College News, 1915-04-22, Vol. 01, No. 24

              The College News
Volume I.    No. 24
BRYN MAWR, PA.f APRIL 22, 1915
Price 5 Cents
P*o* by H. Parktr Roift
ON   THE   DECK   OF   THE   H. M. S. PINAFORE
CALENDAR
FRIDAY. ARRIL 23
Junior-Senior Supper.
SATURDAY, APRIL 24
Track Meet.
g p. u.�Public Performance of Junior Play.
SUNDAY. APRIL 25
6 p. m.�Vespers.   Speaker-M. Bacon, '18.
8 p. m.�Chapel. Preacher, The Rev. Henry
Tweedy of Yale.
MONDAY, APRIL 26
4 p. u.�Faculty Tea to the Graduates in
Merion.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2S
8.30�p. M.�Debate. Semi-finals. 1915
vs.1918.
FRIDAY, APRIL 30
Celebration of May Day.
Announcement of Resident Fellowships and
Scholarships for 1915-16.
Graduate Reception to the Seniors.
8.30 p. u.�Debate. Semi-finals. 1916
ts. 1917.
saturday, may 1
Track Meet.
8 p. u�Performance of "The Ytellow Jac-
ket" by the Coburn Players.
SUNDAY, MAY 2
8 p. M.�Chapel. Preacher, Rabbi Stephen
Wist,
GLEE   CLUB   INNOVATION   A   GREAT
8UCCE88
MONDAY, MAY 3
Basket-ball Match Games begin.
SATURDAY, MAY �
Senior Play.
EMILY   8TRAU88,  '16,  CHOSEN   "THE
COLLEGE  NEW8" EDITOR
MARY    G.    BRANSON,   '16,    BUSINESS
MANAGER
Emily Strauss, '16, was elected Manag-
ing Editor and Mary O. Branson, '16, was
elected Business Manager of "The College
News" for the coming year-at a meeting
of the Board held Tuesday evening.
Frieda Kellogg, '16. was advanced to the
position of Assistant Managing Editor
K. Blodgett. '17. continues In her position
of Assistant Business Manager. In May
the Board will be increased by the elec-
tion of s member from tbe Class of 1117
c
It would have been quite dazzling if
the sun had been really out�all that
amazing cleanliness on the deck of tbe
"Pinafore" last Saturday evening. But
the sun was doubtless behind a cloud, and
the moon waited unobtrusively in the
background until the second act, and so
one merely blinked a moment as the cur-
tains parted, then sat up very straight to
look and listen.
Sitting up straight was Imperative.
Even then one sometimes missed Dick
Deadeye's legs; and that was not to be
borne. To be sure, they could not pos-
sibly have been more expressive and
fraught with secret meaning than his
face, His arms, or the very hairs upon
his forehead; but one resented loosing
their stealthy, sliding springs, and longed
for the power of Alice's Queen over those
heads in front. To be serious, Dick Dead-
eye could hardly have been better. Voice
and action, gesture and expression, made
him quite as convincing in his way as
Peter Pan, and like the pirates, he some-
how lent an air of credibility to it all.
Where Dick Deadeye could live, anything
might happen, and anything might live.
The captain was as good. Trim and tidy,
he inevitably fitted his place, and kept
one content and chuckling in his whim-
sical world of the impossible. And so,
Indeed, did they all. Ralph Rackstraw,
sturdy and beautiful, was just too hand-
some to be real; and so It was fitting and
proper that his love should be Just too
exquisite to be true. Bill Bobstay, the
hearty British sailor, might conceivably
have been a little less deliberate, quicker,
especially In the early dialogue, in pick-
ing up his cues; little Buttercup, cheery I
and persuasive, might, particularly in the
first act, have displayed a trifle more I
abandon, a little less tenaciously clinging
to the impassive respectability of the
"lower middle class"; the Right Honor-
able Sir Joseph Porter. K. C. B.. dignified
and beautifully distinct in utterance,
might have infused s bit more pompous-
ness into his somewhat passively haughty
manner; but perhaps any such changes
would have made these pleasant people
all too real, or too unreal, to belong In
"Pinafore." where logic and the expected
are cast Joyously to the four winds sad
one lives In a rollicking world beyond
reality. After all. when Hebe nodded, one
agreed that It was so; and what more
was necessary?
