College news, December 18, 1929

VOL. XVI, NO. 10°



Ne





feeetnninn si







BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY: DEC. 18, 1929 “

pseeecetereenereseeeernprate

=——=£__=£==_===





Whitehead Coming on

‘Flexner Foundation |



- Famous Sahistanilen and Phil.

= feopher: Atrives on
’ January 6.

DESIRES. CONFERENCES



In Tuesday Chapel Acting-President
Manning announced the Mary . Flexner
Foundation Lectures to be given by Pro-

‘ fessor Alfred North Whitehead, of Har-

vard University. Mr. Whitehead will be
at Bryn Mawr during the Harvard read-

ing periods, from January 6 to 19, and
froni. May 4 to 18. Professor Whitehead
was for many years a “shining light” in
the faculty of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, England, and since 1924 he has
held an’ appointment at Harvard. He is
a leading philosopher of our age, and he
has turned his thought to the most im-
portant intellectual problems with which
our period must deal. He is primarily a
mathematician, but one to whom other
mathematicians must look up. He came
to Bryn Mawr when the College was

holding a celebration ‘fo essor Char-
lotte A. Scott, of the wr faculty,
possibly the greatest wofhan mathema-

tician that has ever lived. Mr. White-

_head—_revealed—an—extraordinary—gift—for

“not so rhuch interested in particular prob-|-

stating the-relationships of scientific prob-
lems with philosophic thought. He tried
to relate the most abstruse conceptions of
science with the universal scheme of
things ; he showed the need of a higher
standard by which things may be placed
in the universal scheme of thought, and
he made scientific concepts more enlight-
ening to the layman. His books ‘con-
tain the essence of his philosophy, seeing
modern theory in relation to our gerteral
thought on philosophic problems. He is

lems of social science or political organi-
zation as in a general scheme by which
we can think in the modern world.
Everyone should try to arrange eve-
nings of leisure during the time which
Professor Whitehead will give to Bryn
Mawr. He has an especial ability for
discussing difficult problems with those
much less prepared to discuss them than
he, and he has asked particularly that he
should have opportunity to talk with|
graduate and undergraduate students.
Those of the undergraduates who are in-
terested in putting themselves in contact

'. with a mighty intellect and a charming

- result he has miade’ his pe

personality--wiil- appreciate ~tie: -opporti}

nity for informal discussion with him.
Professor Whitehead
(Specially contributed)
The second series‘of lectures on the
Mary Flexner Foundation: are to be
given by Professor Alfred North White-

-head, of Harvard University, one of the

three or four most eminent. thinkers of
our fime. Professor Whitehead is an
Englishman, formerly of -Trinity College,
Cambridge. He first’ won distinction as
a mathematician, partly by his’ work in
theoretical physics and partly .by his in-
vestigations in the logical foundations of
mathematics. In, 1919 his Principles of
Natural Knowledge was published, con-
taining the first draft of a highly original
system of metaphysics, and since that.time
he has been one of the most influential
leaders’ of philosophical thought. In 1924
he came to the United States at the in-
vitation of ‘Harvard Universi





In. the last
ten several semi-

on this
five years

popular. books which. have made an

extarordinary impression ; and now within
the last few months a new systematic
account of his philosophy, Process and
Reality, has appeared. ~The title indicates
one of the principal ideas of the system:
that the real world is not _analyzable into
a_ multitude of atomic elements, each_of
which remains unchanged internally, but
consists throughout of processes, and the
last products of analysis are elementary
events. _Professor Whitehead might have

taken as his motto the saying of Heracli-

tus, “One cannot step twice into the same

ey a,

‘sive and magnificent.

Miracle Plays -
‘ Are Described

_ Miss Carey, speaking in chapel, said:
“T spoke last week about the developing
-| of the medieval drama from the service
of the Church, and in England. of its
passing out of the hands of the clergy
into those of the Trade Guilds. There
remains to say something of the. presen-
tation and composition of the plays.

“When a guild took over a play it be-
came its own property. Its members
were responsible for outfitting the pageant
or wagon which served as a moveable
stage; for getting the costumes; for
training their own men as actors and
for paying them; and lastebut not least,
for rewriting and improving the text of
the play itself. Fortunately, we have left
enough records from the account books
of the guilds to give us a pretty good
idea of what they did.

“The most eomplete records of all are
from Coventry, preserved to.us in an old
but ‘very exciting book, Thomas Sharp’s



Dissertation on the Coventry Mysteries,

published in 1823. In this we find the
most detailed and amusing accounts of
expenditures for everything connected
with the giving of the plays. From these
we know what.the performers wore, what
they ate before and after rehearsals, what
they were paid, ‘and a good many details
about the actual writing ae rewriting
or the texts, --« meet

“When certain plays came to a ‘con-

hected with a town, people came from far
and near on the day in which they were
performed, including members of the
royal family.. So we have a record that
Richard II was entertained with a spe-
cial pageant when he visited York in
1397. Sixty years later elaborate refresh-
ments were prepared for Queen Mar-
garet on her visit to Coventry, including
‘ij cofyns of counfetys and’a Pot of grene
gynger.’
“With so much excitement over the
plays, the separate guilds had every rea-
son in the world to make,them impres-
We know that a
great deal of -care was taken over the
acting. An order at York in 1476 di-
rected the choice of a body of ‘connyng,
discrete, and able players’ to test the
quality of those selected as actors. They
were to ‘discharge, ammove, and avoide’
all ‘insufficient personnes, either in
connyng,. voice or personne.’

“The actors themselves ingluded many
amusing people. Minstrels were often
hired. In 1573 in the Coventry records
one Fauston is paid 4d. ‘for hangyng

Judas’ and~another~ 4d: “for Coc croy~

ing.’ The drapers paid 5s. ‘to iij whyte
sollys,’ 5s. to ‘ij. blake sollys, and 16d.
‘to ij wormes of conscyence.’

“The amounts paid to the unimportant
actors are interesting: eight virgins were
paid 8d.; to Gabriel goes 4d. ‘for berying
the lilly’; to the ship-child in the Noah
play is given ld.

“The wages of the main actors are not
consistent in the various records. Mary
is given two shiflings, but this includes
her gloves and wages. Noah and his
wife have 1-6—I. doubt not that the. 6d
went to the wife. The man who takes
the part of God gets any amount from
10 pence to three shillings. Herod and
Judas are always more highly paid: than
the others.

“The costumés and properties include
everything you can possibly imagine.
Take, for example, the following, culled
by. Mr. Chambers from various town ac-
counts : ;

‘1504. Paid for a pound of hemp to
mend the. angels’ heads, iiijd.

1513-4, For thred for the resurrection,

jd.

1529. A payr of new mytens to Noye,
iiijd. $

1476. Item for hors hyre to Herod,
iijd.

1480. It. payd for the Ryginall [origi-
nal] of ye play for ye Ascencon & the
wrytyng of spechys &\ g of a
garment for. gods, iijs. ~viijd’

“The accounts include also records of
the refreshments given to actors and
stagehands. Witness the following:
‘1539, peny bred for ahe appostells, vjd.’ ;
‘beiff for the appostles, viijd’ ; ‘for 1







_ Continued on Page re



| American

quarter of lambe and brede and ae
see: tothe” ‘children. that. played- the |






Abbe Dimnet Talks

on Post-War France

Stabilization of France and the/
- Keonomic.Crisis
Discussed.

