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VOL. XLVI, NO. 7
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 1949
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1949
PRICE 15 CENTS
Lihom Displays
Smooth Staging,
Intense Moods.
Bishop Stars as Liliom;
Scenery, Lights
Excellent
by Anne Greet, 50
The Bryn Mawr College Theatre
-and Haverford Cap and Bells Club
production of “Liliom” last Sat-
urday night combined proficient
-acting with magnificent scenery.
Parts of the play were excellent,
but as a whole it lacked a certain
unity or cohesiveness. There was
little conformity of interpretation
between the actors, mainly because
“Liliom” is a mixture of fantasy
and realism, and presents several
themes in different stages of de-
velopment. Essentially, ‘“Liliom”
is the story of a man who can not
reconcile his pride with his love
for his wife, Julie—his hatred for
the responsibilities he must face
in married life wth the easy ap-
peal of a career as carousel bark-
er. The play is emotionally tense,
but decentralized “oy sponta
themes (such as the contrast be-
tween Julie and her friend Marie
at different stages in their lives,
the picture of workers in Buda-
pest and the sort of justice they
meet with, or Julie’s own refusal
to admit her love for Liliom until
after he has died) whose relation-
ship to the plot as a whole was
left undetermined in Saturday
night’s performance. _
Liliom’s character is the only
one that is clearly defined by his
own dialogue and actions, and by
Continued on Page 2
From left to right: Von der Goltz, Bishop,
Haring, Kunkel.
Specially Contributed
by Mabel Louise Lang
If anyone has wondered what the
News Board broods about in its
smoke-filled room in Goodhart
every Monday and Tuesday eve-
ning, there are now some eighty
odd persons privileged to tear
aside the veil and tell all. Nor
have we come by our information
in any underhanded news-scaveng-
ing fashion; it was all quite above
board, which groaned with a dazzl-
ing array of doughnuts and in-
determinate punch, at the NEWS
party, which was financed by the
guests and held at the home of
Miss Ely last Wednesday evening.
The floor show, in which the
News._Board revealed its inner
lucubrations and the way in which
it adapts the news to its own pur-
poses, presented in tense and
tragic idiom the plotting of one
Milton C. Guy Fawkes against. a
Angel Mound, Turtle Carapaces
Give Diggers Delightful Summer
Specially contributed by
Ann Chowning & Alice Shroyer, ’50
We arrived at Angel Mounds in
a pouring rain to find that the
third member of our group had
suddenly decided to go to Arizona
instead. In the ten weeks that fol-7
lowed, we frequently wished to
join her, but by the end of the
summer we had no regrets.
Sixteen of us had come to south-
ern Indiana to learn, in. the words
of the catalogue, “archaelogical
field technique.” In our working
hours we leveled transits, dug with
small trowels through weeds, top
soil, and yellow clay, “sexed” skel-
—~etons, and made soil- profile-maps:
After several humiliating mis-
takes, we learned to tell a human
skull from a turtle’s carapace and
a grain of corn from a drum-fish
tooth. Our work was enlivened by
“recitations of Wordsworth from
Don, by “Jesus Wants Me for a
Sunbeam” from Dick, arid by our
director, Mr. Black, who constant-
ly told us how much more uncom-
fortable we would be when the
tassel-flies came. Every time we
found a skeleton, we were gloom-
ily informed that in fifty years
‘we would be no better than that.
The rite offered further disad-
vantages in heat and insects. Even
worse, we got poison ivy regularly
cheered by the thought that, when
covered with purple and brown
« medicine, we would no longer have
to act in the movie that was being
made of the expedition. Neverthe-
less, we enjoyed ourselves thor-
oughly. We argued constantly,
ahout genetics and modern art, re-
ligion and Roosevelt, the Civil War
and bull-fights (but not, to Mr.
Black’s irritation, about archae-
ology). We learned songs in Czech,
Spanish, and German, though our
favorite was always “Put a Nickel
on the Drum.” Toward the end
of the summer we even resorted
to “Ghost.”
Our greatest dissipation during
the week was a walk to the near-
by grocery store for ice cream, but
on weekends we left the camp for
trips to the laundromat-in-Evans-
parties on the levee above the Ohio.
There~ we watched the stem-
wheelers go through the locks and
listened to the singing of Pancho’s
Costa Rican friends. The relation-
ships between the sexes became
complicated in a peculiarly arch-
aeological manner: bays offered to
show us the Big Mound, and one
girl was heard to remark: “It must
be love; this morning he offered
to sharpen my trowel.” We found
that at first we were regarded as
the products of an Eastern finish-
ing school, but by the end of the
summer we were cheered to learn
that Dick, who was looking for an
old-fashioned girl, regarded us as
his ideal. Both archaeologically and
socially, we felt that we could re-
gard it as a summer well-spent.
ville and for the moonlight beer-.
NEWS Party Mixes Dramatics,
Punch, Masks and Prize-Giving
| regime which put a premium on
| bony fingers and his undoing by
\the machinations of an informer.
i|Paula Strawhecker as M.C.G.F.
was lifelike except for a slightly
overstuffed-shirtiness, and the rapt
attendance at Joan McBride at
Latin Prose Composition
poetic fruit in the speaking like-
ness of the Informer. ‘Mrs. Man:
ning” (nee Gwynne Williams) was
overpowering as mistress of cere:
monies and not only obliged with a
few tender ballads but provided a
rousing piano accompaniment to
the volunteered vocal rendition (by
popular demand) of M. van den
Heuvel.
Of the many delightful and care.
less costumes worn by guests and
hosts_alike, space—and_ineffability
forbid extended description. There
was a rash of Oriental outfits (‘so
comfortable over pyjamas”), a
pair of skiis wielded with malice
aforethought and an eye on the
punch bowl, three very weird
sisters who by some complicated
process of fission produced a
fourth sibling and kept muttering
infelicitious lines from Longfel-
low, a collection of mobile masks
that made the most of the wearers’
Continued on Page 3
Litchfield to Talk
On London Plans
Speaking on “The London Tri-
Partite Documents, their Negotia-
tions and Implementation,” Dr.
Edward Litchfield will address the
Political Science 318a class at 2
p. m., November 22, in Room G,
Dr. Litchfield was Director of
the Civil Administration Division
of the Office of Military Govern-
ment in Germany and advisor to
‘General Clay. .
CALENDAR
Thursday, November 17
"12:80 p. m., Alliance Assem-
bly, . Dr. Robert Cushman,
“Civil Rights and the Loyalty
Program,” Goodhart.
8:15 p. m., Philosophy Club
Lecture, Dr. Leo Strauss,
“Natural Right in History,”
Art Lecture Room. %
Monday, November 28
7:15 p. m., Current Events,
Dr. Caroline Robbins, “Social-
ized Medicine,” Common Room.
Wednesday, November 30
Morning Assembly, Mrs.
Antje Lemke, “Women in
Post- War Germany,” Good-
bore '
Alliance Presents
Robert Cushman
On Civil Liberty
The speaker at the Alliance As-
sembly tomorrow, Thursday, No-
vember 17, at 12:30-p:-m:;-will-be
Robert E. Cushman, Ph.D., Litt.D.,
Goldwin Smith Professor of Gov-
ernment at Cornell University. Dr.
Cushman will speak on: Civil Lib-
erty and the Loyalty Program. Dr.
‘Cushman is well-known as an out-
standing speaker on Civil Rights
questions.
Professor Cushman was Chair-
man of the Department of Govern-
ment at Cornell from 1923-1946.
He has been a member of the
Board of Editors of the American
Political Science Review since
1923, and was President of the
American Political Science Assoc-
iation in 1948. He was a member
of the staff of the President’s -Com-
mittee on Administrative Manage-
ment in 1986. He is Director: of
Cornell Research in Civil Liberties.
He is the author of Leading Con-
stitutional Decisions (8th Ed.
1946); American National Govern-
ment (with §S. P. Orth. in 1931);
The Independent Regulatory Com-
missions (1941).
