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College news, October 24, 1956
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College (creator)
1956-10-24
serial
Weekly
6 pages
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 43, No. 04
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation.
BMC-News-vol43-no4
Wednesday, October 24, 1956
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ticular praise for their careful, hu-
morous characterizations.
It is this reviewer’s. belief. that
with a few notable exceptions, the
music and dancing were not par-
ticularly outstanding. A few of
the songs, however, were excel-
lent: \the duet, “He Is not the Man
for Me—You Are Decidedly in
Love,” “The Perfect Gentlewom-
an,” “What Scholar Can Explain,”
and “The Drinking Song.” . The
lyrics of all the songs were much
above average, and “Pristina” was
a hit largely because of the ingra-
tiating delivery by a noble barber-
shop quartet composed of Ellie
Clymer, Maggie Gordon, Sue Op-
stad and Gracie Van Hulsteyn.
The three dance sequences were
earefiilly integrated into, the action
of the show. The routine of the
kick-chorus was original and well-
executed, and the dance of. the con-
vent girls was effective and amus-
ing. Unfortunately, the dance in
the first scene was not as good as
it might have been, and as a result
the show got off to a- somewhat
slow start.
Pristina Perplexed undoubtedly |:
had the best costuming and sets
seen at Bryn Mawr in'many 4.year, |:
The success of the costumes’ Was]
due to the cooperation of, the thea-j;
tre groups at Swarthmore and
Bryn Mawr, but the success of the’
sets must have been due to astage |
crew which knew how to ‘use to;
the utmost a minimum of ‘scenery. |
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mood needed for the scene. Par-
ticularly good were the convent,
tavern and banquet scenes. Pris-
tina was truly a beautiful show to
watch; its color and richness com-
pletely covered the vast gray
reaches of Goodhart Stage.
Perhaps the real star of Pris-
tina was its director, Martha
Bridge. Pristina was in every way
a professional show. It relied first
on an excellent script; this script
was enlivened, but never overpow-
ered, by song and dance. The act-
ing was first-rate. The costumes
and‘ sets combined to further the
illusion of the play, without. dis-
tracting from -the main action.
Pristina clearly showed that it had
been viewed as a whole, not as the
accidental result of the work of a
music director, a dance’ director,
the stage crew and several person-
able actresses. Pristina was bal-
anced, -well-paced, beautiful and
extremely well-polished, and the
credit must surely go in . large
part to Martha Bridge. ;
(What this reviewer felt was
missing .in Pristina, and what in
her opinion kept it from being a
superb show was its ability to es-
show built up to a climax in which
Pristina discovers the answer to
the Duke’s riddle, and yet there
was no growing excitement; the
climactic scehe with the Princess
and the Duke was not the high-
light of the show; and the show
came to an abrupt halt immediate-
ly thereafter. No individual scene
by itself, with the possible excep-
tion of the Prioress’ song, was a
“show-stopper,” and the main
characters’ had deliberately been
created as. rather un-appealing.
One was very impressed with Pris-
tina and yet hardly affected by it.
Perhaps this is an unfair criti-
cism, for in producing an “immor-
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