College news, May 13, 1936

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VOL. XXII, No. 24

First Prize of $15

/ness and Finance.”
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Offered by Time
Won by Helen Ott



| Half the, Winners of ‘Current

Events Contest Are. From |
: Class of 1936

FRANCES PORCHER, 36,
GAINS SECOND PRIZE





of the twelve winners in the Time
Current Events Contest held in Tay-
Jor on Saturday, May 2, six are mem-

bers of the class of 1936. In addition,

two juniors, three sophomores and
one freshman had scores which en-
titled them to a share in the seventy-
five dollars prize money provided by
the sponsors of ‘the contest.

The fifteen dollar first prize goes
to Helen Ott, ’36, who is politics
major. Miss Ott’s score was eighty-
six. Frances Porcher, also ’36, will
receive the ten dollar second prize for
her score of eighty-three. The ten
participants ranking .next highest
will each receive five dollars, although
there-is a difference of ten points be-
tween the highest and lowest of their
scores. Eleanor Fabyan, Jeanette
Colegrove, Alice Cohen and Barbara
Cary tie for third place in the num-
erical standing, each with a score of
eighty-two. Elizabeth Simeon, ’38,
is fourth with eighty-one. Winifred
Safford, 38, Laura Estabrook, ’39,

_ Dewilda Naramore, ’38, Selma Ingber,

37, and Flora Louise Lewis, ’38, all

* with scores in the seventies, complete

the list of prize winners.

As might have been expected, the
largest proportion of high scores came
from politics and history classes, but
because the test was a very general
one, covering Music, Art and Science
as well as Domestic and Foreign Af-
fairs, a goodly number. of right an-
swers indicates a fairly comprehensive
knowledge of what is going on in the
world today. Four of the winners
are history majors, three politics, two
psychology, one economics and one
biology.

Winners and flunkers alike seemed
to have the most difficulty with “Busi-
No perfect score

least one paper, ranking fairly well
in other respects, had wrong answers
for every one of the ten questions it
contained.

In general, the largest percentage
of right answers fell in the groups
devoted to National Affairs and to
Foreign News. All but one junior
knew over what city Fiorello Laguar-
dia holds sway, all but eight, the state
represented in the Senate by William
E. Borah. Hitler’s foreign policy,
however, was misinterpreted in a way
strangely consistant with reality, but
contrary to the dictates of the answer
book.

Continued on Page Six





BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1936



Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE,NEWS, 1936

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Outsiders Are Judges

In Concours Oratoire



Six Successful in Initial Trials to
. Compete in Finals



The successful candidates in the
trials for Concours Oratoire, which
will be held on May 14, are: Jeanne
Berthe, ’39, Grace Dolowitz, ’39, Mary
Hinckley Hutchings, 37,
Monaco, graduate student, Dorothy
Rothschild, ’88, and Alicia Stewart, ’36.
Each candidate will read two passages
at sight (prose and verse) and two
passages prepared in advance. The
passages to be prepared are:

Vigny—Servitude et Grandeur mili-
taires, La Canne de Jonc p. 149-50, “‘la
Tt GW ST JURY LORS Coe vk ces ce
Mis ecea MW aia cdo Vo oe ils attendaient.”

La Fontaine—Fables III, 16, La
Femme noyée.

- Typewritten copies of these pas-
sages may be procured from Mademoi-
selle Soubeiran, who wil] preside over
the final Concours Oratoire. The
books to be used are on the reserve
shelf.

The finals will be held at 4 p. m.
in the Common Room. ‘The judges
are: Mrs. Frank D. Pavey, chairman;
Mme. Paul Cret of Philadelphia; and
Dr. Edith Philips of the French De-
partment of Swarthmore College.



Lurid Crimes Appear
In Modern Att Films



Kidnapping, Murders, Gangland
Might Horrify the Modern
Movie Censors

TATTERS IS STYLIZED

Goodhart Hall, May 13.—The ever-
popular subjects of crime and horror
will prove their box-office appeal in
the fourth showing of the early Amer-
ican films circulated by the Museum

of Modern Art Film Library. Kid-
napping, murder and. gangland in
their most lurid aspects should cause
gasps and: palpitations in even the
most hardened onlookers.

Tatters; A Tale of the Slums,
though produced about 1907,. might
well be applied to the present kidnap-
ping racket. The kidnapping of the
little rich boy is done before the eyes
of the audience in a way that would
horrify modern censors, although at
that time no one thought of objecting
to the portrayal of crimes on the
screen. Until last summer, when the
Museum of Modern Art Film Library
acquired the movie, its producer, di-
rector and ‘cast were unknown.
Through the research of Mr. Leslie
Wood, an authority on the pre-war
British film, it was discovered to be
by an English producing firm whose

Continued on Page Three







Recent Registration Lists Prove English ,
And History Are Most Popular Courses} ;

Ades,



That history and English are, as
usual, the two most popular courses
in college, has been proved by the re-
cenit registration lists. This year,

probably because an English compre-
‘ hensive has lost its peculiar horror,

the numbers enrolled in the English
ranks have been considerably en-

latged. Twenty-nine have registered

as history majors as compared to

| thirty-five in the English department.

The number of prospective psycholo-
gists seems to be on the increase, for
psychology is the next most popular
course with eleven juniors and nine
sophomores majoring in it. The sci-
ences can be arranged alphabetically
and in order of popularity at the same
, chemistry, geology and

ed, although there is

physics. In

one freshman who would like to take

major physics next year, there are

none at present registered as majoring
in that course. —

Those who are majoring in eco-
ics or politics appear to have a
desire not to mix their courses,
\ there are-eight s
in polities,



the giving of the playwrityng course;



only one is working in. both fields.
Vieing with these subjects in popu-
larity come history of art, archael-
ogy and philosophy. The classics,
however, and even the modern lan-
gua~es appear to be in disrepute.
There are six French majors,\five
apicce in the Latin and German De-
partments and only one Greek student.

It is interesting to note that whereas
at Harvard nearly one-third of the
student body takes economics or poli-
tics, Bryn Mawrters prefer English,
history or science. At a man’s col-
lege, the scientifically-minded go in
predominately for chemistry, but bi-
ology is far and away more appealin
to the Bryn Mawr, student.

The interval which has e




has not. deadened enthusiasm for it.
Already eleven sophomofes, two fresh-
men and three juniors. have signed
up for the course, and as only about
one-half of the junior class has regist~
ered, even more will probably enter
these ranks. This is an unusual num-
ber to be enrolled in a free elective

Marion}



|... College Calendar |

‘ Wednesday, May 18.—Under-
graduate film showing, Pro-
gram IV: Mystery and Violence.
Goodhart, 8.20 p. m.

Thursday, May 14.—Finals of
the Concours Oratoire, Common
Room, 4 p. m.

Saturday, May 16.— Under-
graduate dance. Gymnasium,
10-2 a. m.

Tuesday, May 19.—Non-resi-
dent tea. Common Room, 4-6
p. m.

Wednesday, May 20.—Under-
graduate film showing, Pro-
gram V: Film Personalities.
Goodhart, 8.20 p. m.

Saturday, May 23.—Collegi-
ate Examinations begin.







Administration Scored
In Political Discussion



Liberty League is Youth’s Champion
Declares Princetonian



Common Room, April 29.—Under
the auspices of the Bryn Mawr chap-
ter of the Liberty League a promi-
nent lawyer, Charles Kenworthy, and
four college representatives discussed
crucial political issues and the appli-
cation of the league to their solution.

