their comrades and
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“Marlowe, who led a shiftless, reckless
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Old Wives’ Tale is a rustic comedy,
almost. an initerlude, with a back-
- ground of folk-lore. It has very real-
‘\stic dialogue and instances of a hu-
mor quite foreign to the comic busi-

shelter for the night.

out.’ The action concerns two young

‘blows out the light, and’the story ends

_ little unity, depending almost entire-

‘of the aristocracy, whom jit chiefly

“Mawr. She played the part of Lady
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“The Old Wives’ Tale”
“is Rustic Fairy Tale
Satirical Interlude Was Written

by George Peele, “Uni-
versity Wit”



SACRAPANT IS LEAD

The Old Wives’ Tale was described
on the. title-page of its first edition
as a “pleasant conceited comedie play-
ed by the Queenes Maiesties players
to be sold at the shop over against St.
Giles, his church with out Criplegate.”
It was first registered for printing in
1595 at Stationers’ Hall. It is a charm-
ingly romantic play within a play by
George Peele, a so-called university
wit, and contemporary of Greene and





fore Shakespeare’s rise to fame. The

ness of earlier pieces. Peele has in-
corporated ‘into it smooth blank verse
and dignified dramatic diction.” .

' The story is, strangely enough,.a
fairy tale with an undercurrent of sa-
‘tire. . In the beginning three young
men who are lost in the woods at twi-
light, meet Clunch, a smith, who is
agreeable to giving them supper and
To pass away
the long winter evening, Madge; the
smith’s wife, volunteers to tell a story,
but, she has forgotten the details, and
after several false starts, the charac-
ters themselves appear to help her

brothers, in search of their sister,
Delia, who has been captured by Sac-
rapant, an enchanter. Like Circe, he
is able by his arts to turn men into
beasts, and preserves on himself a
handsome, youthful appearance. Only
one who is neither a “wife, widow,
or maid,’’.may, by -breaking a glass
containing a light; destroy his pow-
ers. A knight, Eumenides, Delia’s
lover, who is also going to her rescue,
is.told that his quest will be unsuc-
cessful until “dead men’s bones come
at his call.” The weird prophecy is
fulfilled’ when the ghost of Jack, a
man for whose burial the knight has
paid, in gratitude renders his serv-
ices. Under the cloak of invisibility
he snatches off Sacrapant’s wreath
and sword, without which he can
work no spells. Venelia, who is nei-
ther maid, wife, nor widow, but the
maddened betrothed of Erestus, a
young man, upon whom Sacrapant
has cast his own old and wizened
features,—Venelia breaks the glass,

happily.. As may be seen, the plot has

ly upon the occasional comments of
Madge to draw the:various threads to-
gether. Lack of unity has really de-
termined its suitability for an outdoor
performance of the nature of the May
Day festival. Upon the occasion of
the second May Day, The Old Wives’
Tale was substituted for The Shoe-
maker’s..Holiday, by’’*Thomas , Dekker,
which has a closely woven story, diffi-
cult to follow, and the former has been
given ever since. The fact that it is
written from the point of view of the
old peasant woman, and not from that

concerns. is interesting considering
the age in which it was first pro-
duced.

WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST

Delia: Played by Miss Edith Bryne,
32, of Staten Island, New York, who
was. prepared by the Curtis. High
School, New York, and at Dongan
Hall, Staten Island. She was chair-
man of Americanization .in ’31 and
’32, chairman. of the Vocationai’-Bu-
reau, a member of the Cirriculum
Committee, Manager of Garden Par-
ty, and Hall-President of Rockefel-
ler this year.

Churchwarden: Played by Miss
Marie-Luise Elliot, ’33, of Hartford,
Connecitcut, who attended the Walnut
Hill School, Natick, Massachusetts,
and the Baldwin School in Bryn

Zantippa: Played by Miss Alice’
Rider; ’32, of Jamaica Plains, Massa-
chusetts, who was prepared by the
Girls’ Latin School in Boston. Last
year she was Second Junior Member
of the Undergraduate Association, in

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year she is one of the editors of the
yearbook of the Class of ’32. ~

-The Head-in-the-Well: . Played by
Miss Lucy Douglas, .’35, of Over-
brook, Pennsylvania, who attended
the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr. At
school she was president of the De-
bating Club and played on the Var-
sity Hockey and Basketball teams. At
college she made the Second Varsity
Hockey Team, and played the part of
Ali, the Egyptian guide, in the 1935
Freshman Show.

Wiggen: Played by Miss Jane
Bronson, 33, of Germantown, ‘ Penn-
sylvania, who attended ‘the German-
town Friends’ School. She has been
on the Varsity Swimming Team since
her Freshman year, was captain of
the team for this*year,s and has been
re-elected for next..

Sexton: Played by,
Einsiedler, ’32, of
County, New Jersey, who was prepar-
ed by the Kent Place-School, Summit,
New, Jersey. She is Editor-in-Chief
of the College quarterly publication,
The Lantern, and of the yearbook of
the Class of ’32.