Strauss To Give
Philos. Lecture
The Department of Philosophy
will present a lecture by Dr. Leo
Strauss, Professor of Political
Science at the University of Chic-
ago, and eminent in -the field of
political thought on Thursday,
November 17, at 8:15 p.m. in the
Art Lecture Room of the Library.
His topic will be “The Natural
Right of History.” -
Author of many books and arti-
eles, Dr. Strauss is an authority
on the political philosophy of
Hobbes. As a lecturer, he is well
known to Bryn Mawr, since he has
spoken here twice in the past four
years.
Dr. Strauss received his Ph.D.
in Hamburg. He has been a Rock-
efeller fellow, and a visiting lec-
turer at Hamilton, Union, Middle-
bury, Amherst, and Wesley col-
leges. Prior to his position at the
University of Chicago, he was a
member of the graduate faculty of
Political and Social Science of the
New School of Social Research.
Chorus to Sing _
At Carnegie Hall
The Bryn Mawr Chorus will sing
at, Carnegie Hall on Monday eve-
ning, November 21, at 8:30 in a
program which is being sponsored
by the Chamber Art Society. Bryn.
Mawr, combined with the Prince-
ton University Chapel Choir, will
sing the chorus of Stravinsky’s
“Persephone”. Vera Zorina, the
ballet dancer, will narrate the role
of Persephone, and the tenor part
of Eumalpus will be sung by Wil-
liam Hess. Robert Craft will con-
duct. W. H. Auden will read some
of his new poems during the course
of the program, and there will
also be two orchestral works by
Stravinsky, which are being played
for the first time in the ited
States, and one piece by Bartok.
Voters Defeat
Phi Beta Kappa
In Recent Poll
Total of 218 Ballots
Show 40 Pro,
115 Con
The results of the recent poll to
obtain student opinion on the es-
tablishment of Phi Beta Kappa at
‘Bryn Mawr were announced by
President McBride as follows: The
different, 1; No, 44; 1951: Yes, 4;
Graduate School: Yes, 14; Indiffer-
ent, 10; No, 12; 1950: Yes, 5; In-
Indifferent, 2; No, 20; 1952: Yes,
7; Indifferent, 3; No, 48; 1953:
Yes, 10; Indifferent, 7; No, 31. The
totals were Yes, 40; Indifferent,
23; and No, 155; and 218 ballots
in all were cast.
Those in favor of Phi Beta Kap-
pa argued that it would increase
incentive to do good work, which
opinion was opposed by those who
felt that the incentive for work
should be-interest in the work it-
self. They said that it would aid
in professional advancement or job
placement and would bring Bryn
Mawr in line with other colleges
and universities in supporting
scholarship.
The chief arguments against Phi
Beta Kappa were: standards for
election to Phi Beta Kappa vary
from college to college and within
a college from year to year; the
present academic honors are suf-
ficient; and working for marks
might increase, and so might com-
petition among students.
NAACP Reports
On Race Problem
Specially contributed by
Micki Natalson, °52
An ironic welcome was extended
to the delegates who assembled at
Dayton, Ohio, November 9-12, for
the Eleventh Annual Youth Con-
ference of the National Associa-
tion for the Advancement of the
Colored People. Shortly after their
arrival, some Negro delegates
were denied entrance to an eating
establishment, although there is a
state law which forbids such dis-
crimination. They were assaulted
when they tried to insist upon
their legal rights. Although the
owner of the restaurant did not
know it, his chief antagonist was
a legal advisor of NAACP, who is
going to see the case through the
courts.
This unfortunate incident illum-
inated—the-task.before the dele-
gates. They met their responsi»
bility with enthusiasm and deter-
mination. After four days of
meeting in conference from 8:00
A. M. to 10:30. P. M., they pro-
duced. their resolutions for specific
action in the fields of education,
civil liberties, recreation, employ-
ment, and armed forces. The asso-
ciation attempts chiefly to combat
segregation and discrimination by
educational and legal means) In
its forty years of existence, ié has
done much to secure a free ballot,
to stop lynching, to equalibe public
education, to halt job discrimina-
tion, to abolish transportation
segregation, to gain justice in the
court, to oppose imperialism, and,
more genérally, to promote equal-'
ity, security, and freedom.
¥
Page Two
THE ,cCOLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, November 16, 1949 .
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' FouNDED IN 1914
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giving, Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examination weeks)
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Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912
The Room Question
The question has come up again, as it has so often in the
past two years, of the extent of our responsibilities toward
our rooms. Undergraduates feel that once they have paid
their residence fees their rooms are their.own, to>keep clean
or leave dirty as they will. The administration feels that col-
lege rooms are college property, and should be kept in a con-
dition which will not dismay visiting alumnae and prospect-
ive students.
The situation is not grave at the moment, although two
halls have been forced to adopt the system of inspection and
fines, and complaints about the disgusting litter in the smok-
ers are perennial. We may expect increased untidiness as
the semester wears on, of course, and the possibility of strict-
er measures should be brought at once to undergraduate at-
tention. oS
We feel we ought to remind the college, however, that
the real issue is not merely one of untidiness. Two years
ago, when the necessity of increasing residence fees was
brought to the attention of the students, we offered to do
enough work in the halls to keep the charges down to their
present level, which is ultimately the lowest in any ‘of the
big eastern women’s colleges.
We have the chance to make another choice now: high-
er residence fees or a greater willingness to help keep the
halls clean ourselves. Few of us would be willing to see the
costs of attending college go up, but we cannot take advan-
tage of our present agreement with the administration and
ss 7 on our own part of it.
i
for discussion of the whole question. Let us in the meantime
reconsider our position, and decide whether we cannot agree
to accept fully and freely the terms - the compact we made
two years ago.
Py
Thanksgiving
vsiabantvings fat white turkeys wading in gravy; aunts
and great-uncles and shining silver. Thanksgiving air smells
of brandy, cigars, home-cooking; Thanksgiving conversation
is all about family and Christmas shopping. We will go home
and wave our drumsticks in gratitude and say grace over the
goosepoose, or remain on campus and brood over dry expans-
es of crumbly dressing. Whichever it is, wherever we are——
freedom, four days of idle eating and talking are almost upon
us. Limp and dozing we shall lie in great armchairs, sur-
Tes ty trattier feces cual thinking cin about. turkey
and sicicte tMaa
| warm and light and exciting and
&
Foreign |
Correspondent
by Emily Townsend, ’50
“Be sure to go to Chantilly,”
they said, so we went. It surprises
me now that we ever got there:
four trains in a row escaped our
enticements and left without us.
Between trains we comforted our-
selves with ham and wine, and al-
ways got back to the platform in
time‘ to see the next one leave.
We climbed firmly on the fifth
one and admired the red elegance
of the third class compartmerit. It*
was empty, and we lay down, one
along each side. A Chinese entered,
reading our device of plush, two
harpys couchant, two bouteils de
vin elevated, as a distinct invita-
tion; we had to repel him with
offers of grimy pre-digested cough-
drops. The sun was setting as we
glided over the fields toward Chan-
tilly, we felt inexpressibly roman- |
tic and adventurous, the world was
full of good things to eat — the
least we could do, we said, was
spend the night in a haystack and
suck milk from the goats at dawn.
