College news, January 23, 1946

Tue COLLEGE NEWS





VOL. XLII, NO. 12

ARDBORS a BRIN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUAR. | 23, 1946





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A. Barr to Give
Flexner Series .
Qn Modern Art

Modern Museum Sends
Twenty Originals





Announcement of the Flexner
lecture series for nineteen _ forty-
six has been made, with Mr. Al-
fred Hamilton Barr, Jr., as speak-
er, The series will begin on Febru-
ary 11, and the lectures will prob-
ably be given at eight-fifteen in
Goodhart. General title of the
“series is “Dogma and Practice in
Modern Art’.

' Mr. Barr plans to bring with him
some twenty originals from the
Museum of Modern Art, to which
he will refaw in his lectures. These
paintings will be on display in the

Common Room during the six-week |.

Jecture period, and will be under
guard.

Formerly director of the Museum
of Modern Art in New York City,
Mr. Barr is at present its research

Continued On Page’ 3

Labor School’s
Drive Sponsored
By Mrs. Roosevelt

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has ac-
cepted tthe Honorary , Chairman-
ship of the Twenty Fifth Anniver
sary Committee of the Hudson
Shore Labor School.

The Committee has inaugurated
a Twenty Fifth Anniversary Fund
drive to support the various activi-
ties of the school. The proceeds of
this drive will be used: to repair
and replace recreational facilities;
to increase the amount of scholar-
ships, both for Foreign and Ameri-
ean students; to permit a longer
sehool session; and to extend ac-
tivities into local communities.

The Labor School was founded
by M. Carey Thomas in 1921 and
until 1939 held its sessions at Bryn
Mawr. Its program consists of
classes and discussions in © which
workers can atudy and voice their
opinions on various phases of Em-
ployment and Labor. The sessions
are held in the summer to permit
attendance of a larger number of
students.

Alliance Plans
Debate Group

The Alliance would like to an-
nounce the formation of a Bryn
Mawr Debate Group. A list wild be
posted in Taylor for all those who
would be interested. “

Letters from eolleges such as
Swarthmore and William and Mary
have been received, asking Bryn
Mawr to debate with them on top-
ics such as these:

Resolved:

That the Foreign Policy of the
U. 8. should be directed toward the
establishment of free trade among
nations.

or

That the U. S. adopt a policy of
peace-time military ‘conscription.
legiate debating’ activities which
the Alliance feels ould prove both

‘entertaining ‘and interesting to boss







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Arts | Night Plans
Paintings, Dances,
Musical Program

Art’s Night will be held on March
9th, at 7:30 in Goodhart. The pro-
gram is to begin with an exhibition
of paintings and drawings from
the Art Club. An orchestral theme
and variations, composed by Helen
Anderton, ’49, and six members of



Mrs. De Varron’s harmony class,
will follow. Two one-act plays have
also been written for this perform-
ance, Francis Likes. Cream Too by
Nancy Crawford, ’46, and The Trail
of the Serpent by Joy Rutland, ’46.
Sixteen members of the chorus’
will sing an arrangemerit of Ameri-
can Folk tunes. The Modern Dance
Club will present two of their pwn
choreographic arrangements and
Miss Petts’ Dance Club is also
scheduled to perform.

The scripts of the two plays will
be available for all who can’t wait,
by January 23rd and there will be
a general meeting on February
18th at 8:30 in Goodhart to discuss
the program and its purpose. Dress
rehearsals are to take place on the
nights of March 7th, 8th, and Oth.

Volunteers will be urgently
needed for the stage crew.

W.B.M.C. Plans
Better Reception

Breen

The improvement of studio equip-
ment and campus reception facili-
ties have taken wp much of the time

of the Radio Club in this first se-
mester when Bryn Mawr joined
with stations at Swarthmore, Hav-
erford and the University of Penn-
sylvania to form the Middle At-
lantic network.
Mapping Programs

At present the cluh is also map-
ping out programs for the network
hour, which is from 9:00 to 10:00
P.M. If enough interest is shown
by the students, the network would
like to sponsor, among others, some
quiz programs in which the four
colleges would compete.

Better Reception Planned

Tiwo plans have been devised for
better reception on campus, entail-
ing in one case laying lines to each
hall, and in the other placing a
small transmitter in each hall. A
new microphone, and a new turn-
table and hook-up for records and
transcriptions have been purchased,
and most of the old equipment re-
paired.

New Members

Twenty-six new members will
enter the club. this week. They
have been selected on the basis of
interest shown in the organization
and actual time spent working in
the..studio. Election for a new
president, who will probably come
from this year’s board will be held-
Thursday,

Board of W. BM. C.

The board has consisted of Char-
lotte Edlin, Acting and Announcing
Director; Dee Dame, Chief Engi-
neer; Martha MacDoald, Produc-
‘tion Manager; Betty Lilly, Chief}
Music Director; Joan Gould, Publi-
cation Director; Jane Manthorne,
Feature Director; and Camilla Wil- | ed





Hams, President.”

