College news, February 19, 1958

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VOL. XLIIl, NO. 12

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1958

© Trustees of Bryn’ Mawr College, 1958

PRICE 20 CENTS



Rossiter and Commager to Speak

In Democracy Survival Conference



Faculty Modifies
1958-59 Calendar

At a recent meeting of the fac-
ulty the calendar for the year 1958-
59 was the subject of discussion
and -modification: Although no
drastic revisions were attempted
Mrs. Marshall ‘has announced
several changes which were voted
to go into effect next year.

The work both of the first and
second semesters will begin on a
Monday instead of the traditional
Tuesday, thus permitting Christ-
mas vacation to begin on a Thurs-
day and end on a Tuesday. As a
result of this, many students should
be enabled to take advantage of
reduced rate days on airlines.

The midyear examination period
will be shortened ‘by one day, and
the Friday before the weekend will
be free in place of the Monday
after it. Accordingly spring vaca-
tion also will run from Thursday
till Tuesday.

Mrs. MacCaffrey
Discusses Critics

The New (Criticism will be dis-
cussed by Mrs. Wallace T. Mac-
Caffrey, Assistant Professor of
English, at the next lecture to be
sponsored by Arts Forum. A dis-
cussion period will follow Mrs.
MacCaffrey’s talk, which will be
given Monday next at 7:15 p.m.,
February 24, in the Common Room
of Goodhart Hall.

Mrs. MacCaffrey will consider
the new critics, (who are concern-
ed primarily with looking for the
unconscious element in a writer’s,)
work) in the light of what they | oy
are doing now and of what the nat
effect of their findings seems to be
at the moment. The talk will be a
“descriptive attempt,” according to
Mrs. MacCaffrey. Some of the crit-
ics whose work will be discussed
briefly are I, A. Richards, Cleanth
Brooks, and John Crowe Ransom.

The lecture will be the fifth in
the series of programs sponsored
by Arts Forum. Any suggestions
for future programs will be wel-
comed by Beth Carr, Denbigh,
Chairman.

Swarthmore Prof.

Reads Own Poetry

Several years ago Clifton Dan-
iel reported, in the New York
Times, the furor among British
philologists about terms of as-
sembly for cats. This was expand-
ed into terms of assembly for
birds and beasts in general, and
a list ensued. Poet Daniel Hof-
man happened to read the article,
was struck by the phrase “an ex-

ultation of larks”, and wrote
“The Lark”.
Mr. Hoffman, now! Assistant} yj

Professor of English at Swarth-
more College, read “The Lark”
among others of his poems, in a
program sponsored by Arts Forum,
Wednesday, February 12. /

Opening with a poem entitled
man said that the poem “is pz
tially about poetry itself. One
must define the ground one stands
on before beginning to speak.”

Complementing” and elucidating








ences and physical | circum-

The All College Conference to
be held—on— April 12th to discuss
the question, . “Can Democracy
Survive in America?” will have
as its main speakers both Clinton
Rossiter and Henry S. Commager.
Mr. Commager, a permanent pro-
fessor at Columbia, is at Amherst
College for this year. He is the
author of several books, among
them The American Mind. Mr.
Rossiter, author of The American
Presidency, is a professor at
Cornell University. Both gentle-
men will speak at the morning
session of the conference. Mr,
Rossiter will speak first, and, after
a coffee break, will be . followed
by Mr. Commager’s address,

The afternoon session will
a group of three panels, each
composed of faculty, students and
a guest speaker, and. will discuss
more specific aspects of the con-
ference topic. A tea and a plenum
to sym up the discussions will
conclude the afternoon program.

In addition to the Bryn Mawr
student body, delegates from other
colleges and universities are being
invite to attend the conference,
and the faculty of these other col-
leges will also be welcomed.

Under the general chairmanship
of Mariellen Smith, this confer-
ence will be the first in many
years to which delegates from
other colleges have been invited,
and will therefore be on a larger
scale than those usually held on
campus. Further announcements
as to program schedules and panel
members will be made and a read-
ing list for orientation on the
conference topic will be available.
With. two distinguished guest
speakers, anda timely and com-
pellinig question to/ be discussed,
the Conference promises to be a

reise and ore pro-

Tourteg Cha lassies
eu arate ‘to Speak

Professor A D. Trendall of the
University of Sydney, Australia,
will pause in his annual trip around
the world toj deliver a lecture on
“Pompeiian Painting” on Monday,
March 8, at 8:30 in the Common
Room.

Known as “the flying archaeolo-
gist”, Professor Trendall is a na-
tive of New Zealand, but held the
Rome Scholarship in Archaeology
in 1934 and received his M. A. from
Trinity College, Cambridge, where
he was a fellow for four years. For
many years he was Professor of
Greek /and Archaeology in the Uni-
versity of Sydney, and is Honor-
able Curator of the Nicholson Mus-
eum of Antiquities (in Sydney) and
of (Classical Antiquities in the
National Gallery of Victoria; Mel-
bourne.

Professor Trendall was created
Knight Commander of the Order
of St. Gregory by the Pope for

publication on ‘vases in the
ass Among’ his othér works
are Paestan Pottery and The Shel-
lal Mosaic.



: e
» Notice
The Department of Music in-
vites..you to a song recital by
Fritz Krueger) ‘tenor, Tuesday,
Feb. 25 =, ‘; 30 in the Musi¢
Room. neger is a noted
recitalist ie voice teacher in



Ba

be|°

Perry Cotler take their curtain
derry”.



Freshman show leads Edythe Murphy, Cathy Lucas and

call, to the chorus “hey derry,





FulbrightAwarded
To U.G. President

Catharine Stimpson, a member
of the class of 1958 has been
awarded a Fulbright Grant for a
year’s study at Cambridge Univer-
sity in England for the year 1958-
59. Catharine, who has been Pres-
ident of the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation for the past year is also
completing an honors paper in
‘English literature. In applying
for her grant Miss Stimpson had
to work both with the Fulbright
committee and with Cambridge
University directly which involv-
ed her taking Cambridge entrance
examinations,

When Cambridge opens in Oc-
tober she will be a member of
Newnham College, and will study
either modern humor or W. B.
Yeats under the noted Yeats schol-
ar, Henn. Before then Miss Stimp-
son plans to attend the Stratford
Summer School, in Shakespeare
and Elizabethan Drama, for six
weeks. Last May Day Dodie re-
ceived the Sheelah M, Kilroy Prize
in English Literature.

College Receives

Fellowship Funds

The International Nickel Com-
pany has given Bryn#Mawr. funds

as ‘the International Nickel Com-
pany Incorporated Fellowship.
The annual value is $4,000.00, of
which 75% will be granted to a
post-graduate fellow for the
teaching of mathematics or sci-
ence. The remainder is to be used

ag the appropriate officials see fit.
The fellowship will “awarded
for the first time in ’the 1958-59
hacademic year and will be continu-|

for a special fellowship to be known

College-Wide, Class Elections
Will Be Conducted March 10-27

Dinners in halls continue
Mon. Mar. 10
Election of Self-Gov. president.
Freshman meeting to straw ballot
for First Sophomore to SG.
Tue. Mar. 11
Election of Undergrad president.
Junior Class meeting 5:00 to straw
ballot for Vice-President of UG and
SG,
Wed. Mar.. 12 :
Election of League and AA.’
Sophomore meeting to straw ballot
for Secretary of SG and UG.

Thur. Mar, 13
Election of Alliance —. Inter-
faith presidents.

