College News, 1931-03-04, Vol. 17, No. 14

              The Coll
News
Vol. XVII, No. 14
WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931
Price: 10 Cents
French Club to Give Moliere
...... The members of the French Club are giving a presentation of
Moliere's Les Femmes Savantes on Saturday evening, March 14, at
8:30 o'clock.   The cast is as follows:
Chrysale (a good bourgeois)............................................Lee Mandell
Philaminte, his wife ................................................Katharine Sixt
Daughters of Chrysale and Philaminte�
Armande ......................................................... .. Myra Little
Henriette ...........................................................Clarissa Compton
Ariste, Chrysale's brother............................?............Gertrude Macatee
Belise. Chrysale's sister............................................Mariana Jenkins
Clitaudre, Henriette's lover..............................Caroline Lloyd Jones
Trissotin, a wit............................ .................    ..........Marian Mitchell
Vadius,' savant.............................................................:......A.  Jarrett
Martine, kitchen maid...................................................Virginia Smith
I'Epine, lackey...............................................................Greta Swenson
Julien, valet of Vadius.,...............................................Greta Swenson
Le Notaire ....................................................................Phyllis Simms
Some of the cast will be remembered favorably as having
played in Hernani last year. Others are new discoveries in the
dramatic field. The actresses are again ably directed by Mile.
Maud Ray. The play itself is guaranteed to give an evening's enter-
tainment.   Tickets are on sale at Publication office.
Penn School Offers
" Practical Education
Agriculture and Home Econom-
ics Taught in Institution on
St. Helena Island.
NO REGULAR VACATIONS
----------Oti  Wednesday afternoon, February
2,i. Miss Rossa Cooley, head of the
I'enn School on St. Helena Island,
spoke informally at a tea in Radnor
to the members of the Education and
Social Economy departments. Miss
Cooley was particularly interested in
the relation between her school and the
cojnniunity.
St. Helena Island has the distinction
of being the first free territory in the
United States. Its population today is
colored and consists of about five thou-
sand persons. As the boll weevil is a
great menace to the chief industry,
*cotton raising, the island is extremely
poor. The average salary is only about
tour hundred and twenty-five dollars a
year. It is ' this community which
forms the background for the Penn
School, started by Quakers in 1862,
privately owned and open to two hun-
dred and sixty students. It operates
on a budget of five thousand, dollars
a {year and on a* twelve-month basis
- with vacations only when the children
are needed at home. In addition to the
, regular academic studies from the first
grar>e through high school, Agricul-
ture, � Industrial Arts and Home Eco-
nomics are taught. Each of the grad-
uates is fitted to carry on his life on
the island as happily and successfully
is possible. Occasionally, however?
�onie enterprising students continue
�neir studies at college. For example,
� Mi' graduate of Penn School took his
nedical training and returned to St.
'lelena to practice among his own
people. But the majority of the stu-
dents work in their homes or in the
fields. For that reason, the school
tries to prepare them to help in the bet-
tering of the community life. The
school also establishes contacts with
the community by means of such insti-
tutions as Better Home Competitions
. >r Home Economics classes for the
women. Because of the kind of edu-
cation offered and the relationship be-
tween the school and the community,
Miss Cooley believes that the Penn
School is of real value to the negroes
>>n St. Helena Island.
Competitors
The following students have en-
tered the competition tor the fcdi-
torial Board of the News: Berg,
'33; Bret, 34; Coxe, '34; Findley,
34; Grant, '34; Hart, 34; Nichols,
"34.
Any who are still interested in
entering the competition should see
L. Saribprn, Merion 29-33, for a
last chance.
