College news, March 17, 1948

THE COLLEGE NEWS~



VOL. XEH, NO. 18

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH



17, 1948

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

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Summer Theater Culls Figures
Of Renown As Lecturers Here

Brown, Helburn, Limon, Markle, McCandless,
Macy and Oenslager Head List

Of Guest

The list of guest lecturers for
this summer’s Summer Theatre has
been announced. Seven of the fore-
most representatives of the Amer-
ican theatre will conduct informal
lecture-conferences with students.
They include John Mason Brown,
Theresa Helburn, Jose Limon, Ger-
trude Macy, Fletcher Markle, Stan-
ley McCandless and Donald Oen-
slager, in the fields of criticism, di-
rection, dancing, production, radio,
lighting and sets, respectively.

Miss Helburn, director of the
Theatre Guild, will officiate at the
formal opening of the. Summer
Theatre, if theatre commitments
permit. Her most recent produc-
tion here has been Shaw’s comedy
You Never Can Tell. Mr. Brown,
theatre critic for the Saturday Re-
view of Literature and author of
several critical volumes on the
drama, is one of the foremost
American critics.

Jose Limon has toured widely
with his own troupe and maintains
his own professional studio in New
York; he also has participated in
the Summer Dance Festival at
Bennington. In his demonstration
here he will stress dance technique
in its relation to and influence upon
the elements of body work in act-
ing.

Cornell’s Production Manager

Gertrude Macy is Production
Manager for Katherine Cornell and
Guthrie McClintic, whose Antony
and Cleopatra will open soon in
Philadelphia. Fletcher Markle is
one of CBS’s top-flight producers,
directors and actors. He has re-
cently produced an hour-long se-
ries of weekly radio dramas, latest
of which starred Michael Redgrave
in Uncle Harry. At Bryn Mawr he

N.S. A. Sponsors

Tri-Nation Tour

The tour of England, France and
the Netherlands, announced in the
NSA _ Booklet, “Study, Travel,
Work . .. Abroad,” is definitely
going to be run this summer. It
has been organized for the USNSA
by the National Unions of Students
of England and the Netherlands,
and the Office of University Travel
in France.

Cost of the tour will be $550, in-
cluding transportation. The tour
will leave Montreal on June 18th
and return to Montreal or New
York about September 15th. The
tour is planned students the broadest possible ac-
quaintance with the seaboard coun-
tries of Western Europe. A bal-
ance is being struck, says the NSA
bulletin, “between that knowledge
of places which is essentia¥'to a
cultivated person and the opportu-
nity to get to know people, to study
the institutions of the old world
and to discover what makes these
various countries tick.”

The tour will touch Paris, Tours,
Caen, Grenoble, Brussels, Amster-
dam, Cambridge and _ London,
among other places. Students will
visit factories, universities, castles,
harvest camps (where they will be
paid for the time they work), ca-



nals, spending approximately a/|.

month in each of the three coun-

tries.



Lecturers

will discuss “Acting for the Stage
and for Radio.”

Stanley McCandless. is the na-
tionally recognized authority on
the use of stage lighting. As a
member of the faculty in the De-
partment of Drama at Yale Uni-
versity, he supervised development
of the electronically controlled con-
sole-type switchboard for theatre
lighting which is operated from
the orchestra pit facing the stage.
Here he will discuss the imagina-

tive use of light on the stage.
Continued on Page 2

Actor, Director
Ferrer to Speak
Here Tomorrow

Jose Ferrer will deliver the Mar-
ion Edwards Park lecture for 1948
on Thursday, March 18 in Good-
hart. Mr. Ferrer’s subject-will be
Phases of Contemporary Theatre.

Born in Puerto Rico, Mr. Ferrer
came to this country at the age of
six and studied in public and priv-
ate schools until he entered Prince-
ton University where he spent five
years studying ar¢thitecture. A
member of the Triangle Club at
Princeton, Mr. Ferrer also organ-
ized a band, “The Pied Pipers”
which played at many college func-
tions. -After--graduation he did
Post-Graduate work in romance
languages at Columbia University.

