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Wednesday, March 5, 1952

THE COLLEGE

NEWS



Page Three



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L. to R.:. Ehlers, Shoemaker, Kimball, Sonne
Kimball, Sonne, Ehlers, and Shoemaker

Chosen Candidates for UG Presidency

LOUISE KIMBALL

Louise, who is first on.the bal-
lot for President of Undergrad, is
now the secretary of that organ-

ization. She is in charge of the
campus guides and captain of the
tennis team. Louise is in the
college chorus, in the Double Oc-
tet, and acts as chairman of the
Octangle. She was also in the
Junior Show.

Last year Louise was president
of the Sophomore class. She man-
aged the Tennis team and was
co-head of the Bryn Mawr Sum-
mer Camp in the summer of 1951.
She acted as Assistant Librarian
for the chorus and sang in the
Double Octet as well as being
the head of the Octangle group.
Louise was also a campus guide
last year.

She held the position of First
Freshman Member to Undergrad
“per first year at Bryn
Mawr. She was Freshman hall
representative and manager of the
tennis team. Louise sang in the
chorus and the Double Octet; she
was a campus guide and took part
in The Last Resort.

CAROL SONNE

Second on the slate is Carol
Sonne. Carol is now the First
Junior Member to Undergrad and

vice-president of the Junior Class.
,She has attended the Week-end
‘Work Camp and is in charge of

the Art Library. Carol has cam-
pus-guided for the past three se-
mesters.

Last year while she was on the

‘Dance Committee, Carol sang in



WBMC Program
Schedule

March 6-12...

-2:00° WFLN- (Classical Music) ©
.8:00 News (New York Times)
‘8:05 . Treasury of Classics

10:00 Popular Music and Feature
Programs
11:00 News
11:05 Popular Music
12:00 Off the Air
FEATURES OF THE WEEK
Thursday
9:00 Gilbert and Sullivan Inter-
lude
9:45 Campus News (with Claire
Robinson)
10:00 Intermission Time
-11:05 Haverford D-J Show with
Dick Hardy
Friday
11:05 Dance Date
Sunday ‘\
8:00 Sacred Music
Monday
9:00 “Halt the Symphony” win

a carton of Chesterfields!
9:45 Faculty Interview
10:06 Dramatic Show—Riders to
- the Sea
Tuesday
10:00 Folk Song Program
Wednesday
7:30 Battle of the Sexes
10:00 The Variety Show (Songs
by the Bryn Mawr College
Octangle)



‘he chorus and mnanaged props 7 r
the Maids and Porters show. He
Freshman year, The Last Resort,
the hall play, chorus, and the soda
fountain claimed Carol’s time.
KATHY EHLERS

Kathy, -who is now the Second
Junior Member to Undergrad, is
third in preferential order. She
also works on the Nominating
Committee and took part in The
Happy Medium.

In her Sophomore year Kathy
managed the decorations for the
Sophomore carnival. She also act-
ed as class hall representative and
Chairman of the United Service
Fund in Pem East.

She was Freshman hall represen-
tative to the Alliance in her first
year and was an active member of
the Dance Club. She participated
in Arts Night and ’53‘s Freshman
Show.

SALLY SHOEMAKER

In fourth position on the ballot

for President of Undergrad, Sally
Continued on Page 4, Col. 5

Hatzfeld Traces
Myths in Poetry

Thursday evening, February 28,
the Bryn Mawr French Club spon-
sored a lecture on “Mythology in
Poetry During the French Ren-
aissance” by Helmut Hatzfeld,
Professor of Romance Languages
at the Catholic University of
America.

Professor Hatzfeld discussed the
use of the classic Greek and Latin
myths by French poets of the six-
teenth century under three main
aspects—that of ‘“poesie pure”,
nature poetry, and love poetry.

“Poesie pure’—the concept that
poetry has real value in its sound
alone quite apart from its sense,
is a new tool with which we can
look back on the poetry of |’Ecole
de Lyon and La Pleiade and see
it in a new perspective. The poets
of the French Renaissance, such
as Ronsard and Du Bellay, fre-
quently used mythological names
and epithets which provide a mag-
nificent euphonic backbone for
their verse. This fusion of myth-
ological names often produced an
effective poetry or word music
quite independent of its meaning.

