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VOL. XLV, NO. 5 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1948



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Eliot Clarifies
Duty of Writer
To Poet’s Idiom

Discussion Afterward
Reveals Position

Of the Poet

Goodhart, October 26: T. S. Eliot,
as the Ann Elizabeth Sheble lec-
turer, drew an audience of almost
2000 people to hear selected read-
ings of his poems. Basing his read-
ings on the chronological order of
the poems, Mr. Eliot began with
the “Preludes,’”’.which are, explain-
ed Mr. Eliot, “the least embaras-
sing of the earlier poems.”

“La Figlia che Piangie” de-
scribes Eliot’s feelings about a
statue which he “was told to see,
searched for, but never found.”
Then followed “Sweeney Among
the Nightingales,” the poet’s favor-
ite in this group. “Gerontion’”’ was
included because in a_ sense its
rythms and use of disconnected
images prepare for The Wasteland.
Reading the section “What the
Thunder Said” from The Waste-
land, Mr. Eliot declined to com-
ment, for “there are so many peo-
ple now who know so much more
about The Wasteland than I do,
that I have become modest.”

The first and last sections of
“Ash Wednesday” were read next,
and an Ariel poem, “Marina,”
based on Shakespeare’s The Temp-
est. “As relief” Mr: Eliot read two
Landscapes: ““New Hampshire” and
“Virginia.” “Dry Salvage,” one of
the Four Quartets, was Mr. Eliot’s
final reading.

Continued on page 3

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Flexner’s ‘Puzzle Pond’ Charms
By Simplicity of Style and Story

‘Puzzle Pond’ by Hortense Flexner
Drawings by Wyncie King
by Skip Martin ’49

In a month or so, you may be
looking for a (Christmas present
for a very small relative. Puzzle

Pond, the work of a Bryn Mawr

grad, may very well be your ans-

wer. Wyncie King, husband of the
author and illustrator of the book,
has left his own mark on Bryn

Mawr by cartooning the delightful

posters of the 1933 Faculty Show

Wilcox Analyzes
U.S. Participation

In Eur. Recovery

Goodhart, Oct. 25. In the fourth
Shaw lecture, Dr. Clair Wilcox dis-
cussed the United States’ role in
European recovery, the implica-
tions of the Marshall Plan, and the
probability of its success. The ba-
sic political strategy of the United
States is to promote the economy
of Western Europe and to estab-
lish democracy in that area. “If
the state of Western Europe can
be made stable and strong,” said
Mr. Wilcox, “the Soviet Union will
find it expedient to come to terms
with the Western Powers.”

The Marshall Plan, he continued,
“a plan not of relief but of recov-
ery,” has. .serious implications.
“The emphasis is on European in-
itiative, self-help, and mutual aid,”
In Europe there must be continued
co-operation between individual
countries and increasing economic
unity if the plan is to succeed and
Western ‘Europe be _ self-sufficient
by 1952. In the United States there
must be a continuous assumption
of responsibility and willingness to
see the program through to its ful-
fillment.

European Non-Cooperation

‘At present Western Europe is
far from co-operating politically
and economically, and it is not
making much progress toward
pooling resources or cutting inter-
national trade barriers. There is
a constant danger that the United
States will only provide Europe
with dole and not enough money

Continued on page 3





Problems of Harcum Switchboard
Confuse BMC ‘‘Commercialists”

by Melanie Hewitt °50

A worm of feverish commercial-
ism has eaten into Pem East.
“When do we get paid?” “How
much did you make tonight?” As
well as, “What happened, did you
cut somebody ‘off?” The explana-
tion is fairly simple. Seven girls
have taken over. the switchboard
at Harcum. They take a night per
-week—five to eleven—and five to
one on Fridays and Saturdays. The
pay is 75 cents an hour, but many
strange things have happened to
Nancy Martin, Edee La Grande,
and Co. in the last three weeks.

Two panels of the PBX vanish-
ed into the switchboard one night,

and Edee had to use the length of
her arm to plug in connections un--

til the telephone men came, two
hours later. All of us have had to
search for lost dates, watchmen,
coats and bracelets. We provide

chauffeurs, fuses, ring bells, and
take involved messages.

We made a lot of mistakes in
isarning; Nancy Martin had to
__teach all six of us._The-author-vi-.

_vidly remembers the mysterious



call from Garden City that floated
from phone to phone all one long
night. Everyone who called seemed
mixed up in it. ‘We concluded that
someone at \Harcum was calling
herself under the impression that
she was,in (Garden City.

