College news, December 17, 1947

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VOL. XLTH,-NO. 11 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1947





Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

PRICE 10 CENTS



Haverford, B.M.
Present Annual
Carol Service

“Ceremony of Carols”
Sung with Delicacy,
Restraint
By Anne Greet, ’50

Last Sunday evening Goodhart
was crowded for the annual Christ-
mas Carol Service given by Bryn
Mawr and Haverford. It was a
pleasant performance but lacked
the Yuletide spirit of last year’s
caroling.

Britten’s Ceremony of Carols,
excellently accompanied by Edna
Phillips at the harp, was well-sung
from the first note of “Wolcum,
Yole, Wolcum!” to the last note of
“Deo Gracias,” the highlight of the
whole performance. Ellen Smith
bravely tackled a difficult solo. Her
voice is remarkably rich and mel-
low but at times she seemed un-
certain of the exact pitch. The
contrast of Nancy Dreher’s sweet,
pure soprano was partially nulli-
fied by the apparent strain she un-
derwent in singing sufficiently loud
and high. “I sing of a maiden,” a
lovely intermingling of voice and
. harp, was followed by the brisk
“This little babe” in which the
chorus coped exceedingly well with
the hasty dispatchment of such
lings as “his crib his trench, hay-
stalks his stakes.’”’ The Britten car-
ols were performed in a restrained,
delicate manner. The songs them-
selves are lovely and Mr. Goodale
and the Bryn Mawr Chorus did
them justice.

Orchestra Improved
The Orchestra, much improved
this year, played Handel’s Trio
Sonata in D Major. Both flute and
violin tended to stay on key and to
keep together, and, more than this,



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Wet Reporter Finds Lawrence
Not Awaiting College NEWS!

By Barbara Bettman, ’49

Armed confidently—if extremely
naively — with pen, notebook and
such questions as “Have you ever
wanted to play tragedy?”, “What
was your favorite role?”, “What
do YOU think of criticism?”, we
sallied forth into the rain to inter-
view Gertrude Lawrence, Monday
night, after the curtain on the last
of the current three plays in the
“Tonight at 8.30” series.

This is not to infer that Miss
Lawrence herself was in the rain.
She, completely unaware of us,
was ensconced in her dressing
room at the end of a small corri-

Maids, Porters
To Carol Tonight
In BMC Tradition

Tonight Bryn Mawr will once
again hear the strains of Louis’
“Joshua” and Al’s “Holy Night”,
as the Maids and Porters keep up
the yearly tradition of caroling
from-—hall-to—hall_ the Wednesday
before Christmas vacation. For
weeks now, the veteran carolers
and this year’s new recruits have
been practicing spirituals and
carols. Many of these are compli-
cated part songs, and at the night-
ly rehearsals Directors Kathy Geib
’49 and Betty-Bright Page ’49 have
been busily sorting out sopranos
from altos, tenors from basses.

Big plans are already underway
among the Maids and Porters for
a spring performance of the Gil-
bert and Sullivan operetta H.M.S.
Pinafore. A mass meeting will be
held in the Common Room .to go
over all the music before tryouts.
Classes in sports and knitting and
sewing, as well as in Academic
subjects, are being held regularly,
according to Jane Ettelson, Chair-
man of the Maids’ and Porters’
Committee.





Gallant Matador Tearfully Slays
Ferocious Bull With Tommy-gun

by Elisabeth Nelidow ’51

The arena was crowded with
brightly costumed ‘people at the
gay Spanish Club fiesta Monday
evening in Spanish House, where
the plebians, bourgeois and gran-
dees of the audience were separat-
ed on tiers of seats marked “Sol”,
“Sol y Sombra” and “Sombra” in
the appropriate manner.

High point of the fiesta was the
much advertised bull-fight. Re-
-~gplendent~in-red- satin and--velvet,
the matador stalked solemnly on,
followed by the banderillero and
the monosobios. Cervantes de Cal-
deron y Hartzenbusch y Gillet
proved too much of a mouthful for
anyone, so the matador was called
El Neppereto for short.

Reputed to weigh over two tons
and to be the biggest, blackest and
most ferocious beast on earth, the
bull lived up to all expectation.
Amid deafening roars he came
trotting on, with a glorious red
rose dangling fetchingly from the
corner of his mouth. Bowing to
all sides, he cavorted around, wav-
ing his tail. But the matador want-
ed a still wilder adversary.“So this
lovely animal was led away, and
another came charging on. He may
have been somewhat like the first
in appearance, but he was out to
kill,

A spectatular display of courage

| struggle continued.



