College news, December 18, 1946

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YOL. XLII, NO. 10°;

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1946

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Copyright Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1945

PRICE 10 CENTS



_ Near East Area
Over-Populated
~ Habachy Says

Goodhart, _ December 12: The;
heavy. density of population in- the
Near East; “‘in .a loose sense, the

Asia, Africa, and Europe”, was t¢it-
ed by Senator Saba Pacha Ha-
bachy, as.the central, problem in
the “Economic Problems of the
Near: East.”

‘The first attempt to val with. the
population problem was the .intro-
duction of very intensive cultiya-
tion. Two crops a year are grown
on all soil, and only highly profit-
able crops: such as cotton are used.
Another approach to. the popula-

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B. M., Haverford
Chorus Concert
Reveals Variety

By Alice Wadsworth, ’49

Goodhart Auditorium, December
15. The Combined Haverford and
Bryn Mawr Choruses sang at the
annual Christmas service eonduct-
ed by the Reverend Andrew Mutch,
D.D., Minister Emeritus of the



Passing over the orchestral pre-
lude, the first group of carols were
English sung by the. mixed chorus.
The Holly and the Ivy, showing
good blend of the group, was fol-
lowed .by a well directed version
of the Yorkshire Wassail Song. In
the Christmas Song an attempt to
reproduce the traditional Christ-
mas bells through violin scales de-
tracted from the main theme and
caused the harmonies to become

Carols, the first of which was Int
Dulci Jubilo. This was sung in
quite an unusual style—instead of
the customary light joyful notes a
slow more pensivé approach was
attempted; however the - whole
meaning of the music seemed un-
certain and the harmonies sounded
forced. Les Anges dans Nos Cam-
pagnes was somewhat more in

Continued on Page 4 /



‘Industrial :

ajTo the Faculty:

Frances Perkins,
Ex Labor Sec’y,
To Give Speech

Miss Frances Perkins, - former
Secretary of: Labor, will’ speak at
the fourth Alliance Assembly on
Current Affairs to be- held -on
Tuesday, January 14.

Before: her appointment. to. the

cabinet in March, 1933, a position

which. she held until May, 1945,
Miss: Perkins did a great deal: of,
work on social and ‘industrial. re-
lations. in the. state of New York.
Among the positions she held were
executive secretary of. the New
York. Committee on Safety, and
chairman of the. New York State
Board... During her
twelve years as Secretary of La-
bor she served on a number of
committees, including the Board of
Economic Stabilization of the War
Manpower. Commission, and the
United States delegation to the
International Labor Organization
Conference in Paris in October,
1945.

F aculty App Approve —
Four-Day Vacation
For Thanksgiving

The Faculty Curriculuin Com-
mittee, at its meeting of Decem-
ber 9, approved the folldwing peti-
tion, which was submitted to it by

“the smoker sét” figures promin-

/\ Merion is following its usual rou-



the Undergraduate f Curriculum
Committee on November 21:

On behalf of ‘thé undergraduate
body, the Undergraduate Currie-
ulum Committee /requests the Fac-
ulty to reconsider the possibility
of restoring the four-day Thanks-
giving holida

The apa are aware that the
Faculty Hae the one-day

ing holiday for this year |
nizance of the persist-





February, 1942, and October, 1945.
Befoye submitting this petition,
therefore, the students gave seri-
ous consideration to the difficulties,
involved in a four-day Thanksgiv-
ing vacation; they remain, never-
heless, almost unanimously of the

opinion that the merits of the long
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Canadian Students at Radnor
ife in Dominion

ee _@ - &. ‘
Reminisce on
Specially Contributed
Pam Mitchell
“Now at Queen’s—,” “At To-
ronto—,” “Well, at U.
“At Bishop’s we—.” Yes,
guegsed) it exactly: it is now the
rn of the\ four Canadian stu-
introduced.
They are certainly representative
of every part of the /broad Domin-

tic to the Pacific fceans as each
one is from a different province.
Frances Crook hails from Quebec,
Margaret Reesor from our more
English and Conservative province
of Ontario, Barbara Craig has
_Calgary,.Alberta
‘on the prairi¢s, and from over the
Rocky Mountains Pam Mitchell
comes from the most nana
da-— "gyi !
Coming back along the well:
worn path to the library just. two
minutes/before supper, we run into
Margaret Reesor with Homer un-
-der one arm and Herodotus under
the other: Margaret lives in Toron-

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a

, (guess?) classics.

to, second largest city in Canada
on the North bank of Lake On-
tario and took her M.A. from the
University of Toronto in (can \you
“And what will

she do with Greek? “Teach, I

hope,” is Margaret’s answer. Com- ,
| ductor of the Collegiate Chorale

menting on the meat shortage,
Margaret says that all the Ameri- |
cans in Toronto last summer were
amazed by the large and inexpen-
sive steak dinners at every res-
taurant.

