College news, December 15, 1937

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Miss Park Suggests .

munity problem in giving plays

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BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1937

Copyright TRUSTEES OF
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, 1937

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PRICE 10: CENTS





Giving More Plays

At Lower: Prices

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Says Way to Arouse Interest
Is to Give Many a Chance
To. See and Act



ADVOCATES STARTING
FUND TO LOWER COSTS



Music Room, December 9.—MAss
Park stated that the main small com-

to interest a large enough | numbey’ of
people in dramatic pro
any play wholeheartedly and yet in-
telligently. “Acting can never carry
the interest of the whole group when
it is confined to a small number,’ she
believes. As a solution: to this problem
at Bryn Mawr, lower admission rates
and frequent experimental productions
were suggested.

At present, the movies and plays
in Philadelphia and in New York
seriously rival campus performances,
but if some fund could be. established
so that admission here would be lower
or even free, far more people would
attend. Also, more individuals would
become interested if they had a chance
to see and take part in many different
kinds of fairly informal productions,
such as Shakespeare in modern dress,
and pantomime, episode, and skeletal
plot. experiments.

When only .a few plays are given
yearly by one small group in the’ col-
lege, it is almost impossible to find a
play satisfying to both the audience
and the actors. The latter want a
chance for semi-independent acting in
a-modern .style, but this does not
usually answer the demand of the
spectators, who come chiefly out of
personal interest and want to see a
production which is at least good of

its kind,

The “Broadway type” of play, said
Miss Park, very naturally appeals to
college actors, but it needs men, and
the audience is apt to be hypercrit-
ical because the play is associated in
their miagtds with some -particularly
great performance. On the other
hand, the “academic play,” usually
costumed and of:a definite period, can
be given quite successfully by a cast
of women, and a finished production
attained, due mainly to strict direct-
ing by an experienced coach. The
actors inevitably are not satisfied with
this type of play.

Bryn Mawyr’s best productions of
either type have been done in com-
bination with mens’ colleges, but this
has not really solved the problem of

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‘|Council Approves Plan

For

Theatre Workshop, New Hall
Furniture Discussed

Record Library





The: President’s House, Tuesday,
December 7.—The Mrs. Otis Skinner
Theater .Workshop and a_ proposed
college record library were .the* two

main topies of discussion at the De-|

cember College Council meeting. The
meeting was shorter than usual and
the business \ was carried on around
the dining room table during din-
ner.

Laura Beiatinol 39, vice-president
of the Junior Class, read the min-
utes of the last meeting, when the
Council considered the suggestion of
establishing a circulating library of
records. Miss Charlotte Howe had
written to Radcliffe to ask about the
administrative details of their very
successful library; she reported that
Radcliffe’s records were acquired by a
gift of money, and are used in co-
operation with their music depart-
ment. A small reptal fee takes care
of the maintenance of the . library.
As the present collection of the Mu-
sic Department is for demonstration
purposes and would not be available
to the proposed library, the Council
suggested that some of the funds of
the Bryn Mawr Music Department
might be ‘used to establish such a

library here, and everyone felt it
would be very popular.
Mrs. Chadwick-Collins reported

that the New York committee for the
Mrs. Otis Skinner Theater Workshop
fund has been organized, and that
3,000 of the necessary 22,000 dollars
has been raised, mostly through the
efforts of the friends of Mrs. Skin-
ner. The enthusiasm among the stu-
dents at Bryn Mawr has not been
great so far, and as this is an extra-
curricular, non-academic project, most
of the Council agreed that the un-
dergraduates. should cooperate active-
ly in the drive. Mrs. Collins showed
the members of the Council a folder
with pictures of the completed plans,
which provide fora well-equipped lit-
tle theater and lofty studios on the
second floor.

Miss ‘Bowe and Julia Grant, ’38,
reported on a meeting of the com--
mittee on furnishings for the new
dormitory. The committee is com-
posed of representatives from the
Alumnae, Faculty, and Undergradu-
ates. The two student delegates will
primarily be interested in the-furni-
ture for the bedrooms and _ suites.
They are Sarah Meigs, ’39, and Julia
Grant. Miss Howe asked the Coun-
cil’s opinion about the possibility of
choosing modern furniture for the bed-

Continued on Page Four



Skit at Deanery Party Reveals Chaos.
Brought to Bryn Mawr by Three Marxes



Harpo Delivers Silent Flexner,

~Lecture; Stapleton Writes
‘And Directs Skit



titude test, and her comprehensive
body-mechanics, all with a mark of
108.” The eventual salvation of Theo-
dora was easily foreseen, but not so
her appearance. Despite the peasant

D a 2 crac dae ae ei dress and figured handkerchief, Miss
which would ensue should the Marx , Park was distinctly recognizable, and

brothers ever’ visit Bryn Mawr was'

which climaxed the Deanery party’s
varied program. The plot of The
Marxo Lectures or Mrs. Swinburne
Comes to Town centered about the

-cansequences of such a visit, as con-
- egived by Miss K. Laurence Staple-
ton, and acted by 16 faculty members.