College To Elect”
2 B. M. Delegates
For Conference

The number of people who sign-
ed up to go to the Far East Con-
ference at Vassar February _8, 9,
1946 was so large that the Alli-
ance Board feels the only fair way
to choose the two Bryn Mawr dele-
gates is for the whole college to
elect them. Elections will be held
in the halls after lunch on Thurs-
day January 24.

From those who signed up the
Board has chosen a list of seven
candidates on the basis of their
constant interest in Current Af-
fairs, their knowledge of the Far
East, their willingness to do extra
preparatory work, -and their abil-



ity to make useful contribution to.

discussion. Freshmen were elimi-
nated because they would have
other opportunities to attend such
conferences and because of the
number of specially qualified up-
per classmen.

The Alliance Board describes the
candidates as follows:

Ellen — ’47—a biology ma-
jor with a well-rounded knowledge
of all phases of current affairs.

Barbara Coffey ’°48—Her inter-
est in the field of current affairs
is evidenced in her work with the
campus United Nations group.

Patricia Hochschild ’48—Her ex-

} perience..as. head -of the Interna-

tional Relations Club and her wide
political knowledge speak for her
interest and 4bility.

Lorraine Lukens ’46—Much work
with United China Relief and its
personnel have given her a vital
interest in China and its problems.

Carol McGovern ’48—As an ac-
tive member of the International
Relations Club she has practise in
discussion to back up her know-
ledge of the subject.

Barbara Nugent ’°48—Her excel-
lent knowledge of current problems
is backed up by a sufficient inter-
est to do extra work on this par-
ticular phase.

Shirley Wood ’48—She combines
a genuine interest in the Far East

with much knowledge of its prob-

lems.

College To Have
Better Lighting



New lighting fixtures and facil-
ities for increased wattage will
definitely be installed in Bryn
Mawr in the near future.

Acting on a letter, signed by 79

undergradutes asking that better.)

lighting be installed throughout the|©
college (see page 2), the Néws
asked Miss McBride for a state-
ment on the subject.

A survey of lighting conditions
in all the halls is now being made
by a lighting expert. This survey
was planned last spring to be held
at the end of the war.

Wartime shortages, Miss Mce-
Bride pointed out, made changes
impossible before this, making it
impractical for Bryn Mawr to keep
up with current illumination stan-
dards.

Recommendations from this sur-
vey will be made for each hall.
New lighting. will be installed as
s00n-ag-new fixtures again become
available.

ne One emphatically add-

fnew Fymacio e college hae no ‘Plans

| Graves.

‘anagi have played an



Plays by Crawford and Rutland
Win Competition for ‘Arts Night’





Seven New Courses
Offered Students

In Next Semester

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1

Seven new courses have been
announced for next semester,
three in Politics, two in History of
Art, an Archaeology course, and
Diction. eo

Lists of all courses beginning in
the second semester will be posted

‘on the Dean’s Office bulletin boards,

first and second floor of Taylor
Hall. Attention pl op is call-
ed particularly to the following
changes:

The courses offered in Politics,
in place of Comparative Govern-
ment, announced earlier and open
to students who have had semester
I of Politics III are: 216b, Ameri-
can Foreign Policy, meeting on
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday,
at 9 a. m. and taught by Dr. Mc-
Cown and 219b, State and Munici-
pal Government, meeting on Tues-
day and Thursday at 9 a. m. and
Friday at 2 p. m., taught by Dr.
The additional course,
having no requirements, is 218b,
Political and Economie Geography.
It will meet on Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday at 11 a. m. with
one afternoon of laboratory and
will be taught by Dr. Wyckoff.

History of Art 202b, European
Painting 1800-1940 will be given
this year as a free elective, meet-
ing on Monday and Wednesday at
11 a. m. (third hour to be arrang-
ed) and taught by Dr. Tselos. An-

Continued On Page 3



Worth’s Script Chosen
As Alternative
To Rutland’s

Francis Likes Cream, Too, ‘by
Nancy Crawford, ’46, and The Trail
of the Serpent, by Joy Rutland, '46,
are the two plays chosen for pro-
duction on Arts Night, Mr. Thon
announced today. In case of pro-
duction difficulties,._a-- script “By
Elizabeth Jones Worth, °46 has
been named as an alternate for
Rutland’s play.

Francis Likes Cream, Too, ia a
farce dealing with a ghost who
never appears. Mrs. Moon is a
ghost-exorciser. Her daughter, Ma-
deline, is a medium who owns a
cat named Frantis. The Moons
have been hired by the Thorps to
rid their house of Fred, the Ghoet.