Mon. Mar. 17
Election of Hall presidents. All
four classes in Taylor at 5:00 to
meet Vice-President candidates for
SG, UG, and first Sophomore to
SG, -
Tue. Mar. 18
Election of Vice-President of
SG, Secretary to SG, and First
Sophomore to SG.
Wed. Mar. 19
Election of VP to Undergrad,
Secretary to Undergrad,
Thur. Mar 20
Election of First Senior to SG.
Junior Class meeting.
* * *
Mon. Mar, 24
Election of V. P. to League, Al-
liance, Interfaith, and A. A., Sopho-
mores and Juniors,
Election of Sec. of League, Al-
liance, Sophomores only.
Freshman Class meeting to
elect First Sophomore to UG.
Tue. Mar. 25
Sophomore meeting to elect First
Junior to SG and UG.
Freshman meeting to elect Sec-
ond Sophomore to SG.
‘Wed. Mar. 26
Sophomore meeting
Common Treasurer. |
Freshman meeting to elect Sec-

to elect

by the college for such purposes ond. Sophomore to UG.

Thur. Mar. 27
‘Sophomore. meeting to elect Sec-
ond Junior to SG and eee if
possible Two, Juniors to_A. A> =]













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Reviewer Finds “Alls Well” Is Mostly Well
(Freshmen Handle Tradition in the Grand Style

by Eleanor Winsor

Escapist tendencies seem very
seldom to characterize a .Bryn
Mawr freshman show, Unlike their
somewhat wearier sister class the
freshmen have in recent years
proved themselves ready to cope
with all manner of learned prob-
lems, and close on 1960’s repro-
duction of the intricacies of Greek
chorus, 1961 has examined the
problem of Shakesperian author-
ship. On the other hand, but again
in contrast to their elder allies,
the freshmen seem still to believe
in possibilities of romance on which
the juniors turn a cynical eye.

In choosing Shakespere for the
occasion of their show, the fresh-
men in a clever moment selected a
theme which, in an ensuing tedium
of non-clever moments, might have
been exploited to the limit. To
their eternal glory, they hardly
exploited it at all. “All’s Well That
Ends” was handled with a -light
touch that made it as delightful to
watch as it must have been to
produce, Script, music, costumes
and sets were all well-integrated
parts of a well-directed and well-
sustained whole. Whatever one
may think of time-honored efforts
to represent a love-interest in- a
class show, the freshmen establish-
ed an atmosphere at the very be-
ginning which could, if anything
might, justify the romantic devel-
opments of their plot.

A lyric quality is perhaps the
most difficult atmosphere of all
either to produce or to sustain in
amateur production. The lyri-
cism of “All’s Well” was rounded
out by satire; and yet, the humour
itself was light, subtle and with
one notorious exception made ex-
cellent use of all’ its wealth of
background material. The intro-
duction of Shakesperian lines was
timely and turned to the purpose
of characterization rather than
idle ornamentation. The academics
in the audience had many a fine op-
portunity to laugh at themselves,
although scholarship will no doubt
manage to parry a skillful thrust.

Much of the show’s atmosphere
was created by the introductory
scene in the Mermaid tavern, which

best advantage, and took its cue
from Dee Wheelwright’s exception-

al, and original ballad “(Come My

Love”. The blocking of this scene
was excellent, and the stage action
well organized. If this finesse had
been carried through to the love
scenes, we might have been, al-
though not convinced, yet relieved.
Doubtless the intent of the roman-
tie entanglement was humourous,
for even the over-serious approach
of the actors could not conceal an
innate laugh. Despite the plot value
of this interlude, and the full use
of the possibilities of substitution
and removed circumstances in the
character of Shakespere, the strain

man actresses and for their audi-
ence.

Both the Lover’s Duet and the
Laments in themselves were pleas-
ant, but perhaps’ there should have
‘been but one instead of two love
songs. We realise thé temptation
that arose from the appatent abil-
ity of the collaborating composers
to write this type of music.



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displayed costuming and set to the -

remained too great both for fresh=:.

Fabeeneerions # perhaps for the sake . a
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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, February 19, 1958



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A Reasonable Inquiry

It has come to the attention of The College News that
there has been a certain amount of disappointment expressed
on campus at,the choice of The Dark Is Light Enough for the
March College Theatre production. The reasons for this dis-
appointment apparently are two: first, that the play does not
have a sufficient number of subsidiary women’s parts suit-
-_ able for the less experienced actress; and second, that this
will make one example too many of what might be termed,
for want of a better phrase, the intellectual modern British
drama—i.e. two Fry plays, one Eliot and one Shaw play, out
of a total of nine productions given in three years. (The
other productions presented in this time have been two
Shakespearean “dark” comedies, one Greek tragedy, and two
eighteenth century plays, one of which was a musical com-

edy.)
The News does not believe in interference with the func-

tion of individual campus organizations, nor does it believe
in overestimating the value of casual criticisms of a passing
moment. But we do think that there is some ground here
for reasonable comment and question.

To begin with, it is necessary to acknowledge the high
calibre and serious purpose of College Theatre work. There
has been imagination, care and merit in each production ;
professional direction and student acting have usually com-
bined to advantage in the various plays performed. And the
three so-called minor productions put on this fall have been
among the most successful things seen on the two local

stages.

Furthermore it must be said that College Theatre has
some very difficult problems to overcome or sidestep in the
course of “doing” any play, problems which must. influence
its decision as to “what will be done next”. Everyone real-
izes, or ought to, the physical limitations of Goodhart—it is
huge; it is difficult acoustically, it is therefore virtually im-
possible to project plays and especially ones of the natural-
istic school, successfully in it. Bryn Mawr and Haverford
are both rather small.schools, and consequently have com-
paratively few good actors; many of them may be unavail-
able at at one time for reasons ranging from those of health
and academic pressures to prior commitment in class or other
shows. By way of circumstances this all brings us around
again to our first statement and to the two points given as
the reasons for dissatisfaction with The Dark Is Light
Enough. Even here two good answering points may counter-
balance the original ones: first, that there are few plays that
offer many women’s parts, or even more than three or four
of them; and two, that College Theatre, as one of its chief
officers states, does concentrate on the Anglo-American tra-
dition of drama, because this tradition is felt to be the most
ible and most meaningful one for the people concerned;
the “intellectual modern British drama” of course is very
much a part of the tradition. : ee

This last point concerns a mater of emphasis and policy
which is certainly for College Theatre to determine. We
should like to suggest, however, that there are many people
on campus who would like to see College Theatre run the risk
of a few interesting failures (and perhaps win some notable
successes) by trying more productions outside the Anglo-
American grouping altogether; by once again doing some-
thing frem the younger half of the tradition ; or by drawing
upon the Irish playwrights. We wonder if feasible plays
might not be found (and this remark is made after. consider-
ation of the limitations mentioned above) by. such authors
and in such areas as: Pirandello; Ibsen; the Russians (Chec-
kov for instance); the Irish school (especially Synge and

~~-~>Q’Casey), American playwrights such as Williams, Wilder,
sean - ONeill ond Miller, in the French classical drama—either.com-.

or tragedy ; Anouilh; Cocteau; Garcia Lorca; the Greeks;
oS: and of course, within the British tradition as well,
from Webster to Wilde. If plays by any of these authors
could be done, we should like to see them. In addition, a
number of the plays the writers above represent do have
‘more roles for women than does Dark — which everyone
would probably grant to be an advantage. —

