College news, March 24, 1948

THe COLLEGE NEWS



VOL: XEH, NO. 19

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1948



Sea Gull’ Shows

Sympathy, Skill

In Performance

Warburg Outstanding
As Actress Mother;
Sets Mood

by Louise Ervin °49

Goodhart, March 20. In their
production of The Sea Gull the
Cap and Bells Club and the Drama
and Stage Guilds achieved a con-
vincing enactment of a play whose
interpretation and presentation to
modern audiences is necessarily
difficult. Chekhov’s drama depends
not upon changing circumstances
or development of plot, but rather
upon the unfolding of characters
and relationships within a mood of
inaction and upon an atmosphere
of tension which must be sustained
throughout. By the actors’ evident
feeling of their being caught in the
situation which enmeshes Chek-
hov’s characters, and by acting as a
unit and playing to each other
rather than obviously to the audi-
ence, reality was attained; the de-
nouement was a credible out-
growth of character exposition.
The success of the effect was en-
hanced by attention to the subdued
and restrained style which Chekhov
demands and was complemented
by the staging under the direction
of Nancy Greenwalt.

Warburg Stars

Geraldine Warburg’s portrayal
of Irina Arcadia was outstanding.
She was completely the metropol-
itan actress, poised and fascinat-
ing amid the “country” group,
while she refrained from over-
playing her part or—letting—it--be-
come typed. One was always con-
scious that Arcadina shared in the
frustration and uncertainty of all
those gathered on Sorin’s estate,
and was aware of the discontent
and insecurity which lay beneath
her external cymmand of the situa-
tion. The outburst of almost pa-
thetic fear at the prospect of los-
ing Trigorin, her momentary fal-
tering when Sorin asks for money
for Constantine were brilliantly

acted. Geraldine’s obvious sympa-
thy with the character of Arca-
dina and understanding of Chek-
hov’s method of revealing its con-
flicts made her performance a
noteworthy one and enhanced the
unity of the play.

Henry Levinson as Sorin was

dignified and never pathetic. His
Continued on Page 2



Malik Foresees
Vital World Role
In India’s Future

“If India can develop materially
along Western progressive lines
and still maintain her spiritual cul-
ture of the past, she can play a
significant part in the internation-
al future by bringing about the
adjustment between East and
West”, declared Hardit Singh Ma-
lik, leader of the Indian Trade del-
egation to the Havana conference
and Indian representative to Can-
ada, in the Current Events Assem-
bly on March 22.

Although India was the victim
of Britain economically, he point-
ed out, she received cultural bene-
fits, and absorbed British liberal
political theories so that now, as
the only Eastern country having
had close contact with a western
power, India has a future role of
arbiter between east and west.

(Mr. Malik presented India’s an-
cient cultural Hindu past as 4

Continued on Page 2

Jr. Prom Weekend
Offers Arts Night;

Theme: Encounter

The centra] theme of. Bryn
Mawr’s annual Arts Night pro-
duction will be “Encounter.” The
two performances will be -on Fri-
day and Saturday nights, April
16 and 17 at 8:15. Arts Night will
represent the combined efforts of
every creative group on campus.
There will be almost every form
of artistic endeavor including mod-
ern dancing, choral and orchestral
music, plays and paintings.

Half the profits will go to the
Theresa Helburn Chair of Drama
Fund—as a part of the Drive, while
the other half will establish an
Arts fund to help out artistic
groups on campus in financial
need. The Arts Committee which
was formed for this year’s Arts
Night has been permanently es-
tablished and will coordinate art-
istic activities on campus as well
as serve as a nucleus for further
Arts Nights.

Under the direction. of Patricia
Hochschild ’48, the representatives
of the different artistic groups on
campus, including the Chorus, the
Art Club and the Spanish Club,
have met to discuss general plans.
However, each group is carrying
out this theme in its own way. The
combined productions will there-
fore be the result of a great deal

of individual creative work.
Continued on Page 4



Caviar and ‘Malt Tonic’ Provide
Backdrop for Lamenting Ferrer.

by Betty-Bright Page °49
and Gwynne Williams ’50

Having decided to “babble in
iambic pentameter”, Jose Ferrer
gave us an enlightening ten min-
utes as we munched our saltines
with their “non-alcoholic” caviar-
covering. After commenting on
his career in fencing, which he
learned in New York City instead
of Paris as many of us had sus-
pected, Mr. Ferrer rapidly arrived
at Cyrano de Bergerac and the
theatre.today. -

Mr. Ferrer was much concerned
about the place of the theatre in
the life of the average American
today. He emphasized the fact that
Equity had begun a widespread
survey in order to determine the
needs of the theatre in various



communities. But, he lamented
while sipping his “malt tonic”,
movies are serious competition.

