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OCTOBER 13, 1937

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Padsniiiiwial Club -
tiears Agnes Chen
Speak on Far East



Japan Aims to Keep Militarists
In Power and Quell Internal
i _ Evils by War



4 JAPANESE EXCUSES

FOR A WAR REFUTED

October 12.—The
first of-a series of discussions on the

Far Eastern Crisis was held by the
International Club, which presented
Agnes Chen,--Chinese graduate stu-
dent, as its speaker. Miss Chen spoke,
“not with the purpose of accusing
anyone, but just to discuss the back-
ground” of the conflict between China
and Japan.
From the Japanese side, the conflict
aims to keep the militarists in power,
and to quell Japan’s internal diffi-
culties by diverting the country’s ac-
tivity to outside complications. The



Common Room,

_ Speaker explained the composition. of

the present Japanese government: the
Mikado chooses the prime minister
and the ministers of the army, navy,
and air forces are chosen directly by
the military class. Two hundred and
sixty thousand families comprise this
privileged group. A state of “mili-
tary feudalism” exists, . Miss) Chen
stated, which completely dominates
democratic Japan.

Miss. Chen refuted four Japanese
excuses for the war. One, that the
Chinese were “anti-Japanese,” “even
though when’ China applied for mem-
bership in the League Council in 1931,
Japan acted as_ sponsor. Chinese
hatred as a result rather than a
cause of the present war. Japan’s de-
sire for colonies is her second reason.

, Yet her colonial possessions already

exceed the size of Japan. « The third
Japanese claim is her over-population ;
yet China is equally crowded.- Miss
Chen also explained that since China
has no immigration laws, Japanese
and other foreigners are free to come
in at any time. Fourth is the Jap-
anese assertion that China, with its
internal strife, is an “international
nuisance.” Rather than give her own
opinion, Migs Chen referred to the

English

terference. ;

Miss Chen continued with a review
of Chinese-Japanese relations of the
past 26 years. During this time there
has been a constant struggle between

‘ the Chinese and Japanese‘and between

the militarist and demécratic factions
within Japan herself. Present devel-
opments have been a continuation of
the struggle and an attempt to realize
the Second Mongolian Empire.

Miss Chen concluded with a short
account of the present situation. China
is at a great disadvantage in the
North, the scene of fighting. Here,
the soldiers have been unable to ma-
noeuver in the past four years because

Continued on Puge Three —

GERMAN CLUB PLANS
DEUTSCHER TAG SKIT





German Clubroom, October 11.—
Plans were laid tonight for the rep-
resentation of Bryn Mawr at .the
annual Deutscher Tag, to be held at
Wilmington on October 29: Approxi-
mately 30 members will présent a
song-and-dance program of the har-
vest-time, which is being planned by
president Mary Howe DeWolf, ’38,
Erika Simon, graduate, and secretary-
treasurer Ruth Mary Penfield, ’40.

The first meeting of the German
Club, held on October 5, shows a
marked increase in enthusiasm and
membership. More than 60 people ex-
pect to join. Many plan to attend
weekly. conversation groups, Mon-

_day German tables in Pembroke, and

- Friday night singing at the German
_House,.-which._are-featuresof the|-M.—

club.
A Christmas play; to be presented

~~ghortly “before the holidays, anda

play in conjunction with. the. Haver-
ford German Club in the Spring,. are
highlights of the year ’s program.

Bow et

Science Club Started
Again at Bryn Mawr



Officers- and _ — Discusses
Plan to Meet Monthly

Elects



Pembroke East SHNEWER Ocicher 6.
—Members of the new Science Club
gathered to elect their officers and dis-
u The
group intends to meet once a month,
and faculty members from the four
Science departments will be invited
to speak on topics of general=inter-
est.

cuss plans for the coming year.

In the Spring the club hopes

to cooperate with the . Undergraduate
Entertainment Committee in bringing
an outside speaker to the college. —
Entertainment Committee to bring an
outside speaker to the college.

A similar .club existed at’ Bryn
Mawr about six years ago. For the
past. two: years many science majors
have felt the need of an organization
to correspond to the Journal Clubs
which are attended by graduate stu-
dents and members of the faculty,
but nothing was done until
Spring: At that time many people

this yeat with a large enrollment.

‘To insure Pied alanced program
which would‘interest majors in the
different sciences a planning commit-
tee was chosen consisting of the presi-
dent, vice-president, one member from
each department, and one from the
large: group of non-science majors
who have joined the club.

The officers are: President, Kitty
Hemphill, ’389; Vice-President, Doro-
thea Peck, ’39. The Planning Com-
mittee is: biology, Abbie Ingalls, ’38;
chemistry, Dorothea Heyl, ’39; geology,
Christie Solter, ’39; mathematics and
physics, Helen Hamilton,. 389; non-
science, Mary G. Wood, ’39.