Again, Professor Hatzfeld con-
tinued, the Renaissance poets turn-
ed to the classics when they wish-



_led to write of Nature. Unlike the

Germans and Anglo-Saxons who
had a lore of their own, French
poets, when they wished to break
away from the medieval concepts
of Nature, had to borrow the an-
cient myths of Greece and Rome.
Therefore, they turned to Cybele
or Demeter when they wished to

_|express the vital, creative power

of Nature.

In their amatory poetry, also,
YEcole de. Lyon made use of
myths to express their new psy-
chology of love. The “amour
courtois” of the Middle Ages no

Continued on Page 4, Col. 2

LAST NIGHTERS

Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Combines Serious

And Gay
by Anne Mazick, °55

The Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ba!-
let performance of “Coppelia’ at
the Academy of Music, Saturday
afternoon, March 1, was delight-
fully imaginative, if. somewhat
lacking in professional finesse. A
combination of gaiety and solem-
nity, slow and fast movement, and
a smooth transition from one
mood to another formed a cohesive
production. The frequent change
from solo to chorus movement,
without too long a period of either,
gave the performance continuity
and reality.

Svetlana Beriosova gave an ex-
cellent portrayal of Swanilda, the
premiere danseuse. Unfortunately,
David Blair, who danced opposite
her as Frantz, was limited to her
restricted movements until the last
act, when he proved his talent in
his only solo dance, in the “Festival
of the Bell’,’ Stanley Holden gave
a realistic characterization of Dr.
Coppelius. This role contrasted
with the others in that it was not
ballet, but its graceful pantomime
classifies it as dance.

Until the final act, the perform-
ance seemed to lack male talent.
There was too much of the con-
fined, twirling and fluttering move-
ment of feminine ballet and a
noticeable lack of the wider, freer
leaping and jumping movement
characteristic of male dancers.

The story concerns Swanilda’s
love for Frantz and her jealousy at
finding him flirting with Coppelia,
who is said to be the daughter of
Dr. Coppelius, the toy maker. She
steals into his shop with her friends
and discovers that Coppelia is only
a doll. When Frantz climbs up the
ladder into the shop, Dr Coppelius
drugs him and tries to transfer the
boy’s spirit to the doll by works of
magic. Swanilda has dressed in
the doll’s clothes and pretends. to
come to life, as the old man would
have her do. When Frantz_awakens,
she reveals her true identity, and
they leave the disillusioned old man
with his mechanical dolls.

The ballet ends with the ‘Festival
of the Bell”, celebrating the Duke’s
gift of a bell to the town. All
couples who were married on this
occasion are supposed to receive
a dowry from the Duke. Swanilda
receives her dowry and the story
ends with general rejoicing.

The settings in the first and third
acts, the town square and the
Duke’s gardens, were rather dull
and lifeless, but the set in the sec-
ond act, in Dr. Coppelius’ workshop,
was bright and realistic. The eerie
red lighting lent atmosphere to the
intrigue of the doll’s mystery and
the magical acts.

The second act outshone the
others in every respect. The stag-
ing, the set, the imaginative qual-
ity and the animation of the dan-
cers were outstanding here. The
chorus added color and gaiety to
the entire performance, but their
precision was occasionally sloppy.

On the whole, the performance
was good. It was light, colorful, and
graceful, and the story was delight-
fully fantastic. The only marked
deficiencies were the lack of male
movement and the lack of preci-
sion in the chorus.

ENGAGEMENTS

Dcrothy Harris, ’53 to Donald
Harris.

Bridget Carstensen, ’53, to Brad-
ford Maxwell Endicott.

Edwina Munsen, ’55 to Edwin S.
Ladley, Jr.

ao a eee



MARRIAGE
Patience E. Appel, ’53 to Robert



E. Levine.



L. to R.: Foley, Merritt, Reigle, Voorhis

Junior Class Submits Self-Gov Slate:

MARILYN REIGLE

Marilyn, who is first in prefer-
ential order on the ballot, is pres-
ident of the Junior Class. She is
a class representative to Self-Gov
and chairman of the League Ac-
tivities Drive. She is also pres-
ident of the Russian Club, a per-
mission giver, and a campus guide.