That Dr. Leslie Hotson, who, in the!
words of Roger Wells, “combines



ae was greeted.with howls ,of, delight,
riotously "apparent in the faculty’ skit 5 Nor did the audience anticipate . the

| burst of song with which she cele-

brated “her Tegeneration:

“Who wants an I. Q.?

An eyeful will do.” ‘

Eloquent, despite the confines of
pantomime, Harpo (Miss_ Bettina
Linn) replaced Groucho as the Flex-
‘ner lecturer. His first gesture, as
jhe seized the pointer and struck an

sound Shakespearean qualities with| en garde attitude, had to be inter-

_.the_aniics of Ed. Wynn,” is wasting:

his talent upon the male population of
Haverford was evident from his ar-
dent pursuit of Mrs. Swinburne. (Mrs.
Chadwick-Collins). As Groucho, he

_effectively manipulated eyes, musteche.

——~ and° a“, + Pema

Mrs. Chadwick-Collins gave her au-
dience -an entirely new slant on the}

possible meaning of the familiar].

“mistress and mother” (All ‘hail Bryn
Mawr)!" She introduced herself, how-

‘ever, as a Bronxville—not Bryn Mawr

—mother, here to save her unfortu-

¥ nate daughter, Theodora, who had

passed “her intelligence: test. her at-

preted to the audience by Chico (M.
Jean Guiton), who hissed, “No, this
isn’t Hamlet. That’s_a different lec-
ture.” But thereafter Harpo held his
audience spell-bound as he scattered

sonlomeanagenest notes-on the floor,
pressed thé buzzer again and again,

and consumed an unbelievable amount
‘of water.

When the faculty impersonated
students, and Groucho announced to
Augusta Arnold (Miss: Josephine
metzphysics when 2 goose: hao
high,” they were applaud:



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Peace Council Hears
Boycott “Discussion

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D. Naramore Predicts
On Japanese, Mr. Rogin
That_on Hosiery. Workers



FENWICK LACKS PLAN,
STAPLETON OPPOSED



Common Room, December 13.—The
Peace Council presented four speak-
ers, each giving a different aspect of
the proposed boycott on Japanese ex-
ports. Dewilda Naramore, ’38, the

would have on Japan’s trade. and mili-
tary strength. She was followed by

the American Federation of. Hosiery
Workers, who discussed the repercus-
sions of such a boycott: (which would
be aimed primarily at raw silk ex-
ports) on American hosiery workers
and the southern share-croppers,¥

Mr. Charles Fenwick. supported the
move as necessary to lessen the pos-
sibility of future wars. He felt that
such restraint now would make other
nations unwilling to become aggress-
ors. The last speaker, Miss K. Lau-
rence Stapleton, opposed the boycott
because she feared that the Japanese
would be unable to understand our
reasons for taking this punitive action
and that it would only increase na-
tionalistic bitterness.

A boycott, Dewilda Naramore point-
ed out, would not be effective with-
out an embargo. The latter, however,
would be unusually successful against
Japan for two reasons: Nearly all her
trade is with the United States and
England, and she has no natural re-
sources except sulphur and raw silk.
All the cotton and rayon raw ma-
terials, imported for American manu-
facture, is again exported as piece
goods so that Japan is dependent on
foreign trade.

Japan has already tried to open
markets in South America, but these
countries have prohibitive tariffs, and,
moreover, offer in return, goods. that
she does not want, such as coffee and
grain. For war materials, among
other supplies, she must have our
|. wool, manganese, oil, salt, and cotton.

However, a boycott would be too
slow to control the present situation.
Japan has stored up enough materials
to hold out for six or nine months.
The only solution would be to com-
bine an embargo with the boycott.
If she were cut off from buying as
well as selling, we would not have
to wait for the international ex-
change mechanism to make the lack
felt.

Mr. Rogin compared the position of
the hosiery workers to that of guinea
pigs. Silk is by far our most~im-}

portant import from Japan, and
though we’ get a little from Italy and
China, more than 90 per. cent is Jap-
anese. Full-fashioned stockings are
made entirely from silk, although less
attractive lisle and more expensive
wool stockings are available.