The first formal meeting of the
club will be held on Wednesday evé-
ning, October 27, when Miss Mary
Gardiner, of the Biology Department,
will speak on genetics. The lectures
will not be too, technical for general
enjoyment, and the club invites anyone
interested to attend.



48 CHILDREN ENJOY
B. M. SUMMER CAMP



(Especially contributed by Anne
Ferguson, °39.) + .

During the winter of 1936-1937, the
Bryn Mawr Summer Camp Commit-
tee sponsored both the nightly sand-
wich selling and three successful
square dances. Also, a musicale of
undergraduate talent was a pleasant
success and an experience which may
profitably be repeated this coming
year... From these \ varied events about
350 dollars was made and added to

the money ‘given to camp. by.the

| League’s Annual Drive.

This money entirely maintained ‘a
total of 48 children at Stone Harbor,
N. J. The children of the_first and
youngest _ group came ~ from St.
Martha’s Settlement House in South
Philadelphia: This group of children
remained at camp for three weeks
There were 21 girls and boys between
the ages of four and five. The other
section was made up of 23 Main Line
children of Irish, instead of Italian,
extraction and five sent to the camp
by special request. They stayed for
two weeks. ;

A tidier appearance was given to
the camp by the new boys’ suits made
for us by the Main Line Branch of
the W. P. A. Sewing Project free of
charge.. Another new contact was
made last winter with the Main Line
Federation of Churches which helped
get one group’ of: children together
for the camp from the. Bryn Mawr
neighborhood.

Twelve undergraduates volunteered
their services as counsellors and with
Mrs. Frank and the two head work-
ers, the staff cooperated in an effici-
ent manner. It. included the ‘follow-
ing: M: Howson, ’38,;"D. Peck, ’39,

‘Gill, “40, M. Macomber, ’40, J. Lud-
wig, ’38, E. Washburn,.’37, L. Morley,

Reed, ~’37, chairman of the College
Committee, was assisted by K. Bing-
ham, ’38, and A. Ferguson, ’39.



last |

signed up for the club and it started

n, ’38,—-M.—Wood,’39,-M.} -

40, M. Diehl, ’39, arid 8. Miller, "40, B-



COLLEGE CALENDAR

Thursday, October 14.—Meet-
ing of the A..S, U.. Common
- Room, 7.30..

Friday, October 15
Nieht. 7.380.

Friday; October. 15—Sunday,
October 17,—Alumnae Weekend.

Monday, October 18.—Second
Flexner Lecture.

Tuesday, October 19. — Mr.
Fenwick’ will speak on Current

_—Lantern

' Events.” Common Room, 7.30.
International Club meeting,
Common Room, 8 p. m.
Wednesday, October 20.—In-
dustrial Group Supper. -Com-
mon Room, 6.80.
Thursday, -October 21.—Tea

in French House, 4.30. ~

Friday, October 22.—Senior *
Supper.

Monday, October 26.—Profes-
sor The Svedborg will speak.







Novelist Finds Lack
Of Peace Literature



Miss Brittain Defines Need
For Impartial Anti-War
Writing Today

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SHOW PEACE INFLUENCE





Goodhart, October 5.—Writers and
thinkers today have not fulfilled their
duty~to think deeply, said Vera Brit-
tain, internationally-known novelist,
speaking on Literature and Warld
Peace. The >function of. the writer
concerned with peace is not to take
sides, but to “direct the feelings” by
impartially portraying either the
horror, the futility, or the foolishness
of all war.

Miss Brittain believes that the
“ivory tower” literature is compati-
ble with “going down into the arena,”
as evidenced by the reform writing
of Stowe, Reade, Dickens, and Kings-
ley in the nineteenth century and
Olive Shreiner and Thomas Hardy in
the twentieth.

Today, in contrast to earlier civili-
zation when war was localized,: the
complete submergence—of—-art-—and
literature is threatened by war. “The
task: of literature is to throw. its
weight on an atmosphere of peace.”
Lawyers, philosophers, and politicians,
as well as writers have their task be-
fore them. If literature can do this,
“it will not be our world, but war
itself that will pass away.”

The functions of any peace writer

are: “To tell the truth about war;
to ‘act as an_ interpreter between
groups: nation and nation, capital

and labor, old and young; afid to pre-
sent-a eonstructive picture of a new
civilization.” It is up to youth to
find the way in which these three
functions should’ bé carried out.

