College News, 1930-03-05, Vol. 16, No. 15

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The College' News
VOL. XVI, NO.  15
BRYN MAWR (AttD WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1930
PRICE,   10 CENTS
Princeton Glee
Club Entertains
Coronation  Scene   From   'Boris'
and 'Chorus of Peers'
Outstanding.
DANCE HELD AFTERWARD
On Saturday everting, March 1. a con-
cert was given in Qoodhart Hall, by the
Princeton University Glee Club. The
program was a well-chosen and varied
one. and the quality of the singing was.
on the whole, very good, with a definite
improvement noticeable in the second -|
part of the program. The conductor,
lames A. Giddings. was exceedingly alert
and efficient, and was able to change his
mood and that of the Glee Club very ef-
fectively, a test of a true artist.
TRere was a lack of convincing feel-
inc in the first three numbers on the
program, but perhaps the vastness of
Goodhart produced temporary stage
(right J. /V. Sykes then played a
Brahnu Rhapsody in E flat and Debussy
"Traviata." In both numbers Mr. Sykes
displayed great technical perfection and
agility. His interpretation Was in both
cat) - conventional, but none the less
-very adequate and satisfying. The Glee
Club then did Debussy's "The Bells"
lleiitly.      The   piano   accompaniment
Board   Competition
The following people are trying
out for two vacancies on the Edi-
torial Board of Thk News : S.
Zeben, '31; S. Noble. C. Einsied-
ler and J. Oppenheimer. '32; J.
Barber, I.. Clews, E. Grace, E.
Kindleberger and D. Rans"ahoff,
'33. The competition is being run
by a process of elimination, and
the names of those who are still
in the race will be announced in
each issue, until the winners are
chosen, the week before spring
vacation.                 .
Students Must Learn
to See Like Picasso
Y
WU  delightful, the humming  was beau-
tifully done and the tenor'Volo was done
in the proper spirit, and  maintained the
hce  perfectly.
"he Octet seeijied a little vague on its
tv negro spirituals, and they left sonie-
'thirfg to be desired, but the entire club
put a great deal of feeling and sincerity
:� - � the "Morning Hymn," and .enjoyed
doing the "Chorus of Peers" from
�"Ioloiithe" immensely. This enjoyment
Was very infectious as the audience
-' ved by its tremendous applause. In
fact this spirited number was insis-
tently   encored.
The high points of the second part of
the program were the Rhapsody in Blue,
played on two pianos (the old favorite
intact and beautifully executed except that
they did not bring out the crescendos
With sufficient emphasis), "Eight Bells"
and Old Man Noah" in which the Octet
displayed a grand sense of humor as
w < II as_ a knowledge and understanding
the music, and the "Coronation
'Scene" from "Boris Godounov." The
latter is an exceedingly difficult number
and involves three or four changes of
ftey. In consideration of this (and also
thi slight flutter caused by a fire irt a
scrap basket under the stage which could
be plainly smelt in the audience), the
jurriormance was a very commendable
oni        The     two-piano     accompaniment
added   a   great   deal   to   the   feeling   of
majesty  and  grandeur.
The   concert   ended   with   the   conven-
tional College songs, and the well-rounded
program   left   one J with   a   feeling   that
ithing   of   musical   value   had   been
achieved
The concert was followed by a dance
in the Commons, Room to which the
Bryn Mawr Glee Club was invited, and
at which the Princeton Orchestra played.
The "cutting in" was done by the girls
which made it slightly difficult for such
of our proud beauties as are afflicted with
myopia, and the room was as crowded as
the well3}nown box of sardines, but on
whole this innovation proved a de-
1 triitful  one.    .
The program was as follows:
a.  Invictus   ..............................Bruno- Huhn
k   Summertime, Minnesingers'  Song,
13th Century............. vo�i   Reuenthal
Arranged   by   Alexander   Russell
\i>incourt Song Arranged by Warrell
Pianoforte  Solos.          J.   A.   Sykes, '30
a   The   Bells                                 "Debussy
*. �     Sombre   Woods                             Lully
c   The- Way   of   the   World...........Grieg
All arranged by  Alexander  Russell
Eight Bells.
Arranged by Bartholomew
\way to Rio,
Arranged by Bartholomew
C OkHtttt Noah.
