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Christmas Play
. Io be Presented



Friday evening, December ~~
15, the French Club will pre-
sent La Mystére de la Na-
tivité in the music room of

‘ the French House. It will
appear as found in the 15th
century manuscript with only
slight changes, and will in-
clude some Christmas songs
collected by Mlle. Rey. Most
of the club will participate.







Chilean Excavation
Furnishes Material



Gontinued from Page One

trated in a restricted space. The
original inhabitants used the same
camping sites. yearafter- year, so
that their possessions have been
preserved in horizontal layers -of
clay-and in shell-mounds along the
coast.

The first South Americans, after
crossing the Bering Straits, pushed
southward east of the Rockies. ‘The
people: were not canoe-users, but
inland game hunters. Finding the
same land animals in South as_in
North America, they spread out to
Patagonia, settling under the pre-
cipitous mountain ranges of the
much-indented west coast and also
in the cold windy plains east of the
mountains.

In a small sailing vessel Mr. and
Mrs. Bird traveled down the Chil-
ean coast, exploring the tropical
forests and camping at sites estab-
lished by generations. of. Indians.
The deposited shells of the mussels,
the natives’ stable diet, have. en-
couraged ‘vegetation and so land-
mark camping grounds for all vis-
itors. In these shell-mounds, Mr.
Bird found polished stone tools,
shaped by percussion flaking, with
sharp points and blunt edges. Fish-
hooks and pointed instruments were
discovered in the second level, and
in another layer some crude pottery
appeared. The earliest tools were
probably made at the time of the
arrival of the Spaniards in the new
world. 0

Another group of «shell-mounds
revealed a layer of knife and arrow
points, hooks, ornaments, and bo-
las on top of extremely primitive
tools. This is clear evidence of the
arrival of a new people, probably
about 1800 years ago. This may be
estimated by the extent that the
land has risen, about two and a half
feet every 300 years. This date ties
up with the fourth period tools
found in voleanic caves of Argen-
tina.

Another site for excavation was
the Palli Aike Crater. Caves in
this area concealed beneath their
floors the bones of extinct animals
used for food: giant ground sloths,
last animals of the Pleistocene
period, and native American horses.
In one cave, five different cultures
were uncovered, including stemless
projectile points from the third
period, and skulls from crematiorf
burials. These were not of an es-
pecially primitive type. —

Mr. Bird described his hosts, the
Indians of the west coast, as good
representatives of the eavliest cul-
ture. These people show no inven-
tive ability and have probably ad-
vanced very little beyond their an-
cestors. Extremely lazy,*they do
no more work than is necessary to
exist. Most of their timé is spent

*|ter leave-with thanks.



in eating and sleeping. Z

Donald. Duck, Tillie Satisfy Enlightened
Instincts of Wistful Bryn Mawrters



By Marguerite Bogatko, ’41

It is impossible ty go through
four years of cgHége without get-
ting in a little/reading.. But what
do they read, these college girls—
in their spare time, I mean? There
must be some form of literature
that takes their typical ,maiden
fancy.

Observe our average Bryn Mawr
student, a wistful child named
Mary with deep circles undef her
eyes. We can find her any weekday
morning fighting with her friends
in the smoking room over the latest
development in Terry and the Pi-
rates or Donald Duck. Not all of
us may sympathize with Mary but
can we blame her? A detailed an-
alysis of the matter shows that
Mary is a truly enlightened mem-
ber of society and that she is
very wisely learning about life as

‘well as’ about who are the Muses

and what is an erg and why think
to some purpose.

Mary is modern. She is not
afraid to face the underworld as it
is or English as it may be spoken.
She savors to the full each word
and situation: when Joe Palooka
says with terse simplicity, “That’s

‘lwhat we wanted t’talk t’youse

about, sir, etc. etc.’’, or when Down-
wind rushes to Jack’s bedside’ with
a cheery, “I want you to meet th’
cutest bevy of de-icers that ever de-
iced.”

Beneath her blasé and intellec-
tual little extérior, Mary wants a
home and babies. She wants to be
just a woman, a glamorous woman,
perhaps, but a helpless womanly
woman. When Tillie can’t work
the can opener and just has to ask
dreat big Mr. Simkins to help her
and when Baby Dumpling inno-
cently drops the flat iron on daddy’s
toe, it sort of gets Mary. There’s
something so simple and refreshing
—something so real about it. all.

Perhaps one of the most signifi-
cant factors is that it isn’t only
Mary who reads the funny papers.
Down in the periodical room sit the
stern philosopher and the bearded
English professor, and |with a seri-
ous but attentive eye’ they read
them to the:-last word. They do not
laugh; surely they can’t be. inter-
ested in the womanly woman or the
Sub-Nietschean Super Man. Why
do they read them, then? That’s
what we’ve always wanted t’talk
t’yousé about, sirs.



