College News, 1927-04-20, Vol. 13, No. 22

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College News
VOL. XIII.   No. 22.
BRYN MAWR   (AND WAYNE).  PA..   WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20, 1927
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PRICE," 10 CENTS
ALICE PALACHE
IS NO PESSIMIST
Praises Wealth of   Ideas  and
Enthusiasm of Miss
Applebee.
PICK YOUR .COMMITTEE
a/>'v Hi Ciil'iiati.
* "May day is next year and next year
is May day.*' said Alice Palaclie, ncwly-
elected president of the Undergraduate
Association, when we asked her about
her [Jans  and policy for  next year.
The most important thing, according
to Miss Palaclie. is to avoid "the dis-
ease of over-organization." to simplify
the machinery as much as possible. Mrs.
Collins and Miss Appleliee will he i!
the head, with the students working in
close co-operation with them. It is
planned to have one person in charge
of each play, who will be responsible for
everything connected with it. The com-
mittee, instead of being elected in a more
or less haphazard way. will be appointed,
after careful consideration and discus-
sion. And it is hoped that during the
first semester people will show what
they can do and what they are interested
in�that they will ask "May I be on this
committee?" so that each person may be
doing what she is best fitted for and will
most   enjoy.
"We want to stress the creative side of
May day," Miss Palaclie went on, "to
set ourselves a higher ideal of historical
accuracy than ever before." As Miss
Applebee says, "all the shoes and head-
dresses right." It has been suggested
that the whole performance center more
on Queen Elizabeth, who has always
been pretty much of a lay figure: that
for example it might reproduce her visit
to Oxford, and that she go about from
play to play. The plans also include hav-
ing more. music and certain new fea-
tures such as  trick   riding.
"No one can say enough," Miss Pal-
aclie said at this point, "in praise of Miss
Applebee's enthusiasm and wealth of
valuable ideas and practical suggestions.
And in Mr. King we have an authority
on Shakespearean plays and their pro-
duction, whose foundation of knowledge
and mastery .of his .subject make him
invaluable.
"With the organization simplified, and
with everyone working together for it
in a spirit of generous co-operaiton, w.
may hope to have a grand May day."
Mi^s Palache concluded. We believe
that it will be a grand May day. and due
in no small measure to Miss Palache
hersel f.
Josephine Young, newly-elected head
of the Self Government Association,
when approached by a representative of
The News, declared that she had noth-
ing to say for publication.                        �
Laurels for Laura  *
Bryn Mawr is being represented
at'the Intercollegiate'Poetry Con-
test by Laura Margaret Haley, '28.
The contest will lie'held on May 7,
at Mt. Hotyoke, and there will be
representatives of all." the leading
women's colleges of the country.
Mjss Haley will read a group of
lyrics, including... "The Well of
Truth," that has recently been
bought by The Independent. A
board of judges made up-of na-
tionally known poets will award
the prize of $100 to the contestant
wliosc poems are most original and
interesting.
BOSTON SYMPHONY
GLORIFIES FLIVVER
Plays  Composition in  Honor
of Henry Ford's Gift
to Man.
BRONX    ZOO    IS    NEXT
MISS SCHENCK TO
DRINK NILE AGAIN
Innocents Abroad Include Dr.
Carpenter Who Won Where
900,000 Failed.
DAVIDS   INVADE   ITALY
By M. N. Swindler.
Professor Schenck began her scnii-
Sabbatical jear with a Mediterranean
cruise before taking up her work in
Paris. We have reason to believe that,
had she not taken up French at a youth
ful age, her visit to Greece might have
changed her into an archaeologist. The
allurements of Cairo have proved even
more profound: the caption on her
letters�Qui 'auuam Nili bibit, ' rursus
bibet�leads us to believe that she may
still be imbibing it. She has been visit-
ing the 'pyramids' by camel. Miss
Schenck is now engaged in an important
piece of research work  in   Paris.