Since the summer of 1935 when



Questions for Ferrer

Questions for Jose Ferrer may
still be handed in to Henny
Burch in Merion. Since the lec-
ture will be based primarily on
questions from ithe students,
here is your chance to have any
problems on the contemporary
theatre discussed.







he joined a stock company in Suf-
fern, New York,.Mr. Ferrer has

participated in many productions on ;

the New York stage as well as giv-
ing radio performances. Among
others, he has played in A Slight
Case of Murder, Anthony and Cleo-
patra, Brother Rat, Mamba’s
Daughters, Key Largo, and Char-
ley’s Aunt. He succeeded Danny
Kaye as Jerry Walker in Let’s Face
It. In 1943 he appeared as Iago in
Othello, with Paul Robeson and
toured with it during 1944-45. He
next staged and played in Strange
Fruit, toured ‘in The Play’s The
Thing, and starred in Cyrano.

Recently he has been at the City
Centre in New York where he has
put on Volpone and some Russian
one-act plays.



Maids’ and Porters’ Dance

St. Patrick’s Day will be the
theme for Friday night’s Maids’
and Porters’ Dance in the Gym.
Dress will be formal, and music
will be provided by a seven-
piece orchestra, of which one
of the former porters is a mem-
ber. Students, for whom ad-
mission will. be twenty-five
cents, are urged to come and
watch from the balcony, to help
make a really gala evening.











M. Carey Thomas Award winners and president of the Col-
lege smile at only male participant of. the evening. krom left to
right: Justice Wiley B. Rutledge, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Miss
Anna Lord Strauss, Miss Katherine Elizabeth McBride.





Roosevelt’s Ideas on Civil Rights
Aired in Breakfast Interview

by Barbara Bettman ’49

Mrs. Roosevelt is one of the few
people in this world who are just
as charming at eight-thirty in the
morning as at the corresponding
p. m. hour. We had breakfast with
herlastFriday—morning,— before
she took the ten o’clock train to
New York, where she was to speak
at a luncheon—before going on to
Vassar to speak in the afternoon.
Additional trips in the offing in-
clude London at the end of the
month, and a week on the contin-
ent!

One feels immediately that Mrs.
Roosevelt really does believe ° in
Man, and in the rights of man.
Her current work is largely in the

Malik Lectures
On March 22nd —

Hardit Singh Malik will speak
on India Today in the Current
Events Assembly on March 22nd.
He has been Prime Minister of
Patiala since 1944 and was the
Leader of the India States Indus-
trial Delegation to. the United
Kingdom and the United States of
America 1945-6. In 1988 he was
the India Government Trade Com-
missioner to New York. His
daughter, Harsimran Malik, was a
graduate of the class of 1945.





Calendar

Thursday, March 18

4:30 — Vocational (Meeting,
Discussion of Summer Jobs,
Common Room.

8:00—Park Lecture, Jose
Ferrer, “Phases of Contempor-
ary Theatre”, Goodhart.

‘Friday, March 19
8:30—Bryn Mawr Drama
Guild, Haverford Cap and
Bells, “The Sea Gull”, Good-
hart.
9-1—Maids’
Dance, Gym.
9-12—Square Dance, Wright

and Porters’

School Gym.
Saturday, March 20
3:00 — Movie, “The Lady

Vanishes”, Music Room.
8:30—“The Sea Gull”, Good-
hart.
11:00—Rock Dance.

Monday, March 22

12:30— Fourth Current
Events Assembly; Hardit Singh
Malik, “India Today”, Good-
hart.

4:00—Miss Edith Finch, “The
Perils of the Authorized Biog-
rapher”, Common Room.

5:30 — Student Federalists,
“World Government and Rus-
sia”, Common Room.











international field, but she main-
tains a great interest in national
problems and, I think, particularly
that of the South’s racial discrim-
ination. In her work on the Hu-
man Rights Commission-of the, UN,
she says, she runs into her’ worst
difficulties when, in conversations
on democracy, the discrepancies in
the United States in the theory
and practice of freedom are men-
tioned. During a _ conversation
about our free press, in which
Mrs. Roosevelt had pointed out
that, while certain groups did con-
itrol the press in some ways, ney-
ertheless the government did not,
the Russian delegate once respond-
ed, “You mean, here, where you
have a free press, you have no dis-
crimination?” Mrs. Roosevelt says
that she could only respond
“Touche.”