Then there was the night some-
one at Harcum called to say that
the fuses had blown out. We at
the switchboard dispatched watch-
men and housekeepers'to the mur-
ky scene, but these returned angri-
ly saying that every light was
burning. We had a hard time ex-
plaining that! Transferring calls
is rather alarming too. A man
calls, and finding’ that the girl of
his first choice is out calls six oth-
ers in rapid succession, peppering
the board with red lights and mix-
ed chords. On the whole, however,
we find that the saga of the
switchboard is pale when written
for publication. It is better told
—with gestures. As a recently
purloined copy of th m
newspaper has it, and gladly
quote; “She~-will -someday~ ‘write a
novel.”



which now hang in the Pem West
smoker.

This children’s tale is com-
pounded very simply of the ele-
ments: nearest to children: there
is animal interest, excitement, sus-
pense and the popular theme of the
boy who has his finger in the adult
pie and helps to solve the prob-
lem. The problem in this case is
mosquitoes.

The plot has a plausible and at-
tractive simplicity. Young Davy,
visiting his grandfather on Big
Blueberry Island, explains the an-
noying problem of mosquitoes by
saying that they come from dbeav-
ers. On the mainland where Davy
lived, there were beavers, and mos-
quitoes bred on their ponds, though
Davy didn’t have the connection
quite straight in his mind. Every
one laughed, since Big Blueberry
Island didn’t have any. beavers—

Continued on page 2

Harsch Explains
Foreign Policy’s
Purpose, Method

Goodhart, October 21: Speaking
on “Our Foreign Policy,” at the
first -Alliance-sponsored Current
Affairs Assembly for this year,
Joseph C. Harsch, C.B.S. news
commentator, declared that our
main purpose in Foreign Policy is
to prevent the alliance of European
industry and brainpower with the
enormous raw material of Soviet
Russia. If this alliance of East and
West should ever come about, the
United States would no longer. be
in control of its own destiny.
Therefore the situation in Europe
today is of vital importance to us,
more so than the equally depress-



NEWS ELECTIONS

The. NEWS takes great plea-
sure in announcing the election
of the following members to the

| Editorial Staff: Jean Augustine,
Betty .Beierfeld, Linda Bett-
man, Jacqueline Esmerian, Julie
Ann Johnson, Betty Lee, Claire
Liachowitz, Joan McBride, Jane
Roller, Joanna Semel.







ing situation in the Far East be-
cause: “We cannot lose the world
in a day in the Far East.”

Mr. Harsch said that we tend to
overlook the fact that this threat
is not new, but the same one that
appeared in ,the time of Napoleon,
of the Kaiser Wilhelm, and of Hit-
ler. However, our foreign policy
problems were simpler in former
eras, when Britain was the dom-
inant world power; today we have
become heirs to many British prob-
lems. We also tend to credit Rus-

Continued on page 3



Calendar

Thursday, October 28

8:30 p. m. Freshman Talk,
Common Room.
Friday, October 29

8:00 p. m. Freshman Hall
Plays, Theatre Worshop.
Saturday, October 30

9:00 a. m., Hygiene Exam,
‘Taylor. ~

8:00 p. m., Freshman Hall
‘Plays, Theatre Workshop.
Sunday, October 31

5:00 p. m., Young Musicians
Concert, Music Room.
__7:15 p. m., Chapel, Dr. Harold
Bosley, Music Room.







Statistics df Poll
Proclaim Dewey

Leading Candidate

The results of the NEWS-Alli-
ance election poll are as follows:
Dewey won by a majority of 125
votes, collecting 267 votes, and the
totals for the other candidates
were, for Truman, 51 votes, for
Norman .Thomas, 35, for ‘Wallace,
32, for Thurmond, 7. Eight voters
were undecided, and twelve ex-
pressed opinions without voting for
anyone. The total number of
votes cast came to 412, which is
57.6% of the total student body,
including the graduate students.

Of these, 64.8% were for Dewey,
12.4% for Truman, 8.5% for
Thomas, 7.8% for ‘Wallace, 1.7%
for Thurmond, while 1.9% were
undecided and 2.9% did not actual-
ly vote, although they expressed
their views on the probable results
of the election.

Of the 412 students that voted,
47 were of voting age. When the
protest votes were counted, 61 of
the votes for Dewey were protest
votes, 24 of those for Truman were
protest, 20. of those for. ‘Wallace,
30 of those for Thomas, and 4 of
those for Thurmond.