Noel Coward Vein

The Moons undoubtedly started
out with the best of intentions but
they have a fine time making them-
selves at home while the Thorpe
are away and, unfortunately, they
grow to love Fred. The complica-
tions arising therefrom and ocee-
pational conflict between Mra.
Moon and her daughter, produce a
play definitely in the Noel Coward~
vein,



Tragic Depiction
The Trad of the Serpent, on the
other hand, is a tragic depiction of
a modern negro family in the war-
time South. Pearl, an elderly wo-
man, has done her best to bring
up her son Jerry and her niece Lily
May to be decent citizens. She
thinks she has succeeded, and looks
forward eagerly to Jerry’s fur-
lough. But Lily May hae secretly
gotten herself into trouble, and
Continued on Page 4



Two B. M. Graduates Practice
Christianity in Japan During War



Two Bryn Mawr graduates, L..
Michi Kawai and Mrs. Hitotsuy-
important
part in social and educational work
in their native country, Japan, a
reporter now in the occupied coun-
try reports,

Dr. Michi Kawai ’04, who became
one of Japan’s foremost Christian
educators and authors, founded the
Keisen Girls’ School in Japan in
1929 and, managed to keep it open
throughout the war. Neither the
conscription of the majority of the
students for factory work nor the
various attacks upon her practice

teaching Christianity soe pets
her teaching.

Through her school, Dr- Kacal.
a converted Presbyterian, has been
spreading Christianity in a coun-
try of political belligerency and
national disinterest. This institu-
tion, the first of its kind in Japan,
had expanded before Pearl Harbor
to include the grades from kinder-
garten to the second year of col-
lege. :

She.claims however that she
“was not molested because the au-
thorities apparently felt the school
was too insignificant”. She was
threatened only after visiting a
Tokyo internment camp to bring
food to prisoners. Teachers were
even permitted to visit factories to
instruct her conscripted pupils dur-
ing meal hours.

To the reporter who interviewed
her in Japan. Dr. Kawai exprese-



ed a fear that if the Allies. dealt
with the masses too harshly, they
would turn to Russia in despera-
tion, but on the whole, says that
everyone has been impressed “by .
the sympathetic and wonderful
manners of the American soldiers,”
The plan for the enfranchise-
ment of Japanese women she
agrees to heartily, but warns that
‘sudden liberation without propez
educational preparation may leave
our women so dazed that in their
confusion they may not under-
stand what you have given them, |
Another Bryn Mawr alumna,
Maki Hitotsuyanagi, a native Jap-
anese of royal ancestry, who at-
tended the college from 1912 to
1914 is playing an active part in
helping her American husband, now
a naturalized Japanese citizen, in
great social experiment ‘hear
Kyoto, Japan.
William Merrell Vories Hitotsu-
yanagi founded the Omi Brother-
hood in 1905, a Christian mission
which serves a town of 12,000.
During the war, the mission was
forced to curtail its Christian ac-
tivities and resorted to the manu-
facture of salve as the only activi-
ty open to them, but now that the
yoke of persecution has been re-
moved, it has returned to its origi-
nal status, It is a mission unaffili- _
ated with any denomination, and
vpen to both Christians and non-
Christians who work together in
good will. -








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Creative Arts
The College News publishes this week a letter from two

_ students requesting greater recognition of creative writing

within the regular curriculum. This letter draws its inspir-
ation from the Title meeting last week, when the small num-
ber of contributions received for each issue was revealed by
the Title editors. The letter asserts that the dearth of cre-
ative writing is “the basic cause of the criticism” recently,
leveled at the Title; it is at least evident that the future of
such a magazine will be profoundly affected by the status ac-
corded writing on campus.

‘Specifically, the letter proposes that the course in crea-
tive writing given by the English Department be reclassified
as a full unit, enabling students to view such work as an in-
tegral part of their regular schedule, and not just a “side is
sue.” The objection is here, as it has been in many previous
cases, that the time available is the deciding factor in both
the quantity and quality of the work produced. It would
seem also, that many: of those students able and willing to
contribute creative work to the Title are at the same time
these who participate in other extra-curricular activities as
well, a situation in which the time element becomes more im-
portant than ever. For these students there is a pressing
need for such a schedule readjustment as is proposed.

The work contributed so far to the preparation for Arts
Night i is additional proof that there is much creative talent,
of-non-literary varieties as well as literary, present in Bryn
Mawr. The two plays resulting from Mr. Thon’s course in
Playwriting are very considerable creative achievements. The
exhibition of paintings and drawings is a notable example of
the power of creative desire; for creative art has as yet re-
ceived no recognition within the curriculum despite the poss-
ibilities--which. such work offers. The Arts Night program

will also include some original music, and the Modern Dance |.

Club will, present some of its own arrangements: two more
spheres i in . which, the creative talent at Bryn Mawr seeks ex-
pression. bd

The recent shift of iiudent interest to the humanities
shows ‘the attraction“which such work offers once the pres-
saute” ‘of ‘circumstances is removed; such a trend deserves full-
er recognition by the expansion of the humanities program
to ‘the creative fields as well. The need for a curriculum
change is. greatest in the cases of creative writing and cre-





ativeart, since the in Music which are now given con-
tain’ practical ‘d ion of techniques. Surely there is
_ rdom * “within the Bryn ‘Mawr curriculum. for a greater em-

gontribute very materially to the spirit of the col-|,
s hope they. are given, the oo ae bape
fs ae Re fe seme? tie

\ ‘dite be pees

creative work than is now offered. The creative] .