In cenclusion it would seem that the basic problem here
is less one of exclusion than of inclusion. It is not suggested
+ the Fry-Eliot-Shaw never be done, but rather, that

‘|’ Since the book doesn‘t exactly



staged here, and







by Gretchen Jessup

Of course we were really intend-
ing to write a few timely words of
solace and suggestion ut a re-
blown in on ice-edged analysis;
pages which so incontrovertably
prove no to rhetorical questions
of the» “Should A Woman. Waste
Some Man‘s Valuable Chance For
Education, By Attending College
instead of Him?” nature. (Please
note meaningful ambiguity (des-
pite dubious construction) of cited
topic.) We looked forward eager-
ly to a searching stare at the Bryn
Mawr Reformed College of the
thus-enlightened future. Its en-
trance requirements would gradu-
ally have grown more and more
stringent, till at last the faculty
would be faced with the only
really qualified student body in
Bryn Mawr’s history: a group of
eleven male graduate students
(one for each department as far
as. they’d go, and the left over
departments to go on sabbatical).
As one can see; there are indeed
many interestingly frightenful
situations raised by this react-
ionary... '

Well, this is what we might
have written, and very vital it
obviously is too, but somehow or
other the snow kept breaking in.
Naturally no one really writes
about the weather, we said as the
snow pilled up higher and higher
on our window-sills, all six of
them, Naturally, we agreed with
ourself firmly some two inches of
unwritten-on white later. The
whole thing is hoakum, buncomb,
and hoax, and the weather man
will melt it tomorrow.

But after about ten inches and
a stiff wind of this folly even the
most blinkered one-purpose col-
umnist would be given pause, and
since at best we are only a be-
mused, easily interrupted type,
and a push-over for the present,

The Porlock Portfolio







ary pull of the rambunctious
snow-flake some inches before.
The artistic possibilities of Bliz-
zard rushed to mind, with a cross-
bred mixture of gothic tale and
yellow journalism, stimulated by
Storm Rescue Distress Drama and
Human Interest, not far behind.

So anyway, after a bit of
thought, we decided that any
really worthwhile storm column
has a favorite scene (ours is a
medieval one of Saturday night,
of dark elaborate, figures in even-
ing dress trudging single. file
through snow, with the library
dim grey on the left); a heroine
(she is anonymous and spent the
the night in a Baltimore train
station, or perhaps in one in New
York); a motto (heard in the
hall, Saturday night at 8:55, ten
feet from the phone booth: “Al,
where are you?”); and an after-
math (left-overed, snow-covered
cars behind Merion, by Rhoads,
and Taylor), This perhaps doesn’t
say too much directly about the
Storm Rescue Distress, etc., side
of the thing; but to anyone famil-
iar with the objective correllative
(cf. T. Eliot), with the oblique,
spot on the wall and infer the
table or ink pot theory (cf. V.
Woolf), as ‘we’ have been since
early last week, this -will .all be
very implicative (-tory?).

Ths still leaves an exceeding
important mater to be attended to,
i. e., the naming of the storm.
This is a difficult question, but a
thoughtful answer may be nabbed
unaware by two simple means of
approach: a) what for a storm
was it? b) what to entitle it?
Every self-respecting hurricane
has a name, so why not a decent-
ly self-confident—(point a not yet
determined) ? : cu

A, we feel, is to be completely
settled by reference to the weath-
er and to a recent Manchester



we had surrendered to the liter-

&

Guardian; that of January 20, to



by Liz Rennolds

“Just to see what it’s like...
we tell ourselves when we pick up
these much discussed, much con-
demned best sellers. “As a schol-
ar, I must search the not-so-obvi-
ous symbolism, the psychological
implications of these paper-backed
idols that have gripped my poor
ignorant contemporaries. There
must be more to this than meets
the eye.” And we sat down, read,
and realize that after having sen-
suously and humanly enjoyed what
met the eye, there remains little
to be discussed in intellectual cir-
cles,

Such a novel was Bonjour Tris-
tesse. Let’s face it, did we read it
for intellectual reasons or are we
too to be condemned as part of the
“poor ignorant” present-day read-
ing public? I’ll stand on the fifth
amendment.

But to get away from the What-
Sagan-Means-to-Me vein and into
the problem at hand, it seems nec-
esary to enlighten (or repel)
somebody somewhere as to the na-
ture of “Bonjour Tristesse” .. .
cinemascopic adaptation.

“Nature” ... humm, that’s well
put. Because if you-like nature in
all its nice raw implications, (it
becomes necessary to forget the
Creator for a while here) well,
you've got it! Oh, sure... there:
are pine trees, there’s the beauti-
ful blue.sea, there’s even sunshine.
But it is rather difficult to forget
what goes on under the pine trees,
what the car looks like being pull-
ed out of the blue sea, and what
the sunshine does to that horrible
blonde’s skin.

lend itself to a movie adaptation,
little can be said in its favor. The
movie does leave one with that.



same awful taste in one’s mouth|

Movies: Bonjour Tristesse

these people with such strange.
twisted values, That, however,
seems to be all that the two pres-
entations have in common, Even
the base elements (amazingly un-
censored) were embarrassingly
dull. mee
Characters? Well, somewhat in-
teresting. It looks as if Jean Se-
berg is destined for bigger and
better failures, After a nice let-
down from the Joan of Arc build-
up, she outdoes it with this one.
(Nor does the crew cut help any).
I suggest she try Junior Miss; she
has an awfully pretty face. David
Niven, as. her father, was wonder-
ful. David Niven usually manages
to be so, I think. It was almost
pathetic to see him next to Miss
Seberg, he living his part ... she
slowly killing hers. Deborah Kerr,
in all her fragile British-ness, was
quite out of place. Her establish-
ed successes in Hollywood and
what they have done for her cam-
era presence were all that saved
her, Seems as if someone should
have thought of giving her scads
of beautiful clothes to parade
around in... as is usually the
case when our heroine is a dress
designer, Even this was missing.
The black and white to color
transition was too obviously sym-
bolic to be effective. (Mich about

+ the. movie -slacked - subtlety . Cars

ahem). The only person who seem-
ed to benefit was the torch singer
in the black dress... it was
blacker,

In the book much of the appeal
was in the author’s subordination
of the setting to what was going
on in the mind of Cecile. This
charm was completely lost in the
movie. The flashy Holllywood-type
setting distracted the viewer’s at-
tention a little too much.

‘May I suggest “Raintree Coun-



Letters to the Editor

News Readers Irate
At Review of Exhibit
Dear Editor: °

We resent your reviewer’s filip-
pant attitude in her article on the
Picasso Exhibit. Aside from her
purely extraneous remarks, her
personal feelings about the at-
tractiveness of Picasso’s subjects
are irrelevant to the exhibition.

She says nothing definite about
any of the paintings except to re-
fer casually to the subjects as
lolling, vacant eyed, or composi-
tions of This or That, words which
do not adequately describe either
the actual representation or its
purpose. She says nothing that
differentiates Picasso from any
other artist.

Appropriateness is sacrificed to
cleverness. The Demoiselles d’
Avignon is indeed one of the earl-
ier cubist paintings, but the only
jumping the exhibition does is
from 1906 to 1907. The museum,
displays Guernica excellently; it
is foolish to consider its central
location only as an _ enticement.
Your reviewer evidently wishes
she could have beaten the Louvre
sprinter,

Sincerely,
_ Theo Stillwell ’59
Debby Ham ’59





be precise. There, in a short ex-
ploration of “concertina” weather-
words of the “smog” type, we
found our term. It was squeezed
in among rival .concertinas such
as “frog-frost and fog in equal
parts”, fozzle—a kind of foggy
mist with drizzle’, and “klog—
‘killer’ fog”; but it managed to
preserve its basic quality of apt
dignity: “snizzard—a (snow) bliz-
zard”. We consider Saturday’s
excitement to have been without
doubt a snizzard.

