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VOL. XLIX, NO. 10

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1952

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1952

PRICE 20 CENTS



N.S.A. Assembly
Calls Delegates
To The College

Leonard Wilcox To Talk
In Meaning Terms
Of Reality

especially contributed
by Evelyn “Jones, °54

Bryn” ee College is hostess to
the December Assembly of the
Pennsylvania Region of the United
States National Student Associa-
tion, December 12 and 13.

On the International level, NSA
offers Bryn Mawr students oppor-
tunities for inexpensive travel
abroad via NSA summer travel
tours, work in summer interna-
tional- workcamps, and _ study
abroad either for the Junior year
or for graduate studies or summer
seminars.

NSA/’s affiliation with other or-
ganizations offers our campus op-
portunities for affiliation with for-
eign universities,

_ Campus international affairs in-
formation centers make the ex-
Continued on Page 6, Col. 1

Parties Of Clubs
Introduce Holiday

The Christmas glow is already
in the air, and to add to the carols,
gay wrappings, and decorated ev-
ergreens, there will'be parties too!

Plan for a night of partying on
Tuesday, December 16. Bundle up
and traipse around campus, finding
yourself guests of several clubs
exhibiting Yuletide spirit. Start at
Rhoads at 8:30 with the Classics
Club, and then become internation-
al to make merry with the lan-
guage clubs. The Russian Club is
tentatively scheduled at 9:00 at
Rock, and then the pinata will
burst and candy will fall from it
for everyone at the Spanish festiv-
ities in Merion at 10:00. The grand
finale will be at Wyndham with the
French club at 10:30.

Food (right in line with the
name of the club, and good for
both Christmas and December
frost) will be served at each hall,
and you'll be happy with the skits
and songs presented. Plan on De-
cember 16 for this route around
campus and a sparkling picture of
Noel!



Traditional Service
To Feature Carols
Of Joint Choruses

The holiday season is almost
upon us. To herald it, the Bryn
Mawr College Christmas Carol
Service, given jointly with Haver-
ford, will be held in Goodhart Hall
on December 14th at eight o’clock.
In addition to the _ traditional
carols, many well-known works
will be sung.

Participating will be the Bryn
Mawr College Chorus, under the

direction of Robert L. Goodale, and

the Haverford College Glee Club
and Bryn Mawr-Haverford Orches-
tra, both conducted by William H.
Reese.

As the guest speaker of the eve-

ning, the Reverend Andrew Mutch, ||

D.D., will read the Christmas
story. Dr. Mutch is Minister Emer-
itus of the Bryn Mawr Presby-
terian Church.

The program will be a varied
one. Selections by the Bryn Mawr
Chorus will include Monteverdi’s
“Hodie Natus Christus
Schutz’s
“Carols of the Angels”, by Niles,
and “A Lovely One is He”, which
is a Flemish carol. The Haverford
Glee Club will sing four carols.

Among the works to be sung by
the combined choruses are Bach’s

Continued on Page 6, Col. 5

Itinerant Players
Plan Classic Skit

Next Tuesday the dramatists of
the Graduate Center will step into
the limelight to present their
Christmas skit. The secret about
their production has been closely
guarded; the only clue we have is
that it is entirely different from
the one given last year. “Classical
scholars will know the play im-
mediately afer the first few lines,”
‘Director Mary Jane Downs stated.
“But it will be very enjoyable to
everyone.”

The Graduate students have
been working diligently on the
play since late in November; most
of the students involved are new at
acting, and none of them were in
last year’s show.

The actors will visit every hall,
arriving in the following sequence:
8:45 p.m. Rhodes North and South,
9:15 Rockefeller, 9:45 Radnor,
10:15 Merion, 10:45 Wyndham,
11:15 Pembroke East and ‘West,
and 11:45 Denbigh.



Mr. Thon Divulges Fate of Arthur
The Rat of Famous Speech Tests

especially contributed by Frederick Thon

As a consequence of the work in
Speech I have been asked so many
times about the fate of the young
rat whose history is begun in the
first two paragraphs of the selec-
tion used for the Speech test that
I feel compelled to divulge -it as
a contribution toward the custom
of occasional Faculty Notes. It
runs as follows:

Once there was a young rat
named Arthur who never could
make up his mind. Whenever his



friends asked him if he would like
to go out with them, he would only
answer “I don’t know.” He
wouldn’t say “yes” or “no” either.
He would always shirk making a
choice.

One rainy day the rats heard a
great noise in the loft. The pine
rafters were all rotten so that the
barn was rather unsafe. The walls
shook, and all the rats’ hair stood
on end with fear and _ horror.

Continued on Page 5, Col. 5

Est”, | |
“Song for Christmas”, | '

r pear,



Irene Ryan as Lady Kitty Stars in The Circle
Individuals Excel, but Play Fails as a Whole



