College news, April 14, 1948

__THE GOLLEGE NEWS



VOL. 6H, NO. 20

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1948

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

PRICE 10 CENTS



Alwyne Attains
True Sensitivity
In Piano Recital

Brilliant Humoresque
Sparkles With Jazz
And Solemnity

by Anne Greet 50

Mr. Alwyne in his piano recital
at Goodhart Hall on April 8 gave
his audience the satisfaction of
hearing a pianist play not only
with polish and intelligence but
with sensitive appreciation of his
music. The program started off
with a Variation by Liszt on a Mo-
tive from Bach’s Cantata “Wein-
en, Klagen” and the Crucifixus of
the B minor Mass in which Mr. Al-
wyne admirably treated Liszt’s ro-
mantic interpretation of Bach’s
unornamented themes. In pictures
at an Exhibition by Moussorgsky
he portrayed, with charming im-
agery in his tone values, a peasant
bumping across the melancholy
steppes in his ox-cart, Baba Yaga’s
hut hopping about on its chicken
legs, the bells ringing out above
the Gate of the Bohatyrs.

The Scriapin pieces were brilli-
ant. The Etude in B flat minor
was languorous while the Etude
in D flat showed to advantage his
nimble playing. Hearing Scria-
pin’s Fragilite, one was not aware
of the instrument—only of a theme
or feeling in..a delicate hushed
background of notes. The Medt-
ner Fairy Tales, one ending hap-
pily and one sadly, were enjoy-
able, as were all the Rachmaninoff
selections, but the highlight of the
evening, if it is possible to choose,
was Rachmaninoff’s Humoresque,
with its jazz and -windy runs and
solemn chords—all played with an
air of dignified freakishness.

Some of the selections may have
seemed almost too familiar to the

audience as they glanced over their
programs, but once Mr. Alwyne
started to play, his careful inter-
pretation of every phrase and note
gave them new value. Those who
did not go missed a fine perform-
anee.

Feng to Present
Chinese Situation

Speaking on “The Real Situation
in China,” on Tuesday evening,
April 20, at 8:15, in Goodhart, Gen-
eral Feng Yu-H’hsiang, for many
years a most important military
figure in China, will explain the
civil strife prevalent in China, the
reason for the Nationalist party’s
loss of ground, and the means of
uniting factions and of achieving
democracy in China.
_, Having enrolled in the army at

the age of 12 and rising to become
leader of the Progressive forces in
the Kuomintang and a member of
the National Military Council, the
“Christian General” broke last
year with General Chiang over the
terrorism of the Nationalist re-
gime, although he had been the
commander-in-chief both in North
China and the Shanghai War Zone
during World War II. After sev-
ering connections with the Nation-
alist government, he became a
member of the Revolution Commit-
tee of the Kuomintang, a group or-
ganized in Hong Kong and severe-
ly critical of the present regime ‘in
China. _ -

General Feng arrived in the

Continued on Page 2

Katharine Cornell Lunches Here;

Macy Aids in Informal Interview

by Barbara Bettman, *49
Katharine Cornell has a rule that
she gives no formal interviews to
college or high-school papers. Oth-
erwise, as her manager, former
Bryn Mawrtyr Gertrude Macy, re-
marks, she would have no time for
anything else. But from some con-
versation with her at last Thurs-
day’s Deanery luncheon, and a
good deal more‘with Miss Macy,
we learned most of what we would

have asked in an “interview.”

Symposium Sat.
Presents Phases
Of Ren. in Venice

Specially contributed by
Miss Caroline Robbins



Dr. Howard L. Gray was one of
Bryn Mawr’s most beloved teach-
ers. He was professor of history
here for twenty-five years and in
that time made a host of friends
among neighbors, faculty, admin-
istration and students of the col-
lege. Shortly after his death in
the fall of 1945 one of these friends
suggested that the department
of history should arrange a mem-
orial for him of a kind that he
himself would have liked and that
would give pleasure to the com-
munity. The symposium of the



Ventian Commonwealth in West-
ern Art, Letters and Politics which
takes place this Saturday (April
| 17) is the result of this suggestion
and the gift which accompanied it.

Five distinguished scholars will



Keep Off the Grass

Students, except those who
truly enjoy being whistled at,
are urged to keep off the grass,
which otherwise will not grow
on the lawns here, let alone
the streets. This rule applies
also to ‘Administration, faculty,
and graduate students.







Antony and Cleopatra goes, west
—or starts west—this week, end-
ing in Chicago on May 22. Miss
Cornell is sorry that the tour can’t
extend to the West Coast, since she
likes it best on the road, but trans-
portation costs are _ prohibitive.
(Miss Macy told us that Antony
and Cleopatra cost $104,000 before
the opening curtain ever parted.)
Furthermore, Godfrey Tearle must
be in England in June.

