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VOL. XXII, No. 8 BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1935 Gopsright, BREN, MAE PRICE 10 CENTS
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Four Soloists: Selected Colleze Calendar Hilda Smith Discusses Swan” Production

Bryn Mawr Is Chief
Recipient Under Will

Miss Thomas Bequeathed Funds
of $280,000 for Deanery,
Awards, Annuities’

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ESTATE IS .IN REALTY

(Reprinted from the New York
Times.)

Miss M. Carey Thomas, president-
emeritus of Bryn Mawr College, made
the college. the chief ultimate bene-
ficiary of her estate in a ninety-three
page will, filed for probate here today.

Although trust funds totaligg $280,-
000 were provided for the college if
certain real estate were sold, Miss
Thomas revealed that her estate had
been reduced to such an extent
through benefactions made during her
lifetime and by the financial depres-
sion that she was not sure how many
of the legacies could be paid.

The personal estate was listed at
“$25,000 and upward,” with the value
of the real estate undetermined. The
realty, it is understood, consists of
1077 acres in Maryland, most of which
is'in wooded land, with seventy-seven
acres within the Baltimore city limits.

Miss Thomas inherited most of the
estate of Mary Elizabeth Garrett,
daughter of John W. Garrett, for
many years president of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad.

“When my late friend, Mary Eliza-
beth Garrett, died on April 3, 1915,”
the will states, “and left me her
executor and residuary. legatee, she
had made gifts in her lifetime that I
know of amounting to over $2,000,000,
and she made many others probably:
that I did not, know of.. She had kept
for herself only enough to live on
comfortably and continue her support
of the causes in which she was inter-
ested. She believed that personal gifts
made during one’s lifetime were more
useful than legacies after one’s-death.

Gifts Beyond Safety Limit

“In accordance’ with her practice
and with what I believe would have
been her wishes had she been able to
carry them out, I have given away
during my lifetime as much, and as it
has récently proved, more of my estate
than I could safely part with. More-
over, the size of my estate and its
sufficiency to pay all the legacies I
have herewith appended, has been so
materially téduced durihg the current





-severe financial depression that the
‘payment of ‘the legacies -will depend

upon the amount which my executors
may realize from the sale of my real
estate.”

The executors are Mrs, Caroline
McCormick Slade, of New York, an
alumna and director of Bryn Mawr
College; Miss Thomas’ niece, Mrs.
Millicent Carey McIntosh, of New
York, also an alumna and trustee of
the college, and James Barton Long-
acre, of this city. ©

The first part. of the will, which
was executed in London.on August 29,
1934, deals with the gifts of personal
articles to members of the family of

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lance will begin precisely at 8 o’clock.

For Handel’s ‘*Messiah”’

On Sunday, December 15, at 7.30
P. M., the College Choj awilh, 3o” the





Princeton Choir in a performance ar

The Messiah, which will be given in
the University Chapel at Princeton. :
It will be assisted by four soloists and |
twenty-nine members of the Philadel- :
phia Orchestra. . é

Because of the length of the Ora-
torio, the Bryn Mawr performance
given on Monday, December 16, will
begin at 8 o’clock precisely,. and no
reserved seats will be held after 8.25.

The chorus will consist of eighty
members from the Bryn Mawr Choir
and sixty from the Princeton Choir.
The soloists will be: Eleanor Eaton,
soprano; Anne Simon, contralto;
Royal McLellan, tenor; and Leonard
Treash, bass.

On August 22, 1741, Handel, at the
age of fifty-six, began the score of
The Messiah. This work ranks among
Hiandél’s greatest and was completed
in the amazingly short time of twenty-
four days.

The initial performance took place
in Dublin on April 18, 1742, and was
not given in London until March 23,!
1743. At this London performance the
audience was exceedingly affected by
all the music, and at the part of the
“Hallelujah Chorus”—‘“For the Lord
God omnipotent reigneth’—they were
so transported that they all, including
the king, rose to their feet and re-
mained standing-until the end of the
chorus. The tradition of standing for
the “Hallelujah Chorus” has always
been observed ‘in England since this
date.

In 1789 Mozart wrote additional or-
chestral accompaniments to The Mes-
siah to take’the place of the ‘“Con-
tinuo” parts which were always im-
provised at the organ or harpsichord.
The orchestration which will be used

at Bryn Mawr will be the Mozart
version.

The orchestra will consist of the
following: Six first violins, four sec-
ond violins, two violas, four violincel-
los, two double basses, two flutes, two
oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two
horns, two trumpets and one tym-
panum.



Busses -To Transport Choir

On Saturday morning, December
14, The Messiah. will be rehearsed by
both the Princeton and Bryn Mawr
Glee Clubs, accompanied by part of the
Philadelphia Orchestra and _ soloists.
The Bryn Mawr Glee Club and the
orchestra will leave Bryn Mawr at
1.30 Sunday afternoon in four busses.
A rehearsal of The Messiah will take
place in the Princeton Chapel at 3
o’clock. The performance itself begins
in the Princeton. Chapel at 7.30 and
will last for three hours. On Monday
the Princeton and Bryn Mawr
choruses will rehearse without the or-
chestra at 5 P. M., after which Mrs.
Collins will serve dinner to the
Princeton Glee Club in the Common
Room. The Monday night perform-



Low-Brow Appeal In High-Brow Package
Makes Books Sell, Says Clifton Fadiman



Deanery, December 8.—“It is very

rarely that a really great book. be-
comes a best seller,” said Mr. Clifton
Fadiman, literary editor of the New

Yorker and consulting editor of Simon
& Schuster, New York publishers.
The subject of his discussion was
“Why Best Sellers Sell Best,” and he
gave a very systematic answer by
enumerating eleven ways in which a
book can be made by the author, pub-
lishers and others into a best seller
and describing thirteen appeals which
make a book popular with the reading
public.

Among publishers, the most simple
formula for writing a best seller is

_ “wrapping low-brow appeal in a high-

brow package.” Everyone likes to
read traditional melodramatic ro-
mances, but they enjoy most those
which are not only well wriften, but

. injeeted with some real or fallacious

philosophy. Charles — s The

Fountain had a very simple plot which
could be compared with a typical
Kathleen Norris story, since it con-
sisted of a narrative of the emotional
experience of two people who wanted
to be married, but were prevented by
certain practical considerations. Mr.
Morgan filled in this framework with
a goodly amount of badly under#tood
and oversimplified Platonism and Neo-
Platonism which was of considerable
satisfaction to the readers and
prompted the publishers to bill The
Fountain as a philosophical novel.
The Bridge of San Luis’ Rey is an-
other example of a similarly written
book.

Some other appeals of all descrip-
tion which may or may not be

wrapped in deceptive coverings are
sex, the better life, timeliness,- scan-
dal, fear and the illustrious reputa-
tion of the author. The sex interest

is a significant one, because often

Waediaodas, December 11: In-
dustrial Group Supper. ‘Com-
mon Room, 6.30 P. M.

