College news, March 4, 1936

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VOL. XXII, No. 15

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acme Students Should Ket:

On Teacher’s Oath

Miss Park Believes Measure

Unconstitutional, Likely to
Curb Free Speech *





LEADS TO HYPOCRISY

Goodhart, February: 28.—The teach-
ers’ -oath, said Miss:Park in Chapel,
is required by. law in twenty-two
states, and twenty more states have



similar legislation pending. The oath

is not particularly dangerous as it
stands in the statute books, but it may
be used as a handle to curb freedom
of speech, radical teaching, etc. It
is an issue about which people should
be well informed. We should go to
the polls to vote against the legisla-
tors who pass such measures, for they
are. unconstitutional, they are insult-
ing in that they apply to teachers only,
they are futile and senseless, and
worst of all, they encourage. hypocrisy
in those- who take the oaths.

There have been two movements in

the passing of laws requiring an oath

from teachers, after the war and again
after 1929. In the recent movement,
caused probably by hysteria rather
than by any definite intention of
forcing people to declare for or
against the government, the general
form of the oath is as follows: “I
will uphold the Federal and state Con-
stitutions, and will faithfully dis-
charge my duties.” In general the
laws affect public or state-helped
schools, but in ten states they are
applied to private schools and colleges
and parochial schools. The Hearst
papers and patrioteering societies like
the American Legion and D. A. R.
are openly pushing these bills.
Against them are working the Ameri-
can Federation of Teachers, the Pro;
gressive Education Association, chap-
ters of the Organization of University
Professors, sections of the National
Education. Association ,and many
prominent people.

Dr. Henry S. Cadbury, formerly
Professor at Bryn Mawr and now at
Harvard, has discussed with Miss
Park in detail the workings of the
the Massachusetts law which is as

Continued on Page Five



Audience Boos, Cheers
At Early Comedy Films

Goodhart, February 26.—The first
of the five programs planned by the
Undergraduate Association, in col-
laboration with Haverford College, to
show the development of different
types of films, consisted of fotr early
“comedy” films.

The first films were made to amuse,
and their spirit was free and unre-
fined. They developed all sorts of
situations, possible and impossible,
and used all the sorts of motion of
which the camera is capable. The
Doctor’s Secret, the first of the films
shown, was produced in 1900 by
George Méliés. The action concerned
a very excitable doctor who placed his
helpless and very fat patient in one
machine after another. When he had
reduced the hapless man’s body to dis-
connected pieces, he and his two abject
assistants collected the pieces from
around the room and put the limbs to-
gether. The victim emerged with a
much slimmer figure and twice the
energy he had exhibited at first.

Winsor McCay was not the first
man to experiment with the “flippers,”
or magic booklets (of outline draw-
ings of animals), and to create the
animated film cartoons, but his ex-



periments went farther than those of,

his predecessors. He made Gertie the
Dinosaur, the film shown here, in 1909.
Gertie was a charming and somewhat
wayward creature, but under Winsor
McCay’s guidance she waved her legs,
drank a lake dry, chewed whole trees
quite absent-mindedly and showed that
she was a good-hearted if somewhat
imposing looking monster. The film

was made solely with black-and-white
outline drawing, and Gertie was the
only figure shown until the end, when
McCay mounted her back: and she bore
him off,
His Bitter Pill, produced by Mack
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Philosophy Club Meeting
The Philocophy Club will hold
its first meeting in the Common
Room at _ eight o’clock on
Wednesday evening, March 4.
All those who are interested are
invited to attend, and any who
have May Day rehearsals sched- ©
uled for that time are requested
to come for at least part of the
discussion. After a paper on
Space and Time by Augusta
Arnold, ’38, has been read, there
will be a general discussion of__
these ‘problems as treated in
Aristotle’s Metaphysics.







Librarians Must Have __
Initiative, Scholarship



Common Room, February 27.—“I
would like to look into your minds to
find what sort of picture you have of
a ‘librarian,” Miss Mabel Williams,
of the New York Public Library, said
to the undergraduates. Library work
is not the dull, dusty work that many
of us imagine, nor are librarians
merely people who charge books and
hand them out over a desk. There
are almost as many types of library
work as there are types of people.

It is absolutely essential to take a
year of preparation in a library school
before one can get -any sort of a job
whatsoever. The first semester of
library work will probably be devoted
to general courses in cataloguing, ref-
erence books, book selection and ad-
ministration. During the second
semester the student will be allowed
to specialize in her own particular
field, and on graduating from the
school is awarded a B. S. degree in
Library Science.

Labor Needs Political
Party, States Burge





Hosiery Worker Warns Group
of “Reign of Terror Against
Union Workers”



QUESTION IS NOT NEW



Common Room, February 26.—La-
bor needs a Labor Party or there will
result right here in the United States

a. “Reign of Terror against Union|}

Workers.” This was the warning
given by Joseph Burge, ex-Communist
and present member of the Hosiery
Workers’ Union, to the meeting of the
Industrial Group. Never before has
the need for a political weapon to be
wielged by laborers themselves for
th own protection been so impera-;

tive as it is now. Law, force and the| a
;surpassing contemporary dictionary

pressure of the times ‘are all directed
against.them; without such a weapon
they are all helpless.

The question of'a Labor Party is
not a new one.
grants from England and Germany
organized a rudimentary Labor Party,
and in the industrial centers of the
East they even put up candidates for
election. The movement was absorbed,

however, by the excitement of Abo-'

lition and the Civil War. When peace
and financial. stability were re-estab-
lished, workers renewed their agita-
tions, but they were unable to find
concrete expression for their theories
and plans. In 1900 the Socialists
seemed about to assume the role of a
mass Labor Party, yet they too failed.
The reason for their failure lay in

the peculiar structure of American:

capitalism. Where in Europe all
workers were down in a cellar with
the door closed tight above them so
that tRey had to organize and push
together if they ever meant to get out,
in America the situation was slightly
more hopeful. There was a crack in
the door that allowed some men to
get through if they fought and struck
their fellows back. Now the cracks
have been mended and American work-
ers must do as Europeans did—form
a political party or stay in their hole.

That the Labor Party must be
based on the Trade Unions is agreed
by everyone’ except the Union lead-
ers. They are either afraid of new
policies or top much engrossed in re-

forms within their group to pay at-

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|| NEW WORDS DISCUSSED

' plained

Richards Lectures
On Choice of Words

| Approach Criteria. of Choice
Through Inter-inanimation

Word Theory







Goodhart Hall, March 2—Mr. I.
A. Richards announced that the sub-
ject of his fourth lecture on the
Interpretation of Prose would be
a Criteria of the Choice of Words.
Last week the various kinds of in-
ter-inanimation. of - words was ex-
in order to show that: a
word used in fluid discourse partic-
ularly cannot have a fixed meaning.
The traditional usage theory, which
holds that words can be _ isolated
from their context like the parts of
a mosaic, is fallacious. Words inter-
penetrate in various ways and, when
spoken, evoke in the back of the mind
nuances of words which have not been
uttered.

The eepeoah to the criteria of
the choice of words must be made
through the doctrine of the inter-
inanimation of words and the recog-
nized interdependence of meaning.



College Calendar

Webusiais, March 4,—Fash-
ion Show. Common Room, 6
p. m.

Thursday, March 5.—Confer-
ence with I. A. Richards. Room
F, Taylor Hall, 4.30 p. m.

: Friday, March 6.— Square
Dance. Gymnasium,; 8.30 p.m.

Sunday, Match . 8.—Dorothy
Pilley will
Mountaineering.
p. m,

Monday, March 10.—Fourth
of Flexner Lectures by'I. A.

Deanery, 5



speak on Alpine: 4}



Richards. Goodhart, 8.20 p. m.



