College news, April 20, 1932

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The College News







VOL. XVIII, No. 18

WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR,. PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1932



Price, 10 Cents





Dr. Gray o— Valuable
-Old Chinese: Vases

Main Artistic Factors
Shape, Color and Surface

Texture



VASES. EDUCATE TASTE



(Specially Contributed By Dr.
Howard Gray)

- A Chinese pot is an object. to be
looked’ at rather than written about.
Nonetheless, it is possible to note the
aspects of it which -are naturally in

one’s mind when looking at it.. From

the artist’s point of view these are
The first- is the
Through being in
the round it shares with sculptured

_ objects. generally the advantage of
ehanging its line and mass as the eye
moves round about it. The possibili-
ties. of differing combinations are
therefore numerous. The line of the
top of a bowl varies from being a
circle to. being ellipses of different
widths, while the supporting lines of
the sides are elongated or shortened
at will. Perhaps the diversion to be
got from these shifting. combinations
of line are the subtlest ones which
many pieces of pottery give us; and
it is the distinction of the Tang per-
iod (seventh to ninth centuries) that
it created the best shapes.

A second aspect of a pot is its color.
In this it is more akin to a painting,
especially to an abstract one. Al-
though earlier Chinese pots are usu-
ally in one or two colors, the grada-
tions and hence the refinements are
considerable. Age and burial have
often given delicacy. ‘The rather com-
monplace green of a Han jar may have
changed into irridescent silver. There
are three such in Wanamaker’s at the
moment. Later centuries experiment-
ed extensively in colors, the Sung,
Yuan and Ming periods (tenth to six-
teenth centuries), devloping many
which were rich, many splendid. Ming
and still later centuries. turned to
blue-and-white, in which again every-
thing depended in the qualities of
these tones. There were never the
raw blues of modern wares. From
Sung days there was painting on pots
and to this technique blues-on-white
particularly lent itself.

The third aspect of a pot is more
peculiar to it, although here the im-
mediate relationship is with ivories
and silks.. This aspect is surface tex-
ture. Three elements go to the mak-
‘-ing of the surface of a pot—the body
of. the clay, which sometimes show
through and in porcelain adds trans-
lurency, the slip or color pigment, and
the glaze. The excellence of each of
the three and‘ of the combination var-
ies greatly. In Han and in most
Tang pots it is not great. In the
Sung period it reaches what-’many
think its height; but the older col-
lectors, preferred the sumptuous por-.
celains of the sixteenth and later cen-
turies. Many of the collections in our
museums (perhaps for this reason)
are rich in these and a collection to be
sold in New York this week seems to
have many of them. Any taste can
thus be met by the great diversity in
Chinese pots. And—what is more im-
portant—any taste can be educated
by carefully looking at them. From
the hierarchic forms of the bronzes of
Han days to ‘the boudoir dainties of
_ Chieng: Lung, all are there.

primarily three.
shape of the pot.



Registration

Mrs. Manning hopes that all stu-
dents will give considerable thought
to their registration for courses for
next year, as classes were held up for
ten days this fall due to numerous
changes. If a student is hesitant
about the selection of her major
course, she should discuss the vari-
“ous possibilities with the heads of the
departments in question, and get all
the advice she can’ before making her
decision. Changes in schedule will be
heavily penalized next fall, if the
Dean’s office has not been notified of
these changes by letter before Septem-
ber fifteenth.

Are |

‘Order Will Gradually

| Evolve Out of Russia



Countess Skariatina, Author of
| Two Books, Says. Crisis
| Was Inevitable

[BARELY ESCAPED ALIVE

- “The world must. go on. It is a
pity about*the lovely things that are
destroyed, but their destruction is in-
evitable.” With this astonishing phil-
osophy, the Countess Irina Skaria-

tina, heiress of a thousand years of
Imperialist tradition, summed up the
|cataclysm of the Russian revolution.
'The courage needed to take a liberal

| View of the Soviet, admitting that
i good has come to the Russian people
jalong with the necessary evil “that
they killed us all off,’ has been mias-
tered by this exile, -who admits “that
ithe old. regime -had become an ana-
chronism in the twentieth century.—
They (the aristocrats) make the mis-
take of thinking that all good in Rus-
sia was their class, but: serfs. have
the right of free speech.and educa-
tion.”

Education for the masses igone of







|

said, and when asked whether this
education, almost pure propaganda,
were not stunting, answered, “Yes,
but when the students grow up, they
will realize the falsity of what they
have learned, and this education will
act as a boomerang against the head
Bolsheviks.” She, herself, during the
War, came under the influence of Lib-
eral ideas, first as a War nurse and
then as a medical student. “I must
seem slightly ‘Red’ to my friends, but
contact with another world enabled
me to see the defects of Imperialism.”
Her feeling is that if Communism
spreads, it will travel by means of the
student class, in which~-it originated
in Russian, not as Communism, but as
a. movement against a rigid despot-
ism.