College Council, Miss Park’s
House, 6.30 P. M.

Saturday, December 14: Mr.
Hensche will. demonstrate por-
trait painting for the Art Club.
Common Room, 10 A. M. °

Sunday, December 15: Per-
formance of The ‘Messiah.
Princeton Chapel, 7.30 P. M.

Monday, December 15: Per-

formance of The Messiah. Good-
hart Hall, 8 P.M.
Tuesday, December 17: Bryn

Mawr League party for chil-
dren of the Summer Camp:
4.30 P. M. .







Restoration Drama Is

Sharply Defined Field

Major Dobree Believes Comedy
Reflects That Era Better
Than Tragedy.





FORM CYCLE COMPLETED



Goodhart, December. 9. — Restora-
tion drama is* a large, yet clearly
limited literary field, said Major Bon-
amy Dobrée, noted English author
and critic, in giving the Sheble Lec-
ture for 1935. Between the years
1662 and 1720, both comedy and
tragedy completed a neat cycle of
form which was uniformly peculiar
to the time, yet clearly differentiated
within itself. Unless this simultane-
ous unity, and variety is understood,
there can be no appreciation of the
Restoration theatrical art.

Tragedy in general can be defined
as a means man uses to test himself
against the horrors with which he is
beset. It is a picture of something
splendid meeting ruin and defeat. It
is man pitted against fate. In the
case of comedy, the definition may be
given as man’s attempt to regard
himself as an individual in society.
It is necessary, however, to make dis-
tinctions under this definition. First
comes free—comedy,_in-which people
are completely irresponsible and life
is a mere game. In this form there
is no purpose other than amusement,
but in the second and more common
type, there is an aim to cure men’s
excesses by criticism and satire. Rar-
est of all is the third type, the comedy
of . disillusionment, which contains
the pity of. tragedy under the surface
of laughter.

Restoration comedy appeals _ to
modern taste far more than Restora-
tion tragedy, because it is more
alive; it comes nearer to every-day
existence. For any art to live, it is
requisite that it deal with the crucial
problems of its time. That is not to
say that art must solve these ques-
tions, or pose them, but it must use
as its material the emotions arising
from them. If the emotions are
truly vital in the beginning, they can
never become dead or obsolete. Al-
though there may be lapses of power
because of ignorance or prejudice,
vitality will renew itself. Restora-
tion tragedy, however, seemed to
evade crucial problems and to offer
instead an escape from them. By in-
version, then, it actually did reflect

its period, but comedy reflected
directly.
Although superficially concerned

with fads and affectations, comedy
was actually centered on the danger-
ous condition of sexual libertinism
which was manifested in court cir-
cles. All Restoration gentlemen were
not rakes; many were prim and
proper and read theological disserta-
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Mid-Y ear’s Schedule Posted

The Dean’s Office wishes to
call attention to the schedule
for the mid-year examinations
which has been posted recently.
Students are requested to con-
sult the schedule at once and
report conflicts immediately to
the Dean’s Office, in order that
all difficulties may be cleared
up before the Christmas holi-
7.





Education of Workers



Common. Room, December 5.—
Hilda Smith, director of the Federal
Workers’ Educational Bureau in

Washington, traced the history of edu-
cation for workers and discussed Gov-
érnment educational projects.

Bryn Mawr College, with’ Miss
| Thomas as its head, made the first
and successful attempt to provide sys-
/tematized training and general infor-
mation for workers, in the Bryn Mawr
Summer School. Other colleges and
universities in the mid-west, Califor-
nia and the south followed. with sum-
mer schools and evening classes. In
the east the same thing happened,
especially in New York City. Miss
Smith related the exciting story of
one large elass for men and women
that was held for a while in the New
York Museum of Natural History: it
was at one time strenuously objected
to as radical and ejected before being
approved by an official investigation.
Such cases were numerous. The
Hearst papers particularly made, and
still make, a practice of exploiting any
rumor of radical activities.

Miss Smith spoke also of the diffi-
culty that college people met every-
where at first in gaining the confi-
dence of the workers and convincing
them of their genuine concern and
their intention of trying to be sub-
stantially useful. But the workers
who attended the schools- declared en-
thusiastically and continued to declare
that the experience was the most won-
derful of their lives. It released them
particularly from total bewilderment
and from the common feeling of lone-
liness. The students at the Bryn
Mawr Summer School, for example,
came to learn with: the feeling that
they were emissaries, responsible to
their associates, and must bring back
for them all the knowledge and train-
ing which they could get, in order to
apply it to their personal, family and
economic difficulties.



Teachers are in great demand to
carry on this work properly. The
Federal bureau—the FERA—has re-
cently been trying to’ train large
eroups of unemployed_teachers:direct-
ly for workers’ education, besides sup-
plying buildings and money.

Miss Smith confined herself at the
tea to giving the essential outlines of
all these problems. A ‘complete and
detailed discussion and explanation of
the subject was afforded by her sub-
sequent formal lectures on December
5, 6 and 7.



Artist To Paint During
Lecture on Technique’



Mr. Henry Hensche, of Province-
town, Massachusetts, will give a lec-
ture and demonstration of painting
technique in the Common Room at
ten o’clock on Saturday morning, De-
cember the fourteenth. He will paint
the portrait of a student and will .ex- |
plain step by step the actual process
of painting. This unusual opportun-
ity to study the technique of painting
in actual work is a gift of one of the
directors of the college and is open
to all who are interested.. Members
of the Art Club are particularly
invited.

Mr. Hensche is a working artist of
excellent standing from the well-
known colony at Provincetown. He
was one of the most brilliant pupils
of the late Charles Webster Haw-
thorne, after whose death he took
charge of the latter’s school, now
called the Cape Cod School of Paint-.
ing. He is highly recommended both
as an artist and as a lecturer who
has much new material to offer to
his audiences. He is particularly in-
terested in the use of color, as a re-
cent statement of his on_ color
technique proves: “Through color
tones forms are created, and the worth
of a painting depends upon the fine-
ness of these tones.”



Self-Government Election ©

The Self-Government Associ-
ation announces the eleetion of
Sarah Meigs, ’39, to the Execu-
tive Board. *





Shows Upward Trend

| Play Choice Judged Poor, Whole
Without Serious Defect or . -
Highlight

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INDIVIDUALS ACT WELL





Goodhart, December 6.—The per-
formance of Molnar’s The Swan by
the Varsity Players and the Cap and
Bells of Haverford proved that the °
faults which marked Pygmalion and
Cymbeline have been almost eradicat-
ed and that the ability which dis-
tinguished The Knight of the Burn-
ing Pestle has not completely passed
away. The play had neither glaring
defects nor obvious highlights. ‘The in-
dividual performances were, as a rule,
superior to the play as a whole, which
lacked a unifying force. That the play
itself is a poor choice for amateur
players was proved more than once,
and shown significantly by the hero-
ine’s misinterpretation of her role.