HAPPINESS . RELEARNED





On Monday evening, December 16,
Abbe Dimnet, author of the “Prt of
Thinking” and “The Bronte Sisters”
and critic of literary tendencies, spoke
in Goodhart Auditorium on Literature

and Life in France since 1920. He be-
gan. witha discussion of: the: post-war
state of France which was filled with
anxiety. for many reasons. In the first
place. there was little. faith in the
League of Nations since it had no en-
forcing power.. France was too fa-
miliar with the poverty and mourning
caused by the war to be willing to sac-
rifice her security on such doubtful
surety.- Therefore there was great
anxiety over the’ unprotected state of
the great stretch of frontier. The Eng-
lish press was inclined to make fun of
this French fear for security, not ad-
mitting .that the naval, bases of Jamaica
and Bermuda are aimed against Amer-
ica for the purpose of security, but this

was-a-very-real-element-in-the-French+}-

post-war attitude. . as
There was likewise. great anxiety
over the currency situation. This- was
manifest in 1926 when there was agi-
tation against they Americans who could
buy so much with their stable dollar.
The franc grew cheaper and cheaper,
and France feared the stabilization
which had been so successful in Ger-
many and meant bankruptcy. There
seemed little chance of bettering the
situation, for foreigners were buying
up the paying industries. British inter-
ests owned the coast resorts, Ameri-
cans were settling in France, most of
‘the buildings’ between the Opera, ‘the
Place. de la Concorde and the Louvre
were no longer owned by the French
and French people could not afford’ to
patronize them. Irritation was engen-
dered and dislike of foreigners.
Another very potent element in the
state of mind and life was the demoral-
ization caused by inflation. - French
thrift was cast aside when it was seen
that money was going down.. Jewelty

and other valuablé-wicios Scott sught}+

as ee this attitude
was~replaced—by--ora.2
pleasure’s sake. It was a natural re-
action to the war. that such gaiety and
over-excitement should follow as a de-
fense against too much emotion. Peo-
ple flocked to the towns in search of
pleasure, and the country gradually be-
came depopulated. A, second cause of
this depopulation of the country was
the law of the Labor Bureau making
an 8-hour day compulsory. The rail-
roads had-to employ another shift,. for
example, calling 700,000 men from the
country to fill these places. - Now dis-
tricts in the South of France have been
repopulated from Brittany ard whole
colonies of Italians have’ been brought
in with their priests. and. prefects.
Nineteen twenty-six, was a crucial
time when one government after an-
other was overthrown. M. Heriot,
whose literary work was broadminded
and charming, lacked the qualities and
the support necessary for government
and the money went steadily down.
M. Poincare saved the day and brought
the money up, increasing the treasury
in one year from: $30,000 to $1,-
000,000,000.: Money poured in from
London and New York and with its
return French thrift and the passion
for.land returned also. Tardieu, called
American because he introduced
business methods “into
French government, replaced the cur-
rency: on .a definitely solid’ basis, and
so bettered: the national character in-

directly.

Another factor that has had a direct
bearing on the situation is the fact that
there was no oa ‘p ssion against

y the || ticularly interested in. this scramble; 1 he

+=

£ pleasure, fort

——

Mary Flexnet Lecture--
stip Held by Whitehead

The Mary Flexner Fund Lecturer
for the year 1929-1930 is to be Profes-
sor Alfred North Whitehead, of Har-
vard University. Professor Whitehead
is Fellow and late Senior Mathematical
Lecturer of Trinity. College, Cam-
bridge. Among his many offices of
academic distinction he has been Sen-
ator of the University of London and
Dean of the Faculty of Science, Presi-
dent of the Mathematical Association,

(5-1916, and since 1924 Professor of
Philosophy at Harvard University.

In 1928-a gift of $50,000 was made
to Bryn Mawr by Mr. Bernard Flex-
ner, of New York City, for the founda-
tion ‘of a fund to be known as the Mary
Flexner Fund in honor of his sister, a
graduate of Bryn Mawr. The fund is
known as the Mary Flexner Lecture-
ship. The income is to be used an-
nually, or at longer intervals at. the
discretion of the. trustees, as an hon-



4

foreign scholar ‘highly distinguished in
the fields of the humanities, that is, in
literature, philosophy, art, archaeology
and history. The lecturer is to be
selected by the President of the Col-
lege, is to be in residence for the purz)
_Dose_of contact. with the faculty—and
students and is to give a. series of lec-
tures. The lectures are to be published
by the ‘college and are to form a series.
The lectureship for the year 1928-1929
was Professor William H. Breasted.



Professional Players
| Give Most Amusing Talks



On Friday afternoon, December 13,
members of the college were entertained
in the Commons’ Room by Mrs. Fitz-
william Sargent, Mr. Philip Merivale,
and Mr. James Dale, all of the Profes-
sional Acting Company in Philadelphia.

Mrs. Sargent spoke first, in the inter-
est of the new organization, its aims and
ambitions. Its backers feel that New
York, producers have been “high-hatting”
Philadelphia (as they do so many cities

delphia is taking things into her own
hands, and high hopes are entertained for
this new company. Its record last year,

without the backing of a subscription
audience.” was to produce two plays, each
of which went subsequently to New York.

This ; year the Program is_more, ambi-
tious. A subscription ticket is being sold
for five plays, most of which have already
been chosen for this season. The first
play, in which Mr. Merivalé is now play-
ing, is Death Takes a Holiday—“an in-
teresting subject, beautifully treated.”
The next is to be Thunder in the Air;
Robert Haslam, who played the lead in
London, ‘will also be seen in Philadel-
phia. . The third play, starring Helen
Mencken, will come here from London
and Chicago—The Infinite Shoeblack.

Apparently the people of Philadelphia,
“out of the habit of seeing good plays,”
are going to be spoon-fed with plays. of
interesting, though not necessarily high-
brow subjects, until their latent taste has
been better cultivated. Bryn Mawr people
are asked to. help in this new project by
subscribing for season tickets, All kinds
of information is obtainable from Mrs.

Collins; in the Publicity office.

Mr. Merivale next arose; he kept his
audience in unrepressed giggles, and he
actually said very littlé To him, and
to Mr. Dale, the Jast speaker, the aims
and ambitions of a young brood of play-
ers are apparently not the all of life.
However: “At twelve, that is, roughly
speaking, sometime during the last cen-
tury, I played the Queen in Hamlet. To
the older boys in the cast I was an un-
| touchableg an_unclean thing ;- but still, I
say that it was the most enjoyable pro-
duction of my life.” Pointing a moral
in the coming “Moralities” of Bryn Mawr
production, Mr. Merivale proceeded to
advise hopeful actors to’ make the most
fof them. , In the future, all is but a
scramble for money.

At the mometit, Mr ‘Meérivale’ is par-

_Genttaget a: Bage—Four a



orarium to be given to an American or]

of the so-called provinces) ; now’ Phila-|



: | Miracle Plays a

Complete Success

Religious * Mood Reproduced
With Intelligence and Fresh-
ness of Discovery. .

PACE SET BY OPENING



(Specially contributed by Miss Garvin)
The question in the minds of those
who received notices of the two “mir-

ern and an educated company would
be able by synthetic means to repro-
duce the religious: mood of an age
whose faith came as the natural end
to a long day of work and comedy.
The choice of plays was promising.
The Second Shepherd's Play passe>
from vigorous absurdity to an adora-
tion which contains more of love than
of the conventional modern reverence:

“Fare wordys may ther be,
But luf is ther none
This yere.”

A second apprehension was _ that:
these plays which make tedious read-
ing, largely because the action is hardly
-indicated, would also act tediously and
dryly: that we should feel we were
listening to a “medieval play” because
we are_an educational institution:

The intelligence of the company, to-

covery, carried these over with com-
plete sticcess, The stanzaic speeches,

going faster than the tongue, makes of
them a jog-trot, came out as admirably
suited to conversational effects. How-
ever the ear of the audience became
accustomed to rhyme, and felt the
charm of its recurrence, . That this was
the “effect produced is owing to the
clear diction. of the Varsity Players,
afid their sensitive handling of rhymes
as if they were bars in music, so that
the continuity of the speeches was not
hindered. Yet it remains a mystery
why rhyme is so powerful a heightener
of comic effect. Imagine, in prose, Ux-
or’s speech:

A pratty child is he

As syttys on woman’s kne

A dylly down perdi,

To gar a man laugh”

ai

and you see at once how much less a
man is gard to laugh.

| For -the.acting,.-in—this—play,~ the

greatest tribute is certainly to be:
awarded to Miss Rieser. She was.ag,.
fearful a slut as one could hope to
meet, and her Hogarthian appearance
in her night garments made it more
apparent that all ages have much in
common under the skin. She had a
splendid abandon of word and gesture
that carried not only her cast but the.
audience with her. Her groans were
most skilfully placed, puncturing the
speeches with admirable emphasis and
comment. The other parts were, in
more than: comipetence: It is difficult
to tell whether more praise is due to
the producers for casting, or to the
players for playing the three shepherds
with such . admirable . differentiation.
Miss Thurston played — excellently
throughout the sullen and gloomy phil-
osophical first shepherd who is soft at
heart. Shewmade a grave background
for the vigor and ferocity of the other
two. Miss Totten did no less well with
her part, which required an almost
brutal. humor. and_a_ broader comic
talent. Miss Sears, the third shepherd,
who was rightly made parallel to the
young shepherd boy in other Guild
plays, was a miracle of stupefaction al-
ternating with practical common sense,
Part of-the credit for the characteriza-
tion is due to the author of this play,
but much is—also due to the-way—in
which the Varsity Dramatics seized
upon every hint given by the text, sup-
plementing new material from histori-

make the characters throughottt con-
sistent. Mak was a happy contrast to
the bluff, blunt-wittedness of the;
shepherds. Miss Burrows bore\- cohat
extravagance of _ the. _part with ’ “more.





