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Wednesday, March 24, 1954.

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Saeernnne

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‘Madwoman’ On The Whole Successful;
Renken, Kittridge and Mabry Excellent

| Continued from Page 1

gestures, as when signing the
/~\check, and spoke with a fine, aris-
tocratic accent.

The President, played by John
Kittredge, also - convincing
and amusing.- Gerald Goodman,
the Prospector, was inclined“ to
overact his. part, but he never
dropped out. of character.

Nick Mabry, who played. the
Ragpicker, made the most of his
part. Like Marilyn, he played bot

was

the fantastic and the straight sides

of his role sincerely and natural-
ly. In the, second scene, when he
was acting as defense in the trial,
he drove-home-his- points especial-
ly well,

character.
~The’ non-character parts - were

*_lesssuccessful.___ Patricia Moran

(Irma) was adequate, and at times
she seemed Yiatural, but on the
whole she was stiff and. inclined to
be too sweet.

_ William Hitzrot, the beautiful
Pierre, looked his part, but he
failed ‘to act it. When he was at-
tempting to play the partof’ the
Countess’ departed lover, his lim-
itations were especially evident.

Mlle. Constance (Linda Levitt),

‘ and Mlle. Gabrielle (Sondra Gor-
.don) were both well done, making
x their roles purely character, and
yet in’ keeping with the serious

9 one which runs through the play.

Hil Josephine (Adele Mac-
Veagh) was excellent also, spark-
ling. in the role of the Judge in the
trial,

William. ‘Moss, as the doorman,
amazed the audience by whizzing
around the stage jon a bicycle,
without shaking a flat..The Sewer
Man; the Policeman, (Robert See-
ley), The Sergeant, (Robert Glatz-
er), and the Street Singer, (Eliza-

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APRIL

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PRESENTS

WELLESLEY

By SANTHA RAMA RAU

Once these girls were all
supposed to marry ministers”
if they married at all. Now

they spend four years
pursuing Plato, Math and

Harvard, in that order.

~~ ,

Santha Rama Rau, a distinguished
alumna, vividly depicts the amazing
change and the unchanging charm of
Harvard’s girl friend, Wellesley.
What ‘happened: when for. the first
time married students were permitted
to attend classes? When Mme. Chiang
_ Kai-shek shocked. the college by ap-
‘pearing on the campus in slacks?
When the “Navy” arrived at Welles-' -
ley during World War II?
You'll enjoy this: revealing word-and-
picture report on the Wellesley ‘girl.
Is she prettier, better dressed, richer,
snobbier, more intellectual, more col-
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know? Get your copy of the April
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‘|ford),

beth Brackett), also deserve espe-
cial praise,

The rest of the cast included:
Children (Simonetta Caselli and
Willilam Steele), Mother (Adele
MacVeagh), Street Walkers (Con-
stance Horton and Caryl Sharlow),

+Pickpocket. (Tam ‘ Birchfield), and

Pickpocket Victim (Robert Dens-
Waiter (Philip Howorth),
Flower Girl (Anne Wyckoff), Deaf-
mute (Tony Cowen), and the Shge-

e Peddlar (Barbara Floyd). .*

Also: Dr. Jadin (John Pfaltz),
Second President .(Fritz Renken),
Third President (Robert Seeley),
Second Prospector (Robert -Dens-
ford), Third Prospector (Stanley
Wordon), Press Agent (Stephen
Sieverts), First Lady (Mary Kel-
logg), Second Lady (June Costin),
Third Lady (Tam Birchfield), First

| Adolphe Bertaut (William Moss),

and Second Adolphe
(James MacMasters).

The two magnificent sets were
designed by Anne Nicholson, Par-
ticularly good was the cafe scene,
with its narrow alleys leading off

Bertaut

stage.

The production staff was headed
by the following: Assistant to Mr.
Garfield, Jane Miller; Production
Manager, Anne Nicholson; Stage
manager, Jessie Sloane; Lighting
Directors: Coryce Ozanne, Terry
Osma; Costumes, Leslie Kaplan.



