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| Hazard Series Ends ~ —

Tomorrow night brings with it the last of the lectures of Monsieur
Paul Hazard, and it is with sincere regret that we find our lecturer’s
visit drawing to a close: For five weeks, in spite of uncomplimentary be-
haviour on the. part of Goodhart Auditorium, Mr. Hazard has conducted
us delightfully through the intricacies of “la Poesie Francaise entre
1815 and 1914,” and we emerge charmed and considerably the wiser.
Again the Mary Flexner Foundation has brought us unique experiences
and invaluable contacts. a

We hope that Monsieur Hazard, as he departs to write his general
impressions of Bryn Mawr, will find our “liberty,” our “athletic cos-
tumes” and our famous “basketball” pleasant memories—a slight return















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ee Not “Collegiate”
The “‘good-old College spirit” which was a requirement of loyalty

as, we may be, feel it a duty te_cheer on the teams or to combat the Odds
We have redticed our traditions to |
a minimum, and Lantern Night and May Day alone embody cherished
We have dispensed with all which remotely .savors of
the enthusiastic. The “‘collegiate” is at low ae i
There is, however, a form of college spirit which wé-cannot afford
to dispense with. Last week a notice, showing deplorable lack~in. this:
respect, was sent to the halls. The Reserve Book Room’ privileges of
Bryn Mawr are in some respects unique. Students are allowed free
access to the shelves and great liberty in signing and taking out of books.
Such. privileges presuppose a college spirit which shall not allow their
abuse, and emphasis is laid on active compliance with the rules. The fin-
ing system, for instance, deals with loss of privilege, not- money fines,
Both the admission
of students to the stacks, and the unrestricted use of.all books are based
on the existence of this high college morale.
Tt is up to the student body to see that slackness does not contami-
nate those attitudes which characterize the students as mature and serious.

East Is West

' Pembroke East was impressed and sorhewhat abashed last year when
Pembroke West stole a march on it and emerged from the general spring
cleaning with-a completely renovated smoking-room. Its smoking-room,
had had its face lifted and with more becoming and re-
juvenating paint and decoration, equally appreciable even at night by
reason of its new indirect lighting—well, many an Easter slipped in to
wonder and admire, and: also (we whisper it) to envy.

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When this fall brought shower baths to West, the camel’s back was |:

broken. An elaborate plan, therefore, is underway in Pembroke East
for producing a brighter and better smoking-room. The volufitary con-
tributions grew quickly to an unexpectedly large sum. Perhaps this is
only the first step and, once the fever sets in,-untold wonders in interior
decoration may develop.

But for the present, lef us commend this initial move which, we
hope, may prove an inspiration to the other halls on campus. We feel
that a new smoking-room, degigned to suit the individual dormitory tem-
perament, cannot but have q great and glorious effect on the student
morale. Certainly, more practically speaking, the indirect lighting system
adopted will relieve that part of our physical beings which, with the pos-
of the brain, is the most overworked and most indispen--
life: the eye. For were the Lord to say today: “Let there
be light,”” He would mean of course indirect light. ~ é



Mealtimes can be intellectually profitable, we hold. Only last Sun-
day, study of the last banana of breakfast’s bowl and the final piece of

a new scientific law, the survival of the unfittest.



studying in the main reading room could
possibly disturb the| Faculty.

From the students’ point of view this
arrangement would be most desirable not
only for the reasons mentioned in THE
News, but for others also. It is to be
expected that the halls would be very
noisy ort Sunday mornings, since every-
one is in them at that time. Therefore
in some halls the people who wish to
study take the smoking room to avoid the
‘noise and make everyone else go into the
showcase. This is obviously undesirable,
because it leaves no place in which to re-

Letter to the Editor

(Tue News és not responsible for
opinions expressed in this column.)
Editor of Cortece News:

Your editorial last week on keeping the
brary open Sunday mornings is the ex-|
. of an opinion which I think is
grevalent among the students.
aud that there has been some
» om the part of the Faculty that
) isa selfish demand from the stu-







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ceive guests: All this-complication would;
1|be done away with if the library were)
ges are a bit available to those who want to study



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Theatre Notes.