Ly



ra ; .

~ Continued on Page Four ~





PRICE, 10. CENTS

acle” (sic!) plays was whether a mod-"

gether with a certain freshness of dis-—

‘dangerous on paper* because the tye,-:

cal and literary documents in order to”

a...




}



The e News
(Founded in 1914)

lished Weekly, d
eis ger at

Mawr a gy









Editor-in-Chief Copy Editor
Erna S. Rice, 30 CatHerine Howe, 30
Editor. ~ . Graduate Editor
V. Suryocx; 731 H. Pascoe -
Assistant Editors
O. Perxins, ’32 C. W. Pace, 730
2. Hatrievp, ’32 L.. SanBorn, °32
Business Manager
DororHea Cross, 30
Subscription Manager
E. Baxrer, ’30

* Assistants
D. Aster, ’31 '_ .M, Atmore, '32
M. BE. Frorrincnam, ’31 Y. Cameron, '32

Subscription, $2.50 warns Price,





Subscriptions May Begin , Any on
Entered as second-class matter at the
Wayne, Pa:, Post Office.



THE WALL-FLOWER
SUGGESTS

The prevalent weakness among

- both college authorities. and students

is a tendency to engender new ideas
and then allow them to die in the
embryo, snuffed: out by a suffocat-
ing haze ‘of laziness.. Or, very
often, the young sprouts of creative-
ness are hurriedly snipped off as

dangerous to the staid, maidenly
decorum of the eighteen-nineties.

After many: months of argument
with, and among, the “‘powers that
be” we were allowed to inhale the
degenerating fumes of the _per-
nicious tobacco weed. At first only
within the sequestered precincts of
the female dormitories; then, sud-
denly, our smoke rings were precipi-
tated upon the world at large. We
have a radio, Ah, yes; we have
‘progressed. We are becoming less
and less symbolized by thedrab, be-
spectacled young woman prying a
sharp nose between the leaves of an
unfathomable tome. “As a ‘group,
we have grown less irigénuous, ‘more
sophisticated and_at ease. in a blus-
tering world.

But we want. to progress still
further.
ing the. limits of propriety, to be the
exception and not the rule. In
short,. we want» Goodhart Hall
equipped with a pool and billiard
room,

Some of us are too corpulent to
galump around the hockey field;
some are too angular to plunge with-.
out ignominiously sinking beyond
‘view; others of us just do not like
the rah-rah sort of athletics. But
pool! What an opportunity for the
too-robust, the too-spindly, the too-
shy and retiring, the too-anything
but collegiate! A good, peaceable
game of pool would be as relaxing to
overwrought nerves as a brisk tramp
over ice-glazed- sidewalks. Here-is

“an idea: Fostéer-it, nourish it? give}

~ it the advantage of © your solicitation,

“protect it from the-pruning knife of

ridicule, and coddle it into full
bloom. The wall-flower-who-wants-
to-shine’s challenge to humanity !



THE RODIN MUSEUM

Bryn Mawr College is so much
a part of, and so close a,neighbor
to the City of Philadelphia, that it
is surely up to us to keep in touch
with what Philadelphia does. Most
recent of its artistic achievements is
the Rodin Museum, on the Parkway,
within sight of the imposing new Art
Museum, and architecturally remin-
iscent of the Rodin Museum in
Paris. Here are assembled the

works of the- great sculptor which}.

were bought by Mr. Jules Mast-
baum for the Sesquicentennial E-xhi-
bition of 1926.

The building itself, and the ar-
rangement of the figures are tributes
to the work-of the designer. The
entrance gate opens upon a gravel
court with a pool inthe centre.
There
this outside yard, as in Paris:~Chief
among: these is the great group of
the “Burghers, of Calais.” Over the
doorway sits ‘a majestic cast of ““The
Thinker” and at the top of the stair-
way leading’ into the museum is the
magnificent piece, “The Gate of
Hell.” The several rooms on—the
inside are filled with real wonders of
Rodin’s work, including a number
of his remarkable studies: of © the

- human hand. -

_ This new museum is certainly a:





{have crossed “the tunnel.

We want, without exceed- |

rnumber~of figures: ir}

~And--now |W

borly rights by visiting’ a building
which holds so much of interest to
all of us.



|

_YE SURERETITIOUS 3 MAIDS

Bryn Mawr station. . . .Ten
college girls on their way to the vil-
lage stand in a group on the wést-
‘bound platform. Outwardly their
interest is centered upon a long train
of freight cars that is rumbling past ;
inwardly they are: indulging their

they see a queerly-jumbled picture
of, red holly berries against a back-
ground of blue examination books.
A “I’ve often heard that if
you run through the tunnel holding
your breath,’ some one declared
very seriously, “that you can't pos-
sibly fail, even when a train’s going
ae | by overhead. ” Another started
jumping up and down and yelling’
excitedly: “It’s almost the end. I
‘can see the little red box car.”
The last wheels of the long train
Ten col-
lege girls begin to rush down the
cement steps while a jovial freight-
hand from the top of New York,
New Haven and Hartford swings
his. yellow lantern and’. shouts:
“Merry Christmas, ladies.”



Communications
(The ‘News is not responsible for
opinions ex pressed in this column.)
Editor, THe CotteceE News:

May I express to you a word of con-
bgratulation on the very interesting ar-
ticles on Historic Philadelphia that have
been appearing in the News and which I
have read with a great deal of interest. —
I am sure that the preparation of
these articles must have been just as
interesting to the author as it is to the.
readers and I want to express my “very
sincere compliments and congratulations.

a Craig ATMORE.

Philadelphia.



To the Editor: ‘

There-are students at Penn and Tem-
ple who live at the Overbrook Blind

students and others) because they cannot
see. Now beéing-—blind is not a very
exhilarating state of existence, and it
must take’some courage Yor these young-
sters to pun, and joke, and refrain from
grousing. We suggest that it might -be
good to honor that courage, inwardly by
respect and admiration, outwardly by giv-
ing the gallant what we may of cheer-
fulness and amusement; in short, by giv-
ing them a toot, spree, or bat. Therefore
we write this letter to any who may wish
to give even a nickel’s worth of a theatre
ticket to Valour that they may know
that we are doing the begging, and that
Courage is no mendicant.

Epitn Watts.



In Philadelphia
The Theatre.
Adelphi: . The Professional Players in
Peath- Takes a Holiday. —
Broad: The Blinder

aealhilane

Hungarian prison.

Garrick: The Theatre Guild presents
Shaw’s Major. Barbara; the players in
‘this production are the same who gave
Pygmalion at college on Tuesday. ,

The Movies.

Up; the charming Charles Farrell does
show. himself up, however, as a disap-
pointing hero of talkies.

Stanley: A spléndid cast in The. Holly-
wood Revue.

Stanton :. Lionel Barrywiote® in Verne’s
Mysterious Island. ~

Mastbaum: William Haines as a hard-
boiled gob in Navy Blue. .
Fox: Two women-hating actors say
Nix on Dames and live to regret it.

