College news, January 10, 1934

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VOL. XX, No. 11

‘BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1934

Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1933

PRICE 10 CENTS





Miss Sands Is Known
As Mimic of Actors



Program Includes Take-Offs of
Ethel Barrymore. and —
7 Cinema Stars



ATKINSON GIVES PRAISE



Bryn Mawr College takes great
pleasure in welcoming Miss Dorothy

‘Sands, one of the most interesting of

present-day entertainers, to Goodhart
Hall, Wednesday night, January 10,
in her pageant of the American the-
atre, Our Stage and Siars.

Miss Sands is an actress of extra-
ordinary versatility. Brooks Atkin-
son, writing of her in the New York

Times, says, “She can play broad or

deep. She can mock and_travesty,
or she can stride honestly to the
point.” ‘Besides being accomplished
as an actress who is faithful to the
legitimate art of acting, she has
broadened her scope to the field of
the mimic. It is through her imper-
sonations that she puts across her
history of the American drama from

the earliest days to the present.

Her program opens with a play
first presented in New York in 1787,
which tells the story of the “first
flapper,” a deceitful. miss_in_furbe-
lows and farthingale, who was rep-
resentative of the post-revolutionary
American woman. Her second skit
shows a traveling company of arti-
san-actors in frontier parts and’ Ye-
veals the poverty of resource to
which such actors were condemned.
When Miss Sands appears as Lotta
Crabtree with her song and banjo
in the third skit, she begins to arouse
old memories in the minds of her au-
dience. Following this she gives im-
personations of Ethel Barrymore and
Lillian Russel, both of which give ad-
ditional proof of the perfection of
her mimicry and’ of her acting ability,
Coming down to the present day, she
invades the cinema field to the extent
of showing three heroines of the
vampire type—Theda Bara, Greta
Garbo, and Mae West. “These ladies
of the screen,’ to quote from a re-
view which appeared in the Decem-
ber 9 issue of the Literary Digest,
“perform their allurements on a
chaise lounge, endeavoring to wring
‘the papers’ from their discarded ad-
mirers. Her impersonation of Miss
West is already familiar to audiences,
and the two newcomers to her pro-
gram ably stand, or rather recline,
with their predecessors.” Miss
Sands certainly promises her audi-
ence an evening of humorous enter-
tainment.



Bryn Mawr Club Gives
Vacation Tea in New York
Sixty-seven alumnae and_ under-
graduates attended the annual Under-
graduate Tea held in the New York
Bryn Mawr Club rooms on Wednes-
day, January 3, to present the classes
of 1932 and 1933, and to acquaint
the guests with the activities of the
club. Those receiving and pouring
tea were as follows: Mrs. Howard
T. Oliver, president of the club; Mrs.
Louis Ellinger, chairman of the
House Committee; Mrs. Louis J.
Darmstadt, chairman of the Meiaber-
ship Committee; Mrs. Henry E.
Stehli, of the Membership Commit-
tee; Miss Katherine Hendrick, of the
Membership Committee, and Miss Sa-

--rah--Foster, Undergraduate. Member

of the Membership Committee! They
-were assisted by Yvonne Cameron,
1932; Charlotte Tyler, 1932; Wini-
fred McCully, 1932; Betty Young,
1932; and Kate Lefferts, 1933.

The club sponsors numerous activi-
ties for its members, provides a li-
brary to which new books are fre-
quently added, and offers the use of
the club rooms, which are located at
the Park Lane, 299 Park avenue, New
York, to graduates of the college.
During the month of November, for
example, there were 392 people who
used the club rooms; 90 teas were
served, 118 luncheons and 17 din-

ners; and 24 members occupied guest |

rooms.



CALENDAR

Wed., Jan. 10 — Dorothy
Sands in Our Stage and Stars,”
auspices Cosmopolitan Club of
Philadelphia. | Goodhart, 8.20
P.M, .

Thurs., Jan. 11 — Non-Res.
supper. Commons Room.

Sun., Jan. 14—Frederica de
Laguna will speak on The Es-
kimos of Prince William
Sound. Deanery, 4.00 P. M.

Chapel. Rev. Nathaniel. Gro-
ton. will give the address. Mu- 4
sic Room, 7.30 P. M:

Thurs., Jan. 18 —- Hampton
Quartette—Goodhart, 8 P. M.

Mon., Jan, 22—Examinations
begin. -9.00 P. M.









Members of Faculty
Atteiid Conferences



Many Bryn Mawr Professors
Read Papers Before An-

nual Conventions



HONORS ARE AWARDED



Judging from the number of facul-
ty members. who read papers at the
annual meetings of various academic
societies during Christmas vacation,
or attended their sessions, one might
almost say that the Bryn Mawr pro-
fessor prefers all work and no play.

At the Boston meeting of the Amer-

ican Association for the Advance-

ment of Science, Miss Gardiner read
a paper entitled “The Origin and
Nature of the Nucleolus,” and Dr.
Blanchard read one on “The Relation
of Adrenal Cortical Function to Cer-
tain Aspects of Resistance.” Dr.
Tennent also attended the biology
sessions.

Dr. Wheeler and Dr. Noether were
present at the meetings of the mathe-
matics division. Illness prevented Dr.
Flexner from reading his study of
“The Intersection of Chains on a
Topological Manifold.” Dr. Richt-
myer attended the biannual Organic
Symposium at Cornell and Dr. Mac-
Kinnon was one of a group of gestalt
psychologists who conferred at North-
ampton. ;

The Geological Society of Ameri-
ca, meeting in Chicago, heard Dr.
Watson read a paper on “Differenti-
ation in Teschenite Sills at El Mu-
lato, Mexico.” Dr. Dryden also read
an article on ‘Statistical Correlation
of Heavy Mineral Suites.”

At the Amherst gathering of the
American Philosophic | Association,
Mrs. de Laguna read a-paper on “Ap-
pearance and _ Orientation.” Dr;
Weiss. and.Dr. Nahm also attended.
Dr. Weiss has recently been appoint-
ed ‘to the advisory board of the new
auarterly magazine Philosophy of
Science, which is interested in the
“unification and clarification of the
program, methods, and results of the
disciplines of philosophy and of. sci-
ence.” The magazine is in the li-
brary periodical room.

The chief address at the joint din-
ner of the Archeological Association
of America and the American Philo-
logical Association, which both con-
vened in Washington during the holi-
lays, was delivered by Dr. Carpen-
ter. He discussed “Homer and the
Archeologists.”” Dr. Muller read a
paper before the former organization,
on “The Beginnings of Monumental
Greek-Sculpture,” and Miss Swindler
presided at one of the sessions. Mr.

| Holland read a paper before the Phil-

ological Association, entitled ‘“Vir-
gil’s Three Maps of Italy.”
Although unable to attend the ses-
sions of. the. Modern Language. Asso-
ciation in St. Louis, Dr. Lograsso was
elected Councilor of the affiliated or-
ganization, the American Association
of Teachers of Italian for the year

1934. Two articles by Dr. Lograsso

‘have appeared recently in the A. A.

T. I. publication, Jtalica.

Dr. Max Diez read a paper before.

the M. L. A. entitled “The Principle

of the Dominant. Metaphor in

Goethe’s Werther.” M. Canu read one
(Continued on Page Two)



Lantern Is Reviewed
by Undergraduate, ’34



Writing in Literary Magazine
Is Criticized for Lack of
Deep Emotion i



EDITORIAL COMMENDED



The most striking thing about the
December issue of the Lantern is that
it contains a good editorial. In Rav-
ens and Writing Desks, Miss Rhoads
has grasped and. honestly set forth a
point of view common to many of the
young literary aspirants of our day
—the interest in the thought of a
writer, in the idea which lies behind
an artistic work. Now it is com-
mendable that we~ should’ want to
think; at the same time we must avoid
the danger: of thinking so- much. that
we forget or never learn to feel. It
is in our emotional, rather than in
our intellectual, education that the
great works of literature should play
their part. :

This criticism of the editorial opin-
ion would be our general critcism for
the Lantern as a whole. It thinks,
but it does not feel. It thinks, thinks
clearly, laboriously, clumsily as_ the
case may be, but at least it shows
signs' of honest intellectual effort. In
matters of emotion, however, honesty
is sadly lacking, so that there it nev-
er rings true. It shams, it trifles, it
dilly-dallies with all sorts of odds and
ends of sentiment; its emotion is
vague, or so definitely piecemeal that
the reader can only wonder what has
happened to the missing links,

The standard printing of the Lan-
tern is not so high as sometimes.
Miss Wyckoff’s The Stricter Mould:”
A Study of Jane Austen, from her
Letters, is undoubtedly the best piece
of writing in the-magazine. The vir-
tue of Miss Wyckoff’s Study is that
while she builds up her portrayal of
Jane Austen around a trait which
she feels to be dominant, she has at
the same time avoided distorting her
evidence to proye her theme. Her
quotations from the Letters are well-
chosen for variety and interest. Her
writing is quick, definite, and good
to read; her critical touch is- pleas-
antly deft and sure. A finished |lit-
erary essay of this type might well
become a permanent feature of the
Lantern; in this issue Miss Wyckoff
sets a tone of breeding, appreciation,
and good sense. ‘

Miss Jones’ dramatic skit, All For
One, is uproarious comedy from start
to finish. It is a spirited piece of
work, fast and good reading, prob-
ably faster and better acting; its
lines are worth many a laugh from
any audience. The setting of the play
in an historic background was_ in-
spired, in view both of the oppor-
tunities for scholarly burlesque and
of the occasion thus offered for point-
ing the satire an: modern institutions.