We alighted at Chantilly with-
out further excitement, except the
discovery that we had been riding
first class all along and paying the
difference. A man at the station
whose horse wore knitted gloves
on his ears offered to carry us into
the thickest middle of the forest
de Chantilly, but we spent all our
money on creme Chantilly instead,
and walked. We prepared for our
rustic night first, though, by buy-
ing a knife, reflecting that offers
of cough drops might not be ef-
fective forever, and that if the
polite Chinese could act so in a
railway carriage, the ardent
Frenchman would not be far be-
Continued on Page 3
Curric. Committee
Lists Members
ss McBride has offered to preside at an open meeting
Archaeology .............dess Vorys
EHSVIBT sicvsssiesasvessnss Sherry Cowgill
FLISGOLY. | iisscsiesieensaie Frieda Wagoner
Spanish .... ...Anne Chowning
French ........ccceseeeeeeee... len Shure
BIOS Y. © sisisssvecvssceue Doris Chambers
Chemistry ............Betty Dempwolf
Latin and Greek .......... ‘Anne Greet
Philosophy ..............Hlisabeth Grey
History of Art ..........Judy Nicely
PHYSICS 5 sissisiosectanvesseiad Sylvia Hayes
POUGHOCS : cvcsscessees Elisabeth Nelidow
Economics ...........huUth Metzger
German ................Maud Hodgman
RUSSIOH | Giccsscdesevccstoved Maryan Rising
Mathematics......Betty Jean Conner
GOOLOG Yj iccscseicncscssscssies Ruth Young
Sociology .......see.....es0is Maconi
The Chairman of the Curriculum
Committee is Sylvia Hayes, 750.
Professor Talks
On French Movie
Wyndham, November 9th—The
first lecturer for the French Club
this year, M. Guicharnaud spoke
on the The French Movie Today.
The movie industry in France is
not prosperous, and it has to’'make
| films on a very limited budget.
This, however, as M. Guicharnaud
pointed out, is not as detrimental
to the quality of the films as may
be thought, as it summons all the
ability and ingenuity of the pro-
ducer, decorator, technician, stage
director of a film. Comparing
French films with Hollywood films,
M. Guicharnaud said that. Ameri-
can films are always technically
perfect, but do not have the orig-
inality. of a good French film,
which has to make full use of all
its. potentialities.
Another basic difference which
M. Guicharnaud brought up, is the
literary approach of film makers
in the two countries. In France, a
great deal of attention is given to
the literary quality of the script.
Most of the major French writers
of the time are interested in the
movies, and some have even parti-
cipated in it, such as Jean Anouilh,
Cocteau, Sartre (The Chips are
down), Gide (Symphonie Pastor-
ale), Colette (who has adapted her
Gigi and Cheri to the screen).
M. Guicharnaud then explained
the main trends of the French mov-
ie of today. Before the war, the
tradition was that of violent, real-
istic films, in which virtue and
honesty were scorned and the cri-
minal was the more often praised.
During the years of occupation,
the Vichy government instituted
a type of ‘virtuous’ film, which was
a direct counterpart to the vio-
lent prewar films. The major ar-
tists of the film industry refused
to accept this new convention, and
sought an escape from it in the
representation of the fantastic. To
this. type of film belong, among
others, Goupi Mains Rouges, Le
Corbeau, Cocteau’s L’Eternel Re-
tour. One of the new trends since
1945 is that toward a more artistic
kind of film. To this trend such
mevie producers as Renoir, Carnet,
Rene Clair (The Ghost Goes West,
It Happened Tomorrow, Le Silence
est d’Or) have contributed much.
Another trend is toward immoral
films, such as Le Diable au Corps.
There is also: a general renais-
sance of the burlesque movie. Such
films are usually pointless, but
comic, M. Guicharnaud said.
As for the movie of the present
day, M. Guicharnaud is afraid that
it is on the decline. The tendency
now in France is to make instruc-
tive films with some moral, usual-
ly films about the_lives of histar-
ical characters, and this kind of
film tends to be tedious. M. Vin-
cent, among the first of these,
has remained the best.
1927 Psych. Department Relates
Weight, Work, Worry and Exams
Are you worrying about mid-
semesters? Are you also worry-
ing about your weight? Some vital
statistics relating these two were
drawn up back in 1927, when the
Psychology department began to
wonder, ahead of Vassar, if
“everything really did correlate.”
The following is reprinted from
the November 16th, 1927 edition of
the College News:
“The Psychology Department has
announced the result of its experi-
ments on body weights and exam-
inations. For the last two years
it has weighed students before and
after their Mid-Year periods and
compared the results in loss or
gain of weight with the number of
honor points they made that se-
mester.
The most startling result, which
is the same for both years, is that
those averaging a loss of one
pound or less made the best aver-
age in honor points. Those who
gain or lose more than one pound
did worse.
Dr, Leuba, in making the an-
nouncement; -explained~ that‘Cal-
orimeter test show that purely in-
tellectual work has little or no ef-
fect on metabolism. Hence, the
changes in body weight are refer-
red to emotional stress.’ .
The loss of weight resulting
from emotional stress may have
been due to a low class grade and,
fear of failure at examinations or
to temperamental peculiarities. ©
The general conclusions to be
drawn are that: ‘Students working
under a moderate stress, which
causes a slight loss of weight do
the best.
‘Those that show no loss of
weight, or gain, suffer from the
lack of optimum emotional stress.
‘Those in which the stress is ex-
cessive through fear or tempera-
‘ment. are hindered in those per-| °
formances.’ ”
Uneven Interpretation
Mars Unity of ‘‘Liliom’’
Continued from Page 1
their effect on the other charact-
ers. Partly because he had more
to work with, William Bishop in
the leading role of the ex-carousel
barker gave his part an individ-
uality throughout that the other
roles lacked. His performance was
extremely natural and believable
when he wooed Julie on a park
bench or plotted with Fiesur in the
tintype shop. One of the achieve-
ments of the play was the uneasy
atmosphere of: growing tenseness.
when Liliom and Ficsur were play-
ing “21” before the arrival of the
man they planned to murder. Bis-
hop was less successful in portray-
ing emotions that lay entirely out-
side his own, experience. The sui-
cide scene-and-his-dying..words. to
Julie, both very difficult, verged
on the farcical, and Liliom’s ob-
stinate pride seemed sometimes
close to youthful petulance.
In contrast, Eritha von der
Goltz, as “Julie” the servant girl
who marries Liliom and is badly
treated by him, was at her best in
moments of emotional intensity.
Although her actions were awk-
ward and she lacked stage presence.
from time to time she spoke her
lines beautifully. Her scene with
Liliom in the park was charming,,.
and she entirely overcame the
banal lines with which Julie ad-
dresses her dead husband and
created one of the few powerful
scenes in the play.
Nancy Pearre as Marie provid-
ed some good comedy, and Robin
Nevitt, as Ficsur, had a delightful
variety of facial expressions and
pantomimic gestures) Madame
Muskat (like Liliom and Julie, re-
luctant to admit her love), is a
difficult role, and Molly Whitney
Allen created a consistent char-
acter — a shrewish, unattractive,
middle-aged lady.» But, as the
woman who was Liliom’s former
lover and who almost persuades.
him to leave Julie and return to.
the carousel, she lacked dramatic:
stature. She might have been por-
trayed as less of a scold and more
of a menace.
The other roles seemed vague
and undefined in the minds of the
actors. Floyd Ford, as Wolf,
Marie’s porter sweetheart, had his.
pompous moments, but Delia Fleis-
hacker as Julie’s ancient aunt and.
Joan Gale as Julie’s daughter were:
disappointing.. The Magistrate
(Roger Morrell), the Rich Man
(Gouverneur Cadwallader), were
dull, while the Doctor (Thomas
Wood), and the Carpenter (John
Meserale) made the _ audience
laugh where they shouldn’t have.
All the roles were played with the
informal natural manner that be-
longs with the presentation of dis-
tinct individualities, but, except
for Liliom and Ficsur, they gave
the impression of being “typical”
servant girls, old ladies, porters, .
photographers, and policemen.
The production was beautifully
staged—from the prologue with
the swaying girls and the flashing.
lights of the carousel to the last
lonely scene “before Julie’s door.”
There was a moment at the end
of each scene before the curtain
fell, when the action was resolved
-into-a~tableau.'The--mostimpres-___
sive of these was a “courtroom in
the Beyond” with the figures of
Liliom ‘and a heavenly policeman
silhouetted against “the crimson
fire.’ Although the acting was un-
even and the presentation of the
play unco-ordinated, “Liliom” was.
a provocative performance and well
worth seeing.
