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VOL. XIX, No. 19
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1933
Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1933
PRICE 10 CENTS
Pearl Buck Lectures’
on Humor of Chinese
Chinese Are Mature Race;
Nothing Human That
, They Do Not, Know
LITERATURE OF COMEDY
The famous authoress of The Good
“Farth and Sons, Mrs. Pearl S. Buck,
lectured in Goodhart on April 19, on
the “Chinese Sense of. Humor.” Hav-
ing lived so long among the Chinese,
Mrs. Buck has grown to have a deep
appreciation: of them. She wishes
‘that there might be more of an ex-
change of ideas between China and
the West; and that, as the best of the
‘Chinese students come to America to
study, we would send the best of our
students to Chinese universities to
— study the literature, the philosophy,
and something of the life of the
Orient. ‘
China, Mrs. Buck said, is not so
well-known or so well-liked as Japan;
for China, differing in her essential
nature from Japan, makes no effort
to have people like her. In Japan
one travels in comfort and meets with
a welcome everywhere, partly because
the Oriental feels instinctively ‘that
every forigner has money to spend,
but partly through sheér courtesy. In
China, if one has friends, they show
one every courtesy, but the tourist
simply does not exist for them; they
are too absorbed in their own life to
stop to regard him. The West thinks
of China in terms of its lower classes,
ignorant, dirty, sordid, simply be-
cause the West never meets with the
more intelligent people.» One can
travel from one end of China to the
other and never see the intellectual
life that is going on there.
- Japan has a self-discipline and a.
self-control unequalled by any other
country; and an artistic sense of
beauty in her houses, in her gardens,
wnd-in-her landseapes;- but her-sense
of humor is that of a child playing
practical jokes. China has a more
devil-may-care philosophy; she has
an eternal twinkle in her eye, and an
infallible readiness to appreciate a
joke. A hostile mob can be won into
friendliness by a witty phrase. China
~ has probably the largest percentage
(Continued from Page Two)
Princeton Beats Varsity
in Well-Fought Match
rx In a post-season game played for
: No benefit of the Scholarship Fund,
rinceton towered over the Varsity
basketball team by at least two feet
and by the score of 43-28.
The game began with girls’ rules
and, although Princeton started - off
with a rush, Bryn Mawr led at the
quarter. In the second quarter, Var-
sity had a good charice to pile up a
comfortable lead in preparation for
the second half, which was to be
played with boys’ rules, but inaccur-
acy lost many points and Princeton
led by. two points at the’ half. Al-
though Bridgman proved to be an
ing obstacle in their path,
fy samt easily walked away with
the second half, Upson leading the
offense and scoring twelve points,
The game as a-whole was fast,
with plenty of excitement and the
basso profundo shouts are still ring-
ing in our ears. We ‘hope that a
Princeton-Bryn Mawr game will be-
come a post-season custom.
The line-up was as follows:
Princeton Bryn Mawr
Hellerson ...... SOBRE eerieeterse Collier
NEPHRON: oases oa Faeth
Mert .-.<55s003 Mee Longacre
Perera i.,..%% Ss 6. ee Remington
Martin ........ g. .......Bridgman
GOOG ois eves See renee Bowditch
Peints—Princeton: Hellerson, 14;
Upson, 20; Perera, 3; Martin, 4;
Good, 2. Bryn Mawr: Collier, 12;
Faeth, 16. Substitutions—Princton:
' Perera for. Upson, Perera for Mertz.
Bryn Mawr: Remington for Faeth,
-Faeth for Remington, Jackson for
Seren:
CALENDAR
Thurs., April 27: Vocation- |;
al Tea and Social Service will ||
be conducted by Antoinette |
|
Cannon. Common Room, 4.30
P. M. |
Thurs., April 27: College _||
Junior Foils Fercing Cham-. ||
pionship. 8.00 P. M., Gym.
Fri, April 28: TT, S. Eliot |
will speak on “Modern Poetry”
with illustrative readings.
Goodhart, 8.20 P. M.
Sat., -April 29: Children’s
Theatre of New York presents
‘Snow White. and the Seven
Dwarfs for the benefit of the
Bryn Mawr Hospital, at 2.30
P. M. Tickets at the Publica-
‘Millikan Gives Lecture
on Structure of Atom
Contemporary Science Studies
Small Scale Phenomena,
Physicist Says.
RADIATION. GIVES ‘CLUES
“The field of physical science has
an advantage over those of the social
sciences in that there is a certain
amount of material about which sci-
entists agree, and then. a fringe of
unknown where controversies occur,”
said Professor Robert +Millikan, who
tion Office, reserved, $1.50, and
general admission, $0.50.
Sun., April 30: Chapel,
conducted .by the Rev. Dr.
Henry Sloane Coffin. . - Music
Room, -7.30°-P.-M.
Mon., May 1:
Smith will speak on
tion,” 8.45 A. M.
Chapel, Mrs.
“Infla-
‘these young men that was highly ad-
Varsity Dramatics
Modernizes Wilde
Miss’ Bruere’s Performance
Most Finished; Scenery
Brings: Applause
is
COACHING COMMENDED
(Especially Contributed by Mrs.
Elizabeth Norton Potter)
“Dear Lord Darlington, how thor-
oughly depraved you’ are!” Surely
the Duchess’ words epitomize the
spirit of the age which Oscar Wilde;
revelled in representing, the spirit
of those naughty, naughty nineties
when one delighted in being tremen-|
dously wicked. There have been many
in recent years, who have pointed to|
the present as another dreadfully
wicked era, and, with this in mind,
was perhaps less astonishing than
might have been expected to discover
Lord Darlington amid black oil cloth;
and chromium plate and to find Lady
Agatha dressed by Schiaparelli. The.
Varsity Players, doubtless, had rea-!
sons of their own for setting Lady
Windermere’s Fan in the twentieth
century; and, although one may have
thought,’ a little regretfully, of the
limitless opportunities for Victorian
extravagances offered by this play,
which dates—if any play ever dated
—in the time of furbelows, one must
admit if the play had to be modern-!
ized, it could not have been done}
more charmingly. The settings were '
extremely effective, the one for the.
second act being especially skillful; |
and the costumes were admirably |
matched although the obviousness)
of contrasting Mrs. Erlynne’s. scar-|
let dress with the black’ and white, |
set of the third act was unnecessar- |
ily crude. |
Perhaps another factor that made}!
one aware of the great difference be- |
tween the world of today and that of |
Oscar Wilde was the impersonation |
of the male characters.~ In our own |
day, only Saki has tried to eeepente
something of the studied wit of those}
clever gentlemen so ready with their:
epigrams and caustic comments. That
kind of suavity is not apparent to- |
day, and it was not apparent on Sat- |
urday- evening. Perhaps it. was an!
unfamiliarity with the spirit of the
time, perhaps it was a slight unfami-
liarity with some of.the lines of the
play that robbed the gentlemen. of
the cast of the quality which the
Duchess admired in Darlington, “the
charming, wicked creature.” At any
rate there was an earnestness about
mirable, but hardly in\ character.
(Continued on Page Six)
&
Wit’s End
Wit’s End is open to general
contribution. Just choose a
pen name and either give your
material to some member of the
. News board, or bring it to the |
News office.
it |
| in Advanced Criticism.
! was a winner of the Nobel Prize for
| his work in the measurement of the
clectr@n, when he spoke in Goodhart
Hall, April 20, on ‘Probing ‘the Nuc-
leus of the Atom.” The economic field
‘is alt “fringe,” for example, but if
one looks at the sweep and growth
of physics, it is easy to see the devel-
opment, from the day of Galileo to
modern times, of established facts,
not theories.
For three hundred years up to 1900
physicists worked on the field of large
scale phenomena, confirming earlier
| assumptions by accurate experiments.
They realized that new discoveries
could not be made until the old laws
which are of universal application
_had_ been made sound. In 1900 they
progressed into a new vein, that of
small scale phenomena, which in turn
quickly spread into the field of atomic
structure in about 19138.
in the last few years that scientists
have begun to get inside the nucleu’s
in the nature of speculation, but
what new knowledge there is has
come from an investigation of radi-
ation, which is Professor Millikan’s
own special. field.
i A new form of radiation has been
found to exist,—cosmic rays, which
| do not,come from the earth, from in-
| side the earth, nor from the sur-
rounding atmosphere, but rather from
outside this atmosphere. Radio-act-
ive waves” which are .of terrestrial
| nature and are shooting through a
| person at_all times have been known
since 1910. These cosmic rays, how-
ever, have a. far greater degree of
ionization than even the gamma rays
thrown off by radium, and.are much
harder, possessing a greater pene-
trating power. .A self-recording elec-
troscope sent up ninety-three hun-
| dreds of the way to the top of the
atmosphere was found to have dis-
‘charged one hundred times more
quickly there than on the earth, and
that the rate of discharge increased
(Continued on Page Four) :
‘Courses for Next Year
Discussed in Chapel
There will be a number of new
courses in the academic schedule for
next year which Mrs. Manning an-
nounced last Thursday in chapel.
