College news, March 13, 1957

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VOL. XLII, NO. 16

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1957_

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1957

PRICE 20 CENTS



‘Revue’ Displays Local Talent;
Its Prose Offers Great Variety

by Mary Elizabeth Meek
Instructor in English

The current’ issue of the Bryn
Mawr-Haverford Revue is on the
whole a creditable performance.
The short stories are all-interest-

ing and entertaining, even if read’

uncritically simply for. the plot,
and are pleasingly varied as to
setting and characterization. The
poetry is less diversified, but is by
no means all of a piece, either in
style or content.

Among the short stories are sev-
eral of the usual recollections of
childhood and adolscence, but no
more proportionately than are ‘to
be found in the Atlantic or the
New .Yorker, and their appearance
is certainly justifiable in an under-
graduate publication. .Of these,
Puss in Boots is notable for rigidly
maintaining the young narrator’s
point of view, by the device of

- describing what can be seen from
his, window, . and thus Saying a

good deal more than is actually)
in the action. In The Most Un-
happy Day, in which the Italo-
American setting is_ irrelevant,
there is a convincing portrayal of
the child, Josie, and a properly de-
emphasized analysis of the inabil-
ity of a mother and child to com-
municate. The child’s problem is

_ ingeniously conceived and complete-

ly believable. Winds of May -suc-
cessfully creates the atmosphere of
a particular moment in a boy’s
emotional development, but might
have n better if the point of
view had not shifted to the teach-
er, whose character is somewhat
flat in comparison with the boy’s.
The boy’s. self-consciousness is
nicely realized through the descrip-
tion of various small details’ like
the gritty railing of the subway
stairs and the smell of sun, and
tar on the roof. Details are also
used to convey self-consciousness

_ in Stillpoint, but in a more obvious

fashion, since the narrator, who
keeps seeing himself as a charac-
ter in a story, is forced to empha-
sibze the disparity between the
real situation and the emotions he
thinks he should be having. The
writing is somewhat turgid, but
the presentation of the narrator’s
experience and his sense of the
falseness of that experience is fas-
cinating, as is the way in which
the relation of all the characters to
the dead boy is gradually revealed.

Real and Unreal

There are two rather interesting
studies: of characters who have
created imaginary companions for

them join them in their
retreat from réal life. Renascence
has.a fine macab uality, remin-

iscent of Poe’s stories, and like
them is concerned with life in
death and death in life. Itis per-
haps too melodramatic. Spring
and the Maiden, however, creates
horror more effectively by being
completely matter of fact in tone
and by marshalling a number of
concrete details. The. unobtrusive,
almost casual, yet quite full charac-
terization of the two “a is also
noteworthy. |

Three stories are especially to be
commended for ‘a more complex
inter-relation of characters and a
more unusual setting than any of
those mentioned previously. These
are A Swamp, The Dead Flowers
of Oaxaca and Miss Andromeda’s
Social Inn. In the first, the charac-
ter of Sylvia, both as she sees
herself and as the other characters

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react to her, is ably handled, al-
though the first description of her
is rather trite. On the other hand,
the first appearance of Benoni is
well done, although the later asso-
ciation of him with the stud horse
is a bit obvious. The ending is
what would be expected, given
these characters, but the atmos-
phere created by the swamp gives
an added dimension and force to
the story. The setting is also an
important factor in The Dead
Flowers of Oaxaca, in which the
concreteness of the objects describ-
ed makes for a sense of the per-
manence of the place as-eantrasted
with, the impermanence of the
people. Degrees of heat and cool-
ness, the feel of dust and flower
petals,.a sense of dark and light
are all managed skillfully. The
characters appear through their
gestures as well as their, words,
such as the bearded man’s settling
his trousers — his hips, and
the ‘bedspread ai as nS had covered].
her husband, The climax of the
story is, in fact, wordless, and
gains thereby both dramatically
and thematically, since it deals
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League Sponsors

Mark McCloskey

Mark A. McCloskey, educator
and Chairman of the New York
State Youth Commission, will
speak in the Common Room under
the auspices of the League on
Tuesday, March 19 at 8:30 p.m.

Mr. McCloskey, a graduate of
Princeton and the Columbia Uni-
versity School of Social Work, has
directed numerous organizations in
the fields of welfare and education.
His topic is “A Study in Juvenile
Delinquency.”

Rare Book Rooms
Show Arab Mss.

