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“Vhe College Wews



VOL. XLVIII, NO. 6

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1951





1955 Delights With Varied Bill;
Comedy, Tragedy Grace Stage



Denbigh’s “Aria da Capo”

Contrasting Themes
Lend Variety
To Plays

by Beth Davis, *54

The first night of the Freshman
Hall Plays, Friday, October 26th,
produced a selection of ‘five ex-
cellent one act~plays. Two com-
dies and three serious shows
were the result of hard work on
the part of Pem East, Merion,
Radnor, Pem West, and the Non-
Reses.,

Pem East opened the evening
with a melodrama by A. A. Milne,
The Manin the Bowler ~~ Hat:
Doug Kelley portrayed John, the
‘dull, timid husband, very amusing-
ly while Mimi Gralton put her-
self wholly into the part to seem
his shy adoring wife, Mary. They
were just sitting quietly in their
living room when an unknown
man, in reality the hero, played by
Jessie Sloane, crept mysteriously
‘into their house, Debbie Katz as
the heroine and Sally Kennedy as
the villain followed shortly after
him, many of them entering by
the window. Within a short space
‘of time John and Mary found
their living room the scene of a
crime as the villain and his assist-
ant, Carol Blau, tortured. the
bound hero in order to extort
from him the whereabouts of the
Rajah’s Ruby. The lone man sit-
ting on the stage resolved the
crises by announcing the date of
the next rehearsal for this show
and being the man in the bowler
hat, Melissa Emery.

Merion’s choice, Joe, by Jane
Gransfield, turned out to be a su-
perbly acted tragedy centering
around an idiot boy and his
mother who refuses to surrender
him to the authorities. Rene
Ryan created the figure of a dis-
traught, stubborn mother with
understanding and excellent ex-
pression. Adele Slater carried her
difficult role as the idiot boy very
well; especially good were her
loose actions and chilling laugh.
These two built up a feeling of
desperate intensity that was sus-
pensefully enhanced by Joe’s con-
cern with the gun and the meagre
bread and drink. They were ably
supported by Sue Lucas as Ann
Turn, Lou’s bitter, selfish half-

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Denbigh, Rhoads Plays
! Share Honors
For Plaque

by Patricia Murray, ’52

'The Hall Plays of Saturday, Oc-
tober 27 were of high quality and
varied in tone. The freshmen of
Rockefeller made of the “Play
Within a Play” from A Midsummer
Night’s Dream the happiest half
hour of the evening. They succeed-
ed in recreating Shakespeare’s at-
mosphere of mock moonbeams by
the grace, restraint and humor
with which they played. The pro-
duction had a remarkable equality
of tone: the actors, especially Mar-
gie Page, Jane Byron, Barbara
Drysdale and Irene Peirez (Quince,
Pyramus, Thisbe, and Wall) play-
ed well together; Elaine ‘Alter’s
deadpan [Moon and Bush were fine.
This synchronization of gesture
and expression was essential for
the wall scene, which was a de-
light. The actors gave the impres-
sion of being happy to please, and
confident of their power to do so.
They knew their lines and deliver-
ed them distinctly and with a feel-
ing for their loveliness. Barbara
Drysdale, substituting at the last
moment for Eleanor Small, played
with perfect assurance.

The costumes showed subtlety
and resource; those of the hand-
some Theseus (Constance Tang)
and his courtiers (Diane Facken-
thal and Asia Alderson) were suf-
ficiently satiny; ‘Wall’s bricks were
properly impenetrable; Sue Hiss’
costume and makeup united the
best qualities of mouse and lion.
Praise is due to Nancy Fuhrer,
stage manager, for seeing to it
that the actors played close to the
audience so that no word or ges-
ture was missed.