Arranged by Bartholomew
Sung by the Octet
,     Morning    Hymn                -'      Hen
X/
On Thursday. February 27. Miss
Georgiana Goddard King spoke in chapel
on Picasso and the exhibition in New
York at the Museum of Modern Art.
This exhibition is one in the new plan
of the Museum to give some twenty ex-
hibitions in the next two years and a
half, representing the great modern
painters, and students are urged to sup-
port the movement by joining with a
pledge of $10. The official name" of this
exhibition is "Painting in Paris." and
it contains among other things works by
some very comical and gay men which
are to be taken in the spirit in which
they are presented. It is interesting to
note that all of these gay works are by
representatives of-the oppressed nations.
"The end of art is to communicate feel-
ing, and good art�desirable art�com-
municates feeling either between man and
God or between man and his brother."
A stay of twenty minutes with these pic-
tures Inakes this a conviction, but it
may involve several hours' struggle with
the brain to "get" the pictures.
One of the men represented is Pierre
Bonnard, an intimist, who evokes a feel-
ing of warmth by his quiet charm and
subtle color. There are also some fine
examples of Matisse who is usually self-
conscious and too often imitates himself.
These are "A Girl looking at a dish of
Goldfish" and "White Plumes," which
are as easy to read as the cover of the
Saturday Evening Post. Among the
works of Ferdinand I.eger is the "Com-
position with a Vine" which is distin-
guished for its lovely twistings. * Space
with I.eger is room for the. movement
of two dimensional materials. Else-
where he uses a great many tubes, bars,
and girders of- metal which are two di-
mensional things moving in the third
dimension.
Picasso is not like' the two dimension-
alists at all. His world is made of sub-
stance, tUick and as hard to pentrate and
move in as red Jersey mud for automo-
bile wheels. "The Woman in White" is
a straight "academy" yet splendid, while
in "The Lovers," who are direct and
sincere, the sentiment is absolutely naive.
"The .Harlequin" and the "Child scop-
ing out a porridge bowl" are entirely
realistic, revealing Spanish characteris-
tics in Picasso. His "Figure of a
Woman Seated" dominates one end of
the exhibition room. This remarkable
picture is a solid silhouette seen from
the front, but as the woman has her
head turned a quarter of the way around
she is also seen as though from a dif-
ferent angle.
We have learned from .Picasso,
Matisse,   and   Cezanne   that   masses   are
Continued on Pace Six
3\s Aquatic Genius
Gains Championship
On Friday. February 28. the class
of 1933 won the undisputed champion-
ship of the college in swimming. The
resujts of this meet and the one pre-
ceding were averaged, to give the vic-
tory to the Freshmen with 36 points
over the ' Sophomores' 10 and the
Juniors' 5. Every individual award
was claimed by members of '33 as well.
Parker and Torrance tied for the
largest number of points; Parker took
the diving cup. and Torrance ran away
with a new college record for the 40-
yard breast stroke, cutting 35.3 seconds
down to 34. This was the greatest
*vent of the two meets, and we <"on-
Kratulate Torrance on good starts and
turns as well as on a beautiful stroke.
The diving of the second meet put
optimism into the hearts of the specta-
tors. With Parker's finished work, the
other Freshmen talent, and Burrows
and    Frothingham    on    the    job,    the
Continued  on  Pace  Five
Played 'Dona Sol'
Dr. Buttrick Stresses
Redemption by Sacrifice
b. Chorus of Peers   from  Iolanthe,
Sullivan
Intermission
aT Where'er  You Walk,   from  Semele,
Handel
b. Jolly  Rogers
Duets for two pianos,    v �
A.   Struck. 33,  and  F. Gunther, '33
a.   Go   Long. Mule,  Go 'Long......Dixon
b.   I'm Troubled  in   Mind,
Arranged  by Alexander  Russell
Sung by the Octet
Coronation  Scene,  from  Boris Godou-
nov   ..................................... Moussorgsky
a.   Princeton  Days..............................Peas.
Soloist. D.  E.   Dismukes, '30
b.   Princeton   Marching   Songs,
The' Rev. GeorRC A. Buttrick, of
the Madison Avenue Presbyterian
Church, New York City, was the
speaker   at   the   service   of   tnc.. Bryn
Mawr League on Sunday. March 2. in
the Music Room of Goodhart Hall.
