College news, March 8, 1933

The College News

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VOL: XIX,:No. 14: *

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1933

COLLEGE

Copyright BRYN MAWR
NEWS

PRICE 10 CENTS

, 1933





Saks Presents Showing
of Spring Fashions



New. Hats Are. Bizarre; Suits
Jaunty; Evening Jackets
Turn Military



PARIS COPIES ‘SHOWN

On .Thursday, March 2, Saks—
Fifth Avenue, of New York City, pre-
' nted a showing of the spring fash-
ions from their Petites Modernes
shop in the Common Room of Good-
hart, under the duspices of the Col-
lege News and the Lantern. This
new shop is sponsored by alumnae
of the various women’s colleges of
the East, and is contributing a per
cent of the profits on all sales toward
scholarships funds for each of the
six colleges involved. Bryn Mawr
was greatly privileged in having the.
- first showing here, as the costumes
displayed had not even been seen by
the press. Bryn Mawr students
modeled, assisted in the sale of ac-
cessories th the May Day Room, and
co-operated with the Saks’ managers f
in Alirecting the whole showing.



The dresses and suits that were
displayed were those that are spon-
sored by Saks as illustrative of spring
fashion, and many of them were cop-
ies of Schiaparelli and Patou models.
It would be impossible to describe
and comment on every costume, but
some of the innovations were too
startling to be passed without men-
tion. One of the most unusual feat-
ures of the showing was the new line
of hats, high-crowned and often of |
fabric straw or simply of knitted |
fabrics. If last season’s hats might be
said to perch, these have hardly
alighted. The angles are precarious
and very jaunty, to say the least.
They suit excellently the jaunty
spring suits, many of which are in
the famous pepper-and-salt check
that has been revived this season.
One of the most striking models in
the show wore a_ black-and-white
checked, tailored suit, with a high
white ascot, tied right under her chin,
and the new Agnes beret—which is
a knitted affair, fitting close to the
head, and terminating in four out-
rageous peaks at the very top, add-
ing inches to the ordinary stature of
the wearer and making her look for
all the world like Mercury about to
take off. Other striking suits had
capes that fell just below the waist
over skirts of matching material and
tailored flannel jackets of contrasting
solid oclor. These suits were also of
checked woolens.

Evening jackets were a great feat-
ure of the collection, and many Paris
copies were shown. , They are all very
military, except. for the femininely
puffed sleeves, which accent the
broadness of the shoulder and the
slimness of the waist. Some of them
have three-quarter puff sleeves, some
full-length, and some elbow-length.
All of them puff somewhere. Some of

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Cast of Lady Windemere’s Fan
The following cast for Lady
Windemere’s Fan has been an-
nounced by Mrs. William Flex-
ner (Magdalene Hupfel), di-
rector of the spring Varsity
Dramatics play. The Princeton
cast will be announced next
week.
Lady Windemere,

Janet Marshall,

Duchess of Berwick,
Miriam Dodge,
Lady Agatha..Betty Lord,

Lady Plymdale,
Margaret Kidder,
Lady Jedborough,
Marie-Luise Elliot,
Lady Stutfield,

Elizabeth Morrison,

’ Mrs. Cowper-Cowper,
Barbara Kort,

Mrs. Erlynne,

Honora Bruere,
...-Madelyn Brown,

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Greece before 700 B. C. An Aegean

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CALENDAR |
Thursday, Margh 9:. Geor- |
gina Pope Yeatmdn will speak |!
on Architecture and Landscape |
Gardening in the Common
Room at 5.15 P. M. ~« |)
Saturday, March 11: Bryn |
Mawr ist and 2nd Basketball . |;
teams vs. Rosemont Ist and -])
2nd at 0.00 A. M.
Suni, March 12: Chapel.
Dr. Rufus Jones will speak in
the Music Room at 7.30 P. M.
Tuesday, March 14: Mr.
Frank Lloyd Wright will speak
on Modern Architecture in the
Common Room.



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Dr. Carpenter Inspects
Date, Origin of Greek



Evidence Indicates Absence of
Alphabet in Greece
in 700 B. C.

