College News, 1928-10-31, Vol. 15, No. 04

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BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA� WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 31, 1928
'MCE.* 10  CENTS
WEEK PROVIDES
EVERY EXCITEMENT
Beggar's Opera Straight From
., ^ .   London Opens Good-
hart Program.
MORE POLITICS COMING
What a week! Monday night, the Rev.
Lake; Tuesday night, orthopsychiatry;
Wednesday night, politics, and Thursday
night, the crowning glory: The Beggar's
Optra. With otir souls, our bodies and
our dutif- as citizens disposed of what
could be more in line than an evening of
part entertainment. And what could be
Letter entertainment than The- Beggar's
Opera, direct from the Lyric Theater in
London halting within our very gates on
us. bicentennial tour of America* to give
us the charms of the world's greatest
history and its oldest musical comedy
without the trouble el crossing � the
street.
THe curtain will go up in Goodhart
Hall at 8.15 (or thereabouts) on Thurs-
day evening, November 1, 1928. The
cast, consisting mainly of the original
actors who appeared at the Lyric Theater
on May 12, 1920, when this opera was rc_
vived by Sir Nigel Playfair, is as fol-
lows:
" Pf achum  ...:.........Charles Magrath
Lockit............-. � � Norman Williams
Macheath   .....,...........Clive Carey
Filch...................Alfred Heather
The Beggar  ......�.....George Gregson
Drawer   ...............Georfe* Gregson
Mrs. Peachum  ..........Lena Maitland
Polly Peachum............Sylvia Nelis
Lucy Lockit ...............Celia Turill
� Diana Drapes  ............Helen Arden
Ladies of the town,, and members of
Macheath's  gang.       �
Period, 1728.'
Act  1�Peachum's  House.
Act 2, scene 1�A tavern, near New-
-gate. " �
Scene 2�Newgate.
'*   Act 3, Scene 1�A Gaming House.
" 'Scene 2�^Newgate.
Scene 3�The Condemned Hotel. �'
'�' In this version'of Mr. Gay's famous
finglish Ballad Opera every possible ef-
fort" has been made to recapture the
spirit of the original work, much of
which was "improved away" in the rep-
resentations pf the early nineteenth cen-
tury. Unfortunately in an age which
lacks the leisure of the eighteenth cen-
tury the opera cannot be given in its en-
tirety; in the work of curtailment and
selection, the producer has been much
helped by Mr. Arnold Bennett.
< New settings have been provided for
the songs, and the music in general has
been rearranged and supplemented where
necessary by Mr. Frederic Austin. The
versions of the tunes have been taken
from contemporary eighteenth century
editions, and many beautiful and char-
acteristic numbers omitted in later times
I; >ve been restored.
The  costumes  were  designed  by  the
late C. Lovat Fraser.
The story of the play is too long to
rc|>cat here, and will certainly be clear
�u all who attend. Suffice it to say, that
. it 1 is presented by the Beggar himself,
and concerns the merry highwayman
Macheath. who gets himself into terrible
difficulties by his unfortunate choice of
ta.ty-lav.es (one the daughter of a gaoler,
and the other the daughter of a spy), and
is only rescued from the gallows at the
very last moment as a concession to the
fc. lings of the audience.
�' The Prison Scene, Act III,of "The Beggar's Opera" \
Insets, left to right: Lavinia Fenton (the original Polly Peachum), John Gay and Sylvia Nelis.
Smith Swamped
Debate   Proves   Successful
Supporters of Mr.
Hoover.
for
MERION TEAM
BOWS TO VARSITY
,
I
To Meet Al
. Ella Horton, '29,--and E. Linn.
'29, the officers of the Bryn Mawr
Branch of the College League-for
Alfred E, Smith, will leave oh
Thursday morning for New York
to attend a meeting at the Smith
Headquarters where the candidate
himself will speak to a targe gath-
ering of college students delegated
from the Smith Clubs in all the
colleges and universities of the
country.      ..._�".