Miss Brittain divided literary his-
tory into six civilizations to show
how the treatment of war and peace
has changed. In the Jewish Civiliza-
tion the often-quoted passage from
Isaiah expresses the current belief in
the Messiah as a Prince of Peace.
The attitude toward war in the
Troiades of Euripedes is nearer the
modern attitude than that of any in-
tervening literature. Because it ex-
presses the suffering of the victims
of war, its lesson is true today, and
it triumphs for this reason over what
is temporal in its subject matter.

The peace of Rome, a peace of dic-
tatorship, produced the Odes of Hor-
ace and the Aeneid of Virgil, which
contained pictures of the destructive-
ness of war, but these picfures were
not as effective as those in the Troi-
ades. In the medieval period, the
church was the main opponent of war.
The De Monarchia of Dante regards
the ruler as the supreme peacemaker.

In the Renaissance the growth of
the nation and the state produced the

. Continued on Page Two

“Non-Resident Tea

A ‘non-resident tea was -held
in:the Common Room on Mon-
day, October 11, in honor of the
non-resident freshmen. Resident
student advisors also attended.











Lantern Night diy Part
Of. Alumnae Week-End



Simple Program Will Allow Time
For Informal. Talks



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In answer to many requests the
Alumnae Association has “arranged
their second Alumnae Week-end at
the time of Lantern Night. The pro
gram_is simple jn order that the foy-
mer studénts may have a chance/to
talk informally wtih the faculty /and
the present undergraduates.

Friday, October 15:

Registration in:Deanery on/arrival.

Opportunity to visit classes/in morn-
ing and laboratories and gyninasium
in afternoon.

4,30 p. m.—C€lass Collectors Meet-,
ing, Deanery. ©

6.30 p. m.—Buffet Supper_for Alunt-
nae, Deanery.

8.00 p. m.—Lantern Night, Cloister:
Garden.

Saturday, October 16:

10.00 a. m.—V.arsity Hockey Game,
Lower Athletic Field.

1.00. p. m.—Buffet Luncheon — to
meet members of the faculty, Deanery.

6.30. p. m.—Buffet-Supper in honor
of President Park, Deanery. .

8.30 p. m.—Square Dance for Aluni-
nae and Undergraduates, Gymnasium.

’ Sunday, October 17:°

1.00 p. m.—Dinner with: members
of the Senior Class as hostesses, Pem-
broke Hall.

2.00 p. m:—Coffee .with Dean
Schenck to meét the Graduate Stu-
dents, Radnor Hall.

5.00 p. m.—Concert, Deanery. Ver-
non Hammond, pianist; Frederick
Robinson, baritone.

7.30 p. m.—Chapel Service, Good-
hart Hall. The College Choir will
sing.

Monday, October 18:
Opportunity to visit classes and lab
oratories.
Continued on Page Two

Mile. Soubeiran Was
Scholar of Promise





Was Studying French Poetics
For Doctorat-es-lettres:
At University of Paris
ed



(Especially: contributed by Dean
Schenck.)

Mademoisélle Madeleine Soubeiran,
who was to have returned this year
to the French Department after a sab-
batical leave, died in Montpellier,
France, as the News of last week an-
nounced, on July seventh. She. was
thirty-two years old and had already
proved herself a brilliant teacher and
a scholar of the highest promise.

Agrégée ‘des lettres‘ of the Univer-
sity of Paris in 1927, she had _spent
the three preceding years at the Ecole
Normale Supérieure de Sevres, enter-
ing at the head of her class in that
most difficult: of competitive matricu-
lations and maintaining her supremacy
to the end of her course. She spent
two years as Professor of French Lit-
érature at the Lycée of Aix-en-Pro-
vence and was assigned to Bryn Mawr
by the French Ministry of Public
Instruction in 1929. -Here, her course
in 17th Century French Literature be-
came famous overnight and in the
newly established honor work of the
French Department she found a form
of teaching that was very congenial
to her and highly stimulating..to her
students. She declared herself de-
lighted with the results she was able
to get from. the best of these young
étrangéres and never failed to take
back to France each spring a pack-
age of papers that she wished to
“show.” Her teaching was as excit-
ing to her as to her students.

With the taking over of a gradu-

Soubeiran began a study of French

poetics which yielded results of great

interest to her colleagues, to whom she
reported progress, and of steadily in-
creasing importance. Her sabbatical
leave was to have been spent prepar-
ing this matérial for presentation’ to
the University of Paris forthe doe-
torat-és-lettres. A paper embodying
some highly original work on the
Continued on Page Three



4.
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Flexner’ Lecturer:
Dis dusses Painting
f the Renaissance >



Defines Italian Iconography as
Divisible Into Three Main
Strata



PANOFSKY TO DISCUSS
HUMANISTIC TRENDS



In augurating the seventh series of

Mary Professor

Erwin Panofsky, of the Institute for
Advanced Study, N. dy

gave the first of six studies on human-
istic trends in the art of the Renais-
sance. He spoke on Meaning and
Methods of Renaissance Iconography,
with special emphasis on the basic
principles of -iconography, and the
particular forms it had taken by the
beginning of the Renaissance.