B. M. Customers Only
Can Charge at Greeks



Continued from Page One

observation, we asked him what
changes there had been in the Bryn
Mawr girl during the 20 years he
had worked at the Greeks’. He said
practically none; in fact there was
really no difference. These were
hard words, but we swallowed them
and have been trying to digest them
ever since.

Returning to the matter of fact,
we asked if the present girls played
the nickelodia much. “Sometimes
in the afternoon they play it. And
they dance occasionally.” (That
was a new one on us.)

“Could you tell us what they eat-

for the most part?”

“They eat grilled cheese sand-
wiches.” (That was that) “They
drink coca-cola and milk shakes. A
very few take beer.” Mike told us
that more coca-cola and ice cream
are sold at the Greeks’ than at any
store on the outskirts of . Philadel-
phia.

We asked if they ever had any
trouble and Mike said that “no
rough stuff” ‘was allowed but that
occasionally someone had to be
“chucked out.”

Having consumed several coca-
colas and a large amount of Mike’s
time, we thought that we had bet-
We had just
got to the corner when we realized
that we had taken off with a pack
of chewing gum for which we had
not been charged. We were forced
to rush back at headlong speed



Bryn Mawr Heralds
Concert by Menuhin



Cont‘nued from Page One
England, the continent, South Afri-
ca and finally Austrailia.

Menuhin was born in New York
in 1916, but his childhood was spent
in San'Francisco. When four years
old, he began taking violin lessons
from Sigmund Anker and then from
Louis Persinger. At the age of
seven he appeared as soloist with
the San Francisco Orchestra and at
the Metropolitan. Two years later
he went abroad to study with
Georges Enesco and Adolph Busch
and had a sensational debut in
Paris. In 1934-85 he made a record
breaking tour around the world giv-
ing in all 110 concerts in 13 differ-
ent countries. Since then he has
been alternating periods of study
with performances.

Crities of his concerts this year
have found his playing more ma-
ture, more emotional, yet retaining
its poetical refinement. He brings
to the music the same freshness
and genius which distinguished him
as a child, but added to that is the
flawless technique of a man.



(nickel clasped in _ outstretched
hand) to uphold the Bryn Mawr
honor.





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City Lights

~By Rebecca Robbins, °42.~

Philadelphia, as you may have
heard, is the least progressive of
cities, Other American cities, with
federal subsidy, have gone on, in
the American way, to build bridges
(improvements), to tear down
slums and plan happily geometric
housing developments of clean
bright brick (also sunshine and
cross ventilation).

Philadelphia has torpidly watched
its City Council refuse federal
funds because it couldn’t put up the
minor fraction of the capital re-
quired by the current federal pro-
vision for partial subsidy of pro-
posed improvements.

Street after street in. the.central
city is lined with decayed houses.
Under pressure of Philadelphia big
business, the Council refused to éx-
empt slum properties from back
taxes—which will never be paid—
unless big business real estate was
also exempted. At*the same time,
owners of slum property raised
prices - (automatic reaction to ru-
mors of possible government pur-
chase). Taxes plus this raised
price prohibited the buying. up of
blocks of slum ground.

Even when Congress authorized
the F. H. A. it seemed at first that
the Philadelphia Housing Commit-
tee would accomplish nothing.

But the Committee, headed by
Judge Frank Smith, has gone
qnietly to work to produce “hous-
ing” in undeveloped areas. Then,
after slum-dwellers move into the
new low-income projects, the rag-
ged shells downtown will be left to
crumble in ghost-town leisure. And
the government will be able to buy
at government leisure, for little
more than taxes, and clear out. the
central city.

Every so often now, one reads an
unobtrusive feature on housing in a
Democratic Philadelphia paper. A
tract of land at 46 and Market,
bounding a decaying colored sec-
tion, will be the site, of a jousing
development. The land is now part



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Tobe-Coburn School
Offers Fellowships



Tobé-Coburn School for Fashion
Careers, Rockefeller Center, New
York, is again offering five Fash-
ion Fellowships to members of this
year’s senior class. Each Fellow-
ship .covers a year’s tuition of
700 dollars in the school. Only one
will be awarded in any -college or
university.

Members of the senior class who
wish to apply for one of the Fash-
ion Fellowships must. mail regis-
tration blanks to the school on or
before January 31. All applicants
will answer a series of qualifying

ruary 29. Those whose work is
considered most. promising will be
asked to proceed with a fashion
research project, due April 15.
Announcement of the awards will
be made April 25. .

Registration blanks, along with
complete information about the
Fashion Fellowships and the Tobé-
Coburn School, are available in the
Bureau of Recommendations.



of the extensive grounds of a hospi-
tal for the mentally diseased. An
undeveloped site near the river, at
30 and Ritter, is also being claimed.
Roland Randall, Committee vice-
chairman, is at Ninth and Poplar,
swooping with a pick-axe at an old

|house, and grinning broadly (think-

ing inner thoughts, no doubt, about
the progress of humanity). ;



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