Whereas anyone can go to a movie,
sit back and relax for two hours,
Mr. Ferrer pointed out that the
theatre costs more, “the audience
has to work also; it can’t loaf”, and
it can neither “eat peanuts” nor
arrive at just any time. Present day
audiences, he. continued cynically,

want to be entertained. Anteny and}

Cleopatra and Cyrano de Bergerac
have comparatively short runs
while “trash like Happy Birthday
runs for over a year!”

From talking with this outstand-
ing actor-director, we both felt
very strongly his depth of purpose
in the theatre, and his clarity of
outlook concerning its future. —

ws



|1-Musie-Room.——__— :



F akies Describes |
Current Theatre,
Acting Profession

On Thursday night Jose Ferrer
gave the Marion Edwards Park
lecture in Goodhart, when he spoke
on Phases of Contemporary. Thea-
tre. Mr. Ferrer began the lecture
by saying that the audiences of to-
morrow exist in the colleges and
universities, and that the present
students will shape the cultural
tastes of the future.

He spoke of the struggle play-
writing has become, since it takes
at least a year to write and pro-
duce a play which may close in
two weeks because of the reviews
it receives. “On Wednesday morn-
ing nine men decide whether they
like it or not, and if they don’t you
can just kiss it goodbye—that’s
that.” Playwrites can’t make a de-
cent living unless they have one hit
after another, and that’s why they
go into movies, radio, and tele-
vision. “Motion pictures,” said
Mr. Ferrer, “are already affecting
what we do in the theatre.”

Mr. Ferrer said, however, that the
theatre will never die out com-
pletely, because there is no substi-
tute for three dimensional acting
and because people demand more
of a play than of movies or radio.
“Nothing is as good as the real
thing.”

Continued on Page 2

New Promotions,

Appts. Announced

The following promotions and
appointments to the faculty have
been announced:

From Associate Professor to Full
Professor: Mr. Richmond Latti-
more, Paul Shorey Professor of
Greek; Miss Caroline Robbins, His-
tory; Mr. Alexander Coburn Soper
III, History of Art; Miss K. Lau-
rence Stapleton, English and Po-
litical Theory. :

From Assistant Professor to
Associate Professor: Mr. Joshua
C. Hubbard, Economics; Mr. Fred-
erick Wakefield Thon, Drama.

From Instructor to Assistant
Professor: Mr. Peter Bachrach,
Politics; Mr. William E. Norris,
Jr., Biology.

New appointments to the faculty
as Assistant Professor: Mr. Lind-
ley Burton, of Harvard, Mathemat-
ics; Miss Rosalie Hoyt, of Roches-
ter, a Bryn Mawr Ph. D., Phys-
ics. a



Calendar

Wednesday, March 24
8:00—Philosophy Club Lec-
ture, Dr. Milton C. Nahm, “The
Judgment of Art’, Common
Room.
Thursday, March 25
After last class: Spring Va-
cation begins.
Monday, April 5
9:00—Spring Vacation ends.
7:15—Current Events, Mrs.
Neel, “Ireland”, Common Room.

Thursday, April 8
8:30—Mr. Horace Alwyne,
‘Pianoforte Recital, Goodhart.
Friday, April 9
7:30—Movie, Music Room.
9-12—Non-Res Dance, Com-
mon Room.
Saturday, April 10
8:30—French Play, “Le Voy-
ageur Sans Bagage”, Haver-
ford. :
Sunday, April 11

7:30—Chapel, Rufus Jones,

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

PRICE 10 CENTS



Helburn, McBride,
At

being hit over the head with

Mr. Pemberton is chairman of
the Committee for the $250,000
Theresa Helburn Chair of Drama
which is to be established at Bryn
Mawr. This money, which will be
included in the Bryn Mawr College
Fund 1946—,, will go toward fac-
ulty salaries and toward equip-
ment in the Drama field. Most
important fact in the endowment
of this chair, which has created a
great deal of interest in New York
theatrical circles, is that it will
incorporate into a Liberal Arts
curriculum the field of the Theatre,
which is in most colleges either a
separate department or a Gradu-
ate school. In her speech Miss
Helburn said, “I hope it will con-
dition students to the theatre as a
| part of their lives.’

Miss Helburn pointed out as well
that European children do, or did,
go to the theatre much as we go to
the movies today. The average
“run” of stage material, she said,
profited by a well-rounded educa-
tion, and she noted that the two
most prominent actresses in the
theatre today were, Bryn Mawr
graduates, Katherine Hepburn ’28
and Cornelia Otis Skinner ’22. Miss
Skinner, currently touring in Lady
Windermere’s Fan, was not pres-
ent today, but Miss Hepburn was
the object of considerable admira-
tion and interest.

