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French Club Gives

Superb- Performance



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* The French. Club is also to be con-
gratulated in its choice of a play, for |
to an audience which is none too
quick at understanding French, the
presence of pantomimic action is an
immense help. Le Barbier de Seville
is so filled with action that the point
and many of he incidents of the play
could be conveyéd through the panto-
mime without the assistance of one
spoken word, and as a result the audi-
ence seemed, to understand what was
happening in this play better than in
any of the French plays presented at
Bryn Mawr in the past. The enunci-
ation, however, was amazingly clear
and distinct, and most of the clever
lines were greeted with roars. of |
laughter from the audience. ma

It: is difficult to decide which of the |
actors deserves the most praise, for
each one played her part with natural
ability, topped by careful and intelli-
gent interpretation. The play was ad-
mirably cast:. Miss Perkins and Miss
Jarrett were naturally fitted to act
their roles as well, we believe, as they
could be acted; Miss Pillsbury show-
ed a remarkable power of continually
sustaining the difficult character part
of Bartholo; Miss Stewart had all the
proper gravity and earnestness for;
the role of Don Bazile; Miss Fouil-
houx not only looked and acted the
part. of the romantic lover convincing-
ly, but showed great versatility in the
drunken scene; and the minor charac-
ter parts of La Jeunesse and L’Eve-
ille, were perfect to the tiniest detail.

Miss Jarrett played Figaro with a
gay vivacity and enthusiasm, remain-
ed in character throughout the play,
and succeeded in making the audience |
enjoy her part as much as she was |
obviously enjoying it herself. Her |
lively, rapid movements as she bounc-'|
ed merrily around the stage, made an |
excellent contrast with the stiffness |
and formality of all the other acting. |
She showed remarkable understanding |
of the French technique of acting, and |
great skill in doing it with convincing
naturalness. Her own personality was |
merged with the character to the ex-|
tent that it is difficult to image Fi-
garo apart from Miss Jarrett. Her

singing was clearly enunciated, pure |





‘congratulated for the natural ease

we can do no more but give our high-
est_ praise to .an excellent bit of
double acting.

Miss Stewart, as Don Bazile, spoke
in excellent and very clear French
and her manner fitted the part per-
fectly, but we felt that she did not
make so much as might have been!
made of the famous “La calomnie” |
speech. Her grave tones, her serious |
acting, and her somber costume added,
however, the correct note of contrast
to the more colorful and entertaining
parts of the other- major characters.

- All the minor parts were well taken,
La Jeunesse, played by Miss And-
eregg, was a marvelously made up
and costumed old man, and spoke with
all the cross excitement of old age.
Miss Boyd, as L’Eveillé, was stubborn
to an amazing degree, and could not
have been surpassed in her acting of
the yawning scene. Miss Haskell, as
the Notary, failed to get over to the!
audience the humor of her perplexity
over the two marriage licenses for
Rosine, but was otherwise entirely
perfect in her portrayal of a very
French role.

Perhaps the most interesting thing
about this production was the French-
ness of al] the acting: no one would
ever have suspected that these were
American girls acting a classic French
play. The actors also deserve to be|



with which they spoke to the audi-
ence in asides, not meant to be heard
by the rest of the cast. It is not.very
easy to speak directly to an audience
in order to convey information not
intended for the other actors, in an
era when, apart from Mr. O’Neill’s
better efforts in that line, playwrights
generally regard the audience as
something not to be directly addressed |
under any circumstances, on pain of
a lingering death.

The staging of Le Barbier. de
Seville should bring great credit down
upon the shoulders of Miss Janet!
Barber, who designed and supervised
the execution of the sets. The first
set was, so. far as we know, Bryn!
Mawvr’s first attempt at a street scene,
and the effect of the grey buildings
rising to towering heights in back of |
the street houses was both austere |
and very Spanish. Spanish lanterns
were hung outside Spanish grilled
windows and the furniture in the in-!
terior scenes was authentically Span-|

-voice conveyed her high intensity of | and in most cases better than any

congratulate Miss Pillsbury on her.

‘mantic lover, the Comte Almaviva,

in tone, and done without the slight- | : ; :
aut stenin as though she were i y| ish. Interesting contrasts of light and
sinaine iuak tow tha toy. of it 'shadow were used, especially in the|

: 2 : ? first act; in which the sun hit, the|
Miss Perkins acted Rosine with all | windows of the house while the streets

the ‘sweetness, youthfulness, capacity | below was still in shadow, and in the
for love, and determination whic the ‘fourth act, in which the stage alter-
part calls fo Bs and had in addition an | nated between lightness and darkness
Seen iat: ecm — Parra |whenever actors entered and exited
eer ness and of Algn-| carrying lanterns.

atvrung : gn os pin - generally | was always effective and unusually
a ai al i rench race; she’ so in the first act, when the hooded
might ‘easi tage abled — 2 shee | figures loomed large in the dark light.
—— a oe rae her _— 'On the whole, then, this play was
vidi saia galt desubigaretthewe Meena’ staged, acted, and directed as well as,



feeling admirably, her distaste for aces play either in English or in
him was delicately suggested, and her }
versatility was. apparent in





ley | =
changes of tone, pitch, inflexion, and |
gesture whenever she spoke to the)
Count.: |

