College news, December 1, 1937

_ THE COLLEGE NEws





VOL. XXIV, No. 8

BRYN MAWR AND

WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY,

DECEMBER 1, 1937

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Dimnet Describes .
‘My Two Worlds,’

France, America|



Early Life Was One of Books,
Trips to U.S. Introduced
Him to Reality



COMPARES CULTURES
OF THE TWO NATIONS



Goodhart, November 22.—“My old
world was one of books; my new
world introduced me to reality,’”’ said
Canon. Ernest Dimnet, the famous
French writer and psychologist, who
spoke on My Two Worlds: France, his
native country, and ‘America, _ the
country ‘“‘which I annexed.”

The “old world” of his early life
was both secluded and literary. He
lived in a tiny provincial town, sur-
rounded by forests. There was no
train and little communication with
the outside world. The child made
his escape partly through nature but
especially through books. The lit-
tle village was a literary one. . The
saintly parish priest wrote novels.
His uncle, who was also a priest, en-
couraged him to read, and, when he
was ten, gave him a copy of Vol-
taire’s Historie de Charles XII, at a
time when Voltaire was being de-
nounced by the church. ‘There are
20 M. de Voltaires,” he informed his
nephew, ‘‘you may read this one.”

School brought him no closer to real
life. In those days, he remarked, “a
French Catholic school was a sort of
monastery; a French public school a
sort of barracks.” There were no
sports, no form of community life,
and very little comfort of any kind.
The whole day, from five to nine, with
two hours out for meals, the boys
spent in study.. The subjects were
chiefly classical or literary, and were
chosen without reference to the boy’s
individual taste or future career: pup-
ils tr@ining to be priests had to learn
dramatic criticism in order to pass
the government examinations. Above
all, they were trained to be apprecia-
tive rather than creative; and they
were taught nothing to prepare them
for life.

Even after his ordination and the
beginning of his career as a writer
and a student of English culture, Can-
on Dimnet felt that he was still ‘“de-
veloping within books” rather than by
actual. experience. His initial contact
with his (‘new world” was to come
in 1908, when he made a first visit
to America as the guest of Colonel
George Harvey, the editor of the
North American Review, to which he
was contributing a quarterly letter.

This first trip impressed him very



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Slyvia Wright, ’38, as Rosencrantz; Mary Dimock, ’39, as Gildencrantz;
Sarah T. Meigs, ’39, as. Hamlet



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Cast of Hamlet —

The News regrets that the follow-
ing cast of Hamlet was omitted in the
write-up in the last issue:

TIATOIOUS sci 4ssas ect Sarah Meigs, ’39
PROYOUO. 6a far ch ce Mary Meigs; ’39
Rosencrantz...... Sylvia Wright, ’38
Gildencrantz....... Mary Dimock, ’39
OpnGHa.. cai. Augusta Arnold, ’38
CHAUCIS ee Prisdilla Curtis, ’A40
Gertrude, 5030.0. 6: Huldah Cheek, /’38
POIOMINE Sis hic os Vrylena Olney, ’40

Hamlet’s Ghost
F. Robinson Hoxton,
President of the University’ of
Wittenberg..... Dorothea Peck,
Laertes......- Margaret Howson,
Player King...Margaret Howson,
Player Queen...Hildegarde Hunt,
Third ‘Playe?... <<. Susan Miller,

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ROCKEFELLERITES PLAN
A CHRISTMAS DANCE



Thirty-five. couples and 25. stags
will attend a Christmas hall dance at
Rockefeller on Saturday, December 11.
It will be the first hall dance of the
year and the fifth that Rockefeller has
given since /it introduced the now
popular custom to the campus. The
faculty guests are Mr. and Mrs. Bern-
heimer, Mr. and Mrs. Dryden; Miss
‘Lake and Mr. David.

Musie¢ will be provided by_ Frankie
Day and his orchestra, which comes
from Philadelphia, and has. played at
the / University of Pennsylvania
dances. Since the program is to fea-
ture a guitar-solo by Frankie and
singing by the drummer, a special AC
current wire has been brought from
Goodhart for proper amplification.

The dance will begin at 7.30 with
a buffet supper and ‘close at 12.
Those with escorts have the privilege
of remaining out until two.



Continued on Page Three



November ‘Lantern’ Best in Four Years,

N either Obscure Nor Dull, Says Miss Walsh



Its Poetry Anhicsee Originality
Of Expression, Springs From
Real Emotion



(Especially contributed by Miss
Dorothy Walsh.)

I have read the Lantern faithfully
for the last four years and this copy
of November, 1937, appears to me to
be the best that I have seen. The
editors are to be congratulated. They
have_ successfully met the criticism
of the past. The November Lantern
is neither obscure/ nor dull.

To begin with the prose—Isota
Tucker’s story is conspicuously good.
This is splendidly condensed, vigorous,
objective and effective writing. It
leaves me very curious to know if the
author has mastered one particular
type of expression only or if, con-
fronted writ the rs pei could

rhythm. |

Dorothy Counselman has conceived
a very interesting idea as the theme
for her story. Unfortunately every-
thing is too thoroughly explained here.
The total effect would be greatly
strengthened by condensation and by
presentation of, rather than statement





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IPN IE GOT OE TE EEE TS RGN EE HET TN om

about, the change which time has
effected.

