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VOL. XLIV—NO. 15
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1959
PRICE 20 CENTS
© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1959
Webster Discusses
Staging, Costumes _
Of Greek Comedy
The origin of the Greek Comedy
and the gradual development of its
costumes and staging were dis-
cussed on Monday night by T. B. L.
Webster, Proofessor of Greek at the
University of London, in the first
of a series of three Horace White
Memorial Lectures on Greek Com-
edy.
Illustrated By Slides
Employing slides to illustrate
his remarks, Mr. Webster deline-
ated the gradual change in the po-
sitions of the actors on the stage
between the periods of the great
Athenian comic poets Aristophan-
es and Menander. Whereas action
in the Aristophanic theatre of the
fourth century B.C, was concen-
trated on a nose, or promontory,
projecting from a flat back wall,
that of Menander’s drama, two hun-
dred years later, was performed on
Lectures In Prospect
“PROTONS AND THE GEOMETRY —OF MOLECULES”=The
| Bryn- Mawr Chapter, Society of Sigma Xi announces a lecture, “Protons
and the Geometry of Molecules”, to be given Wednesday, March 4, at
8:30 p.m. in the Lecture room of the new biology building. Mr. George
L. Zimmerman, assistant professor of chemistry, will deliver the lec-
ture.
“NRW EXCAVATIONS AT SARDIS”—Professor G. M. A, Hanf-
mann of Harvard University is a specialist on the Etruscans and Asia
Minor. He is most recently working on excavation reports of Tarsus
and is now co-director of new excavations at Sardis, ancient capital of
Lydia. Sardis was once the residence of Croesus, a semi-fabulous and
semi-historical (Herodotus) neighbor’ of the Greeks; the recent exca-
vations in his city should put Croesus in a better archaeological and
‘historical context, Sardis was greatly remodelled in Persion and Hel-
lenistic-Roman times, but the current expedition aims to ertricate the
earlier, Lydian form of the city. Professor Hanfmann’s lecture, Thurs-
day, March 5 at 8:30 in Goodhart, will be illustated with slides of exca-
vations and scenery, including the river valley (ancient Hermus), “one
thousand” burial mounds, Acropolis and the temple of Artemis-Cybele.
“OLD COMEDY: ARISTOPHANES' ‘ACHARNIANS’ ”—This is
the second of the Horace Whte Memorial Lectures, to be given by Miss
March 9, at 8:30.
“DHE BYRE OF LONDON”—Miss Helen Cam, Professor Emeritus
of History at Harvard Universtiy, is now in the process of editing for
the Selden Society records of the sitting of medieval justices ‘in 1321,
levels vey similar to those of the
modern theatre.
More striking, however, is the
evolution of costumes and masks
between the two periods. Mosaics,
copies of paintings done in menan-
der’s era, show that by the second
century actors were costumed in
regular Athenian garb, and masks,
though slightly exaggerated at the
mouths and brows, were, for the
most part, faithful to life,
Development Of Costumes
This realism in costume. design
was the result of a 200-year-period
of development. A late fourth-
century terra-cotta statuette of
the Muse of Comedy wears a sim-
ilar mask, but displays a great de-
gree of padding around the abdo-
men, This padding, emblem of a
fertility spirit, appears more mark-
edly in earlier works. An early
fourth century illustration. depicts
a chorus of soldiers sporting horn-
ed hats of the Macedonian military
and immensely padded middles of
early fertility symbols.
The importance of these symbols
in the early Greek Comedy had its
origin, as did the Comedy itself, in
the celebration of the_rites_ofDio-
Continued on Page 4, Cel, 1
Group To Discuss
New Housing Plan
‘Co-operative housing, long the
prototype here of suggestion-box
~jdeas, will get a more extensive
treatment at a public meeting, Mon-
day, March 9, at 4:00 in the Com-
mon Room.
Mrs. Marshall, and Miss Howe,
fresh from a Seven College Con-
ference where she was able to
discuss the topic with her col-
leagues, will attend.
This meeting would hope to
raise discussion as to the possibili-
ties of establishing a co-operative
house at Bryn Mawr, and to alert
and assess student interest.
Students with any experience of
co-operative houses, interest, ideas
or criticisms, are, of course, es-
pecially invited to come.
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Notice
The News is pleased to an-
nounce the election of the fol-
Phe. persons to its Ettitorial
under the title The Eyre of London, 14 Edward II. The social and politi-
cal materials which these legal records divulge will be Miss Cam’s main
concern in a lecture to the Journal Club, Thursday, March 10 in the
Common Room. Tea is at four, the lecture at 4:30.
PHILIP BOOTH READING HIS POETRY—Mr. Philip Booth, a
young poet and assistant professor of English at Wellesley College, is
the winner of a Lamont Poetry Award for his collection, Letter From
A Distant Land. This year he holds a Guggenheim Fellowship for crea-
tive writing. His reading, one of two this year created by the Theo-
dore Spencer gift, will be held in the Ely Room, Wyndham, on Tuesday,
March 10, at 5 o’clock.
Wesleyan Concert Seen
From Many Reviewpoints
by Alison Baker particularly, she also executed
: ; some intricate solo work most ad-
This is no review of Saturday
Rush Of Tulle
night’s Wesleyan-Bryn Mawr con-
cert, but rather a roving glance at
the proceedings, seen successively
from the alto section, the string
section, and even in part from the
mirably.
_ There followed, after the curtain
had closed, a rush of white tulle
backstage, until, in remarkably
German Plays Are Fun,
Actors, Audience Agree
Even Non-Linguists Enjoy Gestures, =
Spontaneity And Charm Of Performance
- by Lois Potter
The*audience was full of gemutlichkeit and good will, the actors
were energetic and had the best intentions, and with this mutual co-
operation, the two German comedies presented in Skinner workshop
last Thursday night turned out to be great fun. Realizing that half
the audience would be there by order of the German I department,
and hence not in any condition to appreciate subtleties of dialogue,
director John Cary fitted the characters out in costumes which guar-
A. M. Dale in the lecture room of the new Biology Building, Monday,
vantage point of a folding chair
backstage.
However, this approach, if hope-
lessly inaccurate, may nevertheless
be of some interest as providing an
unexpected slant.
‘First Impressions’
My impressions of the first part
of the program, sung by the Bryn
Mawr chorus alone, were those of
a second alto. The Ave Maria, by
Vittoria, starts off with a ticklish
solo soprano chant, sung this time
by the entire soprano section with
a somewhat heterogeneous effect.
The body of the piece, however,
was precise in its entrances and
cut-offs; and the dynamics were
wery effective, avoiding entirely
the danger of a dead mezzoforte
level. The Vere Languores, by
Lotti, had the same assets, but
was somewhat less polished.
Holst Hymns: Ar Opinion
I’m convinced that the Holst
Hymns from the Rig Veda were
magnificent, but that is undoubt-
edly due as much to the pieces
‘themselves as to any perception of
mine regarding their performance.