The play concerns itself with the
plot of Princess Beatrice, head of a
deposed royal family, to marry her
daughter to the heir of a reigning
house. Complications which arise
through the presence of a tutor in love
with the daughter and. who stirs her
heart throughout the second act,
threaten to prevent the intended
match; needless to say, the swan-like
daughter of the house, having settled
her faint cardiac qualms, prepares
to glide toward her rightful position
in royal circles.

Isabelle Seltzer, in the leading réle
of Alexandra, never seemed to be at
home in her part. She was the swan
who should glide gracefully over the
waters, “proud and dignified,’ but
who should “never touch the shore.”
The difficulty with Miss Seltzer was
that she continually bounced back ‘and
forth on the shore with great rapidity
and little grace. Her gestures were
too often forced and artificial. In the
second act, where she was supposedly
overcome by one glass of wine, Miss
Seltzer discarded the more obvious
gesticulations and acted with more
ease and presence.

The best performance in the play
was that of William H. Reaves, Jr.,
in the role of Prince Albert. Excel-
lently made up,and costumed, he ap-
peared completely at ease on the stage

Continued on Page Five

Radio Work Requires
.Technical Experience





Common Room, November 6,—Mr.
Frank Arnold, former director of com-
mercial development of the National
Broadcasting Company, addressed a
number of Bryn Mawr students on the
possibilities of positions in the execu-
tive side of broadcasting work. That



| the advertising business.

field, as it exists today, is a part of
Broadcast-
ing as a medium for advertisement
has become amazingly successful and
profitable since 1926 when WEAF and
WJZ merged to form the NBC net-
work.

Entertainment connected with com-
mercialism seems to fit into the in-
tuitive knowledge women have of what
people will like. This is exceedingly
necessary, for the success of radio is
entirely dependent on the audience.
Mr. Arnold sincerely warned those
women who are seeking positions after
graduation from college that at least
a year of training is needed in any
field to learn the language of some
particular business. If a_ college
graduate is interested in an executive
position in a large broadcasting sta-
tion, she must have training in a small
local station in order to gain a knowl-
edge of its terminology and technique.

Mr. Arnold stressed seven types of
positions which, with effort and intel-
ligence, can be obtained if one is will-
ing to start at the bottom and work
up. The lowest rung of the ladder
is the clerical job. There are 200
women who now hold this type of
position in NBC. Last year 600 ap-
plied for the job, but most of them
were turned away because of lack ét
training. A large station does not
have the time to take new material .









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"Recovery From Cymbeline Program”

The presentation of The Swan last week-end demonstrated .conclusively
to the few who saw it that the reorganization of Players Club has not been
in vain. Many members of the “new blood” distinguished themselves in
acting roles and also in the equally difficult functions of staging, costuming
and business management. The offices were distributed more widely and
equably than in the recent past and the entire production was vastly
improved by the presence of a professional acting director.

. Unfortunately the entire “Recovery from Cymbeline Program” could
not be accomplished in a single production. The appeal to the college at
large in the choice of the play was very laudable and democratic in spirit
but not very wise theatrically. The average student does not have sufficient
knowledge of the requirements of the stage to choose intelligently nor does
she have time enough to acquaint herself with the plays.open to voting. In
the future the Varsity Dramatics Board might adopt a course midway
between the extremes of arbitrary selection and open plebiscite. By circu-
lating widely among all the undergraduates for a week or two, the members
could uncover the tastes or. preferences of the college at large, but could
retain the ultimate selection in their own more competent hands.

The employment of a professional director vastly improved the general
level and finesse of the entire production, but the suggestion may be proffered
that in future the director’s duties be extended to include all'the technical
details as well as the acting. The codrdination of all the committees is a
difficult but necessary task which requires a clear delineation of duties and
authority to produce a uniform production.

_ Codperation with Haverford proved itself successful and pleasant for
all “concerned. The minor difficulties were on the whole adequately over’
come and the presence of good men amateur actors on Goodhart stage was
sufficient reason alone for future dramatic efforts with our neighbor. The
“presence of Haverford, however, was doubly good in its effect, for while it
improved: the production and added realism to many roles, it added to the
conviviality and entertainment of the evenings which are, after all, the |
principal purposes of their being.



The Writing on the Wall

The recently completed quiz period gave the first opportunity to stu:
dents and faculty to see how the arrangements for shortening the mid-
semester examination period and decreasing the number of quizzes worked
out. On the whole the plan was successful, for not only were a number
of unnecessary quizzes eliminated with the complete approval of the students
and instructors involved, but also the length of time occupied by the exam-
inations was reduced to three weeks, with a few exceptions.

There remains one important problem which is caused.by the manner
in which many of the professors present quizzes to their classes. This |
year the difficulty has been even more pronounced, perhaps because of the
contrast between this situation, and the satisfaction so widely felt about
the changes made in the organization of the quizzes in other respects. In
a great many cases the professors come to the class at the hour of the quiz
and write the questions on the board. If there are more than one or two
questions, the actual copying on the blackboard takes quite a few minutes
This amounts to a serious loss of time to students who have only one hour
in which to answer the questions set. Confusion frequently results, too,
when the class is told that certain questions must be selected from various
groups. This méans that they must wait until all the questions are on the
board before they begin to write.

To end this condition, individual students should be provided with
written copies of the questions as is done in the case of mid-year and final
examinations. This would obviate misunderstandings about which questions
are to be answered and would prevent mistakes caused by inability to read
what is on the blackboard. The faculty members are busy people and
perhaps this is asking too much of thtm; but since the college mimeographs
_examination papers for finals, it might arrange to do quiz papers for those
professors who do not have the time to make copies of the questions for

their classes. ,



cheentees RRR
prisoners enrolled have had only one
or two years of high school training,

Minneapolis, _Minn.—Prisone at
innesota’s Stillwater Penitentiary

Editorials Praise Work

of; President Thomas||



Reprinted from the New York
Herald-Tribune, Wednesday, Decem-
ber 4, 1935.

Brilliance and grit are not a usual
combination. More often than not the
sensitivity of the brilliant person dis-
qualifies him for the rough and tum-
ble of pioneer: effort. It was not so
in the case of Miss M. Carey Thomas.
She, more than any other woman in
her generation, was responsible for
the social acceptance.of higher educa-
tion for her sex. Bryn Mawr College
is her monument, the peer today of

i any under-graduate institution in ‘the

Mand, ‘

The extraordinary spirit which gal-
vanized her purely feminine personal-
ity became manifest in her, teens when
she began storming the academic cita-
del, then almost exclusively the pre-
serve of the male. She-contrived first
to enter Cornell University from which
she was graduated with honors at the
age of twenty. By a special vote of
the trustees she was admitted the next
year to Johns Hopkins, where she was
permitted to attefid lectures behind a
screen. Undaunted;~she began sam-
pling the universities of Europe,
fighting gamely for her deserts as a
scholar and finally attaining them in
the form of a Ph. D. degree, summa
cum laude, from the University of
Zurich. Bright girls of today who
look upon a- college education, and
whatever duties beyond that they
wish to pursue, as a natural sequence
of their record in school may well
pause in veneration of this daring lady
who broke the ice for them only fifty
years ago.

