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VOL. XXIV, No. 21
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE,, PA; WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1938
Copyright TRUSTEES OF
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, 1938
PRICE 10 CENTS
~ Bryn Mawr Wins
Acclaim as Russia
gute?" 4-1 League
Morley Awarded First Prize
For “Litvinoff” Speech
On League Inaction
SAYLOR OF -HAVERFORD
CHAIRMAN’S ASSEMBLY
The Bryn Mawr International Re-
lations Club took a prominent part in
the Mqdel Assembly of the League of
Nations held at Rutgers: University
on April eighth and ninth. Last year
‘Bryn Mawr represented Denmark andj
so suffered from an inferiority com-
plex; but this year self-confidence was
restored when we were allotted Rus-
sia and the trip turned out to be a
great suctess. Louise> Morley, ’40,
won first prize fag her speech in the
Friday Plenary S sion, Dr. Fenwick
wWas quoted by China, and many dip-
lomatic manoeuvers were won by the
three Bryn Mawr delegates at the
informal dance.
On Friday morning Tillman Say-
lor; of Haverford, opened the first
plenary session and such routine
business. followed as the appointment
of the Credentials Committee and the
election ‘of the president the as-
sembly. After this cam e debates,
‘in which Louise Morley, ’40, proved
the best diplomat. Impersonating the
Soviet, Union, she pointed out that
the League has failed to keep down
aggression largely through its at-
tempt to be universal. This ideal uni-
versality has caused artificial and in-
effective measures, for the League’s
own covenant permits the withdrawal
of members for aggressive purposes,
Therefore the League members, rath-
er than holding to this ideal of uni-
versality, should be united by a “com-
mon universal idea such as that of
peace, of respecting the independence
and integrity of all peoples, of. out-
lawing forces as an instrument ‘in
national policy.”
The silence with which we have ac-
cepted the recent aggressive actions of
three nations is dangerous, the ‘‘So-
viet Union” believes, for the aggress-
-ors may interpret our silence to mean
agreement with their principl As
a solution, the speaker urged that the
League make its policy that of strong
non-intervention and show by one ex-
ample that “aggressiveness does not
pay. ” Then the three previously men-
“tioned States would return and help
attain the ideal of a universal League
as an instrument of peace.
The afternoon and the following
morning were filled by commission
sessions dealing with mandates, Far-
Eastern affairs, and internal conflict.
Ann Blake, ’39, Mary Wood, ’39, Joy
Rosenheim, ’40, Alice Shurcliff, ’38,
Louise Morley and Eleanor Taft, ’39,
Continued on Page ge Five
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Zimmerman Attacks,
. Imperialistic Economy
or mt
a
Labor Must Fight Midit
Governments :
Common Room, * April “6.—Mr. I.
Zimmeéfman, formerly organizer for
the C. I. O. in Delaware, spoke to the
Industrial Group on Labor and War,
with special reference to the May Bill.
Declaring that imperialistic econ-
omy is one of the chief causes of war,
Mr. Zimmerman stated that “the: only
force to do away with war is labor,”
‘because it alone can fight effectively
against the present system. He urged
free action of the labor party in the
+ political field to guard against op-
pressive legislation and to: bring
about more adequate social conditions.
By opposing rearmament and the in-
crease of. military budgets labor
would form a most effective weapon
against war.
Imperialistic economy causes ‘war,
Mr. Zimmerman said, because such a
system, to expand, must have colonies
to supply raw materials and a market
for manufactured goods and surplus
capital. The division and feallocating
of colonies in 1919 are the main causes
of today’s conflict between the “haves”
and the “have-nots.” With such a
cause we cannot simply say that it
it is the nature of man to fight, or
expect to stop war by expressions of
indignation.
Every nation is now preparing for
war, not only by rearmament but by
more insidious means; through educa-
tion, the R. O. T. C. and organized
propaganda groups. The speaker
quoted Fechner, head of the C. C. C.,
as saying, “All of these boys are 85
per cent army trained. . . All of the
guiding spirits (of the C. C. C.) are
military men.”
The “M Day” (Mobilization Day)
plans which were brought to light in
the course of a munitions investiga-
tion are the basis, Mr. Zimmerman
said, of the earlier Shepherd-Hill
Bill and of the May Bill. The pro-
visions of the May Bill come under
four heads: price fixing, drafting of
man power for military service and in-
dustry, control of industry, and prep-
aration of a treasury report on in-
dustry:and income. He pointed out
the provisions which seem most sig-
nificant and dangerous to labor. The
bill gives the president absolute au-
script everyone in the United States,
to fix prices, wages, rents and serv-
ices. No exemptions will be made in
drafting, and those not taken at once
will be given “deferred classification.”
Only women and children are exempt,
and since in wartime all restrictions
on labor for women and children
would be removed, they would replace
the drafted men in industry. Under
the bill the president may supervi
all those in contrdl of business, and
thority in time of emergency to con-'
COLLEGE CALENDAR
' Thursday, April 14.—Prof.
Harold Laski will speak on The
Rritish Labor Party and De-
“mocracy. Goodhart, 8.20.
Sunday, April 17.—Memorial
Recital. Mr. Horace Alwyne_
and the Curtis String Quartet
will play. Goodhart, 5 p. m.
Monday, April 18.—Third
Flexner Lecture by Dr. Edwin
Gay. Goodhart, 8.20. Cornelia
Otis Skinner in Edna, His Wife.
For the benefit of the Theatre
Workshop. Forrest Theatre,
8.30..
Tuesday, April 49.—Current
Events, Mr. Fenwick. Common
Room, 7.80. International Club .
, meeting. Common Room, 8 p. m.
Saturday, April 23.—German
Club Play. Goodhart, 8.30.
Sunday, April J. —Nadia
Boulanger recital, Deanery, 5
p. m. Leslie Glenn will speak
in Chapel. Music Room, 7.30.
Monday, April 25.—Fourth
Flexner Lecture by Dr. Edwin
Gay. Goodhart, 8.20.
wa, Fuesday, April 26.—Current
Events. Mr. Fenwick. Com-
mon Room, 7.30.
Wednesday, April 27.—Peace
. Day; Vera M. Dean will speak.
Goodhart, 11 a. m.
Cornerstone of New
Rhoads .Hall is Laid
Coca Cola, Book List, Lipstick—
Are Enclosed as Typical
Of College Life
Rhoads Hall, April 9.—The corner-
stone for the new dormitory was laid
with simple ceremony. Mr. Charles
Rhoads, president of the corporation
and son of the hall’s namesake,
smoothed out the last lump of mor-
tar with a silver trowel. Upon this
the -large hollow block of granite,
carved MCMXXXVIII, which will be
at the southern base of the-entrance
arch, was lowered into place. Mr.
Rhoads led the small gathering in
three cheers for the hall, Miss Park,
the architect and the contractors, and
the ceremony was complete.
A suitable inscription for the
trowel will be planned by Miss Park
and it will be preserved in the new
hall. The copper box which will be
sealed inside the granite contains a
eollection of items for the benefit of
future archeologists and the follow-
ing letter:
“To whoever opens this box: Greet-
ings:
“We have enclosed in this corner-
stone a number of things which we
think will give you some indication of
how we work and spend our leisure
time here in Bryn Mawr College dur-
ist ing the spring of 1938.