Editors of “The Title”
Accept Suggestions
F or March Issue



Sunday, Jan. 20th.
To the Editors:

The Title board was very pleas-
ed with the open meeting held Mon-
day, January fourteenth in the
Common Room and grateful for
the helpful suggestions which were
offered. The Title plans to act im-
mediately upon many of these.

In the March issue there will be
an article on a topic of current in-
terest which we hope will provoke
comments in the form of- letters
or short articles. These we plan to
publish in the following issue.

There will also be a contest for
the best short mystery story sub-
mitted to the magazine and the
winning entry will appear in the
spring publication,

In additien to these specific sub-
jects, we are eager to receive many
contributions, both in prose and in
poetry. We are particularly anx-
ious to have short compositions so
as to achieve greater variety. The
deadline for these will be on Feb-
ruary twentieth. Such material as
we cannot include will be returned
with a brief note explaining the
reasons for its rejection.

A meeting will be held Morday,
February eleventh, in the Common
Room at_8:15 to-which-all-students
interested in trying out for the
Editorial board, in a literary or
publicity capacity, are invited.

Meetings of The Title board are
held every Wednesday night at
7:00 o’clock in Goodhart Hall, and
anyone who wishes to get in touch
with the editors is welcome to do
so then.

Sincerely,
The Title editors.

“79 Students Request
New Power. House
Better Lighting



Dear Editor:

It has been brought to our atten-
tion that the college is considering
spending a great deal of money to
build a new gymnasium. We feel
that there are many other far more
pressing matters that should be
taken care of first. The most glar-
ing of these necessities is the light-
ing conditions, or rather the lack
thereof, under which the students
of this college are forced to study.
When we bring up this question we
are told that the college power
| house cannot possibly carry a



, greater load than it is carrying at

present; and through failures of
the power house from time to time,
this fact is impressed upon us. But
need the limitations of the present
power house forever stand an ob-
stacle to better vision? The pres-
ent.gymnasium seems to us ade-













none ae heir ee:
comesds feake: hex up any

fadher han 4



Ld0 Bo.



‘Students Urge Greater
Creative Emphasis

In Curriculum

To the Editor:

During the past few weeks,
there has been a great deal-of ‘dis-
cussion about the: value. of The
Title, both as a literary and as a
representative magazine, But_ it

this criticism, which has been con-
sistently overlooked, is that. crea-
tive writing is seriously neglected
at Bryn Mawr. Such writing is
merely tolerated as a side issue,
not treated as a subject in its own
right. Yet there are many students
who would welcome a. chance to
express themselves in other than
critical terms. Emphasis on crea-
tive as well as critical and analyti-
cal study would profit a_ liberal
arts major equally in all those
fields.

The-curriculum attempts to meet

full schedule. Therefore, instead of
being able to give such work the
especial care it requires, students
are forced by lack of time to hand
in writing which they know falls
depressingly short of what it
should be. Why are such courses
not counted as full units, and why
is more stress not placed on crea-
tive technique in the sie of lit-
erature? «/

It is these faults which are re-
sponsible for the lack of contribu-
tions to The Title. Creative work
is not encouraged for its own sake,
even though the evident interest in
a literary magazine shows that
the student body is eager for it.
We feel that college should pre-
pare students for life creatively
as well as critically, and in so doing
make fuller use of their potenti-
alities.



quate; moreover, if, hygenic fac-
Continued on Page 4

Sylvia Stallings ’48
Margaret Rudd, '47



Inciden

The eminent Mr. Rhys Carpen-
ter, famed archaeologist, has just
been: elected to the Order of Slum-
bering Groundhogs according to a
news release dated: — ‘Quarry-
ville, Pa.

Kilroy has appeared faites on
campus, evidently on leave from

he is unacquainted‘ with. Self-Gov.
rules, because he signed out the
other - night, and ‘the substitute
‘warden never did’ find him. By |
lat “reports. he has locked him-|
of the “most ~ used
rooms in a Seen, and tefused
admittance ‘to ) al concerned. “The



the Army Air Corps. Apparently |

tally...

only other aperture in the room is
one. window.

* Sociologists and psychologists
are queer people, Studying for an
exam the other day one asked an-
other where was her Sex and Tem-
pefament? It Snail tote sit un-
der the desk.

. {Insult ‘your worst’ bridge part-
ner with this bon mot over heard
the other day—“her? Oh she plays

And incidentally, one girl we
know, who takes statistics, woke

that her fingers were stiff from
| being counted on.



seems to us that the basic cause of; -

these demands by creative writing |
courses of only half units, which
are usually taken in addition to a



strictly. the backwoods convention.”

yap the ‘other morning scaapiatnlig’



NOTICES

Wyndham
. The college announces that Miss
Nicole Hermann will become as-
sistant head of the French House
upon Miss Eunice Clark’s depart-
ure for France next semester.

