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VOL. XLIll, NO. 3
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1957
© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1957
PRICE 20 CENTS
Haverford’s President_Is Inaugurated;
Address Given In New
On Saturday morning Hugh
Borton was inaugurated as Pres-
ident of Haverford College in a
simple ceremony on the college’s
campus. Representatives from 162
learned institutions se Agee the
presidents of twenty-six colleges
and universities joined the Haver-
ford faculty and Board. of Man-
agers in the academic procession
which wound its way into the new-
ly-completed Field House.
Following the Reading from the
Scripture by the Rev. Andrew
Mutch of Wynnewood, there was
a period of silent. prayer in the
Quaker manner.
The Benediction was pronounced
by the Rev. Frederick R. Griffin
of Haverford.
In his inaugural address, Dr.
Borton dwelled upon the principles
laid down in “wisdom and sincer-
ity”? 125 years ago by the founders
~efthe college, He cited Haverford’s
motto, translated from
as “not more learned but imbued
with a better learning”: an edu-
cational aim as valid today as
when it was first adopted, Enum-
erating the many problems facing
higher education today: population
and consequent enrollment in-
creases as well as the difficulty of
attracting “teachers of superior
character and sound scholarhip,”
he maintained that Haverford’s
solution to these questions should
be evolved within the framework of
the original aims of the founders:
broad liberal arts training, em-
hasis on the individual student, and
unswerving affirmation of m§ral
values.
Warning of dangers to the con-
cept of individuality involved in
the process of mass-educating in-
creasing numbers of young people,
Dr. Borton cited “the pressure
from all sides to conform,” and the
“common practice of using brand
names. Large segments of society
and of the world are given single
labels and (anyone) who refuses to
be counted with the mob is consid-
ered at best to be a misfit, at worst
. . subversive.
“We appear to be either to ig-
norant or too lazy to distinguish
between a Venezuelan and a Brazil-
ian, a Syrian and a Lebanese, an
Indonesian and a Filippino. Our So-
ciety is fast developing into one in
which the individual is made into
a stereotype, if not forgotten.
“If we honestly believe in the
worth of the individual, the value
of his personal views, and his right
to hold them, we must nurture...
a college where the individual, not
numbers, are paramount.”
He pointed out that both gradu-
ate schools and executives in in-
dustry are coming to feel that the
broad liberal arts training is the
best prparation for later special-
ization. Haverford must continue
to emphasize this type of program,
while constantly reevaluating a
adjusting to provide students with
the education they will require in
a changing world. Stressing also
youth’s need for strong moral
guidance, Dr. Borton described the
U.S. - ‘Russian arms race as a
“search for ‘security through
_ thermo-nuclear devices” and re-
- marked, “we have come perilously
close to worshipping: the false god
of. science and to forgetting the
Christian basis of our civilization
and culture.
“In a world where moral values
.. are despised or ignored by part
of the world and sadly neglected
by the rest, this institution should
the Latin]
make no apologie§ nor hide the
fact that as a Uenominational,
Quaker college it ig interested in
the moral as well as'the intellectu-
al well-being of its students.”
Of fundamental importance, he
concluded, was belief in the worth
of every individual. “If we succeed
in keeping this truth before suc-
ceeding generations of Haverford-
ians, then we will in fact, have
imbued them with a better and
higher learning.”
BM French Club
Sponsors Lecture
ed the Hundredth Anniversary of
the publication of Madame Bovary
and Les Fleurs du Mal with a dis-
cussion by Professors B. Fe Bart
OI ByTacuse si ccnes-Giiathe
and Mario -Maurin, both of the
French Department here,
Professor Bart began by explain-
ing that Madame Bovary is alive
after 100 years “because is is the
successful embodiment of a new
esthetic.” For Flaubert this “new
esthetic” consisted of superimpos-
ing classical principles on a reju-
venated Romanticism. Tradition-
ally Romanticism is _ considered
emotionalism unbridled by art,
while Classicism is the disciplined
limitation of emotion making art
possible. s
Flaubert, known as the Father
of the French Realist school, nev-
er at any time thought of himself
as a Realist. Rather he sought to
create Beauty, for which Reality
should never be more than a pat-
tern.
Miss Gilman spoke next on Bau-
delaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. To be
sure, this work marked the turn-
ing point of the French poetic
movement. Realism was totally
repugnant; Baudelaire aimed at
suggestiveness in poetny whereas
previous poets had aimed at clar-
ity. His sense of contact with
poignant human. experience, his
method of departing from known
reality into his inner world and
his range of tone all bring ex-
treme density, never obscurity, t
Baudelaire’s poetry.
The program closed with a
poetry reading by Mr. Maurin.
Small Committee
To Study Big Six
Tne Undergrad Council last week
appointed Jan Wolf as chairman of
its newly-established Re-Evaluation
Committee.
The Committee was formed to
study the present Big 6 structure
and-to answer the following ques-
tions:
1. Is the present organizational
structure (the Big 6) the best pos-
sible for Bryn Mawr’s needs and
interests ? :
2. Ifit is not ,what recommend-
ations would you advance for im-
provements or revisions? ~
April has been set as a tentative
date for the Committee’s report.
Two persons from each class will
be appointed to serve on the Com-
mittee by the Council and by Jan.
A list will be posted in Taylor
for anyone who is interested in
working on the Committee to sign.
The French Club commemorat- |:
Cn ne
in ‘59’s “Speak Easily”.
Nicholas, Clara, Tony, Louie sad Max reach a cruelal point
4
Rhys Carpenter, Professor Emer-
itus of Classical Archaeology, -de-
livered the first of the Horace
White Memorial Lecture series on
Mycenaean Greek: Decipherment
Monday night in Goodhart.
Introduced by Richmond Latti-
more as the “newest and oldest
wtudy” in Greek literature, the sub-
ject of Linear B or Mycenaean
Greek was presented by Dr. Car-
penter as a difficult and often in-
tractable subject, which neverthe-
less draws scholars by its “novelty,
intrinsic importance, and_ slow,
sneaking fascination.”
Although tablets inscribed with
Linear B were discovered by Sir
Arthur Evans around 1900, it was
not until his death in 1941 that the
material was made available to
scholars; the publishing of these
tablets and Blegen’s find of .sim-
ilar ones at Pylos: provided the
impetus for scholars to attempt
decipherment, and in 1952 Michel
solution which, although not un-
contested, has been substantially
borne out. wectibithicde E
In order to . understand the
problems confronting Ventris and
the methods used in deciphering
other ancient languages, Dr. Car-
penter generalized that decipher-
ment is possible if the language
is known, no matter how jumbled
. or fantastic the signs and symbols;
but, even if it is written in the
Roman alphabet, it is impossible
to decode an unknown language.
