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BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1938

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Vienna:Choir Boys
Display Fine Sense
Of Music, Comedy

Solemn Faces Metamorphose
Into Gemutlich Viennese
Charm in Operetta





‘VERSATILITY OF TENORS;
ASTONISHES AUDIENCE



Goodhart, January 10.—For those
‘of us who thought of the Vienna
Choir Boys :as a select group of little
angels, their performance here was
something of a revelation. For they
proved themselves not orily excellent

‘ musicians, but actors, too, with a fine

sense of the comic. Their program
was varied, opening with: a group. of

_ four ecclesiastical works, continuing

with anentire operetta, and ending
with selections of Mozart, Strauss, and
German and Italian folk songs.

For the first third of the program
they retained their nomenclature as
choir-boys, dressed.in black robes with
white embroidered stoles, and stand-
ing’ with folded arms and very serious
angelic faces. They. weré particularly
seraphic in’ Mozart’s ‘Laudate. Domi-
num, which combined an exceptional-
ly fine soprano solo with the sensitive
support of the full thoir, The. open-
ing selection, Haec Dies of Gallus
was perhaps a bit unfinished in tone
quality, but this criticism cannot ap-
ply to any. other part of the group.
The choir concluded the religious sec-
tion with another work of Gallus, the
Ascendit Deus, an encore sung with
finesse and considerable appreciation
of its contrapuntal intricacies.

In the second part, everything
changed except their voices. The
smallest boy, aged nine and a half,
who looks like a rabbit that has just
been pulled out of a hat,-turned into
a coquettish girl; another, whose grav-
ity in Part I had concealed a dimple,
became Mizzi, a vivacious and utterly
appealing heroine. They gave On the
Beautiful Blue Danube, “Operetta in
One Act; Music by Johann Strauss,”
and whiletheir musical director, Vic-
tor Gomboz, played the piano in a cor-
ner, Lilliputians danced and sang.

But their acting was as _ sophisti-
cated as that of the D’Oyly Carte,
and twice -as imaginative. as Grand
Opera. Herr Hecht, the rich, ugly,
stuttering fisherman, who could not

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Mrs. McAneny Advises
Theatrical Aspirants



Experience, . Willingness to Start
Without Pay Are Assets



Common Room, January 11.—

“There are no jobs for college girls
in ‘the theater,”. said Mrs. Herbert
McAneny, speaking at a vocational tea
this afternoon. “I visited many of my

friends on Broadway during Christ-
mas. vacation, and this is what they
told me.” Nevertheless, she added
that in spite of the discouraging. ad-
vice of people who are successful in
various fields in the theatre, new tal-
ent does constantly.enter the theatri-
cal world, and she suggested the
most practical methods of beginning
careers in acting, directing, technical
and executive work for the. stage.
Expérience is the most valuable
asset in applying for any kind of a
job. The ambitious beginners must
prepare to work for a considerable
length of time without pay before
nding a secure position. Mrs. Mc-
Aneny got her first theatrical job
when assisting Miss Minor White
Latham teach playwriting at Colum-
bia. A friend who was doing play-
reading for the Actors’ Theater gave
her part-time apprentice work, and
later an introduction to Gilbert Miller
which led to her engagement as regu-
lar playreader. “This man,” said
Mrs. McAneny, “met Mr. Mitfer on a
boat coming back from Europe;
played shuffleboard with him or some-
thing. He knew the day Mr. Miller

was arriving again from England}.
with lots of new scripts, and he alsoJ

knew he had fired his playreader be-
fore he left, so I arrived just at the
right moment and got the job.”
Mrs. McAneny told this anecdote
as an illustration of the fact that
contacts in the theatrical world are
very helpful in getting auditions, and
in meeting influential people. ‘A let-
ter to a producer will almost always
get*you a chance to read for him,”
She said, “but it.won’t get you a part
unless it happens to be from someone
he is afraid of, like a wealthy mo-
tion picture magnate.’ A summer
theater is a good place to make con-
tacts, and study at dramatic schools
such as the American Academy of
Dramatic Arts in New York and the
Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh is
even more valuable. A- season at an
apprentice group of a summer theater
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Exhibition of Paintings in Common Room

Includes Chirico, Chacal, Friez, Survage



Mr. Howard Gray’s Collection
Shows Variety of Subject
And Technique



The exhibition in the Common Room-
of paintings from the collection of
Howard Gray.of-the-History Depart-
ment extends in time from about 1910
‘to the present; in technique, from the
crude realism of Mare Chacal to the
surrealism of de Chirico, and from the
“impressionism of one’ of Cezanne’s pu-
pils, Ojton Friez, to the abstraction
“of Survage. Most of the painters are
familiar in hale, at lea’t, and it’ is
interesting to see them represented by
works which are perhaps less charac-
teristic than those chosen for exhibi-
‘tion in museums.

We usually associate Chirico, for
instance, with broken columns and
horses, but here he has painted Le
Printemps du Destin, in which the

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thought of spring causes a tree to}

appear inside a room. This is easier
to understand than the usually com-
~plex ‘workings of a surrealistic mind,
«but it is not the kind of thing that
could emotionally: affect anybody but
the artist. To us, a tree in a room
means a tree in a pees and Sone
__maore,. eVeRy.. ~~ Chirico’s aie unusual ‘(iuak ateohes.
On the other hand, Mare Chacal’s
‘Soldiers has a sombre brutality about
it that makes it powerful. It is in-
teresting to see that Boardman
Robinson illustrates Russian novels
with the same kind of dark crudity |

Keepers of the Light is almost Bla-
yan in its spirituality.

O. Zadkin, Chacal’s countryman,
seems to prove the finer-grained side
of the Russian character. We do not
pretend to understand why Russian
Woman:.Combing.-Her--Hair-shouldbe
so out of’ drawing; we can only ask
ourselves whether this is a defect; and
if it is, whether it is justified by
composition or color. We think it is
justified in the Woman at the Win-
dow, who is strangely fascinating with
her flat face and glowing throat. The
third: painting,- Two Boys; has’-some-'
thing of Chacal’s harshness. a

The Kisling is immediately recog-
nizable because of its extraordinary
transparency, and the clear bright-
ness of it colors. And no one who
heard Katchamakoff last year could
fail to appreciate one of the pictures
that was in last year’s exhibition.
His work is different from most of
the moderns, and interestiarg because
it shows undistorted form by line and
the minimum. of- shading. —

Of the three remaining paintings,
two can be classed ‘together in a
rough way: Survage’s Composition
With Figu?e, and Lureat’s Land-

acme: by the Sea.,..Both have sym-

‘bolic-locking women Standing against.

an abstract background. Survage’s
Composition is done in cubistic masses
of color; Lureat’s- clouds are a little
like Dali’s, but not so finely drawn.
Maria Blanchard’s Portrait of a Bay
Lis ruddy, i to us, uninteresting.

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speakers





Philip Jacobs Speaks
On Local Peace Work



Service Committee is in Touch
With Student Organizations,
Labor Groups



PANEL DISCUSSION SET



Common’ Room, Tuesday, January
4.—Philip Jacobs, in charge of peace
activities in this district, spoke on the
work that is being carried on by the
Peace Section of his organization, the
American Friends Service Committee.
Mr. Jacobs was formerly connected
with the Emergency Peace Campaign
which, however, was only 4 two year
project to arouse interest in peace.

The work done by the campaign has
now been transferred to the Service
Committee. There are two principle
fields in which it acts, in connection
with student organizations and among
labor groups.

