College news, March 24, 1937

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VOL. XXIII, No. 19.

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Cornelia ‘Skinner
“Exhibits Mastery
Over Diseuse Art



In “Loves of Charles Second”
‘Character of Unseen King
Dominates Stage



GOOD NATURE TEMPERS
ANSE OF RIDICULOUS



Goodhart, March 24.—This evening
Miss Cornelia Otis Skinner laid the
financial corner-stone for a projected

theater workshop with the most fit-
‘ting of all instruments, a presenta-
tion of her own monologues. A group
of modern skits was followed by The
Loves ef Charles ITI.

The art of the diseuse, which is. al-
ways tinged with the supernatural,
remains a mystery for almost any
member of the audience. In this case
each of the first group of monologues
was the well-developed, three-dimen-
sional portrait of «a lady, who con-
versed and moved about on a’ stage
crowded with other characters in such
a way as to expose herself *as_ in-
evitably, although with somewhat
greater economy of words and actions,
as the ordinary human being.

It is possible to observe in retro-
spect, however, that Miss Skinner
treated contrasting examples of her
subject: a lady of the middle-west
- preparing fora presentation at court,
», a variety of women found in Times
Square at night, a Boston. lady speak:
ing on the Indian, at a woman’s club
meeting—with a devastating sense of
the ridiculous tempered by under-
standing and good nature. She
avoided any sort of repetition by
utilizing the tremendous scope of her
subject, defining geographical And = so-
cial position with distinct shades of
dialect.

In the secorid half of the evening
Miss Skinner showed a kind of dra-
matic art which, while unnamed, does
not fall under the simple title of “a
group of monologues.” The Loves of
Charles IT was rather a single drama
in six scenes, the drama of the char-
acter of a man as lit up facet by facet
through the personalities of the women
surrounding him and their relations
to him. Apart from her acting, Miss
Skinner has accomplished an exciting
piece of stage writing in this. the-
atrical view of history. The closing
scene, in which Charles’. wife watches
him die, resolves the note: of tragedy

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A\| Manager of the Business Board



News Elections
The News takes. great, pleas-
ure in announcing the slection
of Ethel N. Henkleman, ’38, as

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and Mary T. Ritchie, ’39, as Sub-
scription Manager.’ The board
regretg to announce the resigna-
tion of Dewilda Naramore, ’38,.
as Subscription Manager.

Mile. Bree is Selected
‘Head of French House









Students to Spend One Semester,
Desired Quota is Ten



Plans for the French House, while
still details,
rapidly taking shape, according’ to

incomplete as_ to are
Mlle. Germaine Brée, of the French
Department, who will be in-charge of
the house next year. The experiment
will not in, any way interfere with
the junior year abroad, but will bene-
fit both students who-wish to-keep up
their French without majoring in it
and French majors who edfinot, or do
not, want to go to France.

The present plan ealls for ten stu-|
to occupy the each
semester. .So far about twelve have |
applied for admission, but Mlle. Brée

expects no difficulty in filling the
quota, as applications are still com-
ing in. The Dean’s office is. making
every effort to see that students en-
tering the French House will be able

dents house .

‘to go back to their own halls, and, if |

possible, their own rooms, at the end
of the semester. In any case they
may reserve their rooms for’ the fol-
lowing year. Though many students
feel that‘in moving they will lose touch
with. their friends in the halls, Mlle.
Brée thinks that living in a smaller
group of people with a common inter-
est in the language will- compensate
for what campus life they will miss.

The important question of rules
governing the speaking of French will
be discussed with the group chosen
before anything definite is decided.
Students will certainly speak French
during the two meals eaten at the
house, and probably .in the smoking
rooms in leisure ,hours.. Any rules
decided upon must be -strictly kept,
Mlle. Brée warned, or the experiment
will lose its value. ‘She cited a simi-
lar plan, though one attempted with a
larger group, which has worked very
successfully ‘at Bennington while defi-
nite rules were enforced.





Problem of Education is Well Preserited
By Articles in March Issue of ‘Lantern’



(Especially contributed by Miss
Katherine Koller.) :

In the March issue of The Lantern
the editors have continued their policy |
of building each issue around a cen-

tral theme.
forms the theme in this number, and
the chief articles and one short. story
present various aspécts of this. sub-
ject. We have a right to expect from
students serious, intelligent thinking
or these matters and clear, vigorous
writing. In general, we are not. dis-
‘appointed. . The ‘editorial. and the
articles by Miss Goldwasser‘ and. Miss
Coplin'-are honest and interesting
presentations of some of the aspects
of education with which the writers
are familiar. To criticise the limita-
tions of these essays would bt unfair,
- beeause the writers are making
thoughtful analyses of questions with
which they - are ieeaat Ts their
everyday’ experiences. In Criticism
and Appreciation in Education, Miss
Coplin moves from the realm of theory
to the actual problem which she sees
at Bryn Mawr and clarifies her. points
by illustrations. Miss Goldwasser’s
note to her very fine - provocative

article seems unnecessary. Good, hon-
y.ten..