Laura Musser, ’37, president of the
chapter, introduced Theodore Kro-
leck, of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, as the first speaker. -Mr.
Kroleck urged the audience to spread
the league’s influence energetically.

Josephine Taggart, ’86, who repre-
sented Bryn Mawr, pointed out the
incongruity of the Democratic plat-
form of 1932 which advocated a quar-
ter cut in the budget, and the course
which the Administration has fol-
lowed, which resembl 4, some Socialis-
tic planks of that year. -- Besides the
frequently indiscriminate spending
which has amassed a deficit of seven
billion dollars, the Government has
attempted change without due refer-
ence to the voice of the people.

Implying disapproval of ;the ‘“ob-
scure” activities of his fellow students
who. are Veterans of Fature Wars,
Beauvais Duffey, Princeton, ’86, pro-
nounced the Liberty League occu-
pied with “practical politics.” Youth
is suffering most acutely from the
taxes which force industry to curtail
its activities, as new positions are
hardest to find. Nor has the mass of

Continued on Page Three

DR. HAMILTON FAMOUS
AS RESEARCH WORKER





Dr. Alice Hamilton, who is to speak
at Commencement, is a member of the
American Association of Pathologists
and Bacteriologists and received her
education at universities widely scat-
tered over two continents, taking her
doctor’s degree at the University of
Michigan in 1893 and then crossing
the Atlantic to do post-graduate work
at the Universities of Leipzig and
Munich. She then returned to Amer-
ica, first working at the John Hopkins
Institute and then at the University
of Chicago. The year 1903 found her
in Europe again, working at the In-
stitute Pasteur, Paris.

She,has since been an investigator
on the Ulinois Commission of Occupa-
tional Djseases and in the U.S. De-
t of Labor, where she studied
industrial poisons. She was a. pro-
fessor of Industrial Medicine at Har-
vard Medical School from 1919 to
1934 and was appointed a member of
the Health Organization of the League
of Nations in 1924. After resigning
from her position at Harvard, she
was appointed by the Department of



cee to investigate industrial poi-

oning for the second time.



Senior Dance
The senior dance will be held
in the Deanery on Saturday,
May 30, from 9 p. m. to 1 a. m.
The patrons and patronesse sak.
Captain and ‘Mrs. James C
wick-Collins and Dr. and Mrs.
_ William: Roy Smith. The -or-
William Roy Smith. Formal
vate 8 is optional.







On Artistry of

Dramatic Critic Compliments Bryn Mawr :
its May Day Pageant —



Haig, Seeing May Day for Second Time, Finds Timing of 1936 |
Procession Extraordinary, With Contrast in Movement
: As a Whole and Within Groups



DELUGE RATED AS PERFECTLY PRODUCED PLAY



(Especially contributed by Robert
Haig.)

To attempt a professional estimate
of the Bryn Mawr May Day which
now must take its place on the small
list of artistic productions of which
America may well feel proud is. diffi-

*cult even to a hardened critic and to

one who saw it for the second time.
The task, however, is mine and in
order-to feel satisfied that my judg-
ment -was not swayed by too much
emotion I have allowed twenty-four
hours to go by before attempting my
task,

The Bryn Mawr May. Day is note-

| worthy for the pageant and the mass

dancing on the Greene. In many
places outdoor plays may be seen,
given with as good effect, but such
a pageant can be seen, I feel sure,
nowhere else. A pageant such as this
is dependent on timing, spacing, gen-
eral movement and color. The timing



Accidents Do Happen
In Time of Revelry



Beefeater Overcome by Weight
Of Costume During Court

Procession



HEROINE SAVES MAYPOLE



In spite of very modern..airplanes

above and‘ ice cream trucks on cam-
pus roads, Bryn Mawr students suc-
cessfully sustained Elizabethan at-
mosphere last weekend. The numer-
ous small accidents, slips and mis-
steps which happened during the
two-performances_of May Day went
almost unnoticed, not only by the
audience, but by most of the stu-
dents performing; yet since Saturday
evening many incidents have come to
light which seemed catastrophic at the
time of occurrence. The most serious
of these seems to have been the faint-
ing of one of the beefeaters on Friday,
and others range in importance from
the collapse of a flowered garland on
the center Maypole to .the bewilder-
ment of certain members of the audi-
ence.
On the whole, the Saturday per-
formance seemed to run more smoothly
than the Friday one. Once the huge
flowered Maypole appeared to be fall-
ing off the cart as it passed the
grandstands, and one of the Morris
men bravely caught it, only to escape
by a narrow margin being knocked
under the cart by its weight. After
it had been set up in the middle
of the Greene, wavering precariously
in its erection, one of the long stream-
ers was discovered to have been
Continued on Page Six J

GOOD WISHES WIRED”
BY FORMER DIRECTOR





Mrs. Otis Skinner, Director of the
1920 and 1924 May Days and«at pres-
ent ill in New York, telegraphed
President Park the following message
Friday morning:
“Every happy wish for this May
Day stop I am watching the prom-
ising sunrise.”

Signed Maud Skinner.
To Mrs. James Chadwick-Collins
the following message came from Miss
Theresa Helburn on Saturday. eve-
ning:
“Very sorry not to see you before
I left and tell you how greatly im-
pressed I was by the superb produc-
tion of May Day. You did a mag-
nificent job: I was certainly proud
to preside over so beautiful a féte.
Please tell my young subjects that I
genuinely eppreciated their perform-
ances. 27" > I-retire reluctantly into
private life.”
Signed, Theresa Helburn.





that of 1936 extraordinary, with a
contrast in’ movement between the
opening, the middle and the end.
Much of the effect of pageantry de-
pends on this too little \ynderstood
art and on Saturday it was seen at
its best.

The approach of the Queen’s Cham-
pion, a beautiful figure in blue and
silver, and the same, if I am not mis-
taken, as opened the 1932 pageant,
the pause half-way across the stand
in order to display the emblem.of Her
Majesty, Elizabeth, was a new note
and well conceived. Then at a per-
fectly executed distance the eight
“gorgeously apparalled” heralds, fol-
lowed at an equal distance by the
Queen’s Archers and then by Eliza-
beth herself in her panoply carried
by her courtiers and followed by her
really magnificent court. All the
movement slow as befitted royal dig-
nity was a triumph of restraint in
time.: Then followed at a slightly in-
creased pace the Lord and Lady of
the May, the Maypole with four
superb white oxen—and truly their
equal never was seen—and then. at
an ever increasing tempo with dimin-
ishing space between them, the play-
ers and at the end the mass of vil-
lagers, the comic characters and the
mounted village rider. It was only
real art in spacing and timing that
prevented the end of the procession
from being an anti-climax to the mag-
nificence of the opening. The rush
of the dancers on to the Greene, the
progress of the Queen, the crowning
of the lovely May Queen by the most
gallant Robin Hood and the ex~
traordinarily beautiful Maypole dances
were sights never to be forgotten.
Surely nowhere is such a sight to be
seen except at the Bryn Mawr. May
Day, for there was created a real illu-
sion of the Elizabethan time, some-
thing I have never seen before nor
imagine could be accomplished.

Brighter Costumes Effective

Helping this glorious effect were
the costumes in which I saw a definite
improvement from 1932, stronger col-
ors, more vigorous and a more authen-
tic treatment and indeed most of the
Continued on Page Five

STUDENT TRAVELERS
MAY GET REDUCTIONS





All Bryn Mawrters who are plan-
ning a summer abroad, or the many
more who would like to do so, are
reminded of the announcement of the
International Confederation of Stu-
dents of the issuance of an Interna-
tional Student Identity Card. The
encouraging boast is that total sav-
ings through the use of the card can
be as high as’ 40 per cent.

