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Martha Graham

Evokes History
In New Dance

Frontier is Most Effective,
Least Pretentious Part

Of Program

ry

DEEP SONG FAILS
BY INTELLECTUALITY

Goodhart, February 23.—As the
fourth of the College Entertainment
Series, Martha Graham and her com-
pany presented four dances in the
‘controversial and modern style she
has done so much to establish. Three
of the dances were solos by. Miss
Graham. The fourth was the elabor-
ate American Document, a dance se-
quence performed by the entire group.

Miss Graham opened with Sara-
bande, a delicate satire on court danc-
ing by Lehman Engel. It was based.
on the selection of certain typical
actions or gestures: the lifted arm,
the slow bows and the stately pacing
movements These. were then exag-
gerated by Miss Graham to the point
of burlesque and absurdity. She held
her lifted arm straight and stiff in
the air with her relaxed hand dan-
gling from it foolishly. When she
bowed, she got down with calm, .de-
liberate elegance and fairly wallowed
on the floor. Her sarcasm was ob-
vious and a little superficial, but it
provided the good-humored and eas-
ily intelligible opening that was
needed. The dance’s_ heartlessness
and artificiality, too, was probably in-
tended to contrast with the intensity
and passion of the second number,
Deep Song, by Henry Cowell.

Deep Song, according to the pro-
gram_—note, “was not -meant-to~be
an exact picture of a Spanish woman
but presents the torture of mind and

. body experienced in common by all
people who react to such suffering as
the Spanish people have faced.” Miss
Graham’s own. personal reaction to
her theme was so ‘apparent tbat it
seems brutal to criticise such sincerity
and feeling. Also, any attempt to res-
cue the dance from the archaic and
the trivial, and make it again the in-
strument of truly popular feeling, is
a praiseworthy effort, whether it suc-
ceeds or fails. Nevertheless, we our-
selves feel that in this case it has
failed. The failure was not caused by
any lack of intensity or skill; it re-





of the subject to the style of inter-
pretation. Martha Graham’s dancing
is primarily intellectual and subtle.

The suffering of the Spanish people
Continued on Page Three



K. Hepburn Appears
In New Barry Play



Theatre Guild Comedy Offers
Playwright and Actress in
Engaging Mood



The Theatre Guild has produced in
Philip Barry’s The Philadelphia Story
a play that should be. successful on
Broadway, Although it is rough in

| spots this does not mar the excellent
{performance of Katharine Hepburn or

the good impression the play makes
as a whole.

Reminiscent of Mr. Barry’s Hattios
which starred Miss Hepburn in the
movie version, ‘The Philadelphia
Story: deals with one of those fabu-
lous heiresses who prefers money and
the spirit of fun to money and snob-
bery. Two hard-working reporters
represent the base class which lives
for the finer things in life and-has no
family tree to speak of. Naturally
they succumb .to Miss Hepburn’s
charm and vigorous personality in
the course of the play.

As Tracy Lord, the unpredictable
divorcée, who remarries her former
husband in preference to a more stable
suitor, Miss Hepburn proves again
that her strong point ‘is comedy, in
which field she can take on all comers.
One of her best scenes is in the first
act wherein she turns the tables on
the press and beats them at their
own game, “two to one in favor of
the home team.” She get the maxi-
mum humor out of her lines without
losing any of her grace and poise.

Her drunk scene is a masterpiece, al-
Continued on Page Two

U. S. Policy Toward
Loyalists Discussed





Peace Council Votes to Press
Repeal of Spanish Embargo
By Congress



Denbigh Showcase, February 27.—
A meeting of the Peace Council was
called to discuss and vote-on the sug-
gestion of the A. S, U. that the Coun-
cil take appropriate steps to inform
Congress that it is in favor of lifting
the United States embargo on Spain.

This ‘embargo is the result of spe-
cial neutrality legislation. The Span-
ish Crisis was not covered by the
original neutrality legislation, only
applicable where war has been offi-
cially declared. The lifting of the
embargo would enable the Loyalist
side to obtain munitions from the
United States in either Loyalist or
chartered foreign‘ships as the United
States would not be empowered to ex-

port munitions in American bottoms.
Continued on Page Two ;



“Fortnightly Philistine’ Fi
Forming First Philos

Five Females

ophical Fight Forum



“To. gl Cstliailall Fellows, and
Hearers, to ’98, ’99, and 1900, and
our new freshman class, above all to
our august Faculty and President:
Greeting!” Thus the Fortnightly
Philistine opens its first editorial for
the year 1897-98. The first news re-.
view $f the college, founded in 1894,
the Philistine included an editorial,
book and play reviews, and contribu-
tions from students.

Typical is a fictionalized account of.
Bryn Mawrters’ reactions to a hockey
game in which they had just been
beaten.

Editorials are filled ‘with sage ad-

"vice: to the” freshmen,. not. to_begin.
bluffing until they are juniors; to all,
to get up early rather than stay. up
after midnight, and to study for ex-
aminations in small groups because it
is well known that memorizing is best
done by repeating aloud. The
Philistine also urges consideration of
‘the difficult prohlem, “when may a
freshman ‘call. an upperclassman, by
her last name.” It ‘concludes, some-
what ambiguously, with the encour-|
agement, {fight on, little sisters.”