But since the Communist leaders
have carried their revolution of cus-
toms and religion so far, the pendu-
lum is certain to swing back. “They
bring up children without religion,
but later the emptiness will become
apparent, and the children, as men and
women, will need religion and turn
back to it. There will be an economic
reaction also, as the peasant cannot
bear standardization, but “likes to
have his horse, and his plot, and cow.”
The new eduaction itself has to cling
to old standards to a certain extent,
especially in art. Countess Skaria-
tina praised the music as being “on
quite a high plane,” and said that
many found the new art interesting,
also.

Her liberality; however, was appar-
ently not the result of any kind treats
ment she received at the hands of the
Communists, who imprisoned and sen-
tenced her to death, from which she
was saved by the American” Relief
Administration, in October, 1922,
when she was grudgingly allowed to
leave the country. This was a small
concession, as she was practically
dead, “not having missed a trick” in
the whole upheaval, as she lightly put
it. The nerve-wracking periods from
the setting up of the Soviet govern-
ment until her release in 1922 was
filled with wild scares. One awful
day it was rumored that Trotsky,
“who wanted to guillotine us all” had
prevailed over Lenin, and that guillo-
tines were being brought into the city.
“Sure enough, when we looked out
the window into Nevsky Prospeet,
we saw carts bearing long black boxes
entering the square. We were more
curious than scared, however, and
when it turned out that the boxes did
not contain guillotines it didn’t make
much difference.”



—
Calendar
Thurs., April 21, 8.40 A. M.:
President Park will speak in
Chapel.
Sat., April 23, 9.00 A. M.:
‘French Language Examination.











the best points of Soviet rule,~ she |

of the Amazons is ruled by women;











Cornelia Otis Skinner as Sacrapant
Cornelia Otis Skinner, who is shown above as she appeared in

the presentation of Old Wives Tale

on May Day eight, years ago, will,

as Queen Elizabeth, again participate in the May Day festivities: at

Bryn Mawr.

Under the auspices of the Cosmopolitan Club, Miss.“Skinner is

now appearing before Philadelphia

audiences in her dramatic sketch,

The Wives of Henry VIII, which attracted so much attention in New

York this season.

THE NEws highly recommends her performance

and will publish a review in the next issue.
The role of Sacrapant is traditionally considered to demand the

most striking exhibition of acting ability.
who is now connected with the Group Theatre, took t
This. year it will be played by Miss Betty Young,

the production of Berkeley Square

rgaret Barker,
e part in 1928.

32, who directed

Miss Me

this fall.



K. Hepburn Playing in
The Warrior’s Husband



The Warrior's Husband, a comedy
in. which Katharine Hepburn, Bryn
Mawr, 1928, is now appearing, has
brought to Broadway an entirely new
comic theme. The plot is based on the
ninth -labor of Hercules, which is to
gain the girdle of Hippolyta. The land

the men spend their time in riding
side-saddle and flirting hopefully
with every young warrior that comes
their way. Hippolyta, ably and force-
fully played by Irby Marshall; spends
her time digging up wars to amuse
her army, and hunting with her sis-
ter, Antiope, played by Katharine
Hepburn. Sapiens Pomposius, a young
lad, who appears in a.curled Assyrian
beard and a silk robe; which he «is
“dying to wash to see if the color is
fast,” becomes, through the machina-
tions of ‘his mother, the husband of
Hippolyta, a unqiue position in Pon-
tus. Then comes the invasion of the
Greeks, which provokes much mirth
because the army is made up of men.
Herculés turns 6ut to be a tremendous
creature who prefers to be called
“Herc,” and who runs screaming from
Antiope when she frowns at him;
Theseus is the bravest of the Greeks
and devotes himself seriously to the
acquisition of Antiope, who is much
baffled at being the pursued instead of
the pursuer; there is also Homer, who
is Covering the expedition for a news-
paper syndicate and who writes the
herald’s speeches for him, enquiring
nervously if his “iambic pentameters
knocked ’em cold?”