The alternative would be to begin
making stockings of. lisle, wool being
out of the average buyer’s reach. For-
ty-five per cent of existing a
could, be--used ,for i eal ,manufacture,
leaving 55,000 ‘workers unemployed,
while those 45,000 who would continue
to work would have their salaries cut

er process than silk weaving.
The boycott, if effective, would , be
an unnecessary loss for sharecroppers,

anese cotton market, as well as for
the hosiery workers. A boycott on
Japanese-made toys, he believed, would
Hbe more effective and less -harmful-to
American industry.

We certainly cannot feel today, Mr.
Continued on» Page Three ‘

Ballot t on Bayre"
The Peace Council is ‘cia
a ballot to obtain the opinion
of the students on a Japanese





Fisher), “we won’t need pluralis* te! :

boycott. The ballots will be
_.placed on the doors, and all stu-
‘| dents are requested to fill them

- out so that a complete count can
be made.





Effect |

first speaker, explained the effect this|

Mr. Rogin, Educational: Director of |

because liste weaving is a much slow-

who would be cut off from the Jap-

of technique.
i with a palette knife and much
red, showed the harbor at Province-





COLLEGE CALENDAR _
Thursday, December 16.—
Christmas parties in the halls.
Friday, December 17.—Begin-
Saturday, December 25.—
Merry Christmas!
Saturday, January 1.—Happy
New Year!
Monday, January 3.—Christ-
mas vacation ends.







Unionization Discussed

At Industrial Supper



Workers Describe Organization
In Their Various Fields



Common Room, Doveaiber 8.—The
questions Why a Union? and Why Are |
They Needed? formed the basis for a
panel discussion at the Industrial
Group supper. Owing to the illness
of Martha Van Hoesen, ’39,; Agnes |
Hunter, of the Germantown Y. M. C.
A., was chairman of the meeting.

Practically every branch of. labor
was represented among the 35 guests
of the group. Several were. alumnae
of the Bryn Mawr Summer School;
ethe majority were union members, and |
alt were in favor of organization. |
. The first and most eloquent speaker
was an alumna of the Summer
School who has been in industry for
30 years. ‘She described the long
hours and small pay in an unorgan-
ized hosiery mill; the exploitation. of
new mill hands and the injustice of
firing old workers because of age.
Then she pointed out the remedying
of these ills by unionization. A laun-
dry worker told of the organization
of her shop,. stating the workers had
not been helped much despite the
union. The low wages and frequent
lay-offs were cited as examples of ex-
istent difficulties. However, as organ-
ization of laundries was only begun
last August, time is still needed to
correct the many faults still prevalent
throughout the city. .

The pros and cons of a company
union were vigorously .discussed by
the group. fhe reasons back of the
recent Philco’ lay-off of five thousand
men and women were explained by
two girls who have just lost jobs with
that plant; while the racial angle of
unionization was presented and dis-
cussed by Marion Anderson, one of
the negro members of the German-
town group. ;

Every one of the girls, although
recognizing the failings and’ shortcom-
ings of the unions, displayed a great
sense of loyalty to the union ideal.
They feel there is some sort of pro-
tection, an organization working for
their ultimate bepefit, and they, there-
fore, willingly pay thigir union dues
and_strive to become “one hundred
per cent union members.”

Furthermore, the increased oppor-
tunities for education were stressed.
Witt the leisure time afforded by the
44-hour week, they pointed out, there
is a chance to attend the free classes
conducted by their unions. It is the |
uninformed workér who is the gin-
drance and trouble maker. in the
union. It is he who refuses to co-
operate, and seeks to secure gains for
himself without united action. He is

e worker the unions are trying’ té
eliminate by education.



WATERBURY OILS ON
EXHIBITION
(Contributed in News tryouts.)
Common Room, December 6.—Mem-
bers of the Art Club and many: of
the faculty met Miss Florence Water-
bury, a Bryn Mawr alumna of 1905,
at an exhibition in the Common Room.
Her 10 oil paintings” will be in” the
Common Room until December seven-

teenth.
The pictures showed some variety
The only brilliant one,

town. Those representing the desert
were painted, Miss Waterbury said,
at top speed to catch the. swiftly
ichanging » lights on the mountain
peaks. .
thin, ‘almost as in watercolor, and the
colors are a pastels.

ning of Christmas vacation. |

‘has already been. made public.

In. these the paint is spread|



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Faculty and. Staff
Take Divided Stand

In “Bust” Crisis



Questionnaire Elicits Answers
From Only Half; 32 Pro,
33-Con, 9 Neutral



REPLIES SHOW EMOTION,
WIT, AND COMPROMISE



(The News’ policy on the question
of the plan for removing the busts
To
reiterate: we are not in favor of it.
, Quite impartially, however, we offer
, you the returns of our questionnaire
to the faculty and staff—Ed.)