AMUSEMENTS

Anthony Wayne:
Mar. 24-27 — Miss Sadie
Thompson :
Apr. 4-5 — From Here To
~ Eternity
Apr. 5-10—Captain’s Paradise

Ardmore:
Mar, 24-26—Mogambo
Apr. 5-6 — War Arrow and
Top Banana
Apr. 7-183—Schedule open
Apr. 14-17—The Living Des-
ert
Bryn Mawr:
Mar. 24— The Bad' and the
Beautiful and With a Song in
My Heart .
Mar. 25—Wicked Woman
Mar. 26—Paratroopers
Apr. 4-5—Men In the Attic
and White Fuel
Apr, 6-7—The Bigamist
Apr. 8-10—Mogambo
_Apr. 11-12—San::Antone and
Stranger Wore a Gun
Apr. 18-14— Miracle of Our
Lady of Fatima ’
Suburban:
Mar. 24-26 — Miss Sadie
Thompson





lander, Director of General Edu-

students) and the election. of a

afternoon plenery session.

Professors Spea k

To Alumnae Club

“Could Yesterday Kaw To-
day?” Three: Bryn Mawr profes-
sors,; Marguerite -Lehr, Arthur P,
Dudden, and Joseph C. Sloane, dis-.
cussed this question before the
Bryn /Mawr Club of Boston on Sat-
urday, March 20. Philip H. Rhine-

cation, and Lecturer on Philosop
and General Education, Harvard
University, presided.

Each scholar related the general’
theme, thought transition from the
nineteenth to the. twer\tieth cen-
tury, to his or her particular field.
Mr. Dudden, Assistant Professor
of History,-titled his-speech “The
Years of the Modern”, while Miss
Lehr, Associate Professor of Math-
ematics, spoke of “Sufficient Con-
clusions from Insufficient Pre-
mises” and Mr. Sloane, Professor
of History of Art, outlined “Artis-
tic Gommunication in Two Cen-
turies”. The last lecture wasyjil-
lustrated by color slides.

_ For Prospective Students

The alumnae group has initiated
this program to better acquaint
prospective students with the aca-
demic side of the college and to
help the members themselves to a
continuing understanding of Bryn
Mawr. The idea of presenting iec-
tures Of this type in Boston orig-
inated with alumnae members who
had enjoyed alumnae week at the
college so very much.. Begun last
year under the title “Bryn Mawr
Comes to Boston’, the program is
now called “Bryn Mawr. Returns to
Boston”.

1.C.G. To Convene
For 25th Meeting

The Intercollegiate Conference
on Government will hold its twen-
ty-fifth state convention in Harris-
burg, on April 11 to April 13, when
collegés from all over Pennsyl-
vania participate in a model na-
tional congress.

Meeting in the buildings of the
state capitol, I. C. G. will try to
duplicate Congress in every detail,
including ‘the presentation of bills
(drawn up and decided upon by the

Speaker of the House. The Confer-
ence will begin on Thursday night
with a dinner-dance; on Friday
there will be committee meetings,
and on Saturday, the election of
the Speaker who will conduct: the

Anyone who is interested in at-
tending the I. C. G. conferenéé at
Harrisburg should contact Liz
Warren in Denbigh for further de-
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Washes iene To Philosophy Club.
On F aith, Reason In M edieval Thought

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standing. Mr. Monahan again pro-
posed St. Thomas Aquinas (who
wrote between 1253-1272) as being
representative of the latter group.
A few statements taken from
Aquinas’s writings were presented
by the speaker to illustrate the
philosophic attitude) of Aquinas:
“Knowledge is the activity proper
to man,” “Man has a natural in-
clination toward the truth,” “The
good of man consists in the per-
fect knowledge of the highest
truth”, and “It is .the truth of
things which acts as the criterion
of judgment.”
* Thomas held that faith and rea-
son were complementary rather
than contradictory. Whereas
“Faith demands the ascent of the |!

intellect -to what is believed, rea- |!