The Theatre Guild presents at the Gar-
rick Theatre Turgenev’s. comedy, A
Month in the Country, translated from
the Russian by M. S.- Mandell, directed
by_,the Russian, Rouben Mamoulin * of
Porgy fame. The leading role in this
‘play;-which. has..never. “~~~ staged
in this country, is played, glamorously,
by Mme. Alla Nazimova.. A word about

her:

Mme. Nazimova came to this country
some twenty-five years ago as a .young
but already highly-admired Russian
actress. From the start she won extrava-
gam triumphs with Orleneff’s Russian

| Repertory Company in New York and,

later, in Henry Miller’s presentations of
Ibsen. I wish to remind you of this in
order to dim, if not obliterate, your prob-
able impression of her as the too-slinky-
to-be-nice movie siren. For she is a
great artist. and a great personality in
the American theatre. —

In A Month in the Country, Mme.
Nazimova “interprets the. complex psy-
chology in-the love experience of.a gen-
teel Russian lady.” As Natalia Petrovna,
the wife of -Arkadi ‘Serieich .Islaev, a
landowner, she has the misfortune to fall
in love with her little son’s tutor. Her
husband’s ward, Viera Alexsandrovna,
also falls in love with the tutor; Mikhail
Aleksandrovitch Rakitin, the guest .and
life-long friend of Islaev, is in love with

tutor, bewildered and proud of her love
—and so it goes; when I said complex I

-| meant complex. I refuse to tell you the

plot anyway. Of Mme. Nazimova’s per-
formance I cannot speak too highly ;- she
has the intensity and the psychological
unrest of the Russian character with
whom Ibsen, Turgenev and others have
fascinated and disturbed us. It is pos-
sibly because she is herself Russian that
she tan interpret with such subtlety and
finesse the temperamental vicissitudes of
[the role she plays.

. James Todd plays the part of tutor, the
young, the naive, the vigorously-active
country boy Although his performance
is fresh, he rather overdoes the awkward,
bashful slant. The ward is played by
Francesca Bruning, a piquant ‘and pretty
4ittle thing, and Earle Larimore as Mik-
hail “exhibits a poise and gentleness, a
quiet reserve,~interrupted sometimes by
sudden flashes of passion, which is both
penetrating and almost, perhaps, pathetic.
All the characters are indeed pleasing.
Cecil Yapp’s performance as a doctor”
adds 4 touch of humor which is genu- |
inely amusing, particularly in his rela-
tions with Henry Travers; a simple old
fool who is very simple. I mustn’t forget
to mention Islaev, played as I said before
by Edward Arnold. This part calls for
a blustering, loquacious and commonplace
“landowner,” but “Mr. Arnold is given
opportunity to prove his real powers in
a scene neat. the end when he discovers
that Mikhail loves his wife and with an,
unexpected generosity offers to sacrifice
himself.

The child whom Aleksei tutors, by the
way, is Islaev’s son, Kolia, enacted in
a stiff, conscious way by a little boy
named Norman Williams. He isn’t cute
and I like cute little prodigies.

The settings atid costumes in this play
were designed by M. S. Duzinsky and
are remarkable for their quaint charm,
originality, and beauty of color and ar-
rangement. The second scene in act Hae
Another Room, is particularly enchant-
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Don’t miss this one.



Iri Philadelphia

Broad ::Mr. Samuel, the dramatic char-
acter study, adapted from the Comedie
Francaise success, The Merchant of Paris,
with Edward G. Robinson in the title
role. f ig }

Garrick: A Month in the Country. Re-
viewed in this issue.

Forrest: Berkeley Square, “an adven-
ture in infinity,” with Leslie Howard and
Margalo Gillmore. The atmosphere of
the eighteenth century is successfully cap-
tured in this delightful fantasy.

Shubert: Ed Wynit is Simple Simon
in the musical .extravaganza for which
Rodgers and Hart wrote the lyrics and
music. Harriet Hoctor heads the sup-
porting cast... ‘ce

Walnut: Grace George in The First
Mrs. Fraser, the witty comedy of divorce
and ‘remarria; Presented by the Pro-









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- Broad: The Schwab and Mandel
play, Trade Winds.
Chestnut Street Opera House: The

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Calendar

November 6—Mr. Pierre de La-
nux, Director of the Paris In-—
formation Office of the Leagug
of Nations, will speak on “T

_ Federation. of Europe’. in th
Common Room at 4:30 P. M.
Lecture in Gaodhart Audito-
rium by Monsieur Paul Haz-
ard at 8:15 P. M. This lecture 4
concludes the Mary Flexner
Foundation Series.