Miss McBride discussed the the-
atre at Bryn Mawr, saying that
the Outside World and the College
are no longer separate, and that
we at college have become more

Gaillard Relates
Manet and Spain

“It is a mistake to divide Man-
et’s painting into a Spanish period
and a later Impressionist one,” as-
serted Professor Georges Gaillard,
speaking on Manet et l’Espagne
under the joint auspices of the de-
partments of French and History
of Art. “On the contrary,” Pro-
fessor Gaillard continued, “the in-
spiration which he drew from
Spain was one which lasted all
through his career.”

Professor Gaillard explained that
at the beginning of the nineteenth
century Spanish art was just be-
coming known in France. In French
literary critics it produced a cer-

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NEWS Tryouts

~~ NEWS tryouts will be held
_the Wednesday after spring va-
cation, April 7. Come to the
NEWS room in Goodhart be-
tween four and six p.m. If you
are unable to come, then see
Barbara Bettman in Merion or
Betty-Bright Page in Wynd-
h ‘









BM Chair of Drama Established
In Honor of Theresa Helburn

Pemberton Speak

New York Launching |
Of $250,000 Campaign

NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 23

Amid the extremely indirect lighting-of the Rainbow
Grill High Atop Rockefeller Plaza (and absolutely devoid
of view today), surrounded by garlands of baby orchids,
popping flashbulbs, rose and teal blue decor, what is prob-
ably the most extraordinary meeting in history of the
theatrical and academic worlds took place when Theresa
Helburn accepted the founding, in her name, of a Drama
Chair at Bryn Mawr. As Mr. Brock Pemberton said, “This
is the first time a Chair of Drama has been launched by

a bottle!”

and more aware of the theatre.
Students in every department have
ideas to bring to the theatre, and
since the college is small and the
faculty used to working together,
the field of Drama can be closely
integrated with the other Depart-
ments.

Mr. Pemberton’s Committee in-
cludes Mrs. ‘Winthrop Ames, Brooks
Atkinson, Howard Barnes, Alfred
Barr, Jr. S. N. Behrman, Gilmor
Brown, John Mason Brown, Stew-
art . Chaney, Katharine Cornell,
Noel Coward, Cheryl Crawford,
Rachel Crothers, Hallie Flanagan
Davis, Agnes De Mille, Florence
Eldridge, Lynn Fontanne, Benja-
min Fine, Rosamund Gilder, John
Golden, Oscar Hammerstein II,
Helen Hayes, Katharine Hepburn,
Josephine Hull, Benjamin M. Kaye,
Fiske Kimball, Lawrence Langner,
Alfred Lunt, Kenneth MacGowan,
Gertrude Macy, Frederick March,
Mary Martin, Raymond Massey,
Dorothy Maguire, Jo Mielziner,
Donald Oenslager, Eugene Or-
mandy, Joseph Verner Reed, Rosa-
lind Russell, Arthur , Schwartz,
Cornelia Otis Skinner, Deeins Tay-
lor, Francis Henry Taylor, Ordway
Tead, Margaret Webster and Gil-
bert F. White.



Inauguration of Officers

The inauguration of new col-
lege officers will be held 01
Wednesday, April 7. All reports
must be in to the various Gr-
ganizations by Spring Vacation.
After vacation, these reports |
will be in the Quita Woodward
Room for all students to see.











Big 49 Weekend

Set For April 17

The Junior Prom this year will
be on Saturday, April 17, from 11
to 2. Music will be supplied by .
Harry Schwartz and his orchestra,
and the decorations and refresh-
ments are going to be “simply rev-
olutionary”, according to Nancy
Martin, chairman of the Dance
Committee.

Others responsible for the dance
arrangements are as follows

Gale MINtON siiccssccicces Decorations
Sue Henderson .......... Refreshments
Jean Ellis «....... Business Manager
Cornelia -Claxton .........<0 Chairman

of the Floor Committee
Sally Loomis ........0sscccceeseees Publicity

The charge for the Prom is $3
per couple. There will be table
reservations going first to upper-
classmen. The Committee also
wants to remind all those interest- |
ed that it is sponsoring a trip to
Atlantic City on the next day if 38
people wish to go. The charge will



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be $2 per couple.




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Experiment in Living

Wyndham will become a Freshman Dormitory next year,
it has been decided. For financial reasons it is no longer
possible to run French House with a separate dining-room ;
and consensus of opinion is that a Language House without
its own dining room defeats its purpose. French, German,
and Spanish Houses will be established in Radnor.

A Freshman Dormitory is not a new idea. It was very
successful for several years during the ’30’s. While we feel
that a plan for an all-Freshman house -has some flaws, we
also feel that it will have advantages, and it seems to be su-
perior to the alternative plan of an upper-classmen house.