Timed to coincide with the Alli-
ance Conference on “Arab Nation-
alism in the Mid-East,” the “Arab
World” exhibit in the Rare Book
Rooms’ of the library features a
rare collection of early Arabic
manuscripts.

Displayed in the main part of
the exhibit are manuscripts of the
10th century in Arabic on vellum,
including those dealing with old
Christian legends and the Psal-
terium Arabicum containing the
psalter with an appendix of the
Biblical canticles, as.well as an
extremely rare. manuscript .of the
Latin text of book V. of Avicenna
printed in 1380. These are the gift
of Howard L. Goodhart.

Two copies of the Koran, the
sacred book of the Mohammedans,
a gift of Katherine Lord Strauss
Mali ’23, may also be seen.

Another part of the exhibit, de-
voted to Arabian Science, includes
books printed in Europe in the 15th
century. The works of earlier
Ah scientists , such as the Sera-
pions, Rhases,\ Albamasar, Avi-
fue Avetroes* and Hali are in
his category. Twentieth century.
editions of works on Arabian philo-
sophy ‘are also-exhibited.

The second of the Rare Books
Rooms features a variety of books
about Arabia, ranging from the
works of T. E. Lawrence to a copy



of The Thousand and One Nights.



‘Charming Naivete’ Noted in Music
Of Harpsichord, Baritone and Flute



(L. to R.) Carleton Sprague Smith, Claude Jean Chiasson
and Paul Gavert.

by Martha Bridge

ast - Wednesday _evening’s, Fri-
ends of Music Concert brought to

Bryn Mawr an unusual program of
seventeenth and Eighteenth Cent-
ury compositions, for harpsichord,
lyric baritone and flute. The
music seemed in many ways re-
freshingly naive and charming—
one—is, tempted to say “quaint.”
The listener was forced to adjust
his critical sense to a musical
idiom that was winning rather
than impressive, intimate rather
than grand.

A relaxed and happy attitude
seemed to prevail on stage. Claude
Jean Chiasson bent over his harp-
sichord so lovingly that, even
without having read the program,
one could almost tell that the in-
strument was his own work of art.
Paul Gavert, lyric baritone, was
free of the usual posturings of con-
cert vocalists and sang with easy
grace. And Carleton Sprague
Smith not only played the flute
with a gusto that could not fail
to communicate itself to the audi-
ence, but contributed some of his
vast knowledge of musicology in
his witty commentary on the flute
and its repertoire.

“Not Quite Chamber Music”

One gathered that the group was
not an experienced performing en-
semble. Mr. Smith and Mr. Chias-
son, for example, seemed to be go-
ing competent but separate ways
in the Blavet sonata—a perform-
ance which may be partly attrib-
uted to the not quite “chamber
music” quality of the early sonata
form. At any rate, the audience
felt that it was listening to three
individual musicians,. whose ren-
ditions must be judged accordingly.

Mr. Gavert was at his best in
the group of songs with which he
opened the evening’s program, He
displayed~ beautiful diction and
phrasing and an attractive, youth-| _
ful approach to such fragile pieces
as the anonymous Fifteenth Cent-
ury “L’Amour de Moy” and Pur-
cell’s “I Attempt fom Love’s Sick-
ness.” .Mr. Gavert was less suc-
cessful with his concluding group,
mainly because the selections were
less appealing—with the exception
of the Mozart “Dans un Bois,”
to which his voice and style did
hot seem well suited. Mr. Gavert
erided the evening proudly, how-
ever, with a lovely encore, a mod-
ern setting of the Old English
“Balulalo.”

Carleton Sprague Smith. was con-

sistently charming, whether play-

ing or speaking. He showed fine
musicianship, if not perfect tech-

=1 ah
pical polish, in Bis -porformance of

the Couperin “Extraits du Troi-
sieme Livre de Pieces,” and seem-
ed to have scored the hit of the
evening with a radical departure
in mood in his encore—Debussy’s
“Le Syrinx,” in which Mr. Smith’s
tone took on a fascinating sheen.