Deanery Rule -

The house committee of: the
Deanery wishes to remind the stud-
ents of the college that they may
not wear shorts or slacks at any
time in the Deanery.
boos Elections~-

The Freshman Class takes plea--
sure in announcing the election of
the heads of the remaining show
committees:

Writing: Dolly Lawrence
Make-up: Tally Argyropoulo
Posters: Gail Minton

Lights: Naricy Turner

Marriage Counsel

Mrs. Stuart Mudd of the Mar-
riage Counsel of Philadelphia will.
give a series of three lectures on
Marriage on Wednesday evenings,.
February 18th, 20th, and 27th at
7:15. Mrs. Mudd will be available
for individual conferences from.
8:15 to 9:15. Students who are in-
terested may sign for Hee series of
lectures.



WIT *S END

I’ve sent my body to Florida, giv-
en my hair to the wigmaker, dis-
patched my nails to the Smithson--
ian. Institute. and rented _ my
clothes to a Hareum girl. That
leaves me the delightful color
scheme of blue jeans, blue books,.
and gray matter.

All of last week was devoted to-
the proposition.that all men work
on schedules and all armies move:
on their stomachs. I divided my
remaining days into blocks, morn-
ings are ethical, afternoons are
social (ogy), and evenings are:
contemporary. (The fourth course
has me worried). -1-have balanced
hours precariously in the hope of
crowding more than sixty minutes
into each one.. My days read like: -
time tables with a one-way trip to:
Taylor every morning. (I under-
stand they carry you back). .

My room looks like the palisades:
on a clear day.. Cigarettes are:
stacked to the ceiling and canned.
soups cascade from the top of each:
mound. Flakes of notes litter the-
floor and the mirror is draped with:
a sheet. Materially I am in- ab—
sentia, just vestiges of me brain: ©
remain, —

One bright day in February I
expect to take the “cure”, three
full days ° of - shock in” the. open
world. I'll retrieve my wardrobe
from that Hareum “butterfly and.
the mind and body’ will, merge, My
pessimistic: mind turns to the fu-
ture—four ‘months to finals.

me
IW -



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Athletic Schedule
Includes Variety
Of Competitions

The new semester will span an
active period in. the athletic sched-
wie. “Matches and tournaments in
hasketball, badminton and swim-
ming will begin soon after exams,
while the formal activities of the
Dance Club have already started.

Inter-class basketball games are
scheduled early in the second sem-
ester.. Helen Brooks ’46 and Mar-
ion Moise ’47 will be the Senior and
Junior class team managerdypge-
spectively; the. others have: not yet
been apointed.

Games away from home are be-
ing instituted this year in the var-
sity schedule. All games except
the Ursinus game will be “double-
headers,” with the first and second
teams participating. In the Ursi-
nus game, the first of the season,
three teams from each college will
play.

Miss Grant also-announced a sin-
gles’ and doubles’ tournament in
badminton. Lists for signing up
will be posted at the beginning of
the. new semester. Six matches,

including singles and doubles, are |

on the docket for: the badminton
team, which has not yet been chos-
en.

Another interclass swimming
meet will be held on Tuesday,
March 5.

Alice Hedge ’46, Denny Ward ’48,

and Barbara Brown °48 participat™

ed in the form swimming clinic
held Jan. 18 at the Y.W.C.A., at
which students from ‘various col-
leges demonstrated form swim-
ming.

During the Christmas vacation,
members of the Dance Club, and
two alumnae of the college, danced
in the Lyric Theatre in Baltimore,

“with the Baltimote Philharmonic
Orchestra, and at the Academy of
Music in Philadelphia, with the
Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted
by Dr. Riedel.

Early in March, the Dance Clu)
will dance jn the Cultural Olympics
in the Irvine Auditorium at the
University of Pennsylvania, Includ-
ed in the plans of the club is a per-
formance of Hans Schuman’s ‘Cin-
derella in front of the gym.

The Dance Club wishes to stress
the fact that m@mbership in the
club is open to all’ Those who are
interested in joining are asked to
see Louise Kendall Brownell.

Modern Art Lectures
To Be Given By Barr
Continued from Page 1

director. He is the author of many
. articles on art as well as a book
on Piasso.