Eleanor Bailenson has a splendid
sense of detail and a fine eye for set-
ting. The characterization is weak in
comparison to the scene. We are
told that Anna experiences aesthetic
satisfaction, -bitter resentment, sullen
determination, eager hope and blank
despair, but we do not feel this in the
convincing vivid way in which we see
the slums, the street urchins, the
wharf, the. water.

We were amused by Suzette Wat-
son’s -satire on psycho-literary re-
search.

The poetry of the Lantern is good.
All of these poems achieve originality
of expression without obscurity. They
are, moreover, quite definitely. the
product of genuine emotion.

Unfortunately I cannot appreciate
the prize poem as it deserves becausé,

‘lat whatever angle I look at him, I

cannot’ see Thomas in any angel-
haunted ‘sanctuary. Surely this is
Bonaventura—or maybe it’s only T. S.
Eliot. In spite of this intellectual
difficulty, I appreciate the fact that
the poem is well written.

Conviction and The Mystery are
good but slight. Ut Quid? is excellent

Continued on Page Three



|the action.



Russian Revolution

Is Subject of Movie



Two Educational Films Deal
With Dust Storms and Mail;
Auden Poem Read

PHOTOGRAPHY IS CLEAR

Goodhart ‘Hall, November 16 and
/8.—Three more English movies were
shown this week, on Tuesday The End
of St. Petersburg and on Thursday
The Plough That Broke the Plains and
Night Mail. The first, a Russian film
made by Pudovkin in 1924, follows the
methods of Griffiths, but is a great
improvement over the jerky excite-
ment of last week’s Birth of a Nation,
The other two, both government-made,
illustrate further development in
cinema technique; clearer photogra-
phy, swifter movement, and vitaphone.
They also show that even the sober
governments. of Great Britain and
the United States are not above blow-
ing their. own trumpets now and
again.

The End of St. Petersburg is an ac-
count-of the revolutionary movement
from 1916 until the Soviets overthrew
Kerensky’s military government in
1918. It begins with shots‘ of a peas-
ant’s home, empty pails, broken door-
sills and weather-beaten faces. A
child is born, more shots of poverty-
stricken conditions and two of the
peasants setting out for St.'Petersburg
to find work. They are photographed,
at a long distance, plodding down a
huge stretch of road with clouds
vathering above them. So throughout
the picture which moves slowly from
angle-shot to angle-shot, emotion is
built up by significant symbols.

The audience for whom this movie
was intended could not read and such
devices had to portray the meaning of
Again and again the
Czar’s statue, with the upraised hooves
of his charger in the foreground, is
flashed across. the screen between
scenes of oppression and starvation.
Close-ups of workers’ faces constantly
reappear in strike crowds, in their
filthy homes, in the glare of the steel
mills, shouting, . fighting, marching
and dying. A parallel of an army at-
tack and a stock market boom are
played against each other with such
eloquence that English captions are
unnecessary and even annoying.

No single figure stands out, no at-
tempt is made at characterization, but
the movie achieves immense dramatic
feeling of group emotion and move-
ment. Pudovkin had little material

to work with, and only two profes-
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League Sponsors Sale
_The Bryn Mawr League an-
nounces that on Wednesday and
Thursday of this week they will
sponsor a sale of handicraft
* work, offered by the Southern
Highlanders, an organization
ee. small’ southern.
munities. League proceeds
will go to the Bryn Mawr Sum-
mer Camp. The articles will be
‘displayed near the Pembroke
~ East bookshop.







COLLEGE CALENDAR

Thursday, December 2.—Non-
Resident supper. Common Room.

Friday ayd Saturday, Decem-
ber 3 and 4.—Players’ Club and
members of Princeton Theatre
Intime, A Bill of Divorcement,
8.20 p. m.

Saturday, December 4.—Col-
lege Dance. Gymnasium. After
the play.

Monday,.. December 6.—Art
Club tea in honor of Miss Flor-
ence Waterbury. Common Room.
Industrial Group supper, Com-
mon: Room 6,30.

Thursday, December 9.—A. S.
U. meeting. Common Room.

Saturday, December | 11.—
Rockefeller Dance. Merion
Dance.

Sunday, December 12.—

Christmas Service.

Monday, December 13.—Dean-
ery party. :

Tuesday, December 14.—Sum-
mer Camp party, Common
Room: 4-6,

Wednesday, December 15.—
Maids’ party. Gymnasium.

Friday, December 17-January
$.—Christmas -vacation.







Princeton Actors Reveal
Impressions of College



Intimate Interview Shows Astute

Criticism of Ourselves



So seldom does an_ unattached
Princeton man darken Rockefeller
arch, that it is with a certain amount
of interest that we now consider the
members of the Princeton Intime who
are playing in A Bill of .Divorcement,
In the past the Players’ Club has held
a firm monopoly on fellow actors, but
we hope that the following intimate
exposé will eliminate any such unfair-
ness. After a careful survey of the
field, we drew up these revealing
questions. First we asked about their
own interests and activities (see
H.. T. M.:.F.-A. 1. °P. and_note be-
low), then more boldly .what they
thought. of us, and lastly, with*an ill-
concealed glint in-our- eye, what they
thought of LOVE.