VERIFIES NEW THEORY

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“Tt would be hard to know what |

really happened when the Greeks be- |
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gan to write,” said Dr. Rhys Carpen- |

| Source

* Cah of Freshman Show





Madelyn Brown,



Margaret Kidder, Anne Reese,







Peggy. Veeder,





Honora Bruere, Barbara Baxter, Doreen Canaday, Eleanor
Fabyan, dane- Matteson, Ellen Stone.
‘Lantern Needs Greater’ Old- Clothes
Anyone having any old

Field of Experiment



in

of Strength Lies

Unique Personai Interest

’ Here Possible



ter last Friday evening, when he de-| ‘SLIGHT AMBITION NOTED

livered the Horace White Memorial |
Lecture in Goodhart Hall, “but mod-!
ern archeologists have recently put |
forth a hypothesis which defies the |
theories of the old classicists con- |
cerning the dates of the origin of ‘the |
Greek alphabet and of the art of |
writing.”
being refuted by means ‘of the gen-

eral evidénce of history, epigraphic
archeology; ancient tradition and or-|
dinary common sense.

A renewed examination of the facts |
was occasioned by the discovery, fifty |
years ago, on the island of Cyprus, ;
of an ancient bronze bowl, bearing’
an inscription in letters which re-
sembled those of both the Greek and |
the Phoenician alphabets, proclaiming |
that the Governor of the Phoenician |
settlement of Arcitium was a vassal|
of Hiram, King of the Sidonians.
was immediately thought to refer to}

This |

Hiram, King of Tyre and Sidon, who |
sold cedar-wood to Solomon for the}
Temple. At first the bowl was dated |
by his reign, 969-936 B. C., and the|
birth of the alphabet set at the same’!
time, although the earliest writings
dates from the seventh century. The,
Phoenicians were called Sidonians,
from the name of their greatest city,'
but in the tenth century.a man such
as the Biblical Hiram, King of Tyre
and Sidon, was probably not king)
over his entire race. Since, however,
this might have been true in the;
eighth or ninth century, the archeol-
ogists examined the court annals of
Tiglath-Pileser III, and found a list
of the Sidonian kings from 1000-700
B. C., among. whom was.a Hiram II,
who reigned in 740 B. C.. This date
has been selected for the bowl. Fur-
ther proof of the accuracy of this)

date is to be found in the Mohabite'
Stone (850-840 B. C.), whjch tells)
how Ahab, King of Israel, declared
war on Judah. This inscription re-
sembles ‘archaic Greek ones, and is
thus obviously earlier than the Cy-|

prus ome, which bears a stronger re- |
semblance. to the later, classical |
Greek.

The evidence now seems to indi-
cate that there was no alphabet in

script had been in existence, but by
1000 B. C. the Greeks had lost the
art of using it. Consequently, the
eighth and ninth centuries were a
period of decline, and of oral tradi-
tion only. Gradually, however, an
alphabet was grafted from the Phoe-
nician, possibly in Cyprus. The pro-
cess was completed by 720, and a
knowledge of it had spread to dis-
tant points by 700. There could have
been no books for. fifty years at least,
so the earliest use of the new alpha-
bet in 680 was not in literature, ; but

rocks.
The antiquity of this rude writing
is proved by the fact that “accidents
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‘the banal.

| Love Thy Neighbor,

RET SREY

yj
‘make those cases human.

architecture, will speak in
: Goodhart on Tuesday, March
“14, on “The Future of Archi-



(Specially Contributed by Miss
Cornelia Meigs)

The Lantern, with its new, deco-

rated cover, is once more before us

and gives rise, by its presence, to the
consideration of certain questions.

| magazine? What are its advantages
and disadvantages in comparison with

| those of the periodicals in the com-
' petitive world?

Does :this magazine
of our own college fulfill its oppor-
tunities and its purposes?

One thing which we have a right

,to expect of such a journal is that

its average should be very high. We
should be able to sit down to read it

It comes out of a body

/of contributors who are clear-think-
|ing, vigorous and intelligent, and it

should never betray our trust in what
they can do. We donot expect from
them the finished performance of pro-
fessional writers; but we do look for

‘honesty of opinion and the vision of
‘real imaginatin.

While magazines in a larger field

/draw material from a larger circle 01

authors, all more expérienced and
some of them famous, a college peri-
odical has a source of strength which
not one of these others can possess.
This ig the power of personal inter-
est. All that we read in such a paper
as the Lantern is colored by our

knowledge of the people who carry

it on and who write for it. Our in-
terest does not have to be arrested;
it is already there. We find pleasure
in suecess and: feel anxiety over any
threat of failure, far more than we

' would ever concern ourselves about

any magazine-at-large.