New Decipherment
Rivals The Rosetta

The decipherment of the writing
used in Greece between 1450 and
120 B.C. ranks with the reading of
the Rosetta stone, which gave the
key to heiroglyphics, by Champol-
lion,

Mary Swindler, Professor Emer-
itus of Classical Archaeology and
former editor in chief of the Amer-
ican Journal of Archaeology, de-

scribed the steps which led to this
great discovery at a luncheon of

the, Philadelphia Alumnae, on
Tuesday, March 23, at the. Dean-
ery.

~Reading Linear B was especially
difficult because there was no bi-
lingual to provide a comparison be-
tween this and some already de-
ciphered form.

The discoverer, Michael Ventris,
had been a cryptographer. “First
he listed the signs used” The fact
that there were 70 indicated that
they represented syllables - rather
than letters.

Study of words which began
with the same signs but had dif-
ferent endings showed that the
language had cases, genders, and
passive and active verbs.

At first Ventris tried correlating
the signs with Etruscan. This led
to blind alleys. He later tried a
combination of the Greek language
with Cretan symbols, which seéms
to be the key.

Linear B was found on clay tab-
lets discovered in the archives of a
palace which was used during the
time of the Trojan war. When de-
ciphered the first tablets proved to
be lists of equipment stored in the
palace. Though it mentions names
like Hera, Hector, and Achilles.

It was also found at the capital
of Crete and scattered on the
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son demands the ascent of the in-
tellect to What is known”. The
bases of the ascents are different.
The intellect ascends because it
knows the truth; faith ascends by
impetus of the will.

These beliefs of Aquinas may be
pursued further to the conclusions
that it is not possible for the same -
thing to be believed and under-
stood by the same. person at the
same time. Believing and under--
standing remain mutually exclu-
sive as do blindness and sight.

Thus, according to Mr. Monahan,
ito argue that the religious believer
cannot be a philosopher is to. fail
to understand the relationship be-
tween faith and understanding. It
jis.to imply. a duality of truth, for
jreason-and faith are two ways of
looking at one truth.

Some tenets of faith cannot be
understood by. reason although ae
they should be ‘investigated by rea-
son . “Rational arguments should
be sought in favor of religious
faith,” Mr. Monahan said. “They
will be probable arguments not
demonstrable ones,” he added.
conclusion, Mr. Monahan
summarized his purpose in ad-
dressing the club: “1) to show that
philosophy existed and was culti-
vated in the medieval ages; 2) to
outline important contributions by
one philosopher in®an important

area and 3) to encourage those
seekers who are after truth to find
out the truth of things’.

In

Girls Help Produce
Plays In Coatesville

The Coatesville Recreation Group
and the Little Theatre Players of
the Veterans Administration Hos-
pital in Coatesville combined their
talents this year to produce three
musical comedies: “The Nautical
Minstrel,” an original musical writ-
ten by one of the patients, “I
Found My Love,” another original
script, and the most recent and
greatest endeavor thus far, the
Broadway musical, “Oklahoma.”

Sponsored by the Veterans Ad-
ministration with transportation
provided by the Red Cross Motor
Corps, the Bryn Mawr girls spend
four hours a day, twice a week re-
hearsing for the shows during the
months in which they are perform-

‘ed. During this time they get

acquainted with the patients, have
delicious food, including homemade
bread (one. of the most enticing'
bribes), aiid do a little serious re-.
hearsing for the show which seems’
incidental compared with the fun

‘had by~all ‘during rehearsals and
the achievement of that incompar-
able feeling of doing something

worthwhile for others, They use~

scripts for the final performance,
get out of step in thé inevitable
“can-can,” and fall all over éach
other doing cheers and “milling”
in erowd scenes. The effect is al-
‘ways highly praised by the audi-
ence of patients and staff, however,
| although there is good reason to
suspect that-the actors enjoy it
more than the audience.






















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