Mrs. Clara Marburg Kirk, who is
coming to Bryn Mawr from Vassar,
will give a course in the Modern Nov-
el of the 19th and 20th centuries.
This will replace Dr, Chew’s course
Mrs. Kirk
will also have charge of Freshman
English. Miss Meigs will give a
course in Short Story Writing and
will continue Experimental Writing.
Miss Latham’s’ Playwriting, which
has been accepted so enthusiastically
this year, will also be continued for
1933-34. Mrs. King has found that
the young poets of Bryn Mawr are
too modest for a course which is as
entirely creative as Versification has
been. She will therefore replace it
by a study of Modern Poetry, in
which writing will not be necessary,
but will be encouraged. Dr, Herben
will direct the course in First Year
English Literature. 7
The Anna Shaw Lectureship will
bring a very interesting group to Bryn
Mawr next year. The six weeks’
series of lectures . will be divided
among three important speakers.
(Continued on- Page Three)
Undergrad Elections
President—Molly Nichols.
Vice - President — Anita
Fouilhoux.
Secretary—Elizabeth Kent.
Treasurer — Marian Bridg-
man. ;
First Junior. Member—Joan
Hopkinson.
Second Junior Member—Re-
becea Perry. :
Sophomore Member — Alice
Raynor.
is only |
of. the atom. . The discoveries which}:
have been made are still somewhat.
Mr, Warburg Lectures
on Travels in Persia
In the Music Room,: Monday after-
‘noon, Mr. Edward- Warburg gave a
talk on his. trip to Persia with Pro-
fessor Arthur Pope'to photograph Is-
lamic architecture, and devoted a few
minutes to remarks on_ Russia.
Mr...Warburg and Professor . Pope
traveled into Persia by way of Rus-
sia, and, because of numerous delays
caused by custom officials and faulty
methods of shipping cars and equip-
ment, spent’ several weeks there.
Few people in Russia know what
all America and the rest of the out-
side world are saying about them, and
those few are located in the large
cities.’ “The youth of Russia, espe-
cially, know nothing but Russia.”
They have grown up with the pres-
ent system and can imagine nothing
else. The older generation jumped
on the band-wagon, as it were, and
are hanging on without conviction.
All the construction work is being
done by the young men of twenty-
| five years. of. age.
Education there is, for and by the
young: people. Organizations similar
to. the American Boy and Girl Scouts
carry on a course of training parallel
to that of the schools. The children
are divided into groups roughly clas-
sified by age, and’one passes from
one rank to the next by means of
examinations. The highest rank is
that of the Communist party. Every
one learns_by—himself_to ber ame to
pass on to the next rank, and there
is “a tremendous urge: to master
everything possible.” This sort of
community existence takes the place
of family life, which has been com-
pletely broken up. The higher up in
rank a man -rises, the more responsi-
bility he is given, and the more se-
vere are the penalties inflicted if he
does wrong.
Students are given free tickets to
the theatre, to the movies and to art
galleries, all of which are considered
an important part of their education.
The pictures shown at the movies arg
not propaganda films, but treat the
problems of the day in an exciting,
realisti€ way. “Everything in Rus-
sia is on demand, they. want to get
ahead, although their only reward
lies in public opinion, in rising in
the estimation of their fellows.”
Moreover, they are not trying to sell
their idea to other nations, but are
merely trying to work out a satis-
factory solution of their problem.
Their spirit may easily lead the way
to progress, even if their present
form’ of communism is unsuccessful.
“In Russia, as in Palestine, some-
thing is happening.”
In Persia Mr. Warburg and Pro-
fessor Pope encountered many and
varied difficulties in travelling. Their
car was in poor condition, and did
not make motoring very pleasant
through this high but arid country.
Trees are extremely rare in Persia,
as are rocks; there being only. low
bushes and endless expanses of sand.
The topography of the country seems
to consist of a series of mountain
ranges, which slope gently downward
toward rivers, the undulating slope of
the water-shed extending often fifty
miles. The people are absolutely pov-
(Continued on Page Five)
Faculty Show ~~!
A Faculty Show will be giv- *
en, May 10, for the benefit of
an entrance scholarship be- -
ing. raised by the Faculty in
honor, of Professor Leuba.
Miracle Plays Revive |
Spirit of Middle Ages
Barber, Eckstein, Thompson
Direct; Show Ingenuity
in Staging
PARTS: ARE WELL TAKEN
(Especially Contributed by Miss
Enid Glen)
Many people on the campus are
| agreed that the production of a medi-
eval play at least once every year,
at ‘Christmas or at Easter, should
become a Bryn Mawr tradition; the
performance of the Second Shep-
herd’s Play at Christmas three or
four years ago set a fine precedent,
and the Chester Deluge given on the
Green on Sunday was almost as
great a success. It is the kind of
play the students do best—they : fall
easily and completely into the spirit
of it; they reproduce excellently its
mixture of reverence and *boisterous-
ness; and it was clear from yester-
day’s performance what scope it gives
for ingenuity not only in setting and
in costume, but also in the fine points
of. production.
Miss Barber and Miss Eckstein de-
serve high praise. Artistic perception
and care and a great deal of solid
hard work produced the easy and sat-
isfying effects of the grouping, the
colors and the designs of the cos-
tumes. The choice of cast, too, was
very good. God spoke with a mighty
and clearly-heard voice, with proper
dignity, at the end with pleasing
benevolence. His two attendants,
whom he consulted at times, not too _
obviously, looked properly angelic
against the clear sky. . Noah’s part
is not an easy one; on him depends
the sustaining of the reverence in the
play. Miss Stone’s sense of humor
threatened ‘near the beginning to
overcome her, but throughout the
rest of ‘the play ~.she acted admir- |
ably, with the proper patriarchal be-
nevolence, especially good in her: re-
ccption of the animals as they were
brought in to the Ark, in the sending
off of the dove and raven, and in her
ushering about of the family. Noah’s
wife, too, had the right spirit, as
she had the right shape—from her
daring leap from the Ark scaffold to
her struggles on her return to it~
(Continued on Page Three) {
Mrs. Pearl Buck Grants
: News Special Interview
“T have’ lived in China most of my
life and have known more Chinese
than people of my own race,” said
Mrs. Pearl S. Buck, in explaining
her unequalled knowledge of Chinese
psychology and life. s “My _ best
friends, and most of my friends, are
Chinese; the houses I have lived in
have been Chinese homes. During my
childhood, my father was a mission-
ary in the interior of China, and
there I grew up and learned the lan-
guage as well as my own.”
Mrs. Buck then went on to talk of
her plans and projected publications.
The trilogy of which The Good Earth
and Sons are the first two books will
soon be completed by a third. ‘The
Good Earth was the background for
the trilogy; Sons told the tale of the
Warlord, who has been an integral
part of Chinese history, as the dic-
tator-general has been in western civ-
ilization; the last book, which is still
nameless, will be concerned with
Modern China, the Young China of
the last fifty years. Before this
comes out, another book, not connect-
ed with the trilogy in any-way, will
be published’ under the title of The
Mother.
For the last five or six years, Mrs.
Buck has been working on the trans-
lation of a Chinese novel, called: Shui
Hu, which was written five hundred
years ago. The book is in the presses
now and will appedr next summer
under .the title of All Men Are
Brothers. Shui Hu is a foundation
novel in Chinese literature, a Robin
Hood type of story, dealing with the
adventures of an outlaw band. _ Re-
(Continued on Page Four)
a sie
suddenly ceases.
* of people gifted with innate humor
' tragedy, but it is ruined for him if
This all-pervasive humor springs
_ ple, and is one group who will
poetic apha The. "ardent yours
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That.which the majority of those answering the Vews curriculum
questionnaire “desired in college which they felt they had no oppor:
tunity to get” was a thorough-going knowledge of modern literature
and literary tendencies. They pointed out that, of all hterary per-
iods, the one in which we live is given the least attention in the present
schedule. There are no couyses in modern drama, poetry, or the novel,
and one leaves college état ignorant of writers of our century, ex-
cept for the cursory glance flung in their direction in Freshman Eng-
lish. It is true that the present years are lean ones, indeed, when
compared to those of Elizabeth, or to those in which Pope, Dryden and
Swift wrote, but we must live in them, and to do so with any degree
of pleasure and ease requires a certain sound basis for judgment and
understanding. We do not intend to. advocate less emphasis on the
literature of past centuries, for a knowledge of it is-a prerequisite of
culture, and it is a field which few of us would ever éxplore on our
own initiative, however disgraceful an admission that may be. _ In the
numerous courses, the history of literature is traced carefully and
critically up to about the mid-nineteenth century, but there all activity
What goes on in the world of modern literature and
what is likely to go on in the future is left completely to one’s imagina-
tion.