When asked whom they thought
would win, 377 said Dewey, 7 said
Truman, 1 said Wallace, .and 7

‘Continued on page 4

52 Will Present

Seven Hall Plays
Friday, Saturday

The Freshman Hall plays will
highlight this weekend. Three plays
Friday night and four Saturday
will be held in the Otis Skinner
Workshop.

Friday night’s plays begin with
Rockefeller’s In the Shadow of the
Glen, by Synge, directed by Emily
Townsend ’50. The play is an Irish
comedy-drama about a man who
“plays dead” to spy on his wife.
The Freshman director is J.
Stevens, and the stage manager is
S.Bramann. The second play will
be Radnor’s Six Who Pass While
the Lentils Boil, by Stuart Walker,
directed by Cecelia MacCabe ’50. It
is a fantasy about a little boy who
hides a queen from a beheading
(which is due her) because she
stepped on the toe of the king’s
great aunt. The ‘Freshman director
in L. Bettman; stage manager, L.
Hahn. The last play Friday night
is Pembroke East’s Santa Claus,
by E. E. Cummings, directed /by
Sue Henderson ’49. It is about.
Santa Claus,-Death, Existence, and
Non-existence. C. Minton/is the
Freshman director and P. Mulli-
gan, stage manager.

Kafka’s Metamorphoses

Rhoads’ Metamorphoses by Kaf-
ka, rewritten by Alfred Grossman
of Haverford, will be the first of
Saturday night’s plays. It is di-
rected by Gerry Warburg ’49; the
Freshman director is C. Perkins;
T. Marx is stage manager. The
play concerns the transformation
of a man and his family. Pembroke
West’s When the Whirlwind Blows
by Essex Dane, directed by A. J.
Rock ’50 will follow. It is. about
peasants versus aristocracy in Rus-
sia. A. Onderdonk is Freshman di-
rector, E. Cadwallader stage man-
ager. The third play will be Den-
bigh’s Trifles by Susan Glaspell,





Continued on page 3



about women sticking together. to}
'| defend one of their own kind. The

Origmal Songs,
Dancing Enliven
00 ‘Fiasco’ Hit

Connor, Williams, Low

Effect High Spots
Of Show

By Betty-Bright Page °49

The class of Fifty. was overly
pessimistic when it entitled its
show “Fiasco”. Reinforeed by
Haverford talent, ’50 broke with
the Bryn Mawr tradition of all-
female shows. In doing so, it set
a new all-time high for stage re-
alism in the original musicals on
campus. A _ colorful production,
sparked by well-timed dance rou-
tines and excelletn music, did cred-
it to the last-minute ingenuity of
director and cast. Although the
dialogue was poor, gave the im-
pression of having been hastily
written, and certainly detracted
from the show as a whole, there
were, fortunately, few speaking
roles.

With scenes shifting from New
England on a Summer’s Day to the
market places and night clubs of
Mexico, “Fiasco” was the story of
a young heroine whose happy
memories of another man led her
to ignore the true love at her side.
The frailty of the plot made it ev-
ident that the story had been man-
ufactured merely to hold together
the superior songs and dances.

Connor Stars Musically

The fine musicianship of Betty
Jean Connor and Ted Handy were
fundamentally responsible fior put-
ting over the “Fiasco” songs. Bet-
ty Jean’s performance as Deborah
the heroine was not completely
convincing, but her rich, clear
voice added to the songs the sin-
cerity required. It was too bad
that she did not retain in the speak-

Continued on page 3

Vocational Comm.
Announces Plans

Common Room, October 20.

The Vocational Committee held its
first tea of the year. Plans were
discussed ,and this year’s program
outlined. While last year the Com-
mittee indicated job possibilities
issuing from the student’s major
work, this year, for the sake of
trying a new approach, it will
sponsor with the Bureau of Rec-
ommendations:a series of teas ac-
cording to general fields of occu-
pation.

The subjects decided on for
this year were Jobs Abroad, Thea-
tre, Radio and Television work,
teaching, government jobs and
publishing. The speakers will be
either graduates of Bryn Mawr or
those who have a comparable back-
ground and experience in the vari-
ous fields, the committee decided.
The first regular tea will be held
in November on Jobs Abroad.

Aims of Program

It was emphasized at the tea
that the whole program was plan-
ned to give the students an idea of
existing job opportunities, and to
give Mrs. Crenshaw of the Bureau
of Recommendations an idea of
what kind of jobs interest the stu-
dents here so that she can find the
kinds of jobs the students want.

