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Beggar's Opera Straight From
London...Opens..Good-
hart Program.

MORE, POLITICS COMING

What a week! Monday night, the Rev.

Lake;
Wednesday night, politics, and Thursday

Tuesday night, orthopsychiatry ;

night, the crowning glory: The Beggar's
Opera, With our souls, our bodies and
our dutiés as citizens disposed of what
could be more in line than an evening of
.And what could be

better- entertainment—than” The. Beggar's

Pure entertainment.

Opera, direct from the Lyric Theater in
London halting within our very gates on
lis. bicentennial tour of Amefica to give
us the charms of the world’s greatest.

history and its oldest musical .comedy
without the trouble. of he Mw
street.

The curtain. will go up in Goodhart
Hall‘ at 8.15 (or thereabouts) ‘on Thurs-
diay evening, November 1, 1928. The
mainly of the original
‘actors who appeared at the Lyric Theater
on May 12, 1920, when this opera was re-
Vvived by Sir Nigel Playfair, is as fol-
lows:

* Deachin <6 4) Ses Charles Magrath
BOOM Cis «..Norman Williams
MeaGheael iiss oe ive ee Clive’ Carey
PRON ear ch OFS ee Alfred ‘Heather
“The Beggar ui ee ..George Gregson
PGWOr 6k cst eens Georf@>Gregson
“ine; Peachtm ©) 03.55 5056 Lena Maitland
Polly Peachum ....... pyre Sylvia Nelis
TAG OGM hs bi es Celia’ Turill
‘Diana. Drapes ..........+. Hefen Arden

Ladies of the town,, and members: of

-‘Macheath’s : gang. ¢

tae Period, 1728,’
Act--1—Peachunr's: Hotse.—----—---—-
Act ‘2, scene 1—A tavern, riear New-

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spirit of the original work,
‘which’ was
‘Yesentations of the early nineteenth cen- ;-;

Scene 2—Newgate.
‘Act 3, Scené 1—A Gaming House.
*’Scene 2—Newegate.
Sceneé-3—The Condethn’d Hotel. a”
-" in this version of Mr. Gay’s famous

“English Ballad Opera every possible ef-

made to recapture the
much of
‘in the rep-

fort’ has’ been
“improved away”

“tury. Unfortunately in an age which
lacks the leisure of the eighteenth cen-

‘tury the opera cannot be given in its en-

tirety; in the work of curtailment and
selection, the producer has been much
helped by Mr. Arnold Bennett.

New settings have been provided for
the _songs,.and_ the music. in general has
been rearranged and supplemented where
necessary by Mr. Frederic Austin. The
versions. of the tunes have been taken

' from -contemporary eighteenth century

editions, and many beautiful and char-
acteristic numbers omitted in later times
have been restored. ;

The costumes were designed by the
late C. Lovat. Fraser.

‘The story of the. play is too long to
repeat here, and will certainly be clear
:u all who attend. Suffice it to say, that
it, is presented. by the. Beggar himself,

and concerns the merry: highwayman |

.Macheath, who gets himself into terrible
cifficulties by his unfortunate choice of

“: latylaves (one the daughter of a gaoler,

and the other-the daughter of a spy), and
is only rescued from the” gallows at the
very last ‘moment as a concession to the
fevlings of the audience.

To Meet Al
Ella’. Horton, ’29,ahid'E. ‘Linn,

' °29, the officers of the Bryn Mawr
Branch of the Collegé League: for
Alfred E,. Smith, will’ d€ave: on

. Thursday. ‘morning for: New York
to attend a meeting at, the Smith
Headquarters. where, the candidate
himself. will speak toa large gath-
ering of college students delegated
from. the Smith Clubs. in. ‘all-the*
colleges and.” siniversities “at -
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Insets, left to rights Lavinia Fenton (the origin al Polly Peachum), John Gay and Sylvia Nelis.