However, the chorus did an enthus-
iastic, and I think very successful
job of following Mr. Goodale’s firm
lead, and I have it from a Wesle-
yan boy that the high C in the so-
prano, at the close of the hymn to
|} Agni, -was- dramatic. and perfect. ©
Jane Hess’s piano accompani-
ment provided a firm foundation
for the chorus throughout the pro-
gram, and, in the Holst hymns'},
short order, the Bryn Mawr chorus
had given way on the stage to the
double octett and a small Wesle-
yan group. These ranged them-
selves behind the instrumental ac-
companiment of harpsichord, cello,
bassoon and two violins for the
Buxtehude Cantata. The piece
started somewhat shakily in the
violins, but soon evened out to a
very cohesive performance, even if
a few entrances in the chorus
weren’t as defined as Mr. Goodale’s
conducting.
For the next part of the concert,
sung by the Wesleyan chorus and
Jean Sanders, the contralto solo,
I took up a stand backstage. My
view was limited to the profiles of
a few straining back row tenors
and basses, but acoustically it was
probably not much worse than
some spots in the hall itself.
Both of the pieces performed
by the Wesleyan Choral Society
and alto solo make careful use of
the rich combination of tone colors
—alto and men’s voices. The Schu-
bert Standchen involves the inter-
Continued on Page 5, Col. 3
Notice
TONIGHT
George L. Zimmerman speaks
on “Protons and the Geometry
‘ tion.
hailed as one of the most articulate,
Baratz Analyzes
Economic Trend
Is creeping socialism or gallop-
ing fascism the state toward which
our expanding er is mov-
ing?
With this question as his starting
point, Professor M. S. Baratz, of
the Economics Department, ex-
plained the present political and
economic situation and his predic-
tions and opinions for the future
in the Current Events meeting
(Monday night in the Common
Room.
Government Expansion
Mr. Baratz had ample proof that
the government was expanding
and cited figures which illustrated
the greater power and regulation
that it was taking. The tax re-
ceipts of the federal government
and the percentage of government
employees as opposed to the total
employment have both risen con-
siderably since the turn of the cen-
tury.
Reasons For Growth
The main reasons given by Mr.
Baratz for this growth were the
expansion of collective wants
(meaning things such as commun-
ity facilities and external defense
which cannot be purchased on a
private level) and the increasing
necessity for the control of social
costs of private enterprise, such
as slum clearance and conserva-
As need arises for the con-
trol of neighborhood effects, i.e.
traffic and building codes, equali-
Continued on Page 6, Col. 1
anteed them a surefire laugh before
they opened their mouths. Gestures
and voices were always easy to in-
terpret, and one who didn’t know
German could follow the plot sim-
ply by watching the actors’ faces.
Technical Worries
Nachtbeleuchtung, the first of the
two plays, is the sort of trifle that
looks easy, but actually needs a lot
of practice to make it go smoothly.
Not only does it contain a conver-
sation which repeats itself con-
tinually, thus offering innumerable
opportunities for the actors to get
their cues twisted, but the need for
ringing the doorbell or turning off
the lights every two minutes makes
it a technical director’s nightmare.
If, therefore, Nachtbeleuchtung
looked slightly under-rehearsed, it
is not surprising. The wonder is
that the actors carried it off as well
as they did, making minor im-
perfections part of the fun.
Performers Discussed
Alison Baker was charming as
the actress; her rueful smile at the
director’s stupidity was “ausser-
ordentlich sympathisch” and~ she
kept up her end of the silly argu-
ment around which the plot centers
with a combination of feminine
wiles and feminine stubborness,
which is especially remarkable be-
cause the part was originally writ-
ten for a man.
At the other end of the argu-
ment, Theodor Hauri played the
pig-headed Herr Direktor with
energy enough almost to make one
believe that “nothing is more
natural than for a person to make
a speech after shooting himself.”
The writer, David Baker, unfortu-
Continued on Page 4, Col. 3
“‘The Poetry of Greek Tragedy’
must be one of the most stimulat-
ing—certainly it is one of the most
provocative — introductions now
available to this thorny, horribly
over-discussed subject: not least be-
cause of Professor Lattimore’s su-
perb translations, which are scatter-
ed lavishly throughout the text,”
This, from “Th Times Literary
Supplement,” is no mean praise.
It is representative of the article
from which it igs taken—one which
deals mainly with Mr. Lattimore’s
book, but also refers to two other
works: S. M. Adams’ “Sophocles the
Playwright,” and “Euripides III,”
edited by Mr. Lattimore and David
Grene. Although it treats specific-
ally these three relatively recent
works, with emphasis on Mr. Latti-
more’s book, the article also-con-
stitutes a general survey of Greek
tragedy, and of previous writings
on the subject. Mr. Lattimore is
of Molecules” at.8:30-in-the
ture Room, Biology Building.
Thomas Bachman, _ concert
pianist, performs in the cs,
Room, Wyndham. |
representatives of a new approach,.
apparent in the 1950’s, towards the
study of ancient tragedy.
Most earlier critics and scholars,
in treating this well-worn subject,
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Lattimore’s Approach to Greek Tragedy
Praised by “Times Literary Supplement’
force the ancient art into their own
mold of modern thought, attempt-
ing to interpret it in the light of
contemporary ideas, and imbuing
it with an entirely superimposed
Christian morality. Actually, Greek
writers were very primitive in their
conception of morality, and to dis-
regard this fact is to rob the trag-
edies of much of their impact.
Mr. Lattimore, as the title of his
book might suggest, concerns him-
self with what is the most enduring
quality of ancient tragedy—its
poetic excellence—an aspect which
had previously been almost entirely
ignored. By keeping . this focal
point, he avoids the pitfalls of
either the over-imaginative or the
pedantic scholar.
-The article points out as perhaps
his. “most valuable achievement,” —
Mr‘ Battimore’s recognition of the
multiplicity of Greek plays. This
-is manifest on all levels —-
and in all forms. Its warring ele-
ments are brought into relation by
Mr. Lattimore, and “crystallized in
the single, ultimately poetic, con-
flict.” .
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Wednesday, March 4, 1959
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J. Parry Salutes
The Fourth Leader
To the Editor:
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The Fourth Reader, recently in-
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We Object...
The time has come to issue a second declaration of inde-
pendence—that of The College News. We object—to being
looked upon as a free publicity agent and to being “social
pressured” by the heads of other campus organizations. The
News strives to bring to its subscribers those matters which
are of greatest interest to them. It must, from necessity, be
selective in what is printed and it reserves the right to be so.
Although concerned with the activities of the “big six”
and interested in cooperating closely with them, The News
cannot serve as an ipso facto reporter, reviewer, and publi-
cizer of all campus happenings. If it did, it would be nothing
more than an overgrown list of activities, unable to offer
anything in the way of creative, thought-provoking material.
Is this what the Bryn Mawr campus wants? A mere sheet
comprising columns of announcements? We grant that we
have an obligation to keep our subscribers informed but we
believe that we also have an obligation to explore the realm
of general opinion and to separate the greater from the less-
er in the way of news items.
