College news, May 10, 1950

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“lle College News



VOL. XLIV, NO. 23



ARDMORE and BRYN -MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1950

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1950

PRICE 15 CENTS



Victor Reuther

Evaluates Role
Of Labor Union

(Calls Economic Security
Requisite Factor
In Democracy

Tuesday, May 9, Victor G. Reu-
‘ther presented an address entitled,
Labor’s Role in an Industrial and
‘Political Democracy, at the fifth
Alliance Assembly of the year.

Mr. Reuther stressed the fact
that no economic group can isolate
itself in today’s world, and that,
therefore, we all ought to under-
stand labor because of the impact
it exerts, not only on our economy,
put on the character of our democ-
racy itself. ‘The days have gone
by, he said, when labor’s influence
-stops at the factory gates, and, as
a result, personal interest is vi-
tal concern.

Mr. Reuther said that misunder-
standings about labor have arisen
from the fact that many think la-
_bor’s primary concern is getting
more money, or raising its own
standard of living. Such, he ex-
plained, was labor’s purpose in the
beginning, but its scope has been
greatly enlarged. This has been
actuated by the realization that if
one group in a cemmunity is to
have economic security, then every
group must have it. As a result,
labor must now consider every-
thing on a new and higher level;
that is, the standard of living of
the whole community. For this
reason, labor’s main concern now
is to translate our production ca-
pacity into economic terms that
will fill the needs of all people as
individuals.

(Mr. Reuther explained that the
first half of the twentieth century
supplied the physical tools for
abundance and security, but we
still have the same basic human
problems as before. A large por-
tion of our society is still econom-
ically insecure, and thus our fail-
ing can be viewed as the inability
to translate our abundance into

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Arts Night: Drama, Dance, Music and Princeton
Exhibit Wide Range In Production Techniques

Original Compositions
Highlight Music
Program
by Frances Shirley, 53

Arts Night came, and with it
music of all kinds, ranging from
original ensemble compositions by
members of the orchestra to folk
songs sung with guitar accompan-
iment. The most important works
were of course the original pieces,
all written by Haverford students.

The first of these was an
“Adagio” for three violins and
’cello, written by Ted Handy. The
work seemed balanced, and at times
verged on the classical, while at

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NSA Conference
Stresses Duties

Of the Individual

On Saturday, April 29, the Bryn
Mawr National Students’ Associa-
tion was hostess to the Confer-
ence on Student Rights and Re-
sponsibilities of the’ Pennsylvania
Sub-Regional Unit of the U.S.-
N.S.A. The meeting began at 10
a.m. in the Goodhart Music Room
with a welcoming speech by Lita
Hahn, head of the B.M.C. Hostess
Committee. Roger Feldman of
Swarthmore, who then took charge
of the meeting, introduced Ralph
Smith, National Public Relations
Director of N.S.A. In his key-
note address, Mr. Smith raised the
question of N.S.A. policy toward
students’ rights and responsibili-
ties, stressing the place of N.S.A.
on the campus. He pointed out that
the student has a right to make
the decisions on problems concern-
ing his own education; the issue in
doubt is whether N.S.A. can fulfill
its purposes in the changing stud-
ent community, whose population
is now younger than it was when
N.S.A. was founded by veterans a
few years ago.

To the group of representatives
from many colleges in this area,



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UA W Policy Maker Emphasizes
International Labor Cooperation

by Joanna Semel, ’52

Acknowledged policy maker for
the powerful United Auto Work-
ers branch of the CLO, 38-year-old
Victor Reuther is the ‘intellectual’
of the labor leading triumvirate.
The three Reuther brothers, Wal-
ter, Victor, and Roy, are anti-
communistic, hard-fighting trade
unionists, whose byword is “a de-
mand for human equality, for the
end of the double standard”. The
Reuthers have a tradition of union
workers behind them. At 23 their
father was a candidate for Con-
gress on the Socialist party ticket;
even before that, grandfather Reu-
ther was one of the original or-
ganizers of the United Brewery
Workers. When Victor went to
Detroit to join his older brother
at work in the Ford plant, his in-
terest in labor’s right was already
evident. For a while the brothers
continued studying at Wayne Uni-
versity, at the same time holding
down regular, jobs with the Ford
Company. Then they took off for
Europe on bicycles in 1983.

Now Victor is Educational Di-



rector of the UAW, planning co-
operative housing ventures, chains
of summer schools, a film division,
adult classes, working on interna-
tional labor cooperation, and Wal-
ter has been reelected to the pres-
idency of the UAW.

Co-chairman of the Anglo-
American Council on Productivity,
Victor Reuther had just returned
from overseas before his speech at
Bryn Mawr. He comments on the
international situation of labor
groups:

“The ILO is useful, of course,
but the most exciting development
at present is the founding of the
International Confederation of La-
bor in London which I attended.
This confederation aims at econ-
omic integration as the way to
better labor relations. From what
I saw, I’m all for the Marshall
Plan and BOA, although in many
instances the benefits of it have
not yet been translated into actual
performance.”

(New joint’ labor-management
committees established in the state

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5



Haverford, Princeton
Produce Varied
Dramas
by Paula Strawhecker, °52

This year’s Arts Night was dra-
matically disappointing. Haverford
was represented by two original
one-act plays; Bryn Mawr not at
all.

The program opened with The
Changing of the Guard, by Robert
deP. Brown. This play of World
War II concerned an incident at a
guard post in France: a father,
killed in action in the first war,
revisits the scene of his death and
speaks with one of his son’s friends.
The purpose of Mr. Brown’s play
is difficult to determine; mood,
suspense, message, and occasional-
ly, an attempt at drama were alter-
nately predominant. “Mood” was
created by the almost bare blue-lit
stage and a wind that obligingly
moaned on cue. The suspense con-
sistedly mainly of young private
Conway’s suspicions that the ghost
was only his imagination. Mr.

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Athletic Honors
Presented by AA
At Award Night”

On Wednesday evening, May 3,
the Bryn Mawr Athletic Associa-
tion held its annual Award Night.
Anne Newbold, outgoing A.A. pres-
ident, reviewed the athletic results
of the past year, starting with last
Spring’s lacrosse. She briefly dis-
cussed the A.A. in general and
then the prizes were awarded.

For the first time in several
years, cups were presented. The
Over-all Cup for Class sports was
won by the Senior Class; the Bas-
ketball cup went to the Sopho-
mores; and Rhoads Hall won the
plaque for Hall Sports.

The individual awards were, as
always, the important event of the
evening. Felt owls are given to
the students with 1000 points; pins
to those with 2500 points; and
white blazers to those with 4000
points. Athletic points are given
for being on various varsity and

‘ Class teams; they are accumulated,

and carry over from year to year.
The awards were as follows:
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CALENDAR

Wednesday, May 10

Dance Club repeat of per-
' formance on Arts Night, Good-
hart, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 11

Science Club Lecture, Dr.
Henry Yeagley, “A Proposed
Physical Basis of Bird Naviga-
tion,” Biology Lecture Room,
Dalton, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 13.

Fullerton Club Celebration in
honor of Descartes, Geology
Lecture Room, Park, 2:00 p.m.
and Deanery, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 14

Evening Chapel, the Reverend
James T. Cleland, Professor of
Religion, Divinity School, Duke
University, Music Room, 7:15
p.m.

Wednesday, May 17

Morning Assembly, Dean Lily
Ross Taylor, “Opportunities for
Study Abroad,” Goodhart, 8:45
a.m.











Dancers Show Originality

In Interpreting
Eliot Poem

by Jane Augustine, ’52

The Bryn Mawr Dance Club pre-
sented three dances in the Arts
Night program — the impression-
istic Rhapsody on a Windy Night,
and then two shorter dances, one
comic, one serious. This order was
probably not the best. The piece
de resistance should not have been
the first number to burst forth
upon an audience largely unused
to modern dance and therefore un-
prepared to attempt an understand-
ing of such a complicated dance.
Perhaps the dances should have
been put in different order, or even
interspersed throughout the pro-
gram.