It is a pity that Miss Morrison
could not have chosen a less colorless
title for her piece of fictional writ-
ing, The Day. Our objection to the
title, however, is as nothing compared
with our objection to the two charac-
ters presented. Nora and Hardie are
completely unreal, and what is worse,
if worse could be, they are unutter-
ably dull. Their conversation is eith-
er too abrupt or too deeply meditative
to pass muster for even a strained
emotional situation.

That from the emotional turmoil
presented should emerge a proposal
is no satisfaction to the harassed

reader who ploughs through this ef-

‘Continuea on Page Five)



Tender Roots
“The longest. way round is
the shortest way home.”
Students are requested not to
walk on the grass during damp
weather. Even at this season
of the year it uproots and kills
the would-be green of next
spring and, to finish off as we
began, “An ‘ounce of preven-
tion is worth a pound of cure.”
Thank you!



Self-Goyr

The Self-Government Asso-
ciation wishes to announce that
smoking on Goodhart stage or
in the auditorium is not allow-
éd ut any time under any cir-
cumstances. This is not only
a Self-Gov. rule, but also a col-
lege and fire regulation. Of-
fenders will, therefore, be dealt
with by three separate organi-
zations.















Radical Tendencies
Seen in Early Paper



Philistine Attacked Lantern and
Pre-Raphaelite Decor at
Bryn Mawr

\ amammmenieianed
LITERATURE
ND,

The News, wishing to. make _ its
contribution to the mass of “Only
Yesterday” flotsam-jetsam that has
engulfed readers of late, has~*béén
conning Bryn Mawr publications of
the nineties in hope of turning up odd
data. The Bryn Mawr of 1895, if one
may judge from. these publications,
was as far removed from 1934 Bryn
Mawr as tea on Parnassus from an
evening at, the “Greek’s,”

On March 1, 1895, a paper called
the Fortnightly Philistine was found-
ed in opposition to the scholarly Lan-
tern by three .rebel undergraduates,
Helen Hoyt, Mary Ritchie, and Edith
Pettit. The attack on the Lantern,
which was then an abnormally liter-
ary annual; was prompted by the
esoteric nature of its contents; but
the founders of the Philistine did not
cramp themselves by confining their
abuse to one subject. The Pre-Raph-
aelite movement and over-aesthetic

(Continued on Page Three)

VS: LIFE



NSFA Convention States
Goal of Organization



(Especially Contributed by M. Nich-
ols, President of the Under-
yraduate Association)

The National. Student Federation
of America held its annual conven-
tion in Washington during the past
holidays. Bryn Mawr, as one of the
150 members of the federation, was
represented and although the prog-
ress made during the congress is
questionable the “raison d’etre’ of
the organization seems to deserve at
least the sympathy of any under-
graduate body. The following is the
ultimate goal of the National Stu-

dent Federation:

“We would achieve a spirit of co-
operation among the students of the
United States to give consideration
to questions affecting students’ inter-
ests. “

“We would develop an intelligent
student opinion on questions of Na-
tional and International importance.

“In working toward these’ends the

Féderation acts independently of any [

political or religious creed.”

The convention itself, aside from
being a delightful way of meeting
representatives from such remote in-
stitutions as the University of Ore-
gon or Arizona, was of little value
except as a resumé of the Federa-
tion’s activities because of the wide
differences in the interests of the vari-
ous schools represented. It was easy
to appreciate their difference from
us on hearing that at Georgia State
College for Women-they require’ a
certain number of extra-curricular
points for a degree, at a certain West-
ern University they place a _ great
deal] of faith in a student leadership

training course, and at the Univer-

sity of Southern :California the men
are not yet reconciled to seeing the
co-eds smoke.

Discussions of problems of Student
Government, Athletics, Self Help and
honor systems all served to bring out
details that are either in our past or
far removed in our future history.
The central office of the Federation,
however, will answer any questions
by mail which are covered by the,

(Continued on Page Stix) .: _<}



Mrs. White Speake:

On Magazine Work



Well-Known New. Yorker Editor
Finds More Jobs Open Now
Than Formerly



LISTS CHIEF OPENINGS



On Monday afternoon, January 8,
Mrs, E.“B. White, formerly Kath-
erine Sergeant, Bryn Mawr, 1914,
spoke on the opportunities in maga-
zine writing. Mrs. White, known to
her audience as an editor of the New
Yorker, while at Bryn Mawr was co-

editor with Winifred Goodall of the -

Lantern, and of the fortnightly mag-
azine, Tipyn o’Bok, precursor of the
present News,

Upon graduation from coilege, Mrs,
White did not immediately start her
writing career. She married and held
jobs of various sorts, doing research
in Ohio on women in industry, acting
as a-factory inspector, and conduct-
ing a cripple survey. After going
to New York, she took up interior
decorating for a while and wrote
criticisms for Nation and other lead-
ing magazines. In fact, when she,
was offered an editorial position on
the New Yorker she hesitated to ac-
cept it, especially since Mr. Henry
Seidel Canby advised her that an edi-
torial job inevitably prevented one’s
writing much.

This diverse and long experience
made Mrs. White particularly compe-
tent to’talk to the undergraduates
about opportunities for jobs in writ-
ing. She was quite optimistic about
the prospects for young writers, pre-
facing her more specific lists of pos-
sible jobs by saying that, although
pull is of value, the best way of get-
ting editing jobs is to write. News-
paper work gives a woman valuable
experience, but leaves her no further
prospect than that of becoming a
society or fashion editor or a sob sis-
ter, because of editors’ reluctance to
give a woman difficult and varied as-
signments. Other possible places
providing openings include publishing
houses that employ manuscript read-

lers, trade papers offering excellent

technical experience, fashion maga-
zines, magazines such as Time and
Fortune, which employ researchers to
collect information rather than ‘to
write. Mrs. White declared herself
not at all in sympathy with adver-
tising writing, which she considered
too much like propaganda. Secretar-
ial training, popularly conceived as
helpful for an opening wedge, she
felt was a handicap except in so far
as the writer used it solely for his
own convenience. Mrs. White her-
self started by asking for.a book to
review; such publications as the At-
lantic, the Herald Tribune’s. “Books,”
(Continued on Page Four)



Eminent German to Speak
on Hitlerism and Peace



Regierungsrat Dr. Fritz Marstein
Marx, who is to speak here Monday
night on Hitlex and Peace, under the
auspices of the Undergraduate ‘As-
sociation, comes to Bryn Mawr fresh
from Germany. and is known as an
expert on pe | probiems. ae

Before k . for America he was
Division Chief in the Hamburg Dept.
of- Public Welfare, and a professor
in the University. Although not lia-
ble to the pressure brought to bear
on those of Jewish /bleod, he volun-
tarily resigned his/ government tion in order to/avoid the restric-
tions placed on all officials rétained
under the new regime.”

Dr. Marx is well equipped to un- .

derstand. the predilections of an
American audience. He __ studied
American Government on a _ Rocke-

feller Research Fellowship in 1930-31, .

speaks English with: ease, and has
published in English and American
periodicals. His wife is the former
Barbara Spackman, Bryn Mawr, ’28,

and jhe lectured at the annual meet- ~

~~ the American Political Asso-
ciation in Philadelphia during Christ-
mas vacation.

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2% Meet the Baron —

If Baron Munchausen were to rise from his grave and take up
residence on the Bryn Mawr campus, it would be like a home-coming
for the old exaggerator. In fact, he might be able to pick up a few
hints on the technique of telling stories based on a modicum of truth.
All day he could sit and embroider on fact in the company of.,the
campus fiction-mongers; for here the Baron would find that stimulus
so necessary for the successful story-teller. His anecdotes could be
enormously improved by the occasional insertion of such emphasis as—
“T screamed with laughter, right in his face, my dear!—She (He) fell

. flat on her (his) face—I thought I'd fall apart on the spot.—lI’ve

never seen anything so howling. . . Don’t think it hasn’t been charm-
ing!’ Whimsy aside, the fact remains that the sober charm of under-
statement has no place in our conversation. Every happening, however
small in the beginning, is before long puffed into alarming proportions
until, for example, an inadvertent remark of a professor in class be-
comes a. delirious joke at which half the class, unable to contain its
mirth, rolled in the aisles. Not only is the subject matter of conversa-
tion ‘strange and false, but sentences become loaded with meaningless
adjectives and oaths intended for emphasis; and all sense of proportion
and all regard for fact is lost in, exaggeration of a very silly type.

