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VOL. XLIII, NO. 21

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA.. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1947

, Copyright Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,

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B.M., Haverford
Present‘Ondine’
With Brilliance

Sparkling, Subtle Play
Scores Big Success
For Actors
by Katrina Thomas ’49

Goodhart, April 18. The cost of
tickets and a play in French seems
to frighten the Bryn Mawr theatre-
goer who will catch the Local to
Haverford in a minute’s notice to
see a Cap and Bells production in
English for ten cents. It is a shame
that these two factors had to re-
duce the audience of Ondine, given
jointly by the French Clubs of
Haverford and Bryn Mawr, to a
few French enthusiasts. Anyone
who likes theatre, no matter how
negligible his knowledge of French,
would have enjoyed Jean Girau-
doux’s charming fantasy.

The play, which was originally
adapted from a legend by Baron
Frederic de la Motte Fouque, a ro-
mantic German writer, in 1811 was
written in 1939. around a_ simple
theme, which concerns a _ mer-
maid who falls in love with a mor-
tal, a chevalier, betrothed to the
adopted daughter of the king and
queen. Ondine marries her lover,

is unfaithful they may kill him and
she will lose her memory. The sec-
ond act is somewhat contrived and
laborious because. Ondine, finding
ner husband unfaithful determines
to pretend that she was the first
to transgress, but the third be-

M. Schaefer Tells



comes clear again because the ac-
tion is dramatic in itself. It is dis-|
covered that Ondine still loves her
husband, who therefore must die,
and she, losing her memory, looks
Continued on Page: 2

Carnival Includes

Side-Show, Games

. Merion Green is due to take on
the atmosphere of a chapter from
“Mary Poppins,” on Saturday,
April the twenty-sixth. The Soph-
omore Class has planned the most
gala of carnivals, to last from two
til six. :

Nothing will be lacking in this
carnival. There will be fortune
telling, a fish pond, a shooting gal-
lery and a side show. The Sopho-
mores promise an exhibit of the
freaks of Bryn Mawr. (Goodness
knows what that means!) In ad-
dition to all this there will be pony
rides and lots of food.

An air of mystery surrounds ‘the
balloon man. He is guaranteed to
be one of the main attractions of
the afternoon, but the Sophomores
refuse to disclose his identity.

An exhibition of the art work
of the college will be up for sale.
If you care to.you may have your
portrait drawn by a talented mem-
ber of the class.

The proceeds of The Sophomore
Carnival will go to the Bryn Mawr
Drive. And by the way, there is
The Sopho-
more Carnival committee is head-
ed by Margo Vorys and includes:

Posters—Loomis.

Construction—Bell.

Prizes—Peake, Tatnall.

Food—Sunderland.
Publicity—Hinsdale. -
Acts—Eberstadt.,
Business—Martin.

Arts and Crafts—Platt.







Booths—La Grande.

t

Maids’, Porters’
Players Present

Chekhov, Glaspell

Who killed John Wright? Trifles,
one. of the two one-act plays to be
presented by the Maids and Por-
ters on Saturday, April 25, will
answer that question. The play,
written by Susan Glaspell, is a
whopping melodrama, full of sus-
pense from beginning to end. The
action, which takes place in the
kitchen of a farmhouse, is limited
to the conversation of the local gos-
sips, who reveal the identity of the
murdered as the play progresses.

Mr. Haley, a farmer, will be
played by Carl Smith; Mrs. Peters,
Pearl Edmunds; Mrs. Hale, Louise
Jones; Sheriff, Louis White; and
the County Attorney, Barbara Dra-
per.

The second of the two plays, The
Proposal, by Anton Chekhov, like-
wise takes place indoors, in the

living room of Tschubakov’s house, |

to be exact. It_is_a_comic-love-story
concerning a man, played by Louis

White, whose daughter, played by
Continued on Page 4

Alumnae Council

Seniors’ Opinions
Mary..Schaefer, elected by the

Senior Class to represent the Un- 8

dergraduate body at a meeting of
the Alumnae Association Council
in New York last week, spoke be-
fore the Council on the attitude
of the students toward the curricu-
lum at Bryn Mawr.

