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THE COLLEGE NEWS





Panic Will be Produced
In New York Next Week
Panic, a modern tragedy in verse
‘by Archibald Macleish, is to be pre-
sented for the first ‘time on March
15 by the Phoenix Theatre at the Im-
perial Theatre in New York. The
play should prove especially interest-
ing to Bryn Mawr in view of the fact
that Mr. Macleish jis to lecture here
on May 1. Panic represents his first
venture in-the dramatic form and was
inspired by the bank crash of 1933.
It describes the frustration and de-
struction. of a.great man by forces he
can neither control nor understand.

Mr. Macleish became interested in
this subject when he was preparing a
series of articles for Fortune, dealing
with Wall Street. during the’ depres-
sion. The technical problem in verse
form which it presented also fascinat-
ed him. Panic is-the result of sixteen
months of experiment and labor.

As the social and economic forces
that destroy McGafferty, Macleish’s
hero, are analogous to the Greek con-
ception of fate, so are the crowds in
the street outside McGafferty’s office
analogous to Greek choruses. These
crowds neither dance nor sing; but by
their words and ‘vague amorphous
movement, they express moods which
form an undertone to the action going
on in the banker’s office. Macleish in
Panic is not writing capitalistic or
communistic propaganda. He is at-
tempting to describe both the contem-
porary revolutionist and the contem-
porary street crowd fairly and to give
voice to the emotional surges which
motivate both sides in their existing
conflict. He endeavors to give form
and shape to the underlying sense of
fatality which so deeply permeates
modern times.

Panic is made up of scenes alternat-
ing without intermission between Mc-
Gafferty’s office and the street outside.
It is written not in orthodox blank
verse form-ggyhich, “as a vehicle for
contemporary expression,” says Mac-



leish, “is pure anachronism,”’—but in
five beat and three beat lines, both
The

containing unlimited syllables.
five accent line is used by ba
lawyers and radicals; the thr
lines by voices in the crowg¢.
lines give the nervous, stacc
of modern speech.

Mr. Macleish’s tragedy is being per-
formed by a very capable cast, includ-
ing Orson Welles - (formerly with
Katherine Cornell) as McGafferty and
Zita Johnson as his mistress, Ione.
Many important actors and actresses

have volunteered to play anonymous |

parts in the chorus. .Martha Graham
is orchestrating the movement of the
choruses and production; lighting and
sound are all being handled by ex-
perts. There will be a minimum of
constructed scenery and a maximum
of lighting. Only one performance of
the play is scheduled, but there will
probably be a second one on Saturday,
March 16, if there is any demand for
it.



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Juniors Win Honors
At Class Swim Meet



Continued from Page, One

something turns up' next week, Bryn
Mawr will be sadly lacking in this
important event.” On Friday, Wiley
nosed out Lord by virtue of her first
two requireds, and, although Lord top-
ped the list on the back dive and her
optional, a well-executed back jack,
Wiley collected 30.5 points to. her 29.

On Friday, March 8, the last class
meet will be held, when last week’s
scores will be added in, the class cup
and individual cups awarded. Nice
gallery on Friday; let’s have another
like it.

Events

80-Yard Dash—1935, Bucher, 1 min.
5 sec.; 1936, Scattergood, 1 min. 6
sec.; 1937, Evans, 1 min. 9 sec..

Side Stroke for Form—1936, Hol-
lander, 22 points; 1938, Marsh, 21
points; 1937, Vall-Spinoza, 20.5 points.

40-Yard Free Style—1937, Simp-
son, 24.8 sec.; 1936, Wylie, 25.6 sec.;
1937, Woodward, 28 sec.

Crawl] for Form—1936, Whiting, 25
points; 1938, Wescott, 18 points; 1935,
Bill, 15 points. :

40-Yard Back Stroke—19387, Wood-
ward, 32.2 sec.; 1935, Bucher, 34 sec.;
1935, Faeth, 37 sec.

