College News, 1921-11-09, Vol. 08, No. 06

              College
Volume VIII.    No. 6.
BRYN MAWR, RA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1921
Pripe 10 Cents
'HE, THE ONE THAT GETS SLAPPED"�LAST ACT.
//. Parka Rolft
VARSITY SURRENDERS 7-2 TO
GERMANTOWN CRICKET   CLUB
Scrippy Fighting Characterizes Sixth
Game of Season
In a scrappy.^fight last Saturday the Ger-
mant6wn. Cricket Club pushed Varsity to
a 7-2 defeat. Starting off with a rush Bryn
Mawr held the lead for a period hut re-
linquished it after two goals, and gave in
to Germantown's more persistent fighting.
Miss M. Wiener at left wing played a
spectacular game  for the  visitors.
Greater teamwork was exhibited by Var-
sity than in the games of the last two
weeks in spite of its defeat. E. Anderson
and M. Tyler accomplished some pretty
passing on the right wing showing lioth
speed and tenacity. The left side of the
field was somewhat weak except for R.
Neel at fullback. D. Lee played a strong
game at center forward, scoring the first
goal of the game from the'edge of the
circle after some sharp fighting. This was
followed *by a pretty shot by Miss E.
Wiener at center. Attempting a second
goal she lost the ball' to Varsity defense
and Bryn Mawr scored its second tally
through a maze of sticks around the Ger-
mantown cage.              y.
In the secondhalf tyith sides went wild.
Germantown hacT theHiall in its circle fre-
quently but failed to batter through the
Brown defense Varsity's forward line,
sweeping down to the other end of the field
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MARIAN   RUSSELL   ELECTED   A8
SOPHOMORE  PRE8IDENT
Marian Russell, Betty Price and Mary
Louise White were elected last Wednesday
by 1924 as class officers.
Treasurer of the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation and Sophomore hockey captain,
Miss Russell was also president of the Ath-
letic Association at the Shipley School.
Miss Price is from Miss Walker's School
and was a member of the Freshman Com-
mittee. Miss White is a member of the
Membership Committee, and is prominent
in class dramatics.
Budget Meeting to Take Vote on
Appropriations for Year
Discussion of %he budget is the purpose
of a Christian Association meeting to be
held in Taylor Hall tomorrow evening at
8 o'clock.
Several funds and causes to "which the
Association budget might be devoted will
be discussed, and a vote taken on those
preferred by the Association.
"HE, THE ONE THAT GETS SLAPPED," THE FIRST PLAY OF THE
YEAR GIVEN BY 1923 TO THE SENIORS
Actors Show Great Skill in-Interpreting Difficult Characters
Specially Contributed by
Death as the only escape from the des-
perate hopelessness of life; the disintegra-
tion ctf all character toward some kind of
sardonic insanity; the failure of even the
K"Books" to save mankind? such was the
rather depressing philosophy offered by
the Junior class to the Freshmen for the
adventure of the first College year.
In the play, an educated man of su-
perior talents finds the evil spider web of
society unbearable and- makes his escape
in the seeming make-believe world of buf-
foonery. He will no longer be a man but
a ghost�a thing that laughs mockingly at
existence. He will become only He, the
clown, and lose himself among the simple
puppets who apparently only play at life.
But this refuge is full of its own human
dregs, from which suicide alone can bring
relief. Such a thesis is somewhat repellent
to the Anglo-Saxon mind; it is the antith-
esis of the heroic in our literary inherit-
ance. However, the therrje has been skill-
fully developed. For once Andreyev shakes
off enough of his ghostly symbolism to give
us a more realistic production, thereby be-
coming even more sinister. Abstractions
smack too much of the philosophico-scien-
tific. But in this play, although the drama-
tist has culled his incurables with patholog-
ical intent, all these characters are horribly
real. They are clustered about He as the
center. Each character, so to speak, carr
ries madness or disintegration in a new
direction: the simplicity of the clowns goes
toward silliness; Mancini rots in the de-
pravity of the roue; the Gentleman stands
for the refined vices of society; the feline
traits of Zinida link man unpleasantly with
the animal; and the spider Baron weaves
his web of sensuality about them all. Even
his fly, the lovely Consuelo, is only the
empty object of all men's love�a circus
Venus of the sea. Death is the only hope
for He, who desires to reach the purity,
the goodness and the^nnocence of human
relations.