{and skill ensued, as El Neppereto,

brandishing his scarlet cloak, foil-
ed the bull time and again. The
bull momentarily collapsed when
it was announced that he had re-
ceived a telegram, but soon the
In a supreme
gesture the matador turned his
back. The beast missed, and the
confident matador did it again.
This time he went down, to be sav-
ed only by the unbelievable’ cour-
age of the banderillero. The bull

‘was now tamed, and-he-and-El-Nep- |.

pereto ‘shook hands.

The matador wiped a tear from
his eye, before he finally killed it
in a blaze of sparks from his
tommy-gun. The tail was cut off
and thrown into the audience,
while El Neppereto fainted dead
away. The bull then staggered to
its feet, and while the back half
held a halo over its head, the front
half dragged the prostrate matador
from the arena. Meantime the
telegram was opened and found to
be felicitations from: Elsie!

Other features of this brilliant
fiesta were Spanish carols, with
lovely harmony, and several expert
dances, including a Mexican hat
dance. One dance was meant to
be performed on horseback, but,
the announcer informed us, seven
horses had been worn out at re-
hearsal, and the Philadelphia
S. P. C. A. had put its foot down.



dor backstage at the Forrest Thea-
tre. We are just now beginning to
wonder what magic we thought
the words “I’m from the Bryn
Mawr College News” was going to
effect, but it never occurred to us
that we would not be welcomed de-
lightedly and with instant recogni-
tion. Perhaps we hoped that our
disapproval of Judith Anderson
would have blazoned a’path for us,
but in any event we did not expect
to find ourselves, possessed more
of the Wet, or Hangdog, than the
New Look, crushed amidst a group
of our friends in the aforemention-
ed small corridor.
Last Monday’s Reception

A number of these friends who
had gone backstage themselves the
previous Monday had even been
given a return invitation. (We
had merely horned in the second
time.) Miss Lawrence, however,
was immersed in a party and we
stood in the afore-aforementioned
corridor with our friends, glared
upon by the manager and walked

on by various members of the cast,
Continued on Page 3

Varsity Players

Announce Plans

The spring dramatic schedule is
unusually full this year. On Feb-
ruary 14, four one-act origin
plays will be presented, under the
general title of “Playwright’s
Night.” This will be followed, on
March 19 and 20, by the Bryn
Mawr Varsity Players’ spring pro-
duction. Plans are already going
forward for Arts’ Night, to be held
this year on April 15. The Hav-
erford spring production will be
given on two successive evenings,
‘May 7 and 8.

It is still possible for those in-
terested to join the last hour of
Mr. .Thon’s play-writing course,
the “acting technique” classes
which meet from 4:30 to 6:00, on
Thursday afternoons, in the Skin-
ner workshop.

The Varsity Players Club an-
nounces a first-semester election of
new members:

Joan Gale, ’49

Kathie Harper, ’50
Nancy Kunhardt, ’48
Gale Minton, 49
Ann-Jane Rock, ’50
Margo Vorys, ’49
Geraldine Warburg, ’49
Shirley Winter, ’50



Calendar

Wednesday, December 17
Evening: Maids and Porters

Carol Singing.

‘Thursday, December 18
6:30 — Christmas parties in

all the halls.
Evening: Carol Singing.

Friday, December 19

12:45— Christmas vacation
begins.
Monday, January 5

9:00 — Christmas vacation
ends.
Wednesday, January 7

4:30—Vocational Tea, Art
and Archaeology, Common
Room.

8:00—Philosophy Club Lec-
ture; Mrs. Theodore de La-
guna, Common Room.
Friday, January 9

8:15—Program on
Energy, Goodhart.
Sunday, January 11

7:30—Chapel Service con-
ducted by the Reverend Harry
D. Meserve, Minister of the
First Unitarian Church, Buf-
falo, New York.

Atomic









Feature Turkey,

Variety of Plays

“Halls will be decked with
boughs of holly” Thursday night
when Bryn Mawr has its annual
Christmas Dinner _ celebration.
Turkey with all the fixings, and
strawberry sundaes will be served
in dining halls decorated with fit-
ting Sophomore sweat and strain.
The Faculty have been invited, and
a rare selection of speeches are in
the offing.