“ We were tar ee drawn to the



“frankness of one.essay on “the Debat-

ing Club.” It began, “In the philoso-
‘phy class last year there were five
students who wanted to understand
their work”—and they formed a de-
bating club. \

The Freshman Play of 1897 gives
evidence of seriéus intentions, though
veneered in the pastoral form:

“We find our flocks insipid and our
shepherd songs a bore,

This educated chorus,

We’ve a great career before us,

And nothing shall santone us--

To our. simple way.”



Stapleton, Herben, Veltman—H. Wade, M. J. Cook, E. Harz



P.W.Bridgman’s
Manifesto Hit
By Professors



Anderson, Weiss Deplore
Limitation of Freedom
Of Inquiry



am

Mr. Anderson of the economics de-
partment and Mr. Weiss of the phil-
osophy department made independent
protests in their classes against Pro-
fessor Percy W.- Bridgman’s “mani-
festo,’”’ which appeared in the New
York Times last Friday. Professor
Bridgman degidéd in his individual
capacity to close his laboratory to
visitors from totalitarian states, since

knowledge to serve their own pur-
poses.

Mr. Weiss ‘oie the following an-
nouncement to his classes: ‘Should
there be any who is a-citizen- of or is
sympathetic with totalitarian states,
I vouch that I shall do all in my
power to teach them to the best of
my ability in the fields in which I am
competent.” sl

Mr. Anderson devoted an entire lec-
ture hour to a discussion of the im-
plications of Professor Bridgman’s
statement. He considers it extremely
dangerous, especially since it comes
from one of the most eminent scien-
tists in America. If Professor Bridg-
man’s example is followed, the prin-
ciple of denying knowledge to citizens
of totalitarian states may be extended
infinitely to other realms of knowl-
edge. Though as an individual Pro-
fessor Bridgman has a right to ex-
clude waomever he pleases from his
laboratory, he has himself paved the
way through his public statement for
the application of totalitarian. princi-
ples. He has, says Mr. Anderson,

ation, because while defending free
scientific experimentation and con-

restriction, he is threatening restric-
tion as his personal policy.
Professor Gauss’ expression of ap»
proval in Saturday’s Times, says Mr.
Anderson, is a plain misinterpretation
of the original manifesto.. Professor

Gauss has emphasized the idea that
Continued on Page Three

COLLEGE CALENDAR
Thursday, March 2.—Philoso-
phy Club meeting. Common
Room, 7.30.
Friday, March 3.—Industrial
Group Supper. Common Room,





6.30.
A note of doubt also creeps in at Saturday, “March °4.—Bryn -
atk aioe ag ce Mawr League afternoon, Com-
7 ;, Says.that this ~-mon-Raom. Square Dance. Gym-.

occasion is just as exciting for the}

college girl as for “the true debutante
who spends all her winter’s energies
in sirhilar dissipations.” However, af-
ter describing the happy evening, the
author suggests that her heroine is
perhaps “sorry for the first time in
her life that she is a college girl.”
Again, there is a description of a
12 o’clock class in which everyone is
n the verge of sleep, including the
ecturer. ‘

Already, in its first years,
. - * Gontinued on Puge Phree-

the

nasium, 8 p, m.
Sunday, March 5. —Recital by
Dr. Fritz Kurzweil. Deanery,
4.30. Hornell Hart will speak ,
in chapel. Music Room, 7.30
Monday, March 6.—Mis
will speak at a Sci
meeting. Commonoom, 7.45.
Tuesday, Maréh 7.—Current
Events, Mr. Fenwick. Common
- Room, 7.30. German movie.
Goodhart, 8.15.


















these _states—have-—perverted_scientific}

placed himself in a paradoxical situ-|

demning the totalitarian practice of -

Democracy Requires

Freedom of Thought

Judge Allen Says Bill of Rights
Assures Personal Liberty





Of\Expression
Goodhart, February 27.—In- her
fourth lecture Judge Florence E.

Allen discussed The Bill of Rights
which is contained in thé first ten
amendments to the Constitution.
“The. fundaniental basis of democ-
racy,” she said, “is. freedom of
thought.” Thé guarantee of freedom
of ehought contained in the Bill of
Rights finds its fullest and most far-
reaching expression in the first amend-
ment. :

Along with the great documénts of
our history this amendment should be
remembered, It-springs- from. the _de-
sire of those who founded this nation
that the truth shall always remain
free, It is a great landmark “which
points us, as Americans, to the truth,
which, if we care, we might now be
seeking.”

ee first amendment does more
t express an attitude or state a
provision regarding personal liberty.
It. draws a line of individual right
over which Congress may not step:
“Congress shall make no law respect-.
ing an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of specth,
or of the press; or the right of the
people peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the Government for a redress
of grievances.” This provision has
been made by the Constitution, “the
‘supreme law of the land.”

The rights established in this
amendment should be-—considered not

only as safeguards of individual
Continued on rage Four



Mass Meeting Held
On Spanish Embargo



Pembroke East, February 24.—The
Bryn Mawr mass meeting on the
Spanish embargo was one of many
demonstrations and peace strikes or-
ganized all over the country by the
A. §. U. Maintaining that removal
of the embargo can still save demo-
cratic Spain, Betsey Dimock, 41,
president of the A. S.-U., urged all
present to write to their senators
demanding its repeal. President
Roosevelt is believed to oppose the
embargo, but does not feel that the
country is behind him.