Through the United Peace Com-
mittee which aims for unity in the
peace movement, and with the Na-
tional’ Peace Conference which is try-
ing to maintain a common program in
the face of varying opinions within
it, the Service Committee keeps in
close touch with the A. S. U., the Y.
W. C. A. and the League of Nations
Association. Students work with them
off as well as. on campus in their
efforts “for rural education and are,
says’ Mr. Jacobs, the most impressive
and effective workers on this job.

Rural education is carried on dur-
ing*the summer by small groups of
students who, after two weeks of
training, go out to various towns for
eight week periods. There they try
to influence the leaders of the com-
munity, Rotary Club, Labor Union
leaders and others, to form peace or-
ganizations and to take legislative
action toward ~this end. They dis-
tribute literature and form study
groups to continue their work through-
out the' year.

Many of the Labor Unions are not
as yet aware of their stake in peace
or their power to take decisive action
now. There are two groups working
in this relatively -new field and the
Committee expects to enlarge its ac-
tivity in it.

In February and early March,. the
United Peace Committee is holding a
conference at Swarthmore composed
of representatives from various col-
leges. Their purpose is to discuss a
program for peace and, since commit-
tees of students and faculty will be
arranged to do preparatory work, the
should be well-informed.
Bryn Mawr expects to send represen-
tatives.

A further program has been planned
by our Peace Council. On March 4,
there will be a Panel Discussion on
the Far Eastern Crisis at which Miss
Speer, Dr. Chang, Chinese Harvard
graduate, and Haru Matsui, Japanese
authoress, will speak. On April 27, at
11 A. M., a Peace Demonstration will
be held. The speaker will be Vera
Michels, Dean of the Foreign’ Policy
Association.

Mr. Jacobs urges that if we can
secure several students to join the

‘sfinmer” rural” education cémmittees,

it will have a vital effect on our Peace
Council because of their direct ex-
perience and increased knowledge.
Those interested should give their
names to Louise Morley, Merion.



MISS SWINDLER IS HONORED

The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin
of January, 1938, announced that Miss
Mary Hamilton Swindler, Ph.D., 1912,

Professor of Classical Archaeology at

member of the Royal Society of Arts,
London. Ordinarily candidates for
election .to the Society must be pro-
posed by three Fellows, but Miss
Swindler- was~elec..- 2 ea
the rule that the Council of the So-
ciety may waive the proposal require-
ment in the case of “persons of high
standing. or whose interests are con-
nected with the work of the Society.”

Foundéd in 1754, the Society is one of





‘Tthe three oldest learned and scientific
} svranisations | in Rogiend..





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COLLEGE CALENDAR

Friday, January 14.—Last
day of lectures.

Saturday, Januagy thDie
cussion of. consumer co-opera-
tion. 8 p, m. Deanery.

Monday, January 17.—Mid-
year examinations begin.

Friday, January 28.—Mid-
year examinations end.

Tuesday, February 1.—Begin-
ning of the second semester.
_. Tuesday, February 8—Con-
cert by Madame Engel Lund.
Goodhart, 8.30.

Saturday, February
Freshman Show.

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Lash Redefines A.S.U. Aims

At Vassar Convention



Advocates Adoption of Policy
Of Collective Security



Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.
Y., December 27.—At the National
Convention. of the American Students’
Union, Joseph Lash, in his opening
report, redefined the objectives and the
policy of the organization. He made
a plea for unity in the student move-
ment. and expressed a hope that in
spité of differences of opinion with-
in the A. S. U., the fundamental
agreement of its members upon some
of the issues would keep the organ-
ization intact.

In respect to peace, he expressed
the desirability of“Yremoving the Ox-
ford Oath from the program of. the
A. S. U. and of adopting a concr€te
policy of collective security. This does

|not mean, Mr.gLash said, ‘that the A.

S. U. wants.in any. sense to involve
the United States in a foreign war,
but wishes to form an actiye peace
policy, rather than to continue to es-
pouse the negative position of isola-
tionism, which the Oxford Oath im-
plies. He proposed, therefore, an em-
bargo-and boycott. Mr. Lash also
said that the A. S. U. should oppose
the preparations of the war depart-
ment for a Mobilization Day; support
the Nye-Kvale bill, which abolishes
eompulsory R. O. T. C.; and in accord-
ance with the rest of its peace pro-
gram, should support Spanish democ-
racy in the fight against Fascism.
He urged A. S. U. members to pro-
test the cuts in the National Youth
Administration and prepare an even
stronger drive for the passage of the
National Youth Act, which extends the
work now being done by. the N. Y. A.
and makes it permanent. Mr. Lash
advised students to be in close co-
operation with the trade union move-
ment, and praised the work done~in
this field at Harvard, where the chap-
ter has investigated and taken action
in many of the local labor problems.
In order to further the aims of the
A. S. U., political action in support
of candidates® who are working for
some of its objectives should be taken
by the various chapters. In closing,
Mr. Lash expressed a desire that the
organization of the A. S. U. would
Continued on Page Four

PEACE COUNCIL-HEARS_
DEMONSTRATION PLANS





Pembroke West, January 10.—At a
meéting of the Péace Council, “the
Committee report was made and sug-
gestions were discussed for the new
Constitution, which is to be drawn up
for the ‘Council.’ The rest of the
meeting was devoted to a considera-
tion of plans for three peace demon-
strations in which the Council is
interested. +

On March 2, Miss Margaret Bailey
Spear, Bryn Mawr alumna and dean
of the English Y’en-Ching University,
Miss Haru Matsui, Japanese writer,
and Dr. Charles Chang, of the Ameri-
can. Friends of* the Chinese People,
will speak at an open forum on the
far-Eastern crisis. . The second. meet-
“is the Regional. Students’ Peace
Institute at Swarthmore, March 5, to
which the Council plans to send a
delegation. Finally, the Council has
charge of the annual Peace Demon-
stration at Bryn Mawr, April 22 or
27. Mrs. Vera Micheles Dean, of the
Foreign Policy Association, vil be.
the chief speaker. — ”

Lord Marley Says
Eventual Chinese



Japan Aims to Rule Asiatic
Mainland, to Gain Outlet
For Their Surpluses

AN ENGLISH-AMERICAN '
ACCORD IS NECESSARY





‘Goodhart Hall, January 5.—“It
is within the rights of. interna-
tional law to sell arms to China,” said
Lord Marley when he spoke on the
Far East last ' Wednesday _ night.
“There are,” he believes, “very great
possibilities of eventual Chinese vic-
tory ... and the only way to accom-
plish it is for the people to join ta-
gether and maintain those supplies to
help China defend herself. A
personal boycott has very little effect
on Japanese economy.” 4

“It is important,” he continued,
“that British and Americans under-
stand one another,” for a prejudice
has. grown up between them which
can only be eliminated “by analysis
of the Far Eastern situation from an
objective point of view.”

_Japan has two aims: The domina-
tion of the whole Asiatic mainland
and the Pacific, thus aiming against
democracy as a hindrance to dictator-
ship in Japan; and the acquisition of
land for surplus population and raw
materials along with a market for her
surplus. “Surplus population,” Lord
Marley commented, “merely means the
stupidity of the government in not
providing work maintenance for the
people. ,Japan has no surplus popu-
lation.”’ Moreover, besides being prac-
tically self-sufficient, she has never
been known to colonize any. country
except to a negligible extent. After
42 years of control in Formosa there
are exactly 200 Japanese families liv-
ing there.