“Iconography,” he stated, “‘is a
field that deals not with form, but )
with subject-matter. ~ work of art, to the trained eye, is~
divided into three strata: the .purely
formal, or primary subject-matter;
the secondary ~ “subject-matter, --or
iconography in the narrow sense of
the word; and finally, the intrinsic
meaning, or iconography in the broad-
est and deepest sense.”

The primary subject-matter, he
went on to say, consists of the simple
forms and expressions of the picture:
the people, landscape, animals, or
furniture that make up the whole.
This is the “world of motifs,” and to
interpret it we -need only common ex-
perience. This experience, however,
must be controlled by knowledge of the
history’ of style. For example, in-a
painting of the sixteenth century,
such as Grunewald’s Resurrection, a°
body could hang suspended in mid-air
only by-a miracle. On the other hand,
it was'common and evén conventional
for early medieval miniaturists to de> _

Flexner lectures,

Princeton,

‘pict whole groups of people going

about «their _business, apparently
standing in space.

The secondary, or conventional, sub-

ject-matter brings the student into
the “world of images, stories, and
allegories.” To comprehend _ this

world we need, not merely common in-
telligence, but literary knowledge.
But this knowledge, too, must be
controlled by an understanding of
the history of types.

Lastly, the intrinsic meaning of’ a
painting opens a “world of gsymbolical

values.” This is the broad@st and
deepest kind of iconographical in-
terpretation and is founded on
synthetic intuition, allied with a

knowledge of the history of culture
and- phenomena in. general.

Classical iconography, between the
fall of Rome and the rise of the
Renaissance, had:>taken on especially
curious forms. Contrary to the belief

of Vasari, Ghiberti, and other histo-
rians, Classicism never wholly died
out in, the Middle Ages. But it had

disintegrated. Classical themes sur-
vived, but they were not represented
by. classical motives; these continued
Continued on Page Three

DENBIGH CONFUSED BY
UNEXPECTED ALARM





Denbigh, October 11.—Utter, utter
confusion reigned among Denbigh’s .
inmates tonight, and though not eas-
ily amused, they decided to capitulate .
this time, as soon as breath returned
to their startled lungs.

At exactly 10.05 p. m., a non-mem-
ber of the undergraduate body, the
graduate body, or the. faculty, pushed
the fire-bell with unaccustomed vigor,
causing an emergency drill; or A
Breath.of Fresh Air. Unfortunately,

ate seminary in 1933, Mademoiselletthe front door had been lecked by the

same non-member, and the harassed
Denbighites, sans Fire Chief, sans
runners, sans everything, pushed-and
strained in the sacred name of Duty.

With the: door unlocked, many
laughing females—-rushedin—the-line.
of least resistance, towels in hands,
to the News office. “We have a-
scoop,” they shriekéd, climbing in the
window. Collegeditors listened sol-_-



emnly.

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Trite and True 3
Together with other common bugbears, is the fear of being told

something we already know. There are two reactions to such a telling

that turn it either into an indiscretion or a happy truth.
makes one think, “Even I know that, so why say it?”
I must be pretty intelligent.”

thought of that, too.

point where one becomes the other ;

more than mentality.

The first
the second, “I’ve
There is no rigid
one’s reaction depends on mood

In general, the criticism of- Mies v era Brittain was that she told

us nothing that we did ‘not know before.

Partly it was because her

subject was as old as literature itself, partly because the best and truest
in literature is what persists and’ is-taught from the first grade up.
Miss Brittain’ could not have made her point any better, by quoting

the unfamiliar.

The safest method, however, for: an aspiring writer}

or lecturer is to startle his audience with something new, something
that will frighten it away from contemplation of proverbial truths,
which, it seems, are worn with much use, and have no application to

our ultra-modern age.
When it is a question of war

and peace, and it always is, this

backing away frgm old truth is nothing less than the ‘search for an

easier formula.

Tell us the way of peace, we cry, and when we are

told, perhaps, that it lies along Christian principles, we hedge and

mutter to ourselves and others,

“That’s old.
So we take our ease, sometimes fancying ourselves as fighters for a|'

We’ve heard it before.”