The Warriors Husband is unique
in that it combines action with its
comic lines instead of relying for its
effect on lines spoken in a static posi-
tion. The plot is amusing in itself,
and the stage is never quiet; an army
marches across it or a herald comes
panting in on the average of once
every five minutes. The humor of the
sitaution is apparent and is empha-
sized by having all the Amazon men
at least four inches shorter than the
women. The honors of the production
go to Romney Brent for his Sapiens.
He plays always very close to the
line, but never once does he allow his

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Geology of Western Shore
Studied by Field Trip

Eight geology students and the en-
tire geology statf motored last~week-
end to the little town of Prince Fred-
erick, Md., on the first long field trip
which the department has offered. Al-
though stops were made along the
way, a study of the cliffs along the
western shore of the Cheaspeake Bay
was the most important feature of
the journey. Fair weather and novel
surroundings contributed to its sue-
cess.

The face of the cliffs exposes ma-
rine and fossil on which Dr. Dryden
is‘an authority. Under his direction,
the beaches were combed for ray plat-
ed, sharks’ teeth, bits of coral and
vertebrate bone, all relics of a time
when the shore was an ocean bottom,
teeming with life. The hope of dis-
covering another whale, such as Dr.
Dryden unearthed several years ago,
was unfortunately disappointed, in
spite of several false alarms.

' An appreciation of the ardours of
scientific research was obtained dur-
ing the course of a half-mile wading
expedition along in the bay, alternate-



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Elections °
The Bryn Mawr League an-
nounces the election of the
Board for 1932-1933:
President—Ellinor Collins.
Secretary-Treasurer — ‘Helen
Leidy.

_ Sunday
Rothermel.
Bates House—Marjorie . Lee.

Assistant, Bates House—Jane
‘Parsons.

Summer School—Silvia Bow-
ditch.

Social | Work — Susan
Trance.

Maids—Emmaline Snyder.

Maids’ Vespers — Marjorie
- Trent. :

Industrial group discussion—
Ruth Bertolet.

Americanization, Bryn Mawr
—tTo be elected.

Blind School—To. be elected.

Haverford Community Center |

5

services — Josephine

Tor-





Johnson Lectures on

_ Modern Architecture



International Style Shown to be
Influenced by Last
Two Centuries

NEW STYLE IN AMERICA

Mr. Philip Johnson traced the de-
velopment of the architectural schools
of the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries which influenced the pres-
ent International School of 1931-32, ,
lin his lectures before the Modern Art
| class, last







Tuesday and Friday of

week.

|" A Romantic movement, a revival of

Classical Romanique, and Gothic ten-
dencies swept over Europe in the nine-
tenth’, century, following the decline
of Baroque. This school evinced a
longing for the distint in time and in
place, and laid its emphasis on the un-
usual. As the age progressed, eclec-
ticism of style, the rejuvenating of an
old accepted design by the architeet’s
personality, resulted in eclecticism of
taste, the feeling that the more like
a forgery a building’ was, the better
it was. This movement ushered in,
at the same time, a spirit of, freedom,
which accomplished two important
things. It encouraged simplicity ,in
decoration, and blazed the trail for
the advent of rationalism in structure.

In France this movement resulted
in a formalized Academism, unpre-
tentious and restrained. In England,
a Gothic revival flourished, of which
the House of Parliament, designed
by Sir John Soane, with their florid
richness of detail, are by-products. In
Germany the movement reached its
greatest development. Schinkel (1781-
1841), Germany’s finest Romantic
architcet, practically designed the
Berlin. of the thirties, He exercised
discipline in the use of “sprayed-on”
ornament, and was a firm adherent
of rationalism, which is “the ten-
dency to base the-architectural plan
of the house upon its functional lines,
considered from an engineering point
of view.” It provides that the facade
should reveal all these basic lines and
abandons the axial type of design so
commonly used in Baroque buildings.
In America the Romantic: feeling took
form in a strict Greek revival. To
the inherited spirit of classicism was
added a sense of scale.and a desire
to create big and effective structures.
Richardson (1838-1886), America’s
greatest architect at this period, fol-
lowed Schinkel’s theories of function-
alism.

In the early nineteen hundreds,
there were a number of somewhat un-
related movements which eventually
came_to. be fused into International
Style. The use of steel in the con-
struction of buildings was regarded
at first as a tour-de-force, and stone
vaulting and piers were considered
for—a—long= time indispensable sup-
ports for steel itself. Now, however,
with the advent of metal in place of
masonry, strict engineering forms
are made the basis of architectural
design. Wagner, of Vienna, was the
first to adopt this principle and as
such he was the founder of the New
or Indépendent Style (1895-1927). “A
second movement (1903), known as

tthe Viennese, was unimportant except

for the achievement. of a new type of
facade decoration, good but “finicky,”
which used tiles almost exclusively.
The Paris Exposition of 1925 creat-
ed a zig-zag design, fantastic, mod-
ernistic, and of no continuity or dis-
cipline, which has been used to great

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¢

ss 2 Saree
: Overwork

The Curriculum Committee has in-
vestigated the complaints of lover-
work, and discovered a rather unani-
mous criticism of some courses, and
no vigorous opposition to the amount |
of work in others. The results of the
inquiry will be referred to the faculty.
If the desired adjustments are not
made, any further complaints should
be brought to the attention of mem-



ae Duany.



bers of the student committee.