Car penter to Relate
Dr. Rhys Carpenter, Professor
Emeritus of Classical Archaeology,
‘will deliver the sceond lecture in
the new series, Mycenaean Greek:
A New Glimpse into the Past on
Monday, October 28, at 8:30 p.m.
: Carpenter, retired from the
facult¥ since 1954, returns this
year as the Horace White Memor-
ial Lecturer for 1955.
This lecture is entitled “Content”;
the first in the series was on “De-
cipherment”, while the third and
nificance.”
Ventris was able to produce a|
Linear B’s Content
final lecture will be entitled “Sig-|-
Carpenter Lectures On Fascinations
;|And Difficulties Of Mycenean Greek
As examples he used the ancient
Egyptian hieroglyphs and Persian
cunieform, showing that in each
case there were three require-
ments: an idea of what kind of
writing is used (Egyptian is phon-
etic with ideograms as semantic
determinants), a knowledge of the
language the symbols represent,
fand some initial phoenetic clue,
usually a proper name (in Egypt-
ian it was Ptolemy and Cleopatra
on the Rosetta stone).
To the unpracticed eye, Linear
B is composed of neat rows of
symbols interspersed with larger
signs, which scholars guessed must
be determinants for phoenetic sym-
bols, Having guessed that the
language was phoenetic, the next
question was, “Is it alphabetic?”
The answer seemed to be no, for
the 87 phoenetic symbols in Lin-
ear B (of the total 200, more than
Continued on Page 5, Col. 1
Calendar
Thursday, October 24
4:15 p.m.—Alliance celebration
of U.N. Day, Common Room.
8:30 p.m.—Dr. Pierre Leogouis,
of the University of Besancon,
author of book on Maevell,
Donne, and Dryden, will give
the Class of 1902 lecture on
“Andrew Marvell.” Ely Room,
Wyndham.
Friday, October 25
8:00 p.m.—Lantern Night. Tra-
ditional welemoing of the Fresh-
man Class. General admission 30
cents. If rain, Saturday, October
26. Library Cloisters.
. Saturday, October 26 —
A.A. Workday—Applebee Barn.
2:00 p.m.—The Middle Atlantic
Renaissance Conference will meet
at the College. Common -Room.
Not open to general public.
Monday, October 28
7:15 p.m.—Current Events, Mr.
M. Baratz of the economics de-
partment wil speak on “Are we
in for a Depression.” Common
Room.
8:30 p.m.—The Horace . White
.Memorial Lecture. Professor .R.
Carpenter’s second lecture in
series. Topic: “Content.” Good-
hart Hall.
‘09's “Speak Easily” Captures Mood of ’20’s,
Musical Numbers Excellent; Dialogue Weaker
by Gretchen Jessup and
Anna Kisselgoff
A last minute rush down the aisle
gnd up the gangplank, four effer-
vescent songs, two fizz-bang flap-
pers, and the alternate whisper and
shout of genteel Boston—gangster _
Chicago,intrigue gave a genial im-
pression as of popping champagne
corks to Act I, scene 1 of Satur-
s\day iight’s..Junior show, Speak
Easily.
This cheerful mood, so swiftly
and skillfully determined, proved
itself as constant as good humor
can sometimes be; the audience
responded and had, in a sense, de-
cided at the very beginning what —
it warmly declared at the end, that
Speak Easily was indeed a suc- -
cess.
In part, this judgment is a pass-
ive tribute to the great benefits of
a |a first’ rate opening scene; an audi- ‘
ence once firmly gathered in, if
usually reluctant to filter out, and
the play once cheered is twice ap-
plauded. Thus, the Juniors saw to
it that their audience gained an
initial» good humor quite hardy
enough to survive Speak Easily’s
later lengthy lapses into frequent-
ly fizzled dialogue, and ready to
enjoy the other successful aspects
of the evening.
Entertainment is the obvious
(one would think) aim of every
class) show, and it is mainly ac-
complished through the usual
means of acting, plot, dialogue and
music, It is the rare show that
excels in all of these (last year’s
Pristina Perplexed is the only
example that comes to mind) afd
is able to constitute the complete
success. But one should not think
that Speak Easily represents a
decline by general standards; less
good than last year’s play, it is
still a definite three star improve-
ment over previous one or two
talent affairs.
The show has very actively to its
credit its excellent music, its acting
and the happy convolutions of its
plot, all delivered at a pace swift
enough to at least skip quickly by
the limp lines,
Basically, Speak Easily’s plot
was a very good one for the pur-
pose for which it was conceived.
It was essentially a spoof of an
and became a cheerful part of the
the musical comedy convention of
the good bad gay 1920’s. This stage
cliche fits most audiences like an
invisible cloche, calling up a whole
gay atmosphere at one feathered
stroke. We should call this reaction
nostalgia, if more than a few in
the audience had been old enough
to know first hand what they were
feeling it for. Perhaps it was the
feeling of reminiscence of other
musicals, such as The Boy Friend,
with which we feel ’59’s ‘plot fav-
orably, if irrevelantly, compares,
The tale of a prohibition-timed
ship-set rivalry between an Ameri-
can Society couple anda pair of
gangsters over the literal acqui-
sition of one Grand Duke (Russian)
who possesses the much sought
after secret of making vodka and a
not-much-sought-after ballet danc-
ing daughter, shows obvious possi-
bilities for a comedy of Speak
Easily’s type. It places incongru-
ous characters in an en
unlikely situation( and unlikelihood
has always been a great help to
comedy), and offers ample handles
Continued on Page 6, Col. 1
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era it is now fashionable to spoof;
“~“peauty transpires on the grounds, above in the balcony the’
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, October 23, 1957
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Tradition Tarnished
Certain it is that recent discussions of the rites and prac-
tices which flourish among us at certain seasons have gone
straight to every loyal heart, and that the multitudes have
risen from their bridge tables ‘and gone forth crying ‘Sophias”
and “Pallas” into the chill autumn afternoon. Have we not
ourselves felt this loyalty stirring within us and voiced it
even in the same breath with which we acclaimed the new
security and satisfaction with which any free-thinking indi-
vidual may abhor tradition? Yet we hesitate, for still it
seems that these clear Greek syllables which ring free from
the tinge of lucre, free from the coercion of “required and
fined” are still, as our Shakespeare has so aptly said, “leased
out’.
Signs, we note, have recently appeared in strategic plac-
es in the neighboring hamlet reading, “Lantern Night in the
Library Cloisters of Bryn Mawr College, General Admission
60 cents.”. How can this be compared with the sentences in
the freshman handbook which read, “This ceremony one of
the most beautifula nd impressive of the year is the official
welcoming of-the freshmen into the college.” While all this
curiosity seekers are clinking their greasy coins into the
eager hands of the ushers.
