College news, March 15, 1950

“VOL. XLVI, NO. 17

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1950

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1950

PRICE 15 CENTS



Weekend Stars
Square Dancing,
Athletic Meets

Five Competing Colleges
Adjudge Weekend

Success

‘The Sports Weekend was held
last Friday and Saturday, March
10 and 11, with five colleges par-
ticipating: Barnard, Hood, Chest-
nut Hill, Swarthmore, and Bryn
Mawr. The weekend program
etarted Friday night with a picnic
supper in the gym for Bryn Mawr,

‘Hood, and Barnard. After the vis-
iting players had been settled in
rwooms and shown where to go,
everyone trooped over to the gym
again for a square dance. The
square dance was a great success
and we all owe a great deal to the
Gym Department for getting Ed
-Durlacher to call. The gym rang
‘with good old dances, and the
¢alling was so terrific that every:
one looked like professionals ‘by
the end of the evening.

That Friday afternoon before
tthe sports activities began, Mr,
Durlacher held a square dance
class for all those not participat-
ing in»the sports weekend. This
‘was greatly appreciated, and the
attendance was very large.

After the square dance was
‘over, tired dancers found their
‘way back to their halls to rest up
for the activities of the following
day.

On Saturday the actual athletics
began. The sports played were
Sadminton, basketball, and swim-
‘ming. Badminton began at 9:00
an the Merion Cricket Courts and
«continued until lunch time. Bryn
‘Mawr’s team consisted of B.
‘Townsend as first singles, A. New-
bold second singles, and N. New-
Jands and E. Cadwalader as first
‘doubles. The results of the match-
s were Bryn Mawr first, winning
five of: its six matchgs, Swarth-

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in’ Iran sometime
tenth to the sixth century before



Dylan Thomas



Guillemin Asserts
Zoroaster Was

First Theologian

Dr. Jacques Duchesne Guillemin,
Professor of Religion at the State
University of Liege in Belgium,
spoke in the Common Room on
Friday, March 10, on the subject
of Zoroaster. Dr. Guillemin, who
is considered one of the few au-
thorities on the subject, stated |
that Zoroaster was not a “medi-
cine man,” as so many people be-
lieve, but indeed “the first theo-
logian.” Although Zoroaster lived
between the

Christ, his was the first Eastern
philosophy to penetrate Western
Civilization. Neither Greek nor
Jewish thought have been free of
the influence of Zoroastrian the
ology.

Zoroaster was by profession a
priest, but as he felt new beliefs
differing from those of the estab-
lished religion, he began to preach
his own ideas, under the protec-
tion of Prince Vishtaspa, ruler of
the pastoral peoples of Eastern
[ran. Although Zoroaster’s politi-
cal horizon was small, his message
was of cosmic importance.

Reading from the works of
Zoroaster, Dr. Guillemin illustrat-
ed the important differences be-
tween the old Iranian beliefs and
the new religion dictated by “the

Continued on Page 2



Menotti Discusses"‘The Consul’,
Relation of Theatre and Opera

by Paula Strawhecker, ’52

‘Always being terrified of inter-
views and slouching behind the
table when they were “offered” by
our editor, we found ourselves in
the Warwick last Friday on our
way to interview Gian-Carlo Me-
notti. If we had any worries they
were forgotten when we met a
positive, charming and _ intense
young man of thirty-eight, the
composer of Amelia Goes to the
Ball, The Medium, The Telephone,
and The Consul.

‘The idea of The Consul has al-
ways been a kind of obsession with
Mr. Menotti. He was born in Ca-
digliano on Lake Lugano on the
Ttalian-Swiss border. .As a child
he couldn’t swim in the lake be-
cause of passport obstacles. There
were papers, always papers, re-
quired everywhere and he felt a
growing rebellion against the evils
of bureaucracy. Two years ago.on
a plane he met an Italian peasant
woman coming to this country.
There was no one to meet her, she
couldn’t understand English, there
was something incomplete in her
papers. After seeing her terrible

nor could he choose the sets, cos-



plight, Menotti decided that some-
thing must be said.

He does not, however, consider
The Consul a political play. Al-
though it is applicable to any
country, it must not he applied, for
it was written as a human drama.

When we asked why it is called
a musical drama and not an
opera, he laughed. He would like
to call it an opera—that’s what it
is — but the producers (‘Chandler
Cowles and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.)
didn’t want to scare away the
public. Most of all, he would like
to call it a melodrama, but the
word has lost its original connota-
tion of melos and drama, and is
now as ominous as “opera.”

Although he writes opera, Mr.
Menotti writes it for the theatre.
He hates opera houses; they are
‘museums.” At the Metropolitan
he could not direct his own work,

tumes or singers. He deplores the
lack of artistic and creative free-
dom in opera, and he considers
opera audiences the “deadest.” The
theatre attracts a different audi-



of his three-week trip through In-



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Subjective Welshman

Wants to Write
Of Happiness

by Jane Augustine, ’52

Grey skies, cross-threaded with
trees’ bare branches, came down
to a rectangle of dry grass.
Through a window extending to
the floor I looked out at the sun-
deserted morning, and then in
again at the murky blue walls of
the room. For a moment I wished
I were somewhere else than seat-
ed in a corner of this archaic blue-
plush sofa with a list of questions
in my hand. I was trying ‘to talk
to the man who seemed unhappily
and uncomfortably seated at the
other end of the couch.

Continued on Page 5

Condon Reveals
Indian Interest ©
In Science Study

Specially Contributed by
Irina Nelidow, ’50
Dalton, March 9.— ‘Dr. Edward
U. Condon, Director of the Na-
tional Bureau of Standards, gave
this year’s third Sigma Xi lecture
on “Seiénee in India,’ an account

dia as a delegate to the Indi
Science Congress.

The Congress, an erganization
affiliating various fields of applied
science, was in session in Puna for
a week, and was attended by dele-
gates from England, France,
America, and Russia. After its
adjournment Dr. Condon visited
universities and laboratories in
Algar, Delhi, Aurangabad, and
Bengalore.

Dr. Cendon laid great emphasis

Continued on Page 4



CALENDAR

Wednesday, March 15

Philosophy Club Lecture, Dr.
Hugues LeBlanc, “Rigorous
Ethics,’ Common Room, 8:15
p. m,

Russian Lecture, Mr. Mare
Slonim, “Soviet Life as Reflect-
ed in its Literature,” Common
Room, Haverford, 8:15 p.m.
Thursday, March 16

Spanish Club, Dr. Pedro Sal-
inas of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, Common Room, 4:80 p. m.
Friday, March 17

Classics Club, Miss Helen
North Swarthmore, “The Train-
ing of the Orator,” Common
Room, 4:00 p.m.

Drama Guild, “You Can’t

Take It With You,” Goodhart,
8:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 18

Drama Guild, “You Can’t

Take It With You,” Goodhart,
8:30 p.m.

Concert by Haverford College
Glee Club and Bryn Mawr
Chorus, Hunter College Play-
house, New York, 8:30 p.m.
Monday, March 20

Current Events, Dr. Felix
Gilbert, “The Significance of
the Belgian Elections,” Com-
mon Room, 7:15 p.m. i
Wednesday, March 22

College Assembly, Miss
Stasha Furlan, “The Value of
Education in Relation to Free-
dom,” Goodhart, 8:45 p.m.