SREP hs

est..criticis
essay and the ‘poem -eprinted from
the Summer School magazine, Shop
and School, are moving and present a
side of education which the writers
of the other ‘essays must consider at
some. time.



The problem of education.

A Valentine’s Day, by Miss Farrar,
rings to mind similar occasions in
every .one’s school days, which mark
/a step in growing up. The somewhat
‘wordy ‘introduction does not spoil the
story, which is significant and told
with sympathy. ~ Miss. Meigs’ char-
acter sketch is sharp and yigorous as
the subject demands, and Miss Grant
has- written somé excellent description
in the third part of Fair. The dia-
dogue. and vivid graphic description
in Two Ways of' Looking At It dee.
serve-_commendation..___Although' —she
has much to learn in character de-
lineation, Miss Tucker shows: definite
promise as a writer.

The poetry published in this issue
of The Lantern affords a study in
contrasts: two poems by: Miss Simp-
son, modern in form and idea, and one
by Miss Pope, a dramatic monologue
in a more conventional pattern. Some
bad lines in Cotton Mather are bal-
anced by some good lines, concentrated
and meaningful. Miss Simpson has.
written better poems than these two,
‘although her contrasting metres in
the second Poem are interesting. _

« On. the whole, the March issue of
The Lantern deséxves praise. The
essays are. thoughtful and well writ-

These Be ut cr
e camp The

ing argument on™

fiction is more vigorous than usual.
Let us hope the students will continue
to produce more material of this sort,
which gives indication of independent

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COLLEGE CALENDAR

Saturday, April /10.-—Sopho-
more Cotillion. Common Room,
9.30. on Sa i

Sunday, Aprit-11.—C. Emer-
son Brown, former director of
the Philadelphia Zoo, will speak,
on wild animals. Movies. Dean-
ery, 5.

Monday, April. 12.—French
Department tea, for Miss. Leet,

‘ who» will speak ion, Reid Hall,
Paris. Deanery, 5.

Lecture by Mrs. Barbara
Wootton on Standards of Living
and Social Habi®-, Goodhart,
8.20..

Tuesday, April ee, ener

Events.-Common Room, 7.30.
Wednesday, April 14.—Sem-

uel Fleisher will speak.on Play-

speak at a Summer School meet-
ing. Common Room, 8.30.

Sunday, April 18.—Program
by the Hampton Quartet. Dean-
ery, 5.

Monday, April 19.—Lecture
by Mrs. Barbara Woottoh on
The Social - Services: Their
Working and Significance. Good-
hart, 8.20.

Paul Weiss is Made —
Guggenheim Fellow









Will Begin Study of Foundations
Of Ethics on Completion
Of Present Work

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AWARD IS FOR 1937-1938





As soon as Mr. Paul Weiss, of the

Philosophy Department, has completed
his present book on systematic phi-

losophy he will begin work on a new
subject as-a Guggenheim Fellow for
the year 1937-88. The new book will
be a detailed, speculative study of the
foundations of ethics in the light of
modern logic and metaphysics, and is
a sequel developing some of the impli,
cations dealt with in Mr. Weiss’ forth-
coming book.

Ethics, Mr. Weiss believes, offer a
fundamental test for the validity- of
logical and metaphysical speculation,
illuminates the nature of man and
yields basic patterns for historical,
political and social inquiries. During
his sabbatical year he intends to
travel through the country discussing
these questions with various .pedple.
He will, however, spend most of his
time im California.

The purpose of the Foundation is
“to improve the quality of education
and practice of arts, to foster research
and provide for better understanding.”
Evidence is required “that the candi-
dates have an unusual capacity for
research demonstrated by previous
publications and _ contributions’ to
knowledge. of high merit.” -

From the 1000 applications received,
only 85 were chosen for academic
awards, and-for the second time one
of these awards has come to a Bryn
Mawr professor. Mr. Roger Wells
was the previous recipient.



Prominent Taxidermist
To Speak -on Animals



Lecturer is Author, Member of
Boston Art Club
Mr. C. Emerson Brown, former Di-

rector of the Philadelphia Zoological
Garden and at present corresponding
member of the Zoological Society of
London, will give a talk on My. Ani-
mal Friends on Sunday, April 11, at
5 o’clock in the Deanery. Mr. Brown,
besides being Director of the Phila-
delphia Zoo for eighteen years, is the,
author of several books. and maga-

zine artic gS, and is also an artist.

