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College news, May 13, 1931
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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Haverford Profess .
Reviews ‘Lantern’
Dr. Reitzel’ Finds Character
Well Drawn But Sense of
Incident Weak.
CONTRASTED TO MEN
Verse Is Lauded as Having
Something Worth Saying.
High Level Seen.
By Mr. William Reitzel, of the English
Department of Haverford College
To_read..“‘The.Lantern”-for--the first
time, especially: if one’s knowledge of
undergraduate magazines is bounded by
the work done in men’s colleges, is an
eye-opening experience. It draws. one
toward an essay rather than toward a
review; for, larger than any question of
quality is the interest of a contrast. To
this interest the present reviewer bows.
Most striking is this point: in all the
stories in “The Lantern” (I have also
read baek through several numbers. in
“search of further light) a__ surprising
‘grasp of character is shown.
In ‘Miss
Darlington’s’ Hero two difficult concep-
tions are laid - down, followed, and
brought to a finish. with sureness. In
Miss Grant’s The Waitress, whénever be-
havior is being observed, the writer’s
mind works neatly and accurately. But
the sense of incident is poor and the
movement. of -.people-through a series of
scenes is fumbled. Miss Einsiedler’s
Water for My Stain. is a case of this
fumbling, most obyious perhaps because
most ambitious. Very little of the writ-
ing done by young men shows so much
sense of the way human beings are made;}
but the sense of these human beings en-
gaged in an activity of being alive is
weak. Character has been observed,
thought about and recorded; but incident
is taken on trust; which means that it
has chiefly been taken from the books
one has, read. Perhaps young women
have a faculty for observing others; they
certainly show a more developed com-
mon sense about people than do young
men.
The contrast is significant. No piece
- of fiétion written by a man (I mean
exactly between. the ages of 18 to 22)
shows any experience of other people,
any awareness of the “impact of other
minds and other behaviors. Young men
scarcely know what it is to hate or to be
hated, so indifferent are they to these
important. bases‘ of social intercourse.
They believe that yéu love or hate your
fellows because of their political opinions.
They do not know that the ground of
dislike can be a pasty complexion, that
the ground of affection is often the line
of a profile. Everything I have read in
“The Lantern” shows some appreciation
of these simple foundations. When’ a
young man tackles fiction, the fuddling
of character «is ,the ‘consequence. His
conceptions are borrowed from his read-
ing. But an incident he handles with
do; but she car*6ftén tell you they do it.
Muscular Vs. Emotional Effort
Another curious contrast is to be seen
when one considers the verse in ‘The
Lantern”.
to say; the poems of young men most
often are mere grab-bags of words. I
suspect, that the quality of the poetry in
“The Lantern” comes from one of two
causes. The writer is able to see clearly
something: other than herself. This
These poems have something |
To Study Dry Law
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dp,
—Photo by Wm.’ Shewell Ellis.
DR. SUSAN KINGSBURY
who has been appointed to the Col? Amos
Woodcock’s Advisory Research Council.
Collegiate Styles Are
Scored by Miss Park
“You can get accustomed in a year or
two” thus ended the spring song with
which Miss Park began her discussion
of spring dress at college. We believe
that Miss Park believes that the conduct
of the students is in their own hands.
off for we can=get-accustomed in a year
or two. Miss Park, in carefully reading
her Vogue, has discovered that a period
of elegance and charm is coming which
hides behind formality.
There are two areas of the campus in
which Miss Park hopes this new world
of formality will lift its head: on the
upper campus and at the dinner table.
Apparently the upper campus is regarded
as a bathing beach while in reality it is
more like Rittenhouse Squate in its free
admittance to the public and its general
look, Therefore our appearances should
be drawn from Rittenhouse Square and
not from a beach. Shorts and drying
hair belong to one and not the other.
Miss Park hopes that the new way will
first reach the area of the campus.
While Miss Park does not belong to
the school where Englishmen in igloos
or an African jungle dress for dinner, she
does believe that if the dinner hour can
be detached from the fever and heat of
the rest of the day by a feeling of leisure,
given by a sponge, a comb, powder and
Continued on Page Two
Dr. Fenwick Rewarded
for Current Events
After a stimulating half hour with Dr.
Fenwick’s five hour plan, which-he pre-
sented in condensed form at the year’s
last current events lecture, Miss Helen
Bell, erstwhile president of the Under-
graduate Association, arose. “Dr. Fen-
wick,” she began, “I have a question to
_.some--ease-—-He-ean-tell-you-what-peoplet ask vot Do you thijkecit right th ata] prevent
man who haStic-anuch-to.Ye-xs~you are
said to have, should devote half an hour
every Tuesday night, as well as the time
given to preparation,-to presenting the
facts of the world (in convenient and
sugar-coated doses) to a group of girls
who know nothing about it, with no
better recompense than the sound of their
applause? I have asked you‘a question,
but I shall not ask you to answer it. In-
stead I shall ask you another. Do you
think that the time may come when the
"Freshmen Write and
But now ‘she is inclined to push a slight}.
reform for which we will all feel better].
