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‘Wednesday, January 17, 1951

THE COLLEGE NEWS



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LAST NIGHTERS W.P. Decides US Should

Silvana Mangano Acts |

In ‘Bitter Rice’
Superbly
By Jane Augustine, ’52

Bitter Rice is an Italian film
about the hundreds of women who
go yearly as migratory labor into
the rice-fields to work for forty
days at the backbreaking task of
gathering, hulling, and re-planting
the rice—a job which must be done
entirely by hand. Where so many
women go, there men go also; this
story concerns two women in par-
ticular, and one man. Silvana
(played by Silvana Mangano,
glorifying in the lust she inspires
in men, proud of her pseudo-
American dancing to cheap gram-
ophone jazz, betrays and then be-
friends frightened city girl Fran-
cesca (played by Doris Dowling),
inexperienced in the rice-fields.
Francesca carries with her jewels
she stole from her lover Vanni
(played by Victor Gassman); Sil-
vana is wearing the diamond neck-
lace when he comes to get it.

Vanni, completely selfish, has
used Francesca for his. own evil
purposes, and he reviles her for
stealing the paste imitation of the
necklace he wanted. He then falls
in love—if that expression is not
too lofty a description of his feel-
ings—with Silvana, and he de-
clares his intention to marry her
when he has gotten the money
from the rice he is stealing from

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On Wednesday, January 10, the
Philadelphia Fencing Association
sponsored a tournament at Bryn
Mawr in which the Tyler School
of Art, Pennsylvania University,
and Bryn Mawr took part. Bryn
Mawr had three entries: Maggie
Glenn, Joyce Greer, and Alice Hen-
drick. Alice Hendrick won the
tournament.

Hood College fener “a play
cay on Saturday, January 138, to
which Bryn Mawr, Hood, and Wil-
son sent representatives for bad-
minton, swimming, basketball,
fencing and ..other sports. ,, Bryn
Mawr placed last although, : ‘they
came in second in eyery event they
entered, because. Hood and.,Wilson
both sent. bowling and ping -pong
teams. In the badminton competi-
tign McCulloch won both her single
matches, .but Reigle. and, Martin
lost their doubles: For. swimming,
McCulloch took the 40 .yard. free
style and L, Warrén, Harvey, and
Osma alternated, placing second or
third in the. back’ crawl;: -breast
stroke, and relay races. The basket-
ball team beat Hood only to be
beaten by Wilson. The team was
made up of five squad and one non-
squad members. They. too , won
against Hood and were beaten by
Wilson. Hood was extremely. hos-
pitable, entertaining Bryn Mawr
and Wilson with various skits,
‘afterwards.

On Saturday, January 13, the
dance club sent a group to Barnard
College in New York where about
nine colleges, including Bryn Mawr,
Barnard, Sarah Lawrence, Hunter,
and New York University, took
part in a dance symposium. First
there was a lesson from Mera Cun-
ningham who used to dance with
Martha Graham’s troop and is now
teaching on his own. Then each
group presented a dance or dances
from their repertoire. Bryn Mawr’s
“The Night” adapted from a pass-
age of the Koran was the only
dance drama, the others being







mostly folk and abstract material.
Each performance was criticized
by Louis Hoist, Martha Graham’s
accompanist and editor of “Dance
‘Observer.” One of the main differ-
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| Render Help to Japan

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tonomous specialized agencies as
E.C.A., the Council of Economic
Advisers, the Central Intelligence
Agency; Colonel Beukema, head of
the Department of Social Sciences
spoke on the military bases of for-
eign policy; and finally, columnist
Joseph Alsop indicated the function
of the press and of public opinion
in the formulation of foreign pol-
icy.