The Ghost of Jack: Played by Miss
Mildred Smith, ’35, of Altoona, Penn-
sylvania, who was prepared by the
Western High School, of Washington,
D. C., and by the Germantown High
School, where she took the lead in
Senior Class play, The Perfect Alibi,
and was chairman of 'the.Prom Com-
mittee. She took the comedy ingenue
role of Fatima in the 1935 Freshman
Show. ie ia

Antick: Played by Miss Elizabeth
Fain, ’34, of Greenwich, Connecticut,
who attended the Shipley School ‘in
Bryn Mawr. She is taking her Jun-
ior Year in Frapce according to the

iss Charlotte

Delaware Foreign Study Plan. She

is the sister of Virginia Fain Wil-
liams, ’29.

Celantta: . Played by Miss Mar-
garet Williams, ’32, of New York
City, who attended the Shipley School
in Bryn Mawr. She is active in the
French. Club and has helped with the
scenery for their annual productions.

Corebus: Played by Miss Katharine
Gribbel, ’34, of Chestnut Hill, Phila-
delphia, who was prepared by the
Springside School in Chestnut Hill,
and by the Misses Kirk’s School in
Bryn Mawr. At school she played
on both the Second Varsity Hockey
and Basketball teams, was a member
of Student Government, and was pres-
ident of her class Senior year. She
was Secretary of the Freshman Class
at college last year. She is the daugh-
ter of Margaret Latta,, ’09.

Eumenides:. Played by Miss Elea-
nor Renner, ’32, of Ridgefield Park,
Massachusetts, who attended the
Girls’ Latin School in Boston.

Lampriscus: Played by Miss Eliz-
abeth Mead, of New York: City, who |
attended the Brearley: School.

Frolick: Played by Miss Marianne
Gateson, ’34, of Philadelphia, who
formerly lived’ in Bethlehem, where
she attended the Bethlehem High
School. She has been prominent in
dramatics since her entrance. She
took part in Phaeton, a one-act play
given by the class of ’34 last year,
was the Duchess of Devonshire in the
Varsity Players’-production;—“Berke-
ley Square,” this fall, and played in
“Romeo and Juliet,” given by the Hav-
erford English Club this winter.

Fantastick: Played by Miss Honour
Dickerman, ’34, of New York City,
who was prepared by the Ethel Walk-
She was a member of the
Glee Club at preparatory school, and
last year belonged to the college choir
and glee club, taking~part. ‘in their
annual Gilbert and Sulivan operetta,

The Mikado. She is the daughter of
Alice Carter, ’99.
Clunch: Played by Miss Dorothy

Brown, ’32, of Redbank, New Jersey,
who attended the Shipley School in

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in dramatic under Mr. King. She has |
been very prominent in Bryn Mawr |
League work, having been head of |
Blind School, ’31, and head of Social
Service, 32. In ’30 she won the prize
given for the best work in Sophomore
English.

Madge: Played by Miss Josephine
Williams, ’33, of Jenkintown, who was
prepared by the -Agnes Irwin School,
in Philadelphia. She was manager of
the Freshman Show given by the
Class of ’33 and vice president of the
class her Sophomore year. She has
also been treasurer of the Undergrad-
uate Association and is hall president-
elect for Merion next year. ‘

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Twelfth Night, Joan ‘of Arc, and
Green Stocking. Her only appearance
on the Bryn Mawr stage was in the
Freshman Show, where she had a
singing part: Miss Drake has a sis-
ter, Mary Drake, B. M., ’31, who was
‘a prominent member of Varsity Play-
ers.

The’ part of Little John: is played
this year by Anita Fouilhoux, ’34, who



- lives in Short Hills, N. J., and attend-

ed the Kent Place School in Summit,
N. J., and appeared in various French
plays. She is a member of Mrs. Col-
lins’ Committee, and chairman of the
Ushering Committee. Her mother
was Jean Clark, B. M., ’02.

Esther E. Smith, of the’ Class of
84, portrays the role of “Will Scarlet.
Her home is in St. Paul, Minn. Be-
fore entering Bryn Mawr she was a
student at Oak Hall, St. Paul, Mil-
waukee-Downer Seminary, Wis., and
L’Ecole Intérnationale, Geneva, and
was active in dramtics at all of them.
In college, she had a prominent part
in the Freshman plays, and, besides
being includtd.in the hockey and bas-
ketball squads, is also a member of
the swimming team. She has just re-
ceived the Susan Carey Award.

Friar Tuck will be played by Elea-
nor Stonington, ’32, of Staten Island,
N. Y.. Miss Stonington was prepared
at Dongan Hall, where she played
Mrs. Malaprop.. She had a part in
the Varsity Players’ production of
The Devils’ Disciple, and has also act-
ed with the Parish Players of Stony
Point, Conn., for whom she took the
lead in The Green Goddess.