The high point of the evening
will be the various plays and pag-
eants planned by each hall. Never
has there been quite as much va-
riety in the choice of plays; every-
thing from an Old English Mum-
mers’ play to Winnie the Pooh.
Rockefeller is giving its annual

Christmas pageant, directed by
Eleanor Rubsam ’49. The pageant

is an Old English Mummers’ play
coming originally from Glouces-
ter; it is a tale of Prince George
and a Turkish Knight. St. George
is struck down by the Knight but
is revived after considerable horse-
-play between the doctor and his
assistant. England’s patron saint
is finally triumphant, and the play
ends on a note of joy as a certain
Beelzebub passes around the hat.
Rhoads has taken two. short
skits from A. A. Milne’s beloved
“Winnie the Pooh”. Rhoadesians

(new word) anxiously await the
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Post-Holiday Tea,
Lectures Planned

Vocational Tea

The History of Art and Archae- |

ology departments will sponsor the
second Vocational Tea of the year
on Wednesday, January 7, at 4:30,
in the Common Room. Dr. Car-
penter will speak, as well as one
or two alumnae. Tea will be serv-
ed at 4:30 and the speaking will
begin at 5:00 promptly. Everyone
is strongly urged to come and
hear the opportunities for work in
this field.
Philosophy Lecture

Mrs. Theodore de Laguna will
speak at the open meeting of the
Philosophy Club on Wednesday,
January 7; in the Common Room,
at 8:00.

Psychiatry Lecture

Dr. C. H. Branch, attending psy-
chiatrist for the college, will give
two talks ‘on phases of Modern
Psychiatry. January 8 and 15, at
8:80, in Goodhart, have been set as
tentative dates. As yet, the exact
topics of Dr. Branch’s talks are
undecided. ‘These lectures will be
open to the generdl public.

Atomic Energy Program

The League of Women Voters
of Lower Merion Township, in co-
operation with Haverford and Bryn
Mawr Colleges, will present a pro-
gram on Atomic Energy, Friday,
January 9, at 8:15, in Goodhart.
John M. Hancock, co-author of the
Baruch-Hancock Reconversion Re-
port, will discuss the problem of
“International Control of Atomic
Energy.” Mr. Hancock served as
general manager of the United
States delegation to the United
Nations Atomic Energy Commis-



sion.

Christmas Parties ~

‘King Lear’ Performance Superb;
Achieves Deep Tragic Intensity

Shakespeare, Harriman,
Lead Massive Cast
To Success

Specially contributed by
Richmond Lattimore

The Cap and Bells Club of Hav-
erford and the Varsity Players of
Bryn Mawr, acted King Lear last
Friday and Saturday nights. I was
there Saturday only, and have been
told by some that the Friday per-
formance was the better of the
two, but what was given Saturday
night was ‘certainly good enough
and more. It is better to keep
comparison with professional stan-
dards out of this; since those who
draw the contrast commonly as-
sume that professional acting is
more consistently excellent than,
in fact, it is, as if the standing of
“professional” carried in _ itself
some kind of transfiguring magic.
So, without using the qualification
“for an amateur production”, I
will simply say that this perform-
ance was superb.

Fast. Moving

In intention and in fact it was
deeply sincere, and therefore mov-
ing; mechanically, it was fast (on
a few occasions too fast) and sim-
ple. There was a minimum of
properties, there was no scenery
to be shifted, so that episode fol-
lowed episode without break, ex-
cept for a single interval in the
middle; the sequences of scenes
were articulated by lighting, which
was mostly well-handled. There
was no false_realism, and the act-
ors spoke the asides frankly, with-
out scuttling off in a corner and
pretending the other actors could
not hear.: There was no hamming,
no pretentiousness, no hogging of
scenes. A performance with these
virtues would have deserved re-
spect even if it had come far short
of its intentions; this performance
| was almost as good as it was meant
ito be.



Lucid: Presentation

As a result, the play was made
lucid in its entirety, the bewilder-
ing political background as clear
as it can be (which isn’t very
clear), the sometimes tedious sub-
plot not allowed to drag. The real
intrinsic humor, which isn’t comic
relief, was well brought out, and
when the audience laughed at the
wrong’times, that was strictly the
fault of the people who giggled.
There were a few fumbled lines, a
few words changed in the text that
might better have been left alone,
but technically this” performance
was good, and in spirit and. taste it
was beyond reproach,

Honors to Thon

For all this, the credit must be
divided among Director, Cast, and
Stage, so that I have purposely
put the chief emphasis on the pro-
duction as a whole. But this is
also a personal triumph for Fred-
erick Thon, who directed it. The
honor for having pulled such a pro-
duction together (in a little more
than three weeks!) goes particu-

larly to him. All credit, too, to the
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WORLD PREMIERE

The World Premiere of THE
MOVIE, “Bryn Mawr,” will be
given in Goodhart, on the eve-
ning of January 14th, Students
and alumnae are all invited, 80
keep this date open for the gala
event.












