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Manning Questions Brn Mawrons’ Wit & Woo,
Kind Martinets Pirouette Within Roman Garden.

Continued from Page 5

She 3 referred to “The greasy grinds
who con their books”, the dance
addicts who “jitter cheek to jow!”,
ead the unhappy extremes, “No
wit, all woo” and “all wit, no
woo”. The two spirits, Miss de
Laguna in the mummy case and
Mr. Adams in the birdcage, sus-
tained the pace of the skit with
their clever and highly rational re-
marks.

The Prairie Division of Com-
parative Literature consisted of
the translation of “Home on the
Range” into various languages and
accompanying national dances by
the appropriate professors. Mrs.
Nahm amalgamated the scene. Mr.
‘Watson as an engaging cowboy
with his horse Peggy (Mr. and
Mrs. Pese) first sang the original
version of the song. Then Mr. Po-
litzer in Lederhosen sang, “Da-
heim, auf der Alm” and did a live-
ly Bavarian dance. Miss Esteves

danced gracefully to the rhythm of;

castanets and longed to be “Hogar
én al campo”. Miss deGraaf as a
Cossack sang, “Kolkhoz, kolkhoz na
stepiakh”; and Mr. MacGregor in
kilts executed a beautiful High-

land Fling, after expressing a wish}

‘to be “Hame, hame on the brae”,
As a glamorous chanteuse, Miss
Bree sang, “Chez moi, chez moi
dans la prairie”, and they all unit-

ed under the direction of Miss
Lang as a Bryn Mawr Lantern
Girl.

After an eight-minute spring va-
cation, the audience watched a wel-
come repeat from the last faculty
show, “Spring in a Roman Gar-
den”, with Miss Clayton, Mrs. Lat-
timore, Mrs. Leblanc, and Mrs.
Nahm as ballerinas pirouetting
with stately Roman statues, Mr.
Alwyne, Mr. Berliner, Mr. Berry,
and Mr. Lattimore. Mrs. Marshall
as the nonchalant prima ballerina
danced with a bust of Aeschylus

- with hands that belonged to Mr.
Sloane. The whole scene seemed
to be a mixture of beauty and sub-

tle, wonderful satire, which could
have been repeated nine times
over.

One of the stars of the show was
undisputedly Mr. Dudden, who ap-
peared with Mr. Parker between
acts as the epitome of academic
fashion, and with a complete dead-
pan and doleful gaze portrayed the
mournful professor who never
could do anything right. As “The
glass of fashion and the mould of
form”, the third leg at a cocktail
party, the bored, twitching, and
itching professor. in academic garb,
Mr. Dudden was superb.

The semi-octangle, Mr. Soper,
Mr. Morris, and Mr. Leblanc, also
provided the faculty show with hil-
arious touches. Long to be remem-
bered is Mr. Leblanc pouncing on
the cymbals with clenched fists,
jumping up and down beside the
big bass viol, and as Little May
Day; Mr. Morris’ gripping emo-

or and humorous delivery.
never to be forgotten is
Broughton’s brief stroll across the
lee oeine 6 ety SnD sk

y eee on a note of hi-
larity, when eight professors, clad
in white, pranced down the aisle
and danced around the Maypole.

Special credit must be given to
the acconipanists, Jane Horner,
‘61, Mr. Alwyne, and Mr. Bern-
heimer; the students Anne Laid-
law, ‘52, and Jill McAnney, ’52,
who assisted with lighting and
make-up respectively; the other
student members of the stage grew,
Ann Blaisdell, Helen Dobbs, and
Janet Leeds; the. Ticket Sales
Committee; and all others con-
nected with the show in any ca-
pacity.

A wonderful feeling possessed
everyone in the audience Saturday
night, to see the faculty produce
such a marvelous show, to buy
balloons from Mr. Gilbert with his
big red tie, his straw hat, and tre-
mendous laundry bag, and popcorn
from Miss Bree, and to realize that
this was the Bryn Mawr faculty
working enthusiastically for two
wonderful causes: the purchase of
the Scull property and the enter-
tainment of their friends, their
students, and themselves.

All-Beethoven Concert
Has Clarity and Finesse

Continued from Page 3

hands meant something, and the
change in his style from sweeping
arm movements to barely percep-
tible motions of his forefinger was
a revealing demonstration of how
he made the Philadelphia Orches-
tra one of the foremost in the
world.

