College News, 1918-04-25, Vol. 04, No. 23

              The College News
Volume IV.   No. 23
BRYN MAWR, PA., APRIL 25, 1918
Price 5 Cents
A. R. DUBACH TO MANAGE NEWS
Two New Business Heads Elected
A. R. Dubach '19 was chosen Man-
aging Editor of the College News at
the annual elections held last Mon-
day. Miss Dubach made the News
her Sophomore year.
Frances Clarke '19 was elected Ad-
vertising Manager, and Clara Hollis
"19, Circulating Manager, the two
heads under which the old position of
Business Manager has been split up.
H. Zinsser '20 will be in charge
of the campus and mailing depart-
ments. The retiring business man-
ager, Miss C. M. K. Applebee, will
continue on the board as censor and
editor.
The new board goes into office
today.
KATHLEEN BURKE  HERE ON
SATURDAY FOR SERVICE
CORPS
Is Secretary  for Scottish Women's
Hospitals in France and Serbia
Kathleen Burke, who speaks here Sat-
urday evening In the gymnasium for the
benefit of 1919's Service Corps fund, is
the Organizing Secretary and Special Del-
egate to America of the Scottish Women's
Hosiptals. She has been decorated for
her services with the Order of the Mlser-
corde, Serbia, and is Knight of St. Sava,
Serbia, and Offlcier de 1'Instruction et
Beaux Arts, France.
She will give an account of women's
work of the sort that may be done by
members of the Bryn Mawr Service
Corps. Her book. The White Road to
Verdun, where she was under Are, de-
scribes the trips she made in her work
abroad and her interviews with Joffre,
Petain, and Nivelle.
The Scottish Women's Hospitals, ac-
cording to Miss Burke, "entirely staffed
by women, were founded in October of
1914." Ovor 4000 French soldiers have
passed through the Scottish Women's
Hospital at Royaumont, established in
1914. The work extends through other
hospitals, canteens, and units in Serbia,
Salonica, the south of France, Russia,
Rumania, and Northern Macedonia, where
the unit was called the American Unit, in
honor of America's contribution of $300,-
000.
Admission to the lecture is fifty cents
for members of the college, seventy-five
cents for outsiders, and one dollar for re-
served seats.
VARSTTY CAST COMMENDABLE IN "THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON"
AUTHORITY    ON    IMMIGRATION    TO
PREACH
Dr. Edward Sterner Coming Next Sunday
Dr. Edward Steiner, immigrant, writer,
and Professor of Applied Christianity at
Orinnell College, Iowa, will preach in
Chapel next Sunday evening.
"On the Trail of the Immigrant" and
'The Immigrant Tide" are two of the best
known of Dr. Steiner's books. They tell.
In part, the story of his experiences when
he came to this country as an immigrant,
with little money and few friends. He is
recogniied as an authority on immigra-
tion questions because of his own experi-
ences and his subsequent careful study of
the question.
Barrie's Quiet Irony Makes Large Demands on Amateurs.   The Meredithean
Dialogue of Act One.    Charming Costumes and the Grace of Bustles
"The Admirable Crichton", by James M.
Barrle, April 19-20, in the Gymnasium.
Characters
Earl of Loam.........Virginia Kneeland
Lord Brochlehurst .... Lorna Williamson
Hon. Ernest Wooley . . Franceses Moffatt
Rev. John Treherne ... Clarlnda Garrison
A Naval Officer.............Jane Brown
Countess of Brochlehurst. .Louise Hodges
Lady Mary Lasenby........Ix>is Kellogg
Lady Catherine Lasenby.. .Sarah Taylor
Lady Agatha Lasenby. .Emily Kimbrough
Servants'  Hall of  Loam  House
Mr. Crichton  ............Alice Harrison
John.....................Frances Kiker
Holiest on   .................Alice Newlin
M. Fleury .............Bettlna Warburg
Tompsett...............Elizabeth Kales
Stable Boy .............Margaret Butler
Mrs. Perkins .............Bessie Ostroff
Fisher...................Helen Bennett
Simmons ..............Elizabeth Lanier
Mile. Jeanne ...........Adeline Showell
Jane .....................Mary Ramsay
Eliza .................Elizabeth Kellogg
"CRICHTON" CLEARS $460
With gate receipts of about 1900 and
expenses of not more than $450, the Var-
, sity play cleared at least $450 toward the
! $4000 Varsity Fund of the Service Corps.