‘Wednesday, November 16,
1949
+ Om
LAST NIGHTERS
Sadler’s W ells..Ballet
Presents Classic
Swan Lake
by Irina Nelidow, ’50
Not since the days of Diaghileff
had America seen the _ classi-
cal tradition of the ballet express-
ed in the grand manner until the
British Sadler’s Wells Ballet Com-
pany, with its truly great star
Margot Fonteyn, arrived in New
York this autumn. No American
company, (or rather, no American
corps de ballet, for a company is
only as good as its corps de bal-
let) has as yet shown us the bril-
liance, dignity, and simplicity of
the classical ballet. True, both
Alexandra Danilova “and ~ Alicia
Markova, Europeans who have long
been dancing in America, are class-
ical ballerinas in the fullest, sense
of the word, but they have never
received anything but mediocre
support from the ensemble and, in
most cases, the orchestra.
The Sadler’s Wells performance
of the uncut, four-act Swan Lake
on November 10 at the Academy
of Music was a revelation of what
ballet at its best can be. Swan
Lake, one of the oldest and most
beautiful of the classical ballets,
was first produced in 1895 at the
Marinsky Theater in St. Peters-
burg with choreography by Marius
Petipa and Lev Ivanov to music
by Tchaikovsky. A fairy-tale bal-
let (Tchaikovsky wrote on the
score that the setting for Swan
Lake was “Allemagne dans le
temps fabuleux des Contes”), it
is, both dramatically and techni-
cally, so demanding for stars and
ensemble that American compan-
ies have had to content themselves
to date with giving only the sec-
ond act.
Swan Lake as performed by the
Sadler’s Wells Company _ repre-
sented a perfect fusion of all the
classical elements: simplicity,
grace, technical brilliance, re-
straint,.accuracy, and great indiv-
idual beauty of line. Each dancer
was aware of his or her relation-
ship to the whole. Never was there
any exaggerated playing to the
audience or any clumsy over-em-
phasis on the difficult mimed pass-
ages, which were handled with dig-
nity and conviction.
- By far the most brilliant per-
formance of the evening was that
of Margot Fonteyn as Odette-
Odile, one of the most challenging
roles for any ballerina. Fonteyn
has everything: amazing techni-
cal ability, lightness, and grace,
great stage presence, and a deep
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Entrance to Chantilly
Continued from Page 2
hind in the hay.
We wandered through woods and
more woods and still other woods,
we passed across the great Chan-
tilly race-track where the sum-
mer sheep were grazing: two of
them cracked their heads togeth-
er in the agony of love, and a
third — presymably a lady though
we didn’t stop to look — giggled
with her face in a bush. We climb-
ed the last fence, ripped our skirts
inelegantly behind, and looked
down at the chateau in its lake be-
neath us.
The round green lake, the pink
bridge of sunny stone, the spiry
chateau yellow in the evening light
—and what beyond? We had to
find out. But the great green gates
were locked for the night, the
moat was deeper than we were tall,
the ditches were too wide for us
to jump, the low walls were cov-
ered with bottle glass and barbed
wire, and in other places were at
least nine feet high. Once we got
half way up when the gendarme
came by—we pretended very hard
to be picking berries. At last we
found a fairly private stretch
where someone had thoughtfully
placed a lamppost at an angle in
the walls, and over we went, bare-
foot and much admired by the bi-
cyclists below.
It was a twenty foot drop, but
it was worth it. The light was green,
and there was mist for air. Down
croaked; a fish leaped in the weedy
waterway. Green sciim was every-
where on the pools, and dead
rushes, and the lovely smell of
grass rotting in the wet. We came
quietly up through the grounds,
avoiding the white marble faces
in the leaves. Up to the dark green
Continued on Page 5
Drugstores and Jersey Scenery
Overwhelm New
by Francine du Plessix, 52
Sybil Amic, a recent French
addition to the Sophomore Class,
was vastly disappointed with her
first impression of America. Cloud-
piercing towers and snow-white
skyscrapers filled her imagination,
and poor Sybil disembarked in
Brooklyn; to find“miles of low, red
peeling houses. Sybil -hasn’t...yet|
overcome her hatred of Brooklyn.
“Que c’est triste!”, she said but a
few days ago. “Que c’est laid!”
Because she had to get to Bryn
Mawr as soon as possible, Sybil
spent only one day in New York.
Unlike most foreigners, the city
of opportunities left little impres-
sion on her. She was much more
delighted by the scenery on the
way to Philadelphia, by the bridges
and the highways and even by the
verdant pastures of Newark, which
she found quite extraordinary; not
exactly beautiful, but full of char-
acter.
“Les drugstores . . . c’est epa-
tant!” Of our national features,
this is what fills Sybil with the
greatest admiration. She finds each
Liggett’s a haven of novelty and
glamour. Bryn Mawr College, like
Liggett’s is “epatant.”
French Student
rived here a few days late for the
beginning of the term, and felt 4
bit lost at first; but being a very
self-possessed young lady, she has
made friends very fast. So far her
only faux-pas have been to bring
a blush of shame to those French
majors who have realized that Sy-
bil’s English is much, much better
ginning to feel quite happy in her
new surroundings, except for one
item of her curriculum. “Je ne
comprends rien a ce Chaussere!”,
she says, throwing up her arms in
anguish. This reporter quite sym-
pathizes with Sybil’s antagonism
‘towards the author of the Canter-
bury Tales; it must be bewilder-
ing, upon one’s arrival to these
shores, to be immediately thrown
into the mazes of Mediaeval Eng-
lish. ‘
On account of her late arrival,
Sybil could not get a room on cam-
pus, so she is living with Miss
Howe, and dining at Pembroke
Hall. Here are my heartfelt wishes
for a soon-to-come marriage, grave
misdemeanor, or even elopement
on campus that will leave a room
free for Sybil, and give ner a fuller
Sybil ar-participation in college life.
a
on the empty isle d’amour a frog
than their French. -So--Sybil-is--be-
THE
NEWS
Sisters and Orientals
Add Flavor to Party
Continued from Fage 1
bony structure, and young Stephen
Lattimore playing Stephanie (com-
plete with Peter the poodle) for
the night with most engaging Vic-
torian manners. Miss Taylor, act-
ang as judge, awarded first prize to
Stephanie and second prize to M.
van Den Heuvel, very smart in
negligee and dimpled mask.
It was a fine party and served to
illustrate that old Greek adage:
“For the people who like that sort
of thing ,that’s the sort of thing
they like.”
NEWS Cues
Music
Fri., Nov. 18
Philadelphia Orchestra, Acad-
emy of Music, Broad and Walnut.
Ormandy conducting; Casadesu3,
piano; Schrieber, Casadesus, Rav-
el, Berlioz, Liszt 2:30 p. m.
Sat., Nov. 19
Philadelphia Orchestra, same
concert 8:30 p. m.
Sun., Nov. 20
Tri-County Concerts Associa-
tion; Artur Balsam; Piano Sonata
Recital, Radnor High School,
Wayne, Pa., 8:30 p. m. Admission
free.
Mon., Nov. 21
Carnegie Hall, New York;
Chamber Art Society; Stravinsky;
Bartok; Stravinsky’s Persephone
with Vera Zorina,' William Hess,
Bryn Mawr Choir, Princeton Un:-
versity Chapel Choir.
Art
Art Museum of Phila., Parkway.
Ming Blue and White: porcelain
of Ming Dynasty; Oct. 28 to Dec.
o—--—
Faces and Fashions: portraits
and actual costumes of 19th and
early 20th centuries.
Theatre
Locust, 1411 Locust St.
Signor Chicago with Guy Kibbee.
Last day Sat., Nov. 19. The Phila-
delphia Story; Sarah Churchill,
Jeffrey Lynn. Two weeks begin-
ning Nov. 21.
Walnut, 9th & Walnut Sts.
The Man Who Came to Dinner.
Monty Woolley. Last day Sait.,
Nov. 19. Metropole; Lee Tracy,
Arlene Francis. Two weeks begin-
ning Nov. 21.