Of the two shorter dances Death
of a Marienette was the better, but
also the easier to do because its
comic nature gave the dancers a
margin for error. One of the kind-
est things comedy can do in any
art is enable the artist to laugh off
his mistakes as if he had intended
them. Comedy, like a coat of paint,
may or may not cover a multitude
of sins. The failure of the phono-
graph, which was of course not
Seta Mahakian’s fault, was cover-
ed up delightfully by her. She
cleverly managed not to let it des-
troy the mood of the dance.

Death of a Marionette was very
well done in its consistently light
yet interesting interpretation. It
was intended to parody a Punch
and Judy puppet show; often the
gestures were loose and curving
like those of a puppet-doll on the
hand operated from beneath the
stage. Other times the gestures
were stiff and angular like those
of a marionette run by wires from
above the stage. If there was any
inconsistency in making a mar-
ionette behave like a puppet, no
body worried about it while the

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Club to Present

Descartes Forum

The Fullerton Club will hold a
tercentenary celebration in honor
of Descartes on May 13. The af-
ternoon session from 2:00 to 5:00
p. m. will be in the Geology Lec-
ture Room, Park Hall, on the gen-
eral subject of “The Philosophy of
Science.” The guest speakers and
their subjects will be Professor
Albert Hofstadter of New York
University, “Explanation of Ne-
cessity”; Professor Karl Deutsch
of (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, “(Mechanism and Tel-
eology: Some Problems in Com-
munications Theory”; Professor
Ernest Nagel of Columbia Univer-
yity, “Mechanistic Explanation
and Organismic Biology.” The
evening session will be at 8:00
©. m. in the Deanery with an ad-
dress by Professor George Boas of
Johns Hopkins University, enti-
tled “Homage to Descartes.”

In connection with the program
of the Fullerton Club there will be
a special exhibition of rare and
unique books consisting principal-
ly of first editions of the works
of Descartes and of some of his
contemporaries in the rare book
room of the Library. The books
are loaned through the courtesy of
‘Dr. Paul Schrecker and will be on



exhibition during the month of
May.



‘Acting, Shading

Found Erratic
In Varsity Play

Becker and Jamison
Star in Comedy
By Saroyan
by Barbara Joelson, °52

William Saroyan’s The Beautiful
People, Bryn Mawr and Haverford’s
last dramatic production of the
year, was on the whole erratic. In
both the acting and the staging,
the very good alternated with the
mediocre, and sometimes the poor.

The two outstanding perform-
ances of the evening were those
of Myra Becker and Ted Jamison.
Myra played the part of a fifteen
year old boy, and was delightful to
watch. Her tone of voice, her ac-
tions, her expressions, and her
mannerisms made the characteriza-
tion of Owen Webster convincing
and believeable. She seemed not
only completely at ease on the
stage, but also very much at home
in the part she was playing. Her
casual way of climbing on the
furniture, moving around the room,
and dealing with the other actors
on the stage were extremely effec.
tive.

Ted Jamison, though he had a
smaller role, was fully as notable.
As William Prim, a vice-president,
his characterization was that of
an effeminate Mr. Milquetoast.
Never over-acting, and taking him-
self quite seriously, Jamison de-
served credit for some o¥ the most
humorous moments inthe play.
From his first word, “Oh,” (spoken
sadly and with the greatest dis-
appointment) his character was
established, to the pleasure and
amusement of the audience.

None of the other performances
measured up to these two. They
were the only people on the stage
who seemed to be aware of the
other actors at all times, and whose
reactions were always completely
in character. Helene Kramer was
quite disappointing. She seemed
awkward and ill at ease on the
stage and, though she was, con-
sistent in her portrayal of Saint
Agnes, it was not an interpreta-
tion that fitted in with the rest of
the play and the other actors. She
overplayed to a great extent and
failed to achieve the “light touch”

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All-EnglandPlayer
To Coach Hockey

Miss Margaret Lasbrey, home:
South Africa. This _ interesting
background is only part of the
story about the woman who' is to
coach hockey at Bryn Mawr next
fall. Miss Lasbrey, at present
teaching at Dartford College of
Physical Education, in Kent, Eng-
land, was recently selected to play
on the All-England Hockey Team
in the international matches. Her
mother is President of the South
African Hockey Association which
is hostess this year to the Triennial
meeting of the International Fed-
eration of Women’s Hockey Asso-
ciations. The United States is also
sending delegates and a team to
this.

Miss Lasbrey will be here only
during the hockey season, and will
return to South Africa after
November. ,


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Later Morning Assemblies

The attendance at Wednesday morning assemblies has
been growing gradually worse; at one time there were only

fifteen to twenty people in the audience.

The chief reason

for the lack of interest may be the early hour of the assem-

blies.

Those who do not get up for breakfast certainly can-

not be in Goodhart by 8:45, and even those who do find it
somewhat inconvenient. The difficulty is increased for those
who live fn the far halls, Radnor and Merion.

Another problem is that the lecturer does not enjoy ad-
dressing such a minute audience nor one which is half asleep ;
and he cannot speak as well under these circumstances. None
of those, however, who originally advocated the assemblies
now wants to see them become extinct.

A proposal. has been made for the possible solution of
the problem. By starting classes at 8:45 on Wednesdays, the

assemblies could be held at 11

:45, thus providing more stud-

ents with the opportunity and incentive to attend. It is be-
lieved that they would make use of the extra fifteen minutes
between classes to go to assembly.

‘There are nevertheless objections to this siiieestion,
The train schedule as it now stands might prevent the non-

‘residents from making their early classes on time, and since

classes at Haverford begin on the hour, it would be imposs-
ible for Haverford students to get to their intercollegiate
classes. But the danger of forgetting the Wednesday time
change would disappear with custom. The recommendation
seems practicable, however, in encouraging the attendance at

tradition.

assembly and in preventing the disappearance of our new

This is the first time that the above propemsl has been
submitted to the college as a whole. Any suggestions from the

student body and the faculty
News.

would be welcomed by the



Reuther Vehemently Defends Union Rights;
Looks Forward to Possible U.S. Labor Party

Continued from Page 1

of Israel hope to eliminate major
conflicts in industry. In Germany,
“a bad subversive force is grow-
ing, again largely subsidized by
employers.” The Communists have
lost ground in France, but unfor-
tunately have not been drawn as
yet into the swelling ranks of the
labor group. Worst of all, they
remain unattached. “In France to-
day there is no middle—only ex-
treme Left and deGaulists. The
Social Democratic party is on the
wane.” A brief stay in Italy ap-
parently convinced Mr. Reuther of
the. poverty and unemployment
rampant there. Land reforms have
been slow, and again, as in France,
the situation is one of extremes.

. “The trade union today is the

epliione of the Labor party in
gad ee et.



to an extent for the government,
the unions are more cautious about
using their economic strength to
protect their workers. But pres-
sure from many sides is healthy
for democracy.”

When questioned about politics’
place in labor unions, Mr. Reuther
replied, “There is not yet mature
political thinking in labor or the
average citizen. I hope the day
‘will come when we will have a La-
bor Party in the U. S.—but it
won’t happen soon. With the pres-
ent system, Labor
should have its own independent
political apparatus, then work
where it will have the most influ-
ence. A party should express a
given consistent. philosophy so
that people will have a clear
choice. I am for a unified party.”

Continued on rage 4

nino



Current Events

In the Common Room at 7:15
p. m. on Monday, May 8, Dr. Joshua
C. Hubbard of the Economics De-
partment discussed the Brannan
Plan. Dr. Hubbard spoke first about

the ridiculous situations, such as

the present potato surplus prob-
lem, into which present and former
agricultural policies have gotten
us. Since the Brannan Plan can
not be fully understood without a
review of these previous policies,
Dr. Hubbard outlined the earlier
counterparts of the present plan.
“Agricultural Policy” really began
in the nineteen-twenties under the
Hoover administration and contin-
ued under Roosevelt with the first
AAA, which was declared unconsti-
tutional, the second AAA, and the
CCC, or the Commodity Credit
Corporation.