Through the cooperation of the
League of Nations the undergraduate
bearer may secure reductions in
hotels here and abroad and on rail-
roads, as well as free entrance to mu-
seums and other places interesting to
tourists. In addition, visa fees are
waived efitirely or considerably low-.
ered.

For the more ambitious this card
even makes available university facili-
ties as well as helpful contact with
the staffs of the foreign National

-Union of Students.

The sole distributor of these cards

in the United States is the National

Student Federation of America, hae
offices at 8 West Fortieth street,

York City. The unbelievably low et
is only $1.



May Day Programs
Programs for May Day have.
been reduced to a special student
_ rate pf 50 cents and are avail-
able at the Publication Office:







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Next Time Se

May Day has left in its wake an exhausted group of students on
a sleepy campus in the process of pulling itself back into normal routine
after what may be truly termed its quadrenniel spree. Outside critics
and visitors have sung its praises and convinced us that 1936 equalled

if not excelled 1932 and that the entire production was magnificent.

At the present moment, if ever, criticism and discouraging protest
against May Day as a “project” here, would come from those who threw
themselves into the excitement of preparation and now find the grim
prospect of final examinations only a week away. Yet over the entire
campus only a few dissenting voices are heard in the hum that» May
Day is definitely worthwhile, that it is one of the most exciting events
of a college career, and that the universal enthusiasm and relief from
scholastic instruction which it brings, are unparalleled. The faculty in
general seem to think that this year there was less interference with
study than before and that the students carried their double duties
adequately. és

On the other side there are those who feel strongly that the time
and effort required are unnecessarily great, that May Day is far too
disrupting a production for any college to attempt. Midway between
lie the opinions of those who feel that May Day should under no ecir-
cumstances be foregone, yet that it should in no aspect be enlarged.
Suggestions have come forth that four years hence in view of the com-
prehensives a definite curtailment take plaee. Notable and general
among the students is the opinion that the two long plays, Old Wives’
Tale and Gammer Gurton’s Needle, be cut even further—to the length
of the shorter plays if possible. The shifting of the audiences to the
former at the end of the shorter plays proved disturbing to the actors
and the auditors alike. The time-taking requirements of costume
stitching and property carrying also proved distressing to many.

The students generally seem to feel that rehearsals began too early
and continued too long, until often the sharp edge of enjoyment had
worn off and the parts had become automatic. Classes could be dropped
entirely May Day week for intensive last minute rehearsing and an
additional week of classes plus reading period added to the end of
the year. If the whole preparation were shortened, there could be
no dragging of spontaneity, and if the period of study at the end were
extended there would be even less loss of acatlemie work.



Bugaboo
So the Orals are over for another season. The sheep have been
divided from the goats, and the goats have been led to slaughfer. But
next year a new flock of unfortunates will be forced to endure the same
process of sorting, and year after year the torture will be repeated,
always with a few victims who do not endure, but fail.

It is easy enough to pass the Oral examination in the language
which We presented for our college entrance requirements, but to pass
the Oral in the tongue we must here learn for the first time is another
matter. If we are not particularly brilliant in our work for “baby”
French or German, we are not ready “by the end of the course even to
take the Oral, let alone make the proper grade. We must postpone
the trial and in the meantime prepare for it by summer study, by
private reading, by final hectic tutoring with the inevitable Mrs. Spil-
lane. When at last we approach the actual test, we are so muddled by
our varied training, so flustered by the long suspense and the tales of
horror recounted by former sufferers, that we are rendered incapable
of intelligent work.

. On the other hand, those of us who enter the fast divisions of the
by” courses are required to do such an inordinate amount of work
that all our other subjects suffer badly. By grim determination we do
struggle through the-thirty-page reading assignments, and by cram-
ming we do pass the Oral, but these triumphs, we protest, are not
worth the effort. The neglect our other courses must endure disturbs

our study for the rest of the year and often damages our final grades
‘to no a degree. Nor have we a lasting knowledge of the German

h language to compensate us for these present losses ge: its



in it who barely knows her grammar.

oy consideration of the facts that an acquaintance with French
and German is undeniably advantageous and that most of the ‘difficulty
in regard to the Orals seems to arise from the abnormal excitement and
the frenzied, last-minute labor attendant upon them, we offer this sug-
gestion: let the actual Orals as they now exist be abolished. Instead,
let the requirements for the Bryn Mawr degree be the passing of. nor-
mal elementary courses in. both’ languages or the. passing of tests
equivalent to the final examinations in these courses for which prepara-
tion might be private if so desired. Even those who flunk the Oral
now can succeed in passing the final examination in that language,
although the final-is no whit an easier obstacle. They sué¢ceed because
they are coping with something not removed from the usual course of
events, something far different from the traditional _awesdieness of
the Orals.

These suggestions, we realize, are vague and inadequate, yet we
beleve that they form at least an outline of an answer to a very
pressing problem. If the students and the faculty would meditate on
the question during the summer months and offer remedies of their
own, by a collaboration some solution might be reached which would do
away with the disasters of the present system and preserve its benefits
in tranquillity.



Let’s Have a Bonfire

The confidence of the college in its knowledge and ability to turn
off with a flick of the hand any “snap” quiz offered should be somewhat
shaken by the fact that the highest score registered in the recent current
events contest was nine points below that required for a free subscrip-
tion to Time in addition to other prizes. The quiz had undoubtedly
bad features, not the least of which was the factual choice and the fre-
quent occurrence of ambiguous questions. The general average is mean-
ingless since many were recruited at the last minute, yet the fact that the
majority of the prize winners were politics, history and economics
majors and that their average was only 78 out of 105 questions, speaks
poorly for the current interest of even the most currently-interested
students here.

sooner or later facts are convenient. With 142 subscriptions to daily
newspapers on campus and their articles the most popular of conversa-
tion. topics, something seems amiss. . Just what all this newsprint is
used for would be an interesting field of research. An entire New York
Times solely to shield one from one’s neighbor’s grapefruit is a wild
extravagance at $8.81 a year. Perhaps people are saving up for a big
fire; certainly they are not.preparing for a thorough knowledge of
what goes on in the world.

: es q * j 1
a book in that tongue with no greater ease than a one-week’s studetit |

town exchange,
‘would be fine for French: trade, but

Problem questions may in the end be the only ones of value, yet









Current Events

The French Left is in favor of de-
valuating the france to the walue of
three or four cents. If this devalu-
ation were put.into effect, the French
people would all be discouraged ‘from
buying in foreign countries where the
currency would have its normal
worth, and foreigners, on the other
hand, would all be encouraged to buy
in France, where the prices would be
marvelously low in- relation to. théir
Such a_ procedure .



disastroys for other nations, and
would have a tendency to make them
devaluate their currency likewise. If
France had more gold and we had
less, such a situation would not arise,
nor would it arise if it were realized

jthat it is not gold which constitutes

the wealth of a country, but ‘its pro-
duce and its exchange of produce.

What will Italy do with Ethiopia?
In order to develop it, she needs
money. Her only solution is to black-
mail England. Just as she kept up
a bluff throughout the process of win-
ning Ethiopia which kept England
from interfering, so she will continue
to bluff. With a continuance of this
air force threat and with the ,addi-
tional fact that the source of the Nile
lies in Ethiopia now under Italian
control so that the water could be
diverted and Egypt reduced to star-
vation; Realy will probably be able to
keep England quiet and even to bor-
row money from her.