This does not mean that The News is unwilling to work
with and assist campus organizations in publicizing activities
of interest that they may sponsor. We do suggest, however,
that the means for a more effective relationship be consider-
ed, the result of which will benefit all concerned. The News
will plan to invite representatives from the various groups
to a special meeting of the Editorial Board in order to discuss
the problem. Prior to such a meeting, however, some possi-
bilities might be suggested. A particular News staff member
might keep in close contact with the happenings in each of
the “big six”. Additional emphasis might also be placed on
the written expression of original ideas from within the or-
ganizations themselves. This would result in both more ex-
tensive publicity and more creative and stimulating coverage.
Housing Problems
The oft-proposed project of having a meeting to consider
the possibility of the college’s having a co-operative house
has finally become a reality.. Since the actual consideration
has not begun yet, we do not know whether the house would
be a hcuse at all, or a reconverted dormitory wing; whether it
would be on campus or off, and, if so, how far; whether stud-
ent residents would be responsible for all work, including
cooking, painting furniture, and mowing the lawn (not to
mention the all-absorbing question of what would happen to
the Lantern Man). Thus, it is not possible to offer any opin-
ions on the subject yet, but only to ask a few pertainent
questions.
The purpose of a co-operative house is to save money.
How much would students save? Radcliffe, which subsidizes
its house, guarantees its students a $200 savings apiece; other
colleges leave management entirely in the students’ hands,
sometimes with greater, sometimes with less success than
Radcliffe. Would sucha saving be worth the time involved
in doing all the work, when it is possible to earn $300 or more
a year from babysitting, waitressing, or library work, while
living in “luxury” in a residence hall?
If the house were a house, it might be difficult to find
one near us. Would fifteen to twenty-five girls (for
such is said to be the most satisfactory number for a co-oper-
ative house) be able to live apart from the rest without feel-
_ ing lonely or giving rise to the uncomfortable idea—which,
itudents are, somehow, different from the others? A lot
here on the human factor: those who have lived in
s East that it is the girls there who
, that there area great
,and that of those |g
house, only a small |w
and the influence they have on the
students’ life. Perhaps by pre-
senting international issues not
| prominent in other newspapers in
an interesting and provocative
fashion, The Fourth Leader’ will
stimulate a more vital concern on
campus for world problems in gen-
eral. If students once begin to
give some thought to these prob-
lems, the resulting increased con-
sciousness of international affairs
might make it possible to carry on
a regular open discussion of cur-
rent crises on the international
level in the form of letters to the
News. Such a debate may or may
not lead to positive action on the
part of the students, but it would
certainly contribute to a more
acute awareness on campus of
happenings which no one who is
alive to the world around him can
regard wit hindifference.
Jane Parry
Opera Defended
by Lois Potter
Those of us who spend every Sat-
urday afternoon curled up in front
of the radio and knitting to the
strains of the Metropolitan Opera,
pausing only to close our eyes and
listen rapturously as someone diés
in boiling oil and on high C, have
to put up with a lot of adverse
comment, not only from sensitive-
eared neighbors whose musical
tastes differ from ours but from
true music lovers who feel that we
are wasting our time with such
stuff. Opera, they say, is a synthe-
sis of music and drama, including
the worst elements of each. To like
opera is to be a reactionary, to
cling to a Victorian tradition of
overstuffed furniture, overstuffed
plots, and overstuffed sopranos, at
a time when everything, music in-
cluded, is becoming sleek and
streamlined.
The most antiquated element
and, for the non-musically inclined
listener, the first drawback to ap-
preciating opera is the operatic
libretto. One thinks of the typical
plot as a chamber of horrors like
Il Trovatore, which involves mis-
taken identity, abduction from’ a
convent, burning at the stake, a
prison scene, a heroine forced to
choose betwen the death of her
lover and the sacrifice of her honor
to the villain, and the final. death
of all participants in horrible agon-
ies. This type of plot, with varia-
tions, turns up in most Verdi
operas, especially the earlier ones.
Composers like Donizetti and Bel-
lini go in for the simpleminded-
heroine plot, with an attack of in-
sanity coming somewhere along in
the Third Act. The total effect, un-
less one decides to give up the
libretto altogether and concentrate
on the music, is that of a glorified
comic strip, except that both the
bad guys and the good guys die in
the end. But, if one is going to
forget about the libretto, what is
there to differentiate~opera from,
say, an oratorio, except costumes,
scenery, and all the paraphernalia
which make it more expensive and
distract one’s attention from the
music?
that I’m almost convinced by it my-
This argument is such a good one
Critic Berates ‘Sweet Bird’
by Isa Brannon
Tennessee Williams’ new play,
“Sweet Bird of Youth,” is not a
unified production. As the title im-
plies, the major theme is the youth
of the handsome Southerner,
Chance Wayne, contrasted with the
middle age of a has-been actress,
Ariadne de Lago. At the beginning,
Wayne has become a gigolo for the
actress and they have returned to
the youth’s small home town on the
Gulf Coast. He is returning as a
failure, not having been successful
as an actor, and goes to see his
girl, Heavenly Finley. He is not
welcomed by her, or by herefather
and brother, who are aware of
Wayne’s' former desecration of
Heavenly’s virginity. Chance uses
the wealth of the actress to try to
impress the townspeople, but they
are aware that this is only a symbol
of how far he has fallen.
This problem of a young man
wasting his worshipped youth, and
of an actress who manages to make
a come-back at middle age, is a
very. promising one. However, Wil-
liams never resolves it. In the end
the actress has succeeded in recov-
ering some of her lost youth. She
does not learn to live without it.
Chance Wayne is left seeking for
fame and fortune, and hearing time
go on while he keeps pretending he
is a success and saying, “Some-
thing has to mean something.”
Williams leaves his characters with
their problems and goes on to dis-
cuss desegregation in the South and
the menace of immoral political
leaders. These themes are over-
worked and Willams would have
done well to. leave the castrated
Negro in Light in August.
The technicalities of the play are
also an obstacle to convincing the
audience. The most important dia-
logue is in soliloquy-type speeches
where the characters stand singly
or in groups looking at the audience
as if a good musical number were
coming. There is very little action
in anything but the second scene of
the second act, when a movie of a
political rally is shown. This is a
mixture of media and as such is
only moderately effective.
The sound effects also leave much
to be desired. When Wayne is medi-
tating aloud on the passage of time,
a loud tic-toc can be heard. Wayne
|supplements this' by! saying “tic-
toc” several times. When he is
discussing a motor boat, we hear
the engines, and upon his mention
of the proximity of the sea we sud-
denly hear the breakers coming in
and the shrill cries of the “hoarse
pigeons.”
The acting is the best feature of
“Sweet Bird of Youth,” in spite of
che fact that melodrama is too often
called for. Paul Newman does a
very creditable job of presenting
the somewhat wishy-washy charac-
ter of Chance Wayne. Geraldine
Page is magnificent as Ariadne De
Lago. Her “soliloquies” are excel-
lent, and as an added touch to her
degeneracy she never combs her .
hair, from the moment she is first
seen in bed until she leaves in the
end for Hollywood.