The tremendous backlogs of non-
perishable foodstuffs held by the
CCC were liquidated by the emer-
gency needs of World War II. Dur-
ing the war, American agricultural
production increased 35%, which
made possible our supply of the
heavily increasing Allied demand.
Since the beginning of the post-
war period the problem of agri-
cultural surplus due to technologi-
cal development has been a vital
one. The Aiken Plan, approved by
the Eightieth Congress, was aimed
at alleviating this problem, but the
measure was halted by President
Truman. Because of the large farm
support received by the Democrats
in 1948, the President wanted a
stronger program. As a result, the
Brannan Plan was proposed.

This plan differs from former
agricultural programs in three
important points: farmers are to
be given parity incomes, a program
of government purchase of perish-
able goods is to be introduced, and
benefit payments are to be restrict-
ed to small and middle-sized farms.
Dr. Hubbard outlined the faults
of this plan, especially its imprac-
ticality in regard to determination
of the parity price scale by a mov-
ing ten year average. He said that
the plan is. meeting its greatest
opposition at present from the
farm bloc who are controlled prin-
cipally by the large-scale farmers.
In conclusion Dr. Hubbard said
that the good farm program
should be transitional, and the agri-
cultural system revised over a per-
iod of years.

College to Offer

Prizes for Hymn

‘A contest for original words and
music for a hymn will be open to
students, alumnae and faculty in
the College year 1950-1951. Two
prizes of $50.00 will be awarded,
one for the words and one for the
music selected.

Part I. Words should be submit-
ted by January 15, 1951. The win-
ning words will be printed in the
College News and the February
Alumnae Bulletin.

PART II. Musical setting fully
harmonized for the words chosen
by the judges should be submitted
by May 1, 1961.

Anyone wishing to submit both
words and music should submit
them by January 16. All contribu-
tions should be mailed to the De-
partment of Music, Bryn Mawr
College.

The judges reserve the right to
extend the contest if in their opin-
10n words and music submitted do
not meet the standards of dignity
and beauty which will make them
a continuing part of the Bryn
Mawr musica] traditions.

The contest is held under the
auspices of the College, the Alum-
nae Association., and the Under-
graduate Association. The judges
will be as follows: Robert L. Good-
ale, Music Department; K. Laur-
ence Stapleton, English Depart-
ment; Edith Finch, Alumnae As-
sociation; Eleanor Head Gunder-
sen, Students.



ere ee eee

Reuther Declares Views
On Future of U.S. Unions

Continued from Page 1 s

human terms. From now on, he
claimed, democratic societies will
be judged according to their abil-
ity to make this transition. If we
are unable to solve the threat of
insecurity in the face of unemploy-
ment, sickness, and catastrophies
then, he said, democracy has failed
in its most important responsibil-
ity. Mr. Reuther did not claim
that trade unions were the perfect
answer to this problem, but said
that no other elite group can claim
that it has the solution.

Mr. Reuther said trade unions
are now trying to match political
democracy with economic democ-
racy. The.resistance with which
they are being met is -not surpris-
ing, for they have faced this from
the beginning. Many people will
still not grant workers the right to
participate in the making of econ-
omic decisions which affect them.
Labor is now being guided by the
growing realization that real wag-
es count, not money wages. That
is, any wage increase which re-
sults in an increase in the price of
consumer products is of no benefit
to them. Further, Mr. Reuther
said that if a corporation can af-
ford to raise wages without rais-
ng consumer prices, it has a mor-
al obligation to do so.
1abor is working in a vacuum if it
eannot have access to the facts, to
know whether or not its claims are
justified.

(Mr. Reuther said that there will
soon be widespread unemployment
in the auto industry because man-
agement is pricing itself off the
market. As an illustration of these
extravagant profits, Mr. Reuther
said that in one year General Mo-
tors made more than six hundred
million dollars profit after taxa-
tion. Unless wealth is more even-
ly distributed, we are headed for
that inevitable merry-go-round of
boom and bust which has charac-
terized our. economy... To alleviate
this situation, labor needs a voice
in and influence on prices to main-
tain an equity among wages, pric-
es, and profits. Furthermore, Mr.
Reuther said this is also an im-

However,

|mediate necessity because democ-

racy is now on trial in the minds
and hearts of men all over the
world.

(Mr. Reuther said that at the
present time pensions are one of
the primary concerns of labor. Af-
ter fifteen years of trying to se-
cure legislation in Washington, la-
bor had recourse to collective bar-
gaining. However, labor experi-
enced a unique moment when, as
Ford agreed to a pension fund on
a non-contributory basis, capital-
ist lobbies in Washington started
advocating larger social security
payments, so that less would be
drawn out of the company fund.
He added that millions as a result
have benefited from their action.
Even though they have had some
success with pension plans, their
objective is still a comprehensive
law enacted by the goverment.

Though many of labor’s actions
(e. g. strikes), have been costly,
they must continue. Mr. Reuther
said that the trouble is that we
don’t have the courage to face the
problem and call it an obligation
of democracy. We must take our
narrow definition of democracy
down from its ivory tower, broad-
en it, and put it to work.

Trade unions, Mr. Reuther said,
do not want to take full responsi-
bility in these economic issues, but

they do want to share it. He con-|

cluded by saying that, though we
fought a war with ideas, we did
not settle the big issues. We must
take our lofty ideas and relate
them to our abilities and potential-
ities,



Haverford | Compositions:
Offered at Arts Night

Continued from Page 1

other moments it was not unpleas-
antly dissonant. The violinists,
Annette Fischer, Martha Heath,,.
and Nabil Totah, and ’cellist Al
Clayton certainly played it well,.
with a good, rich tone, and the-
contrapunal passages stood out and
were quite clear.

A little less successful was Larry
Gushee’s “Trio” for violin, clari-
net, and ’cello. Perhaps the best
part was the introduction, which
was repeated later in the piece,
and had an oriental flavor. The.
actual performance was commend--.
able, with the composer doing the-
clarinet work, and Annette Fischer
playing the violin.

The hardest of all the pieces to
which to listen was John Davison’s
“Tuba and Trumpet Duet,” which
was strangely balanced, to say the
least. The tuba seemed too heavy-
most of the time, and the trumpet.
passages sounded out of place.
What success the piece achieved
was due mostly to the piano ac-
companiment, wnich heid up the

rhythmic structure, and united the
whole work. Don McCargey and.
Joe Dibble played the trumpet and
tuba parts respectively, and John
Davison gave a very good accom-.
paniment.

Al Clayton’s “’Cello Sonata’”
was a pleasant change, with its.
good balanc@, lovely accompani-
ment, which was really as impor-
tant as the ’cello part, and impro-.
vised cadenzas. The sonata was
not overly dissonant, and Clayton
and Davison played it beautifully, |
with good technique and tone. The:
work was in many senses the high.
point of the program.

The closing selection was another.
composition by John Davison, 2
“Clarinet and Piano Duet.” This:
time, however, there was a good
balance between the instruments,
even though the piano part was
most important. It was light, short,
and excellently played by the com-.
poser and Larry Gushee.

The other original music in the
program was Sperry Lea’s accom-
paniment to the Dance Club’s
“Rhapsody on a Windy Night,” to
the poem of T. S. Eliot. The music
suited the mood of the poem per-
fectly, and parts were particularly
effective when played by plucking
the strings of the piano.

A guitar interlude by Eula Har-
mon and Laura Knipe showed a
third side of this varied display of
musical talents. The songs were
humorous ballads, including “Im
Going Down the Road Feelin’ Bad”
and several others, and provided
relief after the opening play.

All in all, the music of Arts
Night was rewarding, and certainly-
showed a diversity of talents in
performance and composition.

AA Grants Class Gaal
And Individual wards

Continued from Page 1

Blazers: Class of ’50—Greene-
walt, Hayes, Newbold, Shaw, E.
Townsend. Class of °51 — S.
Howells, Iglehart, Savage, Stone.

Pins: Class of ’50—Abell, Chown-
ing, Dempwolf, Lauderdale, Ras-.
kind, Wood. Class of ’51— Bacon,
Bennett, Blackwood, Blankarn,.
Parker, Wallace, Woodworth. Class
of 52 — Cadwalader, Partridge,
Perkins. 3
’ Owls: Class of ’50—M. S. Christ,
Mutch, Rau. Class of ’51—Brodie,
Littlefield, Piwosky, L.L. Warren,
Williams. Class of ’52—Atherton,
Austin, Chambers, Cohen, Dean,
Dillon, Hennessey, Herrman, Johns,
Johnson, Klein, Laidlaw, Marks,
McIlroy, Mulligan, Simpson, War-
— Kimball, McCuaig, McCulloch,
Reigle, Simmons, Tilghman, Voor-





his.






