College News, 1932-11-30, Vol. 19, No. 06

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The College News
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VOL. XIX, No. 6
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1932
PRICE 10 CENTS
1932 Varsity Hockey
Season Summarized
Team Showed Marked Improve-
ment in Co-Operation In
Last Few Games
DEFENSE WINS APPLAUSE
Although it won only one game of
its 1932 schedule, Varsity shows
marked improvement at the end of
the season, both in the offense and
in the defense. We are especially
pleased to note that the lack of co-
operation which was so evident at the
beginning, has practically disappear-
ed. Of course, there are a few mem-
bers of the team who far surpass the
ofhers, but the team as a whole has
learned to play as a unit.
The forwards, especially, have de-
veloped from a poor offense, using
weak, inanimate passes and rarely
making goals, into a true menace.
Passes are gotten away much more
quickly and show decided accuracy.
The stickwork of the team, however,
is still amateurish and uninspirng.
Most of the credit for real improve-
ment goes to the defense. In the first
three games, the opponents tallied
twelve points against the backs and
goal guard, but in the last three only
eight points were made. Together
with the decrease in the opponents'
scoring, there is a gain of four points
in Varsity's scoring in the last three
games, indicating that the defense
was such that the hall was kept in
the forwards' possession most of the
lime�as was in fact the case.
Taggart, a varsity right wing from
Rosemary, played three games foH
First Varsity and one for the Second.
In the Germantown match, she played
a nice game in the open, but tended
to carry the ball too far down field,
,'so that her passes came to the inner
at an impossible angle. In the
imore game, however, she was
ind her passes were quicker
andi_jnuon more accurate. Though
Stevenson is the fastest runner and
speediest passer on the team, she is
very erratic and so is alternated with
Taggart for the wing position. Brown,
a varsity left wing from Westtpwn,
kept her left wing position through-
out the season. Although her playing
is not spectacular, it is steady and
efficient.
Cary, although an Inter-Scholastic
left inner from Germantown Friends,
failed to live up to expectations, and
after playing in two Varsity games,
(' 11 back as a substitute and finally
ended the season on the Second Var-
sity. This is not, however, indica-
tive of future work and she may
eventually shape into Varsity mate-
rial.
Remington and Collier have prov-
ed to be the strength of the Bryn
Mawr offense. Remington's hard shots
and accuracy have made her high
scorer of Varsity with a total of sev-
en goals. She is Captain of the team
and a reserve on the All-Philadelphia
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Old Clothes
All students are earnestly re-
quested to rem^nbeK the Thrift
Shop of the Bryn Mawr Hos-
pital when disposing of old
clothes, furniture, and such ar-
ticles. The Shop, which is run
for the benefit of the Hospital,
can sell anything from victitria
records to old shoes, and is bad-
ly in need of contributions. The
articles most needed include
clothing of all sorts, furniture
and household goods, but every
contribution will be gratefully
accepted. If students have any
cast off possessions they should
call Bryn Mawr 1093 and the
Thrift Shop will be glad to call
and collect. This enterprise is
worthy of support and co-op-
eration, and we hope that stu-
dents will keep it in mind.
Trial and Error Best
Teacher of Playwriting
Part   of   Class   Time   Given
Informal Productions of
the Class' Work
to
EXPECTATIONS ARE HIGH
M. Paul Hazard Returns
to Lecture on Voltaire
M. Paul Hazard, whom the college
will remember as the Flexner lecturer
of two years ago, is returning to Bryn
Mawr on Saturday evening to speak
on "Voltaire il y a 200 ans." M. Haz-
ard is a great authority on 18th and
19th century French Literature. He
is a professor at the College de
France, and, at present, exchange pro-
fessor at Columbia. He is also edi-
tor of the "Revue de Litterature Com-
paree." A very fine scholar, and ex-
tremely productive, he has given us,
in collaboration with M. Bedier, as
"Histoire Illustree" of French litera-
ture; a life of Stendhal, and an in-
troduction to the study of Don Quix-
ote's life.
M. Hazard was very much inter-
ested by Bryn Mawr on his first visit.
Having missed the performance of
"Hernani," the French Club's pro-
duction for that year, he asked that
one of the scenes be repeated for him.
What few members of the student
body were not aware that a playwrit-
jng class was being offered again this
year, have certainly been brought face
Lo face with the fact iri one way or
another by now. The consensus of
opinion is that there was never before
n class like this, and that if the mem-
bers are sane, which is at times a
little doubtful, something really great
may come out of the amazing chaos
that begins over the week-end, with
rehearsals for the pantomimes to be
put on the next Tuesday, and sub-
sides only late Tuesday afternoon,
after the last critic has hurled her
last brick at the last impassioned
author. The crux of Miss Latham's
method seems to be that no one can
leach any one else how to write plays,
but that the stage itself and the time-
honored trial and error method can
'lo everything that needs to be done.