Never let it be said, however, that our idealism overcame
our economy. If the villagers do come forth to observe, as
onec the ancient Greeks saw the orgies of Bacchus or the
Elizabethans went to see the lunatics at Bedlam, and unlike
the former audiences they must pay for their privilege, the
profit of this unkindly practice cannot be denied; and we are
told that this profit is used to defray the cost of lanterns and
relieve the sophomores of some -portion of the immense
financial burden of their aforesaid loyalty.
This year especially, because of the size of the freshman
class the cost for each sophomore is almost prohibitive; and
while the need for some means of supplementary income
seems apparetn, it seems also that this means might be
chosen more in keeping with the spirit of Lantern Night, A
small fee charged equally to upperclassmen would confine our
financial embarrassment within college walls; or even more,
the use of the fines collected from those who, while wishing
to participate in the ceremony, still cut rehearsal, seems an
' appropriate answer to the problem.
Room For Speculation
Sputnik’s effect has indeed been great if it has been far-
reaching enough to shake Bryn Mawrtyrs out of their famous
extra-curricular apathy; campus observers have reported
students atop hall roofs at 6:00 a.m., eagerly awaiting a
glimpse of the Soviet space satellite.
Needlessto say, Bryn Mawr student interest-is only a
microscopic phenomenon representative of the larger and
graver concern felt by the American public and government.
But instead of rejoicing over the success of man’s extraor-
dinary scientific achievement, the world is beset by fears
brought on by the military and political implications of the
Soviet Union’s action.
Our political allies have expressed. surprise that: the
USSR “beat us to the punch”. At home, demands for inves-
tigations into our missile program and clamor for a cessa-
tion of budget cutting in the defense program have already
‘
A,
But dollars and partisan recriminations are not going to
strike at the root of the problem. Being behind in missile
development does not mean our scientists are inferior to
those of the USSR. But basically, we are behind, because
our scientists are hampered by the restraints imposed upon
them by governmental policy and by society. In contrast
to the Russian scientist, highly respected in his country
and actively driven to use his talents, the American scientist
shies away from governmental service because of its proven
political liabilities, holds a relatively unesteemed place in so-
ciety, and when he is emnployed by tne the state, is restricted. by
‘governmental
wcahasexeg te the te problem shore out by original U.S.
diesels es Gallic noean ary et progress can be
mt of the men who, on one
about advances in the mili-
other hand, are driven from
From The Balcony
Look Back In Anger
John Osborne’s new plaj;
Back in Anger, is a dram
mense
within a void and of a fury to
bitter energy generated
uproot society exhausted in a
world too small for society to no-
tice. Long before its October op-
ening’ at the Lyceum Theatre in
New York it had arrived by repu-
tation in this country as a con-
temporary statement representa-
tive of a group of Britain’s young-
er writers, Mr. Osborne in this
characteristic is aware of a de-
‘pressing futility, both social and
intellectual in his generation, of a
frustrated energy arising from
nothingness and wasting itself by
its own violence back into nothing-
ness, As such the play may or
may not affect its American audi-
ence; We may or may not find its
attitude startling or imminent.
Principally, however, Look Back
ideas or circumstance, ‘but of char-
acter. Its force is the force of its
central character Jimmy Porter
(played by Kenneth Haigh), a so-
cial rebel in a tradition of his own,
egoist, hater of the upper classes
and most of the lower, of “wealth
and poverty, of organized religion,
order and chaos, of tradition and
all of England’s past, present and
future. Confined by his own in-|
ertia in an«incredibly sordid attic
flat, in the midlands of England,
Alison, a representative of ‘the
hated middle class (Mary Ure),
his best friend Cliff (Alan Bates),
‘who completes: the Porters’ do-
mestic arrangements, and his
wife’s friend Helena Charles
(Vivienne Drummond), who arrives
on a visit.
So dominant is Mr. Haigh’s
presentation of Jimmy Porter
ook
of im-
In Anger stands as a drama not of |
Jimmy vents his wrath‘on ‘his wife)”
acters is merely in passive response
to his violence. Mary Ure, as his
wife exhibits a command of voice
and gesture, a tired, yet acrid
tonelessness that serves to inten-
sify the strength of his role, His
chum Cliff provides an excellent
foil, good thumored and_ well-
meaning although an echo of Jim-
my’s ideas on a quieter level.
The plot, when it arises from
the sensitive inter-relations of
these personalities, for they are
sensitive, despite the momentary
clash of their life, is adeqtiate and
compelling for the space of the
first act, where Alison is nearly
crushed by the strain of her hus-
band’s continual raving and _ his
bitter, thoughtless speeches. It
stands almost entirely on the mer-
its of its dialogue which is witty,
vivid and creates a strong, contem-
porary world.
Beyond this act Mr. Osborne has
resorted to a rather ordinary and
contrived dramatic mechanism, in-
volving the visit of ‘Helena, Ali-
son’s consequent return to her own
home and Helena’s replacement of
-heras a woman compelled by Jim-
my’s violent and not unattractive
personality. Significantly, how-
ever the play moves in a circle,and
Alison returns. to discover her only
escape from that life is an escape
back into it. There is neither
resolution nor conclusion.
Asa vehicle’ of “rebellious ideas,
or an innovation in stagecraft,
Look Back in Anger seems an iso-
lated play. It is complete by it-
self, in that it points to nothing
further, no development other than
that which it represents; its hope
or despair have no other than a
dramatic purpose, but for that
purpose, as an entity unto itself the
play is a brilliant and arresting
that the action of the other char-
‘
The My-how-things-change-(but
not always) Department.
From the College News, October
17,, 1917:
“Writing The Orals—Ha! Ha!
Ha! Seniors Sing and Cheer Before
One Hour Test. Committee of Three
Still Busy Correcting Papers.
Ten minutes of untrammeléd oral
singing greeted the Senior French
Examiners last Saturday morning
in Taylor before the examination.
Sixty-one Seniors took the exam-
ination, which lasted an hour.
To the tune of “Brighten The
Corner ‘Where You Are,” the re-
vival hymn made famous by “Billy”
Sunday, 1918 set the first “written
Ha, Ha, Ha!”, which they gave for
the first time Friday night in Pem-
broke at the oral singing.”
We feel “brighter” already.
From the College News, October
24, 1917:
“Forty-nine Take First German
Oral.’ :
Only forty-nine Seniors out of
some sixty-eight were entitled to
take the first German Examination
which came last Saturday. One
hour was allowed for the tranela-
tion of two pages.”
You left out “Entitled To Take
The Orals, Ha, Ha, Ha!”?
“Banner Show A Vaudeville Fea-
turing Togaed Comedians.
Contrary to the slogan at the
head of their program, ‘the. ban-
ner’s all right, the show’s rotten,’
the Juniors showed themselves very
good two-a-day artists and pre-
4 evsigse naire bill last Satur-
IOI7...
oral” song, “Writing The Orals,|
production.
train, every line in the rather crude
humor was greeted with shouts of
laughter.”
Must have been a good-humored
bunch in ‘those days.