% °
cause, and pooh-pooh the teachings of a thousand years.
There is no use in waiting, or in hoping that some better method

of living may turn up tomorrow.
important, though we may have

long as;we have not adapted them to ourselves:

moded only when they have been

heard

The most. hackneyed proverbs are

them a thousand times, so

adopted and 2 Saat: or when

something better has been found. Carpe diem is as t¥ite an admonition

as any, but it is not yet outmoded in either sense.
of wasting by waiting,

Roman’s fear

It expressed a

and though not in Rome, we

might conceivably do as the-Romans said to do.



In Philadelphia -



Movies

Aldine: The Prisoner of Zenda, a
Ruritanian romance, with Ronald Col-
man and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Arcadia: ~The
desert drama, with Ramon Navarro.

Boyd: The Life of Emile Zola, a
biography, with Paul Muni.

Earle: Anuapolis Salute, an un-
_ seaworthy story of life at the Naval
Academy; with James Ellison.

Europa: Masquerade. in: Vienna, a
European Escapade, with Anton. Wal-
brook and Paula Wessely.

Fox: Life Begins At College a com-
edy, with the Ritz Brothers.

Karlton: That Certain Woman, a
drama of mother love, with Bette
Davis.

Stanley: The Bride Wore Red, a
tragic-comedy, with Joan Crawford.

Stanton: Dead End, with Sylvia
Sydney.

Beginning Thursday:

Fox: Heidi, the c¥fildhood’ classic,
with Shirley Temple. -

Europa: Maylering, the French ver-
sion of the Masque of Kings, with

Charles Boyer. “

Arcadia: Life of the Party a com-
edy, with Harriet Hilliard. .

Theater - ~

Erlanger: The Passing of the Third
Fléor Back, with Walter Hampden.

Forrest: Victoria Regina, with
. Maye. | « ~.'

_ Chestnut: Sonar on Earihet with
: Greenwood:

ea6 ‘Dickaee

-Priday afternoon and . Saturday

: Eugene Ormandy conduct-

ing: ‘Deaeen: Suite; Debussy: The



_ Afternoon of a Faun; Roger-Ducasse:



Sheik Steps Out, |

|. The portrait _of . “President

| the reading room of the Library

Sarabande for Orchestra and Voices,
with the Choral Society of. the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania; Ravel:

Daphnis and G@#ttoe (Second Suite);

Franck: Symphony in D Minor.

‘Local Movies

Ardmore:. Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Vogues of 1938, with Warner
Baxter and Joan Bennett; Friday and
Saturday, Souls at Sea, with Gary
Cooper and George Raft; Sunday and
Monday, Stella Dallas, with Barbara
Stanwyck; Tuesday, Dance, Charlie,
Dance, with Jean Muir.

Suburban: Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, Charlie Chan on Broad-
way, with Warner Oland; Saturday,
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Bor-
neo, by Martin Johnson.

Wayne: Wednesday and Thursday,
Manhattan. Melodrama, with Clark
Gable and William Powell; Tuesday,
Meet the Boy Friend, with Pert Kel-
ton; Friday and Saturday, Borneo, by
Martin Johnson; Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday, Broadway Melody of 1938,
with Robert Taylor and Eleanor
Powell.

Seville: Wednesday and Thursday,
Hot Water, with the Jones Family;
Friday and Saturday, Love Under
Fire, with Don’ Ameche and Loretta
Young; Sunday, Monday and Tues-
day, Broadway Melody of 1938, with
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Powell. -



Portrait ole Bechitbitinn

~Park which ordinarily hangs in

They become—out-

|Let’s not be lethargic!

WITS END





ERRATUM

The editor is very put out to
announce that the word Bentley
in last week’s article on Lord
Peter Wimsey should have read
Daimler.







The College News recently received
this interestifig letter from one of its
eager subscribers. The Lantern also
received a copy of the same letter. A
transcription follows: 7

MAJOR MUSic company ine.
(sketch of drum-major with banner;
- letters getting smaller and smalle7.

We can only render this roughly)

'1619 BROADWAY, NEW YORK,
N.Y,

Circle 6-1345-1346
October 6, 1937

Telephones:

TO THE EDITOR
(no comma)

May we enlist the aid of your pub-
lication “and your student body in
helping us to get some information
of the collegiate expression “pitching

-. | woo.” (no question mark) -

We have just written a song called,
“LET’S PITCH A LITTLE WOO.”
It, will be played by all* the leading
radio orchestras this coming fall sea-
son, t. e€. (right now—Ed.) and in or:
der to facilitate announcers and-or-
chestra leaders in their comment on
the number, we are anxious to deter-
mine exactly where the _ expression
originated.

At present we have many conflict-
ing opinions that place the origin in
various: colleges throughout the coun-
try.