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Freshman Quota

‘Having started what we hope is a serious discussion of the quota, we
feel that a little attention devoted to an examination of certain of the de-
sirable provisions of the present system would not be out of place.

- first consider the quota and how it affects the freshmen.

Under the present regime an incoming freshman is assigned a room
by the registrar, who takes into consideratiofi her preferences as much as
possible. There are other freshmen in her hall, but the population is largely

The freshman meets many of these lofty
creatures and lives in mortal terror of as many more; but what is even more
important is that she finds out about Bryn Mawr from them. A freshman
learns a great deal from upper classmen which she-can-learn from no other
She learns the traditions of the college, and the distinction which
arises between the sacred and the profane is firmly rooted in her mind. She
learns how to work by watching upper classmen in action, and gradually
she herself becomes an upper classman in her opinions and college attitudes.
The ordinary student adviser is of little value, because she metes out an
hour of advice to her lamb over a tea table and considers her work done.

composed of upper. classmen.

, source.

Let us

were not constructed with such a plan |.

in view, but we feel that a practical
arrangement could be made. The fol-
lowing data is roughly illustrative:
The room space is as follow:
56 Merion 4
71 Denbigh



J
127 Total
During the past four years there
have been between 127 and 100 stu-
dents in the entering class. This is
slightly less than the available room
space in these two halls, but some of
the unattractive, small scholarship
rooms in Merion could be turhed back
into suites as originally intended, and
the few remaining could be used as
guest rooms.
The room space in the other three
halls:
64 Pembroke West
71 Pembroke East
79 Rockefeller
17 Wyndham



281 Total

The Sophomores, Juniors and Sen-
iors average collectively about 250.
This ‘total, however, does_not account
for the number of non-resident stu-
dents.

We, who offer this system are ful-
ly aware of its imperfections, but we
hope that it will lead to a plan worthy
of actual experiment. Above all, we
desire action.

Yours sincerely,
SARA A. D. SUPPES,
ESTHER JANE PARSONS.

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Dear Editor:

The editorial, entitled “The Quota,”
in the News of April 18, voiced the
thoughts of a great part. of the col-
lege, especially at. this time when
rooms are being drawn for next year.
We have all found the Quota an ob-
stacle in trying to get settled as we
wish, and we have all aired our views |



The freshman gets most of her advice in the form of observation of
upper classmen, whose modes of living may be reprehensible but are also

effective.
would be completely alone.

her existence when she lives under the nose of upper classmen.
more difficult would it be if she lived in a separate hall!

If, on the other hand, all freshmen lived in separate halls they
It is difficult enough for a freshman to register

How much
Freshmen living

apart from the other classes would find it a hard task to adapt themselves
to college life and work, because they would have no effective example
before them. No incoming student, whether she be from a boarding school

or a high school, is capable of coping with college and its routine without | Mawr, but in the case of there not
the guiding spirit furnished by the other classes, and the only way for this! being room enough for a whole class
union of classes to be accomplished is by having freshmen living in all the i in any one hall; a few people would
A freshman will learn to know her classmates in the course of time,

halls.

but contact with upperclassmen, which must-be established, comes only-as'|

a result of hall acquaintance.

men.

Therefore we feel that any system must |
include an arrangement whereby freshmen are divided among upper class- |



Letter Column



The News is not responsible for
the opinions expressed -in—this col-
umn. ;

April 18, 1932.
. Dear Editor:

In response to the editorial on “The
Quota,” published last week, which
clearly defines the pros and cons of
the present rooming situation, we sub-
mit the following comments and sug-
gestions. In the first place, we be-
lieve that the present quota system
is unsatisfactory as “an impartial in-
trument calculated to mix the
classes.” In the second place, we con-
test. the “inadvisability of allowing
class halls: to grow up.” And with
these two points in mind, we wish to
submit the following plan:

We suggest that Merion and Den-
bigh be used as Freshman halls, with
a complete mingling of the other
three classes in the Pembrokes and
Rockerfeller. ~The advantages, as
they appear to us, would be as fol-
lows:

1, The Freshmen would have the
opportunity of becoming acquainted
with their entire class. Freshman
Week, 4s it is now organized, is an in-
complete attempt at accomplishing
this, because girls do not become gen-
uinely acquainted outside their own
halls in so short a time.