“The College News and the Lantern
_~ Gontmuedon-Page- Four
INe
Patience Satirizes Pre-Raphaelite School;
| Contributed to Downfall of Aestheticism
It is usually a moot point, whether
operas and operettas should be ex-
plained beforehand. On the one hand,
an opera libretto gives . the plot. in
brief for those who presumably will
not know “the words; on the other,
Gilbert and Sullivan operettas are so
crystal clear that they need no ex-
planation. But most of them do not
.have as definite a historical back-
ground as Patience, which in 1881
burst upon a whole society of Lon-
don aesthetes, and became the most
spectacular piece. of satire of the
~ period.
acorn attinte. f
ind Sullivan-
ite is well pa that Bunthorne is
meant to be Oscar Wilde, who dwelt
lovingly.in his poetry and in his daily
life “‘: “strange sorrows and strange
sins.” Wilde settled, ‘in London in
~ 1878, and immediately became the idol
of a swarm of imitators. His favorite
attire was black velvet knee breeches
and a flowing-tie; in his right “hand},
_ he would hold a pure white calla lily,|
sniffing: it thoughtfully every now .and| ;
then to indicate his abstraction from
a gross world. When Patience opened,
he was to be seen in the front stalls,
holding his lily and laughing indul-
gently, Punch, also laughing, wrote
a poem on him,
“Aesthete of aesthetes, what’s in a
name? _
His actions are Wilde, but his verse is
tame.”
The character of Swinburne is not
so easily ‘recognizable in Grosvenor,
who is a healthy version of the “fleshy
poet,” a handsome youth who diverts
all the feminine attention from Bun-
thorne. In reality, Swinburne had a
mass of red hair, and a pale, énterest-
ing face, but he was much too small
-for-the smallest. of love-sick maidens. |
His only claim to fame as a muscular
Olympian hero was that he did not
strike «stained-glass attitudes,. and
langorous Oscar Wilde. For that mat-
ter, Wilde was more preoccupied with
‘the worldthan he pretended to be,
‘and according to -Beerbohm’s carica-
mo Continued on Page Three
{
represented’ a robuster’ school than
or
are our own publications. The New
York Times is the newspaper most
generally read by the students. It is
delivered’ to our doors every morning
at eight o’clock. Life, a weekly maga-
zine which inundates our smoking
rooms every Friday, is also popular
among the students. The book of
Self Government rules contains the
laws which operate within the College
and which are made and obeyed by
the students.
The Orchestra program, Book List
(which indicates the popular fiction of
the moment) the Motion Picture Ad-
“lmiSsion Card and the Inn menu, indi-
cate, in part, what we do for recrea-
tion. The underlined item* on the
Continued on Page four
_ THEATRE WORKSHOP
its’ two one-act plays on Friday,
May 6, for the benefit of the
Theatre-Workshop. The plays
“dre Poison, Passion and Petri-
. fication, an uproarious farce by
Bernard Shaw, and Trifles, a
subtle tragedy of rural life by
- Susan Glaspell.- Both plays are
being produced without scenery
~The Players’ Club~is giving f[*.
to lower expenses. | k
~ — | German.
Miss Skinner to Give
Will Appear in. Dramatization of
oe ‘Edna His Wife»
Starting on Monday, April’18, Cor-
nelia Otis Skinner will be at the For-
rest. Theatre in Philadelphia in her.
own. dramatization of Margaret Ayer |
Barnes’ novel, Edna His Wife. Miss
Skinner is donating all’ the proceeds
of Monday night for the benefit of the}
Theatre Workshop, but. there will be
no increase in the price of tickets.
Students from Bryn Mawr and Bald-
win will give out leaflets at the thea-
tre with information about the Work-
shop.
Edna His Wife is Miss Skinner’s
first full-length play. It starts in the
early 1900’s,’ with the first scene laid
in a beer garden where a party is
being given for a brakeman on the
Blue Island Railroad; Edna, her sis-
‘ter, and two young men have come
on their Monarch Safety bicycles.
Miss Skinner plays the part of Edna
in alternate scenes, but.the character
of Paul Jones, her powerful and ruth-
less husband, dominates the entire
play, even though he naturally never
appears. Miss Skinner has an extra-
ordinary ‘faculty for creating invisible
characters who have as much reality
as her own portrayals.
The sets were designed by Donald
Oenslager and the costumes by Ma-
dame Héléne Pons, who does most of
the costuming for the Theatre Guild.
Mrs. Otis Skinner always wanted to
see her daughter framed, as it were,
in a comparagively small setting, and
Mr. Oenslager has carried out this
idea: In the past thé whole stage
has been left bare except for a few
obvious: properties, making it difficult
for Miss Skinner to fill, in a dramatic
sense, a space which is usually occu-
pied by at least two people, Mr. Oen-
slager was also confronted by the
problem of providing properties for
imaginary characters; in the beer
garden scene, for instance, he de-
cided to have only one chair for Edna
at a table, even though eight or nine
people are supposed to sit down with
her. In another scene Miss Skinner,
playing the part of Edna’s* mother
and laden with real packages, receives
an invisible and quite convincing tele-
gram.
From her mother Miss Skinner in-
herited a passion for meticulous cor-
rectness. When Mrs. Skinner directed
May Day, she made it so authentic
that English directors came specially
to see it. Miss Skinner has studied
the early 90’s with such care for Edna
His Wife that even her sean is
correct.
The prices for tickets are: Cohen:
tra, $2.28; Mezzanine, $1.71; Balcony,
$1.14 and $1.57. They will be on sale
in Mrs. Chadwick-Collins’ © office~-in
Taylor continuously until Monday.
A. A; PRESIDENT PLANS"
_ CAREER IN STATISTICS
Anne Janet Clark, newly-elected
president of the Athletic Association,
has spent her life officiating in Bryn
Mawr athletjc associations. At the
Bryn Mawr School in her-wative Bal-
timore she was president of the ath-
letic association. She was elected to
the college one upon arrival and has
systematically run the cursus wea
orum.
A. J.’s interests are varied. She
won the special Bryn Mawr scholar-
ship for the top ranking student) at
school and has continued to show
great ability..in_ F eagea Semoru SERS: ang
‘science. ‘She is preparin,
in biological statistics by majoring in
German. At college she has been co-
founder and active supporter of the
‘German Club, holding executive po-
sitions In it as in other organizations.
Her summers are divided between
sailing a sloop in Maine or on the
Chesapeake Bay and mountain climb-
ing or bicycling in Europe, where she
contracted her fondness for all things
%
Theatre Guild Benefit 4
11933).
‘1 .Tomorrow night Harold J.
? a career |’
. Gay. Discusses _
Change to English
Monetary System
Influx of pov : Gave ae ,
To New Economy and Helped.
~ Promote Capitalism
QLERGY AND MONARCHY
/ DEBPEST SUFFERERS
lecture,
Goodhart, April 9.—In his second
Dr. Edwin Gay discussed
money as the third cause of the price
revolution during the sixteenth cen-
tury. The growth of population and
the advance in technology were
treated last week.
Throughout the sixteenth century,
Gay, there was a’
steady. transition from the old “na-
tural” economy to the new “money”
economy. This meant ‘that. business
was transacted in cash rather than in
goods. Since very little commercial
paper was used except in international
trade, the result was a demand for
new, supplies of metal for coinage.