The committee is headed by Jane
Ellis and includes Sally Darling,

ly Morris, Frieda Wagoner and



Kitty Merritt.








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Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912



The Dewey Case

' Some people vote for “the man”, some for “the Party”.

In casting our vote for the Republican presidential candidate
- we do so for both reasons.

It is our conviction that the tic-

ket which Dewey heads is the best combination of man and

"party which is at present offered to the American people.
The past four years have manifested the disadvantages

, of legislature and administration at odds with each other, in

contradictions and shifting policies. Homogeneous action is

‘ essential to: the definition, solidity and prestige of our inter-

national position. Unity must begin with the harmony of
these two branches of our government. A Republican admin-
istration and a Republican Congress is the only possible solu-
tion.

A Liberal Republican

The inauguration of a Republican president will not ele
a return to the reactionary, isolationist policy which has been

_ associated with this party in the past, and which is justly
. deemed dangerous, nationally and internationally.

Dewey is
clearly a “Liberal Republican”, in contrast, for example, to

- Mr. Taft, another nomination for the candidacy, and Dewey
- would, in this capacity, offset any reactionary tendency.

Dewey’s sense for balance between free enterprise and
the interests of the majority, which are instruments of free
enterprise, and his wise choice of assistants prove him per-

- ceptive and fair, and prudent in the delegation of authority.

His honesty and administrative efficiency as governor of New
York are national bywords.
Dewey. will,. in our opinion,. provide the. United States

‘ with a more stable policy abroad and enable this policy to be

effective by backing it with an efficient administration at
home. For these reasons, we would vote for Dewey on No-
vember 2nd.

The Truman Case

In general, the voters of the United States may be di-
vided, into two groups: those who .place party allegiance
above personal preference and those ‘independents’ who
choose their candidate because of his own qualifications or
because his party’s ideology seems most compatible. From
time to time one of the proposed candidates may possess
qualities which will persuade even the most defiant ‘party
man’ to vote another ticket. In our opinion this is not the
case in the present election, so that ourchoice is based not on
the man, but on those things which the party represents.

In considering the fundamental issues in this Novem-
ber’s election, there is agreement on’ certain points in the
platforms of the major parties. A bi-partisan foreign policy,
a civil rights plank and increage in social security benefits are

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Library Displays
TS Eliot Exhibit

The Rare Book. Room in the Li-
brary is featuring this month. an
exhibit of T. S. Eliot’s works. There
are many first editions in the col-
lection. Dr. Herben has contributed
a photograph of Mr. Eliot taken
in the Gommon Room at Bryn
Mawr on his last visit to the col-
lege. There is also a letter to Mr.
Herben from Mr. Eliot thanking
him for a copy of the photograph,
suggesting as a title for the pic-
ture, Sweeney Among the Night-
ingales, one of the poems Mr.
Eliot read this evening. Miss Wood-
worth has also added some first
editions and a Friends of Canter-
bury Cathedral Pro-
gramme for. Murder in the Cathe-
dral.

Alumnae Publish
Variety of Books

During recent months many Bryn

Souvenir

Mawr alumnae have figured in the
new book lists.
subjects, their publications include
The
Martha Gellhorn ’30, which is a
novel of the closing days of the
Battle for Germany, and The Fall

of Mussolini: His Own Story by
Benito Mussolini, which consists
of articles written after the cap-
ture of Rome and translated by
Frances Frenaye, ’30.

In a lighter vein there are: Cor-
nelia Otis Skinner’s Family Circle,
the best-seller biography of the
Skinner family; and That’s Me All
Over, a reprint of “Tiny Garments”
and the best bits from three other
books. (Miss Skinner was a mem-
ber of the class of ’22.) Emily Kim-
brough, ’21, has published a light-
hearted account of three seasons
of lecturing, It Gives~ Me Great
Pleasure. Also in this group is Puz-
zle Pond by Hortense Flexer, ’07,
illustrated by Wyncie King. (See

- Book Review on page 1.) Mr. King,

the author’s husband, did the
posters for two Faculty Shows, in
1933 and 1935. Miss Flexner was a
member of the Bryn Mawr faculty,
in the English Department, from
1926 to 1940. She has also published
several volumes of poetry. Bite the
Bullet, the autobiography of a
newspaper woman, was written by
Dorothy G. Wayman ’14.