The quéstionnaire which the News
sent to the faculty and staff on the
busts question took the form of 151
index cards ‘inscribed as follows:

“For
Stokes and especially of the College
News, will. you please be good enough
to check and sign this card, and re-
turn it by campus mail?

“I approve the proposal to remove
the busts from Taylor.

“Yes, No.”

They were distributed Thursday,

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December second, by members of the:

business board.. The returns came in

‘slowly twice a day up to the end of

the week of December sixth to thir-
teenth. That is, 76 of the original 151
came in, ° :

Although the cards distinctly said
Check and Sign, 23 of them were re-
turned anonymously. The total num-
ber of people in favor of removing
the busts was 32, the total number
in- favor of retaining them, 33. Eleven
people were either indifferent or ad-
vocated some sort of a compromise.
The bust partisans of the News hoped
to prove something about the coward-
liness of people who answered Yes,
but the statistics show a majority
of only 10 yes’s to 9 no’s among the
anonymous answers.

Under the. general heading of in-
different or compromise come signed
replies from some of the most—im-
posing names of the college. Miss
Park answered the q
the summer, as an experiment.” .
Ward replied: “Yes, some—but no
all.” Mr. Guiton and Mrs. Jessen dis-
played a concern for the future, of
the busts. Mrs. Jessen veers toward
the yes’s, but qualifies this attitude
by saying: “If they can be put into
another more suitable place and used
to better advantage.”” Mr. Guiton, on
the other hand, says: “No (unless
you have a home for. them.)”
Stephen J. Herben and Mr. A. C.
Sprague of the English Department
are both magnificent in their indiffer-
ence to the question, and signify this
by neat little checks in the exact mid-
dle of the space between Yes and No
on their cards.

One unsigned comment in red ink
says: “Distribute-them in Goodhart,

Continued on Page Two







SKATING CLUB OFFERS
_B. M. SERIES TICKETS



Bryn Mawr students will be able

to, skate, at ,the Philadelphia. Skating

Club rink, at Haverford, on Mondays;
from five to six p. m., free of charge,
beginning January tenth.

Students may purchase cards for
10 dollars enabling them to skate at
20 of the régular club sessions. This
includes morning and evening hours,
the Saturday afternoon session for
dancing, at which tea is served, and
all day Sunday.

Special tickets for morning hours
only~can—be bought for 15 dollars.
These are gogd for 30 mornings. On
Tuesday andj/Saturday evenings stu-
dents are inv{ted to skate by the club.
Invitation ,eards must be presented
and thefé will be a charge of 75 cents
each evening.

Invitation cards and tickets may be
obtained frém Miss Elmer, in the
bookshop, in: Taylor. — aré non-
transferrable.




for 3 dollars for a half-hour. Two
or three students may share one les-
son, -

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the enlightenment of Mr.

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Students may takes ibig lessons aoe

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Editor-in-Chief |
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Music Library

The proposed plan for a victrola record lending library meets

with our hearty approval.

We understand that the Music. Department

may furnish the money from funds which are available to it, and which

are given to foster music in-the college.

In our opinion money dedicated

__ to this end could be put to no better use than to endow a library which
will make expensive records accessible to any student.

~

be we My

Our suggestion for the housing

of the practice rooms in Goodhart basement,
two bookeases for quite a complete classical library.

of the collection is to put it in one
There is room enough in
A student librarian

could keep it open for an hour every afternoon, at which time people

could select their tea-time music.
charged.
collection.

A fee of two cents a day could be
This would probably be enough to maintain and enlarge the

Merion Hall is enthusiastic about their first Friday evening record

concert cum coffee.
spot in an otherwise dull evening.

They plan to make this a weekly event, as a bright

Radnor’s Sunday evening concerts

have long been popular; and"these two halls promise to be eager sub-

scribers to the music library.



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Christmas Gift

I think these busts are almost the worst I have ever seen, and I am
heartily in favor of retaining them—Rhys Carpenter.

The News is still hotly championing the anti-bust-removal cause.
By next week we hope to offer you coniplete statistigs on student opinion

—whieh is also anti-removal.

In the meantime our stand is admirably

articulated by Mr? Carpenter in the phrase -from_his ballot, quoted

above.

One of the rumors which-has reached our ears has it that when the

busts were given to the college, it was stipulated that if they
discarded they should be sent to Johns Hopkins University.

were ever
A student

suggests that if they go, they should be sent one by one as Christmas

presents, wrapped in tissue paper,

tied with red ribbon, and accom-

panied by a card inseribed: “To Johns Hopkins with love and a Merry
‘hrisfmas from Bryn Mawr.” After five or six Christmases, Johns
‘Hopkins would begin to realize that this would be going on. practically

forever.