With England and France as her
imperialistic predecessors she is jus-
tified in seeking some control overseas
since her own resources are inade-
quate, But Japanese intention does
not end here, for, Lord Marley
pointed out with some degree of sar-
casm, “The Japanese do not want an
‘open door’ in China, but one way
passage for Japanese goods only.”
North China, rich in coal, iron, salt,
wool and cotton, is tempting because

tures since the war with China began.
A further. effort toward self-suffi-
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Mr.’ Crenshaw Explains

Discovery of Isotopes



Biologists Use Heavy Hydrogen
In Modern. Experiments ©



* Common. Room,
the third meéting.of the Seience-Club
James L. Crenshaw of the chemistry
department spoke on. Heavy Hydrogen.
He traced the experiments leading to
the discovery of the heavy isotopes of
hydrogen, and explained how almost

Mr. Crenshaw described briefly a few
-of the experiments that are now being»
carried out with this heavy water.
Chemists used to hold two beliefs
that have since been proved false:
they believed that the elements were
unchangeable; and that all atoms of
a substance were’ of equal. weight.
These fundamental assumptions were
completely changed by the discovery
of radio-activity, and by the invention
of methods to measure the weight of
single atoms. ©

The-radio-active-elements furnished —
proof that'an element may have more
than one. atomic weight. As Uranium
disintegrates it should give lead with
an atomic weight of 206; Thorium
should... give...lead_. with an atomic. .
weight of 208. Usually”
obtains a mixture of the two kinds a
lead with an average atomic weight
of 207.2. Two atoms of the same ele-
ment having the same chemical prop-
erties but different atomic ein
have been sfamed isotopes.

Early “#xperimenters with teotaines:

Continued on Page Four



“Victory is Possible

of the doubling of the state expendi-_

pure heavy water can. be obtained. -

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Politics in the A. S. U.

During Christmas vacation 20,000 students received the attention
of President Roosevelt, John L. Lewis, the: Times, Life agd Time. “In
the past the A. S. U. has been condemned and ignored by reactionary
sceptics as an organization run by and for the ommunist Party. In
spite of the fact that the Executive Committee has always been demo-
cratically elected, the suspicious have never forgotten the time when the
Executive Committee of thirty contained eight Communists and eight

Socialists.

However, the December Convention has made it quite clear

that the A. S. U, is not an extended membership drive for the Com-

munist Party.

The fact that final decision as to alignment of the Union .with
"political parties was left up to the individual chapters, indicates the
determination of the National Executive Committee to avoid aligning
itself with any political party. More evidence that all is not Commu-

innocence,
against him, and he felt forced to
retire to travel on the Continent un-
til everything blew over.

The President—
_will be one of 400 representa-
tives of: American’ and foreign
colleges and universities ‘invited
to attend’ the formal inaugura-..
tion of Dr. Oliver ©. Carmich-
ael as chancellor of Vanderbilt
University in Nashville, Ten-
nessee, on February 5. Dele-
gates to the inauguration will
take part in a symposium last-
ing two days, on higher edu-
cation in the South,

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WIT’Ss EXD

THE RETURN OF ALGAE

The personal peregrinations of Alger-
non Swinburne Stapleton-Smith, or.
LOST IN A LONDON, FOG.

(This serial, which was temporarily
discontinued last year, is so compli-
cated in plot that the author could
not possibly summarize the preceding
chapters in fewer are 50,000 words.—
Ed.)

For years London saw and heard











nothing of Algernon Swinburne Sta-
_pleton-Smith, ‘son of Leftenant the

Honorable the Late Jeoffrey Leslie
Rambant Smith, and Mrs. Stapleton-
Smith, of Scuffle-on-the-Bustle, Hants,
Pants, Bucks, England. The political
scandal unmasked when Boris J. Bes-

stead, Jr., arrested the unsuspecting

Algae at his rendezvous with a false
Bolshevik agent rocked the banks of

the Thames for nine days: and nine
nights.

Although those in the know
at the Foréign Office realized Algae’s
public feeling ran high

While staying for several months at
Ste. Jeanne d’Are des Pins, an ob-

Theater Review







(Especially contributed by Mr. Ar-
thur Colby Sprague.) ge
At the Forrest Theater on Decem-

| ber 17, Mr, Maurice Evans made his

first appearance in this country as
Falstaff in King Henry IV, Part-One.

In, these days of casting by ‘type,
it has been exciting to see Mr. Evans

pass .securely from Shaw’s timid

: Dauphin to Napoleon in St. Helena,
|and from Napoleon to Richard II.

His transition from Richard to Fal-
staff was perhaps even more startling.
Here, at least externally, was Falstaff
to the life: Falstaff’s shrewd eyes
and whitening beard; a sufficient and
symmetrical rotundity; above all, a
voice very “English” still, but “elderly

tand fat, like its possessor—a .gruff|

and grumpy voice, though one capable
of clamorous sonorities during” the
robbery (“On, bacons, on!”) and of
little triumphs of elocution ;in the play
scene. One member of the audience
told me she had been listening all
the afternoon for Richard’s tones, and
had not heard them once.

We saw his Falstaff in all the va-
riety of situation, and contour, which
the play allows. At Gadshill he dis-
played a sort of gamboling activity
in the fighting, roared lustily in the’
retreat, “and still run and roar’d.”
He returned gloomily to the ‘tavern,
swathed in bandages and declaiming
against cowards. Hal’s thrusts he
parried and returned without effort,
then passed exultantly to the acting
of the play. Falstaff (as King Hen-
ry) teetering gingerly on the back
of his great chair, with the cushion
which he wore for a crown falling
off repeatedly; Falstaff (as the
Prince) almost in tears at the as-
persions cast upon that “goodly port-
ly man,” Sir John! It was quite the

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Fine Sense of Comic



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really have been more than 11 years
old, was played with a finesse, and a
sly seriousness that only the very
young can assume when they imitate
their elders; he never seemed like a
child for an instant. He and Frau
Seifner, Mizzi’s mother, were so comic

together that they stole the show when
we were supposed to be watching -

-Mizzi and her handsome soldier,
Franzl. Tiny, bright-eygd Mizzi, sing-
ing with the assuranc a prima

donna, and at the same time with the
cool purity of a boy soprano. And
we were equally astonished by the
versatility of the tenors, and by the
Dresden china quality of the choruses.

We spent most of Part III trying
to identify the operettic characters.
They were dressed in sailor suits this
time, and were apparently in high
spirits. Mizzi, who betrayed himself
by a smile, was the next to smallest.
on the left; Herr Hecht was the plati-
num blonde on the right. It was un-
believable that any of them had ever
been anything but very small boys.
-They-sang folk-songs, a Wal]tz-Suite
of Strauss, and at least three en-
cores, one of which was Tales from
the Vienna Woods.

Afterwards, wearing neat navy blue
coats over their sailor pants, they
gathered in the Common Room for
milk and crackers. In’German and
broken English they explained that
they lived in a castle in Vienna, and
a hotel in Philadelphia. They cor-
rected our German: very politely,
answering in English only when we
became desperate.
them even more than milk and crack-
ers was the picture by Katchamakoff
in the corner of the room, the little
innocents. When they left en masse

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nism in the organization is found in the fact that in two major issues,

: : ‘ ; ; : with their nurse and Herr Gomboz,
the convention as a whole acted in direct opposition to the views of the}

scure artist colony on the north coast :
each stopped before Mrs. Chadwick-

of Normandy, he encountered a

best. scene of the afternoon, Later,
we saw him on the- morning. after,






- ment, to a passage in a book.

Communist Party: Opposing military sanctions as a part of its stand on

Collective Security, and backing the Ludlow Resolution.