The first lecture, on WiLcecainy
11, is called “Art Should Be Mod-
ern”, with its general theme, “The
Rise and Decline of the Machine”.
The second lecture, to be given on
February 18, is called “Art Should
Be Pure”; its theme,
glance at Utilitarian Consequen-
ees”. The next week’s lecture, “Art
Should Be Marvelous”, involves
“Visual Poetry of enigma and
fantasy”, while the - lecture for
March fourth, called “Art Should
be Intense”, will deal with “Anx-
iety, violence, exgtacy.” The lec-
ture for March eleventh concerns
“Art Should be National”, with
“Varieties of racial and regional
self-esteem”; -and Mr. Barr’s final

__ lecture, on March 11th, will discuss
art in its relationship to the world
-we live in. This final lecture is
ealled “Art Should be Social”, and
will take up “The state _ of
world—Propaganda and prophesy.”
Mr, Barr hopes to hold a weekly



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LAST
NICHTERS
Kanin’s Born Yesterday

Presents A Message
Veiled In Comedy

i os

By Barbara Bettman, *49

Born Yesterday, Garson Kanin’s
first attempt at the legitimate
stage, now at the Locust, is a first
rate comedy, magnificently staged
and excellently acted.

The play has a message but does
not, as does so much of our cur-
rent drama, try to force it on ‘the
audience. The plot involves a
junkman (now steel) millionaire
named Harry Brock, given to wear-
ing white (Sulka) bathrobes with
Kelly green belt, cuffs, and ini-
tials, and his girlfriend with whom
he has been -er, been, for eight or
nine years.

Brock is in. Washington to high-
pressure the government into a
law, capably if .corruptly assist-
ed by his lawyer, Ed Devery, once
assistant attorney general. Brock
is a typical muscle man—*“I-been
workin’-since I was a kid”, and is
superbly acted by Paul Douglas,
complete with shoulders and no
grammar. Devery is ably portray-
ed by Otto Hulett who given an
excellent and pathetic interpreta-
tion of a once-fine man, ruined.

Billie Dawn, the ex-chorus girl,
is the prototype of the ex-chorus
girl, except that she knows she is
stupid. Her stupidity, one might
add, is somewhat allayed by (a)
her figure and (b) her clothes by
Mainbocher; however Brock and
Devery decide she needs a course
in culture. Paul Verall, the young
radical reporter from down _ the
hall, is summoned and immediately
launches Miss Dawn on a literary
career, calmly beginning with
Robert Ingersoll. Miss Dawn learns
fast and, in the course. of events,
finds that Verall’s mind is not his
sole appeal for her.

Billie, from thé girl, who, told
she would love the supreme court,
replied, “What is it?”, becomes
be-spectacled (but only for read-
ing), and aware that there is an-
other life: To Brock she explains
her simple ideas of the true form
of government, to the corrupt sen-
ator Norval Hedges she tells his
responsibilities,—and to Verall she
tells all about Brock’s corruptness,
supplementing the tale with the
necessary evidence,

Jean Arthur, who was fo have
played Billie Dawn, became _ill
just before the play opened, and
with almost no rehearsal Judy
Holliday took her place. Miss Hol-



| liday is an actress. Verall, as play-

ed by Gary Merrill, is not a very
convincing stock character who
does not have quite enough ability

very good part.
The play is extremely funny.

piece and there is a ‘gin-rummy

than anything Mack Sennett ever
thought of and a good deal subt-

‘across to one its theme that gov-
ernment can and should be the
honest and simple system it origi-
| nally was.





to make something out of a really | ;

The second act stage is a master- | |

pantomine that is much funnier

ler. And Born Yesterday gets|}

| Susie Dandridge
After ears as Denbigh’s Cook

Leaves College



cook in Denbigh, Susie Dandridge
is leaving Bryn Mawr. She can’t
recall exactly how long she’s been
here, ‘but she _remembers both
President McBride and Mrs. Man-
ning as undergraduates. —

Born in Virginia, Susie learned
the art of cooking when she was
twelve years old. While taking
care of some children she “used to
stay around and watch.”

Since she came to the college she
has witnessed many improvements;
a new maids’ dormitory in Den-
bigh, a new sewing room in Tay-
lor, and a raise in pay. In her
spare time Susie attended a sewing
class, and did some studying on the
side. But these pastimes were cur-
tailed when her eyesight began to



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CORRECTIONS

Unfortunately, several inaccura-
cies appeared in the report about
Miss Fairchild’s departure in last
week’s News. The following re-
port is correct and complete.
~ Miss Mildred Fairchild, Director
of the Department of Social Econ-
omy, is leaving Bryn Mawr to work
with the International Labour Of-
fice. The position she is taking is
in pfeparation for becoming Chief
of the Service for Women’s Work
and the Protection of Youth, to
succeed Madame Marguerite Thi-
bert wpon her .retirement.

The International Labour Office
is now located in Montreal, Can-
ada. It will be attached to the So-
cial Economic Council of the Unit-
ed Nations Organization and will
make: its headquarters wherever
UNO elects: its site. The ILO is
concerned with establishing labor
standards for recommendations to
all member nations.

‘Miss Fairchild’s assignment will
consist of research, the prepara-
tion of materials, and planning
ILO conventions as these relate to
problems of the work of women
and protection of children.



Philosophy Club

' The News regrets that an inaccu-
racy occurred in the report of Miss
Stearns’ discussion of Time before
the Philosophy Club, as shown in
the following letter from Miss
Stearns to the News,

“May I make a comment on the
account of my discussion of the
nature of Time with the Philosophy
Club on January tenth? .