Frances Crook, who has her M.
A.:in MathematieS from Bishop’s
University in Quebec, has many

interesting things to tell about the |.
-Canadian village |

little. .
where she tought for four years in:
Northern Qtebec. It is called Baie
Comeau. (just in case you haven’t
heard: re Seas ED. 3 had to
fly in and out because there are
no.roads there at all; in spite of
the lack of transportation and
communication, there are 2,000 peo-
ple living there all working in the

| merry-makers give each other hot

well-known Collegiate Chorale in
‘New York City, will come to Bryn

Shaw,” said-Mrs. De Varon:

12:45—Christmas Vacation
* begins.
fea jo~lanpary 6. ¢
r "9:00 A. M.—Christmas Vaca-
tion. ends.
Monday, | January 13
TA ents, Com=-f



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Peon Weer mer seed

Witticism, St. George, Hot Cider
Included in Christmas Festivities

By Emily Townsend ’50

Freshman talent, so advantage-
ously portrayed in tHe hall plays,
will blossom forth in a more fes-
tive strain Thursday, when /the
Class of 1950 provides entertain-
ment for the annual Christnias
dinners. Details could not/be giv-
en in advance, said the Rhoads di-
rector from behind her/hand, but

ently in the show: all good clean
satire in’ the Christmas spirit. Pem

West is also producing a skit, but].

the leading Freshmen have been
strangely close-mouthed about the
whole affair; perhaps they are wise
in their caution. Pem East “has
always meant to have a meeting
sometime”, /but just now all enter-
tainment is seen through long pa-
pers darkly. East House, seldom
reticent/ about its achievements,
has anhounced the birth of a “‘ter-
ribly / witty song”, guaranteed to
lend/ a spark of life to the most
solemn occasions, although the
Pém dining room may not need
any livening up.

The latest reports indicate that

tine: a toast-mistress to surprise
the faculty guests with little-known
details of the past which they have
thought to be successfully hidden,
followed by the usual Freshman
skit, and Al Markey’s singing of
all.the favorite carols. Denbigh will
crown its annual king and queen,
who are supposed to be big sur-
prises for the other Denbigh com-
moners, : 2

Rock has its own tradition of
seasonal entertainment: all the
classes join in giving a mediaeval
play._This year St.George and
Father Christmas are starring in
the program: the acting is said to
be strenuous but exceedingly fun-
ny. The French House members
celebrate the season by giving each
other presents; the German House



Shaw to Direct
B. M. College Sing

Bob Shaw, conductor. of. the

Mawr on Tuesday, January 14, to
lead the combined choruses of
Haverford, Swarthmore, and Bryn
Mawr in a $College Sing.”

The program of the Sing, to be
held in the gym here, will include
several Bach Chorales, Thompson’s
“Halleluja,” and some spirituals.
Although only the choruses will

sing, everyone interested is invit- |

ed to come and listen.

“We are very privileged to have
the opportunity to sing under Bob
He
is the director of choral music at
the Julliard School as well as con-

zroup.



CALENDAR

Thursday, December 19
Carol Singing.
Friday, December 20



* DENBIGH
' CHRISTMAS DINNER



cider toasts. Both traditions seem
most satisfying, however you look
at it.

When the entertainment has been
enjoyed and applauded, when the
faculty speeches have been digest-
ed along with the turkey, the carol-
ers will wander from hall to hall
during the evening, expressing in
the best of ways the looked-for joy
of all sorts in the approaching’
Christmas season.

sal

Students Decide
Curric. Committee

To Employ Def. I

The Curriculum Committee an-
nounces. that in a_ preliminary
count of its poll on alternative
modal od of its function and pro-
cedure, the first definitidn was fa-
vored by the students in a vote of
266 to 104. A three-fifths quorum
is required to make the vote valid,
and a two-thirds majority. required
to decide the issue. The Commit-
tee ‘expects that more votes will
be returned, and the revised totals
will be presented to the student
body.

The principal difference- between
Definitions I and II is that the first
definition empowers the Commit-

Too Ambitious

ey For Its Actors

Susan Feldman Stars;
Thon’s Direction
Praised

By Helen Hale aM

Pirandello’s play turned out to

Haverford and Bryn Mawr. Few of
the young actors and _ actresses
gave the audience enough of them-
selves to be convincing. The no-
table exception to this statement
was Susan Feldman, whose great
interest in the stage and experi-
ence at the Hedgerow seemed to
allow her to untangle herself from
her present status as a Bryn Mawr
sophomore. She played her part
well, with no_ self-consciousness
and greater fluidity. She acted
with the others so that her lines
never fell out into the audience

but always like musical tones,
blending with her fellow actors,
the audience, and Pirandello.

In a play such as “Six Charac-
ters”, ‘where most of the action has
taken place or takes place in the
wings, the lines of individuals are
of great importance. Therefore a
group of good speeches is a pre-
requisite. John Stone pronounced
the words well and generally with
emotion; however his performance
was throughout rather stiff. On
his. first entrance he encouraged
the audience, the other actor's, and
himself. But the final moment of
the play seemed to defeat him @n-
tirely as they: did everyone else.

The Son, Edmund Faltemayer,
gave an extremely restrained and
nebulous peformance, a_ perfect
foil for his mother, father, and
half-sister.



-+tee-to—-use~its-discretion in acting

upon student suggestions, unless
at least ten. students petition to
have an issue considered. The

| Committee is also empowered to

present its opinion to the student
body when putting an issue to the
vote.
' Definition I reads as follows:
The aim of the Undergraduate
Curriculum Committee is to main-
tain and increase student satisfac-
tion with the broader aspects of
the curriculum, schedule and aca-
demic regulations and to handle
problems arising in specific courses
and departments.
The procedure followed by the
Continued on Page 4

out of everything, and there was
no doubt about it but that he was.

were mostly on the same theme
because his delivery was somewhat
mealy.. This troubled no _ one;
everyone was sure of—his_stand in
the story, if they weren’t sure
anything else.

Thalia Argyropoulo and _ the
stage director, Don Kindler, both
seemed to be suffering in miscast
roles and therefore could not prop-
erly fight the problem successful-
ly. Neither was at all disappoint-
ing, néither was particularly bril-
liant.