The supporting players are also
very good: Madeline Sherwood, Sis-
ter Woman in the film production
of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” plays
Boss Finley’s mistress with the
same convincingness with which she
created the other Williams role.
Obviously, an attempt has been
made to have a cast usually seen
in a story of the “decadent” South.
Although these characters do not
obliterate the weaknesses of Wil-
liams’ play, their performances, un-
der the direction of Elia Kazan,
make an evening at “Sweet Bird of
Youth” a worthwhile experience.
The Fourth Leader
Africa: Explosive Evolution
One of the most fascinating
games of political analysis involves
the attempt to decide which of con-
temporary events will seem decis-
ive fifty or a hundred or a thou-
sand years hence. Game or no, it
is hardly worth gambling with the
future to say that the years im-
mediately surrounding the pres-
ent are among the most critical in
the evolution of Africa.
The forces at play are many and
complex. In south-central Africa,
racial hatred and intractable white
dominance create a potentially vio-
lent situation. Farther north, along
both the East and West coasts, the
drive for independence, variously
tinged by nationalists aspirations,
is the preeminent motive for
change. This is not all. Through-
out Africa the demand for rapid
reality. Why did Snow White’s step-
mother want to kill her? Because
she was evil, that’s why—so we
relax and stop asking silly ques-
tions.
Of course, besides their enchanted
atmosphere, these stories charm us
with their literary style. Opera sub-
stitutes music for style. When
tenor, soprano, and baritone are
blowing off steam simultaneously
nobody hears what they are saying
anyway, so one can scarcely blame
the librettist for scraping the bot-
tom of the barrel in his search for
lyrics. It’s the music that is sup-
posed to convince us, when the
plot does not..
This argument need apply only to
bad librettos of the above-men-
lots of good librettos, believe it or
not—for instance, Mozart’s Mar-
riage of Figaro, Verdi’s Otello, Puc-
cini’s La Boheme, and Strauss’s Der
Demmmoreter. Works like tines
industrialization and comprehens-
five educational and social pro-
grams often encourages a militant
socialism which retreating colonial
powers fear may be attempted at
the expense of popular government.
/Whatever their fears, the major
colonial powers are getting out
fast, Ghana, once the model Brit-
ish Colony named the Gold Coast,
and Guinea have full independence,
while eleven states formerly under
French tutelage are members of
the looser French community. For
a number of other territories, “In-
dependence by 1960” is the rally-
ing cry and at least eight have
been promised full autonomy in
that year. However, Belgium and
Portugal, the two remaining colon-
izers, are reluctant to follow the
British and French example, In
response to January riots in Leo-
poldville, the capital of the Bel-
gium Congo, King Baudouin of
Belgium has promised independ-
ence, but no date has been set.
Portugal, which controls the vast
and undeveloped colonies of An-
gola and Masambique, has made
no concessions.
Independence, of course, creates
at least as many problems as it
solves. One of the most immedi-
ately significant of these is that
of minute, inequitable, arbitrary
and inherently unstable division of
territory into states. This process,
termed “Balkanization”, is the re-
sult of the creation of states out
of colonies, mamy of which do not
have the population, resources,
or institutions necesary for au-
tonomous. existence, Therefore we
have the paradoxical situation of
agitation for mergers and confeder-
ation concurrent with nationalistic
demands. Already the confedera-
tion of Mali has ben created out of
| several French West African col- |
onies, and a more ambitious pro-
Wednesday, March 421959
4
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three
- Seniors Tell Honors Project Plans
Biologists I Find Lab Conflicts
by Lyn Kuper and:
Eileen Skromak .
Precision, good technique, sound
reasoning, working in the labora-
tory, reading fh the library, calcu-
lating in the dormitory, are essen-
tial in any scientific pursuit. Know-
part of the problem. Test tubes
were broken in huge. numbers,
clothes began to dissolve, animals
were killed by ruthless methods not
at all a part of the orderly plan,
and an insidiou blue color ap-
peared in the normally red-violet
lactate determinations. The “prob-
_ing this, we, Eileen _Skromak_and|jems”—inereased—in—a—geometric
Lyn Kuper, started honors for the
biology department in October, 1958.
Irivestigation was planned, under
the honors advisor, to solve. two
problems: 1) the adaptation of Tet-
rahymena pyriformis (a protozoan)
to different growth media, and
2) the behavior of this beast at
different pH’s. (degrees of acidity)
in the presence of Dinitrophend, an
inhibitor of oxidative phosphoryla-
tion (an energy formning process in
the cell). To test both of these prob-
lems, quantitative
glycogen and lactate determinations
had to be mastered, the growth per-
and harvesting procedures
iods
were noted, solutions and media
were made up and sterilized, and
reading was begun to gain the
necessary background ‘information
pertinent to the problems at hand.
After a short time the prelimi-
nary reading was done, the tech-
niques practised, and the projects
were actually started. From bor-
rowed hypotheses as a foundation,
original experiments were designed
and scheduled for a short time span,
then changed whenever the results
suggested a new approach. Discov-
ery seemed just around the corner
at the end of November.
techniques of
ratio during the mid-year examina-
tion period.
It was February. |
Experiments were staged every
day. Viciously, glassware was used,
washed, used, washed, used. Ani-
malg and data were collected in a
frenzy, and calculations were begun.
Calculations point out the meaning
and significance of results. If valid
and significant, the final figures
point to discoveries, solutions,
trends, ideas to further experimen-
tation, or to a very fine haze over
everything. Calculations are being
continued—they have been done four
previous ways, all of which were
Then the experimenters became
wrong, and are now being done cor-
rectly — at least optimistically!
Holes in the data must be filled,
results must be reduplicated, and
‘the blue mystery must be solved.
Now there is a curious melange of
charts, statistics, artifacts, which
could only lead to a conclusion simi-
lar to “These results are not neces-
sarily opposed to the hypothesis
|
Here is advice to those who may
follow: wear old clothes, eat soup
for lunch, carry a large grain of
salt, be original in experiments and
mistakes, and do honors in biology
_—it’s loads of fun!
Internationl Festival Of Nations Ball
Featuers BMC Indian, Chinese Girls
by Yvonne Chan
A typical folk dance (common in
India wherever fisherfolk are
found) was performed by the In-
dian Bryn Mawr girls at the 9th
Annual International Festival Ball
on February 20.
Neela Deshpande, one of the
three graduate students here, said
that they and most of the other
participants were amateurs, 60
they had to make up their own
dance, in order that it would be
simple’ enough, Since there was
very little time for researsals, the
dance had to do without many re-
fined movements. It was accom-
panied by the dabla, ‘a type of
drum, and a violin,
The two other graduate students
who took part were Vimal Patel,
who, like Neela Deshpande, is ma-
joring in economics, and Radhika
Jayakar, a philosophy major.