We have always with us people who think in super-normal terms,
and who see everything twice magnified ; they may be left to the tender
mercies of the psychologists. Still, we hope we are not mistaken in
thinking that three-quarters of the college is normal or sub-normal,
and that the only trouble is that they are too lazy to make sense or
nonsense without the aid of exaggeration. We would not mind the
general inaccuracy if it had the spice of originality, but too often we
can trace every-phrase of a certain person to some more dominant con-
versationalist whose bon mots:she is ‘borrowing. At first trial the

game of tracing expressions — to their sources is interesting and

amusing, but by and by it becomes a little drear and the plagiarism
seems a positive vice. We are sick of playing the game and would be
enchanted if someone, anyone, would take it away.



Parnassus on Wheels

A stranger who inspected the college library at vacation time

might consider the shelves of that institution surprisingly empty of
books. If, however, the investigator could “peep into the luggage of
undergraduates en route to and from the college, and note the amazing
number of books in propgrtion to the shoes, lingerie, dinner gowns,
and other articles which are usually transported for holiday festivities,
he might realize that the Bryn Mawr library is not so badly stocked
after all; for the time being it has merely become a traveling library.
The tomes in the stacks do-not gather dust while the undergraduates
frolic in distant parts; on the contrary, like faithful friends, they
accompany them on their travels, and wherever Bryn Mawr students
wander, there may be found volumes with the familiar book plate inside
the cover.

Were these books chosen as the companions of their journey be-
cause they must find some outlet for their inexhargtible mental vigor,

the practice of depleting the library during vacation —
sidered one of the significant virtues of the Bryn Mawr student body.
Unfortunately,; however, these’ noble books are unwelcome guests,
which, according to the usual conception of the college program, ought
not to. burden the student during vacation. The pace of academic life
at Bryn; Mawr is admittedly designed to leave no time for loitering
under the ivied arches. The theory seems to be, that when the student
is at college she could work as if her life depended on it, and then take

_a notably long vacation to recuperate, enjoy herself, and then come

back fresh. . ;

Certain professors are completely in aceord with this idea, and
dismiss their students. with a parting adomonition not to work over
“the holidays. On-the other-hand, from the way in which some profes-
sors schedule and add to their assignments, one might conelude that
a vacation is a kind of reading period whose chief object is to allow
students to do large pieces of work without the interruption of regular
classes.

It is, perhaps, unavoidable that undergraduates who, have been ill
or occupied with outside activities should find it necessary to make up
work in which they have fallen hopelessly behind. But we still main-
tain that a busman’s holiday is unwise for students who must work
under pressure, and we urge therefore that undergraduates be permit-
ted and encouraged to,let the library have a full house over vacation,
that they may give themselves and the books a rest.



Sin

I do not like the



WITS END|

Queen. Christina
Queen Christina, Greta Garbo’s lat-
est. and best venture in the cinema,

has been so loudly - praised



“ENVEG”
(after the manner of the
Troubadour)

(Reprint from Tipyn O’Bob, De-
cember 15, 1913.
written by Mrs. E. B. White forthe
magazine of which she was co-edi-
jtor. We feel that it comes under the
head of “interesting sidelights on
famous people.’’)

I do not like fountain-pens that leak,
nor professors that do not cut.

I do not like luncheons of cold slaw
and corned beef, nor people
that never stop smiling. %

dresses.

I do not like red sweaters nog.but-
toned boots. -

I do not like ladies that call you “my
dear,” nor-gentlemen that say,
“How much you’look like your

‘ father!”

Reserved Book
Room.

I do not like windows that. stick.

Ido not like “sure-on” eyeglasses
nor cold hot-water bags.



DECLINE AND FALL
I read a book the other week.
Of all its merits I need speak
No word. I think Bloomsbury clique
With Hanoverian demi-tassic,
And even good Homeric Massic
Would quite agree that it was classic.

I found that book the other day.
But now, with purity passe,

My fav’rite is become Tisque;

It’s with the reprints sold by Macy,
Filled with gloppy ladies racy,
Encased in naught, or little—lacy!

O yes; as classic still it’s.out—

Forbidden one for all the rout.

Yet spite the roaring rabble’s rush—

I spurn the afterthoughtful blush!
—Bookworm Inside Out.



AUTO SHOW (advt.)
The ultra, ultra auto planes;
Mechanics worship at the fanes
Of axleflexic stabilizers,
Of ‘knee-room, head-room minimizers;
The wheels are separately sprung.
The bodies snakily are slung, -
And if you will be really classy,
You needs must get a_ streamline

chassis.

Nut and Bolt Dept.



HANGOVER
Back to the good old grind again,
To illegible notes and a leaky pen,
To sweater sets buttoned up the rear,
To the smoking-room excuse, for
cheer,
To the sausages and the apples dank,
To the dubious eggs and the old beef
shank;
To our happy professors’ two-faced
smiles,
To the work that piles and piles and
piles.
To bathtubs of a darkling hue,
And drinking water that tastes like

glue,

To the same “funny” anecdotes
retold,

And the dear old jokes returned to
the fold, “es

To the sad pocketbook that’s eter-
nally flatter, ay

To the Pollyannas’ and.-Gloom Gus-
sies’ chatter;,.,

To the gals who flunk quizzes before
they take ’em,

And the ones who shrieking, sit down
and rake ’em

Over and over for days and days,

awful phase;
skirt.

And the old sweat-shirt with its
quota of dirt.

clear.

Year?
—Dying Duck.



WHAT I DID DURING MY
CHRISTMAS VACATION
I went home for Christmas vaca-
tion under my baggage. It was very
heavy, and what is more it kept
bursting open and entangling me. But
Santa was very good to me, anyhow.
Then I think I semi-slept for days.
“Yes; I think so.
I don’t remember New Year’s at all,



The “poem” was

I do not like new shoes nor old

Until they’ve advanced to the next

To the toeless sock, and the hemless

And them’s our sentiments, glum but

May we wish you all a Happy New

Funny thing, too, |-

reviewers that very little is feft to be
said. They have noticed with ap-
proval the immense care that * has
been used in the staging, the costum-
ing, and the acting. The great Gar-
bo, hersélf, has been once more hailed
as our \greatest screen personality
and the stars who flashed across the
horizon while she made her celebrated
visit home have been again relegated
to the second rank.

In spite of the fact that all this
fulsome praise -was ringing in our
ears, we were thrilled and our tear
‘glands wrung by the life and tragedy
of the wayward Queen. Not only was
the situation made for tragedy, but

fully to the theme.
wright places a modern person, en-

ideals of a person ahead of her times,
in the midst of such an unscrupulous
and insensitive society as we imag-
ine Sweden in the middle of the sev-
enteenth century to have been, con-
flict and tragedy result inevitably.
The implications in this situation
have, to the cerdit of the scenario
writer, been thoroughly worked out.

Not so much can be said for the
dialogue, though it also has received
its meed of praise. It is supposed
to be a successful modernization of
seventeenth century speech and was

.| written by S. N. Behrman, well-known

author of modern comedy. The only
people in the cast who make it seem
a good job from. the point. of tempo
and style are Miss Garbo and her
trusty servant, whose name escapes
us at this moment; and perhaps Ian
Keith, the villainous Lord Treasurer,
might be added. The others, espe-
cially John Gilbert, who plays Don
Antonio, the romantic Spanish lover,
have no feeling for the dignity of
period dialogue. Words are slurred
and elided with carefree abandon as
they career through the romantic
and stately episodes of the movie.

Their haste may be due in part to
the feeling that the tempo of the plot
is too slow and matters will: be helped
if they throw their words out ata
gangster-movie rate. We can only
say that it was a case of remarkably
poor judgment and should have been
corrected by the director. The tem-
po of the plot was slow, but in an his-
torical piece like Queen Christina
something must be sacrificed in the
interests of atmosphere.

There were many high and perfect
points in Queen Christina, the first
being the coronation of the young
child who impersonated the Queen as
she was at the age of five. Into an
assembly of the Ricksdag flounced tlre
figure of this purposeful-looking
baby, marched down the aisle formed
‘by the Swedish worthies, and climb-
ed up on the throne, to the accompani-
ment of ohs and ahs from her movie
audience, who asked each other loud-
ly, “Isn’t she cute?”

The scene which introduces Garbo
herself, at the age of twenty or there-
abouts, is an impressive display of
what keeping fit will enable one to do.
She gallops cross-country and into
the city, jumps off her horse, and
takes a grand staircase two steps at
a time, all with never a heave or
wheeze. John Gilbert’s entrance is
not quite so commanding, made as it
is from a coach stuck in a snow-
drift. He emerges looking like Moth-
er Hubbard, enveloped in the longest

(Continued on Page Three)



except the next day the lions both-
ered me. I mean the lions in front
of the Public Library.