By means of a canvass of the
Senior (Class, she found that the
attitude toward the Liberal Arts
curriculum at Bryn Mawr differed
greatly» among departments. In
most fields'the advantage of a
small college is reflected by better
supervision, and greater inspira-
tion, resulting from smaller
classes and a better acquaintance
with the professors. There was
almost unanimous expression of
the feeling that the Philosophy re-
quirement is one of the most ma-



turing parts of the curriculum.
There are also many who strongly
feel that at least one semester of
history, political science, or an in-
tegrated course in social science
would be a worthwhile require-
ment. There were suggestions of
further additions to the curricu-
lum, the principal ones being in
the fields of creative writing, com-
perative religion, and drama.

On the other hand, the limitation

in scope of material produced by | \

requirements was observed. Some |
science majors, for example, indi-
cated that although they have ad-
vanced knowledge in their own
fields they would have appreciated
an opportunity for study in some
diversified fields. Some of these
science students attributed the lim-
itation to the four-course system.
In respect to the Comprehensiv:

system, the belief was pinto,
by majors in several departments,
that ‘their work overlaps earlier
study, and lacks integration. Among
the various departments many
students feel that “the time spent
on repetition “could be more profit-
ably delegated either to advanced

8 study im Seeegiaid "Or po ex-

ploratory study in an elective field”
Many Seniors had praise for the



‘non-curricular fields. They point-
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B. M. Students
Contribute Bills
To Model Conf.

Twenty-one Bryn Mawr students
attended the eleventh annual In-
tercollegiate Conference on Gov-
ernment held at Harrisburg, Penn-
sylvania, April 17-20. The meeting
was modeled on a state legislature

in which the various legislative,

commititees presented bills.

After committee meetings al!
day Friday in which bills present-
ed by the various colleges in Penn-
sylvania ‘were discussed, revised.
and acted upon, a plenary session
was held Saturday at which a
Speaker of the legislature was
elected. (Bryn Mawr was able to
secure passage of most of the bills
presented in committee,

These included an act to improve
housing conditions submitted by
Margaret Baish ’48, and Louise
Ringwalt ’47; a bill to prevent jur-
isdictional strikes, sponsored by
Olive Van Dyke ’47 and Betty Ann
Wortham ’47; and an over-all act
to improve educational facilities
written by Carol Baker ’48 and
Elizabeth Cameron ’48. A health
insurance plan suggested by Suz-
anne Bachner ’50, Jean Ellis ’49,
and Joan Polakoff ’47 together
with Haverford College andt the
University of Pennsylvania was
also passed by the assembly. Other
successful bills were presented by
Louise Earle ’50 and Jess Vorys
50; James Lawless ’49, Frances
Nafe ’48, and Shirley Wood ’48.
Jean Broadfoot. ’49, Grace Dilling-
ham ’49, Lucy Hoffman ’48, ‘Pamela
tillman 49 and Margo Vorys *49
also submitted acts.

Helen Poland ’47 attended the
conference as a member of the
Rules committee’ and Margaret
Baish served as Assistant Director
of the Colleges in the Southeastern
region of Pennsylvania.

Read to Discuss
Post-War Britain

Mr. Conyers Read, Professor of
English History at the University
of Pennsylvania and eminent au-
thority on Elizabethan England
and Modern British Imperialism,
will speak on Post-War. Britain at
Current Events, Monday, April 28.

Author of The Tudors and many
other books, Mr. Read headed the
British office of Strategic Seryices
during the war and has served on
the ‘Council of Foreign Relations
in Washington.



Engagement

Elizabeth-Hilbert Day, ’47, to
Dr. /Robert E. Forster, II.

CALENDAR

Friday, April 25
8:30 Goodhart. Maids’ and Por-
ters’ Plays: “Trifles” and “The
Proposal’,
11:00-1:00 Hayride.
Saturday, April 26
2:00-6:00 Merion Green. Soph-
omore Carnival.
11:00-1:00 Gym. Junior Prom.
Sunday, April 27
7:30 Music Room. Chapel, Rev.
Paul W. Hoon, “The Relation
of Religion to the Contempor-
ary World”.
Monday, April 28
8:00 Park. Dr. Morris Viteles,
“Psychology in Industry”.
Tuesday, April 29
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|. Movies. ree gene
Thursday, May 1
May Day.







Prom, Tea Diner.
Hayride Featured
As Week-End Fun

The coming weekend of April
25-27 promises to be replete with
entertainment. On Friday evening
the Maids and Porters, directed by
Helen Anderton and Penny Wes-
son, will present two one-act plays,
Trifles and The Proposal. To make
the evening complete, the Junior
Prom committee has planned a hay-
ride (from 11:00 to 1:00).