In Philadelphia



/ Movies

Stanley: Wells Fargo, a drama
about. the operation of a -transcon-
tinental stage-coach service, with Joel
McCrea and Frances Dee.

Aldine: Nothing Sacred, a newspa-
per comedy in color, with Fredric
March and Carole Lombard.

Arcadia: Music for Madame, a
musical with Nino Martini. Begin-
ning Friday: The Lives of a Bengal

Lancer, a retar eng ment of the
famous - a Restated Oty with Saty
Cooper.

Fox: Manhattan Merry-Go-Round,
a screen revue, with Leo Carillo. Be-
ginning Friday: Beg, Borrow, or

_ Steal, a comedy, with Frank Morgan,

Florence Rice, and John Beal.
Stanton: Night Club Scandal, a

- murder mystery with John Barrymore

* as the murderer and Lynne Overman

: ‘ginning Saturday:

faa i



and Charles Bickford as the reporter
and detective who capture him. Be-
Riding On Air, a
comedy, with Joe E. Brown.

Earle: She Married An Artist:
about the marriage of an artist and
a dress-designer, with John Boles and
Luli Deste. Beginning Friday: Paid

To Dance, a melodrama, with Don|

Terry and Jacqueline Wells. .
Karlton: Submarine D-1, an under-
seas romance, with Pat O'Brien and_

the



by Burns and Allen, and Mancing by

Fred Astaire.

a, be First Lady, a comedy from
amous ‘play ‘about Waslitngton

politics, with Kay Francis.

T heater

Chestnut St.: Three Waltzes, by
the three Strausses.

Forrest: Richard II, with Maurice
Evans. Special Matinee and Evening
Performance on Friday: King Henry
IV, Part I, with Raerice Evans. as
Falstaff.

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Orchestra

’: Philadelphia’ Orchestra Saul ‘Cas+
ton conducting for the Philadelphia
Ballet: Friday afternoon: Bach:
Classical Dance Suite; Johann
Strauss: Viennese Waltz; John Pow-
ell and L. M. Gottschalk; Barn Dance;
Saturday evening: Ravel: . Bolero;
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe; John Pow-
ell and L. M. Gottschalk: Barn Dance
(all Choreography by Catherine Lit-
tlefield). :

___ Local Movies

“Seville: Wednesday: Dangerously
Yours, with Cesar Romero; Thursday,
Marry the Girl, with Mary Boland;
Friday and Saturday, Heidi, with}
Shirley Temple.

Wayne: Wednesday: The Bride.
Wore Red, with Joan Crawford;
Thursday, Friday and Saturday:
The Prisoner of Zenda, with. Ronald
Colman, Madeleine Carroll, and Doug-
Jae. Faizhanks, Jr.

Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday: Lancer Spy,|
with a Sanders, sich Lorre and

_||WITres END

The following letter appeared un-
der the caption FIFTEEN MILES TO
CONQUEST in the December 6 issue
of Life. The post-mark is
Mawr, Pa., and the News has received
information that it was written by
someone on this campus:



“Sirs:

Just a moment! Why two pages of
your valuable magazine to that mess
of ham-hash called Conquest?

You didn’t think it was a play,
did you? You didn’t take those two
glass chandeliers for the pomp of em-
pire? You didn’t really mean that
Greta’s incredible beauty could carry
a: Napoleon without an army, without
dignity, without subtlety?

Oh, no. You kidded the “cash cus-
tomer, LIFE. If you had told the
truth you would have warned Boyer
to go back to headwaiter parts. He
does them nicely. And you would
have pointed out that Greta as a shop
girl would be more interesting than
as the cliché-ridden Countess. Lord,
what a sell! And I drove 15 miles to
see it.

Kindly return the price of my tick-
et, plus gésoline, total about 60 cents.
And next time, call a flop, a flop.

Mary L. HACKBERRY.

Bryn Mawr, Pa.” e

Life prints below this: “To Mary
Hackberry, Life has sent 60c because
Life did indeed fail to make plain that
Conquest is slow.—ED.”

We have seen the letter printed,
we have seen the magnificent certified
check from Life made out to Mary L.
Hackberry. We are now consumed
with curiosity to know who this Hack-
berry is. She is not in the finding
list. Can any of our readers help
us?



A. S. U. Votes Decisions

On Convention Issues



Collective Security and Boycott
Approved as Policies



Taylor Hall, December 16.—The po-
sition of the A. S. U. on Collective Se-
curity, on its political affiliations, and
on the factionalism within the Union
are the three major issues to be
brought up at the National Conven-
tion to be held, at Vassar at the end
of this month.