Miss Cornell feels she can talk
even to professors now, she knows
Cleopatra so well; it is her favor-
ite role—but Miss Macy adds that
her favorite is always the one on
which she is _ working! Kate
O’Brien, the English novelist, is
currently: adapting her novel For
One Sweet Grape into a play for
Miss Cornell, who will play Ann
de Mendoza.

Recalling Jose Ferrer’s vitupera-
tive remarks about critics and Mr.
John Mason Brown, we asked if

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7 Colleges Confer;

Speakers’ Bureau

Established Here

Specially Contributed by Karen
Knaplund ’49 and Ann Seideman ’49
Almost everything from wash-
ing machines to the NSA were top-
ics of discussion at the Seven Col-
lege Conference held at Movnt
Holyoke last weekend. Page Hart,
Ann Seideman, Henny Burch and
Karen Knaplund, as old and new
presidents of Self-Gov and Under-
grad, represented Bryn Mawr at the
annual meeting of Barnard, Bryn
Mawr, Mount--Holyoke, Radcliffe,
Smith, Vassar and Wellesley rep-
resentatives to discuss problems
common to their campuses. Sweet
Briar was the guest college.

Bryn Mawr will be the head-
quarters for a Seven College
Speaker’s Bureau which will facil-
itate the exchange of information



talk on Renaissance Venice and
its influence. Professor Conyers
Read will preside at the morning
session (10 a. m.), and Professor
Samuel C. Chew in the afternoon
(8 p. m.). Pictures will be shown
of Titian’s Visitors and the audi-
ence will get a description of the
island city at the peak of its pow-
er and its creative activity by Mrs.
Ruth Kennedy of Smith College.
Professor Z,.. S. Fink of Northwest-
ern will discuss the political in-
fluence of that stable and wealthy
state on such people as Milton,
Harrington and other English the-
orists and admirers of the Com-
monwealth, and Dr. Douglas Adair
will present a rather different as-
pect of the legend and will show
eatly.. American disillusionment

with the aristocratic republic.

In the afternoon Miss Isabel
Pope, well known both as musi-
cologist and as romance philolo-
gist, will discuss Venetian Music
in the early seventeenth century,
which the Double Octet will illus-
trate. Finally Professor Theodore
Spencer, poet and scholar, will
talk about Venice as seen through
Elizabethan eyes.

The Library is showing an ex-
hibit of rare books about Renais-
sance Venice in the Rare Book
Room, and in the Quita Woodward
Room there is a further exhibit of
books in which Venice is depicted.
Pictures of Venice, on loan from

History corridor. \

Life, are now being shown in the| |

on outstanding speakers on any
subject. It was felt that this would
be especially valuable to Bryn
Mawr in the selection of speakers
Continued on Page 3

Calendar

Thursday, April 15
12:30—Mr. James P. Hen-
drick, “The United Nations
and Human Rights”, Goodhart.
8:15—Mr. H. H. Price, “The
Phenomenology of Objective
Reference”, Common Room.

Friday, March 16
8:15—Arts Night, Goodhart.

Saturday, March 17
9:00—French oral, Taylor.
10:00—Renaissance-sympos-

ium, Deanery. Second session

at 3:00 p. m.
2:00—Sophomore

Denbigh Green.
8:15—Arts Night, Goodhart.
11:00—Junior Prom, Gym.

Sunday, March 18
7:30—All «Student
Service, Music Room.

Monday, March 19
7:15—Current Events, Mr.
Roger Wells, “The Siege of
Berlin”, Common Room.
8:00—Mr. Herbert Read,
“Abstraction and Realism in
Modern Art’, Goodhart.
Tuesday, March 20
8:15—General Feng Yu-
H’hsiang, “The Real Situation



Carnival,

Vesper





Continued on Page\2



in China”, Goodhart.





Children

‘Encounter’ Will be
Theme of Year’s

Arts Night Show

Friday and Saturday nights in
Goodhart, Bryn Mawr is offering
Arts Night—a program consisting
entirely of creative contributions
by the students centered on the
theme “Encounter”.

The Stones of Sorrow, written
by Joan Brest ’48, and directed by
Sandol Stoddard °49, is a one-act
play laid in Mexico. The cast:

IEA VUGID ciiccisHsiasins Anita Dittmar
"T1B MOTUA ssisiscssasusves June Moyer
PASCUAL! © dccssiiscecens Robert Lasday

The Double Octet is offering
three American folk-songs; fol-
lowing it the orchestra will play
excerpts from Bach, Gluck, and
Vaughn J[Williams. The Dance
Group will then offer three orig-
inal dances on the central theme.