Each round table met for a total
of about fifteen hours of discussion
and argument, and some of the
sections even had after-hours ses-
sions. Then on Saturday afternoon
we met in plenary session to hear
the reports of the panels: what
long- and short-range programs
they thought the United States
should follow in the respective
areas. All four reports agreed 9n
two points; that although we must
pursue a firm and consistent pol-
icy in the Far East, Europe is and
should be our primary area of con-
cern; and that the objectives of
any foreign policy must be Peace,
Freedom, and Security. Substan-
tial agreement was also found in
the idea that we must not oppose
a nation simply because its ide-
ology differs from ours (e.g. Yugo-
slavia), but should oppose only
those nations who commit aggres-
sion or who try to effect changes
by other than peaceful means. It
was considered essential that we
act through and with the United
Nations whenever possible; but
there was disagreement as to how
much we should allow ourselves to
be restrained by inability to reach
decisions there.

The more specific conclusions of
one panel were often inconsistent
with those of another. The Japan
and Korea group proposed that Ja-
pan be encouraged and aided to
become economically self-sufficient,
by reestablishment of her merchant
marine, by the revival of light in-
dustry and by “not opposing the
revival of some heavy industry”
(one of many compromise phrases
which actually meant entirely dif-
ferent things to different people),
by continuance of financial aid, by
encouraging reciprocal trade agree-
ments especially with the agrarian
nations of Southeast Asia and with
India, by encouraging exchanges
of personnel and information.

Politically, it was agreed that
we should ‘encourage a “stable,
friendly, non- aggressive govern-
ment of the Japanese’s: own choos-
ing” and should gradually decrease
the.occupational controls. It was
felt that negotiations for a peace
treaty should continue, and that
the Japanese people should be rep-
resented in such deliberations, but
there was a split as to whether
signing it now and ceasing the oc-
cupation would be consistent with
United States security at the pres-
ent time. It was unanimously

‘agreed that no reparations should
| be extracted, but that base rights

and right of transit should be re-
tained. Other than that, Japan
should have her four main islands,
there was no agreement possible
as to how many, if any, of her for-
mer possessions, such as the Bonin
and Ryukyu Islands should be
left to her. Somewhat inconsistent-
ly, the report provided that the
treaty should prohibit any con-
flicting treaties; and then went on
to say that although it should be
multi-lateral, if the Soviet Union
will not sign, it should go into
effect nonetheless.

In discussing the question of
Korea, it was accepted that the
United States “should remain in
Korea if the price is not excessive,
consistent with the fact that we
consider Europe our major immedi-
ate concern.” This again was an
accord on phraseology only, for the
group was split as to whether the
price is, and will continue to be,
excessive. There was agreement

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Between the Leaves

Gilbert’s Translation
On Hitler Hailed
As Unique

Specially Contributed by
Stephen Joseph Herben

Hitler Directs His War, trans-
lated and annotated by Felix Gil-

bert, Oxford University Press,
New York, 1950, is one of the most

extraordinary and valuable books'|

that has come out since the defeat |
|Rudolf Bing, is still one of the

of Germany. It is unlikely that any-

thing comparable will emerge, for |

this is a book to which one may



“LAST NIGHTERS

Brilliant ‘Rosenkavelier’ |
Enthusiastically
Received
by Betty-Jeanne Yorshis, ’52

The
pany of New York made one of

its trips to Philadelphia with the

performance of Der Rosenkavalier
Tuesday night, January 9, 1951.
This opera, one of the few that has
neither been re-staged, refurbish-
ed, or shelved by the new manager,

most brilliant and colorful the Met
|has ever done, and very popularly
received wherever performed. The

properly apply the word unique.} production Tuesday night did have

In May, 1945, the American forces
came into possession of a huge
cache of partly burned documents
at Berchtesgaden which included
the of
daily military conferences held by
Hitler and his highest military and
naval officers. A series of these
constitute the materials from
which this book is derived.