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Smith Swamped MERION TEAM.
Debate. Proves Successful for ‘BOWS TO VARSITY

Supporters of Mr.

Hoover, ‘Second Varsiiges Wins F rom,

The historic -dehate is over. Like a Rosemont by Better
tion it came in, and_like-aton-itawenrt: Score, |
for lambs were not in order last
Wednesday evening. To tell the truth) TWO TYPES OF OF HOCKEY }

nothing much was. in order, A turbu-| aniaianiiaidi

| lent occasion. was. enjoyed by All’; rat} _The—varsity—wen—from-—~a-~-depleted+}
|least ‘all the outward signs indicated | Wesiois teain on Saturday by the score
enjaym@at. A fever,.a very. deliriffim of »3- 1. The outstanding feature of our
of enthusiasm, possessed both parties, | Playing was. the improvement ‘in our
Perhaps the Smithites Were the- most) tushing. Wills played center half, ang
delirious; they certainly were the most Proved herself a person very worthy
noisy. Put then they had the of that pq@gition, though in the. sécond
so comparisons are a bit’ unfair. The| half she was put back as cente? for?)
Land, the indespenSabl@ baftd; what | Ward, and would ‘we do without it? It was the| There were much cleaner hits, on the
hand that made the’ debate such a} Whole, and consequently less messing
memorable occasion. . About this vital than last week, but Blanchard was con-

faction . gathered 'tinually offside, which slowed matters

nucleus the Smith
Blaring out “The - Sidewalks of New," considerably. . Longstreth did not
to control the ball when it

York,” brandishing torches, the parad: | ‘seem able

swirled-about™ the campus. “Like 2 c@me~ to her, and--Crane lacked the;
snowball Smith gathered adherents. | headwork necessary for a centet ‘for-
All neutrals, all Socialists, all waverers. | ward in holding her line together and
flocked to the music’ Delirium fizzed | “id not have enough push to make a
and the parade turned into a snake- | geek

dance. : } |

The Hooverites,



band,



Tie Merion goal canis: was excel: |
llent and their team’ was strengthened
lacking in fine fire. Defiantly, despera-| by the tardy arrival of Miss Townsend.
tely, ard€ntly, they shouted in a gal- | There good many fouls. in|
lant effort to drown out’ the band. |the beginning of the second half, but
Down towards the serene’ complacency | with Wills back at, center forward our
of Goodhart swarmed the riot. In the | t¢a™ seemed to have more confidence,
coors, around the hall, went the snake-; and after an excellent: attempt by
dance, the band still snorting ‘out the ; Blanchard a goal was scored by very
campaign“ tune.” The Hoover faction |
tried to sing, tried hard tq sing, but

however, Were not|

were a



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in the college curriculum:



Education

Lake Tells How American |.
and European Systems |

BOSWELL’S POWER |
IS IN ANECDOTES

Differ. | Small Volume_in London --
aN a ~-—1--— Gives Many Stories Not
In his informal talk on the “Purposé ot ;
| in_ Journal.

Hducation” in the rou. of
Goodhart Monday evening, Dr. Lake de- ‘NO
clared that the present trouble in educa-
“tion; ts that we~are-emleavoring to” dk
two entirely différent things at onee. We q
are attempting to sujaply people with both
mental training and
tion.

There are very to the
amount of mental training a person can

common



WOMAN'S MAN

When~ asked-to~-speak~ about ~ James
Boswell at Bryn Mawr, Dr, Channcey B.
| Tinker said that he felt a certain dismay

informa- | ‘ ; Py eee ee
(at the idea of speaking about him to

necessary

because Boswell was certainly
Dr. Tinker, Sterling

| women,

definite limits

| nota woman’s man,

assithilate. Just as you can train your | Professor at. Yale, spoke in the -audi-
body up to a Sertain point, 804 you can | | forium at Seodhans Friday evening, Oc-
make your faculties’ reach a certain level |