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An Outstanding Achievement

We of the News feel that we speak for everyone who
saw “King Lear” last Friday or Saturday night, as well as
for ourselves, when-we say that the winter production of

the Haverford Cap and Bells Club and the Bryn Mawr Var-
sity Players was magnificent.

Mr. Thon did a brilliant job, showing his extraordinar-
ily beautiful taste as well as his expert direction. The group-
ing on the stage, especially, was natural and impressive, par-
ticularly when the final curtain opened repeatedly with a roll
of the drums to reveal the stark immobility of the tragic
scene.

The skeptics who came thinking that it was an im-
possible play to produce, “remained to cheer”—perhaps even
louder and longer than the rest of us. And there were no
dissenting voices.

In their two fall plays Varsity Players and Cap and Bells
have shown that they can successfully tackle two entirely
different types of plays, each one extremely difficult, and
present an understanding, stellar performance. Their work
is a credit to Bryn Mawr as well as to themselves and we lodk
forward to their next offering.

We feel that “congratulations” do not quite express
what we want to say. Rather we want to offer our gratitude
for the privilege of being allowed to see “King Lear”. We
will not soon forget it.

Merry Christmas

Midnight before Christmas when we’re far away

Gobbling turkeys and such, Taylor bell starts to play.

No student has rung it. The lantern man’s home.

Who, then, is waking the old Taylor gnome?

He springs from his belfry bed at the first clatter

And slides down the roof to see what is the matter.

“It’s Christmas, old goblin, you’ve slept through the year.
Wake up for Saint Nicholas soon will be here.”

From their quartos the ghosts of the Library crawl—
Prince Bulbo, the Bagman, the White Knight, and Wol.
The cloister pool troll, who’s far richer than I,

Tosses pennies and quarters about in the sky

For new Christmas stars. While from Pembroke and Rock,
Denbigh, Merion, Rhoads, pour forth a flock

Of ghosts of old hoopsticks and ancient stuffed bears.
“Ding-a-ding!” bellows Taylor. And someone declares,
“For wassail, plum pudding, and sizeable roasts,”

(‘Tis the voice of Miss Thomas), “To the Deanery, ghosts!”
As the last stroke of twelve echoes into the night

: She adds, “Merry Christmas, Bryn Mawr, and sleep tight.”

—A.G.

e e , @
BMT in Fiction.

by Katrina Thomas ’49

TRACY LORD

The red-headed heroine of Philip
Barry’s The Philadelphia Story is
Tracy Lord, “a strikingly lovely
girl of 24” who in the course of
the twenty-four hours preceding
her wedding, throws over her sec-
ond husband-to-be, and takes back
her first one. Mrs. Lord tells the
reporters that her daughter went
to Bryn Mawr, “till she got bounc-

ed out on her - - - ” (supplements
13-year-old Dinah). Tracy ‘° is
rightfully considered ‘a hellion”
by Mike, the reporter. Her father

tells her that she has “everything
it- takes to make a lovely woman
except the one essential... an un-
derstanding heart’, while George
Haven, the coal magnate whom she
is about to marry, considers her
“some marvelous, distant .. queen”
with a kind of “beautiful purity”
until she is carried in by Mike in
a bath-robe in a drunken stupor
after a midnight swim. Now Ha-
ven thinks her conduct so shocking
to his ideals of womanhood that
she is his queen no longer.

Dexter, who considers that dur-
ing his year of marriage to Tracy
he played the role of a high priest
to a virgin goddess, really lam-
bastes her: “You could be the
damnedest, finest woman on this
earth . . . you'll never be a first-
class woman, till you have learned
to have some small regard for hu-
man frailty. It’s a pity your own
foot can’t slip a little some time - -
but no... The goodness must and
shall remain intact... You’re a
special class of Aanaatiinn Female
now - - the Married Maidens. .
And of type Philadelphiaensis . .
Tracy is irate: ‘(Damn your soul,
Dext, if you say another - - !”
But, by the end of the play, Tracy
feels like neither a goddess nor a
hellion but a human being, as she
goes down the aisle to promise to
“love, honor and obey” Dexter and
to be “‘yare” now. «

”