With such a background of trium-
phant struggle and scholarly training
it is not to be wondered at that Miss
Thomas should build Bryn Mawr into
the institution it has become. As its
co-organizer and dean for nine years,
and as its president for twenty-eight,
she molded it to her will, adding to its
undergraduate department a_ post-
graduate curriculum leading to a
Ph. D. and holding the whole to the
highest standards. Thus Bryn Mawr
is not simply a girl’s college, however
competent to its purpose, but a dis-
tinguished theatre of learning.

Typically enough, Miss Thomas,
while president, was known to her fac-
ulty and to the whole academic world
as among the most rigid of disciplin-
arians. But she was equally’ ‘famous
for her selection and encouragement
of talented young teachers and espe-
cially young men teachers, for she
never carried her strong feministic
leanings to the point of discrimination
against the male. Equality was her
goal and she had the wisdom to see
that in attaining it for her students
she. must enlist the best brains in their
service regardless of sex.

And yet, she was the first head of
a woman’s college to come out pub-
licly for woman suffrage—as long ago
as 1896—and for sixteen years there-
after she was president of the Na-
tional Collegiate Equal Suffrage
League. In 1898, as a condition of a
gift to its endowment, she forced the
Johns Hopkins Medical School to ad-
mit women on equal terms with men.
A great champion she was, but with a
perspective which made her a person
even greater than her cause. We can
think of no higher tribute.



Reprinted from Philadelphia Eve-
ning Bulletin, Tuesday, December 3,
1935.

Womankind—particularly the wom-
en of the United States—owe .an in-
calculable debt to M. Carey Thomas.
Dean of Bryn-Mawr at 26, coming
direct from her studies abroad, at
Leipsic, at Goettingen, at Zurich and
finally at The Sorbonne; ten years
later she was made president of that
institution, elected to the Board of
Trustees in 1908, and president-emeri-
tus since 1922; much of the develop-
ment of that now noted College for
Women was.of--her making. and the
widespread influence of the school
traces back to her genius and her de-
votion. And farther reaching ever
than that, or at least in channels

-|other than that, in every movement

that has been worth while in the ad-
-vancement of the women’s opportunity

‘and in’ the broadening of women’s

who are enrolled in University of
Minnesota extension courses have a
higher scholastic ‘average than day
students - the same courses.

_ Although the panes number of the

their grades show that 70 per cent sphere of activity during more than

B, with the subjects studied falling

‘|about half and half between -urtiver-

sity and high school courses, —
om

her influence have had a part.

Equality of Intellect In Women
There is significant interest in recol-







lecting ‘that she was one of me ‘iret





News Resignation
The' News regrets to announce —
“the resignation. of Lucy Kim-
: berly, sports editor, from the
Editorial Board.







young women students to enter Cor-
nell, from which she was graduated
in 1877; that from there she went to
Johns Hopkins, where she was the
eniy woman permitted to enter the
class in Greek; that she went to-the
University of Leipsic and completed
its course in three years, only to be
denied her degree “on account of her
sex”; that she went to Goettingen and
found her ‘opportunity similarly cir-
cumscribed, and thence went to Zu-
rich, where there had been precedent
in the recognition of women’s intellec-
tual ability, and received the “summa
cum laude” which she had earned.
And then after.a year at The Sorbon-
ne she came back home. to take the
position of dean of Bryn Mawr, and
largely to organize and to build a
college for women. And thirty-nine
years later, as she was retiring from
the active presidency of that college
to continue on the Board of Trustees
and as president-emeritus until her
death, she said: *

One of the biggest things ‘ac-
complished in the struggle of
women for higher education is
the revelation to the world that
the minds of men and women
are the same, not,.different; that
they require and can assimilate
the same intellectual food; that
there is no sex in intellect, and
that, tested in any way that col-
leges and universities can devise, «
women do, at least, as well as
men.

That sevaiion was her-mission in
the world, and she devoted her life to
its service. When, in co-operation
with her intimate friend, Mary E.
Garrett, of Baltimore, she was a lead-
ing factor in raising a fund adequate
for the opening of Johns Hopkins
Medical School, it has been said (by
Dr. Florence Rena Sabin) that “while
the money for this fund was in the
main contributed by Miss Garrett, far
more important than the actual gift
of money were the conditions under
which the fund was given and accept-
ed. Miss Thomas laid down the con-
ditions which were to be met, a college
degree or its equivalent, a knowledge
of physics, chemistry and biology, pro-
ficiency in foreign languages and the
admission of women on the same
terms as men.”

Bryn Mawr and its achievements
constitute the exemplification of her
ideals, a
Hope and Aim In Work of Bryn Mawr

Miss Thomas was an intimate friend
of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and a
pioneer in the advancement of the
movement for the exténsion of the
suffrage to women, wk€n its vision
was in the far distance. For eight
years she was the president of the
National College Equal Suffrage As-
sociation.

But she did not beliewe that equal-
ity was something to be conferred
upon women by statute, whether in
the extension of the franchise or
otherwise. She believed that there
was inherent equality in women and
that those who had the higher endow-
ments of mind were as fully entitled
as any man to every opportunity and
means for its development. Her hope
for Bryn Mawr, in her own words.
was “that it shall become more and
more a college producing women who
may best serve their generation, a col-
lege that may attract more and more
the A and A-plus girls.” It was her
desire and purpose that the educa-
tional opportunity for women should
stand parallel with the educational
opportunity for, men, confident that
in the competition, if it were to be that
rather than a joint endeavor, women
would justify every anticipation.

Today, that truth generally is ree-

ognized, although old prejudice has
not altogether disappeared. Women
in the practice of medicine and in the
laboratories as well, women in the law,
at the bar, occasionally on the bench;

women in the pulpit,-in the service
of the press; women in science, in all
branches; women in business, often as
executives; women in political equal-
ity, as voters, in elective and appoint-

ive offices, as administrators, as lead-|

ers.

The slogan “equality of sex,” glibly
spoken today, when so much has been
ere it is* but commonplace,



does not compare in the richness of
thought and idealism, with the equality
of.opportunity for education and ad-
vancement to which M. Carey .Thomas
dedicated hersélf more than fifty years
ago fhen she deciared that there is
no sex in intellect and that it is
woman’s inherent right to improve the
talent with which she was endowed.



Tributes will. be paid to her emi-
nence as an eduéator, to her particu-
lar achievements at Bryn Mawr. But
the inspiration to that paramount
field of service was her. ideal - of
woman, of woman’s capacity for
achievement, and her right to full op-
portunity ‘for the development of that
capacity. To quote her own words
again, Bryn Mawr’s mission was “to
produce women who may best serve
their generation.” ai



In Philadelphia

Broad: Kind Lady, with Lucy Beau-
mont, distinguishes itself as well in
Philadelphia as-it did at the end of
last season in New York when Grace
George played the lead.