The fourth movement, in which
the choral motive begins low in
the bass violins, was stirring from
the very beginning. When the
baritone stands up and announces:
“Freunde, nicht diese Tone”, your
excitement grows intense and is
not relieved until long after the
last notes have died away. The
soloists, professionals all, varied
in musicianship. The baritone and
contralto, Mack Harrell and Nan
Merriman, were outstanding. The
tenor was too sharp and the so-
prano too weak, but together the
four voices blended in a magnifi-
‘cent way that must have been in-
tended by the composer.

pure

Manning Says Confusion

Helps Passive Attitude
Continued from Page 2

just as much the business of the
faculty as is the problem of better
lectures or textbooks. In part it
may be that too many lectures,
too massive a presentation of facts
have whetted the apetitte for
knowledge and killed initiative.
But there are probably deeper rea-
sons for the passive attitude of
college students in the United
States which are connected with
the distractions of extra-curricu-
lar activities and a general con-
fusion about the purpose of a col-
lege education. It used to be told
of the first students of the Bryn
Mawr Summer School for Workers
in Industry that if an instructor
cut a class, his lodgings were be-
seiged by indignant and insistent



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NSA ee
=| Negro Enrollment

oo NSA poll, taken earlier in
the year, showed that a good ma-
jority of Bryn Mawr students were
in favor of encouraging qualified
Negro students to apply. On the
basis of this result, the NSA com-
mittee is writing letters to pros-
pective freshmen, telling them
about Bryn Mawr. The National
Scholarship Service and Fund for
Negro Students has sent us a list
of Negro girls who are consider-
ing applying to Bryn Mawr. If
any student is interested in writ-
ing such a letter to one of these
gitls, please inform Jackie Lindau,
Denbigh, immediately. The re-
sults of the other questions asked
on the poll will be reported later.

Sheble Speech Features
Poetry Critic E. Tillyard

Continued from Page 1

‘(An honorary member of the
Modern Language Association of
America, he is the author of many
books on poetry, and several vol-
umes on Shakespeare. The latter
include Shakespeare’s Last Plays,
Shakespeare’s History Plays, and
Shakespeare’s Problem Plays, and
she authoritative Elizabethan World

Picture, a depiction of life in
Shakespeare’s time. Mr. Tillyard

is one of the leading critics of po-
stry, and is credited with the re-
discovery and editing of Wyatt’s
poems in The Poetry of Sir Thomas
Wyatt. Some may iknow him
through his work on the poetry of
Milton, and the books The Miltonic
Setting, Milton, and Milton’s Cor-
respondence and Academic Exer-
cises. Lamb’s Criticism, two vol-
umes of Poetry Direct and Oblique,
on the nature of poetry, and Five
Poems, 1470-1870, help to show the
diverse nature of Mr, Tillyard’s
work,

Juniors Choose Slate

For UG Vice President
Continued from Page 3

member of Chorus and the Chapel
Committee; she is chairman of this
year’s Junior Prom, a permission
giver, secretary of the Spanish
Club, and representative of the
Spanish department on the Cur-
riculum Committee.

Nancy Alexander, who was an
alternate for president of Under-
grad, was manager of the fresh-
man hall play and business man-
ager of Freshman Show her fresh-
man year; last year she was busi-
hess manager of Maids’ and Por-
ters’ Show, and class secretary.
This year she has been Common
Treasurer and in Junior Show.

Paula Strawheeker starred in
the Freshman Show as well as be-
ing on its script committee in her
freshman year. She has been on
the NEWS staff and Board since
the second semester of her fresh-| ,
man year. She headed Rockefeller
Hall’s dance committee for 1950;
next fall, she will assume the du-
ties of copy editor of the NEWS.



visitors wanting to know when the
work would be made up. Such
hunger for knowledge does not
often survive in sophisticated

circles but if even the vestiges of
it remained it would produce a
race of better teachers.

Helen Taft Manning

C. Pratt Finds Patterns
Relate Art & Individual
Continued from Page 1

percipient.

Pratt maintained that there is
present in the objective pattern of
a work of art a quality which the
percipient can recognize as anal-
ogous to, or related by analogy-
ogous to, or descriptive of, an
emotional state or mood. Emotion
and the work of art are related by
analogy; musie sounds the way the
various emotions feel. Pratt said
that he believed that there are
certain patterns common to the
emotions of the individual organ-
ism and works of art in auditory
and visual fields.