‘Miss Strauss discussed the work
that the League of Women Voters
has recently done in the South, in
removing the qualifications for
membership in the League from
State requirements to National re-

. Continued on Page 2

E. Finch To Speak
On the Biographer

“The Perils of the Authorized
Biographer” will be Miss Edith
Finch’s topic on Monday, March
22, when she will speak at 4 o’clock
in the Common Room. Miss Finch,
author of the recently published
Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr and
of Wilfred Scawen Blunt, is speak-
ing under the auspices of the Jour-
nal Club of the Departments of

Continued on Page 3





Princeton, B. M.
Joint Concert
Lacks Balance

*“*Rig Veda,”’ Folk Tunes
Highlight Program
Friday Night
by Melanie Hewitt ’50

The Princeton-Bryn Mawr con-
cert on Friday night, though not
sold out, was satisfactory in most
ways. The Bryn Mawr selection
was predominately sacred music
with the exception of their second
group, four Holst songs. Bryn
Mawr’s first group of songs con-
sisted of Look Down O Lord, two
Adoramus Te Christes by di Lasso
and Brahms, The Beautitudes, Ave
Maria by Kodaly, and High Flight
with Mr. Goodale’s music. It was
well sung and grew better toward
the end, to climax in High Flight,
the difficult music of which strain-
ed the chorus somewhat and could *
have been sung with more preci-
sion.

Princeton’s first group contained
familiar songs by Bach, Beetho-
ven, Haydn, and Handel, all of
which could have been exception-
al. The diction of the Princeton
Glee Club is good, but the second
Bach selection, a duet, was sung
too slowly and seemed listless. This
whole group lacked fire and spon-
taneity and was not even technic-
ally perfect—although the soloists
were competent and the Princeton
accompanist, Karlos Moser, was
excellent.

Bryn Mawr’s second group of
songs consisted of choral hymns
from the Rig Veda by Gustav
Holst. These were done very well,
though the third, the Hymn to Va-
runa, was less convincing than the
Hymn to Vena or To the Dawn.
Perhaps this was because the tem-
po was so similar and because it
was longer and the parts were not
noticeably varied. The Double Oc-
tet was successful ‘A the second
verse of the Hymn to the Dawn,
and the ritualistic, violent Hymn
to Agni came as a welcome change
in tempo at the end of this group.

Princeton’s second group. was
the most exciting and the most
successful part of the program. All
the selections were familiar, the
arrangements were good, and the
singing roused an apathetic audi-
ence to demand an encore. Simon

Legree, John Peel, Shenandoah,
Continued on Page 2



Bryn Mawr To Witness Scenic,
Dramatic Skill-in Ghekhov Play

by Ceile Maccabe, ’50

To the tune of flying paint
brushes and creaking light levers,
the final week of rehearsals for
The Sea Gull is underway. Cos-
tumes on stage as early as Monday
evening ranged from top hats to
Russian blouses, and even included
odd moments of Stage-Manager
Greenewalt’s snappy dungarees.
By the time of the first perform-
ance on Friday these little prob-
lems will undoubtedly have
straightened themselves out.

Even more striking, however,
was the busy scurrying of the
stage crew as it put the finishing’
splashes on Magic Lake. (A ca-
lamity seemed imminent when the
lake, in this retouching, turned a
darker blue than the mountains in
the background. Mr. Thon was no



more relieved than the rest of the

spectators when it dried a lovely
and logical shade of blue.)

Sound effects for the production
seem as well chosen and handled
as the backdrops. The chirping of
crickets lends the perfect touch to
the stage, dark in the late after-
noon light. And as the moon rose,
the sound of a man singing could
be heard. The effect was lessened
only by the complaint by an au-
thority that “the man’s voice does-
n’t blend with the music.”

