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THE COLLEGE NEWS

(Founded in: 1914)

Published weekly during the College Year (excepting. ducing Theakeiviac,
Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of
Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College.









Editor-in-Chief
Rose Hatrievp, ’32

Copy Editor
Susan Noste, 32

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Editors :
Leta Crews, °33 Cara Frances Grant, 734
Anna Martin Finpiey, '34 Savile Jones, 34
Mou.ty Nicnots, 34

Business Manager
Motty Atmore, '32

Subscription Manager
Yvonne CAMERON, 732

Assistants .

ELeanor YEAKEL, 733
J. EurzasetH Hannan, 734

Carouine Ber, 33
Masec Meenan, 733



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Attention, Freshmen!
* Don't be discouraged. We know that for the past weeks your main
interests-have been the forming of-your class, the opening of the academic.
year, and perhaps a slight curiosity about the_upperclassmen. Upper-

“G@assmen on the other hand have béen alritost “exclusively occiipiéd “in

cramming for orals, deferreds, and, we blush to admit it, conditioneds.
You ‘must find it amazing that the harassed creatures who have usurped
the smoking rooms are apparently uninterested in the beginning of an-
other academic year and the birth of a new class. Your impression is

“away: from~ the _campus.--

THE COLLEGE NEWS --

Letters to the Editor



Tue News is not oo for any
Opinions expressed in this column.

To the Editors of the Cottece News.
Dear Ladies: .

As an undergraduate in college I
used to marvel at the interest the
Alumnae displayed for your vehicle of
information. True, I could myself en-
tertain a very high pitch of enthusiasm
for it, but that was different.
at the “scen® of the crime”; I knew

the people who were taking part; and

I was

I felt 1t a sort of sacred duty to keep

your chronicle as a record of the things
which were happening about me. But
these others puzzled me.

I spent last year away from college,
although I’m not yet an alumna, and
the reasonableness of this apparently
inexplicable phenomenoh began to be
clear, Perhaps you might be interested
in my own reactions to. the News from
a distance, although I had better add
that they were stimulated less by criti-
cism than by curiosity:

In the first place, the every-day re-
cording of the goings-on at college
gives the expatriat a sense of commu-
nion with the principals and their im-
mediate audience, whichis; alas; too
easily broken with the last view of:

7 ROK Arch. In the second, the. edi- |

torials and the letters written about

college problems help to. keep one,

aware of the spirit of friendly contro-
versy which characterizes the best
thought, and which is regrettably rare
vere are



probably right. The arrival ¢ of over a hundred new faces seems less and

Jess remarkable to the he .upperclassman as she sees it repeated it yearly.
‘This situation fortunately is confined to a short period. Therefore we

~-want to assure-you all that the-upperclassmen: will, sooner or later, evolve



into a tolerable sort of human being who is genuinely glad for the oppor-
tunity to be at college again and to make enthusiastic new acquaintances.

You Freshmen have been told frequently this summer that you are
very smart to be able to enter Bryn Mawr. You have been examined
and catalogued by every device known to man. You have been welcomed
by Miss Park and the Student Association and given lengthy assignments
-by-yourprofessors:”You~have-begynto find responsibilities clutching
you. We feel nevertheless that this-has not made. you full-fledged mem-
bers of the student body for Public Opinion has not yet acclaimed you.
The News hastens to take over this pleasant duty, and in its capacity as
the Voice of Public Opinion.to congratulate your infant class and wish

you well. |
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This Thing Called Infantile \

It-is-net-often that-one has the pleasure, or at least the opportunity
to have the entire college at hand over a week-end. Usually the Big,
‘Happy Family is broken up, in a great rush for the 1:08. Now a wee
gerni (so they tell us), whose name, by the way, is much too long for
it, has come along to keep children from their parents, let us say, and
we must be content with only a foster mother.. Sometimes life seems
hard, but in this case not unfair as well. For, granted the initial risk of
letting us come back on schedule, there is little danger if we sit with our
fingers crossed and await the demise of the wicked germ. At any rate,
we are not complete prisoners, and Philadelphia, besides being compara-
tively safe, is rising to’the occasion with a number of amusements. As
for not receiving visits from those who are under suspicion as living in
an infected district, one cannot deny the wisdom of the course.