Diving—Wiley, ’35, 30.5 points;
Lord, ’35, 29 points; Simpson, ’37, and
DeWolf, ’38, 28.5 points. <
‘Relay—1936 (Whiting, Bridgman,
Cohen, bb i 59.8 seconds; 1935
aeth, Little, Lane, Hemphill), 60.3




Hunting, Pasturing
Limited in Forests



Continued from Page One

be found in nearly all the counties ex-
cept those in East Anglia. The limits
of the forest,were determined by rid-
ing thé bounds. The forests were un-
popular and there were frequent con-
flicts over the locations of boundaries.
By the thirteenth century the people
were definitely winning out the
struggle with the king to limit the
forests and to disafforest some of
them. What concessions the kings

made were always reluctant and often
were repudiated by successors.

The forest law protected both the
vert, or cover and food for the game,
and the venison, or beasts of the for-
est. The red, roe, and fallow deer,
the boar, and occasionally .the hare
were considered beasts of the forest.
Only the king or his specially licensed
friends could kill these animals in the
forest, but once outside the bounds
they could be killed by anyone.

The area within a royal forest often
included open glades,- plains, and even
cultivated lands, but all were under
the rule of the forest law. There
were very strict rules about grazing
and animals like sheep and goats were
not permitted to be in the forest at all,
as they were held to be annoying to
the game.

A hunt was a highly pe SS af-
fair, in which the guiding principle
was to drive the deer into a trap. Once
captured, the beast was prepared for
eating and certain parts were tradi-
tionally reserved for various forest of-
ficials. Even the dogs came in for
their share of the remains. An inter-
esting fact concerned with the dis-
posal of the deer was that putrid
parts were given to the poor and the
lepers.

There were special places in the for-
est which were set aside as grazing
lands for the king’s great stallions and
mares, and there was a heavy fine if
any ordinary horses found their way
into these select pastures. The king

d about one hundred fine horses
which he used for hunting and breed-
ing purposes. They were often nam-
ed for the places from which they.
came or for their color. In 1332 one
of the King’s agents went to Spain
and bought forty-nine new steeds for
the King at-a_cost_of over six_hundred
pounds. The great rolls of expenses
also reveal the large amounts spent
for hay and other feed, veterinary ex-
penses and wages of. those in charge
of the stablés.

Poachers were a great problem in
maintaining. the mediaeval forest and
if caught, were heavily fined. Minor
offenders were fined by a local forest
court held every forty days. Large
offenders were held over for the great
Forest Eyre, which was held at ir-
regular intervals. All the great land-
holders, all the forest officers and all
common people holding land in the
forest attended the sessions and had
to give testimony when needed. The
clergy were often to be found among
the offenders.

Common pasture and _ purpresture
rights go way back into pre-history.
Customs of this kind were found-all
over England, but inside the forest: the
restrictions were particularly great:
Great constitutional struggles arose in
the thirteenth entury as a result of
complaints about the use or abuse of
these rights. Land of this type was
to be found in the north in the fen
regions. These were great wild areas
often, below sea level, which were flood-
ed twice a day by, the backwash of
rivers. They made wonderful bird
refuges. Wild stretches of * grassy
plain were found in other places, which
were used in common by: several vil-
lages for grazing. Cattle were brand-
ed and allowed to roam freely at all
seasons of the year. The Weald was
a similar region in Surrey and Hamp-
shire and was widely used-for pastur-
ing swine.

The cutting of wood in the ‘forest
was strictly regulated and the big
timber could not be cut for any pur-
pose by commoners. As lordship grew
stronger and began to challenge the
king’s power this was one of the many
customs which were the causes of con-
flicts between the lords and the king.

in

der cultivation, played a prominent
part in the struggle. The great lords
had ‘land reclamation projects and

tenants on regular terms. Demesne



Assarting, which is bringing lands un- |.

the new land opened up was rented to ||



out and served to relieve some of the
economic pressure caused by the ex-
panding population.

‘France had shown the way in the

matter of assarting, for all through
the centuries from 1100 to 1400 great
blocks of the French forests were
carved off and cleared by men called
Hospitares. These men were often
the younger sons of peasants or ad-
venturous youths from the city. They
did not sett). on the newly opened
lands, but moved on to the next place
to be cleared. Great inducements were
offered to people to come: settle “the

new lands. Release from serfdom was
one of their many privileges. This
had a revolutionary effect on the

neighboring towns and estates, for
serfs were no longer content with
their lot and demanded equality and
the end of serfdom. Thus-we see how
the process of assarting linked up
with the breakddwn of the old mediae-
val system of land cultivation and
tenure.