November 7—Senior Freshman
Treasure Hunt.

November 8—Varsity Hockey
game with Rosemont.

November 10—Dr. P. C. Chang
will speak on “Whither China
—The World Significance of
China’s Transformation” in the
Music Room at 8:00 P. M.

November 11—Professor Susan
Kingsbury, Director of the
Carola Woerishoffer Graduate
Department .of Social Econ-
omy and Social Researeh, will
speak on “A New Social Order
in Russia,” in Goodhart at 8:00

November 13—Dr. Mildred Fair-
chield,, Associate «in ~ Social
Eccnomy and Social Research,
will speak on “A New Indus--
trial Order in Russia” in Good-
hart at 8:00'P. M. This lec-
ture and that on November 11
are sponsored by the Graduate
Club of Bryn Mawr College.

November 14 Sophomore-
Freshman party.

November 15—Varsity Hockey
gaine’with Swarthmore.

_ November 16 — A Memorial
Service for Dr. Theodore de
Laguna will’ be held in the
Music Room at 5:15.

A musical service of the Bryn

Mawr League will be held in the

Music Room at 7:30... >







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GON oct Cal niosene Schelmo
Alban Berg

Movies

Aldine: Africa Speaks, an exploring
pictyre with some genuine thrills. The
sound effects are very good, and the
killing of the porter. by—a-tion is hair-
raising: . .

Mastbaum: College Lovers, a collegiate
comedy with a football plot. Marion
Nixen, Jack Whiting and Guinn Wil-
liams headthe cast.

Fox: Laughter; with Nancy Carroll
and Frederic March. The-theme is mod-
ern, city life; dialogue supplied by~Donald
Ogden Stewart. Bows

Keith’s: Clara Bow in Her Wedding
Night with Charles Ruggles and Skeets
Gallagher. A composer is too popular
with the girls.

Stanley: Bert- Wheeler and Robert
Woolsey in Half Shot at Sunrise. They
are doughboys with the A. E. F. in Paris.

Stanton: John Mack Brown as the fa-
mous Western bandit Billy the. Kid, with
Wallace .Beery and Kay Johnson.

Earle: The Widow from Chicago, a
crook drama with Edward G. Robinson,
Neil Hamilton, Alice White.

Boyd: A film version of James Oliver
Curwood’s. River’s End, with Charles
3ick‘ord and Evelyn Knapp.

Karlton: For the Love O’ Lil, based on
the Liberty cover series by J. Leslie
Thrasher. With Jack Mubhall, Sally
Starr and .Elliott Nugent.

Local Movies

Ardmore: Wednesday and Thursday,
Gloria. Swanson in What a Widow; Fri-
day, Way of All Men, with Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr.; Saturday, George O’Brien
in Last of the. Duanes.

Wayne: Wednesday and Thursday,
Three Faces East, with Constance Ben-
nett and Eric von Stroheim; Friday and
Saturday, Jack Oakie and Jeanette Mac-
Donald in Let’s Go Native; Monday and
Tuesday, Queen High, with Charles
Ruggles and Ginger Rogers.

Seville: Wednesday and Thursday,
Queen High; Friday and Saturday, Rich-
ard Arlen in Santa.Fe Trail, also Mitzi
Green; Monday and Tuesday, Silent
Enemy, a picture of the Ojibway Indians
in time of famine.
Radio .