In examining the February Lan-
tern in this light, it is scarcely possi-
ble to speak of all the contributions
except in brief review. The story,
has the atmo-
sphere of kindliness and gay bal-

‘| loons and sudden mischance, such as

only creative imagination can add
to Cooley’s Cases on Persons and
The action
moves a trifle slowly, “here and there,
just as it is slow in getting under
way in Justice and Mrs. White. That
tale arrives very satisfactorily at the
climax of the policeman’s unhappy
dilemma, but it might have arrived
sooner. There is the beauty of real
romance in the .two sonnets, Con-



Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright, archi-
tect of the famous‘ Imperial
Hotel in Tokio, and the great-
est genius of modern American

tecture”









The Homeric scholars are | | What is ,it we ask for in a college |



with the secure feeling that it will-be|! literature,

| free from the morbid, the showy, or

clothes or other useful articles
of apparel, or household goods
is urged to communicate with
Josephine Williams, Merion
Hall. Articles collected are to

* be sold at the Devon Horse
Show. for the. benefit of the
Bryn Mawr Hospital.









stance Cathedral and Jeanne D’Are.

To one who has a certain fondness:

for the much-worn English language
w.th all its imperfections, the con-
cluding expression of Sunspeck, the;
words “frisk flibbertigibbet,” gives
a sense of jarring. The little poem,
however, achieves a gay tempo suited
to its substance. The beginning of
The Root has some vagueness and al-
most too much of abstract idea, but
its later discussion has unusual and
beautiful phrasing. There is
tinctness and excellent character
the dialogue of Unsung.

in

That unsleeping enemy of all good
the printer’s devil, has
been peculiarly harsh with Portratt,
but has not been able to obscure the
fact that there -is much food for
thought in the sonnet and a stimulat-
ing fillip to one’s own ideas in the
last two lines. The two critical arti-

cles offer some really able opinions.
Mostly Murmurs makes the subtle
but sound point that Cavalcade is
truly enjoyable only to those whose

own memories can span the compass
of its history. The review of Ann
Vickers puts its finger upon the real
weakness of this type of novel, the
fact that characters are introduced
and dismissed merely as they serve
the narrative of a single person’s life
instead of being made interesting in
themselves. Lastly, the Board has
done well in extending the element of
personal interest into the advertis-
ing pages, so that, by means of some
very good pictures, we can associate
the offers of merchandise with the
people we know.

Does the character of the writing
in the Lantern, therefore, and in this
number of the Lantern, satisfy its
readers in. regard to those: things
which they have a right to expect of

it? Does it have good quality in gen-
eral, better qualities in particular;
does it have individuality and the

‘aspiration of effort which are more
interesting than smoothly perfect
performance? The answer might be
that it has exceedingly good work,
but, according to one opinion at least,
that work might be better. Not the
members of the Lantern Board,
the contributors upon whom _ they
must depend, could improve it great-
ly ‘by enlarging their field, by mak-
ing more ambitious attempts, even
at the risk of having»to destroy the
results a few times before achieving
what’ is. desired.
forms of poétry besides the free verse
and the sonnet, but who experiments
with them? At Bryn Mawr, every
girl acquires great gKill in criticising,
summarizing and telling about what
she reads. If she could exercise that
same faculty more freely upon what
she sees and feels, the Lantern, as a
‘result, might acon, with a brighter
light. :

dis- |

but |

There are other}

Freshman Show Sets _
Higher Standards
Show is. Like Comedy Drama
With Incidental, Songs;

‘Music Unusual



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SURPASSES PREDECESSORS



This year’s freshman show,
sented Saturday, March 4, in Good-
hart, is so far superior to any Fresh-
man Show we have ever seen in. col-
lege that we hesitate even to criticize

it. Judged by the standards of past
freshman shows, there is little to be
said about it, save that it seemed to
be the ideal toward which the per-
formances of the last four years, at
least, have been striving. Judging by
the standards which it set itself-—and
there can- be no higher praise than to
say that it set riew standards—there
is a great deal to be said, and» we
shall try to say it.