Presumably Saturday morning is
to be devoted to sleeping or walk-
ing, for in this crowded weekend
nothing has been scheduled for
Saturday until the Sophomore Car-
nival, from 2:00 until 6:00. At
that time Merion Green will fea-
ture all the usual carnival attrac-
tions with many novel additions:
pony rides, side shows (freaks of
Bryn Mawr), a barber shop quar-
tet, barkers, the usual strong man,
AIND food! Orders will be taken
for beer mugs with the Bryn Mawr
seal and, if requested, your name.

Tickets for the Rhoads-Pembroke
tea dance, to be held in Rhoads
from 4:00 until 6:00, may be pur-
chased from Betty Smith or Judy
Adams; price, $1.50. The Junior
Prom (with Larry Miller’s orches-

Continued on Page 3

Haverford, B. M.
Join to Produce

“The Male Animal’

Members of the Bryn Mawr Var-
sity Players and the Haverford
Cap and Bells will present The
Male Animal by Elliott Nugent and
James Thurber on May 2 and 8 at
Roberts Hall, Haverford. Curtain
time is 8:30.

The cast includes James Addams
as Tommy Turner; Henry Duorner,:
Joe Ferguson; Henry Levinson, Ed
Veker; and Robert Parke, John
Hauser. Sandol Stoddard will play
Ellen Turner; Sally McIntyre, Pa-
tricia Stanley; Gale Minton, Cleo-
ta; Ann Eberstadt, Blanche Da-
mon; and Shirley Winter, Myrtle
Veker Frederick Thon of the
Bryn Mawr English department
has directed the production and
sets were designed by (William
Bishop and Dave Buttrick.

The Male Animal is the story of
an erratic college professor in a
small university town. Tickets
will be on sale Monday, Wednesday
and Friday from 1:30 to 2:00 in the
Publicity Office.

Wellesz Will Talk

On Recent Music

“The Origin of Modern Music”
will be discussed by Dr. Egon Jo-
seph Wellesz, professor of History
of Music at the University of Ox-
ford, on Thursday, May 1, at 8:30,
in the Music Room. Dr. Wellesz
will have a variety of records to
illustrate his lecture.

Dr. Wellesz’s special interest is
in Byzantine music and he is the
author of many books on the sub-
ject. He also is a composer in his
own right, having written cham-
ber music, songs and operas, such

-las “Die Prinzessin Girnara.”

_ He received hig, P>..D..from. the
University of Vienna, where he

was professor of..musicgfor many

years. Dr. Weuies' been lec-
turing at Oxford since 1940 and
also is a member of the Interna-
tional Music Society.



Directors Vote

Salary Increase
To B.M. Faculty

$80,000 Appropriated
For First Raise

In 27 Years

The first increase in the scale of
Bryn Mawr faculty salaries in
twenty-seven years was voted by
the Board of Directors on ‘March
20. Acting quickly because the
members of the faculty were in-
creasingly hard pressed, the Board
voted the full increase to be made
possible through the Bryn Mawr
Fund 1946—.

That increase will be about 33%
on the average in the lower brac-
kets and 23% in the upper brac-
kets. It means an $80,000 a year
addition to the budget of faculty
salaries. Approximately $30,000
of this amount should come from
interest on the $1,000,000 endow-
ment to be established through the
Fund and $50,000 from the sum of
$500,000 raised for expenditure
over a period of years. Scholar-
ships, expenses and special aca-
demic projects are to be carried
by the remaining $500,000.

“The 1947 scale is a great step
forward for Bryn Mawr,” states
President McBride. “Fortunately,
with the Fund on its way, action
could be taken this year. The pres-
ent faculty will find the increases
substantial; new appointments will
become possible as they have not
been. for some years. The College
is grateful to the Board for its de-
cision, to the alumnae for their
great service in undertaking the
Bryn Mawr Fund 1946—.”

Tiger Team Wins

In Labor Debate

Logical, sustained arguments
characterized the ‘Princeton vs.
Bryn Mawr debate in Rhoads show-
case last Wednesday evening, April
16. Resolved: That Labor Should
Have a Direct Share in the Man-
agement of Industry was support-
ed by Sylvia Good ’60 and Marjorie

_| Low ’50 of the Debating Club, rep-

resenting Bryn Mawr on the affir-
mative. John Scott and Jim Sco-
bie took the negative stand of
Princeton.