“Predicts Air Raid on U. S.
Coast; Dr. Gray Lectures on Cur-
rent Events.
Dr. Gray delivered the first of
his talks on current events to a
full Chapel Monday evening. The
Germans are planning an airplane
raid on the American coast cities
in the next six months, he declared.
The United States will have to
build ten timesSas many aircraft
as she is turning out now, if she
is to equal the German production.”
Ho hum.
“Government Has Women Sleuth,
Most Valued Detective in Washing-
Letter to the Editor
Traditions’ Future
Scanned by Reader
To the Editor:
Last week the Undergraduate
Association defined its position on
traditions with special reference to
Lantern Night. This definition was
a necessary step. In the past stud-
ents were allowed to refrain from
participation in college traditions,
but many were unaware of this
fact and felt compelled to —_
cipate.
One wonders what the repercus-
are two possible results: either
traditions will be supported more
strongly than in the past, or they
will disintegrate. They will be more
strongly supported because, if as
the Undergraduate Association as-
sumes, students are really interest-
ed in them, the disaffected will be
separated from the supporters. The
other possibility, that of disinteg-
ration, seems more likely, however.
Now that coercion had been dimish-
ed, even those mildly interested
people will be more apt to cease
taking part in them. The explan-
ation is that traditions like Lant-
ern Night which require weeks of
rehearsal lack spontaneity and
vitality. If certain traditions are no
longer enjoyable to most people,
then either they should be retained
for the few who will voluntarily |
take part in them, or they should
tions.
Ann Lackritz ’58
Editor’s Note: Actually it was
the Undergrad Council, not as-
sociation, that defined - posi-
tion. tet
Two More Days
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168; ‘
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Chapel
This Sunday’s chapel speaker
will be the Reverend Mr. William
T. Warren of the Church of the
Incarnation at Morrisville, Penn-
sylvania.
1948 graduate ‘of Haverford and *
Reverend Warren was a
sions of’ the policy will be. There... -
be replaced. by more vital institu...
has taken graduate work at Vir-
ginia Theological Seminary, from
which he ,received his BD degree,
and at General Seminary in New
York City. Prior to hig eleven
years at the Church of the Incar-
ton,
A future occupation for Bryn
Mawr’s tireless “sleuth-hounds”
(sic) is suggested by“an”article in
the last Literary Digest. The most
value detectve on the Washington
force is a woman. Officially known
as Mrs. Ida V. Farling, of whose
importance ‘to . the -Governmen
police authorities think so AE
that they will not allow her to be
photographed without a mask. Her
duties include spy work, investiga-
tion of the disorderly element of
the capital, and, although she is
herself a suffragist, the repression
of militant demonstrations in
Washington.
Mrs. Farling, who is tcomaer
and more agile than the average
man, attributes her unusual phys-
ical qualifications to systematic ex-|
ercises and outdoor life. She carries
a revolver in her reticule, and is
a dead shot.” —
. My brea name is Victoria,
nation,
for a short time as Assistant Rec-
tor of St. Mary’s Church*in Ard-
more,
Reverend Warren served
His topic for this Sunday is
“Am I Free?”
v
Engagements
Martha Weil ex-’60. to Arthur
Whittal. -
Marna Press ex-’68 to Arthur L.
Dann .
Alexandra Quandt °57 to Fred
C. Aldridge, Jr.
__Jrina Hrazdilova to Edward H.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three
Sincerity, Lightness, Love Of Life
Characterize Students’ Life In Daris
by Eliza Cope ’58
My winter in Paris really started
when I met four most original and
charming French students on the
Dalmatian coast. As they took off
for Athens and I for the Yugo-
slavian hinterlands, they said gaily,
“Come and see us in Paris.” So I
went one day to the café where
these students had said they were
“all the time.” What I found was a
dingy hole in the wall on the left
bank, filled with ever-present men
in blue overalls drinking aperitifs
and students playing billiards in a
smoke filled room. This then was
the famous left bank student life,
was it? and I was about to beat
a shy retreat when the Yugoslav
contingent swept down on me amid
much Gallic cheekkissing and hand-
shaking. So there I was, and that
night I was initiated into what was
—externally at least—the blasé and
relaxed life of aperitifs and black
coffee,
Fitting in and getting accustom-
ed to these people who ‘were to
become my closest friends was not
always easy. Being students at the
Ecole des Beaux Arts, they were
busy, under pressure and excitable
just as any group of students is.
Carrying their work with them
from their. studios, they often dis-
cussed architectural problems with
waving hands, and endless rolls of
or argued over
some question of inner politics in
“the school. These were things with
which I had nothing to do—for a
long time, in fact, I hardly even
understood what they were talking
about— and I would wonder why
on earth I was sitting there, feel-
ing like a fish on dry land,
Then, little by little, things began
to sort. themselves out. I began to
realize that the sign of acceptance
and of welcome from these people
did not come in the form of a lot
of conversation about, “chére amie,
we’re so glad to see you—do come
again.” They were a direct crowd
with little time to spare. If they
liked you, they accepted you and
took you into their midst, You said
“bonjour” when you came and “au-
revoir” when you left, and they
made. no more fanfare over you
than over one of their better known
friends. This was their hospital-
ity and the sign of their confidence
in you,
The reputation that the Beaux
Arts students have for being the
gayest group of Parisian students
is understandable, as there was
never any, scarcity of words or
excitement. Day after day as we
sat over the lunch coffee—huddled
in coats and sweaters on the dingy
brown leather seats or stretched
over wicker chairs on the sidewalk
in the sun—jokes and biting com-
ments were tossed back and forth
with remarkable quickness and
humor, as people came and went.
Entirely aside from the French that
I learned in the process, sparring
and jesting with this wide circle of
young people was a tremendously
amusing and exciting experience.
This light spirit was not only a
product of that little café with its
grimy paintings left by penniless
students in payment of a month’s
drinks. It popped up in the middle
“of a concert when there weren’t
enough seats’ and we got the gig-
gles, or when pranks..were- played:
on unsuspecting waiters, or. when
. someone just couldn’t help laughing
at my accent and wide-eyed inno-
cence.
Yet, if, with a good part of them-
selves, they were gay and carefree,
they nevertheless took life as a
serious thing. Few of the group
that I knew either wanted to accept
money from their parents or came
from families which could easily
afford to pay their expenses. Thus
many of them worked a consider-
able number of hours in. offices
which were sometimes on the other
side of Paris. Some of them had
wives to support. These facts alone
whoero: T
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meant that many of: them were
often hurried, tired and worried.
They were an intelligent group not
given to accepting life as it is
served them without questioning.