Mr. Chiasson’s harpsichord both
intrigued and worried this review-
er. In criticising any performance
on the harpsichord, it is difficult
to separate the limitations of the
performer from those of the un-
familiar instrument. It was dis-
turbing to hear the Scarlatti son-
atas played with so little dynamic
variety and yet this is inherent in
the early keyboard instrument, It
makes one wonder just how much
modern performers read into early
keyboard music, or, for that mat-
ter, just how much, with our mod-

ern and differently attuned ears,
we can attempt to be faithful to
the original composition of such
antique music. At any rate, Mr.
Chiasson seémed on more solidly
appealing ground when he played
Rameau’s dance forms, particularly
the “Musette en Rondeau.” In
these the reviewer found the harp-
sichord more satisfying. On the
whole, however, it was an unique
opportunity to hear and reflect on
a sound from the rich musical past
—and particularly fitting that this
opportunity be given in honor of
Dr. Alwyne, who has done so much
to bring that rich past to Bryn

Castro To Speak

At Spanish Club

Americo core Pr ° fessor

Emeritus, gaan University,
will spgpk on “El. Caballero de.
Olmedo,” under the auspices of

ithe Spanish Club at 8:30 p.m. on
! Monday, March 18 in the Ely
Room. aA

Professor Castro holds degrees
from the Universities of Granada,
Paris and Madrid, and is the au-
thor of several books including
Espana en su Historia and The
Structure of Spanish History. He
has also contributed numerous ar-
ticles to American, French, Ger-
man, Spanish and. South Ameri-



can publications.

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archeological
| become invaluable to archeologists.

Radio-Chemist
Libby Speaks
Friday Evening

Atomic Commissioner
Studies A-Bomb
Fall-Out

W. F. Libby, Atomic Energy
Commissioner. a°n d_ well-known
radio-chemist, will lecture on
“Cosmic” Ray and Bomb Test
Tritium in Meterology and Hydro-
logy” to Sigma Xi members and
Bryn Mawr students this Friday
evening, March 15, in the geology
lecture room in Park.

_Mr. Libby developed the radio-
carbon method, a process of dating
objects which’ has

The discovery resulted from Mr.
Libby’s interest in naturally occur-
ring radioactive isotopes. He found

the carbon isotope C14; one. could
determine the age of the object
in question.

Mr. Libby is also attempting to
develop a system of determining
che age of water. Mr. Zimmerman
cells an anecdote about Mr. Libby’s
problems in obtaining sufficiently
aged, undisturbed water for his
experiments. While working on a
project for the government, Mr.
Libby unsuccessfully spent a great
deal of time and effort trying to
find water which has been untouch-
ed for twenty or so years, Finally
it occurred to him that the only
liquid which would be allowed to
stand untouched for any length of
time would have to be a fermented
beverage (usually has a_ high
water content). Soon thereafter
the government received a request
to deliver 20 cases of liquor to
Mr. Libby—all in the interest of
science, of course!

At the moment Mr. Libby is
studying the problem of radio-
active fall-out from bomb tests for
the Atomic Energy Commission.
He received his degree from the
University of California, and is

Nuclear Studies at the University
of Chicago. During World War II
Mr. Libby conducted research for
the government at Columbia on
the separation of uranium isotopes.

Trask Will Lecture
Wednesday Night

Mr. Willard R. Trask, writer
and translator, will deliver the
Class of 1902 Lecture on Wednes-
day, March 20, at 8:30 in the Com-
mon Room. He will speak on “The
Problem of Translation.”

Mr. Trask has translated books
from German, French, Spanish and
Portuguese. He is translating a
book for Mr. Ferrater Mora which
has-not yet been published:
Among Mr. Trask’s other trans-
lations are Pushkin, Poet and
Lover by Lydia Lambert, The
World Is Not Enough by Zoe Old-°
enbourg from French by Curtius’
European Literature and the Latin
Middle Ages from German.





COLLEGE ELECTIONS

Nancy Dyer ’58 has been
elected President of the Self-
Government Association.

Catharine Stimpson ’58 has
been elected President of the



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Turn Out The Lights!

The recent request of the administration, channeled
through the Undergrad hall reps, to guard against careless
wasteage of food and electricity warrants unanimous atten-
tion and compliance. This plea for economy is not born out
of a desire to skimp on food and services, but represents, rath-
er, the practical approach to balancing the budget. This year
food costs are running considerably higher than the proposed
allowance because of the rising prices on meats and almost all
basic commodities. These increases have resulted in an ap-
preciable deficit in the food budget. As regards electricity,
the administration believes reductions could be made ‘in its
payments to outside companies if only the careless use of
lighting were corrected. :

It is hoped that the students will cooperate in-meeting
the problem 9f rising food costs by reducing wasteage, namely
heeding the request to sign out for meals. Weekends pose
the greatest difficulties to the director of halls and the die-

tician. Much guesswork and calculation goes into ordering
food when people are away. The college normally expects to
make these weekend food savings, but would be able to work
more effectively if a valid estimate could be had by Thursday
when food is ordered. Although Thursday is optimum from
the standpoint of ordering, allowing for late weekend plan-
ners, lists will be kept posted past that time. While an exact
estimate cannot be expected, it is hoped that more students
will feel obligated to remember these lists when their advance
plans are definite. Compliance with this simple request might
mean a balanced budget.