‘collector for the Boston ~Society— of
Natural History, he designed and pre-
pared many habitat groups for its
museum, having studied wild life in
its native habitat.

grounds. ‘Moyies. Music Room,
8.30. .

Thursday April_15.— Non=—?*
‘residents’ tea. Common Room,
4.30.

Mr.- Thomas’ Tippett will

| advantage.

‘|“There was -no- Players’



MISS SKINNER EXPLAINS
VALUE OF WORKSHOP



‘Cites Possible Use in Futire May

Day Preparations



The Memorial Workshop “will be
as valuable as anything can be in
the-
said Cornelia Otis Skinner

preparing for the commercial

”

ater, as

she calmly administered grease: paint
to her face a few. minutes before her
performance of The Loves of Charles
II, “This sort of thing has. been done
very successfully, by Dr. Baker at
Yale,” and an advantage of having a
workshop on the campus is that it
will be even more stimulatingif-sed
+m -eonjunction with such courses as
play writing and stage production.

When asked if the workshop could
be used to prepare for Big May Day,
she answered definitely that it could.
‘“‘When I was here,” she said, “we. got
ready for May Day practically in our
own rooms.” The integration in such
a projeet would undoubtedly be ‘an
In Big May Day she
played the part of Sacrapante in The
Old. Wives’ Tale, a part which has
continued to be of great importance in
every May Day.

Miss Skinner was an undergradu-
ate at Bryn Mawr for tworyears, 1919
and 1920, when she lived in. Merion
Hall in a suite of rooms now unro-
mantically turned into study rooms
and the maids’ sitting. room.

She was interested and astounded.

when -she learned Players’ Club gave
a play with Haverford this y@ar and
last year. It seems when she was here
no men eyen appeared in the audience.
Club then.
We had class dramaties, and-in my
freshman year’I played aks part of a
man of ninety.”



A. S. U. Will Support
Enlarged Court Plan



Lash Announces Plan for Rally
In Colleges, April 13



(From a publicity release ‘of the
A.-S;_U)

‘A nationwide rally, occurring simul-
taneously in one hundred and fifty col-
leges at noon on April 138, will sup-
port’ the President’s move to enlarge
the Supreme Court to “lift the judicial
blockade on human rights,” Joseph P.
Lash, executive secretary of the Amer-
ican Student Union, said yesterday. .

Decrying the attempts. of “a hand-
ful of students” to create the \impres-
sion that the campus’is opposed to
liberal. action of the Supreme Court,
Mr. Lash disclosed that an emerg-
ency meeting of the Union’s Executive
Committee concluded the segsion yes-
terday (Monday), at the Union’s
office, 112 East 19th street.

Sentiment for such a> demonstra-
tion is widespread, according to the
committee members who journeyed
from all parts of the country to dis-
cuss the Union’s stand.’ They ex-
pressed the belief that “the ’ over-
whelming majority of. students favor
the President’s proposal, and will also
support attempts to obtain more far-
reaching ~ legislation through an
amendment giving Congress the power
‘to pass social legislation.

One ‘hundred thousand: copies of a

+-eall supporting the rally are being

printed. immediately, Mr. Lash said.

Declaring that “our generation is
menaced by the judicial dictatorship,”
the call declares that we “support the
quest for liberalization of the Su-
preme Court and for ultimately curb-
ing its power.”

The American Student Union has
chapterg in about one hundred and
fifty American colleges with a mem-
bership of more than twenty thou-
sand. It was formed in - December,
1935.

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Summer School Drive
The drive for, funds to help