Modern Poets; Orderly Auden
Contrasts}With Moody Thomas

Auden’s Precise Logic
Gives Analysis
Of Poetry

by Jane Augustine, 52

The walls of the room were pale
unadorned green, the woodwork
white; no’ petal-shedding center-
piece interrupted the stark and
shining symmetry of the rectangu-
lar table-top. In this bare and or-
derly room I waited for the British
poet, W. H. Auden. His precisely
plotted lecture to a Swarthmore
audience on Nature, History, and
Poetry, had left me abandoned in
a labyrinth of logic. He had an-
alyzed human history into its com-
ponent social parts, and had ar-
ranged the axioms of society with
their corresponding corollaries in
poetry. He enumerated his defini-
tions with the lucidity of a geome-
trician, but he stated them in gen-
eral terms whose particular mean-
ing was clear only to himself. But
after the lecture I gathered myself
together, asked for, and got per
mission to speak to Mr. Auden
alone for a few moments. I ar-
rived ahead of him, and sat in a
straight-backed chair waiting,
questions in hand. Presently I
heard the creak of bearings in the
sliding doors behind me, and the
poet entered, rolling the doors

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MacGregor Posits
Christian Dogma

In the second of a series of lec-
tures on religion, Dr. Geddes Mac-
Gregor, who holds the Rufus
Jones Chair in Philosophy and Re-
ligion at Bryn Mawr, spoke in the
Common Room on Monday, March
13. His subject was “The Future
of Dogma in a Liberal Society.”

(Dr.. MacGregor stated that
there is now a popular belief that
“religion is and always must be
dogmatic in the worst sense of
this term,” and thus eventually re-
ligion will become merely an “ex-



Phillips Defends
Acad. Freedom

‘For Communist

Dismissed Professor
Outlines Process

Of Trial

Dr. Herbert Phillips, who was
dismissed from the faculty of the
University of Washington last
year for alleged membership in
the Communist Party, spoke in the
Common Room Tuesday evening,
March 5, on the question, “Should
Academic Freedom be Extended to
Communists?” His thesis was that
Communists should not be restrict-
ed from teaching because they are
not known to be subversive. Em-
phasizing the word “known,” he
explained that the anti-Commun-
ist activities so prevalent today are
based on ignorance or misinter-
pretation of party doctrines, and
are therefore not justified accord-
ing to the democratic theory of
civil rights. He would not, on the
other hand, advocate the extension
of academic freedom to such a
group as the Fascists, whose policy
of racism is clearly anti -demo-
cratic.

Dr. Phillips began his talk with
a view of the background facts of
his dismissal and trial. fn 1947, an
investigation of Un-American
Activities was begun by the Can-
well Committee of the Washington
State Legislature, whose program
was concentrated on the univer-
sity campus. Everyone on the fac-
ulty was interviewed. The pressure
under which the teachers were
working greatly harmed thé usual
spirit in teaching and research.

That fall, occurred the “trial that
will make academic history.” Those
faculty members who admitted
either present or past membership
in the Communist Party, and those
who had withheld information,
were tried at the university to de-
termine whether or not there were
sufficient grounds for their dis-



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Screwy Sycamores Lend Laughs
In ‘You Can’t Take It With You’

by Barbara Joelson, *52

“An ice-box full of corn flakes:
that gives you an idea of the Syca-
mores!” And the Sycamores will
no doubt give you a multitude of
ideas, for they are about the
wackiest family that has ever ex-
isted in fact or fiction. They will
grace the Goodhart stage on
March 17th and 18th, when Bryn
Mawr and Haverford present
Kaufman and Hart’s You Can’t
Take It With You.

Penny Sycamore, the guiding
light of this weird collection of in-
dividualists, is in the throes of
writing at least a dozen plays.
Her husband makes fireworks in
the cellar, and is planning to do
the whole Russian Revolution in
this explosive medium. Essie, their
daughter, practices ballet in-
cessantly and makes new batches
of a candy called “Love-Dreams”
every day. Essie’s husband has a
mania for printing things, and her
grandfather takes great delight in
attending commencement exer-
cises.











characters in

.

The “straight”

You Can’t Take It With You in-
clude Alice, the Sycamore’s second
daughter, her fiance and his par-
ents. Besides providing a serious
note, they serve as an amusing an-
tithesis to the snake-raising Syca-

mores, each of whom goes happily
on his own way, paying little at-
tention to anyone else. Besides
being a little peculiar themselves,
the members of this family have
a wonderful talent for picking up
an incredible assortment of char-
acters. There is Boris Kolenkhov,
Essie’s ballet teacher, who be-
lieves that “Art is only achieved
through perspiration”; there is
Gay Wellington, the rather
“boozey” actress; there is Olga
the Russian duchess who works in
Child’s Restaurant and delights
in making blintzes; and there is
Mr. De Pinna, the iceman who
came one day and just never left.

With these Sycamores. the
extraordinary is the rule, logic is
thrown to the winds, and conven-
tion is entirely non-existent; all
they ask is “to be happy in our
own sort of way.”
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Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Poss Office
Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912







Honor System in Practice

This week, the ballots for the revision of the Self-Gov-
ernment Constitution will be distributed. The major issue
involved is the clause interpreting the honor system at Bryn
Mawr, which the revisions committee has attempted to
clarify. The present wording of the clause, as it now stands
in the Constitution, is as follows: “Each member of the
Association .is responsible for seeing that’ others carty out
the rules, and she may report infringements at her discre-
tion.” This raises the question of “social pressure”; is every
student obliged to employ it regardless of her attitude to-
ward the rule and her personal feelings in the matter?

The revisions committee’s clarification of the clause is
stated under “A” in the ballot: “Each member of the Asso-
ciation is responsible and accountable to the Executive Board
for seeing that others carry out the rules. She may report
infringements at her discretion.” Many, however, have been
4 dissatisfied with the Board’s interpretation of compulsory
P social pressure in a previous case. Clause “B” in the re-
F visions states an alteration in the rule itself: ‘Each mem-

ber of the Association is responsible for attempting to pre-
vent infraction of the rules by other students. She may re-
port infringements at her discretion.” If this change is
effected, the student is morally responsible to use “social
pressure”, but she is not accountable to the Board if she feels
that it is not in accordance with her beliefs. It is between
these two alternatives that the student body will vote this
weekend.

If the “A’”’ clause is enforced, the ideal of voluntary
concern for the community may lose much of its meaning
and, therefore, its benefits. Although the student will have
nothing to lose by reprimanding the person who breaks the
rule, she may lose sight of the moral issue involved; because
she is directly accountable to the Board, she may do it be-
cause she fears a penalty.

In theory, the “B” clause is the rule under which we,
as adults, should be privileged to live. Then, all acts of social]
pressure would be purely voluntary and committed solely
through the desire of the student to keep the rules of the
Self-Government Association of which she herself is a mem-

F ber. We realize, however, that there always will be students
who lack this personal concern, and that they, though few,
may bring about the degradation of the whole system. In

practice, every member of the community is still responsible

not only for herself but for her fellow members; and if the

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, March 15, 1950



Current Events

Mrs. Carnarius, in her talk en-
titled The New Indian Constitu-
tion, cited its defects and‘ good-
points. It is modeled after the
British system, 'but, she said, the
idealistic attitude’ of the drafting
committee and’* the ‘Constituent
‘Assembly, at the time of its com-
position, renders it weak in parts.

restriction en the President’s pow-.
er. Thus there is possible oppor-
tunity for great centralization un-
der his hand. His position is sup-
posed to be analagous to that of a
constitutional monarch, but with’
his powers, could control both
Prime Minister and Parliament.
The constitution is largely drawn
from the Government Act of 1935,
and contains reminders of the
much-opposed power of the form-
er Governor General. The Presi-
dent has the power of dissolution;
can resolve parliamentary con-
flicts; can initiate finance bills, and
even has a suspensory veto.

The President can also appoint
governors of class A states, who
have even more power in the
states than the President in the
Union.