Clara Frances Grant, ’34, who plays
Allan-a-Daft, is a great-granddaugh-
ter of Ulysses S. Grant, and a grand-
daughter of Elihu Root. She comes



from Washington, D. C., and attend-
ed the Shipley School, where she had

the lead in The Importance of Being
Earnest, and also appeared in Come
Out of the Kitchen. At college, she
played a role in Enchanted April, and
directed the Freshman one-act plays.
Her verse frequently appears im the
Lantern, and she is copy editor of
The News. :

The part of Sir Stephen of Trent
is taken by Elizabeth Gill, ’383. She
comes from Mifwaukee, Wis., and pre-
pared for Bryn Mawr at Milwaukee-
Downer Seminary, where: she played
minor parts in school dramatics. Her
mother wag Laura Alice Sceets, B. M.,
"01.

Rosella James, the Bishop of Here-
ford, lives in Philadelphia, wh she
attended Frankford High, nd was
president of her section. She is a
member of the Freshman class, ‘and
played on the hockey squad this fall.

Junia Culbertson, ’34, the Fair E]-
len, is the daughter of the U. Sv Am-
bassador to Chile. - Tutors in Rouma-
nia and Chile had charge of most of
her preparation, but for a short per-
iod she attended Santiago College,
Chile, where she was Titania in Mid-
summer Night’s Dream, and also Miss
Madeira’s School in Washington. At
college she had a feminine lead in the
Freshman Show. Next year she will
be a Junor Member of the Undergrad-
uate Association, in charge of dances.

The part of Fair Ellen’s Father is
taken by Anne Funkhauser, ’33, of
Roanoke, Va. She entered Bryn Mawr
from St. Catherin’s School, Richmond,
where-she acted in various ¢lassical
plays.

Lucy Swift, ’32, of Stamford, Conn.,
plays the role of Prince John, King
Richard’s brother. The Misses Kirk’s
School at Bryn Mawr prepared her
for college. She had a part in the
Freshman Show and the Sophomore
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her major sport; she has been on the
team two years, and last year was
manager. “ ‘

Anne Burnett, ’33, of St. Louis,
Mo., is the “aged” Fitzwater. She at-
tended the John Burroughs Country
Day School at Clayton, Mo. In her
Freshman year ‘she directed the
Freshman Show and acted in The Ad-
mirable Crighton. She is doing the
props for-Robin Hood and is an edi-
tor and contributor of the Lantern.

The part of King Richard is play-
ed by Yvonne Cameron, who comes
from Princeton and attended Miss
Fine’s School there. She is president
of the French “Club, and was in the
cast of the’ French Play. She is also
Subscription Manager of the College
News. Her sister, Constance Cam-
eron Ludington, graduated from Bryn
Mawr in 1922.

Betsey Bates, of Summit, N. J., is
the Sheriff of Nottingham. She at-
tended the Kent Place School, where
she was treasurer of her class, and
played the parts of the Barber in
the Barber of Seville and Meg in Lit-
tle.Women. For the Freshman Show,

‘she was one of the heroes, besides

writing some of the songs. Her
mother was Anne Greene, B. M., 795.

Molly Atmore, who plays Sir Rich-
ard of the Lea, comes from Wayne,
Pa., and attended the Misses. Kirk’s
School. She was business manager of
the College News and also of the Glee
Club, and took part in the French
Club play. Her sister, Virginia At-
more, graduated here in 1928.

Sir Richard’s father, Sir Henry of
the Lea, is Mary Katherine Rasch, of
Narberth, Pa. She attended the Bar-
stow School, Kansas City, and also
the Baldwin School, Bryn:Mawr. She
is a member of the Clas8 -of ’82.

The Merry Men are: H. Baldwin,
34; E..Carson, ’338; C. Candee, ’83;
E. Chalfont, ’°33; M. E. Charlton, ’34;
S. Cope, 35; E: Grace, ’83; N. Hart,

Rhoads, ’85; F. Van Keuren, ’85; M.|,

34; A. Hardenbergh, 82; N. Lane,
35; P. Little, ’35; E. Monroe, ’35;
G. Mueller, ’82; C. Ralston, ’32; V.
Richardson, ’88; H. Uipley,' ’85; G.



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ae he. Old Wives’ Tale”
is Rustic Fairy Tale



(Continued from Page Nine)

Calypha ahd Thelea: Played by
Miss Margaret and Miss Janet Woods,
32, of Iowa City, Ia., ‘commonly
known as “the Woods twins,” the
daughters of Fanny Sinclair, ’01, who
were prepared both at the Pekin
American School in China.and at the
Misses Kirk’s School in Bryn Mawr.
They belonged to the choir and glee
club last year, taking part in The
Mikado; were joint song-mistresses
of their class as Juniors, and have
been interested in swimming, basket-
ball and hockey throughout their col-
lege careers.

Erestus: Played by Miss Patricia
Putnam, ’32, sister of Frances Put-
nam Fritchman, ’28,. who attended the
Lee School in Boston. She has been
prominent in dramatics all four years.
She belonged to the Glee Club for two
years, taking part in Patience and in
The Pirates of Penzance. Last spring
she took the part of Rose Arbuthnot
in The Enchanted April, given by
Varsity Dramatics jointly with Ha-
verford’s Cap and Bells.