2. After one year in the Fresh-

fran hali, the girls -would know peo-

ple with whom they are really con-
genial, and at the same time, . would
not have become so settled as to ob-
ject to a forced move...
8. Three classes_.divided. among
three halls will not lead to an ohject-
ionably small numberof any one class
living in any single,hall... The three
halls in question are so large, that it
is ineonceivable that.apy person or

reg Garam Liner) ; oa

persons would be thrown in with a
group entirely uncongenial.

4. Hall cliques would be mini-
mized, because a more organized class
and college spirit would exist.

istration now provides so narrowly by
confining bits of. each class to each
hall. is.
6. With © this plan,
tion with upper class-men, and. par-
ticipation in all phases of college life.
For the college provides innumerable
occasions outside of classes, such as
Lantern Night, May Day,-sports, and

|

to those in charge of the quota with-|
out offering any constructive idea for
eliminating the difficulty.

Everyone must realize that without
any arbitrary regulation of numbers
we would eventually have class halls
Wiser heads than ours have pointed
out that class halls would not only
make that rift between classes which



| fair that in co-operation with Presi-
Vonuhanen [dent Park and Miss Gaviller she try
would not be separated from associa- | to live where she is placed.

| pathy and understanding in her asso-

5. There would be greater Oppor- | ciates is necessary for this state of
tunity to promote the inter-class so- | mind.
cial contacts which the college admin- | Say she cannot live with anyone in col-

ire but her own little group of per- |

is now so happily absent from Bryn

| be stranded in a hall filled solidly with
another class. We must, therefore,
| recognize. the wisdom of some regula-
tion of numbers.

On the other hand, the quota does
| at times segregate a student from her
particular frierids and place here in
alien surroundings. We are sure that

for a student to do good work get any value out of college, and we
believe that a certain amount of sym-



It is intolerant of a student to

haps four of five people, and it is only

'a happy state’of mind is necessary |



WIT’?S END

The first floor has new carpets in
Pem.. East :
So thick, they dull the greatest
maiden’s tread;
But tragedy will come when sleepers
find.
‘A softer rest on carpet than in
bed.





rf

He walks the streets to Denbigh, Pem.

and Rock,
For he knows fifty girls if he es
one! .
But still, “Oh, Lord!” and “Hide

quick” meet his knock,
So he and hair and chin walk on
alone.

Now we enjoy the lecturer who—er,
who-—er, who—er, gasps
, And even clap the egoistic man,
But how about professors who insist
On crowding as many pithy sen-
tences in after the bell rings as
they possibly can!

This week it’s bugs and things, but
we have heard
There is a (girl in “Midsummer
- Night’s Dream” that
Was told to scratch as if something
were there
And couldn’t do it!

Whoops—
THE CAMPUS CAT.



NOSTALGIA

Forty more days to the first of June,
Chorus the freshmen all in tune.
Forty more days and my work is done,
Leaving not enough brains to make a
pun.

| Sparrows may chirp, and robins may

- call;
Cherries may blossom, and apples
fall;
If the calendar’s right and I add the
sum,

There’s a long time to wait, but the
day will come.

Which now I see in the densest fog,
Consuming my time like the basest
hog,
But nothing can help it arriving soon,
Forty more days to the first of June.
PFIFFLE.



ODDS AND ENDS
The technique of eating spaghetti
‘Is a definite part of your eti-
Quette. One end is best,
And suck in the rest,
Though with catsup this fails to be
pretty.

There is a young lady just seen by us
Who is growing a tree of gardenias,
So, that on the week-ends
Though no money she spends
Her beaux gasp and think what a
queen she is.
THE LABOR PARTY.



There were Merionettes three,
Entered the draw with great glee,



Where, however, she is unsuccess-

importance of moving her to a more |
congenigl location.
ly true in the case of Juniors and

all extra-curriculum activities, where-| Seniors ;who have, unconsciously per-

by an inter-class social. life would nat-
urally exist.

In addition, we suggest that Seniors
aets as Senior Advisors for the Fresh-
men, thereby, insuring SENIOR-
FRESHMEN __relationship.. We be-
lieve that to have such a responsibil-
ity rest upon that class as a whole
would increase the value and signifi-
cance of having a Student Advisor.

A JUNIOR-FRESHMAN contact
is insured by the fact that Juniors
and Freshmen are sister classes. —

And as to a SOPHOMORE-
FRESHMAN relationship, the class
animal, Parade and Lantern Nights
are ample grounds for friendships.
Above all, classes and sports are a
means of daily contact.