Continued on Page 3



Art Lab Developes Understanding
Of Artists’ ‘Tools and Problems ~

By Judy Da Silva, °49

There are harrowing times in
the life of every college student,
(and particularly when papers are
starting to fall due) when he or

|she finds it quite difficult to sub-

scribe: to the school of thought
which holds that Learning-Is-Real-
ly-A-Lot-Of-Fun. But laSt Thurs-
day I ‘discovered that, not with-
standing the strain which





mon. Room.

Tuesday,. January 14
12:50—Frances Perkins, As-
‘sembly. Shaw “Sing” in the


ity, the old adage certainly ies
have a great deal of truth in it.
The occasion of my conversion was
a Visit-tiru.... > Naas which are
given as part of the oe of
Art course.

' I walked down to the lab, which

és held in the Otis Skinner Work-

2







gymnasium.





shop, with a very enthusiastic stu:

Fever heard Ofena ots =

dent who warned me that some-
times the lab work is of such a
nature that “You feel like’ you’re
back in kindergarten.’ She then
proceeded to follow this statement
with such an elaborate discussion
of the problems cf line, mass, and

_projection, which are dealt with in

the lab sessions, that I decided
that if I were about to visit a kin-
dergarten, it was certainly the
most technically advanced one -

The lab was begun with a ‘is.
ture by Miss Barbara Crawford on
the subject of unity and balance
ir art™-work= pigining
what she meant by each term she
went on to show that a good com-
position must have both, and that
to achieve them is one of the im-

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Six Characters’

be an adventurous undertaking for

like disconnected proclamations,

He was fortunate that his speeches |

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Atomic Energy Development

Dr. Michels’ talk at Current Events two \weeks. ago,
and the petitions which have subsequently been tirculating
in the college, have drawn the attention of many of us to the
problem of the atomic bomb. The petitions ,which ask the
cessation of production of atomic weapons, are encouraging
‘in that they show interest on the campus, but the issue seems
to us so large that proposals of a greater scope are neces-
sary.

In ai of the achievements of the United Nations to



Community Dependence

On B. M. Students
Cited by Poland

To the Editor: ‘

The League wishes to express
agreement with the News editorial
concerning the student apathy to-
ward extra-curricular activities.
Speaking for the League Board,

| we feel that those few people who

participate should be given due
credit for their work. On the other
hand, we also feel that the major-

y of people on campus show a
remarkable lack of interest in ser-
ious community work. This lack
of interest is illustrated in two
ways.

In the first place, many people,
especially the upperclassmen, are
so apathetic that they do not make
responsibility. Secondly, several
of those who unteered—do.. not
realize that the community is de-
pending on them. The students in
charge of Red Cross activities of-
ten find that those who have vol-
unteered are unwilling to appear
for the actual work. Also, during
the Freshman Hall plays it was
practically impossible to get sub-
stitutes from the other classes to
read at the Blind School.

We realize that the regularity of
the work and the transportation
difficulties present problems, but
those who have shown interest
prove that these difficulties can be
overcome. The League cannot op-
erate in a vacuum. It needs the
support of the student body.

Helen Poland
President of the Bryn Mawr League

Alliance Angles

While the Alliance can hardly

-|sit back on its haunches and view

its “works” with complete satis-
faction, it does feel that the edi-
torial in the News last week was
a little’ too strong in its attack on
dwindling enthusiasm.

The Heads of Activities agree
that on the whole students have
maintained their interest as is
shown, for example, in, usually
large attendance of Current
Events, and the even attendance of
IRC. The Debate Club has start-



ocoann the nations today. This slimes aind has led:
in some quarters to‘distrust of the intentions of the princi-
pal powers, notably the United States and Russia. Much of
this distrust can be allayed by carrying out the action sug-
gested in the petitions.

It is not so obvious to the Russians as it may be to our-
selves that the United States is not harboring any aggressive
inclinations involving the use of the atomic bomb. If the
United States ceases production of atomic weapons and de-
stroys those it now has in stock, this should offer fairly con-
clusive proof of our peaceful intentions.
to such an action ,would be indicative not only of her own
aims, but of the success which may be hoped for in an inter-
national program of atomic control and development.

It is clear to all those who nave done some serious think-
ing on the problem that atomic energy cannot be “undiscov-
ered.” Since this development cannot possibly be stifled, the
only course open to us is to direct its further advance into
peaceful fields and away from its destructive aspects. An
Atomic Development Authority, such as is proposed in the
Acheson-Lilienthal Report, answers the need for an inter-
national agency solely authorized and equipped to conduct the
basic operations in the production of atomic energy. By its
unique control of atomic energy.any authorized production
would immediately be suspected as endangering the peace.
The'ADA must not be a mere safety deposit box for destruc-
tive weapons, but should take the lead in advancing knowl-
edge of this new and potentially immense field.

The pattern set by the ADA organization shoul

Be extended as'soon aso8sinre vo other equally Bee ruc-
tive methods of warfare, including biological warfare and
rocket weapons. The present United States policy, based on

_ a negative approach of deterring ssomieatics aggressors by

“the strength of our armament; ‘fs “pasa: @Ft-sighted. We:
must be willing. to He he initial step in a positive plan

Russia’s reaction:



idebates with a background of
'many well-prepared intra-club de-
lbates. Earlier this fall a team
! went campaigning—a small group
|but it filled its commitment to the
last. door ‘bell.