Sylvia Good opened the debate
by promoting a plan whereby La-
bor would have a direct share in
management without any interme-
diary. The plan proposed that an
Executive Committe be chosen by
the Board of Directors of the com-
pany. Because Labor, she felt, is
qualified to state his own needs and
case, it would be represented as
well as management on this com-
mittee. This committee would then
have power to formulate the pol-
icies and production of the com-
pany. She made it clear that the
affirmative did not advocate Labor
ewning stock or ‘sitting on the
Board, but that Labor would have
equality on an Executive Commit-
tee. :

John Scott began the argument
for the negative by elaborating on
three fundamental points. First,
there is no real need, he said, for.
Labor sharing directly in manage-
ment. Hé felt that giving Labor
such = fpbiget to the
basic causes of strikes, since Labor.



concilable forces”. Secondly, he
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Current Events

Common Room, April 21. The
present stage of the United States’
policy toward China is “an interim
period in which we’ve completely
discarded one policy, and the evol-
utionsof another is not yet appar-
ent” “stated Miss Caroline Robbins
in a discussion of the present sit-
uation in» China. Miss Robbins
drew a parallel between the Amer-
ican attitude toward China and
that of the British in Greece. In
both cases the larger nation has
“backed one party so strongly that
those in the middle got rather a
raw deal.” Our policy, while cer-
tainly not ruthless, has been' one
of self-interest. ©

There are in China at the pres-
| ent time three chief political
| groups, Miss Robbins stated. The
first of these is the National Gov-
ernment of the Republic of China,
headed by Chiang Kai Shek, which
is the best known and the one
which has received American sup-

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Louise Ervin, °49 Katrina THomas, ’49
HELEN, Martin, °49, Sports

Editorial Staff

BARBARA ZIEGLER, 748
JupirH Da Sriva, *49
Jean EL us, ’49
MARIAN EDWARDS, 750
CECELIA MaccaBE, ’50°

HELEN Hate, *49
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Betry Dempwotr, ’50 port. This group which is consid-
Photegrapher ered largely reactionary, has failed

} fit

RosaMonp Kane, ’48 | to push platforms for the beneti
of the poor in China as far as might

Business Board have been expected. There is also

a middle party, the League for
Political Democracy, made up of
tradespeople, professors, and town
dwellers, which has not yet achiev-
ed very much political or military
-|power. And the third is the Com-
munist party, a Marxist group lo-
cated chiefly in the northern part
of the country, which has attempt-.
ed improvements in-land-and-edu-
cation for the benefit of China’s
peasants.

Miss Robbins went on to di¥éuss
the policy of the United States
with regard to the two major Chin-
ese parties in the past. When Still-
well was negotiating with Chiang
Enterted as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Post Office ~ Kai Shek he attempted to make a

Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912 . ||| union of the two parties a condi-

eee -4¥\tion of Chinese aid, and thus suc-

ceeded in antagonizing the Chin-
The First Step

ese so completely that they asked
for his recall. His successor, Hur-
ley, went all-out for Chiang Kai

The recent appropriation by the Board of Directors to|Shek’s government. Finally, in
raise faculty salaries by $80,000 per annum is a recognition| 16 General Marshall tried to
of the valuable contribution of our faculty to Bryn Mawr and| "ms about an understanding’ be-
to the intellectual world in general. In a wider sense it is an So ee ya

: ence. At first it seemed as though
encouraging step toward the necessary establishment of the|he were going to succeed, but soon
teacher in the position in modern society which his abilities| the old suspicions and antagonisms
truly merit. The Board of Directors is to be commended for|'S* again and the whole affair
its prompt action. ended in failure. As a result of

‘ As undergraduates we have all realized that the teach- rien —: : ie ee —
‘ ’ policy in China is really no policy
ing profession is grossly underpaid. “Crossroads’’, the Drive|at all. One thing is certain, how-
Publication, for April says, “A Bryn Mawr instructor receives|ever—the period of extraordinary
less than a Civil Service P-1 (the lowest professional rating) | American optimism about’ China
or a production worker in any one of 25 typical manufactur-| "#8 °°me *° an end.
ing industries. An assistant professor, whose salary may be
from $2300 to $3400 a year, makes about $120 less than the
average bus driver in Washington, D.C. The average week-
ly salary of an associate professor is about the same as that
of a New York truck trailer driver.”