Wyndham will be listed as a Freshman hall in the plans
of residence sent to prospective students, and it is felt that
there will be students who will choose it, as there were in
previous years. Nor will there be the left-over and left-out
feeling that Low Buildings and 1950’s East House undeni-
ably have had. Eighteen students will come to know each
other well, will be a large enough group to be well-represent-
ed in their class, and, eating in Pembroke, will meet upper-
classmen. Furthermore, the knowledge that only Freshman
year is to be spent in Wyndham should foster a desire in the
freshman to meet and become friends with upper-classmen
in the other halls.

We look with interest toward this experiment. Good
supervision combined with an especially careful interest on
the part of wardens and Self-Government should make it a
successful one. — B. B.

The Helburn Chair

Theatre at Bryn Mawr is booming! In the past few years
we have seen a higher and higher standard of campus pro-
ductions, with constantly growing interest and enthusiasm
on the part of students, faculty, and outsiders; the establish-
ment of a Summer Theatre, which will have all-student pro-
duction and casts, along with outside guest lecturers; and
now the estabilshment of a $250,000 Chair of Drama, in hon-
or of Theresa Helburn.

This interest has in large part been due to Mr. Thon’s
activities, with the Drama Guild and Cap and Bells Club, as
well as in his playwriting and experimental acting classes.
His sincere interest in the Drama at Bryn Mawr, and in the
students themselves, is something for which we are indeed
grateful. We are grateful, likewise, to the enterprise and
originality shown by the New York Committee for the Bryn
Mawr College Fund 1946— in organizing the sponsoring Com-
mittee for the endowment of the Helburn Chair.

- We hope, in time, to see a Drama Major established, just
as we hope for a Music Major. We know that through Mr.
Thon and the new additions in the field of Drama we can look

-sonal

Finch Discusses
Biography’s Trials

Miss Edith Finch, speaking in
the Common Room at four o’clock,
Monday, on “The Perils of the Au-
thorized Biographer”, emphasized
the difference between biographies
that are merely exhibitions of
technically skillful craftsmanship.
and those that are “works of art”.
She also discussed the pitfalls of
prejudice that surround any biog-

rapher but are especially danger-

ous and frequent for the author-
ized one. Miss Finch’s own bio-
graphical works include a life of
‘Wilfred Scawen Blount, and this
year’s Carey Thomas of Bryn
Mawr.

The authorized biographer, said
Miss Finch, has a prime opportun-
ity to establish the biographical
concept of his subject, and so to
have a strong influence on all fu-
ture biographers. But, she warn-
ed, he must write of a man whose

memory is still fresh, and whose}

family and friends are still alive,
so that he will in all probability be
faced with a vast amount of per-
sonal prejudice, and a puzzle of
conflicting stories. He needs a
great deal of tact and understand-
ing “to wrest material from those
who are reluctant to disgorge.”
Method Outlined

The biographer’s task, Miss
Finch contended, is in many ways
similar to that of the novelist, and
the imaginative insight of the cre-
ative artist is a prerequisite to the
production of a biography of fu-
sion and synthesis. There are four
stages, she declared, in the crea-
tion of the biography, as of the
novel: the collection of the mater-
ial, its selection and organization,
the “period of brooding”, in which
the synthesizing imagination is
made free to create by reaching a
tranquil emotional stage of sym-
pathy and tenderness for the sub-
ject, and the final stage of “re-
creation”, or checking the imagin-
ative portrait against the facts—
for “biography remains, in the last
analysis, history.”

The authorized-biographer has_a
distinct advantage, said Miss
Finch, is being able to collect
“good stories” about his subject
that would probably not be com-
mitted to document form — but,
she advised, he must proceed cau-
tiously in order to avoid the annoy-
ance of libel suits or the alienation
of all his friends. Another risk is
the fallibility of even first-hand in-
formants. She adduced the in-
stance of her inquiry into the per-
appearance of Wilfred
Blount: one friend declared his
eyes to be “blazing blue’; another,
“burning brown”. Miss Finch’s
compromise: “smouldering hazel’,

Ferrer Discusses

Theatre and Acting

Continued from Page 1
Nevertheless many problems face

actors and producers as well as
authors. Actors’ jobs depend upon
the success of their past perform-
ances and their acquaintances with
in the theatre, as well as their pres-
ent level of competence or suita-
bility for a part. That is the rea-
son it-is so’ hard for an inexperi-
enced unkown actor to get a job.
“Acting is a 92% unemployed pro-
fession, and a young person with-
out friends and contacts is crazy
to try it,” said Mr. Ferrer in ans-
wering one of the questions.

