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Monday, May 1, 1950

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



LAST NIGHTERS

:
Michelangelo’s Works
Make ‘The Titan’
Film History
by Jane Augustine, ’52

At a small moving-picture thea-
tre on Philadelphia’s Market
Street, a movie is now playing that
has no human beings in it; yet it
tells the story of one of the world’s
greatest periods of history and of
one of its greatest artists. It is
The Titan, the story of Michaelan-
gelo. Frederic March, with the
help of Michael Sonnabend, a
photographer - genius whd can
paint pictures with a camera, has
successfully revealed the life of
Michelangelo, using sculpture and
painting only, and the surround-
ings in which he worked—never
resorting to actors. This approach
to an artist’s life is certainly the
truest.

Any actor’s portrayal of the art-
ist must necessarily carry with it
a degree of falsehood. For the
man’s life as a human being and
his artistic life are quite detached
from each other; and unless the
director is skillful, and the histor-
ical details well-known, an attempt
to present both sides of the artist’s
personality is liable to fail. Usu-
ally the movies simply glamorize
and distort the social side of a
great artist’s life, and neglect his
‘work completely. This movies does
the exact opposite;

beauty and grandeur, for the phil-
osophy behind it, for the actual
physical effort it demanded of its
creator, and for the influence upon
it of the Florentine mode of living,
the politics of the Vatican during
the Renaissance.

The splendid palace of Lorenzo
de Medici, “Il Magnifico”, in which
the poor young stonecutter lived
and worked, is shown in detail;
here he created his earliest sta-
tues. From Florence, Michelan-
angelo went to Rome, where he
went through the ruins of the
Roman Forum, and explored the
pagan beauties of antique re-
mains. They inspired his statue,
Bacchus.

At Rome also, the Christian in-
fluence was strong, and he did sev-
eral statues of the Virgin Mary.
Of these is the incomparably love-
ly statue of Mary holding in her
arms a Divine Son, crucified. The
camera explores, with care and
with reverence, every part of the
statue. It shows the complete ten-
derness of Mary’s expression, and
the pathos of the pierced hands
and feet of Christ. His face is a
man’s face; God has been forced to
leave the human form.

Continued on Page 6





Hurry on down —
LOVELY COTTONS AT

Nancy Brown









it explores Bryn Mawr
Michelangelo’s work for its sheer
Round the Maypole |
gay and light Keep your May Day

Working’ up an
appetite !
satisfy it at
HAMBURG HEARTH
LANCASTER AVENUE



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baskets filled
with flowers

from

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The Grill, Scott Hall
Northwestern University
Evanston & Chicago, Ill.

Two Receiving CARE Packages
Write Bryn Maur in Gratitude

Irina Nelidow has asked the
NEWS to print the following let-
ters, which should be of interest
to all students. The first is only
one of the very many letters from
Germany thanking us for the Bryn
Mawr CARE contribution. It is
addressed to Common Treasurer
Mousie Wallace.

»Dear Miss M. G. Wallace:

Last week my mother and I had
a very happy day when we got
your box and we want to thank
you now for your generosity from
the bottom of our hearts. How glad
we were is difficult to tell, you
must know it is the first box we
ever got from the U.S.A. and the
marvelous things we unpacked
were all ours. It seemed to be a
sign of heaven not to feel so sad
as we often do...

Once again I thank you very
much for helping us.



Now I want to try to tell you
who we are. In the beginning of
1945 we had to leave our home, a
farm in East Prussia and got with
mostly everything lost here a new
place to jlive. My father got lost
during “the violent days of our
flight. Later we learned he has
died in Denmark. Two brothers of
mine have been killed in aktion
during the war and so we are left
my mother not feeling better at
all, me and my brother who lives
in the Hannover area. Our great-
est desire is to get possibility to
live together. But under the condi-
tions of today this is very difficult
and we will have to wait for a time
till our wish will come true.

I am glad that we will have soon
spring and everything will look
better. I hope that I will. go see
my brother during the Easter holi-

Continued on Page 6



Miss McBride Reads
List of Scholarships

Continued from Page 4

Memorial Scholar, 1949-50.

Seven College National Scholarship
Marion Marie Coleman of Colby,

Kansas. Prepared by Colby Com-

munity High School, Colby, Kan-

sas. Seven College National Schol-

ar, 1949-50.

Chinese Scholarship
Betty Peh-ti Wei of Flushing,
Long Island, New York. Prepared
by Ginling Girls High School, Nan-
king, China; and the Chapin
School, New York City. Chinese
Scholar, 1949-50.

Bryn Mawr Club of Southern
California Scholarship

Janet Eleanor Leeds of San Mar-
ino, California. Prepared by South
Pasadena High School, South Pas-
adena, California. Amy Sussman
Steinhart Scholar and Bryn Mawr
Club of Southern California Schol-
ar, 1949-50.











The Grill at Scott Hall is one of the
favorite campus haunts of the stu-
dents at Northwestern University.
That’s because The Grill is a
friendly place, always full of the
busy atmosphere of college life.



There is always plenty of ice-cold
Coca-Cola, too. For here, as in col-
lege gathering spots everywhere—
Coke belongs.

"Ash for tt either way ... both
trade-marks mean the same thing.

Yes, Camels are SO MILD that in a coast-to-coast test
of hundreds of men and women who smoked Camels —
and only Camels—for 30 consecutive days,. noted throat
specialists, making weekly examinations, reported



NOT ONE SINGLE CASE
OF THROAT IRRITATION
due to smoking CAMELS!

¢ piu 1¢
State Tax
BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY

The Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company
© 1950, The Coca-Cola Company.





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