Shubert, 250 South Broad.
A Night in Spain; a musical re-
vue. Last day, Sat., Nov. 19.
Blossom Time. Two weeks begin-
ning Nov. 21.
Forrest, 1114 Walnut St.
Continued on Page 5
Murder
In Cuneiform
It was late afternoon, and the
professer sat quite still in his Li-
brary office. Darkness was coming
on ,and the winter light cast a
single ray on a fragment from. the
palace of Asshurbanipal. The only
sound was that of retreating foot-
steps in the corridor. Every after-
noon at this time the professor
was accustomed to sit peacefully
and reflect on the Assyrian past,
but now a look of frozen horror
replaced his usual contemplative
smile. For the professor’ was quite,
quite dead.
* * *
Far away in another room of the
Library,..another. professor locked
something away in a drawer, and
reached for a Chesterfield with a
shaking hand.
* ok *
The next morning the faculty
cloakroom was in a twitter. An
excited group huddled around
timid little Doctor Orry, who had
never been much noticed before
except in learned journals. He had
just published a brilliant article on
the neuroses of plant molds, but
even this experience had not pre-
Continued on Page 4
The Bryn Mawr Hockey Varsity |
played their match against Beaver
on Wednesday, November 9. The
game was very exciting, but the
final results were against Bryn
Mawr, 3-1. Nancy Blackwood made
the only goal. Unfortunately, the
second team also lost, 3-1, with |
Louise Kimball scoring the only
Bryn Mawr point. The Bryn Mawr
teams both played well, but Bea-
ver had the advantage of size and
speed.
On Friday, November 11, the
Bryn Mawr Third Varsity avenged
the college against Beaver by beat-
them, 5-1, in a beautifully played
game. Ellen McIlroy scored four
of the goals, and Lenchi Abell
scored the other.
With the coming of winter, other
sports are beginning to organize
themselves. Tryouts have been
scheduled during the next few
weeks for the Basketball, Badmin-
ton, and Swimnting teams.
The Badmintod . tryouts will
be held on Monday, November 21,
and Tuesday, November 22 from
4:00 till 5:30 in the gym. The cap-
tain this year is Anne Iglehart,
and anybody interested should see
Anne if they can’t make the try-
outs.
Swimming team tryouts will be
held in the gym pool on Thursday,
November 17, and Tuesday, Nov-
ember 22 at 4:00. If your are un-
able to attend tryouts see Linni
Lee Warren, this year’s captain.
There will be tryouts for the
Basketball team on Monday, Nov-
ember 22 at 8:80 in the gym. This
year’s captains are Emily Town-
send and Sue Savage; so if you
have any difficulties getting to
tryouts see them.
Continued on Page 4
Page Three :
Between the Leaves
“Design of Democracy”
Clarifies Values
In Politics
by Hanna Holborn, ’50
The Design of Democracy, a new
book by Professor Laurence Sta-
pleton of Bryn Mawr, represents
an attempt to re-interpret and to
formulate the principles and ap-
plication of democracy in the light
of modern needs, institutions, and
attitudes. This purpose is at once
an admirable and a difficult one;
admirable in its implicit recogni-
tion of the necessary re-evaluation
of democratic standards, but made .
difficult by the problems of expres-
sion,-for.it-is all too easy. to. be-
come either trite, sentimental, or
overly pedantic in writing on such
a subject.
The book is organized into a
series of sub-topics, each present-
ing a different perspective on the
subject at hand. Thus there are
chapters entitled “Equality,”
“Freedom,” “Literature in a De-
mocracy,” “The Economic Basis of
Democracy,” and so on. The final
chapter, “Towards Democratic
World Government” sets forth the
possibilities for international liv-
ing and organization on the demo-
cratic plan and makes a plea for
the establishment and maintenance
of world order.
Miss Stapleton’s writing is at
times extremely good, but the book
is rather uneven. The tone is some-
how too measured; the style has
perhaps been reworked too often,
and in an effort to present her
case with the utmost clarity, the
author has let some of the life go
out of her work. As a result, the
thought seems oversimplified and
not sufficiently concrete in many
cases. In this way, The Design of
Democracy just misses being the
exciting and stimulating work it
might have been.
Use of Tradition
But much of the book is excep-
tionally interesting; it is made so
by the great sincerity and integri-
ty of the author herself. Her mind
is a comprehensive one, and she
has not been content to concen-
trate merely on.one aspect of the
problem; on the contrary, her wide
reading and constructive use of
past tradition have enabled her to
look intelligently and objectively
at almost every possible side. Such
excellent use of the thought of the
past is rarely seen today in writ-
ings on political affairs; these
either distort or scorn it. Miss Sta-
pletion, on the other hand, has ef-
fected a valuable synthesis be-
tween her knowledge and contem-
nerary experience.
Continued on Page 4
NEWSlang Says
‘Jump On Joan!’
by Barbara Joelson, °52
There is Russian, there is Ital-
ian, there is Greek, and then there
is Newslang. It has no major de-
partment and can’t even be used
.to-pass_an oral; but: it-is-extreme-
ly exclusive, decidedly distinctive,
nd positively picturesque. Its vo-
cabulary list would be something
like this:
NEWSLANG LAYMANESF
Head - Headline
Jump Cont’d headline
Drop i Sub-headline
Break Phrase dividing article
This novel approach to language
results in some very amusing re-
marks on the part of those who
speak it. Lest the wit be destine?
to die within the cold walls of the
newsroom, I present herewith a
sample:
Questioning: Have you a drop
for the tea?
Militant: Jump on Joan!
Even more vehement: Jump on
her head!
Continued on Page 6
Page Four
THE COLLEGE NEWS
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Wednesday, November 16, 1949
Poll-watchers Find Strange Peace|
Even on River Front at Elections
by Nima Cave, "50
Interviewed on the recent poll
watching, Eva Jane Romaine °52
commented: “We had a calm time
and we learned a lot, in fact more
than you learn in a year-long pol-
itics course”. Eva Jane and Helen
Woodward ’52, were among a
group of college students who, un-
der the aegis of the Committee of
70 were assigned to cover elections
in Philadelphia last Tuesday. The
two Bryn Mawrtyrs were given
four districts in fifteenth ward,
one of which they never found.
The theory is that three represen-
tatives of the majority party, two
of the minority supervise the elec-
tions,--the.-representatives..of..tho
Committee of 70 watch them and
a policeman, a safe 100 feet from
the poll watches everybody. The
students, -usually working in
groups of two, must _inveigle
themselves into the good graces of
the judge of elections since they
are not really supposed to be in
the polling place at all. This is
accomplished by assuming a win-
ning girlish demeanor, and a
string of foolish questions.
The opening line is usually, “We
are college students and we were
wondering ... ”. According to
Helen and Eva Jane this system
worked beautifully: in fact tthe
judge would not only explain the
machine in detail, but presented
them with pictures and pamphlets
on the subject. Since then they’ve
had many dreams in which the
Jamestown voting apparatus fig-
ured prominently. The only un-
pleasantness that they encountered
in their own ward was a fight in
which a Republican committeeman
was accused of pulling a lever
down for a ‘helpless woman’,
Sadler’s Wells Corps
Excel in Swan Lake
Continued from Page 3
sense of drama. In the second act
she stressed the regal and’ swan-
tike, rather than the feminine, ‘as-
pects of the enchanted Odette’s
personality, while her Odile in the’
third act was a triumph of mal-
ignant seduction. In the last act
Fonteyn achieved an ideal balance
in the representation of the three-
sided character of Odette. Ably
partnered by Michael Somes as
Prince Siegfried, she danced with
indescribable subtlety, dignity,
and brilliance. Fonteyn’s and
Somes’ grand pas de deux in the
third act was a masterpiece of
technical skill and sparkle in the
classical manner.
Michael Somes, although not a
great dancer, is an extremely: com-
petent one, with an excellent sense
of rhythm. His elevation is quite
remarkable, but he occasionally
lacks fluidity of line, and is too
static in his miming.