Dr, Buttrick took as his text Luke
9:51. "He steadfastly set his face to go
to Jerusalem." When Jesus made this
choice. He was at Jericho, from which
one road led north to the quiet hill
country of Galilee, the other south to
Jerusalem, where enemies were plot-
ting His destruction. There were
many insidious practical arguments
against the course dictated to Jesus by
His soul. His cause needed Him alive;
He could save the world by going
north and continuing to teach. Yet
He set His face like a "flint," as the
Greek says, and went "steadfastly" to
His death.
What was entailed in this decision
we can find written on His face dur-
ing that final journey. First there was
suffering. W'c lose Jesus' great bond
to humanity if we forget that the
temptation in the wilderness was just
a preface to a long sequence of tempta-
tions which beset Jesus, as they do us.'
until the end. The agony of this turn-
ing to Jerusalem was greater in a
sense than that in � Gcthscmaiic, for
Gethsemane was the aftermath of this
choice. We sec Jesus, then, going
on with quickened pace and anguished
brow, so tense that His disciples
"stumbled in terror behind." "He
steadfastly set His face to go to Jeru-
salem." And we talk of the right to
be .happy! K happiness means un-
ruffled comfort, our demand is con-
trary to the nature of this life, for it
is so constructed that choices inevi-
tably force themselves upon us. Fur-
thermore, if this "right to be happy"
is truly ours, we have the far greater
right of throwing this happiness away.
Thus Byrd and Lindbergh gave up
safety and chose danger. The em-
phasis of Jesus was on the right to
be  true.
Secondly, there was courage on
Jesus' face when He took the road to
Jerusalem. We are given to over-
stressing the tender, passive side of
Jesus, thus losing sight of His mag-
nificent force. Before we attribute
courage to a man, wc must know
what fears he has overcome in making
his choice, and how scnsiti� he is.
The impenitent thief on the cross was
unable to feel with his coarse nature
the undertones and overtones of suffer-
ing which wrought Jesus to a "white,
quivering intensity." Yet "steadfastly
He set His face to go to Jerusalem."
Do we demand the right to be happy
and complain because there are not
enough armchairs to go around? We
will perish soon of spiritual diabetes!
Carlyle   dealt   masterfully   with   this
Clarissa Compton, leading lady in
"Herriani," presented in Goodhart
February 25.
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Miss Walton Advises
Literary Aspirants
At a vocational tea in the ^.'onunons
Room on Thursday afternoon, Febru-
ary 27, Miss Edith Walton spoke of
opportunities in journalism and publish-
ing. Miss Walton, Bryn Mawr, '25, is
on the staff of the Forum and from her
own experience is acquainted with the
difficulties of the literary job-seeker just
out of college, the person*who lias a hazy-
idea that she waitts practice in writing
but has no real knowledge of the pos-
sible   opportunities.
Miss Walton spoke first, therefore, of
publishing houses where there are four
general types of positions. The first of
these is the editorial department�manu-
script reading�and requires no special-
ized training but a facility and quickness
in reading and, above all, good taste.
The job consists of weeding out the im-
possible manuscripts, passing on the bet-
ter ones, and writing editorial reports of
the manuscripts. This is comparatively
easy work, your judgment is usually
accepted without question. Then there is
the advertisement ' department where
jacket copies and advertisements for the
newspapers are written. This is the only
actual writing connected with a publish-
ing house, emphasized Miss Walton; it
is fun for a while with the added advan-
tage that if you do not like publishing,
you can jfo into advertising. The pub-
licity department is a good place to
start; here liooks are sent to magazines
and newspapers to be reviewed. Al-
though the position of director of pub-
licity requires training and experience,
it is interesting well-paid work and
usually done by a woman. Newspaper
experience is good, training in leading
Up to thiS'position There are, fourthly,
some miscellaneous jobs such as the text
Continued on  P��e Three
-    A Wet Bet
j\t the women's interfaculty, swimming
meet spectators were startled to sec a
mere male, fully dressed, dive .neatly
from the balcony, climb out ignomiui-
ously, and slink away murmuring. "Who
wouldn't   be   for   ten   dollars?"�McCill
Daily.
question when he asked by what act
Arranged byjAlexander- Rttssetrj-of Parliament.we have this ri8ht. We
Nassau                             Langlotz        �        conUnned on Pace Tare*
Calendar
Monday evening, March 10. Mr.