Boyd: A real “super-revue,” The Show
of Shows. ,

Earle: Clive Brook plays in The Re-
turn of Sherlock Holmes.

Film Guild: Constance Talmadge in
The -Fall of Babylon, an early “D. W.
Griffith production.

* The Orchestra.

On Friday afternoon, December 20, and
Saturday evening, December 21, Stokow-
ski will conduct his last concert before
a winter vacation of thirteen weeks. The
program will be as follows:
Wagner—Overture to “Rienzi.”
Wagner—Prelude to Act 1, “Lohengrin.”
Wagner—Overture and Venusberg music

from “Tannhauser.” .
Wagner—Prelude to Act 1, “Parsifal.” is
Wagner—Prejude | ‘to Act 3, ‘Die Meis-

tersinger.” oo,
—‘*Vorspiel and -Liebest«
“Tristan and. Isolde.’

Or ate
Bg
N A hi %





provident souls, and in their minds}

School (and aré read to by Bryn Mawr !

matically sentimental - version, of jin Ne Sa aa

Fox-Locust: Good music in Sunny Sige

hittle:—Lhe-Fight—forthe-Matterhorn-

«*%% : f
THE COLLEGE NEWS,



. ie he Pillar

—a Rasen meet a ies

of Salt oo ‘







THE LAST WEEK-END: Wake
up this morning with the Christmas
‘Spirit, consulted the check book and
decided ona modest little trip in town.
Made the last of- the -8.45 and found
myself in the wake of the Ec depart-
ment, so clung unobtrusively’ and
landed up at the mint. Found it run
pretty well fronm the diction point of
view—no weak chests among the gov-

ernment, employees. Stock exchange’
was next on the list. Studied the
Great Financier in. his native haunts.
Found him for the most part bald-

.| headed-and tending to the rotund. Very

busy picking his way about the floor
and rallying around the posts. I
sneaked off with a few yards of ticker
tape for the Christmas _ festivities—
saved money on the Christmas_ tree.
Finished up at the National City Bank
at the end of our mile, and all drew
Camels. Were initiated into the mys-
teries of “over the counter,” but never
go them solved, so I gathered up my
vliterature and departed.

Aimed for Wanamaker’s, . chanting
my Lament for My Purse. Roman
emperors were too depressing, so
went back to Woolworth’s to get the
human touch. Tried Grant’s, Grand’s
and Nelson’s besides, and stocked up
with lily bulbs and gold fish against
the coniing season. Though “hot,
lame, stiff and tired,” made the Ard-
more Express and got. back in time for |
the last of the afternoon * carol prac- !
tices,

Cissy the Songster,
Hark! the herald angel sings,

“Lo, the camels and the kings.”
“(Tis the choir’s mourning knell)
Bring a torch, Oh Isabel.

God rest you merry; gentlemen,
(Which, verses: did you say?)

O little town of Bethlehem,
Rejoice this glorious day.

It came upon a midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,

Betweén le boeuf.and l’ane gris,
(Great gods, my feet are cold.) «

Stille nacht, heilige nacht,
(All can sleep, but the choir wacht).
Schlaf-in-himlische-Ruh—(?) ,
(There’s nothing we'd rather do.)

Adeste, fideles,
The evening’s almost over,
Venite, venite,
To Pembroke Arch.
Natum videte,
(I’m’ going to take the 2 o’clock)
Venite adoremus, venite adoremus,
venite adoremus,
We' re going home...

Sissanee hay Eulogy.

-Oh,Cola-di-Rietizo was a man of won-
= gdrous-fame,.....0 8 * perige
From a_ tavern-keéping” statis
earned himself a name.

|He boned upon the classics when he
left his papa’s hut °
became an educated,:

simple sort of nut.

he

And though a

Now just at present Rome was having
~ field-day by herself,

Anarchy was quite the fad, and kings
were on the shelf. :

The common herd thought Cola was
the people’s only hope,

So they sent him up to Avignon to in-
terview the Pope. 3

Well, the Pope he favored Cola and

acted pretty white,

But the bunny got conceited, and. his
head swelled out-of sight.

He trotted back to dear old/Rome and
gave the knights a jolt ;

For in just about a year/or two, he led
a swell revolt. f

He barged around the. gity putting pic-|
tures on the wall

That hada hidden meaning predicting

~ nobles/ fall.

The simple townfolk clustered round
while Cola led the cheers

And it/ended in the biggest row -the

— ‘city'd had for years.’
Cola got the job as boss and soon made
_ business pay;

4 He ran around in scarlet shirts, more

batty every day. ’ F



je
ae




He took a bath in public, which no
modest gent would do, °

nd used some holy. basin, since Ves-
jecactartenatrteren hat corset a yer mrees nip ghee eters Sates







New Year Dance

| The College Club ef Philadel-
| phia cordially invites the under-
| graduates of Bryn Mawr College
and their.escorts to a Reception
and Tea-Dance om New Year’s
Day, January 1, 1930, from 4
4 until 6 o'clock, in the Club build-
ing at 1300 Spruce Streét, Phila- ,
delphia, Pa.







Munich Plays Described.

Continued , from Page One

Knyghtes, and for
convey the Pagent abowte’; ‘for a gal-
lon of wine, viijd.’ The items beef, ale,
and bread recur again and again in the
accounts. :

“Less amusing, perhaps, but even more
interesting, is the whole question of the
composition of the plays. We know, that
they started very: simply, with the Bible
story. They were always written in

verse, usually in couplets or a very sim-
Then as time went on they.

ple. stanza.
became more and more elaborate. The
prohlem of the scholar is to discover
whence come the elaborations.

“The Second Shepherd’s play will serve
as an excellent example of what happens.
It is the longest, most complicated, and

by far the most amusing of the six Eng-|-

lish Shepherd plays; but. in many inter-
esting ways it is much like the others.
For example, in several of the plays the
shepherds grumble about matters con-
nected with their own lives, such as the
bad weather, sheep and their diseases, and
their domestic troubles. In four of the
plays the shepherds have a méal. In all
;six they imitate the song of the .angel,
usually in a ribald fashion. In all the
‘plays the shepherds bring quaint,~homely
gifts to the Christ-Child. In Chester the
shepherd-boy offers him a pair of his

‘T wife’s old hose; and-in Coventry the sec-

ond“shépherd gives the baby his hat, tell-
ing him he need no longer complain of
the weather.

“So ‘it is clear that from whatever source
the additions s to the Bible story may. have
originally come, the ‘various plays bor-
rowed from each other until the general
framework. was often. much the same.
When yo add the fact that much of the
non-religious material-comes from popu-
lar ballads, folk-tales, and proverbs, you
realize anew that the cycle plays are most
valuable documents for the scholar of
the Middle Ages.” :



' pasian used it—too.

: x

The Pope. was somewhat. griped by
now, and sent his legate down

To tell the sap to mend his ways or
else get out of town.

But Cola donned his night shirt with}

his armour showing through
So the legate thought the man was
cracked and precipitately flew.

Things. went on. in’ thusly strain. for
- many hectic days,
Our Cola took the downward: path ane
ele nl a
It's’ whispered that he gambled, and he
drank, and probably ‘swore,
the righteous Roman _ people
couldn’t stand it anymore.

Till

They set fire to the palace and howled
for Cola’s blood

But the weakling’ wouldn't face-them
and die as heroes should.

He blacked his face and dressed in rags
—a beggar he would be

And slip among the roaring mob in
hopes of getting free..

‘Just to be artistic he puta pillow on

his head

And Cola di Reinzo seemed a walking
bed.

He sidled_ round and coyly chirped,
while dashing through the town:

“Say, boys, I’m in with you on. this—
down with Cola, down!”

But, alas, he was a simple soul and not
a clever crook;
-He..forgot..to..find..a_mirror. and. take_a.

hawkish look. ‘

So he: left his plated jewelry on that
marked him for the boss ,

So he cduldn’t*fool the gang for long,
and kfiew that he was lost’

For_in their ®oyith love of sport, they
knocked him for a loop,

They cut his head off gleefully and
used his bones for soup.