cia pages Bryn Mawr Sum: ”
“ther School for Women Workers
~~ in Industiy will begin next week.
~~~$1500 is the goal.
' ‘Every possible contribution is

needed. Please be ready to help! ©







English Dapulaen
_ Faces Extinction;

Says Mrs. Wootton



Efforts to Reward Parenthood
Have Had Singular Failure
‘On Continent



ENGLAND. IS BECOMING
WHITE-COLLAR NATION



Goodhart Hall, April 5.—In her dis-

cussion of the basie conditions and

trends of contemporary England, Mrs.
Barbara Wootton reférred to herself
as ay uncle, representing an old in-
dustrial civilization, talking to
young American nieces and nephews,
who are the products of a newer: civili-
zation. Mrs. Wootton cited three. ma-
jor points: first, the prospect ofan
alarming decline in English popula-
tion; second, the growth of a néw
white-collar class, and*with. it the de-
cay of agriculture; and third, the in-

nomic system offers for ability.
‘England is making for its own ex-
tinction. Its population is just about
to reach..its..maximum, but it will
begin to move downward probably in
the middle forties, in the event of a
continuation’ of the state of peace.
One can say conservatively that one
hundred years from now, with the
same rates of birth and death, the.
population of England and Wales will
be one-half its present size. The de-
crease is due to a decline in the birth-

‘rate, and it has been made less rapid

only through the prolongation of life
by improvements in sanitation.
There are two explanations given
for this decline, two which, character-
istically enough, contradict each other.
The first is that life is so good that |
peo have no time.to devote them-~

undertake. the..responsibilities of “par-
enthood. The second is that life is so
disagreeable that we do not want to
impose the kind of hardships we have
experienced on, sons and daughters,
On the continent of Europe, the efforts
which have been made by the govern-
ment to reward parenthood have had
singular failure; so there is no rea-
son to expect similar efforts to be suc-
cessful in England. The forces mak-
ing for reduction in population: with-
stand “small pecuniary inducements.”

The outlook is not, however, en-
tirely gloomy. . England is the rich-
est empire in the world, but she can-
not afford to educate her children.
With a smaller population, education
can be more extensive, and there will
no longer be an -excuse for the size
of school classes remaining on its pres-
ent scale.

Unfortunately, England has been
living on “middle-aged fat’ since the
depression. Its. complacency and in-
ability to initiate new experiments is
associated with the elderly nature of
its population and rulers. It has a
Peter Pan government where the mis-
takes of the middle aged are put down
to youthful indiscretion.

The growth of the new white-collar
class was Mrs. Wootton’s second point. ,
There are three types of industries in
England: primary industries, which
concern land and its preducts;—sec-
ondary ones, or staple manufactures;
and tertiary—services, or “taking in
one another’s washing.” Most of us
live by the third, which includes pro-
fessional business, sport; entertaining

forth. Forty-five per cent of the
population lives by services and not
bY industrial activity. The staple in-
dustries of England are rio longer

the production of luxuries and frivoli-
ties.

The decay of agriculture, really the
supreme achievement of civilization,
is«partly the result of the growth of
the white-collar class. The English
people are paying taxes to keep agri-
eultures<°°5 2S of@ipbious
merit, tiga the event of a war
three-fourths of England will starve

or not.’ But there are several im-
portant results -of the appearance of



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The Shaw Lectures

If one doesn’t know anything at all about the fundamentals of*a
subject, such as economies or sociology, there is always some virtue in
attacking its problems directly, and valuable knowledge can be gained
-by seizing whatever opportunity presents itself to hear current statistics
and opinions. That is the most important reason, in our opinion, wliy
this series of Anna Howard Shaw lectures by Mrs. Barbara Wootton
should be popular.

Mrs. Wootton’s reputation is well known to the’economies students
who have read Plan Or No Plan, and most of them were members of her
audience Monday. The group of undergraduates who went to the
discussion afterwards found it brief and stimulating. The lectures
began with an explanation_of the statistical and fa¢fual background of
the modern English economic system, and later will deal with more
theoretical material, culminating in a discussion. ofythe ‘English social
and econoinic scene of the future. Now, when every undergraduate
professes to be mentally agitated on questions of peace, politics and
economi¢e necessity, the subjects of this series should be of erying
interest.

Another reason why this series of lectures should interest Bryn
Mawr undergraduates is the very meaning of the Foundation. It is a
memorial to Anna Howard Shaw, who died in 1919, an earnest advocate
of women’s edueation, women’s vote, andthe international peace.

Therefore the lecturer is preferably a woman, and, like Mrs. Woot-
ton eminent in the field of social science or politics. Thus the Founda-
tion is not only appropriate: to the memory of Dr. Shaw, but also