Miss Pillsbury, as the cross, caret |
cious old miser, Bartholo, had perhaps
the hardest part of all to sustain, but |
she never faltered for an instant. Her |
cross, querulous, quavering voice was
a marvel of characterization, her stiff,
aged walk never changed except to
be intensified into a run, and she man-
aged to make the audience sorry for
her without making them sympathetic
with her.. The slight touch of ridicu-
lousness in her love-making to Rosine
after the fainting scene made lightly
amusing a bit of acting which is
rather hard not to overdo. As a mat-
ter of fact, her whole part could
easily have been- overdone, and we

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ability to sustain it at just the right
pitch. ae
Miss Fouilhoux, who played the ro-

did the nicest bit of acting in her
Bryn Mawr career. She was never
ridiculous, as amateurs attempting to
play romantic lovers so often are,
but kept the audience’s sympathy con-
tinually with her and acted her love
scenes with a convincing competency
unusual in an amateur. Hers was the
big scene of the play, judging from
the enthusiasm of the audience, and
we firmly assert that we have never
seen an irrepressible, care-nothing,
voluble, and. -thoroughly charming
drunken man better played. When
we add to this, that it was delicately
conveyed in her acting to the audience

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that her drunkenness was assumed,| Fred F. French Management Co., Inc.

French that we have seen at Bryn
Mawr.—D....T._S. hiieieiibechis

CAST
Le Comte Almaviva. .Anita Fouilhoux

FORO 6s evince, Olivia Jarrett
Bartholo? 7.7733 i, Elizabeth Pillsbury
POUR is iss eck cds Emily Perkins
DON TRORUO. .6i ca bs Alicia Stewart
La Jeunesge......... Jean. Anderegg
Ty URE ok ees selene Mary Boyd
Un Notaire ...... Margaret Haskell
Un Aleade ...2%7). Mary Hutchings
Divigée par...o6.dcic-< Mlle. Maud Rey

Décor et Costume...... Janet Barber



Bryn Mawr Swimmers
Conquer Swarthmore



Continued from Page One

The 40-yard free style seemed to
be fated at the beginning. - After
one bad start the field finally got
under way, with Wylie leading at the
turn. On the final lap, however,
Michael, the. Swarthmore ace, slowly
drew away and though Wylie made
a great spurt at the end, a collision
gave Simpson second place and Wy-
lie and Heathcote tied for third posi-
tion.

Swarthmore took first and third
places in the tandem with Cohen and
Woodward coming in. second. Whit-
ing and. VanVechten.got. off to a nice
start, but broke in the middle of the
pool to come in fourth. ]

The diving was ‘anticipated with
great excitement, for there was no
doubt but that Swarthmore held the
advantage on its own board. How-
ever, though Daniels got off to a bad
start on her first required, her form
and-entry-on-her-other_requireds and
optionals gave her first place in the
event with 69.45 points. A close sec-
ond, Stokes was’ showing excellent
form, but lost out on her front one-
and-a-half as her final optional, and







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not: up 4
‘spite of “he unfamiliar diving board,

brought her total to 69.3 points. Bur-

-}| ritt, of Swarthmore, took third-place

with a total of 67.85 points, bowing to
both, Stokes and to Daniels in the op-
tionals. On the »whole, Swarthmore
got much more height than Bryn

r, hut approach and entry were
scratch. Bryn Mawr, in



seemed (|! get excellent control when
once stared.

The relay seemed a bit anti-climac-
tical after the diving, but much to
Swarthmore’s excitement, its> team
won out in 1744.8 seconds. Stokes
and Smith were even at the end of
the first lap, but Swarthmore drew
away in the next two and Daniels

_}was unable to make up the gap on the

last.

Thus ended our -first outside ath-
letic meet and no more worthy team
could have represented the college in
such an event. May we have many
more of them, for in the spirit of fair
play, especially in basketball and
swimming, it is a distinct disadvan-
tage to our opponents to have to play
us always on our own territory,

The events were as follows:

80-yard Free Style — Daniels,
VanVechten, Heathcote (S). “\

40-Yard Back Stroke—Woodward
(B), Huntington (S), Porcher (B).



Medley Relay—Bryn Mawr. (But-
ler;-Waldemeyer,.Hemphill,. Wylie).
Crawl For Form—Whiting (B),
Keyes (S), Harvey (S), and Bill
(B).

Tandem Crawl—Highly and Heath-
cote (S), VanVechten and Whiting
(B), Siccard and Huntington (S).

40-Yard Breast Stroke — Walde-
meyer (B), Smith (S), Jones (S).

40-Yard Free Style—Michael (S),
Simpson (B), Highly (S), and Wy-
lie (B}.

Diving—Daniels (B), Stokes (B),
Burritt (S).

Relay—Swarthmore (Smith, High-
ly, Heathcote, Michael).



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freshman in that institution’s school
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Representatives of Arkansas. He is
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