We will be grateful for any help
you can offer.

re

(signed) Sam Mineo Sid Prussin

SAM MINEO & SID PRUSSIN:

The News tries to' make it its policy
to enlist its aid in helping all our
eager readers to get as much informa-
tion as possible on as many subjects
as possible. We believe that the Lan-
tern tries to do the same thing. In
this case, however, both the publica-
tions are frankly up a tree. The ed-
itor of the Lantern has confesséd to
us that no one on.the Lantern board
has ever heard the expression .“pitch-
ing woo,” None of the News board
has either. The only thing to do
seems to be to enlist the aid of the
student body. We expect to get a
terrific response to this plea,

The Bryn Mawr student body has
been criticised as late as a week from
last Tuesday for being very snooty
and up-stage. We have been accused
of sneering at other colleges, and
considering ourselves superior; all in
alk not joining in the general healthy
collegiate spirit which binds the un-
dergraduate youth of . America. to-

gether. That. is why, when an_ issue
like this comes up, touching the
whole collegiate community, Bryn

Mawr should make up. its. mind _ to
make a good.showing. Let’s be the
first college in the U.'S. to reply to
Messrs. Mineo and Prussin’s letter.
We’re not
snooty, are we? Somebody must
know the, meaning of “pitching woo.”

Far more important, however than
the mere empty distinction of being
the first to answer this important let-
ter, is to have an understanding of
the spirit of whieh it is only one
manifestation. The editors of the
News shudder to think that we have
been so far left behind by the spirit
of collegiateness that not one, mem-
ber of the boards of our two publica-
tions had even heard the catch-phrase
which is probably on the tongue of
every self-respecting collegiate person
in the country—the -phrase_ which
during the coming fall season—nay,
right now—is probably ringing forth
from all the major radio stations on
the Red and Blue networks.

It may ‘not be too ‘late to mend,
however... We appeal to the student
body to lift us out of this back-wash
of uncollegiate stagnation. Find out

|;about pitching woo—yes—but go even

further. . When ave,..have reinstated
‘ourselves in the public eye, we must

pitch woo. The News board is will-|





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ing to-pioneer-in-this-campaign:—-We
expect the Lantern board will be glad
to join us. And when we develop

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a ‘woo-pitching, contest. -

there are plays

November.
gher and Mr. Shean fame, will have



CURRENT NEW YORK |
THEATER IN REVIEW



As usual,
York is varied enough to suit individ-

current drama in New

ual tastes, which means ‘in précis form
that it takes all kinds to make
world. There are plays to see (The

a

Everlasting Yea) and there are plays
not to see (The Everlasting No) and
which correspond
roughly to the Center of Indifference.

Maxwell Anderson has true to form
come through with another play, The
Star Wagon. According to most cr-t-
ics, it is good but not important—not
important in the sense that it has not
a clarion call message. Mr. Anderson
is dealing with theories of time and
space, and though the play is admit-
tedly warm and sentimental, it is not
searching. Evidently Mr. Anderson
should turn his gentle High Tor
whimsy to better things. He is under-
estimating his own strength. Brooks
Atkinson, who looks for the profound,
gives most of the credit tothe actors,
who, he says, have turned The Star
Wagon into “the first interesting play
of the season.” As such, it should
fall into our first category.

Second on the “to see” list is French
Without Tears, a.light and jolly com-
edy which recalls Oral boners. It is
an English comedy and_ concerns
young Englishmen studying French.
It concerns other things, too, such as
“a beauteous sister,” who quite nat-
urally. becomes involved with the
young Englishmen. But that is be-
side the point.- The point is that
Woleott’Gibbs thought it*was worth
“about two George and Margarets.”
G. and M. is another English comedy,
which actually coincides with what
the “great London public” wants and
expects comedy to be.

In the same dubious group are Blow
Ye Winds, with Henry Fonda; The
Lady Has a Heart, with Elissa Landi,
and, alas, Theresa Helburn’s A Hero
is Born. The first-is recommended by
the New Yorker to the pure irr heart,
the.-second. is recommended by no one
to no’ one, except: to admirers of Elissa
Landi, who does her hest. The third
is said to be coy and poorly staged.

Ben Hecht’s much-vaunted To Quito
and Back was damned with : faint
praise by the critics when it opened
last week. It is about a revolution
in Ecuador and a journalist’s illicit
love. The general critical opifion is
that the theme is fogged by too much
talk.; Susan and God, which toured
last Spring and has since been con-
siderably rewritten, has been hailed
as the first bona fide hit of the sea-
son. This deals with Gertrude Law-
rence’s troubles with Buchmanism.