Nicholas Poussin Was
A Great Story-Teller



Deanery, March 1.—Dr. Walter
Friedlander, formerly of the Univer-
sity of Freiburg and at present Visit-
ing Professor of Art at Columbia-and
the University of Pennsylvania,
changed the scheduled subject of his
lecture on the Landscape Painting of
Claude Lorraine and Nicholas Poussin
to Nicholas Poussin As a Story-teller
in order to show his audience the

painter. By a series of slides he



The habit of isolating the meaning
of words must be mistrusted. A habit:
once formed is difficult to destroy, and
the least that we can do is to use;
moderation on the subject of the be-
havior of words. Particular care
should be used in the case of. ab-
stract words which we use generally,
for example, in digcussions of political
principles, of principles of conduct,

or in all discussions of art. In
such cases there is always a shift
of senses with the sentence and

context from which they derive. The
shifts may be in the minds of those
who are talking as well as in the lis-
teners.

The extent of the shifts in the mean-
ing of words, and more important, the
plan of these deluding shifts of mean-
ing is hidden by the attacked assump-
tion (which is_impossible outside tech-
nical language) that words have their
own proper meanings. The shift is
not a breakdown or a flaw of mean-
ing, but a growth or at least an
evidence of power. Without shifts
of meaning, mutual understanding,
criticism’ and furtherance of thought
would be lost. Language would lose
its subtleties and power to. serve.
Shifts in discourse should not be
resisted but followed. They recur;
they have a common pattern which
experience helps us to discover. That



jing which will enable us to compare,

Back in 1850 immi-'

a systematic study of shifts of mean-
'reeord and explain words on a scale

technique can be made, is a reason-
able hope. Even a slight advance in
the ability to compare one kind of
shift with an analogous kind, would
bring into sight a new era of human
understanding and thinking. The
rigidity of the proper meaning theory
impedes this advance.

Shifts. of meaning in familiar
words often pass unnoticed. The
word “book,” for instance, can. be used
currently in many senses. A maga-
zine or a weekly may be spoken of
as a book as well as a bound volume. ;
In each of the following sentences
the meaning of “book” has shifted:
his mind is full- of his book, he is
writing a book, his book is being
printed, or his book is being bound.
The meaning of “book” has shifted and
sometimes the meaning is incompati-
ble. What will be printed or bound
will be different from the set of
ideas involved. These shifts pass
unnoticed because we are familiar
with the situations which make the
mutations possible. In time we may
learn to handle abstract and semi-
technicalized words with the ease of;
a simple word like “book.” This possi-
bility is the fundamental justifica-
tion for advanced verbal education
which will lead to a better under-
standing of abstract discussions.

Words gain force by pulling with
them others which are not con-
‘sciously noted in reading. On this
ground the theory of the choice of
words can be exposed. The reasons
given for liking or disliking a word

traced the development of Poussin’s
style in illustrating mythological tales
from the youthful drawings done in
Paris to those of his old age which
ireturned with new vigor and more
massive composition to mythological
subjects.

Nicholas Poussin was the greatest
French painter of the seventeenth
century, although he lived most of his

Continued on Page Six

First A. S. U. Meeting
Defines Objectives





Social and Political Reforms
To be Undertaken Here
By Petitioning



OFFICERS ARE ELECTED



Common Room, February 27.—The
recently formed local chapter of the
American Student Union had its first
meeting tonight for the purpose of
electing officers and ratifying its con-
stitution. This includes the general
program of the national organization,
summarized under the four headings,
peace, freedom, security and equality.
The. local constitution, which outlines
these points as well as more specific
laws of organization, membership and
so forth, was ratified at the meeting
and Martha Van Hoesen was elected
executive secretary for the chapter.

Naomi Coplin, the temporary chair-
man, opened the meeting by explain-
ing that the American Student Union
is a new organization formed early
this year at a convention in. Columbus,
Ohio, by the amalgamation of a num-
ber of student liberal and- radical
bodies. The purpose of the associ-
ation is the formulating and carrying
out of action leading to political and
social reform in which all or most of
their members believe. For this rea-
son the national organization drew
up an outline for a general program

| which it hopes will be followed by all

its local chapters. Its policy includes:
opposition to American war prepara-
tions, abolition of the R. O. T. C.,
support of the Oxford pledge, defense
of students’ and teachers’ rights
against reaction, opposition of trustee
domination of education, opposition to
Fascism in all its forms, the seeking
of extension of federal student aid
and adequate social security legisla-
tion, extension of universal educa-
tional opportunity and abolition of
Negro diserimination and segregation.

The local chapter intends generally

‘to carry out this program and spe-
‘ cifically to determine its action by a

majority vote of the members. All
of the members are not expected to
agree on every point, but the dissent-
ing minority is not expected to oppose
the action of their fellow-members ex-
cept within the organization. The
chapter expects to begin its campaign
by bettering such conditions on this
campus as they believe need reform-
ing. Their action for the furthering





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lesser known side of the great French pr

Spectators Applaud:
French Guild Acting

Talent of de Vestel’ Proved
By .Direction of Company
In “Son Mari”

GOOD CHOICE OF PLAY’

Goodhart, February 28.—The play
given’ by the French: Theatre Guild
was of necessity not of interest to the
many, but to the members of the audi-
ence on Friday night it was thorough-
‘ly enjoyable. We do not often have
the opportunity here in America of
seeing foreign actors play in their
native language, and the French
Guild players fill this lack admirably.
It is, moreover, always agreeable to
see professional acting at Bryn Mawr
and the French actors appeared to be
high quality. The play itself, “Son
Mari,” by Paul Géraldy, was an ex-
cellent choice from the point of view
‘of clever dialogue and of opportuni-
ties for character acting. It must
be admitted, however, in all fairness,
that the play requires acting of the
calibre of these Theatre Guild play-
it could not be nearly so effec-
tive with actors of less talent and ex-
perience.

The men of the company gave out-
standing performances. Guy de Vestel
had a sympathetic part as the eager
lover, and he made the most of it,
putting into it all his ability, which
amounted in this case to real genius.
The part of the incredibly dull hus-
band was very difficult, but Pierre de
Ramey succeeded in making himself
understood and pitied in the midst of
his own misunderstanding.

Lina Martine was a very charming
Jacqueline, and her acting improved
steadily, till she was at her best in
the third act. Her personality and
her manner were completely French
and different from the more restrained
behavior which we are accustomed to
seeing on the American stage. She
was the most difficult to hear, and
some_of_her lines were unfortunately
lost. Her réle was a hard one, and
she did succeed admirably in convine-
ing her audience of the change in her
character, which was essential to an
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Neutrality is Subject
For Editorial Contest



The Foreign Policy Association and
The Nation have announced that they
are jointly sponsoring an_ editorial
contest open to all undergraduates in
colleges and universities. The sub-
ject of the contest is the timely one
of Will Neutrality Keep Us Out of
War?

The editorial must not be over one
thousand words in length and must
be accompanied by a statement from
the student that it is original and not
copied from any source. It must also
carry the endorsement of an instruc-
tor in the college. Neither the en-
dorsement nor the signature are to be
on the editorial itself. All papers
must be sent to the office of the Stu-
dent Secretary, Foreign Policy Asso-
ciation, 8 West Fortieth street, New
York City, by March 15. Each en-
trant must also submit his editorial
to the College News on or before that
date. The News reserves. the riglit
to decide whether or not to publish
any of the editorials, but students
whose editorials are not printed in the
News are not barred from the contest.

Manuscripts will be judged by four
well-qualified judges, who include the
President of the F. P. A., R. L. Bull,
and an Editor of The Nation, Freda
Kirchwey. Factual background, logic
and effectiveness of presentation will
be the basis on which the papers will
be judged. The winning editorial
writer will receive a prize of fifty dol-
be awarded twenty-five dollars. There
will be five third prizes of a year’s
subscription to The Nation and five
fourth prizes of a student membership
for one academic year in the Foreign
Policy Association to each of the re-
cipients. The prize winners will be
announced in the May issue of The
Foreign Policy Bulletin.