Lily Ross ‘Taylor, professor of
Latin, concluded her address to the
meeting with an appeal that we aban

embargo forces upon us, and align
ourselves .on the side of democracy.

ists, the embargo faciljtates continued
serene and Italian support to Na-
tionalist Spain.

' In discussing the course of the war,
Miss Taylor stated that government-
controlled Italian papers continue to

|| demand political, as well as military,

victory. .They speak of the coming
rejuvenation of Spanish civilization
in other parts of the world. Miss
Taylor believes that this is a direct

threat to democracy in South Amer-
Continued on Page Four





don the un-neutral position which the:

While-it-prevents_direct_ aid to Loyal-|

Devil-Did Grin
Parodies Many
‘Local Notables

Western Union Messenger
Is Drafted to Appear
As Class Animal

CUSTOM CRUMBLES
AS MEN SEE SHOW

Goodhart, February 25.—The pro-
duction by the class of 1942 of The
Devil Did Grin achieved the purpose
of all Freshman Shows. . With the
aid of the powers of heaven, hell and
the Western Union they kept their
audience delighted for the évening
with a light-headed. review of campus
characters in parody.

Everybody had a good time. The
audience was maintained at a pitch
of raucous hilarity, star talent was
brought to light, the animal song
was safely preserved from the sopho-
mores and the animal was without
doubt the most climactic on record.
A young fortune was realized by the
posters, and several songs were in-
troduced that may anticipate years |
of service about the college dining
halls. One of the five faculty men
who attended legally (courtesy
your newspaper) pronounced it the
best entertainment he had .witnessed
at Bryn Mawr.



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There was plot, in among the songs
and parodies, that possessed more
unity thay susally expected in-a mu-
si¢al show. It seems that a typical.
smoking room group (predominantly
Merion) were blaspheming in typical —
undergraduate’ fashion, saying that
heaven was all there remained to anti-
cipate after typical Midyears. The
powers that were called this bluff
and, rejecting the devil’s” counter-at-
tractions, the undergraduates matricu-.
lated for heaven.

Outside the pearly gates, the foul
fiend espied fair Pavlova, member of
the angelic faculty.; Swiftly en-
amoured, he plotted to win the under-
graduates to hell, for on that condi-

tion alone would Pavlova’ leave
Continued on Page Four

Radio and Publicity

Vocations Discussed





Versatility, Ability to Type, and
‘Sixth Sense’ Stressed
As Qualifications ©



Common .Room, Feb. 27.—Frank
Arnold, consultant of broadcast ad-
vertising, discussed in his talk here
the opportunities for'‘women in the
fields of publishing, advertising and
radio broadcasting. Mr. Arnold point-
ed out that the number of women
employed in each of these fields in-
creases yearly and specified as to
what chances particular departments
within each field offered, how much
they paid and how to get in them.

For entrance into any of these pro-
fessions, Mr. Arnold emphasized the
necessity of typing ability, the need,
almost as requisite, for a »rudimen-
tary knowledge of shorthand and the-
willingness to start anywhere within
an organization without hopes of a
high paid job. Nowadays, since there
is an increasing tendency to advance
people from one department to another
rather than resorting to outside -
sources, Mr.- Arnold feels that. the ©
importance. of being sure “to get on
the payroll,” despite the acceptability
of the first _job, cannot be ove: empha-
sized. ‘

-In the publishing: field ‘the most -
numerays opportunities for women
are offered in magazine departments;
in the advertising business the posi-
tion of copy writer has become in-
creasingly important since more and
more advertising is done by women
with a view to women buyers; while
in the radio broadcasting field rela-
tively few wonien have as yet: obtained
the more important executive posi-

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_ more than any others, are beneficiaries of Miss Hepburn’s benefit per-
formance, for we or those who follow us, will enjoy the Theatre, Work-

—today:—The-generous-trinity-formed—by-her-with-Miss-Helburn and|~—

I won’t be relegated to a musty attic,

- tifie truth into a political weapon ; he evidently thinks that because a

_. every



DON JUAN

it amey be reprinted either wholly or in part without written permission of the Juan.
Editor-in-Ch He’s been upon the campus ak a
Editorial Board . year.
Editor-in-Chief Since nimbused youth* first under-
Mary R. MEIGs, ’39 took the noon
News Editor Copy Editor (Apologies to Tucker) of this
ANNE LOUISE AXON, ’40 MARGARET MACG. OTIS, ’39 "sphere
fast News Biter ies Of academic life, full many a moon
. SMILY CBGNEY, Ago, it has become increasing clear

That every dog is wont to have his

day.

Look .- homeward - Juari now, ‘and go

away.

OLIVIA KAHN, ’41 VIRGINIA SHERWOOD, ’41
NANCY Sroussat, ’40 sit ;
Photographer _ . Music Correspondent In nimbused youth on Sunday I did
Doris TURNER, ’39 LOUISE HERRON, ’39 often
Sports Correspondents Glance at the funnies with infantile
BARBARA AvcutNcioss, "40 Preacy Lou JAFFER, "41 : glee .
Graduate Conieipenliens At Little Orphan Annie who could
‘VIRGINIA PETERSON soften
ey Business Board A heart deep-dyed_ in blackest in-
Business Manager Advertising Manager famy.
CAROLYN SHINE, ’89 DOROTHY AUERBACH, 40 E’en in the days of childhood I was
Assistants scoffin’

At her apparent immortality,
While by the, laws of growth and
' progress,--Annie

Would now be old enough to be my

granny.