But perhaps we are not all aware of a particular reason
for increases in teaching salaries at Bryn Mawr. The college
has always felt that adequate time and resources must be
available to its faculty to enable them to pursue. independent
lines of study apart from their specific academic programs.
Thus, such advances as the discovery of a new chemical com-
pounds, the writing of a new book on democracy, or the de-
velopment of a philosophical theory are made possible.

This is doubly valuable. The ideas gained enrich both

‘the material presented in our courses and the personal stud-
ent-teacher contacts. But beyond this, the faculty are con-
tributing to the progress of society as a whole.

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Liberal Arts Needs
Stressed by Seniors
Continued from Pare 1
ed out the value of the Junior year
abroad, not only for language ma-
jors, but also for the sense of per-
spective it would give majors in
any of the social sciences. They
consider the extra curricular activ-
ities in general, no matter how
minor, very good experience and
training.
-‘Most of the Seniors expressed a
regard for the high quality of the
professors, and a hope that, with
the war over, it will be possible for
the best professors to stay, and
that when vacancies do occur there
will be enough money to “attract
replacements of equal caliber”.
Mary summarized the general
opinion of the Senior Class by the
following statement: “Although
there are some dissenters, the ma-
jority of Seniors feel that after
four years at Bryn Mawr they have
learned the method and habit of
critical analysis. However, many
seniors suggested that there should
be some growth in the attitude
concerning the Liberal Arts pro-

A Job for Everyone!

General student interest and cooperation in some of the

more humdrum tasks in connection with the Drive is sorely
lacking. Repeated requests have been made for volunteers
to work in the office of the Deanery at such menial yet essen-
tial jobs as stuffing envelopes. While certain individuals have






‘there-are others who could do thei v- ay SRS e ee Ss Kemet Shoals aint
eacatssviniecaneonie Gs er ee al end, but}.
= fu an ocasonal boo their ee re sll that with it should be- caeited
attractive but equally impor tan phase over a consciousness of moral respon-

_ Project. | \ sibility.” 5

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Toynbee Wishes Luck
To Alumnae Drive
In “Crossroads”’

Professor Arnold J. Toynbee,
author of A ‘Study of History and
this year’s Mary Flexner Lecturer,
has contributed the following
statement to the current issue of
“Bryn Mawr-Crossroads,” the pub-
lication of the Bryn Mawr College
Fund 1946—: :

“Bryn Mawr College is a home
of intellectual life and learning.
Ever since its foundation, there
have always been distinguished
scholars on its faculty whose pub-

their fellow scholars all over the
world. This is the intellectual at-
mosphere of Bryn Mawr and the
‘undergraduates as well as the post-
graduate students benefit by it.
Personal relations happily count
for much in a community that has
resisted the temptation of grow-
ing, as it could easily do, to an
unmanageable size. It is a covet-
ed privilege to become a member
of the student body and members
of the faculty, once appointed, are
apt to stay, on account of the fa-
vorable conditions of life and work
that Bryn Mawr knows how to
offer to scholars.

“T have recently been delivering
a course of lectures at Bryn Mawr
and my wife and I have been liv-
ing at the Deanery and seeing
something of the life of the Col-
lege at first hand. What strikes
a visitor at once and remains his
permanent impression, is that the
special characteristics of Bryn
Mawr are something rare and pre-
cious, which ought to be preserved.
To preserve them in a world that
has been turned upside down by
the war, the College needs a very
substantial increase in its financial
resources. I do hope that its mer-
its will win it the support that it
deserves.

Arnold J. Toynbee.”
April 8, 1947.

Princeton Defeats

B. M. Debating Team

Continued from Page 1
\

stated the evils coming from this
sharing, not only to Labor and In-
dustry, but to the consumer. Quot-
ing from Murray and Green, he
proved that Labor did not want a
share, and moreover, Management
doesn’t want him to have that
share. Since Labor’ represents
power without responsibility, it
doesn’t take a long range. view-
point, he said. Confusion would
result from this attempt of both
forces to understand the others’
problems.