Don’t come to The Sea Gull ex-
pecting the “usual” type play.
Come with an open mind, to see a
great drama—not of obvious situa-
tions but of tensions between char-
acters. For Chekhov’s play, back-
ed by enthusiasm in every field,
promises to afford two evenings of
good theatre and acting this week-
end. Ne






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Rufus Jones: Dean of Quakers

As we are brought face to face with the realization that
we are living today through times as troubled as the world
has ever known, we can find only occasionally among us a
rock of strength in which to put our faith. Rufus Matthew
Jones is such a man. :

Bryn Mawr honors him this week as he begins his fifti-
eth year on the Board of Trustees. An exhibit of his vast
array of writings is on display in the Quita Woodward Room.
But Rufus Jones is more than a campus figure, more than a
local figure—although in 1938 Philadelphia presented him
with the Bok award, given to the city’s outstanding citizen.
The “dean of American Quakers” is an international figure.

For Rufus Jones has always believed in peace. Now
head of the American Friends’ Service Committee, he has
worked long, hard and unceasingly for the cause of world
peace and world humanity. He believes implicitly in the
Quaker dicta, which exclude war as a part of life, which offer
relief from suffering to all peoples, regardless of “side”, and
seek to glorify God by assuaging the woes of men on earth.
Quakerism is a positive faith; it builds and does not destroy.

Born in 1863 in South China, Maine, Rufus Jones has a
B. A. from Haverford, M. A. from Harvard, and honorary
degrees from ten colleges. He taught philosophy at Haver-
ford for forty years, becoming a professor emeritus in 1948.

Under him, camps for the conscientious objectors were
organized, so that men who would not fight could still con-
tribute constructively to national life:--After the first war,
units under him rebuilt villages, fed German children, put the
Polish. refugees back on their farms, fought famine in Rus-
sia. The Friends fed both sides during the Spanish Civil
War. During this war he went to Berlin, where he asked for
permission to send relief workers to Germany, saying “We
represent no governments, no international organizations, no
sects, and we have no interest in propaganda in any form...

We do not ask who is to blame for the trouble which may |

exist; we do not come to judge or criticize but to inquire
whether there is anything we can do to promote human wel-
fare and to relieve suffering.” The request was granted.
We who have heard Rufus Jones speak in Haverford
Meeting cannot fail to be moved by him. We who know the
impressive list of his accomplishments, or who have read his
numerous books and myriad articles cannot fail to believe in
him, and in his cause. We of Bryn Mawr congratulate him



as he begins his fiftieth year on the Board of Trustees—and |

Current Events

Common Room, March 15. “The
third party movement has been
very salutary to this country,” de-
clared Mr. Bachrach. Speaking on
the American Presidential scene,
Mr. Bachrach discussed the effect
on the country of having a third
party appear in the next presiden-
tial election. In answer to his own
question “Why is a third party
running now?”, he said that it is
because the two major parties have
failed to bring the major issue of
foreign policy clearly before the
people. They have agreed on “con-
tainment” of the Soviet Union as
their policy, but have not discuss-
ed the question adequately.

At the last Congressional elec-
tion the Liberals decided to remain
together, but after Wallace an-
nounced that he would run, the
ADA backed out, declaring that
Wallace was supported by the
Communists; which, Mr. Bachrach
said, is undoubtedly true. Follow-
ing the Isaacson election, it was
seen that Wallace had a fairly big
following. After this election, there
was much criticism of Truman,
brought about by the fact that
Wallace decided to run, and there
is now a desire in some ranks of
the Democratic party to throw
Truman out. The Liberals claim,
“and rightly” said Mr. Bachrach,
that he is dominated by the mili-
tary, and advised by them on for-
eign policy. In the domestic field,
Truman has been accused of mak-
ing liberal speeches to gain votes,
but of actually firing New Deal
personnel. On the subject of for-
eign policy, the Liberals are split.

This third party has been salu-
tary because “‘it has stimulated the
Liberal movement to take action
against Truman,’ Mr. Bachrach
said, and at the same time it is
only fair for the people to. under-
stand the basic issues before the

_|country—the Wallace party has

sharpened these, according to Mr.
Bachrach.

Mr. Bachrach introduced such
questions as, if our purpose is of
“containment”, should we allow
Socialism to continue throughout
Europe ?—If Italy should-go-Com-
munistic, would we intervene? And
would we intervene before or after
the election? What is our defin-
ition of aggression? Is it demo-
cratic to fight an election? And
finally, what does Wallace mean
by “cooperating with the USSR
and the UN”?