This need was first met by the de-
velopment of silver-mines in Southern
Germany and Bohemia. Later, after
the discovery of~America, great
amounts of precious metals, especially
silver, weré also imported from the
Spanish possessions in Mexico and
Peru. The supply of silver was par-
ticularly large, and became more and
more “important with’ time. From
1493 to 1560 it formed 55% of the
European total; from 1561 to 1620, it
formed 75%; and from 1621 to 1660,
80%
According to the estimate of Soet-
beer, between 1493 and 1560 the total
European supply of both gold and
silver was approximately $549,400,000
(using the value of ollar before
Of this, $3810,000,000 came
from Europe and Africa, and $238,-
000,000 from America. From 1561
to 1620, the total was $1,099,000,000.
Owing to the lack of accurate ac-
counts, such figures can only-be ap-
proximately correct. A new and
greatly reduced estimate of the Amer-
ican imports has been advanced by
Earl J. Hamilton, who was able
roughly to deduce, from its registers,
the: complete amount imported. Ac-
cording to his figures, the import made
a total of $854,500,000.. This account,
however, was taken from _ official
records, and makes_no allowance for —
the great quantity of metal which was
smuggled in, unregistered, and which -
probably formed anywhere from 10%
to 50% of the total supply. If such
a 50% increase is added to his original
figures, it brings them much closer
to those of Soetbeer, which still, how-
ever, remain too high. The correct
estimate probably lies somewhere be-
tween the two.
Even with Soetbeer’s estimate, the
average total supply is only 8 million
according to’ Dr.
during the--first--period,..18... million
during the second, and 20 million dur-
ing the third. Compared with the
| total Pearly produetidn’ in °1932--545° > >
million—this seems rather slight. But
it is really relatively large when it is
compared to the needs of the society
of the time.
This “flow of metals” had two chief
European points of diffusion, Antwerp
and Spain, from which the American
supply was distributed.
Depreciation, and juggling with the
coinage had very little to do with the -
price revolution. In England, the
depreciation from 1544 to 1553 “Was
a jog in the price movement, but was
¢ Continued on Page Six ‘
" . LASKI TO SPEAK
‘Laski, of the University of Lon.
don, will speak in Goodhart on
The British Labor’ Party and.
Democracy. Mr. Laski is ‘dis-
tinguished as an economist and ©
as an author. He has made a-
special effort tod come to Bryn _
Mawr, through the intercession
‘of Miss Stapleton, and we are |
privileged in being able to hear,
nd e ©
him.
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Theatre Worksho p
~ ‘Without the knowledge of the majority of the college, blueprints
have been made, architectural sketches have been pondered over, and
building costs. have been estimated, for the big stgne barn that lies on
the Baldwin school grounds opposite the Diezes’ house. When the word
is given, it will be transformed into the Mrs. Otis Skinner Theatre
Workshop, pleasantly white and Elizabethan looking on the outside,
and equipped on the ‘inside to suit the most catholic of twentieth
century tastes.
According to the plans, the-lower floor will be divided
into two equal sections,.one for Bryn Mawr and one for Baldwin, with
a stage at either end, a partition in the middle, and a galaxy of sloping
seats that can be moved into the Baldwin end if Bryn Mawr so desires,
and moved back again for the purposes of entertainment.
On the
second floor will be a green room, a big studio for the Art Club, and a
smaller studio with a north light for artists who want to create in
seclusion:
The opponents of this ideal arrangement say that there is no more
time for extra-curricular activities, that Goodhart is perfectly well
equipped, and that if people want to study dramatics or art they should
go to Bennington.
But the Theatre Workshop is just what is needed
to start an expansion of extra-curricular activity, to prevent it from
taking more time because it will be correspondingly more efficient, to
stimulate talent that might have been discouraged by the vastness of
Goodhart, and by the difficulty of carrying on a consecutive piece of
work, Goodhart, which is meant to be an auditorium and not a medium
for small student productions, kills real experimentation, and swallows
‘up its audiences.
The Theatre Workshop will have a manageable stage,
because it is a workshop, it will be ‘disarmingly informal, and sets which
-are in the process of building will be untroubled until they are finally
dismantled. As for the third objection, we think that when talented
people choose ‘colleges where they can get more practical experience,
the loss is all Bryn Mawr’s, and that the more encouragement they get
to come to Bryn ‘Mawr, the better.
The main argument that people
make against the Workshop is that it is designed for a group which is
small enough to be negligible.
They do not realize the extent andthe
ambition of the Players’ Club and the Art Club, the fact that the Play-
writing Class will be transferred,
that the English Department can
show movies and hold lectures, and that the college at large can give
dances.
expand.
Everything which has felt itself hampered, can automatically
At church it is the custom to give a sermon and then to pass the
plate.
In the same way, we are picturing the delights of the Theatre
—Workshop-without forgetting, that-as_far_as_Bryn_Mawr-_is-concerned, |}
--it-is-a mere-eastle inthe air unless.it.is financed before this summer.
If there is not enough enthusiasm to provide the comparatively small
stim of 6,000 dollars which is needed to start building, it will be turned
over to the Baldwin School; and Bryn Mawr will be left twiddling its
*~ thumbs.
The erection of a Theatre Workshop does not mean that our
\ high academic standards are being diluted, or that we are becoming a
potpourri of the academic and unacademic, just so that we can offer/as
attractive a curriculum as other colleges.
There is no question of
neglecting what is the core of our prestige; the Theatre Workshop was
not even conceived until plans for the Science Building and the Library
. Wing had become certain. With this in mind, and with the Wor
bf
shop’s
positive advantages, we make’ a special plea to those who will haye an
opportunity to use it, the juniors and underclassmen who expec
¢ come back next fall. The seniors are exempt partly because they are
“ graduating, and partly because of the demands made on them by the
“Million Dollar Drive. There is no moral obligation forcing the others
‘+ to to contribute, nothing but their interest and a realization of what they
may lose. ae SRE SEAR gpa wer ge i ent =e pete be
a : . In Philadelphia Stanley: Jezebel, the romance of,a
: > : ee Southern ante bellum hussy, played
* ‘Movies by Bette Davis. Beginning Friday:
Boyd: Mad About Music, a comedy
about the young daughter of a movie
Fools for Scandal, another lunatic/
comedy, with Fernand Gravet and
Carole Lombard.
_Fox:. Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, a
WIT?S END
DON JUAN
(Being the XVIIth Canto, which
was recently found in a secret cham-
ber of the Villa Diodati.)
|| I left Don Juan with a graceful ghost,
Her frolic Grace Fitz-Fulke, in sa-
ble frock.
Fitz-Fulke had flesh and blood allure-
ments. Most
Of Juan’s finds were of the self-
same flack.
Add on an amorous venture to the host
Of those of which I’ve ere now taken
stock,
But I must get Don Juan from the
arms
Of duchesses with o’er-developed
charms.
Not long ago I found it hard to tell,
Whether my hero was to have an
end
With an unhappy marriage or in Hell
' Or with a red cap as the people’s
friend,
Fighting for liberty and dying. Well,
I was surprised and hurt, I can’t
pretend
I wasn’t, when he made the startling
query,
If he might sojourn in a seminary.
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue
ocean, roll. He
Insisted on a transatlantic trip,
Which landed him not far from
famed Paoli
(A place to give the toughest man
the pip.)