Incidentally, the Library was fasci-
nating. I met there practically all
the social lights of New York, All
my friends. The only thing is, I
have decided I never want to live
there when -I-grow up. It’s far too
large and complicated. The combina-
tion of the card catalogues and the
statuary cast an’ indefinable pall on
me. I got so I wanted to curl up in
an index and die. In fact, I did. La-
bor vincit omnia. I wrote this first,
-however: for Wit’s End (it needed
it), and for my few fond friends and
family. Yet, dear bereaved, you need
not pray for my soul. I collapsed in
a catalogue on metempsychosis. I
remain, your transmigrated book-
worm, entuning an immortal

: Cheero—

THE MAD HATTER. .



y the

the plot, as worked out, kept faith-
When a play-’

dowed with all the aspirations and



IN PHILADELPHIA

Broad: . Among Thoge Sailing.
New comedy by Laura Walker, with
Constance Binney in the leading’ role.
Don’t ask us where it came from: or
why. s

Chestnut Street Opera House: Ten-
Minute Alibi. Billed as a “highly su-
perior drama with original New
York cast.”

Coming—Next Week

Broad: By Your Leave — another
“new comedy” with Dorothy Gish.

Shubert: Round the World —
“Lively new Burlesque revue.”

. Academy of Music

Philadelphia Orchestra under the
direction of Leopold Stokowski_ will
give concerts Friday afternoon, Jan.
12, at 2.30, and ‘Saturday evening,
Jan, 13, at 8.30:
Rimsky-Kersakow ....Scheherazade —
SOV TINT) cs ocoticesns.konie Belshazzar’s Feast

Baritone Solo, Dudley Marwick.

The Philadelphia Orchestra Chor-
us, Sylvan Levin, Conductor, and
Mendelssohn Club, Bruce Carey, Con-
ductor.

Monday, Jan.\15, at 830—Same
concert with Brahms’ Concerto No.
2 in B Flat for Piano and Orchestra
instead of Rimsky-Korsakow’s Scher-
herazade.
Movies

Aldine: - Eddie Cantor in Roman
Scandals. :

Arcadia: The Marx Brothers in
Duck Soup.

Boyd: Katharine Hepburn in Lit-
tle-Women.

Earle: Above the Clouds — “a
thrill drama.” Bé# Bernie on- the
stage.

Europa: Laughter Through Tears
—Yiddish comedy from the Russian
studios with captions in English.

Fox: J Am Suzanne—Lilian Har-
vey and The Piccoli.

Karlton: By Candlelight —,Pau
Lukas and Elissa Landi.

Keith’s: .Wine, Women, and Song,
with Lilyan Tashman and Lew Cody.

Met: Berkeley Square, with Les-
lie Howard.

Stanley: Dancing Lady,
Joan Crawford and Clark Gable.

Stanton: White Woman — movie °
of adventure with Charles Laughton.

Local Movies

Ardmore: Wed. and Thurs., Ma-
rie Dressler and Lionel Barrymore
in Her Sweetheart (from the play,
The Late—Christopher—Bean)._F ri.
and Sat., Jimmy Durante, Jack Pearl,
and Zasu Pitts in Meet the Baron.

Seville: Wed. Clara Bow in
Hoopla.. Thurs. and Fri., Ruth Chat-
terton and George Brent in Female.
Sat., W. C. Fields, Alison Skipworth
and Baby Leroy in Tillie and Gus.
Mon. and Tues., George Arliss in
Disraeli. Wed. and Thurs., Jean
Harlow and Lee Tracy?in Bombshell.

Wayne: Wed, and Thurs., Wal-
ter Winchell’s Broadway Through A
Keyhole, with Constance Cummings.
Fri. and Sat., Leslie Howard and
Heather Angel in Berkeley Square.
Mon. and*fues., Richard Arlen and
Judith Allen in Hell and High Water.

with

‘Wed. and Thurs:, John Boles and

Margaret Sullavan in Only Yester-
day.



Members of Faculty
Attend Conferences



Continued from Page One

on “Arnaud Dandieu (1897-1933) et
VvOrdre Nowveau.’ The secretary of
the Spanish Language and Medieval
Literature Section of the M. L, A. is
Miss Florence Whyte. Mrs. Frank
is head of the Old French and Philo-
logical Division. * Miss Kohler also
attended the convention.

At the annual meeting,of the Amer-
ican Political Science Assogiation,—.
held this year in’ Philadelphia, Dr.
Wells conducted a round table on
comparative government. Other or-
ganizations interested in the social
sciences convened- at the same-time,;
and their sessions were attended by
members of the Bryn Mawr faculty,
including Dr. Miller, who is on the
Executive Committee of the Ameri-
can Sociological Society, Dr. Kings-
bury, Miss Fairchild, and Dr. and
Mrs. Smith. ;

Editor’s Note: The member of the
Editorial Board who is_ responsible
for this article believes that she has
made as thorough a canvass ‘of the
faculty as is possible under the cir-
cumstances. If, however, any items
of interest have been omitted, infor-
mation concerning them will be wel-
comed.




/

“THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three







Frenchman Describes
-__May Day Festivities



Article in Revue Universitaire
Calls College Fete Notable

Dramatic Event



ORIGINALITY IS PRAISED



At this
season we are reprinting an ‘article

peculiarly . inappropriate

on May Day from The Revue Univer-
sitaire in hope that it will bring hope
and cheer to the campus in a time of
sorrow and headaches:

“Au.cours d’un séjour d’un semestre
aux Etats-Unis, l’an dernier, les plus
beaux ,spectacles dramatiques aux-
quels il m’ait été donné d’assister
eurent lieu. dans des colleges‘ou des
universités; plus que les, galas. du
Metropolitan Opera, ou que les comé-
dies, opérettes ou revues nouvelles
de Broadway, le May Day de Bryn
Mawr et les fétes du ‘centenaire du
Lafayette College m’ont paru repré-
senter la réussite compléte d’un effort
dart original. Les étudiants des
_ deux sexes-excellent la-bas dans un
genre de spectacle en plein air,
désigné par le terme difficilement tra-
duisible de pageant et qué tient a la
fois du cortege et Gu drame his-
torique.

Bryn Mawr, college de jeunes filles
situé aux environs de Philadelphie,
étale ses confortables et élégants
édifices pseudo-gothiques aux extrém-
ités du magnifique pare que constitue
son campus. C’est la que tous les
quatre ans se donnent les fétes du
May Day, dont lattraction centrale
est constituée par le défilé tradionnel
ou le reine Elisabeth, announcée par
six hérauts d’armes, précédée de ses
archers, apparait au milieu de toute
sa cour; elle est suivie des person-

nages qui vont tout a l’heure, dux

quatre coins du campus, jouer, — et
fort bien,—des fragments de Shakes-
peare et d’autres anciens é¢rivains
anglais ou écossais, tandis que sur
le green, des danses. populaires en
costumes du XVIe siécle finissant se
dérouleront au son d’une musique de
la méme époque.

La parfaite harmonie du spectacle
est obtenue non seulement par le re-
spect d’une tradition déja longue,
mais par le concours d’un metteur en
scéne professionel,—actuellement M.
Arthur King,—assisté dans sa direc-
tion par des éléves ou’ anciennes
éléves du college dont plusieurs sont
entreés au théatre. Cette reconstitu-
tion féerique, inoubliable, ot l’on ne
peut ‘relever ni une maladresse de
conception, ni une erreur d’exécution;
attire toujour un énorme concours de
spectateurs: des trains spéciaux sont
organisés au départ de New York et
des grandes villes voisines. En 1932,
malgré Ies effets de la crise qui se
faisaient déja fortement sentir, les
dépenses, qui s’élevaient & vingt mille
‘dollars; — 500,000 francs, — ont été
largement couveftes par les entrées,
qui ont méme assuré un _ léger
bénéfice.” '



Opinion among faculty members as
to the advisability of doing away with
compulsory foreign language attain-
ment examinations was divided when
the heads of the various departments
of the college of S. L. A. at the Uni-
_ versity of Wisconsin were asked their
stand on the question.

—(N. S. P. A.)



The student employment outlook at
the University of Michigan bright-
ened considerably last week with the
announcement that several civil works

administration projects may’ be
launched on the campus.
—(N. S. P. A.)



In a. recent number of the Ameri-
can Medical Journal statistics were
quoted to show that the: general
health of college students was falling
from the standards of some years
ago. Research over a number of
years revealed that students’ health
grew worse during the years spent in
school.



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Radical Tendencies :
Seen in Early Paper

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~ Continued from Page One

undergraduates received their ‘share
of notice.