The show as a whole this year was
more like a play, with incidental
songs and even more incidental chor-
uses than has been the tradition in
the near past. It was more compact
in plot, more interesting in charac-
terization, and more finished in line;
but it did lose the opportunity. that
the typical musical comedy show af-
fords of putting a great number of
the class into the show, and giving
everyone who has any talent a chance
| to show what she can and cannot do.
| It was perhaps a better show because
it. did not do just this, but we feel
that there is a question here that fu-
ture freshman classes might well con-
sider. Also, so like a play was it,
that, when the chosen few did arise to
sing. or dance, we were almost shock-
ed at this musical comedy convention
in what we had just accepted as com-
edy drama. The great exception to
this was the first act, where the lines
and the songs and the choruses fol-
lowed one. another with an ease. and
a charm that was definitely Gilbert
and Sullivan. If this touch had been
maintained throughout the show, it
would have gained not only in even-
ness, but in effectiveness.





Play by play the show had its high
spots and its low spots. It hegan
in high; Madelyn Brown as the pe-
tite maid, and Sally Park as the
butler—whose accent baffled us for
Guite a while—were enchanting. The
large feather duster was a touch we
shall not soon forget. The opening
song was a triumph of Gilbert and
Sullivan technique; Marian Chapman,
who wrote all the music for the show,

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League Plans Trip to
Social Service Center

(Especially Contiyibuted by
Susan Torrance)

A transition into the carefree
world of the ‘Children’s Village’’: is
offered to all those who wish to join
the Bryn Mawr League’s next visit
to social service centers this Thurs-
day afternoon. The “Village,” a
unique experiment in recreation, is
inhabited and governed for two after;
noons a week by four hundred of
Philadelphia’s slum children.

With their vivid imaginations they
turn themselves into miniature fami-
lies, storekeepers, school teachers,
firemen, policemen, judges, lawyers,
mayors, congressmen, doctors, nurses,
and manufacturers, and imitate in an
idealistic way the civics. of the real
world in which they will soon :take
an important part. This “game” has
been going on for 10 or more years
and has become well known as one of
the outstanding projects in social
work with children.

Everyone is cordially invited to ob-
serve this interesting event at the
playground on Thursday, March 9.

This is the second trip sponsored
by the League. The first one to the
Light House proved to be a delight-
ful, informal and therefore especially
fascinating way of diseovering just
what is being done for the many less
fortunate people in the city.



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- marks.



vets and taffeta — something that
holds its shape and. gives a definitive.
ness to the lines of the coat, which

Saks Presents Showing
of Spring Fashions

Neco



“tens.

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them button across in short surplice
effects; some of the longer ones but-
ton all. the way to the top, ending
with a flaring revere at the shoul-
der; but all of them button up snug-
ly, and the day of the thrown-around
wrap would seem to be over tempor-
Le arily. The materials — are stiff, vel- |

ok



is usually worn over a soft flowing
chiffon. Black and white are the fav-

orite colors because these jackets
are worn over many spring evening
and dinner dresses, but they come in
bright shades also. Of the evening
dresses in the collection, it may be
said that prints are with us again
‘another spring, and ‘that wiles flow-

/WIT?S END

TARDINESS REWARDED, ,OR
WHY WAIT FOR THE
MAILMAN?

As the clock struck nine, I filled my

“pen,
Resolved for once to be on time,
But yet I found myself again
Indulging in my daily crime.
I stood in the receiving line
* Of those awaiting the morning
mail; ‘

The minutes pass and still no sign
Of him expected without fail. —
At ten minutes after, the front door

squeaked;
With one accord we stretched our
hands
And listened to the lucky names—at
last
Among them, my own; not on the
sands
Had I built my hopes!
- in’ Class, +
After boldly sce the lecturer’s
frown
I found my letter an add for cut glass.
cut glass.





But arrived

—Pfiffle.



FRESHMAN FAUNA
The bean’s come out, come out of the
bag :
With a wink of. its eye and a wag
Of its head—or again does it own
Such, or merely make moan
With weary vermicular motion
Like a mollusk at sea in the ocean?
Or with apathy epic and stoic,
Emulating the higher-ups zoic,
Does this organism sentient
(Target for sarcasm trenchant)
Come a-jumping to Bryn Mawr
From its torrid honie afar
To be taught, domesticated,
To be honored, estimated?

No! It comes for sophomores to
snipe, 4

To make science majors grump and
gripe,

For me to offer sour grapes

To the perpetrators of the japes:

Think of blue blazers in future seen

Adorned with that gorgeous jumping
bean,

With contour blank and round and
mystic,

Doubtless of ’86 symbolistic!