Worthy of special attention was
Alexis Rassine. Dancing a minor
part in a first act divertissement,
he displayed relaxed grace and ex-
ceptional lightness, althought , he
needs to acquire more control.
The corps de ballet was on its
toes (no pun intended) every min-
__ute, For precision, clean line, and
sureness of technique, no Ameri-
ican corps de ballet can touch this
British one. These dancers all carry
conviction when they are on stage.
One -feels that they are really
dancing, not merely following the
directions of the ballet master.
The orchestra, excellently con-
ducted by Robert Irving, played
with spirit and feeling throughout.
Leslie Hurry’s sets were charming,
as were for the most part his cos-
- tumes, although the swans’ head-
dresses were unbecoming to the
al
One cannot help wondering after
a performance if even the
State Ballet, which has kept
the old ballet tradition and
Not satisfied with this, our
staunch heroines decided to go
down to the waterfront. They had
heard of people coming out of polls
with handfuls of money and they
actually witnessed one of these
cases. They saw equally blatant
examples of malpractice on both
Republican and Democratic sides.
One Democratic committeeman
told a woman that her husband
couldn’t vote unless he pulled a
second lever. In the 13th ward
they came to a poll with a typical
machine set-up complete with a
cigar smoking boss. Eva Jane and
Helen politely and innocently ask-
ed to see the judge of elections and
were told to-go... .
However, ‘these experiences were
quite mild since one district had
continuous fighting all day. The
Committee of -70, nevertheless,
considered it a comparatively un-
eventful election.
Gym Dep’t. Schedules
Winter Sports Tryouts
Continued from Page 3
The Gym Department would like
to announce that any Upper-class-
men wishing to go to any gym
classes, if they do not make a
team, will be gladly welcomed,
provided the coach is given an ap-
proximate” idea of what classes
théy are planning to attend.
For those interested in Skiing,
bbthere will be a Ski Movie shown
by Willie Hischman, courtesy of
Mitchell and Ness, at 4:30 on
Thunsday,. November 17 in the
Music Room of Goodhart Hall.
There will be no charge; so come
one, come all.
This year the Intermediate Ten-
nis Class decided to play some
matches if they could be arranged.
Last Thursday, November 10, the
Class played Chestnut Hill and
won ‘every match. The Manager of
the team is Z. Kuser and the As-
sistant Manager is N. Newlands.
The team consisted of the follow-
ing players: H. Manice, N. New-
lands, Z. Kuser, C. ‘Cheston, ‘P.
Austin, C. Perkins, C. Sonne, Lin-
dau, B. Dawes, Turnbull, Comely,
Leeds, Oliver, Goldring, Corbin,
Shoemaker, and McCulloch.
Stapleton Re-assesses
Values of Democracy
Continued from Page 3
There are several particularly
striking discussions of individual
problems. For example, the dis-
cussion of equality and its relation
to qualitative superiority is very
well handled, as are also those
dealing with the progressive char-
acter of law, with the problem of
socialism and capitalism, and with
that of freedom and the necessity
of circumstances. The most impres-
sive element of all, however, is
the tone underlying the book as
a whole: a tone of thoughtful and
constructive liberalism. Behind this
attitude lies a deep understanding
of the essential flexibility of dem-
ocratic thought and of its modes
of realization. This implies neither
a criticism of the essential pre-
‘cepts of democracy nor a totally
but rather a practical recognition
that, as times and: their needs
change, the ideals and institutions
of democracy must be reinterpret-
ed to meet them, if democracy it- |
self is to preserve its positive and
vital character.
acy
Compliments
of the : ag
Haverford Pharmacy
Haverford
‘different assessment of their. value, |~
‘Bard's s Kye View
Why do they keep on studying
From seven p.m. till four?
Why do they read so many books?
They never did before!
Why are the movies empty?
Where have the bridge games
gone?
What happened to the noisy crew
That used to talk till dawn?
Why are the dates they speak of
Not with. Harry, Joe, or Ted,
But dates of kings and battles,
Of acts and trends instead?
And why the worried faces
At Taylor’s mournful chime?
The reason is quite simple...
It’s midsemester time!
Tonight the moon is ‘cream cheese
mote than ever,
And anything can happen.
The clouds are huddled arqund the
moon;
The stars are bits of glass
Framed starkly by the lattice of
the trees.
The path is not the old path under
the moonlight,
Though jit curves and twists the
same,
But the ghost soundlessly ap-
proaching is the old ghost
Who walks on such a library night
as this.
by Paula Strawhecker, ’52
Lovely, luscious, lingering hoagies;
Onion strips evade the bite
Salami slices, lettuce leaflings
Sustenance to dispel the night.
Have I French and Survey reading,
Have I Zeno’s words of charm,
Have I idiotisms to conquer?
With hoagies I can fear no harm.
I am master of my evening,
Captain of my hoagie ship.
Bring the bicarb and the aspirin--
Will you join me in the trip?
Murder
In Cuneiform
Continued from Page-3
pared him for his new notoriety.
“Murder here? Why, it’s un-
heard of!” shrieked Miss Lemmon,
who read Erle Stanley Gardner in
her closet secretly at night.
“Poor Professor Shotwell,” said
Mr. LeRoy, who oniy had an M.A.
‘There are so many full professors
I’d rather see go.”
“But how did it happen?”
“And when?”
Nobody quite dared to voice +o
question uppermost in everybody’s
mind: “But who?”
* * *
“What time did you find hin, |
Orry?” Smith was unpopular with
his English students as well as his
fellow professors, and there was
a distinct note of hostility in
Orry’s voice as he replied, “As I
was leaving for bed at eight
o’clock.”
“And just what made you go in
there?” persisted Dr. Smith.
“I wanted to return his book to
him—Theory and Practice, Plant
Molds in the Palace of Asshurbani-
pal.”
“Oh,” said Dr. Smith.
* * *
Down in the morgue, a bewilder-
ed coroner staggered back from
the slab. “My God, he was drown-
-ed!” he said.
* * *
Just at that very moment, a
painful scene was being enacted
in the President’s office. The Pres-
ident was very much upset. “T
have always had the highest ad-
miration and respect for Professor
Shotwell,” he said. “He was a
great scholar, and is an irreplace-
able loss to the Hiram Homer
Hopper college community.” He
wiped his presidential brow.
* * *
He will need to wipe it harder ||
later.
Continued next week.
Ellis Reports On Oxford Scene,
Depicts Studiousness, Austerity
(Ed. Note: We reprint some ex-
cerpts from a letter of Jean Ellis’,
now studying at St. Hilda’s ‘Hall
in Oxford on the Catherwood Fel-
lowship from Bryn Mawr. We owe
the letter to the courtesy of Mrs.
Marshall.)
To sum up my feelings about
Oxford in one sentence would be
difficult, since there are so many
different facets to life here...
Frankly, I’m having a marvelous
time . . . There are times when I
can think of no place I would
rather be, such as the afternoon
when a heavy rainfall ceased and
a double rainbow, both parts of
‘| which formed perfects arcs, ap-
peared behind Magdalen tower, or
the day when I arrived“and looked
out the window of my room. to see
the Cherwell and St. Hilda’s gar-
den with the spires and domes of
the older colleges: in the back-
ground.
. I have been enormously im-
pressed with the seriousness with
which all English girls approach
their work, but sometimes I am
afraid they are missing a great
many experiences which a residen-
tial college has to offer. There is
no real community spirit, even
though the Junior Common Room
is a semi self-governing body. Con-
versation over coffee turns ‘on the
subject each girl is reading, and it
is only by perseverance that the
topic can be changed. The attitude
is understandable, of course, since
so few of the women applicants to
the University are accepted and
NOTICES
Fulbright Applications
Students are reminded that ap-
plications for financial assistance
to study abroad under the Ful-
bright Act are due in the Dean’s
Office by Wednesday, November
30th.