Juan has aged, of course; his ogndy

a Enteréd as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office Is Ve along the edge with tell-
- tale gray,
“Thank You, Philadelphia Story Ales tot bite bier Heavy. Hand of
There is no way for all the undergraduates who went to Philadel- Has dealt not lightly since he posed
phia Story publicly to thank Miss Hepburn, Miss Helbrun, and Mr.|, as Leigh,
His sister. None remembers, I could

Barry for their kindness, but we believe that editorially we are speak-
ing for the majority. We are particularly grateful to Miss Hepburn
for subjecting herself to an exhausting ordeal at the Warwick- when
she had already proved abundantly her interest in Bryn Mawr. We,

shop when it is built. For this reason, we feel that even while speaking
and giving to the Bryn Mawr which is always moving forward, she
was speaking and giving directly ‘to us, as part of the Bryn Mawr of

Mr. Barry was most convincing proof of the allegiance of artists to the
task of furthering dramatic art.

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For Freedom of Learning

We. are breaking our policy of silence on national events to com-
ment on one that seems to us to be of unusual significance to Bryn
Mawr: Professor Bridgman’s manifesto against visitors from totali-
-tarian-states._In-agreement—with_ Mr. Andé¥son_and— Mr. Weiss, we
are protesting against the distortion of the purpose of learning, as
members of an educational institution where learning is- still aniieael,
‘san. Professor Bridgman has turned the denial of learning or scien-

democracy can express indignation at totalitarian methods by an
embargo on goods, it can do. so by an embargo on ideas.

The protests in class of two members of the faculty indicates the
importance of Professor Bridgman’s statement, and its possible impli-
cations. Truth and knowledge are the rights of every individual, no
matter what uses they may, be put to; and the restriction of truth,
through fear of its misuse, could be as infinitely applied as the restric-
tion of the freedom of speech. One of the letters to the News this
week proves that there are undergraduates who contest the right of
groups or of individuals to express certain opinions. This sort of
indignant intolerance is akin to a statement like Professor Bridgman’s,
and may grow from reading such a statement. We are part of a sys-
tem which ascribes to the idea that learning should be given, and not
taken away, that its main function is to progress freely and truthfully,
and that its distribution is independent of politics and of ideology. If
we really believe in the truth of this idea, we will never allow it to be
threatened. ; : A



On cheese and apple pie.

ail to the breakers
bargo!
ow will we ever pa

department of. copy-writing,

swear
How Lem and Juan lunched that
fateful day,
But no
* one listens

To anything that smacks of reminis-

cence,,

“Hush!” Juan shouted, in a voice em-

phatic,
“Tam of some authority, you know,

In fact, I’m going to the Freshman
Show.

Where men are both infrequent and

erratic.” ?

£ that em-





our copious

debts

To the lion-hearted seven-suffragets?)

*Curl-haloed Juan.
(To be-continued)



Radio-and Publicity

Vocations Discussed



Continued from Page One

tions and in general, must be: con-
tent with work of a more or less
clerical nature.

In publishing, magazines take on

women as writers, members of the
editorial board, clerks and members{
of the subscription department.
the publishing of books men are em-
ployed much more extensively than
women with the important exception
of children’s books,
have taken over completely and also
manuscript reading, where women are
employed as
heads, in the publication of children’ s
books, for instance, receive ‘from five
to six thousand a year.

In

which women

often as men. The

The advertising field, besides the
offers

Long Live Big May, Day?

. There is always a more or less vociferous group in college

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: Pueratore, we ‘ek for public opinion on the ainsi, and we sug-
; Big May Day as a general topic for conversation. Sometime in
near future the News will conduct a poll to determine under~|

which
is - opposed to Big May Day. Some people object to it because’ they
dislike pageantry in any form; others because they, feel it has become
- too.elaborate and difficult. Then there are those (largely faculty mem-
Bers) who object to. the-lowering of academic standards which seems
3 to be necessary during a May Day year.
‘in that, they will be mae) to participate, because, of Solnpts;

Moreover, May Day seniors

We, ourselves, are heartily in en of repeating Big ny Day}
ad infinitum. Howeyer, | we. realize that there is sure.
to be- Abeneeinn when the matter is brought up next fall, and we
hink that it should be disctissed now, while there is still a class in
who, aie yo thea a Big May Day, ale us of its



many chances for women in the re-
search department and as space buy-
ers where the woman’s sixth sense
added to a knowledge of rates, etc.,
is invaluable, Mr. Arnold said, in mak-
ing the choles of where and how to
advertise. The head executives of the
copy-writing department. are the best
paid in the field, receiving -from five)
to ten thousand a year.

tive positions are held by women,

In radio broadcasting, few execu-|}

K.-H epburn Appears
In New Barry ‘Play



Continued from Page One

| though she almost never resorts to
Readers, I’m getting very tired ‘of!
‘Vand slurred speech. Her only reac-

| the usual melodramatic staggering

tion to too much champagne. appears
to be that she loses her restraint and
does the things she has obviously
wanted to in the first part of) the
play.