Able Cast Supports
Leads in King Lear

Continued from Page 1
stage manager, Alan Levensohn,
and everyone behind him. For the
acting, I was especially impressed
by the depth of the cast which
massively supported several as-
tonishing individual performances.
Everyone, down to the one-or-two-
line persons and the last decora-
tive page, lady-in-waiting, or man-
at-arms, was alive and in the play.
Physically, the young cast both
looked and moved well, the three
daughters so differently lovely, the
men (especially Lear, Edmund,
Kent, and Cornwall) with their va-
ried suggestions of heroic stature.
Brilliant Performances

If I must single out several
performers individually, this is
done with all honor to the rest of
the cast, the best of them and
those who were not so successful,
for each played his part to the hilt.
Edward Shakespeare’s Lear was
magnificent; mighty in anger,
heart-breaking in weakness, never
melodramatic, and always (there-
in, the terror of the play) believ-
able. Ellen Harriman’s Goneril was
a piece of deadly intelligence, and
every last little gesture or ripple
of expression was absolutely and
finally right. She never intruded
on others, but you felt her pres-
ence even when she was in the
background or half-darkness. Joan
Gale’s Regan was masterly in mak-
ing somehow credible the transi-
tion from the pretty little bride
who cuddled Gloucester’s arm to
the spite and sex of her later
scenes. Lee Haring’s Oswald,
smirking, pert and obsequious by
turn, could hardly have been better.
And William Bishop, as Glouces-
ter, with his thin, rapid, always in-
telligible old man’s patter, achiev-
ed an extraordinary impersonation
of age.



These performances gilitaiea,





| Opinion

~

Benefit Preparation,
Publicity Cited
By Chairman
To the Editor:

We have been touched by the
concern shown by two of your con-
tributors over what they choose
to call the lack of consideration,
foresight, efficiency, and profes-
sional attitude applied to the Thea-
tre Benefit as run by the New
York alumnae. It is’ never a bad
idea to consider facts before
launching criticism, so even at this
late date we should like to sum up
for them briefly the steps taken,
as we feel that their letter showed
genuine interest in the manage-
ment of both college and alumnae
affairs and that, of course, is good.

We were not entirely satisfied
with the newspaper’ publicity
which, incidentally, is not necessar-
ily to be had for the asking. We
did, however, send out five releas-
es on the benefit alone, which were
placed in seven spots in six differ-
ent papers.

As to the mechanics regarding
the ticket sale, 2500 “Hold the
Date” cards went out on October
10 to our mailing list, i. e. those
who had been approached for our
benefit last year. On October 24
formal invitations for December
1 were sent to this same list, and
an additional 1000 names. (While
six or seven weeks leeway would
have been preferable to five, this
was not possible; as late as Octo-
ber 9 the opening date for Antony

.|and Cleopatra was advanced by

one month. The original date of
our benefit was December 30, and
our plans had been made accord-
ingly). The list of guests whom
the ‘Undergraduates wished to in-
vite was asked for in October, but
as no Undergraduate chairman
had been elected and therefore no
organization had been set up, this
request was not immediately put
through; it was only because Miss

-Stillman’s_help was called for at

the last moment that we received
a list on November 10. The invi-
tations carried, quite clearly, the
notice that all tickets would be
mailed on November 24; the pur-
pose of this decision, which should
be self-evident, was to make it
possible for those who wanted to
change the size of their party at
the eleventh hour to do so without
a rearrangement of the _ entire
seating chart.

The results of all this inadequate
preparation netted us a sale of 913
tickets and a profit to date of
$7,680. If this be detrimental,
make the most of it.

Ruth McAneny Loud ’23
Chairman, Benefit

(Editor’s Note—Mrs. Loud writes
in answer to a letter from two stu-
dents in the News of December 3,
who urged a “more professional
attitude” in the direction of Drive
activities, citing the New York
Benefit).



and I could go on and on, but I
would rather recall certain scenes
and moments not easily to be for-
gotten: the deep dignity and pa-
thos of Nancy Kunhardt’s Cordelia
before her father’s anger; Brooxs
Cooper’s Kent in the stocks, best
of all the beauty of his goodnight
to Fortune; Herbert Cheyette’s
Fool in the storm; Reagan’ and
David Rosenthal’s Cornwall terri-
fying as they turn on Gloucester;
the death of Oswald (most real of
the fights) where R. S. McKinley
was at his best as Edgar; Henry
Levinson’s Edmund, always good,
but magnificent taking up the
challenge of Edgar; E. B. Coale’s
Albany, initially unimpressive, ris-
ing to sudden stature and com-
mand at the close. These are high-
lights that reflect in special inten-
sity the passion and beauty of the
whole performance; for I find I
have dealt largely in superlatives,
but this was a time for enthusiasm.