-Much has been written and said
about the Tapetfresser by those
who were intimately associated

stenographic transcripts

with him, or who fought against,

‘ ‘ re-examinati iod i ing:
him, but nowhere can one obtain | P amination period is amazing;

so direct and reliable a view of
what manner of person he was or
of how he dominated his admirals
and old marshals. The protocols
here translated cover 1943 and 1944
with three of the next spring, so
that the reader is present at con-
ferences which involve’ great
changes in the fortunes of war for
the Nazis. Throughout there is
plentiful evidence of Hitler’s per-
petual interference in matters of
strategy and tactics and of his
cynical distrust of his generals. Ti-
rades are not infrequent and are
sometimes vulgar and savage. His
contemptuous diatribe at von Paul-
us for having surrendered at Stal-
ingrad instead of committing sui-
cide is illustrative. That he was
vindictive is only too evident.
Four’events of major importance

take place during the period cover-

ed by these records, the fall of
Mussolini, the invasion of North
Africa, the attempt at assassina-
tion, and-the collapse of the East-
ern front. Of the war in the west
and. the retreat of German forces
from’ France there is less report,
but.one’ has a feeling that there
was an unawareness of the impend-
ing disaster to German arms and

little eognizance of the actual sit-

uation. Hitler’s vengeance on those |

‘who opposed him is only too well

known, but it is illuminating, if
unedifying, to read what’ he had to
say about Rommel, for example, or
von Kluge.

It would be an error to suppose
that this book is entirely a reflec-
tion of Schickelgruber. The Fuehr-
er is the dominant person but the
cast is large. Professor Gilbert has
given a list of the participants in
the conferences and when it is re-
called that there usually were some

‘twenty present, it is understand-

able that the list should be long.
The great majority are from the
general staff and the astonishing
thing is that differences in opinion
are very nearly wanting when Hit-
ler is involved. The title is well
chosen: this is Hitler directing his
war.

Those who are interested in the
history of the second irruption of
German armed forces in the twen-
tieth century can, by grace of this
book, be present at the actual head-
quarters of Nazi power and wit-
ness the processes by which that
relentless infliction of will was op-
erated. It does not explain all that
the reader may wish to have ex-
plained, but it will describe and he
may draw his own inferences. He
will agree that it is required read-
ing.

its





novel effects, however—one
planned and one unforeseen. The
latter was the replacement of Rise
Stevens who was ill, by Jarmila
Novatna, to sing Octavian, the
former was the casting of Helen

Traubel to sing the Marschallin. |
Traubel, in spite of doubts to be’
had over her ability to fulfill the |

dramatic requirements of the part,
came through magnificently. Step-

Observer

The difference between a pre-
vacation period and a post-vacation



the change is so marked and com-
plete.

Before vacation groups of girls
sit gossiping in the smoker over
after-dinner coffee, leaning back
with looks of great expectation on
their faces. “I just can’t wait ¢
get home. Such-and-such is having
a party and I hope to heaven so-

and-so asks me to go.” “We’re go-|
ing skiing in Colorado and I have-!|

n’t been skiing in so long.” “He
asked me to see that new musical
with him and I just can’t wait.”

Such are the general comments and

the general atmosphere. They just
can’t wait. When the 1:09 leaves
that Friday, there is a mass migra-
tion.

After vacation the girls crawl
back slowly one by one, as dark. |

‘ness closes in late on a Sunday

evening. There js little comment, |
except to best friends, and even
that is ‘limited. They sit in the
smoker with tired, white faces and |

a dejected’ look. “Oh, what a tre- |

mendotis vacation!” “Oh, how I
hated to come back!” “Just think | .
we’ve exams coming up and 1!
haven’t begun my reading.” There
is little conversation and in a few
days ‘reluctant text books begin
to appear as the hall settles back
| to work.

Metropolitan Opera Com-.