Electricity bills have proved another thorn in the col-
lege budget. Examination of the halls has shown that stu-
dents not only leave lights on while they are out at night,
but also indiscriminately during the day. We will not con-
test the sentiment that a light burning in one’s room when
one returns engenders a “secure” feeling; however, we do
suggest a more practical attitude regarding financial mat-
ters. In addition, this carelessness has resulted in exorbitant
bulb bills. Students are urged to turn out lights in show-
cases and smokers when they are last to leave at night, and
to watch the use of lighting in their own rooms.

We feel these administration requests deserve every
possible consideration. We are obligated to heed the sugges-
tions since we all benefit from a sound colle udget. One
should also remember that college fees fe due\for study
next year. Anything that'we can do as Andividuals\this year
would offset a possible need next year for fee increases.

Eliot's “Cocktail Party” Will Be Given
Here This Weekend by Theatre’ Groups

must know ... “But will it be the
same, Celia?” “And that’s not
the worst of it. Some of the tribes
are Christian converts ...” Twist-

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Ann Morris, ‘57
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by Gretchen Jessup

“., . Lavinia’s aunt ,. .” Louder,
louder, louder. “Lavinia is coming

back...” (Six names \printed on terdins ad
back stage left, 11 beams in each|cd trey nr tame Cait
ceiling sections.) “All matters} » ump Ease eg _” (Man Alive,
is that... ” Telephone (ring). The Happy M odinm, Mabel )

“Oh, Julia ... your spectacles “To California?” “To on (The

again . . . beside the champagne s
bottle? .. . one half empty? ...” org ti as Woman of} Chail

(Bobby socks were Celia’s wear) «1 should like you to ‘remember

and an electric blue pullover.) ” . (Ring!)-“Not-as-in-the past
-——““We must also. remember that}. » Pres “Essex?”

wandering minstrel

at every meeting ... ” (Lines,
lines.) And back to the stage.
(There’s a red exit light and yel-
low side lights grouped, pawnbrok-
ar style, with white work lights on
~eetage: ) “What happened is re-

~*« membered like a dream...” (And

who’s that off stage?)

Can you contact Miss Ely? And
where’s Tawn Stokes? Lines, lines
— voice tones! (Ring, ring.)

ai eet y “Lavinia” (Peter enter-

_ed.) ‘Who's for coffee? No, an-
- other table! “Work out your sal-
vation With diligence...” .

ae

‘i (A telegram.)
‘‘Why from Essex, of course.”
(Ring.) ‘“You’ve been in Essex?”
“No, in Cali— . . .. ” Next speeches
cut. “You’re very kind—pause—
(ring) but very mysterious ...”
(Entrance.) One, two, three. Ques-
tion. Answer. (Ring!) saad

“... Lavinia .. . Essex (ring)
of course.” (Ring.) Stop! Alex!
How can we... But... “And
where may I ask... ” “In Dev-
on?” “No, in Essex.” (Conserve
your energy.) _ Let’s go back to
my house. Good-bye...

THE COLLEGE NEWS





From The Bale ony

Orpheus Descending





by Ruth Rasch

Tennesee Williams has been ac-,

cused of overemphasizing the vio-
lence in modern life. In the Missis-
sippi playwright’s newest play,
Orpheus Descending, violence is
present but so are other elements
—elements which combine to make
this an excellent play—a play which
seems to accurately portray mod-
ern life and t®@ tragedy lurking
in the violence which characterizes
it.
. 'Bhe weaknesses in the construc-
iton of the play are overcome by
magnificent performances, and
Tennessee Williams’ drama effect-
ively creates a world which is be-
tievable. Though the violence is
omnipresent, with it goes the
strength of human character and
the force of human love.

The scene is the deep South and
the heroine a strong woman of
Italian origin. Maureen Stapleton,
the‘ original creator of Serafine
Della Rose in The Rose Tatoo is
forceful in the role of Lady Tor-
rance, a vital woman who longs for
love and the chance to create life
but who is unhappily married to a
man dying of cancer.