But Juan thought that college life
was holy,
And far from feeling coarse or even
flip,
He donn’d for women’s clothes a fea-
tha dusta,
And, incognito,
gusta.
called himself Au-
His first acquaintance was the great
Lem Munch,
A conoisseur in Byron, so they say.
From the beginning, Juan had a hunch
That Lemuel knew he wasn’t Mrs.
Leigh.*
He asked him to the bane for
lunch,
And when they’d gotten fairly un-
der way,
“UJnmask,” said Munch, “You can’t
fool Dr. Chew on,
Byron. I see. you for the wretch Don
Juan.”
(to be continued)
*Pronounced: Lay.
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version of the Great Fire, with Alice
Brady, Tyrone Power, Don Ameche
and Alice Faye.
Stanton: Tip Off Girls, a gangster
drama, with Lloyd Nolan. and Mary
Carlisle. Beginning Saturday: Pri-
son Nurse, with Henry Wilcoxon and
Marian Marsh.
Earle: Bulldog Drummond’s Peril,
another movie about the great detec-
tive, this time with John Bamwymore.
Beginning Friday: Island In the Sky,
a melodrama, with Michael Whalen
and Gloria Stuart.
Europa: Le Bonheur, a French film,
Light, an Alpine drama, starring Leni
Riefenstahl.
Arcadia: Merrily We Live, or what
happens when a family. takes in a
tramp;ywith Brian Aherne and Con-
stance Bennett,
- Karlton: Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm, with everything new but the
title, and starring Shirley Temple.
Keith’s: Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs, by Walt Disney,
Theater
Forrest: Beginning Monday: Edna
His Wife, a series of monologues taken
from the novel, and written and acted
by Cornelia Otis Skinner.
Locust: Beginning Monday: You
Can’t Take It With You, the Pulitzer
Prize comedy, presented by Sam Ab-
bot.
Chestnut: Beginning Monday: Pins
| drama Society and the Modern Drama
most_charming of the male characters
with Charles Boyer, and The Blue | son and—silently—pereeived—each—en-
rand Richard Barrows.
Cover Contest.
Don’t forget the contest for
the cover of the Patience pro-
gram, All designs must be in
| by the Monday after Easter.
The prize is five dollars.
Cohen Play Presented
By Blind Drama Club
Actors Rise Above Handicaps in
Seven Keys to Baldpate
a
(Especially contributed by may
Tuckerman, ’40.)
Overbrook, April 6. — The Philo-
Club of the Pernsylvania Institution
for the Instruction of the Blind pre-
sented Seven Keys to Baldpate by
George W. Cohen in the school audi-
torium.
The key to the situation’ is that
there is only one key to Baldpate in
existance and not the seven of the
novels. The scene of the play is
laid on the snow-covered mountain-
top, Baldpate, in a summer hotel. A
young: and enthusiastic writer of
melodramas has to complete a novel
for a bet, in the space of twenty-four
short hours. The play jumps cleverly
from real life to the novel and not
until the end does the audience realize
that the wild night of surprises is
nothing more than the melodramatic |
imagination of the young author. Of
couse, the book is written, the $5000
bet won, and a happy ending is at
last reached.
The play was well cast and excel-
lently directed. To all outward ap-
pearances the actors faced only the
problems of the usual amateur
theatrical performance. _ However, it
became apparent that Although the
actors addressed each other, appeared
to read letters, switched lights on and
off and lit oil lamps with more than
ustial skill, they did all this mechani-
cally by training and not by sight.
Only the~expression~ of—their—eyes
gave them away.
spects their enthusiasm in their work
was easily noticeable. They deserve
great credit for’ the flawless handling
of properties and cues which per-
mitted a smooth performance.
Several characters were particu-
larly pleasing because of their eager-
ness. Mr. Quigly, the old caretaker
of Baldpate Inn, with his simple coun=
try humor_and his mousey little wife
formed a very pleasant contrast to the
sordid wordy crooks of the ensuing
acts. ray
Equally enthusiastic and no less
eager to succeed was Peters, the her-
mit of Baldpate, who had the delight-
ful part of a living ghost. One of the
was Jiggs Kennedy, the Chief of Po-
lice of Asquewan Falls, who forgot
his lines and went back several sen-
tences to pick them up. His guilty
smile soon earned him forgiveness for
the only slip of the evening. Love
interest was supplied by a young
woman reporter who was trying to
cover the story for the local press.
The whole performance was a credit
to the _school....To anyone with ade-
quate vision it was miraculous that.
the actors pointed at the correct per-
trance. Also, their skill in avoidin
furniture, in walking and fighting on
the stage, was uncanny.
Pr ce Pe &
and Needles, a labor revue by the I.
L. G. W. U,
Erlanger: Private Enterprise, a
new play by Amory Hare, about a
group of characters at the Salzburg
Music Festival, with Mariana Fiory
yz
~ Orchestra
Wagner Program, Eugene Ormandy
conducting: Excerpts from “Parsifal”:
Prelude, Transformation Scene (Act
I), Klingsor’s Magic Garden and the
Flower Maidens, Good Friday Spell;
excerpts from “Die Meistersinger’,
Prelude to Act 1, “Saint John’s Night’
and Cudgelling Scene, Introduction to
Act 8, Dance_of the. Apprentices and|day, Bringing Up Baby,—with.Kath-
Notice
Dr. Fenwick will speak. on
current events in the Deanery —
.on Friday evening, April 22,
1938, at the spring meeting of”
the Eastern Pennsylvania,
Southern New Jersey and Dela-
‘ware Branch of the Alumnae
Association. of_ Bryn Mawr Col-
lege. ”
Entrance of the Meistersingers. ‘
Local Movies:
In all other re-}to shove around.
{
everyone
Theatre Review .
The Guild presentation of Chek-
hov’s Sea Gull with’ the Lunts is re-
strained and™subtly cheerful. The
tragedy concerns Nina (the sea gull)
and Constantine, who are in love with
each other and want to become
famous. Seduced and disillusioned
by Trigorin, a well-known author,
Nina becomes a third-rate actress.
The boy Constantine is thwarted by
his actress mother, Trigorin’s mis-
tress, and shoots himself after Nina’s
revelations.
“Their souls may sorrow, but their
minds smile at their souls” applies
strikingly to Chekhov’s’ characters.
They refuse to become morose or dra-
matic, at least, all but two. Lynn
Fontanne as. Constantine’s mother,
Irina, strides and shrills, as no-doubt
Irina should do. She is still loud
and red-headed, very like. Alkemena
and the blond menace of Idiot’s De-
light.
The second exception is Richard
Whorf’s Constantine, who is thorough-
ly morose and impassioned. As the
thwarted genius, he is amazingly
transformed from the Mercury of
Amphitryon 38. This reviewer was
bothered all evening by his voice,
build, and abrupt movements, that re-
minded us of someone by no means so
tragically inclined. We were relieved
to read in Mr. Benchley’s column in
the New Yorker that he, too, had felt
Mr. Whorf’s resemblance to Eddie
Cantor.
Although heéis not much in evidence
until the second act, it is Alfred Lunt
as Trigorin:- who dominates the play
by sthe ‘sheer quietness and intensity
of his acting. He manages skillfully
a long monologue to his adoring f9
Nina about the trials of an author,
ascending and descending climaxes
adroitly. He has little to say, but
moves quietly through a _ beautiful
part.