Morning Assembly
At the morning assembly on
Wednesday, November 30th., Mrs.
Antje Lemke, one of the German
Experts, will speak on “Women in
Post-War Germany.”
NSA
The NSA Board wishes to re-
mind the college that anyone in-
terested is welcome to attend the
weekly meetings of the Board,
held Wednesday evenings at 7:30
in the Rhoads Showcase.
those who come are on the whole
bent on making their stay success-
ful .:.°.
If you read Time you may have
noticed the article about Oxford
and the Americans here. The whole
situation is really a tempest in a
teapot, since the Rhodes scholar
who wrote the article did so at
the request of the editors of one
of the University magazines, but.
nevertheless, some of his remarks.
were very much to the point while
others are sheer nonsense. Any
“anti-Americanism” that exists is
centered in a very small group of
die-hard Communists who believe
the U.S. is trying to provoke a
war with Russia and few of this
group~- feel-..personal- animosity
towards American students.
- I have been fortunate and
haven’t encountered any of the
difficulties which face many Amer-
icans here . . . Altogether, the
more I hear of difficulties the
Americans are having here: such
as not having enough language
background for the field in which
they had planned to work, insuffi-
cient knowledge of their own field
to begin research, the more grate-
ful I am to Bryn Mawr “re-
quireds” and all!
I’m completely in love with
Blackwells, the largest of the
many bookstores where you can
wander at will just looking. I’ve
already bought far too many books,
but it’s so hard to resist . .. “Bod-
ley” of course is magnificent, and
a mediaevalist’s playground...
. The devaluation was a ter-
rible blow, and the people are sit-
ting around waiting for further
austerity regulations and rises in
prices ... The University expect-
ed a general election immediately
and are terribly disappointed be-
cause it doesn’t look as though
there would be a dissolution be-
fore spring. Naturally, feeling is.
especially strong here, since no
election means that the students
are losing a chance to exercise
their double vote. (The seats for
Oxford and Cambridge in Parlia-
ment are only awaiting royal con-
sent to be abolished.)
. Please say hello to the peo-
ple at college for me and excuse
this jumble . .. This is a case
where the first will be the worst
and I promise not to do it next
time...
Movies F
The next movie on the Wednes-
day afternoon series will be pre- L
sented by the Child Psychology o
Department. Its title is Neurotic W
Behavior in the White Rat.
Winter Sports E
Tryouts for the varsity squads r
in winter sports are being held be-
fore Thanksgiving: Basketball, Sf.
Monday and Tuesday; Swimming, f
Thursday and Monday; Badmin- ren
ton, Monday and Tuesday. JE ANETT’S
Continued on Page 6
@ EVENING DRESSES $25.00 UP
e COCKTAIL DRESSES ,
@ SPORTSWEAR
e SKIRTS |
FRANNY HOWE, Inc.
> ° . i.
Just beyond the ‘Blue Comet’
652 Lancaster Ave.
Bryn Mawr B.M. 3577 |
Wipe off that frown
Don’t let quizes get you down
Relax ! Escape is what you need
Come on down with all speed .
7
Wednesday, November 16, 1949
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Five
We look at his picture and we
Who is this man, this
What and how is he?
Into the blue ?’
are limp.
Adonis?
Out of the night?
Ideal indeed, but real?
For years he has been languish-
ing, exquisitely tailored, in the
bottom drawer of our file. Some-
times we opened the drawer, cau-
tiously, when’ we were all alone,
and we’d peek. ‘Then we’d close
the drawer, wordlessly. Then we'd
open it again, and so on.
In short, he intrigues us. And
if anyone, anyone at all knows who
hess,
DRESSES - SUITS - BLOUSES
at
Nancy Brown
28 Bryn Mawr Ave.
(under the Country Bookstore)
MEET AT THE GREEK’S
Tasty Sandwiches
Refreshments
LUNCHES — DINNER
|“When did you come in?”
It’s very near Thanksgiving
time—
Perhaps you'll be a guest
So how about a hostess gift
I’m sure we have the best!
RICHARD
STOCKTON
BRYN MAWR
“DOMESTIC MANNERS
OF THE AMERICANS”
by Mrs. Francis Trollope
COUNTRY
BOOKSHOP
BRYN MAWR AVE. -
BRYN MAWR, PA.
Tilted Lamp Post Offers
Entrance to Chantilly
Continued from Page 3
moat and tne great yellow castle.
We dropped rocks in the water,
'|dabbled our feet in the fountains,
danced and made faces at the
}| Statues, climbed the broad sweep-
}|ing steps to the high terrace, all
alone in the vast pleasures of the
chateau de Chantilly.
“Mesdemoiselles — par ou etes
|| vous entrees? Prenez garde — le
_|ehien!” We were completely start-
led. The guard had stolen up be-
hind us, a huge revolver in his
f| belt, an immense Belgian shep-
herd on a steel leash at his side.
He was even more frightened than
We were — no one, apparently,
had ever broken.through the great
defense before. “Par ou etes vous
j entrees,” he kept screaming, “and
‘| who told you you could come in?”
Frightened, we conferred in Eng-
lish. “We came in this afternoon,”
we said at last, “we didn’t know
they closed the gates so early.”
“At
three o’clock,” all innocence; “what
time is it now?” “Par ou etes vous
entrees” he screamed again; “we
weren’t open at all today.” We
‘| thought of bribery, but had spent
our all, gorging on creme Chan-
tilly.
“Nice dog,” said Judy, hoping
to make peace, but the brute gnaw-
ed her elbow so the blood ran out.
“He’s trained to kill,” said the
guard. “If he’d found you in the
ground you’d be dead now. Get
out.” We turned to go, mopping
Judy’s blood and murmuring nasty
words.
The great dark yew maze on our
left looked doubly intriguing,
mysterious . . . We had to see it.
Quickly we ducked away and ran
toward it, hoping to lose them in
the dark. No luck. They brought
us back to the gate. “He likes
blood,” said the guard pointedly.
But at the gate there was more
trouble. The porter had to be pull-
ed out of his soup and he was
furious. “Par ou etes vous en-
trees?” he screamed. This time
we pretended we didn’t speak
French. “Give me your names and
addresses,” was the next cry, and
Where To Go For Art,
Movies, Music, Theatre
Continued from Page 3
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Be-
ginning Thurs., Nov. 17 and con-
tinuing through next week.
Villanova Field House.
Jacobowsky and the Colone]
Sun., Mon., Tues., Nov. 20, 21, 22
Movies
Bryn Mawr Theatre.
Thur., Nov. 17
Eugene O’Neill’s The Long Voy
age Home;. John Wayne, Barry
Fitzgerald.
Fri., Sat., Nov. 18-19
White Heat; James Cagney, Vir-
ginia Mayo.
Sun., Mon., Nov. 20-21
Thieves Highway; Jackpot.
Tues., Wed., Nov. 21, 22
Bank Dick and-Never Give a
Sucker an Even Break.
Ardmore--Theatre
Thur., Nov. 17 to Sat., Nov. 19
Sword in the Desert.
Suburban Theatre
Thur. to Sat., Nov. 17 to 19
Anna Lucasta.
Sun. thru Thur., Nov. 20 to 24
Top of the Morning, Bing Cros-
by.
Studio Theatre: Market above
16th: Starting Tues., Nov. 15
The Marx Brothers
Soup and Animal Crackers.
we gave false ones. “Passport
numbers” — and then the game
was up. American arrogance, the
ambassador, our families . . . all
the makings of international scan-
in Duck];
dal were here. ‘“Laissons - nous
sortir, mon bonhomme,” we said
sternly, and he let us.
It was a long scary walk back
to the station, and we had missed
the last train to Paris. We could
not see a haystack anywhere, but
there was a double bed and a
Continued on Page 6
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Phone BM 3598 Today
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What To Do
Jobs For Next Year
Seniors and Graduate Students
who live in New York State. The
Civil Service Commission an-
nounces opportunities for Manage-
ment Assistants and Professional]
and technical assistants, for those
with courses in: Economics, Poli-
tics, »*Psychology, Bacteriology,
Chemistry. Salaries for some posi-
tions begin at $2346; for others go
over $3000. Closing date, Decem-
ber 10th. Information at the Bu-
reau of Recommendations.