Shantha Rau is a junior here, ma-
joring in sociology and anthropol-
ogy. The three graduate students
are from Bombay, and Shantha is
from Bengalore, in the southern
part of India; they all came to the
Chapel Featuring
Lecture By Lewis
by Helen Ullrich
Professor H. D. Lewis will speak
in chapel Sunday on “East and
West—the Bridge in Culture and
* Religion.”
Visiting professor in philosophy,
Mr. Lewis. comes to Bryn Mawr
from the University of London
where he teaches history and phil-
osophy of religion.
Mr. Lewis’ educational back-
ground includes an M.A. from Uni-
versity College, Bangor, and a
B. Litt. from Jesus College, Oxford.
Among his numerous publications
~ are Morals and Theology, Contem-
porary tish
Morals and Revelation. In addition
to books in English, Mr. Lewis has
written several in Welsh.
in the cash ‘lecture room.
United States from India last year.
Participating in the Chinese
program ‘were five of the Chinese
Bryn Mawr girls. Julie Chang,
Jeanne Zung, and Yvonne Chan
were in the Lantern Dance, while
Amy Cheng and May Jen accom-
panied them in a Chinese song.
There were eight girls in the
dance, each holding a lighted lan-,
tern, and wearing costumes in. the
fashion of the sixth century Chin-
ese Court. The dance, a Formosan
adaptation, attempted to produce a
graceful effect of slowly, swinging
lanterns and forms. oe
May Jen and Julie Chang are
juniors her majoring in chemistry.
Jeanne Zung and Amy Cheng are
sophomores, and Yvonne Chan is a
freshman,
Both the Indian and the Chinese.
girls said that although the re-
herasals were rushed, and quite
hectic, they enjoyed participating
in the International program, It
was held at the Bellevue-Stratford
Hotel and was given by the Inter-
national House of Philadelphia.
Calendar
Wednesday, ‘March 4:
8:30 p.m—George L. Zimmer-|.
man, Associate Professor of Chem-
istry, will give the Sigma XI lec-
ture on “Protons and the Geometry
of Molecules” in the Biology lecture
room.
Thursday, March 5:
8:30 p.m.—Dr. George M. Hanf-
mann of Harvard University will
speak on “New Excavations at Sar-
dis” in Goodhart.
Thursday and Friday, March 5 and
6—8:30 p.m.—Haverford Class
Night, in Roberts Hall, Haverford.
Monday, March 9:
8:30 p.m.—Miss A. M. Dale will
Memorial Lectures, on “Old Com-
edy: Aristophanes’ ‘Acharnians’”
é
by Lynne Kaplan.
‘.The relationship between law
and. the community’ is ‘a - subject
which has interested me for some
time. When I decided to do Hon-
ors, I felt that I wanted to choose
a subject which was related to this
issue in some way. I finally de-
cided to study the general back-
ground and political development
of a recently passed New York
City law. The 1957 Fair Housing
Practices law (which passed in
December of 1957 and became ef-
fective April 1, 1958) has receiv-
ed nationwide attention as the first
law im the country to ban discrim-
ination in private housing. Its
passage ‘was considered a major
achievement in the field of civil
rights and urban housing legisla-
tion.
The reasons that such a law is
so significant is the story of why
it was considered a “must” by its
proponents. The basic theory be-
hind the law is not only that dis-
crimination in housing is morally
unjust but also that the shortage
of housing is aggravated by a re-
stricted market which forces peo-
ple who can afford to meet the
price of the market to live in poor-
er housing because of racial and
ethnic barriers. This leads to the
overrcowding responsible.for slums
and all the horrible consequences
of slum. life. Investigating the
background of this law, I had to
delve into the problem of discrim-
ination and segregation, the hous-
ing shortage, the role of the Fed-
eral Government and the tradi-
tional attitude of the real estate
by Theodora Stillwell
What are honours but empty
baubles, yet how nice not to keep
explaining why not. Besides one can
go on and on collecting information,
an insidious waste of time, because
pure thought is just as good. But
the time has come to write. How
shall we express ourselves today?
Anyway there is plenty of time to
write, plenty to fix the typewriter
where we have gnawed it in rage.
One’s subject is libertas as used
(the word, that is) by Tacitus. Give
me libertas or give me death. Give
me libertas leading the people.
What approach? The Rhetorical?
fYou may ask what. Tacitus’ con-
cept of libertas was?” A pause and
assumption of polite, possibly en-
thusiastic interest. Or, “In view of
the evidence (unstated) what other
conclusion could be reached except
that Tacitus’ view of libertas is...”
This sentence of course could not
possibly stop before the explanation
is reached, perhaps 50 (hopeful)
pp. ahead. Send me your tired
masses. The negative has a charm
because of all the space to be used
in explaining what Tacitus is not.
T. Stillwell Ponders Tacitus, Libertas
Notably not Stoic, unbiased, or
fatalistic. The muddled is probably
the best approach because the pro-
fessor may think you have some-
thing to say and will supply mean-
ing, or possibly may feel sympa-
thetie and re-write the whole thing.
“Though in discussing the fall from
libertas one. must assume Tacitus’
basic assumption that it is not from
but to, or rather positive than nega-
tive freedom, and that servitude is
less a corruption of, than a denial
of, that same libertas, used here
not of any personal characteristics
but an absolute and possibly almost
sentimental ideal, still it has some
assurance of bottom strata of a
freedom from the sovereign com-
mands of a monarch, and even
though transferred to a senate that
may be somewhat corrupt in its
support, it itself cannot be, like a
real kelpie in an imaginary pool;
hence, in Tacitus’ mind, servitude
of the most bitter sort.” Possible,
and actually largely what my paper
is about, but its little life is sure
to be rounded with a sleep, or close
like a withered daffodil, before the
teeming brain is gleaned. It seems
to be the middle of March already.
Friends Sponsor
Big Work Camp
by Mary Masland
The Haverford-Bryn Mawr Young
Friends Group is about to sponsor
its biggest program of the year—
a weekend work camp. The group
has arranged to take over an entire
camp in Philadelphia the weekend
of March 13-15. This camp is to
be identical to the work camps run
every weekend by the American
Friends Service Committe except
that it will consist entirely of Hav-
erford and Bryn Mawr students—
eight of each. There will be the
usual program of discussion, work,
and attendance &t the local churches
and magistrates court, with the
theme of the weekend concerning
social problems of Philadelphia. Re-
source speakers will attend the dis-
cussion groups to lend a profes-
sional viewpoint to such topics as
juvenile delinquency in the city.
This particular work camp will
have its weekend headquarters in a
church at 10th and Parrish Streets,
where camps have been held for
over a year. The area is near the
heart of the large Puerto Rican sec-
tion of Philadelphia, and is also
the center ofva colony of Russian
Buddhists.
~ While AFSG-weekend work camps
are free, a donation of about $3.75
lis expected from each participant.
fn this case, the Young Friends
Group is able to offer financial aid
of necessary.
