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THE COLLEGE NEWS

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: Peace Council
At ‘its last meeting, the Peace Council faced the question of
whether its program should include aid to domestic organizations or
should only cover war relief. To conceive of the Peace Council as
being concerned solely with war aid is to forget its function and the
responsibilities laid on it by the Activities’ Drive.

The Council was to translate student opinion into some sort of
collective n. The position of the Peace Council is not a passive
one in bors though in appearances it is deceiving. It has the
mechanical job of testing the efficiency of the organizations to which
it sends funds. This job could be still more fully worked out, although
the establishment of a research committee within the Council has gone
far in this direction. j

Besides the mechanical job, the Peace Council is responsible for
alloting its funds according to campus opinion. This year it has felt
that the paramont interest of the students lay in helping war victims,
with especial attention to refugee students. But the Council is not
and must not be bound to this particular field.

Its primary job is to represent campus opinion. » When important
issues are overlooked or when there is still a chaos of independent
prejudices, the Peace Council must act as the coordinating spur. This
year has seen increased activity on the part of all campus organizations
and there is little danger that we will lapse into intellectual ruts.

As a result of the increased activity, the coordinating capacity
of the Peace Council has become active function of this body. To
perform this job the Council must provide a place where a synthesis
Under such
conditions the Council must remain an impartial judge and not take
clear-cut stands until the synthesis has been made as in the question
of war relief.--The Peace Council, however, is not merely a passive
partner in this coordinating process, but is responsible for seeing to it

_ that the campus is roused from its many individual prejudices and is

required to coordinate and follow out the implication of its thought.

The Peace Council, in considering other organizations than those
distributing war relief, is only fulfilling its duties. For the Council to
fulfill these duties adequately requires more cooperation from the clubs
and more recognition from the campus at large. At the moment the
organization is thought of too much as another club and too little as
an expression of public opinion and a synthesis of our thought.



Action
A heartwarming and revealing interest in the problems of college
entertainment was evidenced by the recent student poll: In accordance

“with Bryn Mawr’s traditional ability to face its issues, we suggest that

steps be taken as soon as possible to elect the new committee and its
chairman. 4

If the new entertainment committee is to acquire the stature neces~

sary for concrete and efficient action, it should be treated as a substan-
The chairman should be
votedon by the. entire college so.that the undergraduates may ’ be made

‘more conscious of “the ' committee's importafice.. As indicated in the |,

student poll, the election of the committee should be by halls. This
would establish the most direct contact with student opinion, and
would, at the same time, keep the committee small enough for
efficiency. . It is important above all to arike now while the iron of
campus interest is still hot.



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Bay, with George Raft and Joan
Bennett. :

Arcadia: Raymond Massey and
MOVIES Ruth Gordon in Abe Lincoln in Il-









Opinion

Director of Labor School
Expresses Gratitude
For Contribution









The. following letter was re-
ceived by the Treasurer of the Ac-
tivities Drive, from the Director of
the Hudson Shore Labor School:
My dear Miss French:

Thank you very much for the
check for 475.00 dollars, complet-
ing the undegraduate. pledge for
the Summer School. We have also
added Miss Park’s contribution of
200.00 dollars to the undergradu-
ate contribution, at her request.
This makes a total of 1400.00 dol-
lars from your drive this year.

We are most appreciative of .the

interest that the undergraduates
have shown, and I wish there were
some way to thank personally all
the girls who have contributed.

I am enclosing a copy of our
folder for next summer’s school. If
you think some of the girls who
contributed would like to receive
copies, I should be happy to send
them. :

Sincerely,
JEAN CARTER.



Frost Reads Poetry
At Series Lecture



Continuea from Page One

The second..rule for judging
poetry is to-ascertain whether it
is as good in verse as its equival-
ent.in prose. The aim of the poem
must be considered and whether
or not that aim was ultimately
achieved. Finally, said Mr. Frost,
the poem as a whole must con-
stitute a phrase since phrase is the
beginning and end of form.