Then what was left they hung to drip’

for later salting. down.
So through desertion perished thus a
lunatic's renowh., =
—CLEMENT vi.



W rc an Si hér_neigh-





j

¥





Me od

hem - that -holpe’ to

‘diana or Leland Stanford, “both ~




ee





Gadus Revert
to Feudalism

Tuesday~ evening, December 17, in ac-
cordance with the tradition of Radnor
Hall, the dining room was turned into a
medieval manor on the occasion of a
Christmas feast. The graduates donned
medieval costune@*and everyone joined
in singing old Christmas songs. At the
command of the Lord and Lady’ of the
manor (Dorothea Shipley and Ruth Col-
lins) the following program provided
entertainment between courses?
Procession—all singing Adeste Fidgles.
Boar's Head Song—the Cook (Lee Man-

del).

wsong—Entre le Boeuf—all.

Skit—Ye Merrie Englishe Tragedie—
Grainger, Ragen, Pascoe, Beers, Cli-
nard. :

Song—Bring a. Torch, Jeannette, Isabella
‘—all.

Duet and Chorus—Good King Wencellas
—Polly Wight and Lee Mandel.

Song—Stille Nacht—all.

Play—St. George and the Dragon—
Gracey, Fisher, ‘Wright, Goodfellow,
Seeleman, Hughes, ‘Futch, Webster,
Watters, Rhodes.

Folk Dance—Snow,. Shepard, Tuller,
Henderson, Peters, Campbell.

Shakésperian Pantomime Watters,
Hughes, Snow, Oliver, Tuller, Peters,
Shépard,. Cubbon, Rothrock.

Song—M inuit Chretiens—all.

‘The faculty guests present were Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Cadbury, Dr. Ernst
Diez, Mr. and Mrs.’ Charles Morgan,
Miss Lehr, and Miss Anderson.





News From Other Colleges



Doubter of Ark Ouster
BIRMINGHAM:—Ata:- Dec: 13
Failure to accept literally. the biblical.

-eecount of Jonah being. swallowed-by-a

whale and Noah loading twq’of each=~
animal species into, the Ark has cost
Dr. Horace Calvin Day his position as
biology instructor at Howard College,
a Baptist institution here.

Dr. Day’s resignation was requested
and accepted, effective today, by Presi-
dent John C. Dawson, after Dr. Day
had advised his students not to place

“too literal an interpretation upon the
Bible.”

The remarks, made during chnapat
exercises recently, brought forth a‘ re-
buke from Lee Gallman, aged 21, ‘a
ministerial student, who told Dr. Day
that Howard College was built upon
the Bible, and that if he did not accept
it he should not use it as a reference.

In his address-to the students, Dr.
Day took as his subject, “Be Skepti-
cal.” Referring to his undergraduate
days at Stanford University, he said:

“T thought I was ignorant then, and
I was, but I find some today far more
ignorant. There are some. people so
ignorant they still believe that Noah
crowded two of each species of animals:
into an Ark during the flood. How
could he have got all these animals into
the Ark?

“There. are others who think that
Jonah- was--actually swallowed by a
whale. During my years of biological -
experience I have studied two kinds of ©
whale, and found that it is impossible’

‘\for either of -them to swallow a man

whole, and anyway, no man could live
inside a whale.” At these remarks,
Gallman took the floor, lifted the Biblé
in his hand, and told the students that
if the. Bible and religion were taken
from the school he would not giye a
snap of his fingers for its

During his talk two: professors left
the auditorium, Gallman said... He
concluded his talk by telling Dr. Day:

“I hope God will bless you and show
you your mistake. You do not, realize
the thorns that you are planting in the
class of Howard students.”

Gallman then led his fellow minis-
terial students to the Ministerial Build-
ing, where they knelt for an hour in
prayer-for Dr.. Day and Howard Col-
lege.

Dr. Day said be would leave Satur-
day either for the University of In-

which, he said, had offered him posi-
tions.”,-N. Y. Times.



~-An Idea

Science has ascertained the mind ~
functions“ well when fatigued. Through
experiments conducted at a_ well-
known university it was found that the
brain is too restless in the morning
and afternoon for complete concentra-
tion. Fatigue furnishes. the ‘thinking
apparatus with.a drug. that acts, like.
opium producing alertness





flightiness—W ellesley C ollege |



roy ages —

‘ without’ —
7

4








.



® her greatest satisfaction in life, or rather

‘with caviar and Greek honey sandwiches.
Delia is; therefore, a character’ of no‘real
* intelligence or discrimination, but one of

. Jennings Bryan, Rebecca West, Edna St.

, brings forth her character and her influ-

~ their







Book Review -
The Professor's Wife: by Bravig Imbs
(Published- by > The Dial iiercaes New
York). : :
’ The Professor’s Wife is - Ave first novel
by the new and very young writer, Bravig
Imbs, who is now living in Paris. “Ot-
terby,” the not
placed in any special loc&tion,: but in the
typical environment of a small, Ameri-

&

Professor's house, is

can ‘college town. The novel is an inter-
esting and highly entertaining ‘mingling
of personages, both real and imaginary,
which flit across the scene of the town’s
social life. . The vividness and wit with
which this effect is created mark the
young author as a writer of great ability,
perhaps even brilliance. a ae

The novel centers, as one may sur-
mise from the title, about the professor’s
wife, Delia, whose personality subdues
ail who come in contact with her. She
is the social leader of the town, which is°
it is coupled with other - satisfactions
which make this possible. These are a
husband, Myron, the head of the Eng-
lish Department, who is, according to
Delia, “the greatest. man in, the world,”

and a house planned-by Delia and Myron

to. delight their every sense of the beau-4-

tiful and desthetic. It is a remarkable

house indeed, of many colors, with a
court, a garden room, a green and orchid
kitchen—it even has a “heart” in the
niche under the landing of the stairs.
With “the greatest man in the world”
for a husband, with such a house in which
to entertain and with the inclination be-
sides, her social success in the small town] _.
reaches. the~—point--where~ she” is able to
assure or devastate the social success of
others. She is happiest when patroniz-
ing someone, usually a young English
instructor, or in efforts at match-making,
or in introducing a youthful musician.
Her favorite author is Barrie and she
adores music—not the “demolishing mod-
erns” but “‘Scotch= skirls” and—Chopin;
she becomes ecstatic over colors and line,
flowers, a certain “yt” to a house. Every
day she serves tea (not just on Sundays
like- the other professors’ wives), tea

whims and fancies who is able, neverthe-
less, to maintain a position of importance
‘and prestige in the community.
Because-of-this—position itis she who
entertains the celebrities who visit the
college. Through her drawing-room pass
such persons as Robert Frost, William

Vincent Millay, Frank Swinnerton and
others, which not only gives a realistic
tone to the novel, but affords the author
opportunity to comment upon these peo-
ple in an interesting and often amusing
fashion.

The story is told by a young student’
who lives in “Otterby” as butler and “dear
friend of the family.’’ It-is-not-really a
story; it shows no: development of’ char-
acter or plot. It is simply the picture of
Delia, the heroine, with her background
the society of the college town, and it

ence upon her suroundings in a: manner,
as we have said, both entertaining and
brilliant. As a psychological study it
could not, largely due to the nature of
the heroine, be considered profound, but
it is certainly a. work of vividness and
great imagination. CW re



Short Stories Accepted

The English Department-of the College
wishes to.call attention. to-the Mackinnon-
Fly offer of a prize award of $150 each
month-to-“‘the student submitting the best
short story suitable for the readers of
newest magazine, Brief Stories.”
This same company also publishes the
Complete Novel Magazine and Plain
Talk, to mention only a féty. “Stories to
be eligible for this prize award must fit
the following specifications :

1, They must be stories of adventure
~~-(€either land or ‘sea~or~ air)~suited to the
apart of this magazine.

2. They must not exceed five thousand
words in length.

3.. They must be written by men or
women who haye had no more than three
stories published in a magazine or-news-
paperof national prominence. soee

4. Stories to be eligible must be re-
ceived at the publication offices not later
than the first of the second month pre-
ceding publication date; that is, for the
March issue, not later than January 1.