Wednesday, May 10, 1950



THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Geologists Shoulder Maps, Picks;
Learn Pennsylvania’s Rocky Past

by Frances Shirley, "53

Peter may have forgotten to
bring the fig newtons, but Bryn
Mawr was well supplied with food
so we started anyway with a brave
few waving to us as our bulging
buses lumbered up Merion Avenue.
The more blase_ started card
games; the conscientious toyed
with their little picks and wonder-
ed if the fog was ever going to
lift. It didn’t, though, for this
was the rainy day; sun and wind
would come later.

The said the rock was Triassic,
and who were we to question such
pearls of wisdom? We took copi-
ous notes and strained to see
ridges that Dr. Watson assured us
existed somewhere through the
mists. We tried to see the Dela-
ware Water Gap, too, but even
that geologic wonder had disap-
peared into the clouds.

The bears at the water gap were
closer at hand and seemed more
real, cooped up in their wire cages.
Still thinking of the glacial mor-
aine that had been pointed out in
the morning, one curious soul
asked: “Oh, is that a polar bear
left over from the Ice Age?”

“Yes,” was the reassuring ans-
wer, “only he drank Delaware
River water, and that’s why he’s
black now.”

‘We moved on. If there was a
resistant rock, we hacked at it—
if. there was a talus slope, we and
the talus slid down it—if there
was a higher piece of ground, or a
protruding rock, Dr. Watson and
his “learned colleague” stood on
it.

At the slate quarry, we huddled
in the rain and looked straight
down, then yushed indoors to beg
for samples. of shingles.

At six, or thereabouts, Strouds-
burg appeared at the bottom of a
hill. The people in the lobby were
in hats and print dresses. We had
sleep in our eyes; mud on our
jeans, and maps, rocks, and pen-
cils .dripping from our collecting
bags. We were learning about
geology! The elevator creaked,
the doormen scurried to haul in our
bags, and the buses disappeared,
while the desk clerk handed out
keys by the dozen and wrestled

with the omnipresent signout
sheet. There was a movie down

the street, and while a few stayed
in to plot maps, the majority set
off in quest of souvenirs and en-
tertainment. -

Next morning at seven the
ghastly little telephones rang and
we were called to attention. A
brave few with. arent powers of



concentration met in the lobby of
the Penn-Stroud and took German
orals, while the buses appeared
and hauled the rest of us off. We
hacked at a rock pile in back of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
home, and looked for all the world
like a chain gang. Later we found
fossils in a coral reef at the top of
a mountain, and while the (bus
drivers ran down the road, gestic-
ulating wildly with red flags, we
Continued on Page 4

R. Wood to Seek

Relics of Greece

Miss Rebecca Wood, warden of
Rhoads North, was awarded the
Riegel Fellowship this year. This
honor, given by the Archaeology
department, stipulates that Miss
Wood use it as a regularly enrolled
member of the American School of
Classical Studies at Athens. In the
fall, the school sponsors trips
around the countryside, while in
the winter studies are carried on
in Athens itself which, of course,
holds enough interest for any
archaeologist.

Besides two pair of bright pur-
ple wool stockings, Miss Wood is
taking with her a portfolio of her
findings so far on the subject of
ancient helmets. These pieces of
armor, illustrating the Greek love
of beauty in their everyday life,
are intriguing to Miss Wood as an
archaeologist because she can real-
ize that actual Greek warriors
fought in them in real. battles.
Moreover, they are noteworthy
from a chronological angle, for
when the dates of these helmets
are determined, the dates of paint-
ings and sculpture in which armor
is depicted can discerned.

Besides her actual studies, Miss
Wood plans to do some research on
her own. She wants to investigate
Byzantine mozaics and other relics,
and well as find out something
about Greek folk dancing.

Miss Wood will sail in the mid-
dle of August, and she feels grate-
ful for her studies at Bryn Mawr,
both as an undergradute and a
graduate student, which have giv-
en her the background for this
Grecian excursion.



YEARBOOK

Anyone who didn’t order the
1950 Yearbook, or who wants
to buy an extra copy, can find
it on gale in the College Book-
shop for $4.50.









50°¥. carbook Diithieé Preeives
Unique. Spirt of Senior Class

by Barbara Joelson, °52

‘Perhaps the first requisite of a
yearbook is that it should capture
and preserve the spirit of its class.
This end is most certainly achiev-
ed in 1950’s publication. As stat-
ed in the publicity posters, the
‘yearbook is quite “unique”. The
theme is of an Elizabethan play in
five acts, each act being divided
into scenes with appropriate titles.
The first act is “Goodhart, a Cas-
tle Inhabited.” This includes
Freshman show, drama _ guild,
Stage Guild, the College News (a
strictly Communist organization),
Chorus, and Counterpoint (which
is parodied skillfully).

The second act is devoted to the
halls, “Nine Castles”, and espec-
ially ..their senior denizens. In
Rhoads we find the members of
the class of 50 hit by “pre-com-
prehensive paralysis”, a disease

which has left them petrified in
typical Oe as aon Denbigh is seen

of a. Campus
Guide, Gell and Meron is written up







explains the varied qualities that
make it “the noisiest hall”. Pem-
broke East, which is written in a
style that is a combination of
Counterpoint and e. e. cummings,
is followed by Rockefeller’s four-
teen moles. This act ends with
Radnor’s deck of cards, Wynd-
ham’s Toulouse-Lautrec lady, and
the Non-Reses.

The third act is “Academia, Top
of a Windy Hill.” Fluring in it are
Taylor and “The Marshall Plan”,
the Library with its famous nich-
es, various traditional “Revelries”,
“Another Part of the Forest” (i.e.
May Day), and the graduation cus-
toms, such as Class Day, Compre-
hensives and Garden Party. Act
Four presents a take-off on a Self-
Gov meeting, several misleading
hints concerning Alliance, League,
Undergrad, Athletic Association
(hoping to “remain feminine, al-
though muscle-bound”), Clubs,
and Junior Prom. The fifth and
last act is’ devoted to the Seniors
Abroad,, Off Campus, Campus,
and four pages of me > Wes can-
did pictures. :_





f° " Oontinned on Page 4

NOTICES

Commencement, Program

Seniors are reminded that in
December they signed their names
and place. of residence as they
wished them to appear in the Com-
mencement Program. Changes may
be made until May 15th, at the
Office of the Recorder. Otherwise
the December listing will be fol-
lowed.



Semester II Grades

Students are reminded that only
the members of the graduating
class will receive their Semester
II course-cards and grades by
campus mail. All other grades will
be sent out to home addresses, by
regular mail, about the middle of
June. No grades will be given out
over the telephone.



Chesterfield Contest
The Bookshop Project is on!
Buy a carton of Chesterfields at
the Bookshop and you may be one
of the nine purchasers entitled to
a free carton of Chesterfields. In
nine of the cartons now on the
shelves there will be typewritten
slips which are worth a carton of
Chesterfields. If you find one in
your carton, present it to Betty
Anne Schoen, Chesterfield repre-

sentative, Rockefeller Hall.



Counterpoint Elections
Counterpoint announces the elec-
tion of Lucy Turnbull and Jane
Augustine to full board member-
ship, and Leatrice Hoard and Mar-
celle Wegier as associates on next
year’s staff.