The A. 8, U. is recognized by leading men and leading publications
to be a thinking democratic organization. Mr. Roosevelt sent “sincere
wishes that your deliberations willbe fruitful in making our schools
and colleges a genuine fortress of democracy.”

The Times said: “Theré is not much danger of a revolution starting
among them. There is more danger that a million other students, not
members of the union, will remain largely indifferent to the fact that
there are such things as social problems.” — ° ~



Public Enemies
Now that the time has come to study in the Library, we wonder
why we should be disturbed by anything other than the intellectual

creak of pen on paper, or the rhythmic ‘flicker of pages.
Occasionally we tolerate a discreet clearing of the

a Library is for.

That-is what

throat, though we would like to observe that the Book Shop is well

stocked with cough xemedies.

Unfortunately, the Library is now being

used as an outlet for repressed emotions, and though, architecturally it

is ideally suited~to such purposes,
legitimate excuse.

we don’t think that constitutes a

There are three species of public enemies who throng the reading
room: The hysterical giggler, the whisperer, and the cataclysmic

sneezer,

‘The hysterical giggler is usually approached by her friend,

the whisperer, who points, with appropriate conversational accompani-

(Any book will do.) H. G. laughs uncon-

trollably,.sometimes covering, her face with her hands in«a-coy manner,
while W. glances nervously about and whispers loudly that H. G. is

disturbing the peace.

Sneezer sneezes cataclysmically and H. G. collapses again.

Just as they are about to part, Cataclysmic | «

We sigh.

It is now 9.45 P. M. and the Sandwich Sellers have come in because it

an

Ry
Is there a solution? Yes.

the steps reading Silence, be changed to, Keep off the grass.

cold. In the reading room the windows are being shut; H. G.’s, W.’s
. S.’s are drowned in a series of deafening reports.

: , , # hystérical. giggle.

We burst into

We suggest that the neat. brass plate on

Then all

public enemies, urged by a common impulse, will troop to the large
tract of greensward in front of the Library, where their voices will be

borne away by the wind.



In Philadelphia

Movies
‘iliaas The Hurricane,-from- the}
adventure novel by Nordhoff and
Hall, with ‘Mary Astor, C. Aubrey
Smith, and Jon Hall. Beginning



Thursday: I Met My Love Again, a

_ with ‘Joan Bennett and

perl eee his daughter a



Boyd: Man. Preet' a comedy-drama
taken from The Four Marys, with

| Myrna Loy and Franchot Tone.

Earle: Ssh! The Octopus, a°mys-|.
tery-comedy‘ about a criminal known
as The Octopus of Crime. Hugh Her-

bert and Allan Jenkins are the de-
tectives who finally capture him. Be-
She’s Got Every-
thing, a romance, with Gene Raymond.
Ann Sothern, Victor Moore ana 1...

ginning Friday:

| Broderick. On stage: Benny Baker,
’| Louise Massey, and the Westerners. |

strange,
“}name, he later found out, was Profes-

‘most brilliant scholars of his time.

The Spanish Earth, a)
ma ey Et:

ethereal-eyed man, whose

sor “Lemuel Liggett Munch. Dr.
Munch was a Ph.D. of Heidelberg and

the University of Texas, and B.A, of

St. John’s of Annapolis. What Algae
did not know was that Munch was
regarded in the academic circles of
Oxford and Cambridge as one of the
In
the past he had been known for his
work on problems of French influ-
ence on Scottish poetry, and in Nor-
mandy..he was studying some aspects
of the Scotti-Celtic influence on Pro-
vengal-ese in Ezra Pound.

The first time Algae saw Dr.
Munch was when he met him strid-
ing across the damp plage back of the
huge, grassy dunes which hid their
hostel from the North Sea. Munch
was wearing rope-soled espadrilles, a
dark blue lounge suit, and a purple
pansy in his button-hole. - An east
wind ruffled his black hair, and a
keen light shone in his blue eyes, as
he -peered at Algae across the sands.

The afternoon was soon. spent in
stimulating literary conversation, and
at the end Algae felt that he had
known Munch for months. Before they
parted he ventured to ask him a per-
sonal. question.

“I say, sit,” he enquired eagerly,

“where did you find a pansy in
March.”

“That ‘is one of my eesidas ‘se-
erets,”’ said Munch, with a twinkle in
his eye. “When you know me better
you may be able to surmise. . My per-
sonality has many faucets.”

tion.

sneezing and very melancholy—it was
a comfort that at the curtain Mrs.
Quickly was bringing him his break-
fast on a tray—and later still, there
were the recruiting episode, the solilo-

quy on honor, the waddling flight from |-

the Douglas, and the feigned death.
From this he arose with alacrity,
stabbed Hotspur viciously, and at-last,
with some help from Bardolph, fairly
got the body over his shoulder and

r strode off with it.

As time goes on, Mr. Evans will
unquestionably subtilize his concep-
Meanwhile, it is sound and in-
telligent and mercifully free from
clowning and clutter; a notable Fal-
staff. already, and with every promise
of becoming one of the actor’s best
parts.

Rather less can be said for the
production as a whole. The players
who now appear with Mr. Evans are,
as a group, perceptibly inferior to
those who began with him in Richard
IT last winter; and the roughness and
insecurity of a first performance were
in this case all too apparent. Mrs.
Quickly (formerly Queen to Richard)
was, indeed, §0 vehement as to be
practically inarticulate; _ and_ Lady
Percy (more appropriately cast for-
merly as the Duchess: apt Gloucester)
was undecorative and kittenish. On
the credit. side, were to be reckoned,
however, Mr. Wesley. Addy’s Hotspur,
which became better and better as
the afternoon wore on and was cor-
dially applauded at the close, an
amusingly portentious Glendower, and
a Prince of Wales who seemed really

Collins, bowed low, and imprinted a
respectful kis upon her hand.—P..R.
ae M. R.-M.



to enjoy his tavern haunting and made

I know you all, and will awhile

uphold

The unyoked humor of your idle-

ness,
less objectionable than it might have
been, by st ming a lute while he
spoke it. That this Prince Hal
should suggest also the hero of
Shrewsbury, not to mention Agincourt,
was perhaps asking too much, At
any rate, he did not.

Miss Webster’s production followed
in general the lines of her Richard II.
Again there was a good deal of
scenery—too much, in fact, for a pur-
ist; but purists are few, and with
the aid of an occasional scene played
before hangings a fairly swift pace
was maintained. Again, the play: it-
self was felt to come first. We got
most of Shakespeare’s text and got
it (thank Heaven!) without bowdler-
ization. Only one scene was wholly.
cut, that in which,the Archbishop. of
York figures. The two episodes in
the rebel camp (IV, 1-3) were run to-
gether; and instead of. I, 2 (Fal-
staff’s soliloquy on ‘his searecrow sol-
diers) the recruiting scene from The
Second Part of Henry IV was intro-
duced, which gave us a glimpse of
Shallow and Silence in strange and
wonderful hats. .The battle scenes, in |
which a mist was discreetly employed,
were notably effective, -and King Hen-
ry closed the play with dignity.



Powell.

Karlton: True Confession, with Ca-
role Lombard continuing the presént
vogue for lunatic comedy.

Keith’s: Tovarich, a _ delightful
adaption of the play about Russian
aristocrats turned = servants,
Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer.

Stanley: You’re a theart,—a
minor musical sasiahla starring Alice
Faye and Ken Murray. Beginning
Saturday: Every Day’s a Holiday, a

comedy ioe Mas, West and Edmund
Lowe.

a Theater el ome
ut: Show and Sithatanes, a

religious: drama set in Ireland, “
‘Sir Cedric Hardwicke.