Miss Kingsbury On
Prohibition Council
Effects to Be Studied Along
Scientific Lines. Graduate
Students to Help.
Dr, Susan M. Kingsbury, director of
the Graduate School of Social Econ-
omy and Social Research, at Bryn
Mawr College, is to serve on the pro-
hibition advisory research council or-
ganized by Colonel Amos W. W.
Woodcock. The purpose of the coun-
cil, which is composed of ten “econo-
colleges and universities, is to study
thé effects of the dry law “along purely
scientific lines.”
The research will be carried out as
graduate study under the direction of
the members of the council. Such sub-
jects as “How has the operation of the
Eighteenth Amendment affected child
delinquency?” and. “How has it
affected juvenile drinking?” will be
investigated.
Beside obtaining information _on
certain angles of the problem, it—is
{hoped that the commission will stir up
interest in prohibition
among educators.
enforcement
Produce Three Plays
On Tuesday night the Freshman,
-elass presented three of the one-act
plays written in their Required English
Course... The. first play of the evening
was a comedy.entitled “The Habit of
Habit,” written and directed by C.}-
Duany._ The plot concerns a middle-
aged gentleman, unusually “set in his
domestic habits (even for a middle-
‘aged gentleman), who is imposed upon
for twenty-four hours by a visiting boy
scout_who-camps-out-in-his breakfast
room, much to the dismay of his well-
ordered domestics. The point of the
play seems to be the similarity in the
rigidity of the habits with which time
had imbued Mr. Stickney, and the Boy
Scout code, this rosy-cheeked young
hope of the nation. The performance
| was distinguished by the pantomime of
Miss Schwab as Mr. Stickney, Miss
Parsons’ characterization of the Irish
housekeeper, and some lovely touches
by Miss Smith with bacon, setting-up
exercises and tents.
War, a tragic episode written by C:
F. Grant, who not only wrote: and
directed her-own play but supervised
the whole produttion, followed. Joce-
lyn Todd (Miss Carpenter), given the
opportunity of marrying her fiance
(Miss Boyd) before he sails ‘to
France, probably to die, sends. him
away because with the disheartening
example of her widowed sister (Miss
Carter) whose future is ‘a blank,’ she
cannot “believe there is any real hap-
pings.” While the idea. is an inter-
esting one we felt the brevity, wordi-
‘tion. The actors gave the impres-
sion of sincerity, but the playwriters
had obviously bitten off more than
they cpuld chew.
The last play, Phacton, was un-
doubtedly the most successful, more
ambitious in its production—both set
and costumes were charming. It dealt
with a situation more within..the scope
of college dramatists. It concerned a
clever intrigue in the court of Louis
XIV. Miss Coxe, author, director and
mists and sociologists from leading
Garden Party Dancer
MISS RUTH PAGE
who is to dance in the Cloister Garden on
Tuesday evening, June 2.
Varsity Tennis Downed
by Merion Cricket Club
st Vara tennis suffered-a-second-set+
back Saturday, this time at the hands
of the Merion Cricket Club. - Unfortu-
nately the German oral prevented a
large attendance and anyone else who
might. have come was having her pic-
ture taken as -a~ member of. the
“Mikado” cast.
Allen was the first to’ fall, being
beaten 6-0, 6-2, by Mrs. Lasky. Her
game was qpite. good, but she was
clearly outclassed.
Mrs. Gardiner beat Collier 6-1, 6-4.
During the second set there were.some
good rallies and the playing was
fairly even.
Anne Page defeated A. Lee Harden-
bergh, 6-4, 6-3. They both play a
similar type of game, standing on the
base line and driving at their oppon-
ents’ feet. There were a good many
long rallies which Miss Page was gen-
erally able to end.
The best--match was that in which
Miss Townsend beat Margaret Hask-
ell. During the whole first set the
playing was, very even. Haskell often
got Miss Townsend on the run and
then finished off the point with a well-
placed shot to the side lines. Her best
point. winner was a stinging drive
which bounced about an inch inside
of the base line. Because of the. lack
of sufficient good competition at col-
lege Miss Haskell was not able to
(‘couttwand on Page Two
Moder
chitecture
Simple and Useful
On Wednesday, April 29, Mr. C. H.
Van der Leeuw gave a lecture, illus-
trated with. slides, on “International
Architecture.” . Mr. Van der: Leeuw
is not only a prominent Dutch indus-
trialist, president of the Internatienal
Industrial Relations. Association, but
also a recognized exponent of modern
architecture.
Architecture has a variety of aspects,
historical, aesthetic, hygienic. Its
beauty is psychological, differing in
different people and from one age to
another. Many people do not like the
modern phase, but if they would look
at it without prejudice they would sée
how adequately it answers the needs
of this age. It should be remembered
that “modern” does not mean “medern-
‘The Mikado’ Fulfills 4
High Expectatio
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Choruses Are Powerful ond
Effective—Splendid Cast
: of Good Voices.
