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College news, April 15, 1936
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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1936-04-15
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 22, No. 20
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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BMC-News-vol22-no20
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three
Fatal Woman Returns
~In Modern Art Film
First Movie of Mary Pickford
Sentimental, But Expressive
And Well-Acted
INDIANS ARE AUTHENTIC
Goodhart, April 8.—At their third
showing, the films selected by the Mu-
seum of Modern Art Film Library
traced the development of the motion
picture from 1912 to 1918 as shown
through sentimental comedy, Western
drama, slapstick and melodrama. At
this period producers were faced with
_the problem of making a silent film
understandable and varied enough so
that it would not become monotonous.
* Consequently symbolism of various
arts was found in the four pictures
presented. :
The first movie on the program,
The New York Hat, was the Griffith
production that introduced America’s
sweetheart. Modern audiences have
learned to expect that a pill of obvious
morality lurks behind every sugar-
coating of curls, and are consequently
prone to be cautiously derisive. But
on Wednesday night Mary Pickford
showed that she had more than sweet-
ness and curls. Even under the
shadow of a-hat that had equal pos-
sibilities of being either a flower-shop
or an aviary, her gestures were ex-
pressive and moving. Griffith. found
her responsive to his new system of
direction, where he abandoned the
narrative, theatrical way of photo-
graphing a picture and inserted close-
ups and abrupt changes of scene.
The Fugitive, an Ince production,
was an early Western with ear-marks
that survive even unto this day—a
hero (Bill Hart) of undisputable viril-
ity but little brain, a vicious road-
house, where drinking and vice prevail,
and men on horseback who pursue
each other, but the tragic finale was
something of a shock to those of us
who were brought up to believe in
happy endings. Ince used cut-backs
with great liberality, that process
where a vision of the Western belle
REAR I er ONS REESE
I smoke for pleasure,
my minds at rest
Keep Off the Grandstand
Students must not under any 4
conditions. climb up on _ the
grandstand while it is under
construction. The temporary
scaffolding and the iron work
lying around make it dangerous.
arises before the hero as he is being
riddled with,the bullets of red-skins.
It also sgems likely that he was re-
sponsible for a good part of the sym-
bolism—so necessary to silent films—
that was crystallized in early West-
erns. The complicated plot of The
Fugitive was greatly simplified by the
villain’s moustache, which plainly in-
dicated his role.
The Clever Dummy, a good slapstick
comedy produced by Mack Sennet, in-
volved the mistaken identities .of a
dummy and a janitor and gave rise to
a series of brilliantly timed chases,
elaborately confused situations and
satisfying physical violence of one sort
or another. meds,
A Fool There Was was the most
potent of the four films presented.
Theda Bara, through her portrayal of
a belle dante:sans merci, incorporated
the word “vamp” into the English
language. She gets her claws into a
highly respectable citizen while cross-
ing the Atlantic and soon reduces him
to a condition of white-haired and
fumbling imbecility by feeding him
dope. His wife remains faithful
throughout all of his various stages
of unattractiveness, but the vampire
is victorious and John finally dies at
her feet. (“Even as you and I,” the!
subtitle suggests brightly.) Symbol-!
ism is developed.in a more abstract
way by Frank Powell in this film. A|
sunset over the ocean represents the
end of happiness—although the waves
happen to be flowing backwards.
Bara’s pose with claws extended
méans that. the vampire in her is
about to emerge.
JEANNETTE’S
Bryn Mawr Flower Shap_
823 Lancaster Avenue
Bryn Mawr 570
I smoke Luckies
a Light Smoke of rich,
ripe-bodied tobacco
és
it’s toasted
MAY DAY CALENDAR
Wednesday, April 15.—Masque of
Flowers: North Wind, 5-6 p. m.;
chimney sweeps, 7.30-8.30 p. m.; Mor-
ris dancing, 9.15 p. m.; sword danc-
ing, 8.30-9.15 p.m.
Thursday, April 16.—St. George,
entire with music, “dancing »(?) and
understudies, 7.30-9:p. m.; Old Wives’
Tale: Scene 31, 4.15-5.15 p. m.; indi-
vidual diction, 5.15-6.30 p. m.; under-
studies, 9-10 p. m.; Scene 24, 10-10.30
p. m.; Masque: Primavera and Cock,
4-5 p.e-m.; garden gods, 5-6 p. m.;
gypsies, 7.30-8.30 p. m.; general danc-
ing (upper hockey. field, Gym in case
of rain), 1.30-2 p. m. (Pembroke East
and West, Wyndham, non-resident
students, graduate students); sword
dancing, 8.30-9.15 p. m.; special danc-
ing, 9.15 p. m.; tumbling, 5 p: m.