In preparation for the convention,
the Bryn Mawr A. S, U. discussed and
voted upon its decisions on these
topics. The chapter supports collec-
tive security as a method of pro-
cedure whose primary aim is to main-
tain peace through joint action of
nations. The A. S. U. now looks to-
wards economic means, but what will

‘Ibe done in the future will be de-

termined by the situation in which
peace is threatened. Holding this

position, the chapter does not support |

the Oxford Oath, considering it a
negative gesture to refuse to partake
in any war.

The A. S. U. has heretofore been
unaffiliated with any political party,
and voted to remain so. Issues con-
stantly arise which are supported and
opposed by political candidates. If
the A. S. U. opinion on the issue hap-
pens to coincide with the opinion of
the cathdidate, it has voted to endorse
that candidate because of the opinion
fre, hojds, mot) because of, the, party he
represents.

The chapter voted against faction-
alism insofar as it tends to disrupt
the constructive action of the Union.
It voted to oppose any, group within
the Union which uses the Union name
when trying to put over a political
philosophy irrelevant to,the aims of
the organization.

The Bryn Mawr Chapter supports
the Japanese boycott and the move-
ment against race prejudice as formu-
lated at the District Convention last
week. The chapter’s views on the
three main issues mentioned above
coincide with those of the District Or-
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PUBLIC OPINION

¢

To.the Editor of the College News:

On a recent visit to college I heard
that the busts were to be removed
from Taylor Hall. People told me
that this change was being made in
the name of beauty. What, I ask,
has-Taylor got to do with beauty?

It has been said that a plain woman
should accentuate her ugliness in or-
der to be attractive. The same is true
of Taylor Hall. There is only one
explanation for its universal appeal to
sentimental alumnae and cynical un-
dergraduates: it is decisively ugly.

_Taylor’s claim to this peculiar dis-

tinction rests on the appalling array
of statuary in the main corridor.
The long rows of busts give an im-
preggion of ossified culture which is
magnificently lugubrious. . Without
the busts, Taylor, like any other lec-
ture hall, would be .only moderately.
depressing.

I had. always believed that Bryn
Mawr desired to be superior in all
things. In Taylor the college had
achieved the ultimate in ghastly in-
teriors. Now we would give up this
honor by countenancing a plan which
will do away with some of Taylor's
most hideous charms.

I might add that I was particularly
shocked to: hear? that the faculty had
voted two to one in favor of remov-
ing the busts. Such ingratitude is
unwarranted. I am thinking of Juno.
Have the professors, forgotten the
strategic post which she has occupied
for 50 odd years? Surely it is not
every washroom that is guarded. by
the First Lady of Olympus. I venture
to say that it will be difficult to find
another sentry so grandiose or so im-
personal.

I did not write this letter with
the hope of swaying public opinion.
I am afraid that this unhappy project
of interior desecration cannot be
stopped. But if‘the busts must be re-
moved, may I suggest that they be
sent to Washington? Mr. Roosevelt
might use them to pack the Supreme
Court. In that way they could be
assured of a pension—a just reward
which they would never receive from
their present employers.

Very truly yours,
LETITIA BROWN, ’37.









PROGRAMS, CRASHERS
VARY ROCK HALL DANCE



* Rockefeller, December 11,—Lavish-
ly decorated with Christmas holly
and evergreens, interspersed wi
palms (the Palestine touch?), Rocke-
feller entertained about 60 under-
graduates and 30 outside guests at
its first hall dance this year. Among
those present were Mr. and Mrs.
Bernheimer, Mr.. and Mrs. Dryden,
Miss Lake, Mr. David, and five gate-
crashers, allegedly from Haverford,
which, as usual, was well represented,
together with Harvard, Princeton, and
the University of Pennsylvania.

Excellent music was provided by
Frankie Day and his Swing Orchestra.
If was specially amplified by an AC
current wire, which ,was conducted
along the ground from Goodhart, and
which proved something of an embar-
rassment to several Bryn Mawrters
who watched the party through the
dining room windows. -

At 12 o’clock those with escorts
left the hall until two. About this
time a purple orchid petal was found
on the front stairs and a gentleman’s
white tie on the signing-out desk. The
owners can have them by applying
to the proper authorities.



Faculty Skit Climaxes
Deanery Festivities



Continued from Page One
cheers. But when the male chorus
donned huge red and black hoards and
sang:

“Every time I choose ’em

I know I’ve got to lose ’em——

And some day Miss Someone

Will be just an alumna -

To me.”
the audience demanded an encore. —

Miss Stapleton” wrow~« ePID TO
the produation, - The. effective cos-|
ptumes.» were made’ by Mrs. Bernard
rCaniveties while Mr. ‘Wells and- Mr. |
Michels took charge of the ge
work and. lighting. _Mr. Hed nd

e piano for the songs.