H. Manning Moderates
Panel Talks on Russia

Continued from Page 1

There are very dim chances of an
easy peace. Both Russia and we
think that this is not primary.
There will be a continuous strug-
gle between American and Russia
to see who can gain the leadership
in Europe and Asia. To maintain
peace, the United States must have
“active humanism” and “iron-
nerved patience”. We should aid.
Europe and Asia economically,
raeher than emphasizing only mili-
tary expansion.

According to Dr. Horter, the
Russians want to expand to sur-
rounding lands, such as the Ruhr
and the Dardanelles. They fear
that a third world war would knock
out Russia as the past wars killed
.Germany, Italy, and France. They
covet the balance of power which
the United States controls. With
a. constructive approach, we can
make peace with Russia within the
next five years.

Mrs. Manning presented the
“historical point of view”. Com-
munism is a religion diffusing it-
self over more territory than any
religion has before. We can not
“wipe away’ Communism, but
must live with it. We can not de-
stroy Communism as we destroy-
ed facism. Communism is much
more permanent than fascism ever
was. In the future, we will have
to tolerate people who have dif-
ferent ideas than we do. Russia is
expansionist and peace within the
next five years is si improb-
able.

CALENDAR
Continued from Page 1
Sunday, March 18, 1951.

7:15 p. m. Chapel, Rev. Harry
Meserve.

Monday, March 19, 1951.

4:00 p. m. Rev. Meserve will
lead an informal discussion in
the Common Room.

8:00 p. m. E. M. W. Tillyard of
Cambridge will deliver the She-
ble Memorial Lecture in Good-
hart Hall. His subject will be

“What Do We Really Get Out Of
Shakespeare ?”
Tuesday, March 20, 1951.

4:00 p. m. Debate with Bow-
doin in the Common Room.

8:30 p. m. Vera Micheles Dean,
Shaw Memorial Lecturer on “In-
dia.”
Wednesday, March 21, 1951..

8:45 a. m. Marjorie Beckett,
graduate student. Morning as-
sembly on “Student Activities in
the University of London”.










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ENGAGEMENTS

Margaret B. Hunt, 53 to ‘Wil
liam Landis.

Nancy Martin, ’49 to David Mor-,
gan-Grenville.

MARRIAGE

Martha Blankarn, ex-’51,
Alexander — —

Satiric Drama rama Unfolds
Terrors of ‘Tom Thumb”

Continued from Page 1
wing, under the coat-of-arms of a
cow chewing a bone, is a large
male figure, in‘ feminine under-
wear; onstage, Queen Dollalolla is.
“weighing her virtue against Tomi
Thumb”, in soliloquy; before this,
the Bailiff (Bob Reynolds). has just.
delivered the speech of a dying
man, with a veddy Briitsh accent!
Then a break, and a discussion,
Shall Suzie eat an apple at one
point in the play? “A banana.”
someone suggests. “Too gro-
tesque!” “Popcorn?” “Can’t you
see that face in a watermelon?”
Then back to work. King Arthur
(Bob Chase) enters with square
padding showing through his
regallyjrobed chest. An apolo-
getic, “Sorry, I couldn’t get it off
‘in time.” Suddenly, the buxom
Amazon Queen, Glumdalca (John

to

Kittredge) chases Tom Thumb

around the stage, in and out of
Ann Blaisdell’s lovely period set.
“Miss Richardson, are you afraid
of Ods’ Bods?” And so on and
on, rehearsing, perfecting, correct-
ing. It looks like a pretty good

‘thing for only 60 cents admission.



Try Undergrad’s Fashion
Show on for size! Come to the
Ely Room, Wyndham, contrib-
ute 50c to the DP Scholarship
Fund, get tea, and gaze on the
spring fashions. The time is
4:30 p. m., Thursday, March 15.







Student Petition Seeks
3:30 Permission For All

Continued from Page 1

sibility on the part of the students.

It is hard to see any essential
difference between signing out un-
til 3:30 and not going to the dance,
and going to the dance for five
minutes thus obtaining a legal
8:30 signout. Indeed, the differ-
ence seems to be only a matter

lof having bought a ticket to the

dance. Thus this Self-Govern-
ment rule is governing financial
matters. We do not believe that
the dances would suffer from this
revision since the people who enjoy
dancing will still attend. As we
see it, the only way to prevent.
violation of this rule as it stands.
would be to close the gym doors at.
1:30 and alow no one to leave be-
fore 2:00.

On those few weekends ‘lien.
special permission is granted, we
should like to see extended permis-
sion for all, or at least some re-
vision of this rule as it is now
obviously inadequate.”

-This petition is signed by sixty-
five undergraduates.





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