This plan would most certainly
avoid “depositing a girl in a hall her
Freshman year, and keeping her there
four years against her will.”. A
Freshman, with few: exceptions, ac-
cording to our suggested system,
would know definitely where and with
Lwhom she would be most contented
her remaining three yéars. ©

We are- aware that the dormitories



‘haps, but definitely, found those peo-
ple whom they admire and with whom
they sympathize the most.

What we ask, then, is only what the
whole college feels is urgently need-
ed. It is*that-the quota be continued,
but with the stipulation that it may
be broken for a special case if it
seems reasonable to those in charge.
We feel sure the student would co-
operate by not abusing this leniency
with unreasonable requests.

CLARA FRANCES GRANT.

&

All-French Film Will be _

_ Egyptian’s Main Line
Innovation April 27-28

‘Sous les Toits de Paris,” an all-
French talking cinema, will be pre-
sented for the first time in any
American Community Theatre at the
Egyptian, Bala-Cynwyd, afternoons
and evenings of Wednesday and
Thursday, April 27 and 28. .

The atmosphere of Paris’ tenement
district is caught cleverly by Rene
Clair in a film that is hailed by crit-
ics as an advance in talkie technique,
reducing wart ge to a minimum (40







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i They drew the highest of all,
And then and there fell a pall,
They could do:no iota
For full was the quota
And so they lived on in their hall.
—College Lifer.
saison
The Mad Hatter, who chose said
nom-de-plume as an advance apology
for just this sort of thing, has to
admit right at the start of his mad
career that he (she or it) made a
mistake. We tried to work out that
confounded sim in the News office

_ilast Monday night, because we had

forgotten to bring the solution down
with us. If you knew ‘the NEWS
office intimately, as we dq, you would
understand. The correct answer is
9567
1085
10652
And we figures this one out down in
the office, too. Cheerio!
THE MAD HATTER.



mime formula with which the most
universally successful silent films
were produced. The picture is 100
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‘Tarzan the Ape Man.

In Philadelphia :

Broad: Cornelia Otis Skinner in her

Wives of Henry VIII. These dra-
matic sketches will be preceded by
some of her-jther original mono-
logues. Definitely worth seeing. -

Garrick: Helen Hayes
Good Fairy. A gentle little piece full
of whimsey and Miss Hayes. At
times it is so gentle that one forgets
all about it, but you may like it.

Forrest: Grand Hotel, with Eu-
genie Leontovich, Sam Jaffe and Sieg-
fried Rumann. A: superb production
that no one should miss.

Music—Academy of Music
Philadelphia Orchestra: Friday
afternoon, April 22, at 2.30, and Sat-
urday evening, April 23, at 8.20. Leo-
pold Stokowski conducting; Sylvan
Levin, Pianist, soloist. Program:

Sibelius. Symphony No. 4 in A minor

BOVE 0580 ees Concerto in G major
emergent ae ce mrrmrgrer ce Chaconne .
ON hci cee i Passacaglia

Movies

Stanley: James Cagney and Joan
Blondell in The Crowd Roars. All
about auto races and their catastro-
phies. Mr. Cagney divides his time
between driving in races and slapping
women.

Mastbaum:
head of a vaudeville bill and after
the smoke clears Edmund Lowe and
Claudette Colbert in The Misleading
Lady. The idea is that of the girl
who has everything but is bored by
it all and goés on the stage.

Earle: Doug Fairbanks, Jr., in
It’s Tough to Be Famous. The tale

of the trials and tribulations of a na-

tional hero whose public won’t “leave
him be.” Mr. Fairbanks is excellent
and the whole affair is amusing.

Boyd: Man Wanted, in which Kay
Francis turned from society to busi-
ness for no apparent reason and with
little success.

Keith’s: House Divided, with Wal-
ter Huston, Helen Chandler and Kent
Douglas. Father and son in a tan-
gle over father’s matrimonial agency
wife—all very grim.

Stanley: Johnny Weismuller in
A ‘swell pic-
ture full of impossible yet fascinating
goings-on about Tarzan, monkeys,
crocodiles and elephants. Don’t miss
it;

Karlton: Lupe Velez and Leo Car-
rillo in The Broken Wing. About
an aviator and a girl, (aha) a Mexi-
can rebel and a wife and numerous

other confusing elements. Not very
much.
Europa: Das Lied Ist Aus, an ex-

cellent German film, full of good tunes
and a temperamental opera star.
Worth seeing.

Keith’s: Warner Baxter in |Ama-
teur Daddy—a shy, old-bachelor who
adopts a family of orphans and finds
out his mistake later. Sort of Daddy
Long Leggish.

Stanton: Spencer Tracy and Wil-
liam Boyd in Sky Devils—an uproari-
ous burlesque of the air service.