A Guidebook to the Bible which
is an interpretation of the Bible
by Alice Parmalee, ’26 and A Faith
For You by Brooke Peters Church,
07, a description of the religious
groups in the U.S., their beliefs
and practices, are additional alum-
nae publications.

Style, Story Charm
**Puzzle Pond’? Reader

Continued from page 1

yet. Once the marshes are drain-
ed, the mosquitoes go, but Wedge,
the beaver, arrives on the island.
He builds himself a dam—voila!
More mosquitoes.

So an eight or nine-year-old boy
is proved right against the world,
and that’s a: selling point for the
book in the eyes of anyone under

ten. The mosquito problem is fin-



ally solved and through Davy, the
beaver escapes death from a steel-
That’s another fea-
children. To
them, Wedge will be as much a

jawed trap.

ture attractive to

hero as Davy himself.

Not Over-dramatized
Miss
dramatize.

Flexner does not over-

The
feeling of the story are natural,

continuity and

not “hopped-up”
The author’s art lies chiefly in her
familiarity with, and use of, the ju-
venile point of view, a very logical
one, we are often forced to admit.
Characters appear

for publication.

and perform
their function in the story without
the boring, adultish introductions



Covering varied |

Wine of Astonishment by |

and explanations that one so often
| encounters
books.
, Situation, Miss Flexner tells us:
“Jerry Judd had the mumps. A
mosquito bit him on his swollen

even in children’s

In explaining the mosquito

”

jaw.” We do not. know who Jerry

is, and we are not told anything
more about him. We needn’t be.
The important thing is that Big
Blueberry Island has lots of mos-

quitoes. And that, said John, is

that.

Puzzle Pond has the excitement
to pull a child’s interest, but it is
‘so plausible that an eight-year-old
will not toss it aside as “a lot of
malarkey.” The story is simply and
vividly told, and the author is aid-
ed and abetted by her husband’s
lively drawings.

New See. Course

Began This P.M.

The revolutionary campus typ-
ing and shorthand course began
today at 5:30 P. M. Sponsored by
the Curriculum Committee and or-
ganized by Edee Le Grande, °49,
the course is being given by the
Palmer School in Philadelphia dur-
ing the first semester. The charge
is $4.00 for the entire course.

Twenty-four students will be
seen dragging their typewriters to
Taylor during the next months.



Nineteen are enrolled in the short-

-hand course.



advocated by Republicans and Democrats.
hand, the Democratic party pledges the continuance of E. R.

On the other

“P. + the repeal of the Taft-Hartley~Act;-which-by-its-provis-
ions has managed to eradicate the work of constructive labor
legislation during the last fifteen years; more housing, fin-
anced by federal and not private funds; tax revisions as op-
posed to cutting excise and inheritance taxes. Atomic con-
trol under a government agency, rather than by a private
monopoly, and control of prices are also in the tradition of
the Democratic party. It must be admitted that the Demo-
cratic party is no longer a true reflection of liberal thought
in the United States, but it continues to lean towards prog-
ress rather than towards regression.

There are few voters in the coming election who can sin-
cerely declare their whole-hearted support for Harry S. Tru-
man. Still, many of the ‘independent’ voters would like
even less to stand behind Thomas E. Dewey. Although Mr.
Truman has made errors in his commitments, he has let peo-
ple know what he thinks, whereas the Repubilcan candidate
holds to his cautious ‘non-involvement’ policy. For these rea-
sons, We believe that support should be given the Truman-
Barkley + ticket on ‘November 2,



JE. and BF

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Current Events

Room, October 25.
Three students participated in a

‘Common

panel discussion on the forthcom-
ing elections and the three major
contending political parties involv-
ed.

Truman Platform

Sally Darling represented the
Democratic Party. She opened her:
talk by saying that the record of
a man or a party is more import-
ant than promises to be fulfilled in
the future. There are many things

that will affect this election, such
as the (Gallup Poll, the desirability
of a different party in power, and
the difficulties of an opposing Sen-
ate. She continued with a short
discussion of the party’s platform,,
showing that it stands for a reduc-
tion in taxes of the lower income
group, eradication of discrimina-
tion in employment, free collective
bargaining to produce better em-
ployer-employee relationships, etc.
There has been moderate labor
legislation by Truman, but Con-
gress passed, over Truman’s veto,
the Taft-Hartley Bill which is det-
rimental to labor rights. The Dem-
ocratic party stands firmly agathst
the Republican discrimination to-
wards Catholics and Jews in the
admittance of displaced persons
into this country. While the Repub-
lican party stands for the protec-
tion of property rights, the Dem-

{ocrats insist on the protection of

human rights.