All these Guild actors create deci-
sive entities, not puppets for the Lunts
her Broadway debut as the tragic
Nina. Although the playbill indicates
that she was born in Gottingen, Ger-
many, and has spent most of her life
abroad, the young actress speaks beau-
tiful English. She makes an intelli-
gent, sympathetic transition from the
happy young girl in a child’s frilly
white dress. and pigtails of the first
act to the disillusioned, melancholy
woman, deadened in Maal clothes, the
Nina of the fourth act.
' Margaret Webster plays Masha, the
weary young daughter of a sad, weary
mother. This is the part that Eva
Le Gallienne played, when she pro-
duced the Sea Gull at the Civic Rep-
ertory Theatre in-1929. \A- daughter
of England’s Dame May Whitty, Miss
Webster has drawn avalanches of ap-
plause from the audience for her
drunk scene.
The cast also boasts of an excellent
doctor, cynical and cosmopolitan
(John Barclay); the melancholy
Masha’s husband, a childish school-
master (A. Z. Whitehead); and a
stubborn idiot of a steward, who sim-
ply refuses to allow anyone to use the
horses (Harold Moffet).
The settings are richly done in
browns, .@reth..2” greys, anda few
Ag. whites, excellent.backgrounds for Mrs.
t's red hair and fiery costumes.
(We were very sorry to hear that
thdse’ settings; “Wade ‘the’ ‘aforéinen*
tioned Mr. Benchley a bit bilious.)
Stark Young (of So Red the Rose)
has done this new translation, which
thinks is excellent. We
can’t vouch for this, because we’ve
never read the play. P. L. H.
Thursday, Bordertown,
Muni and Bette Davis; Friday and
Saturday, International Settlement,
with George Sanders and Dolores del
Rio.
Ardmore: Wednesday and Thurs-~
day, Gold Is Where You Find It, with -
Olivia de Havilawd/and George Brent;
Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Mon-
arine Hepburn and Cary Grant.
"
wasn
Seville; Wednesday and Thursday;}[~
Charlie.Chan at Monte Carlo, with
Warner Oland; Friday and Saturday,
Everybody Sing, with Judy ,Garland,
Suburban: Wednesday an Thurs-
day, Love On A Budget, with the
Jones. family; Friday and Saturday,
International Settlement, with George
Sanders and Dolores del Rio.
Elections
The Undergraduate Associa-
tion takes great pleasure in an-
nouncing the election of Sarah
Meigs, ’39, vice president; Ca-
--millia K. Riggs, 40, secretary;
and Charlotte: oe *41,
treasurer.
Wayne: Wednesday, Penitentiary, |1~
Uta Hagen makes
with Paul .
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Patience Satirizes
Pre-Raphaelite School
Continued from’ Page One
tures would not have been at all en-
dearing to‘the maiden of today. But
the maidens. then were steeped in pre-
Raphaelitism, and the unhealthiness
of Wilde’s physiogomy accorded too
well with that of the art which they
admired. Like the women who appear
in Rosetti’s painting, they dressed
themselves in rippling Greek chitons,
bound about the waist with a casual
rope; on their feet they wore sandals,
and their hair was allowed to- hang
in all its abundance over their extraor-
dinarily long white necks. Whistler,
too, carried on this tradition, and
Lady Jane of Patience is one of his
tall ladies ravaged by time, and en-
dowed with a “rugged bosom” and an’
ample form'for the purposes of com-:
edy. di putes a4
There are countless other allusions
in Patience is an exact . representa
The dragoons are the “mititary,” the
sturdiest part ofthe English popu-
lation at that time, puzzled by what
even the aesthetes could not attempt
to explain. Some of the mystery of
aesthetic poetry was. the. It of a
constant search for the right word,
the musical word, like Bunthorne’s
“calomel,” which is quite -unpoetic in
its context. “Greenery-vallery, Gros-
vengr gallery,” refers toa real Gras-
vénor gallery where a single picture
would occupy ‘a room, standing out ‘in
a halo of light from the dark drapery
which surrounded it.
What seems most improbable to us
in Patience,’is an exact. representa-
tion of things as they were, and the
aesthetes were therefore rather
pleased than otherwise. Its exactness,
however, made them ridiculous’in nor-
mal people’s eyes, and, doomed by its
own exagyeration, a gradual dissolu-
tion of aestheticism began, not to be
completed until after the war. It’ is
said, though, that isojated cases still
exist, that in certain parts of London,
women can still be seen in- loose pre-
Page, Three
Miss Henderson Scorns ‘Bastard British”
As Well as the Tainted Debutante Drawl
How many unsuspecting mothers
have allowed their daughters, still
with a-merfy lisp upon their lips to
come to Bryn Mawr and fall a victim
to “bastard British” (Miss Hender-
son likes the alliteration), a language
spontaneously generated and under-
stood only by the charmed circle who
use it? The Speech Department has
been trying to keep the outside world
from knowing anything about this in-
sidious tongue capable of robbing a
girl of her prominent “r’s” forever
and supplanting them with a treach-
erous “a” and a rounded “w.”
“Bastard British,” as one might ex-
pect from its name, is not legitimate
in America or England. It is marked
by the “intrusive New England ‘r,’”
e. g. “I sawr & rat.”- Although she
pretends to have great contempt for
it, we feel Miss Henderson is very
fond of this foster child because it
has. so much individuality. There is
a theory that it was introduced into
thé college by a student who thought
the curriculum needed a little cockney,
but wasn’t fully successful in supply-
ing it. The accent which the Speech
Department has most fun with, how-
ver, is one which could -have origi-
nated only in an obscure corner of
Scotland. It is definitely- not in what
the experts call the “Anglo-Saxon”
tradition and Miss Henderson is at a
loss to explain how it made its way
into this far-distant spot, with all that
water in between.
Miss Henderson believes one’s repu-
tation may be largely due to one’s
speech. She tells with relish the tale
of the English professor who, wander-
ing pnder Pem arch at 6.30 (obviously
p. m.) was stunned by the wild clamor
Raphaelite garments. _But probably
none will ever dare come to America
again, as Oscar Wilde, did in his
habitual get-up; and calla lilies long
ago reassumed their old Easter sig-
nificance. =: M._R:.M.
in the dining room. He later com-
pared the sounds he heard to the
squawking in a large chicken yard
when a few ears of corn have been
tossed among its occupants.
Dr. Greet, Miss Henderson, and
their infallible phonograph do not
want to deepen the students’ voices,
but to smooth off the shrill edges.
They also hope to eliminate the debu-
tante drawl, speech with a “taint of
elegance.” This drawl, in’ Miss H.’s
opinion, marks the generation in
which a girl has grown up. Eleanor
Roosevelt, an outstanding addict of
the debutante drawl, is imitated ever
and anon by her. fun-loving cousin,
Alice Longworth.
Fashions in speech are dangerous.
The growing girl may pick up all
sorts of broad letters if she is not
careful. Formerly Washington Square,
N. Y. C., boasted an elite accent
unique for 'the.way in which it. con-
torted the vowel sounds. This affec-
tation has since died out. When cook
and lady’s maid began to use it, the
proud old families were horified to
find Junior and cook ‘speaking alike.
_ While many Americans are trying
to develop English accents, young
Britishers' are attempting to master
American slang. Great Britain, pre-
dicts Miss Henderson, will become an
American province, linguistically. She
‘also believes that the Middle West will
be the-cradle of American speech.
Most Americans use the Chicago ac-
cent now, the outstanding exceptions
being New England and the south.