Bryn Mawr Fencers
Defeat Sword Club
(Specially contributed by Dr. Ilerbcn)
Fencing on a short strip, with the
added disadvantage of bad light, the
Bryn Mawr Fencing Team neverthe-
less surpassed their opponents of the
Sword Club by the impressive score
of 16 to 9. All bouts were, of course,
contested with the foil for the best out
of nine touches. The evening held a
number of surprises, not the least of
which was the consistent play of the
Bryn Mawr contestants as a team. In-
dividual honors Vtc to Miss Ruth
Brylowski, of the \nvord Club, who
won all five of her WHtfs, reeling off
the touches with case in*H series of
attacks that were often brilliantly con-
ceived. Of the local competitors, Miss
Engle and Miss Young led the scor-
ing with four" victories each. The
bouts were marked more by the suc-
cessful use of a few well-executed con-
ventional movements than by versa-
tility or ingenuity. The performance
reflected ^great credit upon the Bryn
Mawr fencers, being more representa-
tive of their capabilities than was the
contest of the previous week against
the Salle-de Vince. .            i
The score:
Miss Brylowski, S. C, defeated
Misses Watts, Brice, Engle, Young
and Cone.
Miss Sinnickson, S. C, defeated
Misses Brice and Cone, losing to
Misses Watts, Engle and Young.
Miss Brill, S. C," won from Miss
Watts, lost to Misses Brice, Engle,
Young and Cone.
Miss Smith, S. C.v won from Miss
Brice, lost to Misses Watts. Engle,
Young and Cone.
Miss Maisy, S. C, lost to Misses
Watts, Brice, Engle, Young and Cone.
Director, M. Marcel Bocckmans.
Judges, Lieutenant J. Wilbur. U. S.
M. C, and Dr. S. J. Herben.
Canvases in the
..Common Room
Professor Carpenter Finds
Missing Parthenon Statue
Details of an important archeologi-
cal discovery were made public for the
first time by Professor Edward Capps,
chairman of the managing committee
of the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens and member of the
Princeton Classic Department, follow-
ing receipts of personal letters from
Professor Rhys Carpenter, director of
the Athenian school.
Professor Carpenter recently identi-
fied a mutilated statue on the Acropo-
lis at Athens as a member of the fa-
mous western pediment group of the
Parthenon, fro n which it has been
missing since approximately   1749.
In his letters to .frotessor Lapps,
Professor Carpenter revealed that re-
cently, while walking on the Acropolis,
his eye was attracted to the mutilated
statue of a seated figure. He quickly
identified the statue as belonging to
the western pediment <1 group, which
was last sketched in place on the Par-
thenon by  "Carrey"  in   '674, but  was
('<>�t I nurd   on   Pace   Faur
(Specially contributed by Professor G.
G. King)
Some years ago a New York pic-
ture dealer, from no particular or
personal interest in Bryn Mawr Col-
lege but just out of an impulse of
generosity with the beautiful things
that lay in his hands, used to lend us
a painting for about a fortnight, and
then another after a bit, and so for
several winters. I remember an ex-
quisite early Italian Madonna worship-
ing the Child, by Jacopo del Sellajo,
and a Spanish Dwarf, by Goya, and
I am sorry now that we did not keep
a record of alt we owed to the Erich
brothers. I thinly/the war put an end
to the practice. In any case, there
was nowhere to hang a picture safe but
the Woerishoffcr Memorial room, and
the lighting there was not designed for
exhibitions.
Last year a few alumnae 'offered
assistance to the students if they cared
to see some modern painting; it was
an admirable thought. Then Mrs.
Cornelius Sullivan came upon the
scene, ready to lend the first, and sent
two canvases instead of one, and when
we gave a tea for the pictures in Good-
hart she came down herself, which was
like putting a bottle of Perrier into
the lemonade. At dinner -that night
she told how a handful of alumnae of
the University of Indiana have pledged
themselves to give an exceedingly
small sum annually to be invested *by
her each year in a modern picture or
two, just as a gamble, to be sold if at
the end of three years still not enjoyed,
she having the privilege of buying
back at the cost price. So far, the
pictures are all retained in the Univer-
sity Museum, and the contributing
group, who call themselves the Gam-
boliers. are as gay as in the old song.
And Mrs. Sullivan will try to arrange
a little exhibition of t Arthur Davies
for us later in the spring. Meanwhile
here are the first fruits of our-own
ahgnnac's interest: two not very large
canvases    hanging    in    the    Common
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Continued on Past Three
System of Numerical
Marking Explained
Numerical Marking  Makes Pos-
sible Recognition of Dis-
tinguished Scholarship.