50 Lists Juniors
For Undergrad |

The Sophomore class announces
the following nominees for First
Junior Member to Undergrad:

Nancy Corkran

Nancy was the Rhoads Hall
Freshman representative last year.
She is now the Sophomore repre-
sentative to the Nominating Com-
mittee for next year’s Rhoads
President. .

Syvia Hayes

Sylvia was hall representative to
the Alliance last year and is now
Sophomore-..representative of the
A. A. :

Edith. Mason Ham

Edie Mason was one of the tem-
porary chairmen of the freshman
class last year. She is now Pem-
broke West sophomore representa-
tive and a membefMof the NEWS
Subscription Board.

Jess Vorys

Jess is head of all Valley Forge
Activities and is a member of the
League. She has been Denbigh’s
representative to her class nom-
inating committee for two years.

Cynthia Lovejoy (alternate)

Cynnie was a Freshman Hall
Representative last year and also
read at the Blind School. She is
now head of the Record Libra
and is the Undergraduate Repre-



Lecturers Named
For Summer Theatre
Continued from Page 1

Donald Oenslager’s distinguished
stage designs need little descrip-
tion, as he has designed the sets
for a large majority of Broadway
successes in recent years, such as
Born Yesterday and Annie Get
Your Gun.

Acquiring Students

_ Mr. Thon plans this week to cir-
cularize colleges throughout the
country to secure the most highly
qualified students for the coutse.
Enrollment will be limited so that
each student may have the maxi-
mum of personal instruction. Mr.
Thon and his staff of professional
assistants, soon to be announced,
will conduct regular morning class-
es in acting, directing and produc-
tion, as well as afternoon rehears-
als and evening performances.

The supplementary lectures by
the guests will occupy the morning
sessions, carry over into informal
luncheon discussions and be contin-
ued in the Cornelia Otis Skinner
Workshop for practical demonstra-
tions.

Roosevelt’s Ideas
Aired In Interview

Continued from Page 1
quirements, thus enlarging mem-

bership considerably. The League
is working hard to eliminate all
state “requirements” in the South.

The talk touched on election day
only once, when we asked about the
current Southern dispute over the
Civil Rights bill. Mrs. Roosevelt
remarked that she didn’t mind if
Mr. Truman were not elected—but
she thought it would be a pity if
he weren’t elected because of his
Civil Rights bill, it being the best
thing he has done!

Perhaps Mrs. Roosevelt’s great
charm is that she knows you are
interested: in what she has to say.
Therefore she doesn’t indulge in
chit-chat, and she completely com-
mands the interest. From our hour
of breakfast-with-conversation I
emerged with a sincere and enor-
mous admiration for the wife of
the late president, who has become
a great. figure—in—her-own-right—
and a proud example to “women
everywhere.

Rig Veda Selection
Highlights Concert

Continued from Page 1
were all very well done and the

encore, a medley of Princeton
songs, was sung of course with
great feeling.

The beautiful Schicksalslied by
Brahms which was sung by the
Chorus and Glee Club needed more
rehearsal, and Bryn Mawr’s en-
trances were often late. The beau-
ty of the music itself carried the
selection, though the singing was
not perfectly co-ordinated, nor as
effective as it could. have been.

Pollock Clarifies
Sturzo’s Philos.

Dr. Robert C. Pollock, speaking
on “Christian and Modern Human-
ism in the Philosophy of ‘Sturzo”,
described the ‘philosophy of the
Italian sociologist and philosopher
as an existentialist humanism, a
highly Christian humanism and
one which upholds the values of
our traditions, at the e time
giving due credit to the pragmatic
and the relative.

Man is notja tool and a means,
declared Pollotk, 2ut an end in
himself, with dignity, grandeur and
a permanent value; this meaning is
essential and we find it exhibited
in the individual-social man. The
concept of man, a progressive con-
cept, has changed greatly since
pre-Christian days.
considered the mind totally apart
from the body; now we can see
them only as integrated. Just so,

‘|!M. Carey Thomas Award?