The historic debate  i> over.    Like a
lion it came in. and like a Ijou it went:
for    lambs    wire    not    in    order    last
Wednesday evening.    To tell the" truth
nothing much was in order^ A turbu-
lent   occasion. was  ciijoyud^by fcjT;   ai
I l��ast  all  the  outward   signs  indicatedi
eujqymcnt.     A   lever,  a  very. cUlirirrir I
of enthusiasm, possessed  i>oth parties. |
Perhaps  the Smithites  wen-  the most,
delirious; they certainly were the most
noisy,     p.ut   then   they   had   the   band,
so comparison- are a bit  unfair.    The
Land,  the    indespensahl�> balkl;   what
would  vvc  do without  it?     It was the
hand   that    made   the   debate   such    aj
memorable occasion. . About this vital,
nucleus   the   Smith   faction   gathered.,
Blaring out  "The  Sidewalks  of  Nev.,
York," brandishing torches, the parad   ,
swirled   about   the  carnpiii      Like   -
snowball    Smith    gathered    adherents.
All neutrals, all Socialists, alfwavcrers.
flocked  to  the music.  Delirium  fizzed
Bad  the  parade  turned  into a snake-;
dance.                         ,
The   Hooveritcs.  however,   were  not
lacking in fine fire.    Defiantly, despera-
tely, ardently,' they shouted  in a  gal-
lant   effort   to drown   out  the   band i
Down towards the serene'complacency
of Goodhart swarmed the riot.    In the I
doors, around the hall, went the snake-,
dance,* the  band still snorting out  the
campaign"*tunc.'   The   Hoover   faction
tried to- sing, tried  hard   tq  sing,   but
the odds were too great.    The prelimi-
nary  honors  had   without  doubt  gone
to Smith.
Gradually the noise died down, but
only after official wet blankets had
been waved for manv minu'es Th<
distinguished.judges. Dr. Swindler, Dr
Gray, Dr. M. Diez, were safely seated
in the irtwt row. the somewhat pertur-
bed looking debaters were settled on
the platform: serious business was
about to begin. M. Speer. '29. intro-
duced the subject of the debate: "Rc^
solved that Alfred E. Smith would
make the best President of the United
States. And then she introduced E.
Fry '29 as the first speaker for the af-
firmative. Miss Fry discussed the
major issues of the campaign andslaid
especial emphasis on Smith's more
liberal and dynamic, policies.. She had
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Second   Varsity   Wins   From,
Rosemont by Better
Score.
TWO TYPES OF HOCKEY
Education
Lake     Tells     How     American
and European Systems
�
Differ.
In his informal talk on the "Purpose1 of
�be   vair-itv    won   .from   a depleted -
Marion team oil Saturday by the score
of^-1.    The outstanding feature of our j
playing  WM. the  improvement'in   our
rushing.    Wills played center half, anjl
proved   herself  a  person   very  worthy
of that position,-though iri  the second I
half  she was  put  back as  center for*!
ward,   and "played   equally   well   there. I
There  were much cleaner hits, on the
whole, and   consequently   less messing
than last week, but Blanchard was con-
tinually offside, which slowed  matters
up   considerably.     Longstreth    did    not
seem able  to control the ball  when  it
came   to   her,   and   Crane   lacked   the
headvvork   nccess'ary for a  center for-
ward in holding her line together and
did not  have enough push  to make  a
goat     .                       -.__:__[
TH Merion goal guard was excel-
lent and their team was strengthened
by the tardy arrival of Miss Townscnd
There were a good many fouls in
the beginning of the second half, but
with Wills back at center forward our
team seemed to hav* more confidence,
and after an excellent attempt by
Blanchara  a goal was scored by very
CO.\TIM'ET�   ON   l�AOR   it
Education11   in   the   common   room   of
Goodhart Monday evening. Dr. Lake de-
clared that the present trouble in educa-
tion; is that wo arc endeavoring R d<
two entirely different tilings at once. We
are attempting to supply people with both
mental training and necessary informa-
tion.
