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VOL. XXII, No. 24

First Prize of $15

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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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