Chestnut: Gilbert Miller’s produc-



‘Ition of Libel, with Colin Clive, seems

to disappoint the Philadelphia critics

| somewhat, although its producer still

has faith in its success when it opens
in New York.

Forrest: Eva Le Gallienne opens
her repertory next Monday night for
one week only. Rosmersholm and
Camille will be the principal attrac-
tions, although it is rumoréd vaguely
that Miss Le Gallienne will do “‘two
Spanish plays” as well.

Garrick: Personal Appearance, in
its third week, is definitely established
asa hit.

Academy of Music: The Philadel-
phia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold
Stokowski, will play the following:
Borodin’s. On the Steppes in Central
Asia, the Rhapsodie on a Theme of
Pagnini of Rachmaninov, and Tcheh-
kovsky’s Symphony Number Five. in
E Minor. Rachmaninov will be the
soloist.

Movies

Aldine: Crime and Punishment un-
doubtedly suffers from being released
at approximately the same time as
the French film Crime et Chatiment,
but the critics have not been able to
agree which is really the better movie.
This American version of Dostoiev-
skys’ novel is especially notable for
the fine, sustained performance of
Peter Lorre.

' Areadia: Mutiny on the Bounty,
about which everything has been said.
With Charles Laughton, Clark Gable
and Franchot Tone.

Boyd: George Arliss in a minor
success called Mr. Hobo. Starts Fri-
day: Whipsaw, with Myrna Loy and
Spencer Tracy, a most singular team
of players, one might. remark, in an
opus which has so fay. been a Holly-
wood secret. It is fervently to be
hoped that it is not very similar to
Riptide. :

Earle: Stars Over Broadway, a mu-
sical comedy featuring Jane Froman
and James Melton, a new star re-
cruited from radio; who also suffers
from the facial contours of Mr. Law-
rence Tibbett. Friday: One-Way
Ticket, with Peggy Conklin, star of
the stage production of The Petrified
Forest.

Europa: La Maternelle continues.
This is a popular French film about
some waifs and their nursery school
nurses.

Fox: Thanks a Million, with Fred
Allen and Dick Powell. Friday: The
Man Who Broke the Bank At Monte
Carlo will open at this theatre. Ron-
ald Colman stars.

Karlton: Splendor, in which Miriam
Hopkins is sacrificed for the sake of
Joel McCrea’s inhuman family.
Keith’s: A Night At the Opera, the
Marx Brothers’ latest.

Palace: Peter Ibbetson, with Gary
Cooper and Ann Harding.

Stanley: Annie Oakley, a movie
about the girl who became a synonym
for a free ticket, with Barbara Stan-
wyck in the title role. Saturday : ,/ J
John Howard gets his first real chance
in a vehicle by the name of Millions
in the Air.
Stanton: James Cagney in Frisco
Kid, and, startit'g Saturday, Rochelle
Hudson in a lively gangster film
called (by the Will Hayes ‘ office)
Show Them No Mercy. ~—

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Page. Three

6





Fast Varsity Loses

To Philadelphia 4-0
Quick Passing, Interchanging’
~ Holds Skillful Opponents

To Low Score





GROUND HARD, SLIPPERY



The Varsity Hockey team played
its last game on Saturday against the!
All-Philadelphia team and was de-
feated by a score.of 4-0. Varsity
played its best game of the season
because of the fact that the opposing
team, including seven All-American
players, was the strongest it has met
this year, and played a game which
was remarkable for brilliant passing
and fast dribbling. Varsity’s passing
was unusually accurate and fast, and
even though the ground was hard
and made the ball bounce unexpect-
edly, the Bryn Mawr players were
successful in picking up hard passes.
The ground was so slippery that
most of the players fell down when-
ever they tried to stop suddenly, but
they picked themselves up quickly
and started off again. Notwithstand- |
ing the fact that the Philadelphia
team was much faster than Varsity
and often got away to’a clear field,
their free shots were always stopped
by the goal-keeper, Leighton. The
goals that they did make were all
shot from a confusing scrimmage in
the circle. The college team is to be
_congratulated on holding its skillful
opponents to a mere 4-0 victory.

‘The forwards played very well as
a whole and their team-work was
particularly good. B. Cary, playing
her last. game as -captain of the
team, played excellently as center for-
ward and got away to some very good
open-field runs. M. Bakewell, in the
left inside position, picked.up passes
well from the backs and got rid of
the ball.at the right time. Her passes
to the center and out to the wing
were well-placed behind the defend-
ing backs. Jane Carpenter, playing
right inner, seemed somewhat weak
in her handling of the ball, but kept
better control as the game went on.
She sometimes failed to send a pass
to Taggart who was often free and

' waiting for it, but this was obviously
because of the fact that it was the
difficult side to which to send a pass.
The few times that Taggart did get
the ball she handled it very well and
sent good passes to the forwards in
the shooting circle.

The team-work. on the part of the
backs was even better than that of
the’ forwards. Their quick inter-
changing was particularly useful
when a fast opposing forward started
down the field with the ball. M.
Bridgman played her best game of
the year as right half. She made one
of the most brilliant plays of the
game when she brought the ball out
of the circle after a penalty bully. P.
Martin, in the difficult position of
center half, played a really excellent
game of hockey. She successfully
brought the ball out of the circle and
carried it up to her forwards when
the opposing team was just about to
shoot, and also supported her own
forwards in their shooting. circle.
She was, perhaps, the playei most
responsible for keeping the ball
around the Philadelphia goal as much



Local Movies

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as it was.
half, was a little weak in her inter-
ception but she showed herself to be
invaluable in backing up her wing.
M. Jackson played in the position of
right back with her usual steadiness
and determination—faculties which
are seldom found ina pame as tense
as this one. L. Bright, at left back,
showed that she could play both a fast
game and an accurate oné; and her
rapid shifting from one side of the
field to the other was a great help in’
keeping down her opponents’ score.
Gertrude Leighton upheld her repu-
tation as a good goal-keeper and con-
tinually stopped the excellent shots of
the All-American forwards. The
few short, quick flicks that did get
past her would have been impossible

, to stop.

This is .the last game for some of
the team who graduate this year, and
we know that the team will feel
their loss when they come back to
play without such players as Cary,
Taggart, C. C. Brown and Bridgman.

Goals: H. Howe, 1;° Toulman, 1;

M. Howe, 2.
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Restoration Drama Is

Sharply Defined Field

Continued from Page One



tions rather than plays. "From them
no dramatic material was drawn, nor
were the completed dramas addressed
to them.. The theatre was a snobbish
art, representing one clique and pre-
senting “itself to that one alone. That
one fashionable group believed in the
impossible possibility of rationalizing
the emotions. Practicing its belief, it
disregarded morality and pursued a
strictly improper course of life.
Comic playwrights found such a situ-
ation adaptable to an ancient satirical
theme springing from the paradoxi-
cal nature of man, half animal, half
divine. In the years after the World
War writers again repeated this
theme to embody the same flagrant
question of sexual license and the

i same futile attempt to subdue passion

to reason. Because of such similar
problems and similar. treatment, the
Restoration literature is linked to
that of our own time, and we are far
more capable of understanding it
than were the pious Victorians.