_Orpheus, Val Xavier, is the
who comes
bearing his guitar-to bring love to
her life. This reviewer saw the
part when it was being played by
Robert Loggia who has since been
replaced by Cliff Robertson. Mr.
Loggia gave, what seemed to this
playgoer.. to..be,.an..excellent....per-.
formance of a man, just turned
30, who tries to give up his old
life for a new one—and a respect-
able job. Val even sheds his snake
skin jacket for a blue business
suit, but he cannot shed his char-
acter.

The two main characters of the

play seemed fated to disaster be-
cause of the gentle naivete of the
minstrel and the vital honesty of
Lady.

Lois Smith, in a smaller role,
is the third star of the play. As
an “exhibitionist,” rebelling
against the tradition she is born
to maintain as the youngest mem-
ber of one of the old county fam-
ilies, she makes the character she
plays understandable and admir-
able.

The minor characters in this
play help to create the scene in
which the play takes place. As
Southern townswomen, Elizabeth
Eustis, Jane: Rose, Nell Harrison
and Mary Farrell are all extreme-
ly competent. They manage to
accept in different ways the tradi-
itons against which Lois Smith is
rebelling. The townsmen, in brief-
er appearances, all play their parts
competently.

The set, the general dry goods
store run by Lady Torrance with
part of the new confectionary
showing, forms an appropriate
backdrop to the action that takes
place inside it.

In the final scene, the crime of
the past, the stifling conventions
of the present and the hope of life
in the futuré coalesce to force a
sudden conclusion to the play. It
is not the best of Tennessee Wil-
liams’ work for in it he fails to
create a complete personal environ-
ment for the main character, Lady
Torrance, and-he. failsin- some re-
spects to more than caricature the
opposing force in the play, for it is
never personalized. However, these
reservations are slight when com-
pared with the many fine points
in the play and the performance
of the newest drama by this great
playwright.



Lattimore Attracts
“Eager’’ Audience

The attraction of Dr. Lattimore’s
Poetry Reading Thursday evening,
March 7, crowded the Common
Room with a-rapt audience which
listened eagerly as he moved from
translations of ancient poems to
those of modern poets and then
on to his own work.

Starting with a passage from an
unpublished translation of Virgil’s
Georgies, Dr. Lattimore next read
the scene between Priam and
Achilles in the last book of the
Iliad. ‘Pindar’s eleventh Nemean
Ode and the comment of Simonides
upon the “word of Pittakos” were
among the translations following.

The classical mood was left be-
hind as Dr. Lattimore turned to
two modern Greek poems, “Wait-
ing for the Barbarians”, and a bal-
lad, “The Bridge at Arta”.

His own poetry ranged, as Dr.
Lattimore remarked, from oberva-
tions such as “North Philadelphia,
Trenton, and New York”, to per-
sonal reminiscences, The sea was
his favorite subject—a series of
images from different viewpoints,
including “Sea Changes”, ‘Mid-
Continental”, and “Good Speed for
Southward Voyagers”. As a dem-
onstration that anything can be
made into poetry, Dr. Lattimore
has composed sonnets from the En-

Leyelopedia” “Britannica; he read

“Hiroshima” and “Hitler” from
those in the H group. Among the
more personal poems was “Anni-
versary”, recently published in the
New Yorker. —

One listener was heard to com-
ment: “One of the most ‘civilized
evenings I’ve ever spent, and one
of the most delicious”; while a stu-
dent came away so uplifted that
she wrote her first poem for Verse

Composition!

WT...

Stolen straight from The Col-
lege News, March 7, 1917: “Last
Thursday was a ‘blue night’ for
both odds and evens. Light blue
and dark blue administered a wat-
ery defeat to green and red respec-
tively, making a third match nec-
essary Monday night and giving
each class a last chance in the fight
to enter the water-polo finals.”
Shucks, thought they were going
to say water fights (administering
of which is not exactly an uncom-
mon trait on the modern campus).
Well, anyway, their way was at
least legal.

Speaking of legal ... yes, let’s:
‘Twenty-five cents was voted as a
self-imposed fine for walking on
the grass, by the Undergraduate
Association last Monday night.”
Now that’s interesting. Possibili-
ties: 1) Ipso-Facto grass-walkers
maybe; then everyone was docked
25 cents at the end of the year. A
Common Treas. . .. well, you know.
2) “Jane, (or whoever was then
president of the Undergrad Assoc-
iation) I’m going to walk on the
grass now, here’s a quarter... oh,
the price one pays to be late to
classes.”