SO lin clin cl tn BS eR A

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WITS EXD

The Personal Peregrinations
of Algernon Swinburne

Stapleton-Smith





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CHAPTER THE SIXTH
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

When Algae returned from Rugby
for his first vacation, he encountered
a most unusual sight. His mother,
the honourable Mrs. Stapleton-Smith,
was sitting cross-legged on the with-
drawing room floor. twisting wire
about little clusters of crépe paper
petals.

“Why Mater!” exclaimed Algae in
astonishment, “whatever might you
be doing?”

PIQUE CAPS

His mother explained that she had WHITE
volunteered to be executive-director of
the septienniel Abbot’s Bottom Folk PINK
Dancing Festival, and that she was
at the moment engaged in making LIGHT BLUE

pink and yellow paper roses to dec-
orate the Maypoles.

“I say, how utterly topping!” asied
Algae, and, turning up his trouser
cuffs, he sat down to help. Several
days later he accompanied his mother
to the historical old Abbot’s Bottom
to witness the féte, which he wouldn’t
have missed for the world. He found
the spirit and verve irresistible, and
joined in the dances as the band be-
gan to play. Never,had he seen a
prettier sight. Suddenly he noticed a
fair young girl in the set in front of
him, who moved with an exquisite
grace. Little did he know that their
paths were fated to be crossed, and
that she, too, like himself, was half
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with her deep blue eyes, and a spark
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Awards for*Academic Superiority Go to
Steinhardt in Philosophy, Lyle in English

‘S. Wright Wins English Prize,

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SCHOLARSHIPS ARE READ

Goodhart, May 1.—The following

list, of undergraduate scholarships
was announced by Miss Park in chapel
with this preliminary statement:
“The names I shall read are chosen
from a longer list because I wish to
give them espécial honor before you

all.” ;

John Tyndale, Philadelphia Scholarships,
held at Bryn Mawr, but not in the award of
the college: Sophie Donaldson Hemphill, ’37;
Catherine Dallett Hemphill, ’39;

Scholarships awarded by the college at en-
trance, to~be held for all four years:

Frances Marion Simpson. Scholarships: . Vir-
ginia Dorsey, ’37; Naomi Gladys Coplin, ’38;
Constance Renhingér, 739,

Norristown, Haverfotd Township and Rad-

«nor Township High School Scholarships:
Josephine Bond Ham, ”’37; Alice Chase, 738.

Trusteee Scholarships: . Marian Elizabeth
Gamble, ’37; Dorothy Blake Hood, ’37; Gretch-
en Priscilla Collie, ’38; Bertha Goldstein, ’38;
Eleanor Libby Bailenson, ’39; Helen Medlar
Bridgman, ’39,

Lower Merion High School Scholarships:
Alice Frances Martin, 37; Doris Grey Turner,
”39.

Foundation Scholarships: Suzanne Williams,
*38; Agnes Williams Spencer, ’39; Doris Jes-
sie Hastings, *39.

Chinese Scholarship: May Chow of Peiping,
*39,

Leila Houghteling Memorial Scholarship
(three-year): Mary Cunningham Sands, ’38.

Alumnae Regional Scholarships (arranged in
order of rank in class under each district):

New England; Elizabeth Duncan Lyle, 737;

Mary Elizabeth Reed, 37; Elizabeth King
Simeon, ’38;° Doris Droste Frank, ’38; Sylvia
Wright, ’°38; Martha Corrin Van Hoesen, 739;
Julia Harned, 739.
“New York: Ellen Brooks Newton, ’38; Dor-
othea Radley Peck, ’39; Lorna Beatrix Pott-
berg, *39.

New Jersey: Elizabeth Jane Simpson, 737;



Ann Keay, ’38; Amanda Elizabeth Gehman,
739,
Eastern .Pennsylvania: Louise Atherton

Dickey, °37; Gretchen Priscilla Collie, 738;
Dorothea Reinwald Heyl, 739.

Washington, D. C.: Ruth Stoddard, ’39.

Pittsburgh: Lillian Jane Fulton, ’37.

District IV: Jane Hearne Farrar, ’38; Caro-
lyn Richards Shine, ’39, -

District V: Margaret Robinson Lacy, 737;
Esther Steele Hearne, ’38; Elizabeth Fabian
Webster, 738.

District VI: Virginia Ferrel Hessing,
Anne Campbell Toll, ’39.

Scholarships to be held in sophomore year:

Maria Hopper Scholarships: Martha Corrin
Van Hoesen, Carolyn Richards Shine, Cath-
erine Jardine Richards.

James 'E. Rhoads Memorial Sophomore
Scholarship and George Bates Hopkins Me-
morial Scholarship: Emily Watson Doak.

Evelyn..Hunt Scholarships: Amanda Eliza-
beth Gehman; Dorothea Reinwald Heyl.

Bookshop Scholarship: Frances
Bourne.”

Scholarships to be held in junior year:

James E, Rhoads Memorial Junior Scholar-
ship: Dewilda Ellen Naramore.

George Bates Hopkins Memorial Scholar-
ships: Virginia Ferrel Hessing, Esther Steele
Hearne.

Amelia Richards Scholarship (awarded — by
the President): Margaret Jeanne Quistgaard.

Constance Lewis Memorial Scholarship and
Alice Ferree Hayt Memorial Award: Mary
Boone Staples.

Anna Hallowell Memorial Scholarship: Ellen
Brooks. Newton.

Mary E. Stevens Scholarship (awarded by
the President): Grace Allison Raymond.

Elizabeth Wilson White Memorial Scholar-
ship (awarded by the President): Fanny Rob-
inson Hoxton. 2

Scholarships to be held in senior year:

Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial
Scholarship: Elizabeth Duncan Lyle.

Lila M. Wright Memorial Scholarship:
Louise Atherton Dickey.

Mary Anna Longstreth Memorial. Scholar-
ship: Margaret Sprague Lippincott:

Anna M. Powers Memorial Scholarships:
Kathryn Moss Ja@e@hy; Lucy Huxley Kim-
berly. .

Evelyn ‘Hunt Scholarship: Margaret Robin-

38;

Taplin

son Lacy.
Elizabeth Wilson White Memorial Scholar-
ship (awarded by the President): Eleanore

Flora Tobin.

Thomas H. Powers Memorial Scholarship
and Abby Slade Brayton Durfee Scholarship:
Mary Hinckley Hutchings.

- Susan Shober Carey Memorial Award: Lucy
Huxley Kimberly.

Book Shop Scholarship:
Jussen.

Scholarships :Awarded for Distinction in a
Special Subject:

Sheelah Kilroy Memorial Scholarships in
English (awarded for excellence of work in
Required English Composition): Mary Roberts
Meigs, ’39; Constance Renninger, 739.

Awarded for excellence of work in the first
year English course: Sylvia Wright.

Awarded for excellence-of work in Advanced
English: Elizabeth Duncan Lyle.

Elizabeth S. Shippen.Scholarships in Foreign
Languages: Elizabeth Holzworth, ’37; Lucille
Geraldine Ritter, 737. =

Virginia Marie

Elizabeth S. Shippén Scholarships in Sci-
ence: Cornelia Ann Wyckoff, ’37; Esther
Hardenbergh, °37.