“The account reads: ‘The past is
not absolute’. Perhaps this refers
to the judgment of the writer as to
the result of my position, but it
was my intention to argue, in the
discussiqn of the double nature of
the past, that in one respect it does
have an absolute character.”

After many years of service, as

fail.. Lately it has been getting
worse, and for this reason she is
leaving. Her affection for Bryn
Mawr is one that has grown with
the years, “It’s the swellest place,”
she said,
place else.”

Susie has bought a house out of
her savings, and has requested that
Bryn Mawr girls stop in and see
her from time to time. She re-
marked on President McBride’s
great diplomacy in dealing with
the maids, and of Miss Howe she
said, “She can’t be beat.”

Dean’s Office Plans
Seven New Courses

Continued from Page 1

other History of Art course, 204b,
Art of China, will be taught by
Dr. Soper on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday at 9 a.m. This course
is a.study of the arts of China
from earliest times down to the end
of the eighteenth century, special
attention being paid. to sculpture,
painting and architecture. The re-
ligious and cultural environment
of each phase of artistic evolution
will be presented in sufficient de-
tail to explain its character. Early
Indian art will be considered, pri-
marily as the source of the trans-
forming influence of Buddhism on
the Far East.

A course in Classical Archaeol-
ogy 201, Egyptian and Mesopota-
mian Archaeology will be given on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday at

11 a. m. taught by Dr, Carpenter.
English 2, Speech, taught by Mr.

Goodhart Hall.
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“The outstanding picture as far
as. American labor is concerned is
the amount of unity being kept by
labor dn the one hand and the em-
ployers on the other,” said Miss
Fairchild in discussing the current
strike situation.

She contrasted the General Mo-
tors strike, in which future ability
to pay was demanded by the union
as a deciding factor, with the oil
settlement, on the basis of the fact-
finding board’s recommendations,

and increased wartime efficiency as
determining factors in the proposed
rate. The result of this, Miss Fair-
child feels, is the tendency to elim-
inate future ability to pay from
the field of contention, although
the UAW still asserts the need for
some socialized control of “specu-
lative capital.”

The developments in the steel
strike, in which the CIO lowered
its demands to a 19%% rise in
wage rates, andthe employers
raised their offer to 15%, show a
narrowing of the points of differ-
ence between the two groups. The
oil settlement further indicates the
elimination of labor’s demand that
wartime take-home. pay be retain-
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We have solemnly promised _nev-
er again to gripe! The Mt. Holy-
oke News reports that “As of No-
vember 1, every student will be en-
titled to two late permissions a
- semester. In. case of utmost ur-
gency an appeal can be made for
a third one. An appeal... will be
jadged on necessity and discrimin-
ation in the use of the first two.”

Truly representing the other half,
we quote from a column headed

“The President’s Corner’ in the
Mac Weekly (Macalester College).

“Examinations are a necessary
evil, and they produce some good.
Without examinations, a few, even
among Macalester students might
not be persuaded to study at all...

Examination taking, in not an in-
spiring process. It requires...a
very clear head not confused by
too much loss of sleep ... The
thing to do with examinations,
then, is to face them, not to fear
them ... Don’t worry about - it,
either before the event or after-
wards.” Go on, you heard what the
man said!

Maybe we should have gone to a
university ... Then we could have
a@ newspaper printing classified ads
like this one from The Varsity
(University of Toronto): PER-
SONAL—Maude:To blazes with
Oscar. What about my message?
Joe.”

The Varsity also reminds all its
students that they must register
for a seat for each of their May
final examinations by February 1.
Honest—a- seat. It seems that the
Registrar’s office can’t keep track
of the 5000 students. “If there are
only two or three students taking
the course, and they don’t bother
registering—then there isn’t an ex-
am set! ... Say a dozen or so in
your course don’t register. When
you arrive you might Agd no room
to write, or not eno papers.”
Confusing, but sounds like it has
possibilities.

Vassar reports a Domestic Arch-





TH
LU Arts Night’ Selects
|Plays for Production

Continued from Page 1

Jerry is helplessly drawn in..
Alternative Selection

Because of the difficulty present-
ed by the requirement of a cast
able to handle negro dialect, it may
be necessary to produce Round and
Round the Mulberry Bush, by Eliz-
abeth Jones Worth, ’46. This ad
was chosen by the class and/
Thon as the alternate to The Trail
of the Serpent. It deals with the
problem of a returning veteran
trying to reconstruct the under-
standing and love between him and
his girl friend.

Scripts Available in Library

For the benefit of those interest-
ed in trying out for parts in-these
plays the folowing description of
the characters is given, and scripts
will be available at the loan desk
in the library.

Characters

The characters in Francis Likes
Cream, Too, are “‘George Moon, a
small boy of about 12; Vera, a
negro maid; Mrs. Moon, a small
woman of about 48; Madeline
Moon, a beautiful girl of 27; Mrs.
Thorp, a 40-year-old woman, very
sensible; Mr. Thorp, a 40-year-old
man, not very sensible.”