They remember the second World
War and they see France now in
difficulties which they often de-
plore. The boys were by and large
all within a month’s, or a year’s,
range of being called to fight in
Algeria. The result was a great
deal of serious discussion and con-
versation. I, as a foreigner and an
American, was often caught up in
arguments and found myself forced
to think clearly about what I be-
lieved in and forced to find the
courage to say it ‘inrthe face of
violent disagreement. This was
often neither pleasant nor easy,
since these young people were
accustomed to taking violent stands
on issues, and not always in the
habit of being tolerant about the
other sides of a question.
I lived then for a winter among
these students, sharing their meals
and their walks on a _ beautiful
afternoon, laughing with them;
listening to their annoyances, to
their swearing. The exciting and-
satisfying thing was that, little
by little, I stopped looking at what
was going on from the point of
view of an amused—and sometimes
‘confused. — bystander, and began
really to take part in what was
going on, having found a place
A. mannla, Tt
. -belonged. RITA PCSPxrS-—--e
liked.
In many ways they were hard
people, In their jokes and in their
treatment of others, they were
frank, sometimes bordering on
brutal. Since life is competitive and
the future uncertain, they tend to
look out for their own interests
without much concern for anyone
else. With a good dose of the true
artistic spirit, they could be tem-
peramental and -selfish. In spite
|of this, it is the positive side of
their collective personality that
comes to mind when I think about
them. Amid all the bewilderment
and discouragement which they
occasioned for an American school-
girl, they stand out against the
background of the Seine and a
small left bank café as people of
warmth and, above all, sincerity.
Through all their mercurial shifts
of temperament; from gayness to
anger, from calmness to agitated
rantings, they lived in a direct and
genuine fashion. Friends | were
chosen or discarded on their per-
sonal interest or charm, not on the
basis of their money or their fam-
ily, or their pretentions. People
came and people went, were expect-
ed to give as good as they got,
and few questions were asked.
Among all those that I met, there
was remarkably little backbiting
and gossip and there was a general
desire to live and let live.
Coupled with this lack of. super-
ficialities was an extraordinary
spontaneity and “joie de vivre”
which sent us off to the tower of
Notre Dame or across Paris on the
back of a Vespa to watch pretty
girls on the Champs Elysees, just
because it was a beautiful day; or
which made a group decide on
Saturday afternoon to go to the
theater that night.
I’m not among those who can’t
‘wait to go dashing back to Europe.
It. was a temporary life, not only
for me as an American, but for
all the students who will eventually
finish their studies and leave Paris,
But, nevertheless, as_I sit in. my
room in Pem West writing this
aricle, a whole flood of laughs and
smells and places and faces
around me. What I would hope to
retain with all these memories is
some of the honesty and real sin-
cerity, some of the freedom and the
lightness, and some of the excite-
ments and stimulation of life as I
happened t@discover it among the
students 6f the Beaux Arts of
Paris.
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II
Perplexed with Truths (by knowl-
edge glossed)
The student asked How High the
Cost ?,
And wisdom well might weep
At: “Look before you leap,”
But “He that hesitates is lost .. .
”
Miss Lang Participates in Excavations
Of Nestorian Palace in Pylos, Greece
Nestor’s palace. at sandy Pylos,
built during the heyday of Mycen-
ean Greece and famed in the
Homeric tradition, was the site of
Miss Mabel L. Lang’s summer acti-
vities, There she assisted the Uni-
versity of Cincinnati expedition, led
by Carl W. Blegen, in cleaning
frescoes and deciphering Linear
B tablets.
So far the excavators have un-
covered a large, complex palace,
surrounded by tombs, which fits
Homer’s description and a date
in the 13th century B.C. This sum-
Comell Student Publishes Survey
On Censorshid Of Colleae Papers
Questionnaires sent out to col-
lege newspaper editors by a Cornell
graduate student last spring result-
ed in significant findings on the
freedom of the press in the nation’s
institutes of higher education.
Virginia Pratt of Corneil received
244. replies from student editors
(including Bryn Mawr’s) in her
survey of censorship and freedom
on the campuses. Basing her find-
ings on the editors’ opinions, she
concluded that “in general, this
study has shown, that the average
student editor possesses a fairly]
high degree of independence in
ypublishing..the. student newspaper,
although structural provision for
supervision exists at most colleges.”
Among the questions Miss Pratt
asked and. the replies she received
are the following:
How long has your campus news-
paper been published? No.
" Replies
Lames than & yeare vsiscssscereis 1
0 BO ee, 13
Pe NG oo ienirrensirtioncianes 25
More than -25° years ~:.:;....:.::.;..... 205
Which of the following services
do you think are being carried out
by your campus newspaper ?
Presenting general news
Discussing controversial campus
issues
Discussing off-campus contro-
versial issues
Presenting the university ad-
ministration’s point of view
to students
iPresenting campus issues to
those not in the campus com-
munity
What percentage of the campus
reads your newspaper?
More that, 7696 2.0. 181
AGE is en nee pee ee 62
TBE CHAN BOF incre csene cee 1
Which do you think are the three
most important purposes of a cam-
pus student newspaper?
To present campus news ............ 216
To stimulate discussion about
COBMIGE HOWS foicsscsssecitisipuniccesies 183
To provide a medium for stud-
ent expression
To provide journalistic training
for students
!To represent the institution to
the general public
To stimulate discussion about
general news
To present local,
world news
To lead student opinion
To stimulate interest and act as
national, ~ or
a. mati tonee-o ‘campus... 5| >
(Two replies each: to provide an
historical record; to reflect as well
as to lead student opinion; to pro-
"|(Student editors as group
vide an historical record; to reflect
as well as to lead student opinion;
to provide feature material; to
stimulate thinking on issues im-
portant to students everywhere.
One"feply each: to act as a check
on student government; to act as a
school conscience; to stimulate dis-
cussion on church-related questions;
to point out injustices and wrong-
doing; to present student point of
view on controversial issues; to
check - dictatorial administrative
‘policies; to provide an interesting
extra-curricular activity.)
Does the newspaper have a writ-
ten eahoriat poney?.
Yes PRU ER CAs (Ethos CTS URIS EC SECS Os) 64 cok bts ce eke cote
Are editorials on issues known
to be controversial expected to be
submitted to anyone before being
printed?
EN Saree 48
NR occ acc 59
AES es CRE Se ene ea er 135
“Always” submitted to:
ON ee. 26
Student editors ae et0uD ::....: 11
ee pe ore a alga cag cance ara 10
Member of administration ........ 5
Publications board .............:.........: 1
“Sometimes” submitted to:
CO 36
seeeecee
Member of administration ........ 13
Various student or faculty cam-
We 1ORUCTN hei 3
Staff
Does the university administra-
tion give the editor confidential in-
formation and trust to his discre-
tion in printing all or part of it?
Seldom or occasionally ................ 109
ee 89
—— 42
Are there any _ controversial
topics which the university admin-
istration insists may not be sub-
ject to editorial opinion?