The editorial of the first issue of |
the Philistine offers an apology for |
its existence in speciously humble |
words: ‘We have our debut to make, |
and we are rather overawed by the |
momentousness of the occasion. We |

fee] exasperatingly juvenile, and we |

have an apprehensive notion that we |
are going to be sent packages of meta- |
phorical hairpins as a reproach to!
our journalistic pig-tails! We Aare, |
moreover, sadly aware that our un-|
pretentious spark of wit is but a);
blush on the chaste brow of our mod- |

est ‘muse at the contemplation of |

|

One of the largest thorns’ ‘in the |
side ofthe Philistine seems to have |
been the current taste in interior dec- |
oration of Bryn Mawr - studies. |
“When we leave a room in which |
reigns,a dim religious light,’ which |
is fufnished in fade colors, whose |
walls are covered with Pre-Raphael- |

ites, both real and so-called, and en- |
ter the next one to it which is: flood- |
ed with sunlight, and has a window |
full of growing flowers, and q wall
destitute of ornaments, it is hard, to
realize that these rooms have pre-
cisely the same basis. . .. We. not
unnaturally conclude that the one oc-
cupant loves nature, and the other
one is either in the confirmed Pre-
Raphaelite phase, or else is a con-
firmed devotee, and prefers Swinburne
and Pater to Milton and Burne-Jones

and Botticelli to Raphael and Muril- !

. There is besides the book-

low;

epic craze, in which we see conspicu- |



“Announcements
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dean
announce the birth of a daugh-
ter, Elinor, on January 1. Mrs.
Dean is research associate in
the Foreign Rolicy Association

and lectured here under the
Shaw Foundation.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward 'S.
- King announce the birth of a
son.



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gravely down the page, discreet even
when she dances. Not in our genera-

tion, alas! can the. singing-robes - of -

women, or the duffle-grey of their
prose, attain the ideal of their walk-
ing-clothes—‘width for walking and
stridth for striding.” Apparently
then .even more thag now scandal

gathered around the innocent heads

of undergraduates and forbade com-
plete ‘expression of ideas and emo-
tions.

! Yet the Lantern editors. were for-

tunate in having a store of learning
to fall back on when expression was
forbidden. Greek was merely anoth-
er language to both them and their
readers if we may draw the obvious
conclusion from an essay called “The
Pet. of the Poets at. the Court of
‘Queen Elizabeth.” The writer, after |
| quoting from Robert Herrick to prove
‘her point about Cupid, “the pet of
‘the poets,” says, “then compare this
|with the following from Theocritus”
-and proceeds to quote nineteen lines

lof poetry in the original Greek. This
/ goes on all through the essay. Again,
_in “The Tuneful Notes of Shepherds’ |
' Reeds,” Theocritus untranslated is |

quoted -liberally. .
; We can see that the Philistine
|might have been irritated by the Lan-
| tern’s refusal to move from the right
wing. Yet as the years go by, the|



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Vigorous Orchestra Plays
for.Gala Maids’ Party

- The Maids’ Dance, for which the
gymnasium’ was cheerfully. decorated
by wreaths
|and four Christmas trees, took place
|in a blaze of glory on the night of
December 20. Sponsored by Joan
Hopkinson, Peggy Little, Emmeline
Snyder and Dorothea Wilder, the
dance was gayer and better attended,
both ‘by participants and students,
than any other we have witnessed in
the brief ‘span of our life within these
walls.

The Krazy Katz Orchestra from
Ardmore used all its four pieces with
vigor. Its ardor might well have
been slightly dampened by the first
dreary hour, when no one appeared
on the floor, but when at. least two-
thirds. of the college eagerly drank
in their ten cents’ worth from the
|gallery. Nevertheless, it managed to
pougx out jazz light-heartedly and un-
/ceasingly until the ‘deadline — at
twelve. Then after-“Sail Navy Down
the Field” had floated out into the
midnight air to gladden our trem-‘
bling -ears, the Krazy Katz folded
up their trap drum like the Arabs
and silently. stole away.

We noted, while quietly dangling
our large feet from the balcony, that
our dancing is» distinctly not up-to-
date. The really modern girl must



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eleven-count-’em-holly

iclasp her man about the neck while

he grips her fondly by the waist.
She then plays peek-a-boo over his
shoulder and around his ears. If she
is taller than he, she casts an al-
luring look at other comers-on from
over his unsuspecting head. Seldom,
if ever, nevertheless—and we know
that our opinion is shared by many
others—have we seen such beautiful

Queen Christina



(Continued from Page Two)

ever seen, which is, appropriately
enough,.topped with an equally out-
size cavalier’s bonnet. The audience
tittered.
Unfortunately for Mr, Gilbert, who

under the Garbo auspices, quite a few
of his speeches were made to be ruin-
ed by ham acting. Love and Life are

difficult things to handle in screen-
dialogue and require a light sure
touch to seem anything but the worst
sort of hooey. Mr.°Gilbert’s touch
was anything but light and the re-
sult was heart-breaking and nerve-
wracking for those who. wanted to see
him put himself over again as he did
in the days of silent movies. We
have just about given up: hope of sée-
ing him triumph in a dramatic come-
back and wish he would turn to the
brokerage business.

Yet when minor criticisms have
been made and the defects of acting
in the supporting cast explored, one
is brought back to the fact that Greta
Garbo’s pictures will always attract
the classes and the masses. They
like her, her personality, not her act-
ing. They mourn when she mourns
and fee] happier when she allows a
wan smile to flit across her features;
but none of this sympathy’ is' evoked
by her acting technique, which is by
now fairly stereotyped. What affects
them is the sense she conveys of: be-
ing a beautiful angel beating her
wings ineffectually in a rather crass
void (cribhed); and they sorrow. for
her as they would for any enchant-
ing and dumb animal caught in the
traps of the world. We won’t in-

rand biggest. bearskin- coat we have——

Lis making an attempt to.come back .

ous, Morte Darthur, Nibelungen Lied, | : ; j
Gottfried von Strassburg, and. Wot. | tebe! itself loses some of its acerbity



sist on that theory, since it’s merely
a rough guess about a strange phe-

dancing:—such a perfect sense of
rhythm, combined with so much



‘ ; . d even shows a tendency to imi-
ram von Eschenbach, with perhaps *” : reels
f : . si tate the Lantern’s style and content| grace even in the most intricate steps.

\in a weaker way. Even in the Apel Ballroom dancing it was; but, to
| . .
our envious eyes, it seemed good

an opera of Wagner.”

The battle for a simpler decor
séems to have been won for a short
time, for one of the issues in ’98
comments on the fact that the class
of ’99 is reviving the old vices and
draping the gas-jets with knick-
knacks. They point proudly to the
fact that rooms have been plain and
decency and order have prevailed
since the class. of ’93 departed Bryn
Mawr. The lapse of ’99 would seem
to indicate that there was something
to lapse from and that the lucky edi-
ors of the Philistine had a certain in-
fluence on their readers.

The Lantern, on the other hand,
seems to have continued in its unre-
generate path, heedless of the Philis-
tine’s naughty remarks. There is no
record of the Lantern editors’ reac-
tions to their rivals’ manifesto
against culture; but titles in the ta-
ble of contents ‘prove that their se-
rene course was practically undis-
turbed. The way their thoughts ran
may be gleaned from the following:
“The Gentle Art of Tea-Drinking,”
translations from the poetry of Vic-
tor Hugo and Eichendorff, “George
Meredith,” “Examination Versus Ed-
ucation,” “To a Tanagra Figure,”
“Admission By Certificate,” and “To
An Archaic Greek Tomb.’ The safe
and aesthetic nature of the contents
is perhaps explained by an editorial
written for the 1897 issue: ‘As wom-
en“{nd at a woman’s college, the criti-
cism to which our every act lies ex-
posed is invariably severe, and might
even with justice be called unfriend-
ly. The Lantern is accordingly care-
ful to print upon no subject any-
thing that could startle the most con-
servative. We ourselves may swing
along the country roads in our short
corduroy skirts, but our muse paces

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issues it contained a few rather lit-
erary pieces and several “realistic” | enough to be professional.
; Short stories about young women who

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nomenon; and we'll leave you to your
own opinions when -you see it, as
what good American won’t?

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| were regarded only, as sisters by the |

‘men they loved. |
| After some years of degeneration | BES T° S&S e
from the witty standard set by the
first editors, who were “thought rath-
‘er naughty” according to an author- |
‘ity on that era at Bryn Mawr, the |
| Philistine departed this life in 1903. |
Needless to say, the Lantern—pushed
on in its solid way and still bears |
witness to the fact that the ability |
to parse a sentence has not perished |
from Bryn Mawr. Together, the!
two magazines marked an ‘epoch at |
Bryn Mawr in which undergraduates
fought about ideas and tastes as |
fiercely and more literately than their |
descendants do about Student Govern-
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Continued from Page One

and Scribner’s frequently do this.
Poetry can often be placed in the
small special magazines, all large
general magazines, all newspapers,
and, in particular, the columns con-
ducted in newspapers. The pros-
pects for selling material to the mag-
azines of national circulation are bad
because those publications buy big
names and because they are likely not
to read all the material submitted.
However, such magazines as Mer-
cury, Scribner’s, Harper’s and the
New Yorker are anxious to find fresh
writers. The percentage of plays
sold by new writers is discouraging-
ly low, and there is small hope of
writing for the movies because the
unknown writer is-assigned such in-
significant, tedious jobs.