A buffet sypper attended by a hun-
dred faculty, alumnae and students
preceded the skit. Soon after supper

eke



Faculty Opinion Divided
‘In Bust Removal Crisis



Continued from Page One

Library, Taylor, etc.” Another com-
ment in green ink merely says [n-
different in a dashing hand. Various
people suggested weeding out some
busts and rearranging the remaining
ones more tastefully. Among these
are C. B. Hatch, W. R. Smith, Gene-
vieve E. Potter, and several anonyr
mous individuals. 3

Seventeen members of the faculty
and staff spent. more thought than a
simple- check requires, and indulged
in terse.comments full of long-pent:
emotion, heiroglyphics expressing in-
difference or enthusiasm, and occa-
sionally essays spreading to the other
side of the card. No one admitted
to a genuine admiration for the busts,
which seem rather to have a hyp- .
notie fascination that grows with the.
years. The No’s outdid the Yes’s 5-2
in vigor of commentary. Said Mr.
Chew of the.English Department, in
disagreement. with his colleagues, and
with a fervor which the News openly
admires: “Nay! Taylor without the
busts is unthinkable!” On the other
hand, Mr. David, of the History De-
partment, author of the longest com-~
ment on record, obliterated No with
much cross-hatching and remarked as
follows:

“Yes. Because we cannot afford to
preserve Taylor Hall as a museum
piece, a monument of the bad taste
of an epoch—But cannot Mr. Stokes
find a market somewhere in the world
for these Greek and Roman marbles?
Let the effort at least be made. to
convert them into cash—Or, failing
that, let them be builded into some
of our new structures for the aston-
ishment of future archaeologists, as
when they now find antique materials
in mediaeval buildings.”

History of Art Department, Mr.
Wethey, who emphasized Yes with
five vigorous checks, and one ardent
opponent, Mr. Carpenter: “I think
these busts are almost the worst I
have ever seen, and [I heartily ap-
prove of retaining them.” This seem-
ing contradiction was more or less
echoed by Mrs. Smith, who said: “No, |
Taylor in general and the busts in par-
ticular are so horrible that they con-
stitute a sort of example in ‘Perfectly
Bad Taste.’” Perhaps no one felt so
strongly on the subject as Miss Lo-
grasso, who said: “It has taken me
eight years to get used to them, and
I can’t bear to have them removed
now!”

The News congratulates itself that
its research has more or less backed
up its own opposition to the removal
of the busts, and feels that it has
even*more supporters whose opinions
are not recorded documentarily. Miss
Stapleton, for example, who never
looks .at questionnaires, does not feel
strongly on the question; but she con-
fessed to a reporter that if she did
have an opinion, she would probably
oppose the busts’ removal. Mrs. Wyn-
cie King, who, through. an ovenaiiit,

endorses the policy of the News.

The cards were written out by hand
by Anne Leigh Goodman,.’38, a volun-
teer, and by Janet Thom, ’38, and
Mary Meigs, ’39, of the News.

Note: One anonymous answer con-
sisted of a single, bold slanting line
drawn over the No. There was no
way of telling whether it was a check
or a cancellation, but the News hand-
somely. conceded this vote to the Yes
column.

Miss Park’s Sub deck
Is College Dramatics





Continued from Page One:
interesting the community as a whole.
Informal plays such as the freshmen
show, and those given in the playwrit-
ing course, have both helped, while
the Laboratory theater may be expect-
ed to bring out more talents in writ-
ing ahd producing as well as in act-
ing. Miss Park suggests that some-
thing can be done immediately to fur-

ther sce dramatics by attempting

plays, . and by having lower admission
rdjcharges.

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among the crowd. The party con-
cluded. with. tap, dancing by Den- —
bigh’s. Whitaker,’ and singing by the -





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Perkins, ’38), and Charlemagne (Rutl
Stoddard, ’39).
The ciborium under which the Pope

Rockefeller ‘Presents
Christmas Pageant

ings, but because she considers aul |
action too late to be successful and
an unwise international policy.. If a
loss of trade could stop Japan, it

Peace Council. Hears
Boycott Discussion

CURRENT EVENTS

(Gleaned from Mr, Fenwick.)