designed to extend and carry on the sort of educational and practical
opportunity she found at Bryn Mawr, so that our graduates may be, as
she hoped they are, fitting inheritors of the right of women to legislate
and have a voice in the affairs of the world,

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‘Theater Workshop Plans
As the Mrs, Otis Skinner Theater Workshop begins to materialize,

we may take time to consider its ultimate value to the students who
intend to take advantage of it. In order to do this we must first explain
the limitations of the workshop. It is not an actual theater, but a
laboratory purely for experimentation. There will probably be no
chairs for an audience, and the stage will be anything but elaborate.
Heavy velvet curtains will be noticeably absent and in their place will
be a plain curtain, easy to pull and easy to replace when too badly
damaged.

The value of such a ‘project on the campus is immeasurable. Those
interested in going into the commercial theater later on may learn from
their own experience the fundamentals of the theater. Here in the
workshop new lighting schemes and-serious studies of the effect of color
on the stage can be worked out. {People interested. in costuming, in

scenery and the technical aspects of stage production can investigatef

- their own interests as‘well as absorb new. ones. It is in such labora-
tories as this that thé theater has developed in recent years. Without
individual investigation and experimentation with new ideas, the thea-
ter would be 4 Static institution. :

The added-space and-the new interest in the workshop should give
free rein to many who have never bothered to spend time backstage in
Goodhart because of its’cramped quarters.. There must be many stu-
dentgwho haven’t the time to work on the actual production of a play,
who would like to spend an hour or so a week trying a tittle painting or
construction work for their own satisfaction. Thus, to those who take
stage production less seriously, but have an urge to know more about
it, the workshop should be a a of enjoy ment.

TOT-LOTS & PLAYGROUNDS

On Wednesday, April 14, at 8.30
p.. m., Mr. Samuel Fleisher, who is
Vice-President of the Philadelphia|~
_ Playground and. Recreation Associa-
_ tion, will talk on Social Adventures in
Philadelphia in the Music Room of



just big enough — tots to crawl
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»- Archaeologist to Speak
Dr. Zancani-Montuoro will speak at

at 8.30 p, m. about her. excavations at
geum in Lucania. Thete in-







|the conditions and _ difficulties
‘volved in a general theory of becom-

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the Deanery on Wednesday evening

PUBLIC OPINION |





(The News has received the following
letter from a reader who has no
longer any active connection with
the college, and who prefers to re-
main incognito to the general pub-
lic. Therefore we print the initials
only, although the letter is not
anonymous.—Ed.)

To the Editor,

College News,

Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Dear Madam,

We were devastated to read in the

March 17 College News that the
D’Oyly Carte stage sets are to be
copied for the Glee Club production
of The Mikado. We must now write
that “letter to the News” that never
got written during. our undergradu-
ate days!
, Looking back on. ihe: stage sets de-
signed and built by undergraduates
for the various Goodhart productions,
it seems a pity to set such a precedent.
How much creative genius was put
into the many sets that graced Good-
hart in our not tod distant day—and
how much fun at least for the de-
signers,—-even when actual genius
was lacking! Will the French Club
now proceed to copy the sets of the
Comedie Francaise? And _ will the
Dramatic Club see fit to ¢opy—or
rent!—a Broadway stage set if it
happens that their play had also been
having a New York run? Is the day
gone when two days before a perform-
ance the amateur genius in charge of
sets decides thaf¥rose is all wrong for
that boudoir, and the whole must be
repainted in a pale blue?

We also have ,unbounded admira-
tion for the brilliant sets of the
D’Oyly Carte Company, but feel that
college is college, over all too soon,
and that the opportunity for experi-
menting and creating should not thus
be destroyed.

Sincerely, -
A. V.D:



NEW UNDERGRAD. HEAD
HAS WIDE INTERESTS



Julia Grant, newly-elected presi-
dent of the Undergraduate Associa-
tion, was born in New York City in
1916. After a try at cosmopolitan-
ism, which included, San Francisco,
Delaware and Washington, she is
back where she started from and is
now a native New Yorker.

In both school and college she has
been active extracurricularly. She
was class. president all the time she
was at Shipley School where she pre-
pared for college, and again in her
freshman year at Bryn Mawr. Be-
sides this, she was on the Executive
Board of Self-Government her sopho-
more year and is secretary ‘of the
association this year. She is also on
the Planning and Common Room
Committees at present. Athletically,
she shines in fencing and was captain
of the fencing team during 1935-36.

She has always liked dramatics, in
fact the theatre is her favorite hobby,
although “anglicanism” .(she has a
weakness for England), if you could
call that a hobby, runs a close second.
She was in the Dramatic Club at
Shipley and has been in the Players