In England a similar thing was
happening in the disfranchising move-
ment.. It was going on more slowly
there for a number of reasons. In the
first place the forests were of smaller
extent and therefore were less of a
problem. In the second place royal
justice and the justice of the lords’
courts was often very good and the
peasant was carefully protected in his
rights in many instances.



Mrs. Manning Answers
Mrs. Skinner’s ‘Letter



Continued from Page One

work had to be abandoned in most
courses after May Day because the
students felt that in no other way
could they catch up with the reading
and do the reviewing that would be
necessary for the examinations; and
time was also lost in the rehearsals
before May Day. There may be dif-
ference of opinion as to whether this
loss was due to “faults of organiza-
tion” as I implied that it was; but
what I had in mind was the fact that
the division of responsibility in direct-
ing the last May Day made it more
difficult to work out a_ systematic
schedule. We have been thinking in
terms of a single director for the next
May Day and a plan of organization
which would allow us to judge better
in advance exactly how much time
must be taken from college work. If
in making this plan it seems clear
that a full week must be lost, then
the obvious remedy would be to add a
week to the college year—a remedy
which is clearly impossible for the
year 1935.

The other point which Mrs. Skinner
misunderstood in my all too hasty ref-
erences was with regard to the direc-
tor. What I meant to say was that
in spite of the fact that there are sev-
eral people in the offing who are ad-
mirably fitted..to. be director of. May
Day, no one of ‘them seems to be avail-
able for the responsibility.at this mo-
ment. Of these I took it for granted
that Mrs. Collins was the least avail-
able. She has been working twelve
hours a day on the Million Dollar
Drive and has been responsible, as I
understand it, for practically all the
publicity up to date; in my opinion
she is absolutely indispensable for this
work, as well as in her regular duties
as Director of Publication. No one
could possibly doubt that Mrs. Collins
can produce a perfect May Day given
time and full co-operation from every-
body coneerned. I started my remarks
in Chapel by saying that we could
certainly give May Day if we aban-
doned all other serious work for the
rést of the semester and devoted our-
selves to it entirely. It is still my be-
lief that it would be practically im-
possible to do it on any other terms
although, of course, I may be mistak-
en. In any case it is delightful to
have ‘Mrs. Skinner’s tribute to the
1932 May Day from one who knows.

Sincerely yours,
HELEN: TAFT MANNING.

GREEN HILL FARMS
City Line and Lancaster Ave.
Overbrook-Philadelphia

A reminder that we would like to
take care of your parents and
triends, whenever they come to
visit. you. :
L. E. METCALF,
Manager. |

‘been a remarkably interesting one.





Water Colors by O’Hara
Will Be Exhibited Here |‘



Thirty watercolors by Mr. Eliot
O’Hara are to be on exhibition in the
Common Room for a period of three
weeks, beginning about March 6. The
paintings are well worth seeing. Mr.
O’Hara has gained an international
reputation for his work in the single
medium of watercolors. His life has

Before. 1928 when Eliot O’Hara
won a Guggenheim Fellowship and
moved with his family to Europe for
two and a half years of painting, he
had been at the head of an enamel
factory in Waltham, Massachusetts. A
life-long desire to paint had: been en-
couraged by the success of a first one-
man show, held in Boston in 1925,
with the sketches from a_ four-
months’ trip abroad. Other water-
colors, hastily painted on week-ends,
had been accepted in Philadelphia and

New York, at the important general]

exhibitions.

Although he sampled, briefly, the
methods of several masters in this
country and in Paris, he found that
he progressed more satisfactorily by
solving his own problems, discovering
his own means of expression. He is
still discovering, still trying new out-
lets, new methods; and when people
ask: “Why don’t you start painting
in oils?” he answers, “because I
haven’t yet got to the end of water-
color.” Some of his theories about
watercolor painting are brought to-
gether in his book, Making Water-
color Behave. A second book, con-
taining fourteen definite lessons in
watercolor, appears this spring, en-
titled Making The Brush Behave.