Dewey’s Record

Madeleine Blount spoke next on
behalf of the Republican party and
Dewey. Dewey’s record as Gov-
ernor of New York State was cited
with exiamples of the reduced state
debt and the reduction of state
taxes on those of lower incomes.
Business has prospered under his °
administration, and he has fostered
the cause of small ‘business. New
York has the lowest strike rate of
any state. One of Dewey’s strong
points as Governor is his ability to
choose men able to meet the neces-
sities of important administrative
jobs. The ‘Republican foreign pol-
icy advocates a firm stand against
Russia and a strengthening of the
Wea,

Wallace and Russia

Sheila Tatnall represented the
Progressive Party. She stated that
the Wallace party opposes the re--
actionary “Fascist” tendencies of
the Republican party. She believes
that. Wallace is the only candidate
sincere about domestic issues. His
party favors the Roosevelt Plan
and favors better labor legislation
and social security and _ public
health insurance reforms, about
which neither Truman nor the 79th
or 80th Congresses have been very

‘effective. Wallace believes that the

present foreign policy ‘is moving
us towards war. The abandonment
of the UNRRA because’ it gave
help to eastern Russian-dominated
nations was a grave mistake. To.
check. iRussia,.a friendlier, attitude
must be shown towards-her. Miss
Tatnall stated that Wallace is the. _
only man the ‘Russians would trust

if we tried to establish a better re-
lationship.



N. Hindras Will Play
At Sunday Concert

Natalie Hindras, pianist, will be
the guest artist at the Young Mu-
sicians Concert, Sunday, October
31, at 5 p. m. in the Music Room.
This is the first in a series of con-
certs for which tickets are avail-
able on a subscription basis.

The program this Sunday will
include: Searlatti Three Sonatas E
Major, D Minor, E Major; Mozart
Sonata, F Major; Schumann, Car- -.

nival; Brahms Rhapsody, opus 117

no. 2 and Intermezzo, opus 116, no.



2 and Prokofieff Boyce no. 3.










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Page Three



“Good Music, Dancing
Enliven ’°50’s ‘‘Fiasco’’
Continued from page 1

ing role the stage presence evident
in her singing. The dialogue need-
ed a more than accomplished act-
ress; perhaps Betty Jean would
have been more successful with it
had she and others of the cast
played it as farce. In particular,
this might have sustained the
nightclub scene in Mexico which
contained the high and low points
of Saturday’s show. The meeting
of Deborah and Old Flame Jim and
True Love David was hopelessly
melodramatic—indeed just hope-
less. Had it not been for Betty
Jean’s singing the Blues and rees-
tablishing the mood of the scene,
the whole show might easily have
been a “Fiasco”.

Dancing Outstanding

Marjorie Low’s dance solo in this
act was one of the few highlights
outside of the music. Amazingly
fine coordination and timing gave
the necessary atmosphere of dusky
intrigue to her dance. The group
dances too were well executed, es-
pecially the folk dance in Act il
at the Mexican market-place. The
ribbon dance was excellent, but
somewhat too prolonged’ towards
the end of the comic element.

Gwynne Williams and Kay Bon-

fils, with the rose between the
‘teeth, were extremely amusing in
the ribbon dance. Together they
sparked the comedy here, whereas
they played individualiy during the
rest of “Fiasco.” Gwynne, in her
role as Daphne Peabody, gave the
most consistently good perform-
ance of the show. Never stepping
out of her comic part, she made
“New Hampshire, Massachusetts, |
Vermont and Maine” one of the
two hit songs of “Fiasco.” This
lass with the delicate air deserved
the daisies which were thrown to
her from the audience.

Kay Bonfils, Aunt Agatha, sneez-
ed most insincerely. Her humour, |
forced at times, appeared at its
best in the market-place scene of
Act II. George Nofer, as David,
the hero, left much to be desired.
since he lacked the stage presence
that should have accompanied his



Class of ’52 Will Give
Freshman Hall Plays

Continued from page 1

director is Joy Joslyn ’51; the
Freshman director is E. Mellroy,
and the stage manager is D. Schaf-
fer. Saturday’s concluding play will
be Merion’s The Nice Wanton, a
16th century pre-Shakesperian
Morality Play directed by Claireve
Grandjouan; J. Koustznson, Fresh-
man director; R. Goldstein, stage
manager. Merion will be present-
ing the American premiere of this
play, the text of which is in Olde
English without stage directions.
The have unearthed 16th century
music for songs «in the play, and
the plot concerns an evil boy and
girl, a good boy, suicide, and the
road to hell.



pleasing voice; he sang very well
“Viva Mexico” with the chorus
humming in the background.