The Greeks |

Opinion

Language Tea Article
Misrepresentative
Students Claim _

To the Editor:

The article of last week’s NEWS
on “Jobs Discussed at the Lan-
guage Tea” was a great disap-
pointment to those of us who heard
the excellent discussions presented
at the Vocational Committee Tea.
We especially wish to call atten-
tion to the statement of Mrs. Hill
which we feel was either misinter-
preted or falsely emphasized by
the NEWS. From the context of
her talk we feel that Mrs. Hill
would not have wished so much
emphasis placed upon the quota-
tion which the NEWS has chosen
to print. It is true that a knowl-
edge of history, economics or poli-
tics is certainly as necessary for
certain government positions as
the language pre-requisite but we
do not think that Mrs. Hill meant
by any means to imply that they
were “more important than the
knowledge of a language,’ as the
NEWS has stated. The necessity
of a very thorough knowledge of
one or more languages was empha-
sized, this knowledge being one ac-
quired not merely from reading,
but rfom actual social and inter-
cultural relations as well. Certain-
ly Mrs. Hill did not wish to give
the impression, as the NEWS has
probably unknowingly done, of de-
preciating the value of a career in
languages, which was so _intelli-

‘gently albeit humorously presented

by the speakers.
Karen Cassard, ’50
Frances Herman, ’50
Deedee Gregory, ’50
Lucille Flory, ’49



Election Results

The College NEWS takes
great pleasure in announcing
the following elections:

President Athletic
tion, Rusty Lund.

President Alliance, Jane Mac-
atee. : =

Vice-President Self-Gov., Sue
Kelley. :

Vice - President Undergrad:
Ann Eberstadt.

Common Treasurer, Irina Nel-
idow.

Secretary Self-Gov, Nina
Cave.

Associa-







Incidentally

The whole College is very grate-
ful to the tasteful students of Art
(and unquestionably Art for Art’s
Sake) who filled the long-empty
niches above the library. We can’t
help wondering a number of
things, though: Do the figures rep-
resent the recent winners of the
Are
they symbolic of Leap Year? Do
they try to indicate that Life’s but
a Walking Shadow? We beg the
anonymous donors to let us know
—and incidentally how in blue
blazes did the aforesaid donors
manage. to place the aforesaid
statues in the aforesaid niches?

* * *

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A recent communique received in
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services of a Horse Analyst, whose
process is “based on scientific prin-
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Many Thanks

_ Henny Burch wishes to thank
the anonymous donor who sent
her, through campus mail, five
dollars to help defray the cost



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Varsity Players
Expand in Size,
Take New Name

Specially contributed by
Ellen Harriman °48

In a renovation of policy the
Varsity Players are expanding ac-
tivities to introduce apprentice
membership and a new name; the
Drama Guild. The Drama and
Stage Guilds will thus comprise
what Mr. Thon is building into a
Bryn Mawr Theatre. Costuming
and makeup are shifted from a
Stage Guild function to the acting
branch. Otherwise, the two organ-
izations remain as before.

Drama Guild apprentices, to
quote the new By-Laws, “will be
chosen from tryouts held immedi-
ately after tryouts for the spring
production.” This spring, since
The Sea Gull tryouts are aiready
over, apprentices will be chosen
after the Haverford spring: play.
“They are admitted as apprentices
to encourage their interest in the
Guild, and may attend meetings,
but have no vote.” Full members
are to be elected as usual, “after
work in one or more Plays, or on
the basis of interest. They attend
meetings and vote in elections of
officers and full members, in choice
of plays to be produced, and in
matters of Guild policy.”

System Explained

The apprentice system is a re-
sult of suggestions from Under-
grad, Mr. Thon, Varsity Players
members, and other students who
see Opportunities on campus for a
larger and less exclusive group to
co-ordinate and express various
theatrical interests. Any students,
including freshmen, who turn out
for spring play trials will be con-
sidered for apprenticeship as a rec-
ognition of their support. Guild
members will normally be recruit-
ed from the apprentice class. Elec-
tion procedure remains flexible;
full members and even officers may
in special cases be nominated with-
out having served apprenticeship.
~ The new enlarged group simply ac-
commodates a growing enthusiasm
among the students for theatrical
enterprises.