Students Want Comfort
On Weary Way
To Learning
To the Editor:

Much as we hate to intrude upon
the jollity of this Yuletide season,
we have a gripe.

Some of the restrictions which
has seen fit to
establish in the library seem to us
unfortunate and unnecessary. It
is disheartening to walk in the
front door and be confronted by
row upon row of identical barren
cubicles reminiscent of the mediev-

the “new regime”

We can’t even sit on a
pillow any more or be cheered up

al cell.

by a mere picture as we plow our

weary way through the dim paths
of learning. We see no reason why
our individuality should be swamp-
ed and our harmless pleasures re-
moved for the sake of regimenta-
tion. Certainly a bit of decora-
tion does not appreciably detract
from the general niece of
the reading room.
Is this infringement necessary ?
Eleanor Rubsam, ’49.
Anne Henry, 748.
Carol Baker, 748.
Sally Darling, ’49.
Elizabeth Spalding, ’49.
Margaret E. Miller, ’48.

Current Events

Common Room, December 15. In
Molotov’s speech on the subject of
reparations, “the strength and
weaknesses at the same time of the
Russian casé come out very clear-
ly,” said Dr. Felix Gilbert, speak-
ing on “The Russian Attitude at
the London Conference”.

This speech, he continued, did ac_
tually express “a sensible point of
view”, though it said nothing at all
which has not been said. before.
Yet the American newspapers
seemed to think that the entire
conference, as shown by this talk
especially, was merely a duel of
conflicting opinions in which each
nation did a lot of talking and not
much more.

Papers. Distort Picture

The picture of the conference
presented in the newspapers is not
a fair one, declared Dr. Gilbert. For
the conference did have a definite
agenda which all nations agreed
on and which was followed faith-
fully. “Definite issues were taken
up for discussion.

Why then was such excitement
and furor shown over the Russian
attitude? Because the question of
reparations and its relation to the
economic organization of Germany
is the decisive issue before the
Great Powers. Dr. Gilbert em-
phasized that the Russian case is
strong. in two respects—in her de-
mand for reparations in order to
improve her own economic situa-
tion and in asking German unifi-
cation as a means toward econ-
omic recovery. The weakness of
the Russian case lies in its incon-
sistency, for while she expects the
nations to keep to the Potsdam
agreement, Russia demands rep-
arations delivered from Germany’s
current production, and repara-
tions made from current produc-
tion were excluded under that
agreement.

Ultimatum - Refused

Russia must take either one way
or the other, Dr. Gilbert continued.
At the Conference the Foreign
Ministers, irritated by Molotov’s
evasiveness in avoiding a definite
course of action and simply stating
the same old viewpoint, delivered
an ultimatum which was not ac-
cepted. It is through this failure
of the nations to make concessions
on the question of reparations that



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Page Three



Schussing Under B. M. Anspines
Planned for January Weekend

By Hanna Holborn, ’50

The formidable rumor fioating
around campus that the ski-crazy
group is going into action this



Lawrence Greets
Hangdog Reporter

Continued from Page 1

not, unfortunately, including
Graham Payn, under whose feet it
would be a pleasure to be.

Suddenly Miss Lawrence’s head
appeared around,her doorway. She
recognized our friends and began
to shake hands. When she reach-
ed ours we, totally devoid of our
confidence, blurted “I’m from the
Bryn Mawr News” and _ subsided
into an unaccustomed silence. Miss
Lawrence, suffering from no such
trouble said in an inimitable tone,
“Oh have you a nose for news?”,
wrinkling the member thus refer-
red to.

Regaining a modicum of our for-
mer self we then asked how did
she like the Philadelphia audience.
She replied that she always chose
Philadelphia. Then we asked why
the other three plays in the-cycle
weren’t being given; two have been
made into movies, she answered,
and the other is so dramatic that
she and Mr. Coward decided
against it.

Just as we were summoning up
our. courage to take the critical
plunge, Elliott Nugent appeared.
Mr. Nugent received the welcome

we had dreamed of, after which |

Miss Lawrence turned to the cor-
ridor and said puckishly, .“And is

Bryn Mawr or Vassar?” The
shotited reply made Mr. Nugent
remark that he had just been out
at Bryn Mawr. At this point Em-
ily Kimbrotgh arrived and, figur-
ing that the evening was at any
rate a triumph for Bryn Mawr, we
departed.