Forrest: Beginning Monday, Janu-







with}

The Arial Hills, ‘with the] Litel; (Special Kiddies’ Matinee at
41.00 p. m, The Luck of Roaring|and James Stewart; Sunday- and- ~~
Monday, A Damsel in Distress, with .

Philadelphia.

Orchestra

Philadelphia Orchestra: Eugene Or-
mandy conducting — Bach-Weiner:
Toccata No. 1 in C; Tchaikovsky: Pi-
ano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor
(Arthur Rubenstein, soloist); Stra-
vinsky: Suite from “Jeu de Cartes”
(first performance in America); De

Vida Breve.’”

On J anuary 18 Mr. Rubenstein will
a| play Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4 in G
instead of the Tchaikovsky Concerto.

~~ — Local Movies
Seville: ‘Wednesday,~ The” Awfuc
Truth, with Irene Dunne and Cary
Grant; Thursday, West of Shanghai,
with Boris Karloff; Friday and Sat-
urday, Alcatraz Island, with John

"Camp); Sunday and Monday, Second
Honeymoon, with Tyrone Power and



ee Se er wen Wek

Falla: Interlude and-Dance from “Lat

nesday, The Firefly, with Jeanette
MacDonald.

Wayne: Wednesday,-and Thursday,
The Great Garrick, with Brian
Aherne; Friday and Saturday, 45
Fathers, with Jane Withers; (Special
Kiddies’ Matinee on Saturday at 1.30
p. m., The Luck of Roaring Camp) ;
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, The -

Wednesday, Alcatraz Island, with
John Litel and Ann Sheridan.
Suburban: Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 45 |
Fathers, with Jane Withers; Sunday,
Monday pad ec? Mayerling, wee
GH res aS
Ardmoré: heat ‘and Thue.
day, Live, Love and Learn, with Rob-
ert Montgomery and Rosalind Rus-
-sell; Friday and Saturday, Navy,
Blue and Gold, with Robert Young

Fred Astaire; ‘Tuesday, The Barrier,



with Leo Carrillo and Jean Parker. —



Firefly, with Jeannette MacDonald; |


ny

bia., |

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Fares,







Lord Marley Considers

Consolidation Necessary



International Economics Court
Adyocated in Interview



Lord. Marley, in an interview last
Wednesday before his speech. on the
Far East, said the great economic
problem facing the world today is one
of consolidation. The growing period

- is past, further expansion limited, and

the question now is division of pro-
duction and distribution of markets.
Cordell Hull, he pointed out, aims to
develop international trade. He him-
self advocates starting an Economic
Relations Court, in conjunction with
the League of Nations and similar to

_ the present International Labor Rela-

tions Court. THis court could work
out the economic needs of each country
and arrange distribution to satisfy
these needs. By such a method ex-
‘cessive rearmament could be con-
trolled since no more iron and similar
supplies than economically. necessary
could be imported by any one country.

He considered Mr. Roosevelt’s
speech at the opening of Congress a
brilliant economic analysis of the diffi-
culties in this country in extremely
simple terms, its tone at once con-
ciliatory and firm. He pointed out
that as President of the United
States, Roosevelt is the most power-

ful individual in the worldoday.

The ability of China to hold out
against the Japanese depends, Lord
Marley thinks, on the degree of unifi-
cation among the Chinese, and their
ability to develop organized guerilla
warfare. It must be remembered that
Japan’s occupation is as yet only a
military one. It may for example
hold a railway line and two or three
miles on either: sidé, but the country
itself is in chaos.

Turning to the other seat of war,

- Spain, Lord Marley said that without

the support of Italy and Germany,

« Franco would not be able to last three

weeks. In Spain itself he has the
backing of the aristocrats and busi-
ness men but not that of the people.







EXCERPTS From EXILE





One of the first things I had to
do after arriving in Italy was to
abolish all previous ideas of the Latin
race. I had thought they were a
lazy, laughing people, who drank
quantities of wine and.strummed gui-
tars all day. They aren’t that way at
all. They are a hardy, earnest people,
who race madly from dawn to far
into the night. At first it was annoy-
ing to hear them beat rugs and bar-
gain noisily with fruit vendors outside

‘my window at six in the morning, but

now I sleep through it in my stolid
Nordic fashion.

The dismaying part of it all is that
they expect you to lead the same kind
of feverish life. The day starts at
an unseemly hour when the maid
crashes into the room with a pitcher
of hot water, and you have to get up
quickly before the water gets cold.



Over one-half the people are for the
government, five per cent are for
Franco and the remainder are indif-
ferent.

Questioned about the present schism
between the A. F. of L. and the C.
I. O., Lord Marley said he thought
the craft type of union which the
former advocates is dead because it
splits the workers among themselves.
He would like to see the typographical
type of union extended, all workers
and employers settling their disputes
around a table, and arbitration courts
enforced by law.

Referring to the Duke of Wind-
sor, of whom he is a strong sup-
porter, he said that -he is a man who
has always had a job and now, sud-
denly without one, he does not know
how to use his leisure. His trip to
Germany was most ill advised, Lord
Marley admitted. He should, instead,
have gone to the Scandinavian coun-
tries to study housing, in which. he
is sincerely interested. The constant
snubbing to which he is being sub-
jected is not a definite policy, but
just a general “build down” following
40: years of “build up.”



From then on till you are completely
clothed, you leap wildly from one
patch of rug to the other in an at-
tempt to avoid the stone ‘floor, which
sends up whirling-icy breezes. Heat-
ing the house before noon is a thought
that never occurred to ‘this amazing
race, and as a result, your pre-break-
fast behavior resolves into a dance
that rivals the “Big Apple.’”’. When
you are completely exhausted, various
members of the family sweep down on
you, pound your back, pump your limp
hand for a few. minutes and shout in
rapid Italian what a fine day it is.
(They consider it beautiful weather
if it isn’t the third day of steady
rain.)

Then, utterly shaken, you start
walking the weary miles to the uni-
versity. Now, when traffic dangers
have to be faced, is really the begin-
ning of the trials-of the day. Cars,
motorcycles, carriages and, worst .of
all, bicycles swirl about with abandon.
Bicycles swoop dgwn on you without
a sound, and the danger is only real:
ized when there is a sudden piercing
whistle in your ear and your skirt,
blown by the breezes they create, is)
wrapped around your legs.

Once at the university there is still
no pause tothe dizzy pace.. The pro-
fessors think you are made of the
same sturdy stuff as they, and As they
casually assign a large chunk of Ital-
ian literature and the history of Rome
for the next day, they say: “You
are young, enjoy yourselves! There
is a lot to be learned that you can’t
get out of books.” So aside from nu-
meroug~. classes, you find yourself
tramping through museums’ and
churches, madly taking notes, then
rushing to some less elevated place
to learn about the ‘gayer side of Ital-
ian life.

And aside from all these activities
you have to put aside many hours a
day to the highly developed art of eat-
ing. For such little people:the Ital-
ians put away vast amounts of food,
and considering the speed at which
they eat, it takes them an amazingly
long time. At first you find it difficult
to keep up, but sadly enough, it is one



Student Federation Meets -

Alberquerque, N. M.—Delegates -to
the annual congress of the National
Student Federation of America met
recently on the campus of the Uni-
versity of New Mexico to discuss
such prublems as the relation of stu-
dent government bodies to the admin-
istration and faculty, living condi-
tions, athletics, discipline and student
self-government.— (ACP)



DANCERS’ CLUB WILL
HOLD FORUM MARCH 15



At the last meeting of the Dancers’
Club the tentative date of March 15
was set for the forum to be presented
by that, organization. Rehearsals for
the forum which will be givén in the
gymnasium will start immediately
after the mid-year examination period.

