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THE COLLEGE NEWS.





Page Three





DIRECTOR'S PAGE --

- MAY DAY ANNOUNCEMENTS



Committees Solicit

All Available Help

Undergraduates Urged to Give
All Possible Help to Avoid
Rush Next Week

MANY JOBS TO BE DONE







With the actual performance of May
Day only ten days off, the Property
and Costume Committees are in need
of all available help. Every under-
graduate is urged to give as much
time as possible to the completing of
properties and costumes in order to
avoid a rush at the end of next week.

Mrs. ‘von Erffa reports that the fol-
lowing things are still to be done on
costumes: sandals must be made for
the attendants in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream; finishing touches are
to be put on twenty Harvesters’ cos-
tumes; gold lions must be stencilled on
the old heralds? costumes and on two
new heralds’ costumes; forty-five new
yellow tabards for program-sellers,
ticket-sellers, etc., must be stenciled
(this will be done in the Gymnasium) ;
the hats to match the tabards need
feathers; the doublets for the guards
in the Dream will be re-gilded; ruffs
must be made for the stilt-walkers and
for the heralds; a wig of pine-cones
for the wild man demands the in-
genuity of someone; a costume of
feathers must be made for Cock in
the Masque of the Flowers; thirty-one
musicians’ costumes need _ finishing
touches; and thirty-two extra coun-
try costumes must be made for the
program-sellers, ticket-takers, etc., not
in tabards. In addition to these things
nearly all the costumes need last-min-
ute stitches and general finishing.

Among the jobs still facing the
Property Committee are: construct-
ing Titania’s court (work will start
Wednesday, April 30); finishing up
the wagons; putting gold crests on
pennants; making curtains for the
Dream; constructing a Greek bench;
numbering the grandstand; arranging
the stage and Gymnasium for: emer-
gency performances in case of rain;
retouching the wagons on the day be-
fore May Day; planting and wiring
evergreens to take the place of screens
in The Old Wives’ Tale and the
Dream; painting two pairs of stilts;
moving logs for Robin Hood; painting
wave formations for the wheels of the
Deluge wagon; attaching pennants to
the buildings; draping the back of the
Deluge wagon with brilliantly colored
materials; decorating the orchestra-
stand in the Cloisters and the band-
stand with branches; making a gate
for Gammer Gurton; constructing
Sacrapant’s cell; and putting proper-
ties in location.

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MAY. DAY PROCESSION
‘TO HAVE 2 NEW OXEN



Bryn Mawr is now the proud pos-
sessor of two yokes of white oxen for
the May Day procession. Through
the efforts of Mr. Raymond Fuller, of
the Mixter Farm at Shrewsbury, Mas-
sachusetts, from which the first yoke
was obtained, a second pair. was found
at Tunbridge, Vermont. The two

yokes. are almost perfectly matched,
both being clear white Holsteins of
approximately the same size. They
are beautifully trained and on May
Day will be in show condition with
their horns tipped with brass _ balls,
their tails and coats brushed to per-
fection, and their hoofs newly shod,
oiled and polished.

In addition to the all-important
oxen, ten riding horses will be rented
from Fox’s Riding Academy for
Robin Hood. Maid Marian will ride
on a snow-white horse which Frances
Schaeffer, its owner, will bring from
Allentown. ‘Teams of horses will also
be used for pulling the wagons. Four
lambs to be led by shepherdesses will
be supplied by Ellen Scattergood; and
Jane Morris, the niece of Ellenor Mor-
ris who is in charge of the Animal
Committee, will lead her goat in the
Masque. Friar Tuck will ‘ride a
donkey which belongs to Mary and
Sarah Meigs. Falcons and fighting
cocks are important additions to the
pageant,

The Animal Committee has proved
very efficient in locating and choosing
animals and will be in charge of the
care of the animals while they are on
campus. A _ special oxen committee
has been chosen to assist the animals’
keeper. The oxen will be lodged in
state in the Collins’ barn, while the
other animals, with the exception of
the horses, which will be taken to and
fro from the Fox Stables, will be kept
at various places on campus.



Black Dog May Day Addition

A new and sinister character in this
year’s May Day will be the Black Dog
of Newgate, a “ferocious and famous
beastie.” Betty Bryan will take the
part of the Black Dog. The Dog will be
dressed in a terrifying costume of
black fur with a grey stomach adorned
with a heart and with snakes coming
out of the top of its head. Its purpose
will be to frighten the people and to
solicit money.