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winter was substantiated last week

by .a weary Miss Grant. Winter
after winter some of her brightest
hopefuls on the basketball squad
have arrived back from week-ends
ensconced in casts. “I just hope it
doesn’t happen again,” she. said
mournfully. “Usually it’s just too
late.”

This year the demand for some

from Switzerland, coupled with the
prayers of those on campus who
seem able to talk about nothing
else, has forced the gym depart-
ment to give'in. Although plans
aren’t definite as yet, the first
group to be sent out by Bryn Mawr
on a mass skiing week-end will
probably leave right after exams
on the 30th or 31st, coming back
on February 2nd. Destination—
some place either in Vermont or
New Hampshire, depending upon
where accommodations may be had.

Miss Clayton and Miss Kilby,
both ardent enthusiasts, are to ac-
company them — presumably to
keep an eye out for Miss Grant’s
interests. They will explore the
delights of lounging around a blaz-
ing fire in the lodge, of swapping
ski stories and the somewhat in-
comprehensible excitement of pelt-
ing head-first into the snow. Spar-
tan skiers, who enjoy rising at 5
in the morning, do, however, con-
fess to one great frivolity. They
will agree with the most untrained

college skiing from the girls back’



Non-Reses Plan
Turkey Banquet

Continued from Page 1

play to see who is going to play
Tigger and Eeyore. Merion \Fresh-
men will present take-offs of their
elders and betters, i. e., the Sen-
iors. They have flatly refused to
tell the plot. of their parody. Den-
bigh and Pembroke have been ex-
tremely mysterious about all their
plans. After much interrogation
a Pembroke freshman stated that
“their play would be a terrific sur-
prise and shock to some”,

As always, dinner clothes will
be required. Everyone expects
great things of the local wits elect-
ed. as .Toastmistresses, and they
should give that certain something
to the evening’s fun!

Christmas preparations have in-
vaded the otherwise unconvention-
al life of the Non-Reses. A spray
of greenery, with the appropriate
red ribbon, is as yet the only con-
crete achievement, but an elabor-
ate menu on the bulletin board
gives promise of materializing on
Thursday in the form of a Non-
Res Christmas feast. A whole tur-
key (cooked!) is scheduled to ap-



of novices that ski-lifts are indeed
a wonderful invention.

The Misses Clayton and Kilby
expect some very happy schussing.
They add, as an aside, that all
those interested in going on the
week-end are invited down to the
gym to sign up—and, no doubt, to
be measured for casts.







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B. M. Delegates

The Undergraduate Board takes
pleasure in announcing the ap-
pointment of Sandol Stoddard as-
delegate to the _ Intercollegiate
Arts Conference at Vassar in Feb-
ruary, and of Betts McClure and
Karen Knaplund as delegates to
the Christian Association Confer-
ence at Vassar, also in February.

Write to Belgium
The Alliance has received a let-
ter from the Belgo-American youth
asking if any Bryn Mawr students | *
are interested in corresponding
with Belgian students of similar
interests. If you are interested,
get in touch with Ning Hitchcock,
Pembroke Wset.
NSA Delegates
Betty Hamilton, ’48; Ann Seide-
man ’49, and Karen Knaplund ’49,
will represent Bryn Mawr at the
NSA Pennsylvania Regional Con-
vention, to be held at Penn State,
December 19-21.
Arts’ Night
The provisional committee for
Arts’ Night has decided that the



pear, complete with trimmings and
relishes. But lest you suppose
that the Non-Reses’ Christmas
spirit is limited to an appreciation
of food, it must be added that they,
too, exchange gifts, ranging from
live rabbits to powder puffs—in
short, whatever is reminiscent of
the receiver.

ICES

‘program, which will probably take
ti on Friday, April 15, is to be
o-ordinated under a single idea or
theme. With this in mind, the in-
dividual clubs will meet to elect
representatives who, the club
presidents, will form the produc-
tion committee for Arts’ Night.
This committee will meet on Mon-
day, January 12, in the Common
Room, to draw up definite plans.
B. M. Defeats Tigers

The Bryn Mawr Debate Club
takes great pleasure in announcing
the election of Phyllis L. Bolton as
President and Robin Rau as Treas-
urer. The Debate Club would also
like to announce that on Monday,
December 15, Bryn Mawr’s affirma-
tive team defeated Princeton in the
debate on the resolution “That a
World Federal Government Should
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B. M. Participates
In Student Conf.
On Racial Affairs

Carol W&govern, ’48, and Sarah
Berman, ’48, represented the Alli-
ance at the Intercollegiate Confer-
ence on Racial Affairs of the Stu-
dent Committee for Educational
Democracy held at Princeton, De-
cember 6th and 7th. This confer-
ence, known as the SCED, was the
result of a committee set up last
year to. work for the intérchange
of information on the efforts of
various colleges to eliminate racial
and religious discrimination.