‘| officiates is not taken from the orig-





‘ Se | Continued from, Page One . ‘ ‘ i
Grave as is the crisis in Japan due Veiwiae ‘said, dink S callie’ Vea should have been done five years ago,; Lhe Coronation of Charlemagne inal, because the basilica of Saint
: the goad of the pga ship ihe Mont te make aah oT cas at. pa tthygoiahey a ne a ein Directed by H. Cheek Peter’s was burned long ago, but is
anny, ‘ver - she r o | : . :
; ae at Sa a8 f ths eel DS /-F1.920 this attitude was disregarded, epee pap bias sie ee Nate : | copied from another High Altar of
volved in the defiance of the Kellogg hut by: vetusine to. enter. into: the time. Germany and Russia have both| A pageant, directed by . Huldah| the same period.

shown that a government can sur-
vive a good many months by printing
vast quantities of money. Moreover,
the Japanese would look on the boy-

Pact and the Niné Power Treaty,.and}
y the ruthless bombardment of Chinese
citizens. The Nine Power Treaty was
signed by Japan voluntarily and its

After the coronation the royal pro-
‘cession and guests will proceed into
‘the dining room, ‘where five paintings
| will hang, colored enlargements of

Cheek, ’388g8howing the coronation of |
Charlemagne, is to be the special fea-
ture of the Christmas dinner at Rocke- |
feller on Thursday night.

agreement, we seriously impaired the
chance of maintaining peace. To jus-
ify ' ourselves we. made the Kellogg

t, which was little more than a

scrapping. makes the sinking an f cott as a punitive act. Less th 15 earl ee :
ee : : . Y ly mediaeval Codex Manuscript
American-ahip seem a. mitorAvent, sot Boe Brice tm not to make years ago, we ourselves were effvaged . wgred kbar _ the story - of Poe 1 ae

Messages presage actiop-and Presi- é in the partition of China. It is not] “°° ee ee The faculty guests invited to the

dent Roosevelt’s. message to the Jap-
anese powers arose merely from the
old». tradition of. horror at the idea

The Nine Power treaty we did. initi-
ate, but. only because we wanted: to
break up a former Japanese-British
alliance. In 1930, this treaty was

hard to see why the Japanese would

suspect our motives.

The

dislocation. of foreign

trade

blindness, the dramatic moment of. the
crowning of Charlemagne as emperor
at Christmas Day Mass in St. Peter’s,

entertainment include Mr. Herben,
Miss Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. Miller,
Miss Ward, and Mr. Alwyn. Frances

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“of the American flag being touched. : ; would be distressing and the moral ef-!*" Fox, ’38, will be. toastmistress
Big business is meetifg|in private si di onan sien Fg fect harmful, since it would increase nt : pingg tes re. = atti a
council, devoting its program ’ to nationalism. The change behind these | T4808 chosen trom whe. accounts 0 ,
s PROS invaded Ethiopia, our only reply was | ane three . contemporary writers ahd a JEANNETTE’S

events is the struggle between eco-
nomic and nationalistic frontiers, and
constitutes a situation to which- our
western law may not pertain: ‘ “We can
only remove warfare by collective un-

urging the government not to inter-
fere with business and to abolish the
Capital Profits tax which amounts to
a tax on enterprise. It is urging ces-
sation of the sit-down ‘strike and the

a feeble boycott.

This year, these treaties received a
last scrapping. If we do not put our
foot down today, Mr. Fenwick empha-

Gregorian chant. Due to space re*
strictions, however, only the two
groups standing immediately about
the High Altar will be te resented—

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The Stalin regime is disintegrating.
Russia’s elections remind one of ‘Hit-
ler’s- two years ago with their single]
candidacies for each office. The dis-| ff
appearance of the recalled ministers
are only a part of the large scale ter-
rorism. -France is getting’ worried
that she is paying digh for her Rus-
sian alliance. In time -of war _ it
seems as if Russia might be a lia-
bility rather than a help.

The Wages and Hour Bill, now up
before Congress, will probably not go
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Council Approves Plan
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‘o0ms; she said that the. committee
ras sending for designs to be dis-
layed to the students,:and they may

Trange to have an exhibition of
ictyal’ furniture in the Common
Room. Most of the members of ‘the
Council liked the new maple furniture
in some of the rooms in Pembroke,
and suggested that similar desks,
chairs, and bookcases for the new
hall would be practical, since maple
looks well with‘ any color scheme.
Miss Park said that according. to
present plans the hall libraries in the
two wings of the new dormitory will
be put in built-in bookcases in ‘the
quiet smoking rooms. 4

Suzanne Williams said that the
small rooms in the students’ wing in
Goodhart will be converted into en-
tertainment rooms as soon ‘as they can
. be properly furnished.

Certain changes have been made
in the arrangement of the bulletin
boards in Taylor, principally the one
utside Miss Ward’s office, which has

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Bureau of Recommendations. .

Grant reported that the
quota committee has a list of all stu-
dents. who wish to move into the new

dormitory; this shows no compensat-
ing shi of people from one of the

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present halls to others, so that-when
large groups in the same class and
same hall have signed up to go into
the new hall some will not be able

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