The world which the inverted reflec-
tion of tragedy revealed was one of
disillusionment inevitable after the
conclusion of a long, Civil War in
conditions much like those which had
existed before it ever broke out.
Combined with this feeling of frus-
tration was an aesthetic doctrine pos-
tulating the epic as the highest form
of poetry, tragedy as epic poetry un-
der another name, and the duty of
the epic as the celebration of valor,
beauty, and love. Since the examples
of valor supplied by the recent war
were too close, too obviously ugly,
too related to ordinary men, traged-
ians were forced to turn to ancient,
exotic days. There as well as any-
where, beauty could be found to
praise, and there only was pure love.
Because of the rarity of such
ethereal affection at the time, it was
especially needful that tragedy should
celebrate true love, for art should
supply what actuality lacks. _

Both inversely and immediately,
therefore, Restoration drama was
conditioned by Restoration England.
The distinctions within the conditions
were introduced or emphasized by the
individual authors. Because he had
a nimble wit and a quick ear for
prose, Etheredge, the first of the grea‘

S. Evans, playing left



comedians, developed the free comedy
form. In The Man of Mode, his most
successful play, the characters. are
gay, fantastic creatures whirling air-
ily and thoughtlessly through’ life as
if through an elaborate ballet. Like
all the figures of Restoration Comedy,
they belong to the town rather. than
to the country as the Elizabethans
did. Since, then, his plays were so
light and unphilosophical, Etheredge
expressed ne deep convictions, except
that life should be enjoyed, and en-
joyment should be made an art. He
thus missed one of the principal
characteristics. of his fellows, who
worked: with the second type of é¢om-
edy—the comedy of humors. They
did .not, like Jonson; attack the in-
herent vices of mankind, but they
did lash at all acquired follies in an
effort to present a saner view of life.
When Wycherley, who was attracted
to both the Puritanical austerity of
the masses and the gay immorality of
the court, tried to ridicule man’s in-
nate and superficial failings at the
same time, he did not succeed. The
savage vituperation which he piled
up in speech after speech made sur-
prisingly good stage effects, but not
good literature. Only in The Coun-
try Wife did he arrive at unity. His
powerful, tortured mind here worked
itself out to a delicate balance of feel-
ing which he offered as an antidote
to the extravagances of the time.

Congreve was the greatest of the
comedians. Because he was half a
poet, he was able to unify his material
and to create life out of it, although
it was fast becoming obsolete. ‘The
sexual theme had ceased to be the
most pressing contemporary prob-
lem, yet this was the theme which
Congreve used. -About it he had only
one thing to say, and he said it over
and over; that simple, honest love
alone is desirable; that artificiality
and libertinism are foolish and vi-
cious. Even though he tried to reform
the world, Congreve did not expect it
to reform. He was disillusioned and
sorrowful for all mankind. Through
his best comedy scenes there always
runs a thread ;of. sadness which is
expressed as a fear of too great
reality, as a desire to keep life at a
safe distance. To make existence a
little more graceful and poetic, to
maintain a somewhat more polite
balance of affections, seemed to him
the only way to make life bearable.
As well as thus bringing the moral-
ity of Restoration comedy to its
height, he brought the -medium—to—an
unsurpassed excellence also. He was
a master of prose. After him,
writers ceased to believe in the pos-
sibility of rationalizing the emotions.
While keeping the same cynical form,
they allowed sentimentality. to creep
in and destroy the form. Restora-
tion comedy was ended.

The tragedians of the Restoration
began on a basis as impossible as
that of the comedians; and just as
the comedy could endure only while
believed in, the tragedy was doomed
to decay as soon as its ideals of
chivalrous love and beauty were ac-
knowledged to be impossible. In the
first place, the form and content of
the tragedies were ill-suited. The
form was classical; the content, ro-
mantic. To agree with the material
used, the ancient elements of pity and
fear had to be altered; fear being
changed to admiration, and pity
limited to the calamities of true love.
Love was treated as more important

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than anything else inthe world.
Honor, friendship, faith, were nothing
to. it. When love did not rule the.
stage, the valor of old Rome paaded

None of the tragedians was more
mad than Lee. He was actually mad,
and by his very insanity, he was im-|
pelled to aim at the absolute. Noble ;
passion, vice and horror never ap-
peared to him except in their extreme ;
aspects., Since the elaborate scenery, |
the fantastic problems, and the im-,
possible psychology of his art were |
already set for him, he could only
perfect them with his peculiarly ap-
propriate talents, but there -yet re-
mained one thing he could introduce
—words. He used words with unbe-
lievable wildness and force. If Wag-
ner had been living to write the
music, Lee would have written opera.



Dryden was a greater architect
than Lee; his plays are balanced
baroque structures decorated as pro-
fusely as possible. He himself con-
fessed that the elements he worked
with were mere nonsense, yet out of
them he. still constructed great art.
Although ‘he carried artificial pretti-
ness to its limits, he was always in|
control of that prettiness. He could |
express profound thought in its nar-
row bounds.or he could use it as a
mere exercise for perfecting the
language. In spite of the foolish ma-
terial he was forced to use, through
it he was able to express a serious,
characteristic Restoration— philosophy
—a philosophy of disillusionment. By
virtue of this similar sense of frus-
tration, in both forms, Restoration
comedy and tragedy are actually re-
lated after all, although superficially
unlike, and are actually vital, al-



though the tragedy at least often |

seems to be outmoded. |



Clifton Fadiman Lists
Best Seller’s Appeals



Continued from Page One,

books which have this appeal will sell |
for this reason alone in spite of the}
fact that they have much literary



merit. Nijinsky, by the dancer’s wife
isan example of such a book. -Ulys-
ses is another. Europa is selling now
for much the same reason, although
the critics have recently discovered
that it is not such a masterpiece as
they once proclaimed it... The fear
element is carried over from the
advertising industry: people read
such books’ as 100,000,000 Guinea
Pigs and Emily Post’s Etiquette be-
cause if they did not they would be
afraid of the consequences.

Books which have few of these, ap-
peals can be made best sellers by many
kinds of publicity. Books which are
banned by ‘such organizations as The
Society for the Suppression of Vice
often become best ‘sellers as a result
of the publicity attendant on the
action of suppression. James Branch
Cabell became a popular author only
after his novel, Jurgen, was banned.
The sale of Ulysses received a similar
impetus. Ordinary and high-pressure
advertising acts in the same way. The
Book of the Month Club. selections
usually receive a great deal of free
publicity by the members of the club.
During the years 1930-34 twelve of
the twenty-four best sellers were Book
of the Month Club selections,

Little things like the personality of
the author, preferences of celebrities
and change of titles have great effects
on the sale of books. Trader Horn
and Count Keyserling’s two-volume
work:'on philosophy became popular
partly because of interest in the ec-
centricities of their authors. Presi-

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Page Four

THE, COLLEGE NEWS







Miss ‘Thomas At 25th Anniversary



The inspiring genius and dynamic
personality of the late President-
emeritus M.-Carey Thomas have been
felt and recognized not only by Bryn
Mawr, but by the world. So strong
has been the influence of her character
upon the lives of her friends,. her ‘col-
leagues and her students that through
them her greatness has been trans-
mitted to every walk of life.