On the other hand, the League
of Women Voters, United Nations
Student Council, and one part of
the Industrial Group have suffered
some setbacks but these have been
due to their dependence on out-
side organizations which had their
troubles, too—red tape, ahd sick-
ness—soon these should be rolling.

To what do we attribute this
general maintenance of interest?.
To high-powered consciences? No
—afraid that’s not usually the
case. Instead, it most likely is
due to the: fact that pressure was
not put on pédple to sign up for
activities—so those that signed did
so because they were really inter-
ested. Secondly, an attempt has
been made to make schedules for
off-campus work more flexible.

Does this mean we are appeal-
ing only to the*more rabid polit-
ical scientists? Perhaps now that
is true—but who knows, maybe a
“scholar” will get wind of the
value and enjoyment of political
ai eeenasion and activities and join
Clan





. FOR CHRISTMAS

Bryn Mawr Engagement
how pho son salesir*
, “Bookshop. ofits from the

‘Sales will go toward'the stud-
ent quota for the Bryn Mawr
Fund.





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the slightest effort to assume any

ed on its bout of intercollegiate |

'as one can go in ‘Canada.

Canadian Provinces
Represented at B. M.

Continued from Page 1

large paper mill which is the rea-
son for Baie Commeau’s existence.
Frances says that one of her mis-
sions in life is to convince people
that the population of Quebec is
not entirely French. Frances
worked in a research council at
Ottawa doing precision measure-
ments during the war and has also
taught in Ontario. She says. that
her second mission in life now is
to impress upon Americans the
fact that Canadian money is on a
par with American money!

Any time of the day one could
come upon Barbara Craig talking
French with alacrity to the French
students in Radnor. She has her
M. A. from Queen’s University and
was brought up in Kingston, On-
tario. Before the war Barbara
studied in Southern France on a
scholarship from the French gov-
ernment and during the war she
worked with the German Section
of the Postal Censorship depart-
ment for the Canadian govern-
ment at Ottawa. Although she
has been teaching in Calgary for
three years, Barbara says that she
doesn’t ride or ski but that she did
climb a mountain. “Calgary used
to be full of Americans going
through on their way to the
Al Highway, or to Edmonton,
180 miled to the North, which is
a key point in aerial connections |
not only with Asia but also with
the whole world,” Barbara informed |!

us. “And if you. want to see a
real rodeo, go to the Calgary
Stampede!”

Pam (don’t call her Patricia!)
Mitchell comes from as far West
Her
home in Victoria on Vancouver Is-
land is a town which is renowned
as “a bit of old England.” Accus-
tomed as she is to scenes of snow-
capped mountains, forests and sea,
Pam finds Pennsylvania _land-
scapes entirely novel. She was
prepared for the change by a sum-
mer at the first Canadian Student-
in-Industry camp at Welland, On-
tario. Pam graduated last spring
in Honours History from the Uni-
versity of British Columbia in
Vancouver, B. C., and after this
year she hopes to travel farther
east, this time across the Atlantic,
to continue her studies in Europe.
“T was born in London, England,”
Pam says, “which always makes
it even more complicated to come
to the States,’ and this reminded
all the Canadian students of long
hours spent with immigration au-
thorities. Having no long police
records, infectious diseases or an-
archistic philosophies, however, we
are all very glad that we are there
at last.

Historical Sketches
By Katrina Thomas, ’49

Christmas at Bryn Mawr in “the
good old days” seems to have been
a quaint combination of medieval
spirit with Yule-logs and Boar’s
heads, and the dansants or evening
dances. Merion was criticized in
1924 for remaining outside the
fold. of chivalry and inside the
“jazz age” for simply giving an
“exclusive” tea ‘dance, evidently
meaning that it was to be attend-
ed only by the “gals.” Howeyer
ten years before, it seems that the
Freshmen added a show to the fes-
tivities called “The Rejuvenation
of Merion” in which Santa tum-
bled down the chimney, bringing
with him much-needed bath tubs

| and white paint for Mr. and Mrs.

Merion.

After Merion’s dance all the.
“gals” used to, trip over to Pem
or to Rock for an evening bail
either to the music of an orches-.
tra or a “decrepit hand-organ.”

1918 was a year of innovations.
Denbigh gave a Dickens Christ-.
mas, and later went dancing at.
Rock. Pem gave a dance and a
“feet pantomine” called. “The
Hare, the Tortoise and Miss Ma-
bel” emotionally acted by feet be-
neath a curtain. Merion’s the dan-
sant included a skating dance and
a cave drama, called “Nifty Nicky:
or a Romance of the Nut Age,”
and Radnor only held to its usual
Yule-log, Boar’s head, games and
stunts during dinner, having intro-
duced the Xmas tree a few years
before.

-In .the 1920’s the dancing ele-
ment of the Christmas spirit on
campus was_ becoming limited.
Maybe the girls began to feel silly
“bunny-hugging” with their room-
mates, or perhaps: the medieval
spirit was simply too alluring.
Anyway, Merion continued with
its the dansant, and Pem provided
a ballroom for the whole campus,
while the rest of the halls went’
in for pageants. Denbigh quaffed
the wassail bowl and “held its lik-
ker” well enough to stagger on to
the Pem dance, and Rock went to
Christmas dinner as a manorial
retinue trying to live down a
charge that it had no traditions
and “that life in Rock is more like
life in a hotel than in a hall.”