Aside from Fo Quito and Back, the
Theatre Guild program includes Jane
Eyre (the same production which vis-
ited the principal cities last winter) ,
Madam Bovary, with Constance Cum-
mings; Amphitrion 38 with the Lunts
(enthusiastically applauded this au-
tumn._ by Hollywood), The Ghost of
Yankee Doodle, by Sidney Howard,
and with Ethel Barrymore, and .a
new~-play of S. N. Behrman’s. called
Wine of Choice.

A dramatization”* of Father Mala-
chy’s Miracle is promised for early in
Al Shean, of Mr. Galla-

the. principal: role as a Benedictine
monk. Another plan which sounds
attractive is the importation of the
successful Three Waltzes ‘from Paris,
where it throve richie the Expo-
sition.

George Abbott baie from farce to
mystery-comedy with Angel Island.

the first produced play of one Bernie

Angus. Joyce Arling, girl ‘of Boy
Meets Girl, will appear in this. Rom-
ney ‘Brent wrote a play of the last
years of Marie Antoinette’s life,
which will be produced by Max Gor-
don with Jane Cowl. This emerges
from much rewriting under the title
of The. Austrian Woman.
J. RB. T., MB. M.



Lantern Night is Part _
Of Alumnae Week: End

Continued from Page One

In tase of rain the Friday and Sat-
urday evening. ———e will be inter-
chan -

"anode those who have eee reser-
vatiorfs forthe week-end from the



class of ’87 are Dorothea Wilder and

Kathryn Jacoby; from the class of ’36,
>| Elizabeth “M. Bates, Maryallis Mor-
gan, Esther B. — and Barbara
L. Cary. : mea)



Letters to the Editor.

To the Editor of the College News:
A letter published in your issue of
October 6 ‘stated an objection to ‘the
recent newsreels ptaken of the college
and the pictures "that have appeared
in Philadelphia papers. The letter
presented Me aspect of the question.
I would like to bring up another and
rather









Aside from
whether such:-publicity is compatible

inevitable one.

with the impression which Bryn Mawr
wishes to give to the outside world, it
seems unnecessary that it should in-

volve Hearst newsreels. Practically,

Jof course, the college carfnot avoid all

contact with figures which it does not

consider above reproach, and a cone.

tact with Hearst would not be*par- .
ticularly reprehensible if concerted

attempts had not been made all over
the country to boycott Hearst news-
reels. The fact that it was found
necessary to delete the name of
Hearst from his newsreels and to
change the name to News of the Day
shows that the attempts were not un="
successful. A contact with Hearst
should be incompatible with.. the
standards of any~ college, but par-
ticularly with those of Bryn Mawr.
It seems slightly incongruous for a
college which listens to peace speak-
ers, even if it listens with’ only

guarded enthusiasm, and where stu- @

dents are equipped for an intelligent
life.in.a.democracy,. to. present.-itself
to the general public in conjunction
with Hearst.

The value of such a letter will un-
doubtedly be questioned by a large
part of the college, partly because it
is criticism of an accomplished fact
about which nothing can now be done,
and partly because there will prob-
ably be very few people seeing the
newsreels who will make any mental
connection between Bryn Mawr and
Hearst. Both these objections are
valid to a certain extent. However,
the protest séems ‘necessary for the
following reasons. At the present
time, there are very few political doc-
trines or actions about: which com-
plete surety as*to their value is possi-
ble. . Hearst, because of his unscru-
pulousness in spreading dangerous
propaganda which is without a basis,
and.in misrepresenting facts is one
of the few: well-known figures about
whom there can be a reasonable cer-
tainty that his influence is bad. Since
there is much whic cannot judge™

‘and in which we can only wait for the

results, it ‘seems that it should be
possible to take a definite position
about one of the few things of which

‘we are.certain.

SYLVIA WRIGHT, ’38.



Novelist Finds Lack
Of Peace Literature



Continued from Page One

spirit of internationalism. Pleas
were made for a united world, for in-

}ternational law and an imperial as-

sembly. In. politics, Hugo Grotius
and William Penn preached interna-
tionalism. In literature, Cervantes
ridiculed the age of chivalry in which
war was romanticized, and Shake-
speare, in Troilius and Cressida, made
fun of the pompousness of warriors.
With the Abbe de Saint-Pierre,
Rousseau, Kant, Shelley, Byron,
Tennyson, Tolstoi, and Hardy an
idealistic attitude toward peace ap-
peared in the Modern Age.* A con-
trasting attitude of the time/is best
expressed by a statement of Napole-
on’s.made upon the battlefield, “One
night in Vienna will replenish all of
this. However, “only Napoleon failed,”
said Miss Brittain, “the people plod
on from hoodwinking to the light.”
‘Progressively different reactions ap-
pear in the literature which concerns
the World War and _ its results.
Rupert Brooke expressed for* the

young idealists of the time the glor- «
jes of the war and of the principles

that lay behind it. Then for several

years there were no war books, untiw

in \1927 with the appearance of such °
books as All Quiet on the Western
Front, Journey's End, and Goodbye to
All That, there was a strong reaction
against the elevation of war. In

general, the writing of the present, in .-

books such as Company K, No Time

| Like the Present, and Paths of Glory,
‘deals not with the men at the front,

but with the gestion that, lie beHind
warfare.




