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Wednesday, March 14, 1951



THE COLLEGE

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Page Three



Last Nighters

Ormandy Unites Phila. ||

Orchestra And

Choruses
by Betty-Jeanne Yorshis, ’52

The Philadelphia Orchestra, the
choruses of Temple University,

and the University of Pennsyl-| '

vania joined under the direction of

Eugene Ormandy to present Bee-'

thoven’s Ninth Symphony, Satur-
day evening, March 8, at the Acad-
emy of Music. Inspired by Or-
mandy’s precise and clear instruc-
tion, the combined orchestra and
chorus produced a magnificent
rendition of this great work. The
Ninth was preceded by a short
number for piano, chorus, and or-
chestra: Beethoven’s Fantasia in
C Minor, which usually accom-
panies the symphony. In the Fan-
tasia the chorus gave a sample of
what it could do, showing its
outstanding mellowness of tone
and its sharpness ‘of attack.
Maryan Filar, the pianist, a young
Polish refugee, played clearly and
well. His interpretation could have
been better, some of his crescen-
does lacking any shading whatso-
ever, but his technique was good
and he knew what impression he
wanted to convey to his audience.

After the intermission the Ninth
was presented. From the very
first the excellent tone of the
orchestra was brought out to its
fullest, the strings and the wood-
winds enchantingly rich and beau-
tiful. Under Ormandy’s direction
the orchestra performed to its
fullest capacity; the result was
fantastic, excellence. The interpre-
tation of the Ninth left nothing to
be desired: the second movement
was snappy and gay, the third
languid and romantic. If you are
one of those people who watch as
well as listen, you would have
learned a great deal from Or-
mandy. Every’ movement of his

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Freytag Selected
League President
by Frankie Shirley, ’53

Julie Freytag was looking busi-
nesslike when the NEWS. inter-
viewer walked in. There were bills
on the floor, and in the midst of
all, Julie and the Pay Day chart.
“Have some peanut butter and
crackers,” she said, waving a knife
in the direction of the food. “And
if you don’t like cherry jelly, I
have some strawberry. Have some
milk, too!” ‘We got around to the
fact that this was an interview,
“T have

not set up any great plans yet, you

and Julie looked worried.

see, and I won’t revolutionize the!

We have some people
with wonderful ideas on the Lea-

‘League.

gue, and I haven’t decided on any-
thing yet.”

“I was washing my hands when!
Nancy came in and tried to con-
gratulate me, and they were all
soapy, but I tried to shake hands
anyway. Since then I’ve forgotten:
everything anyone has asked me
to do.” But the columns of fig-
ures on the floor seemed to belie
the picture of inefficiency Julie was
painting of herself, and one felt
that the League would be in good
hands for the next year.





Candidates for U-G Secretary



L. to r.: Lurker, Stehli, Kimball, and Reigle



Capacity Music Club Audience Hears

Curtis Quartet’s Expert Performance

By Frances Shirley, °53

On Sunday afternoon a string
quartet from the Curtis Institute
played to an audience that filled
the Gertrude Ely Music Room to
capacity. The members of the Bryn
Mawr (Music Club were expecting
good music, and that is what they
got. There were a few places
where the tone of the violins was
poor, and once or twice the rhythm
seemed a bit ragged, but for the
most part, nothing more could have
been asked of the four students
who turned out a performance of
near-professional quality.

Toshiya Eto and Chaim Arbeit-
man were the violinists, while
Jeanne Gillam and Jules Eskin
played the viola and violincello, re-
spectively. The first selection was



oe Haydn Quartet in D, No. 36,
iOpus 64. It was excellently bal-
,anced, no instrument overshadow-
i\ing the others, and the first and
second movements were especially
succesful, with rich tone and a
superb smoothness and grace. In
the Menuetto the rhythm was not
as firm as it might have been, and
in the Finale there were traces of
stridency, though here the time
was good, and the scale work won-
derful.

The quartet turned modern for
the second selection, the Quartet
No. 2, Op.17, of the late Bela Bar-
tok. Here again the over-all effect
was good, and the sheath of tone
formed against the ‘cello pizzicato
in the second movement was espec-
ially noteworthy. Another effect-









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L. Perkins Elected
New AA President

by Dee Dee Gammie, ’53

It took exactly one look at Law-
rie Perkins to see how excited and
pleased she was to be the new pres-
ident of the Athletic Association.
Lawrie: scarcely had time until in-
terviewed Friday morning even to
be congratulated. Thursday at six
she tore into Pem East, back from
lab where she had been “on pins
and needles” all afternoon. She
was on her way to a_ basketball
game and had only a minute to
pick up her flowers. “The game
was with Beaver ... and we won!
Be sure to put that in. It was a
perfect ending to a perfect day.”

Lawrie is a biology major and
hopes to go into research. Chem-
istry, her allied subject, is “fun—
sort of like the Sunday crossword
puzzle.” On campus, lacrosse is
her favorite sport, while off cam-
pus she likes tennis and swimming.
Lawrie’s general interest in sports,
however, is unprejudiced.

Unhappy that people do not re-
alize all the activities for which
A. A. is responsible (someone once
thought it responsible for ‘Alcohol:
ics Anonymous!), Lawrie hopes to
create more interest in A. A,
throughout the college. She advo-
cates “exercise for everyone. That
doesn’t mean the sedentary juniors
and seniors need fear being draft-
ed into service on the hockey field,
though!” It looks as though Law-
rie’s hopes and enthusiasm for
A. A. will be infectious and few
upperclassmen will want to remain
in their “rocking chairs.”