With only eight openings for
Bryn Mawr students, applicants are
being accepted on a first come,
first. served basis. For those inter-
Managers Plan
Fountain Menus
Plans for the proposed reopening
of the Soda Fountain are progress-
ing: well. Many volunteers for both
managing and waitressing came to
the meeting held last week, and
from these Margie McHenry and
Ellen Ober were chosen as the new
managers. They have met to dis-
cuss the menu, necessary equipment
changes, and details of organiza-
tion. Miss Howe is soon to be con-
sulted, and it is hoped that every-
thing can be straightened out in
time to meet the promised opening
date of April 7.
Soda Fountain is, of course, op-
erated to satiate sonie of the vora-
cious appetites and inner urges of
Bryn Mawrters. Any suggestions
for the menu outside of the ordi-
nary hamburger-sandwich-ice cream
routine should be sent in campus
mail to either Margie McHenry
(Denbigh) or Ellen Ober (Radnor).
Anyone interested in waitressing
should also contact them:
NOTICE
Students interested in living
in French House next year
‘should consult Mr. Maurin at
the earliest opportunity.
Those interested in the possi-
bility of a Spanish House or
German House should consult
Mrs. Marshall or Mrs. Jessen.
Please see departmental rep-
representatives before spring
ested, a list will remain posted on
the League bulletin board in Taylor
treet cens en miner
Legal, Civie Bond Selected As Theme For Study
industry in perpetuating and en-
couraging segregation, the myths
and facts about the minority occu- .
pancy and property values and
existing legislation. All these
questions are problems of the lo-
cal, state and national which bear
on the New York law. I-attempt=
ed to gain insight into the com-
plex factors which through their .
imteraction have produced the
“elosed” housing market in New
York City with its myriad social,
economic and political ramifica-
After surveying the general set-
ting for the bill, I attacked the
problem of how the goal of the
liberals, who wanted to get such a
bill passed, was actually achieved.
This is the major aspect of my
study and has been more fascinat-
ing than any other work I’ve done
in college. My basic tool has been
discussing what happened with the
individuals who played important
roles. From City Councilmen, rep-
resentatives of the Real Estate
Board, and those responsible for
organizing the campaign for the
bill, I’ve pieced together the story
of when and how this bill was con-
ceived, how it had to be modified
to gain sponsorship and then fur-
ther modified before: the Council
would pass it, and what maneuver-
ings went on before it finally was
passed. I have been enlightened
as to the role that the Administra-
tion in power plays and how pres-
sure is directed at that adminis-
tration from within and without.
One fact that emenges is that most
of the public that expressed their
opinion was opposed to it, yet the
law was enacted. This is the prob-
lem that I will try to analyze in
my conclusion.
One reason that the story of the
bill is so interesting is that the
political process is the interac-
tion of many individuals (whether
singly or in groups) with their in-
dividual interests and beliefs. Al-
most everyone I. interviewed was
extremely cooperative and I spent
a great deal of time discussing dif-
fering political philosophies and
the political facts of life; eg., “for
really important legislation, you
doon’ot work outside your country”
(party power structure). My other
sources of information are news-
papers and the files of organiza-
tions involved which included let-
ters, memoranda, strategy com-
mitte plans, etc. While using the
files of one private committee, I
had the valuable experience of see-
ing a program get under way to
insure passage of other legislation
in thig area,
The other exciting thing about
doing honors is that ideas you’ve
discussed in your courses and with
your advisor come alive. As you
gain some small knowledge of po-
litical reality you realize the rele-
vance of ~“‘theoretical’’— material
as a means of interpreting what
you’ve found. You feel that some
ideas are very important and do
explain things. Om the other hand,
you make theoretical connections of
your own and feel equipped to ven-
ture an analysis of the events,
which is your own alaysis, but
draws on what you’ve been exposed
to in your school work. This analy-
sis is what I will try to set down
as my conclusion.
NOTICE
Haverford College Class Night
—Thursday, March 5, 8:30 in
Roberts Hall. Tickets $.75 each.
Four entertaining Class Shows.
Girls may use payday; Trans-
Dean of the College
tor elea
mee
-~*
ete .
portation provided: See your}
!
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, March 4, 1959
Political Science Conference At Mount Holyoke
Discusses Russia, America, Foreian Aid Policies
by Anne Rassiga
The International Relations Club
of Mount Holyoke College held its
annual political science conference
last. weekend, February 27 and 28,
on the topic. Rubles, Dollars and
Sense: Contest for the Uncommit-
ted. Bryn Mawr was represented by
two delegates, Bannon Marbut and
Anne Rassiga.
Dr. Joseph S. Berliner, Assistant
Professor of Economics, Syracuse
University, and author of several
books, opened the conference as the
keynote speaker Friday night. In a
short half-hour speech, Mr. Berliner
stressed the point that we have
now entered into economic competi-
tion with Russia—but that this con-
test is unusual as only one of the
contestants is racing while the
leader strolls amiably along.”
Russia and Foreign Aid
Russia in her attempts to catch
up to and surpass the United States
economically has turned also to for-
eign aid. In 1956, for example, Rus-
sia pledged over one billion in aid
to backward countries. It must be
realized, however, that most of this
sum represents promises. Mr. Ber-
liner estimated that by 1958, only
20-25% of this had actually been
paid. This unpaid money, therefore,
gives Russia a valuable propaganda
pocketbook until years later.
Dr. Berliner then went on to dis-
cuss “comparative philanthropy.”
One of the major differences be-
tween American and Russian aid is
the fact that American aid consists
80% of non-repayable gifts where-
as the vast majority of Russian aid
is in the form of repayable loans. |
This allows Russia to establish a
long-range economic tie between
herself and the country aided, and
to give grants without hurting her-
self economically.
There igs also a tendency for
underdeveloped countries to feel a
kinship with Russia rather than the
United States, as that country is
actual proof of the ability of a
nation to develop fast.
Soviet Economic System
It cannot be denied that the So-
viet economic system is growing at
a much faster pace than the Ameri-
can one. This growth means a cor-
responding increase in the amount
of foreign aid grants they can
afford, and thus an increase in the
appeal of Communism.
America, he concluded, must
strive to maintain its lead or we
shall find ourselves in “a shrunken
oasis of uncertain freedoms in a
world that has fallen from us not
by failure, but by default.”
weapon now without hurting her
Saturday morning, a panel con-
Webster: On Greek Comedy
Continued from Page 1, Col. 1
nysus. According to legend, these
rites were introduced to the Athen-
jians by Pegasus and, at first, re-
nounced by the citizens, until, al-
most immediately after, the men
of the city became impotent and
were advised by the Oracle at Del-
phi to practice the cult if they
wished to be cured.
From the Dionysian rites to in-
sure the fentility of plants and
animals, as well as men, arose the
Greek comedy; the very orkestpra
of the Greek stage evolved from
the primitive threshing floor, and
virtually every contemporary rep-
resentation of the early theatre
depicts the satyrs and protuberant
actors symbolic of fertility.