Elizabeth Duane Gillespie Scholarship. in

American History: Mary Louise Eddy, ’37. :

Nominated by their departments for the
Charles S. Hinchman Memorial Scholarship:
Mary Letitia Brown (history), Louise Ather-
ton Dickey (archaeology), Elizabeth Holzworth
(Latin), Ruth Levi (psychology), Elizabeth
Duncan Lyle (English), Edith Rose (history
of art), Leigh Davis Steinhardt (philosophy)
and Cornelia Ann Wyckoff (chemistry).

Charles S. Hinchman Memorial Scholarship,
awarded to the student whose record shows
tht greatest ability in her major subject:
Leigh Davis Steinhardt, ’37.

At the end of March Miss Park an-
nounced a long list of appointments
made in the Graduate School as fel-
lows for next year, to which may now
be jadded four more:
emisiry: Mary Katherine “Owen,
gia State College, 1933.
onomics and “Politics: Mildred Sylvia
an, A.B.’ Barnard College, 1935.
ory: Mary Margaret Taylor, A.B. Mount
Holyoke College, 1934. ;
Psyghology: Marian B. Hubbell, A.B.
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April 29 it was stated that the
accounts of the Undergraduate
. Association are at present $744
to the good. It was not added
that the greater part of this

of this year in salaries to stu- f
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Swarthmore College, 1934,
The*-Graduate -Scholarships, an-
nounced in chapel on Little May: Day,

make up a long and interesting list:

Biology: Carolyn Anne Hierholzer, B.Sc.
New Jersey College for Women, 1935. Non-
resident Scholarship:, Eleanor Husins Yeakel,
A.B. Bryn Mawr, 1933.

Classical Archaeology: Sara Anderson, A.B.
Mount Holyoke College, 1935. Special Schol-
ars: Barbara Merchant, A.B. to be conferred,
Bryn Mawr, 1936; Eleanor Weston, A.B. to
be conferred, Vassar College, 1936.

Economics and Politics: Eunice Burdick,
A.B. to be’ conferred, Wheaton College, 1936.

English: Vivian* Irene Ryan, A.B. Oberlin
College, 1934. ‘

French: Georgetta I. Stimmel, A.B. Elmira
College, 1934; Janet W. Flanigan, A.B. to be
conferred, Vassar College, 1936.

Geology: Clementene B. Walker, A.B; to be
conferred, Barnard College, 1936.

German: Rosemond _M. Preuninger,
University of Cincinnati, 1930,

Greek: Delight Tolles, A.B, Vassar College,
1935; Katherine Lever, A.B. to be conferred,
Swarthmore College, 1936.

History: Margaret Ormsby, A.B. University
of British Cobumbia, 1929. ‘

Italian: Janet E. McPhee, A.B. to be con-
ferred, University of Michigan, 1936; Lena
Ferrari, A.B. University of Rochester, 1935.

Mathematics: Annita Tuller, A.B. Hunter
College, 1929; Marion Greenebaum, A.B. Bar-
nard College, 1935.

Philosophy: Grace Lillian Chin Lee,
Barnard College, 1935.

Physics: Hodee Waldstein, A.B. to be con-
ferred, Radcliffe College, 1936,

Psychology: Mildred Ruth Henrich, A.B. to
be conferred, Smith College, 1936.

Spanish: Lucia Dolores Bonilla,
Cardenal Cisneros, Madrid, 1928.

Social Economy: Ruth E. Shallcross, A.B.
University of Nebraska, 1929; Betty Bock,
A.B. to be conferred, Bryn Mawr, 1936.

Appointments for Foreign Women:

Mary Paul Collins Scholarship in Classical
Archaeology: Edith Eccles, B.A, Royal Hol-
loway College, University of London, 1931.

Exchange Fellows— through International
Institute of Education:

Teaching Fellowships in French: Paquerette
Nasse, Licence es-Lettres, University of Bor-
deaux, 1934; C. Fehrer to France.

Teaching Fellowship in Italian: Giorgina
Levi’ Della Vida, Laurea in Scienze Politiche,
University of Rome, 1934,

Teaching Fellowship in German: Erika~ Si-
mon, student 1934 at the’ Universities of
Frankfurt, Lausanne and Edinburgh; Caroline
Brown, Bryn Mawr, 1936, exchange scholar-
ship. to Germany.

The Spanish Government has proposed to
Bryn Mawr Miss Justa Arroyo, and has of-
fered a scholarship at Madrid to Miss L, L.
Mandell, A.B, Boston University, M.A. Bryn
Mawr.

Outside Appointments:

Fellowship and Scholarship Awards:

Barbara Cary, ’36, has been awarded the
Mary Campbell Fellowship for study in Berlin
through the American Friends’ Service Com-
mittee.

Adelaide Davidson, Fellow
been awarded the Martin
Fellowship from Yale University for next year.

Alice Mary Dowse, part-time demonstrator
in. Geology, has been awarded a Resideftt Fel-
lowship for graduate study from Radcliffe
College for next year.

Janet Flanigan, A.B. to be conferred, Vas-
sar College, 1936, holder of a graduate schol-
arship in French for next year at Bryn Mawr,
has also been awarded a scholarship from
Vassar College which she will use to sup-
plement the Bryn Mawr scholarship.

Ruth Rogan, Scholar in Chemistry, has been
awarded a teaching fellowship at Louisiana
State University for next year.

Susan Savage, A.B. Bryn Mawr, 1933, has
been awarded a two-year fellowship at the
American Academy in Rome.

Edith Ford Sollers, Fellow in Chemistry,
has been awarded the Alice Freeman Palmer
Fellowship from Wellesley College for study
in any college. Miss Sollers will use it at
Bryn Mawr next year.

Jane Martin, Fellow in History of Art, has
been awarded a scholarship by the Institute
of International Education for study in Paris
this summer.

Frances Porcher, ’36, has been awarded a
fellowship to the Radcliffe Graduate School of

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movies .were widely shown: in this
country.

In its use of the caniera, cutting
and painted backdrops alternated with
natural settings, Tatters is reminis-
cent of The Great Train Robbery,
sh here March 18. The most strik-
ing aspect of the film is its acting,
which is done in a stylized, unnatural
tradition now almost entirely vanished
It is the exact pro-
totype of the performances of nine-
teenth century melodramas which are
still -given in poor neighborhoods in
London. The part.of the little poor
boy seems to have béen played by a
girl, according to a custom which
Mary Pickford later followed in her
Little Lord Fauntleroy. .

Underworld, the second film on the
program, brings us to the _ not-so-
distant date of 1927, when gunmen
and crime rings were at their height.
The fame of organized crime in Chi-
cago gave a particular timeliness to
the movie and helped it to set a long-
lived fashion for gangster pictures.

The film was directed by Josef von
Sternberg and includes in its cast
such familiar names as George Ban-
croft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook and
Fred Kohler. Von Sternberg’s feeling
for atmosphere and for textures comes
out well, particularly in the scene
after the gangsters’ ball in which
Bancroft, as the master-gunman, stag-
ers through tattered paper-streamers
eloquent of the sordid, uneasy life of
his kind.

The Cat and the Canary, produced
in 1927, will be remembered for dis-
turbing the sleep of many of us.’ It
typifies the more subtly horrible
mystery-film, which succeeded the
blood and thunder movie. Clutching
hands, concealed bodies and the final
accusation of the person least under
suspicion come into their own in this
picture.

The director of The Cat and the
Canary was the late Paul Leni, noted
for his ingenious lighting and macabre
effects. Among the characters whose
hair is set on end by a masked ter-
ror are Laura La Plante, Creighton
Hale, Tully Marshall and Lucien Lit-
tlefield. The film is remarkable for
odd camera shots and oblique angles,
including a’scene looking down on the
assembled characters and a_ shot
through the back of a chair. . Al-
though the acting is mediocre, the
movie as a whole is pleasing to the eye
and succeeds in being truly frighten-
ing.