Club since her freshman year,



BECOMING CONDITIONS
TIME SAYS H. FISHER



Common Room, March 23.—Some
Conditions. and Consequences of .a
General Doctrine of ‘Becoming, a paper
read before the Philosophy Club by
Miss Helen Fisher, ’37, according to
its author, is “an exercise in ‘curi-
osity” rather than a definite proof of
a thesis. The paper, based chiefly on
the works of Aristotle with reference
to modern theories, treated some of
in-

ing, and progressed on the assump-
tion: that becoming is in some. sense

{fundamental to any imetaphysics.

In contrast to Miss Leigh Stein-
paper on Time, previously
read before the Philosophy Club, Miss
Fisher contends that time is condi-
tioned by becoming, although she ad-
mits that actually the problem is that

all change. The very term “becom-




















ALGAE

Ne

The Personal Peregrinations of Al-|

gernon Swinburne. Stapleton-Smith,

or Lost in a. London Fog.

Soon after-his encounter with the
glamourous Egyptian princess, Ina
Rockpruff, Algae’s acquaintance, Boris
J. Besstead, Jr., arranged a meeting
with her for them through his con-
nections at the Foreign Office. A
flourishing friendship. sprung up al-
most at once, but after a few days
Besstead received a mysterious and
peremptory command from: the -office
to break off every rel ship with
her. Algae could not honestly admit

to Kfmself that he was sorry for this

withdrawal from the-field of his com-
petitors. In fact he was a little an-
noyed with Besstead, who kept hinting
that Algae himself had better ‘break
with Ina or dire things would happen.
After ‘a certain amount of considera-
tion, Algae put it all, down to sour
grapes, especially because Ina had
shown a marked increase of regard
for him since Besstead’s removal.
Moreover, although Ina was admit-
tedly concerned in political activities,
she made absolutely no . suspicious
moves, and never discussed her busi-
ness with Algae.

One of .the first things Algae tried
to do was to return the Egyptian
scarab which he had picked up when
Ina dropped it in the street, and which
was the instrument of their meeting.
Several times Ina merely laughed
silently and told him to keep it as a
memento. But suddenly one day she
asked him to give it to a friend of
hers who would meet him at the Tower
of London at midnight.

Algae arrived promptly at the east
corner of the Tower at eleven fifty-
nine. He waited for a few seconds
till a tall shadow detached itself from
the blackness of the wall and silently
gave the password: “Tovarisch.”

“Tovarisch,” breathed the chap in
a husky voice, and Algae slipped the
scarab into his pocket.

Immédiately he felt his shoulder
gripped heavily, the other fellow was
covered by a gunman, and a resonant
voice spoke out:

“Algernon Swinburne — Stapleton-
Smith, I arrest you on the charge of
treason in the name of His Majesty,
George, of Great Britain, Ireland and
the British Dominions Beyond the
Seas, King, Defender of the Faith,
Emperor of India.”

It was Besstead!



NEW HEAD OF LEAGUE
LIKES ART, DANCING



Mary Whalen, ’38, the new presi-
dent of the Bryn Mawr League, has
taken part in such activities ever
since she attended the Convent. School
of the Sacred Heart in New York
City, where she spent ten years be-
fore coming. to Bryn Mawr. While
there she was president of the. Jeanne
d’Are Mission Unit, and served on the
Self-Government Board and _ was
twice president of her class, in her
sophomore and again in her senior
years. In college she has always been
an interested member of the Bryn
Mawr League, acting as the assistant
chairman of. the Blind School, and
serving as secretary and treasurer of
the League this year. She is also
planning to attend the ‘Bryn Mawr
Summer Camp for at least part of
the session, in order “to learn more
about |its—work.

Aside from such activities, Mary's
chief interests are tennis, horseback-
riding, history of art: and dancing.
This year she was.elected..the presi-
dent of the Dancers’ Club of Bryn
Mawr, but has just resigned the office
in order to take over: her new execu-
tive duties. She also serves on the
Vocational Committee and is the Hall
President of Rockefeller.

She is majoring in history, and is
considering whether or not she will
teach it after she leaves college.



ANCIENTS ALSO PESSIMISTS

Syracuse, N. Y.—Sermons of to-
day’s “gloomsters,” who view the
world ‘with alarm,” are much like
those preached scores of centuries
ago. So said Dr. Frederick C. Perry,
president of Hamilton College, on the
basis of writings taken from an As-

‘}of “the chicken or the egg.” Coming] syrier:~<_—‘ytyintéd 2800°B. Co The}
ioe being, she stated, is the basis of] earth is degenerating in these latter:

be sl reads the ancient stone slab.
“The. children. -no- obey their

LApril 9.

In Philadelphia



va Movies
Aldine: History Is Made at Night,
with. Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur.

Arcadia: Romeo and Juliet, with
Norma.Shearer and Leslie Howard.

Boyd: Maytime, an operetta, with
Nelson Eddy and Jeannette MacDon-
ald.

Chestnut: Lost Horizon, with Ron-
ald Colman.

Earle: Girl Overboard, with Gloria
Stuart and Walter Pidgeon.

Europa: Lucrezia Borgia, played by
members of the Comedie Francaise.

Fox: Seventh. Heaven, with Simone
Simon and James Stewart.

Karlton: Sinners Take All, with
Bruce Cabot and Margeret. Lindsay.

Keith’s: The King and the Chorus