This leaves us with one unnamed
snizzard on our hands. As a mem-
ber of the class privileged to come
in with a hurricane and go out
with a snizzard, it is a pleasure
to name this storm, on the prin-
ciples which won out for Hurricane
Hazel over such possible, yet fee-
ble contenders as Hurricane Jenni-
fer, Zoe, Eulalia, or Madge: re-
turning momentarily to the arch-
aism “blizzard” for literary pur-
poses we considered Blizzard Ber-
tha, Beryl, or even Brobdignag.
But at last, with reference to a
notable freshman show and a no-
table animal, we settled on the
only conceivable choice, “Blizzard
Bucephalus.”

Interfaith

The chapel speaker this Sunday |
is Dr. Hans Hofmann, Associate
Professor of Theology at Harvard
Divinity School and Director of the
Harvard University Project on
Religion and Mental Health.

Dr. Hofmann, born in Switzer-
land, has studied theology, philo-
sophy, psychology, and psychoanal-
ysis at the university of Basel,
Zurich, Geneva, Paris, Marburg .
and Princeton. His principal teach-
ers in theology were Karl Barth,
Emil Brunner, and Rudolph Bult-
mann; in philosophy, Kar] Jaspers
and Jean-Paul Sartre; jin psycho-
logy, C. G. Jung and Jean Piaget.

His’ paist. activities have includ-
ed the Deanship of the University
Chapel of Zurich; lecturing in
systematic theology and psycho-
logy of religion at the University
of Zurich; being a member of the
research staff in social and edu-
cational psychology of the Interna-
tional-Red--Gross “and. =UNESCO.
More recently he has engaged in
research at Princeton University,
and has taught systematic theology
and psychology of religion at
Princeton Theological Seminary.
He assumed his present duties at
Harvard on July 1, 1957.

Dr. Hofmann’s first English
publication is The Theology of
Reinhold Niebuhr, published by
Scribner’s in 1956. _

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Complete with chamber music
and folk songs, T. S. Eliot and
Restoration Comedy, modern and
Mexican dancing, Arts Night will
be presented on Saturday, March
8, at 8:00 in Skinner Workshop,
in time to co-ordinate with Hav-
erford’s Junior Prom.

Under the direction of Kathy
Kohlhas, with Cathya Wing as
assistant director and Anne Far-
low and Anne Sprague as musical
advisors, Apts Night offers an op-
portunity for the performance of
original works and _ encourages
creative activity in the arts.

“The Thirteen Clocks”, James
Thurber’s modern fairy tale, will
be interpreted by the Dance Club
led by Leora Luders. In addition,
Leora alone will ‘dance to music

by Prokofieff, accompanied by
Jennifer McShane playing the
flute.

“Sweeney Agonistes” by T. S.
Eliot, will be directed by Martha
Smith. A dramatic poem in two
fragments, “Sweeney Agonistes”
is between the level of the Swee-
ney poems and Eliot’s plays; its
problem centers on one character
who has more insight into life
than do the other characters in
the play, but who has not percep-
tion enough to see the positive
side of existence. In directing it,
Martha is interested in producing
an almost musical effect with voc-
al tones and rhythms, while. its
two songs will have an original
vocal arrangement. The cast is
composed of four men and four
women.

Headed by Madame Agi Jambor,
the Chamber Music Group will
play from its repertoire. The
Group, formed early this year, has
been working conscientiously and
performed in last Sunday’s Cham-
ber. Music Concert.

Beth Carr’s story, “Portrait of
a Witch on Her Last Day”, which
was published in last year’s Revue,
will be given as a dramatic mon-
ologue by Kathy Kohlhas with or-
iginal music by Bob Benjamin.

In addition, there will be several
shorter acts, whose precise nature
has not yet been decided. They
will probably include Mexican
dancing, singing, and a short ex-
cerpt from a Restoration drama.

A selection of folk songs pre-
sented by three singers—Dee
Wheelwright with American and
foreign songs, Beth Alexander
with Negro and Blues, and Dick
Kelly with Old English and Med-



Four Films Seen
By Dance Group
by guns. Levick

Dance Club under the auspices
of Arts Council presented four
films on February 17.

The presentation was designed
to show aspects of varioug types
of the dance. Leora Luders, head
of Dance Club, spoke briefly about
the background of each feature.

The. first film exeniplified
the primitive dance form. Jean
Leon Destiné portrayed the Witch
Doctor, in a native dance of Hati.
This kind of expression uses a
great deal of ritualization of
movement. It depends on rhythm
and on the beat of the tom tom
primarily. The obvious limitations
of filming such a subject were
poorly dealt with by the pro-
ducers, however. The difficulty in
“keeping the necessary continuity
between tom tom and performers
created insurmountable obstacles
for the camera man and, although
body movements were seen in de-
tail, the dance as a whole series
of patterns was neglected.

The second film was rerreventa-
tive of western classical form.
Galina Ulanova was seen in ex-
cerpts from Swan Lake. Here
again the choice as representative
of a mode of dance wag excellent.

a _.'The_dancers_ performed with fin-

Continued on Page 6,'Col. 4

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Arts Night To Present A
Varied Program of Sudent Talent

ieval ballads—will close Arts
Night.
Sue Jones is Stage Manager,

Ellen Thorndike is in charge of
lights, and Lynne Levick is head
of publicity, The sets, which are
designed by Patty Blackmore, will
be basically dark with conserva-
tive application of brilliant color.

Blizzard Augments
Weekend Festivity

by Judy Stulberg

A mug, a program, plus two

flowers and a nine foot string of
cards, are almost all that remains
of freshman show weekend. The
Class of ’61 has received its third,
and happiest, welcome and fresh-
men, released from rehearsals and
Hell Week chores have returned
dedicatedly to classes.

Memories of the three days are
still strong. Friday night, after
the dress rehearsal, Radnor open-
ed its doors. The People’s Party
offered a kick chorus and songs
by Octangle. Punch was served to
the comrades who braved the cold
to join the party.

Saturday dawned clear and ‘cold,
soon a few flakes drifted down
adding a wintry charm to the mid-
winter weekend. The snow con-
tinued all afternoon, dates arrived
late and some didn’t arrive at all.
Bryn Mawrters began to worry
about the fate of satin shoes and
the hems of dresses.

At show time three members of
the cast, and much of the audi-
ence, hadn’t arrived. The curtain
was held while the kick chorus
was rehearsed in its reduced state.
The show was then presented to a
snowed audience.

After “All’s Well” had ended
most people. made their way to
the gym. In the coatroom many
exchanged boots for pumps and
proceded to the gym, transformed
for the “Love’s Labours Lost?”
dance™Red and white streamers
were twisted to form a bird cage.
At one end the “Infirmary Five”
had begun to play highly dance-
able music, Tables had been set
up for those whose dates were
too tired, or unable, to dance.

The fencing room, in brightly lit

Octangle and Octet sang. Among
the Octangle numbers was “My
Funny Valentine” joining the
general Valentine’s Day feeling of
the night. Members of the cast
sang songs from the show. After
fox trots, waltzes and a Charles-
ton, people began to retire to the
Open House at Merion.