Address: Student's Prize Story Award, |’

Brief Stories Magazine, 381 Fourth Ave--

anrpomnryenernremeail

&

Carol Service Dra. |
+ Unusually Large Crowd



“On Sunday evening, : December 15,
one of the loveliest Carol services. in
years was presented to the college by
Mr. Willoughby and.the choir. The
advent of an unusually large attendance
bids fair to assume that the college as
a whole was appreciative of the time
and energy expended upon arranging
the program, which was as follows:
Processional Hymn: “O Come, All Ye
Faithful”—Tune “Adeste Fideles” |
Organ: Aria “Slumber Beloved” from

Christina s Oretarioncc:csccienc: Bach
- Mr. Willoughby
Choir: “Lo How-a Rose ’ere Bloom-
ing” (a. cappelay—................ Praetorius:

“Break férth, O Beauteous Heav-

enly Light” ( pela)......:... Bach
(From pie org Oratorio)
“Masters in ‘Bhis | Hall” (Old _

French melody),
Arranged by Gustav Holst
“Christmas Song” (Text and mel-
ody from ‘“Piae Cantiones”),
: Arranged by Gustav Holst
Congregation: “O Little
Bethlehem’—Tune’ “St.

for.
of

Hymn
Town
Louis” o
“While Shepherds Watched Their
Flocks by... Night”—Tune_._ “Win-
chester” Old (1592)
Scripture and Prayers
Organ: Pastorale Symphony from
(MCRBION Ga oe Handel
Choir: “The Coventry Carol” (a cap-
pela) English Traditional
“The Babe in Bethlehem’s Man-
POF. acu English Traditional
“On Christmas Day” (Hereford-
shite Carol),

« —Atranged by Valghan Williams

ane Grasmere Carol,”
Arthur Somerville
Hymn: “Hark, the Herald Angels
BA oy hen ee Mendelssohn
Stainer Sevenfold Amen.



Cutting
~Wheh one considers the esseiitial
need apparent today for that most
finished and -exquisite atcomplishment
called “cutting” (not classes ‘but help-

less humanity) one wonders if an ele-

mentary “course such as the “Rudi-
mentary Prificiples of the Gentle Art
of Cutting” would not be appreciated.
The finesse necessary belongs only to
those whose wit rivals that of a Pope | Boesesesesesesesesesesesaseseseses:
but a more humble ability might be
developedeven- though it may more
resemble a hatchet than a stiletto. It
will have two purposes, a new means
of enjoyment and a step further in
democracy.

The Ghinese poet used to say that
“a woman with a long tongue is a
flight of Steps leading to calamity.” Yet
the present age knows better. The
shorter tongue the more snapping is
the sound of its words. More than

likely woman has lost. much of ‘her

former glory since. she must call in
other aids. besides.the power... of -her
tongue in order to properly squelch her
opponent.—Radcliffe Daily.

Ps

Miss Allen Honored

According to the New York Times,
Miss Hope Emily Allen, of Bryn Mawr
and Radcliffe Colleges, has been awarded
the\ Rosemary Crawshay prize by the
Council of the British Academy, Lon-
don. \This prize, of one hundred pounds,
is offered annually to a woman of any
nationality for achievement, in. English
literature.\°



| of the old traditions,

a

as eas Dimnet

Continued from Page One
Germans personally- and did not hate

them. The same was true of Clemen-

‘ceau. Now although the League is no

stronger and can be disobeyed the
propaganda for peace cannot be al-
tered or modified. The French: at-
mosphere of hatred has been cleared

by a feeling of security through

Strengthening the frontiers and through

the necessity for peace expressed by
Amefica and England.. In Europe now
there is no Germany, but only Ger-
mans who are easy to get along with
and who may be found touring in
. France in almost as great numbers as
the Americans.

A final element in the recent life of
France is the so-called liberation of
women. Twenty years ago girls who
felt the needgfor sérvice bécame nuns.
During the war the spirit of. service.
was evidenced everywhere and women
entered the Red Cross, and filled the
places of the absent men: Foday wom-
en are found, in banks and in the pro-
fessions; they come from an education
at the Sorbonne with opportunities to
do many things.-: This new freedom
extends even to the younger girls who
are allowed more association with
young men,

There has been a decided change in
literature likewise. Before the war An-
atole France and Maurice Barres were
the great favorites. Anatole France is
the perfect skeptic in whose writings
there is nothing except happy cynicism
and art; books like ‘Penguin Island”
and “The Revolt of the Angels” are
-charming but dangerous. Moreover

| France-has—ne-serious=phitosophy,-and

made himself ridiculous by donning’ a

uniform at:the age of 73 after having]

proclaimed the impossibility of war.
Barres’ works on the other hand were
entirely serious and a of beset a
eaine? aint believed that the out imnlty
such as duty. to



‘the soil; -should=be-preserved-in every
ERE g
The Peter Pan
Tea Room
835 Lancaster Avenue







LEA T AGNO N
112 E. 57th St., New York
Phone Piaza 4667 .

Importer of French Lingerie
and Negligees Hand Made,
with Finest Laces for exclusive

clientele..

Direct contact with French
Ateliers enables me to offer
Latest--Models at attractive
prices. oor ts

=

“Oe5e5ese5eSeSesesesesese a5acesa5e5

7 a)

A. N. WEINTRAUB :
Shoe Repairing





Bryn Mawr

Lancaster Pike







~)





(7









USEFUL GIFTS ARE

Rateld’s

QUILTED ROBES
$4.95 to $7.95
BOXED HANDKERCHIEFS

75c and $1 ,
DANCE SETS °

$2.05 =
Other Beautiful Silk Underthings
From $1 Up

JAPANESE PAJAMA SETS
1.6 Pieces, $42.95 °° *

_ CHIFFON HOSIERY
se ae





nue, New York; N. a

tien icone apron th





From Prance or Switzerland ~



THE BEST GIFTS—

at the SEVILLE THEATRE
BRYN MAWR

Silk Triangles, $2.95
Wool Sox, $1

~~ Suede Gloves, $2295 H

SILK SLIPS
$3.00

SILK COOLIE COATS
$4.50

Angora Berets, $2.95
_- French Berets, $1.25

“Lisle Mesh Hose; $1.50
a











ee ee eee







“¢ ' a if iif * ; .
— : x “THE COLLEGE NEWS e
—— SSS eg”

generation.

After the war. “came a viata “and
somewhat unjust reaction against these
former favorites. The younger authors
were more virile aiid reMistic following
the influence of Marcel Proust, who
wrote twelve pyrposeless volumes of
innumerable nuance of verity. Now
we are in the full swing of French
realism which means life for life’s sake

and does not ‘necessarily ‘attach itself

to Zola’s school of ruined and de-
pressed life. Literature is superior. to
what it has been for many years—we
must go back to Romanticism for its
equivalent. And the moderns owe
much. to, the Romantic revival of
France—their sense of. rhythm, vocab-



~dnewene —— ——_—_———————



Page 8

ulary, and attention to composition,

These moderns: may even become-pere «=~

fect classicists as did the. realists of the

17th century. Today authors are out- |
spoken, ‘ehoose queer subjects, and
have no purpose but“ihat of expressing ©
life. In literature we seem to be
where we were in 1895 with the same
possibijity for a quiet enjoyment of art
—the literary atmosphere is placid,

Even if France, did not feel the old
desire to be a great and dominating
nation, ‘she would still be useful to the
world. France has’a capacity for the
art of living— rt being happy at a‘-
small cost—and in a remarkably short
time since the war she has relearned
the art of happiness.





Dn Bn nl BIN i i A i iii a Bl a Etc ho tog 0 9 <0 G4 in abe a ib Min im Wig Hai» b HB te At yes i i a A

COMEDY



“JANE COWL IN “JENNY” ROUSES
AUDIENCE TO -APPROVAL WITHOUT},
STINT.”—Telegram.