Girl, with Fernand Gravet and Joan
Blondell.

Locust: The Good Earth, from
Pearl Buck’s novel, with Paul Muni °
and Luise Rainer.

Stanley: Waikiki Wedding,
Bing Crosby and Bob Burns.

Stanton: Men in Exile, with June
Travis and Dick Purcell.

Theater :
Hedgerow: Thursday, Wife to,a
Famous Man and Autumn Fires; Fri-
day, The Plough and-the Stars; Sat-
urday, Heartbreak House.

Concert
- Lecture-recital; Mme. Olga Sama-
roff Stokowski and Marian Anderson,
contralto; auspices. of the Philadelphia
Forum, 8.30.

Local Movies

Seville: Wednesday, ‘That Girl
From Paris, with Lily Pons; Thurs-.
day,\Without Orders, with Sally Eil-
ers; Friday, Saturday, Sunday and
Monday) Lloyds. of London, with Ty-
rone Power and Freddie Bartholo-
mew; Tuesday and. Wednesday, The
Plough and the Stars, with Barbara
Stanwyck; Thursday and Friday,
Champagne Waltz, with Fred -Mac-
Murray.

Wayne:* Wednesday, More Than .a
Secretary, with Jean Arthur and
George Brent; Thursday and Friday,
My Man Godfrey, with William
Powell; Saturday, The Holy Terror,
with Jane Withers; Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday, Champagne Waltz, with
Fred MacMurray; Wednesday, Man
of the People, with Florence Rice.

Ardmore: Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Devil’s Playground; with Rich-

with

-jard Dix; Friday, We Who Are About

to Die, with Preston Foster; Saturday,
Dangerous Number, with Ann Soth-
ern; Sunday, Monday and Tuesday,
Green Light, with Errol Flynn;
Wednesday, The Last of Mrs. Cheney,



FACULTY AT LARGE







“Mr. Carpenter, of the Department
of Archaeotogy, will speak. at ‘the
University Club before a meeting of
the Philadelphia Classical Society on
His subject will be The
Value -of Archaeology to the Student
of the Classics.

Mr. Weiss, of the Department of
Philosophy, read a paper at the Full-
erton Club, entitled The Origin and
Nature of Philosophy. A review, writ-
ten by M. Weiss, of the Richard Flex-
ner Gectures is in the April 7 issue
of the New Republic. .

Mr. Helson, of the Department of
Psychology, attended a meeting of the
eastern branch of the American Psy-
chological Association at Vassar Col-
lege. .
Mrs. Fréak, of Xi Department. of
French, having received a grant-in-
aid of publication from the American
Council of Learned Societies, is about
to publish a’book called Proverbes en
rimes : test and. illustrations from a
Fr ench manuscript in the’ Walters
Art Gallery, Baltimore, in collabora-
tion with Miss Dorothy Miner.

Mr. Gillet, of the Department of
Spanish, published an unknown play

the fifteenth century, Fars Hecht
por Alonso de Salaya, in the Publi--
cation of the Modern Language As-
sociation of America. Last month

Mr. Gillet attended a meeting of the
Modern Language Association i in New
York. ;



Engager nis ROP

The followike engagements
- have been announced:



ents, Every man wants to write

e|a book, ard it is evident that the end]
‘of the world is — approaching.”

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~~Miss Sylvia Evans, ’37, to Mr.
Joseph Taylor.

Miss Lois Morean, ’37, to Mr.
' Richard Van Reed Lyman,










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- play; the establishment of a central

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Page Three





Tom Tippett to Discuss
* -~Industrial Problems



Proletarian Author Will: Speak for
The Summer School



(Especially contributed by Elizabeth
Lyle, ’37.)

‘Mr. Tom Tippett, author of Horse-
shoe Bottoms and When Southern
Labor Stirs, and one of the foremost
writers of literature dealing with in-
dustrial problems, ‘will speak in the
Common Room on Thursday, April 15,
at 8 o’clock. The lecture will be
given under the auspices of the Under-
graduate Committee of the Bryn
Mawr Summer School. Besides being
an author of proletarian, books, Mr.
Tippett has had long industrial ex-
perience himself. An Illinois. coal
miner originally, he has been an or-
ganizer for the Amalgamated Cloth-
ing Workers of America and for the
United Textile Workers. At present
he is engaged in research work, and,
he has twice held a Guggenheim Fel-

All those who are interested in the
Summer School are urged to come and
hear of the latger issues and move-
ments to which the school is related.
Those who are not interested in the
school still should come to have their
enthusiasm roused and to hear a
charming speaker.



NATIONAL COMMITTEE
AIDS COLLEGE DRAMA



(From a press release of the WPA
Federal Theater Project.)

New York City, April 7.—A cam-

paign to stimulate a greater interest |-

in the theater among the undergradu-
ates of America was launched yester-
day with the formation of a National
Collegiate Advisory Committee to the
WPA Federal Theater Project, ac-
cording to an announcement by Wil-
liam. W. Hinckley, chairman of the
American Youth Congress.

Plans outlined by the committee,
which was formed to assist and advise
the WPA Federal Theater in bringing
the theater to the campus, include the
immediate initiation of a national
contest for an_ original. full-length

college play bureau with the Federal
Theater’s Play Bureau to serve as
coordinating service for college dra-
matic societies and youth drama or-
ganizations, and the sponsorship of
Federal Theater productions in col-
lege theaters, fraternity, settlement
and community. houses.



MRS. GILBRETH TO RETURN

April 6.—Miss Manning announced