Entry was over the moat and
down a flower lined hall, In keep-
ing with the “Mid-Winter’s Night-
mare” theme the showcase was
furnished with grotesque masks, a
vampire and a heavy black cloud.
The windows provided views of
the snow covered parking lot and
several interred cars. Guests sat
on cushions in the showcase, stood
in the halls and gathered in the
“silent study” for coffee. and do-
‘unts. And still the snow came
down,

Dates who were stranded slept
in Goodhart—or took the 12:10
local into Philadelphia. At three-
thirty Merion girls began to bring
down pillows and blankets for
dates who were unexpectedly
spending the night on~ “campus.
And still the snow fell.

Sunday... saw. men _in_ tuxedos
talking to girls in slacks and
sweaters, lending a very unreal
atmosphere to the morning. Al-
though there were many extra
people at. lunch, the locals were
running on schedule and for many
couples the weekend was over.

The coffee hour in Pem West
was probably a success. This re-
porter tried to get there, but
couldn’t find a path. .

“Alls Well that Ends”; andj ter.



ithe snow has stopped.

wastebaskets and two teaports of

contrast, offered punch and cake.



BMC Theater To
|Present Fry Play

March 21 and 22

March 21 and 22 have been the
dates set for the Bryn Mawr-Hav-
erford production of Christopher
Fry’s The Dark is Light Enough.
This was the announcment made
recently by Adrian Tinsley, presi-
dent of the Bryn Mawr College
Theater.

The play will be directed by Rob-
ert Butman, who was at one time
secretary to Mr. Fry. Sue Gold
will be the assistant to the direct-
or. Sets for TheDark is Light
Enough have been designed by Bill
Bertolet of Haverford and the set
director is Kate-Jordan.

The complete. cast list has not
yet been posted. ‘Those playing
the main characters, however, in-
clude:

The Countess Rosmarin Osten-
burg, Jinty Myles,

Her daughter Gelda, Pamela
Wylie.

The maid, Barbara Northrop.

Richard Gettner, Kenneth Geist.

The Colonel, Harvey Phillips.

Peter, David Morgan.

1918

Then, as now, within the halls
a remark concerning stress and
crisis in the heating system
might well be heard, Shortage-of-
heat troubles are far from new,
though the reasons for them may
change. In the January 10, 1918,
Issue of The College News the
situation was duly noted: “Not

jan extra piece of coal is used by

the college for lighting under the
present system of heating... Stu-
dents can conserve heat by turning
off the thermostats when the
windows are open. The authori-
ties at present hope that the col-
lege will be able to get through
the winter without having to
shut down on account of. lack of
coal.”

There are obvious analogies and
comments but we shall leave them
to your imagination.

1918 will probably be remem-

bered as the year America enter-
ed - World War I. Let no one say
Bryn Mawr College didn’t take
note of this fact. Headlines in a
College News of that year ran
like this: “Why English Women
Outstrip American in War Work”
or this one which headed an ed-
itorial: “No More Rice For Brides
Is Latest Hoover Decree.”

In a later issue ,the college takes
official note of the wartime fru-
gality. “Gym Closed To Save
Coal. All Thermostats Set At 65”
(Hmmmmm) “Management Re-
duces Light on Reconsideration of
Fuel Problem” (How long, oh how
long!) “Fuel Order Closes Press,
Exams Out Just In Time” (Too
bad the blizzard didn’t get ‘here
a few weeks earlier)

The following notice in The
College News appears to bear
out a theory held by this repor-
ter that ingenuity jis a quality
inherent in-allthose who attain
that exalted position of becom-
ing a member of the Sophomore
class: “Comfort For The Merit-
less” Sophomores Reopen Insur-
ance Bureau.

An insurance ce office for merits
has been opened again this year
DA ekicscastseuterccenernee ae 20 and
’20. By pay-
ment. of $.25, a student can _ re-
serve the right to a share in the
company’s profits should she not
make the necessary eight merits
at mid-years. As soon as all re-
turns are in from the examina-
tions the directors will subtract
one-third of the receipts and. di-
vide the rest among the meritless
shareholders.

Last year the investment paid
820 dig roeet or $.80 on the quar-

Summer Jobs Varied, Enrich

Experience and

Editor’s Note: This is the first
of two articles on. summer jobs.

by Miriam Beames

With the increasing cost of at-
tending college, the desire for
summer jobs has risen steadily,
so that last summer roughly two-
thirds of Bryn Mawr’s student
body held jobs. The average earn-
ings were around $360. The types
of work varied widely (with in-
genuity and/or pull, it seems
possible to land almost anything),
but as usual, office work was by far
the most popular, while s¢ientific
and technical work was most lucra-
tive.

Again, the time for getting ap-
plications in has come, so as a help
to prospective employees the News
has- talked with students whose
summer activities ranged from the
typical to the unusual.

Music Camp

Blair Dissette ’59 spent two
months of the summer as a coun-
selor and unit leader for intermed-
iate girls at the National Music
Camp in Michigan, a vast organi-
zation like a resort, which included
about two thousand students from
third grade through college age.
The job (which Blair obtained
through the Bureau of Recommen-

dations) required a minimum of|

one year’s counseling experience
and paid $250 plus room and board
{about average salary), but by the
time travel costs were subtracted,
it could scarcely be considered
very profitable. Blair, however,
recommends it highly as a sitmu-
lating vacation experience. As a
counselor, she taught sports (jun-
ior lifesaving, tennis, and volley-
ball), while her unit leader duties
included supervising .the activities
of five cabins, and occasional office
work. The counselors who had
twenty-four hours off a week, liv-
ed with the campers and shared
their activities. There was free
time during the day, and every
evening some sort of entertain-
ment (concerts, plays ,operettas,
or ballets) was. offered.

Waitressing

Waitressing, usually in resort
hotels, paid the second highest
average, with earnings around $450
for the season. Arleen Beberman
’61, who worked three months in a
resort hotel in New Hampshire’s
White Mountains, got her job
through an employment agency
and received about $600, but felt
that this sum could have been in-
creased to even a thousand if the
hotel had not been catering to

conventions, which pay a stafidard
tip. Her basic salary was $40 a
month plus room and board, a fair-
iy normal wage.

Living conditions were excellent
— instead of the usual eight people
‘to a room, there were only two,
and the food was ‘fair. It was also
easy to sneak food from the din-
ing room (standard waitress prac-
tice). There were no days off (an-
other standard waitressing proced-
ure) but in slow periods waitresses
might have an occasional meal
free. In their limited free time,
the staff could attend movies with
the hotel guests, swim at their
own beach on the lake, and go to
weekly dances, Arleen feels that
financially waitressing is excellent,
but that a girl must know her phys-
ical strength and be careful not to
overwork; not only is the work
strenuous, but also there is a ten-
dency to react from it by spending
free time in violent activity. She
felt, too, that a waitress should
pick her associates cautiously—
resort employees do not always
make the nicest companions.