1h RSs i i ae ae 183
I olirrcc ea isi awiics 56
meee O00 MO... hs, 5
If “yes,” specify topics:
Questioning of religious doct-
rines or practices
Criticism of administration deci-
sions or policies
Any item “embarrassing to the
administration or the college” 11
Segregation-integration 9
Criticism of faculty depts. ........ 4
Faculty or administrative per- <
I oes iccsceabensssses eee 4
I iss sscciasayuialeaisncss 3
Endorsement of student political
‘Candidates unless rivals given ~
equal space
(One reply each: criticism of
Continued on Page 5, Col. 3
Response from Our Readers Department
Whew!
(for Horace Greeley)
When I whas out where the Whest begins: “What!”
I cried to those who passed me by.
(It
Whas all I could muster when thinking of Custer,
Out of evenything but Sioux
Where
The
Whest — is
Begins.)
“What!” :
Arthur P. Dudden
mer’s work was concentrated on
a new wing, consisting of several
large rooms, which has tentatively
been identified as a service wing
or the headquarters of the palace
guard.
Although everything but the
lowermost foundation ring had
been washed down the hillside, a
tholos burial was discovered intact,
rich in bronze cauldrons and wea-
pons, pots and skeletons; and a
couple of chamber tombs were also
found untouched. Several clay im-
pressions of seals, accidentally fired
in the burning of the palace, were
among the other interesting finds.
Miss Lang’s particular work was
cleaning the frescoes of what is
considered to be the queen’s room.
After scraping and washing liter-
ally thousands of pieces, she was
able to put together parts of a
frieze of griffins and lions. Al-
though the animals are probably
symbols of rayalty, some doubt
has been raised as to whether such
masculine animals would decorate
a feminine suite.
The. newly found tablets which
Miss Lang. read bear out Ventris
decipherment of Linear B, for
though some words are not im-
mediately identifiable in later
Greek, many passages made good
Greek sense.
Miss Marion Rawson, ’22, who
helped Mr. Blegen «at Troy, was
the only other Bryn Mawrter "
| Pylos' this summer,
Case Supervisor
Tells Of Societ
Upon the invitation of the
League, Miss Anne Huntington
spoke about the various services
rendered by the Travelers’ Aid
Society and gave a few illustrative
case histories, The Society was
founded in 1849 by the mayor of
St. Louis as a channel through
which aid could be given to unsuc-
cessful “miners ’49’ers” and other
poverty-stricken strangers gtop-
ping in St. Louis. During the past
century it has expanded substan-
tially, with the backing of contrib-
utions from charity organizations
(such as the Community Chest) so
that it now boasts a central office
in New York City and over 1,000
affiliated branches throughout the
nation. Most of the offices are at
transportation points such as. train
stations, piers and airports,
The Travelers’ Aid Society helps
people of any race, creed or age
solve a varied assortment of prob-
lems. For example, it tells new-
comers to a city where. to find liv-
ing quarters; it endeavors to locate
missing persons; it finds employ-
ment for job-seekers; it helps dis-
placed persons, such as the Hun-
garian refugees, get settled in new
surroundings; it gives money to -
the poverty-stricken and wallet-
losers expecting to be reimbursed
if possible. The Travelers’ Aid
Society also hires ‘Cise-workers
who attempt to iron out the prob-
lems of alcoholics, the mentally ill
and runwaay children.
Miss Huntington mentioned that
they have runaway cases on record.
from the age of seven to ninety-
seven. To substantiate this un-
usual statement, she told of a
runaway grandfather who is nine-
ty-seven years old and thus under-
standably a bit.senile...However,.
if one adheres to the adage that
“life begins at eighty” then his
attacks of spring fever in recent
years are self-explanatory. These
attacks are so acute that they im-
pel him to secretly depart from
the family circle for a few weeks
in Philadelphia, where he was
raised. ‘When his funds are ex-
hausted, he applies to the Travel-
ers’ Aid Soeiety for a return i
I ticket.
Page Four
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, October 23, 1957
Alliance Debates
Political Attitudes
Congratulations’ to the new
Freshman Hall Reps to Alliance!
The as-yet incomplete list is as
follows:
Pem E.—Bonnie Bonnett
East House—Kathy Livezey
> Denbigh—B. J. Baker
Radnor—Gloria Cummings
Rhoads—Bobbie Sue Hood
Hanna Woods
This does not mean, however, that
other students are excluded from
the Thursday board meetings. All
students who come are welcomed
and given an active, voting role in
the Alliance.
The Alliance meeting on Oct..17
was one of_he liveliest to date.
After dispatching the necessary
business, the floor was opened—as
is customary—to discussion of ‘the
weekly topic, Conservatism among
the American College Students.
the conversation rapidly evolved
into a heated debate on the extent
to which socialist ideas have pene-
trated the Republican doctrine.
Personal opinions were more than
a little bit provoked by this ap-
proach. It was the type of meet-
ing and discussion the Alliance is
trying to encourage this year.
IRC (International Relations
Club) has announced plans to send
delegates to a conference on Rus-
sia at Loyola College in Baltimore.
The Alliance voted to meet trans-
portation costs. An exciting plan
has also been worked out to unite
the Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, and
Haverford political organizations.
This means that the three colleges
will co-operate on publicity, speak-]
ers, and transportation. Through
working together, each will be able
to offer more opportunities to the
students.
(Maurice Rosenblatt, a well known
lobbyist, will soon speak at Bryn
Mawr. His topic, the “Impact of
the Little Rock Crisis on the Party
Structure of the United States,” is
very timely.
There was no current events lec-
ture on Oct..21. Dr. Baratz of the
Economics Department will speak
on Monday, Oct. 28.
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A Short Program
If the dance club’s performance
in Skinner. Workshop on Saturday
at 2:30 p.m. is a glimpse of what
that group can do when it has
weeks instead of days and hours to
create and rehearse, then a major
production on their part is well
worth encouraging.
Whipped up for the junior week-
end activities, the program offered
variety if ‘brevity.
The first number was “A
Dancer’s Workshop,” danced to the
score of “Man with a Golden Arm.”
It consisted of (a) exercises in place
and (b) development of movement
in space with walk,.focus, change
of direction, level and tempo. Parti-
cipants were Jeannette Paul, Linda
Luckman, Loretta Stern, Marisa
Gori, Sue Band, Sara White, Sara
Bosworth, Millicent Dudden, Bobbi
Hart, Caroline Franco, and Leora
Luders,
Bobbi Hart and Caroline Franco
then performed a pas de deux to
music from “Le Sacre du Sauvage.’
Melodee Siegel gave her inter-
pretation of “Chicago,” Carl Sand-
burg’s poem which was read by
Leora Luders.
Contrasting with ‘the modern
dance dominating -the rest of the
program was Linda Luckman’s per-
formance of the waltz from the
ballet | ictal Leora Luders’
-
_
In spite of the flu, Friday’s rain
and other seemingly discouraging
factors, Junior Weekend took a
sociall} successful course.