Producers also have .trouble be-|

cause backers won’t invest in a
play unless it is a good gamble to
attract Hollywood and the money
to pay them back. This is why it
is so hard to get investors for re-
vivals “with no Hollywood ap-
peal.” In answering a question
about revivals, Mr. Ferrer explain-
ed that he likes to put them on be-
cause he can choose from the
greatest authors of the past “who
are pretty good.”



fo to an ever-renewing stimulation in this youngest of

n Mawrs Deri arts.



Malik Foresees India
In International Role. :-

Continued from Page 1
means of understanding the “In-
dia Today”. The strength of the
Hindu way of life, he pointed out,
has” always resisted destruction.
It either threw out the foreign in-
vader or absorbed him, as it did
with the Mogul emperors in the
13th century. However, following
the western Industrial Revolution,
India became subject to the Colon-
ial age, and under Britain, her
progress was totally suspended.
For the first time the invader did
not make India its home and ab-
sorption did not take place. Con-
sequently the strength of the Hin-
du way of life overthrew this for-
eign rule after 200 years.

On August 15, 1947, he contin-
ued, India with inconceivable joy
and demonstration achieved her
independence. Temporarily under
dominion status until a constitu-
tion, providing for a president and
sovereign democrats, Union of
Provinces of India, is drafted, In-
dia’s independence is now tragic-
ally accompanied by her partition.

Despite poverty, famine and de-
ficiencies in education, public
health, economic development and
technical government personnel,
Mr. Malik believes that India can
meet the challenge with her nat-
ural resources and her self-sacri-
ficing, brilliant, freedom loving
leaders who are backed by the
confidence and faith of India’s
hard-working, freedom - seeking
people.

Drive to Present
Pianoforte Recital

By Mr. Alwyne

Mr. Horace Alwyne will present
his annual Pianoforte Recital on
Thursday evening, April 8, at
8:30, in Goodhart. Admission to
the recital, which is for the benefit
of the Drive, will be fifty cents for
the College, with general admis-
sion one dollar,

The program is as follows:
Liszt, Variations on a Motif from

Bach’s Cantata “Weinen, Klag-

en”,—and the Crucifixis of the

‘B-minor Mass.

Moussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhi-
bition.

Scriabin, Etude in B-flat minor,
Op. 8, No. 11; Etude in D-flat,
Op. 8, No. 10; Fragilite, Op. 51,
No. 1.

Medtner, Fairy Tale in A, Op. 51,
No. 3; Fairy Tale in E-minor,
Op. 34, No. 2.

Rachmaninoff, Prelude in G, Op.
32, No. 5; Humoresque (revised

version); “Daisies” (revised ver-
sion); Etude Tableau in D, Op.

39, No. 9.

Dr. Rufus Jones
Will Lead Chapel

The--Chapel-speaker-on-—April-11
will be Dr. Rufus Jones, Professor
Emeritus of Philosophy at Haver-
ford and the foremost Quaker of
today. Dr. Jones has just cele-
brated his fiftieth anniversary as a
member of the Board of Trustees
of Bryn Mawr, and is now head of
the American Friends’ Service
Committee.

The subject of Dr. Jones’ talk
will be announced after vacation.



Equity and its functions. He said
that it helps actors by setting min-
imum salary rates, limiting re-
hearsal time to four weeks and re-
hearsals to eight hours. “As an
actor I’m all for it.” Mr. Ferrer
also explained that the community
theatre is increasing Ns quan-
tity and quality, naming Ha ose

Chekhov’s “‘Sea Gull’’
Skillfully Performed

Continued from Page 1

quiet self-command presented an
admirable contrast to the outward-
ly successful, yet restless Trigorin-.
While Brooks Cooper was not ou®
standing in the role of the author,
he interpreted the part with com-
petence. His vacillation in Act
III, particularly his reading of “If
you ever, ever need my life...”
avoided extreme emotion.

‘Nancy Kunhardt, had perhaps, a
peculiarly difficult role as the
naive, yet ambitious Nina. Her
voice was for the most part pleas-
ing .and light, her movements
good. However, an excess of emo-
tion in the first act detracted from
the accumulation of stress and dis-
illusionment of her final scenes.
‘Nina who returns in Act IV must
have developed in contrast to the
Nina of the earlier acts; it is this
realization of utter frustaration
and failure which Nancy did not
completely put across.

Both Masha (Marjorie Low) and
Dorn (Don Shoffstall) improved
considerably after their uncertain-
ty and lack of clarity in the first
act. ‘Marjorie seemed better able
to cope with the part once the
tragic element in her life has been
established, and she reached a
high-point in her migling of the
high-point in her mingling of the
effacement in Act III. Don Shoff-
stall adeptly combined the prosaic

philosopher and the humanist. His
calmness and intuition were partic-
ularly evident in the quiet, effect-
ive conclusion of the final act.