Teams Compete
In Varied Sports

by Emmy Cadwalader, ’52

On Thursday, May 4, the Varsity
Tennis team played their second
match of the season with Rosemont
College. The final results were in
favor of Bryn Mawr, 4-1. The
players were as follows:

Singles Doubles
1. Groves 1. Blackwood, Price
2. Kimball 2. Steli, Iglehart
3. Shaw

The Junior Varsity Baseball
team took the limelight last Wed-
nesday, May 8, in their first game
of the season against Swarthmore.
The score was very much against
Bryn Mawr when the last few inn-
ings were almost over, and the
team had been playing with one
less member, since there were no
more substitutes. In the last inning
the B.M. J.V. pulled out in front
and won by the overwhelming score
of 37-20. The Varsity also played
Swarthmore that day, but although
the team played well the final score
was 18-10 for Swarthmore. The
line-ups were as follows:

Varsity Sr. Varsity
Cohen Pos Kuser
Jackson Cc Morris
Klein 1st B Ritter
Raskind 2ndB Voorhis
Tilghman 38rdB Bolster
Hayes SS Dillon
Wells LF Liachowitz
Leeds CF Maconi
Wright RF Mason
Cross SF Partridge

The Varsity and J.V. Bryn Mawr
Lacrosse teams played Beaver on
Thursday, May 4. The Varsity lost
by the score of 7-4, although, in
reality, the game was very close.
In the first half of the game Bryn
Mawr seemed to be confused and
six quick goals were scored almost
immediately: In the second, Bryn
Mawr started moving and let
Beaver score only once, but the
time was too short to catch up.
Both teams showed excellent stick-
work, and there were a number of
skillful interceptions. The Junior
Varsity played a hard game, but
lost heavily, 10-2. The line-ups
were as follows:

- Varsity | Js Varsity









Thon Reports on Theatre Today:
Highlights of Vassar Conference

Specially Contributed
by Frederick Thon

I offer the following notes as the
highlights of the three-day con-
ference on Theatre Today held at
Vassar College last week. The first
speaker was Rosamund Gilder of
New York, representing the Ameri-
can National Theatre and Academy
and UNESCO, who pointed to the
existence of an enormous potential
audience if theatre tickets ¢ould be
held at the Federal Theatre’s fifty-
cent maximum, and who said a
National Theatre Assembly is
scheduled for next January in
Washington to see what can be



Spirit of Spring
Reigns at Rhoads

by Margie Cohn, ’52

Spring, in all her glory, key-
noted the Rhoads dance on Friday,
April 27. Fortunately, the gloomy
weather found victims elsewhere
that evening, to the delight of all,
who just couldn’t wear that old,
mangy winter dress again. So, at-
tired in Spring raiment, couples
filed into the Rhoads dining room
(which has probably never seen
such good food, or so many people
well dressed), and were enveloped
into the spirit of May Day, com-
plete with prefabricated maypole
and crepe paper streamers of yel-
low, green, and white stretched
across the room.

The band, too, led by Don Mc-
Carger, seemed te be in a light
mood, for many of the numbers
were good Charleston material. Of
course, two factors rather stifled
their efforts, for the floor was a
bit over-waxed, and who knows
how to do the Charleston anyway?
In between dances, the inevitable
punch and cookies were available,
and they tasted good on an empty
Friday-fish-for-all supper.

Especially commendable was the
conservation of electricity on the
dance floor; good for tripping the
light fantastic, but not too con-
ducive to recognizing one’s best

nd ‘sitting ftwo chairs away
from him. And, assuredly, this
friend was carefully guiding his
cigarette ashes into one of the
many supplied ashtrays, since
those at Rhoads don’t much care
for ashes a la mode on toast points
for Saturday breakfast.

The Spring mood carried on
bravely until one, or a bit after,
by the fast clock in the front hall,
and everyone left commenting on
what a good dance it was.



done in ‘this direction, as well as.
to consider many other proposals.
such as that of establishing an
Academy to give training to young
people, sending representative
companies abroad, decentralizing
the theatre so that New York
would not be the only source of ©
plays, and organizing a Founda-
tion which would loan money under
careful restrictions to projects of
benefit to the theatre generally.

Kermit Bloomgarden, producer
of Deep are-the Roots and Death
of a Salesman, spoke on the prob-
lems of production, saying that
“producing should not be the busi-
ness of raising money,” but should,
instead, be the process of realizing
the play as a collaborative venture,
the investors being kept at a dis-
tance. Mr. Bloomgarden’s backers
cannot read the script, and he be-
lieves in many small investors;
Deep are the Roots had forty back-
ers,Death of a Salesman eighty.
Production costs have soared so
that now a. single-set show costs
at least $60,000 to produce in New
York; The Children’s Hour which
originally cost $6,000 would now
need $75,000, and Golden Boy
which cost $14,000 would now re-
quire $100,000. Operation costs
are so great that even hits have
to close, which was the case with
Shaw’s Anthony and Cleopatra and
The Devil’s Disciple. The only way
out seems to be “more give and
take by all concerned.” Stars can-
not make a bad play good but they
bring in the audience. There are
not enough versatile directors in
New York, particularly for sophis-
ticated comedy, and a director who
can contribute to the shaping of a
script is invaluable. Actors receive
better training in London where
they spend two to three years in
repertory. Asked what factors in-
fluence him in choosing a script,
Mr. Bloomgarden replied that it is
primarily a matter of personal
liking.

Donald Oenslager spoke on the
scene designer’s contribution to
the theatre, first defining the means
of becoming a member of the de-
signers’ union, Loca] 829: a twelve-
hour competitive examination on
all phases of design, approval by
a panel of judges, and payment of
a $500 initiation fee. Jobs are so
scarce in New York that of 170
members of the union, half have
never designed a production and
the other half have designed

scarcely more than one. There are
about eight active designers for
the theatre, the rest are in tele-
vision, motion pictures, commercial
Continued. on Page 6



Freshmen, Delinquents Prepare
For Saturday’s Hygiene Exam

by Helen Katz, °53

Do you know how many calories
there are in lollipops? Do you
know what xerophthalmia is? Do
you know what the Barony chair
is? INo? Then brush up on your
Hygiene. The Hygiene exam,
without which you cannot get an
A. B. degree, comes this Saturday.

Eager Freshmen, unhappy Soph-
omores, bored Juniors, and desper-
ate Seniors can take the exam
from nine to ten-thirty in the
morning, but had all better beware
because: “the examination .. . will
be designed to test your knowledge
in a more specific and detailed
way than has ‘been done by the ex-
aminations in previous years.”

But the Hygiene exam prepar-
ation has some funny moments to
it, too. Among the:-many gems in
this year’s required reading list,
there is a chapter, in the book
When You Marry, entitled “Mar-
riage Isn’t What It Used to Be”.
And the preface to the same book



we discovered a chapter containing
a list of 861 questions that we
might possibly ask ourselves in
our spare time. Spare time?

One amusing chapter, complete
with lamp-post diagrams, very
carefully illustrates the stages of
drunkenness, tracing alcohol
through the body. With less than
1 mg. of alcohol in our systems,
we are “Dry and Decent’; with
% mgs., we are “Delighted and
Devilish”; with 2-3 mgs., we are
“Delinquent and Disgusting”; with
3-4 mgs., we are “Dizzy and Delir-
ious”; with 4-5 mgs., we are “Daz-
ed and Dejected”; and with more
than 5 mgs., as the book charm
ingly puts it, we are “Dead
Drunk”. ,

This year, the examination has
been preceded by a series of lec-
tures, a movie, and several slide
demonstrations for the benefit of
the Freshman class. Dr. Humes-
ton, and the College’s consulting
psychiatrist’ have covered most of
the important points, but students
are still expected to read the books
on the lists mailed out last Febru-

Continued on Page 4


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THE COLLEGE NEWS

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Wednesday, May 10, 1950



Dancers Experiment With Poetic Portrayal;
Eliot Dance Marred by Choreographic Disunity

Continued from Page 1

dance was going on. A continually
stiff and angular marionette-style
has been done again and again.
As it was, the dance was very
original and amusing. It was diffi-
cult to decide whether Irina Neli-
dow’s interpretation was good or
her dancing was bad, when she
moved clumsily and unemphaticai-

ly. She never quite followed a ges-
ture through, which was a little
disturbing. But it was also amus-
ing and contrasted well with Seta’s
exaggerated gesticulations, and
whether or not Irina intended it
to be that way is not important.