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Have You a Ghost?

One of the most important factors of academic life is the library. It
is an institution~by which the status of a college can be judged, and it is
essential that it be fully equipped and efficiently managed. Efficiency is
difficult to maintain where invisible spirits lurk about, licensed with unethi-
cal instincts. _The Bryn Mawr Library often figures like a haunted house
in the minds of its permanent inhabitants or its occasional visitors. A
strange spell overcasts it which wraps some of us in an hypnotic trance and
makes us doubtful of the real existence of some of its books. Reference to
the catalogue, waste of time in the stacks and inquiry at the desk concerning
the whereabouts of a book often result in utter frustration. Very likely
someone has charged the book, but there is a chance that it has been missing
for weeks, or months or years.

In fifty years the Bryn Mawr Library has permanently lost 2,000 books.
During a college year about one hundred books disappear temporarily.
These drift back sooner or later. Some books are never seen again. A loss
remains unknown until a particular book is needed and it is found that
no charge has been made for it. Only magic could explain the recent case
of a book which was noted in the stacks after reference had been made to
the catalogue. In a short time both the book and the catalogue card had
disappeared. -The expense of replacing books, especially those which are
out of print, may be triple that of the original cost. The New Book Room
is the danger spot of the Library. One book has recently been replaced
three times, and a fond kleptomaniac spook has three times removed it.
There are gaps in more than half-a dozen periodicals, bound volumes of
which, particularly in the case of foreign magazines, must be purchased in
order to secure the missing issue.

In a library as freely used as ours, the losses may be comparatively
few, but they are totally unnecessary. Missing books drift slowly back,
usually after the book is needed. No wonder the faculty have qualms about
lending personal copies to that den of thieves, the Reserve Room, when it
is a moot question whether or not their books will be returned intact!

Carelessness and selfishness explain temporary disappearances; thievery,
those books which skeletons seem to hold down in closets. Rigid restriction,
perhaps in the persons of plainclothesmen, would undoubtedly cramp the
careless fingers of haunting spirits and also give the Library the odious
atmosphere of a jail. A raid of all rooms and likely places where books
could be lost would be greatly beneficial to those gaps in the Library which
impede its efficiency and encroach upon the rights of every person who uses
it. Because there is no excuse for a haunted library which will eventually
be obliged to restrict its present freedom, a raid should be a last resort.
If decency does not bring results, active measures should.













United We Stand

Rehearsals for several of the May Day plays are now well under way,
but already the difficult problem of cutting has arisen. Few people realize
how seriously a whole rehearsal can be affected by the absence of even a
single minor member of a large cast. As the work progresses still further
and the coaches begin to stress thé fine points of individual and group action,
the matter is going to be even more serious.

From now until Spring Vacation no unexcused absences will be permit:
ted, and students who find it impossible to be present must speak to the
proper authorities before cutting. Anyone who deliberately is absent from
a rehearsal is liable to lose her place in the cast, since there are excellent
people available for nearly every part which has been cast thus far.

The advantages in enforcing these: regulations thoroughly are several.
First and foremost is the fact that only hard work on the plays now can
succeed in getting them in perfect shape two or three weeks before May
Day. Thus those in charge of the Green will be able to have sufficient
time to concentrate on preparing the mass dancing on the Green, with ..1t
taking time from rehearsals. The second advantage lies in the fact that it
is much eéasier to work hard while we are all filled with the first flush cf
enthusiasm and while the plays are still a novelty. There is bound to come

a time when there will be a decline in interest and when the work will

seem to be.an almost endless routine. If we work hard now, it will probably
be possible to slacken up a bit on rehearsals at that time. A third important
‘point is that concentrated effort is necessary during the next few weeks in
order that Spring Vacation may not be encroached upon by the demands of
: May Day. If every single person involved stands behind this very necessary
of strict attendance at rehearsals, all will go well, but clearly

this s cate of “United we Sand, divided we fal.”

Current Events

(Gleaned from Dr. Fenwick)
There are two things which are said
to be inescapable: Death and Taxes.
For the past few months. the Govern-
ment has béen bitterly attacked for
failing to balance the budget, and
finally the. President has decided to
raise taxes, and it looks as though the
roof would be raised too. The idea
has been met by violent indignation
on the part of the Republicans (mean-
ing almost everybody by this time).
The money is to be used partly for
the payment of the bonus, which was
passed over the President’s veto. He
is determined not. to pay. it by creat-
ing further deficits. The rest of the
money will be spent for the Farm
Program of Soil Conservation, the new
form of the AAA. The farmers will
be paid for planting non-competitive
crops which will improve the soil, such
as grass or clover, so that the ground
will be richer and finer crops can be
grown in a few years, which the farm-
er can then be paid not to raise. It
looks as if the best form of annuity
for the protection of one’s old age is
to buy alittle farm, where one can
retire at an early age.

Railroads have just begun to sit up

and take notice of the competition
which automobiles and busses: offer.
Railroad fares in the East have been
kept high during the last fifteen years,
but now the Interstate Commerce
Commission has ordered. a flat rate of
two cents a mile all over the country.
Roads in the West and South have
already - tried lowering their rates,
with the resultant heavy traffic. Soon
after the first of June we shall be
able to travel as happily during the
week as we do now on weekends,
We wonder if the Japanese, who are
such a peculiar people that they do
things on Wednesday which we hear
about on the preceding Tuesday, still
believe the old mythology of the di-
vine descent of their Emperors and
noble families. In 1854 the United
States opened up Japan and some fif-
teen years later the Shogunate was
overthrown, the Emperor restored to
full power and a modern Constitution
made. According to it, the Minister
of War must be a general in the army
Continued on Page Six

WIT?S END

Sun, dawn, noon, bed,
Night, stars, moon, fed,
Night, stars, moon, walk,
Station, train, talk.









As God willed my life,
No books, no cooks, no wife.

I belong to a unique clan,
For I am Bryn Mawyr’s Lantern Man.
THE LIGHT THAT FAILED.



THE FRUSTRATION GIRLS AT
COLLICH

Lulu and Lil came to collich

As like as two gargle pills,

Indeed you just couldn’t tell which—

But of collich they had their fills.

Now Lulu soon fell for the smoker.
She learned about Plato and men;
Our Lil (Lu just couldn’t help her),
Fell into the greasiest, grindiest den.

Lulu could swear like a poor white,

Or debs or troopers of state;

She became an eccentric overnight,

But the fatal frustration was what
she ate.

Lil turned into a Blue Book—

She studied early and late, _

But she couldn’t give Lulu a look

Without the remembrance of what she
ate.

Lulu got Scotch gastritis,

Lil got something worse. -
Collich had been their- frustration:

They both went home in a hearse.

(Note—This ditty casts no asper-
sions on food at Bryn Mawr. It/is
casting aspersions on collich food in
general—L. S. U. and Southern Sis
odist in particular. If Bryn Mawr
students make poisoned jelly fish a
regular part of their diet, we might
apply the sad story of Lulu and Lil
to Bryn Mawr, -particularly to the
type of take-my-nasty-soup-away stu-
dent.) SLOVENLY PETER.

Cheerio, as

THE MAD HATTER.



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In Philadelphia

0 Theatres

Broad: Squaring the Circle, the sa-
tiric comedy about two young Soviet
families which opened at this theatre
last fall, returns (with the original
cast) after a successful season in New
York. .

Chestnut: Tobacco Road, with
Henry Hull, moves here after three
weeks at the Forrest.

Garrick: Three Men On a Horse;
comedy hit of last season in New York,
comes to Philadelphia with its fourth
company after seventeen weeks in
Boston. °

Forrest: Beginning next Monday,
the Shuberts wilk show At Home
Abroad, with Beatrice Lillie, Ethel
Walters and Reginald Gardiner, the}
man who imitates wall-paper.