Vera Allen has 4 minor part as
Tracy’s mother. She is a skilled ac-
tress and blends unobtrusively into
the action while adding considerably
to the vitality of the play. Lenore
Lonergan will probably not be ac-
claimed as the child actress of the

ar. It is true she is meant to*be a
rather unpleasant brat, but. perhaps
she is even more unpleasant than Mr.
Barry foresaw. However, she is amus-
ing when she greets the reporters in
ballet fashion and she says her lines
completely.

Van Heflin, Joseph Cotton and Dan
Tobin furnish well-polished perform-

ances as the pleasant young men of
the piece. They are all true. gentle-
men, and to demonstrate this con-

clusively they hand Miss Hepburn the
honors of the play on a silver platter,
keeping -themselves slightly in the
shadow so that she may shine more
brightly. This does not in any way
detract from their characterizations.
With lesser actors Mr. Barry’s fin-
ished. play might very conceivably
suffer. Their modesty becomes them
and enhances the production.

Forrest Orr, Nicholas Joy and
Shirley Booth do very nicely in their
respective roles. Miss Booth, one
of the reporters sent to heckle the
Lord family, has a brief but substan-
tial role and she flips off her lines
with ease and a firm grasp of their
inherent -comedy.. Possibly the role
of George Kittredge, Miss Hepburn’s
rejected suitor, is a thankless one, but
the pace of the play definitely slows
down when Frank Fenton leads the
action.

The: play. is, as one might expect,
well written. The theme of the two
reporters coming to pry into the
family life of the Lords is a little
ronfusing and even more’ confusing
is the sub-plot about Tracy’s father’s
shady past, and present. But when
the plot seems about to fly from him
Mr. Barry hastily pulls it together so
that if the story is perplexing it is
delightfully so.

Some. of Mr..Barry’s-lines are lost
to the audience because the actors
speak either too softly. or too indis-
tinctly. Robert Sinclair, who is di-
recting The Philadelphia Story,
should be able to remedy this before
the play comes before the New York
critics. x / . O. K.

Suburban Movies
Wayne: Wednesday, Thanks for the
Memory, with Bob Hope and Charles
Butterworth. Thursday, Mr. Deeds
Goes to Town. Friday, Theodora
Goes Wild, with Irene Dunn and Mel-
vyn Douglas. Saturday, The Girl
Downetairs, with Franchot Tone ~
Seville: Wednesday and Thursday,
The Girl Downstairs, with Franchot
and Franciska Gaal. Friday and
Saturday, Artists and Models Abroad,
with: Jack Benny, Joan Bennett
Suburban: Wednesday and Thurs-
day, The Adventures of Chico. Friday
and Saturday, King of the Under-
world, with Kay Francis



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lars per week), as secretaries (from
25 to 50 dollars per week) and as
hostesses (from 35 to 45 dollars ‘per
week). The latter is the most stra-
tegic job of all as it provides contact
with all the departments, thereby in-
creasing the prospect of advance-
ment.

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bf -

~ Lenten Sermons |
The, Church of the Redeemer .
will hold a course of sermons



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though” Mr. Arnold: pointed out such
important exceptions as Judith Whar-
department, consisting of expert writ-
ers and editors, is also difficult for
women to enter except as clerks. In

to 50 dollars a week.



this department the pay is from Rd! |

"Meet tie: pak. nk 6th
[oe ar’ nameron cportnta or





on the Return To Religion dur-
ing Lent. The subjects and
dates of the sermons are:
- March 5—“Religion and Edu-
_ @ation.”
Marsh 12—“Religion eilack:
. Peace.”

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PUBLIC. OPINION

To the Editor” oF The News:

As a member of the Undergradu-
ate Theater Workshop Committee, I
should like. publicly to congratulate
M Niven. Alston on the perform-
ance of Premature Lilies in Wynd-
ham ten days ago. Her energy in
writing, producing, directing and act-

ing in the play was phenomenal. T
fact that she cleared 25 dollars is
titanic.. Members of the Players’
Club who have struggled with one-act
plays in a valiant attempt to benefit
the Workshop, can fully) appreciate
the difficulty of clearing sade aed at
all. ,
-But the fact that the play was
given is really mére important than
the money that it earned. This is
the very kind’ of performance for
which the Workshop is to be built.
Mary Niven has revived a tradition
which has been allowed to remain too
long suffering from a kind of sleep-
ing sickness. In the “good old days,”
before even Goodhart was built, gifted
students were continually writing
their own plays, and, for lack of
other facilities, putting them on in
the gym. Goodhart is obviously too
big for this kind of play. Wyndham
is really too small.
Premature Lilies was a concrete
expression of our need for the Work-
shop. Let us revive ‘the “good old
days” and be ourselves remembered
as belonging to the enthusiastic pre-
Workshop era. Then, as in’ the case
of Goodhart, when the Workshop is
built, we will feel that the college
really needs and deserves it.
(Signed) S. T. M.,







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February 28, 1939.

To the Editor of the College News:
The efforts of the Bureau of Press
Relations to give Bryn Mawr College
a respectable reputation must be in

vain as long as unhealthy activities 1

within the college defame it. In
Bryn Mawr College, considered schol-
astically the leading women’s college

| in the United States, open—disloyal—

ties to God and country are allowed to.
go unchecked,

A professor in a required course
has denied the existence of Christ.
Long letters from the officers of the
Young Communist League are printed
in the College News and in the college
literary magazine. A youth mass
meeting, sponsored by this organiza-
tion which idolizes an alien form of
government, was not only announced
in the regular notices, and posted
on the regular bulletin boards, but

it was -placarded on hall front doors,

formerly used for notices of the now
defunct morning chapel.