Denbigh played Aria da Capo
with the suavity it demands, and
caught its tone of light and bitter
irony. The Denbigh play exhibit-
ed the same equality of tone as had
Rockefeller’s. Sandy Davis was
exquisite as the creature bored
with the only experience he can
krfow—pleasure. Sidney De Shazo
was a perfectly insubstantial Col-
umbine. Sarah Winstead and Elisa-
beth Klupt rendered the scene of



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Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1951

PRICE 20 CENTS



Alumnae Program
Includes Eminent
Edueators’ Views

On November 8 and 4, the
Alumnae Association of Bryn
Mawr College will hold an Alum-
nae Weekend at the Deanery. The
topic chosen for discussion is Con-
tinental Comparisons. Seniors are
invited to attend the sessions to
be led by various’ educators
throughout the country. Jane Bell
Yeatman Savage, President of the
Association, writes on the subject:
“Education is a fundamental prob-
lem in every country and this
comparison of other systems with
our own here at Bryn Mawr should
bring out many thought-provoking,
challenging ideas”. Eight speakers
with various national backgrounds
will be present at the discussions.

On Sunday at 10:30, Helen M.
Cam will talk about Education un-
der the Labor Government in Eng-
land. Miss Cam, who was the first
woman appointed full professor at
Harvard, April 1948, is an expert
on English medieval parliament-
ary history. Receiving her early
education at her home in Abing-
ton, England, she obtained her
B. A. at the University of London,
which she attended under a schol-
arship. She was a fellow in his-
tory at Bryn’ Mawr College the
following year, and received her
M.A. at the University of London
after that. From 1925-1948 she
was don at Girton College, Cam-
bridge, and during that time con-
tributed to. periodicals as well as

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Blood Donors Need
Five Qualifications

The following are the require-
ments for blood donations. The
Bloodmobile Unit will be on cam-
pus on November 13.

1.) Any healthy adult between
the ages of 18 and 59 may give
blood.

2.) Those ages 18 to 21 must
have written consent from par-
ents or spouse,

8.) Anyone who has malaria or
jaundice within the last two years
is disqualified.

4.) Blood pressure must be 110.

5.) Weight must be 110 or over.

CALENDAR

Wednesday, October 31
7:15 p.m. Marriage lecture.

Thursday, November 1
4:30 p.m. Vocational Commit-
tee tea, Common Room.

Friday, November 2

7:30 p.m. Film Forum, spon-
sored by SDA.

8:30 p.m. Square Dance, gym.
Saturday, November 3

Alumnae Weekend, The Dean-
ery. Freshman hygiene exam,
in the morning.

Sunday, November 4

5:00 p.m. Concert, Gertrude
Ely, Wyndham.

7:15 p.m. Chapel.

Monday, November 5

7:15 p.m. Current Events, Com-
mon Room.

8:30 p.m. Crenshaw lecturer
C. B. Van Niel of Stanford Uni-
versity will speak on “Some
Aspects of Photosynthesis”.





R. Brandt Stresses

Value of Defining
All Ethical Terms

On October 25, Professor
Brandt, a guest speaker of the
Philosophy Club from Swarth-
more, read his paper, “Empirical
Assertion Theories in Ethics”, in
the Common Room of Goodhart
Hall,

His first point was the import-
ance of defining ethical terms in
making ethical discussions useful,
and the second point was that
ethical proposition may be verified
empirically.

The Emotive Theory of Ethics
says that Ethics is merely an ex-
pression of attitudes, and the val-
idation thesis states “Certain cri-
teria of warrant or validity are
recognized” and “ethical language
satisfies these criteria of war-
rant.” “There is no great differ-
ence between an Empirical Asser-
tion Theory and an Emotive The-
ory which includes a_ validation
thesis. This thesis: claims ‘“Eth-

1ical statements made assertions

about the speaker’s attitude”, and
more, “a belief in actual attitudes.

Philosophers o f t e n_ doubt
whether “ethical utterances ex-
press propositions”. Dr. Brandt
stated five important arguments
for this belief, the most important
concerning “the vagueness __ of
ethical terms.”