CITE COMMITTEE REPORT
(Specially contributed by Dr. Crcnslwu-
and Dean Manning)
The students may be interested in
hearing some of the reasons which in-
fluenced the faculty in their decision
to return to numerical grading. Last
spring a committee was appointed to
investigate the question of whether the
number of honors, degrees had been
greatly   increased   by   the  introduction
Continued   on   Pace  Two
Benefit Concert
The Main Line School of Music
has generously offered to give a
concert for the benefit of the Un-
employment Relief Fund of the
Main Line Federation of Churches.
The concert will be given in Good-
hart Hall, which has been donated
by the college, on Wednesday,
March 11, at 8:15. The program
will be preceded by a Toy Sym-
phony, conducted by Adolph Vogel.
The following artists will par-
ticipate :
Olive   Marshall   .................Soprano
Frederick   Cook    .................Violin
William Fletcher                Clarinet
George  Schmidt                      'Cello
Robert Shamone ......-----   Trumpet
They will be assisted by Chris-
tine Haskell and Anne Perley
Prichard,   pianists.
Tickets can be obtained at the
Publication Office in advance for
$1.50,   Seats are not reserved.
Mary Wigman, of the Mary Wigittan-Schule,   *]
Dresden, Presented Program of Dances
Her Art Combination of Brilliant Rhythmic and Dramatic Effects
Produced Through Bodily Power and Forceful
�   ^         Personality.
Mary Wigman, of the Mary Wigman-
Schule, Dresden, presented a program of
dances in Goodhart Hall February 25.
The dancing of Mary Wigman is creative
art: it is the production of brilliant
rhythmic and dramatic effects through
bodily power and a forceful personality.
Her technique has far richer potentiali-
ties than the more intrinsically "natural"
Duncan dancing and though it suggests
Oriental influence it is on a much higher
intellectual  plane.
Mary Wigman's dances are not musical
interpretations, but creations compJefe4�?'
themselves. The accompanying rhytltnis
of the "primitive instruments" and the
piano are set by the dancer's own,tempos.
Music and even costume only serve to
intensify the mood expressed by the
dancer's liody.
Powerful controlled movement is the
epitome of this danemtf. Even the deli-
cacy of a "PastoralS' suggests latent
strength. Statuesque orace is excluded
by the muscular vigor (and the decisive-
ness implicit in Mary Wigman's tech-
nique. Hut though many of the dancer's
set positions approach the grotesque, they
seldom seem truly inartistic. Her body
is too much of a mechanism to give way
to bacchanalian abandon, but a veritable
crescendo and diminuendo is achieved
through the continuity of her movements.
Her mobile face is in perfect co-ordina-
tion with her body. Invocation, the open-
ing dance on the program, was in fact
little more than a display of continuous
Mr. Willoughby and Choir
Give Excellent Program
movement through quickening and re-
tarding rhythms.
Excitement and mystery are the moods
that find fullest interpretation in Mary
Wigman's art. Face of the'Night, Storm
Song and IVitch Dance give free play to
her dramatic or better perhaps her melo-
dramatic powers. The beating of the
drums, the black robes and the face of
horror and idiocy in the night dance
might have seemed ridiculous had not the
now frantic, now stealthy motions of the
dancer been dramatically sustained. The
cmlxKlimcnt of the slorm's fury in the
ominous swirl of the dancer's red drap-
eries would have been merely sensational
bad it not been so realistic in execution.
The "grotesque and almost macabre
"Witch Dance" was less convincing only
because it was more of a sketch than a
dance-
Festive Rhythm and Whirl Dance re-
lied less upon the dramatic impressionism.
The former was a brilliant expression
of the vitality of tlie living being. The
latter was a tour dfi force, of whirling
motion; the dancer's body seemed more
than ever to l>c an exquisite mechanism.
The musical service held in chapel
last Sunday evening afforded an oppor-
tunity which is as valuable as it is rare.