It may be argued that we will explore for ourselves the bookshelves
of the last seventy-five years, and that we read modern novels and
attend modern plays under our own power. That is true, but only to
a certain extent, and the objects of our attention are not always thef
The knowledge of contemporary literature pos-
sessed by most of us is gleaned vicariously from the theatre, loan
libraries and theoceasional book we like well enough to buy. We are
too busy and too preoccupied to oraganize our minds about what is
going on around us, and the result is that we read hopefully and realize
regretfully that we are only floundering about in an uncharted sea.
We need a background on which*to-base our criticism and understand-
ing, and background is extremely difficult to acquire alone. ‘Affeetation
is the usual result of lone and unguided attempts.
best—of their kind.
The purpose of a college education is toprovide a working cul-
tural background which may act as a foundation for our own personal
tastes, and as a guide-post for criticism and understanding. We are
given just such a fundamental knowledge of literature up to a certain
point, but beyond that we must venture on alone. Whatever may be
the state of modern literature, we are too untrained to criticise, and
too uninitiated to enjoy those good things that occasionally appear.
3ecause we are baffled by much “of the modern, we purify_our tastes by
and books by novelists whom we accept as intel-
ligible, if foolish. And when @onfronted by a truly modern novel, as
in Freshman English, we seream with terror, and declare that
world must be full of madmen to understand such a literary conund-
rum. The latter part of Freshman English mystifies, instead of en-
lightening us. There are those of us who would, welcome an opportun-
ity to learn from trained mind& just what modern literaturg is all
about, and it does not seem too much to ask that some courses in mod-
ern drama and literature be inserted into next year’s curriculum.
perusing magizines
intelligentsia,” who wish to idealize
China, and to present their country
to the West in the best possible hght,
will not admit this tendency to humor
because it-is lower class.
Meredith defines the Comic Spirit
as something which is neither youth-
ful, nor the mere exuberance of ani-
mal spirits, for only the mature per-
son who has experienced tragedy can
appreciate laughter. The Comic
Spirit smiles,
since laughter is often foolish; it is
this spirit which “gives proportion to
the elements of life.”. China is age-
old, the “maturest of races;—as a
race there is nothing human that they
do not know.” The smile’ of Buddha,
and the Chinese philosophy of accept-
ance—not resignation, but acceptance}
of life, which is the boldest of. all
acts,—bear. witness to the fact that
Meredith’s Comic Spirit * Bcc
Pearl Buck Lectures
on Humor of Chinese
(Continued from Page One)
of any country in the world.
There is, naturally, a large “‘lit-
erature of jest,’ of ‘stories and
dramas, throughout. which no_ joke
ever grows old; in fact, the’ older it
is, the better. The same figures who
«bear the brunt of western humor fare
likewise with the Chinese: doctors,
artists, scholars, animals, lovers, and
hen-pecked husbands. Every book
and play must have its humorous
side; the Chinaman appreciates
the mood is not turned to the comic
for at least one chapter or one act.
mostly from the lower class of peo-
tially ovtenteh,
And as for Aristotle
Your feelings you must bottle
Until. you,.go.Cartesian.....; .
And let them spring aiteslan:
WITS END|
“Who gave to our thought all: the
€ Nancy Hart, °34 | leh
}unto a promised land
| struck nine—grim hour
“Only Futility Answered,
the
but does not laugh,
O poor, poor protozoa
‘Studying Spinozoa,
Berkeley, Kant, and .Locke,
A la turtle must you mock,
Canting each one’s private raving;
What could be so dull, depraving,
Were it. not that each one’s system
Either muffed some points. or missed
"em?
So that you can ‘be a scoffer
If not a philo-sopher.
—Unscrambled Egg.
There was a great scientist Millikan,
thrill he can;
But,-alas, we have dined
On but food for the mind.
Salad only for those who heard
Millikan!
—Griffin.
SWEENEY CLOISTERED
(Apologies to T. S#)
some time ago I went away
If. I die, think only this of me—
“That in sonie corner 6f the library
You may in years to come find there
interred
The bones and brains of one who
never erred
In English or in Math,
Who made a beaten path
To Dalton; and of one whose name
full of wild lettuce.and broccoli —
and there weré-other people
too, and a warden who
locked us up cosily
at night, padlocking the
door and sealing all exits
with oakum and the
girl
in the cage next to mine I trow « :
sang like g bird in a gilded— You wouldn’t care to learn now,
only that the bars were steel— anyhow! ’
and we all wrote things on the walls
in mene tekel handwriting, :
things that were jumbled confusings
nobody knew
and nobody cared to :
the cockroaches crawled wearily
from the slumbering silverware
for another season and I
sang unto myself
perpetually, ‘‘What am I?
Inmate? Or scholar of .non-entities?
Veneer? . . or solid hardwood?”
IT never knew .. . ho
—Olliva Twit.
9
(long after Omar)
A text book on the lower hockey
field,
A cracker, and milk lunch unsealed,
And you, my Mawrtyr, in a milk-
lunch-suit
Is Paradise—you are so very cute.
4 Cheero,
—THE MAD HATTER.
Theatre Review
| one ever did. every- ‘ le ee
one else was crazy— : o— — —
or maybe I? but Italy in bloom is beautiful; Helen:
Hayes is lovely; Clark Gable is dash-
ing; and the audience is respectfully
appreciative.
of it” is upon us; the maiden is sac-
rificed; love fails to conquer all; and
the audience is dubious—éven to the
point of vacillating between snivel-
ling and snickering, So it is in. re-
trospect that The White Sister may
best be judged.
ee Ohl NOS ee od
cried “Where am I?”
The mocking tower bells
of nine of the morning
and a foggy morning
at that the notes
bounced on the gravel
drive and little slithers
of sound went running
off through the grass
everybody passed out.
Helen Hayes’ portrayal of Angela
is notable: she plays the role subtly
and delicately, giving the character
a spiritual quality that takes an in-
tellectual turn and that detracts not
at all from her ethereal beauty. Play-
ing Giovanni, opposite her, is Clark
Gable; and his performance, although
less noteworthy, achieves a mustachi-
oed spirit in keeping with his sol-
dier, heart-breaker role, and with the
extremes of carnival time and war.
Lewis Stone, as the proudly respect-
able father, and Louise Closser Hale,
as the comic and sympathetic Mina,
fit well into the Italian pattern, a
mosaic rather than a fusion of sim-
ple emotions.
—Campusnoop.
PILL HYGIENE
ip
There once was. a lady had _ trouble
with her eyes,
She always: trumped her. partner’s
ace, and got the booby prize;
They found she hated livers, of ani-
mals or fish,
So they spent Jong hours preparing
an unappetizing dish,
And they cooked it and canned it and
called it carrotene,
And without imagination called it A
ditaesiaa The photography is excellent: all
the unaffected loveliness of an Ital-
f |ian carnival, of the lovers’ meetings,
of the Church “ceremony, of Angela’s
life as a nun is retained. Nor do
the lines, modernized and revised by
Donald Ogden Stewart, lend an arti-
II.
Then came to the:doctor’s a man in
a condition
That seemed’ to call for different
nutrition, ‘ ; 4 :
4 ficial or superficial air to the action.
So they called it a defici ita- :
at = it a deficiency of vita They serve rather to convince the au-
,
dience that the situation is pclae
And put on their spectacles anc ic
a I s and said even tragic.
that they would see,
seeing double, my dear child,
and being somewhat,.merry,
They decided that its nom de guerre
could well be beri-beri!
But our audience snickers in the
face of this romance, and that is be-
cause -the picture wavers too much
between romanticism and_ realism.
The setting, the acting, and the lines
are romantic, but in the moderniza-
tion of the novel and of the more re-
cently produced play, a modern real-
istic spirit has been introduced that
shatters the illusion of romance. We
are willing to sanction a battle be-
tween love and duty, and even the
triumph of the latter,—probably we
are even more likely to condone such
a struggle since the duty in question
has the emotional appeal of religion.
And,
III.
Some sailors home from ship and sea
Went to the town infirmary,
The doctors looked topsy, the doctors
looked turvy,
They thought the tars lacked C, and
they named the ~ unknown
scurvy,
Whereupon all shouted “Blimey!
Henceforth they’ll call you limie!”
TV:
Also, there were those had _ rickets,
Made their bones all creak like
crickets, s ~
So ye meds invented D,
And shortly .after F and E.