Speak Easily opened Friday night
to a large audience. (This may
account for the comparatively
small one Saturday). Open House
at East House followed. Under the
direction of Cathy Lucas, this event
took place in a “speakeasy” mood,
complete with barred doors and
back entrances.
Saturday afternoon, Lora Luders
directed the Dance Club presenta-
tion. A jazz concert by the Pur-
ple Knights Quintet from Williams
College that put the untuned piano
in Skinner to shame, followed.
Bottles, pink elephants and
champagne bubbles set the scene
while the Quintet provided the
mood for the Juniors’ “Prohibition
Prom” in the gym. A few souls
donned flappers and froufrous and
everything from “Night Train”to
“Blue Moon.”
Entertainment was provided by
original rendition of the theme of
“Indecision” danced to Debussy’s
“General Lavine” closed the per-
formance, A.K.
charlestoned with gay abandon to|
‘59’s Show, Prom, and Open Houses
Included in Junior Weekend Agenda-
the Octangle and two members of
the cast of Speak Easily—Janine
Gilbert and Margery Tinkham—
who repeated their “Golddigging
Song” from the show.
_ Atmosphere seemed to be the
byword (or password) in Rock
after the prom, transformed into
New Elections
The Undergraduate
Association is pleased to
announce the election’ of
the following Advisory
Board members:
Tia Boal—Wyndham
a Japanese lanterned ‘Paradise”
with mood music and fringed| Catharine Lucas—East House
doorways.
e e e
Events in Philadelphia
THEATRE
Shubert: Rumple, Phillips-Reardon-Schweikert musical with Eddie‘ Foy,
Gretchen Wyler and Stephen Douglas, opened Monday.
Walnut: The Square Root of Wonderful, Carson McCullers, romantic
play with Anne Baxter, Jean Dixon, Phillip Abbot, William Smith-
ers.
Forrest: Fair Game, Sam Locke comedy with Sam Levene, Ellen: Mac-
Rae, Robert Webber.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC
Philadelphia Orchestra: Eugene Ormandy conducting, Friday afternoon
and Saturday evening; Monday, October 28 — Eugene Istomin,
pianist with the orchestra.
Boris Christoff: Bulgarian Basso in a concert, October 29. Philadel-
chief and Andre Eglevsky, ballet dancers, October 30.
MOVIES
phia Orchestra Student Concert: Ormandy conducting; Maria Tall-
‘Bala: Escapade, British comedy—drama with Alistair Sim, John Mills.
Goldman: The Devil’s
‘Wallace.
Hairpin—drama with Cornel Wilde and “ean
World: Passionate Summer—French drama on a goat farm with Raf
Vallone, Magali Noel, Madeleine Robinson.
Stanton: The Miracle of Marcelino—Spanish legend starring Pablito
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Fiv-e
RARE AEB. re eee ee
Dr. Carpenter in May 1955 at Bryn Mawr
Dr. Rhys Carpenter
Continued from Page 1
“half are determinants) would num-
ber far more than any known al-
phabet, ancient or modern. The
decision that the symbols are pho-
netic but not alphabetic led to
one conclusion: they must repre-
sent syllables. But again a prob-
lem was raised: are the syllables
open (ending with a vowel) or clos-
ed (ending with a consonant)?
From a study of signs which could
begin or end ‘words, but which
never occurred in the middle, and
which therefore must represent
single ‘-vowels (for vowels in the
middle of words would always be
attached to a consonant to form
a syllable), Ventris' determined
that Linear B’s words began with
single vowels and that therefore
the.language was.open.syllahie. (as
divided in A-the-na opposed to
Ath-en-a).
The next guess was that this
language, if similiar to Greek,
must be highly inflected; and from
determinants it was possible to
tell whether the endings were
feminine (a) or masculine: (0).
From this point it was possible for
Ventris to make a “grid” of the
various feminine endings which
must involve (a) with different con-
sonants attached and a similar list
for the masculine o endings. Thus,
by this laborious process, he had
completed a grid for almost all the
symbols by February, 1952, with-
out being able to read a word of
the writing. ‘But finally the break
came: he was able to identify the
place name, Knossos, and from it
other names, until by June of the
same year he was able to announce
that Linear B was deciphered.
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trustees and large contributors to
the college; criticism of rival col-
leges; disciplinary committee act-
ion; student govt.)
Do you think the institution has
a right to make major policy de-
cisions for the campus newspaper?
(EEE TSI BS Gg ra Oe ot 20ers 185
ON oe aie. aes 52
Mee ON NG ih ccc, 5
If “yes,” why?
MPC POINTIONN ooo. cceccicccccccscscscs 33
University’s general responsibil-
ity: for all students .-....2:::..4.:+:
Possible lack of student judg-
a a a,
University is publisher or
OE ee A dictccnchuns
University desires a fair amount
of objectivity on controversial
issues
It is a state college
Does the university administra-
tion or faculty ever insist that the
editor NOT print a particular item?
26
21
20
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SE ee re ay 81
thoes co, EE i3
Does the university administra-
tion or faculty ever insi®§t that the
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William L. Savage
Selected To Head
Parents Committee
Mr. William L. Savage, New
York publisher, has been named
chairman of the Parents Commit-
tee of Bryn Mawr College, it was
announced yesterday by Miss Kath-
arine E. McBride, president of
Bryn Mawr.
- Mr. Savage, who lives in Morris-
town, New Jersey, will head an
advisory group of parents of under-
graduates and alumnae for the an-
nual giving program of the col-
lege. He succeeds Mr. Lewis N.
Lukens, Jr., of Philadelphia, who
has been chairman for the past
three years.
Mr, Savage is secretary and a
director of Charles Scribyer’s Sons,
publishers, and is also head of the
Religious Literature Department of
the publishing house. He is a grad-
uate of Princeton University ith
the class of 1920.
He has ane son and two daugh-
ters, one.of whom, Mrs. T. Guthrie
Speers, Jr., is a graduate of Bryn
Mawr. Mr. Savage’s wife, the late
Serena Hand Savage, was also an
alumna and a former president of
the Alumnae Association,
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lectures is “Speeialized Research
in Biology.” In recognition of the
Biology Department’s research, the
College received a generous grant
from the National Institutes of
Health,
On Saturday morning in the
Music Room, Goodhart, following
registration and a welcome address,
the History of Art Department will
present Dr. J. Sloane speaking on
“Art, Education and Bryn Mawr”;
Dr. A. Soper on “Orientalia”; Dr.
Richard Bernheimer on ‘Hades,
Gothic, and Opera”; Mr. Fritz Jans-
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at Princeton, will speak in the
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, October 23, 1957
Junior
Continued from Page 1
for the action of the play to sieze
upon,
This feat was wonderfully ac-
complished with the music of the
show, which both entertained and
suited the action to a pin stripe.