The first, Clyde Hubbard, /38, ju-
venile lead, has -been in several other
Intime productions and last summer
joined the Farragut Players at Rye
Beach, N. Y.. Comedy is his forte
and some day he hopes to grace the
silver screen. . When we inquired if
he thought this play gave him an op-
portunity for experience, he replied
ambiguously, “Well, you are bound
to learn something.”

He is still looking for his Ideal
Woman who, quaintly enough, must
not smoke. To his dispassionate eye,
New Jersey Teachers’ College seems
as good as any but tact forced him
to add that as yet he knows little
of Bryn Mawr and_ hopes to learn
more.

Sandford Etherington, ’39, started
his stage career as Malvolig, at Gro-
ton, and progressed to more serious
parts in such dramas as Time of
Their Lives and The Whole. Town’s
Talking with the Intime. This or-
ganization, he explained, is run by
students who are willing to give most
of their time to it. Their plays are
selected carefully by the president and
guidance is afforded them during pro-
duction by a faculty’ advisor.

With usual masculine astuteness,
he remarked on the dungarees worn

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Are Taylor Busts to.Go?
The Committee on Buildings
and Grounds is planning to do
some painting in Taylor Hall.
They also plan to remove. the
busts if the college does not ex-
press a definite desire to have
them retained. Miss Park will
speak _in- chapel. Masesdosp.
eember 2, on the subject t of he
_ busts, and the College News will
issue a polite questionnaire to
the members of the faculty the -
- game day to ascertain public
‘opinion, and will pass. around
lists for
check.

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Panofsky Traces __

Neo-Platonic Ideas
In Medici Chapel
Michelangelo Desicts aie

Of Soul Against Matter
Throughout Life





FIGURES SYMBOLIZE
CLASSICAL CONFLICT



In his’ last lecture, Professor Pa-
nofsky traced the final effects of neo- —
Platonism in Michelangelo’s work be-
for®his reconciliation with Christian-
ity. He considered in detail, as the
two best examples of this phase, the
Medici Chapel and a series of--draw-
ings made for Thomaso Cavalieri in
connection with the chapel.

The Medici Chapel;@#ke the tomb of
Julius II, did not materialize as it
had been plarined. The definitive pro-
gram embodied the ideas in the tomb
of Julius; The new sacristy of Lo-.
renzo was to be used for the younger
generation after his death. In the first
plan, four tombs were to be united
in one structure, but this was given
up in favor of two double tombs on
either side wall, one for the Duci, the
other for the Magnifici. The ultimate
solution was found, however, by allot-
ting the side walls to the Duci alone
in a curious combination of double
wall tombs and altar-piece.

Above the sarcophagi, a madonna
flanked by saints was envisaged, with
river-gods on the sides. In addi-
tion, the side walls would have shown
statues of Earth. and Heaven in the
niches flanking Juliano, and Truth and
Justice as counterparts for Lorenzo.
On top of the pilasters, were to be
empty thrones and two crouching
children; and-frescoes were planned
for the lunettes above the tombs.

In the chapel as it was achieved,
each ducal tomb depicts the neo-Pla-
tonic apotheosis ‘conceived by Ficcino.
Therefore, since in neo-Platonism the
human soul imprisoned in the body
is like the soul in Hades, the four
river gods which adorn the tombs may
be the four rivers of Hades. These
stand for all the evils which spring
from a single source, matter, and
would therefore signify the four-fold
aspect of matter enslaving the soul
on its birth inte the world.

If the river gods stand-for mat-
ter, the corresponding figures of the
times of day stand for the terrestrial
world, and Dawn, Day, Evening and
Night are intended to designate Time. :
The four times of day depict the life
on earth as actual suffering, and are
co-essential with the four humors
which determine the body, just as
Fire,’ Earth, Air, and Water corre-
spond to four temperaments in the
neo-Platonic system.

The images of Juliano and Lorenzo
emerge from the inner realms of mat-
ter. They are impersonal in charac-
ter, neither portraits nor personifica- °
tions. -They do, however, denote a
definite contrast, the antithesis be-
tween Juliano representing the active
life, and Lorenzo, the. contemplative.
According to neo-Platonic concepts,

-Continued on Page Four



Mrs. Gilbreth to Advise Students

(The following was given to the
News by the Dean’s Office.)

Mrs. Lillian M. Gilbreth, Vocatianal
Adviser in the Bureau of Recom
dations, will be at the college Seam
Tuesday, November thirtieth, through
Thursday, December second. She will’
speak to the seniors and graduate
students at a reception in the Dean-
ery on Tuesday evening and to the
freshmen on Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Gilbreth will have interviews in
the office of the Dean on Wednesday
and Thursday morning and any -stu-
dent who wishes to confer with her
should sign on the lists posted on
rehe bulletin board outside the Dean’s
office.

Mrs. Gilbreth will return to. Bryn
Mawr for a longer visit early in the
second semester. At this time the
sophomores and juniors who are in-
‘terested will be invited to meet her
and.students may again sign for in-
terviews.