Huanebango: Played by Miss Dor-
othy Gerhard, ’34, of Winnetka, IIL,
who attended the North Shore Coun-
try Day School, where she was active
in the Self-Government and the Dra-
matic Associations.. She is a member
of the college choir and of the Glee
Club and took part in The Mikado.
‘Last year she was song-mistress of
her class and played on the varsity
hockey squad.

Venelia: ~ Played by Miss Helen
Gill, ’°34, of Glencoe, Ill.,;who attended
both Ferry Hall and the Baldwin
School in Bryn Mawr. She is one
of the nine members of this year’s
Sophomore class who are taking their
Junior year in France, according to
the Delaware Foreign Study Plan.

Sacrapant: Played by Miss Eliza-
beth Young, ’32, of Pittsburgh, who
was prepared at the Misses Kirk’s
School, in Bryn Mawr. She has been
a member of the varsity fencing team
throughout all four years and ‘is now
senior champion, but her special in-

Spirit of Merry England



(Continued from .Page One)

we see in Strawirsky’s Sacre du Prin-
temps, where a young girl is used as
a sort of scapegoat and forced to

dance herself to death. In England,
however, one had only to wash the
face with dew at sunrise, which, with
the cleansing of the wells—sometimes.
they were beautifully decorated with
garlands, and at night with hanging
lamps, and around thém, too, there
was dancing and singing—was part of
the rites,of the festival.

We readily admit our skepticism.
Yet I find it hard to believe that those
Elizabethan lassies entrusted their
beauty to the dew alone. However, it
makes little difference. As we study
their celebration on the first of May
the conviction grows: Our May. Day
is possible, not because we are. suc-
cessful imitators—though that is nec-
essary—but because the spirit of sheer
jollity walks abroad.



of Varsity Players this year, she di-
rected Berkeley Square, the joint pro-
duction of Bryn Mawr and Haver-
ford last fall, and is now helping Mr.
King with the direction of The Old
Wives’ Tale. Two years ago she had
leading roles in Riders to the Sea and
in The Admirable Crichton, Varsity
productions. This winter she played
the part of the queen in the presenta-
tion of Hamlet, given by the Haver-
ford English Club. Last summer she
was a player in the Manhattan Thea-
tre Colony at Bristol, Conn., and is
planning .a similar venture for this
coming, summer.

Fidlers: Adeline Furness and Eve-
lyn Thompson.
* Furies: Marjorie Trent, Emeline

Ellida Davison, Amelie Alexanderson.

Directors: Elizabeth Young and
Marion Turner.
Harvesters:

Men—Beth Cameron Busser, Edith
Van Auken, Louise Davis, Elizabeth
Barker, Serena Weld, Monica Brice,
Florence Cluett.

Women — Maysie Hansen, Sara
Black, Mary Cooke, Elizabeth Morrow,
Josephine Rothermel, Enid Saper,
Blanche Schapiro.



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Miss —— Leads

-..Dances in Cloisters



“(Continued from Page Tw6)

memorial.

There are four other dancers in
May Day who have claim to fame for
having been to the Duncan school in
Salzburg: Miss ‘Janet Seely, Miss

‘Florence Taggart, Miss Phyllis Simms

and Miss Janet. Barber. Miss Tag-
gart and Miss Barber are featured in
|The Masque of the Flowers, where
their dancing is ‘second only to Miss
Cooper’s, and sgme or all of them will
be seen as _ Shepherds, Chimney
Sweeps, or Gypsies.

The first out-door rehearsal of these
dances was held on the green, but
the directors decided that the costum-
ing and movement were more suitable
to the atmosphere of the Cloisters.
The delicacy of the Shepherd and
Chimney Sweep costumes did not fit
in with the robust and gay colored
peasant dress on the green. The
Chimney Sweeps will wear black
smocks for the pageant, covered with
gold and silver stars,
to be the outcome of some costumer’s
bright idea, but, according to’ Miss
Simms, they are the most important
part of the dancers’ costuming. When-
ever the sweeps had a holiday they
would cover their clothes with stars
before going to the celebration. The

‘dances! are based on’ three old Ger-

man folk songs and were created in
Salzburg this last summer.



Rehearsing Not So
Simple as it Seems

“



(Continued from Page Three)

stage is well spent, but one gets aw-
fully sick of hearing Oliver say his
speech over four times, changing or
not changing his pitch, when one’s en-
trance isn’t for six scenes. As a mat-
ter of fact, any Polly Anna can find
someone worse off than herself, the
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be extremely prompt to rehearsals,

only to find that Mr. King was be-
inning with Scene two.
left rehearsal, he was sure to decide
to do their big moment next, or if a
minor character stayed on, the
chances are she wouldn’t be used at
all.
' Then there’s something about a re-
hearsal that makes you hungry. You
must either spend 10c a cup on orange
juice that some thoughtful business

woman has left on hand, or pexsuade | .