Thanksgiving Petition
For 4 Days Granted
Continued from Page 1
Thanksgiving vacation outweigh
its disadvantages. The students
believe that the unanimity and ve-
hemence of their opinion warrant
another petition to the Faculty.
Respectfuly. submitted,
Nancy Coward, Chairman,
Undergraduate Curriculum
Committee.





Faculty May Day Vote

At the Faculty meeting Decem-
-ber14;--where results of the stud-
ent poll were presented, the fac-
ulty voted to express general in-
terest in May Day 1948. The re-
sults were 20 yes, 12 no, and 8 ab-
staining because of lack of knowl-
edge. Such. issues as extending
college one week to provide extra
time to give it were not decided,
but would come up at a later date.

Benefit Concert
Arrangements have been com-
pleted for a concert to be given in
Hunter College Auditorium, New
York City, by the Bryn Mawr
Chorus: with Hamilton College.
The date is Sunday, Marc 1c-
kets may be @Btwiiccs* o> Sica
Kaufmann, Spanish House.

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Freshman Elections

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NOTICES

Relief. .Committee
' The Committee on Relief for
Europe reports sending $1,000 to
the WSSF for the student conval-
escent home in Combloux. Nine
CARE packages ($90 worth) have
been sent at intervals this fall to
the Maison Fraternelle, supported
by the Committee last year,
designated last
year for this puypose
Hockey Elections
The hockey squad takes pleasure
«n announcing the following elec-
tions for 1947: Captain, Elizabeth
Bagley ’48; Manager, Kathryn
Geib ’49.
Christmas Vacation
fidents dre reminded that the
Sate vacation ends at 9 a. m., .
Monday, January 6. The halls will
‘pe Speen uay Sunday; January :
5. The first meal served will be.
Sunday night supper.

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“The Bryn Mawr Sarmer Camp.
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‘considered the proper

Laurence Olivier’s

‘made movies.

THE

COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Last Nighters.

Evening At ‘Henry V’
Proves Exciting, |
Iiluminating

Specially Contributed by
Elizabeth Dowling, °47

It is during those rare moments
in which a motion picture succeeds
in being artistic as well as “colos-
sal” that we realize the many po-
tentialities of the screen. For we
unfortunate Americans who are
subjected to the abortive attempts
of Hollywood, an evening filled by
Henry V cannot fail to be illum-
inating and exciting. While a re-
view of the picture may not be
place in
which to set forth one’s ideas on
the low grade of American films,
extraordinary
production calls forth a compari-
son between foreign and home-
In the past years,
the BPYiglish motion picture indus-
try has put forth the most out-
standing movies. For what Amer-
ican movie equaled the force of
In Which We Serve as a war pic-
ture, or of Vacation from Mar-

_ riage as a combination of war and

comedy. There is a_ simplicity
about the British films, a forth-
rightness and lack of artificiality
that puts to shame the mock real-
ism of Hollywood’s productions.
The fact that the motion picture
industry in England is young and
hampered by lack of equipment
has not prevented it from bring-
ing out films that have consistent-
ly maintained a higher standard
than those of Hollywood.

The imaginativity of Henry V
was evident from the beginning.
Opening the picture by approach-
ing the Globe Playhouse in an
aerial shot over Elizabethan Lon-
don, we moved to within the the-
atre. The opening of the play
brought with it an interesting idea
in- interpretation. Scene 1, be-
tween: the Archbishop of Canter-
bury and the Bishop of Ely was
played as comedy. This may have
been due to a wish to enliven the
text which is not exciting reading,
or to Olivier’s desire to set the
idea of the actors’ playing to the

. audience; an idea admirably ex-

emplified by Olivier’s playing to
the gallery on his violent response
to the Dauphin’s insult. We no-
ticed also that while the action
was still in the Globe Theatre the
actors made use of the older style
gesticulation, a practice that they
abandoned when the setting was
changed.

To analyze this movie thorough-
ly would require more space ffian
is permissible. But it is impos-
sible to omit consideration of these
points that struck us as being out-
standing: The insertion into Fal-
staff’s death scene of MHenry’s
speech from Scene 5, Act V of
Henry IV, Part II, was an inter-

* esting and effective touch, and one

helpful- to those members of the
audience not familiar with the cir-
cumstances of Falstaff’s fall from
grace. This may have been Oliv-
ier’s purpose in creating a scene
that does not exist in the original
text.

The garden interlude between
Katherine and Alice was particu-
larly well-done. Coming as it did
immediately before the pre-Agin-

Continued on Page 4





FILL IN THE. BLANK

7
“Big Two” Unoriginal
But Adequate Play;
Treats of Russia
by Barbara Bettman 49

“The. Big Two'’,
comedy produced by Elliott Nugent

sd . .
new political

and Robert Montgomery present-
ly at the: Walnut Street Theatre,
is not a great play.
der the direct influence of “State
of the Union”
less successful current Broadway

It suffers un-
and various other

opera. It also suffers slightly in
that its actors have come direct
from Hollywood, Awhere the cos-
tumes are more ‘important than
the acting. On the other hand, it
is not a bad play. Its greatest as-
set -is that. it moves exceedingly
rapidly. It has a large quota of
suspense, some excellent comedy,

and some very fine expression of
Russo-American relations. Nor is
the play hindered by Philip Dorn,
an extraordinarily handsome gen-
tleman and incidentally a more
than adequate actor.