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News Editor Copy Editor '
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Editors
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ELIZABETH PopPE, ’40
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MARGARET Howson, ’38 IsoTA TUCKER, '40

Business Manager
ETHEL HENKLEMAN, ’38

Assistants

ANNE LOUISE AXON, ’40
ELEANOR BAILENSON, ’39
EMILY CHENEY, 740
Mary Dimock, '39

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BARBARA STEEL, ’40

Advertising Manager Subscription Manager
ALIcE Low, ’38 | Mary T. RITCHIB, ’39

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The Riggers Are Coming

Another tradition ofthe brave Victorian era at Bryn Mawr is;

about to topple; Mr. Francis I. Stokes is planning to remove the busts
from Taylor. He feels that by modern standards these pieces of ‘statu-
ary are not beautiful or even attractive, and so he has condemned them.
He is also having the walls painted. . The change is scheduled to take
place in the Christmas vacation, when Mr. Stokes will visit the deserted
campus accompanied by a little party of riggers, who will remove the
busts from the building one by one and take them away to —_
unknown.

We feel most strongly that all Mr. Stokes’ efforts to modernize aed
beautify Taylor will be barren; our belief is that Taylor is basically and
structurally ugly.

unpleasing, does not hurt our eyes. We are just sentimental enough
to appreciate Taylor for its quaintness, and to us the busts, far too
large for their pedestals, severely glistening from every corner, present
an effect which is to us the very apotheosis of uncompromising individ-
ualism expressed by the whole building. We are. not of a mind to
deprive further generations of Bryn Mawr freshmen from a healthy
astringent shock on first setting foot in Taylor. We think that most of
the present students will agree with us; in which case let them speak
now before our symbolic and ancestral effigies are gone beyond recall,
like the snows of yester-year.

Taylor can never be called distinguished architecturally. Now, at
least it is distinguished by busts. Helpless students who wonder feebly
whichis Taylor can be tersely. directed to it: “The place with the busts.”
And besides being of beauty as landmarks, they: have a certain lamp-
post utility. Where will posters hang if Juno is removed? Where will
we hang after gruelling classes if we are deprived of Marcus Aurelius’
marble shoulder ?

The pith of our objections lies in the negative point of view. We
are growing gray with anxiety over the busts’ possible future. There
are only three harrowing solutions to the problem: they could be put in
the Metropolitan Museum, they could be made the basis of a rival
Busts’ and Co., they could be melted down and fashioned into cannon
balls. This is perhaps the most practical plan; we brighten at the
thought of a double row of cannon balls bordering all the campus paths.

Bust me no busts, says Mr. Stokes, prompted, “it is true by nothing
more than an honest desire for beauty and progress. But we, we like
a Taylor what is Taylor, and as someone once put it so wisely, though
you may dress a wolf in sheep’s clothing, you can’t change the nature
of the beast.



Support

The_ three benefit lectures scheduled for the beginning of .next
semester "provide a delightful and rewarding way to contribute to].
three deserving causes. Madame Lund, the Shan-Kar dancers and the
Vienna Choir Boys have all been enthusiastically appreciated by varied
audiences, and the last two; troupes will leave the United States soon
after their Bryn Mawr engagements.

More noteworthy, however, is the fact that student support of these
entertainments will increase the funds of the Mrs. Otis Skinner Work-
shop, the Deanery and the Bryn Mawr Hospital. The importance of the
proposed Workshop to the campus and of the Deanery to both students
and alumnae need not be emphasized. ie

_Amazingly limited, however, is the average student’s conception of
the college’s steady dependence on the facilities of the hospital (which,
éveryone mpist now be aware, is the only one near the Main Line).

Our contact is not only a question of emergencies, although eight appen-
dectomies alone were performed there on Bryn Mawr students last year.
_ It is rather a constant use of efficient hospital devices and laboratories,
' impossible for the college to possess, which have always been promptly
and ——_ vow at our disposal. On all occasions, as Dr. Leary
the News, hospital authorities have

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But the style of architecture, while aesthetically |

News Election |
The College News announces
with pleasure ‘the election of
Doris Turner, ’39, as, Staff Pho-
tographer.









EXCERPTS From EXILE



November sinteonth,
After two month of thorough train-
ling in the ‘calm, provincial life of
La Touraine, the Delaware group has
been completely overwhelmed by life
in the big city. Paris has an enor-
mous variety of exciting things to

do and see, and thinking that the
really crisp weather\may turn into
a permanent rain any day or that the
professors may get to work seriously
and not leave us any time, we have
been trying to do everything at once.

1 The result has been rather hard on

our allowances and stockings, but I
haven’t had time to feel tired. I only
have to stop at regular and frequent
intervals to refortify myself with
French food, whose reputation is not
exaggerated—hot chestnuts on the
street corners and French pastries
have no equivalent at home.