Office Work
Office work, which generally



“|presupposes typing, ‘yielded ‘an av-

Bankroll Too

erage pay of $431 for two months;
the higher paying jobs are gener-
ally obtained through pull. The
author ’59 worked in the head of-
fices of Safeway Stores for close on
four months, earning nearly $900
before deductions. It was a stan-
dard eight-hour day minus morn-
ing and afternoon coffee breaks,
with forty-five minutes for lunch.
‘Since the offices covered two floors
of a large building, the manage-
ment hired several college students

to replace vacationing employees,
and it was unusual to hold the

same j for more than three
weeks. e work ranged from
posting to straight secretarial,
with typing/from a dictaphone, and

while it ‘was almost invariably
monotonous, the changes from of-
fice to ocffie (fruit, vegetables, gen-
eral accounting, sugar, fish) made
it bearable. Also as a result of
the frequent shifts, it was possible
to learn a great deal about the
functioning of a large corpora-
tion. The working conditions were
pleasant, and the atmosphere was
friendly, even if going to college
automatically classed you as a
“brain” among the other office
workers.

Hospital Work

As a hospital worker, Penny El-
dredge ’59 worked both on a vol-
unteer basis and as a paid nurse’s
aide, Paid hospital workers gen-
erally receive from $40 to $45 a
week ($60 is a rare maximum)
and work an eight hour shift, with
time off for hunch when it can be
spared. Although Penny doesn’t
consider the work exciting, she did
have an opportunity to learn hos-
pital techniques, and the shortage
of hospital personnel made it poss-
ible for her to choose her work
area (clinic, maternity, post-oper-
ative, therapy). A volunteer aide’s
tasks are much the same as the
paid worker’s (that is, taking tem-
peratures, pulses, changing beds,
feeding patients, cleaning bed
pans), but she has more freedom
in her hours,and is not dependent
on the staff’s decision to take a
day off. Penny warns that a hos-
pital job is not a good idea for
anyone with a weak stomach—the
nurse’s attitude must be oo
clinical.

Friends Service Committee

Volunteer work with the Amer-
ican Friends Service Committee in
Mexico has recently been a popular
summer activity for Bryn Mawr-
ters; though it costs $150 for the
month plus transportation to and
from Mexico, those who have gone
consider it a worthwhile experi-
ence, After a three or four day
orientation period, the group, gen-
erally consisting of about sixteen
boys and. girls, settles in its vil-
lage, somewhere within a hundred
miles of Mexico City. The girls
may assist public health programs
(dusting with DDT, vaccinating
babies, and helping in clinics),
teach classes in sewing or arts and —
grams, while the boys usually
work on construction projects. The
group’s living conditions are “fun
but primitive” according to Kate
Collins 59; they occupy a village-
type house with no electricity and
rarely running water, and share
the housekeeping duties: There is
enough free time to plan weekend
excursions to beaches or. neigh-
borhood towns’ fiestas, and daily
activities: include swimming, pic-
nics, horseback riding, and parties
in general. Although a knowledge
of Spanish is not required, it is
helpful, since the people (who re-
gard the group as “halfway be-
tweeen friends and a three-ring
circus”) are interesting to chat
with. Applications for work with
the Committee should be made im-
mediately to 20 South 12th Stage,













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Election Procedure

Continued from Page 1, Col. 4

Election committee consisting of:
Class Officers and two elected
members from ach class except
Seniors. This committee is respon-
sible for distributing and tabulat-
ing straw ballots.

Selection Of Candidates

At a class meeting the election
system will be reviewed and the
class handed a mimeographed list
of the class. They will mark from
four to eight (invalid if more or
less) people that they would like
to see run for the office in ques-
tion. The next day they will re-

turn the ballot to their Class Hall |;
Rep who will take them to the]

Junior President by 1:30. The
election committee will tabulate the
ballots,

The organizations: League, Al-
liance, the Athletic Association,
and the Interfaith Association, will
prepare the list of selected can-
didates for the class. These Lists
Are Merely Suggestions. There will
be no recommendations from the
SG and UG Boards for the presi-
dents of the two organizations, but
in the Junior meeting, possible
candidates will be suggested and
discussed before straw balloting.

Presentation Of The Candidates

The College News will put out a
special election issue. It will con-
tain a list of the candidates, lists
of their activities, their state-
ments, and pictures of the candi-
dates.

Candidates for the presidency
of organizations plus the out-going
officers will visit in each hall. They
will eat supper in the hall and stay
for coffee and discussion in the
hall afterwards. The hall president
and the out-going officers will be
responsible for introducing the
candidate. The nominees will not
be required to make formal
speeches.

Other college elected officers
will be presented in class meetings
(all four classes will meet in Tay-
lor at 5:00 the second Monday of
elections) and the out-going officer
will describe the office and intro-
duce the candidates.

Voting

The names of the candidates
will be listed alphabetically for the
final vote will be cast in the halls.
Students will vote in preferential
order,

Officers That Are College Elected

Self-Gov.—President, Vice-Presi-
dent, Secretary, First Sophomore
Member.

Undergrad — President,
President, Secretary.

League—President.

Alliance—President.

Interfaith Association — Presi-
' dent.

Athittic Association—President.

Number Of Meetings

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‘pointments at the Bureau.

Events in P

Theatre:

returns to Walnut Monday, th
Blue Denim—James Herlihy and

Who Was That Lady I Saw You
with Peter Lind Hayes, Mary
at Shubert Monday the. 17th.

Musical Events:

New Films:
The Gift of Love—Domestic drama

The Lady Takes A Flyer—Aerial
Chandler. Mastbaum, Thursday.
Current Films:

Doctor at Large—British comedy.

Goldman.
Bonjour Tristesse—Francoise Saga
Mastbaum.

The Diary of Anne Frank—Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
dramatization, with Joseph Schildkraut and Abigail Kellogg,

Morris, June Walker, Carol Lynly and Burt Brinckerlff, con-
tinues at Locust Monday the 17th.

Visit to a Small Planet—Gore Vidal’s comedy with Cyril Ritchard and
John Alexander continues at Forrest Monday the 17th.

The Coronation of Poppea—American Opera Society version of Mon-
teverdi work with Leontyne Price, Robert Rounsville, Mariquita
Moll and Donald Gramm, presented by All Star Concert Series
at Academy, Thursday evening.

Philadelphia Orchestra—Eugene Ormandy conducting; Emil Gilels
pianist, at Academy, Friday afternoon and Saturday evening.

Evelyn Rudie. Goldman, Wednesday.

Don’t Go Near the Water—Service comedy. Arcadia.

Search for Paradise—Cinerama adventure. Boyd.
Peyton Place—Scandal in a New England town. Fox.
Mon on the Prowl—Suspense drama. Steel Bayonet—War drama.

Raintree County—Civil War drama. Midtown.
Sayonara—Michener’s East-West romance. Randolph.
Street of Shame—Japanese anti-vice drama. Spruce.
Witness for the Prosecution—Suspense thriller. Stanley.
Legend of the Lost—Shock in the Sahara. Stanton.

hiladelphia

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e 17th.
William Noble play, with Chester

With?—-Norman Krasna’s comedy
Healy and Ray Walston, continues

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with Lauren Bacall, Robert. Stack,

marriage, with Lana Turner, Jeff

Bala.

n’s. story of an amoral teenager.



Job Notices

Recruiting Representatives. of
Next Week: Please sign for ap-

Wednesday, February 26th: Bell
Telephone Laboratories, Summit,
Jersey: Mathematicians and
ists, occasional Physical
: Seniors and graduate
students for permanent positions,
juniors for summer.

Thursday, February 27th: Amer-
ican Cyanamid Company — re-
search laboratories at Bound
Brook, New Jersey; Pear] River,
New York; Stamford, Connecticut;
plants in 34 areas.

Chemists:. Seniors and graduate
students for permanent positions,
juniors for summer.

Other Jobs for Next Year:
Please see Mrs. Crenshaw.