For if you would please your betters,
Go get sick, and add more letters;
For they haven’t really found the
divine elixir yet, bs
‘Spite of romping and researching so
on down the alphabet.
—Merionette.
piece can scarcely stand the applica-
tion of an intellectual spirit to the
: jlupennement especially because. the
plot is largely dependent upon coinci-
dence and upon the temperaments of
the characters. Although we have
no criticism to make of the influence
of religion or of the Church: specifi-
cally, nor do we essentially doubt its
vital importance, we are unconvinced
by Angela’s reasoning with Giovan-
ni concerning her position. Also we
are not satisfied with the conclusion
in spite, or perhaps because, of the
convenient death of Giovanni, who
-breathes his last while melodramatic-
ally holding Angela’s hand.
~ “We think of the flaws in retro-
| spect, and regret them the more for
HYMN TO REQUIRED PHILOS
O come and go a-Thaling
In water worlds we’re whaling.
It is an awful fate-O!.
| But there’s -no path from Plato -
War and “the horror:
But the highly emotional tenor of the
IN PHILADELPHIA
- Theatres
Street:
Chestnut Podrecca’s
tricky and very divepting puppets go
through a man-sized’ routine. The
Piccoli is a novel and highly-recom- _
mended diversion. _
Broad Street: Wednesday and
Thursday evenings enly, April 26, and
27, at 8.30 P. M., Philadelphia Light
Opera Company in The Gondoliers.
A very good performance,
you like Gilbert and Sullivan, here
you are.
Coming——May 1
Garrick: A new comedy, and it
had. better Be with $25 An.Hour.as
its title. Géorges Metaxa and Olga
Baclanova are in it. They used ‘to
be sinister and superb, but the “de-
pression does things to people.
Academy of Music
Philadelphia Orchestra: Friday
| afternoon, April 28, at 2.30, and Sat-
urday evening, April 29, at 8.20, Leo-
pold Stokowski conducting; with the
Mendelssohn Club and Rose Bamp-
ton, Contralto.. Program:
ce | i aarze “A Song of Destiny”
rene, 435 Variations on a
Haydn Theme
DYARMG. 0. cil yk Fragment of
Goethe’s_ Rhapsodie
Wagner...Siegmunde and Sieglinde,
The ‘Ride of the
Wotan’s Farewell, Magic Fire
Music.
Movies
Boyd: Helen Hayes and Clark Ga-
ble in an Italian war-time, love-and-
be-forever-parted story that ends-up
unsatisfactorily for all romantics.
The White Sister is only fair.
Stanley: Central Airport, or what
goes on around airplanes and the peo-
ple who ride in them,—namely, Rich-
ard Barthelmess and ‘Sally Eilers.
Stanton: An ex-book comes to life
with Hu-Wife: Bette Davis and Gene
Raymond starring. Wasn’t much of
a book—best part was the title—and
is probably less of a movie.
‘Karlton:
with King Kong, who whips up the
Empire State with her. Very amaz-
ing, but somehow just misses fire.
Farle: ' Zasu Pitts and Slim Sum-
merville are as funny as, if not fun-
nier than ever in Out All Night. But
don’t let yourself in for the “five big
acts” of accompanying vaudeville.
Fox: Cavalcade at popular prices
continues to pack them in, and right-
fully. Best movie we’ve ever seen,
but we know plenty of people dis-
agree. Best thing to do is see it.
Locust Street: Dickie Moore puts
one through some first-class pathos
in Oliver Twist, with Irving Pichel
as the human Fagan. Very well done.
Keith’s: West of Singapore, the
usual rough-and-tough type, with
Betty Compton as the object of the
affections of all bums. Worse than
very poor.
Local Movies
Ardmore: Wednesday and Thurs-
day, King of the Jungle, with Buster
Crabbe and Frajices Dee; Friday,
Irene Dunne in The Secrets of Mad-
ame Blanche, with Lionel Atwill
and Philipps Holmes; Saturday,
Nancy Carroll and John Boles, in
Child of Manhattan; Monday and
Tuesday, Topaze, with John Barry-
more; Wednesday
Mae West in She Done Him Wrong.
Seville: Wednesday and Thurs-
day, The Mystery of the Wax Mus-
eum, with Lionel Atwill and Fay
Wray; Friday, George Arliss in The
King’s Vacation; Saturday, Madame
Butterfly, with Sylvia Sidney and
Carey Grant and Charles Ruggles;
Monday and Tuesday, Charles Laugh-
ton, Richarl Arlen and the Panther
Woman in The Island of Lost Souls;
Wednesday and Thursday, 42nd
Street, with Warner Baxter, Ruby
Keeler, Bebe Daniels and George
Bret.
Wayne: Wednesday and Thurs- '
day, Strange Interlude, with Narma
Shearer and ClarkoGable; Friday
and Saturday, 42nd Street, with Bebe
Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler
and Warner Baxter; Monday, Red
Dust, with Clark Gable and Jean
Harlowe; Tuesday, Flesh, with Wal-
lace Beery and Karen Morley; Wed-
nesday, Ernest Truex and Una Mer-
kel in Whistling in the Dark; also
Wayne Men’s Club Minstrel Show:
‘their contrast to the many individual
scenes so finely done, exquisite pic-
torially and convincing emotionally.
bers. covey 4?
and, if
Walkuries, _
More fun for Fay Wray
and ‘ Thursday, ~
°
THE COLLEGE NEWS
t 24
Page Three
T.S. Eliot to: Lecture |
Here on Modern Poetry;
Leader of Symbolist Movement
is Also Known Critic
and Essayist
IS STUDENT OF ° PAST
Mr. T. S. Eliot will speak in Good-
hart Hall Friday evening on “Mod-
ern Poetry,” accompanying *the lec-,
ture with illustrative reading. The
lecture, given. in memory of Ann
Elizabeth Sheble, will be an import-
ant event for Bryn Mawr, since Mr.
Eliot is one of the leading modern
poets.
T. S. Eliot,’"M.A., editor of the
Criterion, director of Faber and Fab-
er, Ltd., and the present holder of
*the Charles Eliot Norton Profesor-’
ship of Poetry at. Harvard Univer-
sity, was born at St. Louis, Missouri,
in the year 1888. His father was
of New England stock; he was, in
.fact, related to the late Charles W.
Eliot, president of Harvard Univer-
sity. It is perhaps on account. of
this family connection that Mr.
Eliot--went—to.Harvard. University
as a young man. In 1909 he received
his A.B. degree from Harvard and
in 1910 his M.A. He completed his
studies at the Sorbonne and at Mer-
ton College, Oxford. After a short
eareer as a bank cleri#*in London,
he became a teacher. His literary
talents were soon recognized. He was
made assistant editor of the Egoist
and was one of the founders of the
Criterion. In 1927 he became a Brit-
ish citizen, and, within recent years,
a member of the Anglo-Catholic
Church.
His first poems were printed in
1917 under the title of Prufrock and
Other Observations:—a book which
contains the Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock, written, incidentally, at
Harvard. In 1920 appeared Mr.
Eliot’s first critical work, The Sacred
Wood. “T. S. Eliot did not, however,
really come into the public eye until
he published, in 1922, The Waste
Land, perhaps the most discussed of |,
modern poems.
The Waste Land established Mr.
Eliot as one of the leaders of the
Symbolist movement in England. He
held his place in a circle that in-
cluded such names as H.) D. and Ezra
Pound — who, indeed, influenced
Eliot’s poetry. Ash Wednesday, his
second great poem, did not appear
until 1930.
The years between were occupied
by a variety of work, mostly critical.
Mr. Eliot declared himself a follower
of Donne and wrote of his admira-
tion of Dryden and of the great
preacher, Launcelot -.Andrewes,
Donne’s contemporary and rival. He
might be said to have, in some de-
gree, popularized the seventeenth cen-
tury. He also made a profound study
of the Elizabethan era in literature,
paying especial] attention to the
Senecan influence on the literature of
this period and to the plays of
Shakespeare.
His latest publication is rr Select-
*- ed Essays (1982), which include his
representative essays from the year
1917 on. He has been called the
greatest English critic since the war
and is said to have influenced liter-
ary opinion more profoundly than
any other writer during. recent years.
His experiments in the field of
poetry have been many. Sweeney
Agonistes, containing the fragment
of a prologue, and the fragment of
an agon, might be cited as an ex-
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In general, his poetry is remark-|
comprehend. It is filled with liter-|
ary allusions; with sentences © and.
words culled from every and all sorts
of literary works. Language, itself,
is no bar to Mr. Eliot. He quotes
in several different tongues and
writes fluently in French.