If the First. Frost keeps avoiding us, it might be desirable for the

college to establish an amusement park, or some such thing. The invet-
erate week-enders, not knowing how to work over a week-end, and too
proud..to_go.athletic, soon. ecoming- sated with sleep, might otherwise
break out into pie-bed making and other forms of the Practical Joke
to relieve themselves of the surplus energy.

At present, however, we are not too unhappy, and, what really
matters, we are teeming with health. Good: for us!

‘The Week-end Book Service, Inc.”
, (From, The Publishers’ Weekly, September 26, 1931)
“A thriving rental library service and retail beok trade is carried on
by this shop whose customers wad ten times as many books as they. make

trips to the bookshop. The proprietors, three young women, have built
up their business among people who are seldom at home. Miss: McKel-
vey, originator of the business, when she found no position waiting for
her upon graduation from Bryn Mawr in 1928, created one.. She rented



an office and printed lists-of .books. she-hoped would-interest-her-friends-+

Her entire service was conducted by mail,‘and assumed profitable pro-
portions by-the first.Christmas after her early fall opening.

Caroline Schauffler, Smith, ‘28, soon joined Miss McKelvey, as did
Caroline Mason Smith, Bryn Mawr, ’28, who suggested that they i incor-
porate and sell stock: a unique feature in a shop that does not maintain a
chain of stores.

The shop is down a comfortable step or two from the street level.
It is long and roomy and light. Leisure is spelled by every chair and
bench; shelves .are casually placed, not crowded together; tables are

inviting, not in the way; there is no stuffing, no piling. As one comes

he.sho _invites ‘ ani

“Mawr in-other parts of the world.

acceleration of thé pulse when the
names of one’s pet friends and profes-
sors: are flung across. the_headlines,’ or
in-the marriage notices, and the pathos
of owrold* friend, Cissy.
important is the expansive feeling that
here is one paper which the family
can’t monopolize (although you might
be pleased to know that my great aunt
quoted «an article from your paper in

a_very learned discussion of. “Condi-}-

tions in Russia,’ which she delivered
before her literary Ladies’ Aid).
Hoping that this research may shed
some light on the case @t hand, I am,
very sincerely,
A PropicAL DAUGHTER.



of Bryn
‘We
are grateful for this very cheerful letter
to Mrs. Manning from Sheema Zeben,
be—enjoying—herself—in

We at.college like to hear

who—seems to
Munich.

Studentinnienheim, Kaulbachstrasse 49
ae August 3, 1931.

‘Dear Mrs. Manning:
Here I am in Munich, and very
comfortably and respectably settled.

This is-‘the women students’ dormitory
and. by far the cleanest, cheapest and
most wholesome way of living here.
Unfortunately the university is closed
for the summer holidays, so that I
have been compelled to study pri-
vately. For nine hours’ teaching in the
week, I pay. These consist of voice,
piano, music history and literature of

| the late Tomantic period. Four hours a

week I devote to language exchange.
The rest of the time I practice, study,
go around the city.

Munich is very beautiful and I love
it. Life here is much simpler than in
America—fewer conventions, und alles
ist doch so gemuetlich. Every one
says “Gruss Gott” and if you know a
few words like “fabelhaft” or “dunkles
Bier” or “sehr gemuetlich” then I
think you cannot be unhappy here.

I have learned to speak briskly and
be very direct about things so that |
don’t have to, talk in literary. German
construction, and consequently I am
‘never taken for an American: It’s
such fun. The first thing I did when
I arrived was to buy a map of the city,
and I hayen’t been lost since.

Last night I was quite excited and
pleased to hear Strauss conduct some
of his own music.

I had been here a week before havy-
ing met anyone from home, then sud-
denly at Mozart's “Zauberfloete” I ran
into Betty Doak and Bobsie Totten.

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Theyare both aufder—Durchreise-nach+awfully-much-hearing-trom-you:



One “eerie move of late typifies the policy of the shop. In follo
ing out their plan to go to the customer if he does not come to them, the
shop presented a book display at the Tockland County Garden Show.

We note with no little gratification this flattering review in The Pub-

. lishers’ Weekly, by Ken McCormick, of the Doubleday, Doran Book-

shops, Inc., not only because recent alumnae have so distinguished them-
~ selves in business but, more: personally, because Helen McKelvey, i. e.,
Be nie was ao of the: News in 1928. The News offers ‘its con-
roprietors, and reminds present undergraduates that
the pcr the ,





Rome.