At the celebration or Bryn Mawr’s
Twenty-fifth Anniversary on October

posure of her own intellect, she has

made us supremely desire the truth.!

But-to her personal power over us she
has been indiffexent., This combina-
tion of the will to drive us on .and
the gift of leaving us free has.made
her the greatest woman college presi-
dent of her day.”

The unknown graduate student
voiced the sentiment of thousands
with the-words: “Her character and
personality have been, from the first
so marked, so vital, and so Vigorous
that she was bound to become one of
the forces of her day, and it is a
blessing to the women of her country

21 and 22, 1910, Presidents Mary E.}that she should haveybecome a force

Woolley, of Mount. Holyoke. College,
said of Miss Thomas: “Bryn Mawr
College, its place in the educational
world, is to an unusual. degree the
_ work of the woman whose name has
been identified with it from the begin-
ning. One can hardly think of the
college without’ its president, or its
president without a vision of the col-
lege.”

Miss Caroline Hazard, president of
Wellesley College, 1899-1910, showed
her appreciation of Miss Thomas’ in-
valuable work at Bryn Mawr with the
words: “(Even) while President
Thomas was Dean, it was well under-
stood that her foresight and judgment
were greatly relied upon by the ad-
ministration, and that her hand has
been upon the wheel which guided this
ship into its present port.”

Mrs. Louise © Sheffield Brownell
Saunders, chairman of the Academic
Committee of the Alumnae, some-
time Warden of Sage College of Cor-
nell University, speaking for Miss
Thomas’ own students, said: ‘This
is her supreme inspiration for us—
she has poured into every one of us
some measure of her own passion for
work,”

On November 2, 1935, at the cele-
bration of Bryn Mawr’s Fiftieth An-
niversary, the contribution of Miss
Thomas in her work and in her per-
sonality was as highly praised as it
had been twenty-five years before.
Miss Ada Louise Comstock, president
of Radcliffe College, said: “For all
college and university women this is
a festival day. If this great army of
women might be conceived of as con-
verging upon Bryn Mawr today, laden
with garlands and chanting praises,
there would be, I venture to say, an
image of a person as well as of an
institution in their eyes—-the image
of thewoman—who-_ for twenty-eight
years served as its president. . . . In
honoring Bryn Mawr today we honor
also a woman whose mark upon the
higher edycation of women is charac-
teristic and ineffaceable.”

Among the most heartfelt and re-
vealing tributes made to Miss Thomas
are the words of an anonymous alum-
na and of a formey graduate student,
also unnamed which were read in her
honor on her retirement on June 8,
1922. The alumna could give no high-
er praise than when she wrote: “By
every. means open to a courageous and
resourceful will, by rigid standards set
“up for the students, by insistent de-
mands upon the faculty, by the ex-





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in the shaping of their destinies.”



Revi Mawr Is*Chief
Recipient Under Will

* Continued from Page One



the testatrix and to eleven alumnae
of the college. The alumnae men-
tioned, several of whom are faculty
members, are Isabel Maddison, of
Wayne; Mrs. Slade, Hilda Worthing-
ton Smith, of Washington; President
Marion Edwards Park, Lucy Martin
Donnelly, Dean Helen Taft Manning,
Caroline Morrow Chadwick-Collins,
Georgiana Goddard King, Susan M.
Kingsbury, Abby Kirk and Alice G.
Howland, of Bryn Mawr.
Trust Fund Comes First

Taking precedence over all offer
funds and bequests is a trust fund of
$200,000, to which the executors are
to apply, if necessary,
estate.
ties to servants and relatives are to
be paid from this.

Miss Thomas directed that after the
death of the annuitants the balance
of the trust fund, estimated at $170,-
000, was to be combined with an addi-
tional $110,000, if available,

ment Fund, to be divided as follows:

A fund of $170,000, from which a
$5000 annuity is to be paid to the
deanery committee as a first charge.

A fund of $30,000 to be known as
the Professor Lucy Martin Donnelly
Memorial Fund in tribute to her
friend, Professor Donnelly, of the
{nglish Department. The income is
to be paid to Professor Donnelly for
life.

A fund of $10,000 to be known as
the President M. Carey Thomas Eng-
lish Prose and Poetry Prize Fund, the
income to be used annually in the
award of two prizes, one to the best
writer in the senior class and the
other to the student in the senior class
who has written the best poem,

A fund of $60,000 to be known as
the Mary Elizabeth Garrett and the
M. Carey Thomas Bryn Mawr Wom-

all of the!
. Sees Pi |
Several legacies and annui-'

to form|
the Mary Elizabeth Garrett Endow-|







Undergraduate Election

The -Undergraduate-Assoei-
ation announces the election of
Nancy Toll, ’39, as freshman
member of the board.







en’s Order of Merit Fund, the income
to be awarded every five years for

distinguished merit and as an aid to,

further achievement. The recipients
are to hold a Bryn Mawr degree and
to have been members of the college’s
faculty or academic staff, who are
acknowledged to have made impor-
tant contributions to knowledge or
won positions of influence and author-

: ity.

A fund of $10,000 to be known as
the Mary Elizabeth Garrett and. the
M. Carey. Thomas - Supplementary
Bryn Mawr Women’s Order of Merit
Fund, to be used to meet traveling
expenses of the members of the com-
mittee and for publication.

Miss Thomas bequeathed $5000 to
the Johns Hopkins Hospital for a
Mary _ Elizabeth ‘Garrett Memorial
Room Fund and $3000 to the Green
Mount Cemetery Company, the income
to be. used for the care of Miss Gar-
rett’s tomb.

Should additional funds be available
she bequeathed $100,000 to the Bryn
Mawr School for Girls of Baltimore,
to be known as the Mary Elizabeth
Garrett Bryn Mawr School Endow-
ment Fund.

Miss Thomas requested the Bryn
Mawr College trustees to permit
burial: of her ashes in The Cloisters
on the campus, with a. memorial brass
in the floor and a Jacobean or Gothic
collegiate baroque wall tablet of ap-
propriate design; she suggested as a
model a tablet in the: Cathedral at
Rimini, Italy. She left directions for
a memorial service, which will be held
at the college on: December 19.



