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VOL. XLII, NO. 7

ARDMORE, and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1957

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1957

PRICE 20 CENTS



Annual United Service Fund Will. Aid
Student and Community Organizations

by Grace _Labouchere

The United’ Service Fund is the
Bryn Mawr campus chest drive
conducted annually in order that
the college can help support sev-
eral worthwhile orgnaizations. The
drive is under the auspices of both
League and Alliance,

‘Since it is an all-college drive,
it has been the policy in the past
to support primarily several stu-
dent organizations. Such student
organizations under consideration
again this year are World Univer-

’ sity Service, International House
of Philadelphia, National Scholar-
ship and Service Fund for Negro
Students, United Negro College
Fund, Trustees of Athens College,
Greece and The Japan Internation-

‘al “Christian” ‘University, “Along”
with these, USF also supports oth-
er organizations that rely on col-
leges: American Friends Service
Committee, American-Korean Fed-
eration and Save the Children
Federation. The United Philadel-
phia Fund is the only exception,
but we have helped this organiza-

» tion in the past because of our
community responsibility,

The USF drive will begin with a
Legislature meeting on Thursday,
November 21 at 8:30 p.m. in the
Common Room of Goodhart. At
this time, representatives from
each of the above-mentioned or-
ganizations that we are consider-
ing this year will give a descrip-
tion of the work of their organi-
zations. Legislature will then vote
on the organizations the college
will support and will suggest the
percentages into which the con-
tributions should be divided among
these organizations.

The drive itself will be held De-
cember 3, 4 and 5 with solicitation
done by the League and Alliance
hall representatives. Each donor



Movement Expert
Assists at B.M.C.

An outstanding figure in the
world of dance education and
movement, Miss Betty Meredith
Jones comes to Bryn Mawr once
a week this semester to teach
freshmen classes and experiment
with the Dance Club in possibilities
of motion and artistic onganiza-
tion. She takes time out from a
busy schedule of lectures and
classes in New York where another
of her audiences is Barnard Col-
lege.

Two of her themes are “Basic
Movement—Study of human ac-
tion and its relation to all activity,”

and “Movement Dance and Sports,”

» She-has studied at the Laban school
under Rudolph Laban, a pioneer
in the study of human movement.

. Since coming to this country
from-the British Isles in 1952, Miss
Meredith-Jones has:taught on the|
west coast. She takes an interest
in groups of all physical capacities
and ages, and especially in rehabil-

- jtation research in which she is
now working at Columbia. Univer-
sity.



NOTICE

Work on Bryn Mawr’s Con-
ference April 12, “Can Democ-
racy Survive in America?”,
sponsored by the. Big Six
-onganizations is, already. under-
way. Students interested in
working on the committees for
the Conference should contact
any of the. Big Six -presidents.

may contribute according to the
percentages proposed by Legisla-
ture, or she.may “earmark” her
donation to particular organiza-
tions of her preference,

Students are reminded that this
is the only opportunity they will
have to contribute to worthwhile
organizations. It is hoped that
USF will receive the support it
has in the past.

Arts, ‘Great Books’
Subjects of Talks

In presenting the first of the
Arts Forum lectures on Monday,
December 2, the Arts Council will
initiate a series of talks and dis-
cussions on subjects of current
interest in the areas of the arts,|
humanities, and ‘Great Books.’
Forum discussions, organized along
the lines of the Current Events
lectures, will be scheduled for Mon-
day evenings at 7:15 in the Com-
mon Room. They will alternate on
a flexible basis with Current Events,
as the result of an agreement be-
tween Alliance and Arts Council.
Beth Carr is in charge of arrang-
ing for the series.

Lectures on art, music, liter-
ature and the theatre will be given
primarily by members of the Bryn
Mawr and Haverford faculties. Two
lectures wil Ibe scheduled for De-
cember, the topic of the first to
be anounced next week, and the
second one to deal with Beckett's
‘Waiting for Godot’ and to be given
on December 16, prior to Haver-
ford’s independent production of
the play. Gretchen Jessup, Chair-
man of Arts Council, stressed the
broad range of possible topics of
current interest and import for
these discussions, among which
plans are being made for talks on
‘New Criticism,’ and the ‘Angry
Young Men.’