Gradually I am learning the beau-
tiful things of this city. It is simply
packed with museums but I ‘find things

‘like the English Gardens and the Isar

Strand very lovely, and when one feels
lonely, they are better than staring at
some Reubens., :

I shall write you again before I leave

Week-End Book Service, Anc..~ in 29) Madison Avec: Manish. It yoo bars any instructions

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Even more,

The Pillar
of Salt







We know, after an hour’s meditation
uninterrupted except by six hall Vic-
trolas—at least we presume they are
hall Victrolas, we know they are all
Victrolas—that there is a Lot to do
with the Pillar of Salt.

Peace Caravan if one‘were not blessed
with the giggles of Becky Wood, and
a chance to write up chapel would
make us sprout wings and fly.
Speaking of taking the air—and hot
air at that—have you noticed bits of
feathers gracefully moulding the youth-
ful face and calling themselves the
Empress Eugenie? Well, if you
haven’t, try this one on your friends
(figuratively speaking, of course):

“Oh, say can you see
A Eugenie on me?” ,
—sometimes they just can’t see it or
they just can see it, but anyway it is
necessary to speak to the waitress in
Gernian before they will: stop laughing.
i. e., if you didn’t pass the oral last
Saturday try —French..-Then—there’s
another. to. the effect that—-

“Empress Eugenie,
Was a meéanie
To only cover half, her beanie.”

And here’s another toadstool sprouted
from that summer heat and moisture,
“Ballyhoo.” You may be one of those
who can “talk with kings and keep

| your virtue’ but-Baltyhoo—wilt throw+/

you—it doesn’t talk. But just remem-
ber. that if one copy of the CoLLEGE
News were sold for-each-c of Bally-
hoo leaving the news¥tand, we'd all
retire from Bryn Mawr a far different
type of Hot Heiress and the News, in-
cidentally; would go with'us. We do
hope you've read thus far because this
is the type of advertising gag that sells
our paper.



Lot’s.-WIFE. °
. In Philadelphia
Walnut: Leslie Banks in ~~ Ronald

Jean’s Lean Harvest. Fresh from ‘an
enthusiastic Lofidon showing—deals with
Love, Lucre and Life, thereby leaving
little to be dealt with.

Forrest: Meet My Sister, with Nancy
McCord, . Walter Slezah, and. Harry
Welsh. A musical sophisticate down

from_a_six_months’_run_in- NewYork.

Chestnut Street Opera House: The
House Beautiful with Mary Phillips and
James. Bell. Rather like it sounds.

Shubert: Princess Charming sorith Ilse
Marvenga and an excellent supporting
cast. A new musical romance which
promises much,

Garrick: Theatre Guild presents

Rachel Crother’s light and charming
comedy, As Husbands. Go—also down
from New York with excellent original
cast.
' Broad: Madge Kennedy arid Otto
Kruger in Noel Coward’s Private, Lives.
A grand comedy and worth even a ride
on the Paoli local. Dgh’t miss it—it’s
too--swell.

Erlanger: Joe Cook in ay musical hit,
Fine and Dandy. One of the best of its
kind.

Coming October 19
. Garrick: Tita Johann and Glenn An-
ders. in Tomorrow and Tomorrow—
bréught by the Theatre Guild. ,Philip
Barrie’s ‘piece de resistance—has its
points.

Erlanger: Earl Carrell’s latest Vani-
ties. Just what you would expect of
them-——need we say more?

Broad: Stratford-upon-Avon Festival
Company “from “Shakespeare Memorial
Theatre... Will do two weeks of Shakes-
peare with their usual competence. Per-
formances of The Merry Wives of Wind-
sor, A Winter’s. Tate, The Taming of
the Shrew, Measure for Measure, As
You Like It, King Henry IV, Part One,
A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Music

Philadelphia Orchestra.
kowski, Musical Director.

Leopold Sto-
First concerts



It would be}
no trial to write an editorial on the.