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Erwin Panofsky Gives
: First Flexner Lecture



Continued from Page One
‘to be copied, but not to illustrate
classical themes. - The. ancient myths
were retold, but the characters were
always shown as medieval men and
On the ,other hand, statues
of saints are copied almost literally
“This,”
be
partly explained by the fact that

women.

from classical sculpture.

said. Professor Panofsky, “may
the artists who copied classic themes
took them from an actual object, ‘The
others had only a vague tradition.
. However, for the most part,
this separation of classic themes and
classic motives was deliberate.”

It was deliberate, he went on to
state, because the Middle Ages could
not look at the ancient world with"
detachment. ‘They could understand
models and rhetoric, not archeology
or philology. The classic periods
were both too near and too far to be
treated historically.” On one hand,
there was a feeling of unbroken con-
tinuity in rhetoric, in writing, and in
on the other,
whelming realization of the complete
break in religions Therefore, the
animal passion of Roman art had to
be purified’ by a transference to re-
ligious themes, or the antique stories
nullified by putting them in medieval
settings. Mythology, too, was: trans-
ferred to the Christian faith: in
“moralized” Ovids Eunepa became a
symbol of the soul, and the bull, of
Christ.

It was the privilege of the Renais-
sance to reintegrate classical themes
and motives. However, a simple and
complete return to the past could not
be , made.’ The. intervening Middle
Ages had altered men and had brought
about changes.in- mind and spirit.
These changes will be studied in lec-
tures which are to follow.

learning; an over-



French Tea
A French tea will be given in
the French House at 4.30 Thurs-
day afternoon, October 21.
Everyone is invited to attend.



|





Mlle. Soubeiran Was
Scholar of Promise





Continued from Page One

sources of Paul Valéry was -read at

the meeting of the Modern haiedibinbed
Association of Ameriea last December

and created a sensation. Professor

Louis Cons, formerly of the tBryn
Mawr French Department and now
Professor at Harvard, ‘referred to it
in a letter to Dean Schenck as “une
His fur-
ther words about Mademoiselle sei
beiran. will touch all her Bryn Mawr

friends..and students: -
“Une des derniéres circonstances ot
jaie un peu longuenient vu Mlle. Sou-
beiran, il y a deux ou trois ans, me
frappe’ comme un contraste si doulou-
reux. Car @ tette occasion je l'avais
trouvée d’une gaieté; d’un humour
jaillissant, spirituelle et vive, parlant
de son travail a Bryn Mawr avec une
verve affectueuse, enthousiaste qui
faisait plaisir & mon,vieux coeur dont
une bonne part est restée la-bas. Mais

extraordinaire révélation.”

toujours, jusque dans, cette gaieté, on}:

sentait la flamme, le sérieux fervent et
dévorant ‘qui a fini par consumer le
corps.”



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FENCING CLASSES START
Gymnucsarm, October 11.—Fencing
classes staited tonight wit) an enroll-
ment of twenty. M. Pasche exhibited
a new device, which, he éalls ‘Fenc-
ing Ladder,” to promote competition
among the members of the
This is a board with grooves. for the
name cards of each fencer: To chal-
lenge, a student sticks her card di-
agonally below that: of her opponent;
the latter must accept the challenge
or default the match. If the chal-
lenger wins, she takes the place of
her opponent on the ,board, thus movy-
ing up the scale. The fencing team
will be chosen, from the names at the
top éf the li&t. Full: rules ‘for the
matches are posted in the fencing
room.

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“gs The rest, with Chiang Kai-Chek’s terials which enable her to wage war; | of the State, pointed out on October outside nations should cease helping
(Gleaned from Mr. Fenwick’s talk.) centralized regime destroyed, will be| furthermore, these imports come| 7 in a letter to the New York Times, | her enemy.” This is the issue of
“. . . . . the peace loving nations | t).own into anarchy, ‘and Communigm | lergely from only two countries: | “ - China’s principal need is | present-day “Neutrality.”
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hold laws and principles on which| T¢ the United Sates hides its head
alone peace can rest secure.” Does} while a second part of China is taken,
this assertion by President Roosevelt | Japan may well go on to a,third sally ‘
in his Chicago -speech of October 5/—for the Philippines, to a fourth— YOUR LAUNDRY’S 3
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