Maugham Depicts Urban Sentimentality





Collegiate Flannels
Appear on Campus
In Weekend ‘Whirl

by Claire Robinson, ’54

The weekend really begins on
Friday morning, of course, with
doodles in the margins of note-
books, re times of arrival, where-
for-dinner-Saturday, ard oh-boy,
I. hope-it-clears.
, And as gray flannel becomes a
definite proportion in halls and on
campus, and knee socks propor-
tionately disappear, we officially
herald the coming of festivities.
' Bridge tournament enthusiasts
go happily to, while visions of
singletons’ dance in their heads.
And, as always, the Soda Fountain
beckons, ever-enticingly.
| There is never anything quite so
posh as dinner in evening clothes,
and as the collegiate penguins ap-
dapper and dashing, the
at shed blue book blight or mid-
emester myopia and wow—who
gaid knee socks ever existed?
' After The Circle on to the Win-
ter Whirl. With the silver and
blue motif, the sparkle and the
' Continued on Page 2, Col. 5
|. CALENDAR
Thursday, December 11
- §:00 p. m. Dr. R. Nevitt San-
ford, a psychologist, will address
the science club in the Common
room,
Friday, December 12
8:30 p. m. Square dance in the
gym.
N.S.A. convention.
Saturday, December 13
N.S.A. convention.
Sunday, December 14
8:00 p. m. Christmas Carol serv-
ice by the Bryn Mawr College
Chorus and the Haverford Col-
lege Glee Club, under the direc-
tion of Robert L. Goodale and
‘William H. Reese. There will be
a reading of the Christmas Story
by the Reverend Andrew Mutch,
Minister Emeritus of the Bryn
Mawr Presbyterian Church. The
concert will be repeated at Hav-
erford College on Monday eve-
ning, December 15.
Tuesday, December 16
8:30 p. m. Club Christmas par-
ties in the halls. y
Wednesday, December 17
7:30 p. m. W:B.M.C. Christmas
party in the Common Room.
Maids and Porters’ carolling.

Maids And Porters
Go “A-Wassailing”
On Campus, Dec. 17

As the ever-circling- years bring
round their golden period of
Christmas Tide; we prepare for
many time-old traditions, tradi-
tions which enhance the feeling of
Christmas, traditions which aim
at spreading love and joy.

‘On Wednesday, December 17 at
eight o’clock, in true Bryn Mawr
tradition, Christmas music will
come-a-knocking at your door, .as
the Maids and Porters plan to
come “a-wassailing”’ among the
campus “leaves so green”. They will
take the spirit of Christmas to all
halls, to Miss McBride’s home, to
Miss Howe, to the Deanery, to the
Infirmary, to the graduate centre;
in fact: the Bryn Mawr campus
will. resound, that night, with
Christmas music, familiar and lov-
ed by all.

The carolling, which will be di-
rected by Ann Shocket and by
Gloria Von Hebel, will include
many of the old favorites: among
them: O Come All Ye Faithful and
Silent Night and a new one, Hark
How the Bells, by Wilhouski. The
| ee are (Louise Jonés, Al Mac-
‘kay, and Louis White. This year
the choir will be joined by Maids
and Porters’ visiting sjnging
friends, as well as by members of
the College Inn staff,



YOU CAN BE A
SANTA CLAUS

See Article on
Page Two of This Issue









chart. --

Straight Parts Lower
‘Otherwise. High
- Calibre
by Sheila Atkinson, ’53

Somerset, Maugham’s The Circle,
staged by Margaret Glenn, pro-
duced some very excellent charac-
ter acting last weekend in Good-
But, unfortunately, the
roles that portrayed more normal,
well-adjusted. people) were played
with considerably less skill. It
seemed that the degree of talent
evidenced was almost directly pro-
portional to the degree of “char-

‘acter’ acting” ‘demanded by the

part.

The lack of conviction of the
more normal characters can be at-
tributed to two causes. In the firs.
place, some of their lines were in-
sipid to begin with; and, secondly,
the students taking those pa...
lacked the finesse of turning in-
sipid lines into living people. For
the play is one of conversation,
not ohe of action, and therefore de-
pends on the effectiveness of the
dialogue for its success or failure.

lrene Ryan as Lady Kitty,: “this
ridiculous caricature of a pretty
woman grown old,” did a superb
job of acting. From her first en-
try (“Elizabeth! Elizabeth! What
an’ adorable creature! Hughie,
isn’t she adorable?”), which had
to be good because of the. anticipa-
tion of her arrival built up by the
preceding dialogue, she was con-
vincing, entertaining, and neurotic.
Her hold upon the audience cli-
maxed in Act III where she tries
to dissuade Elizabeth from run-
ning away with Teddy.

“It breaks my heart to think
that you’re going to make the
same pitiful mistake that I made.
Look at me, Elizabeth, and look at
Hughie. Do you think it’s been a
success? If I had my time over
again do you think I’d do it again?
Do you think he would?”

And Hughie, Lord Porteus, play-
ed by Brooks Cooper, takes second
laurels. He could have _ been
prime minister, you know. And
you do know it. The stooped,
crotchety, young-but-so-old man
carried with him an air of has-
been prominence, and it was hard
to imagine what he could possibly
look and be like in real life. He
was equally capable of losing his
teeth, being tender with Lady
Kitty, or exploding at Clive Cham-
pion-Chene, Kitty’s husband.

Clive’s (John Kittredge) main

Continued on Page 4, Col. 1



especially contributed by

One of the most important pro-
jects under way on campus this
year is the Applebee Barn. To
those who saw it last fall, when
the Scull Property was purchased
and formally accepted by the col-
lege at the celebration honoring
Miss Applebee’s fiftieth year of
teaching Hockey in this country, it
may not. have seemed very im-





pressive or essential. Those people

Recreation Hall Becomes Reality.
Applebee Barn Nears Completion

Emmy Cadwalader, ’53

should go see it now. Something
new has been added, as they will
notice.

Just in case there is anybody
who still doesn’t know what this
is all about, the Applebee Barn is
the rather weather-beaten struc-
ture which stands on the hill look-
ing down over the tennis courts
and hockey fields below Rhoads.

Continued on Page 5, Col. 3