The religious music of the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries reaches
heights unattained in any other period,
with the possible exception of that of
Gregorian Chant. Despite its intensely
devotional quality and consequent fit-
ness for church services, this music is
seldom heard; congregations are served
ihstead with Gounod and Stainer,
among others even le.-s appropriate and
appealing. When a choir, therefore,
presents such a program as that of
Sunday night, and renders il so effec-
tively, one cannot but be encouraged
and delighted.
I'alestrina's " lencbrac l-'aitae Sunt"
was the first of the great works offered.
The dramatic intensity was well sus-
tained, as in the anguished cry "Deus
incus, quidquid me dcrelcquisti?" as
was the terrifying weirdness so appro-
priate to the subject. The choir's in-
terpretation erf "Adciramus Te. Christ?1
again impressed one with the complete
unworldliiiess of I'alestrina's music,
and with his closeness to perfection,
which, as Cecil Cray says, is the re-
sult ol exclusion and refinement. It
is interesting to note the contrast be-
tween him and his great contemporary
in Spain, whose "Jesus, the Very
Thought of Thee" and "O Vos Omncs"
were the next presentations of the choir.
Vittoria, although as a man far more
of a mystic than Palestrina. is less so
in his music. Great emotional inten-
sity, even when it is the result of
religious exaltation, brings one closer
to the profane world, with its dynamics
of joy and sorrow. In William Byrde,
however, who with Palestrina. Vittoria,
and Orlando di l.assus is ranked as a
master'of the century, there is hardly
a sign of w'orldliness. although he does
not lack vigor. And this the choir
showed clearly in "Looke Down, O
Lorde" and "Benedictus." As a mat-
ter of fact, through the entire program
they sang with a surety which is all
the more remarkable since it seems
doubtful whether many of them could
4        OattMrd   oa   Paf*   T�a,
A rather" conventional though charming
type of dancing was seen in the. Pastorale '
and the. Summer Dunce. The simple lit-
tle idyll of the reclining shepherdess was
composed solely by the undulating move-
ments of the dancer's arms, and was
graceful but inconsequential. The Sum-
mer nance expressed a more extravagant
though kindred interpretation of youthful
pleasures. The Gipsy Moods, the two
dances with which the program was con-
cluded, were not only dissatisfyingly
commonplace but also out of keeping
with the rest of the recital.
Mary Wigman has freed dancing from
the dictates of music and all other ham-
pering conventions. Her dances are the
consummate expressions of the rhythms
of the body and the dramatic emotion and
artistry in the mind of a creative person-
ality.                                � D. E. P.
PROGRAM:
\ns dein Tanzcyklus "Schwingende
I.andschaft" (from the Dance Cycle,
"Shifting Landscape." '
1.    .\nruf   (Invocation!.
< nntliiiiril  on   I'��r   Foilii_^*"v
Varsity Basketball
Varsity basketball season, getting
away to a delayed start, saw the first
team defeat the Buccaneers, 53-17. The
game was not marked by any particu-
larly exciting moments for, on the
whole, the playing was only fairly good.
Collier and Totten seemed to go
rather well together. Totten in par-
ticular had an eye for the basket and
made most of her shots fr�m the floor,
but   Collier's   free   throw's   were   more
accurate. The latter played up more
than usual, feeding Totten under the.
basket. Ilaer and Remington went
together fairly well but their passing
was noini too good. . Remington, dur-
ing the first, had a tendency to throw
chest passes at the opposing guard,
apparently. unable to loop them over
the guard to the forward. McCully
and Moore were good, but rather slow.
However, they should pick up with
more opposition.
The team as a whole needs a little
faster and more accurate passing, espe-
cially from section to section. There
was quite a bit of fouling and an ap-
parent tendency toward pushing, which
was due largely to clumsiness.
For   the    Buccaneers   Cookman.   at
CWlMtl � Fin Taraa
Afore Tryouts
Try-outs for the Business Board
of Tit* CotXBGK Wu - Start to-
day, and are o|�en Jo all Freshmen
and Sophomore- Set D. Asher,
59 Rock, between 1 Jjttand i P. M.
Thursday and Friday.
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