The next speaker for the affirm-
atiev, Marjorie Low, gave a force-
ful speech on the direct, share of
Labor in industry as a means of
improving collective bargaining.
She brought out that Labor, in or-
der to get its needed support, has
had to build itself up on antagon-
ism against management. Through
the Executive Committee, proposed
by the affirmative, Labor would
not have a chance to criticize man-
agement, since Labor would be
part of the management. Hence,
production, employment and effic-
iency would be increased. Labor,
she said, by sharing in manage-
ment, will also gain its self-respect.

Jim Scobie, on the negative, re-
peated that a direct share is not
the solution to the problem. He
said that the plan of the affirmative
lacked practicality. Lack of effic-
iency, destruction of free enter-
prise, and a “blurring” of responsi-
bilities -would result front it.” Th
negative believed’ that collective
ive,
that the ‘basic issue can be solved
only by makirtg Labor legally re-

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sponsible for its contracts.

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lished work has-been prized by’

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Poor Student Support
At Current Events
Protested

To the Editor,

A direct concern not only to the
Alliance, but also to all students
at Bryn Mawr, should be the poor
attendance at Current Events this
semester. Here is offered every
Monday night a chance for> the
“ivory towered” to diseuss and hear
problems affecting us all—vital
problems that must be solved dur-
ing our mature lives. It is a dis-
grace, an inexcusable embarrass-
ment, to have authorities on cur-
rent political, social and economic
problems devote their time only to
speak to such small groups of. in-
terested people out of a college of
700: The Alliance feels that your
immediate attention must be called
to this lack of attendance.

Conyers Read, as the ranking
member of the History Depart-
ment at the University of (Pennsyl-
vania will speak in Current Events
next Monday night, April 28, on
Post-War Britain and her Empire.
Many of us are acquainted with
Dr. Read’s books, since they have
been used by our own History De-
partment. He is the leading au-
thority on the British Empire, es-
pecially on the Elizabethan. reign
and the foreign policy of that per-
iod, :

During the war, Dr. Read was a
director of the British Research
Division of the OSS, and was in-
strumental in securing jobs in it
for Bryn Mawr graduates. He has
returned to his teaching at the
University of Pennsylvania now,
and we are most fortunate in this
opportunity of hearing him speak
on Britain, the country to which
he has devoted most of his stud-
ies. If we are to have’ a man of
his eminence and’-others like him
speak at ‘Current Events at Bryn
Mawr, we must have your interest,
we must have your co-operation—
we must have a good turnout!

Leila_Dean- Jackson 748
Marion Edwards ’50

B. M. and Haverford
Produce ‘‘Ondine’’

Continued from Page 1

upon the dead chevalier and sighs:
“Comme c’est dommage! Comme
je l’aurais aime!” \ Giraudoux, who
advocates a return to the literary
theatre, embroiders on this theme
to produce a masterpiece which
was acted by the French clubs with
full recognition of its value.

The blonde, fifteen-year-old mer-
maid, Ondine, was played by Dor-
een Hurwitz with the naive ,naturak
grace which the part demanded.
Her rather high, but too often flat
voice made her truly of another
world, incompatible with the ec-
centricities of society. The three
shimmering mermaids with their
high vibrant voices carried out this.
mysterious quality. ,

The part of the chevalier was
played to its utmost by Bernard
Barrat, although he had a ten-
dency to push it too far, verging
on melodrama. However, he acted
the love scen
consciousness that I have yet seen
on the Bryn Mawr stage.

‘Claude Namy, as the fisherman
and Martine Rouchaud, as his wife
gave remarkably sustained per-
formances. The _ inexhaustable
Claude was a riot on the stage, and

virtually threw every limb into
Continued on Page 4

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Errata

The News calls attention to
the following errors in last
) -week’s issue: page’ one, Miss
2 was incorrectly reported

slyaizd” ; on page three *~
aa Ison, chairman of the |
Maids and Porters Committee,
was listed as “Jane Helson”.