An English accent is still required
for certain professions, and is obliga-
tory for teachers. No aspiring actor
who has a New York accent can, be
successful.
Miss Henderson firmly believesthat
the only way to correct a-person’s
speech is by the phonograph. No hu-
man being really. knows what he
sounds like, and bad speech, she points |
out, is “vocal halitosis.” Your best
esotooerat
—
“How about it, Joe, do you
find that Camels are differ-
ent from other cigarettes?”
SPRING TENNIS SCHEDULE
The Tennis Team will play its-first
match on Saturday, April 23, against
Ursinus. Tryouts for the Squad and
the Advanced Class were started last
week and-it is expected-that-the-final
lists will be posted before next Mon-
day.
The schedule for the rest of the sea-
son is as follows:
Saturday, April 830—Merion Cricket
Club.
Tuesday, May 3—Germantown Crick-
et Club.
Saturday, May 7—Faculty (tenta-
tive).
Sunday, May 8—Vassar.
Monday, May 9—Swarthmore (tenta-
tive).
Saturday,
Mary.
This year three singles and two
doubles matches will be played at each
meet, instead of four singles and one
doubles as formerly. The change has
been made at the request of the other
colleges.
May 14—William and
friend won’t. tell \you your speech is
bad because people are extremely sen-
sitive about their yoices. It is em-
barrassing to show a student defects
in her speech by \mitation. No im-
itator can be nearly as accurate as the
phonograph and therefore not nearly:
as fair.
Sound is becoming more’ important
every day. Good voices are qualifica-
tions for many jobs, particularly
radio work. Ears are taking an equal
stand with eyes, and perhaps most of
our reading will soon*be done by
listening to broadcasts. We’re wait-
ing patiently for that short wave
broadcast from Scotland commencing
“Once there was a _ rat named
Avthuy. oo QO. K.
Vote of Thanks
The Bryn Mawr League
thanks all those who took part
in the musicale and Jane’ Gam-
ble, ’40, for her fine work in or-
ganizing the program.
Campus Maestri Give
Musicale in Deanery
—
Chinese Sword Dance Included in:
Vart Programme
The Deanery, April 8.—Much cam-
pus talent was displayed at the annual
musicale for the benefit of the Bryn
Mawr League. The program, ar-
ranged by Jane Gamble, ’40, owed. its
charm chiefly to the varitty of the
performances. While the singihg and
instrumental music was well done, the
two dancers were most applauded.
Members of the German Club sang
a new graup of folk songs, and as en-
core, Wien und der Wein, a lilting
continental waltz. Dorothy Auerbach,
’40, accompanied on the piano by Har-
riet Hutchison, ’40, played the violin
in a melodious Chanson Danoisé.
Lydia Lyman, ’39, sang three songs in
three languages.
May Chow’s. Chinese sword dance
was contrastingly oriental. She
danced without music, dressed in red
coat and trousers. With perfectly
sustained tempo she brandished her
sword to give every gesture mystic
significance. The oriental tradition
was carried on in lighter vein with
“Brightly, Dawns Our Wedding Day,”
revived a last year’s Mikado by
a quartet of Helen Lee, Ruth Mary
Penfield, Terry Ferrer, all ’40, and
Ruth Stoddard, ’39, Patricia Robin-
son,.’39, played an arabesque by De-
bussy and a minuet by Ravel on the
piano, with one of Bach’s familiar
sarabandes as encore.
Arsenia Arroyo sang three Spanish
folk songs, one written by a Loyalist
who has since been killed. Her strenu-
ous peasant dance was freer and less
self-conscious: than the typical “Span-
ish dance.” The short full skirt of ©
her costume gave scope for lively
footwork and syncopated steps rather
like tap dancing in their rhythm,
Castanets were used. to show the
'|changing moods of the dance.
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my experience.There’s a big difference. I’ve smoked
Camels steadily for 5 years, and found that Camel
is the cigarette that agrees with me, in a lot of ways.
Good taste. Mildness. Easy on the throat. And
Camels don’t give me jumpy nerves. Like a lot of
people I know, ‘I’d walk a mile for a Camel!’”
has something to
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“When Camel says
‘costlier tobaccos’ I
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ER The men who grow tobacco know
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different cigarettes
Can be . BILL GRAHAM, seeing Joe DiMaggio pull out Camels, asked his opinion on smoking.
Joe answered: “There’s a big difference between Camels and others.” You, too, will find
in Camels a-matchless blend of-finer, more expensive tobaccos—Turkish and Domestic.
‘last year 1 had ~~~ *
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who prefers Cam-
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Ahe choice lots of leaf tobacco. They
paid the highest price I ever got
from anybody, Considering that
Camel uses finer, costlier tobaccos,
it’s not surprising that Camel is the
leading cigarette with us planters.”
CLOSE-UP of Joe’s grip.
When someone men-
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Joe remarked: “I stick to
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the check —so I know that Camels
use more expensive tobaccos. Camel
| got the hest of my last crop. That -
holds true with most planters I
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| THE COLLEGE NEWS
_stinecaananei
Colleges Will Cooperate
In Oscar Wilde’s Satire
“Importance of Being “Earnest” is
Haverford Spring Play
The Cap and Bells Club of Haver-
ford College will present The Im-
portance of Being Earnest by Oscar
Wilde on Friday, April 22, at 8.15.
Four Bryn Mawr students are in the
cast.
A hit of the 90s, the play’ is chiefly
, sustained by such brittle witticisms
as: “There are only two things to do
with a woman. Make love to her if
she is pretty, to some one else if she’s
not.” Deceptions lead the plot through
humorous intricacies to a happy end-
ing in which most of the participants
are named :Ernest. The Haverford)’
production will be staged in period
costumes, collected from old trunks in
attics.
THE CAST.
Lady Bracknell ..Susan G. Miller, ’40
Gwendolyn, her daughter ett
‘ Ruth Elise Ruhl, "41
Algernon Montcrieff, her nephew
William Reeves, ’39
Jack Worthing, his long lost brother
Wilfred Simmons, ’41
Cecily Cardew, Jack’s ward
Carolyn R. Shine, ’89.
Miss Prism, formerly nursemaid to
the Montcrieffs
Rosemary Sprague, ’41
Canon Chasuble ....Alan Bacon, ’41
Merriman ........ ‘Robert Aucott, ’38
eee GA SOMEES Meer ser rary Amos Leib, ’38
ORGANIST TO APPEAR IN
WYNNEWOOD RECITAL
Before sailing for England to play
by special invitation at the Royal
College in Dartmouth, Dr. Edward
Rechlin has consented to give an or-
gan recital under the auspices of the
Bryn Mawr Graduate Club on Tues*
day evening, April 26, at All Saints’
Episcopal Church. in Wynnewood.
An interpreter of Bach and his con-
temporaries, Dr. Rechlin has been ac-
claimed by musicians and critics both
in this country and abroad as an able
organist and a real musician. He was
guest organist at the three hundredth
anniversary of the Augsburg Confes-
sion and played at the dedication of
the great Heldenorgel erected at Kuf-
stein, Austria, in honor of the World
War. dead.