Movies

Aldine: Little Lord Fauntleroy,
with Freddie Bartholemew and Do-
lores Costello Barrymore. Freddie ap-
pears sans curls and velvet suit.

Areadia: The Milky Way, Harold
Lloyd’s latest, opens Friday. Critics
say that the production is admirable
and the picture would undoubtedly \be
very funhy without Harold.

Boyd: Desire, also opening Friday,
with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Coop-
er. Sounds sinister.

Earle: The Music Goes ’Round and
’Round, starring Harry Richman.
Just what one would expect from the
title,

Erlanger: Modern Times, with
Charlie Chaplin and Paulette God-
dard.

Fox: Beginning Friday, The Coun-
try Doctor, with the Dionne Quintup-
lets, and Jean Hersholt as Dr. Dafoe,
who, poor soul, has just published a
book on the care and feeding of babies.

Karlton: Two in the Dark, the
story of a man who can’t remember
whether or not he has committed a
murder. Our nomination for the most
expressive title of 1936.

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Keith’s : The Petrified Forest. Les-
lie Howard gives one of his best per-

‘| formances, and Bette Davis plays an

ingenue part for the first time in some
years. :

Stanton: Woman Trap, the story of
a young girl who gets involved with
guess what?—a newspaperman.

Academy of Music ?

José Iturbi conducting. Weber,.
Overture Oberon; Schubert, Sym-
phony Number. Seven in C major;
Lizst, Concerto Number Two in A
major for piano ‘and orchestra; White,.
Five Miniatures; Strauss, Till Eulen-
spiegel. .

; _ «Lecal. Movies :

Ardmore: Thursday, James Cagney
in Ceiling Zero; Friday, Freshman.
Love, with Frank McHugh; Saturday,
Boris Karloff in The Invisible Ray;
Monday, The Widow From Monte
Carlo, with Dolores Del Rio; Tuesday
and Wednesday, Bing Crosby in Any-
thing Goes.

‘Wayne: Wednesday and Thursday,
Jean Harlow in Riffraff; Friday and
Saturday, Irene Dunne in Magnificent
Obsession; Sunday and Monday, Joe
Penner in Collegiate; Tuesday, and
Wednesday, Gladys Swarthout in
Rose of the Rancho.

‘Seville: Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday, Victor McLaglen in Profes-
sional Soldier; Sunday, Lives of a
Bengal Lancer; Monday and Tuesday,
Fang and Claw.

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Property Committee Mey Dey -Colendui Special May Day Train ze" ™* Cae Lie
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To Construct Wagons Fr iday, March -6—Rehearsal rriv Bryn Mawr 1.1 p.m, 15 p.m GREEN HILL FARMS
ent ree of Gammer Gurton. *Music The May Day Director is happy to

May Day is now busying the Prop- Room, 3.30-5.15 p. m. Rehearsal announce that arrangements have Leaves Bryn Mawr 6.45 p.m. 7.45 p.m. City Line and Lancaster Ave.



: ‘eee ts Arrives; Overbrook-Philadelphi
erty Committee with hammer and saw. of Old Wives’ Tale (comié¢s). ‘been made for a May Day train from|Trenton .........., 7.30p.m. 8.30 p. m. .
Caroline. Sherman, who has studied paar yr Deuce Wea ee” Tne” ime. fo Beye Mane an Oita ie ue AO ea oe ae hie
theatrical design for two and « helf earsal of Deluge. Music Room, day, May 9. A return ticket will be|Newark ........._| 8.19 p.m. - 9.19 p.m. take care of your parents and
7.30-8.45 p, m.- Rehearsal of || $3.65. The schedule is as follows: Manhattan Transfer. 8.23.p.m. _ 9.23-p. m. friends. wh h
years at the School of Industrial Art Creation. .Musie- Room, §.15- Co oe gaa a Se nia worn: 8.36 p.m. 9.36 p.m. riends, whenever they come to
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and studied. stagecraft under Mr. 6.30 p. m. Rehearsal of. St. Leayes : Time Time ee ee 8.45 p.m. (9.45 p.m visit you

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Hudson Terminal.... 11.00 a. m. Return tickets at* this ‘special rate
Pennsylvania Station. 11.15 a.m. 2.15.p. m.

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George. Wyndlam, 8-9.30 p. m. 12 may be procured through either the
Manhattan Transfer.. 11.29 a.m. 12.29 p.m.

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Rehearsal of Midsummer Night’s
Dream. Music Room; mechan-
ics, 8.45-10.380; court, 9.30-10.30

Alexander Wyckoff at the University
of Michigan last sumer, is in charge
of all the May Day prgperties.

L. ELLSWORTH METCALF,
Manager.

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gadgets this year, in addition to the Saturday, March 7—Rehears-

‘| stuffed deer (for Robin Hood’s merry al. of; Gammer Gurton. Music

men to bring in from the hunt), the Room, 9-10 a. m. Rehearsal of

y - ass’s head for Bottom, the gigantic Robin Hood. Wyndham: Act @

balloon grapes for Silenus, the $words
for St. George, the Turkish Cham-
| pion’s scimitar, the innumerable drink-
ing horns, mossy logs, bows and ar-
rows, bells and trumpets, wands and
quarter staffs, flats of woodland scenes
and small accessories that are. still
. Stowed away in the prop boxes from
the 1932 May Day.

The three new plays will require
the greatest number of new proper-
ties. Gammer Gurton’s Needle, to be
done by strolling players, demands

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(those of Gammer Gurton and Dame The Creator in The Creation and| —_— pment
Chat) will be painted on “slapstick” Deus in The Deluge are testing the

and will roll up like Venetian blinds. ingenuity of the property committee.
The Needle, about which we have ir as
The Creator will sit in state during

worked up an inordinate curiosity, will iis orcdamn aed + af dh
be a giant affair, like the needles used Vereeraty mite Gueene enaes-O .
ee ciety 9s | play, in the Tree of Knowledge; and

to sew carpets. : ;
The largest single properties will be Deus will be sequestered ‘in a cloud.

the two wagons for The Deluge and: Both of them are to have gold halos,

The Creation, They are to be single-| gold hair and gold beards. The

decker affairs, but so arranged 5 Maa Bren - to be stone
Heaven and Earth are distinctly | @°°*%®? 4” € Serpent 1s to have the

F | guise of an angel, as he did tradition-
separate. Each’ wagon is to have a|® ge", did traditio

banner with the crest and contat-arme sg Pegs “se sydd ...

f the guild that originally gave the eee ;
seca gl , * 78 ' specialized problems. The “rib colored

Mlay on Corpus Christi day. : ee :
The Deluge wagon will have scaf-, red,” from which Eve is created, will
: have to be obtained and painted, and

folding for a boat, and when Noah : ‘
and his family start to build the Ark|® Tree 9f Knowledge (with fruit hang-
: ; ing from its branches) will have to

all they will have to do is to hang on
the scaffolding by hinges all the dif- be constructed. In one of the later
divent alead oavda with | anihale Chester productions of The Creation
already painted on them. The animals stage directions provided for a! Tree
‘i cnmalons are-of-exactly-fifty-varie- of Knowledge with all varieties of
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ties. |
The rainbow that appears at the
close of The Deluge is to be a gadget.\,
that, with cranking, will shoot out a
multi-colored arch and fold it up again
like an accordion. The doves that
Noah sends -out to test the state of ,

the waters, will be on sticks and one;
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II, 9-10 a. m.; entire, 10-11 a.
m. Rehearsal of Creation. Music
Room, 10-11 a.m: Rehearsal of
Deluge. Music Room, 11-12.
Rehearsal of Old Wives’ Tale.
Wyndham, 11-1. Rehearsal of
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Parts Are Announced

, For May Day Dances

(These lists are up-to-date, but ten-
tative and incomplete. The Country
Dances and Horn Dances will be an-
nounced next week.)