The most important provisions of
the civil rights program are the
abolishment of class distinctions,
and the guarantee of equal public
employment. Other provisions in-
clude occupational and _ religious
freedom, and guarantees of life
and liberty. However, Mrs. Car-
narius pointed out clauses under
which action against these rights
might be initiated. For instance,
property can be deprived by au-
thority of the law as long as just
compensation is given. This leaves
the door wide open for nationaliza-
tion,

The constitution of India draws
heavily on many existing consti-
tutions. “What will be Indian,”
stated Mrs. Carnarius, “will be the
way it works out.”



M. Guillemin Recounts
Zoroaster’s Doctrine

Continued from Page 1

first theologian.”-The ancient
Indo-Iranians ‘believed in many
different gods, to each of whom
was attributed some “entity,” like
wholesomeness, immortality, wel-
fare, and devotion. Man com-
municated with these gods through
meditation and sacrifices of blood,
fire and liquor, which renewed the
harmony between man and the

forbade sacrificial liquor, thus
‘starving’ the gods which fed
upon suck sacrifice. Zoroaster
whose theology was monotheistic
retained only one god, Ahura
Mazda, the “wise lord.” The no-
tions associated with the other
gods became aspects of Ahura.

Zoroaster differed from the
Hebrew prophets in that he spoke
to his god as friend to friend. He
did not picture Ahura as having
a transcendental nature, believing
instead that God needs man’s help
to fulfill His will.

Dr. Guillem stated that
Zoroaster was the first apocalyptic

world and each man’s life both be-
gan with an original choice be-
tween good and evil, so each
would end with a corresponding
final recompense. Ahura was not
considered a god of love, but of
law and justice, Zoroaster there-
fore taught that the wicked should
be treated badly and that the
righteous would naturally be hap-
py. Unlike Job, he was not trou-
bled by the problem of why a good
man should be persecuted.
After the capture of their coun-
try, most of the Iranians were
converted. to. Mohammedanism.









Opinion

Sham 8 Responsibility
“Should Gompel
Co-operation
To the Editor: 75

Next week the college will be
called upon to vote on chonges in
the Constitution suggested by the
Revisions Cemmittee. One of these
concerns the honor system — the
responsibility of students for the
actions of other students — upon

which depends our whole concept |.

of student self-government. As the
differences in wording of the two
proposals indicate, we must choose
between whether we want this re-
sponsibility to be compulsory or at
the discretion of the individual
student. The present position is
that each of us has a responsibility
to do her best to prevent violations
of the Self-Gov rules. This does
not mean reporting to the Board
but rather the use of influence or
social pressure, in an attempt to
convince and deter from continued
violations,

It has been suggested that this
compulsion indicates lack of faith
in individual integrity and under-
mihes individual responsibility.

It does not seem to me that the
realization that in any community
there will be persons and times
when violating rules seems less
important than our own temporary
impulses is a reflection on the gen-
eral level of integrity. If all of
us always upheld the rules when
we understood the reasons behind
them, we would not have had the
number of smoking violation cases
before the Board in the past few
weeks that there has been. The
use of social pressure, of persua-
sion and discussion, are the high
est kinds of action by which any
group can choose to govern itself;
acts of omission are often as
harmful to the welfare of the
group as are acts of commission.

The rules of the, Self-Govern-
ment Association are necessary if
we are to govern ourselves rather
than be governed by others. They
are necessary if the college is to
maintain its reputation as a place
where a high standard of social
and intellectual conduct is main-
tained. For us to help one another
to preserve that atmosphere is a
duty to ourselves and the college.
The Self-Gov Board is not a group
sitting in judgment on others, ‘but
the group that we ourselves choose
to administer those rules that are
necessary to responsible self-gov.-
ernment. In order to do this, the
Board must be able, not to hope
for, but to demand the sincere co-
operation of every student.

Sincerely yours,
E. J. Goldblatt

MacGregor Deliberates
Christian Faith, Dogma
Continued from Page 1
ercise” in which no one will be-

lieve,

Dr. MacGregor demonstrated
that the church needs its dogmas
to convey its message. “Proposi-
tions which purport dogmas to ex-
hibit or express religious truth
purport also to be allegorical. But
these propositions are fraught with
a peculiar danger, since, unless
their character is fully understood,
they must always appear intoler-
ably dogmatic in the pejorative
sense of this term ... A Christian
dogma is not something less than
a vision; it is something more. It
is a vision half glimmering through
mystery.”

Dr. MacGregor stressed that as
the Christian church rethinks the
nature of its dogmatic affirmations,
“it will become more and more
aware of how much more is im-
plied in Christian faith










Individual Obligation,
’ ate ity t |
Dear Edftor: AY

This week, the Revisions Com--
mittee will present to the college
several issus concerning the re-—
vision of the Self-Gov rules. One.
of these issues involves two pos-
sible interpretations of the honour-
system.

A. Each member of the Asso~
ciation is responsible and account-
able to the Executive Board for
attempting to prevent infractions.
ef the rules by other students. She
may report infringements. at her
discretion.

3B. Each member of the Asso-
ciation is responsible for attempt~
ing to prevent infractions of the
rules by other students. She may
report infringements at her discre-
tion.

It seems to us that those who
choose wording A do so because
they believe that the fear of pun-
ishment would be abortive, and/or
that the potential infringer would
hestitate to involve others in her-
guilt. In both of these reasons the
preventive is fear of detection.

The fear of detection, however,
is not a very effective deterrent.

Social pressure has value only
when it is based on a personal
concern for the implementation of
the rules, and on a true under-
standing of the reasons behind
them. It is especially important.
to understand the rules when an
infringement involves physical, as.
well as moral, danger to the com-
munity. If a girl wants to smoke
in her room, for example, the fear
of detection and of implicating:
others will not ibe sufficient to stop
her; she will find an opportunity
and contrive to hide her activity.
The strongest possible deterrents.
are a knowledge of the rule, an
understanding of the reasons be-
hind it, and a belief that it is
right. Furthermore, any admoni-~
tion administered merely from
fear of punishment carries less.
weight than one based on personal
conviction.

In every sphere, the college com-.
munity expects from its members —
a high level of maturity, integrity,
and judgment. By dividing re-
sponsibility between the individual
and the rest of the community,
wording A implies a lack of faith
in the individual’s judgment. This
discrepancy between the working
ideal and wording A causes con-.
fusion in the mind of the student
as to where the responsibility lies,
and is weakening our present sys-
tem.

We believe that responsibility
should be place directly on the in-
dividual, by adopting wording B..
We believe that social pressure is
valuable when it is voluntary. We
believe that it is the responsibility
of the Self-Gov Board to clarify-
the rules and to re-emphasize the
importance of individual responsi-
bility.

Sincerely yours,
Pamela Wahl
Pamela Whittaker -
Priscilla Johnson

Phillips Claims Right
Of Communist In U. S.
Continued from Page 1

missal. Specific causes for dismis-.
sal under the Tenure Code of the
university include incompetence, .
neglect of duty, immorality and’
dishonesty. The committee voted
eight to three that there was not
sufficient reason, on the basis of ~
the code, to, dismiss either Dr.
Phillips or Dr. Butterworth, both
alleged. Communists. The univer-

sity president, however, on the -






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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



N. Blackwood, Big Leaguer Now,
Promises More Food, Milkshakes

by Mary-Berenice Morris

A broad, friendly smile and a
flash of shining black hair,—an
outward impression of Nancy
Blackwood, new President of the
League. impression, too, for her easy-going
affable personality is truly reflect-
ed in the pleasant expression ever
present on her face. She’s always
ready to break into her famous D.
B. laugh, as her friends have so
appropriately named it. (Dying
bird, that is!)