Suggested plans for Drama
Guild activity next year include
monthly meetings with tea, and
regular classes in acting tech-
niques. Costume and Makeup Com-
mittees will be organized to foster
a continuous supply of talent and
experience for Bryn Mawr Theatre
productions. A permanent file of
reports on plays read and consid-
ered by the Script Committee is
being inaugurated. The Guild
hopes by these means to raise the
performance standard at Bryn
Mawr to a higher general level, af-
fording sound theatrical experi-
ence to students and maximum en-
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The Bryn Mawr Fencing team
won first place over Vassar, Mt.
Holyoke, Albertus Magnus, and
Swarthmore, in the Pentagonal
meet which was held in the Gym
here March 18. It was a very close
contest, and Bryn Mawr won by
three points, tying Vassar in the
number of victorious bouts. In the
individual bouts, of the six people

who qualified for the finals, three
were from Bryn Mawr; Nancy
Greenwalt, Joan Davison, and

Bunny Wood.* There was a tie for
first place that was fenced off; it
resulted in a Vassar victory, Holy-
oke in second place, and Bunny
Wood, of Bryn Mawr placed third.

Swarthmore gave the Bryn
Mawr swimming team their first
defeat for the entire season Thurs-
day. The Varsity and the J. V.
were both beaten by a score of 32-
25. On Saturday, the Swarthmore
Basketball team won over Bryn
Mawr by a Varsity score of 53-29:

51 Names Sophs
For Undergrad

The Freshman Class has nomi-
nated the following for first Soph-
omore member to Undergrad:

Sue Savage
Sue is the president of the
Freshman class. She plays varsity
hockey and varsity basketball. She
is a member of the Stage Guild
and an active Student Federalist.
Patsy Bennett
Patsy is the Freshman Hall Rep-
resentative. She is on the Rock
volley ball team and is a sub for
Varsity hockey. She reads at Blind
School and works at the Soda
Fountain.
Marilie Wallace
Mousie was Business Manager
of the Freshman Show. She is a
member of the Stage Guild.
Ann Iglehart
Ann is vice-president of the
Freshman class. She is a Student
Federalist, a member of the Stage
Guild and is on the badminton Jun-
ior Varsity.
Alys Farnsworth (alternate)
Ally was Costume Manager of
the Freshman Show. She is Fresh-
man Hall representative, a mem-





NOTICES

Dr. Helson at Harvard
Professor Harry H. Helson has
been appointed to the faculty of
the Harvard Summer School. He
will teach courses in “Elementary
Psychology” and “History and
Systems of Psychology.”

Chorus Records on Sale
There are 84 records made by
the Bryn Mawr Chorus left over
from last. year, which are being
sold in the halls by the vice-presi-
dents. Each record’s price of $1
will go as clear profit to the drive.

B. M. Girls in Ballet

The ballet for the American Op-
era Company’s production of Sme-
tana’s The Bartered Bride, to be
given at the Academy of Music, on
March 30th, is composed entirely
of Bryn Mawr Alumnae. They are
Esterlee Hutzler, ’45; Eleanor Bor-
den, ex-’46; Louise Kendall Brown-
low, ’46; Katharine Colvin, ’46;
Ann Murkland, ex-’46, and Kath-
erine Weiss, 47.

Square Dance

Faculty, students, dates, and
friends, all are invited by the
Physical Education Department
to attend a turkey-in-the-straw
Square Dance on Friday, March
19 from 9 until 12 at the Little
Gym in the Wright School.
Complete with music and a call-
er, Charles Thomas of Phila-
delphia, this after the Sea Gull
entertainment charges no ad-
mission.

Continued on Page 4



E. Finch To Discuss |
Perils of Biography

Continued from Page 1
History, Politics and Economics of
Bryn Mawr College.

Miss Robbins, in her comment on
the coming lecture, said “Wilfred
Blunt, the story of an _ eccentric
Victorian, created quite a stir in
| London literary circles, and several
English critics were of the opinion
that it was one of the best biogra-
phies of a man ever written by a
woman, For the—lastten- years,
Miss Finch has applied herself to |
a subject very remote from the
sands of Egypt and the eccentrici-
ties of Englishmen. She has de-
voted herself to the Carey Thomas
papers, and from their multiplicity
has evolved a thrilling story of in-
terest to everyone on this campus
and elsewhere who likes to hear of
the early struggles of strong-
minded women for education.