Cloister Dances
North Wind.:....... hel Mann, ’38
(Understudy: Josephine Petts)
Primavera... ... Louise Thompson, ’39
(Understudy: Eleanor Mackenzie)
COCK «ss ....Sarah Jane Ludwig, ’38
(Understudy » Alexandra. Grange, ’38)

Garden Gods: Bonnie Allen, '38; Emily
Doak, °39; Dorothy Grant, ’38; Elizabeth Con-
verse Huebner, A. B.; Dewilda Naramore, ’38;
Eleanore Tobin, °37.

Flowers: Helen Adler, 738; -Alethea Avery,
’36; Eleanor Benditt, "39; Beth Busser, M. A.;
Alexandra Grange, °38; Frances Heins, °39;



Alice. John, °39; Margaret Lippincott, °37;
*Eleanor Mackenzie, ’38; Mary Moon, ’39;
Paquerette Nasse, Licenciee; Patricia Robin-

son, ’39; Virginia Sale, ’36; Lucille Sauder,
39; Sally Todd, ’36; Laura Thomson, ’37;
Mary Whalen, ’38.

Shepherds: Alexandra Grange, '38; Eleanor
Mackenzie, °38.

Shepherdesses: Bonnie Allen, ’38; Alexandra
Grange, °38; Elizabeth Converse Huebner,
A.*B.; Dewilda Naramore, 38; Laura Thom-

*, son, '37; Sally Todd, ’36; Mary Whalen, 738;
“ Anne Whiting, 36.

Gypsies: Helen Adler, 738; Alethea Avery,
36; Eleanor Benditt, ’39; Elizabeth Corey, 39;
Emily Doak, ’39; Alexandra Grange, '38; Dor-
othy Grant, ’38; Frances Heins, 39; Eliza-:
beth Converse Huebner; A. B.; Alice John,
39; Margaret Lippincott, *37; Lydia Lyman,
°30; Eleanor Mackenzie, ’38; Mary Moon, "39;
Paquerette Nasse, Licenciee; Hadassah Posy,
A. B.; Constance Renninger, 739; Virginia
Sale, ’36; Lucille Sauder, ’39; Laura Thomson,
37; Eleanore Tobin, ’37; Mary. Whalen, ’38;
Margaret Winternitz, °38; Mary Wood, ’39.

Chimney Sweeps: Helen Adler, ’38; Bonnie
Allen, ’38; Eleanor Benditt, ’39; Beth Busser,
M. A.; Elizabeth Corey, ’39; Emily Doak, ’39;
Dorothy Grant, ’38; Elizabeth Converse Hueb-
ner, A. B.; Alice John, 39; Lydia Lyman,
39; Ethel Mann, ’38; Mary Moon, ’39; De-
wilda Naramore, ’38; Paquerette Nasse, Licen-
ciee; Constance Renninger, 39; Lucille Sauder,
39; Eleanore Tobin, ’37; Mary Whalen, °38;
Margaret Winternitz, ’38; Mary Wood, 739.

Sword Dancers

E. Bates, ’36; B. Duncan, ’37; M. L. Eddy,
37; M. Evans, ’38; S. Evans, 737; E. Sigler,
37; L. Spafford, ’36; C. Stone, 737.

Morris Dancers

A. Arnold, ’38; V. Baker, ’38; M. Belin,
39; M. Bergstein, ’36;- R. Brooks, ’37; J. Car-
penter, ’38; J. Clark, °39; G. Fales, ’38;° V.
Ferry, ’39; E. Hansell, ’36; C. Hemphill, ’39;
L. Herron, ’39; M. Jackson, ’37; K. Jacoby,
37; B. Longcope, ’38; B. Noel, 738; J. Quist-
.gaard, '38; L. Rice, ’36; A. Seckel, °38; C.
Solter, '39; E. Vall-Spinosa, ’37; C, Wyckoff,
*37: A, Wyld, ’38; C. Yarnelle, ’39.

Tumblers

S. B. H. Ballard, ’°39; M. Bridgman, ’36;
A. Clement, ’39; E. Coburn, 739; E, L. Davis,
37. A, C. Dill, "38; L. Jy Fulton, 37; Bich,

Garner, ’38; P. E. Hasse, °38; D. R. Heyl,
139: M. C. Honour, '36; F. L. Leonard, 738;
A. F. Low, °’38; M. McEwan, '39; M. R.
Meigs, 39; S. T. Meigs, °39; E. H. Morley,

236: L. Myers, '38; A. M. Orr, ’39; A. M.
Reynolds, ’38; F. P. Scott, '38; E, A. Simons,

136: E.-K; Taft, 39; A. €. Temple,.’39; E. F.
Webster, °38; M. C. Whitmer, 739; N.C.
Wood, ’°39; V. Woodward, ’36.



Heralds’, Beefeaters’
Lists. Are Complete



The May Day special characters,
Heralds, Beefeaters, Queen’s Archers,
mounted pages and pages have been
tentatively chosen. The list is pub-
lished below:

Special Characters

Stilt Walkers: Elizabeth Bryan, ‘38; Kath-
ryn Docker, '36; Alice Raynor, 736.

Fools and Devils: Frances Bourne, 739;
Mary Dimock, '39; Anne Keay, '38; Amy
Pemberton Martin, ’39; Gertrude Righter, ’38.

Bell-ringers: Virginia Hessing, '38; Flora
Louise Lewis, °38; Alice Shurcliff, ’38; Eliza-
beth Simeon, ’38.

Bear and Trainer: Dorothy Garretson,
Elsie LeFevre, ’38.

Hobby Horses:
Anne Stainton; '37.

Jack-in-the-Green: Jeanne Winternitz,

Magician: Doris Russell, ’38.

Musical Instruments: Naomi Coplin (’Cello
in Creation), ’38; Mary Meiser (’Cello), ’38.

Heralds

Eleanor Fabyan, ’36; Josephine Heiskell, 36;
Jean Holzworth, ’36; Jane Martin, Graduate;
Margaret Martin, °39; Mary Meyer, "ars
Elizabeth Welbourn, '38; Suzanne Wilson, 739;
’36—playing trumpet.
Beefeaters

Elizabeth Aiken, '39; Margaret Commiskey,
39; Virginia Dorsey, ‘37; Marjorie Goldwas-
ser, °36; Mary Elizabeth Hemsath, ’36; Myrtle
Niccolls, 739; Catherine Sanders, ’38; Agnes
Spencer, ’39; Marie-Louise VanVechten, Grad-
uate.

38;

Denise Debry, °39; Betty

"36.

Queen’s Archers
Katherine Barnard, ’37; Mary D. Cox, °39;
Marian Diehl, '39; Nancy Foss, '38; Sophie
Hemphill, °37; Mary Livingston, °37; Jean
Morrill, °39; Virginia Pfeil, 39; Carey
Shine, ’39. — oa
Mounted Pages
Mildred Broughton, ’39; Jean Lamson, '37;
Sophie Morris, °39; Florence Stinson, ’38;
Josephine Taggart, 36. .
Pages
Elizabeth S. Ballard, '37; Elizabeth Bingay,
137; Sara Bright, '36; Elizabeth Harrington,
36; Abigail Temple, '39; Sara Tillinghast, °36.

Additional Parts Are
Announced for Plays

The following is a new tentative list
in the various plays and
the masque: _.. .
Saint George: King Alfred, Edith Fairchild,
Queen, Marian Chapman, '36

°39; Saint George, *





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Robin Hood: Fair Ellen, (not yet cast);
Sir Richard of the Lea (not yet cast); Merry

Gray, ’38; L. Steinhardt, ’37; D. Walsh, ’36.
. Deluge: Head Gossip, Margaret Lacy, ’37,
Gossips, B. Bock, ’36; H. Cotton, ’37; M.
Eaton, ’39; L. Pottberg, ’39; A. Thibault, ’39.