The Marche Slave done by Ann-
eliese Sitarz and Adelaide Wahlert
was not successful. There was no
doubt in anyone’s mind that the
dancing was outstanding. Ann-
eliese and Addy Lou dance with
magnificent control and grace; the
excellence of the mechanics of the
dance made the mediocrity of the
choreography standout. The two
dancers did exactly the same thing.
Only for a brief moment did one
sit up hopefully as they danced a
counterpoint to each other. After
two measures one sat back again.
It isetrue that the music did not
change dramatically so that the
dance could change similarly, but
surely some excuse for a change
in level could have been concocted.
The movements were not at all
original; nothing new was being
said that has not been said in
dance many times before. It was
too bad the dancers wore skirts,
because the graceful leg-motion
‘was completely concealed. Marche
Slave seems to have “been just one
of those things,” and judging by
the same dancers’ previous per-
formance in the February Work-
shop, not indicative of their tne
abilities.

Rhapsody on a Windy Night, ex-
écuted to Ellen MclIlroy’s reading
of the T. S. Eliot poem, and Sperry
Lea’s music, was excellent in some
parts, but embarrassingly poor in
others. The most conspicuously
bad performance was that of the
three male daricers, and one must
here define the term “dancer”
loosely. They. had obviously done
very little dancing before, if any,
and did not. know what they were
doing there. On the other hand, the
performances. of Bllen Landis as
the: cat and Eritha von der Goltz
as the prostitute were excellent
both in ‘conception and execution.
Ellen and Eritha did their own
choreography and knew what. role
they played in both the poem and
the dance. Dramatic ability as well
as dancing ability helped to put
across their performances; more

than.a small part of a dance’s suc-.

cess depends: upon the facial ex-
pressions and the feeling within
the dancer herself of what she is
trying to say. Liz Gjelsness as the
child, although her part was not
so long or intricate as Ellen’s or
Eritha’s, was equally excellent.
The group scenes are harder to
analyze and judge. Sometimes they
were effective, sometimes they
were nothing more than too many
people running around on the
stage. The sequence starting with
“The memory throws up high and
day a crow of twisted things” was
confused. Nobody had the same
idea as anybody else about what
she Was doing. The chorus of four
had established its function in the
sequence and its reappearanee
was not irrelevant. What Sherry
Cowgill and Addy Wahlert were
doing was at times hard to tell.
A lot of the movement seemed to
be typical modern dance postur-
ing which did not pertain to the
meaing of the poem.
An opportunity to inject some
originality was lost when the street
lamp turned out to be a prop. Like

the cat or the child the street lamp





lamp said: ‘Regard that woman. .’”
Even the doorway might have been
danced for an unusual effect.

The fact that there was no mus-
ic for this part may have had some-
thing to do with its failure. Music
might have given some of the
dancers a clue as to what it was
all about. Also, one was all too
conscious not only of the thump-
ing of the drum (which was effec-
tive to a degree) but also of the
thumping of feet coming down
hard on the floorboards.

The chorus of four moved with
blank faces and appropriately auto-
matic motions. Their wine-colored
costumes were right when they
were grouped with dancers wear-
ing other shades of red, but where
the scene was intentionally haze-

like and blue, their costumes might

Continued on Page 6

Vicissitudes Appear __
In Hygiene Preparation
Continued from Page 3

ary. Those Freshmen who would
rather go to Princeton House-
parties than take the Hygiene ex-
am, can take it at a date to be
scheduled next fall (probably the
Princeton-Harvard football game).
All ye who try—fare well!

Engagements

Flo Wagner, ’50, to Arthur

David Juceam.



This Sunday’s Chapel speaker
will be the Reverend James D.
Cleland from Duke University.
His subject will be “The Un-
attractiveness of Jesus.”











Ambitious Geologists Return Treasure-laden,
Wearing Soot and Grime From Tamaqua Mines

Continued from Page 3

dug toeholds in the side of a ver-
tical cut and crawled up. The luck-
ier ones found trilobites. The
more unfortunate were treated for
cuts and bruises in a first aid sta-
tion set up in one of the buses.

By this time Lehighton Anti-
cline, Mauch Chunk, Pocono, and
Pottsville had become familiar
names. We could look ahead and
see glaciated rock and know that
there would be another traffic jam
while we stopped to chop and
learn. Some worried as the bus
struggled across a bridge plainly
marked “Load Limit 8 Tons.” We
found places where a stream had
been and is, and where valleys
were and are. And while Dr. Wat-
son explained complex structure,
Dr. Dryden pointed to lakes in
distant valleys, and DiC6’s flying
overhead.

Haverford took all in its stride,
and Bryn Mawr did as well after
the first qualms that went with
peering over a 3000 foot ledge.
The two professors remained cool,
calm, and collected except when
one of our number staggered down
the road, dragging a six by nine
foot sign which the highway de-

partment had neglected to fasten.

down securely.

“Couldn’t you find a _ larger

‘one?” they asked, peering at the
‘piece of tin and shuddering. Dis-
‘couraged, she left the curve sign
behind, its face in the poison ivy,
and its yellow paint well chipped. The
demonstrators had their own. spec-
‘ial «problems as they stood on
curves and watched traffic while

we, like fifty diligent moles, scur-
ried across the busiest highways
in the vicinity and tried to move
mountains. “When you want to
signal, put your arm up like this,”
said Abe, “and don’t just wave it
around like this!” (Somehow we
all got across, safely.

Tamaqua was different. There



Reuther Defines Place

Of Labor in Democracy
Continued from Page 2 ~

(Recent conferences have been
held between ‘AFL and CIO lead-
ers about merging the two
groups; Mr. Reuther maintains
that “consolidation is needed. But
there are many problems in the
way. . However, if this could be
achieved, many of the present jur-
isdictional disputes would be
avoided.”

Victor Reuther is quiet, deliber-
ate, a thoughtful speaker, but he is
firm, and remains determined in
his view: “Unions will continue to
press for a redistribution of in-
come for years to come. The trade
union should fight to maintain its

independence. The union shop is

an extension of the democratic
principle taxing all for the serv-
ices. they get, for the individual
has a respnosibility to the group

}96 ‘well as the group to the indi-

we drove around the hotel twice
before we stopped and rushed for
unreserved rooms. There ‘were
even two movies there, but most
of us went to the one under the
hotel. Somehow it seemed closer,
and we had heard more about it. A
few of the more adventurous
climbed the hill in back of the
town to get a better view of the
cemetery. Everything seemed
more leisurely, and next morning
the phones kept quiet till seven-
thirty. Then, in dirty jeans, we
walked the two blocks to break-
fast, oblivious of the stares of the
inhabitants, who were dressed in
their Sunday best and consumed
with curiosity.

That morning we found coal
veins, and in the pits the brav-
est went all the way to the bot-
tom. The day before the sun had
shone, and now it was the wind’s
turn. It really started at Uncle
Charlie’s, where dust from the
road blew into the milk. By the
time we reached the Lehigh Wat-
er Gap there was a miniature tor-
nado. Maybe it was a premedi-
tated scheme of the railroad to
keep us off their tracks, but we
leaned stubbornly at a forty-five
degree angle against a solid wall
of cinders and struggled toward a
distant trestle. The professors
were in their element and pointed
triumphantly to a contact line, but
the only thing we heard was the
whistle of a train on the tracks be-
lew, and the announcement of the
Monday morning cut.

It was the last stop of the day,
and with blackened faces and
grimy hands we pulled ourselves
into the buses for the two. hour
ride home. We had a caravan of
.admirers following us in cars, and
‘inside the bus the pile of funnies
}and superman comics mingled
with the pop bottles on the floor
and slid from front to back each
time we rounded a curve. We call-
ed it kitchen midden and tried to
ignore it and busy ourselves with
a mimeographed melodrama of
fossilferous, trilobitic life.

‘When the bus finally stopped
outside Pembroke Arch, eighty
per cent of us were asleep, and
the others were trying to disen-
tangle themselves from equipment
and wipe a layer of coal dusf, from
their faces. —

But maybe the guitaré@laying
bus driver meant it when he said,
“I haven’t had so much fun since
Aunt Minnie fell out of the hearse.
We had to rehearse her!” After
all, the final record was only sixty
sunburns, ‘six infirmary cases, as
against two hundred sketched-in
maps, and at least a thousand fos-
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We have forgotten what it is
like not to hear the magnified purr
and squeak of Hollywood voices.
We have forgotten the magic of
facial innuendo unaccompanied by
lush roar and the art of reading
a character by his gait. It is hard-
ly necessary to cite Charley Chap-
lin as past master of pantomime,
and in City Lights he is in his
usual form.