The actual contact of the writer
with his editors is necessarily small.
Personal contacts are aggravating to
the reader or editor, and they would
prefer not to deal with an agent be-
cause of the interpretation or revi-
sion he-may force upon the writer.
The. manuscripts themselves should
be intelligible and legible-typewrit-
ten double space and on non-trans-
parent paper. If a letter accompan-
ied the ‘manuscript, it should be
Mrs. White
declared from her personal experi-
ence that the intimacies revealed by
contributors were uncalled-for, not to
say uninteresting to her. Such let-
ters from well-known writers who
write-to—her—about.themselves as
“warm again with the baby in her
osier basket above the snow,” and
chattily describe their difficulties
with a_ typewriter—a “borrowed
beast” at that, while crossing the Bay
of Fundy made her no more pleased
with their “domestic garland of
verse.” Even the masculine note end-
ing “send me a quick check if the
poem touches the tops of sublimity”
or the fascinating news flash, “mag-
nolias out, worms on flagstones .. .

‘and tomorrow I’m going to Saybrook

to go swimming” fail to charm.

There is no need to send creden-
tials, and.there is little use to consult
an editor except in the event that the
writer is planning to do a factual
article.

Mrs. White advised anyone inter-
ested in illustration to go on study-
ing as did Peter Arno and Helen
Hokinson even after their fame as
artists was established. An excellent
opening for this sort of work may be
found in doing decorative spots, fill-
ers, and headings, although the as-
pirant need not hesitate to submit
cover designs, making sure only to
send them drawn in proportion to the
cover of the particular magazine.



tee
‘New Philos Course

The Philosophy Department is of-
fering a new Second Year Course on
the Problems and General Theory of
Value to be given by Miss Walsh next
semester at eleven o’clock on Mon-
days, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
This subject matter has not hither-
to been included in the courses offered
at Bryn Mawr, but is of interest be-
cause it constitutes a comparatively
new field of philosophic study and is
applicable in ethics, aesthetics, and
economics.



About this time it is a consolation
to know that Lindbergh flunked out
of the University of Wisconsin; Dr.
W. J. Mayo, of the Mayo clinic, flunk-
ed out of the University of Michi-
gan medical school; and Stewart Ed-
ward White and Franklin P. Adams
were likewise given their walking pa-
pers from the S. L. A. College of the
same institution during their fresh-
man years.—(N. S. P. A.)



“The only requirement made of an

‘applicant for admission to college

should be, ‘You: must have shown
yourself intellectually proficient at
something,’” says Acting President
Edward Elery, of Union College, in
a recent article in the New York
Times.—(N. S. P. A.)

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oh wr Armistice] [heen
Pers for a month and a ee, ‘there
was still a great demand for War
Work at college. The Army of Oc-
cupation on the Rhine had to be
clothed for the winter months to
come, and the Bryn Mawr students
were urged to greater efforts in sew-
jing and knitting by the slogan, “Now
is the time for all of us to.be knit-
ters, not quitters.” Knitting machines
were set up in the music room of
Pem East (now the offices of the
English Department) and.a hue and
cry was sent out for more volunteers
to learn the use of these machines

‘Mary the Queen

We injected the cultura] element
into the past. week-end by attending
Mary of Scotland, i, partly ‘because we
shouu, and partheebecause oar fast
impression of Helen Hayes was of
her as the slightly “not-of-this-earth
earthy” good fairy in Mr. Molnar’s
little bit of whimsy by that name.
We had spent the last few days won-
dering how she would manage to be
the Scottish Queen with any sincer-
ity and success. We cannot vouch
for the merits of the first act, as we
did not make-our entrance unti] the
curtain was wending its weary way

downwards, but the good name of the |

remainder of the play we are more
than willing to defend.



that the college output of socks might
be radically increased. Other slo-|
gans, such as “There is only one way |
to keep at Red Cross work,—get the |

Miss’ Hayes is a very satisfactory

|Mary, authough we should have pre-

fered. a more regal bearing. It is
well known that the Scottish queen

habit,” and “Take an hour a’ week,! was more a woman than a queen, but

and. help the winter drive for socks,”
would seem not to have been neees-
sary if the inhabitants of these sa-
cred halls were anything like those
of today who have reduced the knit-
ting habit- to a science.

- The college generation of fifteen
years ago must have been rather
sports-minded,-for-there~is-one—-case
on record of a sophomore who re-
quested that thirty minutes of jump-
ing rope before breakfast be counted
as a period of required exercise. (It
must be admitted that she was desir-
ous of losing ten pounds which she
had gained since the opening of col-
lege.) The fact that a hike, from
Devon to Valley Forge, open to any-
one on campus (if she brought her
own lunch), was scheduled for the
day after Thanksgiving, is definite |
proof of the trend toward sport, and |
more sport.’ This is also the case
with the Casualty Club, an organi-
zation formed by enthusiastic short-
ly after the introduction of roller- |
skating into the everyday life of col-
lege. One gained admission into this |
exclusive association through inyita- |
tion only, and then only if one were |
well-versed in the art of skating. |
Members were distinguished by the |
club-insignia, which consisted of a
skate-key hanging on a blood-red rib-
bon. This insignia had to be worn |
throughout the first day after initia- |
tion. It is reported that the popu- |
larity’ of this sport, and consequent- |
ly of this club, was so great that the |
magnificent sum of $25.60 was receiv- |
ed from commissions on the sale of |
roller-skateS and given to the Serv- |
ice Corps Fund.

The Choir had already inaugurat-
ed in those days the custom of sing- |
ing Christmas carols on the last night | |
before vacation. They followed, how- |
ever, a different route, starting from
the library and ending under Pem-'|
broke Arch,—as they do now, but
taking in different points on the way, |
such as the Deanery, Pen-y-groes |
(will anyone who knows where this |



with all that, she was still very much
of royal descent and in her womanly
moments we always pictured her as
being a little less like an unhappy
churchmouse. Miss Hayes is a lit-
tle too sweet to John Knox to suit our
tastes and:a little too much a poor
weak woman in respect to the murder
of-her-seeretary;-Riccio, by Darnley.

In our opinion there is great ad-
vantage to be gained by building
Mary up as a very regal person, jeal-
ous of her authority, and firm in her
resolve to rule and hold her country
come what will, for once those char-
acteristics are established, her com-
plete surender to Bothwell, entailing
as it does the loss of her kingdom,
would attain a heightened signifi-
cance and would magnify the entire
sequence of events to follow. That
this effect has ‘not been achieved is
not the fault of Miss Hayes alone,

for the playwright has given her
rather mild and_ trusting lines
throughout. But our remarks are

| not intended to convey the impres-

sion that Mary as she passes before
us in her joy and sorrow is not an,
‘infinitely appealing figure and one.
which will go far to enshrine the un-
happy queen in the hearts of those

'who have not met her before in the

pages of history.

Helen Mencken is superb as the
scheming, level-headed Elizabeth; the
power behind the ill-fortune which
dogs the steps of her “beloved sister”
and the woman who by her wits made
‘ambitious men work for her and not
'for themselves. Miss Mencken has
the bearing, the hauteur, and the

| unruffled exterior with which to give
the part a reality which almost sur-

passed that of Mary.
The most dramatic’ scene in the
play. came when Elizabeth called on

| Mary in her English prison to as-

sure her that she was being held a
prisoner only for her own protection.
The lines which Mr. Anderson gave
his two queens at that moment were

iexamples of the pitch to which fine].

is, kindly communicate with the News | writing may rise when given the

office), ‘Miss Maddison’s, Dr, Beck’s, | proper impetus from character.

The

Dr. Scott’s, and Miss Abernethy’s. Boy women were opposed to each

The following items might be clas- |

other on two quite different levels—

sified as “worthless but interesting | Mary as a woman who wished only

facts,” and as such are grouped to-
gether even though they have no con-
nection one *with another. There
were some 86,700 books in the col-
lege library in 1918, and in the pre-
ceding fiscal year about 250 books
were lost, strayed, or stolen,—the lat-

to return to her lover, and Elizabeth
as a queen who wished only to re-
move all threats to the peace of her
realm. Each was confident that she
was pursuing the best course, and
the decision is left in the hands of
the audience, for Miss Hayes’ last



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ler or not she has made food her threat

to Elizabeth’s fame depends upon
your reaction to Mr. Anderson’s play.

Philip Merivalé has the ‘third lead

as the swashbuckling, belligerent, and’

sullenly passionate Bothwell, and he
does his work very well indeed. Mr.
Merivale has the physical attributes
for the lover of the Catholic queen
(whom we mildly suspected of suf-
fering from a variety of hero wor-
ship rather than from a great love)
and he put vigor and life into his
part. The scenes with the Queen
filled us with something: akin to ap-
prehension as we were convinced that
if he once threw his obvious restraint
to the winds Mr. McArthur -would
have to call for the mangled body of
his lawful wife at the stage door
with an ambulance. There is some:
thing about the manner in which Mr.
Merivale conveyed his feelings for
the Queen which made. us sympathize
with her in her, weak moments. Scot-
land was a very ‘wild country in those
days and the presence of Lord Both-
well did nothing which we could dis-
cover to make it a more fit place for
defenseless women.