Thursday, 6:00 P. M.—Professor Stephen
P. Duggan speaks on “Russia: The Re-
versal of Social Values.” WCAU.

| Friday, 8:00 _P. M.—Orchestral Concert:

| Jessica Dragonette, soprano; Cava-
fiers Quartet. WEAF’S network. -

Saturday, 1:15 P. M.—Football: Illinois-

Army, WABC; 1:45, Harvard-Michi-

.. gan, WJZ; 1:45, Pennsylvania-Notre

9:10 P. M, — Symphony Orchestra,





- Walter-Damrosch conductor, WEAF'S



In the New Bookroom
“Years of Grace,” by Margaret Ayer
Barnes. Houghton Mifflin Co.
A novel which’ should be. of excep-

Bryn “Mawr is “Years of Grace,” by
Margaret Ayer. Barnes. Not only is
the scene of ‘one of the earlier parts

‘tof the boek laid on the Bryn Mawr

campus at Commencement, but there
is a certain atmosphere of quiet and
dignity, of straightforwardness, and of
maturity pervading the entire story
which suggests college influence in
reminiscence. To a Bryn Mawr
reader the spiritual affinity is imme-

The story is a long and rambling
one, moving gently“ and» sympatheti-

cally through the life of Jane Ward,

whose contacts with her own genera-
tion and those of her parents and chil-
dren are those of a woman of intelli-
gence and spirit. Jane’s sympathies
are inevitably with her.own generation,

which enables her to.estimate the pre-

usual fairness. The young Jane is a
ing person, eager for knowledge
of beguty, and refreshingly innocent—
teristics which she retains all, her
She falls in love with Andre
a brilliant French boy, whose
youthful seriousness, and intuitive com-
prehension of’ moods and _ situations
Imake ‘shim: a_ delightful ‘character.
Jane’s idyllic love for him remains a
definite factor in her attitude toward





|| life, until she meets him again after

her children have grown up, and finds
him an earthly Andre, very French,
and sophisticated, very different from
her pleasant companion. The story
loses a certain youthful flavor with this
iconoclasm but the cause ..of realism
gains.

_and--coffipassionate woman, who re-
fuses to judge people conventionally.
Of the mother of a friend who has
committed suicide because she has lost
her lover she says: “It’s just tragedy.
Never disgrace. She loved him.” Then
comes her ‘marriage to Stephen, who
is tender and loving, and deserves ad-
miration and respect, though he is:lack-
ing in-the romantic qualities. With
Jimmy, husband of her best friend,

-++Agnes, “she captures for a moment -

glamor and passion, but she refuses
her chance of happiness with him be-
cause her love for him will not allow
her to betray her code of decency. Her
defense of her position is not senti-
mental but based on a real conviction:
“Love’s the greatest safeguard in life
‘against evil. I won't do anything,

love_in_the eye.*~Jimmy is a clever
and niischievous boy who-has somehow
been mistaken. for.a-’man. His-care-
fully-hidden sensitivity, his champion-
ship of lost causes, his disregard for
conventions, make him an irresistible
gypsy, who is “always wonderful and
always in the wrong.”

_ Jane’s, children introduce complica-
tions into her quiet life which leave her
with a feeling that her careful cultiva-
tion of self-respect and grace in living

CONTINUED ON PAGE 3. ;

Industrial Group

(Contributed by Margaret Waring, ’32)

The first meetirig of the Industrial
Group of the Bryn Mawr League was
held in the Germantown Y. W. C. A. on
October 22. The small number of Bryn
Mawr students found the many industrial
girls eager to talk. After the supper
the group sat around the fire and talked
about plans for the year. They decided
to try and see why there is unemploy-
ment, and why industry is slack. They
planned to start with a study of the tex-
tile industry of which most of the girls
ate representatives, and devote three
meetings to the discussion of this subject.
The girls have had practical experience
and it is a grand chance for us to knock
the corners off our economic theories
and see if they work.

One is struck by the optimism of the
girls, who never know when they are
going to lose all, their income. One



keep entirely to economic. subjects; it
ing of plays and poetry, and for talks on
singing and art. ;

The Industrial Group gives a cordial
invitation to all students—undergraduate
or graduate—who are interested in eco-
‘nomics. The next meeting will be held

in Goodhart Hall.on November 19 at











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diately apparent—it may be a delusion.

but she possesses a clearsightedness_

ceding and following ones with un- ©

Jinimy,_if I can possibly help ity-that
will*keep me_from looking any one. I

notices their eagerness for the cultural |
side of life. The group decided not to

plans to have several meetings for. read- |

6:30. All those who are interested should

me

Jane develops into an understanding