The forum will consist of lectures
and demonstrations of ballet, Duncan
and the modern dance, representing
the chronological stages of the de-
velopment of. the dance. Members of
the club have already been chosen for
the three groups. Chairmen of the
groups are: Ethel Mann, ’38, Modern;
Bonnie Allen, ’38, Duncan; Alice
John, ’39, Ballet.

Those. in the college interested in
joining any one of these groups, or
in lending them literature, should see
the above people.



of the easiest customs “to acquire.’: -

The result of this exhilarating life
is that you collapse utterly, and be-
come more pale and shaky every day,
or else you acquire a new energy so
that your eyes sparkle and your walk
is almost a run.- But. in whichever
way the life affects you, you continue
to be a part of the endless “mara-
thon, . The only difference can be de-
tected in eyes half shut in a dazed
weariness or too wide open in an irri-
tating alertness.

MARTHA EATON.
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(Especially contributed by Miss Jo-
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In.a lecture on Dancing in Relation
to the Other Arts given at Rockefeller
Center on December 18, Hans Schu-
mann, professor of music at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, said: “In
present-day dancing we are not reviv-
ing the art of dancing, but we have
actually discovered movement’ as a
new medium for the arts. In other
words, we have added the kinesthetic
sense to our conception of art.”

A dancer may be inspired by some
music or by a painting or sculpture
to lift him to a higher level of feeling,
but when he is actually dancing to
music then the dance and the music
must be born.simultaneously and work
in a counterpoint ‘fashion.

In all the arts, we have. passed
through a period of Oriental influence,
but we have to understand that the
art of the East has been great for
many centuries and therefore has pro-
duced almost final: results, separated
from us not only spiritually, but by
the barrier of time. We have now
come through this period in painting
and music, and America, which has a
Hispania Sense for movement, may

‘well be the place to nurture the dance

as an artistic expression of its own.

To improve the appreciation, and
therefore, ‘the development:of an art,
the critic should be able to create him-
self, said Mr. Schumann. Colleges
and universities are presenting more
and more courses in dancing with the
purpose of promoting the students’
appreciation of the dance, which: lags
behind his appreciation of the other
arts.

clei Allen, ’388, Elizabeth ‘Con-
verse, 732, Alice John, "39, Jane Lud-
wigs 238, and~£lizabeth Taylor, ’40,
illustrated the lecture. with dances in-
cluding a waltz composed by Mr. Schu-
mann withthe dancing classes in
Bryn Mawr.





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20 GOLFERS APPRECIATE
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And millions of Americans prefer Camels day after day —
making them the LARGEST-SELLING cigarette in America.

She



(Above) SCHOLAR-
SHIP MAN James
Dean, 38. “The tough-
est part of studying is
\ stickin o8 to it hour wee
hour,’ he says. “‘I’v
learned that spade
Camels helps ease the
nervous tension of study.”

(Below) SALESGIRL
Elsie Schumacher works
in a department store.

rush gets me worn out—
it’s me for a Camel, and
I get a quick ‘lift.’ Prac-
tically all of us girls in
the store prefer Camels,’’°



AMOUS golfers like Gene Sarazen, Hata Hicks, Lawson

Little, and Ralph~Guldahl prefer Camels.:They have
found that costlier tobagcos do place Camels in a class —
apart. Listen to Ralph Guldahl, National Open Champion:
“I’ve stuck to Camels for 10 years,” he-says. “I smoke lots
of Camels and they never jangle my nerves.”

says: “When the

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(Above) SPORTS
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great athletes intimate-
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agree\on smoking Cam-
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(Below) DRAFTSMAN
B. T. Miller: “I smoke

steadily — yet Camels
never tire my taste. I
often feel used up dur-
ing long hours before the — -
drawing board. I find
Camels givé me a ‘lift’
when I feel I/need it.”



WATCHMAKER I. C.
Gorkun says: “Camels?
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Marley Says Chinese
Victory is Possible



Continued ‘from Frage Om
ciency is the setting of. Japanese con-
trol over all imports for purposes of
rearmament in China as well as over
cotton-growing in that country.

Politically, the Japanese summar-
ize their own claims in the following
ways: To cause China to abandon her
anti-Japanese feeling; to
China’s foreign policy; to cut off the
possibility of a Chinese empire in Si-
beria. But there are obstacles to their
hope of success: The growing unity
and strength of China, which was also
‘one of the causes of the war; fear of
Russian intervention in China; and
the possible intervention of the demo-
cratic powers, although this last is
not of particular importance to the
Japanese, because they realize that
the democratic powera, being self-in-
terested, will not ervene unless
there is some treading on their rights.

The problem of Chinese unity, which
consists in the reconciliation of the
Chinese Soviet Government and the
Government proper at Nanking, is at
present being aided by Japan’s bomb-
ing of the interior of the country
which only serves to intensify the fean
of Japanese control. .

Fear of Russia has increased ‘be
cause of her crack-air force and the
strengthening of her army by the re-
moval of dissenting officers in the
Trotsky spy trials.

As regards the democratic powers
Lord Marley said that “the suspicion
between America and England enables
the Japanese to drive a wedge be-
tween the two countries,” and for
illustration he pointed to the great
difference in the handling of the two
recent incidents, the shooting of a
British ambassador and the sinking
of the American ship Panay. The
former was almost ignored. The lat-
ter brought forth profuse apolegtes.

America is concerned with the re-
‘sults' of the conflict because she is
definitely opposed to any action bring-
ing any danger of war. Lord Marley
also pointed out that “the Neutrality
Law, which would make the position
of United States residents in China
awkward, besides giving Japan the
right to give orders to the United
States Navy, will not be put into
force. . . . The Ludlow Amendment
is probably not serious,” he added.

In conclusion he summarized, the
Japanese are not so poor economically
_as they would have us believe—the
national debt is not serious... . The
most serious trouble is the failure of
Manchuria to give any return for 25
or 30 years. . The Japanese un-
derestimate it as ce of soy-
bean” which €an be used to produce
anything from bread to automobiles.

We can only hope now that Japan
will encroach on the democracies. An
attack on Hong Kony might wake up

British govefrment, but Lord
Marley confessed that he does not
know what action the British would
take, or could take, because Germany
and Italy would at the.same time
threaten England. To send her fleet
to the Pacific at this juncture would
be impossible for her.

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May Day Script Wanted

Who was in St. rge and
the Dragon in May Day? If
anyone has a copy of the script,
will she please tell Miss Bar-
nitz, in the Bureau of Press Re-
lations?







Lash Redefines A.S.U. Aims
At Vassar Convention

Continued from Page One

be more efficient this year in collect-
ing its dues and spreading the Student
Advocate. He also said that there
was a need for more branches in the
South. Mr. Lash’s report was accept-
ed by the convention.

Issues on which the convention final-
ly voted were discussed in committees



general sessions. Among the resolu-
tions incorporated into the A, S. U.
policy: were the following:

On peace: the A. S. U. backed Col-
lective Security, specifically: to favor
the United States defining and naming
the aggressor in a war, whether de-
clared or not, in order that embargos
may be levied and enforced; (2) to
favor independent action preventing
aid to the Fascigt countries and fur-
thering aid to the Loyalist govern-
ment; (3) to oppose the war prepara-
tions of America, to back the Nye-
Kvale bill, and to oppose the Shep-
herd-Hill bill; (4) to oppose extra-
territorial. military action of the
United States; (5) to back the re-
moval of all United States military
forces from foreign countries; (6) to
support the arti-war demonstration
and to urge the cooperation of La-
bor; (7) to back lower tariffs and
reciprocal trade agreements.