—Campusnoop.



THE QUESTION OF THE HOUR

We now feel called upon to draw

Attention to a serious flaw

In ’36’s recent choice

Of animal; we raise our voice

To point the true idéntity «

Of the jumping bean, and show that
he

Is the seed of a Mexican bean that’s
called

- Euphorbia, and within is walled

The larva of a moth; you see,

So that’s what the animal. really
should be.

And the only name this moth com-
mands

If carpocapsa saltitans.

And now, dear Freshmen, tell me
how

You’ll change your song and so allow

The proper title to be seen

Of your miscalled Mexican jumping
bean?

And also, tell me how you'll make

Your class’s badge, for goodness’
sake? ’

And finally, will you please explain

Just why the Evens never deign

To pick a -seemly, noble pet

For which they’ll never have regret,

With which the animal kingdom’s
rife—

But choose the lower forms of life?

—Adamant Eve.



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Apparently. we need to learn ~

The dubious zooid hard to spurn
And let alone the Vermes’ turn.
Cheero,

‘ —THE MAD HATTER.



ery materials are still good, candy
stripes and plaids are even better.
The newest evening clothes are high
in the back and lower in the front,
or sometimes, as in one striking mod-
el, high ‘all the way around and al-
most. Puritan in line.

Daytime dresses have pleats hidden
in skirts and sleeves and even in the
yokes of the back.’ They have, if
they are tailored, wide reveres and
military lines.
and odd wooler
‘weave that h

such as the waffle
been ech a sensa-





nts are good, too,

Freshman Show Sets @ .
New, Higher Standards



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is especially to be congratulated for
this and the next two songs. Frances
Porcher as Hermes was as charming
an actress as we have. seen on the
Goodhart stage in a long time; she
has grace, personal charm, and a
lovely speaking voice. She is not a
singer, but then neither was any one
else in the cast. It is to be wondered
at that there was not a good singing
voice in the whole cast, or if there
was, and we had our suspicions that
Miss :Stone might have one, stage-
fright or bronchial trouble ruined it
Saturday night.

high spot. We noticed at this time
especially what a high standard of
excellence both in costuming and in
staging had been maintained through-
out. The costumes were not spoiled
by the usual complexity of design
and carelessness of execution that
mars.so many freshman productions.
The staging was extremely clever all
the way through, and we point with
pride to the lighting effects, which
would have been impossible without
the new equipment in Goodhart. The
freshmen were the first college group
to use the new lights, and they made
good use of their opportunities.

To return to the play by play ac-
count, Miss Bruere held the stage
from now until the end of the act,
with serious competition only from
the helmet of Dr. T. Pallas Athena
and from the doctrines Artemis haa
learned at Bryn Mawr on the sub-
jects of the superfluousness. of men.
Miss Bruere we have already con.
gratulated as one of the collaborators
in the book of the play. She and
Miss Kidder showed remarkable
knowledge of the stage in their manu-
script, and no little literary skill be-
sides; we hope that the next play-
writing class may count them among
its hopeful dramatists.

As an actress Miss Bruere showed
much the same type of skill. .She
has far and away the greatest ex-
perience of anyone in the cast; it
showed in her stage technique, her

fvoice, her presence, and praise be, in

her movements. She and Miss Per-
kins, who played Aphrodite, walked
with more ease and grace than we
have seen on an amateur stage. in a
long time. It was a pleasure to watch
them. Miss Bruere easily dominated
the stage by her height, her greater
experience, and_her voice, which is
unusually well-controlled and _ fine
tonally. Our criticism of her-is that
with all her experience, she used lit-
tle of it in restraint of emotions that
did not fit into her characterization.
She is undoubtedly very versatile,
but any director would have told her
not to use the small tid-bits of real
drama, pathos, and melodrama, that
fell her way, to show off her abilities.
She -was playing a comedy role and
she would have made a clearer char-
acterizatiom if she had not blurred
it by putting in touches that did not
fit into it. Most of these fell in the
last act, when for a time we were in
deadly fear lest this swperb comedy
degenerate before our eyes into sob-
bing scenes of sacrifice and reconcili-
ation. We and the rest of the audi-
ence roared with delight when we
were rescued abruptly from such a
fate by the lovely final embrace of
Zeus and Hera, the latter on her own
two feet and the former on a chair
which brought him up to and well
above her.