On Campus Jobs Now Open
Campus sales agents needed for
new preparation for washing
sweaters and socks; for china
mugs with college seal and name
on them; for YEAR magazine.
Summer Jobs
Counselors” for” Pinecrest Camp;
Naples, Maine. All skills and gen-
eral counselors. Interviews can be
made in New York City during
Thanksgiving and Christmas holi-
days.
Watch these. notices for news of
the Job Weekend, February 24 and
25, 1950.
Civil Service Examinations
Chemists, Physicists, Geologists,
!course.
and Mathematicians: An £xamin-
ation for Physical Science Aid has
been announced. Positions around
Washington only. Seniors and
graduate students may qualify for
salaries of $2974. Applieations
must be made by December 138th.
Blanks in the Bureau of Recom-
mendations.
Training Course
The University of Pittsburgh
announces its retail store training
See the bulletin board
outside Room H.
Phanksgiving Vacation Babysitting
Please sign now for babysitting
jobs during Thanksgiving weekend
if you are planning to be here.
This will be an active weekend on.
account of the Army-Navy game
and family visits.
The Reserve table in the Library
now has books and pamphlets
about job-hunting and job ideas.
Save the weekend of 24th and
25th of February for the Job
weekend.
Does nobody want to sell “Wool-
Doo”?
DRESSES GOWNS
‘MISS NOIROT
821 Lancaster Ave.
Bryn Mawr, Pa.
| A+ Fine - Shop - in
A - Fine - Community
You will like our
BLOCH FRERES
Handkerchiefs
in white and prints
DINAH FROST’S
Xmas and Every Day Cards
814 Lancaster Avenue
BRYN MAWR JEWELERS
WATCH, CLOCK, AND JEWELRY REPAIRING
Elgin American Compacts
Ronson and ASR Lighters
Bryn Mawr 4597
Gaebler’s Black and Gold Inn,
btm me:
= State Tax
a?
Reg ‘ &
Gaebler’s Black & Gold Inn at
Columbia is the favorite off-
campus haunt of University of
Missouri students. That’s be-
cause Gaebler’s 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 college gathering spots
everywhere—Coke belongs.
\
Ask for it either way... both
trade-marks mean the same thing.
BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY
The Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company
© 1949, The Coca-Cola Company
Page Six
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, November 16, 1949
Surrey Complains That Canines
About Campus Have Fur Troubles
by Anne, Greet, °50
a bull dog with horrid
and bristly forehead
was walking past taylor
his hair was a failure
he walked like a sailor
a blister of black
sat on his back
and we thought of Surrey
once soft and furry
but now her skin
shines pinkly in-
between the hair
that isn’t there
she said one night
it might be a blight
“in the NEWS please note
i need a new coat
one that’s hirsuteous
all shiny and beauteous”
but that any old fur
would do for her
“fur of yellow
that’s pale and mellow
color of mustard é
or drooping custard
tufts off a bustard
spots like a fawn
if they’ll stay on
are enormously pleasing
and keep one from freezing
fur that’s brown
and doesn’t fall down
or instead
a glorious red
i don’t much care
as long as it’s there
dogs of green
aren’t often seen
but i wouldn’t carpel
even at parple
do you think that gin
makes fur grow in?
would oat cakes help
a declining scelp?
or has anyone at all
an extra shawl
that i can borrow
’ to hide my sorrow?
the year grows older
the days are colder
BRIGHTEN UP!
Costume Jewelry and Scarves
joyce lewis
Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr
—
JAKE’S
HARDWARE STORE
Hardware for every need
918 Lancaster B.M. 0979
© Sweaters
® Slips, Stockings
© Hand Sewn Loafers
at
PZ"ILIP HARRISON
Lancaster Ave.
Bryn Mawr
Your photographic needs
at the
PHOTO. CENTER
e FILMS
@ CAMERAS
@ FINISHING
810 Lancaster Ave.
Bryn Mawr
like oak and alder
im getting balder
a disgrace to emily
and to my femily
nobody
could call me
a fussy dog”
she said
“BUT
i do like a little bit of hair on my
head”.
=
re A
The Double Octet
The members of the Bryh Mawr
Double Octet have been choyen for
the year 1949-1950. They
‘follows:
First sopranos:
P. Field, ’51
B. J. Connor, ’50
C..Schiller, .’52
R. Gottli¢b, ’53
Second sopranos:
~G. Williams, *50
F. Putney, ’50
L. Kimball, ’53
J. Pennypacker, ’52
First altos:
N. Alderfer, ’51
A. Farnsworth, ’51
G. Gaebelein, ’50
A. Ludwig, ’53
Second altos:
E. Gunderson, ’51
N. Greenewalt, ’50
E. Glassberg, ’52
M. Is. Culver, ’53
e as
4
NEWS Jumps, Drops,
Decapitates Reporters
Continued from Page 3
Pleading: Can’t cut her
head?
Frustrated athlete: My jump is
too short.
Vicissitudes of life:
miserable break.
Strange request: Will you count
her heads?
Variety is the spice: fll try a
different head.
Versatile: Are you working on
her foot ie
'—~Good Neighbor policy: Jump on
the Foreign Observer.
.Descent from the air: Drop on
Liliom.
Pursuing. Lady Luck: See if you
can get a better break.
, Aggressive: Break in between
the leaves.
Playground leader: Will
take charge..of the.jumps?
Lost and found: Where’s Lili-
om?
‘Common. complaint:
your head?
And so Newslang progresses from
week to week; sometimes suggest:
ive, often obscure, but never, ever
can it be said that it is dull.
,we
That’s 2
you
Where is
COMPLETE YOUR ROOM
with
@ LAMPS
e FURNISHINGS
! at
| Suburban Hardware
836 Lancaster Ave.
NOTICES \
Continued from Page 4
Registration in Classes
Students are reminded that they
must sign the class lists in their
last class before Thanksgiving va-
cation and their first class after it.
Infringement of this regulation
will be dealt with by the Dean’s
office.
No NEWS
There will be no News this com-
ing week. The next issue will be
November 30.
Bridge Tournament
The Intercollegiate Bridge Tour-
nament is being held again this
year. Preliminary rounds must
be played off by February, and the
Tilted Lamp Post Offers
Entrance to Chantilly
Continued from Page 5
promise of creme Chantilly for
“|-breakfast. We took it: While we
fought the bed bugs and_hydro-
phobia, while we dropped the love-
ly creme in our coffee and spread
it on our croissants, not the old
castle nor the green islands and
the mists behind filled my mind,
but the cry of the porter as we
ran through the gate “Pas meme
de pourboire, sales garces.”
Mary G. McCrystal
MATERIALS & NOTIONS
HOSIERY & UNDERWEAR
842 Lancaster Ave.
sixteen highest ranking eouples
will play in the finals at |Chicago in
April. Watch further notices
Free Movie
| If anyone is interested in attend-
ing, free of charge, the special
showing of the new Goldwyn movie
described in the News last week,
would she please get in touch with
us at once?
| ae
For Blue Mondays
try
Hot Fudge Sundaes!
at
BRYN. MAWR
@ PRESCRIPTIONS
@ REPAIRS
at
Wm. P. Krugler
Optician
Bryn Mawr Nat’! Bank Bldg.
Hours: 9:00 to 5:30
SENORITAS !!!
THE MEXICAN SHOP
will help you give
your room a
South-of-the-border
accent!
SUBURBAN SQUARE |
ARDMORE
. SMOKE MY CIGARETTE,
WON'T YOU? THEY'RE
MILDER—MUCH MILDER."
“THE GREAT
A
: LOVER”
PARAMOUNT
HAMBURG HEARTH |
College news, November 16, 1949
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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