In his attempts to get money to
pkey the golden-haired heroine’s
ren and to afford the operation
that eventually cures her blind-
mess, he becomes successively a
street-cleaner upset by the passage
of numerous horses and one large
elephant, and a boxer who by the
cleverest choreography is careful
to keep the referee between him-
self and his opponent. The money
is finally obtained from an alcoholic
millionaire, with whom the little
tramp has cavorted in speakeasies,
in a confusion of confetti and
spaghetti, a swallowed whistle and
the hiccups.

Two episodes stand out in my
memory: Chaplin chewing his
fingers in anguish and hope when
the ower girl has recovered her
sight and recognized him as her
benefactor; and a flight of steps
down which he runs, splay-footed,
right foot first for three steps, and
then the left foot for the last
three. These two sequences beau-
tifully demonstrate Charlie Chap-
lin’s mastery of pathos, humor,
and unusual finesse.

Good Individual Acting
Fails to Redeem Comedy
Continued from Page 1
that would have made the role ef-
fective. Since the part of Saint
Agnes is such an unusual one, and
so difficult to play, it would per-
haps have been better if it had

been type-cast.

Robert Young, as the father,
gave a convincing performance.
He was generally much better in
his calmer and more serious mo-
ments than in the rowdy ones.
Often during the latter his voice
became too loud and the words
were lost. However, in ‘the emo-
tional speeches he showed his capa-
bilities. Walt Robertson playing
his. friend, a perennial drinker,
was effective. He was especially

notable as he handled a part that}:

could have easily been over-played,
with sufficient. restraint. Penny

Rand, as Harmony Blueblossom; | - 3
a little old lady, was good, though |

slightly superficial. Her voice and
mannerisms were both in keeping,
but she never got completely into
the role.

. From the production viewpoint,

The Beautiful Peeple was very well |
done. The blocking was excellent, |
and the set and lighting were es-|.

pecially effective. Marjorie Low

did a good job of direction, for

the play hung together well, was
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°50 Yearbook Portrays
Seniors’ Many Aspects
Continued from Page 3

There are a multitude of humor-
ous phrases, individual features,
and subtle touches that add to the
yearbook’s general effect. Espec-
ially notable are the cartoons. Not
the least of these is the illustra-
tion, inside the cover, of Bryn
Mawrtyrs in the various states of
dress and undress occasioned by
an outdoor fire drill. The tragic
bridge scene of the Pem West
smoker; the 2 a. m. vista under
Rock arch; the two easily-identi-
fied professors on Taylor steps
(“Is your pipe tasting different
this morning?”); the “joker”
type date going through the re-
ceiving line at an Undergrad
Dance; all these look with amazing:
insight into Bryn Mawr life.

The photographs, too, present a
penetrating and varied portrait
of the campus. Among these are
formal shots of the buildings, aca-
demic processions, and candids of
professors, hair-tearing Show di-
rectors, Drama Guild productions,
News party, Maids and Porters’
Show, Library niches, step sing-
ing, Carnival, Parade Night, Fire-
man’s Band, and Seniors in every
attitude imaginable. There are
Seniors writing papers, playing in-
struments, May Day dancing, be-«
ing persecuted by Comprehensives,,.
fencing, swimming, on shipboard,
in Europe, responding to the
“Bacchic Urge”, playing bridge,.
wading, partying, typing, enjoy-
ing spring, winter, and autumn,
and generally making their pres-
ence known.

The yearbook is written’in an
easy and enjoyable style. Good-
hart is described in every aspect
from its. “coquettish” Saturday
evening mood to its “Well-Known
Outside Lecturer atmosphere.” In
Taylor we find “Learned Doctors
and Deaf Mutes”; and the library
inhabitants are “dodging some
people, they are searching others,
they walk alone but Intrigue sur-.
rounds them closely.” No part of
the College or the Campus is left
untouched by the class of ’50. “We
know how to climb Taylor tower
and stick our faces out the face of
the clock”, they say, “we know
which windows open from the out-
side, where grow onion grass and
violet and which places are worst
on a Windy day.”

‘From the fitting charm and sim-
plicity of the Dedication to’ the
reminiscent Epilogue, the 1950:

yearbook is a delightful piece, of
‘work. It effuses with the person-

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Princeton’s ‘‘Gas Chamber’’ Far Surpasses
Both of Haverford’s Arts Night Offerings

Continued from Page 1

Brown’s moralizing about war and
death weakened the play to near
non-existence and its monotonous
cliches obviously embarrased the
audience.

The potentialities of the story
were realized in no way. The dia-
logue lacked any originality; it is
hard to say whether it was em-
barrasingly repetitious or the cast
was inadequately prepared. Leila
Kirpilani’s direction was not wholly
satisfactory, but she was in a dif-
ficult position directing an all-male
cast in a war play. One detail de-
stroyed any possible illusion: the
Stranger who could not be touched
by the living soldier spent almost
the entire play resting his hands
‘on the single prop—a road barrier.

There was no obvious attempt
at characterization by either the
‘author or actors. Percy Wallerstein
was empty as the young soldier
and Sam Hudson failed to be even
a personable ghost.

Perhaps the play was too seri-
ously undertaken. The significance
of the battlefield encounter of the
dead father with the living father
of a young son was negated by the
fact that the conversation main-
tained an elementary level with the
ghost’s futile and annoying moral-
izing, continually interrupted by
Conway’s chief ejaculation: But
how can we stop war? The produc-
tion of The Changing of the Guard
contributed nothing to Arts Night
and at best was an extremely pain-
ful play.

Fortunately Carter Bledsoe’s
Words Like Dust on the Road was
more interesting and far more suc-
cessfully produced. Vaguely deriva-
tive in setting and dialogue, it was
nevertheless an extremely promis-
ing effort. In excellent one-act
form, it was an incident display-
ing a series of character impres-
sions rather than a play. Each per-
son ‘who visited the southern farm-
er’s shack caught in the heat of
a drought was an individual, finely
drawn and played. The dialogue
was convincing and occasionally
beautiful, although at times_ it
bordered on becoming self-con-
scious.

The cast was uniformly compe- ||
tent and confident. Hugh Downing |’

has improved with each play; while
he is still momentarily uncertain,
ihe was remarkably. effective in
voice and gesture and has definite
potentialities. Elliot Loomis, Sid-
ney Cohn, and Robert Chase had
all obviously studied their parts
and were more familiar with shad-
ing and interpretation than most
actors on the Bryn Mawr-Haver-
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the leading role with authority and
belief as well as skill, though the
quick vacillations of the character
were not always sufficiently ex-
plained. Lee Haring’s direction was
in spirit and fortunately not
heavy-handed.

This reviewer’s only criticism of
Mr. Bledsoe’s play. would be his at-
tempt to correlate a rounded plot
— the drought, the despair, the
faith, the rain — rather than ad-
here strictly to situation and char-
acter. The device of soliloquy
seemed unnecessary, the sudden
faith seemed without satisfactory
motivation, and the “inevitable”
rain weakened the whole. Not that
we are against faith; but the play
did not seem to be primarily con-
cerned with that question. There
was also an amateurish tendency
toward dependence on off-stage
effects. These, however, are mere-

ly personal opinions and are not|'

meant to detract from Haverford’s
most thoughtful and promising
production of the year.

The third offering, Princeton’s
The Gas Chamber, is almost im-
possible to evaluate, except by its
cumulative effect — it was thor-
oughly delightful. This original
piece by Stanley Seeger was a sur”
realistic parody of “Salvador Dali,
E. E. Cummings, and T. S. Eliot.”
With no plot, no continuity and
very little except talent and ingen-
uity, the Theatre Intime provided
Bryn Mawr with a glimpse of
how much fun college theatre
should be. The actors were excel-
lent, there can be no doubt. Not
for a moment was there a hint of
uncertainty, self-consciousness or
of hesitation. The fantastic chorus
of three presented an extremely
shrewd and witty satire; their as-
surance, uninhibited grace and fine
comedy sense portrayed an intui-
tive feeling of theatre that is sel-
dom seen around Bryn Mawr. In-
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Good Individual Acting
Fails to Redeem Comedy

Continued from Page 4

technically noteworthy, and con-
tained some very fine acting. How-
ever, in spite of its many assets,
The Beautiful People was little
more than adequate; one was al-
ways conscious of watching actors
playing on a stage in Roberts Hall.
It is unfortunate that the high
level of some aspects of the play
could not have been maintained
throughout.