_ Other performances of unusual
merit were those of Ellen Stone as
Thyrsis and of Doreen Canaday. as
Zeus.. The former was realy beguil-
ing in her song about the “little mud-
hut”—the high-point melody of the
whole score. Here again the chorus
appeared and with such great suc-
cess, that we wonder why there was
not more opportunity for the chorus

(Continued on Page Four)



‘tion in Paris, are coming in. Or-
gandy is a favorite trim, used in
ruffs and ruffles that offset the sever-
ity of the lines of the new clothes.
Jackets that slip over these street
dresses have (like the evening jack-
ets) wide shoulders, puffed sleeves,
and tailored bodices. They are as
different from last spring’s styles as
the hats, and it looks like a great
deal ‘of work for any one who decides
to ‘bring last ‘spring's wardrobe up-
to-date.



The entrance of Hera was another |.



IN PHILADELPHIA



Chestnut Street: A Trip to Press-
burg, with Roger Pryor and Kath-
erine Wilson—the German drama put
into a superb translation of ten
scenes, and elaborate decorations.

Garrick: The old story of The
Queen’s Husband, with Maurice Col-
bourne and Barry Jones. This pro-
duction of Sherwood’s very amusing
comedy has just come from London.
Recommended.

' 69th Street Playhouse: ' The Easy
Mark, with Cledge Roberts and Vir-
ginia Curley. A comedy drama that
is good- for an afternoon or evening
of gentle ‘amusement. ‘

: Coming—March 13

Garrick: Philadelphia will see for
the first time George Bernard Shaw’s
rather feeble Too True To Be Good.
Without Beatrice Lillie and Hope
Williams we hate to think.

Academy of Music

‘Philadelphia Orchestra: Friday,
March 10, at 2.30, and Saturday eve-
ning, March 11, at 8.20; Leopold Sto-

kowski conducting. Program:
Branmis—. visas eis Symphony No. 4
in _E. Minor
MOON. ition os ees cae Chaconne
Bh: cia ks Chorale from Easter
Cantata
Bach .......... Toccata and Fugue
in D Minor

Concert for Youth: ‘Thursday,
March 9, at 8.20. Leopold Stokowsk’
will conduct.

Movies

Boyd: John Barrymore in Topaz,
with Myrna Loy. The sycophant
French school-teacher learns that all
is not gold that glitters, and ends
up by breezily doing in his unscrupu-
lous employer for a fortune, and Miss
Loy. Fairly good, but not up to the
play.

Stanley: The world premiere of
Forty-second Street—a musical revue
film full of stars, and not as good as
it should be. The street is synthetic,
and ‘the actors a little less.

Earle: Ben Bernie holds forth in
vaudeville, while Joan Blondell is the
Mrs. Scarface, who«is the menace be-
hind the underworld Chester Morris in
Blondie Johnson. Some good spots
and a novel idea.

Locust Street: Noel Coward’s pan-
orama of the twentieth century con-
tinues to please and displease—Cav-
alcade continues to be much discuss-
ed. We think it is a great picture.

Fox: A creaky tale in which the
ethics of the medical profession of
two generations are contrasted. Ralph
Morgan is the-father and Alexander
Kirkland the son in Humanity.

Karlton: The age-old tale of No
Other Woman, or the effects of riches
upon the domestic happiness of a man
and wife. With Charles Bickford and
Gwili Andre.

Stanton: Nancy Carroll in Child
of Manhattan—the wide-eyed “child”
gets into a life complicated by three
men, none of whom mean particular-
ly well.

Europa: A powerful tale in which
a ship is the heroine and the crew
her supporting cast. Cruiser Emden
—the tale of this famous German

raider. Excellent. ~°
Local Movies
Ardmore: Wednesday, Boris Kat-

loff in The Mummy, with Zita Jo-
hann; Thursday and Friday, Carole
Lombard and Walter Connolly in No
More Orchids; Saturday, Dangerous-
ly Yours, with Warner Baxter, Mir-
iam Jordan and Herbert Mundin;
Monday and Tuesday, Nancy Carroll’
in Hot Saturday, with Cary Grant;
Wednesday and Thursday, The Bitter
Tea of General Yen, with Barbara
Stanwyck.