Alan Levensohn seemed at a loss
with Trepleff and inclined to be
awkward and to exaggerate the
young writer’s lack of confidence.
Apparently he shared with A. J.
Rock (Pauline) an uncertainty of
the overall situation and of the in-
dividual’s part in it.

Helpers Needed
By Labor School

“We are non-political, non-profit
and non-propaganda,” said Miss
Wood, Director of the Hudson
Shore Labor School, at a tea in the
Deanery, on Tuesday, March 9. The
school is based on democratic prin-
cipals, she went on to say, and wel-
comes students of all religious and
political beliefs. . “We are an edu-
cational institution,” said Miss
Wood; “we aim, as does a-college,
at freedom of teaching and expres-
sion.”

The school believes in “learning
by doing,” and students reach an
effective understanding of the pres-
ent economical, political and social
problems not only through debates

-|and a Social Science Workshop, but

through their living and working
together.

Each summer Bryn Mawr sends
a girl to serve as an assistant and
observe the methods of the school
and to attend sessions at which
representatives discuss what is ac-
tually. going-on: Bryn Mawr has
sent Betty Byfield and Joan Eisen-
burg, and last year we sent Sara
Berman. There will be a student
worker week-end in late April or
early May to which all those inter-
ested are invited.



Elections

The NEWS takes pleasure in
announcing the following elec-
tions:

Secretary Self -Gov,
Newbold.

Secretary Undergrad, Nina
Cave.

Secretary League, Ann Bobis.

1st Junior Member Under-
grad, Nancy Corkran.

1st Sophomore Member Self-
‘Gov, Sue Savage.

1st Sophomore Member Un-

Anne







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dergrad, Patsy Bennett.

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Page Five



Polymyxin, New
Described by Dr.

by Jean Ellis ’49

In a moment between a tour of
Radnor and a meeting of the Board
of Directors of Bryn Mawr College
of which she is an Alumnae Direc-
tor, Eleanor Albert Bliss ’21, told
us of her work in bacteriology. Dr.
Bliss, who is assistant professor of
preventive medicine at Johns Hop-
kins University and consultant to
the Medical division of Chemical
Warfare Service at the Edgewater,
Penna., has been working in Bac-
teriology especially with antibiotic
agents in conjunction with Dr.
Perrin Long for the last seventeen
years. Last October she and Dr.
Long began a study of the action
of a new “miracle drug”, an ex-
tract of bacillus polymyxa, which
had been crystallized by the
American Cyanamide Company.

“Polymyxin, as we call it,’ Dr.
Bliss explained, “is different from
penicillin and the sulfa drugs,
which are more effective in killing
gram positive bacteria, in its ac-
-tion on gram negative bacteria.”
(The difference between gram
pesitive and gram negative bac-
teria is made according to the re-
action which alcohol produces on
the stain). “Although my own
work with the drug has been main-
ly in the test tube seeing which
bacteria it inhibits, in assaying the
concentration of polymyxin in the
body fluids of patients treated
with it, and in making studies of
the mode of action of the drug,
there have been several interest-





Miracle Drug,
Bliss, B. M. 721

ing clinical experiments with poly-
myxin.”
Trials Successful

The new drug was first used on
a little boy with an acute. skin in-
fection which had developed after
he had used a skin ointment to
which he was allergic. The areas
affected had not only streptococci
bacteria but also bacillus pyocy-
aneus. When polymyxin was ad-
mfiistered, the latter bacteria
which had been left intact despite
the use of penicillin, were destroy-
ed. In clinical work polymyxin has
also been administered to two in-
fants with whooping cough and
was instrumental in helping them
recover; in the test tube it has been
effective against the bacteria
which cause typhoid, undulant fev-
er, whooping cough, brucellosis
and Friedlander’s bacillus. “It’s
still very new though, and has been
used in only five cases since it is
difficult to find the right kind of
cases,” Dr. Bliss added. “Tuber-
culosis which is caused by a gram

positive bacteria has not been suc-
cessfully treated with polymyxin,”
she continued.

Dr. Bliss, who is the discoverer
of the minute haemolytic strepto-
coccus now known as Group F, and
co-discoverer and developer of the
sulfonamide compounds emphasiz-
ed that polymyxin is still very
much in the experimental stage but
she said, “It is a different organ-
ism which may add to the knowl-

edge of the bacteria of other cells.”



The Bryn Mawr Varsity basket-
ball team played Rosemont on
March 17, and was defeated by a
score of 38 to 40. The J. V., how-
ever, fared better, defeating the
Rosemont team 26 to 16. On March
20, the third and fourth. varsity
teams played against Penn, and the
final score was fairly even. The
third team won with a score of 39
to 21, while the fourth team lost,
by a score of 18 to 26.