In Elizabethan times the Black Dog



‘May Day Calendar

Wednesday, April -29.—Gen-
eral dancing, ‘6-7 p. m.; Morris
dancing, 8.30 p. m.; sword danc-
ing, 9 p.°m.; special country
dancing, 9 p. m.; tumbling, 5 p.
m.; Robin Hood, Merry Men
sing, 5.30-6 p. m.; St. George,
music, 8-10.30 p. m.; cast, 9-
10.30 p. m.; understudies, 10-
10.30 p. m.; Old Wives’ Tale,
Furies’ scenes, 1.30-2 p.m.

Thursday, April 30.—General
dancing, 4-6 p. m.; Morris danc-
ing, 4-6 p.-m.; sword dancing,
4-6 p. m.; special country danc-
ing, 4-6 p. m.; Robin Hood, Act
I with Merry Men, 1.30-2. p. m.
(in case of rain, 4-6 p. m. on
stage); understudies, 9-10 p.
m..on stage; Old Wives’ Tale,
understudies, 8-9 p. m. on stage;
Masqu2, dress parade, Masque
and Cloister dances, 8-9.45 p. m.

Friday, May 1. — General
dancing, 6-7 p. m.; Robin Hood,
Act II with Merry Men, 1.30-2
D. ms entire, 4-6 bp. ms Cw
Wives’ Tale, entire (except for
those with classes), 2-4 p. m.;
Gammer Gurton, cast, 7.45-9 p.
m.; Deluge, cast and understud-
ies, 9.80-10.15 p. m.; Creation,
cast, 9-9.30 p. m.; Dream, me-
chanics, 8-5 p. m.; court, 4-5 p.
m.; Masque, dress rehearsal for
Cloister masque and three Clois-
ter dances, 4-6 p. m. in the
Cloisters.

Sunday, May 3.—Robin Hood,
make-up and dress, a. m.;
invitation dress rehearsal, 2-3
p. m.; Old Wives’ Tale, make-up
and dress, a. m.;, invitation
dress rehearsal, 4-5 p. m.; Gam-
mer Gurton, dress rehearsal,
5-6 p. m.; Deluge, dress rehear-
sal, 3-4 p. m.; Creation, dress
rehearsal, 3-4 p. m.; Dream,
dress rehearsal, 6-7 p. m.









was believed by the superstitious to
be a spirit that lurked outside New-
gate Prison and haunted thieves and
other wrongdoers. oc
The greatest problem that the Dog
entails is its costume. The Costume

Committee has had a bad time finding
skins and may have to resort to. the
scrapping of all the Scotties which re-
pose on students’ beds. Any worn-
out black fur coats will be greatly wel-
comed.





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MRS. BASSET RETURNS
TO HELP WITH GREENE

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“If Mrs. Basset comes down an@
tells you to keep in straight lines, you
mustn’t mind it, because that is what
she’s meant to do,” said Mrs. Collins

in introducing the former Miss Bu-
chanan to the college. ‘Mrs. Basset,
who has the experience of three May
Days behind her, has come from Can-
ada to help Miss Grant with the danc-
ing on-the Greene.

In 1924 Mrs. Basset, then Miss Bu-
chanan, or “Buck”? as she was known
to her fellow students, had the part
of William Kemp, a very special Mor-
ris dancer, which role is this year
being played by Miss Grant. One
needs a good supply of wind and en-
durance to be a* Morris dancer, and
even more to be a special one. Mrs.
Basset was well fitted for the part,
as she was a famous athlete in her
college days, playing on nearly all the
college Varsity teams.

She did not«know much about danc-
ing, nor was she especially interested
in it except in connection with the
Bryn Mawr May Day. ‘The year she
was in May Day was the first year
they had Morris Dancing, and Miss
Applebee (then the director of the
Greene) asked a man to come over
from England to direct it. Thus Mrs.
Basset got excellent experience and
training from her first May Day.

After she was graduated from col-
lege, Miss Buchanan came back for
four years to help Miss Applebee with
the general athletic work, as Miss
Collier helps Miss Grant. It was then
that she organized the “Buccaneers”
a famous hockey team composed of



Dancing Rehearsals

Beginning Thursday, April 30,
and continuing throughout all
the general Maypole rehearsals
of the next week, a fine of five
dollars will be imposed for non-
attendance. The Thursday re-
hearsal will be held from 4.15 to
6.15 if the weather is fine. If
it rains, a rehearsal at the same
time Will be held on Friday. For
these and for’ all rehearsals on
Monday, Wednesday and Thurs-
day of the following week at-
tendance is compulsory.

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busy Main-liners. She was concerned
in the 1928 May Day both as Miss
Applebee’s assistant in directing the
Greene dances, and once more in the
role of William Kemp. Before the
1928 May Day, she went to England
to summer school in order to brush
up on the various other kinds of
dances aside from Morris.

In 1932 she once again appeared
again on the May Day scene. Her
former experience ‘with the dancing
was of untold assistance to Miss
Grant, who was experiencing her first
May Day.

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