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By HORACE .//.// )'.\7-
Mr. Zi6gfeld's richly effective pub-
licity catch-word has now a direct dc-
scendent for the latest lucubration of
our purveyors of Modern Music is as-
suredly "The glorification of Ford's
Gift to Man."
Last Friday the Boston Symphony
Orchestra produced "Flivver 10,000,-
000." by Frederick S. Converse '(for-
merly Assistant Professor of Composi-
tion at Harvard), written for the usual
full symphony orchestra plus a Ford
horn which was made to sound during
a dead pause of the orchestra, first
muted and then with louder unmuted
blasts. The subtitles used in the
manuscript arc as follows:
Dawn   in   Detroit.     Chanticleer
announces the dawn, the city stirs
�the call to labor.
March  of the   toilers.
Din of the builders.
Birth    of    the    hero,    the    hero
emerges    from    the    welter,    full-
Hedged,   ready   for  service;   he  tries
his metal.
The hero wanders forth into the
great world in search of adven-
ture.
May night by the roadside
(America's romance).
The '}    joy-riders        (America's
frolic).
The collision (America's trag-
edy).
Phoenix Americanus; the hero,
righted and shaken, proceeds on
his way with redoubled energy,
typical of the indomitable Amer-
ican spirit.
Mr. Converse has said: "I did it just
for fun, just to amuse myself." Quite
so, but the persistence of the mate-
rialistic ideas behind so much of our
latest    "music"    is    once   again    illus-
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PROFESSORS ARE TOO TIMID,
* SAYS UNKNOWN INSTRUCTOR
Ling Is Leader -
This number of The News is a
Faculty and Alumnae production.
The Bpard" of Editors is as fol-
lows :
Editor-hfChief ...-. Barbara Ling
Managing Editor .. Barbara I.ing
Dramatic Critic. .Edith Walton. ':.'.">
Society   Re|x>rtcr,
Mary  Hamilton  Swindler
Fashion Page .'...... Henri Pcyre
Columnist......... Abbott Frascr
Foreign Correspondent.
Edith Dolean
Musical Critic...   Horace Alwyne
Cartoonist ......... Wyncie King
Special  Features.
Millicent  Carey,   l.tila   Barber,
Barbara Ling.
Cub Ke|Mirtcrs,
Helen Taft Manning, Margaret
G. Truan. Harriet O'Shea.
Fail to Respond to Example of
Students' Dress in
Class.
SAY It ONLY  IN SOCKS
J
ALUMNA DISAGREES
WITH M. PEYRE
E. Walton Selects New Stars
for Performance of "Blayds"
in New York.
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x   GANTRYajOPINIONS
Fee'.ing ourselves incompetent to judge
Sinclair Lewis' "preacher novel," Elmer
Gantry, we decided to go to see the best
authorities, and called up the Bryn Mawr
ministers to ask their opinions.
We listened for it with fear and tremb-
ling�we knew that we would think about
Elmer Gantry, if we were a minister, and
we felt a vicarious sensitiveness about
hearing it. They had just the opinions
we expected, too.
Dr. Carter of the Church of the Re-
deemer said that he had not read it, and
that as long as he had the Bible, he did
not need it.
"It is lying on my study table now,"
said Dr. Mutch, "and for all of me it will
continue to lie there. While I have not
read the book myself, I have had reviews
of it, and listened to the accounts and
opinions of others sufficiently to convince
myself that I do not in any way agree
with the author.

We have been incapacitated lately,
ever since v>e were bitten by one of
the cjmpus dogs. Our disease has
begjfa bad attack ojLwriterJs cramp
brought on by making outline list of
those we intend to bite when we go
mad.
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Staff Member Sees
Man Walking Campus
When your agreeably harassed cor-
respondent was hunting for news this
morning, she saw a young man on the
campus. Of course, we know this is
news in itsejf, but we are insatiable, we
wanted more. So she, or rather, we, ap-
proached him. "Would you mind," we
said, for all the world as if we liked
doing it, "would you mind telling us
why you came to�I mean, what you
think  of Bryn  Mawr?"