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Kellogg ResidentThistory.

Academic Appointments:

Frances Follin Jones, Scholar in Classical
Archaeology, has been appointed Warden of
Denbigh Hall at Bryn Mawr next year.

Leslie Koempel, in the Department of Social
Economy, has been appointed Instructor in
Sociology at Skidmore College.

Ruth Lawson, Fellow in
Politics, has been appointed
Politics and Government at
Newcomb Memorial College
versity.

Jeanette LeSaulnier, Senior Resident of
Radnor Hall and Graduate Student, has been
appointed Warden of Wyndham Hall at Bryn
Mawr next year.

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goner spake before the class.in ad-
vanced: general geology on the general
topic of “paleopathology,” giving par-
ticular attention to skeletal evidences
of disease in ancient man and in fos-
sil animals. The diseases so dis-
covered—by examination of | fossil
bones, or of the skeletons of historical’
characters lately exhumed, or of, bones
of mummies—are found to have been
almost as numerous in the past as
they are today. Skulls ‘and other
skeletal parts of the ancient Egyptians
show tha¥ these people suffered from
pyorrheg, tubereulosis of the bones,
smallpox, cancer, mastoiditis and a
host of other modern ailments. Fossil
reptiles and mammals, many of great
antiquity, show fractures, arthritis,
irregular adventitious growth and
many other deformities.

One of the most suggestive parts of
Dr. Waggoner’s talk was his refer-
ence to the importance of studies of
the skeletons of historical characters.
In one case, a Scotch general wa’ re-
puted to have been kicked in the face
by a horse, in the year 1314. His
skull shows a fracture in the region
of the face, and it is apparent that
he continued to live, since the fracture
healed naturally. In other cases,
evidences of disease may help to ex-
plain the motives behind the actions
of many famous people of history.

A number of interesting slides were
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Administration Scored
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labor benefited by the new measures,
though certain clever agitators have
done so by confusing the men who
blindly support them. Accordingly,
there is an emphatic need for men in
Congress and in the judicial system
who are more than “rubber stamps,”
men who will not carelessly allow a
435 million dollar tax bill to be made
law while only 36-50 of their number
are attending.

Maurice Dreicer, of the University
of Pennsylvania, struck the distinctly
American note of personal liberty.
Not only is this currently discouraged
in expression of opinion, he believes,
but as the Black investigation demon-
strated, even personal correspondence
is examined by officials. As the league
maintains, confiscation is preferable

country to chaotic insecurity and
would be particularly severe on en-
dowed institutions.

To Mr. Charles Kenworthy, a mem-
ber of the Lawyers’ Committee of the
Liberty League, the movement is an
“idealistic niche in the American sys-
tem.” The motives of the founders
of the league are irrelevant to the
present condition of the movement,
which is non-partisan where political
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Room is Obtainable

Applications for. Next Summer May
Be Made to Miss Park

Applications’ for: the Bryn Mawr

room at the Cité Universitaire in.
Paris for the French academic year,
Noveniber, 1, 1936-July 1, 1937, shoukd
be made to President Park before
June 1.
The cost of a room including ser-
vice is from 250-300 francs per month,
depending upon length of stay. Meals
are served on the cafeteria plan at an
average cost of fifteen francs daily.

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will be considered in nominating the
occupants of the Bryn Mawr room:

(1) Holders of Bryn Mawr degrees
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(2) Other present and former stu-
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(3) Members of the Senior Class.

A careful plan for the year’s work
should be submitted, and if the -can-
didate is not at the time of: applica-
tion a student at Bryn Mawr College,
at least three people competent to
estimaté her work should be referred
to. Application may.also be made be-
fore June 1 to President Park for the
use of the Bryn Mawr room for a
period of not less than two months
during the summer. This application
should be accompanied by a plan of
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PLANETARIUM SHOWS
A SIBERIAN ECLIPSE



The future is being revealed this
month at the Franklin Institute. Vis-
itors to the Planetarium are trans-
ported to mid-June in central Siberia,
where scientists and natives, if they
are lucky, may view a -total eclipse.

The demonstrations take place at
three o’clock every afternoon and at
eight-thirty every evening except
Mondays and Tuesdays. In addition
to these showings there is one on Sat-
urdays at noon and at four

The institute is cooperating with
Federal, State and Municipal, author-
ities in demonstrating How Science
Fights Crime. For the next two weeks |
the subject is Burglary. A feature of
the exhibition, is the finger-printing
which is available to the visitors for
purposes of personal identification.



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rights.

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‘in Philadelphia.

Movies -
Aldine: Things to Come, the spec-

tacular Wells prediction of the de-

struction and re-creation of civiliza-
tion under the auspices of Raymond

a Massey.

Boyd: Till We Meet Again, ‘a flam-

7 4 ‘ing love story of two World War
| spies, with Herbert Marshall, who has

the face for an intelligence agent if
not for an. Abelard.

Earle: Florida Special, with Jack
Oakie, probably designed as subtle
propaganda against the Florida
Chamber of Commerce.

Europa: The Blue Light, and Basil

Rathbone in Loyalties.

Fox: Ronald Colman carries on in
the turban of a legionnaire. as the

_-hero.of the-old-sweet-and sticky Ouida |.

story, Under Two Flags.

Karlton: Panic on the Air, a minor
mystery with that minor irritation,
Lew Ayres.

Keith’s: Mr. Deeds Comes to Town,
the first really worthy successor to
It Happened One Night, with Gary
Cooper, who is a better comedian than
Mr. Gable ever hoped to be.

Stanley: Ex-Mrs. Bradford, star-
ring William Powell and featuring
Eric Blové, the British accent.

Local Movies
Seville: Thursday, Little Lord
Fauntleroy; Friday and Saturday,
Sylvia Sidney in The Trail of the
Lonesome Pine; Sunday and Monday,
Warner Oland in Charlie Chan at the

Circus; Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, Mae West in Klondike
Annie.

Wayne: Thursday, Desire; Friday
and Saturday, Charlie Chan at the
Circus; Sunday, Jack Haley in
F-Man; Monday and Tuesday, Eddie
Cantor in Strike Me Pink; Wednes-
day and Thursday, Trail of the Lone-
some Pine.

Ardmore: Thursday, Petticoat Fe-
ver; Friday, Amateur Gentleman;
Saturday, Wheeler and Woolsey in
Sillie Billies; Monday and Tuesday,
13 Hours by Air; Wednesday and

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turned off for the summer on May 11
at 2 p.m. In spite of a torrid May
Day and the fact that the mercury
rose to 102 degrees in Goodhart, sum-
mer did not officially begin until that
hour.

The Power House authorities, accus-
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their own domain, have no doubt for-

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Theatre Review



According to precedent, the more
skeletal the plot of-an American mu-

clever is its production. On Your
Toes is:a slick example. Its slight
frame agreeably serves the precise
Wit of ‘its author, Mr, George Abbott,
still being applauded for his Three
Men On a Horse, and. his colleagues
Mr. Rogers and Mr. Hart. But what

|makes On Your Toes peculiarly out-

standing for this typeof entertain-
ment is the shrewd choreography of

with, the American Ballet, and to a
lesser extent, the typically opportune
settings of Joe Mielziner. This ex-
traordinarily able group of men have
attempted and partially succeeded in
satirizing the Russian Ballet and have
chosen a responsive cast.