WILLIAM A. BRADY.
DWstnes: DERE WEIM: AN Present

JANE COWL

IN A NEW

JR. » and

With
GUY STANDING

“JENNY”

BY MARGARET AYER BARNES and

EDWARD SHELDON

BOOTH THEATRE, W. 45th St, Evenings, 8:50

Matinées, Wednesday and Saturday, 2:30





#



WE MAKE LOVELINESS LOVELIER

Edythe’s Beauty Salon
EDYTHE E. RIGGINS

Permanent Waving, Facial, Marcel Waving.
Shampooing, Finger Waving. Manicuring

109 Audubon Ave.,. Wayne, Pa.
Phone, Wayne 862























SAMUEL LEIFE

i

{

q Seville Theatre Arcade,

i Bryn Mawr

: Main Line’s Only Furrier
4

{

Storing, Remodelling, Repairing














= (REESE sersemenonmeeaman John J. McDevitt
| COTTAGE TEA ROOM Phone, Bryn Mawr 675
_Montgomery-Ave.,-Bryn-Mawr-—-- cares Programs
Il Luncheon Tea Dinner ogc Ticket
unc 7
° Lett Head
Special Parties by Arrangement Printing Hooklets, ete
nnouncemen
Guest Rooms _ Ph Phone, pave paawe 362 | 1145 Lancaster Ave., Rosemont, Pa,





“LOWDOWN?”

On

Reversing Charges







OLKS at home would rather hear
your voice than see your chirography,
no matter how nicely you write.

; You, too, would rather hear their

voices.

Most College Men will concede us

those two points.

We, in turn, want to make a

concession.

So, we have made it possible
for you to telephone home with- <



out opening your own pocket-book!

By a most satisfactory method which
we call ‘‘Reyersing the Charges.”

-You go to the nearest telephone, give
the operator your home telephone num-
ber and tell her you want to. reverse the

charge.

a

She will connect you with Home, you
will have your chat; and Dad will get

Pre. the bill!



surprised!

~ tonight.

Simple? jac You'll be —

a

Just for'fun . . . call Home




' the United States.





* Page 4

Fund For Foreign Work
Eleven fellowships to college wom-
en for research in philosophy, art,
gcience, literature, social science, medi-
cine and mental science have been

“ tuade avajlablesthzengh...+h» American,

‘Association of University Women,
Miss Beile Rankin, executive secretary
of the association, announced yester-
day.

Some of the fellowships specify the
‘field of study; others permit free
choice. Some specify whether the
work is to be done in Europe or Amer-
ica. The International Fellowship of
$1500 given by the A. A. U. W. is open
to women from all over the world and
merely requires its holder to carry on a
year's research in some country other
than her own.

A Latin-American Fellowship given
by American university women is open

. only to women of the Latin-American
republics, to assist them to prepare
themselves for public service in their
native countries through advanced
study in some educational institution of
The Rose Sidgwick
Memorial Fellowship of $2000 in mem-
ory of a member of the British Educa-
tional Mission which visited the United
States in 1918, is open ‘to British wom-

- en for the purpase ‘of graduate work |‘

in American colleges and universities.
Open to American women holding
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy or
Doctor of Science, or with equivalent
preparation, who give promise of dis-
tinction in the subject to which they
are devoting themselves, there is the

--_-_ Sarah—Berliner~ Research and Lecture |

It is the gift of the late
the well-known in-

Fellowship.
-Emil Berliner,
ventor.

-The others include. the European
Fellowship of $1500, for research in
Europe; the Margaret E. Maltby Fel-
lowship of $1500, open-to-women hav-
ing a degree in arts, science or litera-
_ture;- the _Gainma—Phi—-Beta~— Social.
Service Fellowship of $1000, the Alpha
Xi Delta Fraternity Fellowship of
$1000 for graduate work in medicine or
mental science and the Junior Fellow-

ship in Science of £250, given by the]?

International Federation of University
Women to enable. the holder to carry
on a year’s research work in science
in some country other than her own; the
Boston Alumnae Fellowship of $1000
and the Northwest Central Fellowship
“of $1500.

These fellowships are for the aca-
demic year of 1930-1931, and applica-
tions should be made before January
1, 1930, and should be addressed to
the secretary of the Committee on Fel-
lowship Awards, 1634 I Street, Wash-
ington, D. C., it. is announced—N. Y.
Times.



Harvard Takes on Drama

BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 12.—Har-
vard University will co-operate with
the proposed Cambridge School of the
Drama, a project sponsored by a New
York committee of Harvard graduates,
according to an announcement issued
tonight.

When first proposed after a meeting
held in New York on December 5, the
school was planned as something en-
tirely apart from the university because
officials of Harvard apparently would
not work with a group whose interests

would be foreign to those of the cur-|-

riculum,

Maurice Wertheim, ’06, of New
York, one of Harvard’s leading alumni,
took advantage of a visit to Boston to-
day to talk to officials of the university
regarding the proposed School
Drama, and the statement given out
afterward included the following:

“The proposal for a. Cambridge
School of the Drama recently spon-
sored by a New York committee of
Harvard graduates interested in the
theatre’ was brought to the attention
of Harvard University by Maurice
Wertheim, ’06, today.

“He conveyed to the university the[

desire of the committee to work in
close harmony with the administration.
“The university assured him of co-
operation, and a basis of admission re-
quirements satisfactory
versity is being worked out. Plans for
definite work beginning in February
“are being prepared by the New York
committee.” sete
"Mr. Wertheim is: prominent as a
banker and founded the New York in-
_vestment house of Wertheim & Co.



of

_to.-theuni-.

THE ‘COLLEGE NEWS .

Whitehead



Continued from Page One
Christmas vacation, the second in ‘May.
The detailed announcement will be given
out later. Besides the lectures Professor
Whitehead will hold informal conferences
with graduate and undergraduate stu-
dents. Nothing is mote characteristic of
this great man than his lively and sym-
pathetic ihterest in students’ problems.
It is this which has especially endeared
him to the Harvard community, and dur-
ing his brief stay at Bryn Mawr it wat
mean no’ less to us here.



Players

Continued from Page One

wants the Professional Players to be
handed a million dollars—so that they can
afford Yo produce his own unacted plays.
Despite this ardent plea, however, Mr.
Merivale confessed that, he was. not much
of a salesman—“I hate an empty house
but I can’t do anything to fill it!”

In ‘connection with Pygmalion, Mr.
Merivale told of its first American pro-
duction, when Mrs. Patrick-Campbell
brought it over here, “hot from London.”
This was directed by Mr.-Shaw himself.

Taking this last idea as his main theme
(to which he added countless variations)
Mr. Jamés Dale spoke next. Mr. Shaw
is a great director of plays—in the old
school. Mr.-Dale hastened to add that
he sincerely hoped that Mr. Shaw would
be the last great director of plays—old or
new school. “Directors always come be-
tween the actor and the author, and the
actor and the audience; they have killed

-more—plays-than_have authors. and_actors:

combined.”

The development of the director 0
new school is a very interesting
nomenon; Mr. Dale went into it in de-
tail. “One morning you wake up, look
at your face in the mirror, and think
‘Gosh! What’s to be done with® that?
Your voice is choked with emotion and
the ‘night before; you cannot act. Also,
you cannot write plays. There is only
one way out. You bity a little leather
dispatch case, and fill’it with sandwiches,
because you never need to open it. Then
you start to walk busily and have curious
ideas.” One of the best. of these is to
conceive of a. marvelous play, done in
complete darkness, with all of the actors
underneath the stage. Armed with your
idea,. you_ go to “a simple man.like Lee
Shubert” and ask for a big salary. Now
you are a full-fledged director.

Because of your office you may now
bring out one of your own plays, but you
must be sure to change the title page
first, and say that the “drama is trans-
lated from the Russian.” Your success is
now assured.

Obviously, Shaw, as a director, is out
of date. He is even polite to the actors!
All one needs today is simplicity, and
“the breath from heaven.”

Mr. Dale closed with several anecdotes
concerning Shaw as a director, and Mr.
Merivale as a private citizen. On the
whole he was most entertaining, and the

athe

in thé minds of all those who heard the
speakers, with a most amusing time.
Hence they all seconded Mrs. Collins’ in-
vitation to the Players to give a per-
formance at Bryn Mawr some time, even
as the Theatre Guild is doing this- week.