He looked at us wearily, (and indeed
it was a long way to look). "Bryn
Mawr." he said," is the first college I
have ever seen."    We stared in awe.
"I have been very much interested in
everything I have seen and heard, par-
ticularly in your lectures. They seemed
to me fascinating." We looked at him.
shed a tear and murmured, "Et ego Ml
Arcadia." but we persisted. "Tell usj
some more about ourselves*" we satd
simply. "Well," said the young man, "!
think education is very important and
that here in Ameri-a you do a great deal
toward it." We tried to tell him that
we personally had done about 16 years
and he would not listen. We cast about
for a more interesting topic. We found
it.
"What," we said, "do you think of
American girls?"
His hat was off, but he swept the
ground   with it.
"Madam," he said, "they have con-
firmed me in my high opinion of my
judgment. I now know that there is
one thing in which America^tmdjWbttdly
surpasses  Europe."
We (and how glad we are for the
anonymity  of  the journalist)   fled.-
\
Sport of Kings for
Newhall and Pease
By /�'. DO HAS
. The American School of Classical
Studies at Athens is an old friend of
Bryn Mawr College. The late Joseph
Clark lloppin. for example, for many
years pvofessor of archaeology at Bryn
Mawr. was a former student of the
school and also in 1904-190."> its annual
director. He had helped to excavate the
Argive Heraeum, and used to enliven
his lectures at Bryn Mawr with many a
tale of his days of digging and travel
ing in Greece.
But recently the ties which unite the
two institutions have become even closer.
Miss Dorothy Burr returned last year to
Bryn Mawr after two years of study at
the Athens School, where she had held
first a  Bryn Mawr  fellowship and then
PRAISES    NATURALNESS
a   fellowship   which   is   granted   by   the
School at  Athens on the basis of com-' had  the   courage   to  keep   his   secret   s<
lly /:'. WALTON, 'tj
For the past three winters rumorsTiave
been current in Xew York of a new
phenomenon at Bryn Mawr known as
Varsitq Dramatics. Scouts, dispatched-
by the anxious Alumnae, have brought
hack reports which whetted rather than
satisfied curiosity. The necessity for a
first-hand judgment was indicated.
The opportunity came last Saturday
night at the Colony Club when the Var-
sity Dramatic Association presented "The
Truth About Blayds," by A. A. Milne.
For the benefit of the New York Alumnae
Scholarship Fund. The verdict returned
was  favorable.
Not even the most jaundiced young
Alumna, making critical comparison with
her memories of class plays, could fail to
admit that the performance was lightly
handled and entertaining, that the acting
level of the cast was high, and the play
judicially chosen in spite of its prepon-
derance of middle-aged or wholly de-
crepit characters.
A curious situation exists in "The
Truth About Blayds." The old poet, so
startlingly proved an impostor, is at the
heart of all the action, and yet he ap-
pears only for a scant fifteen minutes.
In that brief space, after a dramatically
prepared entrance, he must reveal his
quality to the audience.
M. Villard Too Pathetic
As Oliver Blayds. Marquita Villard
was frail and tremulous and deliberate.