And then she picks up her dainty
high-buttoned capezios and stomps
through — the mud. 3) Or, per-
thaps—one—sunny* afternoon PYesi-|
dent Thomas would hear a knock
at her door and behold—a frustrat-
ed freshman: “President T., I’d
like to .. . well, what I mean to say
is .. . this bill I’ve run up on...
you see, it was dark, and .. . oh,
dear, will -you take this 25
cents; and I promise never to do
it again!” a

Think of the complexes this rule
created, maybe they could have



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Hine OSE ~ -CHAPEL SPE ee

ér Sunday, March 17, will be Mr. Frank J. Quinn,
Professor English Literature at Haverford College.

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Class Night Is Both
Tedious And Artistic

by Sue Harris

To the uninitiated roving report-
er, Haverford Class Night was a
pleasant surprise. In fact, it was

one considers the time limitation,
a certain lack of talent and orig-
inality and the varying degrees of
experience and sophistication be-
hind each show. The moments of
polished artistry, when they occur-
red, stuck out like sore thumbs
among a handful of often tedious,
raunchy, although aspiring, scenes,
and caused this reviewer to won-
der at the Class Nights of past
years.

However, as the program cover
suggests (thanks to Goéthe), Class
Night should not necessarily be
taken as anything more than a
fanciful, sensible, reasonable, sen- .
timental, passionate example of
folly. And in this light, each show
was successful.

1959’s “Leisure for Pleasure”,
which took the cup as the winner,
had perhaps the only theme: that
was executed with balance. Drunk
monks, a -vague reference to Hav-
rford: and some very lofty. verse
carried the show. ‘ However, the
large number of monks, who were
presént on stage virtually through-
out the show, music suggesting
Organum that added to the musty,
rusty and wine-heavy medieval
theme,, ahd an overall adequacy in
acting combined to create a well-
balanced presentation. It is too —
bad that the subtlety of the verse
did not conceal more of the raunch-
ier aspects of the show, although
perhaps this is unavoidable, (and
even if it isn’t, parts of the audi-
ence certainly enjoyed it).

Fluctuating Humor

“Leisure” had many good lines,
some of which actually verged
on the poetic. In general, the
use of verse tied the rather weak
plot_.together with enough contin-
uity to make the show a convincing
one. The humor rose and fell ap-
propriately, or so it seemed, as did
the audience, for the show’s loud-
est laugh came at the conclusion
of a very loud belch (pearls of
wisdom from a naked yogi). The
sets and lighting were effective,
particularly at the opening of the
cellar scene, and the drinking cho-
rus, sung by massed enthusiastic
male voices, actually raised a cor-
ner of the roof. The show, how-
ever, was a disappointment as far
as the acting and plot were con-
cerned,

1957, with casual; amusing sen-
iority, approached Haverford’s cur-
rent dilemma over accepting De-
fense Department aid with a show
that had its roots in Quaker friend-
liness. This theme was appropri-
ate and touching, for who knows
how sincere the graduating seniors
were? The play’s sarcastic points
were emphatic and skillfully han-
dled. Special mention should go
to Henry Farrell and Tony Bing
whose parodies of typical news
commentator and William Baker
— respectively were outstand-
ng.

However, as a whole “The Mar-
tial Plan” was hardly successful.
A long overture preceding the ac-

tual performance left one with the —

impression that whoever was play-

ling the piano was-exeellent:—And——————

the drum and kazoo chorus which
led into the finale had little connec-
tion with the theme itself, although
this revi found the seniors,
dressed in b and carrying
beer -mugs, individually hilarious.
The dance scene was poor and add-
ed nothing to the plot in the way
of artistic continuation. Binny
Havilland, Bill Moss, the dancers,
lacked form, grace and even the
ability to parody their function
as poor dancers. Harry Hoover's

music was catchy, but, excepting —

‘the Octet’s representative, Tony

Bing, it lost most of its appeal
through weak delivery.

“Burning for Learning”, or



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# Wednesday, March 13, 1957

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Bryn Mawr Wins
At Varsity Meets

The Bryn Mawr badminton var-
sity defeated Swarthmore 5-0 and
the J.V. lost 3-2. All of the matches
were tight, and tension built up as
play progressed. Di Russell had
a -particularly exciting singles
bout that went three games, the
last-two of which were “set” (tied
at the very end and played off),
against her opponent of last year,
The matches were an especial chal-
lenge in the cases where Bryn
Mawrters replayed opponents of
previous matches or played in a
new position. Barbara Janney and
Joyce Sargent played . varsity
doubles for the first time, while
Laura Pearson and Sharon Hart-
ridge switched to singles.