Chorus Praised

The chorus in “Fiasco” enliven-
ed the performance tremendously.
It participated so whole- -heartedly |
in the show that it often drew at-|
tention from the poor story. The
girls off to Camp Yak-Yak with
panda in hand, the Mexican danc-
ers and the silent partner who sat
by the corner drugstore knitting a
red something-or-other were all a
part of “New England on a Sum-
mer’s Day”, (outstanding for its
musical construction) and the Mex-
ico they Oled.

Stage Manager Alice Shroye:
and Costume Manager Sylvia
Hayes are to be especially congrat-
ulated for their parts in “Fiasco”.
‘Director A. J. Rock did a beautiful
job of tying the various songs and
dances into a unified if unbalanced
show. Accompanists Ted Handy,
Fred Blake and Virginia Graham
also contributed their talents;
Ted’s entre actes and Fred’s piano
antics in the nightclub scene were
especially excellent.





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J. C. Harsch Discusses

Foreign Relations
Continued from page 1
sia, “a large, relatively strong na-
tional state wedded to a new idea
of religious proportions,” with al-
most mystical powers; we forget
that
such as Mohammedanism, have ex-

similar universal dogmas,

isted before and have always been
forced eventually to compromise
with human nature.

“Our enemy is anyone who en-
joys a serious prospect of being

able to unite Eurasia,” explained

Mr. Harsch. There is a possibility
of a reconstructed Germany’s join-
ing with Russia in spite of mutual
hatred; even a non-Communist Ger-
many might gravitate toward the
U. S. S. R. rather than act as a
Western barrier against it.

The bipartisan foreign policy of
the U. S., he stated,

methods of checking the rorce of
Soviet Communism. Republicans
disagree with the State Depart-
ment on the dismantling of Ger-
man industries, aid to China and
other issues. Once the party out of
power gets in, however, it inevit-
ably swings closer to State Depart-
ment policies.

Mr. Eliot pointed out that, while
learning that we want some thing
we thought we didn’t want: a
strong government, which the Re-
publicans will provide, He added,
however, that after four, eight or
twelve years, we will probably
want the weaker kind of govern-
ment again.

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T. S. Eliot Lecture
Overflows Goodhart

Continued from page 1 |

After the formal lecture, a dis-
cussion was held in the Common
Room, where Mr. Eliot answered
questions. “The poet is entitled to
use the poetry of the past,’ said
Eliot, “because it belongs to him
as part of his experience.” The
necessity of discrimination in the
choice of such sources was also
noted.

Mr. Eliot pointed out that, while
writing, the poec does ‘not have in
mind the number of people he will
reach, but that he concentrates on
the expression of an idea which he
wishes to clarify. for himself.

Among the rules of writing
poetry, Mr. Eliot cited the use of
the poet’s native tongue, Since the
objective of the poet is to see what
he can express in the language of
his choice. “All poetry ought to be
meant to be read aloud,” Mr. Eliot
added. Foy poetry is made for
speech as a musical ‘score is made |
for an instrument.”



HOME NURSING CLASS

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class has between 10 to 15 students
enrolled. Classes will be held in
the Wright School Gymnasium,
where special facilities will be
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Wilcox Makes Clear
U. S, Duty in Europe
Continued from page 1

for recovery, but we are beginning
to realize our responsibilites. In
response to suggestions from the
United States these countries have
undertaken to co-operate to a cer-
tain degree, but this may be only
hothouse forcing of economic
co-operation in Western Europe.”

There are many obstacles to the
success of the Marshall: Plan, con-
tinued Mr. Wilcox, one of the grav-
est being the tension between Rus-
sia and the United States and its
effect on Western Europe. “When
countries are forced to abandon
their neutrality and take sides in
a quarrel not of their own making,
doubt is cast on the basis and pur-
pose of the European Recovery
Plan and the possibility of its ful-
fillment.” Western European coun-
tries are prohibited from shipping
to Eastern Europe any _ supplies
forbidden by the United States.
Although the economic recovery of

Mo

| Western Europe depends partly on

the restoration of trade between
eastern and western Europe, we
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Russo-American Tension, Difficulties

Of World Trade Cripple Marshall Plan

Continued from page 3

are extending our control over ex-
ports around the whole Western
European area in order to check
Russia and are legislating West-
ern Europe’s policies toward East-
ern Europe.