(Let not this outward ease de.
ceive you, though. Nancy Black.
wood is a woman of action, and

has even formulated a definite pol-

icy for the League, at this early
date which, I’m sure, will receive a
mighty welcome in the hearts of
all Bryn Mawrtyrs. In accordance
with her sympathetic nature, she
is going to advocate increased
shipments of food to the people in
Bryn (Mawr. Thank heavens it’s
food, and not sweaters. She has
been knitting on the same one for
two years!

Being a politics major, Nancy
hopes that her studies will be a
help to her in making the League
run smoothly. At first she thought
that her work on international or-
ganization might help her, but
after a few more moments of deep
reflection, decided this was highly
doubtful.

Speaking of Princeton, it seems
to Ibe connected with most of the
major events in Nancy’s’ life. An

NOTICES

Benefit Bridge Tournament

A Bridge tournament for the
Benefit of the DP Scholarship will
be held on Saturday, March 18, at
3:00 in the Common Room. Any-
one wishing to enter may contact
Bertie Dawes in Denbigh or
Miriam Baicker in Rhoads.

College Bookshop

The College Bookshop will be
open during Spring Vacation,
Monday through Friday, from
10:00 to 1:00 p. m.

Inauguration

The inauguration of new col-
lege officers will be held on Tues-
day, April 4, at 1:00 p. m. on Tay-
lor steps.

Complaint Session

Wednesday evening at 7:15 in
the Common Room. Anyone who
wishes to air complaints about the
first year English composition
course may do so uncurtailed at
the Curriculum Committee’s open
discussion.



avid hockey player, she will never
forget, nor will her friends, the
time she received a genuine, more
than life-sized black eye last fall.
I’m sure she made a dramatic im-
pression wearing dark glasses dur-
ing a whole Princeton weekend!
Her sports career, which also in-
cludes ‘badminton and tennis, has
caused her other disasters, too.
The episode of the huge splinter
in her leg, which after consider-
able home treatment, ended up by
being removed at the Bryn Mawr
Hospital, shall surely go down in
Bryn Mawr sports history. .When-
ever Nancy does. a thing, she does
it in a big way!

Everyone will be glad to hear
that Nancy has a policy for the
Soda Fountain, too, which stresses
“even bigger and better milk
shakes.”

With more food, bigger and bet-
ter milkshakes, and administra-
tive ability such as Nancy has
shown in the work she has already
done as the director of the Bryn
Mawr Summer Camp, everything
points to a healthy and successful
year for the League.

Forum Schedules

Famous Speakers

The . fourth annual _ Bulletin
Forum will be held in Philadelphia
on March 21 and 22. The theme
will be “The Twentieth Century—
Second Half,” and there will be
three sessions.

“Roots of Democracy” will be
the topic for the evening of the
twenty-first. The speakers will in-
clude Adlai Stevenson, Governor
Duff, Senator Myers, James B.
Carey, and Mayor Burke of Cleve-
land.

The second session, on Wednes-
day afternoon, will be concerned
with “Citizens of Tomorrow.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and J.
G. Fowlkes will speak, and a panei
of four college students, including
Ronnie Gottlieb, will discuss High-
er Education in America. Among
the other speakers scheduled is
Sadia Stoowski, whose topic will
be “What the Youth of the World
is Thinking About.”

The last meeting, to be held
Wednesday evening, will be devot-
ed to “Problems of Peace.” Sena-
tor Knowland, Leland Stowe, Gen-
eral Collins, Marquis Childs, Carl
McCardle, and Dr. A. K. Hottle,
Dean of Women at the University
of Pennsylvania are scheduled to





| speak.



Bryn Maur Music Club Concert
Succeeds With Brahms Program

by Frances Shirley, °53

Last Sunday, in contrast with
the previous week’s efforts, the
Bryn Mawr Music (Club’s Young
Musicians ‘Concert presented a
program of good music excellently
played. Three students from the
Curtis Institute, Eugene Rittich,
horn; Marvin Morgenstern, violin-
ist, and Marion Zarzeczna, pianist,
performed two works, the Brahms
Horn Trio in E flat, Opus 40, and
the Vieuxtemps Concerto in A
minor, Number 5. :

The concert opened with the
Horn Trio, and one’s only com-
plaint was that at first the horn
seemed a bit loud for Wyndham’s
Music Room. However a balance
was soon obtained, and maintained
throughout the piece. The open-
ing Andante was stately and mov-
ing, and all three artists played
with full, clear tones. The
Scherzo was light and brisk, and
the tones of the instruments were
beautifully blended. In complete
contrast was the lovely Adagio,
with its violin and horn passages,
and quiet, flowing rhythms. The
Allegra con brio brought the work
to a triumphant close, and was

characterized by great unanimity
of attack and phrasing, and by
sure rhythms. The horn and piano
showed forth well, the notes were
clear, and the three musicians
worked together toward a power-
ful climax. Mr. Rittich’s intona-
tion was generally good, and Miss
Zarzeczna played effortlessly, with
well-modulated tones.

It was Mr. Morgenstern’s sec-'

ond visit to Bryn Mawr, and he
lived up to expectations in his
playing of the Vieuxtemps Con-
certo. His tone was clear, and his
high notes were generally full and
round, though there was a ten-
dency toward stridence in loud,
fast passages toward the end of
the first movement. The second
and third movements were beauti-
fully balanced, and the overall ef-
fect was good. The accompani-
ment, played by Miss Zarzeczna.
was subordinated to the solo, but
it came through clear and firm.

Everyone agreed that it was the
best concert of the year, and one
only hopes that the quartet on
April 16 will be as good, for it



will be the last in this season’s
series of five concerts.

“



LAST NIGHTERS

Princeton ‘Lear’ Shows
Earnest Effort,
‘Freed Stage’

Specially contributed by
Anne McKenzie, ’51

The first performance of King
Lear was given Friday, March 8rd,
by Princeton’s Theatre Intime.
Acting, staging, and direction were
earnest and conscientious through-
out; if the group failed to convey
all of the terrible grandeur of the
play, it was because they tried too
hard.

The staging was fresh and inter-
esting, and, on the whole, very
well done. The music deserves es-
pecial note — student composed,
it was never obtrusive, yet man-
aged to catch the mood of the play
beautifully. The off-stage trumpets
which designated the battle scenes
were especially good.

The Intime stage being very
small, the students experimented
with something called the freed
stage, which consists of an off-
center platform of varying levels,
the whole flanked by black cur-
tains. The freed stage was meant
to convey a sense of space as well
as. to provide an escape from the
conventional picture-frame, but the
idea did not work out well on the
tiny Intime stage. It always seem-
ed in danger of turning into an
obstacle race.

: Great emphasis was given the
lighting. It consisted mostly of a
series of spots, which were thrown
on the protagonists in each scene,
or dimmed for an over-all murky
effect intended to heighten the
play’s sense of timelessness. The
most striking use of the lighting
came in the fifth act, when the de-
feat of Lear and Cordelia was an-
nounced. The vivid blue curtain at
the back of the stage, used for out-
door scenes, turned blood red.

Women’s Parts Disappointing

The women’s parts were very
badly done. Goneril had a deep,
throaty, powerful voice and an ap-
propriately malignant face. It was
a pity she rode the pentameter so
hard. As for Regan, she displayed
all the violence of a stick, her
woodenness being most unfortun-
ate in the blinding of Gloucester
scene. Cordelia had a sweet face
and a sweet voice, but lacked the
depth and dignity essential to the
part.