The Sophomore basketball team
challenged the Grad students on
the 16th of March, and defeated
them by a score of 38 to 22.

The swimming squad rolled in
another victory in its meet with
Ursinus last week, winning by a
score of 32 to 28.



Engagements

Janine Dent Daudon ’48
to
Eugene Donnaud Brierre

Suzanne Park ’51
to
Donn H. Paul





Pool Closed Week-ends

Students are reminded that
the pool is not open on weck-
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Myra Uhifelder Takes Lucky 13;
Wins Latin Fellowship to Rome

by Ceile Macacbe ’50

(For the thirteenth time a Bryn
Mawr woman has been awarded
the fellowship given by the Amer-
ican Academy in Rome. Myra Uhl-
felder, whose A. B. and M. A. are
from the University of Cincinnati,
has recently received the fellow-
ship, and hopes to spend next win-
ter in Rome. If all goes well she
will sail on September 25, and will
probably stay until June.

Myra seems to have her plans
all made in the expectation that



*“Manet et l’ Espagne”’
Related by Gaillard

Continued from Page 1
tain romanticism, while the influ-
ence on painters was of a more
stylistic type.

Many of Manet’s early paintings
have Spanish subjects, simply ex-
ecuted against an empty back-
ground. There is a passage from
darkness to light in Manet’s paint-
ing. After complaining that too
much painting had been done in
the studio and that artists should
paint outdoors, Manet found the
ideal of a living person surround-
ed by air in Velasquez.

In his later work Manet devel-
oped a lighter and lighter back-
ground as well as a certain flat-
ness in painting them. He attain-
ed a gray tone which was almost
completely flat. “But although
Manet ceased to paint Spanish sub-
jects, he did not forget Spain nor
the influence of Velasquez against
Italianism,” concluded Professor
Gaillard.





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New Orleans ditty, “Airizay,” is attracting

lots of fans. If you ask Ray about it, he says:

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political developments will not
make the trip inadvisable, and
hopes to do some work with man-
uscripts in the Vatican. In addi-
tion to this she will endeavor to
edit “some small grammatical
work.” One of the great attrac-
tions for her is the opportuhity to,
do individual work. ~

The American Academy offers,
for the benefit of students in Rome,
tours to the relics and monuments
of interest. Myra feels that travel
is one of the more important as-
pects of the fellowship, since it of-
fers an opportunity to see things
which otherwise remain theoretical
and lifeless. She insists she'll
spend much of her time travelling!

Among the Bryn Mawr women
who have held the fellowship are
Miss Taylor, Dean of the Gradu-
ate School and professor of Latin
and Miss Marti and Mrs. Michels,
of the Latin Department. It was
given last year to Doris Taylor,
who was then a student here; hers
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THE COLLEGE NEWS



Arts Night Planned

On ‘“‘Encounter’”> Theme
Continued on Page 4

Joan Brest’s play, Stones of Sor-
“row, concerns neeely in Mexico:
for further detail one is urged to
attend. Twenty-one’s Game, writ-
ten by John Gailey of Haverford,
is probably the only melodrama in
the world which is punctuated
throughout by a backstage ping-
pong game. This play features one
Roger Kane as a third of a tri-
angle.

The three modern dance groups
will all present the “Encounter”
theme in a different way. The first
group will show a contrast of mo-
tion, tempo and rhythm as_ sug-
*. gested by Debussy’s “Images.” The
second group has built its dance
around the quotation, “Each man
is an Island unto himself.” The
conflict between the formal classic
modes of dancing and the new, un-
pretentious impulsive trend is the
subject of the final group’s presen-
tation.. ™

The orchestra, augmented by
friends of the college and led by
William H. Reese, will present the
new versus the old in musical com-
position. Two Bach compositions
exemplify the old; the middle per-
iod is represented by the music in
My Bonny Boy, an intermezzo from
a suite of English folk songs by
Vaughan Williams.

The Chorus will present an in-
teresting series of Kyries. This
traditional part of the Mass has
encountered different kinds of
church music from the earliest
times. Three of the Kyries have
been composed by undergraduates.
The Double Octet will also present
a short program.

A Fiesta constitutes the Spanish
Club’s contribution to Arts Night.
A Spanish folk dance called “Jota”
will be the first presentation, fol-
lowed by a Mexican folk dance
which includes music. Finally,
there will be a version of the
Rhumba!

In Goodhart’s Foyer there will
be an exhibition of work done by
various members of the Art Stu-
dio, including Haverford students
and faculty wives.