Swimming

Bryn Mawr’s swimming team
beat Drexel, 87 to 17, last Thurs-
day, March 7.

When only three members of
Drexel’s team were present at the
beginning of the meet, Bryn Mawr
began to wonder if history were
being repeated. (Only half of
Bryn Mawr’s team arrived in time
for the meet last year, but they
won anyway.)

The meet was fast. Sandy Colt
won the freestyle in 29.4 seconds,
the best time this year, with Lucy
Wales -second. The back crawl was
woh by Betsy Johnson, followed by
Pat Blackmore. Bruce Connell won
the butterfly, and, but- for some
disqualifying irregularity. of kick,
‘would have been followed by Ruth
Simpson. Bryn Mawr was also dis-
qualified in the medley relay for

Revue ‘Reviewed

Continued from Page 1

with two people’s essential inabil-
ity to communicate. This story and
Miss Andromeda’s Social Inn are
the most mature in their insights
into human behavior.

Miss .Andromeda’s Social Inn is
the best written of the stories. It
also deals with the inability of
people to express themselves. The
four characters are all exiles in a
sense, cut off from their homes in
the United States by being located
on a small island, apparently in
the Caribbean. They exile them-
selves still further by going on a
picnic to a deserted plantation on
an even smaller island, and both
these places are imaginatively and
convincingly depicted. The details
of the action are deliberately given
from Kay’s point of view, and the
reader forms the same false im-
pression of Frank and Jean ‘that
she does. When the reversal comes,
however, there is the satisfying
realization that Kay’s moment of
intuition has been adroitly prepared
for. The characters of Kay and
Tom are simply suggested, since
they are foils for the others, but
the essential humanity of | Frank
and Jean, despite Kay’s revulsion
for their crudeness, is admirably
conveyed.

Standing stylistically between
the prose and the poetry is the



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semi-dramatic fragment, An Oblig-
ing Love. The characters speak a
smooth and rhythmic prose, and
in the prayer, a smooth and rhyth-
mic verse. The themes of loneli-
nes ‘and inability to communicate
are touched upon, but unlike most
of the works in the Révue, some
cognizance is taken of forces out-
side man working on him, his gov-
ernment and his gods. Of this ma-
terial is created an ironic little
myth in which love is equated with
selfishness and ease, and life is
meaningless without death.

The shorter poems show, in gen-
eral, more discipline and restraint
than the longer ones, but they
usually deal with simpler subjects,
such as evocations of places or
things, like Night Meadow, Ane-
mones and Walking Under Elms,
or of moods or attitudes, like
Concentric Circles and Unicorn.
Technically these are all quite
skillful — the rhyme schemes of
Concentric Circles and Night Mea-
dow are especially interesting. All
the poems show an exuberant de-
light in language.

More ambitious, which is not
necessarily to say more successful,
are the three longer poems. Opus,
after a quietly witty picture of
Armageddon, raises some relevant
questions about the nature of man.
On Reading Gorgias settles down
after an extremely twisted trio of
opening lines to a thoughtful and
perceptive consideration of the na-
‘ture of reality, and those first
three lines can be justified by ‘the
essential elusiveness of the sub-

‘ ject, the-difficulty’ of deciding just

how to approach it. The Quilting
Party plays around with some no-
tions of man as being created in
time, with a sense of the past
which conditions his response to
the present. It displays a few feli-
citous phrases as in the “wander-
ing time” passage, and _ several
vital images like the “fish of hope,”
“the tongues of nature” and “the
yellow beaded sleeping voice of
love,” but it is marred by an ex-
treme eccentricity with regard to
syntax, capitalization and punctu-
ation. This may be accounted for
by the title, and the poem may be
consciously making a crazy quilt,
suggesting that existence is with-
out any real design.

The general impression created
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March 14 at 4:30.

Mrs. Phyllis Sullivan, a former
member of the Bureau of Recom-
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jobs in general: what jobs are
available and where and how to
find them. A panel of students rep-
resenting social work, labafatories,
department stores, and waitress-
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summer jobs and answer questions
concerning them.

The Bureau of Recommendations
reminds students that now is ‘the
time to make plans for the summer
as most firms have a general idea
of their needs and will want to
interview students over spring
vacation.