Instances .are recorded of outlaws
who respected God and country. The
only time, as far as I know, inthe
last two years, that the Star Spangled
Banner has been sung at Bryn Mawr
College, of sixty people in the dining
room only two were not stahding on
their chairs giving Nazi or red sa-
lutes.

The shame of a non-atheistic, non-
communistic student whose parents

have sent her to Bryn Mawr will end’

only when the college can be called
nothing worse than “the Old Maids’



College.” He MM.
U.S. Policy Toward
Loyalists Discussed



Continued from Page One
Although the lifting of the embargo
would apply to all of Spain, it would
probably not benefit Franco. — .

Certain objections were raised by
members of the Council in reference

to the value of lifting the embargo .

when the war seems to be drawing to
a close. It was finally decided that
any stand taken by the United States
favoring the Loyalist side would help

} protect. it from complete’ annihilation”

in Franco’s ultimate victory. A re-
corded vote taken in the Council

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measure.

The meeting was adjourned after, Pe
committee of three had been ape:

pointed to prepare a report on neu-
trality legislation, to be presented next
Tuesday.
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Thank You

_ The Bryn Mawr Camp wishes
to thank the undergraduates for,
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Martha Graham -Evokes
History in New Dance



Continued from Page One

as a whole is a fine intellectual con-
cept. A dance based-on that concept,
however, must necessarily express
singly elements of emotion which are

actually felt together. Therefore an
intellectual dance lacks the directness
of human experience. A dance that
really depicted the suffering of the
Spanish people would have to be much
more spontaneous, much more emo-
tional, much more savage, even, than
Miss Graham’s calculated and elabor-
ate Deep Song. It had occasional
touching moments when some poignant
gesture or simple movement showed
what it should have been throughout;
but as a whole it was not convincing.

Martha Graham’s last solo dance,
Frontier, was much less deliberate
than either Deep Song or Sarabande.
Intended to convey no particular the-
sis or message, but merely @& sense
of the. pioneer’s exultation, it was
spontaneous and joyful, more like a
traditional dance than the others. It
also succeeded, unlike the others, in
creating an atmosphere. With a single
eager look or wide gesture of her arm,
Miss. Graham surrounded. herself with
vast plains. and. distant -mountains.
When she settled back on her fence
rail with arms about her knees and
gazed fixedly into the wings, she
actually appeared to be welcoming a
new and real country. Frontier may
not be the most impressive of her
dances, but it is certainly the most
charming, and judging from its re-
ception, the most popular.

The great “documentary dance”
that closed the program was the most
ambitious and elaborate of all the
group’s efforts. As such, it showed
their special virtues’ and defects much
Patterned after an iacalaa saline’
show, it was based on five great Amer-
ican documents, with a spoken and
danced interpretation for each, inter-












N.Y Bryn Mawr Club
Miss Louise Holabird Wood,
of Chicago, Illinois and Flor-
ence, Italy, will give an illus-
trated lecture, Italy—Yester-
day and Today, at the New
York Bryn Mawr Club on Mon-
day evening, March 6. Buffet
supper, preceding the lecture,
- will be at 6.30 p. m.







spersed with choruses,

The strength of the idea lay chiefly
in its reaffirmation of the dance as
an interpreter of historical and con-
temporary events. The _ individual
dances, particularly the subtle and ex-
quisitely woven Puritan Episode, all
confirmed and exactly translated the
words of the documents as they were
recited by the Interlocutor. Even the

Declaration, avoiding the usual senti-| °

mentality of such a celebration, was
triumphantly beautiful as its chorus
gradually rose and circled about a
single static figure with her right hand
clasped over the wrist of her out-
stretched ‘left arm.

The ideas of the dances, too, were
immensely clarified and strengthened
by the splendid costumes, excellently
chosen color and strong sense of de-
sign in all the choreography. This
design was almost primitive in its
hard brightness and clean directness,
like a painting from Crete. It gave
the pauses of the dances the brilliancy
of a mural. It united the ragged and
jerky ~ movements that. characterize
too many of Martha Graham’s in-
dividual gestures.

The weakness of American Docu-
ment lay primarily in the spoken ac-
companiment. Here again Martha
Graham had tried to be simple and



Acknowledgment
The cast of he Freshman
- Show wishes to acknowledge the
time spent by the managers and
their assistants and to thank
them for all they did.











A FREQUENT

Anderson and Weiss
Hit Bridgman Stand

Continued from Page One



visitors from totalitarian state would
use scientific knowledge for destruc-
tive purposes, ana has justified Pro-
fessor Bridgman’s embargo on these
grounds. “We might as well give
machine guns*to outlaws,” he says,
“as turn over further d@structive se-
crets to nations on the rampage.’” In
point of.fact, Professor Bridgman’s
work does not involve “destructive
secrets”; and his fear, of the misuse
of scientific information is secondary
to his desire to express abhorrence of
totalitarian practices.