Plot Not Difficult

The plot is not difficult. Danielle
Forbes, as played by Claire Trevor,
is, as my Time colleague might
have it, a Phelps-bagged, Dunhill-
lightered, Harris-tweeded ~news-
paperwoman, who has been sent to
the Waldhotel in Baden, Austria,
in November, 1945, in order to lo-
cate one Elmer Stone, an American
Lord Haw-Haw. The Russians have
also sent one Captain Nicholai Moz-
govoy for the same purpose. Cap-
tain Mozgovoy and Miss Forbes
meet, make love, discuss politics,
and locate Ston® with much dis-
patch but not without some diffi-
culty when Miss Forbes decides to
tell the.captain that she is a news-
paperwoman, an unwelcome visit-
or in the Russian zone. . Claire
Trevor iS convincing but would
have been equally so minus a few
gestures; she seems to have pat-
terned herself embarrassingly af-
ter Mary Matthews, “State of the
Union”’s symbol of the bright new
world, as personified by America
and Ruth Hussey.

Of the supporting cast, Felix
Bressart, also of the silver screen,
is humorous as Plotschek, who is
willing to do black market business
for any commodity, down to and
including one left, brown, ladies’
shoe; Robert Scott is a superior
Corporal Pat McClure—“once a
bellhop always a_ bellhop Per-
haps due to the fe of Mr.
Bressart, the play’s humor leans
toward the slapstick-innuendo type
farce, but there are some genuine-
ly funny and. well-rendered lines.

Conflicting Ideologies

Certainly the outstanding lines

of the play come during the con-

versations between Danielle andj

Captain Mozgovoy, or Nicky, as he
is inevitably called, when they dis-
cuss conflicting Russia and Ameri-
can ideologies. I, was made dis-
tinctly uncomfortable during the
first half of the play by the re-
marks directed at the Russians,
which would have delighted Wil-
liam Randolph Hearst and at
which, incidentally, the audience
laughed loudly if perhaps a trifle
nervously. Unpleasant remarks,
guised as humor, do not make for
friendly relations even if “it’s only
a play.” ”

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Continued from Page 1 —
portant problems of the artist. She

announced that the problem for
the day would be for each of them
to create an abstract design which
would show both unity and bal-
ance. ; :

Out came pencils, bits of char-
coal, sheets of colored paper, jars
of glue, large lumps of_ pinkish
clay, and just about every other
type of material imaginable. While
the squares, circles, and triangles
were beginning to take form, I
looked over some of the work that
the group had already done, and
decided that a prize for the most
origfnal idea of the year should
certainly be given to the girl who
had pasted together a piece of a
corrugated box, a wad of cotton,
a square of tin foil and a hand-
‘ful of confetti into a very attrac-
tive design which I mentally la-
belled “New Year’s Eve in a Drug
Store.”

By this time the students were
‘completely. involved in solving the
problem of unity and balance. One
of the most fascinating of the de-
signs that were rapidly taking
shape was a large sketch that its
proud creator. proclaimed to be a
portrait of “two friends of mine,
Joyce and Eva.” (The smaller
curve was Eva.) I was polite
enough not to insult Joyce and
Eva by intimating that they look-
ed rather like a pair of jelly fish
with stomach aches. Miss Craw-
ford stopped to look over a piece
of sculpture that was wending its
way heavenward in rather feeble,
uneasy spirals and commented
“Another potato chip, huh?” But
I personally was completely crush-
ed when one,member of the class
looked at my*”own personal brain-
child (for of course I hadn’t been
able to keep my hands out of that
inviting pink clay for long) and
proclaimed that for all the world
it looked like a bridge for the
teeth.

After all the finished creations
had been discussed and criticised
by the whole class, it was four
o’clock and the lab was over. Miss
Crawford explained to me as she
gathered together the scraps of
paper and bits of clay that lit-
tered the room that this class was
intended to be “like a laboratory
to a science lecture course.” By
allowing the students—to—experi-
ment for themselves it is hoped
that they will gain an understand-
ing of the tools of the artist—
line, mass, texture, color, and so
on—and an appreciation of. the
problems involved in artistic crea-
tion. For certainly the girl who
has spent an entire afternoon try-
ing to create unity and balance in
a clay “potato chip” will gain a

;great deal of sympathy for the

artist or sculptor who faces this
problem every day. And I can
personally attest to the fact that
she will have a great deal of fun
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itrivialities on daily conduct, but

Frankfort Shows

Stress on Truth

In Egyptian Life

The Deanery, December 12. “The
Egyptians took great pains to
write down the. Way of Life. The
differences in the texts are” due
only to accidents of preservation,
so that their tenor remains con-
stant. They are characteristic of
Egypt at all times,” Mr. Henri
Frankfort emphasized in his lec-
ture on “The Egyptian Way of
Life: Tenth as the Law of Exist-
ence.’ ‘

The texts are actually teachings
which display a confidence in
man’s insight into the world in
which he lives; he is well adapted
to it and possesses- a_ serenity
which is peculiar to the Egyptians.
The authors of these texts were
not priests or prophets, but offi-
cials who wished their children to
They
are, therefore, interspersed with

profit by their experiences.

their central theme is the striving
after truth.

Truth-or “Mat” was created in
the beginning and has existed un-
disturbed ever since. It is not an
ethical concept but is an inherent
quality of the divine order. It is
evidenced by justice in- public life
and by truth in private, which is
ethical in a sense, but is funda-
mentally a life in harmony with
the existing world. This concept
is part of the Egyptian view of
the universe as static within which
there are only cyclical movements.
They place a premium on every-
thing permanent so that establish-
ed authority has a definite signifi-
cance and the rules of conduct laid
down by superiors have more sig-
nificance than they would seem.
The ideal life is not easily attain-
ed, though it is teachable. The
principal hindrances are ignorance,
pride, and human passions so that
they distinguish two types of men:
the passionate and the silent man.
The silent man is not meek or oth-
erworldly but is successful, living
in harmony with his surroundings.