Consequently, each week, part of the
4^wb-hour meeting of the class is taken
up with the production of some of
l he work that the members have hand-
<-d in the week before. These pro-
ductions are very informal and sim-
ple; so far they have been panto-
mimes in the main, and the author
and actors usually find an hour over
the week-end or on. Monday morning
to go through the motions of the mur-
�ler, discovery, or comedy that is as-
signed.
All of this, while it tends to pro
luce immense enthusiasm, has a way
of creating some confusion along
with it. Last week saw the perfect
example of both qualities, when two
young hopefuls put on a one-act play
(the actors reading from their
scripts), which required that some
Ihirty odd people, gangsters, police-
men, sophistocates, and almost every
type of New Yorker mill about the
^tage together, and react to the most
amazing of melodramas. Needless to
�'ay the thirty people had done little in
preparation and the result looked
more like the rush hour in the sub-
way than the cocktail hour on Fifty-
fourth street. No less amusing are
l he numerous hammer and nail mur-
ders that have been practiced in every
"show case" on the campus and have
bloomed or wilted on the stage dur-
ing the past few weeks. Mr. Clay-
ton Hamilton in a speech here last
week announced that every one of us
is potentially a murderer, but that
happily most of us take out our urges
in that direction in our imaginations,
and especially in the theatre. If this
is so, there is very little danger that
the members of the playwriting class
will give way to the urge in real life.
It has been worn out of them. But
at the same time it is most illuminat-
ing to observe just how ingenious the
average Bryn Mawr girl is at con-
structing sets of horrors dreadful
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Saint's Day Presented
as Players' Second
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Play Designed  to  be.  Scurrilous
With Sacrifice of His-
torical Accuracy
FANTASTIC TYPE OF PLOT'
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CALENDAR
Wed., Nov. 30=�Miss Helen
(ihapin will speak on A Long
How of Buddhist Images in the
Palace Museum at Peking. With
slides.    In Goodhart.
Sat., Dec. 3�M. Paul Haz-
ard will speak on Avee Vol-
taire il y a Deux Cent Ans.
Goodhart, 8.20 P. M.
Sat.,    Dec.    3�Bryn    Mawr
Varsity    vs.   vAH-Philadelphia'
Hockey Team/ 11.00 A. M.
Sun., Dec. 4�Chapel. Dr.
Ilornell Hart, Associate Profes-
sor of Social Economy and Re-
search, will speak.
Wed., Dec. 7�William But-
ler Yeats, distinguished Irish
dramatist and author, will
speak in Goodhart at 8.20 P.
M. Tickets on sale in Publi-
cations Office.
coxei William Butler Yeats
to Speak Here Dec. 7
Nobel Prize Winner to Talk on
Irish Theatre and Literary
Renaissance
NEW    IRELAND
(Especially contributed oy W. W. .
Flexner)
"The Players" on Thursday eve-!
ning, November seventeenth, produced
a one-act play, Saint's Day, by Tom i
Prideaux. Miss Marshall, before thei
curtain went up, announced that this!
was to be the first showing of the
play in its � present form, and then:
gave the cast of characters and stage \
management as follows:
Saint Carlo.............Sally Jones
Rosa  ................Carry Schwab
Sutro................. Olivia   Jarrett i
Loni...................Maria
Klkar  ...'. 111 � � � �.. Haviland Nelson
Bartoni..........Elizabeth   Hannan
Stage Manager  ........Maria Coxe
Properties............Olivia Jarrett
Costumes,
Caroline Berg and Betty  Edwards
Lighting..........Diana Tate-Smith j
The   action   centers   about   Saint j
Carlo, an ex-cafe waiter, with a tal-1 rAVUKo
ent   for   exhortation    and    spiritual
sleight of hand, who had been dis-j Bryn Mawr has been very fortunate
covered by two business men, Elkarj'" securing Mr. William Butler Yeats
and Bartoni, and by them bally-hooed as a speaker on the Ir^sh National
into sanctity. In the single act it is � Theatre and the Irish Literary Ren-
shown   how   Carlo,   informed   by   alaissancc>  Wednesday>   DeCcmber 7th,
chance friend that his managers are  .    _                   .��-.....-�
...            ,      , .          ,     � . .  I in Goodhart, at 8.20 P. M.   Mr. Yeats,
planning to murder him and sell his]
bones for sacred relics, outwits them   besides  being  a   poet  of  world-wide
and escapes with  Rosa, his mistress,   fame, the winner of the Noble Pjizc
and that part of the offerings he has   for   Literature  in   1932,   is   perhaps
collected which he and Rosa have been   more than any other onc man rcspon.
able  to conceal from  the promoters.    ...   ,     ,,    ,       ,.          ...