Clifton Fadiman Lists
Best Seller’s Appeals



Continued from Page Three

dent Wilson and Stanley Baldwin
have been known to “boom” the sale
of the works of certain authors by a
casual statement of preference for
their works. As for titles, good ones
like Bad Girl and The Private Life of
Helen of Troy can easily give books
such a head start as to precipitate
them almost immediately into the best-
seller class.

In spite of a knowledge of details
like the above. which can influence
book sales tremendously, publishers
have no way of predicting a book’s
success with any degree of accuracy.
Mr. Fadiman has drawn up question-
naires and evaluative charts in three





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| Dr. Fenwick Says:



Mr. Hoover tells us that he wants
to keep America American. It would
be interesting to inquire what kind
of an America he would consider an
“American America.” Should we
abolish green and red traffic lights as
being a restraint upon liberty? Or
abolish anti-trust laws as an interfer-
ence with the laws of economic
erowth? Or abolish banking laws as
4. restraint upon individual initiative,
or insurance laws, or food and drug
laws? None of ‘these laws were
known to the Founding Fathers of
1787.



Mr. Borah’s hat is in the ring for
the Republican nomination for Presi-
dent,—and then he has to go and de-
nounce monopolies and price-fixing
trusts. Has he his eye on the farmer
and small business man of the. Mid-
dle and Far.’ West, or is he letting
Eastern Republicans know that they
can not count on him to play their
game? The address is, as is usual
with Mr. Borah, more an attack upon
what others ‘are: doing than an at-
tempt to put forth a constructive pro-
gram, something that seems to be
beyond Mr. Borah’s reach.

The National Association of Man-
ufacturers delivers another broadside
against.the New Deal and puts. forth
a plan which it calls the “American
System.” It is largely denunciatory
of “interference” with business, and
it insists that if the New Deal would
only let business alone “private initi-
ative” would succeed in putting the
unemployed back to work. The Asso-
ciation’s memory seems a bit short.

Both Secretary Hull and Sir Sam-
uel Hoare have made strong’ state-
ments about the Nine Power Treaty
and the obligations it entails with
regard to the integrity. of China.
Japan announces, that the treaty is
at an end, on the doctrine of rebus
non sic stantibus, a dangerous doc-
trine that undermines the faith of

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*Swan’~ Production ie
Shows Upward Trend

Continued from Pagé One
throughout and succeeded in speeding
up whatever scene he entered. His
voice, walk, gesture, laugh—all were
‘in keeping with the dandified prince.
Mr. Reaves was provided with better
lines than the other actors; and he
made the most of them. ° d

Mary Hinckley Hutchings portrayed
the determined and nervous Princess
Behbice with capability and spirit,
although she tended to overact at
times. She was frequently hampered
by stiff dialogue, but when she had a
chance to speak really good lines, she
showed her ability,.as in the lines:

“Alexandra will look at the tutor.|
Alexandra, will dance with the tutor.
God will forgive me. God will forgive
Alexandra. J shall never forgive the
tutor.”

William H. Clark, Jr., gave a well-
sustained performance as Dr. Nicho-
las Agi, tutor to Alexandra’s broth-
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cess. He acted the difficult rolé with
sincerity and feeling.

Huldah Cheek, as~ Princess” Maria
Dominica, gave an extremely capable
impersonation of the competent and
understanding mother of Prince Al-
bert, Although many of her lines suf-
fered from stiffness and a lack of con-
tractions, Miss Cheek overcame the

ults of the playwriting by her act-
ing ability and stage presence.

\\ Robby Hoxton, as. Symphorosa, and

Hliam A. Crawford, as Father Hya- |

cinth, were both satisfactory, al-
though Mr. Crawford gesticulated too
much; and both forgot their lines and
were prompted audibly. several times.
Miss Hoxton, by her walk—especially
in exits—and by her voice, provoked
much laughter for her characteriza-
tion of the spinster sister of Beatrice.

George B. Bookman, as Caesar, the
eapable and haughty major-domo, was
one of the best actors in the play. His
recital of “Cold consomme, cold sal-
mon, cold roast beef,” delivered in a

most sneerifigly respectful tone, was
noteworthy. Equally amusing was
the-seene-in-which~he—-reviewed--and
dusted the hussays- and lackeys.

Margaret Kidder and Virginia
Lautz as George and Arsene, the two
young sons of the. house of. Beatrice,
performed quite capably in small
roles. In the scenes with the tutor,
with Father Hyacinth and with Prin-
cess” Maria Dominica, they supplied
good impersonations of mischievous
and intelligent boys.

The costumes for the play set an
almost professional standard of ex-
cellence, and Elizabeth Bryan is to be
highly commended for her splendid
work in designing and making the cos-
tumes. All of the dresses worn by
Princess Beatrice, the bright yellow
uniforms of the lackeys and the uni-
form of Prince Albert were especially
colorful'and added much to the play.

Many of.the faults of the play were
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Miss Seltzer and the need for some
unifying agency. Although the tempo
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THE COLLEGE NEWS







Radio Work Requires |
Technical Experience



Continued from Page One

and put it through a training course.
Those w old clerical, positions are
not artist®r stenographers, but are
concerned with the scientific side of
music, continuities, sustaining pro-
grams and auditions. It is therefore
necessary that they have a knowledge
of the technicalities. which are in-
volved: in these items.

The next type of position is that
of the executives who handle audience
mail. “This mail is of great import-
ance to a broadcasting station be-
cause it is the only means of contact
with the wishes of its listeners. It
was through this means that lovers
of good music fihally had symphony
and opera broadcast after the jazz-
mad. age had faded a little. Almost
two million letters were handled at
NBC last year by the ten to twenty
girls who fill this position.

The third position is stenographic.
An excellent system has recently beén
developed which provides for a, bonus
besides the $18 to $20 a weék salary.
It is presupposed that the typist can
do so many lines a week.

The secretarial position is important
in the NBC studio. The women em-
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Errata

The News regrets that there
was an error in the first sen-
tence of Dr. Fenwick Says in
last week’s issue. The total
weight of the rings should be
eighty-two and one-half tons of
gold, equal to $92,700,000. The
national wealth, not the na-
tional income, is estimated at
$400 billion.

In the thirty-sixth question
of Dr. ‘Chew’s questionnaire
“victims” should read “violins.”







ployed there now are in almost every
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relationship with thé business; it .de-|

sands 4 finé background and training.
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tional. Theré is a chance here for
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The position of hostess, “a kind of

| glorified reception clerk,” is an inter-

esting and precarious one which calls
for tact and a good disposition. NBC
was the first company to employ hos-
tesses.

In the executive field, women are
in direct competition with men. Many
have made good, but nevertheless they
are working funder pressure. It is
possible today for them to work up
to such a position, by thorough. ex-
perience in the field which they choose.



Dr. Fenwick Says:

Continued from Page Four



treat.es upon which all international
progress must rest. In this instance
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of Ethiopia might be ceded to Italy
and Ethiopia be given a sea-port in
exchange. The Labor party in the
British Parliament has bitterly at-
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it is rewarding Mussolini for his acts.

of brigandage. The Government will
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