Earnest mediocrity was. the
worst that could be said of any of
the male parts. Morris E. Kinnan’s
Lear must be placed in this cate-
gory, for, though he was good in
the more superficial scenes, he did
not seem to grasp the essentials
of Lear’s character: his obstinacy
and blind rage, yet withal an es-
sential majesty. Herbert Strauss’
Edgar was sensitive but weak: he
seemed to understand the part,
but was unable to communicate
this knowledge. Oswald (Hugh
Wilson) was disappointing, al-
though the fight scene was done
very well. Wilson got all of the
humor of the character across, but
omitted his malevolence. His ter-
rifying devotion to Goneril was
played down. Philip Minor’s’ Ed-
mund smelled strongly of ham. He
ranted his part to tatters. With
him, as with Oswald, the humor
was about all that got across.

Many of the small parts were
well done, France (Paul Zimskind)
and the doctor( John Scott) being
especially good. However, the real
heroes of the evening were Kent,
Gloucester, and the Fool. Robert
Yaeger gave a virile, powerful, and
warmly moving performance as
Kent. His fight with Oswald, and
the subsequent scenes in the stocks
were among the most memorable
moments in the play. Thomas Buell
made the superstitious, gullible
old Gloucester intensely human
and very convincing. His loyalty to
Lear, his genuine sympathy for
“Poor Tom,” the scene of his blind-
ing, the scene upon what he thinks
are the Dover cliffs, — all these

Continued on Page 4







Punning Lawyer Goldblatt Plans
Future of Alliance and Alaska

by Joan McBride, ’52

The ambition of the President-
Elect of the Alliance is, in her own
inimitable words, “to go to the
University of Alaska and be a
gNOME!” ’ Betty Goldblatt com-
mits other such crimes against the
English language: when, as prime
grammatical authority of Rocke-
feller, she was asked if there was
such a word as “influencer’’, she
replied, “Of course not! That’s
what they’re giving shots against
in the Infirmary!’”” ’ As a prospec-
tive lawyer, she may have to |
tried for these felonies.

Betty’s plans for the future of
the Alliance are as yet nebulous,
except for the firm position she
takes on the problem of introduc-

Sports

by Emmy Cadwalader

The Bryn Mawr Swimming
Varsity swam against Penn on
Wednesday, March 8, and won by
the score of 42-15. The Bryn Mawr
J.V. also won, with the score of
86-21. The Varsity swimmers came
in first in all the races. Thus far
both teams are undefeated, but
they still have one more meet to
be held Thursday, March 15,
against Swarthmore.

On Saturday, March 11, the
Bryn Mawr Swimming Varsity
competed in the Intercollegiate
Meet in the Penn Men’s Pool.
Swarthmore won the meet with
the score of 42%, and Bryn Mawr
placed second with 341%. The big
BJM. triumph of the meet was
when Ellen Bacon won the 50-yard
Freestyle event for the third con-
secutive year. Her time this year
was one second less than last year.
In the 50-yard Breaststroke event
Betty Dempwolf placed second,
and Sally Howells tied for fourth
place. Edith Lauderdale’ took
fifth place in the Diving event,
and Esther Smith and Cynthia
Herman placed second and fourth
respectively in the 100-yard Free-
style event. Bryn Mawr took sec-
ond place in~ both the 150-yard
Medley Relay, and the 200-yard
Freestyle Relay. Laidlaw, Demp-
wolf, and Bacon made up the Med-
ley team, and Bacon, Pennypacker,
Dean and Herman the Freestyle
team.

The Badminton Varsity and J.V.
won against Penn on Wednesday,
March 8. The Varsity won 3-2,
and the J.V. won all five of their

Continued on Page 4



ing speakers. She intends to stand
on the stage, point an accusing
finger at the lecturer, and an-
nounce with admirable poise and
dignity: “Uh, people . . . this is:
our speaker, Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones:
is...er... our speaker. Speak,.
Mr. Jones!”

Betty is an “indefatigable work<

er.” She has been known to take
eighty-five books out of the library
lat,.once, which occupied so much
‘space in her room that she had to
move into the smoker, where she
talked until three or four in the
morning instead of reading the
tomes that. evicted her. She has
the mind of a sleuth as well as of
@ lawyer. She has scared many
an innocuous NEWS reporter leav-
ing copy in the editor’s vacant
room by a threatening, “What are
YOU doing in here?”
‘A frustrated Gibson girl born
forty year too late, Betty can be
dentified by a lopsided bow under
the collar, and her vigorous
“Hello’s” from one end of the
campus to the other startle many
a passer-by. Politically inclined
she reads Marx on the train, and
once informed an innocent that she
attended “Revolutionary School”
in Philadelphia.

We have yet to ascertain, how-
ever, whether she considers Bryn
Mawr as “revolutionary” as the
University of Alaska!

Incidentally

Drama in everyday ancient life
—as noted in one current geology
textbook under the section om
paleontology:

“|, Often they record tragedies
of the past, such as that found
near the German city of Nierstein
on the Rhine. Here in the sand-
stone, which was once a desert
‘sand, are the small tracks of an
insect. Death stalks the unwary
insect in the form of lizard tracks
which converge upon the insect
tracks. Soon the two trails come
together — and, beyond, the lizard
walks alone.”

There are three showers in our
bathroom. There’ are two soap
dishes for these three showers.
There have been two soap dishes
ever since we can remember and
ever since we can remember we
have been moving one of the two
soap dishes to our favorite shower,
if it is not already there which it
usually isn’t (everybody has a dif-
ferent favorite shower). Is this
attitude possible in the. new



Baroque synthesis?



Rolling Stone to

Lead Athletes

With Charleston, Annapolis Men.

by Emmy Cadwalader, 752

“TI feel as if I would have to be
‘Mighty Mouse’ himself to succeed
Andy”, Janie Stone said with a
grin when asked how she felt
about her new job as president of
the A. A., not to be confused with
Aleoholics Anonymous, she ex-
plained . firmly.

Jane can always be found run-
ning furiously around the campus
in the true athletic tradition with
piles of messages and odd jobs
awaiting her. If she doesn’t hap-
pen to mow you down on your trip
across campus you may be sure
that she is in her room, surround-
ed by strange piles of notes, rac-
quets, sticks, and most important
of all, her expansive collection of
ace bandages and braces. Does
your leg face the wrong way or is
it that your ankles just collapse?
No matter what the trouble may
be, Janie has just the bandage for
you. In spite of it all she can be
found on almost every college var-
sity.

Janie is just brimming over with

ideas for new athletic activities

for next year. The greatest proj-

ect for next year will be the revi~
val of water polo as it used to ‘be:
played in the days of Miss Apple--
bee. Janie has plans to modernize:
it a bit though, by having Annap--
olis coaches and playing only
men’s colleges, mainly because she:
feels that Bryn Mawr students
look so charming in those tank
suits. Also Janie is a great advo-
cate of having Charleston Classes
instituted as a regular sport next
year. The regulations of the class
will be that every member must
wear one of her mother’s old 1920
flapper dresses or else credit will
not be given.

The best idea that Janie had for
the coming year was the stipula-
tion that no game will be played
at Bryn Mawr in the future unless
there is a large male cheering sec-
tion, and the Annapolis band to
play during the time-outs.

If all these ideas go into effect
I feel quite sure that Bryn Mawr
will become an extremely athletic
college. As I left Janie she was
buried deep in the new revised A.
A. constitution, mumbling through
the pages that she hated inter-



views anyway.






Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, March 15, 1950





Freytag, Loening, Chase, Smith
Compete For League Secretary

JULIE FREYTAG
In her freshman year Julie was
poster chairman for Freshman
Show, a member of the Arts Night
Committee. In her sophomore
year, she was chairman of the Art
Library, and publicity chairman of
the League, and a member of the
. Orchestra.
HELEN LOENING
In her freshman year, Helen
was a member of the German
Club, on the Chapel Committee,
and secretary for the Maids’ and
Porters’ Committee. In her soph-
omore year, she was the head of
the Maids’ and Porters’ Committee,
on the Chapel Committee, and in
the German Club.
GENIE CHASE
In her freshman year, Genie
was director of makeup for the
Merion Hall: Play, head of makeup
for the Freshman Show, Freshman
.representative to the Alliance
from Merion. In her sophomore
.year, she was Co-chairman of the
Soda Fountain and a Member of
the League Board.
CAROLINE SMITH
In her freshman year, Caroline
worked for the Home for Incur-
ables group, was a member of the
News staff, and on its Business



Save April 15th for the Jun-
ior Prom! Watch for further
plans to be made for this week-
end.







Indian Gov’t Displays

Interest In Sciences
Continued from Page 1

on the interest in science mani-
fested by the Indian government
and its leaders—(Nehru himself is
a biochemist). The Department of
Scientfic and Industrial Research
has built eleven national labora-
tories for different branches of
science and is striving to bring
scientific research up to date all
over India. Unfortunately, rela-
tively few universities receive any
government support and are still
poorly equipped, although their
technical libraries are fairly good.
Consequently, most research car-
ried on at these universities is
theoretical rather than experi-
mental.

Dr. (Condon remarked particu-
larly on the democratic attitude
toward science prevalent in India.
“Everybody criticises everybody
else and heated controversies are
carried on quite openly.”

The Indian Institute in Benga-
lore, of which Sir C. V. Raman
was formerly director, impressed
Dr. Condon very much. The In-
stitute, which is both government
supported and privately endowed,
is busily engaged in advanced re-
search and in expanding its lab-
oratories. In contrast, the Indian
Atomic Energy Commission is
very small and undeveloped. At
present it is chiefly occupied in
producing portable Geiger counter
units.

Dr. Condon ended the lecture
by showing color movies he had
taken during the trip. The movies
covered the dedication ceremonies
of the National Physics Labora-
tory (at which Dr. Condon was
a speaker), a party given by Neh-
ru, a visit with Raman, tours of
old Buddhist caves and the Taj
Mahal, plus some delightful mon-
keys.





Spring-like flowers
for

Wintry months
JEANNETT’S

Board, and was on Varsity volley
ball.

JANE AUGUSTINE

In her freshman year, Jane was
on the editorial staff of the College
News, director of the Arts Night
Play, on the Seript Committee for
Freshman Show, on the Mademoi-
selle College Board, and a member
of the United World Federalists. In
her sophomore year, she was busi-
ness manager of the Drama Guild,
on the editorial board of the News,
Associate on the (Counterpoint
Board, a co-director of the Fresh-
man Hall Play, and an assistant to
the Soda Fountain heads.

Varsity, JV Mermaids —
Beat Penn 42-15, 36-21
Continued from Page 3

matches. The teams play their last
matches on Wednesday, March 15,
against Rosemont.
The Varsity and J.V. Bryn Mawr
Basketball teams played Swarth-
more on Wednesday, March 8, and
although both teams played well
and fought hard the final scores
were in favor of Swarthmore, 48-
26 and 48-27 respectively. This
Friday, March 19, the teams play
their last match of the season
against Ursinus.
Last Wednesday, March 8, the
finals of the Class games were
held. The Sophomore Class won
both the Class Volleyball and the
Class Basketball tournament
Ellen McIlroy managed the Class
Basketball team, and Helen Simp-
son the Volleyball team for the
Sophomores.

Princeton ‘Lear’ Shows

Careful Interpretation
Continued from Page 3
were realized to the fullest pos-

lous agony during the blinding
gave the whole scene a sharp vivid-
ness which it would otherwise have
lacked. Hugh Ferguson as the Fool
made the part completely his own.
His was more of a gentle, pathetic
fool than Shakespeare’s “bitter
fool,” but whether one admired his
interpretation or not, one was faced
with the realization that his tech-
nique was superb. Never out of
character, always deeply aware of
the most significance of the part
as he saw it, he contributed the
most polished, sensitive perform-
ance of the evening.

One can say of almost every per-
son in the cast of King Lear that
he had undertaken his part hum-
bly and reverently, only too con-
scious of the depth and beauty of
the play. As a result, this earnest
production maintained a uniform
level of sincerity and_ interest.
However, in the attempt to respect
the play as a great work of art,
the director and cast strained too



sible extent. His stunned, incredu-'

Freshmen Select
Self-Gov’t Slate

‘The sophomore candidates ‘to
Self-Gov. are Penny Merritt, Mary
Merchant, Cornelia Voorhis, and
Harriet Cooper.

Penny is president of the fresh-
man class, and also served as a
temporary chairman earlier in the
year. She is a member of the
Science. Club and basketball squad,
and was on the varsity hockey
squad.

Mary Merchant was one of the
freshman rotating members to
SelfsGov, worked on the stage
crew and costume committee of
the Freshman show, and now
works in the Soda Fountain.

Corrie Voorhis is class repre-
sentative to A.A. She was a ro-
tating member of Self-Gov, serv-
ed on the class nominating com-
mittee, and acted in the Fresh-
man Show. She plays second team
hockey and volleyball, and. third
team basketball.

Harriet Cooper has been a ro-
tating member of both Self-Gov
and the League. She has worked
in the Soda Fountain, and was in
the Freshman show.

Freshmen Name

Undergrad Slate

Eleanor Toumey, Ann Howell,
Marguerite Stehli, and Carol
Sonne are the candidates for first
Sophomore representative to Un-
dergrad.

“Toumey” is hall representative
to the Alliance, and has worked in
the Freshman Show, and at the
Haverford Community Center.

Tuck. Howell is now the Fresh-
man class song mistress, and was
also the first temporary song
mistress. She was lights-manager
for the Freshman Show, has sung
in the Chorus, and played second
team hockey and basketball.

Maggi Stehli has worked in the
Soda Fountain and is on the var-
sityy swimming team.

Carol Sonne also works in the
soda fountain, and was co-chair-
man of her hall Christmas skit
committee. She was on the script
committee and stage crew for
Freshman show, is a member of
Stage Guild and of Chorus, and
was in the Freshman Hall Play.



The Drama Guild and the
Stage Guild of Bryn Mawr Col-
lege take great pleasure in an-
nouncing their merger into one
organization henceforth to be
known as The Bryn Mawr Col-
lege Theatre. Its officers for the
coming year as are follows:
President: Sue Kramer
Vice-President: Ellen Bacon
Business Manager: 'Helen Dobbs
Publicity Manager: Katchy Tor-









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When papers get dull
And quizes alarming
A pleasant lull

Named to NSA;

In this, her first year at Bryn
Mawr, Ronnie Gottlieb was tem-
porary Song Mistress, a member
of the Chorus and Double Octet,
and a member of the Orchestra. In
addition, she is on NSA and the
Alliance Board, as well as being
a manager of the third hockey
team, a member of the Mademoiselle
College Board, and a delegate to
the Philadelphia Bulletin Forum.

Lita Hahn, a sophomore, worked
last year as the Stage Manager of
the Radnor Freshman Hall Play,
and participated in the Freshman
Show. This year she is on the NSA
committee, the Business Board of
the NEWS, and is doing the cos-
tumes for the Maids’ and Porters’
Show.

Gottlieb, Hahn,

Lurker, Van Meter and Voorhis

Kathy Lurker, a freshman, was »w-«-
on the Freshman: Show ‘Song-Writ-
ing Committee, as well as being
in the show itself. Moreover, she
is a League representative and a
member of the Dance Club.