� The royalty of $50 for each performance
is included in the expenses.
This $450, together with the money
railed by the Faculty and staff and tin-
graduates, and the balance from last se-
mester, leaves the Varsity Fund about
$600 short, a sum which it is hoped will
be cleared by the Glee Club performances
and the dancing festival to be held in the
Cloister on the evening of May 11th.
ACT I
At Loam House, Mayfalr
ACT II
The Island
ACT III
The Happy Home
ACT   IV
The Other Island
Coach�Mrs. Howard Rollins Patch.
Stage Manager�Marjorie Martin.
Business Manager�Elizabeth Taylor.
Dramatic   Committee�Louise   Hodges
(chairman), Lorna Williamson, Marjorie
Martin, Helen Hill.
Chairman of Committees�Lorna Wil-
liamson, Scenery; Marjorie Mackenzie,
Costumes; Dorothy Peters, Properties;
Mary Thurman, Advertising.
Specially Contributed by Dr. S. C. Chew,
Associate Professor of English
Literature
The performance of "The Admirable
Crichton" can be commended heartily
and almost unreservedly. In fact, the
only important thing that one reserves
the right to criticize is the choice of the
play Itself. Barrie's fantasy is a very dif-
ficult piece for amateurs, making large
demands upon the actors' abilities to get
the quiet subtle irony across the foot-
lights. It cannot be said that this was
invariably accomplished. The lack of
complete success In this respect was es-
pecially noticeable in the first act, where
the almost Meredithean dialogue was
often lost in a general rather fussy move-
ment about the stage. After this bad
opening, however, the acting went more
smoothly; the scenes on the island were
well done, and the fourth act was a much
more convincing picture of an English
drawing-room than the first, partly be-
cause the Interest depended more upon
the situation than the dialogue, and
partly because the actors were manifestly
more at ease than at the beginning of the
performance. I regret not to have seen
the second performance, when, I am
sure, some Insignificant rough places,
such as the premature descent of the
final curtain, were smoothed over, and
when, I understand, the make-up of sev-
eral of the characters was much better
than Friday night.
Much credit is due to the talented peo-
ple who painted the scenery; the first
Island scene was particularly good, espe-
cially at the close of the act when Lord
Loam and the other members of the party
came trooping back to the Are and the
pot of onions beside which the admirable
butler was sitting patiently. In general,
the costumes were charming; I had not
before realised that bustles could be worn
with grace.    I do not believe,  however.
that English butlers have worn knee-
breeches at any time since pantaloons
came into fashion; that ignominy is re-
served for footmen.
From a cast of almost uniform excel-
lence it is difficult to single out a few for
special praise. The role of Crichton must
be a difficult one for a girl to take; Miss
Harrison's acting was naturally much
better in the island scenes than in the
drawing-room, though, like the rest of the
company, she was much better in the last
act than in the first. One might quarrel
with her ironical interpretation of Crich-
ton's return to obsequiousness after the
rescue; I believe that Barrie intended no
more than that after the appearance of
the uniformed officer the manners of a
butler instinctively reasserted themselves
In him.
Miss Kneeland, as Lord Loam, was cer-
tainly the "hit of the evening". She man-
aged admirably the contrasts between the
well-bred self-confidence of the nobleman
in Act I, the uneasy assertlveness of Act
II, the rather amiable and wholly imprac-
! tical semi-senility of Act III, and the mix-
lure of all these qualities in Act IV.
Many small points stand out in memory,
such as the way she managed her exit at
the end of the first scene and the obvious
relief with which his Lordship showed
his appreciation of Crichton's evident de-
termination not to give him away at the
close of the play.
Miss Lois Kellogg, as Lady Mary, pos-
sessed all the languor and hauteur and
ennui and other French phrases required
for the part. Her change from the high-
born young lady to the natural enthusi-
astic girl under the Influence of Roussel-
lian simplicity and of the admirableness
of Crichton was excellently done. Her
waiting upon "Gov" in the third act was
very graceful pantomime. And in the
final scene she played a difficult part with
real dignity, conveying a proper sense of
shame because the admirable butler de-
spised "me lady".