Seville: Wednesday and Thurs-
day, The Match King, with Warren
William and Lili Damita; Friday and
Saturday, James Cagney in Hard To
Handle, and Explorers of the World;
Monday and Tuesday, The Half-
Naked Truth,» with Lee Tracy and
Lupez Velez; -Wednesday and Thurs-
day, The Face in the Sky, with Spen-
cer Tracy and Marian Nixon.
--Wayne: /Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Frisco Jenny, with Ruth Chat-
terton; Friday and Saturday, Her-
bert Marshall in Evenings For Sale,
with Sari Maritza and Charles Rug-

gles; Monday and Tuesday, Hot
Pepper, with Edmund ‘Lowe and Vic-
tor McLaglen; Wednesday and
Thursday, Boris Karloff

in The.
Mummy, with “Zita. Johann. Se


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‘Page Three





Varsity Defeats St.
Joseph Team 36-31
Should Complete Season With

Undefeated Teams: Second
Team Also Wins





MANY FOULS CALLED



In the closest and most exciting
game as yet played this season, the
Bryn Mawr. Varsity defeated - the
Mount St. Joseph basketball team,
36-31.

The ‘fact that the St. Joseph team
used signals and had unusually good
team-work gave them a lead of eight
points at the end of the first quarter.
Longacre was slow in getting the tip-
off, while Faeth and Collier were not
up to their usual standard of co-
operation. Line violations and_pen-
alties were called many times on both
teams and only the seeming inability
of the St. Joseph forwards to find
the range of the basket prevented
Varsity’s complete defeat.

In the third quarter, the co-opera-
tion between Faeth and Collier seem-
ed much improved, while the passing
and shooting were quick” and fairly
accurate. In the last quarter, how-
ever, St. Joseph forged into the lead
when Bridgman was forced out of
the game on fouls. Her position as
guard was taken by McCormick, a
second team forward, and, as a re-
sult, Healy piled up a lead of several
points before the Bryn Mawr for-
wards rose to the occasion and came
from behind to win in the last four
minutes of play.

St. Josephs’ teamwork and easy
handling of the ball were a pleasure
to watch, while the tenseness of the
last few minutes left the spectators
in a state of excitemen bordering on
collapse.

The line-up was. as follows:

St. Joseph Bryn Mawr
POALY ss Pi te Ave Collier
Neguery, ...... Lote ean. Faeth
LST] C19 agree Ob Longacre
BLOWN 5 esi es §, ¢. i... Remington
Pitzpatriok 4 yg. Bridgman
TQ0e Gea Lyte ee es Jackson

Substitutions—B. M.:
for Bridgman. :

McCormick



In the second game, Nichols and
. Collins at the center court—positions
were largely responsible for Bryn
Mawr’s victory. They kept the ball
from getting into the all-too-accurate
hands of the St. Joseph’s forwards
and centered the play in Bryn Mawr
’ territory most of the time. Meirs
and Baker had a hard time making
baskets and Meirs especialy had diffi-
culty in getting the ball over the head
of her guard. The second half was
much faster and Bryn Mawr tallied
twenty-four points to St. Joseph’s
eighteen. As in the first team gamé,
there was a great deal of fouling on
both sides, which was due almost en-
tirely to the excitement“and speed of
the game. The score ended 37-29 in
favor of Bryn Mawr.
The line-up was as follows:

St. Joseph Bryn Mawr
OM 44 r. f. ....McCormick
SOON Vins. ccs Me eed Meirs
GO (Foe frcrae Nichols
MUGUOR bi co SiC. hevicias Collins
MeCioaky ..... Pe eel Bisho,
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| tion is to be made-by chance, the
| warriors put pebbles into a hat. which
||have b@en scratched with crude
‘marks. Homer’s gnarrative is pre-
| classic; his people, ‘who were unmis-
|takably illiterate, lived and breathed
iin the eighth and ninth centuries, a

Dr Carpenter Five mines | period of decay, although many of

‘the legends and _ shadowy remi-
Date, Origin bk Greek |

‘niscences of the past date from the
twelfth .century, which was not as

» |reugh as Homer’s.. This is that per-
do not destroy rocks, and the earliest jod of 300 years during which there
ones found must be the earliest ones| was, no writing. Homer, as we now
written.” Moreover, “when the; have his work, written down and edit:
Greeks learned. to write, they wrote | ed’ in 560 B. C., in the Athens of