During the intermission, there
will be an exhibit of student art
in the foyer of Goodhart.

The second half of the program
begins with 21’s Game, written and
directed by Jack Gailey, a “sensu-
ous and funny melodrama”; the
cast includes:

ROWED KANG Assocs Dave Thomas
Charles Richards ..Dave Blackwell



Herbert Read
To Speak Here
Qn Modern Art

Abstract vs. Realistic
First Talk in Series
On Art History *

“Abstraction and Realism in
Modern Art” will be the topic of
Mr. Herbert Read, noted art critic
and author, in the first of a new
series on Art History and Criti-
cism to be given in Goodhart on
Monday, April 19, at 8 P. M. The
lecture will be illustrated.

His particular interest is in mod-
ern art; he is scheduled to speak
at the Museum of Modern Art in
New York, and will participate in
the International Symposium of
Noted Writers and Critics at Johns
Hopkins this week-end, where he
will speak on Coleridge.

Mr. Read’s interpretations of
modern art are generally based
upon the psychological aspects of
surrealism and of aesthetics. He
believes, according to Mrs. Harper
Brown, that “just as the pyramids
or the Parthenon express the char-

Eliazbeth Kane ....Nancy Kunhardt | @¢teristics and beauty of their re- -

Trella Richards

Dorcas Baldwin ....Ellen Harriman

Marjorie Low, Herbert Cheyette

The Chorus will sing a group of
féur kyrie eleisons, showing the
encounter between old and new.
Arts Night will conclude with a
group of three authentic dances
performed by the Spanish Club.
All proceeds from this. year’s Arts
Night will be divided between two
newly-established funds: the Ther-
esa Helburn Fund--and--the—Arts
Fund. Curtain time: 8:15.

April 17; Week-end
Of Art, Prom, Fun

The Prom and the now tradi-
tional Sophomore Carnival will be
gay spots in the weekend of April
17 which begins with the advanee
section of Arts Night at 8:30 in
Goodhart Friday night.

Saturday afternoon from two
to five on Denbigh Green, the
Greek Olympic Games will visit
the campus in the form of this
year’s Sophomore Carnival. It will
include chariot races, oracles, side-
shows, food, and many other
events which are still a secret.

Another feature of the Carnival
will be the election of a “Miss
Aphrodite” who will be judged on
a campus-wide basis from a group
eomposed of one contestant from
each hall. “But it won’t necessar-
ily be based on pulchritude or any-
thing like that,” said Bebe Bord-
man, head of the Carnival Com-
mittee. There will also be a fac-
ulty baking contest, with faculty
products to be judged and sold at
the carnival.

Committee Members

Other members of the Commit-
tee include: Properties, Swope and
Shroyer; Food, Maconi and Li;
Costumes, Earle and Ham; Tic-
kets, Nelidow and Polakoff;- Pub-
licity, Sloss; Business Manager,
Chambers. Admission will be $.25
with all proceeds going to the
Drive.

49’s Junior Prom =

Saturday night is ‘the “sécdnd
section of Arts Night at 8.30 and
the Junior Prom from eleven to

| two in the Gym. Tickets, are on



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..Cynthia Schwartz | spective ages, so the New York

skyscraper and the streamlined car
express the modern age.”

In revolt against the mechan-
isms of the modern world Mr. Read
has also turned his attentions to
experimental art and methods of
teaching children.

He has written a number of
books, including Art Now, Educa-
tion Through Art and The Innocent
Eye. He has been Assistant Keep-
er of the Victoria and Albert Mu-
seum, editor ofthe Burlington
Magazine, Professor of Fine Arts
at Edinburgh and a Leon Fellow at
the University of London.



Essay Prize

‘Manuscripts for the M. Carey
Thomas Essay Prize must be
left in the President’s office by
Monday, May 3. The contest is
open to all Seniors, no matter
what—their_major—subject,and
is awarded for creative as well
as critical writing. The Com-
mittee hopes that a large num-
ber of seniors will compete for
the award and that a wide var-
iety of papers will be submit-
ted. Any subject is permitted.

Mr. J. P. Hendrick
Will Discuss U. N.

James P. Hendrick will. speak
on “The United Nations and Hu-
man Rights” at the fifth Bryn
Mawr College Assembly on Thurs-
day, April 15. Mr. Hendrick is at
present the Acting - Association
Chief, Division of ijlernal Organ-
ization Affairs of the Department
of State.