“The H.M.S. Liverpoo!,” “Golddig-
ing Song,” “Rub Him Out,” “I
Can See It Now”’—they were all
fine and so were the rest. We per-
sonally emphatically belong to the
more good music the merrier school
of musical comedy.
The visual effects of the pro-
duction were also good, at least
in the first and last acts, where
tableaux-like qualities of colorful
sets, costumes and excellent block-
ing did their helpful best to please.
This brings us to, on the one
hand, the acting, and alas on the
other, the script. It may be plain-
ly said that the acting of a few
characters saved the performance
itself, when the dialogue nearly
sank it. The lines were the main
defect of the show; it is remark-
able that the Juniors ‘succeeded as
‘well as they did, despite this large
stumbling block—the almost total
lack of real cleverness and wit in
the dialogue.
Acting as a counterbalance to
this were the various factors men-
tioned before (music, ‘pace, sets,
plot), together with the generally
competent, and in some cases ex-
cellent acting. But these were not
. enough to rescue the script from
Some...dull.spets, beyond’ the hope
’ of mortal actor to save. This was
instanced especially in the middle
parts of the show,‘ and also in the
treatment: of certain characters,
who were intended to’ be humorous
and steréotypes, but who turned
out to be mainly the latter. It is
possible, although difficult, to as-
semble rather vacuous or stock
remarks in such a way that they
make an amusing whole. Concen-
tration, selectivity, and verbal con-
trasts markedly assist this process.
This is not to say that none of
the production was clever. On the
contrary, a certain vivacious soph-
istication in working out its other
Show
aspects was clearly evident. But
because of Ahe disappointing lack
of consistency in the show’s stand-
ards, because its positive aspects
led to “great expectations” on the
part of the audience, the show’s
flat moments were more glaringly
apparent that if they had been set
against scenes which had not been
as good. (So one waited and wait-
ed for something really clever ‘to
be said by someone, and yet noth-
ing ever, was. This was particu-
larly conspicuous in speeches by
Nicholas, the Fitzgeralds, Sonia,
and the Movie Producer; in other
words, most of the time. Compar-
ed with the dialogue of last year’s
Junior show, and the comparison
is inescapable for those who have
seen both, the lines in Speak Eas-
ily seemed occasionally amusing
but usually obvious, and- unable to
keep up with the general mood of
the play. The few exceptions here,
were the lines spoken by the two
gold-diggers, Peaches and Bub-
bles (wpon whom one could wish
at least a celluloid immortality),
and sometimes by Max and Louie,
the gangsters,
Yet: again, if one looks into why
this foursome was so _ hilarious,
credit must go rather to their songs
and their superior comic acting,
than’ ‘to what they had to. say.
There is always room for gesture,
ad lib, the funny expression, in this
sort of informal comedy, room for
the something extra that casually
underscores a thought or wryly.re-.
veals a situation,- the something
extra that a good trouper can us-
ually give. The quartet’s ability to
make the most of the material they
had, made them the mainstay of
the show.
However, amidst all the plaints
on script, one large sigh of relief
and vote of thanks goes to the
non-college-topical plot, and _ to
the almost completely sparing hand
used on the ancient collection of
Bryn Mawr, or College, “jokes”
that usually seems to lurk some-
where nearby the class inkwells,
when another show is begun.
As far as estimates of the in-
dividual performances are con-
cerned, there can be mainly praised
for members of the cast.
However, some of the roles were
too limited to let the actor really
make the best of his situation in
the same way as for instance, Max
and Louie could, an example here
was the part of Tony Fitzgerald.
One often wishes that Tony, as
stock character as he was supposed
to be, would come up with a flat-
ness of a less amorphous type.
type. Yet Alice Todd was convin-
cing in her part and sang extraord-
inarily well in her “Ican See it
Now” number.
Sonia’s and Clara’s roles pre-
sented the same problem, with the
lack of good dialogue hampering
the performance. However, Miss
Winsor (Clara) -was very attractive
ina role that unfortunately left
her with little to say and Faith
Kessel played her part as the Rus-
sian ballerina suitably, accent
and all. Helen Birnbaum, as the
vodka-making Russian, had one
of the most difficult roles in the
show; besides having to retain a
foreign accent throughout the per-
formance, she had to impersonate a
colorful character and again eope
with the inadequacies of the dia-
logue. Miss Birnbaum handled her
part very well, and although her
frequent jumping around may have
caused the audience some nervosity,
it was a correct element within her
characterization. Such enthusiasm
was appropiate. Sandy Scott as the
movie producer was adequate but
had a role that was least enjoyed,
perhaps because the script’s satire
on the hackneyed producer-starlet
théiié did not quite come off.”
Bait again the showstoppers of
the evening were very definitely a
quartet of shady character, Sue
Gold and Blair Dissette were in-
credibly and uninhibitedly con-
vincing as the pair of gangsters
and Janine Gilbert and Margery
Tinkham were something quite
from Brooklyn. “The Golddigging
Song” and “Rub Him Out” by Max
and Louie were perhaps the most
successful musical numbers in the
production. Vive the underworld.
The rest of the cast was above
average in respect to other shows’
choruses. The minor characters
special as the nasal-voiced blondes.
were good, among them,
Haney and Jan Aschenbrenner
sang extremely well—and the per-
formance of the cast was marked
by a remarkable sense of the en-
semble, Never once did any chorus
members’ attention apparently
wonder for all the fact that she
might have been in a back corner.
The cast members always struck an
appropriate stylized pose, usually
with a perfect facial expression.
The musical aspect of the show
yas definitely one of its happiest
features, if not its backbone. What-
ever inadequacy existed at times
in the dialogue, it did not extend
to the lyrics, The songs were ‘full
of the ’20’s flavor. Ranging from
the rousing “Speak Easily of Suc-
cess” to a_ torch song, “Velvet
Dreams, the tunes were very
catchy and entertaining. Angelyn
Wishnack, composer of all the
music as well as pianist and one
of the libbettists, is to be com-
mended for her major part in
creating. Speak Easily’s sparkling
mood.
The inevitable kick chorus made
its appearance in this junior show
as it has in others, and why not?
The idea behind the chorus number
this year was- an appealing one—
“Gialesion ‘Precision,” and al-
though perhaps there was more
Charleston than precision, the gym-
suited flappers were as welcome as
always. .
Sally Powers had the always
Taificuit” job Of director.” Whatever
has been said about the production,
credit Must go to Miss Powers for
her envisionment of the show as
being one of the definite type and
for seeing that this type’s flavor
could successfully come across to
the audience.
Altogether, Speak Easily offers
standing proof (or possibly sproof)
that half a loaf is better than
none, that a musical comedy is as
good as its music and its comics,
and may be better than its script,
that the play’s the thing and the
show must go on in two weeks,
that a table can stand on three
legs and a makeshift hope; and
thereby hangs a tale,
Bette
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