The Egyptians’ pre-occupation
with evil is limited, Mr. Frankfort
pointed out. It has its place in a
static world, but.they have no con-
ception of evil as sin in our the-
ological sense. When man makes
a mistake he does not infringe a
divine command, and the moment
he corrects it in accordance with
Truth the gods cease to be an-
gered. There is an impersonal re-
lation between man and the gods;
the real conflict is with universal
order or Truth which is reflected
in the actions of the Gods, who
see that man is punished when he
goes against its laws.

Due to this impersonal quality

S. Habachy Explains

Near East Economy

Continued from Page 1

tion problem, Senator Habachy
pointed out, lies: in industrializa-
tion; Egypt’s textile industry is

now being developed, but progress
in many fields is hampered by. the
lack of coal. The recent discovery
of oil and iron in Egypt offers fur-
ther possibilities, as does the sub-
stitution of hydro-electric power
for coal, but these_developments
lie in the future.

At present, new schemes are be-
ing devised to raise the standard
of living in Egypt through the es-
tablishment of agricultural eo-
operatives and the increase of fer-
tilizer production. Irrigation pro-
jects and means of utilizing the
desert are also being planned..
However, there is still room, Sen-
ator Habachy pointed out, for a.
good deal of scientific work"in this
field.

Concentrating on Egypt as typ-
ical of the region, Senator Haba-
chy traced present-day problems
back to the first meeting of East
and West in 1798 when Napoleon
invaded Egypt, bringing with him
a host of scientists, geographers,
and historians, who made a de-
tailed study of Egypt. This was .
Egypt’s first contact with modern
ways, and led to the introduction
of cotton, suggestions for irriga-
tion projects, and ultimately to the
increase in population which is
currently Egypt’s most pressing
problem.

Acting Seems Weak
In ‘Six Characters’

Continued from Page 1

Again Mr. Thon deserves all the
praise that anyone can give to him.
His performances are always fresh
and neatly packaged; there are no
glaring amateur technical faults;;
there is nothing left undone which
would help the actors and actresses.
in their part. He is right in there
pitching all the time; he chooses:
the most difficult fields, and gen-
erally finds himself without any
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French, Spanish
Xmas With Gay,

by Emily Townsend ’50
and Barbara Ziegler ’48

The French Club gave a tradi-
tional Nativity Play on. Friday
night, in Wyndham; pleasant ac-
cents and interesting costumes kept
a large audience in an apprecia-
tive mood. Some of the students
may have been lured to come by
the widely-publicized offers of-—re-
freshment to come afterwards, but
they enjoyed the pageant on its
own merits while the actors ador-
ed and plotted before them. Nancy
Strickler ’47, and Doreen Hurwitz
47, directed the play; Doreen also
made a very fetching king in
black-face.

The play started with an invis-
mle chorus singing an old French
hymn off-stage, while the actors
marched in one by one. The Vir-
gin Mary and a very dignified Jos-
eph led off with the scene of adora-
tion in the stable: the- prayed to
the waxen infant, and laid him in
a manger (a handsome fire-grate)
filled with pine branches. The
three kings promptly followed in

Students Vote Def. I

For Curric. Committee

Continued from Page 1

Committee varies with the type of
problem. In submitting petitions
to the faculty which are of major
importance to the students, the
Curriculum Committee must act
only with the support of a two-
thirds majority of students as de-
termined by vote. A vote of the
students is not valid unless a quo-
rum, three-fifths of the student
body, votes. Before taking any
such vote the Curriculum Commit-
tee should present to che student
body the facts related to the prob-
lem and the Curriculum Commit-
tee’s opinion about this problem.
If the students then vote to sub-
mit a petition to the faculty the
Curriculum Committee must give
this petition its full support re-
gardless of its previous opinion.

The Curriculum Committee has
the power to request minor
changes without previously sub-
mitting the problem to the stu-
dent body. Any-~ such action must,
however, be made “known to the
students; if objections are raised
to this action a petition may be
submitted to the Curriculum Com-
mittee requesting that a vote of
the whole student body be taken
the Curriculum Committee must
then act only in accordance with
this vote.

The Committee or any of its
members reserves the right to
keep any .problems relating to spe-
cific departments or individuals
private to those concerned.

The Committee may use its dis-
cretion in pursuing or. rejecting
students suggestions. The Com-
mittee must, however, reverse such
decisions at the request of at least
ten students.

In case of rejection of student
requests by the faculty, the Cur-
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most exotic robes, telling © with

pride of their lineage and city. The
shepherds looked rustic and abash-
ed as three bare-footed angels sang
in harmony over their heads. An
exceedingly evil Herod was dis-
closed, seated on cloth of gold, and

guarded by armed knights in dash-
ing scarlet hose. The monarch’s
sinister~make-up~ failed to -daunt
the kings, however, and they calm-
lyMmade their way to the stable
with precious gifts in hand.

The Spanish speaking element
of the college celebrated Christ-
mas at a Fiesta on Monday, De-
cember 16, in the Spanish House.
This year the program consisted
of traditional carols and dances in-
stead of the usual play. The car-
ols, sung by members of the Span-
ish Club were, “Noche de Paz”,
“La. Virgen .Maria” and “Venid
Patores”. Margit Frenke, a grad-
uate student from Mexico, sang
and played her guitar. The Jota
‘and the Bamba were danced by
members “of the club dressed in
Spanish peasant costumes.