SPORTS

The junior varsity badminton
team beat the Ursinus varsity 4-1
on Wednesday, March 7th at the
Merion Cricket Club. This time
the JVs were off on their own and
they continued their undefeated
record by only losing one match
out of five. Marilyn Muir as first
singles played excellently, winning
11-1, 11-1; she increases her
skill with every match. Pauline
Austin won her match without
much difficulty. Although Emmy
McGinnity, the third singles, lost
her games, she placed her birds
very craftily, so that her oppon-
ent was kept constantly on the
run. Both the doubles teams, Beth
Davis and Jo Bogley, and Harriet
Cooper and Suki Kuser, played
steady but nevertheless exciting
games and won their matches
in two games. There were many
long rallies for the doubles, which
provided good opportunity for
some smooth teamwork.











Bryn Mawr had the members of
the Temple swimming squad as its
guests for the swimming meet
that took place on Wednesday,
March 7. The Temple team had
a slight edge on the Bryn Mawr
team, for although the Bryn Mawr
squad has some good swimmers,
the visitors had a well rounded
team, and there was some beauti-
ful swimming during the meet.
Temple succeeded in repeating
their victory over Bryn Mawr’s

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Glassber g Assumes
Alliance Presid’cy

by Claire Robinson, ’54

“I’m very happy and excited—
does that sound all right?” asked
Chickie Glassberg, new President

of the Alliance for Political Af-
fairs.

In spite of all the excitement,
the young lady managed to give
us a scoop. “How do I feel «about
Alliance? First and foremost,
that its purpose is to promote po-
litical interest on campus—people
can be amazingly unaware, or
rather, uninterested in what’s go-
ing on.” Chickie meanwhile was
refusing to put her coat on, fear-
ing that it would doom the pink
At immin-
ent risk of pneumonia, she went
on, telling us her major was Poli-
ties, and adding that future plans
would include a job with the U.N.
or the State Department if at all
possible. Last summer was spent
in work camps in England and
Yugoslavia. “I found,’ she said
seriously, “not only that people are
people everywhere, but that
through good hard work we can
prove that Americans are like
anybody else—with no inferiority
or superiority complexes on either
side.”
~-And- we went home with our
scoop—happy.

roses on her shoulder.



Students staying for spring
vacation will be housed in the
Graduate Center; the rates are
$3.50. a day — which include
room and board. Students will
please sign the lists posted in
the halls.







Class Nighters

Haverford Class Night
Has Savoir-faire
In Skits

(With vague apologies to a review
in the Haverford News)

As is perfectly usual about this
time of year, the four classes of
Haverford College, finding that
they are all likely to pass their
courses, and fearing the encroach-
ing spring, earnestly sublimate
their collective libidos into a semi-
artistic channel which comes up
as Class Night. This annual show is
a rough—and that’s a carefully
chosen adjective—a rough equiva-
lent of Bryn Mawr’s annual Fresh-
man Show, sans continuity and
chorines. Quaker jokes and de-
rogatory allusions to the beauty of
Bryn Mawrons .lent a_ certain
rhinestone illumination to the
scripts, but a few fine songs fought
their way through the furor to
emerge triumphantly within the
audience’s hearing.

A desert-island fixation of the
Victorian Variety (when desert
islands were not atomic testing-
grounds) had presumably clutched
the consciousness of both the
freshman and the senior classes.
The class of ’°54 assumed a most
casual approach to cause-effect re-
lationships and the qualities of
physical solids, and the result was
the most original and “artsy” skit
of the evening, which made past
freshman endeavors pretty pale by

comparison. Fido the Invisible
Dog, -the mournful chorusing
palm-trees, tennis-players, tour-

ists, Barfly, and Moon were capped
with sound effects and the com-
paratively non-noxious finals cho-
rusing “Sex, raw sex”. Some mem-
bers of the audience complained
that they didn’t understand all this
esoteric rot, but it was perfectly
comprehensible if one did’nt think
about it too long. Obviously it
was a satire on learning}

The sophomores got down to
earth—not to say dirt—and faced
facts, all kinds of facts, but most-
ly military in their Gone with the
Draft. The title, of course, made



only the humblest pretensions to
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L. to R.: Bird, Alexander, Silman, missing: Strawhecker



Undergrad Vice Pres. Slate Includes

*

Bird, Silman, Alexander, Strawhecker

Listed in preferential order, the
nominees for Vice President of the
Undergraduate Association are:

Nancy Bird, who was fourth for
vice president of Self-Gov, trans-
ferred this year from Holyoke,
where she was a chorus member
for two years, led trips for the
Outing Club, was on the board of
the Dramatic Club, was in the Fel-
lowship of Faiths and the class
athletic clubs. She also served as
head of Ski Patrol; this fall, she
was assistant director—by mail--



of Holyoke’s Junior Show. At
Bryn Mawr, she has been a mem-~
ber of Chorus, Junior Show cast,
the volleyball team, and the Nom-
inating Committee.

Judy Silman was third for the
office of president of Undergrad
and alternate on the League pres-
ident slate. In her freshman year
she was in Freshman Show, and
last year she worked part-time on
the Chapel Committee. This year
she was in Junior Show, and is a

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