Mr. Frost concluded by reading
a group of’ his own poems, includ-
ing: The Birches, Mending a
Wall, An Old Man’s Winter Night
and Crossroads. In-addition was
a group of more recently published
poems: A Drumlin Woodcock, De-
partmental, Dives. Dive, The
Bearer of Evil Tidings and Triple
Plate. ©



Boyd: Mickey Rooney in Young
Tom Edison.

Earle: Gone With The Wind.

Fox: Road to Singapore with
Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour.

Karlton: Strange Cargo with
Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian
Hunter and Peter Lorre. -

Keith’s: The. Grapes of Wrath
with Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell.

News: Carole Lombard and
Charles Laughton in White “Wo-
man.

Palace: Northwest Passage with
Spencer Tracy and Robert Young.

Stanley: Errol Flynn, Miriam
Hopkins and Randolph Scott in
Virginia City.

Stanton: My Little Chickadee
with W. C. Fields and Mae West.

Studio: Louise, Charpentier’s
opera with Grace Moore.

THEATRES
Forrest: A Night at the Folies
Bergere, revue. -
Locust St: Clare Boothe’s come-
dy Margin For Error with Doris
Dudley and Sheldon Leonard.

“Suburban

Ardmore: Thursday and Fri-
day: Carole Lombard and Brian
Aherne in Vigil in the Night. Sat-
‘urday: Charlie McCarthy Detec-
tive.

Narberth: Thursday: Hunch-
back of Notre Dame. Friday and
Saturday: That's Right, You're
Wrong. = *.

Seville: Thursday: Allan Jones
and Mary Martin in The Great
Victor Herbert. Friday and Sat-
urday: James Stewart and Mar-
garet Sullavan in Shop Around the
- Suburban:

Thursday, Friday



Aldine: The House Across “ linois.











Calendar ~*
Tuesday, April 9:—

4 Theodore Spencer to lec-
ture on the Present
State of Modern Poetry,
Deanery at 4.30.

Current Events, Miss
. Reid, Common Room,

7.80.

Philosophy Club, Mr.

Weiss to speak, Common

Room, 8.15.

Wednesday, April 1
International Relations
Club Meeting. Common
Room, 7.30.

Thursday, April 11.—
Earl Schenck to lecture
on Polynesia, Tale of
Tahiti, Goodhart, 8.30.

Friday, April 12.—

Square Dance, A. S. U.,

Gym.

April 12 - 14.—
Alumnae Council Week-
end.

Saturday, April 13.—
Informal French Eve-

ning, Wyndham.
Sunday, April 14.—
Art Club Tea, Common

Room, 4.30.

Rev. Donald Aldrich,
Chapel, Music Room,
7.30.

Monday, April 15.—
Owen Lattimore to speak
on America’s Stake in a
Free China, Goodhart,
8.30.

Tuesday, April 16.—
Theodore Spencer, Dean-

ery, 4.30.

Current Events, Miss
Réid, Common Room,
7.30.

Jacques Maritain to
speak on The Philosophy
of St. Thomas Acquinas,
Deanery, 8:15.
Wednesday, April 17.—
Roger Sherman Loomis,
the 1940 Ann Elizabeth
Sheble Lecturer, to
Speak on Arthurian Ro-
mce in Medieval Art,
Goothart, 8.30.





WIT’S END







Copywhoa, or, Spring Cometh
Not, She Said
etaoin shrdlu emfwyp vbgkqj, pB.

The old order changeth, yielding
place to Sue. From Pop to Nuts.
Sure and it is a cold time of year
with the old ones going out and the
new ones coming in with the ink
scarce dry on their fingers.

And what did the Easter Bunny
bring you? If we’re not being too
sudden. For us the Easter Bunny
and Trouble came in like a lion.
Fun’s fun but responsibility’s hell
what with sabotage in the Power-
house, mid-semesters yawning and
stretching in the darkness, and on
our necks the hot breath of baby
chickies and baby duckies.