‘The Five-Year Plan’ Reviewed
_ The Five-Year Plan, the picture which
is now playing at the Europa Theatre
in Philadelphia, is one of the most in-
If
you would like to know about Rus-

teresting we have seen in years.

sia’s great experiment, or if you would.
like to™know more than you do, we
recommend this picture. It is a really
grand epic of, the Soviet Government’s
struggle to rebuild the country. Spon-
sored by the United States of Soviet
it is entirely authentic and

and gives the

Russia
truthful, inside dope
which only a privileged few are al-
lowed to see. Don’t worry about the
language; the explanations are in Eng-
lish and do not presuppose a _ thor-
ough knowledge of the Five-Year Plan
on the part of the audience. It is in-
teresting and ‘vital to everyone, and

all you Economics and Politics and
Sociology students, think how pleased
Dr. Smith and Dr. Fenwick and Dr.
Hart will be when you display your
great fund of knowledge of the subject
after you have seen The Five-Year Plant







| Medical Opportunities

Dr. Virginia Kneeland Frantz, 18,

the Board of Directors, Bryn Mawr
College, will speak next week, at a
time to be announced later, on the op-
portunities’ for women in medicine.
All--who- are—interested--are- cordially
invited to hear Dr. Frantz’ in te Com-
mon Room in Goodhart: a



ofthe season, Friday afternoon, October
9, at 2:30 sharp; Saturday evening, Oc-
tober 10, at 8:20; Monday evening,
October 12, at 8:20. Program: Excerpts
from L’Orfee; Lulli, Ballet Suite; Pur-
cell, Trumpet March; Vivaldi, |’Estro
Armonica, Concerto Grosso in D minor ;
Rameau, overture to tragedy Castor ct
Pollux; Handel,--Water Music; Bach,
(1) Fugue in G minor, (2) Preludi in
E flat minor, (3) Choralvorspiel, “Wir
glauben all’ in-einen Gott,” (4) Choral-
vorspiel, “Nun komm der Heiden,” (5)
Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
Coming

October 17: Fritz Kreisler at the
Academy of Music for one concert in the
afternoon. ‘

Academy of Music:. New York. Phil-
harmonic Symphony Society will give
five concerts: October 26, November 24,
December 14, January 25, March 7;

Tos-

Swell photography.

Keith’s: Eddie Cantor in Palmy Days
with. Charlotte Greenwood. The “laff
king” again.

Arcadia: The Squaw War-with War-
ner Baxter, .Lupe Velez, Charles Bick-
ford and Eleanor* Boardman. Concern-
ing the problem of inter-racial’ marriage.

-Mastbaum: Ann Harding in Devotiorr
with Leslie Howard. The story of a
young-English girl who gave everything
to fove|and then. met the wife.

Earley The “Big Gamble,
Boyd. Faust in Manhattan.

Stanley: George Arliss as the stormy
aristocrat in Alexander Hamilton. The
story and political consequences of Ham-
ilton’s affair with the lovely Mrs. Rey-
nolds. Production stressed over story.

Stanton: Loretta Sayers and Jack Holt
in Fifty Fathoms Deep. A tempestuous
romance ending up at the bottom of the
sea. :

Karlton: Merely Mary Ann with
Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor.: Not
too interesting—in fact, not at all inter~
esting.

Europa: Official Russian Soviet film,
The Five-Year Plan.

Grand: Vaudeville program headed by
George Jessel.
Young as You Feel.

Movies—Local

Seville: Daddy Long Legs with Janet
Gaynor and Warner Baxter; Friday and
Saturday, Lowell Sherman and Mae
Murray in High Stakes; Monday and

with Bill

Also Will Rogers in’

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canini, Walter and Kleiber to conduct.
Movies
Fox: Edmund ‘Lowe in The Spider. , .
Psychic solution to murder mystery.

istant-in the: Department of. Surgeryjc =~



You
don’t know how thrilling it is to re-
ceive a letter here.
~ The ‘Germans are very. poor but they
are a grand people and | love being
with them.

You have my best wishes for your
own well-being this summer. I hope
you are having a happy; - satiatying
time.

Sincerely,



or geagestions I should appreciate

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SHEEMA ZEBEN. — ;
er eee

Tuesday, The Runaround.

Wayne: Wednesday and Thursday,
The Miracle Woman with Barbara Stan-
wyck; Friday and Saturday,
Plastered with Bert Wheeler and -Rob-
ert Wolsey; Monday and Tuesday,
Huckleberry Finn with: Jackie Coogan
and Mitzi Green.

‘Ardmore: Wednesday, Bad Girl with
Jane Dunn and Sally Eilers; Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, Maurice Chevalier in

Caught ‘s .