Mr. Hendrick is a member of ‘the
Bar of New York and was in a
law firm there from 1928 until he
joined the War Department in
1941. For a year Mr. Hendrick
worked on plant expansion and
Labor Problems. He joined the
army in 1942 and was awarded the
Legion of Merit. He joined the
State Department in 1946 in his
present capacity and has also acted
as advisor to Mrs. Franklin Roose-
velt at sessions of the Commission









of Human Rights of the UN.




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Press: Liberty or License

“Army Warns Public to Keep Calm in Case of Atom At-
tack”, “Industry Gets Views of Army on Mobilizing”, “Army
Day Brings Preparedness Call”, “Russo-Finnish Treaty In-
tends to Deceive European Opinion” ... With newspaper
headlines at an all time anti-Russian high, we cannot help
but become aware of the power of the press and the tragedy

of its misuse. In view of the world situation, the press faces
a challenge of responsibility, a responsibility that must be
assumed if we intend to keep a free press and remain a pub-
lic of free minds.

The press is conscious of its power as an influential wea-
pon in moulding public sentiment and national character,
yet, regardless of consequences, it continues to revel reck-
lessly in the democratic principle that we call “liberty of the
press”. However, it cannot distinguish between liberty and
license; for liberty in the sense of freedom from all author-
ity—liberty that boasts complete irresponsibility and obedi-
ence to no principles—is not liberty but the worst of tryan-
nies.

The actions of the press today are as discouraging as the
news it prints. Rather than informing the public at a time
when understanding, unbiased information is the keynote to
emotion. Unfortunately, excitement is not the same as think-
ing, and when the mind stops thinking, falsehood takes the
place of thought. Likewise in the write-ups of political cam-
paigning, the press seeks to create converts rather than
thinkers. os

Our newspapers are not alone in producing this mass
panic, hysteria'and antagonism. The screen, radio, even ed-
ucation and religion are tainted with anti-Russian digs. But
the real problem is whether the press will realize its respon-
sibility and use its powers for the common good. Or will the
public be forced to sacrifice its freedom of mind in exchange
for a panic or pseudo-security based on emotional froth? Let

- the American people beware and save their intelligence from

Current Events

April 5.—“The overthrow of De
Valera in the recent Irish elections
was the result of a desire for
change and something new,” stat-
ed Mrs. Neel.in a talk on Ireland.
There were six opposing parties
which united against De Valera to
elect John A. Costello, an advocate

of internal improvements, as Pré-
mier. In explaining the outcome
of the elections, Mrs. Neel said
that even before this De Valera’s
party, the Fiannafail, had been los-
ing strength probably because of
economic discontent.

Mrs. Neel pointed out that when
Irish political parties were being
formed at the beginning of the
century, the great motivation tor
the Irish Nationalist group was
the desire for Home Rule. The sit-
uation was complicated, however,
by the attitude of Ulster and espe-
cially Belfast which is predomi-
nantly Protestant and would have
nothing to do with Southern Ire-
land if Home Rule were instituted.

Feins Replace Nationalists

“The Sinn Fein, a strongly na-
tionalist party advocating among
other things the return to the Old
Gaelic language,” Mrs. Neel con-
tinued, “appeared to take the place
of the Nationalist Party during the
last war.” Having won a sweep-
ing victory in the 1918 elections,
the Sinn Feins refused to go to
Westminster and set up the Dail,
the first independent Irish parlia-
ment in this _period._In-thelatter
part of 1920 a new Home Bill was
proposed which was accepted by
Ulster, while the rest of Ireland
signed a truce in 1921 giving Ire-
land the same status as Canada.
This truce was repudiated by De
Valera, who left Parliament and
set up his own party.

Several years later De Valera
left this group to set up another
party which has existed down to
the present time. The treaty made
with England in 1938 providing
economic agreements similar to
those of the Ottawa Agreement
was important because of the use
made of it by De Valera in later
election campaigns,-as-support for
his having kept Ireland out of war.

French Inflation

April 12.—“The devaluation of
the franc (approximately 44 per
cent) at the end of January is the
latest of recent measures taken to
check inflation,” explained Dr.
Hubbard, speaking on the Deprecia-
tion of the French Franc and
French Inflation. Because France,
unlike most other European na-
tions, did not take steps to prevent
inflation as soon as:the war ended,
her economic situation is extreme-
ly serious. A good wheat crop, a
reasonably priced coal supply and
economic aid via the Marshall plan
will be important factors in im-
proving it.

Many of the anti-inflation meas-
ures taken by other countries in
1945 were recently put into effect
in France, as were heavy taxes and
forced investment in government
securities. Inflation was inevitable
during the war, Dr. Hubbard con-
tinued,-since new. money_had to be
created to meet German demands
while at the same time the quan-
tity of goods decreased. Post-war.
shortages and the cost of recon-
struction made matters worse and
the government ran a large deficit.
This was further aggravated by
the fact that French import. prices
have risen since the war even more
than export prices and also that

large wage increases.