“| she played her

ping out from her static Wagner-
jian roles, she seemed freed from
| any constraint that these might
| have put upon her, and moved with
lightness and vivacity during the

evening. :

|
'

In the first act, when she plays
the part of a Rococo lady, she
made Octavian’s love for her 'be-
lievable, and her entrance and ac-
tions in the third act were perfec-
tion. Dressed in a long flowing
red gown, and wearing a lavish
plumed hat, she seemed almost
slim, and carried herself with a
dignity and grace befitting the
Princess von Werdenberg she por-
trayed. Vocally, of course, she was
without reproach. Her aria in the
first act, “Da geht ihr hin”, when
she mourns: her lost youth, was
beautifully sung, as were all her
other arias throughout the opera.

Der Rosenkavalier was also en-
hanced iby a new German soprano,
Erna Berger, who sang Sophie.
|This young woman seemed to
laugh at the difficulties of the role,
and sang effortlessly and master-
fully through the evening. Her
aria, “Wo war ich?”, sung with
Octavian, can only be said to have
been superb. Starting with a pi-
anissimo which was easily heard
in the fourth balcony, she increas-
ed to a forte which she held in a
manner defying her small frame
and holding the audience spell-
bound. Her voice was not only
technically fine, but it contained
warmth and purity which made it
|a pleasure to hear, Dramatically,
part very well,
| portraying a sweet and tender So-
phie.

The other principals, Baron Ochs
and Octavian were highly compe
tent. Baron Ochs, sung by Fritz
Krenn, was delightfully coarse and
comic, while Octavian, sung by
Jarmila Novatna, was suitably ro-
mantic and mannish. Novatna oc-
_asionally seemed unsure of her-
self, stalking about the stage as a
masculine Mariandel, and one
‘missed the certainty that Rise Ste-
vens gives to the role, but she
sang adequately and blended very
well with Traubel and Berger.







| The principals were supported >
by a large and admirably chosen
‘cast, who fulfilled their roles ex-
traordinarily well. The two Ital-
ian spies were suitably sly, and
von Faninal was appropiiately ar-
rogant. Kurt Baum, who sang the
tenor aria in the first act, delivered
the song with a flourish that only



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Rare Whitman Volumes Add Interest: .
Now Displaved in B. M. College Library

by Claire Robinson, 54

The Rare Book Room of the M.
Carey Thomas Library is of special
interest these days, for there is on
display a collection of manuscrip*s
of particular interest to those who
know the elusive poet of the middle
1800’s, Walt Whitman. The books
in this collection include not only
early publications of Whitman’s
own works—many of them first
editions—but also books from his
private collection, annotated by the
poet. The books in the collection
were given to Bryn Mawr on June
5, 1950, by Julie Harned Pardie, ’39,
and Louise Harned, ’50, both of
whom are’ granddaughters of
Thomas B. Harned, one of the three
literary executors for Walt Whit-
man. Of the present Harned callec-
tion, 37 manuscript notebooks have
been given to the Library of Con-
gress, and the remainder, books
from Walt Whitman’s own library,
are now the property of the Bryn
Mawr College Library. There is a
letter in the collection, telling how
the famous Leaves of Grass came
into being. Written by another of
Whitman’s literary executors, the

letter states that Whitman had!

| said, shortly before his death, “T1’ll
kick the bucket before long, and .
you fellows will have charge of
things.” These “things,” later to be
Leaves of Grass, were first pub-
lished in 1899, and titled simply,
Notes and Fragments. The edition
preface states: “The notes printed
in this volume came into the hands
of the publishers in scrapbooks and
in bundles . . . loose sheets and
small pieces of paper of endless
sizes, shapes and descriptions—
some even written on scraps of
wall paper.”

Among the books which were
Whitman’s own there are titles
such as: Greece, Ancient and Mod-
ern; Essays—Speculative and Sug-
gestive; The Duties of Man; and
several volumes of Shelley and
Tennyson. There is one long pass-
age carefully marked by Whitman
in the volume of The Duties of Man
which may be a revelation of Whit-
man the poet and the man. It
reads: “It is’ possible to attain
such an exalted pitch of wisdom
and virtue that the soul escapes
the condemnation of existence and
merges its individuality with the
universality of the world soul.”