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E COLLEGE NEWS

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Maids’, Porters’ Show Features
“Who-Done-It’ and Chekhov Play

By Betty Bright Page, ’49

“I’m portraying horror,” ex-
plains one member of the cast as
the rehearsal of the Maids’ and
Porters’ one-act thriller, Trifles,
gets under way. With the Good-
hart cat meandering in and out
among the flats, there is indeed an
air of the eerie. By means of a

»Canary’s broken neck the audience
learns the identity of the murder-
er, who escapes even the eyes of
the wary sheriff, played by Louis,



Tea Dance, Hayride
And.Prom Featured

Continued from Page 1

tra) begins at 9:30 and will last
until 2:00, but there should be time
in between tea-dance and prom for
dinner at the Chatterbox, Greek’s,
or Hearth: don’t forget to mention
Bryn Mawr and secure 5% of your
bill for the drive. (And if you're
one of those lucky ones who wil!
have flowers for the evening, Con-
nelly’s Flower. Shop and Jeanette’s
are both cooperating with our 5%
canipaign).

Mary Levin is planning the Sun-
day picnic, destination as yet un+
determined, on behalf of Merion.
There is room for about 75 peo-
ple, so non-Merionites should con-
tact her for reservations.

Faculty Triumph
In Baseball, 26-8

The faculty, aided’ by Bryn
Mawr’s co-eds, trimmed the stu-
dents once again to the exceeding-
ly final score of 26-8, on Sunday,
on the baseball field. It was a
free day for the men at the bases;
prolific batting and base-stealing
brought the faculty score high
early in the game. Peggy Shiney
and Carol Seamans pitched for the
students and Bobbie Young, also
of the Denbigh contingent, made
exceptionally fine hits for the los-
ers, but the combination of male
students, faculty and a_ physical-
education major from Ursinus was
quick to tell on the score.

Bill Gilmartin’s playing helped
swing the balance considerably for
the faculty. The game was lent
an official flavor by the presence
of Mr. Gilmartin as umpire.





and the County Attorney, Barbara.
Although the Wright farmhouse
is to date still lacking a sink and
a stove (will someone please take
hote and produce same?), the cast
manages to take care of Mrs.
Wright’s preserves while she is
imprisoned. Louise and Pearl seem
to be experts on quilting, knotting
and bird cages.

But more than mystery is to be |
found in the Maids’ and Porters”
show this year. We have a double
feature, including also a love story,
although the lasting quality of
this love is somewhat doubtful.
The chronic hypochondria of Al,
Ivan in The Proposal, seems to an-
noy his betrothed, Jane, alias Nat-
alia. They cannot decide whose
land is the best, whose dogs are
the best, whose family is the best.
And even a fall from the Brooklyn
Bridge probably would not make
the course of love smoothly, if one
can judge from the hero’s near
death in the play.. The father,
Tsubachov, Louis, does not accom-
plish much in helping his daughter
along, but does manage his Rus-
sian extremely well.

Viteles to Explain

Industrial Psych.

Psychology in Industry will be
th subject of a lecture by Dr.
Morris Viteles, Professor of Psy-
chology at the University of Penn-
sylvania. The lecture is presented
by the Science Club and will be
held on Monday, April 28, at 8:00
o’clock, in Park Hall.

Dr. Viteles’ most extensive work
has .been in the field of industrial
psychology. He established the
Vocational Guidance Clinic at the
University of Pennsylvania and
was consultant and technical aide
to the U. S. Employment Service.

During the war, Dr. Viteles was
consultant to the National Defense
Research ‘Commission, and was a
member of the Applied Psychol-
ogy panel of the Commission. He
has written several books on psy-
chology, especially on its use in in-
dustry.





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been appointed student delegates



NEWS Elections

~,

The News takes pleasure in
announcing the following new
members to the Editorial Staff:

Ann Greet ’50
Irina Nelidow ’50
Pat Nichol ’50

B. M. Delegates
ToAttend Forum

Bryn Mawr’s Indra Kirpalani
and Nancy Morehouse have just







to a College Forum on Soviet-
American relations at the Hotel
Commodore in New York City on
Saturday, April 26.

The Forum, Mademoiselle’s
fourth, is undertaken by the maga-
zine in order “to clarify for the
college woman the greatest issue
of the post-war period—Soviet-
American relations.” It will be
attended by student delegates
from America’s leading Eastern,
Midwestern, Far Western and
Southern colleges, all outstanding
representafives of their schools,
all chosen on the basis of recom-
mendations made by their deans,
faculties and other student lead-
ers.

Journalists to Speak

Delegates will be addressed at
the Forum by some of the coun-
try’s leading authorities on inter-
national relations and by inter-
nationally known journalists and
foreign correspondents. They will
themselves participate in group
discussions of the issues involved.