The program was designed to
cover -the discussion of a wide
range of topics. Three speakers,
including Dr. Eduard C. Linde-
mann, of the New York School for
Social Work, talked on racial prob-
lems as affecting the American
way of life. The rest of the con-
ference consisted of panels in
which the students discussed three
general fields of study: ‘‘Educa-
tion for Democracy,” “Admission
Policies of Colleges” and “Action
in the Community.”

In the debate over methods to
be applied in the community, a
proposal was brought forward for
a general advertising campaign by
which posters would be put up in
public places urging non-discrim-
ination. Sarah Lawrence College
described the inter-racial nursery
which it has set up as a community
measure. The panel on admissions
proposed that —all_questions—con-
cerning religion and race on ap-
plication blanks be abolished and
that photographs of the applicants
should not be required before the
decision on admission.

The students as a whole felt that
quota systems in all colleges should
be completely eliminated. This
can be done far more effectively by
the firm co-operation of the vari-
ous achools in which quota systems
now exist. It was toward this end
that the Conference was designed.







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Haverford and B. M.
Give Carol Service

Continued from Page 1

under the able direction of Wil-
liam H. Reese, they gave a polish-
ed and charming rendition of Han-
del’s music.

Haverford’s first song, “Christ is
Born of Maiden Fair,” strained a
tenor and was no stirring begin-
ning to their share in the perform-
ance. “Pat-a-pan,”’ which offers
fascinating opportunities for men’s
voices, dragged spiritlessly to an
undistinguished conclusion. The
Glee Club improved with_‘The
Cradle Song of the Shepherds.”
There suddenly seemed to be more
altos and both dynamics and enun-
ciation improved.

Mixed Chorus

The mixed chorus sang two|
songs, Pergolesi’s “Glory to God
in the Highest” and “L’Adieu des
bergers a la Sainte Famille.” The
orchestral accompaniment was a
decided addition. Soloists Henny
Burch and Barbara Nugent sang
well in the former selection. The
French carol had beautiful har-
monies. Both choruses sounded as
though they enjoyed what they
were singing and their French ac-
cent has improved since last yean

On the whole, this year’s Carol



Incidentally |

Chivalry Still Lives at Haver-
ford! Last Saturday night a no-
torious “man-about-Rock,” not de-
terred by the turf, drove his car
up. the front lawn until his bumper
hit. the steps preventing his deliv-

ering his date right to the door,
We appreciate ve attempt.

Coffee in the Library! A propos
of morning coffee in Taylor, one
member of the Bryn Mawr faculty
says she is perfectly willing to give
15 cents for a cup of coffee in the
Library, but she has no idea what
the librarians would say.

Lost: Two Tea Kitchens: And in-
cidentally, according to another

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S.Stéddard’s Play
Aeted on WIBG

“Tally-Ho,” a light comedy writ-
ten by Sandol Stoddard, °48; for
Mr. Thon’s playwriting class, was
presented over station WIBG, Phil-
adelphia, this afternoon, by stu-

faculty membér, it seems that
when the library was built, two
tea kitchens were installed on the
second floor. The only problem is
that he hasn’t seen them in the
short time (20 years) he’s been
If we could find them, it
might solve the coffee difficulty.

Check! Is the BMT’s party line

slipping? Seated in a car outside
Rhoads last week-end one vivacious
Bryn Mawrtyr seemed to be hav-
ing a hard time making conversa-
tion, but her face brightened as
some of her friends passed and she
called to them: “Where can I get
a game of chess?”

here.

ford. The cast was:
Susan Gordon—Nancy Kunhardt
Tom Gordon—David~ Blackwell
Lydia Henderson—Sandol Stod-
dard
Howard Lydecker—John Gailey
Martha—Mousie Wallace
This was one of four hours on
the radio sponsored by the Bryn
Mawr Drive.







Service was a slight disappoint-
ment because of the choice of
songs. At least I am apt to go to
a carol service hoping to hear the
most “Christmasy” music possible
—like “Wassail!” which the chorus
sang last year, or “On the Twenty-
fifth December,” songs not—neces-
sarily well-known but having the
same spirit that the old familiar
carols possess. Also, the devotion
of half the service to old English
carols meant the exclusion of a
more varied international selection,
but that is a matter of taste.











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