Qh, to be in April, now that Eng-
land’s here. Sunspots and electric
storms. ,Alarms and excursions.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and To-
morrow. If your name were To-
morrow Brown would it mean you
were going to Florida?

Hark! Hark! the lark at Heaven’s
gate sings,

And Phoebus ’gins to rise.

I tried to get up at 7.30 this morn-
ing too

And found, to my surprise,

That Spring, God bless its sudden-
ness,

Hadn’t come.

Now let’s play Postoffice and I’ll
be Queen of the May. Except that
they’re not having—yes they are,
too—At - least. they always. have
Little May Day. And if you’re
waking, wake me early, wake me
early, Mother dear. But don’t wait
to see if I’m getting up.

Ha, ha! See what we mean
about, the old order changing ?.



Saturday: Cary Grant-and—Rosa-
lind Russell in His Girl Friday.

1 will. provide the informal en-



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Rice Dramatizes New York
In Two on an Island;







Play Proves Unreal
By Olivia Kahn, ’41
Although Elmer Rice is a native:
New Yorker he seems to have a
strange conception of his home.
town. At any rate in Two On an.
Island, produced by the Play-
wrights’ Company, he pictures.
New York as it might:be visualized

by a middle-western farmer who.
had never travelled east of the
Mississippi. Thertheory that Amer-
ica’s biggest city is a hard-boiled
metropolis ridden with loose wo-
men and immoral Bohemians is.
now outmoded and most commenta-
tors agree that it fails to take into.
account the _ perfectly. normal
6,995,000 people living in the city.
This fault would not be important
if it were not for the fact that Mr.
Rice obviously intends his play to
capture the essence of the city.
One might suppose that a young
man and a young woman from out.
of town who have taken rooms at
the -¥--M.-G.-A.-and_Y,._W._C_A,,
respectively, would meet plenty of
nice people of their own age. Even
if, as in Mr.. Rice’s saga, they
were driven to soda-jerking and
modeling as their only means of
livelihood they might run across a
few respectable, and native New
Yorkers. Almost none of the char-
acters in Two On an Island are
natural so that conceivably there

jis some justification for the conclu-

sions drawn by the playwright.
The two most refreshing and in-
spired characters are the visitors
to an art gallery who appear for a
few seconds at the end of the sev-
enth scene, snicker over a risqué
painting, and disappear before Mr.
Rice can damage them.

There is a vague unity to the
play but as a rule the scenes bear
little relation ‘to one another. In
fact, before the play is half over,
one is apt to become rather bored
with the whole idea. Who cares
what happens to Mary and John
anyway? hey are a_ mighty
smug pair by the end of the last
act and it is with condescension
that they decide to stay and battle
it out with New Xork. It is hard
to believe that -York would
have any desire to return the com-
pliment.

The play is well cast and the
actors do the best they can under
the circumstances. Luther Adler
gives the role of the producer its
proper share of world-weariness
and even manages .to bring some

‘dramatic climaxes into one or two

scenes. Betty Field and John Cra-
ven play the young couple nicely
and the other members of the cast
contribute some striking charac-
terizations.

PHILOSOPHY CLUB
TO HEAR MR. WEISS

On Wednesday, April 10, in the
Common Room, Mr. Weiss will ad-
dress the Philosophy Club on The
Nature of God and the World.

For the two weeks< following
Spring Vacation, the logic classes
will be held by Dr. Geiringer, who
is regarded as one of the world’s
most eminent statisticians. Her
subject will be Probability and all
those ane sh are invited to at-
tend:—-—— oi





eeteraeaieninsana i paeaeinantttensans tana



French House Soiree
On April 13-in the French
. House at 8.30 there will be a

Soirée Francaise. Skits,
songs and. recitations .by
French House inhabitants

tertainment. The admission
will be sent to French organ-
izations in need of assist-



Wayne: Thursday, F
Saturday: His Girl Friday.









cance.