City of Philadelphia: Positions
of many kinds. Management
Trainees — open to AB’s of any
major; chemists; statisticians; etc.
Atlantic Refining Company,
Philadelphia: Secretarial training
program. Shorthand and Typing
necessary before application, Be-
ginning salaries, $315 a month.
Program leads to exective secre-
tarial positions,

United Aircraft Corporation,
|East Hartford, Connecticut: 1)
Engineering Aid positions for
graduates of any major who have
an aptitude for working with
numbers. Beginning salaries, $310





NOTICE

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band is looking for a trombone ©

player and bass-fiddler. If qual-

ified and interested, contact

Anne Keller in Rock or Gracie
van Hulsteyn in Pem East.





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Bureau of Recommendations

Freshman Show Review
Continued from Page. 1, Col. 5

outstanding performance of the
show was that of Cisca Duran-
Reynals as Longfoot the ghost-
writer fool. Cisca from her first
appearance skillfully prepared for
the climax of her role by an ex-
pert command of action and sub-
tly pointed gesture,

The costume committee accom-
plished a part of Cathy Lucas’ per-
formance as figure of the bard
even before she appeared on stage.
Thus it was: difficult to determine
at. what moments she was really
acting, and at what times merely
taking advantage of her appear-
ance. Such a role: presents the
greatest of all acting problems, and
Cathy rose above them surprising-
ly well, perhaps the most effectively
in Shakespere’s unassertive mom-
ents when he was neither a lover
nor a director but a mere Eliza-
bethan figure. The- portrayal of a
character who could not speak or-
iginally but only “plagiarize him-
self” was intriguing, both as crea-
ated in the script and by the ac-
tress as a historical fantasy.

In this capacity for quasi-his-
torical recreation, Edythe Murphy’s
Ben Jonson disappointed expecta-

tion. Wile the suggestive function |



of Edythe’s role was competently
handled she did not depart on an
original character tack of her own,
and lost some of the spirit which
might have sparked her perform-
ance.

Among the non-topical charac-
ters both Angelina, and the stu-
dent Anne caught their spirit from
the personalities behind them.
Perry Cotler’s school girl pertness
saved the plot from unfortunate
sentimentality. Her actions in her
rather unusual situation were ex-
tremely natural; she kept her feet
on the ground; (except when
swinging them too casually from
a table top). The latter was the
only one of her actions calculated
to preserve a twentieth century
manner in Elizabethan dress, how-
ever, which failed to suit her role.
(Besides, Perry had a charming
voice and one adapted well to the
variety of her songs.

Dee Crispin as Angelina was a
universal, rather than an Eliza-
bethan flirt, lacking the earthiness
of the tavern classic, Doll Tear-
sheet, but her coquettishness was
effective, and she acted well with

Ginny Vaughan as the first fool,

Continued on Page 6, Col. 1







a month, 2) ‘Computing Analysts
—some college mathematics neces- ;
sary. 3) Librarians, At least two |
years’ of physics or chemistry. |
A representative will be very
glad to come to the college if
students are interested. Please
leave your name at the Bureau if
you would like to see her.
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill: Graduate assistant-
ships in the dormitories—like the
warden positions here. Board,
room, and tuition in the graduate
school. See the notice posted on
the Bureau bulletin board.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Co- Or No Existence Asks Wells in Current Events
Lecture — ‘Two American Elections: 1858-1958”

“Shall there be co-existance or
no existance?” This was a ques-
tion posed by Mr. Roger Wells in
his talk “Two American Elections:
1858-1958” in the Common Room
last Monday evening.

Mr. Wells, continuing along the
same lines, said that although the
negotiations with Russia have
proven unfruitful in the past, we
should continue them; our only
other alternative would be no
existance, Not only should we con-
tinue to meet, but our meetings
should -be more frequent, he re-
marked, Even if the big questions
are not solved at first, some
progress can be made in smaller
areas; then perhaps later we can
attempt something like disarma-
ment, Mr. Wells expressed his ap-
proval of the exchange of people
which was recently announced be-
tween the U. S. and Russia.

Th is for comparing the two
elections, according to Mr. Wells,
lies in the fact that both were off-
years (no president is being or
was being electéd) and there are
and were many important issues
at stake.

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Lincoln and Douglas were debat-
ing. Concerning those
Mr. Wells remarked, “they were
the most important debates that
ever took place in America _his-
tory.” He stressed the fact- that
in these debates both men “at-
tacked issues squarely.”

Today the issues are the con-
flict between the free world and
the Communistic one, desegrega-
tion, and a sinking economy. Mr.
Wells said that although we had
a Democratic legislature, the peo-
ple still blame the president for
the recession. He pointed out that
most people regard the president
as a “great white father”; in times
of trouble, he is a natural target
for i ai agp Mr. Wells
continued, not good for the
party in power; further, “the
arrival of prosperity may not be
soon .enough.”

In addition to. this, Mr. Wells
explained that the party holding
the presidency almost always loses
seats in both houses. In the Sen-
ate with 49 Democrats and 47

Republicans, there are 21 Repub-
licans and only 12 Democrats to
be elected, he added.

Mr. Wells, as further proof the

debates, |

Republican party would have
rough going in ’58, cited Little
Rock, the Farm Program, and -the
plang to have the state take some
of the burden off the federal gov-
ernment in financial matters. He
called this plan “not realistic” at
the present time with both state
and federal tax revenues falling

off.

In the brief question and answer
period which followed his talk,
Mr. Wells was asked if he thought
any person would face up to the
issues squarely as the candidates
in 1858 did. He said he expected
no one to face issues squarely, but
added, “I would like to see some
non-partisan group, such as the
League of Women Voters, try to
nail candidates down.”

“I think it will be an interesting
election,” he concluded“Mr. Wells
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In Spite of Diapers, Demerits
Freshman Hell Week Not Hell

by Lois Potter

Once again the sophomores have
failed. No freshman has commit-
ted suicide, appalled at the pros-
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especially in our hall.” .

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last will and testament and im-
personations of upperclassmen
were continued thig year, and skits
were performed at dinner.

Rhoads Horticulturists

The Rhoads freshmen, who were
young plants being tended by the
sophomore horticulturists, will be
remembered for their little pollen
bags and the waltz of the flowers
which they prformed in front of
Taylor. At the sight of a_horti-
culturist they had to wilt, and re-
main wilted until ordered to
bloom, or until rigor mortis had
set in,

Glory, Glory Evolution

Another biology-inspired theme
was used in Pem West, where the
freshmen were laboratory speci-
mens, They entertained at meals
by locomating and reproducing as
commanded, and by a spirited ren-
dition of that grand old_ tune,
“Glory, glory, evoluation.”

Childhood Themes

In Denbigh, where . nursery
rhyme themes dominated, the
freshmen were obliged to. be the
heels on the sophomores’ shoes, to
greet them, from a_ recumbent

position, and to go to class in
costume appropriate to the char-
acters they portrayed. Childhood
themes also appeared at Merion,
where the young ids were given
classes once a day by the egos,
asked to narrate and _ interpret
dreams, and to perform skits
whose fascinating titles included
“Freud in Color” and “My Fair
Id” (with original lyrics).

Shakespeare in Radnor

Taking its cue from the subject
of freshman show, Radnor turned
its freshmen into Shakespearian
personages. Meals were thus en-
livened by confidential reports
from: Lady Macbeth on “Why I
always use Jergens’ Hand Lotion,”
and: from the three witches on
“Why cottage pudding with lemon
sauce should be substituted for
eye of newt and toe of frog,”
“Why eye of newt should be sold
in bookshop,” and “Why Haig and
Haig should be gold in bookshop.’