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Attention Faculty and Staff

Come to the Litle Gym Thurs-
day evenings at 8 p. m. for an
hour’s exercise. For further in-







the unfortunate depths to which their powerful press seek
to take it.



0947 ‘W.









‘and Eberstadt—and

the labor unions have received’

formation call Bryn Mawr ||

by Irina Nelidow, ’50

“Emily Greene Balch, Nobels
Fredspris for 1946 .. .,” so runs
the engraving on the Nobel Peace
Diploma, emblazoned at the top
with a red lion standing on a crag-
gy blue hill and holding an ax,
which forms part of the Library’s
Thirty-First Rare Book Room Ex-
hibit. On December 10, 1946, Em-
ily Greene Balch, Bryn Mawr, ’89,
and first holder of the Bryn Mawr
European Fellowship, was awarded
(jointly with John R. Mott) the
Nobel Peace Prize, thus becoming
the third woman to win this dis-
tinction. First given to Baroness
von Suttner in 1905, the Prize was
later awarded to Jane Addams.

The exhibit currently on display
also contains the large gold Nobel
Peace Medallion bearing in relief
the head of Alfred Nobel, founder
of the Prize, and with the simple

inscription “Alfr Nobel. nat.
MDCCCXXXIII. ob. MDCCCXC-
VI.”

Miss Balch was awarded the No-
bel Prize for her “extensive, efforts
in behalf of world peace,” and her



Prom, Soph. Carnival
Climax Big Weekend

Continued from Page 1

sale for $3.00 per couple and $1.50
for a reserved table which will
seat ten couples. There will be
pink lemonade and red and yellow
sheet cakes to match the college
and cfass colors and, incidentally,
the decorations. The College Quar-
tette—Loomis, ‘Geib, Henderson
the Tiger
Tones (Princeton of course) will
sing and there will be slow sweet
music by Harry Schwartz’s seven-
piece orchestra.

The decorations are the most
original. ever to hit Bryn Mawr
and are a real threat to the Mus-
eum of Modern Art. In fact they
are so impressive that the Art De-
partment is coming down en masse

and see Picasso, Matisse, and B. M.
creations under Gale Minton’s lead-
ership turn the gym into an art
collection—conducted tours leaving
every hour from the refreshment
room. And don’t worry about
faux pas; the paintings are label-
led—freely. Mobiles and huge
sculptured figures will complement
the paintings and the whole effect
will be colossal.

History Department
Sponsors Symposium
Continued from Page 1

Many alumnae and out of town
scholars will be visiting the cam-
pus on Saturday for this event.
Seating in the Deanery is limited,
and preference will be given to
Seniors in History, Art, English
or Italian literature who are in-|
terested. These students are ask-
ed as fellow hosts with the His-
tory Department to allow visitors
to the campus first choice of seats.
The Department will be very grate”
ful if those students who intend to
be present would let Miss Robbins
know by Friday, since arrange-
ments must be made.

Feng Will Discuss
Unification in China
Continued from Page 1

United States late in 1946, as chief
of the water conservation mission
of the Chinese Republic, making a
study of the TVA in order to draw
up similar plans for the Yangtze.
While he was on this mission, he
officially broke with the Chiang
government.

This opportunity to hear General
Feng is the initial step in a pro-
gram designed to bring the pro-
grams of the Foreign Policy Asso-



oa! to college campuses.



to see them. Don’t miss it! Come]: °: -

4 day.

Rive Book Room Exhibits
Nobel Diploma of Emily Balch

many books -on social, economic
and religious questions now on dis-
play in the Rare Book Room bear
witness to her unceasing activity
in this direction. At present Hon-
orary International President of
the Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom, Miss Balch
has had a long career in the civic
field. Delegate to the Internation-
al Congress of Women at The
Hague in 1915, she was later sent
by this group to work in Russia
and the Scandinavian countries.

On her return to America, Miss
Balch became Professor of Politic-
al Science at Wellesley College;
where she is now a Professor
Emeritus. Formerly on the. edi-
torial staff of “The Nation,” Miss
Balch has written many magazine
articles in addition to her numer-
ous books.

“Women at The Hague,” written
with Jane Addams and Alice Ham-
ilton, “Public Assistance to the
Poor in France,” “Our Slavic Fel-
low Citizens,” as well as a book of
poems published in ‘1941, are
among her works now on display.
Also on exhibit is “Occupied Hai-
ti, being the report of a commit-
tee of six disinterested Americans.
representing organizations exclu-
sively American, who, having per-

*hgonally..studied conditions in Haiti

in 1926, favor the restoration of
the Independence of the Negro Re-
public,” edited by Emily Balch.