Gammer Gurton’s Needle: Doll (not yet
cast). : :

Old’ Wives’ Tale: First and Second Brother,
Suzanne Williams, °’38,, and Mary Beirne
Jones, °37; Venelia, Elizabeth Jane Simpson,
37; Furies (not yet cast); Delia, Mary Walk-
er, ’38; Sexton, Mary Flanders, '37; Head in
the Well, Elizabeth Hope Wickersham, ’36;
Harvesters, E. Bissell, ’39; A. Cohen, ’36;
C. Corson, ’38; B.: Greenwald, ’36; H. Grif-
fith, °39; D. Hood, '’37; E. Huebner, ’37; A.
Kremer, ’37; E, Johnson, ’37; R. Levi, ’37; J.

Phelps, ’37; ‘D. Rothschild, "38; E. Scatter-
good, ’36; J. Smith, ’39; H. Varbalow, ’37;)
V. Walker,, 37; J. Watkins, ’39; F. Wig-
gin, ’39. :

Masque ‘of. Flowers: Followers of Silenus,
I. Ferrer, °37; J. Farrar, 38; J. Harned, ’39;
M. E. Lloyd, ’37; D. Richardson, '39; E.
Schenck, °39. Followers of Kawasha, Mar-
garet C. Bell, ’37; Dorothy Carlson, ’39; Vir-
ginia Crow, °39; Maria de Benneville, °39;
Janet Diehl, ’37; Jean Flach, 37; Lucille Faw-
cett, °37; Mary Louise Grayes, 38; Bertha
Hollander, 736. :

Midsummer Night’s Dream: Snout, Barbara
Bigelow, ’39; Greek Guards, Josephine Lane,
30, and Anne Marbury, °37; Court, B. Mer-
chant, °36; M. Stark, ’37; S. Watson, 38.
Song: Agnes Halsey, ’36.



Property Committee
: To Construct Wagons



Continued from Page Three

vegetables and fruits tied on the}

branches with different colored rib-
bons, and this is the arrangement that
will probably be followed for May
Day. Stage directions from other
late English productions of the. play
indicate that Adam and Eve played
in white leather tights in the part of
the play that- precedes “the fall
White leather, common enough then,
is so expensive and so difficult to get
now that the costuming problem is still
to be solved. It has been. proposed,
however, that the leaves on the fig tree
be chartreuse in color. ‘

New properties for Midsummer
Night’s Dream will include devices for
the mechanics, outdoing even those
that Bottom suggests in his lines, The
Moon will be fastened on a shepherd’s
crook and notched so that it gradually
slips down in the course of the per-
formance. Quince is to have a nine-
foot scroll, Snout is to be supplied
with a tinker’s stove and Starveling
is to have a carpenter’s cap.

The pageant itself will be more glit-
tering than ever. New properties for
it will be an additional supply of
swords to add dash to the courtiers’
costumes and new crdwn jewels. The
crown jewels and Queen Elizabeth’s
new crown will be made and studded
with gumdrops. :

By May 8 and 9 the entire
campus will be transformed. Not only
will the old May Day banners be un-
furled on the tops of the college build-
ing, but the information and refresh-
ment booths will be topped with
thatched roofs, a decoration which was
omitted in 1932 for reasons of econ-
omy.



Finish the Flowers!

The announcement that appeared in
last week’s News to the effect that
we have made two-thirds of the neces-
sary flowers speaks well for our in-
dustry and we heartily congratulate
ourselves for it. But let us not get
puffed up and stop working with the
idea that we have finished our job.
In the first place, there is still the
other third ‘to be finished; and when
that is done there are innumerable
leaves to be made. Miss Brady wishes
to have all the flowers and leaves
finished by Spring Vacation so that the
committee can wind them on the May-
pole ‘streamers and have all this work
out of the way before time is taken
up by extra rehearsals.



Use of Fencing Room

Students are urgently requested not
to use the fencing room for purposes
of dressing and undressing. The
fencers are asked not to roll back thé
canvas on which the flowers are laid,
as the flowers will be ruined if they
are piled up and squashed in this way.

Men, J. Braucher, 39; A.‘ Forbes, ’37; H./



Property Committee ue

Students on the property com-
mittee are requested to sign on
the list posted on the May Day
Bulletin Board, indicating what
free hours they have to do con-
struction or painting. There is
also a special list on the Board
of the animals to be painted on
the Ark, and students interest-
ed in painting are requested to
sign their names beside the ani-
mals they particularly want
to do.







Hopeful Conjurers Please Sign Up
‘ Miss Brady asks all students who
are interested in doing conjuring
tricks for. May Day to sign up “on
the May Day bulletin board.
looked up the sort of tricks done by
conjurers of the Elizabethan period
and found the stunts were usually
rather, simple, such as stuffing a yel-
low handkerchief into one side of one’s
hand and pulling a white one from
the other. Some of the conjurers will
be a part of the tumblers’ group and
do their tricks in connection with
them, while others will merely mill
about through the crowds.



Spectators Applaud
_ French Guild Acting

Continued from Page One



understanding of the part.

Miss Audrey Barlow was most popu-
lar with the audience, but she dis-
played less talent than the other mem-
bers of the company, nor was her
acting, charming though. it was, en-
tirely in keeping with her part. Pos-
sibly this is due to the fact that Giséle
as a character was created more than
ten years ago when the “modern girl”
was very different, superficially, at
least, from her counterpart of today.
As a stage personality, however, Miss
Barlow was quite delightful.

The part of the mother is a difficult
one, for there is danger lest its com-
edy overshadow the more important
character of Jacqueline. Miss Mor-
ganstern played it with a proper
sense of its value and she gave an ex-
cellent performance.

The honors must go to Monsieur de
Vestel as actor, director and designer.
There is little fault to be found with
him, Like that of Mademoiselle Mar-
tine, the style of his acting is essen-
tially foreign, but it is excellent
judged by any standards. The presen-
tation -at Bryn Mawr should prove
the value of his attempt to bring to
America some examples of the modern
French theatre as it can be seen in
Paris—an attempt in which he is so
ably supported by his company, in-
cluding those who played minor roles
in “Son Mari,” Bulent Haydar, as
Francois, and Olivia Jarrett, Bryn
Mawr ’34, who played Leontine and is
technical director of the plays.

The Guild plans to open again in
New York, where they have already
given “La Huitiéme Femme de Barbe-
Bleu.” They have something new to
offer—something worthwhile and well
done. Bryn Mawr will certainly wish



them well. M. H. H.
First A. S. U. Meeting
Defines Objectives



Continued from Page One

of this purpose will probably take the
form of petitions. The Bryn Mawr
chapter expects to act in close co-
operation with the rest of the Union
and will send at least one delegate to
the national convention every year.
She is to be elected by the chapter,
and her transportation will be paid
for out of the dues of the organiza-
tion, which amount to twenty-five
cents a semester per person.

In addition to its student member-
ship the chapter will elect one fac-
ulty advisor each year; Dr. Paul
Weiss was chosen for the remainder









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Elizabeth Wyckoff; Rockefeller, Elea-

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of this semester: The officers’ will be
elected each year in the last week of
April, and the plan of action will be
determined at the first fall meeting,

of October. Besides the Executive
Secretary, the officers include a Sec-
retary-Treasurer and an_ executive
committee composed of these officers
and one member from each hall and
one non-resident member. Naomi Cop-
lin has been elected Secretary-Treas-
urer, and the hall representatives are
as follows: Denbigh, Agnes Spencer;
Merion, Jeanne Quistgaard;, Pembroke
West,. Sylvia Wright; Pembroke East,

nor Taft; Wyndham, Doris Hastings.