The Exposition, since no one seems
to know when it may close, was the
first sight which the group rushed. to
see. It gives the impression of an
infinite number of pages of elaborate,
expensive magazines come to life with
all the sparkling, disconnected , ex-
citement of a series of movie pre-
views. As I passed from Hungarian
peasant costumes, to careful replicas
of the valley of the Nile, to a Jap-
anese room full of bamboo, kimonos
and china, té-the Centre Regional,
where the niurente architectures of

yrovinte in France are lined up,
bit of Corsica rising up out of
the Seine--I was reminded of poring
over steamship ads. I felt com-
pletely out of the real world as I
walked past the high fountains of
the Trocadero, between the German
pavillion topped by a defiant eagle,
and the Russian pavillion facing it
with two equally determined Soviet
youths, through the British pavillion
filled -with pictures of the corona-
tion, sports clothes, leather goods
and hockey sticks;.I looked at rows
of beautiful china and crystal goblets,
the works of art of the most famous
jewelers, the brainstorms of Parisian
dress designers, doubtless the same
people draw in Vogue. But the
Exposition is not all artificiality.
I know I shall always remember
on a cold evening watching a man
cook us crépes on a hot grill, sugar
them, fold them up and hand them to
us with remarkable speed and dex-
terity.
‘ There was also the Armistice Day
parade—all Paris crowded as near to
the Champs Elyseés as possible. In
the weather and the tense atmosphere
perfect for a football game, the French
army marched and marched until we
look around to see if they were mak-
ing a circle around us. The helmets
and bayonets shone like mirrors.
Plumes of every color, the, brass
bands, the horses, the flags, the lines
of men were all in perfect order, and
the effect was awe-inspiring.

This is only a little bit, but you
can also imagine us clinging to the
back platform of a speeding bus, hang-
ing over the railing of the peanut gal-
lery at the Opéra Comique, walking
miles around Paris and enjoying every
minute of it.

MARGARET COMMISKEY.

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Alumna Will Exhibit Paintings

An exhibition of the paintings~of
Florance Waterbury, Bryn Mawr ’05,
Monday, December 6. Tea will be
served at 4.30.
. Miss Waterbury has had three in-
dividual exhibitions at the Montriss
Galleries in New York, ,the last one
in December, 1936. She studied
painting in, New York and Paris, and
the Chinese method in Peking, and
was also a student of drawing in
Rome. Miss Waterbury served as
Alumnae D
lege, 1931-1936.



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Deanery Party
The News rd heard rumors .
of a new sort of party to be
_ held. in the Deanery, December
fourteenth. The details will be
published next. week.





will open in the Common Room on}

r at Bryn Mawr Col-|.



The President—
.teceivéd the following letter
from. Dr. Panofsky.
Dear President Park:

I cannot look back on my.
Bryn Mawr lectures without a
' -feeling of serious regret that .
they have come to an end, and
a feeling of sincere gratitude
towards. the faculty, the stu-
dents and yourself; I have
never met with so much hospi-
tality, patience and intellectual
response, nor have I ever bene-
fited so much by intelligent ques-
tions, original suggestions and
helpful advice. Please accept
my and Mrs. Panofsky’s warm-
est thanks for everything which
has made our trips to Bryn
Mawr so perfectly charming. I
personally should be grateful if
you could be kind enough to ex-
press’ my gratitude to. all the
colleagues whom it was my good
fortune to meet, and to tell your
students that I have never more
keenly enjoyed addressing an au-
dience ‘and “answering ques-

tions” than at Bryn Mawr.
With our renewed thanks,

Sincerely and respectfully yours,
(Signed) ERWIN PANOFSKY.







In Philadelphia



: -Movies

Aldine: Nothing Sacred, a rowdy
comedy about reporters, with Carole
Lombard and Fredric March.

Arcadia: Conquest, the love-story of
Napoleon, with Charles Boyer and
Greta Garbo.

Boyd: It’s Love I’m After, an amus-
ing farce, with Leslie Howard.

Earle: 45 Fathers, a comedy for
those who like Jane Withers..

Europa: Mayerling, Austria’s great
tragic romance, with Charles Boyek..

Fox: Submarine D-1, a .sea-story,
with Wayne Morris. |

Karlton: Live, Love and Learn, with
Robert Montgomery and Rosalind
Russell.

Keith’s: The oneness a frigid and
old-fashioned operetta with excellent
singing by Jeanette MacDonald and
Allen Jones. +

Locust Street: The Hurricane, a
South Sea drama: by the authors of
tee Bounty trilogy, with Jon Hall and
Mary Astor.

Stanley: A Damsel in Distress, a P.
G. Wodehouse comedy, with Fred
Astaire.

Stanton: West of Shanghai, a dull
drama, with Boris Karloff.

Theater
Chestnut: Three Waltzes, an oper-
etta with music by the Strauss
dynasty, with Margaret Banning and
Michael Bartlett.

Music
Philadelphia Orchestra: Leopold
Stokowski conducting—Stillman Kel-
ley: Macbeth; Atterberg: Varmlands
Rhapsody; Wagner: Love Music from
“Tristan and Isolda;” Tchaikovsky:
Symphony No. 5 in E Minor.

Local: Movies

Ardmore: Wednesday and Thurs-
day, The Bride Wore Red, with Joan
Crawford; Friday, Saturday, Sunday
and Monday, The Prisoner of Zenda,'
with Ronald Colman; Tuesday, Over
the Goal, with June Travis and Wil-
Kiam Hopper; Wednesday, Sophie
Lang Goes West, with Gertrude
Michael.

Seville: Wednesday and Thursday,
Make Way for Tomorrow, with Victor
Moore and Beulah Bondi; Friday and
Saturday, It’s All Yours, with Ma-
deleine Carroll and*Francis Lederer.