Another freshman, Gretchen
Van Meter, is a member of the
Coatesville Theater Group, and is
in Chorus. Gretchen also partici-
pated in the Freshman Show, in
addition to being on the Song-
Writing. Committee for it.

Freshman Corrie Voorhis, as
well as playing Varsity hockey and
volleyball, is an A.A, Hall Repre-
sentative. She was also on the
Nominating Committee, in Fresh-
man Show, and is the third rotat-
ing member to Self-Gov.





Catherine Cheremeteff was, dur-
ing her freshman year, a member
of the Chorus, and took part in
the Freshman Show, the Freshman
Hall Play, and the French Christ-
mas Play. This year she has serv-
ed as. Song Mistress, hall repre-
sentative to the Alliance, has been
hall agent for the Merion Clean-
ing Agency, has sung in the
Chorus, and was on the Freshman
Week Committee.

Elizabeth Davies, at Radcliffe

‘last year, ushered for the Harvard

Dramatic Club, worked on the
Radcliffe Freshman Weekend, and
worked for Radcliffe’s 70th Anni-
versary Fund Campaign. This
year she has read at Blind School,
and is working on the Maids’ and
Porters’ Show.

Julie Freytag played in the Or-
chestra last year, was Poster
Chairman for the Freshman Show,
and -Music Chairman for Arts

Cheremeteff, Davies, Freytag,
Lorenz Named for Under-Grad

Night. This year she has chaired
the Art Library Committee, has.
done the publicity for the Under-
grad dances, and has served as

Publicity Chairman for the
League.
Betty Lorenz belonged to the

French Club in her freshman year,
was on the Script Committee for
the Freshman Show, was in the
kick chorus of the Show, read at

Blind School, did the makeup for
the Freshman Hall Plays, and was
on the Decoration Committee for
the Rock Hall Dance. This year
she has belonged to the Philosophy
Club, took charge of table decora-
tions for Christmas Dinner, was
on the Decorating Committee for
the Hall Dance. In addition, Betty
has helped Miss Foldy (exiled
Hungarian professor) with her
English, and served as hall rep-



resentative to the Nominating
Committee for the Sophomore
Class.



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Meeting the gang to discuss a quiz
-a date with the campus queen—
or just killing time between classes.
-the Field House at Louisiana State
University in Baton Rouge is one
of the favorite places for a rendez-
vous. At the Field House, as in
college campus haunts everywhere,
a frosty bottle of Coca-Cola is al-
ways on hand for the pause that

¢ — refreshes—Coke belongs.
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Wednesday, March 15, 1950



THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas Tells Of Plan
For Future Poems On Universal Happiness

Continued from Page 1

He was a short man, heavy
through the middle, tapering out
toward head and feet. His hair
was dark and lusterlessly curly;
his mouth small, full, and deeply
colored, like a little crumpled
plum. Occasionally he looked at
me candidly, but as if overcoming
shyness. I had been told that he
was not well; his eyes, with their
hidden appeal for me to be brief,

showed the effort he was raking! in from the rainy garden to relieve

to suppress his discomfort.

This was the Welshman and poet,
Dylan Thomas. When he spoke,
there was a hesitant softening of
the sonorous self-confident voice
which had rolled forth the sylla-
bles of And Death Shall Have No
Dominion the previous evening.
But there was a musical quality in
the voice as before, and: kindness,
and, I thought, a certain sadness,
His answers to my questions were
sometimes indefinite and unsure,
and usually very brief.

I began by asking if he thought

a university education was im-
portant to a poet.
“I wouldn’t know,” he said

quietly. “I never had one myself.”
That finished that, and I jumped
to another subject.

“Do you think that a young poet
should consciously set out to imi-
tate the style of another author —
one of the proven great, Shake-
speare or |Milton or Keats?” He
said that he thought young. poets
did imitate, but not consciously,
the style of writers they read.
When he was younger, he had read
enormous amounts, anything he
could get his hands on. He seem-
ed to feel that it had been an im-
portant factor in his writing.

When I asked if he thought a

fairly fixed code of beliefs — re-
ligious, philosophical, social and
the like — was necessary, he as-

serted that one’s beliefs should
never be dogmatic and permanent,
but always fluid, subject to
change, growth and maturity.

“Do you think,” I inquired,
“that there is such a thing as a
‘non-poetic’ word?”

“No,” he replied, “but there are
words which people are not used
to seeing in a poem, or for that
matter, written down at all, and
when these words are used, they
attract too much attention. Then
they upset the balance of the
poem.” He continued, when I ask
ed about the possibility of a ‘non-
poetic’ subject, that there was
likewise no subject which could
not be put into poetry, though for
various reasons, some subjects are
not being used much currently. He
believes, however, that there is no
set pattern into which contempor-
ary poetry is subsiding as poetry
did, for example, in Elizabethan
times — there is no one point of
view which modern poets take.
Verse drama in a loose rhythm,
not blank verse, is now popular in
London, especially the plays by
Christopher Fry.

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for the eye or for the ear. He an-
swered:*”
“For the ear. I usually end up
spending a lot of time talking to
myself in an empty room...” He
said that he finds it much harder
to write free verse than rhymed.
“How do I know what I’m going
to say next until I’ve found a word
that rhymes?” We laughed, and
the poet seemed less unhappy for
a moment. We had just opened
a window also, and a breeze came

‘the hot stuffiness of the room.

“IT think it’s better to have a
job that has nothing to do with
words,” he said, when I asked if
it were better for a poet to make
his living in journalism, or in some
non-literary field. “But,” he went
on, “I’ve always been mixed up
with words, doing scenario writ-
ing and that sort of thing.” I ask-
ed him what he was doing just
before he came to the United
States for this two-months’ tour.

“Well, for the last six months
I’ve done absolutely nothing. All
I did was sit and look at the sea
all day—observe it—see if it was
Btill there .. 2.”

My last question, as I folded up
my list and prepared to flee, was
about his future poetic plans. He
said,

“I want to write poems of hap-
piness. Not just poems about the
little happinesses one experiences
in everyday life with other human
beings, but the general state of
universal happiness which people
could attain—if they weren’t so
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more second, winning four of its
six matehes, Hood third, winning
two out of six, and Barnard

fourth, winning only one match.
The Basketball games started at
9:30, and continued until about
three in the afternoon. The Bryn
Mawr team was made up of Par-
ker, D. Chambers, Wright, Dawes,
and Hayes as forwards, and Per-
kins, Atherton, and Lindau did the
job of guarding. The final re-
sult of the day was a tie between
Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore, each
team winning two games. Bryn
Mawr won both their games, one
against Barnard and the other
with Chestnut Hill. ‘Hood didn’t
participate in basketball.

The swimming meet took place
at 10:00 in the B. M. gym. The
Bryn Mawr swimmers were Velas-
co, Rising, Walker, Wadsworth,

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and Sagmanli. Dugale, Stone,
Cheremetoff, and Taliaferro swam
for Swarthmore, which was short
a few swimmers, because of the
Intercollegiates. Hood won the
meet with a decisive score of 28,
Bryn Mawr and Barnard were
a close second and third with
scores of 17 and 16 respectively,
and \Swarthmore came in last with
the score of 9.

The weekend ended with a big
bang at three on Saturday after-
noon with a wonderful tea which
the Gym Department gave for ev-
eryone participating. Afiter the
tea the various colleges and play-
ers went their own ways, and
Bryn Mawr relaxed at last in the
realization that the venture had
been a great success. This was
the first time that anything like
this has ever been attempted at
Bryn Mawr. The A. A. hopes to
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Of Communist In U. S.