Audrey that she doesn’t need all three
of her apples in that scene with
Touchstone: The chances are that
she'll be playing bridge anyway and
won’t notice if you take one.

Mr. King seemed to thinkfwe took
our bridge game a bit: noisily, and
after rehearsals were over he made
us envious with tales of beefsteak and

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If anybody:

‘kidney pie waiting at home. One
night, however, rehearsal gave place
to a gala event and a good dinner;

Mrs. Collins, of course, was respon-
sible for the hot chicken and peas,
and Eva for the fact that it was not
buffet. During dinner. the telephone
tried to ring more times than our
Hostess could answer it, but all was
well with the ticket sales in New York
and. young Chadwick was holding
down Princeton succesfully, so we
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May Day Preparations

Made in Blithe Spirit



(Continued from Page Two)

‘vineed the trustees, who had already
practically decided on their course
anyway. The faculty was also con-
sulted by the forehanded ‘directors,
who realized that there would be some
amount of difficulty as the spring

' wore on and with it reports, quizzes
and exams. Everyone in question re-
sponded politely that. they would
defer any considerations, scholastic
and otherwise, to the paramount in-
terest of the fete. Then it was that
the first moves began. Mrs. Collins,
director of the production, got her
forces marshalled. Recent graduates
were appealed to, and that forcibly,

. for the current. depression had made
it impossible that any salaries be paid
to the greater part of the directing
force; student committees, two.-in
number, were appointed; articles ap-
peared in this distinguished journal;
And the show was on.

The matter of skilled and unpaid
— was solved by the alumnae,
Toutes Dyer, Gertie Bancroft, Ellie
Morris, Peggy Patterson and Marian
Turner, who responded to Mrs. Col-

lins’ appeal with an enthusiasm that

rather . appalled the undergraduate
body, which at this time was showing
a rather superior amount of disinter-
est. The campus was startled that
these idols of a former senior class
should take this thing in dead serious-
ness. The general reaction was that
either they had been hypnotized . by
Mrs. Collins’ undeniable. charm. or
that. there was really something in
it. And about this time committees
began to function.

There is nothing more impressive
than a committee, especially when it
is made up of one’s intimates. Mr.
King’s committee and Mr. King him-
self attacked the problem of casting,
and everyone sat up suddenly and
realized that the moment for action
had come. Competition brightened
-our lives for a few weeks while we
glared at rival Elizabethan comedians
or Greek dukes. We were all ex-
tremely polite to those of our class-
mates on whom some of the final
choices, left in their hands by Mr.

King, fell. And now and again we
got the part, and now and again we
didn’t. Spring vacation intervened
and allowed any small bitterness so
engendered to subside

By the time the last Monday morn-
ing train after vacation pulled into
Philadelphia the authorities were
ready for us. We,were met with a
list of announcements that startled
the most sanguine. It appeared that
envelopes in appalling numbers had
to be addressed—in fact, that each of
us had to supply a certain number
of addresses, ten apiece at the mini-
mum. Parts. must be learned against
the not-far-distant possibility of a
reheatsal.

The dancirig rehearsals were upon
us first; for one hour a week a really
very creditable majority of the stu-
dent. body spent their time and re-
sefve breath “setting and honoring
their partners.” Not all of the proud
young women could be induced to. go,

but. those who would not lower their.

dignity at this time did so very sud-
denly later when they were forced
to appear and “Peasecod” on. 'the

green, at the mercy of those better- |

informed individuals they had scorned
so long. The dancing classes proper,
always a mystery to us, began to
assume an even deeper aspect of mys-
tery; rumors of chimney-sweep orgies
began to circulate. And the question
of how a Baccante would dance, in
respectable. company if at all, was
discussed. The preparations for the
great event were begun much later
this year than in any previous May
Day and as a result had to be more
concentrated. Things did not move as
quickly as they might have, and Mrs.
Collins and her assistants were begin-
ning to invision a month of. whipping
unco-operative undergraduates with
bull whips in an effort to get any-
thing done, when enthusiasm burst
like a great light on the campus. The
first manifestation of it was in the
tremendous number of envelopes that
were addressed one afternoon in the
Common Room, and here our figures
fail us. We are better informed on
the subject of the occurrence of last
Saturday night, when a number of
really inspired Denbighites sat up all
night and made 1001 paper flowers
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has romantic connotations that. make
it really the thing, right here) .