JOSEPH TRONCELLIT]

Cleaner and Dyer |

Wesring Apparel :: Blankets :: Laces
Curtains. +:- Drapery
CLEANED OR DYED

STUDENTS’ ACCOUNTS
We Call and Deliver

814 Lancaster Avenue
eile MAWR 1517



5











ILUNCHEON, TEA, DINNER
Open Sundays
CHATTER-ON TEA HOUSE

855 Morton Road _
Telephone: Bryn Mawr. 1185 ~



0
u
i
L
i
L U
! |
U U
I mi
U U





Bryn Mawr

ae Co-operative Society

SILK STOCKINGS MENDED

iaiiilaies to Rent ° “

Professional Players are now associated |,

---BOOKS : BOOKS ; BOOKS _|_lege with an Object in View _

scot

Varsity Plays



Continued from Page One

extravagant facial contortions, with
gestures and variation of speech’ which
intensified the absurdity of plot and
dialogue. The three shepherds’are also
to. be congratulated on the way in
which they sustained their parts after
hearing the angel's. message. The
grave and beautiful mood which fol-
lowed was interspersed with moments
when they relapsed into their comic
temper, as when they imitate the angels
singing with clumsy feeling.

Most of what has been said of the
°| shepherd’s play applies also to the
Offering of the Magi. This play, while
less.dramatic than the first; has con-
siderably higher poetic value which
Miss Wright did not picture. The
lyric quality was brought out by the
beautiful way in which the whole cast
said their lines. The mood, which the
end of the shepherd play initiated, was
not broken by the Magi. Herod was
comic, but his comedy was relevant to
the birth of Jesus, the connéction be-
tween which and the sheep-stealing
episode is not ¢lose. The whole tone
of this play is richer, although less
varied; and it was carried out -excel-
lently by the players. Herod’s part
‘was taken admirably by Miss Howell,
who contrived to do.her raging with
considerable wit, and who varied her
tone and gestures so that the audience
was never tired of watching her. Her
sleep, when the three kings were talk-
ing, gave the nightmarish illusion of
troubled dreams. A noticeable con-
trast to the first play was the formal
and beautiful arrangement which fitted
the metre and the mood. The three

a haphazard way like shepherds.
every gesture was considered? The
movement was espetially solemn; the
procession_in-a_straight line, the flock-
ing in a.curve towards Herod, the
formal -motion of Nuncius, ‘all made
the play liturgical and symbolical. The
effect was heightened by the costumes
which were-rémarkable for richness of
color and austerity of line.

Two characters are left to the last
because they appear in both plays.
Miss Graton, as the angel, carried her
part with that unembarrassed imper-
sonality, that detached benévolérice
which should belong properly to a cre-
ature of light. Hence, she was able to
perform with grace the material tasks
of drawing up and pulling down the
curtain. The -audience was surprised
and pleased that she could have used
the plainsong Gloria for feast days.
The Virgin was less detached and im-
personal. One could have wished
that she had made her part’ a little
more impressive. But this is a matter
of opinion, and many people prefer a
more human mother of God.

The weak spot in the play was the
crowd, of whom there were not
enough, and» who were all too thin.
Their costumes were lacking in distinct



‘kings did not move about the stage in} {J
Their |.





strong red and blue should have pre-
dominated...Too many female arms
were bare, and not enoughehisé were
wimpled. Their singing lacked cour-
age and conviction. On the other hand
they dinned one’s ear. most success-
fully when they’ first saw the players,
and their by-play when they sat on the
steps was good. Two of the carols
might have been better chosen.. The
second was written by Christina Ros-
setti, and has a dreary tune much un-
like the impetuous rhythm which is
characteristic. of English folk music:
The third was French, and though it
is‘a good carol, there are many of Eng-
lish origin whose words and_ music
were used upon such occasions which
would have'been more fitting. +
We congratulate whoever thought of
the initial enfry, which’ set the right

note at once, and which hustled the
g é E





audience info the pace, of the players,

being pedantically bored.

‘It ds hard to overestimate the serv-
ices of stage and construction mana-
gers in amateur productions. They
have makeshift materials very often,
and have to use their wits. | Miss
Wickes and Miss Hirschberg are to be
congratulated on their decor. The

the acting. Miss’ Blayney’s properties
were exactly suited to the plays. One
regrets that one did not see more of
the realistic well in the background. °

The total effect of these plays was
so good, so well suited to the. special
talents of the players, that it is to be
hoped that they will do something
more of this nature in the not too dis-
tant future.









The

. ment,

























windows.

GOLF—Eighth Annual. Season Members’

Spend Your Holidays in

Pinehurst’s Cheerful
Atmosphere

Come to Pinehurst for your. vacation. There’s’ @
pleasant thrill in the first moments of awakening
in: a cheerful bedroom of the Carolina Hotel, Pine-
hurst, N. C. Friendly sunlight streams through open
long-leafed ~
pines just outside dance like gay. imps.on the walls.
You have a whole day packed with pleasure to an-
ticipate. Delicious
Ross. golf courses (with new grass tees)—ridings—
tennis—polo—archery—aviation,
sperte—a8 in a climate that makes you tingle with

ealth.
the brilliant throng at the Pinehurst Country Club.
In the evening there is bridge, dancing, the theater
and other social entertainments to amuse you.

Shadows of the fragrant,

meals—five famous Donald J.
and other outdoor

For afternoon tea you may wish to join

luxurious Carolina Hotel and New Holly Inn.

await you. Write for illustrated booklet and informa-
tion to General Office, Pinehurst, N. C.

Important Events for

Holidays: ~

Tourna-

December 16-19, inclusive. Eighth Annual

Father and-Son-Tournament,. December 24. Twenty-
seventh Annual Midwinter Tournament, December 26-
81, inclusive.
las, December 25. Sixth Annual.Carolina Handicap,
January 1.
TRAPSHOOTING—Weekly
POLO—Sandhill
, Thursdays.

‘RACES—Thirteenth Annual St. Nicho-

ARCHERY—Weekly Tolrnament, Fridays.
Tuesdays.
and

Tournament,
Polo Club plays Tuesdays

S

NORTH CAROLINA
America’s Premier Winter Resort





JEANNETT’S ~™
Bryn Mawr Flower Shop

Phone, Bryn Mawr 570
823 Lancaster Avenue’



color and in-historical accuracy. There
-was far too great a preponderance of
dingy green, and~ cretonne, where



Meet your friends at the
Bryn Mawr Confectionery »
(Next to Seville Theater Bldg.)

The Rendezvops of the College Girls
Tasty Sandwiches, Delicious Sundaes,
Superior Soda Service

Music—Dancing for girls only

Haverford Pharmacy
HENRY W. PRESS, P. D.
PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUGS, GIFTS
Phone: Ardmore 122 3
PROMPT DELIVERY SERVICE
Haverford, Pa.





College Inn and

~ Tea Room

Caters especially for you, 1 to
7.80 week days and Sundays, 4 to 7»:

Saturday Open at 12 for Early Luncheon
to .7.30 :



MRS, JOHN KENDRICK BANGS °
DRESSES”

566 MonTcomERY AVENUE
BRYN MAWR, PA.
A Pleasant Walk from the €ol-







=

” a

FAO EN AE BAO DAO OND

—s

a

Quarter- Ounce #*Purse-
Size” in Platinum-toned
Cases or Coloured
Crackle Finish Cases. In
Favourite Coty. Odeurs.

~ $1.50

a
=

See





{





. Sere nothing like a surprise
package to bring an added joy—
tuck a lovely flacon of Coty Per-:
fume in-your bag, and see a

happy mother or sister.



THE
BRYN MAWR TRUST CO.
CAPITAY, $250,000.00



Does a General Banking Business
Allows Interest on Deposits

TAKE A SURPRISE GIFT
HOME WITH YOU

LES PARFUMS

Cee

without giving them time to consider ——

scene was in period, but was not so ,
obtrusive as to distract attention from —

Saale
~

Wrz