He then proceeded to define the
meaning of “assertion.” “A per
son who asserts either speaks or
writes or gives symbolic expres-
sion to something, even if only to
himself in internal discourse.”
The asserter must use under-
standable terms, be in normal pos-

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Crenshaw Series

Engages Van Niel

C. B. Van Niel, Herstein profes-
sor of Microbiology at Stanford
University will speak November
5 at 8:30 p.m. in Goodhart as the
next lecturer in the Crenshaw
series.

Born in Haarlem, Netherlands,
Mr. Van Niel received his degree
in Chemical Engineering and his
D.S. from the Technical Univer-
sity at Delft. He also received an
honorary doctor of science degree
from Princeton University in
1946.

Dr. Van Niel is a member of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Spience, the Amer-
ican Chemical Society, the Society
of Américan Bacteriologists, the
Netherlands Sdeiety of Microbi-
ology, the California Academy of
Science, the American Society of
Plant Physiology, the National
Academy of Science and the
American Society of Naturalists.
He is the author of The Propionic
Acid Bacteria, and is a contribu-
tor to many scientific journals. Dr.
Van Niel specializes in general mi-
crobiology, biochemistry of micro-
organisms, and photosynthesis.





Dr. Daniels Predicts Adequate
Supplies of Energy’ Resources

Scientist Enumerates
Energy Sources
Now Known

Introducing the 1951-52 lecture
series in commemoration of the
late Bryn Mawr professor, Dr.
James ‘Llewellen' Crenshaw, Miss
McBride explained that the lec-
tures were part of a program of
the Committee on the Coordina-
tion of the Sciences, formerly head-
ed by Dr. Crenshaw, and that the
purpose of them was to discuss a
favorite topic of Dr. Crenshaw’s,
“Sources of Energy”. Dr. Berlin-
er then introduced the first speak-
er for the series, Dr. Farrington
Daniels, professor of physical
chemistry at the University of
Wisconsin, who spoke on a specific
aspect of the broad. topic—the as-
pect, “Man’s Sources of Energy”.

Di. Daniels stated that he had no
fear for future resources as long
as science was allowed to progress.
through free research in a world
with: few wars. Energy, he point-
ed out, is vital to our society, not.
only in the supplying of the three
thousand kilocalories (unit of en-
ergy measure which equals the
amount of energy given off in the
burning of one-half a match), used .
by man per day, but used also in
the supplying of the 150 thousand
kilocalories used by his machines
in a day. However, Dr. Daniels
went on to demonstrate that, by
means of scientific developments.
mankind has at its disposal unlim-
ited sources of energy available
for the machines which make his
life possible‘ one of the great
sources being atomic power. First
harnessed in December of 1942, en-
ergy from the atomic fission of
Uranium 285 was shown to be not
only obtainable, but also useful as
a source of power for machinery.
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The NEWS extends its con-

gratulations to the pair of
winners of the Freshman Hall
Play plaque — Denbigh, for
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s
“Aria da Capo”, and Rhoads
for “The Second Shepherd’s
Play”.







Kempand Flannery
Win ‘Othello’ Leads





The principal characters in the

.cast of Othello are as follows:

DeSdeMONnar ccscieccoceseoseeere Elsie Kemp
Emilia ........ ducusaaiaia Helen Dobbs
BIGTCR scscsasmcisessnenise Danny Luzzatto
CNOWNS: - sccdissAccicsnaving Phoebe Harvey

Patsy Price
Ot ONO: isis: jicsvertennsee Frank Flannery
PUMEIN : sccchickssnissonecrtanasetes Albert Stern
TROGOTISO se0\ccasesesans Jackson Pietrow
Brabantio ........... JGeorge Segal, Jr.
Cassio ......... Thos. M. Anderson, Jr.

Assistants to the director, ap-
poiated by Mr. Frederick Thon,
are:

Paula Strawhecker

‘Nancy Pearre

Thomas Anderson
Understudies:

Jane Augustine

Mary Klein