New Hors d’Oeuvre Discovered

A new variation of the “when a
man bites, a dog” theme was played
in the biology laboratory on Friday

swallowed a jellyfish which had long
been immersed in a formaldehyde so-
lution. The student who thus enlarged
the definition of “news” had been dared
to her deed by the lure of a ten-dollar
bet, rashly made by an unwary class-
mate. Ten cents’ admission was
charged for interested spectators, and
two dollars was thus collected. After
she had swallowed her tempting hors
d’oeuvre, which she said “slid down
just like an oyster,” the winner of
the bet gayly went her way about



campus until she was called frantic-
ally by authorities and ordered to the|
Infirmary. There she was given large |
and forceful quantities of ipecac.:
After a sojourn of an hour and half |

the undismayed patient was dismissed t

and was able to go to the dance in the,
Gymnasium that night. The jellyfish;
was not; and Miss Gardiner threat-;
ened to charge the swallower nine dol-
lars and ninety-nine cents for its de-
struction in spite of the fact that the
Infirmary had called the laboratory to
say, “We have your jellyfish.” We
are now eagerly awaiting the day;
when a jellyfish swallows a student.



College Dance Attended
By Feminine Gentleman|

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Grace Fales, ’88, provided consid-!
erable interest and excitement at the!
dance following the French play when|
she appeared dressed as a gentleman,
completevin tails and white vest. The |
only hitch was that she had had to}
resort to a black tie as none of her}
friends and acquaintances who had
furnished the component parts of the
costume seemed to possess a white one.

At first the fair young gentleman

confined his attentions to his feminine |.

friends, but later he was seen danc-}
ing with members of the opposite sex, |
much to the amusement of everyone
witnessing the unusual sight of two
suits of tails walzing around the dance
floor together.

The dance was a great success and
was attended by about seventy-five
couples and twenty feminine stags.
Music was furnished by Herb Woods
and his seven-piece orchestra. The
Gymnasium, decorated by the dance
committee, had winter sports as its
dominant motif. :

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of “Dorothea Wilder, ’37, chairman;
Cordelia Stone, ’87, treasurer; Mary
Hinckley Hutchings, 87; Eleanor
Smith, ’37; Esther Hardenbergh, ’37,
and Virginia Baker, ’388. Dr. and
Mrs. Nahm, Dr. and Mrs. Anderson
and Dean Schenck were patrons and
patronesses: Other faculty present in-
cluded Dr. Wethey, Dr. Watson, M.
Guiton, Mr. von Erffa and Mlle. Sou-
béiran.



Audience Boos, Cheers
At Early Comedy Films

Continued from Page One



Sennett for Triangle-Keystone in 1916,
was a most diverting satire on the
then very popular wild-west film.
Throughout: this exciting melodrama
the audience, composed of Bryn Mawr
students and professors and Haver-
ford students, alternately booed or
cheered as the villain or the hero tri-
umphed. Mark Swain, who played the
hero, played afterwards with Charlie
Chaplin in The Gold Rush and other
films. There were four characters in
the film shown here; Jim, the sheriff,
was the noble:souled but obese and
slightly middle-aged hero. He loved
with selfless devotion “sun-kissed Nell,
a prairie flower.” Nell, however, did
couraged her virtuous son. After
Dan had shown his true colors
by robbing the mails, Jim resigned
from his office as sheriff, for he could
not persecute Nell’s sweetheart. When
Dan took Nell to “a hell-hole,” she
saw him for what he really was, and
therefore turned to the ever-faithful
Jim.

The Freshman, produced by Pathé
in 1925, showed Harold Lloyd playing
the part of a simple country boy try-
ing to be popular during his first year
at college. Harold Lamb’s horn-
rimmed spectacles and unsophisticat-
ed airs made him the campus joke;
but Harold, happy in the smiles of
Peggy, “the sort of girl your mother
must have been,” was blissfully un-
aware of this until just ‘before the
big football game with Union State.
He was sent in to play by the despair-
ing coach in the last five minutes of
the game, and after committing some
hair-raising mistakes he did manage
to make a touchdown in the last five
seconds of play.



Gestalt Psychologist Lectures

Dr. Max Wertheimer, formerly pro-
fessor of Psychology at the Univer-
sity of Frankfort and at present at
the University in Exile in New York,
gave two lectures on The Psychology
of Thinking and the Gestalt Investi-
gations of Logic in the Deanery on
Friday evening and Saturday after-—
noon. The lectures were attended by
the department faculties of Bryn
Mawr, Swarthmore and the Univers-
ity of Pennsylvania. Dr. Wertheimer
is the founder of Gestalt movement
in psychology.

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Students Should Act
On Teacher’s Oath

Continued from Page One



well drawn up as any, and has a pro-

viso, added subsequent to the public
hearing, which stated that the oath
was not to interfere with free speech
or public discussion. The law makes
the institution, not the individual, re-
sponsible for any failure to sign, and
the State’s Attorney of Massachusetts

will enforce it by refusing state aid

to those public institutions reporting
teachers who have not signed and
by annulling the charters of similar
private institutions. Professor Ma-
ther of Harvard refused to take the
oath on the grounds that it implies
a curtailing of free speech, and is,
therefore, unconstitutional. Dr. Cad-
bury, however, felt that an unre-
served signature was impossible, and
was ready to resign if the state did
not aceede to the request of ‘himself
and other Friends that their signa-
tures and reservations be filed to-
gether as one document. The state
decided to allow the reservations to
be directly attached to their signa-
tures. Protests against such legisla-
tion. are not enough; people must go
to the polls, as they did for women’s
suffrage, and vote against the men
who pass these laws,

If such a law were passed in Eu-
rope, where education is often con-
sciously turned into propaganda, it
would catch everyone one way or the
other; either a man would obey or he
would leave. The law has not yet this



effect here. It is not so much an at-
tempt to see how a-man stands as it
is to find grounds for calling institu-
tions radical, to be able to threaten

suppression. These laws should be
opposed because they are uncontitu-
tional and therefore conducive to the
overthrow of the government they are
meant to maintain; they are insulting
since they apply only to teachers and
not to other equally important inflp-
ences on the young, such as the radio,
parents and church; they are sense-
less, since if people are going to work
against the government, no mere oath
will stop them; and, in Miss Park’s
opinion, they are hypocritical: people
take the oath and make secret quali-
fications to themselves. It puts the
country’s welfare in a poor and dan-
gerous situation when men must make
secret mental reservations to the most
binding form there is, their written
word.



Labor Needs Political
Party, States

Continued from Page One

Burge



tention to the larger and more -press-
ing needs felt by each individual work-
er. John Lewis is struggling to con-
vert the American Federation of
Labor from craft to industrial union-
ism,: but he does not seem to realizé
that a party is a corollary of his pur-
pose—a greater number of workers
in a smaller number of divisions pull-
ing together to promote their whole
class. Even industrialized; unions can-











not gain any concessions from employ- |
ers unless they have some influence i in|
government also. Again and again /|

this fact has been proven in textile |
less discussion and to be a handle for |

and steel strikes, when the workers
were forced to submit because they
could not counteract the political
monopoly of their opponents. Wheth-
er steel is organized on a traft or an
industrial basis does not matter so
long as the organizations cannot hold
legal meetings in steel towns, so long
as they must come together in terror
as they do now in Pennsylvania .min-
ing districts.

Newspapers a few years ago were
full of notices about outrages com-
mitted on Communists, on Reds, or on
somé member of a minority political
or religious group. Today’ men be-
longing to conservative majority
parties like the Democrats or Repub-
licans are being subjected to violence
and abuse because they presume to
further the interests of the American
Federation of Labor. Only recently
such a man was tarred and feathered
in Tampa, Florida—a large, supposed-
ly well-governed, civilized city. Be-
yond the Rockies few Union meetings
are held openly, for there is a covert,
but nevertheless overpowering, Reign
of Terror exercised against them
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issued propaganda against the Reds,
i but reg Wistruck at Univn workers,

so in this country politicians and
newspapers like the Hearst syndicate
are crying, “Red! Red!” while they
aim at the Federation of Labor. To
combat the parliamentary manoeuvres
of these reactionaries there is no
method but the forming of a counter
political party. Without it there will
soon be a Reign of Terror on this side
of the Rockies likewise.