In The Trail of the Serpent the
characters are “Pearl, an elderly
woman, who takes in washing and
keeps house for Jerry and Lily
May; Jerry, her eon, recently
drafted by the U. S. Anmy, but |
home on leave at the time of the
play; Lily May, Pearl’s seventeen-

year-old niece; Vinnie, a young,
married woman, friend and neigh-
bor of Pearl’s, who keeps a watch-
ful eye upon her interests; George,
an older negro man, who does odd
jobs in a neighborhood. ~








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itectare Course which concentrated ,
on drawing plans “for the proposed |
new apartment house for the lower-
salaried members of the faculty. "Th
One of the best three student plans
will actually be used in the con-
struction of the building.

About the new Vassar magazine
(2nd issue), the Miscellany says,
“in addition to the literary mater-
fal in both original works and crit-



itism, the range of the articles
covers painting, stage design, mu-
sic, and the theatre.” Wonder if
Bryn Mawr couldn’t do that for
The Title?

Vassar again—the Physics de-
partment gives a course in photog-
raphy, developing, printing and en-
mune for forty students.

AFTER GRADUATION |

Tobe-Coburn School, New York,

- offers three fellowships to seniors.
Training for positions in merchan-
dising, advertising, styling, display,
and personnel. Applications must
be in by Jan. 31. Blanks in Room
H or in the Bureau Office 3rd floor,
Taylor Hall.

College Entrance Examination
Board, Princeton, New Jersey. Test
construction. -$1800 for inexperi-

Position open. now

: but others like it come in from
time to time.

J. L. Hudson Co. (Department
Store), Detroit, Mich. Junior ex-
ecutive training. Applications ac-
cepted at any time. $30-$35 a week.

Shipley Lower School. Proctor for
study hall. Thursdays 2:30-4:15.

Fifty cents an hour.

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{19 Students Ask

For More Light

Continued From Page 2

tors are being considered, ought
not eyesight rank foremost?

The lighting facilities provided
in dormitory rooms are very poor
but in certain individual cases, this
difficulty can be alleviated at the
insistatice. of the student’s person-
al physici The lighting condi-
tions of the library, however, can
in no such way be coped with and
the average stugent must, of ne-
cessity, do a great deal of her
work in this building.

We would like to urge, therefore,
that this money be spent, either in
building a new power house cap-
able of supporting the additional

burden for decent light, or that-

other measures be taken with the
same end in view.
Sincerely yours,

Rothschild, Stix, Campbell, Gor-
don, Kingsbury, Morris, Luley,
Boas, Black, Polakoff, McIntyre,
Minton, Waldman, Spalding, Chit-
tenden, Kuhn, Pestronk, Carmich-
ael, Revici, King, Colwell, Vala-
bregue, Huyssoon, Busch, Geib,
Thomas, Kneil, Wheeler, Dame,
Blackman, Pickens, Worthington,
Behner, Pattison, Pitt, Robillard,
Sherman, Vitkin, Quinn, Darling,
Willard, Peiker, Wurlitzer, Austin,
Lilly, ‘Levin, Henry, Redrow, Kel-
ley, Smith, Clark, Moore, Knap-
lund, Tan, Beetlestone, Julian, Kol-
din, Reifschneider, Louise, Flory,
Harwood, Underhill, Dudley, Bish-
op, Pearson, Smucker, Baker, Hein-
eman, Fowkes, Peters, McKee,
White, Conroy, Marvin, Davis, Po-
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Elizabeth, Willkie, and..Roosevélt
Drop in at Pembroke’s Seance



by Mareia Dembow °47

We. sent our spirits to a seance
one evening at Pembroke. They
reported that the room was slight-
ly crowded, what with meager hu-
man forms and many anonymous
spirits. panting heavily down their
backs. In the far corner was an
improvised Ouija Board with_ all
the coyness and whimsicallity of
a board that F. A. -O. Schwartz
have been pampering for years.
Near the fireplace sat a masked
woman ready to delve into mental
telepathy of which the room reek-
ed.

We asked the pencil questions
and unaided (except for two fin-
gers of the pusher. behind it) the

pencil wrote clever cliches We
pressed our fingers on Ouija (an
ordinary glass endowed with mys-
tical powers) and he spelled some
very mystic words. If he had
really come from F. A. O. we

The masked writer was in the
depts of her seance. We ceased to
breathe for hours, lest .the noise
disturb her. In this state of sus-
pended animation (we were allow-
ed to roll our eyes) Franklin Roose-
velt, Wendell Willkie and Queen
Elizabeth joined us. They had just
come back from a mad party at
Essex’s place and were highly

communicative. As a matter of
| fact, the pencil was writing at both
ends. Elizabeth was extremely re-
vealing about her private life. She
admitted to being a woman (and
what a woman) and added that
those stories ’bout Essex were ru-
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