Costume fittings in the basement of
thes gym—which were not popular,
especially with Pembroke and Rock
students, who live so very far away—
began to gain prestige when the first
few groups began to wander around
the campus in Robin Hood garbs,
going to or coming from the first pic-
ture-takings for the newspapers. Even
the most indifferent was seized with
& curiosity about the comparative
beauties of her costume-to-be, and,
falthough many found that they were
not being outfitted in a real esthetic
triumph, at least we all went to see.
And that was all that was needed.
Having one’s picture taken for the
newspapers, albeit it may never ap-
pear, has its charms, and even the
most blase young celebrity usually'
managed to appear for the sessions
with the camera. Several’ are said
to have subscribed for the daily pa-
pers in high hopes. And the clipping
box in the Publicity: Office was not
entirely unvisited. —

We really could do this for col-
umns; there are enough behind-the-
scene stories to fill even this impres-
sive issue. But there are other things
of interest, and we must close some-
how. One of the better, and surely
more typical, scenes which will serve
very nicely as a last act to the drama
here presented (so far) is the scene
any afternoon, or even—so help us—
at eight in the very early morning,
on Merion green. Everyone, literally,
is here. Those who went to folk-
dancing rehearsals are being very
generous to those who can’t remember
which foot you start on in Sellenger’s
Round. Someone is selling orange
juice, or. sandwiches, or ice cream
slices.. Miss Petts is calling through
a megaphone in one direction. “Buck”
is exhorting the seething mobs on the
green to “crane your necks. Look
at her! You’ve never seen a queen
before.” Or, a moment later, every-
one is scattering before the heralds,
one of whose trumpets is falling aparv
in the center. A train of fairies,
diminutive and not quite sure which
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of them. are alumnae, the comments
on the general appearanee of it ‘all
fly back and forth. Fortunately for
our not-too-high self-respect, most of
them are charitable. Someone says,
“There’s the fanfare; you’re supposed
to kneel now, aren’t you?” Someone
that you can’t hear it yet. You can

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a portable victrola.

know much, should know how to form
and. keep a straight line, which we
are not doing. We look terrible.
What is more, if we cannot learn to
get ten couples each into those “Pea.

less than half an hour, we will con-
tinue to practice it all night. It often
seems that we do. We will do Sellen-
ger’s Round again—and again—until
we all learn which way our circle

Unbelievable,

gather around while Mrs. Collins says
that we do that one beautifully; why
can’t we do this one?
looks perfectly marvelous, has never
been that good before, and it certainly
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Effect of May Day
Depends gh Costumes
(Continued from Page One)

complicated problem, for the play as
written is evidently set in France in
the period of Charles VIII, or at least

should be costumed in that style. We’

have, however, followed the illustra-
tion in’: a book by Hugh Thompson, a
modern: author, whose drawings rep-
resent a period slightly before that of
' Elizabeth. Here again to understand
the complexities of the problem one
must realize that the great goal is to
costume these actors as: the Eliza-
bethan stage manager—who was of-
ten far from authentic—would have
done it. Consequently, there are
‘many interesting anachonisms. The
courtiers in the play are pure Eliza-
bethan to the last detail. The peas-
ants’ costumes do not change much
inside a hundred years, so they are
correct to a fairly wide period of
time. It is in such costumes as that
of Celia that real subtleties have been
achieved. The blue dress Miss
Schwab’ wears one will notice is tuck-
ed: up in a strange manner. If it
were worn as it should be, it would
be a very good court dress of the
period slightly before this, except that
the stuff is a bit too simple. The de-
signers here worked on the assump-
tion that Celia in her haste to be off
to the forest needed a dress in which
she might appear a passable country
lass, and so snatched up one of her
maids’ dresses, which was a cheaper
copy of one of her own court gowns,
added a petticoat in the style of the
Eliabethan pastorale, and passed the
whole off as a country lasses’ cos-
tume of the period. Truly a fine point
in the theory of costuming and one
which unfortunately many must miss
because of its extreme subtlety!

The costumes of Robin Hood date
from the time in which the story is
set—the period of Richard-Coeur-de-
Lion, or roughly 1200. More than in
any other play the costumes in this
one are traditional. As a matter of
actual fact, only one costume is new
‘—that of Allan-a-dale, and it is cop-
ied faithfully from the old model.
Here , as in As You Like It, the mel-
low colors of old materials were care-
fully sought after, as being in best
harmony with the forest background.
Needless to say, the costumes are cor-
. rect in every detail to their period.

The Old Wives’ Tale is done in the
traditional manner and with the tra-
_ ditional costumes, most of which have
been handed down. Those that had to
be replaced were copied after their
predecessors carefully. While the ex-
act period of many of them is. not
clear, the general heading of Medieval
covers all—except the harvesters. who
are in the very best Elizabethan man-
ner.

i St. George and the Dragon the
Cece allowed their fancies to
ru wild as the author had earlier
The cast consists of one long and
amazing series of anachronisms,
Kings out of their periods, Queens
no one ever heard of, and this year a
completely new character—Old King
Cole. Accordingly, the actors are cos-
tumed each in the period where he
best fits, regardless of the date of his
nearest neighbor’s dress. King Cole,
“so we are told, is done in exact re-
plica of his portrait in the Mother






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Harriet Moore Represents

Opinion of Student Body |.



If Harriet Moore were the only
source of information about herself;
the reporter seeking to learn some-
thing of the activities of the Under-

graduate: Member of the Directors’ |

Committee would be in a difficult po-
Fortunately, in view of her
extreme, nodesty,, Miss Moore’s record
of ‘all- a st achievement is too out-
standing to avoid notice.