Quartet’s Hollers
Result in Dollars

by Blaikie Forsyth ’51

Two masked marvels armed with
water pistols invaded the Rhoads
smoker last Wednesday night,
loudly demanded cash, and then re-
vealed to their victims the newly-
formed College ’49 Quartet. Ann
Eberstadt, Sue Henderson, Kathy
Geib and Sally Loomis appeared
to sing Mood Indigo, If I Had My
Way, Embraceable You, My Sweet
and~other popular standbys. The
hat was passed frequently by the
gangsters, who also threw in an
occasional plug for the Bingo in
Pem.

The scarlet blazers and close har-
mony of the Quartet were much
appreciated by their audience;
however they remained strictly
modest, apologizing before each
number. Bribed by a flood of pen-
ies, the Quartet obliged with a
special Eberstadt rendition of
Lover Man as a grand finale and
left their admiring audience with
the knowledge that once again the
Drive had benefited.

The Quartet wishes to thank the
halls for their contribution to the
Drive — approximately $35 — and
hopes to do a great performance



Vacation Library Hours

‘Library hours during spring
vacation will be as follows:
Friday, March 26 - April 8;
Daily, 9 a. m.-5 p. m.; Satur-
day, 9 a. m.-1 p.m. The Lib-
rary -will be closed evenings,
beginning Friday, March 26;
closed Sunday, March 28, but
open Sunday, April 4. |





THE

Place to Come
for Distinctive
Easter Cards

IS

Richard Stockton’s
Bryn Mawr .





BM, Hav. Present
Anouilh’s Comedy

Specially contributed by
Phyllis Bolton ’49

If you have noticed various Bryn
Mawrtyrs or Haverfordians clus-
tered around Rock Arch at 17:15
every evening and muttering such
phrases as “Je ne suis pas Jacques
Renaud,” or “Foutrequet, c’est un
tres indice, ‘certes,” do not fear
for their sanity. These are mem-
bers of the cast of Le Voyageur
Sans Bagage waiting for trans-
portation to rehearsal, and they
are only temporarily deranged. The
evening of April 10 will find them
returned to normal.

On that date the French clubs
of Bryn Mawr and Haverford will
will present Jean Anouilh’s com-
edy Le Voyageur Sans Bagage at
Roberts Hall. This is;the story of
an amnesia victim of the first
world war. Gaston visits the Re-
naud family in hopes that they will
prove to be his own family and
tha this memory will return. As
he hears the past of the man
whose life he must assume, his
battles and his love affairs, he be-
comes more and more convinced he
wants no part of such a life. But
can he avoid it when ai! indica-
tions point to his being Jacques
Renaud? A trip to Roberts Hail
yn April 10 will answer this ques-
tion.

The east includes: Gaston, Gun-
ther Frankl; Georges Renaud,
Charles Melchior; Madame Re-
naud, Elisabeth Grey; Valentine
Renaud, Hilary Gold; La Duchesse,
Josephine Raskind; Juliette, Kath-





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NOTICES

Tournament Winner

The Undergraduate Association
is pleased to announce that Gwen
Groves ’50 was last week’s winner
of the Ping-Pong tournament.

Highest Graduate Honor

The Fanny Bullock Workman
Travelling Fellowship for 1948-49
has been won by Mrs. Esther Duke
Redding, now completing her sec-
ond year of graduate work in the
Physics Department. The fellow-
ship provides a year of study or
research abroad or in this country,
and is the highest graduate honor
Bryn Mawr College gives.

Alliance Elections

The election of the Alliance Ex->

ecutive Board will be held on April
7. All those interested in working
on the Alliance should be sure to
give their names to their hall rep-
resentative. All who do so will be
considered for election to the
Board.
CARE Movie
During the week of April 12, the



erine Thenault; Maitre Huspar,
Sperry Lea; Maitre Peckweck, Wil-
liam Warner; Le Maitre d’Hotel,
Sol Blecker; Le Valet de Chambre,
Dan Olivier; Le Chauffeur, George
de Schweinetz; Le Petit Garcon,
Catherine Lord; and La Cusiniere,
Karen Cassard. It is being di-
rected by Phyllis Bolton, and the
faculty advisor is Mr. K. B. Whit-
worth.



Bryn Mawr Theatre will run a
series of four movies, profits from
which will go to CARE—if you buy
your ticket on the campus. There
will be a different movie nightly,
April 12-15, one of which will be
a.revival. Tickets, which may be
bought only during the first week
after vacation, April 5-9, will be
in the hands of hall representa-
‘tives; they will cost the usual fifty
cents, and any ticket will be good
for any of the four days.





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its roots in so many
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It is these men and women—telephone employees
at various stages of their careers—who, side by
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low cost.

“Up from the ranks” is.a familiar phrase to tele-
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is open to all and that those who come up from the
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Opportunity of this sort

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