Professor Bridgman, even while in-
sisting on freedom for the individual,
has stigmatized individuals who may
have a sincere desire for knowledge.



primitive, but this time with almost
ludicrous results. As long as the In-
terlocutor stuck to the actual wording
of the documents, all was well, but
hi§ original additions and emenda-
tions were absurd. They were in-
tended to be simple; the, trouble was
that they were so simple that they
were pretentious. There was no real
need to say something like “This is a
theatre. You are the audience. The
time is the present.’? The result is
not the strong and poetic speech of
the primitive, but the artificial baby
talk of the affected.

In the larger sense, this is the
chief criticism that can be brought
against Martha Graham herself. * Als
though primarily complicated, intellec-
tual and subtle, she occasionally re-
fuses to admit it, and tries to pre-
tend that her dancing is a strong and
simple art. As her particular style

develops and matures still further, it}.

is to be hoped that she will shed this
childishness and use her rare and ex-
quisite gifts fully and entirely for the
perfecting of the greatest advances in
her art since the days of Isadora ‘Dun-
can.

-E. M. P.

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Pacifists!

A:small informal group called
the Pacifist Cell has been formed
on campuseunder the auspices of
Professor Sears Hof Haverford.
As a group it has no outside
-work as yet, but adheres to a
strictly pacifist platform. ‘At
present at its weekly meetings -
the group is reading and discuss-
ing Richard Greg’s Power of
Non-Violence.







He has so generalized his notion ‘of
totalitarianism that he has extended
it to every citizen of Germany, disre-
garding the fact that even as German
citizens they may be opposed to the
totalitarian regime. .At the same
time, he implies a dangerous distinc-
tion between Aryan and non-Aryan
Germans which may lead to the mak-

ing of similar distinctions in the
United States.
By taking such, action, he. has

batred the way to liberal-minded Ger-
man scientists, taking away all hope

Germany by access to the truth, In
attempting to punish totalitarianism
by denying it this access, he is de-
feating one of the erids of science
and of, learning, its universality of
intercourse. Germany’s intellectual
contacts are being gradually reduced,
and Professor Bridgman, in making
this step, has reduced them still
farther. Of the few citizens who are
permitted to leave, the majority are
scholars, the very men who might be
influenced by democratic and scientific
ideals, and who could bring them back
to Germany.



Dr. H. Hart to Speak

Dr. Hornell Hart, professor of

| Sociology and Psychology at

~ Duke University, Durham, N.
C., will speak at the chapel on
Sunday, March 5. The choir
will sing Hallelujah, from Judas
Maccabeus, by Handel,





from them of righting conditions in.

‘Fortnightly Philistine’
Shows 1939 Like’ 1898



Continued from Page One

Philistine was making periodic ap-
peals for more contributions, and of-
ten apologetic pieces on Why I cannot
write appear in its pages. One stu-
dent interposes her attempt with, “A
poor joke, but it is better to have
joked and lost the point than never
to have joked at all.” The editors
urge humbly that “our standard is
not’as high as the Lantern’s; indeed,
it is questionable whether we have
any standard at all.”

The insidious seed of modernism |
rears, its‘ ugly head among the poets
of 1898. The Philistine; however, is
tolerant of these aberrations. We re-
print in full one poem, “In lofty Pem-
broke Hall,” together with the. edi-
torial comment:

“She sat at table.

Conversation rose as the roaring of

the sea.

The magenta voice of a girl

Spoke. *

In pale blue anger

She hissed: “Hush-sh-sh!”

Then pink, green, yellow, grey and

deep purple ,

Silence fell over all.*

*(This sounds like nonsense to
many. It is, however, but the at-
tempt of an ambitious undergraduate
to imitate Stephen Crane.—Ed.)”

E. C.















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Mass Meeting Held
| ’ On Spanish Embargo



Continued from Page One

iea, and “thus the embargo is endan-
gering our own liberties.” |

Miss Dimock pointed out that the
situation in Spain is little worse than
it was when Barcelona fell. Relief
ships can still get in to Loyalists.

The negotiations for peace now being |:

earried on between President Azana,
Chamberlain and Daladier, she be-
lieves, are directly opposed to the will
of the Spanish people. However,.
final negotiations must be made with-
in Spain, and must be signed by the
premier as well as the president.



Democracy Requires
Freedom of Thought

Continued from Page One



rights, but as an ironclad safeguard
of the right to criticize. According
to Judge Allen, there can be no last-
ing governmental progress without
unrestricted criticism. The need of
guarantees to personal freedom might
- never have been realized if the press
had not been able freely to discuss
“that need before the Constitution or
its amendments were drafted. “Group
and race,“ said Judge Allen, “should
‘advance through the perception of
error and the reyelation of truth.”

When the Constitution was drafted,
Hamilton and Madison considered that
-a bill of rights was unnecessary. But
four of the states which ratified the
Constitution actually included pro-
visions for freedom of speech and of
the press in their bills of ratification,
and accordingly the ten‘ amendments
which constitute our Bill of Rights
were added to the original draft.
The realization of the necessity for
religious freedom was a result of the
long and bloody religious wars which
had torn Europe | during the two pre-
ceding centuries “and the intolerance
and prejudice which had been. intro-
duced by Calvinism. This intolerance
was rigidly maintained in New Eng-
—jand—during—the-seventeenth century,|
when. membership in the Protestant
Church was necessary for a place in
the community. The famous Blue
Laws held that all persons not of the
established Church should be cast out
from society. Massachusetts had a
theology which made religious belief
the test of citizenship.