Through its somewhat omivorous
inclusion of topics, the Forum
hopes’ to attract a participating
audience from a wide range of
Bryn Mawrtyrs. Suggestions of
topics you would like to have dis-
cussed will be warmly welcomed.

ee
Legislature

There will be an important Legis-
lature meeting on Wednesday, De-
cember 11, at 8:30. The Legisla-
ture will be asked to appropriate
part of the Undergrad surplus for
the improvement of the top floor
of Goodhart as a student center.

Hall Announcers
é
To Enjoy Meals

Rules for Hall Announcements

The Undergrad Executive and
Advisory Boards have set forth the
following rules regarding Hall
Announcenents:

1. Announcements must be
clearly written on 3 x 5 cards or
typed on paper of that size or
larger.

2. The publicity for any one
event is limited to 3 announce-
ments.

8. Commercial advertising, i.e.,
from sweater company agents on
campus is limited to one announce-
ment.

4. Announcement “writers are
urged to heed a 25-word- -limit;
announcements are most effective
when terse, clever and to the point. |

Hall Announcers have the right
to omit those announcements which

Haverford-Bryn Mawr



“The Beggar's Opera”



This year’s second Class of 1902
Lecture will be given by W. Moel-
wyn Merchant, Monday, December
2, at 8:30 p.m. in. the Common
Room. Mr. Merchant’s topic will

be “Visual Criticism of Shakes-
peare.”
Mr. Merchant is the Senior

Lecturer in English Literature at
the University College of South
Wales and Monmouthshire at
Cardiff, Wales. At this time he is

Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare
Library in Washington, D, C. and
is lecturing there and at Yale.
This is his first lecture at Bryn
Mawr, although not his first visit.

Although teaching English Lit-
erature, Mr. Merchant has special-
ized in the relation between art
and literature, and is an expert on
the pictorial illustration of Shakes-
peare, both in the sense of straight
illustration, as for texts, and of
stage decor. The Oxford Press will

Haverford to Offer
‘Waiting for Godot’

The Haverford College English
department has announced the pro-
duction of Waiting for Godat by
Saitiuel. Beckett to be given at
Roberts Hall on Saturday evening,
December 14.

The production and accompany-
ing thesis is a project for honors in
English by Kenneth Geist, Haver-
ford senior and the play’s director.
The. cast, of faculty and students
includes Robert Butman, College
Theatre director and assistant pro-
fessor of English, Kenneth Wood-
roofe, professor. of English, and
Haverford students Gerry Good-
man ’56, Harvey Phillips ’58, and
Al Paskow ’61.

The controversial play, which
has appeared twice on Broadway
in as many seasons, has been alter-
-|nately praised and damned by the
critics, but its success on the con-
tinent, among other things, attests
to its merit.
+—The—somewhat__ unusual- cast,
stage, setting and original score}
promise an ‘interesting evening in













are at variance with these rulings.

the theatre. Admission is $,50.

in the United States as a Research],

W. Merchant To Present 1902 Lecture
On “Visual Criticisms of Shakespeare”

bring out within the next few
months a sizeable — 200 illustra-
tions — book by Mr. Merchant on
this subject:

After the lecture, Mr. Merchant
will stay on and take a history
of art seminar of Dr. Bernheimer’s
Tuesday afternoon at 2:00. This
seminar will be open to all students
particularly interested in the rela-
tion between literature and paint-

ing.

Hindu And Quaker
Interfaith Speakers

The Interfaith Association’s lec-
ture series on Far Eastern Relig-
ions will be continued on Monday,
November 25,..when Swami Pavi-
trananda of the Vedanta Society of
New York City will give a talk on
Hinduism at 8:30 in the Common
Room. Swami Pavitranada is him-
self a Hindu, but he has lived many
years in the West and has an ex-
cellent understanding of Western
as well as of Eastern philosophy
and culture.