“IT... could not and cannot ac-
cept the use of physical force as
in itself the criterion of right or
wrong,” wrote Miss Balch in the
1933 Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulle-
tin, and this earnest striving to-
ward peace is echoed in the most
recent item in the display, a letter
to the New York Herald Tribune
on March 28, 1948. Written by
Emily Greene Balch and three oth-
er women, this letter on America’s
role in the search for world peace
ends, ... “Not by competitive
armaments, universal military
training and war hysteria shall we
preserve our country. The
cry of the world is for bread and
peace and justice, and the nation
that answers that cry will save it-
self and others.”



Engagements

Amoret Chapman Bissell ’48
to

The Rev. Donald W. Mayberry

Joann Cohen ’48
to
Mark Melhado

Margaret ‘Beirne Waters ’50
to

Reginald Peter Rose







Price to Lecture

On Objective Ref.

Mr. H. H. Price, Wickham Pro-
fessor of Philosophy at Balliol
College, Oxford University, will
speak this Thursday evening in the
Common Room at 8:30. Mr. Price
is currently delivering a series of
lectures at Princeton University
which are very popular with the
Graduate School and the Institute
of Advanced Study. The title of
Mr. Price’s lecture here will be
“The Phenomenology of Objective
Reference”,

On Wednesday evening, April
21, Dr. Paul H. Shrecker, Visiting
Professor of Philosophy at Bryn
Mawr, will speak on “The Philoso-
phy of Civilization”, in the Com-
mon Room at 8:30.



Movie Stills

Stills from the movie “Bryn
Mawr” will be on display for
the remainder of this week
outside the Bookshop. They
will cost thirty-five cents each,
and can be ordered through Fri-
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Page Five



French Groups
Offer Credible,
Able ‘Voyageur’

unther Frankl Stars
‘As Amnesia Victim;
Good Support

by Betty-Bright Page °49

Roberts Hall, April 10.— The
French Clubs of Bryn Mawr and
Haverford gave a noteworthy per-
formance of Jean Anouilh’s play,
Le Voyageur Sans Bagage, not-
withstanding certain drawbacks in
respect to authentic French ac-
cents. In most cases, however, even
these were convincing to the audi-
ence.

Although Anouilh’s play is not
an outstanding drama by any
means, the entire cast communi-
cated with precision the mood of
the corhic-tragic situations reveal-
ed in the first four acts and the
farce in the last act. At times the
actors seemed a bit stiff and ill-at-
ease on the stage, but in this pro-
duction that &added to rather than
detracted from the effect as a
whole. The comedy was height-
ened if anything by the awkward-
ness and mechanical gestures of
the players, especially in the first
act.

Role of Gaston

The role of Gaston, the war vet-
eran who had amnesia and was
searching to find his family again,
was played consistently well by
Gunther Frankl. Although in the



Katharine Cornell and Gertrude Macy
Lunch and Give Informal Press Interview

Continued from Page 1

Miss Cornell felt equally bitter.
Miss Macy laughed and said that
Mr. Brown was an especial friend
of theirs (had we read what he
had to say about Antony and Cleo-
patra?) and that Miss Cornell did
feel the critics to be generally cap-
able, though she has been in con-
siderable disagreement with the
Times’ Mr. Atkinson this year.

However, Miss Cornell agrees
with Mr. Ferrer’s statements that
the theatre is a hard field to break
into. Miss Macy adds candidly
that of the 90 per cent unemployed
in the theatre, 85 per cent should
not be actors at all. She says that

an aspirant should try everything
else first and then, if she finds she

can’t be happy at all perhaps she
does belong in the theatre. Kath-
arine Cornell’s own success story is
something like this.

Miss Cornell is completely nat-
ural and charming. She seemed to
fear only two things: that she
might have to make a speech (“J’ll
talk to people until my voice
gives. out,” she said, “but some-
thing closes up inside me when I

find I might have to make a/

speech”); and that people’s glances
might be riveted to her gold-leafed
fingernails. | We found ourselves
riveted, indeed, but in a different
way: drawn by “Kit” Corneli’s per-
sonality, charm and ‘kindness. She
gives untiringly of herself to ev-
eryone; she is a great lady off—as
well as on—stage.



Credit Basis for
Summer Schools

Students contemplating summer
school work for which they wish
college credit should keep in mind
the basis on which transfer credit
is granted:

1) the institution must be in the
list of approved universities and



colleges, as issued by the Associa-
tion of American Universities;

2) the courses must be compar-
able to work given at Bryn Mawr |
College;

3) the courses must not repeat
or duplicate work offered for ad-
mission or taken at Bryn Mawr
College.