It is difficult to do the whole produc-
tion Justice. Each detail was so satis-
factory that one Is loth to pass over It
in silence. The choruses were as excel-
lent as the principal characters, the ac-
tion, except for a slight hesitation at the
beginning of the first act, was smooth
and brisk, the stage setting was delight-
ful, and the singing beyond reproach.
Few professional performances could run
more easily and effectively, and none
could more surely give the audience the
Impression that on the stage and behind
it existed an atmosphere of joyous snd
spirited co-operation. Those sparkling
white clad sailors, vigorously Jovial or
soberly repetitious as occasion demanded,
were as contagiously enthusiastic and
sympathetic as one could wish�and as-
tonishingly successful In shaking off the
Influence of aesthetic gymnastics from
their strong right arms. And the charm
of the sisters and the cousins and the
aunts can never be expressed. Each of
them nodded almost as persuasively as
Hebe, and together they made an entranc-
ing picture. The choice of their costumes
does the committee great credit, and their
finished training does them all great
credit. They might almost have been
worked by a string�but not quite. That
was the beauty of It�they were not mere
dolls, they really were Sir Joseph's sis-
ters, snd his cousins, and his aunts. All
the choruses were a credit to the com-
mittee, so wss the whole matter of cos-
tuming and scenery, snd the whole final
effect.
The lighting was excellent, the manipu-
lation of stage mechanics skilful and
finished. And best of all, It was never
unduly prominent It formed s satisfy-
ing background for the action, and cer-
tainly "hardly ever" took one's sttentlon
from the singing. Interest In splashing
wsves snd scudding clouds msy perhaps
have lost one s few words of the captain
at the beginning of the second set; bnt
one knew how he felt Just then, snd that
mattered little. What did matter wss
that the effect should be harmonious; snd
It wss undoubtedly thst. The singing wss
uniformly good. Choruses snd principals
were distinct and precise, and always
beautifully modulated. And nothing
could have been more notably lovely
than the distant singing from over the
water.     The  whole   thing  was   spirited
and engaging, entirely pleasing to at-
tend. The experiment is over, snd the
result Is no longer in doubt. The Olee
Club was ambitious, but its ambition
has Justified Itself. "Pinafore," last Sat-
urday, was a success.
Clsra W. Crane.
UNDERGRADUATE    ASSOCIATION
ELECT8 ADELINE WERNER
PRE8IDENT
The Undergraduate Association  meet-
ing of April 19th elected Adeline Werner,
! '16, to the presidency for next year.  The
I votes cast for Miss Werner made such an
overwhelming majority that the nomina-
I tion was promptly made an election by
1 unanimous vote of the association.   Miss
i
Werner took the chair for the remainder
of the evening. M. Willet, '16 was elected
Vice-President and Treasurer; D. Ship-
ley. '17, Secretary, and V. Kneelsnd, '18,
Assistant Treasurer.
The voting on the second, ballot for the
various offices was as folio. "�:
President�A. Werner. 146; H. Chase.
11; M  Dodd, 10.
Vice-President�M. Wlllett. 100; D.
Shipley, 40; E. Emerson, 14.
Secretary�D. Shipley, 86; F. Curtain,
22;  E. Emerson, 13.
(Nomination made an election.)
Assistant-Treasurer�V. Kneeland. '84;
R. Cheney. 55; L. T. Smith, 1.   .
The retiring President, In her report,
reminded the association of the last ac-
tion taken In regard to the cut rule and
the work that still lies before the under-
graduates. "The members of next year's
Undergraduate Association cannot be too
much impressed with the fact that It lies
largely with tbem as to whether this
year's protest against the cut rule is ef-
fective or not"
BRYN MAWR INFIRMARY NURSES GO
TO THE FRONT
Miss Ethel B. Davis and Miss Helen
J. Hinckley sailed on last Saturday for
Bordeaux on the S. 8. Rochambeeu. They
are to be at tbe American Ambulance
Hospital In Paris. Miss Davis will return
for the opening of College next fall For
the remainder of tbe Spring Miss Ells will
take Miss Davis' place ss head nurse.
Both Miss Darts and Miss Hinckley are
graduates of the Massachusetts General
Hospital, la 1906.