Eliza, better known as 'Tweenie, was
performed with much spirit by Miss Eliz-
abeth Kellogg. It is an injustice to
'Tweenie that the stage-version of the
play omits Crichton's final announcement
that, after leaving Loam Hall, he is going
to marry her and open a public house.
Miss Hodges, by making a good deal out
of the rather slight part of the Countess
of Brochlehurst, recalled pleasant memo-
ries of her acting last year in Beau j
Brummel                '
Altogether, the Varsity Dramatics ac-l
compllshed delightfully a difficult play.
The War Service Corps Is to be congratu-
lated on the large audiences: Mrs. Patch
upon the success of her coaching; and
the actors both on their talent and en-
thusiasm and on their excellent coach.
WORKMAN BUYS FIR8T BOND
Joseph Connolly, for thirty-two
years employee on the College
grounds, bought the first Liberty
Bond in the second College Liberty
Loan Drive of the year. $1300 worth
of bonds toward the $20,000 quota
had been sold last Tuesday at five
o'clock to 137 people.
Mrs. Francis Louis Slade spoke on
the Liberty Loan between the acts
of the Varsity Play on Friday night,
and Mrs. William Roy Smith on Sat-
urday niclit.
ENGLISH  CAPTAIN  STIRS BRYN
MAWR AUDIENCE AT FIRST RALLY
College    Urged   to   Get   Honor   Flag   in
Third  Liberty  Loan  Battle
With the Milage, orchestra playing the
new Liberty Loan BOBgi "What ai.    fQD
going40 00 for rjMta S.imniy"? the first
Colon*)] Dolling, who before the war was
| day afternoon in Taylor Hall.
"Let 'Carry on' be Um slosju in the
. third Liberty Loan Battle, and not the
I worn-out phrase "Do your bit'," said Mr.
i H. L. Whittemore, vice-chairman of the
! Main Line Liberty Loan District, in urg-
| ing the college to try for an honor Hag by
oversubscribing the quota of $20,000.
"England is going to give every man,
woman, child, every pound in the bank,
every ship on the seas, to crush Ger-
many," said Captain C. N. Curran. of the
Royal Navy. "Remember, we would
rather be swept from the earth than
stand for what the Hun stands for."
JAMES M. BECK TO SPEAK, MONDAY,
ON WOMEN'S 8TAKE IN  WAR
Lecture Arranged  by Graduate Club
Mi James M. Beck, member of the
New York Bar, and Chairman of the
League of National I'nity, will speak on
"What Women Have at Stake in the
War", Monday. April 22d, in Taylor.
Since the first days of the war, Mr. Boos
has been an enthusiastic speaker for the
cause of the Allies, and an advocate for
its support by the United States.
The lecture will be under the auspices
of the Graduate Club.
SENIORS GIVE UP GARDEN PARTY
Garden Party has been given up as part
of this year's commencement festivities
by a vote of the Senior Class, 29 to 19. A
committee which investigated the ques-
tion of expense, submitted the plan of
having it a strictly class affair for the
Seniors and their friends, but the sugges-
tion was reject ad.
MEMBER8 OF COLLEGE  IN
E. HILL'S WEDDING PARTY
Dr. Ruth To Have Been Usher
The wedding of Eleanor Hill '16 and
Dr. Rhys Carpenter. Associate Professor
of Archeology, on leave of absence for
war service, took place Tuesday, April
23d. at Calvary Church. Germantown.
c. Hayman '19 was maid of honor, and
C. Dowd '16 and M. Chase '16. brides
maids. Other members of the wedding
party were Dr. Carpenter's two brothers.
Dr. Patch, and J. Hayman. brother of
Cornelia Hayman. Dr. Ruth. Lfctuti
Latin at Bryn Mawr last year, was asked,
but was said to be unsble to come be-
cause he had been drat
Dr. CsriHiitcr has been for sols
months at the Officers' Training Camp at
Camp Mesde. Maryland