The first person to preach religious
toleration—_was—Rog Williams, of
Rhode Island,- who established liberty

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ef conscience as a fundamental law.

A’ subsequent Rhode Island act was
the forerunner of the first amendment
to the Constitution. It stated that
“all men may walk as their con-
sciences persuade them—all men in the
name of their God.” This act was the
first expression of the growing realiza-
tion that religious freedom was of the
utmost importance in a well-ordered
and liberal nation.

Freedom of speech had its inception

in the English Revolutionary Settle-
ment of 1689, which guaranteed Par-
lidment’s right. of criticism of the
monarch. In the new, free life of the
colonies there was a corresponding
freedom of expression. The power. of
free speech as conceived by the colo-
nists and enunciated in the Bill of
“Rights was not seriously limited until
the World War when the Espionage
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BY FRITZ KURTZWEIL,

The Entertainment Committee of
the Deanery will sponsor a piano re-
cital by Dr. Fritz Kurzweil on Sun-
day, March 5, at four-thirty o’clock.
The program will consist of the fol-
lowing:



Two ongadt thoral preludés
Bach (Busoni).
(a) Wak komm der Heiden Heiland
(b) Nun freut euch, lieben Christen
Sonata Op. 13 (Pathétiqte)
ot - Beethoven
Intermezzo E flat minor Op. 45
Max Reger
Intermezzo E. flat major
Op. 11%; No. 1
Rhapsodie E flat major
Op. 119
Intermission
Prélude D flat major
Nocturne F sharp major
TWo Etades Op. 25 A flat major,
C sharp minor

Scherzo B flat minor ........ Chopin
La Cathedrale engloutie ....Debussy
MOMUN OC ORUR cick ice Ravel
Suggestions diabolique ....Prokofieff



against such weakening forces as li-
bel, treason and the fomentation of
riots. This act is still enforced to
protect the government in time of
war, when individual liberties are, of
necessity, curtgiled. The only way to
maintain those liberties unmolested,
asserted Judge Allen, is to do away
with war.

As finally decided by- the Supreme
Court in the Schenck case in 1937,
free speech is unrestricted unless it

to war.
arising today are derived from the
maintenance of the federal espionage
acts.

Freedom of the press found its first
champion in Milton, who maintained
that without it there can be no last-
ing freedom in the state. In 1776,
Virginia brought into its constitution
the statement that freedom of the
press was “a great bulwark” of Amer-
ican. liberties. When the Constitution
was. drafted, such state constitutions
as this were drawn upon. The only
drastic limitations ever laid upon this

and Seditions Act of the Adams ad-
ministration but these were later re-
pealed by Jefferson.

" Freedom of speeth and publieation,
although not absolute, are carefully
protected by the Constitution. “The
deep-seated desire for completely un-
abridged freedom of expression,”

Judge Allen, “has not yet awakened
in Americans.”



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Thenceforth he agitated
among ' the’ various familiar groups,
the German Club, the Lantern, and
the Young Communists. Ultimately

hell broke loose and the devil took
control. As a final gesture, to win the
Bryn Mawr maidens to his standard,
he presented them with a class ani-
mal, and, joy oh joy, it was a man!
(Courtesy of Western Union at 50
cents: an hour.)

The parody relied chiefly upon re-
produ physical appearance, leav-
ing ‘no longer any room for douhkt
that clothes make the man. In de-
creasing frequency, walk, mannerism,
voice and conversation were well du-
plicated, These portraits provided
the audignce with an _ exhilerating
guessing game, and support the thesis
that a Freshman Show must, to some
extent, come to earth on‘the campus.
Time, energy and finance forbid
rivalry with Broadway, Pudding or
Triangle: The one body of experi-
ence we have in common is, naturally,
Bryn Mawr, and it makes a reliable
point of departure. Heaven forbid
campus frolics every year, but this
was a good one. If it is less am-
bitious to stay at home, the remain-
ing time can be devoted with good
effect to perfecting diction and to
creating a consistent pace—as did
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velocity of this show can be found
in the omission of the customary tap
dancing and choral leg swinging. The
devils’ dance came as a climax, and

theirs was a distinguished routine,
with, variety and finish. The music
The Sta-

was likewise well chose
pleton-Herben windvied{ net an unex-
pected standard for home, products.

One could criticize ‘the script for
assigning lines no more than identi-
fication tags with little appropriate-
ness» There were, in the praise-
worthy attempt to include_all eligible
students in the show, too many people
on the stage, in meaningless deposits,
But for those who would like a
moral from the success of this show,
it would seem that in a. necessarily
unfinished performance it is happier
for all céncerned to aim low and get
there than to shoot for too exalted a
star:

The distribution of personal bou-
quets is difficult, for. performance was
chiefly proportional to the size of the

part. _Pavlova and the Devil require
extra bonuses for the night club
? Madge ‘Daly,
director of the play and: of admis-
sions, besides the customary tributes
to successful pinch hitters, should be
rewarded for utilizing, at last, the
variety of approaches to the stage.

Margot Dethier’s“and Buzzie Glick’s
Auctioneering realized a small fortune,
a further indication of the prevalent
spirit of abandon. It was a very
funny show and the Devil wasn’t the
only one who grinned.

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