The Forum, which begins at
9:45 A. M., and winds up at 5:30
P. M., will conclude with a student
panel representing five leading
colleges and reporting student ac-
tivities that bear on the subject
matter of the day.





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NOTICES

Swimming
The swimming team for the

‘coming year will be led by:

Captain, Lucia Ewing, ’50; Man-
ager, Kathy Geib, ’49; Ass’t. Man-
ager, Edie Rotch, ’50.

The following cups have been
awarded: uy

Non-varsity diving, Liz Willard;
Non-varsity swimming, Liz Wil-
lard; Varsity swimming, Darst
Hyatt. Class team, ’47 ( a record
set by winning it 4 years in a
row).

Cleaning Drive

The sum of $81.63 was collected
for the Fund by the Merion Clean-
ing Agency in its drive on campus
last week. The Committee wishes
to thank Mr. Ross for giving up
his 5 per cent profit and the vol-
unteers in the halls: for their co-
operation.

German Play

The Bryn Mawr and Haverford
German Clubs will present “Three
Farces,” by Hans Sachs, on Thurs-
day, April 24, at 8:30, in Union
Hall at Haverford.

Varsity Players
The Varsity Players Club takes
great pleasure in announcing the
election of the following new
members: Thalia Argyropoulo 49;
Ann Eberstadt ’49; Susan Feldman

"49; Sue Henderson ’49; Ellen
Harriman 7°48; Sandol Stoddard
48; Sheila Tatnall ’49; Emily

Townsend .’50.

May Day Breakfast

Seniors, Rhoads; Juniors, Rock;
Sophomores, Merion and Denbigh;
Freshmen, ‘Pembroke.

Elections

The Undergraduate Board takes
great pleasure in announcing the
election of the following people as
committee chairmen:

Employment Committee—Chris-
tel Kappes. Furniture Sales—Vera
Tozzer. Vocational Committee —
Nancy Martin. Chapel Committee
—Betts McClure. Library Com-
mittee—Cynthia Lovejoy.









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THE COLLEGE

NEWS



B. M., Haverford
Produce ‘‘Ondine”’

Continued from Page 2

the part. Martine was a marked
contrast with her quiet subtle wit.

Maxine Gordon was beautiful,
but not villainous nor magnificent
enough, as Bertha, the woman
whom the chevalier has always
loved, the foil of Ondine because
of her selfish human passions. The
audience therefore “found them-
selves in a strange position of be-
ing sympathetic to her, except for
a sole time when, finding that she
too is a changeling and the daugh-
ter of the fisherman, Bertha repud-
iates her real parents, shrinking
from their embrace.

The ominous king of the Ondins,
disguised at times as a magician,
was well acted by Charles Sinnick-
son, the only non-representative of
the two colleges. Clare Fahnestock
was a gorgeously regal queen, but
somewhat self-conscious on the
stage. The chamberlain was play-
ed by Daniel Olivier who success-
fully put over the obsequious court
dandy, and Fanita Revici was hu-
morously in her very small part.
However, on the whole, the sup-
porting cast, although they put
their utmost efforts into their
parts, were well distinguished by
their monotonous classroom-French
accents and their lack of spontane-

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To Lead Chapel

“The Relation of Religion to the
Contemporary World” is the topic
for the chapel talk to be given on
Sunday, April 27, by the Reverend
Paul Waitman Hoon, of the First.
Methodist Church in Germantown.
Dr. Hoon received his A. B. from
Yale, and his B. D. from the Union
Theological ‘Seminary.

He has also studied abroad, at
the University of Marburg, in Ger-
many, and at Cambridge Univer-
sity, in England.



ous French gesture.

The sets were simple, in keeping
with the basic simplicity of the
play, and the lighting was excel-
lent, particularly in the first and
third scenes. Van Horns’ costumes
were lavish.

To produce Ondine, which ran
for nearly three hours, was a mas-
sive undertaking. Many of the ac-
tors had never acted before, and
a few had only the most rudimen-
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Maids’, Porters’ Give
Glaspell, Chekhov

Continued from Page 1
Jane Harris, falls in love with the

next-door neighbor, Al Markey.
The only trouble with the other-
wise perfect love is that the three
do not get along at all. The en-
tire play is spent with their amus-
ing tangles on petty issues.

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