His own definition of’.a poet sums
up his views better than ‘any criti-
cism. ‘The historical sense compels
a man to write not merely with his
own generation in his bones, but with
a feeling that the whole of the lit-
erature of Europe from Hemer and
within it the whole of the literature
of his own country has a_simultane-
ous existence and composes a simul-
taneous order. . . Impressions
and experiences which are important
for the man may take no place in
the poetry and those which become
important in the poetry may play
quite a negligible part in the man,
the personality, The busi-
ness of the poet is not to find new
emotigns, but to ‘uSe the ordinary
ones, and, in working them up into
poetry, to express feelings which are
not in actual emotions at all.”
Courses for Next Year
Discussed in Chapel
(Continued trom Page One)
Jane Addams is to be here for the
first two weeks and will give public
lectures on Monday night. There will
be an open conference each Tuesday
afternoon and a conference for ad-
vanced students on Thursday. Mrs.
Slade will speak on Soviet Russia and
China and on Political Relations dur-
ing the next tw8-week period Miss
Dean will complete the series of lec-
tures and conferences. Special ar-
rangements will be made for Eco-
nomics, Politics and History students
so that they will be able to take ad-
vantage of all these lectures. and
correlate their work with them.
The Art Department expects to
have a course in Advanced German
Art in 1934-35. Miss Norton will!
give the course in Prints again next
year.
Dr. Carpenter will’ give second
year Greek, and an_ important
change will: be made in Elementary
Greek. It will be a one unit course
next year; Homer will be omitted
and more emphasis will be put on!
grammar. There will, however, be a
course in Homer which will go with |
First Year Greek.
Another interesting addition to the
curriculum will be a course in As-
tronomy, to be given by Dr. Michels.
This will be given especially for
tradition.
»} presentation of the story by imper-
Juniors and Seniors in the Physics
Department.
Mrs. Manning regretted that her |
remarks on next year’s courses were |
interrupted, but said that there will |
be a further ‘discussion of them.
:
Miracle Plays Revive |
Spirit of Middle Ages|
(Continued from Page One)
and her defiance of Noah.
It was pleasant to see again mem-
bers of Bottom’s crew among the chil-
dren of Noah. Of this family, Shem;
is especially to be commended for the
naively stern voice she suddenly de-
veloped in summoning the wife, and,
Japhet for her sturdiness, and one |
| performance, it was far more appre-
the performance was the righteous
horror of the wives, their shutting |
of the gossips. |
“The gossips were careful not to be- |
come too riotous, though the tempta- |
tion was great, and might have mar-
red the play; when their moment
came they took: it with zest. Here
again there were good details — the
lame gossip, and the gossip’s dog. ©
The issuing .of the flood from the |
silver ewers of the angels was an|
unauthentic but very successful de
tail; the live animals must be men-
tioned, especially a perfect goose,
and Miss Monroe’s beautifully made
dove and raven, with the ingenious
device by which they left the Ark,
and returnéd to it. The tumbling,
and dancing on the Green to the fid-|
dler’s music, furnished a fine pre-|
lude to the play.
But the spirit of the whole, made
by care in detail and the great en-
joyment of the actors,. was the best
thing about the production; the audi-
ence helped by its attention and eén-
thusiasm. The’ students should con-
sider seriously the establishing of the |
(Especially Contributed By: Miss
Berthe Marti)
Medieval religious plays should ba
given in the open air. For a suc-
cessful performance two things are
necessary, an appropriate setting and
a sunny day. No setting could be
more nearly ideal than the Cloisters |
for the presentation of a liturgical |
play; so that the une¢ertainty of April
weather may have to be blamed for
the absence of Easter plays among
the Bryn Mawr traditions.
Holy Week is rich in dramatic as-|
seciations; the story of the three Ma-
ries visiting the empty sepulchre is
told in narrative form by Matthew, |
Mark, and Luke. The germ of li-|
turgical drama may be found in a
short. dialogue between the angels
and the Maries -added to the liturgy
of Easter by some ninth century
monk, as an introduction to the
introit.
It is from such an addition to the
text of the liturgy, technically known
as a trope, that real drama arose,
when the priests, in order to}
strengthen the faith of the illiterate!
crowds, began to give them a visual
sonating the characters of the Maries
and of the angels. Other characters
were soon added.
So far as we know, the Sepulchrum
is the earliest medieval religious play
and may be considéred ag the first
modern drama. The choice was
therefore interesting.
According to Miss Thompson, who
| directed the representation, the aim
was to give a pageant‘rather than a
play. One cannot comment on the in-
dividual characters which, true to the
spirit of liturgical plays, were sub-
ordinate to the general effect, each
contributing its part. The scenery
and costumes were as simple and
sober ds possible and the result was a
unity of impression and a very strong
sense of beauty, dignity, and rever-
: participants in the plays and con-
ence,
In spite of the fact that the chant- |
ing was not quite so good and the!
Latin not so accurate in the second
ciated than the first one; on Easter |
Sunday, which had been spoiled by a!
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Mr.. Eliot. shows a peculiar ofthe many good smaller details- in| L dull, rainy day, a noisy audience, and
an autogyro overhead.
The scene of the apparition Of
ably. difficult for the lay-reader to eyes and ears against the wickedness Christ to Mary Magdalene had an ex-
'traordinary look of being ‘painted,
and reminded one of treatments of
this theme in Italian art. The pro-
cession of the white-robed priests
chanting the Te Deum as they left
the darkened Cloisters was most ef-
fective and in the true atmosphere
of the Middle Ages.
The Deluge Ms
te iis Doreen. Canady
OO ey hE Ellen Stone
ROROE INCE. ccissvceds Molly Nichols
STON . ok cins ce oc ek ees Lucy Fairbank
Uxor Shem ....Elizabeth Mackenzie
a en Susan Daniels
aur WOM. pte. Nancy Stevenson
rr Sara Tillinghast
Uxor Japhet Gertrude Parnell
(Substituting for Joan Hopkinson)
eee eee
Bes Elizabeth Putnam,
-Alicia Stewart
Gossips....Anne Reese, Nancy Lane,
Florence Swab, Janet Bar ber
(substituting for~Sally Park);
Madeline Brown.
Sepulchrum
Chiist..s:.... ere Frances Porcher
isk ew Helen Kellogg
| Three Marys...
Barbara Merchant, Jane Matteson
PGtOP iis verecuiies Elizabeth Monroe
MORN 55 eevtert Evelyn Thompson
TUMDIOrS. ... 53.5 Flanders, Simpson,
McCurdy, Morely, Curtis.
Folk Dancers...VanKeuren, Rhoads,
Davis, Goldwasser, Ott, Bing-
ham, Kibbey, Van Auken, A. de-
Varon, M. Edwards, Bergstein,
Baldwin.
Morris Men Hemphill, Colgrove,
Bucher, Pleasanton, H. Hunter,
Parsons, Leidy, Torrance, Rob-
ert, Bassoe, Tillinghast, Eck-
stein.
Piggiee. 5 si a
Children
Charlotte ‘Robinson
Liselotte Metzger,
Rothtraut Metzger
Directing Committee:
Janet Barton Barber {The Deluge)
Evelyn Thompson (Sepulchrum)
Eleanor Raphael Eckstein (The
Deluge)
Settings designed by Janet Barber
Construction Rosella James,
Margaret Laird
Cubic: designed by Janet Barber
Properties and the Ark,
Elizabeth Monroe
Stage Manager.Marjorie Goldwasser
Folk Dancing.....:. Eleanor Eckstein
Inspired Labor..Marjérie Bergstein,
Susan Torrance, Esther Jane
Parsons, Betty Lord, Pauline
Manship, Diana Tate-Smith,
Elizabeth Chamberlayne, Louise
Esterly, Elizabeth Putnam, Nan-
cy Bucher, Esther Bassoe, Feli-
citas de Varon, and many more.
Miss Glen’s and Miss Marti’s su-
pervision of the language, Miss
Grant’s assistance with the folk danc-
ing, Miss Brady’s work with the tum-
bling, and Mr, Willoughby’s expert
advice on the music and the compo-
sition of the Gossips’ song are deep-
ly appreciated by the directors and
ee ey
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ment of the audience.
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Campus Notes
Dr. Chew’s illness makes it impos-
sible for him to give any more.classes
this semester. “His courses will be
taken over until June by Dr. Thomas
M. Parrott, of Princeton University,
who will be at Bryn Mawr three days
each week. Dr. Parrott is interested
in the same fields of English litera-
ture, as. Dr. Chew, and is also known
PS, EC!
: {phas of: Chapman and Massinger.
Beth Busser, ’33, is one of thirty-
five students in various American
colleges to whom the Institute of In-
ternational Education in New York
has recently awarded European fel-
lowships, The grant includes. tuition,
board, and lodging for one year’s
graduate work at the University of
Munich. Miss Busser plans to sail
for Europe in August to study Ger-
man literature and philosophy.
