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__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

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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
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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





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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.