Friday, April 17.—Robin Hood: In-
dividual diction, 4.15-6.30 p. m.; en-
tire, 7.30-8.30 p. m.; Midsummer
Night’s Dream, mechanicals, 4.30-6.30
p. m.; court, 5.30-6.30 p. m.; Gammer
Gurton, cast, 3.30-4.30 p. m.; Crea-
tion, cast, 7.30-8.30 p. m.; Deluge,
cast, 8.30-10 p. m.; Masque: gypsies,
4-5 p. m.; flowers, 5-6 p. m.; Prima-
vera, Cock and North Wind, 7.30-8.30
Ds Ts
Saturday, April 18.—St. George, en-
tire, 12-1; Robin Hood, entire, 11-12;
Old Wives’ Tale, entire, with Furies
and Harvesters, 9-11; Midsummer
Night’s Dream: mechanicals, 11-1;
court, 12-1; Gammer Gurton, cast,
9-11; Masque: chimney sweeps, 4-5
p. m.; shepherds and maidens, , 5-6
p,m.
Monday, April 20.—General danc-
ing (upper hockey field), 1.30 p. m.
(Merion, Denbigh, Rockefeller) ;
tumbling, 5 p. m.
Tuesday, April 21.—General danc-
ing (upper hockey field), 1.30 p. m.
(Pembroke East and West, Wyndham,
non-resident and graduate students) ;
Morris dancing, 8-8.30 p.:-m.; special
dancing, 9-10 p. m.
Wednesday, April 22. — General
dancing (upper hockey field), 1.30 p.
m. (Merion, Denbigh, Rockefeller) ;
Morris dancing, 9.15 p. m.; sword
dancing, 8.30-9.15 p..m.
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Luckies are less acid
Alumnae Courses May °
Be College Addition
Council Considers Possibility of Plan
At St. Louis Meeting
At the meeting of the Alumnae
Gouncil in St. Louis, the idea of in-
stituting an Alumnae College at Bryn
Mawr was introduced. Such colleges,
conferences or lectures of faculty to
alumni are held each year in at least
fifty colleges and universities in the
United States.
The Smith Alumnae College, now
five years old, is the type which Bryn
Mawr expects to organize. Directly
after Commencement the alumnae
move to the dormitories’ where they
live for five days. During this time
lectures are given by the faculty, and
discussions are held after the lectures
and at meals. For the past four
years the subjects of the lectures have
been contemporary countries. Only
those members of the faculty involved
in the subject of the lectures neces-
sarily stay after Commencement.
The Vassar alumnae hold a forum
to which are asked speakers who are
not always professors from the col-
lege. Princeton has a two-day alumni
conference and Lafayette has a longer
Alumni College, like that of Smith.
The Bryn Mawr alumnae: will not
begin to organize a college this year
because so many of them who are
coming to May Day from a dis-
tance will be unable to return for
Commencement and the Alumnae Col-
lege. Such an institution is not only
instructive, but it gives the alumnae
a chance to know the professors pro-
fessionally as well as socially.
DREXEL
LIBRARY SCHOOL
A one year course for college
y “
graduates; confers the degree
of B.S. in L.S.
THE DREXEL INSTITUTE
PHILADELPHIA
Learn These Words!
Printed herewith are the correct
words of To the Maypole, which must
tbe learned by all undergraduates:
To The Maypole
To the Maypole let us on;
The time is swift and will be gone.
Then go lasses to the green
Where their beauties may be seen.
All fair Yasses have lads to attend
~ them,
Jolly brave dancers who can amend
them; r
To the Maypole let us on
The time is ‘swift and will be gone.
Cometogether, come sweet lass,
Let us trip it on the grass.
Courting, piping on the green,
The bravest lads will sure be seen.
There all day on the first of May
Lads and lasses dance and play;
Come together, come sweet lass
Let.us trip it on the grass.
Prize Offered for Plays
To the writers of one-act plays the
Quicksilver Associates offer a prize
of $50 for the best play written for
publication. The Quicksilver Associ-
ates, a cooperative publishing so-
ciety, is planning its third’ publica-
tion, a volume of one-act plays.
Blanks to be filled out in order to ob-
tain information concerning require-
ments and specifications for contribu-
tions to this book may be obtained
from E. J. Simpson, 53 Pembroke
West.
Rome.—“Snap courses” have been
abolished in Italian universities by the
royal decree that went into effect with
the first of the year. (—ACP)
BUSINESS
SCIENCE
COURSES
® Specialized Training for
College Men and Women.
@ Summer Session of six
weeks, begins June 29th.
@ Placement Service.
PEIRCE SCHOOL
OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Se PHI LADELP HAs
A LIGHT SMOKE —
OF RICH, RIPE-BODIED TOBACCO
Each Puff
Less Acid
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