"He" Characterized Convincingly
Any doubt which may have existed about
the playableness of such material was dis-
pelled by the entrance of two entrancing
clowns. It might almost be said that lines,
although admirably spoken and laden with
"Beethoven on a broom" and "Mozart on
a botde," were unnecessary for Miss Corse
and Miss Wilson. Their intonations would
have been enough, a perfectly matched
pair and quite inimitable in their duo. They,
together  with  the  very  effective  setting,
Mr. George Howley
carried the action across the initial dialogue
to Zinida and He. Miss Humphreys in her
role of He should be acclaimed for her
very convincing characterization. Andreyev's
"so-called" ghosts, that is the abstractions
around which he groups his symbolic pro-
tests, are at all times difficult enough to
understand, it is indeed a feat to clothe
one with flesh and blood. The touch of the
unearthly, the suggestion of the insane, the
introduction of the abstract into act and
will were admirably achieved. It was re-
grettable that the amazing make-up of the
first act had to be exchanged for the clown-
ish white mask, through which the expres-
sions of facial emotions became clouded.
However, additional prominence was given
to Miss Humphrey's use of hands and
Imdy, the play of her fingers upon the
chair in the scene with the Baron and the
final perfect fall.
Miss Vincent's Acting Subtle
The Zinida of Miss Vincent was suffi-
ciently feline and sinuously undulating to
make us glad that she was not a reality.
Unfortunately, those who had not read the
uncut play were unable to appreciate the
various sublcties of the interpretation, from
the shrinking at Briquet's approach to the
climax of the entrance from the Lion's
cage. Miss Burr, as the spidery Baron,
accomplished most curious effects with her
eyes and walk. The latter was artfully sug-
gestive of the ugliness of the character
itself. At first, Consuelo was disappoint-
ing, but in the last three acts Miss Mathews
completely woq us by the charm of her
personality, without losing the significance
of her part. Miss Strauss went straight
to the essential of "Papa" Briquet's rather
strange charactet^a certain paternal heavi-
ness. Mancini was one of the most dim-
cult studies. Possibly, a more cringing atti-
tude might hav%been added, but any ques-
tion of the interpretation was offset by the
excellence of Miss Knox's portrayal of
mean dandyism. The use of her right eye-
brow was most skillfully supercilious.
There was no doubt about the high moral
character of Miss Fraser's Bezano: in fact,
her own personality somewhat obliterated
the-crudities with which the dramatist had
endowed him. Miss Holt made the best of
a badly cut part, because Jackson's lines
were so .mutilated that his fame as a clown
became one of hearsay and not of speech
and action. The inability to escape from
the past  forms the climax of the second
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DISARMAMENT MASS MEETING
HEARS VARIETY OF SPEAKERS
Mr. James McDonald]Reveals Need
of Public Opinion
"We cannot solve the problems which the
Disarmament Conference at Washington
has to face, but we can endorse the prin-
ciples by^which they must be solved," said
Miss Margaret Speer, '22, addressing the
mass-meeting of Bryn Mawr faculty, stu-
'dents, staff and employees, in the gymna-
sium last night.
As a faculty speaker, Dr. Roger F.
Brunei, professor of chemjftry, declared
that since the production of poison gases
could not I* limited, the only way to pre-
vent their use in modern warfare is to<
prevent war. Miss Dorothy Shipley, '17,
warden of Pembroke, emphasized great
importance of public opinion in demanding
action from the delegates at Washington.
" "The chances are excellent that there wilt
be a war between the United States and
Japan," was the assertion of Mr. James
McDonald, president of the Foreign Poli-
cies Association, who was the main speaker
of the evening. Mr. McDonald modified
his statement by declaring that the only
way of avoiding this catastrophe lies in
the willingness of the United States to offer
China her genuine disinterested help.
"It is my opinion that the Conference
will fail, or intensify the bitterness be-
tween nations, or hasten the next war, un-
less such groups as this do all they can to
force their will upon the delegates," con-
cluded Mr. McDonald.
The following resolutions were passed
by the meeting, and E. Vincent, '23, was
chosen to take these to Washington:
Resolved, That we, the faculty, students,
staff and employees.of Bryn Mawr College,
do hereby call upon the United States
representatives at the Conference at Wash-
ington some immediate action toward the
limitation of armaments, and toward the
adjustment of those questions in the Far
Hast which are regarded as possible causes
of conflict in the future, and be it
Resolved, Tha.t we ask our representa-
tives that the United States should lead
the way, in the formation and application
of international policies based on gener-
osity as well as on justice, and be it further
Resolved, That the control of world
peace should be put in the hands of an
international court of justice, or of an as- '
sociation of nations, and that the steps
taken toward the procuring of all the
aforementioned ends be made public im-
mediately, together with the reasons lof
such steps.