The program, to begin at 8. 00 p.. m,, |
will include:
Fantasie and Fugue....C, P, E. Bach
Sonabine i. ie0 es eos sae cae es Ritter
We All Believe In One True God
Krebs
Wake, Awake ..c.ccceccveccae Krebs
Rejoice, My Soul ........++- Walther
Teed, Soe sas vs cases Krebs
Improvisation
SiefOniG 6. ovedccesceoee et ceaes Bach
MGBUIIONNE oc ok bos os bo ow te es Bach
Fugue (St. Ann’s) ....e0eeeees Bach
A collection will be taken for the
beriefit of the Graduate Club Music
Fund.
The church, located on Montgomery
Avenue, can be easily reached from
the Wynnewood Station or by walking
along Montgomery Avenue from Bryn
Mawr. ALice A. FERGUSON.
City Line and Lancaster Avenue
A-reminder that..we. would like »
to take care of your parents
and friends, whenever they come
to visit you.
For reservations:
C. GEORGE CRONECKER
- Yale University
School of Nursing |
‘A Profession for the
PARALLEL TO ETHIOPIAN
CONQUEST SEEN IN AIDA
Paris (NNS) — Giuseppi Verdi's
famous opera Aida is heard no more
jin Italy. The story of this opera is
«|well known. Aida, an Ethiopian slave
girl in Egypt, is the daughter of
Amonasro, king of Ethiopia. She was
captured by the Egyptians during
their wars in Ethiopia. In the suc-
ceeding campaigns her father, Amo-
nasro, is also made prisoner. She
falls in love with Rhadames, captain
of the Egyptian guard, whereupon
she and her father try to persuade
Rhadames to become a traitor to
Egypt.and to help the Ethiopians re-
cover their freedom.
Substitute Fascist Italy for Egypt
and the opera is up-to-the-minute
politics. It opens with the words:
Everywhere is. heard the voice of
the Ethiopians
Breathing defiance. #
Amonasro (read Haile Selassie) ad-
monishes his daughter:
Thou: rememberest that the merci-
less Egyptian
Profaned our houses, temples and
altars;
Mothers, old men and children he
slew.
He scores the Egyptians with savage
rage:
Up, then!
Rise, Egyptian legions!
With fire, destroy our cities—
Spread terror, carnage and death.
’ To your fury there’is no longer
check!
Though they have lost their king, the
Ethiopians determine to fight on for
freedom and deliverance. Says the
captive Amonasro:
Then delay not.
roused
Our people—everything is ready.
And Rhadames confirms the fact that
“once more to fierce battle Ethiopia’s
peoples have united their soldiers’
ranks.”
The parallelism is so striking that
Aida was taken out of Italian reper-
toires.
- In arms now is
Cornerstone of New
Rhoads Hall is Laid
Continued from Page One
menu is the most frequent choice for
afternoon tea. The lipstick and foun-
tain pen are our daily aids to beauty.
and learning, while the hair curler
and “Bobby Pin” (a clip for holding
the hair in place) indicate our meth-
ods of hairdressing. The socks are
included because they are typical of
part of the undergraduate costume as
distinct from the more formal silk
stocking attire of the young women
who do not attend any college. The
bottle contains a popular beverage
known as “Coca-Cola.”
stimulant and many students find it
Bro MK SIMs
It acts as al]
yh ninveiinites Attacks:
Imperialistic Economy
‘Continued from Page One |
determine in what order industrial
contracts are fulfilled... He may ar-|'
range, transfer and create government
agencies. The provisions of the May
Bill would be in force until Congress
declares a cessation of hostilities,
which in the last war did not
take place until 1921.
declaration, the power granted in the
bill could be used to destroy all rad-
ical organizations.
The stand. of labor in regard to
the May Bill is obvious. Even if
unions are not actually suppressed
they are made useless because the
bill ‘supersedes all other legislation
and takes away the union’s principal
function of fixing wages.
The labor legislation of the New
Deal. was denounced by Mr. Zimmer-
man as “sugar-coated suppression of
unions and a restriction of the right
‘of labor to strike.” He named the
Wagner Act as an exam le because
while it has some advantages, it takes
from labor its most important asset,
independence,
at night for the purpose of studying. |:
The wooden stick with the ribbons on
it is symbolic of a custom which may
soon be abandoned. (cf. College
News). Hoops are rolled every year
by the departing Senior Class on the
first of May. They are then given
as tokens of friendship to members
of the lower classes. This stick is one
of the sticks used to roll the hoops.
It is inscribed with the names of
those to whom and by whom it has
been given.** To you, whoever you
may be, in the hope that you will find
the contents of this box to your sat-
isfactidn, we of the Bryn Mawr Un-
dergraduate Association, have now in-
scribed the stick.
Rhoads Hall, Bryn Mawr College,
Bryn Mawr, Pa. April 9, 1938.”
Several items were added to, the
group listed in the letter. A package
of cigarettes (Camels) joined the rec-
reation division. The building plans
and specifications, accompanied by a
picture of Mr. Rhoads, were included
to enable the future archeologist to
reconstruct the. dormitory. An Eng-
lish paper written by Sylvia Wright
with the comment by Miss Wood-
worth “this is contemporary” will
show, it is hoped, the cast of the stu-
dent mind in 1938.
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Page Five
CURRENT EVENTS
(Gleaned from Mr. Fenwick.) _
“Common . Room, Aprip 12.—The
present controversy in the adminis-
tration is the result of the division
between the “pump-primers” and the
“anti-pump-primers” in the govern-
ment. Congress has not yet voted on
President Roosevelt’s latest bill which
would call for the expenditure of co-
lossal amounts of money. It is un-
likely, however, that the bill will be
defeated as its victory in Congress
' ‘would mean at least a temporary end
of the depression. Unless business
conditions improve before the rext
elections the Republicans will be
almost sure to move into the White
House.
It is risky to attempt to balance
the budget during a depression. We
should first end the depression and
then pay our debts. We are in no
danger of bankruptcy unless we bor-
row from other countries; as long as
our debt.is to ourselves, the payment
will be relatively simple.
Harry Hopkins, an aide to the
President, is opposed to the distribu-
tion of relief as a means of aiding
business. As an alternative he advo-
cates a sufficiently large public works
program so that: every man can get a
job. However the wages for this
emergency work must be less than
those paid in private business, pref-
_ erably about a twenty percent differ-
ence. It is doubtful, however, that
the President or Congress will allow
this in consideration of the strong
opposition from labor.
The defeat of the reorganization
bill was merely a gesture against
President Roosevelt by the House of
Representatives. The bill itself had
formerly been advocated by Presi-
dents Taft, Wilson, and Hoover. Last
summer the House voted for the bill,
but because of limited time the Sen-
ate postponed any action until the
Spring. It was necessary to have a
revote and this time the bill was de-
feated, showing how much prestige the
President has lost as the result of
the Supreme Court controversy.
This at present is the main prob-
lem of France. In the last.ten years
France has had twenty-five govern-
ments; each has lasted less than six
months. The government is divided
‘ and demoralized, and open to attack
at any time from Germany. Premier
Blum was forced out of power when
the Senate refused to ratify a bill
giving him the right to revalue the
franc on the basis of the gold reserve
and to impose a capital levy tax.
The latter calls for five per cent of
each taxpayer’s capital and was con-
, sidered a drastic measure.
‘
Labor groups have been striking
and warsindustries are at a stand-
still. The government, afraid — of
civil war, cannot send troops to end
ae a Oe ee Ole
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Who, having excelled in history,
math, a science or German .. -
and who, having a modest income °
sufficient to support herself for
one year away from home, has not
yet settled upon what she will do
next year,
A Provocation
To contribute one year of
* her life to:participation in the for-
mation of a new school to be built
ar tal idea.