The part of John Knox was =e

lently taken by a gentleman who got
himself—up--with~the—-most--enormous
circles under his eyes, a long, white
beard, and a face which went on in-
definitely in -the direction of his toes.
His voice was like a summons from
the dead and the composite effect of
it all was to convince this ’spectator

.that if he really felt that way about

Protestantism it would have been eas-
ier to agree with him at the very
start. He was a bit like a figure
from the fairy tale- books —of—our
youth, in which it was clear that the
witch not only was a witch but also
looked like’ a witch. Darnley was
painted as he is recorded in history,
a weakling who had nothing with



which to compel the queen to faithful-
ness. And the four Marys, who act-
ed as the maids of honor to Mary
Stuart;—were—exactly-as—__we—would.
have imagined them—sweet, sympa-
thetic, and loyal to the last. :
As to the play itself, Mr. Ander-
son has written a convincing and
dramatic account of the love of Mary
Stuart, if he has ignored some of
the possibilities of her rule as Queen.
That he saw fit to conclude his ac-
count with the start of her long im-
prisonment in England is proof that
his interest survived only so long as
she. was free ‘to follow her heart.
Most of her work as a politician and
as an intriguer striving to regain
her throne took place after Mr. An-
derson pulled the curtain. In so do-
ing he omitted what in our mind is
one of the most effective scenes in
any history of. Mary: the scene at
the trial of the Queen in the castle
of Fotheringay, when she st@od in a
hostile assembly and successfully de-
feated¢ every attempt of Eliazeth’s
jurors to establish her guilt as an
architect of treasonous plots against
the realm. It is a scene which has
been largely respremsible for her repu-
tation as a Queen and as a woman
and_is significant as the final. flash-
light recording of her influence over
men, her limitless personal courage,
and her belief that she herself had
done no wrong in either the eyes of
God or in those of her countrymen.
As a record of the love of Mary
Queen of Scots an audience could ask
no more from either the playwright
or the actors, but to those of us who
have regarded Mary as primarily a
queen the play somehow lacked sig-
nificance. We needed no additional
proof of the fact that Mary was a
tragic figure, but the tragedy of her
kingdom which followed inevitably on

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fort to the bitter end. ‘We feel we
have labored with mountains to
bring forth a mouse. We would like
the writer in future to pay more at-
tention to presentation of her char-
acters, and less to prolonged analy-
sis, at least until the illusion of their
existence has been more or less es-
tablished.. We will not-be explained
at so resolutely and so dogmatically,
especially as we disagree more and
more violently. with the explanation
offered.

As for the style of Miss Morri-

son’s story, we have only two criti-'

cisms to offer, We find that the scenic
description adds nothing. of valuable
atmosphere, but. on the contrary is
consistently cropping up at precisely
the wrong moment and having to be
consciously discarded by the reader
in his progress. The adjectives and
adjectival phrases are careless and
trite. There is for us no ‘reality, no
aesthetic appeal in “a pale green
lawn” or “inconstant dunes” or “sad
gray.ocean.”. We.think.“dropped_like
a plummet” might be better quoted
whole from. Shakespeare, and not in-
troduced ‘so casually Amato spoil a fine
poetic image. :
There is only one poem in this Lan-
tern, and that not a good one. The
idea of Miss Thompson’s My Prince
is obscure. The best things about the
poem are the form and the rhythm.
The worst are the two similes—‘“like
a spreading hand over the sun,” “like
the glance of a bird’s wing at dawn”
—neither of which rings true to our
imaginative ear. They are too vast,

objectively; they may be poetic, but

place.

The best lines of the poem are the
first two and the last three. Here
one has, in the first, a good picture;
in the second, a good sentiment.. The
poem as a whole, however, is too
slight and too vague, arid not really
imaginatively conceived.

Miss ’ Reade’s Geneva. is not the
type of artiele for which we think
the Lantern should have any use. The
writing. is too awkward to be judged
on literary merit; the substance
smacks too much and too complacent-
ly of theoretical international good-
will. We are left with the impres-
sion that the Ecole Internationale is

friendly playmates.
corum is Sutraged at the idea that
white hairs should limit a professor
to “classes of younger children.”

Miss Robinson’s review of the
Manet-Renoir exhibition is very good
indeed. The writer has a fine qual-
ity of sureness in saying what she
thinks. The criticism is neither too
highflown nor too bookish; the pic-
tures as we read are continually con-
jured up before our eyes.

Miss Coxe’s dramatic review of She
Loves Me Not at the end of the book
finds us in a muddled state and leaves
us worse. There is a_ sense of
haste and confusion in the reader’s
mind as a result of the conscientious
(too frequently parenthetical) detail
with which the course of the play’s
action is related. We are disap-
pointed that the criticism offered is
confined to one paragraph, and that
treated only from the point of view
of stage technique. We wish the re-





for the present poem, they are out of.

an institution of prigs and not of:
Our sense of de-.

intellectual curiosity at the concrete

‘Eurydice, and elongating her, pro-



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The Business Board of The
Lantern announces the election
of Penelope Hunter, ’37.



Alice in Wonderland

The movie of Alice in Wonderland
presents a strangely hashed version
of the play, and in turn of the book:
many movie-goers must have come
home gleeful, but their glee was
scarcely “uffish.” The movie was the
production of a mad mind, but it
lacked the delicous madness of Lewis
Carroll. Of course, we were appre-
hensive from the first of having our
childish dreams and memories. bared
on the stage and screen; there is
something very objectionable about
seeing exactly how things happen, as
the audience, if it is at all interested
in the technique; must do from mere

phenomenon of Wonderland. And
that is exactly what caused our re-
sentment when we: saw Alice sand-
wiched between newsréels and. vaude-
ville.

The movie was produced very sci-
entifically, collapsing Alice by mak-
ing her fade out like the classical

gressing from head to foot, by mak-
ing her hair look as if it really did
want cutting and her feet like Ath-



view might have been built around
her conception of the comedy’s appeal
to an undergraduate audience. Miss
Coxe tells us the play is “a smash
hit,” but that is not the feeling in-
spired in the reader by the facts of
this review. {|
ELIZABETH M. MACKENZIE.





lete’s: Foot advertisements. It Wag!
too bad, because not only do we suf-
fer from a prejudice against Before-
After pictures, but we are even more
irked by being. shown the gruelling
intermediate stages. We would much
rather remain in the dark during
these metamorphoses as we did in the
play produced by Eva LeGallienne,
and be flattered with ¢redit for some
imagination. st

This deprecation of the public’s im-
agination further deluded the produc-
ers into prefacing the movie with a
short scene in which they argued for
the possibility.of a child’s being im-
aginative about everyday happenings
—a kind of foot-note for the feeble-
minded among us. . The addition serv-
ed only to detract from the complete-
ness of the story, which in both book
and play starts with Alice’s going to
sleep and finishes with her awaken-
ing; nor does it ehhance the logic of
a writer so steeped in the rigorous
mathematical method as Lewis Car-
roll assuredly was. We prefer to re-
main conventional and decidedly un-
progressive so far as such unneces-
sary change is concerned.

But the spirit of invention and
originality on the part of the revis-
ors did even more than this to the
material of the book itself. Scenes
were slashed and cut, lines changed,
and the set was conceived in the.mind
of a modern designer—Tenniel prob-
ably being considered passé and a
trifle too’ sentimental because of the
Dickensian peculiarities he gave to
the people in his pictures. The mov-
ies have progressed from the rollick-
ing lines of “Jabberwocky:” Alice’s
only recognition of the looking-glass
language comes when she holds a\Wol-





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ume of the Encyclopedia Britannica
to the mirror (probably one of. the
edition with which we would have
got a free’veneer table if we had sent
in the coupon). Almost all of, the

poetry, for that matter, was omitted;

the public soul has become earth-
bound. Only’ Tweedledum and Twee-
dledee and the Mock Turtle were al-
lowed to perform, and even the latter
was denied a display-‘of’ his “tefpsi-
chorean leanings in the Lobster
Quadrille. Lines, of course, were
changed with the greatest facility,
usually with a view to Americaniz-
ing the English idiom—as for exam-
ple in Alice’s calling Humpty-Dump-
ty’s belt a “collar” in place of the
original “cravat.” It may seem rather
petty of us to object to such minor
points, but we lost some of our ap-
preciation for the dialogue, just as
we, in fathomless ignorance, never
fail to miss the point of a translated
joke,

The set was much more beautiful
in thé movie than in the play—or in
the drawings by Tenniel, yet there

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Mary the Queen



(Continued from Page Four)

the heels of her surrender t@ what
she wanted as a woman rather than
what she needs must want as a queen
was obscured and in several instances
reduced to such insignificant propor-
tions that we forgot about it entire-
ly. And since it was the political
motive which had much to do with
Elizabeth’s actions, it might have
been made more of one the other side
of ‘the border.
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Proves Disappointment



‘aeiscolally Contributed by D. Havi-
land Nelson, ’34, Member of the
a Playwriting. Class)

Our expectations of The Lake were
high, based on our good opinion of
Miss Hepburn as an actress, our re-
spect for Jed Harris’s judgment, and
our reading of the play. Perhaps
they were too high; at any rate they
were disappointed, and the play that
had been hailed ‘as the bright spot
of the year turned out to be just an-

other occupant of a theatre.

