College News, 1924-10-22, Vol. 11, No. 04

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The College News
Vol. XI.   No. 4
BRYN   MAWR^PA.,  WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER  22,   1924
Price 10 Cents
COMING ELECTION HOTLY
DISCUSSED AT CONFERENCE
Delegates From Seventeen Colleges
Argue Merits of Opposing
Candidates at Vassar
M. RODNtY UPHOLDS LA FOLLETTE
(From The Now York Times, October ltt)
A new idea in political meetings was
demanded at Vassar College this after-
noon and tonight when student represen-
tatives of seventeen colleges�ten for
women and seven for men�discussed the
platforms and candidates of the three
parties at the first political conference
held under the auspices of the Political
Association of Vassar.
The sixteen who joined with Vassar
were Barnard College. Mount Holyoke,
Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Skidmore School
of Arts, Goucher, Marymount, Wilson,
Yale, Harvard, Amherst, Dartmouth,
Williams, Haverford, Colgate and Smith.
Many of the colleges were represented by
three delegates each.
Republican Champion's Argument
The first platform presented was the
Republican party. The spokesman for
the President was Miss Bonnie McEl-
hinny, of Philadelphia, a member of the
class of 1925 at Smith. Miss McElhinny
read her speech. She called attention
to the steady progress of America dur-
ing the last hundred years and attrib-
uted it chiefly to administrations that
were consistently Republican. She ar-
gued that no progress could ever come
out of espousing Communistic or other
radical doctrines.
Mr. Coolidge's slogan of "economy,"
said Miss McElhinny, represented the
best way to serve the United States, and
she went on to list savings which she
attributed to his cautious, cool way of
doing things. Income tax cuts and even
the lifting of � the tax burden on ice
cream sodas were not overlooked by the
Coolidge champion.
She had good words for the Republi-
can tariff, drew a doleful picture of
what happened when the Democrats got
into office and worked on the tariff,
and said in this connection that 5,000,000
persons were out of work at one time.
She blamed this on the "tariff, showing,
how all sorts of foreign goods were
dumped on America, mentioning "frozen
eggs from China" am} meat from the
Argentine as among them. Along came
the Republicans, as Miss McElhinny ex-
plained it, and the 5,000,000 found work.
"If the tariff is lowered," she warned,
"foreign goods will again flood this
country, especially German products,
and workers will go out of their jobs.
It is easy to follow that if the peo-
ple can get foreign goods cheaply they
will not buy home products. They won't
pay Tiffany prices for goods they can
get in the 5- and 10-cent store."
The nationalization of the. railroads
she opposed, with Coolidge, because
she said, it would shift millions in taxes
to  the people  by  causing  the, Govern-
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SENIOR CLASS ELECTS CAROLINE REMAK,
ELIZABETH SMITH AND MIRIAM BROWN AS OFFICERS
Caroline Remak was elected president, E. Smith? vice president, and M.
Brown, secretary, of the Class of 192$, to succeed V. Lomas, D. Lee and E.
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Lawrence, respectively, last Wednesday.
Miss Remak was chairman, of 1925's F'reshman Show, class president
Sophomore year, and Junior member of the Athletic Association for 1923-24,
being captain of varsity tennis, playing on varsity basketball, and is now
captain of varsity water polo. -�            �.
In her Freshman year-Miss Smith Was vice president^ second semester,
and member of the" cut committee; she was acting president for 1922-1923,
class hockey captain, and treasurer of the Athletic Association. As vice presi-
dent of the Undergraduate Association in 1923 she was chairman of the cut
committee, and on the Christian Association  membership committee.
Class secretary, Sophomore year, Miss Brown was also business manager
of the play, and apparatus captain for that and the following year, when she
was on the Athletic Association Board.
BERTRAM F0RSYTH TO
SPEAK ON ART OF THEATRE
Dramatic Production Will Be Subject
of English Actor's Talk
At the request of.the New Student,
\4hich is conducting a nation-wide poll
among the colleges of the country, a
straw vote for President of the United'
States was held in the Halls on Tues-
day.   The results were:     /
Coolidge................ 187
Davit  ................... Ill
La Follette .............    52
An actor playwright and producer will
address the college Monday evening in
Taylor Hall, under the auspices of the
Senior Play Committee.
M^ Bertram Forsyth, as an under-
graduate at Christ Church, Oxford, was
the head of the Oxford University Dra-
matic Society. While training for the
theatre he specialized in pantomime
under the tuition of Madame Cavalazzi
and later played,a distinguished part on
the English stage, acting for a time with
the Bensjion Shakespearean Company.
Meanwhile he was also writing plays.
Among some of those that were produced
in London are- Hester, As It Used to Be,
The Crossing and The Sheperdess without
a Heart.
At present Mr. Forsyth is the Direc-
tor of Hart House Theatre in the Uni-
versity of Toronto. This centre of un-
professional dramatic art belonging to
the community of Toronto as well as to
the University undergraduates, working
on a non-profit-making basis, is essenti-
ally experimental and devoted to the de-
velopment of the stage.
While depending on amateur effort for
every phase of its productions, Hart
House Theatre nevertheless maintains a
standard of excellence that assures its
position among leading experimental
theatres.
Because of his connection with this
type of dramatic m^fcment, 'first as an
undergraduate, now as a professional
director of amateurs, and because of his
comprehensive experience with the legiti-
mate stage, Mr. Forsyth's lecture on
Dramatic Production should prove of
partiJhlar value and significance to the
college.