As president. of the Undergradu-
ate Association, and hence student
representative of the Directors’ Com-
mittee, Miss Moore, throughout all
the preparations for May Day, has
served as medium between the student
body and the three directors. When
there was question as to whether May
Day should’ be given, Miss Moore took
charge ‘of the discussion and was
praised for her fair statement of the
case. Whenever there were difficul-
ties about the schedule for try-outs,
the attendance at rehearsals, the man-
ufacture of pgper flowers, Miss Moore
was sent for. When students found
‘he burden of work too heavy, it was
Miss Moore, who as chairman of the
Curriculum Committee, co-operated
with the faculty in working out a plan
to'relieve the situation. In fact, every
administrative detail jn which a stu-
dent representative could be of as-
sistance, has come within her prov-
ince.

Her contributions to May Day are
not surprising, considering her suc-
cess in every field of college activity.
The Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall
Memorial Scholarship was awarded
to her last year as the member of
the junior class having the highest
scholastic average. She was both
president of her class and vice-presi-
dent of the Athletic Association.
a sophomore,-she-was treastrer of
the Self-Government Association. The
varsity basketball and hockey teams
were captained by her this year. She
had played varsity hockey for three
seasons, and for basketball four. Her
participation in the actual May Day
performance will be limited to folk
dancing.

Miss Moore graduates this spring.
Her home is in Hubbard Woods, II1.,
and. she prepared at the North Shore
Country Day School, . Winnetka, II.
Caroline Daniels Moore, of the Class
of 1901, is her mother.



Goose Book. About his costume, at
least, we are sure.

The writer, fully appreciating the |

tremendous job the mere outfitting of
the large and rather vague numbers
that will take part in May Day would
be, and the infinite number of complex
small problems that have arisen dur-

‘ing the work, and been solved from

day to day by. the efficient staff in
thé ‘basement, of the Gym, and (as
must all of the spectators today) ap-
preciating above all the fine eye for
color and the real artistry of those
who handled this appalling task,
wishes to pay some kind of tribute
to those who in so large a part have
made May Day what it is. But, on

reflecting, we believe that. the work
of an artist needs rio greater tribute
than itself,,and accordingly we step
back to

selves,

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Our Lion is a Friendly
Beast and Cures Dreams



We may laugh at Pyramis and
Thisbe (we ought to roar), for we
know all along that the great big lion
is really Snug, the Joiner, whom we
all. know-and love. But what should
we do, I wonder, if, coming upon a
tawny beast, he should refuse to an-

swer to any name, and with ever- |‘

widening jaws, advance toward us.
In such a situation, I feel sure that
Shakespeare himself would have wish-
ed that he had stayed home nights
and read his bestiary, and “passed
away the Sabbaoths in heavenly medi-
tations upon the earthly creatures.”
Then, like all good Elizabethans, he
would have known, oh, so many
things. about the lion, his nature and
habits.

First of all, if we may trust an
authority of the time, he would have
known that lions: are most plentiful
in hot countries, and the lions of Tun-
is and such places are considered “the
most noble and audacious lions of
Affrick,” the lions of colder coun-
tries having not half so much:
“strength, stomak and courage.” And
the. hair of these unfortunates is not
nearly so bright, and their faces are
rough. The fiercest lion is to be found
in Parthia, and may be recognized at
a glance by his great long lashes,
which hang down to his nose. Even
of more ordinary lions, however, it
is possible to judge the character to
some extent, for those with curly hair
are apt to be sluggish. On the other
hand,.long hair and hard hair area
direct indication of generous~ ani-
mosity. :

*Had Shakespeare read his Topsell,
he would have run no danger, either
at that time or at any other, of com-

the authority, the lion’s face AS not
round, as some havg imagined, but
square. And it might even help us
out of many a scrape to know that
the poor lion has no “knuckles or
turning joyntes” in his neck, and
therefore cannd? look behind him. In
compensation, perhaps, the lion may
have a litle sting in the end of his
tail, which is full of “haires and gris-
tles.” -

But, though the lion has a perpet-
ual stiff neck, he is not easily fooled.
His senses of sight and smell are
developed to an unusual degree, as
he sleeps with his eyes open. They
are even so bright as to make the
sight of fire unbearable to him, for
fire and fire cannot agree.

The lion is apt to devour one oe
hunger seizes him. When filled, how-
ever, he becomes gentle and almost
meek. And he only eats every second
day. There is of course a tale of a
lion who was always docile and fed
on cakes made of meat and honey,
gourds, and sometimes even wine. He
was so well-behaved that his master
could take him to churgh without the

slightest fear that he would touch ||

the flesh destined for the holy altar:
This lion did, however, turn out to
have in him the soul of a mah, a king
of Egypt in fact, and as our author-
ity considers these transfigurations
either poetical or diabolical, one _can-
not be too hopeful of meeting a lion
who is clean from slaughter. Never-
theless, the lion has a most admirable
disposition; he is neither fraudulent

Elizabethan Dances
Had Festive: Origins



(Continued from Page One)

rather than any intricate movements.