Carl Sandburg will speak in
Goodhart at 8:15 on "Good
Morning! America," with read-
ings from his poetry, Roota-
baga stories and songs with
the guitar. This will be the
Ann Elizabeth Sheblc Me-
niorial Lecture in English
Literature.
Wednesday afternoon, March
12, M rs. Margaret Fleisher
Sloes will giw the second of
her talks on contemporary
literature, in the Commons
Room. This talk will be about
"The Sophisticates." Tea will
be .served.
French Club Gives
'Battle of Hernani'
Revive Atmosphere of Comedie
Francai.se in Centennial
Reproduction.
FRENCH     SPOKEN     WELL
Tuesday evening. February twenty-
fifth, nineteen hundred and thirty, or
Tuesday evening. February twenty-fifth,
eighteen hundred and thirty? Goodhart
Hall. Bryn Mawr College, or The Come-
die Francaise, Paris? It does not mat-
ter. A hundred years and a new locale
seemed to have made few changes in the
Battle of Hernani which was waged
again with all the furor attending its
French premiere. Once more the classi-
cists and romanticists found seats in the
"pit" very near the stage where they
could effectively exercise their remark-
able powers of booing, hissing, applaud-
ing, or stamping, as the situation de-
manded. From the grjm expressions on
the faces of trte classicists it was not
difficult to imagine that they had come
steadfastly determined to convince this
young upstart Victor Hugo that he
should not succeed in his attempt to
storm the fort of French classical tra-
dition; while the colorful bouquets that /
the gay young romanticists carried in/
such a delightfully jaunty fashion seemed
good-omened tokens portending that this
play of Victor Hugo's which aimed to
break down the tyranny of the Alexan-
drine verse would carry-the day after
all.
However, the first act of Hernani held
much to dampen the spirits of a roman-
ticist, if his spirit could Ik- dampened.
According to Tuesday night's perform-
ance this is impossible. The first line
of Dona Joscfa's speech was hissed
loudly by the classicists; when Dob Car-
los attempted to hide in a Clipboard
which was slightly too small lor him the
classicist roared at the incongruity of
the incident: and it was with all manner
of ribald noise that Hernani's mono-
loguea at the conclusion of the act was
greeted. Such demonstrations on "the
part of l)oth the romanticists and the clas-
sicists continued throughout the play, and
(veil into the intermissions where alter-
cations waxed so hot that hats were
tipped off and wigs sent askew. At
times some qf the classicists so forgot
their dignity that they threw vegetables
at the actors: several others were ap-,
parent!} so Ixircd by the iierforinance
that they fell into snorcy sleep; and one
it||pcrturablc classicist read his news-
paper during the whole play until a few
minutes before the end of the fifth act.
By that time even tin   classicists were
jabbering to each other of the greatness
f the play. The feud had died under .
the stroke of Victor Hugo's dramatic
pen. As the curtain fell the whole audi-
ence united in acclaiming the play. Yet
there was a .difference in the purpose of
the applause'of the audience of eighteen
hundred and thirty and the audience of
nineteen hundred and thirty. A hundred
years ago the praises were directed to
one individual, the author of the piece,
Victor Hugo; last Tuesday evening the
appreciation of the audience was sent to
more than fifty people whose help�on
stage or behind�made possible this �
colossal undertaking of a centennial re-
production of Hernani. As Dean
Schenck said in Chapel on Tuesday
morning: "Hernani and Dona Sol both
spoke French,that we are proud to have
spoken on the Bryn Mawr stage." Caro-
line Ltoyd-Jones managed the difficult
role of Hernani with remarkable skill,
although in the last act her gestures
seemed a little exaggerated; Mary Duke
Wright made a very convincing Dob Ruy
dome/ de Silva. and Clarissa Compton,
despite �> slight stiffness, was an alto-
gether charming, heroine, far �more^ap-
propriately cast for the role than was
the tiity-vear-old actress in eighteen hun-
dred and thirty.
It seems unfair to mete out individual
4>raisc when vcrj obviously the success �
of a play of this sort depended fln the''
swiemth workings of the whole cast, .the
ConUaned on Pace si*