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of that judgment to members of
the Communist Party is based on
incorrect popular ideas of that
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Wednesday, March 15, 1950



Gian-Carlo Menotti Discusses Opportunities
For Music-Drama In Contemporary Theatre

Continued from Page 1

ence, young and interested.

To Gian-Carlo Menotti, opera
is a part of the theatre; it makes
no difference whether it is pro-
duced in an opera house or a
legitimate theatre. To prove that
opera is a fundamental form of
drama, he cited the Greek choruses
which were originally sung. Primi-
tive theatre was opera. In the
nineteenth century, however, the
style of opera was stilted because
that was the style of the theatre.
The theatre has changed, but
opera has remained the same. We
now have a theatre of action; it
is because he believes in a mod-
ern opera of action that Menotti
writes opera for the theatre.

He became vehement when we
mentioned direction. As director
of his own works, he believes’ an
author should direct wherever it
is possible. It is a ticklish sub-
ject, but few directors have re-
spect for the original works. Me-
notti is violently opposed to the
modern practice of tailoring plays,
especially classics, to the direc-
tor’s taste. Directing one’s own
works is a little loss of time, but
it is unfortunately the only way
_ a play remains the author’s own.
Often a play is better for its
faults. (Mr. ‘Menotti regretted the
fact that there is little opportuni-
ty to see classics today. Mention-
ing Strindberg, Sartre’s Les Mains
Sales and Red Gloves, and Joshua
Logan’s Wisteria Trees, “suggest-
ed by” Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard,
he bélieves that adaptation should
be prohibited by law. So strongly
does he feel about this that he
has refused offfers to adapt Ca-
mille ‘and Six Characters in Search
of an: Author.

(When. he offered us some sher-
ry, we ‘were so impressed we spill.
ed it all over the rug.)

Menotti feels no musical indebt-
edness. He does feel that he has
been influenced by the theatre
music of Moussorgsky, but he
“never ‘worries about it.” You
know, theatre music, he said, is
different from symphonic: it must
touch the heart immediately. It
can shock, puzzle, outrage, but it
must make a point at once. Eliot
recognized the difference in
poetry; his poems must be read
over and over before the meaning
is reached, the verse of the Cock-
tail Party strikes immediately and
keeps the audience alive.

Menotti does not like Philadel-
phia as a try-out city; as such it
is of no value, because everybody
comes down from New York.
“Why,” he said, “all the critics
have seen The Consul already.”
The audiences are very kind, but
“next time we'll open in Wilming-
ton, or maybe Alaska!”



He has had no formal training
in the theatre. As a child he got
a marionette theatre one Christ-
mas—with elaborate sets and cos-
tumes he presented plays. This
had been his only directorial ex-
perience before The Medium. He
feels, however, that a sense of the
theatre, of the dramatic and of
the correct cannot be taught—it
must be felt.

The Consul was written in two
years. Menotti likes it much bet-
ter than The Medium; “the music
is much stronger.” His greatest
interest lies in the speken parts
between the arias. They are the
most challenging problem; it is
vital that the action as well as the
melodic line continues.

Menotti also compesed the
French song, “Tu Reviendras,’
heard off-stage in The Consul, but
he has never finished it and
doesn’t intend to. “It would be
terrible if it became popular and
got on the Hit Parade!”

(Menotti met Chandler Cowles
when he came to see The Medi
as it was first presented by’ stu-
dents at Columbia. He thought it
should be on Broadway and the
composer was not one to dissent.
He has known Efrem Zimbalist,
Jr., for a long time; they met
through the \Curtis Institute where
Menotti studied and now teaches,
commuting weekly from his home
in Mount Kisco. “The nicest thing
about the partnership,” he said,
“is that we never fight; they give
me a completely free hand, a rare
thing in producers these days; we
are great friends.”

It was an experience to talk
with someone of Gian-Carlo Me-
notti’s profound knowledge and
love of the theatre, someone who
understands the needs of the’ con-
temporary theatre and has the in-
itiative and ability to transform
generalities into action.

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On Sound and Subject Matter of Poetry, ‘Non-poetic Word’ Problem

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shut again. I turned to face him.

He was -tall and thin and
tweedy-looking, with an air of sub-
ordinated rusticity about him.
Sandy hair looped down over his
forehead; he had blue eyes, and
& prominent nose and mouth.
There was a mole in the crinkle
of his right cheek; he spoke with
the accent of the well-educated
Englishman. He sat down and lit
a cigarette, and failing to find an
ashtray, flicked his ashes into a
terracotta-potted vine lifted from
the windowsill. Poet and potted
vine and pristine table-top seem-
ed to be the only objects in the
room. I began by asking him if
he considered a college education
a help or a hindrance to the cre-
ative ability of a potential poet.

“It depends entirely upon the
individual,” he replied. “For some,
education is a good thing, for
others it isn’t. It depends on the
individual’s attitude toward his
education, and the uses to which
he puts it. If you are asking me,
am I glad I’ve had a university
education, I should say yes — em-

phatically. It has done me a great
deal of good.”

I asked if he thought the de-
liberate imitation of a better poet
was valuable.

“It’s a very good sign in a
young poet,” said Mr. Auden,
“when he unconsciously imitates
another. It means that he is tak-
ing the right approach without



realizing it.

He is really getting he said,

“but it lacks something.

inside poetry, getting at the’ heart Some kind of rhyme or sound con-

of ‘it.
arid’ write in’ the style of so-and-
so, I think it’s a meaningless ex-
ercise.’ :

I wanted his opinion next on
whether poetry is best appreciated
when it is seen, or when it is
heard.

“Poetry is composed for the way
it sounds,” he said, “but unless
you know a poem well by sight,
you aren’t going to get all of it
on a first hearing. You enjoy
hearing Shakespeare because you
have already read it and are fa-
miliar with it. You understand
more when you read a poem, but
that’s the case because people in

general lack auditory compre-
hension. The mind usually grasps
more easily what is seen than

what is heard. But while work-
ing on a poem, a writer definitely
hears it.”

As to whether a certain set of
basic beliefs was necessary, he
said that one had to have some
beliefs in order to be able to write
at all.

“What would a poet write about
it, or what would anybody write
about, if he believed in nothing?
Opinions on religion, society, his-
tory are an integral part of a
writer’s personality. It isn’t neces-
sary: that his beliefs be the right
ones —he may be totally wrong,
yet he must believe in something.

“I don’t know that free verse is
any harder to write than rhymed,”



As foi deciding to sit down |tinuity makes a poem much bet-

ter. But the ordinary rhyme pat-
ters are for the most part no long-
er interesting. That’s why I am
attempting to work out a system
for regular internal rhyme in my
poetry.” At this moment I heard
a rise of voices in the next room.
More people were coming in to
meet the prominent poet, and I
knew I would have to finish up in
a hurry. I asked the last ques-
tions: “Is there such a thing as a
‘non-poetic’ subject?”

“No. Any subject can be ren-
dered in poetry by a competent
artist.”

“Is a ‘non-poetic’ word possible
then?” I inquired.

“No, I don’t think that either.
Sometimes you will find yourself
in the difficult situation of having
only one word that truly expresses
your idea, and yet it is somehow
wrong — it doesn’t fit. But that
isn’t the fault of the word itself.
It’s that the word is not in keep-
ing with the texture of the poem.
The flaw occurs not because the
word will not fit into any poem,
but because it will not fit into this
poem. The word is wrong in this
particular context only. No word
is non-poetic by nature.”

With that W. H. Auden stood
up, put his cigarettes in his
pocket, and said goodbye. The
white sliding doors opened, and

then closed behind him with the
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