While Mr. O’Hara has _ become
known as a nomad painter, an experi-
menter in scene as well as in render-
ing, he has made his home for the last
four years in Washington, D. C. Next
summer he will open his School of
Watercolor Painting at Goose Rocks
Beach, Maine, for its fifth season. The
Invited Exhibition of watercolors from
all over the country, held each year in
his Watercolor Gallery, attracts thou-
sands of visitors.

The first American painter to take
a comprehensive painting trip through
Soviet Russia, in 1929, he is also. the
first to have spent nearly half a year
painting in South America, down one
coast to the tip of Magellan, and up
the other coast. He matched his visit
to Spain, the last of the European
countries where he worked, with a
voyage to Labrador, in order to con-
trast the warm southern glare with
the pale sunlight of the north.

His one-man shows have been writ-
ten up in Georgian, when Mr, O’Hara
was giving an exhibit in Tiflis; and
in Spanish, when the southernmost
port of Chile, Puerto Mont, gave him
an exhibition in 1933. From his second
exhibition in London the Mappin Art
Gallery, of Sheffield, England, bought
one of his watercolors for its perma-
nent collection. Besides invited exhi-
bitions in the Corcoran Gallery of Art
in Washington, the Speed Museum in
Louisville, the Columbus Gallery of
Art, the Dayton Art Institute, the
John Herron Insitute in Indianapolis,
the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh,
Mr. O’Hara was given a series of
“one-man shows” during the year
when the American Federation of Arts
circulated his Russian Series.

The “Bridge at Ronda” won the
Irving Brokaw Prize at the American
Watercolor Society and New York
Watercolor Club; one of his other
watercolors won the Ogunquit Water-
color Prize; another, an Honorable





































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Mention from the New Haven Paint
and Clay Club. One of his pictures is
in the new Museum in La Paz, Bo-
livia; while a--watercolor of Goose
Rocks Beach was purchased by the
Brooklyn Museum; two of his Span-

jish scenes were acquired by ‘the* His-

panic Museum in New York; and last
spring one of his pictures was bought
by the Telfair Academy in Savannah,
Georgia.

Mr. O’Hara is exhibiting this month
at the University of Minnesota, and
will give a course in March at the
University of North Carolina. At the
close of this exhibition:in New Haven,
the watercolors come to Bryn Mawr
College next. weék.

The list of paintings on exhibit is
as follows:

United States Price
\,. Bee Mearees aie ccc 150
2. -Cape- Island Light’...+.. 150
LP 3. Calla Lilies -.... 2... cw00% 200
4, Above Lexington Avenue. 150
5. ‘Fifty-first St. and Park
VO; et coerce se ts 150
6. Under the Bridge...... 250
qe. oe eo Seis 200
8. The Shore Road:.:...... 200
9: -GlOGIING 3 ine aa eras 200
10. Seine Boats; Monhegan.. 150
11. National Cathedral,
Washington ....... 200
12, Barn Houses: van. 200
South America :
18. Tierra del. Fuego ...... 200
14. Monastery at La Cumbre 200
15... Abbe; Per os 6. css 200
16. Colonial House (1775),
oe GPA 465.3 200
17. San Cristobal, Santiago. 200
18. The Bay of Botofogo.... 250
19. Two Brothers, Rio...... 200
20. The Concebidas Monas-
tery: Lia Paz ...s.. 200
21. A Conquistador’s Palace 200
22. My Hotel Room, Machu
PiOGNU 655i es 200
23. A Descendant of the
TWGAE cae co 200
P24. Receding Polar Ice-cap.. 200
LP25.. Avenida Niemeyer, Rio.. 400
LP26. Rio Frias in the Andes.. 600
Bermuda
o7). Palms; St. George... os 200
France
os. Le Pont W@Avignon...... 200
Spain :
20. The Avila Cathedral.... 200
Russia
30. Watermelon Market,
Erivan, Armenia .. 300



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pounds of vegetables, 18 pounds of
fruit, and 12 pounds of. meat.



It is estimated that approximately
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women who enter U S. colleges and
universities each year do so on cer-
tificates from high schools or private
schools, while the remaining 5 per
cent. enter after passing entrance
examinations.



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