On the political affiliation of the
A. S. U.:-chapters and districts have
now complete autonomy in this. ques-
tion, but should first advise the Na-

‘| tional Office as to the action that they

plan to take: This is opposed to the
original non-political stand of the Stu-
dent Union, -but this decision was
necessary because of situations in va-
rious cities, where to be in any way
constructive, individual chapters have
found alignment necessary. ,
On Labor: the A. S. U. backs Fed-
eral Aid for Labor, but believes that
Labor should organize on its own. It
supports Federal aid ‘to sharecroppers.
The délegates of the A. S. U. from
Bryn Mawr were: Eleanor Bailenson,
39; Naomi Coplin, ’38;- Martha Van
Hoesen, ’39; Ethel Mann, ’38, and
Joy Rosenheim, 740.

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Mr. Crenshaw’ Explains
Discovery of Isotopes



Continued fromi Page One

of hydrogen tried ‘to obtain heavy
water by evaporation of ordinary wa-
ter, since the heavier molecules would
naturally evaporate last, but they
could obtain a concentration of only
one part in a thousand. Then Wash-
burn and Urey suggested to Profes-
sors G..N. Lewis and MacDonald a
method of obtaining heavy water by
electrolysis. They took the water
from a storage battery that had been
used for four years, and found, Lewis
reported, “a startling increase in den-
sity.” This water had a density of
1.000034, as compared to 1.000000,
the regular density of water.. After
electrélysing ten liters of water for
almost a week with a very strong cur-
rent, they obtained water with a den-
sity of 1.035, which contained 31.5
per cent heavy hydrogen. It is now
possible to secure 99.9 per cent pure
heavy water, but only by electrolysing
great quantities of water, since a
half million liters of ordinary water
gives only a liter of pure heavy water.
Because of the amount of electricity
required for the process, heavy water
is very expensive.

Besides Deuterium, the isotope of
twice normal atomi¢ weight, another

means of the mass spectograph.. : This
third isotope weighs three times as
much as an ordinary hydrogen atom.
A number. of interesting biological
experiments have been carried out
with heavy water. Tadpoles dié-when
placed in heavy water, and seeds will
not sprout in “it. Some mice were

water, and in six days their fats were
found to contain .2 per cent Deuter-
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gain weight, that fats are manufac-
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story submitted in a contest closing
April 1, 1988. The plot of the story
must be taken from the 11 which are
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and 67 of How to Write for a Living,
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St. Louis, Mo.—College students of
today are more studious than their
prototypes of ten years ago and less
given to religious skepticism, drinking
and moral infraction, adult leaders of
the -National Methodist Student con-
ference believe.

Improvement in the moral tone of
college. life over that of the _“boot-
leg era’ was noted by Dr. Hiel D.
Bollinger, of Chicago. He said the
change was strikingly evidenced by
the increased proportion of students
working their way through college and
by the interest of students in social
questions. ‘There is now,” he said,

‘about as much drinking among stu-

dents as among the public in general.
In fact students constitute a pretty
good cross-section of the average citi-
zenship.”— (ACP)

they will award a grand prize of 100

COLLEGE MORALS IMPROVED}





PUBLIC OPINION

To the Editoy of the College News.
Dear Editor:

This week’s issue of the- College
News shocked me almost beyond
speech. I have not yet been able to
discover the name of the unfortunate
undergraduate (or graduate) who
was so inhumanly treated as to have
mud (or grease) plastered upon*the
lower part of her face. It is obvious
from. her expression that this was done
against her will, and from her posture
that, while. being photographed, she
was brutally held in position by sev-
eral members of the News board. _.I
demajid that public apology be made
to the individual, whether she be
named or nameless.

The vein of the rest of nee paper,
which I.took to be a humorous one,
was so misplaced as to be indistin-
guishable either as a tibia or as, an
artery. It alarms me imagine
what opinion ews readers—other
than undergraduates—will have,. of
Bryn Mawr College. The general serf-
timent of the undergraduates, I un-.





derstand, is one ranging from disgust™——

to horror. Your issue was indescrib-
ably indiscreet and indelicate.

- Oh, these unoriginal originalities!
Oh, these witless wits! Oh, oh! OH!

One of your hitherto enthusiastic
readers.

[The tibia is a boné.—Ed.]



Will Produce Liquid Helium

New Haven, Conn.—Yale Univer-
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being set up in the Sloane physics
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BOOK REVIEW

The Gardener Mind by Margaret
Haley. Yale University Press.. $2.

The thirty-sixth volume of the Yale
Series of Younger Poets is a 76 page
collection of slight verse by Margaret
Haley, a Bryn Mawr alumna. If it is
distinguished for anything, it is for a
peculiar use of rather exotic words,
and a robust sense of color and tex-
ture, Stephen. Vincent Benét com-
pares it in quality to the poetry of
Christina Rossetti and Walter de. la
Mare, emphasizing that it “is not the
fashionable work of the moment.”

Although we agree that this
poetry is mot of the comtemporary
school, particularly because it con-
tains no references to “contemporary
affairs and problems,” neither do. we
find many echoes of the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries. Miss
Haley seems to us to have been in-
fluenced mostly by the Romantics, and
the early seventeenth century poets—
the two ‘schools, in fact, most admired
by the so-called contemporary school
of Eliot and Auden. This coincidence
seems -to point to a certain sympathy
of Miss Haley for the poets of her
own generation; and she also shows
faint traces of their influence by the
abruptness of some of her phrasing,
and by an occasional arbitrary ellipsis
for the sake of effect.. The character-
istic feature, in fact, of all this work,
is not that it betrays any specific set
pf influences, but that it clearly shows
unskillful and unfeeling adaptation
of whatever influences it does have.:

On the whole, the most obvious na-
ture poetry is the best—the kind of
lines which catalogue textures, colors,
smells, sounds, and other physical
minutiae of detail. These reveal
originality of vocabulary and simile,
but somehow the total effect of them
is almost never original. ‘The follow-
ing are an example:

Apricot and corn,
Leopard, marigold,
Tiger lily, mourn,
Crocus in the mold:



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Moss, and every hue
Hove up by the sea— ...
Generally lines such as the above

are short and rudimentary in gram-
matical form, and appear to have
been written entirely for the sake of
sound and image. Marvell: seems _ to
be the predominant influence in the
nature poetry. An example is oné
entitled: A Green Thought which con-
tains the following lines:
... An ashen shade
Gently blown to life, or lulled

By a thousand fans of thinnest
Sliced and supple emerald,





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NUCLEUS TAKES FIELD. TRIP

On Saturday morning, January 8,

‘!the members of the Nucleus Camera

Club made their first field trip to the

little-known regions of Swedeland, be-|}-

tween Bridgeport and Conshohocken.
There, they photographed the Old
Swedes Church (including pictures of
a young lamb and a poetic tombstone)
and also obtained views of factories,
‘blast-furnaces, and a train which an
obliging engineer posed for them in
the center of a bridge...