Ray Bolger, who combines a squir-
rel-like agility, a comical manner and
thorough dancing ability, is a hoofer,
suppressed as a college professor.
When a student, suitably portrayed
by Doris Carson, yaltruistically
schemes to release him, she is amazed
by his responsiveness. In fact, he is

Tamara Geva, as an _ attractively
tdominating ballet star.’ At this Mr.
Bolger’s native talents explode and
when the scene clears he is definitely
in command of her electrified troup.
The most distractingly charming of
all the castis Miss Luella Gear, who,
as a slightly passé trouper, is delight-
fully at ease. As the only wise mem-
ber of the cast she enjoys herself im-
mensely by fostering an outgrowth
from the main burlesque which is
pointed at the players themselves.
Monty Wooley has preserved exactly

of an aging roué.

to present the most incongruous danc-
ing which has ever appeared in a
Broadway musical. Mr. Ballanchine
has based his ballet, as may be ex-
pected, on graceful technique, muscu-
lar litheness and a responsible chorus;
consequently his mass effects do not
depend on novelty, but are provocative
per se.

It is precisely this superior dancing
which arrests the complete enjoyment,
of the spectator, who is prodded every
now and then by the almost latent
realization that the dance is a bur-
lesque and really meant to be comical.
As the first ballet progresses it does
introduce some perfectly ridiculous
postures, most of which, however,
would evoke a shudder rather than a
laugh in a more subdued atmosphere,

sical show, the more extravagant and

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soon fit to be taken in hand by Miss!

the proper amount of the dignity:
which was actually his as a late Yale;
professor and brightened it in his role! gracefully,
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To an’ innocent by-stander the
campus. on Friday and Saturday
morning, with bearded sladies and
other oddities about, must have seemed
like the home of circus performers.
Girls, who from a distance looked per-
fectly normal, had facés colored any-
where from a very ruddy tan to the
wilder shades of blue, green and even
gold, and on top of this anything from
a dapper waxed moustache to a full-
grown bush covering most of the face.

Goodhart dressing rooms were a
havoe of tubes, powders, eyebrow
pencils and- false hair, in the midst
of which three professional make-up
artists, two men from the Hedgerow
Theatre, Miss Dyer, Mr. Wyckoff,
Betty Lord and several others adorned
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derful, if incredible, specimens.

The beards were usually made of
wool hair, which came in long twists
and ranged from golden yellow for
Prince John to black for the Turkish



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pily is climaxed by Mr. Bolger’s ap-
pearance as an Eddie-Cantorish slave
who has forgot his body blacking.

| The Jast ballet releases Mr. Bolger
of all‘plot obligations, and properly,
too. As a cheap hoofer in the ballet,
he is forced to kill the swaggering
“toughie” who loves the strip-tease
girl, again Miss Tamara Geva. The
rowdy aspects of the situation having
been effectively emphasized, the brute
killed, his lady having crumpled
the crescendo of Mr.



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against a fittingly sordid background
of a “den of evil.” When recalled to
the basic situation he is considerably
shattered to find two gunmen aiming
at him from a box, melodramatically
awaiting the last chord. Mr. Bolger’s
dancing eclipses that of the rest of the
show as he jitters about the stage in
a subtle compromise between humor
and terror.

Mr. ‘Rodgers’ catching music is
properly syncopated to accentuate Mr.
Hart’s lines, slightly léss clever than
usual, but still very pleasing. The
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of beards, teres Noah’s orange

wool creation, with eyebrows and
beard ina matthing set. The latter’
is now: justly famous because of the
announcement made in the. halls on
-the occasion of Ats being lost:

“Lost: one frange beard by Noah.
Please return to Rock Hall.”

God in the Creation had an amazing
headdress made of little coiled springs,
miniatures of the ones on screen doors,
and painted gold. The hair of Senex,
in the Old Wives’ Tale, was painted
with flat paint on Friday; on Satur-
day ‘the actress taking the part went
to Philadelphia for a wig, finding that
even five shampoos did not remove the
paint.



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EYE FOR “LUCKY GIRL”

Under the cosy title, “Home Folks
Here and There” and a subtitle “Lucky
Girl,” the following notice appeared



in the hometown. paper of .one. under;

graduate:

This department’ has been scan-
ning the rotogravure sectiofls of
the metropolitan dailies for pic-
tures of Miss Mary Ann Blank,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Blank, who appeared as a milk-
maid in the Bryn’Mawr May festi-
val. .The festival, which is held
once every four years, is THE
event in the life of any Bryn Mawr
girl, as it is always put on with a
great deal of majesty and circum-
stance, and everyone who is lucky
enough to have a part in it, well—
is just plain lucky.

We ought to mention, too, speak-
ing of Mary Ann’s achievements,
that her name was well up on the
college scholastic honor list which
appeared a few weeks ago. - She
will be graduated next month, and



G. MARRINER PRAISES
SPIRIT OF MAY ai



May 11. —Guy Marriner, whose mu-
sical prestige recommends him as an
able commentator of May Day, is uns.
able to recall ah outdoor event im-
pressive enough even to compare with
the pageantry of last weekend. The
convincing spirit of the participants,
Mr. Marriner feels, transformed “the
audience into a’ congregation” and
then “lifted them completely out of
the century.” Added to this was the
humor which characteristically pene-
trates all American artistry. Though
the festive atmosphere barred all
staginess, the exact details and sound
direction ‘were pleasurably apparent.

Mr. Marriner was especially appre-
ciative of the coloring of the costumes,
so expressive “of the joy’ in the hearts
of the Elizabethans.” Well*acquainted
with the steps which English villagers
still practice, 'Mr. Marriner declared.
that not a step was performed on the
Greene which these folk do not. still

enjoy.
In Mr. Marriner’s~ opinion, Mr.
Willoughby cannot be commended

enough for his thoughtful arrange-
ments and “exquisite timing” of the
music. Mr. Schumann’s compositions
for the Cloister dances also displayed
much excellence, but their sound ef-
fect might have been bettered in per-
formance. -

A valuable change in the future
would be to have the band memorize
their parts and so make a better ap-
proach to*the bandstand. St. George’s
costume was so impressive that Mr.
Marriner feels that the addition of a
Richard Coeur de Lion and a band
of knights similarly dressed would be
an effective note in a future May Day.



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costumes were of fine conception and
execution, as for instance Huanebango
whom I discovered later in The Old
Wives’ Tale, and the costume of’ Ka-
washa in The Masque of Flowers,
which might have been drawn by
Grinling Gibbons for a court perform-
ance. - The flowers on the Maypole it-
self also reflected this change in vigor
and were of deeper tones, in short,
the whole effect was a complete swing
away from the pale spring tones
toward the deep Elizabethan. I wish
that somewhat less brown had been
used and more sharp blue and deep
pink. The effect of the country danc-
ers with the Maypole would have been
better had colors of brighter, lighter
hue been used. While the sun en-
hanced the effect of the costumes, it
~ was not. so.kind..to-the.excessive-make- :
up used. This criticism does not ap-
ply to the use of beards or such trans-
formin® mediums nor to the make-up
of special characters, but to its gen-
eral use. The art of outdoor make-up
is a very difficult one and should be
more carefully studied. :
Plays Show Good Coaching

The addition of the wagon plays
and the strolling players was a happy
one and completed the Elizabethan
scene. Of the longer plays I saw only
parts, but these indicated good coach-
ing. Only Robin Hood was less well
done than in 1932, and here alone was
a touch of the amateur found. It is
a play with great possibilities for free-





dom and vigor and is well within. the
scope of young women,’ as.was shown
by the 1982 presentation. Robin Hood
and Little John carried their parts
well, as did Friar Tuck, although
there was a little over-play at times,
but the action was formalized. I had
a feeling as if each. Merryman had
been told exactly, where to stand,
which made the play less fluid. Also
the change of place seemed to me less
good due to the loss of effect of the
entrance of the riders.