The Glee Club’s long-awaited produc-.. =
tion of “The Mikado” on Friday and
Saturday nights contributed more than
one straw toward the collapse of an old
adage, for it fulfilled every feature of
our hopes, and our readers know they
were fond. :
With the: rising of the curtain’ upon
the “gentlemen of Japan,” in the bright
setting-of—“many—a~—vase~ and jar,” the
tone was set. The arrangement of the
gentlemen was effective as well as suited
to their humorously stiff movements.
They came to life nicely, however, both
vocally and physically, in response to
Nanki-Poo’s “song of the sea,” and in
their greeting to the Lord High Exe-
cutioner missed none of Sullivan’s ex-
ploitation of color varieties. They even |
overcame their femininity: to the extent of
providing a-real-contrast-to the “trairr of
little—ladies’»-whose—fluttering entrances
and delicate singing contributed more
than’ their costumes, especially the wigs,
to the effect of the. shy and. wondering
schoolgirl, as charming -as she is rare.
As the populace, the two -choruses
“with joyous shout and ringing cheer,”
made quite a powerful ensemble, while
in their dramatic silencing of Katisha, not
overplaying Sullivan’s-grand-opera~ style,
which is not too happy’a lapse from the,
vein of light musical satire exemplified by
Ko-Ko. ;
It was in this compliance to the de-
mands of comedy. that Miss Bell, whether
speaking or singing, .excelled as the
shameless upstart, for she brought out the
ludicrous and the pathetic in his char-
acter. Her entrance was_ incredibly
superb, but her young sword-bearer comes
in for a share of the credit quite incom-
patible with his size.
Miss Bell’s untraditional stature was
a decided asset to her appeal, and, for a
tall person, helpless from a softening of
the heart, seems just.too pathetic for
words. The list song, of course, appealed
to a common emotion, but even Ko-Ko’s
refusal to execute himself, or his both-
ering the flowers that bloom in the spring
made him something. to bé loved. As
with the harassed “Major General’ of
the “Pirates,” played by Miss Bell last
year, one wanted to pick him up and
soothe his ruffled spirits. It is no won-
der. that Katisha succumbed to “Tit-
Willow,” for, in contrast. to the usual
clowning, it was sung with an’ air of
simple sincerity which would have moved
the heart of the most skeptical ~
Concerning the “three little maids from
school,” it has been said that at their
Continued on Page Three
s
Athletic Assn. Election
President
Gertrude H. Woodward, 32,
Chestnut--Hill; was elected” presi-
dent of the Athletic Association for
1931-32. Miss Woodward is a
graduate of Springside School. She
has been on the Athletic Associa-
tion Board since 1929, when she
was freshman representative, being
sophomore member in 1930 and
treasurer for the. past year.. Miss
Woodward has. played léft half-
back on the varsity hockey team
for three years.
Vice President
~#elen Leidy, '33, of Baltimore. _ |/
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vould. explain such a piece as Miss ; j : oe ome ' = 7 ;
hohe ren ia « tae fai women | ees of the world shall run_gut,’ when | actress, as the machiavellian—Chevatier;+istic.”——Eighteen seventy” began aj] Graduate ot the Bryn Mawr:
. 8 fatiohs shall have disarmed and there|gave the most convincing performance of| period of extremely ugly architecture school. Member of the varsity /
are consistently ‘romantic, hence are
aware of what it means to be romantic,
hence can state a romantic moment with
Continued ou Page: Three
Recent elections to the Under-
graduate Board have created the
following officers: Anne Knapp,
33, secretary; Lulu Bowen, ’34,
treasurer; Nancy Hoyt, 33, first
junior member; Beulah Parker,
’33, second junior member; Helen
Bowie, ’34, sophomore member.
shall be no more tariff, and when Mary-
land shall have sunk into a dismal bog?
When that time comes, you will have
more leisure and you may be able to
occupy your time and perhaps find the
answer to my question in these.” She
theh presented him with an_ edition of
Warren’s “The United States in the
Supreme Court,” and Beveridge’s “Life
{of Marshall,” ‘a gift from the Under-
graduate Association~in™~appreciation of
Dr. F enwick’s enlightening Tuesday night
Cogtinued on Page Two
the evening. The last line was an excel-
lent finishing touch.
In following the precedent of last year’s
Freshman Class, 1934 has carried on a
tradition’ Which we hope will become
firmly established by succeeding classes.
: €:-€--and J. M.
The casts were as follows: = 0-—
fea So ee
. THE HABIT OF, HABIT
C. Duany
Pret ree
a
J. Parsons
Continued on Page Three
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without any relation to its surround-
ings. In reaction to this the ~-artist
came_to the front and for a time every-
thing was. ornate and lacked utility.
Windows were not for light or_air,-but
for ornament. The~proposed Radio
Cityy-to~ be built in New York, is
criticized by conservatives for having
too much of this artistic decoration.
Buildings should be simple; their pur-
pose is to form sheltering walls. The
ultra-modern . criticize. the plans of
hockey squad for two years and
captain of the 1933 class basket-
ball team. r ;
Treasurer ©
' Sylvia C. Bowditch, '33, of Bos
ton. Winsor School of Self-Gov,
ernment Board for. two years
second varsity basketball team and
Susan Daniels, ‘34, Long Island.
_ Shipley varsity swimming tea
Continued on Page Three
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