(Continued from Page One)

| as children who have just learned’ Lysistratys, was an accumulation of

their letters, and have not yet fully; numerous oral traditions, which were
grasped the potentialities of the new | recited to music by bards from mem-
medium.” Writing was next used to | ory.s It “was probably only written
make inventories of temple equip-' down because, according to a fourth
ment and property. The lists were century document, at festivals one
arranged iff the briefest d. most! poet must begin where his -predeces-
serviceable form, for no one bothered sor left off, and confusion and inco-
write down what could be remem-| herence often resulted.
bered equally well. In 660, one finds} Jt js upon the epics of Homer that
the first written laws, formulated by | the classicists have based their proofs

King Salucus. They toncerned such | that ihe Gresks kihew, how é6 walle

endars, and olive groves, and were set | pletely overlooked, however, one of
up on stone tablets in the market-| what Dr. Carpenter calls the “com-
places. ;mon sense” proofs, which’ is contain-
By 640 papyrus had been invented | ed in the poetry itself—the Jliad and
and Archillicus, a man of letters, ap- i the Odyssey were part of a great body
peared. He was the first man to|of oral literature.
write down his poetry. His work—| The new dates for the introductig
witty, concise, compact, and as care- | of the Phoenician alphabet into the
fully worked over as a marble statue; Greek domain, for the beginning of
might be—is classified with the monu- | writing, and for the founding of a
mental style, which took literary form | national literature form the ground
chiefly in epigrams and elegies. In! upon which the modern archeologists

these, rhetoric was carefully ae

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The adoption of the art of writing |
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An easy-going colloquial or oral
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regard for rhetoric, such as was used |
by Homer, had been the chief style,
before the adoption of writing. That |
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and makes no mention of it, was early |
pointed out by Aristotle, the first of |
the ancient critics. When in the sev- |
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' Freshman Show Sets, .
New, Higher Standards



(Continued from .Page Two)

after that. The two appearances did
great credit not only to the individ-
ual members, but al.o to the costume-
mistress, Miss Manship, and the di-
rector . of choruses, Miss Brown.
There should have been more dancing,
or at least more specialty divertisse-
ments, during the last act and a half.

Miss Canaday as Zeus had her mo-,

ments of really excellent comedy, and
moments when she was sadly in need
of direction. That is another criti-
cism we feel must b2 made. Miss
Bruere’s. own scenes. were carried
very smoothly, despite a few forgot
ten lines, which were nobly ad-libbed,
but otherwise (and here again we ex-
cept the first act) there was a sad
need ‘of diregtion. Miss Canaday,
Miss Stone, and Miss Matteson, the
charming Daphne, are not experi-
enced actresses, but they all have po-
tentialities that seemed to us undevel-
oped. Scenes such as that between
Daphne and Thyrsis, and Daphne and
Zeus, suffered_in-the-first-place-from
plain lack of direction and in he
last from a. combination of that and
a very difficult song for two inex-
perienced voices to sing.







than when the latter sang alone. It
was good music, and it was certainly
unusual music, but it was also very
difficult music. Another instance of
this lack of direction, or at least lack
of rehearsal, was in the dedicatory
chorus; here the idea was excellent,
the costuming effective, and the song
most unusual (and again difficult).
The young Grecians did their parts
with charming gravity and when they
failed to start with the music from
back-stage, their presence was really
monumental. Our heroism medal for
the month goes to the brave soul who

“wandered off into the wings to beg

for a new deal.

The freshman show, then, was a
new kind of freshman show, different
and, in most respects, better than its
predecessors. It has set a new stand-
ard and on that standard we have
tried to judge it. The honors of the
pe:formance, in our estimation, go



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we have not had space to give the

full mgasure.of praise this part of the
performance deserves; all honor to
them), to Miss Brown as director of
the choruses and as a very capable
actress herself; to Miss Manship as
customer (and fo whomever made the
helmets of Pallas and Cleopatra es-
pecially); again to Marjorie Gold-
wasser and to Anne Reese, the former
for her work as stage manager, and
the latter as Nero and as electrician;
to’ Mis; Chapman for a new kind of
Freshman Show music, and as _ act-
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tHe chorus supported. the. principals | Wednesday before.,a wildly enthusias- | |.

tic audience that very nearly took the
roof off the Selwyn Theatre when |
Miss Bankhead swept onto the stage.
The comedy deals with a very so-
phisticated young thing who is
“stood up” at the altar’s actual edge
by a Yale man (who later repents,
claiming that he was momentarily
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ride up and into the Palisades) and
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