Send a list of your
courses in these subjects, with
- grades. Send.a-snapshot of your-
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would like to meet.on your own
campus or in New York City. _
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Bryn Mawr’s Russia
Acclaimed at League’
owe
Continued from Pagé One
represented’ Bryn Mawr at these com-
missions but, unfortunately, Peggy La
Foy, their advisor, was unable to go.
On Saturday the first committee sub-
mitted a report which provided for the
extension of international control over
mandates and looked for future inde-
pendence of some of the mandated
areas. The report of the commission
on Far-Eastern affairs: was an analy-
sis of the economic and political con-
flict between Japan and China, and a
slightly idealistic program whereby
both countries, under the auspices of
the League;’might. come to some set-
tlement. ay
The most controversial of the three
was the committee of which Louise
Morley was chairman and which dealt
with internal conflict. This provided
for the organization of a committee
by. the League Council for appropri-
ate action in the instances of foreign
aggression. In cases of internal
strife, existing legal governments
will be permitted to receive assist-
ance for their defense. The commis-
sion recognized foreign intervention
in Spain and agreed to “take such
action as will restore the rights of
Spain under international law.”
James G. McDonald, as critic to
the session, spoke at the banquet pre-
ceding the dance, and, while not
overly optimistic about the League,
expressed his belief that the world
could discover means of keeping order
and ideal justice.
The Final Plenary Session held
Saturday afternoon was won by Yoko
Matsuoka, of Swarthmore. She spoke
in behalf of Fascist Italy, and in
spite of being met with boos and
hisses her speech was praised as be-
the strikes. The present condition of
France is encouraging to Hitler to
continue his policy of expansion.
The United States has yielded to
the demands of the Mexican govern-
ment much more leniently than has
Great Britain. England, whose policy
has always been to defend her sub-
jects in all parts of the world, sent
a strong note demanding reparations.
There has been feeling that we
have been exploiting the Mexicans;
however, our investments in Mexico
were made at the invitation of the
Mexican government.- Today _ this
government is attempting to develop
socialism and its first step has been
to take control of the oil wells and
large farms. It has been supported
by labor.
Breakfast Lunch
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would appreciate any contribu-
tions that members of the fac-
ulty and departing seniors can
give. All donations can be left
in Pembroke East for Anne Fer-
guson. We. hope that spring
cleaning will produce aod re-
sults for the Summer Camp.
The Bryn Mawr Camp
Committee,
(A. Ferguson, Chair- |
man). r
(S. Miller, Assistant
Chairman).
ing “in character.” Although the Chi-
nese speaker was also very good, he
is to be chiefly remembered for his
use of a typical Fenwick sentence
and his later remark, “Oh, ‘yes; I
stole that one from,your prof.”
The reports of the commissions
were then given and the awards an-
nounced. Again Philadelphia came to
the front, for Haverford as Finland
gained first prize. After this ‘the
Model League was disbanded and the
International Relations Club returned,
proud of its own showing at the As-
sembly (and at the dance) but espe-
cially pleased with the success of its
head, Louise Morley.
The New York Times, of April 9,
gave the following complimentary
write-up of Louise Morley’s speech:
“. . The greatest applause was re-
served for the address of Miss Louise
Morley of Bryn Mawr, representing
Soviet Russia. Miss Morley advanced
a plea for a firmer League stand
against aggressors and a denuncia-
tion of anti-Communist’ propaganda.
“James G. McDonald, former
League of Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees Coming From Germany,
who conducted he critique of the first
session, asserted that he ‘almost
thought Litvinoff was talking,’ when
he listened to Miss Morleyés_ biting
sarcasm.” :
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—
Gey Discusses Price
: Revolution in England
tion.”
The consequences of the
flow were enormous, First, it gave
impetus. to the new “money” economy
and helped to build the capitalist
world. It was extraordinarily favor-
able to the development of the trad-
ing-classes, who bought and sold on a
long, rising market, with a fair chance
of gain. The rise in prices and the
influx of precious metals changed.
their political position and made them
one of the most sonerye groups in
the state.
Secondly, a great inanjantity of in-
comes resulted from the violent. break
up of customary price relationships:
In France, England, and Southern
Germany, there was also a very seri-
ous drop in the earning péwer of the
lower classes.’ This was caused by an
increase in population in «countries
with fixed production systems, many
wage-earners, no outlet for migra-
tion, and inadequate improvement in
technology. In England, from 1500
to 4600, ‘there was a.60% drop in
earning power. In Spain, where there
was no increase in population, there
was only a 30% depreciation, and by
the middle of the seventeenth cen-|
tury, wages were almost as high as
they had been at the end of the _Six-
teenth century. :
The working classes were also af-
fected by another change of attitude
caused by the price revolution. Dur-
ing the Middle Ages, “the upper
classes had regarded the lower as fel-
low-creatures, a necessary part of the
human machine.” But from the end
of the sixteenth century on, they be-
came more and more mere impersonal
units, “the laboring poor.”
. Aside from the_working-classes, the
people who suffered most in the price
revolution, were the clergy, the land-
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comes were fixed. The monarchy suff-
ered especially, for it could not meet’
the * demands ' ‘of the new. militarism
and the new nationalism equipped
only with a medieval income.- “Henry
| VII made up the deficiency by robbing
‘the ‘barons, his. son by robbing: the
church, and Elizabeth chiefly by de-
spoiling’ the nobility and by «actual
parsimony. But the Stuarts inherited
a financially bankrupt monarchy, and
their ‘efforts to- rehabilitate it by tax-
ation brought. on the struggle for
constitutidnal : beri the seven-
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In the case of the clergy, the result
of the price revolution was to make
them desperately poor, and therefore
to deprive them of their independence.
Although there were many exceptions,
the clergy in. general became pliant
and subservient to the wealthy. They
were not relieved until the time. of
Queen Anne’s “Bounty, a hundred
years later.
The effect of the price revolution on
the landlords and the measures they
>
JR. YEAR MOVIES SHOWN |
Haverford Union, April’ 10.—Dr.
John; Kelley, of the Haverford Ger-
man Department, entertained members
of the Bryn Mawr and Haverford
German Clubs at an informal Lie-
derabend. Moving pictures of the
1937 Delaware Group for the Junior
Year Abroad Were shown as in inter-
mission in the singing, and refresh-
ments were served.
Jack Velte, ’38, and a. friend. at
Brown University had taken the pic-
tures. In them three Bryn Mawr
seniors, Elizabeth Simeon, Alice Chase
and Mary Howe DeWolf appeared
dressed in dirndls,-on excursions in
Central Europe. They had skiied on
the Zugspitze, near Garmischparten-
kirchen in the Alpine country which
was photographed in color, and had
seen the sights of Vienna, Budapest
and Munich. To judge from the pic-
took against it will be discussed in
next week’s lecture on the Agrarian
Revolution.
tures, the Delaware Group did- not
spend all their time in study. One
Haverford senior explained that you
could not help studying profitably,
even in pursuits that we would con-
sider a waste of time, since you al-
ways had to do it in German.
The singing was accompanied on
the piano by Dr. Kelley, and by sev-
eral violins. The repertoire of the
zerman Club was increased by the
new songs learned for the League
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