In the first place, it is miserably
miscast. Miss Hepburn is-handicap-
ped by having too much of a repu-
tation as a movie actress and not
enough stage technique to support it.
As Mr. Benchley says in the New
Yorker, if she had come from under-
studying Hope Williams in Holiday
to the lead in The Lake, she would
have been acclaimed as one of New
York’s most promising young ac-
tresses. If the production had not
been so violently ballyhooed. for weeks
in advance, the audience would not
have expected a miracle. And _ it
would have been no less than a mir-
acle had ‘she been able to play the
part as it should have been played,
for it demands a maturity and sub-
tlety far greater than any actress of
Miss Hepburn’s age and experience is
mistress of.

In the first act, when she is sup-
posed to be on the verge of despera-
tion because of the materialism of her
overbearing mother, her love for a
married man, and her engagement to
John Clayne, ishe seems merely fa
nice, wholesome girl from the shires;
in the second act, both her remorse
and her passion are inadequate; in
the third act she rants with careful-
ly studied gestures, a poor substitute
for the almost Hysterical grief and
despair which the action calls for.

We are extremely glad that Miss
Hepburn has not rested on her’ Holly-
wood laurels, but has returned to the
more exacting sphere of the legiti-
mate theatre. It is unfortunate that
the part chosen for her appearance
is so difficult and so obviotsly beyond
her, but we sincerely hope that the
criticism she is receiving of her per-
formance in The Lake will urge her
on to a deeper study of stage tech-
nique, for undoubtedly she has a-con-
siderable talent.

Frances Starr, as Mildred, the
mother, is unusually poor. It is on
her that the play hinges; she it is
who is accountable for Stella’s weak-
ness of character, who insists on
building the lake which caused the
tragedy of the second act, and whose
insensitiveness almost drives | her
daughter to suicide. She should be
ruthless, dominating, and very strong;
‘instead she flutters, and is ——
rather than horrible.

Cecil Hervey, the married man,
who refuses to leave his wife’s in-
come for Stella, is a sad mistake as
played hy Geoffrey Wardwell. In
spite of his lines, he insists on being
a strong, silent man of the clean-
limbed young Britisher type. This
produces the rather odd effect of a
charming and insolent rotter, whose
every move was full of nobility and
chivalry.

Colin Clive as John Clayne and
Blanche Bates as Lena, the sympa-
thetic aunt, labor well and truly ts
lift the play from its supine position,
but thé task is too‘gr-at. Colin Clive.
is entirely convincing aS an under-
standing, kind and upright gentle-
man, and Blanche Bates puts into her
part a vigor and point that are most
refreshing. Unfortunately Mr. Clive
is killed at the end of the second act,
and Miss Bates’ speeches are rather
didactic, so that they have little op-
portunity to display their talents.

The directing was inexcusably
poor. This was most obvious in the

_ first scene of Act Il—a difficult scene

at best, for it consists of a number

_of wedding guests who do little to

advance the action, and in whom we
are not personally interested. Well
handled, it might have given an amus-’
ing comment on county society, but as

_ it was, the impression was one of cha-

otic dullness. The guests rushed at

z top speed across the stage and. back

again, all shouting their lines sage
so that they blended in

‘point it needlessly degenerated into

tes barctnaeatemanens never does it con- |

plicit totes ‘the: hor-





Greta Swenson, ’32, to Kim-



“berly - Cheney, of “South Man-
chester, Connecticut.







rors of a fashionable wedding, one
more example of Mildred’s snobbish-
ness. It is unquestionably horrible,
but there is grave doubt as to wheth-
er it is fashionable.

As for the play itself, it has its
decidedly weak points. One is the
above-mentioned wedding - reception
scene; another is the slowness of each
act in. getting under way. The first
and last acts begin with lengthy ex-
position which dull the interest felt by
the audience at the rising of the cur-
tain, The beginning of the second
act is an example of the most un-
fortunate rewriting that appears
throughout the play; for an.intermin-
able time the servants fuss uncertain-'
ly with food and flowers, and for an
equal space Miss Hepburn and. Mr.
Clive stand and look at each other in
‘a silent embarrassment that not even
‘Mr. Cilve’s gorgeous uniform could
enliven.. We feel that if Mr. Harris
could have refrained from tampering
with the play, it would have been
far better, for the revision #dds noth-
ing to the good points and merely) in- |
tensifies the faults.

For, despite some clumsy writing,
The Lake has fundamentally a sound
plot: the struggle of Stella, a girl
with many virtues and no strength,
to free herself from her mother and
all that her mother stood for. Her



which she has ridden rough-shod over
the sensibilities of her family, Stel-'
la’s final escape, to the house where
she was to live with John and to her
memories of him, is somewhat incon-
clusive and not sufficiently external-
ized, though much might be done with
it in a more expert production. In
fact, although we sound most dissat-
isfied with The Lake, we still have
a certain faith in it, and cherish a
desire to see it again, well acted, well
directed, and in its orignal] state.



Alice in, Wondesland



(Continuea from Page Five)

was something appropriately unreal
about the original black and white
sketches: the Mad Hatter’s table
cloth just wasn’t ordinary cloth that
folded into soft shadows — there
were actual lines that were big and
bold enough to disregard any such
thing as a physical penumbra.

‘ And this softened effect in all the
various aspects of the film not only
offended our childish liking for really
monstrous creatures to figure in our
books, but made the events“’6f the
book follow each other confusedly.
Wonderland and the Looking-Glass
chess-board were neither distinct in.
themsélves nor distinguishable from
each other,

Considering this initial deviation
from the spirit of the original the



.s_by the lake,.Mildved’s-ereation, for}

Humpty Dumpty’s fall. ‘The other

‘actors, scarcely recognizable in their

splendid masks and costumes, were
generally good. In some cases we
wished for a different casting: the
English humor in such a scene as the
one in which the Gryphon explains
the Mock Turtle’s schooling to Alice
requires English rather than Ameri-
can pronunciation, and we liked the
idea of making the Duchess a .more
robust and hence incongruous char-
acter by casting a man to boom out,
“Speak kindly to your little boy, and
beat him when he sneezes!” and to
jerk the unhappy infant about.

As far as Alice in Wonderland is
concerned, we defy the S. P. C.-C.
(Society for the Prevention of Cruel-
ty to.Children). We came away from
the movie feeling that ‘not only are
the now-growing Alices and_ their
brothers probably “a soft race, but
we fear we are being included in
their rank. We want our cinematic
Hatters Madder.

? G, BR.



An examination at the University
of Missisippi asked for the principle
parts of any Latin verb. Upon one
paper was written: ‘“Slippeo, slip-
ere, falli, bumptus.” The returned
paper had these words: ‘Falio, fail-
ere, fluncto, suspendum.”

eae GN, 8. P.-A,)



Racketeers in North Carolina are

acceptance of the-- fatal results “of;



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- Production of The Lake Marriage ee and become a real person, is ous story of the three little girls in N. S. F. A. Convention
inevitable and symbolic, caused as it| the treacle-well and of her wide-eyed A



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comprehensive data of the survey and

information . bureau. Besides _ this
branch, membership dues are used to
support a monthly magazine, a week-
ly news release, international debat-
ing teams and methods of broadening
out the opportunities of any student
who wishes to travel abroad, These
are all things that could be to Bryn
Mawr’s advantage if the need arose.



' President Neilson, of Smith, for-
merly a ‘Harvard professor, claims
that college men lack mature under-
standing of art and literature be-
cause they spend so much time devel-
oping their bodies.—(N. S. P. A.)



Two hundred and ninety-eight of

the Class of 1937 came to Princeton.

for an education, 176 because of the
University’s name and reputation and
70. for contacts and social advantages,
according to the Princetonian’s annual
questionnaire to the Freshman class.
(N. 8, 3. A)



To correct their posture for “post-
ture week” co-eds at Smith College
were recently seen going about the
campus carrying books on
heads.



The names of all professors who
keep their classes overtime are pub-
lished regularly at the University of
Kansas—(N. S. F. A.)































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with the man to whom she is engaged, | sufficiently fast and light. Charlotte | demic halls of Duke University, where { CECELIA’S YARN }
is thoroughly credible, though not so| Henry was a charming Alice: she| the legal aid clinic has been for two| SHO ,
convincing as it might have been|had quite the right balance of won-| years championing the cause of the| 4 : HOP }
could we have seen the change under}|derment and of credulity, of the| people with small means who were i Seville Arcade }
way. The death of John Clayne, with | “grownup” little girl’s laughter at|made the victims of such rackets as r BRYN MAWR .- PA. ;
whom she has at last found a way to|such things as the Dormouse’s fatu-| wildcat stock sales and usury. ——————
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