Wayne: Tuesday, Wednesday, That
Certain Woman, -with Bette Davis;
Thursday, Varsity Show, with Dick
Powell; Friday and Saturday, Dan-
ger—Love At Work, with Jack Haley
and Mary Boland. |

Suburban: Tuesday and Wednes-
day, Lloyds of London, with Tyrone
Power; Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day, Danger—Love At Work, with
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Dance to ‘Follow Play
The Undergraduate Associa- ~
tion »,announces a dance to be
held, after the play, on Satur-
day, November 4, in the Gym-
nasium. © Admission: $2.00 a
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Princeton ‘A ctors Reveal
Impressions of College



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Continued from Page One

on campus. “Typical,” said he, “of
what I have heard.” His idea of per-
fection in a woman is one who leaves,
her nails unpainted, has brains, un-
derstands football, makes up in pri-
vate, is a good housewife, and can
discuss the Spanish situation. He
sadly admits that he is not in love.
And small wonder, Mr. Etherington.

Handicapped .by his part as the
Rector in A Bill of Divorcement,
old Norton said little about wimmin
except: that they ve disillusioned
him. He is a pre-m@Uical student and
acts only as a hobby. He also noticed
that girls at Bryn Mawr wear blue
jeans, but refrained from comment.

Blond, suave Bill Larson, 41,
lightly casts aside his role as an old
man and discusses the weaker sex
with all the assurance of an experi-
enced man of the Princeton Fresh-
man world. ,He, too, acted with the -
Farragut Players ‘but is nevertheless
thrilled at the prospect of a feminine
audience. He would not mind, he tells
us comfortingly, attending Bryn
Mawr. ‘This is possibly due to his
discovery that our. architecture is
very like that of Princeton and makes
him feel at home. The bright young
embodiment of his ideal. resides in
New York, which more or less puts
the screws on our cradle-snatchers.

Jim Smith, ’88, who has the diffi-
cult part of Hilary in this play, hopes
to be a Professor of Philosophy, in
which career dramatic talent is of
great value as we already khow.
Glancing meditatively around Good-
hart, he explained that he did not ex-
pect to perform in a church. Since he
is a Philadelphian, he is hard to im-
press and, like most Main Liners,
claims a pretty thorough knowledge of
our institution.

He modestly asks that a woman be
pretty, with a will of her own and
without too much paint, but he has
not found her yet. Mr. Smith ended
with the unusual statement that our
dungarees just overwhelm him. He
had heard that we wore them, but
couldn’t. believe it was true.

” Conclusion: In view of this research,
you had,better try to look up a skirt
somewhere, to wear to the Players’
Club dance. >, c

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spectators watched a strong Swarth-
more hockey team defeat the Bryn
Mawr varsity, 3-0, in a fast, open
game. The Swarthmore forwards
kept the ball in Bryn Mawr territory
most of the time, but good defense
play by our team prevented a er
score. = 9

With the opening whistle Serarthi-
jmore made an immediate and deter-
mined attack on the Bryn Mawr goal.
Their forwards used diagonal passes,
getting rid of the ball before they
were tackled, and sending: it ahead
each time. The Bryn Mawr passes
were often too squarely across, so-
that the forwards had to hang back to
take them.

In the first half Bryn Mawr made
a sudden spurt which carried the ball
to the Swarthmore circle, but it was
stopped by their able goalie, and Bryn
Mawr never really threatened again.

Swarthmore made the first goal
after a penalty corner. Leighton
managed to stop another hard shot,
but her clearing kick was feeble and
sent the ball right into the oncoming
forwards, who shot past her for a

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in its just-sustained tremulous bal-
ance.

The poem which happens to interest
me most is H. A. Corner’s G. M. H.
It reaches in its final line that in-
tensity of passionate feeling which
gives the authentic and triumphant
note to poetry, This is what I miss

in the other poems. They exhibit re-
pression. It is as if these poems were
not asked to earry the full force of
the apprehension, confusion or despair
which it. is suggested that their
authors feel. But the essénce of
poetry is complete .articulation—the
idea being that -where life fails
language succeed® The triumphant
note is bas ha to the sentiment, but
to the po : Look at Baudelaire’s
Un Voyage a Cythére where the very
extremity of disgust can be magnifi-
é¢ent because expressed to the last
sylHable. It is a question of the locus
of restraint. The control should be
within the poem—control of one ex-
pression by another—not exercised
from without like the control which a
well-bred person brought up in the
Anglo-Saxon tradition uses in his so-
cial conversation. Perhaps the au-
thors do not realize the full impor-
tance of poetry. Like so many con-
temporary poets they seem over-
whelmed by distress at the discovery

that life, merely as lived, is inade-|.

quate. For some-reason, difficult to

discover, this is taken to be a pe-

culiarly modern fact. They hesitate
unhappily ift their distress, offering
restrained protest, instead of passing
on to the triumphant victory of ex-
pression over experience.



Canon Dimnet Talks
On ‘My Two Worlds’

Continued from Page One



little. He met nobody but a few
friends; he never felt conscious that
he was seeing the real America. “It
was a Vaéation, and an interlude; and
although I dropped a few prejudices,
it did not really count.” However,
it did found an interest in the United
States which was strengthened by the
friendships he formed with Americans
during the war.