President Park will speak at a
dinner in Washington this evening
before a session of the National
League of Women Voters. The,gen-
eral subject of the evening’s discus-
sion—-will_be—‘‘Education_ for Respon-
sible Citizenship.” Assistant Secre-
tary. of State Raymond Moley is
scheduled to. deliver an address on
the same program.
Two other members of the faculty
are also visiting Washington this
rweek. Dr. Fenwick will attend a
conference which brings together
teachers of international law and in-
ternational relations to discuss prob-
lems of teaching and methods of re-
search, He will also be present at
the annual meeting of the American
Society of International Law, af
which the question of sanctions in in-
ternational law is to be discussed.
Dr. Fenwick is on the executive com-
mittees of both groups. Dr. Tennent
is working with the National Re-
search Council this week as a mem-
ber of various committees, among
them that for the awarding of fel-
lowships.
De. and Mrs. Ernest Blanchard an-
nounce the birth of a daughter, Dor-
othy Jane, in Washington, last Sat-
urday.
Engaged: Mary Burnham, ’32, to
Dr. Howard Chandler Smith, of Bal-
timore, Md.; Lysbet Wetherill Lef-
(Continued on Page Six)
Deploring the fact that the depres-
sion is causing too much return to
the land, M. L, Wilson, agricultural
economist of Montana State College,
and father of the farm allotment pro-
posal, recently advocated a national
program -for the decentralization of
industry.—(N. S. F. A.)
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Seniors Yield to Sword Club;
|
. Knight, 5-1; against Lane, 5-0, and
- sisting as judges; the results are as
follows:
. First Round—Bryn Mawr vs. Ship-
ley School:
Douglas defeated Williams, 5-2;
ty-one against Shipley.
‘finalists in the M.dadelphid Division
Page Four
-THE COLLEGE NEWS :
Bryn Mawr Reaches
Philadelphia Finals
Juniors Win Over Shipley
by Wide Margin
HAYES & MANSHIP STAR
Fencing spelen for April show
the Bryy Mawr senior team semi-
Team Championships, while the jun- |
iors defeated Shipley School by an
easy margin of four bouts, Hayes and
Manship coming through unbeaten.
For the division championship,
fenced off April 11, in the Shipley
Gymnasium, four teams_ entered,
from Shipley itself, from the Sword
Club of Philadelphia, from Bryn
Mawr, and a composite team, which
included Hayes from Bryn Mawr. In
the first round, Douglas, Coxe, and
Gateson, for Bryn Mawr, defeated
Williams, Nicoll, and Webb, for Ship-
ley. Douglas won all three of her
bouts in fine form, with only four
touches against her. Coxe and Gate-
son each won two, making a total of
seven bouts won as against two lost,
for the. college team.
.Jy- the’ finals, Bryn Mawr met the
Sword Club fencers, Mrs. Knight,
Brill, and Lane. Here they were fac-
ed with older and much more experi-
enced opponents — for Mrs. Knight
has been four years senior district
champion, and was last year a mem-
ber of the Olympic squad, while Brill
ranked fourth in the Junior Na-
tionals. Douglas’ form was not so
good as at first, and she lost all her
bouts, although successful in placing
three touches on Mrs. Knight and
three on Brill. Coxe lost to Mrs.
Knight and: to Brill, but defeated
Lane, 5-3. Gateson came out best
for college, winning against Mrs.
losing to Brill, in the -last and most
exciting contest of the evening, by
the narrow margin of the final touch.
Altogether Bryn Mawr lost to the
Sword Club, by three bouts to six,
Brill having won all her bouts, Mrs.
Knight, two, and Lane, one.
The meet was directed by Mr. .
new, of the Sword Club, ith
Messrs. Shakespeare and Darling as-
Nicoll, 5-2; Webb, 5-0; Coxe lout to
Williams, 3-5; defeated Nicoll, 5-1;
Webb, 5-1; Gateson defeated Wil-
liams, 5-0; lost to Nicoll, 3-5; de-
feated Webb, 5-0.
Bryn Mawr defeated Shipley, by
seven bouts to two, with sixteen
touches against Bryn Mawr, and for-
Finals—Bryn Mawr vs. Sword Club
of Philadelphia:
Douglas lost to Mrs. Knight, 3-5;
to Brill, 3-5; to Lane, 1-5;-Coxe lost
to Mrs. Knight, 2-5; to Brill, 0-5; de-
feated Lane, 5-3; Gateson defeated
Mrs. Knight, 5-1; lost to Brill, 4-5;
defeated Lane, 5-0.
Sword Club defeated Bryn Mawr,
by six bouts to three, with twenty-
seven touches against Sword Club,
and thirty-four against Bryn Mawr.
On Thursday, April 20, a team of
Bryn Mawr junior fencers, captain-
ed by Hayes, defeated a Shipley
School team, in the Shipley Gym-
nasium, winning ten out of the ‘six-
teen bouts. Teams of’ four entered,
and matches were for the best of four
touches, Hayes, Manship, Hoyt,
Mackenzie (replacing Nicoll, who de-
faulted through illness), ‘and Berolz-
heimer, first substitute, represented
Bryn Mawr; Crosset, Williams, Nic-
oll, Leas, and Webb, first substitute,
fought for Shipley. The meet was
directed by M. Fiems, assisted by
Miss Coxe, from Bryn Mawr, and
Miss Douglas, from Bryn Mawr, as
judges.
each member of one team encounter-
ing each of the other, with the excep-
tion of Leas, who was substituted
by Webb in one bout, for Shipley,
Berolzheimer, who _ replaced
30 Bryn’ Mawr Avenue
The meet was fenced off rapidly, |
. Mackenzie, inthe last two bouts, for
| Bryn Mawr.
Hayes and ~~ Manship
starred, winning all their bouts, the
former by an excellent parry and
quick thrust; the latter by a rapid
offensive in the Italian style. Hoyt
broke even, winning two and losing
two, for she tired toward the end of
the .afternoon.
Results are as follows:
First Round: Hayes defeated
liams, 4-3; Hoyt defeated Leas, 4-1;
{Mackenzie We 36 % Vicoll,-2-4--
Second Round: Hayes defeated
Williams, 4-1; Manship defeated
Webb, 4-1; Hoyt... defeated © Nicoll,:
4-8; Mackenzie lost to Crosset, 1-4.
Third Round: Hafeg, defeated
Leds, 4-0; Manship defeated Nicoll,
4-1; Hoyt lost to Crosset, 0-4; Ber-
olzheimer lost to Williams, 0-4.
Fourth Round: Hayes defeated
Nicoll, 4-3; Manship defeated Cros-
set, 4-2; Hoyt lost to Williams, 0-4;
Berolzheimer lost to Leas, 2-4.
Bryn Mawr defeated Shipley «by
ten bouts to six, with thirty-nine
touches against Bryn Mawr, and for-
ty-five against her opponents.
o
Millikan Gives Lecture
on Structure of Atom
(Continued trom Page One}
like a geometric progression as the
altitude increased. Scientists. had ex-
pected the electroscope to discharge
up to the height of half a mile, due
to terrestrial rays, but when it con-
tinued to discharge, they realized
that there were unknown rays which
must be acting upon it. When the
rate kept increasing up to five miles,
they ‘were forced to conclude that
the strange new rays came from out-
side the atmosphere. They tested the
possibility that the rays might come
from within the earth by sinking an
electroscope in a lake, the water of
which had been tested -for radio-
active substances, and found that the
discharge continued to the depth of
about seventy-five feet, but no fur-
ther. This experiment also proved
how much energy these rays possess,
if they can penerate such enormous
thicknesses of water.
If the rays come from outside the
atmosphere, however, exactly what is
their origin? The first answer of-
fered was that they originated in the
sun, but as they seemed to act with
equal efficiency at night as in the
daytime, this hypothesis’ was’ dis-
carded. The second theory was that
they came from the Milky Way, but
this also was soon disproved in a:
similar manner. Professor Millikan
considers it a very significant fact
that “the rays do not come from any
place where matter is in abundance:
and, that they seem to be rays act-
ing in inter-stellar space which are
capable of affecting us to a great ex-
tent without our knowledge. Events
happening outside of our galaxy are
producing influences’ in the form of
cosmic rays and can be observed
here.” A theory known as the “an-
nihilation process,” which provides
for the disappearance of mass _ into
radiation, has been advanced to ex-
plain their origin, but it is a strange
the field of speculation.
It was in measuring the energy of
these-rays that new light was thrown
on nuclear physics. Light rays are
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These results forced. physicists to
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meeting their future husbands in
church work declined from 14 per
cent in the 1870’s to 2 per cent in,
recent years.—(N. S. F. A.)