Another vital question ‘is this:
how long will the nine Justices of
the Supreme Court have arbitrary
power to invalidate acts made by a
Congress responding to the demands
of.the people? In spite of Roosevelt’s |
rebuffs at the hands of these nine
men, he has not seriously attacked
their position. Neither he nor the
Republicans will mention this. prob- |
lem in the ensuing election, yet it is
the most important of all the prob-
lems involved. Until one or the other

it*will be no use for Labor to support
these parties. Labor must create its
own party and put its own questions

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Nicholas Poussin Was
A Great Story-Teller

Continued from Page One

life in Rome, where he died in 1665.
After his death the academicians
studied his great and ponderous com-
positions with energy and today he is
primarily known as a moralist and a
rationalist painter. “But his power
of imagination and richness of inven-
tive power is best- observed in the
sketches and drawings rather than in
the large pictures. His religious com-
positions tend to be dry and overfull
of construction, but as a narrator of
mythological stories and poetic tales
he executed some of his most beauti-
ful work.
sculptor, Bernini, who in Paris in
1665 looked attentively at a collection
of Poussin’s work and cried:” ‘What
a great story teller and narrator of
“heroic deeds.’ ”

Dr. Friedlander brought. here for
his lecture reproductions of many
sketches and drawings which are prac-
tically unknown. Among them were
slides of the so-called Marino draw-
ings, mentioned by a contemporary
and long believed lost. They are the
only works of Poussin’s youth before
he went to Rome, and were created
in Paris in 1620 for the Italian poet,
Marino, who',befriended the. young
artist and gave him the money. to go
to’ Rome, the goal. of Poussin’s desire.
These illustrations of the Metamor-
phoses of Ovid show at what an early
age Poussin’s imagination was filled
with the classic tales which he used
as subjects time and time again. The
drawings are very heavily inked and
closely composed for illustration and
in this way differ from the master’s
usual drawing style.

In his first Rome period Poussin
executed numerous drawings and
paintings of the Metamorphoses, In



It. was the great Italian |



one of the most beautiful» he united
all the tales of human beings turned
into flowers in one large composition,
The Kingdom of Flowers.

The Perseus and Andromeda shows
one of the most typical inventions of
Poussin, with its graceful group of
naiads at one side of the main group,
Perseus stooping to wash his hands
of Medusa’s blood while Victory be-
hind him plucks a leaf from a palm
tree. On the left another graceful
group adds to the decoration as well
as to the literary sense. This type
of composition was particularly fa-
vored by Poussin as a narrator.



Current Events

Continued. from Page Two

and the Minister of the Navy a vice-
admiral. The Army and Navy are re-
sponsible to no one but the Emperor
himself, and lately the Japanese capi-
talists have been trying to put the
brakes on the army, claiming that the
vast expenditures of the campaign in
Manchuria have: not been repaid by
increased trade. The recent “coup”
was a movement brought about by dis-
affected elements in the Army and was
designed to free the Emperor from
certain “baneful influences’ which
surrounded him. A small detachment
of soldiers assassinated several of the
high officials who were known to be re-
straining military expenditures. .The
rebels then seized one of the public
buildings and held it as a fortress,
while they bargained for peace. They
agreed to surrender if the Emperor
would dismiss the “liberal”
and appoint army officers in their
places. The question has_ been:
would the military get into complete
control? Now is the time, the militar-
ists hold, for Japan to push her con-
quest of China and strike at Russia
before the Soviets grow in strength.



officials’



However, though it is too soon to tell,
it looks as if this were only a passing
eruption which will not have such
disastrous results.



Richards Lectures

On Choice of Words |



Continued from Page One

can be better applied to the doctrine
of usage than to new words. At
present the English language is
growing more than at any other time
since the Elizabethan era.

The ‘complaints of authorities
against new words throw light on
current theories of language which
are concerned with whether a word
is good or bad. The complaints
against new scientific words which
have been taken over for general
use are that they are awkward, too
long, difficult to pronounce, or com-
pressed descriptions, rather than plain
labels. The prejudice against these
words is sometimes ‘so strong that

even the lexicographers succumb. |
The indispensable words “introver-
sion” and “extraversion” are not

present in the small Oxford Diction-
ary in the Jungian senses.

The doctrine of usage makes the
conduct. of language a branch of
manners, as _ some _lexicographers
would have it. It is the “join a
club” idea in the use of language,
that is, the entering into a select com-
pany of correct users of the language
in which any deviation from their
particular custom is considered in-
correct. This social control of. pro-
nunciation is vigorous and extensive,
for it is applicable throughout the
whole field of language, to pronunci-
ation and to all divergencies of mean-
ing which the new rhetoric must
question. Snobistic, “club spirit” con-
trol was useful to the whole com-



munity in the past while now it is

useful ,ofly to “members of. the club.”
The tise of verbal differences as
weapons in the class war dates from
the middle of the 17 century. . Be-
cause of the new stratification of so-
ciety, the early 18 century began to
notice how niceties of expression or
certain intonations constituted the dif-
ference between master and valet.
Grammaticians were obsessed with the
idea of correctness. But the 18 cen-
tury showed the worthier side of the
“club spirit” .for it gave a reliable
idea of the culture of the age. Now
when the depth of culture is no
longer indicated by speech, and edu-
cation is no longer of a piece, the
powers :of rule of the “club. spirit”
are over-extended. . Length may be
the merit of a word, particularly with
scientific words in which tl meaning
is often complex. The answér to the
complaint that words like ‘‘introver-
sion” are descriptions, not labels, is
affirmative if familiar words are ac-
cepted as labels. Words like “mind”
and “thought” are considered neat and
concise, while a world like “psychol-
ogy” is considered cumbrous and un-
couth. The question arises: is the
complaint against the calling of the
word . “psychology” or against. its
usage? Some derivative uses are ob-
jectionable because. they are am-
biguous. Typical vagaries are appar-
ent in the title “Shakespeare’s Psy-
chology.” Does this mean Shakes-
peare’s theory of mind, the assump-
tions which Shakespeare unconsciously
makes, or inferences derived from
Shakespeare’s own mind? Such an
extensive use of a word endangers
discourse and brings discredit on him
who employs a word in this way.
The cumbrousness of a word may
be the taint of its association with
unhappy uses. This 4s often the case
with new words. The word “colorful”’
has been taboo in many places since
1890. It is considered hybrid and vul-



gar. We do not say “soundful,’’:or
“lightful”’; therefore thege is no ex-
cuse for using “colorful.” Yet there
are other well-established hybrids, for
example, “Beautiful” or “graceful,”
which involve the same strain as
“colorful.” Other objections to the
word are drawn from analogies which,
if pursued, expose the fact that words
are “backed up” by the words about
which one is thinking.

The objection raised that. “color-
ful” is vulgar is one often made
against new words. The objectors
prefer to think that those who use
it are vulgar. The word must be
popular in order to be successful and
the objectors consider anything which
is popular, vulgar. A new word
cannot be judged without thinking
of the usage required from it. The
utilities of a word like “colorful” often
have ironical implications attached
to them in the same way in which
the phrase “means well” has. To
call a prose style or a dramatic pro-
duction colorful is to damn it with
faint praise. The straight use of
“colorful” to describe a thing as full
of color involves with this straight
primary quality a secondary or ob-
lique quality which gives the word a
peculiar subtlety. This mixture of
qualities and the danger of confusion
are the sources of the distaste for
the word. If used in straight mean-
ing, the ironical implications suggest
a lack of discrimination in the user.
“Colorful” has here been taken as a
type word. Its peculiar temporary
and local problems, if pursued, would
lead eventually to-the general prob-
lems of how a language works and
also to most of the problems of
aesthetics. It is a long step to the
aesthetics of language; yet this dis-
cussion of the reason for the choice
of words can become an introduction
to all aesthetics—to a knowledge of
what words mean in our lives.





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