Hour-for-hour credit will be

given for acceptable courses taken

7 Colleges Discuss
Admissions, Speakers

Continued from Page 1
for Chapel and for Current Affairs
Assemblies, since it would widen
the range of people found to be
able lecturers.

The problem of discrimination
especially in regard to admissions
was discussed at length. It was
decided to deal with the problem
through the cooperation of the in-
dividual colleges with existing or-
ganizations such as NSA and
SCED. A third item on the agenda
was the centralizing of NSA ac-
tivities on the campus to prevent
duplication of effort and, at the
same time, to keep the NSA rep-
resentative in touch with all phases
of campus activity. A plan with
the delegate to the National Con-

first act, he appeared slightly blase, | at acceptable institutions; the in-| Vontion as the coordinator of all
his performance improved from stitution’s own evaluation of the NSA activities and supported by
there on to the end. He was espe-' semester-hour value of its course|‘"¢ Student Council (perhaps at

cially good in the last act, when his |

reactions were carefully tempered
to avoid the melodrama which could
$0 easily grip such a tense situa-
tion of despair and self-incrimina-
tion. The time Gaston slipped back
into his old personality of Jacques
Renaud in a violent argument with
his mother in the third act, he was
excellent.

Madame Renaud, played by Eliz-
abeth Grey, was evidently hindered
by her youth. She tended, as did
“Valentine,” to drop the ends of
her lines. In spite of this, she gave
a convincing performance of pain
and ‘rage in her third-act scene
with Gaston; in fact this scene was
one of the two high points of the
evening.

This act was on the whole the
weakest, but it was considerably
enlivened by the aforementioned
scene and by the pathetic wailings
of the maid Juliette, Katherine
Thenault. Katherine was com-
pletely without inhibitions on the
stage, and gave the part of the 30-
year-old coquette all the comedy it
could possibly contain. When she
recounted her past affair with Gas-
ton, the ignorance, pride and hu-
mor of Juliette dominated the
scene. And she made: the second
act of the play the most entertain-
ing of the evening.

Josephine Raskind, as La Duch-
esse Dupont-Dufort, was especially

good at the beginning of the play; |

however, she.seemed tired towards
the end and as a result her inter-
pretation of the role lagged in the
last act. Probably the most diffi-

Continued on Page 4





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will be taken. No credit will be
given for less than one-half unit
of work, or four semester hours.

To be sure that these three re-
quirements are met, the student
must consult the Dean concerning
the institution and her. plan of
summer work, and the ARecorder
concerning the hour-for-hour
credit. If the courses are in the
major—or-allied fields, or are to
meet Bryn Mawr requirements,
they must be specifically approved
in advance by the corresponding
department here. Forms called
“Approval for transfer credit” are
available in the Dean’s Office, and
must be filled out in detail and
signed by the Dean and the de-
partments, and turned in at the
Recorder’s Office.

It should be noted that courses
taken elsewhere which have re-
ceived a grade below C will not be
accepted for transfer credit.



Bryn Mawr occasionally meeting
with the Undergrad Council) was
favored instead of a separate NSA
committee.

Relief Drives

(Discussion of the policies of va-
rious campuses regarding Relief
Drives proved that the best results
were obtained through one or two
concerted drives at the beginning
and-end-of-each year rather than
numerous smaller drives scattered
throughout the year. The financial
problems of campus newspapers,
literary publications and yearbooks
were considered as well as the na-
ture and purpose of a college year-
book, whether it should be for and
written by all classes or only the
senior class. The representatives
of the Seven Colleges favored a
conference of yearbook editors in
the fall to discuss their mutual
problems.

Other topics covered in the dis-
Continued on Page 4



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Officers Named
By Organizations

The following Hall Presidents
have been elected for the coming
year:

Denbigh—Saily Loomis.

Merion—Miraed Peake.

Pem East—Randy Bell.

Pem West—Betsy Swope.

Rhoads—Nancy Corkran.

Rockefeller—Sue Kelley.

'Non-Res—Betty Abernethy.

The Undergraduate Board for
1948-49 includes:

Head of Freshman Week—Nan-
cy Martin.

Furniture
stone.

Employment Bureau — Franny
Putney.

Inn Represéntatives—Betty La-
nin, Eleanor Michaelsen.

Library Committee—Toni Mor-
ris.

Vocational Commitee—Jane El-
lis.

The Alliance Board for 1948-49
includes :

‘Publicity—Priscilla Johnson and
Pamela Wahl.”