There is a marked .tendency for
American colleges and universities to
get away from the honor system in!
examinations, according to Dr. John
R. Effinger, dean of the literay col-
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Students Speak for Reform
As. part of the educational pro-
gram sponsored by the Pennsylvania
Labor Standards Committee, Bryn
Mawr graduates and undergraduates
have delivered nearly- forty speeches
before various Philadelphia organi-
zations. The committee is an out-
growth of the conference on Stand-
ards and Security of Employment
held here in February and _ unites
the efforts of all State liberal and
labor associations in an effort to se-
eure progressive social legislation
from Harrisburg. .
Dr. Kingsbury is chairman: of the
committee; Dr. Fairchild is chairman
‘of the Steering Committee, and Mrs.
Collins, of the Publicity Committee.
Whenever the committee receives an
invitation for a speaker, the request
is filled at a’ moment’s notice by one
of a dozen Bryn Mawr students,
headed -by Ada Stoflet. The group
call themselves the Minute Men and
together with a group of industrial
workers, give five-minute speeches
showing the- necessity of reform.
(Continued from ‘Page One)
cently! there has been a great re-
crudescence of interest in it, because
the Communists have taken it up and
issued an edition as “Communist lit-
erature.”
In response to questions about the
problems of Modern China, Mrs.
Buck gave very lucid and interesting
answers,..though hws" ig chy -veer=
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still the old China, but students who
have studied in the West and return-
ed, are making .a sharp wedge of
modern. life: They are the articulate
group of the new China and have the
government in their own very cap-|
able hands: In. spite of civil war,
foreign incursions, and catastrophes
of nature, they have made great
progress. Motor roads in China are
being increased at a rapid rate, and
modern improvements introduced.”
“Although China is not a mission-
ary nation and will never impose her
culture on foreign peoples, her. tra-
ditions are strong enough so that ane!
will assimilate and modify Western |
culture to her own needs. Disease,
control and scientific improvements
are essential. for her people, who de-
servé al] the benefits of modern civ-
ilization. But the inherent strength
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institution. Chaplain Peterson de-
clares that prisoners are very rare
among men who have worked their
way through college.—(N. S. F. A.)
It is reported that a student at
the University of Alabama flunked a
| course entitled “How To Study” and
| passed all his other subjects with an
average of “B.”—(N.’S. F. A.)
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as often by college prisoners’ as by
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speak to one another. when meeting
on the campus. They say that greet-
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F dnd
™ Page Five
Es v8 en ae caaeaill, Snenemeaen
_ Standards of Lantern
‘Should be nee
Lantern Does Not Reflect True
Ability of Students; Is
~ Too Superficial |
aeeacale |
AIMS
EDITOR STATES
Sena |
(Especiatle ontribued By
Miss Koller)
In reviewing .an issue of a maga-
zine, we ask two questions: What
do we expect of this particular mag- | *
azine? and, How welt docs this issue |
measure up to that standard? Where |
shall we find a better standard than |
that set up by the editor of the!
Lantern in the December editorial? |
“In the last. analysis, we . concede |
that a+ magazine. should appeal)
through its contents. One|
of the two reasons for the existence |
of a college literary publication is,
as one might say, to reflect the
thought of.a highly specialized group
of people — in this case the Bryn,
Mawr student. The other is to de-|
note the literary ability of the indi-
viduals in the group. A college mag-
azine, ‘ therefore, provides an oppor-
tunity for those who wish to test
their skill, and can benefit the con-
tributor as well as the reader.”
Does the April Lantern appeal
through its contents? Ifthe readers
of this magazine are satisfied with
clever stories and w sical essays,
amusing skits and harming adver-
tisements, then the issue must make
a definite appeal. Work of this type
always has its charm and its place,
but a literary publication should not
depend on this type of material for
its popularity. The college subscrib-
ers will welcome just as heartily hon-
| est experimentation;
‘these individuals are.
new ideas, and articles written with |
conviction~and--enthusiasm. — It. is a.
| pleasure to see two attempts in new
| forms, the ballad and the monologue.
Just how far does this issue of the}
| La ntern, reflect the thought of a high-!
| ly specialized group of people?
Con-
tinuing the idea of the previous para,
graph, we might say that this par-
ticular issue seems to reflect.ap%y” one
aspect of” Cok Ee thitking, and that
a clever, - pleasing, but superficial |
one. Do the Bryn Mawr studentg
think only the prescribed thoughts
and follow: only‘the old forms of some
lof, the contemporary magazines? In,
line with other critics of the Lantern, |
we feel the need for expression of |
the genuine emotion, the real vision,
and the mental curiosity which must |
characterize the thinking of a highly |
specialized -group. “There is much)
ability on the Bryn Mawr campus,
which the Lantern Board might do
well to seek out.- Great danger ex-|
ists in relying too heavily.on a small |
group of contributors, capable - as
If the Lan-
tern is to reflect the thoughts of the
students, it should strive to be rep-
resentative of the thinking student
body, and it should not be content
with the. one aspect which dominates
the material in the April number.
To return to the. editorial: -
other (aim) is to denote the literary
ability of individuals in this group.”
This ‘issue does not give a fair ex-
pression of the literary ability of the
contributors. All of them cap-
able of much better work and it is to
be hoped that they will continue: to
experiment and to strive for better
results.
Space permits: only a brief review
of the various contributors. The
mood of Spring Comes to the Vienna
are
“Thel
5 | , : ‘ : . | ‘ ,
expression. of | Wo ds is not sustained and the end:ng! there also is need for a more
is too abrupt. Miss Woodward’s |
Penaliy for Desertion is better than |
nr esay, though_it: is ptr_asant. to
see her cxperimcnt.ng in uw new form.
Miss°Canaday has ccue well in creat-
ing atmos;h_reo and presenting vivid
pictures t. her ‘readers in the de-
cripuve ‘essay, Summcr Nights.
iLunger ‘sentences with a more rhyth-
“mie quality would have added to the |
'erary interests on the campus,
has’ it
strength and bcauty of the last para-
graph. Miss Canaday, also,
shown some ability in writing verse, |
and she should continue her trials in|
both prose and poetry.
Caviar to the Captain, done after
the manner of Cornelia Otis Skinn:r,
is amusing, The stage directions arc}
cleverer than. the lines of the skit.
it is regrettable that the author did
not make more of the opportunities
which the monologue form presents.
Mis; Burnett’s story, The Skeleton in
His Closet, is well gustained and con-
tains some sly humor. The more
serious theme of her poem, Metca-
physics, shows another side which
would reward cultivation. ‘The meta-
phor which Miss Burnett introduccs
in line seven, “that vault of earth,”
seems inconsistent and somewhat ob-:
scure, but her return to the original
figure in the last lines is thoughtful
ond: fine.
“In spite of several bad rhymes and
one or two awkward lines, The Hil!
King’s Daughter is an excellent bal-
lad. Miss Bredt has handled: the old
fairy-mistréss theme according to!
true ballad conventions, and she has:
gained a splendid effect by repetition
of' words and incidents. The sonnet
has attracted Miss Wycoff before this
and her efforts indicate clearly’ her
interest. in this very difficflt form.
There is much that is worthy of
merit in her present contribution, but
——— emnaaaianeeeseN sna
rare-|
iul study of the intricacies of the
turn?
“Alchouch this issue of-the~hertern
dlo.s not appear to meet the stanJard
-t by the editor, there is no need for
discouragement. The students of
Bryn, Mawr possess gieat ability,
which needs to be stimulated and en-
couragcd. The Lantern has-a splen-
did opp@mbunity to cultivate the _lit-
and
should demand a high standard of
work,
_Mr. Warburg Lectures
on Travels in Persia
(Continued .from Page One)
stricken, many of them _ living
like animals on whatever they can
pick up in the fields.. For a long time
Persia Was inhospitable to archeolo-
gists, due largely fo a treaty which
they had with the French, which gave
the latter the exclusive right to ex-
cavave. . Professor Pope deserves all
the c.edit for having opened up this
country, so rich in objcets of art, to
other countries.
The mosques here are particu-
larly intercsting because of the way
“ brick, of which they are construct-
» has Baas arranged into intricate
geometric patterns. These designs
are achieved by means of the spacing
of the bricks, and nothing more. The
domes in these mosques are not sup-
portcd by pendentives, but rest on
curious and ingeniously constructed
squinches, which are really very dec-
orative. in themselves.
the circular form: of the dome,
through a_ polygonal drum, to a
square structure beneath.
consist principally of a
each side of which
erty
Mosques
courtyard,
is formed of a
liwan, or large arched niche. In the
center of the courtyard is a pool of
ablutions, which, besides taking a
chief:.part.,in_the religous ceremony,
is of great ‘importance artistically,
by way of #eflections. On that side
of the mosque which faces Mecca is
a sort of shrine called a mihrab.