Other Dangers to Plan

Other dangers are the economic
prostration of Germany ,the an-
tagonism of communists toward
the Marshall Plan, and the present
state of trade. The old basis of
trade is destroyed, production in
the world’s backward countries is
increased, many areas to which
Western Europe sold before the
war are cut off, and in new areas
the United States is a powerful
competitor. There is a wide differ-
ence in the internal economic pol-
icies of the countries concerned
and they are all subject to strong
economic pressures.

These countries will still have a
budget deficit at the end of the
four-year period, continued Mr.
Wilcox, unless “we put pressure on
them to adopt policies which are
beneficial but unpopular,” such as
curtailing expenditures, increas-
ing taxes, stabilizing prices, and
balancing their budgets. If we do
not interfere, there will be more





RECORD CONCERT

The Undergraduate Associa-
tion will present the first in its
series of Record Concerts. next
Tuesday evening in the Common
Room at 8:30. The Committee
for the concerts, headed by Toni
Morris ’49, announces the fol-
lowing program: Beethoven's
Seventh Symphony and Richard
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aid.

We will be very unpopular if we
carry out this policy of interfer-
ence, concluded’ Mr. Wilcox and
will be blamed both “by the gov-
ernments who have to obey us and
by every party in opposition who
will denounce the governments for
obeying us.” It is “impossible to
win friends by extending aid on
this basis . . . but we shall con-
tinue to provide this aid because it
is in our own interests to do so and
because it is the right thing to do.”

ERRATA

Last week’s article on Mr. Eliot
stated that he had been an editor
of Horizon; Mr. Eliot’s magazine

was actually Criterion, and Hori-
zon was only started in 1942.

In last week’s feature interview
with several foreign students,
Leila Kirpalani was stated to have
come to this country when her
father was made Consul General of
India in San Francisco. Leila actu-
ally came when her father was ap-
pointed as India Government Trade
Commissioner in New York City.
She is not. directing her studies
toward a diplomatic career, but is
interested in majoring in either
economics or philosophy, which she
says is definitely not impractical.



NEWS.-Alliance Poll
Confirms Dewey US spe

Continued from pa
said they didn’t know.

In response to the question as to
whether or not they would be in-
terested in doing any active work
for a party, an affirmative answer
was given by 17 Democrats, 38 Re-
publicans, 10 Progressives, and 3
Socialists.

Other candidates listed as choic-
es for the office of President were
Vandenberg, Taft, Stassen, Harri-
man, Saltonstall, Warren, Austin,
Walter Judd, Eisenhower, MacAr-
thur, Marshall, Dulles, Barkley,
Douglass, Bowles, Welles, Ellis Ar-
nall, (Pepper, Mrs. Roosevelt, and
two for Stalin and two for Cary
Grant.

There were more votes for Wal-
lace in the class of ’52 than in any
other class. The total number of
votes cast by each class were: 16
by the graduate students, 68 by the
class of ’49, 87 by the class of 50,
99 Iby the class of ’51, and 127 by
the class of ’52. The only two
classes who had no undecided vot-
ers among them were the classes
of 50 and ’51, and those in the
other three classes totaled eight.





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The United States Civil Service
Commission is accepting applica-
tions from mathematicians and
physicists for positions at $2974.
Graduate students may apply now;
undergraduates not until January.
Application blanks may be had at
the Bureau of Recommendations,
third floor, Taylor Hall. We
strongly urge you to apply even
though you may not think now
that you want a government job.

Campus Jobs Now Open

A sales agent is needed for pa-
jamas.

Sales agents for the slips and
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are still needed.

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NOTICES

Hall Announcements

All hall announcements must be
in the hall announcers’ boxes by
twelve noon to be announced, -and
by five-thirty in the afternoon for
dinner. Announcements for Sat-
urday dinner and Sunday noon
must be delivered to the individual
halls.

Clothes Drive

This year the Alliance is keep-
ing Clothes-for-Europe boxes in
the halls all during the winter, in
addition to sponsoring seasonal
drives. Any clothes you discover
from time to time in your ward-
robe which you can spare, may be
placed in these boxes. The cloth-
ing will ibe sent to Europe each
month through the American
Friends’ Service Committee.



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