The Morris dances include Bean
Setting, which was a dance to cele-
brate the planting of the crops; New-
castle, obviously called from the town
of,that name; Parson’s Farewell,



wpnor suspicious, and never looks awry

or squints. He is also noted for his
clemency and, even without knowing
the identity of. Shakespeare, might
quite easily have spared him for the
asking. At any rate, he hardly ever
destroys women and children and, of
a group of men, always chooses those
which are the strongest.

As to the best way of taming lions,
and thereby assuring the safety of
even the strongest, we learn (still
from our authority) that they should
be brought up with “little dogs, which,
often beaten in their presence, pro-
vide an unforgettable example to the
lion.

Even in his native state, however,
the lion has great assets. His blood,
being applied on a canker will pres-
ently cure the pain, and, moreover,
when .used as an ointment for the
body, will insure. safe conveyance
through any numbers of wild beasts.
Taken internally, the blood is an. un-
failing remedy for palsy. The flesh,
if eaten, will speedily bring ease from
nightmares.

The same, boiled or baked, often
restores those who have lost their
wits, and is also very good for deaf-
ness. Lion’s grease dissolved and used
to anoint the body, will promptly ex-
tirpate all sorrow and grief from
the heart.’ Mixed with lettuce and the
marrow of a hart, it is an excellent
precaution against the ‘shrinking of
nerves_and-sinews.

If the eyeteeth of the lion are hung
about the neck of a young child be-
fore he has cast his teeth, he will
never suffer from the pains of teeth-
ing. Even the lion’s heart has its
uses; beaten into small powder and
taken as a beverage, it will: heal all
those troubled with agues and fevers.
Likewise the liver, similarly treated,
will cure all troubles of the liver.

Few of us have, I am sure, con-
ducted extensive experiments with
lion’s- blood. No doubt we lack faith.
And, indeed, there is nothing to guar-
antegpthat our lions will have any-
thing in common with Elizabethan
lions. Yet we realize how essential
the matter would have been for Shake- |
speare, and we hope, if he did meet a
lion, that he: knew his Historie of

Foure-Footed Beastes. \

which is done in a lighter, more com-
ic vein; and Confess, which is re-
markable for its unusual combination

set.

The Milk Maid dances are tradition-
al May Day dances, In an old ballad
called the Milk Maid’s Life, printed
about 1630, we find the following:

“Upon the first of May,
With garlands fresh and gay,
With mirth and music sweet,
For each a season meet, Z
They passed their time away:
They dance away sorrow,
And all the day throw
Their legs doe never fayle.
They nimbly their feet doe ply,
And bravely try the victory
In honour 0’ th’ milking paile.”
The gypsy and shepherd dances ob-
viously belong to the spirit of.an old
English May Day, with its back-
ground of village life.

excerpt from a London Morning Post,

tional relationship with May Day:
“The young chimney sweepers, some
of whom are fantastically dressed in
girls’ clothes, with a great profusion
of brickdust, by way of: paint; gilt-
paper, etc., making a noise: with their
shovels and brushes, are now the most
striking objects in the celebration of
May Day in the streets of Londen.”
The presentation of this entire
group of dances, including the shep-
herds, gypsys, and chimney sweeps,
will gain added charm and interest
for the interpretive qualities as well
as the spontaneity which makes them
such an integral part of May Day.





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Katherine Gribbel, ’34, as Corebus; Elednor Renner, ’32, as Eumeni-
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Sacrapant, in The Old Wives’ ‘Tale.

Frances Grant, ’34, Fair Ellen, in Robin Hood.

Elvira Trowbridge, 34, as a flower; Janet Barber, ’33, as Gallus,
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Esther Smith, ’34, as Will Scarlet,

and Anita Fouilhoux, ’34, as Little
John, in Robin Hood.

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Elizabeth Utley Thomas, ’32, as
Oberon, King of the Fairies, in
A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Marjorie Lee, ’34, and Eleanor om oe se Marie Hayes, ’35, as Giant Blun-

Pinkerton, ’32, as Silenus’ Follow- C ; , ‘ :
in The Ma sik ornelia Otis Skinner as Queen Elizabeth. derbore, and Margaretta Swenson,
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Wives’ Tale.

Ruth Prugh, 33; as King-Alfred; Charlotte Tyler, ’32, as Alfred’s Queen, and Mary
Taussig, 33, as The Noble Doctor, in St. George and The Dragon.

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_OF A MIDSUMMER ‘NIGHT’S DREAM—Back row: Ellen Shaw, 32, as a Greek
guard; Nancy Squire, ’34, as Demetrius; Anne Lukens, ’35, as Philostrate; Carolyn Lombardi, '33,
as Lysander, and Matilda McCracken, by as a — soared. pS mage % —, : = a “ee

arriet Flagg ‘ 3 , as Helena, and Ruth Millikan, '32, as Hermia. ront row: a Rutledge, ’32, as a 5

i 83, as St. George, and Silvia Cornish, ’33, as Esther Parsons, ’84, as Theseus, Duke of Athens; Anne Denton, ’35, as Hippo-

Dragon ’ ’
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THE COURT

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