There are very definite limits I" the
amount of mental training a person can
assimilate. Just as you can train your
body up to a certain point. so�yoii can
make your faculties reach a certain level
beyond which it is impossible for them
to go. Training in a subject usually only
gives you ability in that subject. How-
ever, there are four subjects which have
more general application in that they
serve as gymnastic" exercises, for me
whole mind. Two of these are included
in th* college curriculum: mitheroatir.
which teaches you to get behind ffiords
and figures to realities: and Latin prose
coni|H)sition. which is very difficult since
it forces you to get behind words to #ie
thoughts which they so often conceal.
Outside the college curriculum then i�
chess. which exacts clear thinking
through ?omplicatcd situations: and
bridge, which is a little less involved.
Other things are valuable as information
but not a� training (tq the mind.
�    C'ONTIXCEI)   i>.\   iwGE  '�'
BOSWELL'S POWER
IS IN ANECDOTES
Small    Volume    in   London
Gives Malty Stories Not
in Journal.
NO       WOMAN'S       MAN
Sophomores Speedily Elect
Baer, Bell and Sylvia Scott
The class of I0.;i succeeded in electing Elizabeth Baer president after
lour ballots, which'Stems to be quite a remarkable thing for a c'.a-- thi
days Mis.- Baer was the vice-president oj the class last y.ar. on the sell*
government board both years, was captain of the class water polo and basket-.
ball teams last year, played en varsity basketball, and all her class teams ex-
cept lacrosse. In short, it is almost easier to enumerate the offices that Mi�
Haer las not held than those that she has.                                                        a
Helen Bell was elected vice-president at the meeting on tin- follow in.:
Monday. Miss Bell-is-the class representative to Undergrad this year, and was
on the committee for the Freshman Show.
- The secretary was unanimously chosen to be Lois'Thurston. She is the
nres-mt treasurer of the solf-�overnment board, and was the fire captain id
Wyndham last year.
Sylvia Scott was then elected song mistress, but as she was not at the
iv. <-:ng we were unable to ascertain her previous offices, though we do re-
member her plays and stories in the Lantern.
. � ;.
When   asked   to- speak   about   James
Boswetl at Bryn Mawr. Dr. Channcey B.   '.
Tinker said that he felt a certain dismay
4t  the  idea of   speaking  about him  to
women,   because   Boswell   was   certainly
not a woman's man.   Dr. Tinker, Sterling
Professor  at   Yale,   spoke   ir>   the  audi-
t toritim at Goodhart Friday evening, Oc-
tober :.'6.   He went on to say that Bos-
j well lacked dignity; whereas women want
i men to  be dignified,  forcefuj aod prac-
I thai.   A contemporary described Boswell
' as having "great vanity and great absurd-
ity, conviviality and quickness of coinpre-
I elision."     He -was   a   man   wlio   would
rather   be   laughed  at   than  not  noticed
lie knew lie was absurd, and paraded his
absurdity   -before   his   friends,   a   Scots
i'alstaff lost in the eighteenth century.
It is   most interesting in the study of
literature to penetrate the literary art of
a   great  genius.     If we can betrav him
into  revealing   his  secrets,  what a  Bos-
welliau  triumph  we have I    Boswell had
. 'in extraordinary power of 'elating anec-
dotes.     There   is.   in   London,   a   small
volume of these anecdotes, entitled, by the
author, BotwtUimia. with the subtitle A
Commonplace   Book  by  James   Boswell.
f According   to   Johnson's   definition,   "An
anecdote is something as yet unpublished,
.i bit of secret history."    Boswell believed
: that the gathering of such bits was the
peculiar task of the biographer, and that
in  sufficient quantity they  might present
a  view   of  literary men  in  F.ngland for
l.iiM  a   century.
This volume,  Kosvielliana, was not. as
;. 11   might have imagined it to be. a por-
. tion of  hi- journal,    in   it we find few
references    to    John�on�It    i�    just    a     .
\ jumble of stories, in no particular order,
although  one  docs   find  odd  sequences
relating to a single person or event.   It
was made up of loose -sheets on which
Poswell made entries, some of them care-
fully   written up, as if  for future use.
others   mere jottings,  scraps  of  remin-
iscence.   When these sheets became nusn-
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