VARSITY GAINS VICTORY
FROM MERI0N-MAIN LINE TEAM
Backs  Following  Forwards  Up Are
Successful In Checking Goals
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ORCHESTRA  THIS  WEEK  TO
PLAY TSCHAIKOWSKY MUSIC
The program of the Philadelphia Or-
chestra for October 24 and 25 is as fol-
lows:
Tschaikowsky .... Symphony No. 4 in F
I.   Andante  sostenuto�moderato  con
anima
Andantino in modo di canzona
Scherzo.    Pizzicato ostinato
Finale.   Allegro con fuoco
Tschaikowsky, Concerto in D major, for
Violin and Orchestra
Allegro moderato; moderato assai;
allegro giusto
Canzonetta.   Andante
Finale.   Allegro vivacissimo
Michael Press, violinist
Tschaikowsky............Marche  Slave
"Playing hard for Bryn Mawr," Var-
sity scored over the Merion-Main Line
team on Saturday by 3-1.
The most interesting work in the game
was done by H. Tuttle, '28, and 1$. 1.sines,
'28, H. Tuttle passing to B. Loines, who
took a fast ball up the alley with good
dribbling and driving. The backs played
up in oblique formation, in accordance
with the new theories. As might be gath-
ered from the score, the playing was con-
gested, only one goal being made�by H.
Tuttle�in the fjrst half.
The third point was scored by a spec-
tacular rush and goal shot from W. Dpdd,
'26, which ended the game:
Line-up:                                       ,
Merion-Main Line:    ,
Flannery
McVitty
Townscnd
Adams
Hodd
Yarnde
Madiera
Allen   '
Rollin
Smith
McAdoo
Varsity:   �*
B. Loines, '28
H. Tuttle,  '28
D.  Lee, '25
M>Talcott, '26
(W. Dodd, '26 2d Half)
S. Walker, '26
E.  Harris, '26
K. Fowler, '25
(E. Glessner, '2Sfc.2d Half)
J. Seeley, '27
S. Walker, '27
M. Gardiner, '25
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CAST OF CHARACTERS FOR
JUNIOR PLAY ANNOUNCED
Rehearsals for "The Amazons," the
Junior play which will be given in the
gymnasium October 8, have begun. The
cast is as follows:
Tweenwayes....................A.  Linn
Litterly..................... E.  Niches
De Grival  ..........  ........M. Talcott
Minchin  .....................A. Ticrney
Fitton   .......................M.  Huber
Youatt  ...................E.   Follansbee
Lady Castlcjordan  ...........A. Adams
Noeline  ....................G. Thomas
Wilhelmina  ..................H. Brown
Thomasin   ....................W.  Dodd
Sergeant  ....................U.  Parker
BACH RECITAL GIVEN
BY HAROLD SAMUEL
Unusual and Brilliantly Interpreted
Program  Reveals   Modernism
Of Great Classical Composer
CONCERT DUE TO MRS. COOLIDGE
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On Monday night the Music De-
partment gave its first concert of the
season, a Pianoforte Recital by Harold
Samuel, English pianist, who came to
this country at the invitation of Mrs.
F� S. Coolidge to play at the Chamber
Music Festival in Pittstield, Massachu-
setts. Mrs. Coolidge is the founder of
the Berkshire Festival and is doing a
wonderful work for the appreciation of
Chamber Music in America. It was
through her generosity that Bryn Mawr
had the privilege of hearing Mr. Samuel.
j It is a rare thing i^owadays to find^an
artist who is willing to put aside all oppor-
tunity for personal display and aggran-
dizement in order to dedicate himself en-
tirely to the furthering of the apprecia-
tion of some noble and beautiful work
of a non-popular order. This Mr. Samuel
is doing by devoting himself to the musii
of Bach and giving programs entirely de-
voted to his music. It is a curious thing
that after a hundred and fifty years' neg-
lect of Bach on the part.of the public, he
is now being discovered, as it >vere, to oe
a composer whose music can appeal in
some measure to all classes. The public
has always been brought up to believe
that Bach is a purely cerebral composer
whose music is dry, lacking in emotional
appeal and mostly to be used for the
torture of young innocents learning to
play the piano. No one could possibly
have retained such an idea, however, five
minutes after the beginning of Mr. Sam-
uel's recital. His evident personal delight
in the playing of -such music quickly
became reflected in his hearers and his
complete sympathetic reverence for the
composer made one at once forget Mr.
Samuel altogether in the pure joy of the
music.
There has long been a tradition among
certain types of musicians that Bach is to
be played in a strictly academic style with-
out nuances of tone, or variations of
speed. Mr. Samuel showed at once the
futility of such an idea by the strong
emotional appeal of his playing which
made the -listener feel how near Bach
sometimes is to the so-called "Romantic
Composers," and even occasionally to such
moderns as Debussy. His pure crystalline
technic and poetic control of all nuances
of shading coupled with that sure feeling
for the use of the pedal, the "soul of the
piano," made every item of his well-varied
program a pure source of delight.
The complete silence of the audience
during the whole program and the en-
thusiastic applause at the close seemed
t6 show fairly conclusively that it is never
necessary for an artist to "play down" to
an audience, and that an audience, no
matter how mixed or how inexperienced
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The News takes great pleasure in
announcing that as result of the com-
petition Beatrice Pitney, '27, and Ma-
rion Smith, '27, have been elected to
the Editorial Board. The competition
will continue for another week.
� The News also takes pleasure in an-
nouncing the election of Alice Wilt,
'26, to the Business Board.