Current Events—Jane Ellis.

I, R, C.—Ruth Metzger.

Industrial Group—Helen Finkel.

Secretaries—Margie Shaw and
Martha Barber.

The League Board for 1948-49
includes:

Blind School—Mary Lutley.

Summer Camp—Doris Blackman.

Haverford Community Center—
Dixie Greeley.

Maids’ and Porters’
—Betty-Bright Page.

(Publicity—Ann McIntyre, Jane
McIntyre.

Red Cross—Lucy Mahieu.

Soda Fountain—Sherry Cowgill,
Winnie Sexton (asst.).

The Self-Government Associa-
tion takes pleasure in announcing
the following elections:

Senior Member—Ally Lou Hack-
ney.

First Junior Member — Judy
Nicely.

Second Junior
Benua.

Second-—Sophomore
Ann Iglehart.

The Undergraduate Association
takes pleasure in announcing the
following elections:

Second Junior Member—Louise
Earle.

Sale—Mary Beetle-

Committee

Member—Ann

Member—



ra | :
Toynbee’s New Boook
Arnold J. Toynbee’s new book,
Civilization on Trial, will be on
order in the College Bookshop on
April 29, official publication date,
for $3.50.
Linguistics Magazine
Mr. Fritz Mezger, Professor of
Germanic Philology, has been in-
vited to be an editor of the Zeit-
schrift fur vergleichende Sprach-
forchung. Founded in 1852, this
is the leading journal in the field
of comparative Indogermanic lin-
guistics.
Announcements

Students are advised to make
their meal-time hall announce-
ments as short as possible, thus
insuring more attention to all an-
nouncements.

Guild Apprentices

The Drama Guild announces the
selection of the following girls ag
apprentice members: June Moyer
50, Lola Mary Egan ’51, Jane Rol-
ler 51, Mary Kay Lackritz ’51,
Mary Ausman ’51, Sue Kramer,
’b1, Claireve Grandjouan ’51, An-
ita Dittmar ’51, Cynthia Schwartz
51.

New Hymnals

The Chapel Committee rejoices
to announce that the new hymnals
with the words you know to the
tunes you know are now in usc.
We are very grateful to the
Trustees for the special appropria-
tion which made it possible to get
them.



Second Sophomore
Winnie Sexton.

The Athletic Association takes
pleasure in announcing the follow-
ing elections:

Vice-President—Jane Coleman.

Secretary—Sally Howells.

Junior Member—Sylvia Hayes.

Sophomore Member—Jane Stone.

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French Clubs Join
To Give Anouilh Play

Continued from Page 3

cult parts were portrayed by
Charles Melchoir, George Renaud,
and Hilary Gold, Valentine Renaud.
But they both gave more than ade-
quate performances in these parts.

Le Maitre d’hotel, Sol Blecker;
Maitre Huspar, Sperry Lea, Le
Chauffeur, George de Schweinitz,
le petit Garcon, Catherine Lord;
the valet, Dan Olivier; Maitre Pick-
wick, William Warner, and the
cook, Karen Cassard, all added to
the comedy of the play by their
good performances, although Karen
seemed to overact slightly in her
part.

The sets were simple but ex-
tremely well-handled interiors.
William Bishop, as stage manager,
may be congratulated along with
Mr. Whitworth and Phyllis Bolton
’49, the directors, on having done
an excellent job.



$10 REWARD for return of
khaki shorts worn by archaeolo-
gist in Freshman Show and not
seeh since, Left in dressing
room; not there next day. Last
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the Vogue Contest. Completion of
the four quizzes gives valuable ex-

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Anyone interested in newspapers,
magazines, any publication, adver-
tising agencies, stores, should en-
Vogue has connections with
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the first 100 contestants.

First Prize: Six months in Paris,
six months in New York—jobs on
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Honorable Mention Contestants:
Positions with other Conde Nast
publications.

For Next Year:

1. United Nations — Internes —
The United States may nominate
three internes. Knowledge of at
least one foreign language. One
chance in a million but, if you do
not apply, you have no chance at
all.

“2. San Diego County Civil Serv-
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No experience necessary. $172 a
month.

8. Foxcroft School, Middleburg,
Virginia—assistant in the Library
and in the English Department.

4. Institute of Living, Hartford,
Connecticut—Psychiatric aides. $90
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Washington—ty pists.

Mississippi Kiver Commission,
Vicksburg—typists. f
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
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7 Colleges Discuss
Admissions, Speakers

Continued from Page 3

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bonding or otherwise securing the
common treasurer, the hazing tra-
ditions on various campuses and
the methods for handling commun-

ity washing machines which many
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