She really created tire illusion of an an-
cient Victorian whose rich memories are
pitiably near an end, but she seemed to
miss the chances for sly. impish humor
inherent in the part. Her Oliver Blayds
was not the gallant, shrewd im|M>stcr who
The recognized   inferiority of  men   in
sartorial   matters   is   nowadays   a   hack-
neyed topic for our journalists in* search
of inspiration.    We heard the other day
from   a   Paris   newspaper  correspondent
that the Gallic tailors are reviving eigh-
teenth century silk stockings and breeches
for the men whose anger is rbused when
they   see�and   cannot,   at   the   risk   of
hurting the pride of the displayer, pre-
tend   not   to   see�legs  much   inferior  in
figure   and   beauty   to   their   own.     But
in  that  rdspect  as  in  many others,  the
most unfortunate of all male beings are
professors   in   a  women's college.     How
fondly   do   they   regret   the  old   custom
of  lecturing in  an  academic gown that
was enough to inpsire their listeners with
reverence.    One of the most delicate and
harrowing problems for them is how to
dress.    Students   will  arrive  at   their   8
o'clock   lectures   in   once   white   tennis
shoes and   woolen   stockings,  holding  in
one hand a powder puff and concealing
with  the  other  a  half-eaten  banana or
apple that will sustain the,m until the 11
o'clock   sandwich;   Jhc   poor   instructor,
while shaving has been meditating upon
the suit and the tic that will best fit the
weather and the subject  he is going to
expound.    He still imagines�let him re-
gain   his  illusions�that   all eyes   will   be
fjpa-d upon him and that the cut of his
clbthes, the  material of  his tic  and  the
brushing of "his  rebellious  hair  will  be
commented    upon�and    who   knows?�
admired by students weary of  counting
how many times an hour his pet phrases
and words recur.
Uniformity is certainly what charac-
terises the clothes of the men of the
Bryn Mawr faculty. Is it because so
many original minds know too well that
their garb could never reveal the best
that is in them? Or is strict conformity
our American ideal and do even our
elite suffer from what Meredith termed
"the malady of sameness, our modern
malady"? Solier color and high-brow
gravity of the cut is the rule. It is usu-
ally linked with the senator-like gait and
the slow, painstaking delivery of speech
which our meditative profession devel-
ops. Even Scotch humor, absent-minded
philosophy and passionate music con-
form, with only timid differences, to the
common standard.
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petiiive   examinations.     Studying   und
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er  long.
Ir.
He was merely any iiice old gen-
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Daily Bridge Puzzler Offered
Delegation to Visit Winner
A and B" are playing X and Y, or.
rather. B is playing X and Y. A can't
get it out of his head that they have
changed partners and is complicating
matters by playing X and  B.      ,
Hands are as  f6lk^w^_
A holds a lot of black ones, and is
blissful in the knowledge that he has
thirteen spades. (Ed. note.�A. is an
idealist, eight of them are clubs.)
B, who certainly knows his vegetables,
holds the King and Queen of Hearts.
four acp� .th* !.���� rf Clubs and some
small  diamonds.
X. well. X has another ace and the
King of  Clubs  from another pack.
Y holds nothing at all, having dropped
them in his effort tc^grab the score from
B. (N'oie to beginners: It's wonderful
what caii be done with a score and a
haunting memory of higher mathe-
matics. )
A wants to go to lied.
B wants to play poke/.
X wants another hand.
And Y wants a drink.
Problem�How to get Y a drink.
Solution�Ah, if we only knew!
Prize�The editors of this depart-
ment will personally - cattvupoh the
prize winner and spend the "evening
with him.
B.   H.   UNO.
MR. COLLINS TELLS
OF AFRICAN TRIP
Customs of Tribes Vie in In-
terest with Scenery and
Gorilla Hunt.
WOMEN  ARE  WORKERS
By Harriet O'Shea
Mr. Alfred Collins gave before the
Science Club on the evening of April
IS an account of a trip which he took
into the interior of Africa in 1925 in
search of gorillas, an exjedition which
consumed about a year.
The trip lay through German East
Africa, northward down I.ages Tangan-
yika. Kivu. Edward and Albert (the
headwaters of the Nile), and westward
into the  Belgian   Congo.
The worldwide modern enterprising
spirit of women was evidenced by the
gradual addition of women and more
women to the train as fast as they could
.overtake their lawful husbands and sweet-
hearts, who thereupon rewarded them and
honored them by permitting them to
earn- all of the loads. Women in indus-
try is not limited to the Occident.
Through the forests, particularly in
tlte Congo; clearings were welcomed in
order that all the travelers might dry
Mli. ins-1'         '.en on a day when there
was no rain a few hours under the con-
stantly dripping dense tropical growths
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