B. M., Haverford Give
Christmas Progrum

Continued from Page 1

character; however, the spacing of
the chorus on stage with the ten-
ors all in front caused an. effect
that lacked proper depth of tone,
atid ‘was in evidence throughout
‘the performance.

The mixed chorus’ interpretation
of Le miracle de Saint Nicholas
was especially outstanding in re-
gard to solos and in the skillful
piano accompaniment by Ruth
Crane. This piece seemed more

and Ralph Jackson. Here a Torch,
Jeanette Isabella gave the tenors
a chance to show thir flexibility
and clear tone although the so-
Wirano tended to lag on ane
notes. '

Christmas Night was very sim-
ilar to the Haverford selections as
again the problem of the higher
voices drowning out the lower pre-
sented itself. The enunciation was
excellent—_in—_this—and—the—next
choice, Down in the Forest. This
piece was beautifully suited to the
clear soprano of Rose Johnson and
the background harmonies were
artfully produced.

“In The Three Kings the Haver-
ford chorus showed exceptional
tone and the force which had been
lacking in earlier selections great-
ly added to the music. The two
choruses wove the melody to an
impressive climax with “And kiss
the feet of God.” The final carol
was another Wassail Song which
ended the concert on a successfully
joyous note.





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Versatile Rhythm
Shown by Price
At Jazz Concert

Specially Contributed by Marcia
Morris, ’49, and Gale Minton, ’49

On Wednesday night at 8:30 a
group of jazz-lovers waited in the
Wyndham, Music Room for the ar-
rival of Sammy Price, who. came
out here to represent. the Jazz Fes-
tival Society of Philadelphia.

At 8:45 Mr. Price made an effec-
tive entrance in an electric blue
dinner .jacket and a maroon bow
tie. .He preceded his concert with
a skort talk. about the Society
which, as he explained, is a non-
profit organization bringing fa-
mous Jazz artists to Philadelphia.
The recital started with one of
his .own compositions, “Jumping
Boogie,” and included “Honky-
Tonk Train,” “The Man I Love,”
“St. James Infirmary Blues,” “Ba-
sin Street Blues,” “Body and
Soul,” and “Sweet Lorraine.” He
ended the concert playing an in-
spired version™ of “Royal Garden
Blues.”

His versatility showed up wll
in the variety of the requests that
he played.. He showed the strong
sense of rhythm characteristic of
really good jazz piano, even in the
Gershwin pieces which are not in
the same category with his spe-
cialty, dixie-land jazz.

The “Royal Garden Blues” and
his own “Jumping Boogie” showed
his talents at their very best.In
“Jumping Boogie’ the walking
bass and the beautifully executed
changes were in tempo. The pre-
cision of “Royal Garden Blues,”
played with the enthusiasm he ob-

viously feels, and makes an audi- |

ence feel, for the music, was a high
point in a versatile performance.
Before leaving Sammy _ Price

It will take place on day, Jan-
uary 12, at the Academy of Music.
The program will consist of Dixie-

landjazz-played-by-Sidtey Bechet,

Mezz Mezzrow, Pops’ Foster,
George Brunis, and other such vet-
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court sequence it succeeded not
only. in. providing a break in the
tenseness of the mood, but in pref-
acing, through the music of Wil-
liam Walton, the depth of human
experience that was to.come. As
there is little that.is more enter-
‘taining than to hear someone
struggle to learn our own lan-
guage, it was clever of the pro-
ducer: to include this scene that,
because of its relative unimpor-
tance to the plot, could easily be
omitted,

Of the Battle and pre-battle in-
terlude we can say that they were ,
the high point of the film. The
atmosphere of nervous tension and
near, or complete, fright, was un-
broken and the superb acting of
Laurence Olivier cannot be easily
forgotten. His defense of himself
to the soldiers was climaxed by the
soliloquy. As with the Falstaff
scene the speech was turned into
the thoughts of the character, thus
making the role more difficult for
Olivier than it is for the stage ac-
tor. . He was forced to express
facially the- counterpart of the
emotions that he was expressing
verbally, and to do so under the
scrutiny of the. close-up shot. He
succeeded!

The battle proper was a master-

Laurence Olivier’s Production of ‘Henry V’
Exempliftes; Contrast of British, U. S. Films

riA4ing pace of the attacking
French from trot to gallop to run;
the peak being reached in the whir
of thé arrows as they left the
bows, and in the clash of the op-
posing armies.

Omitting discussion of Bur-
gundy’s soliloquy on peace, which
was accompanied by a series of
pictures unfortunately reminiscent
of a travelogue, we consider last
the proposal and marriage scene
between Henry and Katherine.
‘This was distinguished by’ the
lightness of touch in the acting of
Olivier as opposed to the solemnity
of his preceding scenes.
given opportunity to show his ver-
‘satility and displayed it to good
‘advantage. It was interesting to
note the change in the make-up of
the Kate of the “movie,” who was
a French princess and the Kate of
the theatre, to which they return-
ed, who was an imitation of Queen
Elizabeth.

The scenery of the “movie” was
-not. an attempt at realism, but car-
ried out the theme of: the bright
colors that was used in the cos-
tumes. ' By employing this system
of costuming and designing the
producer was able by the use of a
brighter color to point out the im-





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