His second visit was made in 1919
to raise funds for the French hos-
pitals that had been destroyed by the
Germans. He had never tried to col-
lect money before, and did not know
how... Moreover; he-arrivéd in the
midst of an enormous campaign to
help home charities. Writing letters,
publishing articles, and giving lec-
tures for the hospitals, he first
learned, he says, “the American kind-
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teachers are inclined to praise the
the capacity: for response to sincere
emotion. . . . The literary people and
the colleges took pity on me, and as-

surhed charge of my campaign.” At
the end of his visit, he had obtained
over a hundred thousand dollars.

The great popular success of the
Art of Thinking in America also
brought him many letters that gave
him a.deeper insight into the Ameri-
can character and “a feeling that I
was being adopted.” He now manages
to divide his year between France and
America: his “old. world% and his “new
world.”

This dual nationality, he went on
to say, enables him to look at both
cultures impartially, and see thiat
where the French system of educa-
tion emphasizes the intellect, the
American stressés the will, the urge
to create. The American boy is “sim-
ply left in contact with life, to* ab-
sorb what he can from it.” None of
the French critical point of -view is
taught; there is no prejudice or in-
feriority complex about creative writ-
ing, such as one finds in France. Un-
fortunately, in their anxiety to re-
lease the creative instinct, American
children’ too much and to make things
too easy for them. The result is an
enormous literary output and an
equally enormous output of sloppy
writing. “Margaret Mitchell, for in-
stance, as a little gin probably re-
ceived 98 in school. She will go on
writing and her next book will be less
geod than her first.”

The ideal literature, Canon Dimnet
believes, would be a combination of the
French critical attitude with Ameri-
can creativeness. This literature will
come as the two races draw closer
and closer to one another, and “blend
their various qualities, as I have tried

| to blend them in myself.”





‘CURRENT EVENTS -

(Gleaned. from Mr. Fenwick)
Secretary Hull’s. ensuing tariff
treaty with Great Britain{ and the

meeting between English and French
premiers formed the most important
features of this past week’s news.
The treaty with England, said Mr.
Fenwick, answers critics of Cordell
Hull, who accuse him of only dealing
with economically unimportant coun-
tries. Thé only obstacle to the treaty
is the colonial and dominien trade
of Great Britain. In 19382, at the
Ottawa Conference, preferential tar-
iffs were given to dominions of the
British Empire. This new treaty will
break down the Ottawa Conference,
and consequently, Canada and Aus-
tralia are cool to the plan. How-
ever, it is quite probable that these
dominions can be brought into the gen-
eral treaty already agreed upon.
_The° forthcoming French visit to







London will turn on the possibilities |.

of France giving in to German de-
mands, or standing with England in
a refusal to give Germany a free
hand in Europe. Which of the two
will be presented to Premier. Chau-
temps and M. Delbos is not known.
However, it is not probable that the
English Conservatives or the French
will sacrifice Central Europe. The
important problem is to bargain suc-
cessfully with Germany without this
sacrifice.

Congress, after three weeks of fili-
buster against the Lynching Bill, is
now engaged in discussing the new
Farm Bill, but will turn to the lynch-
ing problem soon. The bill, advo-
cated by Senator Wagner of New
York calls for payment of damages
to the lynched negro’s family by the
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sional actors played ‘inthe picture.
Nevertheless, The End of St. Peters-
burg’ is exciting and artistic, if
stightly cumbrous, entertainment.

Night Mail, a modern English film,
is an effort to inform the public about
the London to Glasgow mail express
which roars across England every 24
hours. The roar is realistically recre-
ated through a little vitaphone ma-
chine to th@detriment of the garbled
cockney spoken by sorters and car-
riers who hurry back and forth in
repitious succession.

During a lull in the noisy passage
of the iron ‘horse, a voice Hystérically
recites a poem of W. H. Auden about
mail. Of this the audience catches a
few words, but the express begins to
thunder again and the end is com-
pletely lost in a jumble of words,
music and machinery.

The emphasis of the picture, aside
from noise, is on movement.” Actual
scenic photography is excellent and
ong view dissolves quickly into an-
other. This at times is effective, but
at others moves too fast for the



crime occurred. Southern oppesition
seems to doom the bill.

The Philippines, after much agita-
tion for quick independence, are now
thinking of dominion status. This
change of face is due to the danger
of annexation by Japan, and refusal
of isolationist America to help the
weak state. The Filipinos feel the
protection of América is more to be
desired than the ruthless exploitation
of the Japanese.

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a vague impression of a tugboat sit-
ting on a cottage rooftop. The total
information gleaned from this ‘docu-
mentary picture” is that the night
mail train roars across - England,
a fact: all of us had suspected.

The American-made Plough That
Broke the Plains is similarly educa-
tive, being an effort of the A. A. A. to
explain the causes of the dust storms
and to show what they are doing to
remédy resulting conditions. How-
ever, it has the advantage of more
subdued subject matter and a greater
feeling for pictorial beauty. Plains,
cattle and clouds film well. The ar-
tistic detail shots of relevant objects,
like that of the broken tractor buried
in caked mud, add the necessary emo-
tional touches.

Fade-outs and dissolving shots are
used more frequently in this than in
Night Mail, particularly in the bit on
wheat production during the war. A
line of tanks rise’ over a muddy bank
and dissolve to a line of tractors com-
Less
subtle is the ticker spewing forth end-
less streamers of ticker tape until it
suddenly crashes to the floor.