Customer Is Right

In Pem East, where the custom-
er is always right, the freshmen
were salesmen, required to answer
the phone ‘with the words, “Sales-
man X speaking. To whom do you
wish to speak? We.aim to please
and our prices are low.” They de-
livered singing commercials, . re-
cited the menu in loud, cheery
tones, and told everyone of the
great advantages of “new Mum
with rubber cement” and “saw-
dust, for the person who likes a
dry, dry Martini.”

Freshmen Rebellious

There were rebellions, of course.
Radnorites, told that they were
going to be carried off screaming
to Villanova, dressed for the occa-
sion in three layers of make up

~/designed to render them unrecog- _

nizable. (For this offense, they
each awarded 8.691 demerits.)
Denbigh, regardless of what it
was asked to sing at dinner, al-
ways. responded ...with ..“Davy
Crockett.” Pem East freshmen,
probably the most rebellious of
all, rang the sophomores’ buzzers
at 4:30 in the morning and settled
down to watch them come burst-
ing through the pages of the
“Philadelphia Inquirer” which had
been fastened across their .doors.
The freshmen and sophomores,
nevertheless, continue to speak to
each other. Things simply aren’t
what they used to be in the good.





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Wedhesday, February 19, 1958



More Freshman Show: Revigw

Continued from Page 4, Col. 5

Caspar.

Mag Parlin, Alice Powley, and
Judy Stulberg were better witches
then Globe actors, although be-
tween the two they effected a cer-
tain not-uneffective, stylization.
Their song was a clever notion

and they handled the rapid pro-
nunciation well, :

Bee Kipp made an effective
witch hunter, especially in her first
sceneytind Anita Dopico, Dee Ro-
senberg, Cath Livesy, Sue Gold-
smith and Betty Ferber and the
dancers Alice Brown and Laurie
Levine did not fail their minor
parts.

Becasue of its unique position
as The Unchellenged Tradition and
by reason of the campus-wide at-
tention which it receives, a fresh-
man show comes to be judged al-
most in two categories, first on its
own merits and second as it ful-
fills the conditions inherited from
custom,

Although the freshmen are rel-
atively free, except by hearsay,
from the heavy shadow of what
has been done before, still fairly
definite traditions do _ persist
from year to year and certain
trends do arise, trends which are
given their final form by the per-
sonality of the whole class. Ideal-
ly this involves the active interest
of the whole class in the show.

One outstanding feature of this
production was that the freshmen
were able to accept, and enlarge
on the imaginative possibilities of
many traditions which were hand-
ed to them. The music, for exam-
ple, was not a merely adequate
background for songs, but when
played by itself as an overture,
the score proved a lyrical suite of
strikingly high calibre. Although
there were few songs, there were
good ones, with fine lyrics, strate-
gically introduced. The ballad
“Come My Love”, the drinking
song (and drinking songs them-
selves have almost become a tra-
dtion in our class shows) and the
Lament were most characteristic
of the general atmosphere and
perhaps therefore most memor-



able, although much can be said
for the lively “Who The He Was
Shakespeare.”

The kick-chorus. was another
element of tradition to whieh/ the
freshmen lent an original touch.
The choreography was varied and
subtle, especially the diagonal en-
trance; the costuming was suc-
cessfully sophisticated and the
solo dancer effective. But have
audiences and directors forgotten
that the highest function of a kick
chorus is tobe encored—especially
when it is as~ deserving as_this
one? :

The tradition of sets has seem-
ed of late to call for one highly
elaborate production with painted
background, and in addition a
number of makeshift sets compil-
ed out of assorted wall hangings
and properties, Suddenly we see
how much can be accomplished
with very little except a simple,
well-planned design. The set de-
signer was aware of the full,
more-than-incidental value of the
wngs and centered interest here,
by constructive design rather than
slapped on paint. A plain curtain
backdrop provided contrast and
enabled the stagé crew to reduce
the time and labor of changing
sets. Color, both in costuming
and sets also gave a conscious ar-
tistic unity.

Plot and script, less than other
elements of production are a mat-
ter of tradition, although certain
tendencies and considerations per-
sist. Love stories are' continually
decried along with topical Bryn
Mawr humor which fortunately
now seems a thing of the past.
This plot was dependent mainly on
a script, which gave it subtle de-
velopment, spiced wtih excellent
lines. The humor was swift, aris-
ing mainly from consistent appli-
cation of a twentieth century view-
point to a satire on literary criti-
cism, and letting the audience,
rather than the cast perceive most
of the wit.

Full advantage was taken of
each plot situation before a new
one was introduced, thus giving



high character development value
to such scenes as the rehearsal of
Macbeth. Any conventional ele-
ments in the use of flashback or
collegiate opening were ultimate-
ly justified by clever twists of the
plot which were not hurled en
masse at the. audience, but slowly
and effectively revealed.

In our value judgment list, Kate
Evans the director ranks high not
only for the total production but
also for an apparent ability to or-
ganize and coordinate the talents
ot many members of the class;
but Kate has quite overshadowed
her directorial achievements by her
horsemanship. This small duty of
producing a class animal, carried
off with a magnificent flourish
proves the class of 1961 indeed
capable of tradition in the grand
manner. ae

Hoffman
Continued from Page 1, Col. 1

stances that had given rise to
them, he read “The Seals in Pen-
obscot Bay”, “The Clams”, “In-
eubus”’, “The Early Everlasting”,
“IT Dreampt My Love A-dying
Lay”, “Old Bug Up There’, and
“An Armada of 30 Whales”.

Mr. Hoffman read chiefly from
his book, An Armada of 30 Whales,
published by. the Yale University
Press in 1954, with a foreward
by W. H. Auden. The title poem,
Mr. Hoffman said, was inspired by
the story that a school of whales
had been washed up on the Flor-
ida shore, a mystery of nature
that threw the Melville Society
into an uproar. The poet also read
several later, individually publish-
ed poems.



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Dance Club

Continued from Page 3, Col. 5

esse. The weakness lay in the film-
ing. In an attempt to show the
rapture of the audience and the
complexity of the ballet, the
photographer skipped from per-
formance to audience, from audi-
ence to directors, to audience to
ballet troupe and finally to the
stars. As a result, little of Swan
Lake was actually seen.

The traditional Eastern classical
dance was portrayed by Wasantha
Singh who narrated and perform-
ed the Fable of the Peacock. The
emphasis on movement of the
hands was easy to see, and the
background of native Indian in-
struments made this production
quite striking.

José Limon interpreted the
great modern dance, the Moor’s
Pavane, in the last film. The basic
story is Shakespeare’s Othello.
This selection lent itself best to
being filmed. Its formalism under-
lined, without destroying, the sub-
tleness of the struggle, within
Othello concluding in the victory
of jealousy.

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game was first and ended with a
victory for Bryn Mawr, 16-14.
Debbie Smith was the high scor-
er with a total of eight points.
This \was the third straight win
for oreen The varsity game
got off to a-slow and rather poor
start, but due ™to exceptionally
good teamwork, Bryn Mawr came
out on top 34-30. Sally Davis was
the high scorer with twelve points
Special mention must also be made
of Barbara Reid who played a

very good game, scoring ten
points. Again our guards, Blair
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Kitty Stoddert, did a remarkably
good job. At the end of the first
quarter Miss Schmidt was _ over-
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