Grand: John and Lionel Barry-
more as thief and detective in Ar-
sene Lupin—an excellent picture.

Local Movies

Ardmore: Thursday and Friday,

Constance Bennett in Lady With A /“
_ |Past, with Ben Lyon; Saturday, Dis

orderly Conduct, with El Brendel,
Sally Eilers and SpencerPraty; tifon-

day and Tuesday, Charles Farrell -
‘| After

Tomorrow; Wednesday and
Thursday, George Sidney, Smith ana
dale, and Ruth Hall in Heart of New
York.

Seville: Wednesday and Thursday,
Billie Dove and Edward Everett Hor-
ton in The Age For Love; Friday,
Will Rogers in Business and Pleas-
ure; Saturday, Monsters of the Deep:
Monday, Tuesday and. Wednesday

Russ Columbo at the:

in The’

Hell’ Divers, with Clark Gable and_

Wallace Beery; Thursday and Friday,

Marlene Dietrich and Clive Brook in-

Shanghai Express.

Wayne: Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Cheaters At Play, with Thomas
Meighan and_ Charlotte Greenwood;
Friday and Saturday, Ladies of the
Jury, with Edna May Oliver and
Roscoe Ates; Monday and Tuesday,
Tomorrow and Tomorrow; with Paul
Lukas, Ruth Chatterton and Robert
Ames; Wednesday and Thursday, Dis-
orderly Conduct, with Sally Eilers
and Spencer Tracy.

Especially Recommended: Shang-
hai Express, Lady With a Past.

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K. Hepburn Playing in
The Warrigr’s Husband

(Continued from Page One)



characterization to lapse into slap-
stick. Sapiens, as Mr. Brent plays
him, is a charming young man: who
flirts violently with Antiepe and then
faints when she kisses him; he is fem-
inine, but: never effeminate. Miss
Hepburn, as Antiope, plays a young

Amazon, whose chief characteristic is

her exuberance. _ Her portrayal is
completely straight forward, and she
never resorts to any devices which
might be called theatrical. Miss Hep-
burn’s Antiope is-frank and unciviliz-
ed, but at times a little—nionotonous.
In her endeavors to be manly and
muscular she ignores the fact that
even Amazons. experience emotional
conflicts. Her playing is more effect-
ive during the first act than during
her later scenes with Theseus, when
she struggles between her natural loy-
alty to Hippolyta and her love for the
Greek. However, the character is
primarily a wild creature and Miss
Hepburn plays her with an enthusi-
asm and lack of conceit which is
more than gratifying. Perhaps the
lack. of emotion is included in the
character, for it is her charming nai-
vete which lends Miss Hepburn’s An-
tiopé her charm. Colin Keith John-
son is competent and heroic as The-
seus, and one feels that if Antiope
must be conquered, Theseus should do
it.

The Warrior's Husband is well
written and hilariously,funny. It is
_ beautifully produced with great atten-
tion to detail, and the acting is uni-
formly excellent. It is a comedy
which never gives its audience time
to collect its wits and is well worth
seeing.
seeing. S. J,



News of the New York ‘Theatres

We Are No Longer Children open-
ed hopefully last week, but the title
seemed to express the sentiments of
the audience better than the mean-
ing of the play, and the public stayed
home, so the actors gave up and went
home, too. Now everybody’s home.

Hope Williams and Beatrice Lillie
seem to be a mellowinginfluence in the
company of Too True To Be Good—
Urged on by their high principles,
the cast gave a matinee for the bene-
fit of the Working Girls’ Vacation
Society. They may be looking into
the future and fixing it up so they
can get a day off to go to Coney Is-
land, and then again it may be pure
nobility of soul.

At present a drama known as Bulls,
Bears and Asses is in rehearsal. No
oné seems to have much of a*grasp on
what it is all about, but the title ap-
plies to almost any modern. group,
ranging from the New York Stock
Exchange to Bryn Mawr May Day
Committees.

Paul Robeson, the noted negro bari-
tone, will appear in Ziegfeld’s revival
of Showboat. It is a great relief to
us to find that Mr. Robeson and not
some West End stevedore will sing
our favorite “Old Man River.” Too
often a producer finds himself a star
or two for the main roles and then
uses. the stage. crew, Tamany and
worn-out bankers to supply the sup-
port, what there is of it.

The Man Who Changed His Name
is to be the title of a melodramatic
comedy by the late Edgar Wallace.
The play has just gone into rehearsal
with Fay Bainter in the leading role.

Romney ‘Brent, who is appearing in
The Warrior's Husband, has just
written a play, entitled Mad Hopes,
which Billie Burke is to produce very
shortly.