Dr. Howard Brinton, head of the
Quaker center at Pendle Hill for
many years and a former Professor

tof “History of Religions” at Bryn

Mawr, will close the series on Tues-
day, December 3 at 8:30 in the
Common Room with a lecture on
“Eastern and Western Mysticism
and Theology.” Dr. Brinton has
lectured on this subject several
times in Japan and has had the
advantage of criticism from J. sisted
ese pnomnta.

Library y Displays
Works By Poet

In token of the two hundredth
anniversary of the birth of William
Blake (November 28, 1957) the
Rare Book Room in the Library
is sponsoring an exhibition of his
works. —

The display includes recent gifts
to the college of Blake’s illum-
inated books and notably an orig-
inal water color drawing of Blake’s
| the gift of Joanna Semel Rose ’53.

~The exhibit- will last-for_approxi-
mately two weeks; one week before



Thanksgiving and one after.

Music, Acting, Directing, Set---Beggar’s Opera
Receives Enthusiastic Plaudits On All Counts

by Sue Opstad White .

It was not a first night on Broad-
way, but the air around Roberts
Hall last Saturday night was filled
with all the tension and excite-
ment of those fabled events. For
ever since the Fall of 1956 rumors
had rumbled around Haverford
and Bryn Mawr campuses, growing
louder toward Spring, and then
fading away—until the announce-
ment finally came: yes, we are go-
ing to do The Beggar’s Opera.
Saturday night was the long-await-
ed moment, toward which so much
time and effort had been directed.
And, when the house lights finally
dimmed and the curtain rose, the
magic that can only be found in
Q000 theawe toun-comumanas Lon
all those connected with the Bryn
Mawr College Theatre and the

‘| Haverford Drama Club it was a

triumphant climax-—for the audi-
ence it was an evening of pure de-
light.

It was a pleasure, as always, to
see Ken Geist on the Bryn-Mawr-
Haverford stage, as he skillfully set
the satirical tone of the production
as the Player in the Prologue. He
‘was joined by Mr. Butman’s as-
sistant director Philip Miller in a
well-played performance of John
Gay’s satirical Beggar. His char-
acterization not only proved Phil’s
talent for period low-comedy, but
also illustrated again Mr. Butman’s
extraordinary flair for directing
such roles. ‘Playing together, both
Phil and Ken displayed a fine sense
of timing in the satiric comedy of
their scenes. Phi)’s subsequent ap-
pearances were consisterit and ef-
fective.

’ Dick Kelly played a hearty Mr.
Peachum, making the most of his
opportunities for bald comedy. His
scene with Mr. Lockit were par-
ticularly good, as the little Peach-
um and big Lockit effect was car-
ried off to good advantage. Dick’s
stage movemént throughout the
performance was impressive, and
showed an experienced hand at
period comedy.

Bob Crist as Filch was delight-
ful. Although his role was minor,
Bob made it a hit by playing ef-
fectively between the audience and
the cast, and most particularly by
his fine singing. In the best tra-
dition of operative convention, he
managed to embellish his songs
both with his voice and with his
characterization.

Anne Schaefer, with her keen
sense of timing, her versatility in
a comic role, and her ability to
project a full characterization at
all times, was wonderful as Mrs.
Peachum, She delighted the audi-
ence with marvelous facial expres-
sions, scene-stealing antics, and
an over-all robust characterization.
It was Anne who paced the early
scenes, sparking the audience into
an enthusiastic recéption -of~the-
remainder of the performance. All
in all, Anne’s was a very profes-
sional job.

Diana Dismuke played a charm-
ing and spirited Polly, Her “sing-
ing was exceptionally good, but her
acting proved that it was not for
her voice alone that she was cast
for the part. She played to her
audience beautifully, was a picture
of grace on the stage, and manag-
ed to convey just the ‘right touch-.
es of innocence, -warmth, and

‘spirit in-her characterization. Her _



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