The musical accompaniment written
by Virgil Thomson ranges from cow-
boy songs to stately dirges played by
a whole symphony orchestra. An
ironic flavor was added by the Dox-
ology loudly booming as a farmer and
his family leave their destroyed home
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Neo-Platonic Ideas Are
Traced by Panofsky

Continued from Page One
‘ “—



man can attain beatitude only by one
or the other; as the first, he is a
perfect votary of Jupiter, as-the sec-
ond, a perfect votary of Saturn. Thus
the bleowart and extrovert types de-
veloped: the Saturnian, who is par-
simonious and closed to the world, and
the Jovian, who is: generous and open
to the world.. .The open composition
of Juliano and the closed composi-
tion of Lorenzo illustrate this. Lo-
renzo’s face is purposely darkened by
a heavy shadow and is characteristic
of Saturnian melancholy;.his finger
closes his mouth, and -his elbow rests
on a closed cash-box. Juliano holds
a princely sceptre and proffers two
coins, showing his jovial traits.

The consummation of Michelange-
lo’s program is symbolized by the
motifs adorning the highest zone
above the tombs. An empty throne
was the symbol of the invisible pres-
ence of an immortal, and was pat-
terned after pagan representations.
In Rome, it was carried to the thea-
ter, a privilege granted only to Caesar
and deified emperors.

A fresco had been intended for the
cupola, and it was suggested to Mich-
elangelo by Sebastiano, as a joke, that
Ganymede be represented as St. John
the Evangelist. In the neo-Platonic
interpretation, as opposed to the real-
istic Roman one, Ganymede signifies
mens humana, while his companions
are the lower faculties of the soul.
Jupiter therefore transports the mind
to heaven by means of an eagle. The
Ganymede to whqm Sebastiano refers
is one made by Michelangelo for his
friend Thomaso, which shows Gany-
mede in a state of trance, the soul
divorced from the body, in truly Pla-
tonic passion. The drawing was ac-
companied by one representing Ti-
taeus, one of the four great sinners
in Hades, whose liver was fated to
be devoured by a vulture. Since the
misery of lovers is likened to Titaeus
feeding a vulture with his liver, the
two drawings were counterparts, a
Michelangelesque version of the theme
of Sacred and Profane Love, where
both forms of love are shown as
aspects of an unhappy existence.

The third drawing explains Mich-
elangelo’s attitude toward Cavalieril
It’ depicts the fall of Phaeton, the
fate of a mortal who overstepped the
bounds of his allotted place, and ex-
presses the feeling of inferiority
which is apparent in Michelangelo’s
letters to Cavalieri: -The temerity of
Phaeton is compared to Michelange-
lo’s imaginary presumption in writ-
ing.

The last of the compositions exe-
cuted for Cavalieri was the Chil-

dren’s Bacchanale, which more than
any other work seems to be per
with the pagan spirit.

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16.—Mr. Charles Fen-
wick, Professor of Economy,’ spoke

to the students on “Neutrality,” its
meaning, history and present-day ap-
plication. The lecture followed the
history of the neutrality policy, be-
ginning with a definition of personal
neutrality, through the American
Constitution and the League of Na-
tions,: to the present Sino-Japanese
situation, closing with the question-
ability of neutrality as a means of
securing peace.

November



enced by Titian, by Roman sarcophagi,
and especially by Piero dj. Cosimo,
but where Piero’s painting is comic,
Michelangelo’s is hopelessly dejected.
Its symbolic content is hard to ex-
plain, but it might be another repre-
sentation of the myth of Ganymede.



evince similar expressional qualities,
and._certainly. belong. to the same
period, though both are. free inven-

tions, of a purely imaginative char-|-

acter. One is the so-called Archers,
in which nine figures shoot arrows at
a Herm. The archers are not pro-
vided with weapons, for Michelangelo
wanted to convey the idea that the
figures were darts, tools of a Force
beyond their will and consciousness.
Since only Desire, which is conscious-
ly aiming at Beauty, is Love, one may
assume that these creatures. are di-
rected by natural desire toward the
goal of Happiness, and that the satyr
in the background is the personifica-
tion of the natural forces by which
they are stirred into action.
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The Dream, is more easily explained.
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_ . Undergraduates and’ graduate
students who have bought series
tickets may choosé their séats in
the Common Room of Goodhart
Hall on Thursday, December 2,
from 10-12 a. m. and from 1.30-
5 p.m. Allocation will be made
in order of personal appearance.
No seat will be allotted until the
card has been filled in and
turned in through the hall repre-
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ing from heaven blows a trumpet at
the youth’s ear, signifying that the
mind is called back to virtue from the

youth reclines symbolizes instability.



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The series of drawings-.made..for
Cavalieri are a .coherent confession,

expressed by a reversion to classical
antiquity. After 1534, Michelangelo
developed in the opposite direction.
The Last Judgment bears earmarks
of the transitional period,. and his
latest works show incorporeal trans-
parency, and an actual use of Gothic
prototypes.

Michelangelo solved the tension be-
tween the Christian and the classical
by way of surrender. Through him

e principles of reality had been
shifted to the sub-conscious, but such
subjective deliverance had its dangers.
It tended to disintegrate both the
Christian and. the classical, and the
results of this disintegration are still
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