In her Sophomore year, Marilyn
was vice-president of her class.
She represented her class on the
A.A. board, was in charge of
games at Sophomore Carnival,
was co-editor of the ’55 handbook,
a permission giver, and a ¢ampus
guide.

Rotating member to A.A. her
Freshman year, Marilyn was also
in the cast of The Last Resort and
played hockey and lacrosse,

Library Council

Goes Into Action

The Library Council reports
the following:
There are two desks in the



library, near the bust of M.
Carey Thomas, which have
flourescent lights. They were

put in as an experiment by the
college, with the idea that: if
they were used and liked there
could be more of them. As there
was NO interest on the part of
the student body, the college
felt that they could not bother
with them any more. There is a
possibility that lights like these
could be provided either at
every other desk, or in one half
of the library. Will you try
them? And, if you like them,
will you put your name and
comments on the sheet which
will be posted in the reserve
room?

There has been a special request
from the Graduate Center that
there be less noise in the West
Wing when there are people work-
ing in the carrels. It is very dif-
ficult to concentrate when there
are long, and sometimes interest-
ing, conversations going on.

From now on the library staff
will try to keep a plentiful supply
of date due slips available at all
the desks. Will you please take
one and put it in your book. If
you have a date due slip in the
book, you can be responsible for
getting it back on time. The staff
feels that they cannot send out
notices any more often than once
a week because of the amount of
time it takes to write them out.
If you cannot find a date due slip,
ask for one from one of the libra-
rians.

It is very difficult to do any-
thing about the temperature of
the library, because, if the fan
operating in the reading room is
turned off, many other people in
the building complain because it
is so cold. The heating system is
very poor, and we are sorry to
report that practically nothing



can be done about it.

4

Choose Reigle, Merritt, Voorhis, Foley

PENNY MERRITT

Second in preferential order,
Penny is now the Secretary of the
Self-Gov board. She also acts as
Fire-Captain of Rhoads North.

She was class representative to
Self-Gov in her Sophomore year,
and in her Freshman year Penny
was president of the Freshman
class. That year she was also a
permission giver and a campus
guide,

CORRIE VOORHIS

Third on the slate for President
of Self-Gov, Corrie is now the
First Junior Member to Self-Gov.
She is vice-president of Pem Wesc
and had one of the leading parts
in the Junior Show last fall. Cor-
rie is also a campus guide.

Iyast year she was the First
Sophomore member to Undergrad.
She was a campus guide during
both her Sophomore and Fresh-
man years. Also during her Fresh-
man year Corrie was a Rotating
Member to Self-Gov, in the Fresh-
man Show, and a permission giver.

ANNE FOLEY

Foley, who occupies fourth place
on the ballot, is at present Com-
mon. Treasurer for the college and
Rockefeller Hall Vice-President.
She was the Business Manager for
The Happy Medium, is Rock Pay
Day Mistress, and was recently
selected manager of the volley
ball team. Foley is also a per-
mission giver.

In her Sophomore year she was
the Chief Program Engineer at
WBMC, Hall Representative, Rock
Pay Day Mistress, and a permis-
sion giver. Foley worked on the
stage crew for The Last Resort in
her Freshman year when she was
also a permission giver.

SPORTS

by Emmy Cadwalader, ’53

The First and Second Basket-
ball Varsities played two of the
most exciting games of the year
last Thursday against Immacu-
lata College. The score during
the Varsity game was tied almost
until the end, when Immaculata
suddenly forged ahead to win 41-
31. The J.V. game was similar,
but the Bryn Mawr players sur-
prised their opponents and took
the lead in the last quarter, there-
by winning 33-24, Both Bryn
Mawr teams played exceedingly
well and gave Immaculata a good
run for their money. This was
quite amazing since Immaculata
had beaten Rosemont College,
whose team had previously over-
whelmed Bryn Mawr. For the first
time this season the guard and
forward combinations really
seemed to click, and Bryn Mawr
played an offensive game, with a
great deal of thought and intelli-
gence. The teams were as fol-
lows:
Varsity Junior Varsity
Forwards a
Tilghman Cadwalader-Kennedy



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