this morning that Mrs. Gilbreth will
be at the college for interviews with
students next week on Monday, Tues-
day and Wednesday. Appointments
for interviews will be posted on the
Dean’s bulletin board.

The books on vocational subjects to
which Mrs. Gilbreth has been refer-
ring will be placed on a shelf in the
New Book Room and maybe examined
there, but may not be removed.

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OTIS SKINNER FAVORS
_NEW THEATER PLANS



The theater workshop as-established
by Dr. George Baker at Yale and to
be copied by Bryn Mawr “is the only
way for the theater. to develop,” said
Mr. Otis Skinner in a short interview
the afternoon before his daughter’s
performance for the benefit of the
Mrs. Otis Skinner Theater Workshop.
In such activities may be found the
“real beginning and experience of the
theater.”

“There is no question that this will
be an outlet for individual students
who are interested in the commercial
theater,” he continued. The theater
as seen-by the public is a commercial
institution. It has become even more
so since Mr. Skinner first became in-

and the type of work-

the only way to further the growth



of such an institution. In this way

CHANGES IN MIKADO CAST

The following changes have been

‘|made in the cast of The Mikado:

Terry Ferrer, ’40, will play Koko, and
Ruth Stoddard, ’39, has’ been “chosen

for Pish Tush. The _ understudies
which have beenpieked are: Mar-
garet Bell, ’39, the Mikado; Betty

Anne Stainton, 787, Pooh Bah; Mary
Moon, ’39; Pish Tush; and Doris “Rus-
sell, ’38, general understudy for the
Three Little Maids. Other under-
studies will be chosen later.



different groups may ‘devote their
activities. toward one ‘end—the de-
velopment of expression.” The best
way to learn how to express an idea
on the stage is to play around with
the equipment and see what happens.

As a headquarters for May Day
preparation, the Workshop should be
a very ‘good thing. It would’ serve
to unify the various activities and
keep them under one roof

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News Music Correspondent
The College News takes pleas-
ure in announcing the election
of Patricia Ravn Robinson, ’39,
as music correspondent.

Cornelia Skinner Exhibits
Mastery Over Diseuse Art









Gontinued from Page One

hinted at in the*opening scene in
which Charles and his mother are“ex-
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curve of his life which Miss Skinner
has graphed through each portrayal.

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Tolerance, bred of under-
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doctors, lecturers, scientists, etc. Of those who

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was on stage talking almost continu-
ously. The strain made itimperative that
I safeguard my throat and voice. After
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CURRENT EVENTS



(Gleaned from Dr. Fenwick)
Last‘ week the Supreme. Court re- |
versed the njneteen-year-old precedent
of the Adkins case and declared the
Washington State
Law’, constitutional. The . opinion,
written by Hughes, was almost identi-
‘eal. with his minority opinion in the
former case, This decision, important
in itself, may have considerable effect
on the” President’s Supreme Court
plan. Antagonists of the plan say
that the court’s reversal proves that
the bench can keep in step with the
times. The Presidené’s supporters
state that the Court has_ simply
changed its mind about the advisabil-
ity of the law, and legal decisions
based on advisability are exactly what
the President and his followers de-
plore.

The Court has frequently waid that
it has been forced to invalidate badly
*- drawn, loose laws, such as the. Fra-
zier-Lemke Mortgage Moratorium Act.
Congress went over this law, correct-
ing its mistakes, and the new act. was
declaréd constitutional last weck.

The Sit-DoWn Strikes look more
hopeful this week as the Chrysler and
Ford plants near ~ settlement. ©The
most serious strike problem at pres-
ent is the obvious faet that the C: I. O.
has been unable to control its own
_ men in ‘tt€ epiderhic of sit-downs.
' But .as public opinion is growing
against them it is unlikely that the
outburst will continue for long.

Minimum acl

‘ Elections

Denbigh and Merion have
elected the following as Hall
Presidents:

Merion: Anne Wyld, ’38.
‘Denbigh: Virginia Hessing,
38.







Mrs. Wootton Foresees
Decline in Population



“ Continued from-Page One

In. the first place,
there’ is an inverted snobbishness
about. the white-collar occupations.
We lament the rise of an unproductive
class, though we might find ourselves
starving if it did not exist: In addi-
tion there are more openings in gain-~
ful occupations for women. Modern
occupations are within the capabili-
ties of women and their wages are
lower than those for men. Moreover,
the class structure of society has been
modified. England is class-ruled; the
economically fortunate classes do not

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(though not socially) contc‘ous.
Mrs.g,.Wootton’s third major point.
was the inadequate outlet which the
English economic system offers for
ability. The edveational system taps
few of the potentialities. Only about
seven per cent of the children -who go
to prifmary schools go on to secondary:



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