“The art of the biographer and
the historian are so much akin and
both so much a part of literature
when properly exercised that the
historians are indeed fortunate to
have a description of her work
from an author who has now pro-
duced two excellent biographies.”

Miss Finch attended both Bryn
Mawr and Oxford and has trav-
eled extensively in the Near East,
England and Europe. She has:
taught writing and literature at |
various times here at Bryn Mawr.
Miss Robbins says that this will be
the second time she has addressed
the Bryn Mawr history students on
her work —~ although not students
of this generation.

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The Freshman class has nomin-
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Sue is the president of the
Freshman class. She plays var-
sity hockey and varsity basketball.
She is a member of the Stage
Guild and isan active Student Fed-
eralist.

, Ann Iglehart

Ann is vice-president of the
Freshman class. She is a Student
Federalist, a member of the Stage
Guild, and is on the Badminton
Junior Varsity.

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Di is the present member to
Self-Gov. and plays varsity bas-
ketball and varsity hockey. She
was temporary president of the
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THE COLLEGE NEWS



Prize Goods at Rhoads Auction
Netted Laughs, Money for Drive

by Marian Edwards, ’50

Time was growing short. Ten
seconds to go before a “prized”
junch pail would go to some coke-
drinking bidder.
tioneer Jane Ellis, in her “Reek

Meanwhile, auc-

“it’s underlined!” Then'the auc-
tioneer drapes a reeking bar of
gardenia shower soap attached to
a:cord around her neck, pertinent-
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with Chic” plaid tie capers with a|i8 around one’s neck”. . . SOLD!
megaphone in one hand and the And so the articles go, shrunk-
lunch pail Jn the other. Intensity.|}°" sweaters, silk dresses, _wool
Who would bid last before time gloves, lamp shades, picture
was called in the Alumnae Drive frames, curtains, plum puddings,
“Dutch” auction in Rhoads Smok- jewelry and - “Thing-a-ma-jig to
pa put pictures in when you don’t
Now a “
dress goes on the
auctioneer informs
the only thing
that it is “man-tailored,” and then
a pair of genuine, never-before-
worn nylons go for $5.50. The auc-
tioneer pleads for the bidders to
bid on a pair of woolen gloves, be-
cause “the moths are heavy bid-
ders this time of year.” Next a
politics book on The Nazi State
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Head; First Sophomore Member
Self-Gov.

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More than
successful, the Rhoads auction net-
ted $98.35 for the Alumnae Drive

and plenty of laughs for the bid-
ders!

Perhaps some explanation is due
about a “Dutch” auction. Hence:
a bidder bids a certain amount, e.
g. 10 cents. The second bidder
may bid 20 cents. The first bidder
pays his 10 cents, the second bid-
der, however, pays the difference
between the preceding bid and his
bid, namely 10 cents. A third bid-
der may bid 50 cents but would
only pay 30 cents (the difference
between 50 and 20), etc., By this
time you consult the Dept. of High-
er Mathematics ... but keep in
mind that it’s all for the DRIVE!

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Pollock Clarifies
Sturzo’s Philos.

Continued from Page 2

must widen our notion of person-
ality, according to Sturzo, to em-
brace the fact that “society is the
organ by which man actualizes his
personality”’.

Christianity and this humanism
are not, as so many anti-religious
humanists say, incompatible, but
essential; to..one..another. ‘There
can be rip morality except as dis-
played inj society. Life, Sturzo as-
serts, must be individual-social, a
Christian humanism, lived in the
rich-context of its social and his-
torical backgrounds.



Notices

Coptinued from Page 3
Sunday in Atlantic City

The Junior Prom Committee will
sponsor a bus trip to Atlantic City
on the Sunday of Junior Prom
weekend (April 18). Price will -be
four dollars per couple. The trip
will leave in the morning™and re-
turn around seven. Reservations
will be taken after vacation—pay-
able at that time!

Chorus Elections

«The Chorus takes pleasure in
announcing the election of the fol
lowing officers: Kathy Geib, pres
ident; Sally Loomis, vice-presi-
dent; Nancy Greenewalt, secretary;
Edie Rotch, head librarian; Pam
Field. and Eleanor Gunderson, as-
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