Many of the stories of later
_ Greek comedy also evolved from
the primitive concern with fertility.
A decidedly influential tale typical
of this concern was that of Hera,
the earth goddess, who hurled her
lame son, Hephaestus, from heav-
en into the sea. Hephaestus, be-
ing a craftsman, reciprocated by
sending Hera a chair which bound
ithe goddess to itself and did not
permit her to rise. Ares was at
once dispatched to retrieve Heph-
aestus, but was not successful and
Dionysus was sent in his stead.
The god of wine then drugged the
lame Hephaestus, brought him
back to heaven to free his chair-
pent mother, and was rewarded
by the grateful goddess with the
hand of Aphrodite.
From this tale, originally sym-
bolic of Fertility ”s (Dionysus)
forcing winter (the lame Hephaes-
tus) to free springtime (Hera)
evolved, through a shifting of em-
phasis from Hera to Aphrodite, the
later Greek dramas concerned with
love and marriage.
Throughout the development of
the Greek comedy tthe chorus re-
mained the most important part of
the production. Ranks of the cho<1
rus were on different occasions fill-
ed with ugly old women purported
to frighten evil harvest spirits,
stilt dancers, birds, minotaurs, men
riding fish, and even gorgons.
Dionysus, whose cults and rit-
uals have been shown to be the
source of the stage, the costumes,
and even the plots of the Greek
drama, can himself be traced to a
civilization older than the Greek.
From a Mycenean seal depicting
two goats, Dionysian symbols,
around a frontal head, the only one
extant in Mycenean art and, thus,
assumed to be a mask, Dr. Web-
ster concludes that Dionysus was
‘Mycenean, rather than Greek, in
origin.
The first great change of com-
edies from the vegetation ritual
was effected by the introduction of
the individual actor. The second,
from the broad comedy of Aris-
tophanes to the more personal of
Menander was the result of the
gradual emergence of the inherent
|Greek love of tragedy.
Events in Philadelphia
Bullfiight, Leslie Stevens’ dine. with several unknowns and flam-
* THEATRE:
enco dancers, at the Ogontz.
First Impressions, musical version of Pride and Prejudice; book
by Abe Burrows, music and lyrics
by Robert Goldman, Glenn Paxton
_ and George Weiag; starring Polly Bergen, Farley Granger and Hermi-
one Gringold. Four weeks, beginning Monday at the Forrest.
‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, adaptation of John Ford’s 17th century
; drama, at the Academy Foyer.
MUSIC:
Medea: American Opera Society production of Cherubini’s work,
with Bileer Farrell, Richard Lewis and Claramae Turner, Academy,
Thursday evening.
Philadelphia Orchestra: Gerand Souzy, baritone, Ormandy conduct-
ey ee ee
Seventh Sel, Ingmar Bergman's Swedish allegory, World,
s Daughter and The Baker's Wife, Rainy reviv-
sisting of four foreign graduate
students was held to record re-
actions of recipients to this foreign
aid.
Africa was represented by Mr.
Ebenezer Banghouse who stated that
the two major problems which face
Africa today are lower wages. and
the foreign control of many of its
countries. To achieve liberation and
a higher standard of living, Africa
will accept aid from anyone, but,
he stressed, long traditions of
democracy keep her from being in-
terested in communism.
Mr. Faud §S. Abzu-Zayyad from
Jordan spoke on the Middle East.
In this area, the problems and solu-
tions are regional and need only
money to solve them. The Middle
East is at present at “the thresh-
hold of the takeoff stage” ready to
realize its goals. There is an in-
Continued on Page 6, Col. 1
Swimmers Beat
Previous Record
The Bryn Mawr swimming team
defeated Penn University, 36-29,
in a home meet Thursday, Febru-
ary 26. Bryn Mawr swimmers
broke two pool -records at this
time.
Alice Todd bettered the old free-
style time of 28.0 by wimming the
two lap sprint (approximately 45
yards in the Bryw Mawr pool) in
27.8 seconds. Fran Krauskopéf,
placing second, tied the old record.
The freestyle relay record was
broken by 1.8 seconds. The new
time, 1:52.6, was achieved by Alice
Todd, Edie McKeon, Fran Kraus-
kopf and Sandy Colt,
Bryn Mawr also placed first in
two other events; backcrawl (San-
dy Colt), and medley relay (Sandy
Colt, Linda Fish and Edie Mc-
Keon).
ae J.V. team did not swim in
this’ meet.
In the meet. against. Ursinus,
Feb. 11, Bryn Mawr again won
46-20. The J.V. was also victori-
uoes, although there was a mixup
concerning the use of two teams
and consequently not all J.V. events
could be swum.
Bryn Mawr narrowly missed the
‘West Chester meet, Feb. 5, by a
29 to 34 score, due to a disqualifi-
cation in the varsity medley relay.
The J.V. team, however, won in
this meet, 36-25.
Bryn Mawr will swim against
Temple this Thursday at 4:00
o’clock in the last home meet of
the season. All spectators are wel-
come,
The Bryn Mawr basketball team,
presently rolling through its best
season in ten years, defeated its
last three opponents by an average
margin of 23 points. The j.v.’s have
not won by such’ overwhelming
earned and backed by solid team
playing. ~
In an away game on March 10,
the varsity swept—to—a—41-22 win
over Chestnut Hill. The scoring for
Bryn Mawr was fairly evenly di-
vided among the forwards, which
is the rule rather than the exception
for this year’s varsity. The BMC
team was greatly aided by the out-
sized number of fouls committed
by C.H., which in girls’ basketball
brings not only a free shot but also
the advantage of possession of the
ball. Sally Davis temporarily took
over honors at the foul line from
Barb Reid, sinking six for eight.
The Chestnut Hill j.v. game was
more nip and tuck, also with a lot
of fouling, but Bryn Mawr was the
final victor, 33-26, greatly aided by
Pixie Schieffelin’s 19 points. The
tall forward was high scorer for
both games.
The Swarthmore contest was
played under the always-more-com-
fortable conditions of the home
court, as the varsity took another
decisive win, 45-23, and the j.v.’s
squeaked out a 386-33 win despite
much last-minute uncertainty.
‘Moira MacVeagh was high scorer
for the varsity, but real credit goes
to the guards, by whose efforts the
Swarthmore field goal percentage
was incredibly low, which enabled
Movies
Bryn Mawr—Wed.-Sat.:. “Gigi”
with Leslie Caron, Maurice Cheva-
lier, et Louis Jourdan.
Sun.-Tues.: “Tonka” with Sal
Mineo; “A Nice Little Bank That
Should Be Robbed” with Tom Ewell
and Mickey Rooney.
Wed., March 11: “The Old Man
and the Sea” with Spencer Tracy.
Ardmore — Wed.-Thurs.: “Gigi,”
(same crowd).
Fri.-Tues.: “Tunnel of Love” with
Doris Day, Richard Widmark; Rob-
ert Taylor in “Party Girl” with
Cyd Charisse.