Sea Scroll Books
Given To College

Two. new books about the Dead
Sea scrolls and their significance
have just been given to the Read-
ing Room of the Inter-Faith Asso-
ciation by Mrs. Walter Michels.
They are: The Dead Sea Scrip-
tures, in English Translation, by
Theodor Gaster and The Meaning
of the Dead Sea Scrolls, by A.
Powell Davies.

Mr. Gaster’s book does not at-
tempt a full-fledged theory about
the significance of these contro-
versial documents, but makes the
texts-available for study from any
viewpoint. Dr. Davies discusses the
importance of the texts from his-
torical and religious aspects, in-
cluding evaluations of Jesus in the
light of these texts as well as the
very relevant view of Albert
Schweitzer about Jesus.

These books are available to all
interested students, and may be
signed out from the Reading Room,
which is the last room on the right
on approaching the Common Room
in Goodhart. The Reading Room
also contains many other books and
periodicals about religious “topics,
including some written by Paul
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Bryn Mawr IS a finishing school,
as is any school, in that it at-
tempts to give its students a

enable them ‘to appraise and per-
form the jobs ahead of them. This
was the interpretation which Mr.
Berthoff of the English department
gave of his Current Events
topic Monday evening in the Com-
mon Room.

Both liberal arts and technical
schools should attempt to offer
not only knowledge rules and pro-
cedures, but also a concept of how
things are done. At Bryn Mawr
students seem to develop. because
of their necessity to adapt to a
“student culture” (dark mystery
to professors) with a self-contain-
ed set of behavior patterns which
balances academic demand.

“Tradition” Approved

On the other hand there is the
fabled tradition of the college
which Mr. Berthoff defined as “an
unembarrassed confidence in tradi-
tional liberal education founded on
humanism and .modified by the
scholarship of the late 19th cent-
ury when the school was founded.”
We bélieve, therefore, that the
“direct application of intellectual
energy and knowledge has some-
thing real and positive to do with
some future’ profession.”

or general. climate of opinion is
| away. from--this”’ tradition our
| specific type of education has come
to oppose so-called “value courses”
on the grounds that with the gain-
ing of knowledge the values will
come of themselves. For a human-
ist scholar there must be confi-

systematic scholarship. Today this
is difficult; encyclopedias and com-
pendiums no longer appear; even
standard editions of standard
works are hard to put out.

The Individual Remains

Under contemporary influence
many colleges have relaxed their
standards to conform to a pattern
of society. Bryn Mawr itself is an
interlude between the pattern of
growing up and that of adult life,

create out of our restlessness and
boredom with the first pattern an
interest in and fitness for the sec-
ond. More intellectual daring might
help us here, but the ultimate and
absolutely necessity is perhaps to
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Class Night Review

Continued from Page 2

“Damnation in the
1958’s presentation,
winning the award in this review-
er‘s opinion. Kenny Geist, who
demonstrated his superior talents
in a multitude of ways (writing,
directing and acting), dominated
the play to such an extent that it
became impossible to accept the
other characters as equal to his
portrayal of “J. Engelbert Faust.”
Perhaps the only part which pro-
duced a similar overwhelming
effect was that of “Baby Doll,”
played .by a doll who prefers tq
remain anonymous.

The sets and the blocking of the
movement on the stage were pro-
fessionally handled, The lighting
and Laurie Lutherer, in a swirling
red cape, managed to create a con-
vincing atmosphere reminiscent of
Hell. (Laurie, in fact, even looked
like the devil. But the show, with
overworked emphasis on fiery sin,
disintegrated into polished medi-
ocrity. The trite plot, and the act-
ing, which was inferior to that of
Kenny Geist’s, did not help 1958’s
bid for the award.

The first show of the evening,
- 1960’s “The: Sons of Haverford”,
was little more than a collection

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of standard Haverford jokes. How-
ever, the play was well and origin-
ally done, The action took place
both in the center of the stage and
off to one side, where a quasi-Greek,

chorus composed of five typical
Haverford students and, typically,
one Bryn Mawrter, spoke on the
relative merits of Haverford Col-
lege and the eternal boy-girl rela-
tionship, Several lines were well-
disguised obscenities, although
these were a witty few among a
bulk of cliches.

1960’s effort deserves special
credit, for it. kept the audience
laughing in spite of itself. The act-
ing was adequate and, although
the play moved too"slowly, the per-
formers showed promise and po-
tential.

Class Night concluded its per-
formances with the Faculty Show.
Unfortunately, there is little to say
because the show presented little
in the first pla¢e. Nevertheless,
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