And as soft as smoke upon the flesh:
Green bower,. chamber fresh, ...
This poem not-only borrows its title
and dominant image from Andrew
Marvell, but it also shamelessly uses
the idea of Marvell’s famous passage,
which describes a kind of identifica-
tion with the world of nature that
protects a man’s sensibilities from
feelings of nostalgic pain arising from
unfamiliarity. The rewording of Mar-
vell’s lines could perhaps be justified
if something valuable had been added
to the conception. Not only does this
poem fail to make any stich addition,
but it also translates none of Mar-
vell’s delicacy, precision,.and quality
of freshness. Here and elsewhere,
Miss Haley’s grasses, leaves, and in-
sects betray their source and inspira-
tion, but whereas in Marvell the
world of nature is never taken out of










doors, in these verses it suggests the |

elaborate imitations of a confectioner
or “glass-spinner:

A grasshopper

With a body me

Like a lozenge of amber

And dark green

Beads for eyes:

Aside from her nature poetry, “Miss
Haley has written several vignettes
evoking’ the nostalgic mood, a. few
sonnets constructed. with her charac-
teristic jerky phrases, and one or two
pieces built on an idea. None of these
shows more direct inspiration than
the nature verses. For example, there
is one called On Waking Early and
Hearing the Wind which cotld be com-
pared cruelly with Shelley’s great ode.
The basic idea is more limited, but
essentially the same. We feel that
when a modern poet wishes to use a
thought which is traditionally so well
established as this, it should at least

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be disguised in contemporary imagery,

or formal obscurity. This poem is
quite alarmingly simple:,

Not so fast,

O friend the shady wind!

Take me with you—

I am homeless ‘too. .

O friend!

O blast!

At last, at last, at last!

This reminds us that Miss Haley’s

form is never completely satisfactory.





Theater Review



Hooray For What is good or not
depending on the way you react to
Ed Wynn. As he occupies the stage
94 per cent of the time this is an im-
portant ‘point. This reviewer reacts

pleasantly and enjoys his countless,

little: inventions as much as those of
the White Knight in Alice In Wonder-
land. The plot is infinitely compli-
cated and not really important. Ed
Wynn is an unwittingly brilliant
chemist, constantly discovering dis-
turbing varieties of gases. He is
taken in hand by a great munition
maker. This inevitably leads to POI-
SON GAS, international spies, and
finally to Geneva. Ed Wynn refuses



It is neither traditional nor strikingly
original; and we tend to be bothered
by line-lengths which seem to bear no

relation to any sort of fundamental |

rhythmic unit. This defect, combined
with the more telling ones of ban-
ality, awkwardness, and artificiality
make her poetry seem very i
dn fact, our reaction to it can best be
summed up by Miss Haley’s own two
dramatic lines from Fanny Brawne,
part ii:

Oh,

I cannot bear it!

to_enter. into the sbirit of the thing
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mainder of the cast try to steal it
from him. The old spy trick of read-
ing formula. through mirrors settles 4g
the question, but the great spy for-
gets to reinvert what she reads in the
mirror so gets the formula backwards.
In this state the formula miraculously
metamorphosés into laughing gas and
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THE COLLEGE NEWS .





Mrs. McAneny Advises
Theatrical Aspirants



Continued. from Page One

costs ‘from 200 to 350 dollars, and
the tuition at the American Academy
of Dramatic Art is 500 dollars a year.
Making contact through the study of
acting is an expensive way, but one
of the surest ways to be successful.

Mrs. McAneny used to be employed
in a casting office for Gilbert Miller,
but she says now the theatre is in
such a bad financial condition that
; producers cannot afford to maintain
‘casting offices, and depeff on one of
;the 20 or 30 casting agencies in New
‘York. Officials of these agencies say
‘there is no hope for amateurs to get
| parts through their organi
cause the risk of supplying
‘material to a producer is-too
Costs of producing: a play have
up tremendously in the past few yea
and managers are not willing to ti
‘money on any branch of a productioy}.
It costs at least 3,000 dollars-to pr
duce a play; and musical shows, such
as the current Three Waltzes, cost as
much as 500,000 dollars. Almost the
‘whole theater imdustry is unionized
yp now. Actors’ Equity. rulings force
producers ‘to pay any actor with a
speaking part at least 40 dollars a
week.
hearsal, the company must be paid at
least 20 dollars each “rehearsal ex-
pense” money, and after four weeks
they must be paid their. full salary.
About two out of three plays close
while still in .xehearsal.

The United Scenic Artists’ Union
lists all the scene designers in the.in-
dustry, which are 60 in number. They
must all join the union.in order to
work, and. they can’t join unless they
can pass an examination in mechanical
drawing and specialized architectural
knowledge, as well as proving that
they already have a contract to de-
sign sets for a play. The profession,
like ‘all kinds of theatrical work, is
overcrowded. Only 10 of the 60 de-
signers are really active, and only two
or three of these do more than one
show a year. Jo Meilziner, one of
-the most successful, has an office staff
of three: One woman assistant, a
stenographer, and a draughtsman.
Once he tried taking an apprentice,
but he didn’t have time even to super-
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‘sets for a play must be done within
two weeks. Designers must be paid
at least 250 dollars for each set, and
they: must pay 500 dollars ‘initiation
fee to the Union and 48~-dollars a
year dues. Most scene designers also
do costume design, but there was a
separate union formed six weeks ago
with the more modest dues of 10 dol-
lars a year. Scenic dgsigners sug-
gest that beginners in this field should
also find summer theater work.

Mrs. McAneny listed playreading,
directing, publicity, and criticism as
the four “intellectual” jobs in the
theater. The last tWo are best ap-
proached through newspaper work.

York Sun, says that all the first and
second string critics of the 10 leading
papers got their starts.as regular re-
Magazine critics are not so
well paid, and sometimes don’t even
get free-tickets to the plays. Mrs.
also talked to Helen
Deutsch, a former student of hers at
Columbia who is now doing publicity
for the Theater Guild, and rose to
the top of her profession in four
years. She began by doing free pub-
licity for the Provincetown Playhouse.
She emphasizes the importance of
having contacts in the newspaper
world.



Richard Lockridge, critic of the New]

Directing, like other executive the-

atrical positions, can be approached
via a stage-manager’s job. This is a

very important position, and young}.
| Plans ‘for next semester’s activities

actors are often asked to take the
job of assistant stage-manager and
understudy, a valuable step toward

the part of stage-manager proper.
Good stage-managers are much in de-
mand and are responsible for numer-
ous details. “They must assist in cast-
ing, rent the theater, keep the promp!
copy of the play, incorporating all
changes and business and retyping it
every day. They keep the records. of
the day each member of the cast is en-
gaged, and often discharge the act-
ors. .The mechanical end of the pro-
duction is under their supervision, and
when the play is running, they repre-
sent the. manager and director, tim-
ing each act, taking charge of prompt-
ing and cues, arranging and supervis-
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sending a full report every day to the
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Pembroke East, January 11.—

were formulated at a meeting of the

executive council of the Bryn Mawr

League. Speakers, representing vari-
ous organizations with which the
League is affiliated, will be invited to
a tea to be given on February 3 for

the college at large.

Another Square Dance for, the bene-
fit of the summer camp will be held
on February eleventh, Forty-four
dollars have already been. added to
the camp’s funds by December -sales
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On March 17 the Maids and Porters
Dramatic Club will present, as their
third annual offering, Mr. Faithful by
Lord Dunsany. Hulah Cheek, ’38, is
again directing the production. She
is being assisted by Susan Miller, ’40.

The Leaefgre the resignation
of Tyrrel chie, ’39, as assistant
chairman of the Maids-Gommittee. It
is pleased to, sialon that Anne
WSpillers, ’40, will replace her. Eileen
Banning, ’41, has’ been elected to the

Executive Committee of the League
as class representative.



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