Wed., March 11: “The Perfect
Furlough” with Tony Curtis, Janet
Leigh.
Suburban and Anthony Wayne—
Wed.: “Bell, Book and Candle” with
Kim Novak, James Stewart.
scores, but their victories have been
J.V.'s s Emulate Success Of Varsity;
Hoopsters Score In Superior Season
BMC to build a comfortable lead:
Barbara Reid & Co. added an-
other win to the string on February
25, as Barb piled in 80 points in
beating Drexel, 49-22, at Draxel’s
bathtub-sized gym. The j.v.’s fol-
lowed the usual pattern, winning,
but by a lesser margin, 36-25.
Including two pre-season games,
the varsity squad has compiled a
record-of five wins in six starts,
losing only the first regular-season
game.
The basketball] team finishes the
season with two homes games, one
versus Cabrini at 4:00 Tuesday, the
other against a strong Rosemont
team at 7:30 Tuesday. Binny White,
captain of the team, expressed the
general feeling that the spectators
add greatly to the team spirit, espe-
cially in home games when the visi-
tors bring more.enthusiasm than we
can grow natively. —
Opera Defense
Continued from Page 2, Col. 3
school tends to contain a lot of
pretty beads—arias, duets, choruses
—held together by a limp chain of
recitatives. If one takes the recita-
tives out altogether and substitutes
spoken dialogue one ends up with
an inferior Gilbert and Sullivan
operetta; the other alternative is
to be a genius like Wagner and
write one continuous musical effu-
sion where everyone speaks at such
length that it is impossible to say
where an aria begins.
One may also find fault with the
purely musical passages. It’s obvi-
ously artificial to have the action
stop for five minutes while the
soprano delivers a coloratura elab-
oration on the words “I am in love,”
repeated twenty times up and down
the scale. Very well, then, it’s arti-
ficial, but isn’t it pretty? We relax
from the tension in which the rest
of the plot has presumably left us,
and lean back to appreciate the
melody and the vocal artistry in-
volved. It’s only in a very bad per-
formance that the plot leaves us
relaxed and the singer’s delivery
makes us nervous. And opera often
is given a bad performance, which
may be one reason it is not easy
to like it at first sight. One rarely
finds singers who can act and look
their parts. For this reason,.I would
recommend making: one’s first: ac-
quaintance with opera through
records or radio, libretto in hand.
Editor’s Spacefiller: If you, gentle reader, glanced at the front page
on your way to the Engagements column, you perhaps noticed an
item prosaicly entitled “Lectures in Prospect”.
generally plodding, journaistic turn of mind, in this case we did
come wp with an alternative, imaginative, even revolutionary rubric,
rejected with regret: “Pedagogues on Parade”.
‘While we admit to
Critic Sees German Plays As Providing aay
* Continued from Page 1, Col. 5
nately gave the impression of not
being sure just what he was doing
in the play, but, since he really
didn’t have much to do anyway, this
did not drastically affect the plot.
In the small part of the maid, Mar-
tha Birnbaum was delightful, and
made one want to see more of her.
It might have been more effective
to retain the original ending of the
play, in which the ghost (a Frem-
der, not a Fremdin) gives the Di-
rektor and Dichter a good rap with
his scythe and then challenges them
to utter a poetical monologue in
their dazed condition. Nahma Sand-
row, all in black, was certainly an
attractive substitute for the young
man of the script, but nobody
seemed very certain as to what she
was doing there, especially with the
dainty little scythe in her hand, and
the point of the play was somewhat
blunted.
AS a pul Die Kleinen Verwand-
ins can stand
nated cast with the ability to listen
in character brought out the humor
both of the individual characters
and of the situation.
In spite of their vulgarity, Josef
and Babette Bonholzer (the “Klein-
en Verwandten” of the title) do
have a certain amount of justice
on their side, and Abby Trafford’s
command of broad comedy made
Babette sympathetic in a crude sort
of way. Michael Dohan’s Josef was
a clever nitwit; his performance
was helped enormously by out-
rageous costuming and a pipe.
Distinguished from their “poor
relations” in manner as well as in
costume, the Hasslers were admir-
ably characterized by Karen Black
and Ted Hoen, who preserved a fine
balance between dignity and ridicu-
lousness. Mama Hassler was par-
ticularly effective at the beginning
of the play, as she planned the
strategy with which her family was
to greet their guest; Herr Hassler
seemed to come into his own in the
moments when he was trying to
eject his eaderieable relatives as
smirk, but she did that beautifully,
seeming the very incarnation of
bashfulness, while in the role of her
nervous suitor, Manfred Heyde-
breck gave perhaps the most fin-
ished performance of all.
Sets (the work of Katherine Ya-
blonsky and Michael Dohan) were
simple enough to be quickly
changed, but made no effort to-
wards stark modernism, which
would in fact have been out of
keeping with the musty atmosphere
of the apartment landing in Nacht-
‘beleuchtung and, even more so, with
Hassler family.
Having two short comedies in-
stead of one long one was a good
idea: it provided variety and made
it possible for more people to take
part in what is theoretically an edu-
cational experience. Indeed, if such
agreeable foreign language enter-
tainment could be repeated more
often, we might find ourselves in a
Utopia where language courses
were a thing of the past and every-
one learned Italian from . opera,
French from. movies like Les En,
fants du. Paradis, .and...German
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Wednesday, March 4, 1959
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The Purcell Anthem conducted by
Performer Views Wesleyan Concert
he Continued from Page 1, Col. 2
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Conference
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tense nationalistic feeling and the
people desire improvement.
India, explained Miss Suresht
Renjen, wishes to remain neutral.
The country receives aid from both
sides but refuses to commit itself—
India needs a stabilizing force, and
aid is the only way out.
Japan has a different problem.
Its representative, Mr. Taizo Wa-
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industrialized: Nevertheless, there
‘are vast gaps between the rich and
the poor which must be filled. Japan
thus needs markets, and is even will-4
ing to turn to Communist. China
for them.
In the afternoon atother panel
discussion was held, giving the re-
actions of donors to the foreign aid
program.
Dr. Berliner spoke also on this
topic. One of the major disadvan-
tages of the present aid program as
he views it is that it places Amer-
ica in the position of a policeman
resisting all change. This can be
. remedied, however, by establishing
an international aid board.
Mr. Philip Van Slyke, connected
with the Foreign Policy Association
of New York, advised Americans to
follow reality when it conflicts with
moral issues in coonnection with
‘forign aid. There are many cases
where Russia has gained |
because people were dissatisfied
with American principles.
He also objected to the fact that
the U. S. overemphasizes military
aid. We must expand our program
without any political strings.
A question and answer period
followed, in which the four morning
panelists joined. The Jordanian rep-
resentative criticized American aid
in the Middle East for not coming
from “down under” as the com-
munist aid does. To a delegate’s
objection, as she recollected seeing
the joy of the people at receiving
education, he answered, “Sure, you
teach them the alphabet and they
read the Communist Manifesto.”
The conference closed on this note.
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Socialism as a result of the
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