‘The Dream was excellent, and while
the stage action was not: convention-
alized it was good. Is The Masque of
Flowers placed apart in the Cloister
to. be considered. as the- introduction
of a relief note to those who do not
care for the purely Elizabethan?
Otherwise it is difficult to see how: it
fits into the Elizabethan scene, and the
dancing, while beautiful and: pleasing,
surely owes its conception to Isadora
Duncan, and the music, though beau-
tifiil, can bear no relation to the music
of the seventeenth century.

The Old Wives’ Tale, a difficult tale
to understand, but the most interest-

ing of the longer plays presented, was

well done. It was noteworthy for
three characters: Huanebango, who
gave an amusing performance; the
Ghost of Jack, who was excellent, and
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sessor of real dramatic power with a

voice of extraordinary poignaney. I
should like to hear her in one of the
great Greek tragedies and I shall be
surprised if out of this May Day an-
other ‘actress does not emerge.

Short Plays Considered Best —

I think, however, that it was the
short plays whichswere the best; and
of these The Deluge and St. George
seemed to me to be the best. Gammer
Gurton’s Needle should have been cut
further, but it added a meeded Eliza-
bethan note, as it is easy .to forget
that the plays: of that time were
“rough stuff.” The acting was good,
with Hodge and Dame Chatte doing
especially fine pieces of farce acting.
In St. George there was real humor.
I have seen it many times and have
never before found it of’ interest.
Every person represented some phase
of acting and it was excelleritly
coached and presented.

Judging by the crowds..it was..the
two wagon plays which commanded
the greatest interest, and rightly so—
they were the most difficult to produce,

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as they were compelled to play inthe
limited aréa of the wagons, which cur-
tailed action. to a great extent. The
wagons showed the cleverness of their
designer and~-coyld not-have been im-
In The Creation the
use of the three tiers and especially
of the cloud effect from which the
heavenly voice speaks was well con-
ceived and carried out. The acting
was good, but lacked characterization
in.that the players never seemed to
get away from their lines. Here was
the one play in which the execution
of the costumes fell short of their con-
ception. The colors of Adam and Eve
were not good; an attempt was made
at stylization which did not succeed
as well as it should. In The_Deluge
I. saw a_ perfectly produced play,
actors’ lines, properties, all character-
ized.excellently.. Noe and Uxor Noe,
who reminded me of Lynn Fontanne
ina » det sweeping quality, showed
great-comedy- sense and supplemeyted
each other well. I should like to see
Uxor Noe in a comedy part of greater
possibilities.

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‘Phe feats of tumbling on the Greene
were amazingly well done and it was

| diffieuk for, me to believe that I was

watching college students and not pro-
fessional. acrobats. Indeed the tumb-
ling was not only well but easily done
and showed extraordinary’ teaching.
The rest of the Greene proved of in-
terest with the country and Morris
dancing. The Abbots Bromley Horn
Dance, however, did not prove as in-
teresting as the name promised: The
best of all the dances was the so-
called Flamborough Sword Dance, al-
ways popular with the fisher‘ folk of
the north since early times.

“Wit’s rich triumph, wisdom’s glory,

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broken; This difficulty, however, was
nothing compared with that faced by
three dancers from another pole whose
ribbons all broke almost simultane-
ously as soon as the mésic began.

The fainting of one of the beefeat-

~ ers as the court was progressing from

the Greene to the scene of The Cre-
ation, caused Dr. Leary to'have all of
them dismissed and ordered to get out
of their hot costumes, which weighed
over ten pounds each. The audience

must have noticed the concentric cir-
cle gesture on the part of all the
dancers on the Big Greene, who with
one accord wiped their hot and slip-
pery hands on their pants with the
first pause in the music.

Many students overheard strange |

comments. and questions among the
spectators, such as the query of one
old lady to her companion as to
whether this celebration was really
given by Bryn Mawr students, or was
-it the exercises of Shipley School?
Another member of the audience asked
a student to direct her to the scene of
Gétterdammerung’s Needle.

One of the guards’in the Dream
found room to carry in her trousers
a camera and films, and she also took

=a pillow, a thermosbottle of grape-

juice, a box of crackers, a towel and
a handkerchief to her off-stage posi-
tion in the bushes.

Germans Do Not Pull Boners

Those unhappily delegated to, cor-
rect German orals this spring must
have felt decidedly cheated, as not a
single “‘boner”. popped up to amuse
them.

The French examination, we are
relieved té-say, shows more imagina-
tive results. The French army (and
one irl believed it to be a “gelded”
,one) “was camped, every night, at the
foot of a damp plain—-(L’arme au
bras) “arm in arm?’ “Les dragons
autrichiens” were ingeniously tndns-
formed into the “felonous dogs.”

Especially provocative was the
phrase, “s’entretenir de . bagatelles.”’
“Play bagatelles,” “play marbles” and
“believe in the constellations” were
given for what we’re sure you know

means “to speak of trifles,”’
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Dramatic Critic Lauds
_ Artistry of May Day



Continued from Page Five

of Bryn Mawr. If I may be permitted
I should like to pay my. homage ‘to
everyone who contributed, especially
to the costumer for her excellent work,
to the students of Bryn Mawr Col-
lege for the extraordinary spirit which
they brought to their dances, and,
above all, to the director for her



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“Timing and Organization Perfect,
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Among other notable visitors to
May Day who left filled-with enthusi-
asm over the production, the Honor-

able Sheena Campbell well known on

the London stage and the American
radio, found on Saturday afternoon
“one of the most beautiful sights of
her life.” “The timing and the or-
ganization were perfect, the colors
and the movement balanced. As the
procession wheeled around‘and came
past the Greene I stepped back into
the past and felt strongly the illusion



handling of the pageant and for the

splendid organization evident every-

where. Of this May Day it may in-

deed be said:

“Oh, fame, say’ all the good ‘thou
mayest

Too little is that all thou sayest.”’



of an Elizabethan pageant.”

Pleasing to Bryn Mawr ears is the
news that “the diction was extremely
good. Old English is very difficult to
speak well with meaning and without
breaking the form.” Miss Campbell
saw only the three new plays and the
Masque, all of them new to her. The
Creation was. the most entertaining
because of .its humor, its quaintness
and its complete naivité.

On her fifth trip to America, this

is her second visit to Bryn Mawr,
which she finds delightful in the
springtime, when the “buildings,
grounds and in particular the Clois-
ters, appear at their best.” The past
theatrical season in New York she
found very much alive and full of
“wonderful production—a definite: in-
dication that the drama in America
is not dying. The contrast in coming
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Due perhaps in part-'to May Day,
in part to Orals, and in part to defici-
encies known only to the participants
themselves, the results for the college
are not highly complementary.
average score for all those partici-
pating was sixty-three and six-tenths;
for the winners it was slightly over
seventy-eight.



May Day ‘has so exhausted Den-
bighites that they are giving up their
dinner-dance planned for Friday night.
Arrangements had beén made and an
orchestra had been engaged—but that
was before May Day.





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