teber 26. He went on.to. say that Bos-

beyond which it is impossible for them |
to go, Training in a subject. usually only.
gives you ability in that subject. Hoty-
ever, there are four subjects which have
more general application in that they
serve as gymnastic exercises, for the
whole mind. Two of these are included
mathematic

| well lacked dignity; whereas women want
jmen to be dignified, forceful, and prac-
tical. A contemporary described Boswell
|.as having “great vanity and great absurd-
_ity, conviviality and quickness-of compre-
tension.” He -was a man who would
rather be laughed at than not noticed.
He knew he was absurd, and paraded his
absurdity before his friends, a. Scots
Falstaff lost in the eighteenth century.

' It is ‘most interesting in the ‘study of
literature to penetrate the literary art of
great genius. If we can betray him

Which teaches you .to_get behind words
“and figures to realities; and (atin prose
composition, which is very difficult,
it forces*you to get behind words to #he
thoughts which thev often

Outside the college curriculum there 1s | @

since

so conceal.

chess. which exacts clear thinking | into revealing his secrets, what a Bos-
through @omplicated situations; and | Wellian triumph we have! . Boswell had
btidge, which is a. little less intolved., extraordinary power of relating anec-

Other things are valuable as information. dotes, There is, in Lendon, a small

hut not.as training to the mind. volume of these anecdotes, entitled, by the
‘author, Boswelliana, with the subtitle 4
CONTINCED ON PAGE 6 Commonplace Book by James Boswell.



the odds were too great. The prelimi-
nary. honors had without doubt gone
to Smith.

Gradually the noise died down, but
only after official wet blankets had
heen waved for manv minutes. - The
distinguished, judges. Dr. Swindler, Dr
Gray, Dr. M. Diez, were safely seated
in thé frent row, the somewhat pertur-
bed looking debaters were settled on

The. class ‘of
four ballots, which’ seems to be quite
days

the platform; serious business was cept lacrosse.
about to begin. M. Speer, '29, intro- {| Baer bas not held than ‘those’ that she
duced the subject of the debate: “Re.

solved that Alfred E. Smith would
make the ‘best President of the United
States. And then she introduced E.
Fry ’29 as the first speaker for the af-
firmative. - Miss Fry. discussed the
major issues of the. campaign and_ laid
especial emphasis. on: Smith’s more
liberal and ‘dynamic. policies... She. had

Monday.

Wy ndham fast year.





_Sophomores Saaalily Elect
: Baer, Bel! and Sylvia Scott

1931 succeeded in electing Elizabeth Baer president atter

Miss Baer was the vice-president of the class last ycar,
government board both years, was captain of the class water polo and basket-_
ball teams last year, played on varsity basketball, and all her class teams ¢x-
4 In short, it is almost casier to enumerate the offices that Miss

Helen Bell was elected vice-president at the meetingon-the following
Miss Bellis the class-representative to Undergrad this year. and was
on the committee for the Freshman Show.

- The “secretary was. unanimously chosen: to be Lois’ Thurston.
present. treasurer of the self-government board, and was the fire captain of

Sylvia Scott was then elected song mistress, but as she was not at the
meeting. we were unable to ascertain her previous offices, though we do re-
member her plays and stories in the Lantern. .

‘According ‘to- Johnson's definition, “An
anecdote is something as yet unpublished,
a bit of secret history.’ , Boswell believed
ithat the gathering of such bits was the |
peculiar task of the biographer, and that
in sufficient quantity they might present
a view of literary men in England for
wht ‘a century.
~ volume, Boswelliana, was not, as
icone might have’ imagined it to bé, a por-
j tron of his journal. In it we find: few
ireferences. to Johnson—It _ is ‘just a
| jumble of stories, in no particular order,
although one does find odd sequences
relating -to a single person or event. It”
was made. up of loose--sheets on which
Poswell made ‘entries, some of them care-
| fully written up, as/ if for future use,
others mere jottings,. scraps of remin-
iscence. When these sheets became num-

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