Attention Chorus!

“A vote of thanks to the part
of the Bryn Mawr chorus which
sang at the Folger Library on
Saturday. Singing and selections
were both first rate.” When are
they going to have a return en-
gagement?

Sincerely yours,







Jane Macatee, ’49



polished, clever, and professional.

It is unfortunate that the most
rewarding dramatic contribution
to Arts Night should have been
from Princeton. Perhaps
Mawr and Haverford lack rehear-
sal time; but there is something

more. We have had no production
nearly as fine as Sam Hudson’s
Sundown of last year. It is still
the vriterion. The fact that we are
amatjeurs gives us little excuse
for remaining amateurish.

Bryn



Reuther Vehemently Defends Union Rights;
Looks Forward to Possible U.S. Labor Party

Continued from Page 4

vidual. American workers will
continue to fight for the added ad-
vantages made available by in-
creased efficiency. The Union is
prepared to join with management
to improve efficiency, increase out-
put, but not if it means exploita-
tion of the workers without com-
pensation.”

Withal, Reuther insists upon the
necessity for not raising prices,
for maintaining a balance system
between wages and prices, taking
needed finances from profits. “It
is a temptation to trade union peo-
ple to ask a wage raise and forget
about price rises, as John L. Lewis
has sometime done. We must
maintain pressure to hold prices
as low as possible.”

Asked his view on the loyalty
oath in the Taft-Hartley labor law
which was recently upheld by Su-
preme Court decision, Reuther
answered, “I consider it an insult
inasmuch as employers were not
asked to sign a paper testifying
that they did not belong to a bund,
fascist organization or the like.
This clause assumes that only the
trade unions contain subversives.
Altogether it has done more harm
than good, for people are now
afraid of expressing an imdepend-
ert thought.”

Are there undemocratic prac-
tices within the unions? “Most
certainly, and they should be
cleaned up. but by and large the

jtrade union movement is more

democratic than our city or state

institutions. Most union officials
are elected by large margins; but
the older a union gets the more
lnoale it is to get into a rut—
wherefore educational programs
to attract new blood.” The UAW
itself in its large turnover of of-
ficers shows that it is far from
machine control.

Always, in every topic discussed,
Mr. Reuther urged bring it ‘down-
to-earth’, putting theory into prac-
tice, shying away from ideas and
speeches toward actual work. He
emphasized the human aspect:
“ ,.. consider the consumer, the
individual—provide a life of abun-
dance and security.”

‘Reuther seemed keenly conscious
of individual and collective respon-
|Sibility in democracy, cognizant of
the fact that America still has not
been able to provide full employ-
ment for her people. It is his con-
tention that security (economic se-
curity which the trade unions want
to insure for the great mass of
workers) is the first step toward
advancing democratic freedom.

A tall, lanky man with bow-tie,
horn-rimmed_ glasses, constantly
in the company of a bodyguard
after being shot by a mysterious
assailant in his Detroit home last
year, Victor Reuther continues his
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THE COLLEGE NEWS



BM Conference Hears
Speakers on NSA Policy

Continued from Page 1

Mr. Feldman introduced four stud-
ents who spoke on different aspects
of students’ rights and responsibil-
ities. The first address was given
by. Virgil Gant of Lincoln U., who
spoke on the Negro’s role in edu-
cation. He said that at the present
time, the Negro must be above
average in order to be accepted
as “équal;” but in order to abolish
racism on the campus, the Negro
must be allowed to enter any or-
ganization that interests him and
he must be accepted as an equal.
As an illustration of present prob-
lems, Mr. Gant reviewed the pre-
judice shown to students of his
all-Negro alma mater in the near-
by town of Oxford, Pennsylvania.

The next address was delivered
by Elmer Brock, the regional chair-
man of the N.S.A. In speaking on
the responsibilities of the student
in education, Mr. Brock stressed
the fact that the primary element
in the educational community is
the student, not the faculty. There-
fore “the role of the student in the
educational community is not
limited” and to achieve their aims
best, Mr. Brock suggested that
students band together in theN.S.A.

The third speaker was Zeke
Montgomery of Swarthmore, who
noted that while the campus is a
community, it is not a family.
This fact underlies the quota sys-
tem and political restrictions found
in many colleges. Mr. Montgomery
mentioned the fact that at Swarth-
more, the college administration
must review the newspaper’s edi-
torials, and that no political organ-
izations are allowed on the Muh-
lenberg campus. Deploring these sit-
uations, the speaker suggested
that N.S.A. must force the colleges
in this area to respect the students’
right to free speech and wWhrestrict-
ed organization.

The last speaker was Libby
Grey of Bryn Mawr, whose topic
was “The Position: of the Student
on the Curriculum Committee.” She
pointed out as an.example the Bryn
Mawr Curriculum Committee,
where one student represents the
undergraduates in each department,
so that the students have some in-
fluence in the curriculum.

After the addresses had been de-
livered, the group adjourned to
four general panel discussions to
consider the problems which the
speakers had presented. After
launching in Pembroke, the panels
reconvened for sessions lasting un-

‘til late in the afternoon.

Wednesday, May 10, 1950



Oenslager, Bernstein

Discuss Sets, Costuming
Continued from Page 3

art, or industrial design. Because

no apprenticeships exist, there is

no bridge between school and pro-

fessional work. Designers, said
Mr. Oenslager, think of them-
selves primarily as craftsmen,

only later as artists; imagining de-
signs is the easiest part of the
work, their execution is exacting
labor. (He mentioned a “squeak-
ing-chair effect” which had him
baffled until he tried a mouse trap.)
Designers seldom have a particu-
lar personal style as they all start
from the pivotal point of realism
— which itself is never photogra-
phic — and move toward Impres-
sionism, Expressionism, Symbol-
ism, and Surrealism.

Aline Bernstein defined charac-
terization as the essential in all
costume design, and to this pro-
cess the designer brings observa-
tion and memory, identification and
the :powers..of the unconscious. The
intention of beauty must be pres-
ent from the beginning. Costumes
are never static while on the stage,
and the actors must feel delight in
wearing them. In designing histor-
ical costumes original sources are
always consulted, such as the paint-
ings, sculpture, way of living of
the time. Many drawings are made,
then put away, and the final
sketches then done freely. The cos-
tume designer must know fabrics
— for instance, that the Greeks
used a heavier up-and-down thread
which gave their garments such
great beauty of fall, and must
know thoroughly the construction
of costumes as the cut is so im-
portant. As the designer, she said,
“you channel yourself into and
through the costumes.”

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Dancers Experiment With Poetic Portrayal;
Eliot Dance Marred by Choreographic Disunity

Continued from Page 4

have been better black. Nancy
Burdick and Ann Blaisdell opened
the dance well and brought it to
a powerful conclusion, as if sum-
ming up the total mood and mean-
ing of the poem.

Rhapsody on a Windy Night is
exactly the sort of thing the dance
club should be doing. The chief
problem behind the minor failures
of this production seems to have
“too many cooks.” Each dancer did
her own choreography, which was
all right, but then it was expected
that the music would be composed
to fit the dance, which seems to be
reverse of the best procedure. Two,
or at the most three, people should
be appointed to do all the chore-
ography and work it in with mus-
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even before the dance. TheRhap-
#ody is one of the most difficult
things in the way of dance that
has been attempted recently and
it was certainly worth all the effort
poured into it. It was not a per-
fected job, byt the problems it pre-
sented shout serve to stimulate
the Dance Club to -the greater
heights of which it is capable.

Tennis Varsity Wins;
Lacrosse Team Upset
Continued from Page 3

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