These buildings are used principally
as places of meeting,
instruction, ond only rarely are ’‘serv-
ices held there.
Mr. Warburg had many lovely pic-
tures of Islamic monuments in Per-
sia. The mosque at Ardistan is a
fine example, with its cusped. arches,
and its’ vault walls covered with a
white “stueco design in a leat - motif,
stuck.on the red brick background.
The mosque at Varanim, which dates
from the early 14th Century, is an
illustration of-the beautiful . effect
which can be obtained for a surface
decoration from a clever spacing of
the building bricks. At Saveh, which
is the traditional home of the Three
Wise Men, and is: famous for its pot-.
tery, there is an extremely fine mina-
ret. Persia is full of fipe sworks of
art, many of which “are practically
unknown because of their inaccessi- _
bility and. the former inhospital- |
ity of her government. Mr. War-
burg and Professor Pope saw and
took pictures of many handsome
buildings which had never been seen
before by archeologists. ;
Fifty-five. per cent of the women
answering a recent questionnaire at
Beloit indicated that academic influ-
ences have made them more optimis-
tic. Twenty-three per cent’ of them
asserted that their religious convic-
tions are being weakened by their ed-
ucation, while 48 per cent. of the men
expressed the same opinion.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
1.
Varsity Dramatics
Modesnizes Wilde
Re .8
(Continued from Page One)
“The most difficult of ‘these parts
is certainly that of Windermere. Con-
vincingly to sustain an attitude of
injured righteousne:s during four
acts is no easy task, and to.do so
«successfully requires, both skill and
considerable dramatic experience. If
Mr. Gibson’s sincere efforts were not
often convincing, he cannot be. judg-
ed too severely. The part of. Lord
Darlington is less exciting, and one
is less inclined to be sympathetic with
Mr. Trexler’s colorless imperséna-
tion. The actors did best in the third
scene, where Mr. Dubois, as Dumby,
contributed a nice piece of acting,
and Mr. Kienbusch, as Cecil Gra-
ham, tried very hard for an air of
bored sophistication. Certainly L
Augustus should have given an in-
centive. From his first entrance to
the final curtain, Mr. Warburg gave
as amuging an interpretation of the
‘fussy old gentleman as could be ask-
ed for. Whether he fluttered ‘over
Mrs. Erlynne’s bouquet or blustered
over “beating about the confound-
ed bush,” he was unfailingly enter-
taining, and the ease of his stage
presence was a joy to the beholder.
The Duchess, with her most Bos-
tonian hat, was not a whit less amus-
ing than her voluble brother. Miss
Dodge has shown before that she has
, ence,
: \
a keen sense’ of the comic, and by | Baaides
word and gesture she made. the most | Ovlier
of the Duchess’ ecc2ntricities and af-| were
Lady Windermere’s ‘char- |
-actor presents_a very different prob-|
Like her husband, she.-was vir- |
and. virtue without|
fectations.
"iem,
tue‘ personified,
1 ense’of humor is rarely sympa-
thetic.
eult role and she worked hard’to por-
tray it engagingly. »She did not en-
tirely sueceed, nor catch the finer
shades of this Victorian. personautty,
but her control in the emoticnal
scenes was good and her asczurance
must have been as comforting to the
ther players as it was to the audi-
The rapidity with which she
picked up her cues and -the variation
in tempo which’ she gave 'to her lines
were excellent. The frequent ab-
sence of these qualities in the char-
acters opposite whom ‘she played
made her perfermance the more cred-
itable.
Probably the most enviable part in
the play is that of Mrs..Erlynne. It
is the kind of part which, at some
time, most of us have secretly de-
sired to play. Miss Bruere was fully
alive to its possibilities. Hers was,
in every way, by far the most finish-
ed performance of the evening. She
handled her gestures, as well as her
lines, with consummate skill. Such
bits of acting as that in her conver-
sation with Windermere in the last
act would be a credit to any actress.
Miss Marshall had a_ diffi-
tc is
actos. whose. imperscnations
excellent. M.s; Lord gave a
nighly pe.soual and bewitening char-
.ctcr_to little Lady Agatha, and her
acting found a’ gcod foil in: Mr.
Watts’ gauche young man from Ays-
tralia. Mr. Geiould made a most im-
posing butler, and one wished that he
might have had a larger part, in
which to display the talent which
his momentary appearances ‘suggest-
ed. Another nice bit was Miss Fouil-
houx’s playing as Lady Jedburgh, |
stood |
whose middle-aged austerity
out well against the decorative gath-
ering of lovely ladies, moving decor-
ously in and* out of the ballroom.
If the praise has been almost en-
tirely for the feminine half of the
cast, it is because the superiority of
their acting seemed unquestionable.
That they had a great advantage
over the less-rehearsed mén must be
remembered. It brings up the old
question, if the scheme of combining
actors who can rehearse together so
little is an advantageous one. All
things considered, much pleasure was
affordcd by Lady WinJermecre’s Fan,
and cred't must go, not. only to the
actors, but to all who contributed
their skill and effort, especially to
the ‘Je:ien-r: of the scenery, Mis:
Wd and Mr. Warburg.
Every proper Varsity play ends
wth a bouvuct of flowers for the di-
rector, and we would add ours for
gn
the principals there were| a Flexner with enthusiasm, for! April 27, at 2.45, Mr. Warburg will
all that her coaching did for this:per- discuss “The Reason for Art’ as one
formance.
Her. touch and sound wal
of a series of lectures by people emi-
derstanding were visible not only in| nent in the art world, which is be-
the acting as a- whole, but in many "ing sponsored bythe Midtown- Gal-
bits of stage business and arrange- —- of New York.
ment of detail—in short, in every-
thing that turns the author’s written |
words into the living thing — the|
play.
Campus Notes
(Continued from Page Three)
ferts, ex-’29, ‘to Philip Golden Bart-
lett, of Southbury, Conn.
we
The Department of Archeology was |
host at a meeting.of the New York
Archeological. Society, Sunday after-
noon, in the art seminary.
those who attended were Miss Gisella
Richter, curator of classical archeol-
Among:
The manuscript for Dr. David’s
new book, .De. Expugnatione Lyx-
bonensi, is now in the hands of his
publishers, and publication is expect-
ed by the end of the current year.
The volume is an edition of the Latin
| text from a unique manuscript in
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
with introduction, notes, and English
translation. ~It will present an ac-
count of the conquest of Lisbon in
1147 by Crusaders from England and
the. Low. Countries, - A fighting
priest, who was: an actual eye-wit-
ness of the siege, tells the story and
furnishes a vivid impression’ of medi-
eval warfare. The Columbia Uni-
versity Press is printing the book as.
ogy at the Metropolitan Museum in| one of the Columbia University Rec-
New York; Hettie Goldman, a spe-' ords of Civilization, a series which
cialist in Aegean archeology.
was served in the Common Room.
Dr. Swindler is to be the guest
speaker of the Classical Club of
Greater Cleveland this Friday. She
will discuss ‘Recent Excavations in
Crete.”
Speaking over Station. WEAF of
the National Broadcasting Company,
Tea,
provides source material for scholars.
Freshman rules and customs have
been abolished for one year at Frank-
lin and Marshall College because
there seemed to be no way of enforc-
ing them. It is thought in campus
circles that the action taken will
arouse the college next year to the
realization of a need for Frosh -cus-
toms.—(N. S. F, A.)
SHOWING TODAY
Duck fires Our
of our Coat
Bugeangeenan nee eee
THAT HAPPENED TO
ME LAST NIGHT AT A
| MAGIC SHOW.
(HERE'S A FUNNY ONE |
GENTLE MAN
PLEASE STEP
UP ON THE
JSTAGE AND
1 SIT DOWN ?
HE GOT THE
DUCK OUT
OF A CANVAS
BAG FIXED
ON THE BACK
OF THE CHAIR
‘ THANK ts
} ALL RIGHT
| DON'T!
LET ME
OUT OF
HERE |
HA! HA! HAI}
WANT TO
1 KNOW HOW
AHE DID IT?
CIGARETTE ?
NOT ONE OF
THOSE, THANKS.
| HAD THE
IDEA THESE
WERE
MILDER.
ONE AND SEE.
QUIT KIDDING YOURSELF.
CAMELS ARE MILDER.
TRY GOSH,
O.K.
I'LL TAKE
A CHANCE |
1GUESS YOuU'R
RIGHT. CAMELS DO SEE
MILDER AND TASTE BETTER TOO:
THERE'S NO
ABOUT THAT
LINE."ITS THE
THAT COUNTS!“
FOOLIN*
TOBACCO
Camels are made eoan
finer, MORE EXPENSIVE
tobaccés than any
other popular brand.
Try Camels and give
your taste a chance.to
appreciate those cost-
lier tobaccos.
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