Mr. Brent, when comment-

ing on his opus, remarked that there | Johnson Lectures on

was a part in it. which he .could play,
but he feels that-it is enough to ask
an audience to hear one of his plays |
without putting himself in it.
which means that Mr. Brent thinks |

All of | extent on the facades of modern

Modern Architecture

(Continued from Page One)



his play can stand up under a little | apartment houses,

kidding, which completely shrivels up |
some of our modern classics.

The news that Leslie Howard: would |
do Romeo and Juliet next se
been shown to be avfalse alarm. Mr)
Howard intends to do a modern play |

of some sort next fall, and then tact |

kle Romeo and Juliet and perhaps
Hamlet in 1933. If the modern feel-
ing about playing Hamlet in a black
ness smacking of hell continues to
gain popularity, Mr. Howard will
probably play it by sitting in a chair
on_a dark stage and reading his lines
with a flashlight.

Plans for the production of Noel
Coward’s Design for Living are pro-
gressing steadily. Mr. Coward, Alfred
Lunt and Lynn Fontanne had been
included in the cast. when it was no-
ticed that the set included a sofa. A
special messenger was dispatched to
Alexander Woolcott with a full de-
scription of the sofa and: an estimate
of how much time he could spend on
it—as he only had to stand up to get
on and off the stage, Mr. Woolcott
accepted.



"
When President George Thomas an-
nounced that the wearing of corsages
would be barred at the University of
Utah junior prom, several girl stu-
dents obtained an injunction against
Dr. Thomas té°prevent him from stop-
ping them wearing the flowers if they
so desired — and received them to
wear. Nevertheless, when the prom
was held, only three or four girls ap-
peared with. corsages.
~ —(NSFA.)

| The New Tradition in America was

‘derivative and of late development.

\In. this tradition factories were de-
f a
destin hag | signed functionally according to in

dustrial necessities. Engineering re-

{| quirements were placed before archi-

tectural ones. The structure of sky-
scrapers introduced at this time a
hang-over from Gothic Revivalism,
with its accent on verticals. ~The ex-
terior design of these buildings often
ignored the functional steel interior,
as is the case with the Daily News
Building in“New York. Louis Sulli-
van built the first true skyscraper in
1908, on the slogan “Form follows
function.” Frank Lloyd Wright was
the most important architect in this
(tradition. Far from denying ‘steel,
he used large planes as a basis for his

dimensions. :

Mr. Johnson’s third lecture on Tues-
day, April 19, which dealt with the
International School itself, will ap-
pear in the hext issue.



A new plan. for admission is being
adopted by Syracuse College, by
which the applicants for admission
are chosen a full year in advance in
order that they may fully prepare
themselves for their course.

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Know All These Offhand



Keeping abreast with the times as
ever, the NEWS has made out a ques-
tionnaire to test one’s general infor-
mation: We have worked this out on
the theory that a college graduate
oOught.to be able to score abut 85 out
ofthe possible 100,..counting. 5-or~ a
fraction thereof for each question. It
would seem from the results so far ob-
tained that we were wrong. Three
members of the NEWS’ Board ‘took
the quiz and the highest score thereof
‘was 44, made by a sophomore. We
persuaded one faculty member to take
it ,and found that under his eagle
eye some of the questions were poor-
ly stated. We have tried in some
measure to rectify those errors in this
edition of the questionnaire. Inci-
dentally the professorial score was-73
per cent. Here is it for your benefit.
See what you'can do. Answers next
time.

1, Name four of the’ French lead-
ers of the philosophic movement be-
hind the French Revolution.

2. Name two fundamentals in
which Luther found himself in disa-
greement with the then existing Cath-

monarch was Parliament first devel-
oped? eo

4. What so far has been the great-
est money-winning horse of all time?



5. From what classical play was a
famous Yale cheer taken?

« 6.. Whence comes the line “For ’tis
your thoughts that now must deck
our kings?”

7. Who.and what was the Woman
of Andros?

8. Name in order each of the six
book of the Forsyte Saga proper and
give the name of the last publication
dealing directly with the Forsytes.

9. Name three plays and two act-
resses playing leads in plays by Fer-
ene Molnar.

10. Identify the following by two
productions with which they have
been connected: Paul Green, Lee Si-
monson, Raymond Massey, Guthrie
McClintic, Norman Bel Geddes.

TT,
Florence and locate them in respect
to the Arno.

12. What is a “nursery school’?

13. .Name three 19th Century so-



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| Geology of Western Shore
Studied by Field Trip
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_statlont,@202! une,
'equaly, unvoluntarily took their first
|swim'of the season.

| Prince’ Frederick, with its general
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