_.        .             .      ,      ,   .       ,  ,     ,   ; sible for the founding and the success
The  play  is  clearly  designed  to  bei
scurrilous and amusing, and so feels "f the Irish Literary Theatre, which
no responsibility to the church and its [ later developed into the Abbey The-
saints, historical accuracy, probabil- atre, now the National Theatre of the
ity or dramatic polish. It is so sue-1 irish Free state. His interest and
cessfully entertaining that the audi-;         ^ the Irish LJte         Renaissance
ence willingly accepts its premises and
laughs heartily. The amusement rises < Jate from hls twenty-fourth .year
to its height when Elkar and Bartoni I when his volume of poems, Wund,�>�-
are cutting holes in Carlo's "tailor-1 big Osin and Other Poems, signalized
made sackcloth" and besmearing himjihe beginning of the movement. He
with mud. This is also the most dra-j |ias written more than a dozen plays
matic moment of the play, for we, for the Abbey Theatre, and is even
know that Bartoni is planning to mur-1 known to the readers of Punch as the
der Carlo and here we see the villain � artj8t who signs his drawings, "W.
poking holes in Carlo's clothes with a | Bird."
bread-knife. The director very sue-! Besjdes these interests Mr. Yeats
cessfully brings the action to a focus i ;s very anxious to discuss with Amer-
sit this point. I fully expected an at-1 ican audiences the "New Ireland,"
tempt on Carlo's life and a desperate wnich has come mto being since the
struggle, but to my relief the con-| finding of the Irish Free State,
spirators allowed him to go onto his |jorn jn Dublin, he has spent most of
balcony and address the crowd below,; his mature life in his native land and
thus giving him the chance to ac-js.in ciose touch with all of her prob-
knowledge his mistress publicly, and'k,ms_ He is especially well qualified
so ruin his value as a saint and the J to speak on the problems of the new
value of his bones as relics.                    statef for ne has served as a Senator
If the piece had been more serious, i in its Parliament since 1922. It is
the Players would have had to give! hoped that he may have a word to
more attention to their mob off stage.' say on that subject. On his former
It was entirely silent except when the | visits to the United States he has
crowd was mentioned by one of the, shown himself to be a brilliant spcak-
actors, whereupon it gave forth a or and lecturer, marked both by un-
rumbling sound like a surly dog who usual wit and by a very real enthusi-
growls when he hears his name. How- asm for the subjects on which he
ever, this sufficed to show the mob \ speaks. We are extremely lucky t�
was there. Also, when Carlo called j have, heen able to secure one night of
for "Yellow wine," fiutro poured a i bis very brief stay In Anterica.
colorless liquid into *his goblet, nol An effort is being made to bring this
doubt some of our tasty chlorinated; looture within the reach of the gen-
water, causing a titter in the audi- j oral student body. There will be a
ence,  which  would  detract   from    a reduction on all college seats of twen-
Dr. Vaughan Williams
Gives Final Lectures
Composers Should Follow Na-
tional Models Rather Than
Foreign Ones
CHURCH USED FOLK-SONG
more intense play. The garish col-
ors and somewhat singular fit of Car-
lo's and Rosa's initial costumes dis-
turbed me at first, but were prob-
ably intended to accent the fantastic
character of the pUt. *.T,*>e other cos-
tumes and the setting were admirable.
In particular, Miss Coxe was very
well gotten up, and acted, I thought,
with just the proper mixture of timid-
ity and impertinence. Miss Jones gave
an excellent representation of Carlo.
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Freshman Elections
President�Alice Raynor.
Vice  -  President  �  Marion
Bridgman.
Secretary � Ellen Stone.
ty-five cents, and the balcony at sev-
enty-five cents is being reserved for
students only. With the exception o',
the balcony all seats are reserved,
first section seats, $1.25 for the college,
and second section seats at $1.00 for
the college. Amplifiers will be used
so that there will not be the slightest
difficulty in hearing from any point
of the auditorium, and it is hoped
that the student-body will take ad-
vantage of the reasonable balcony
seats.
The recent tours of the Abbey Play-
ers in this country have created an
American Public which is extremely
interested in Irish drama. The com-
pany gave The Rising of the Moon and
Playboy of the Western World at
Bryn Mawr last year.
"All great music must have popu-
lar appeal," Dr. Williams observed in
,lhe course of his two final Flexner
lectures. In accordance with this be-
lief, he showed in the fifth lecture
bow even the Church, though repeat-
edly condemning secular music, has
drawn from folk song for its ritual
and hymn tunes. In his concluding
address, November 21, he declared,
"that American composers should di-
vest themselves of excessive subservi-
ence to foreign models, and try to
please their own countrymen before
seeking recognition abroad.
It seems  difficult,  he  pointed  out,
lo  believe that plain  song,  so aloof
and   vague,  could   ever  have  grown
from the simple, direct music of the
people.    We ordinarily think of rit-
ual as  it  is now,  at  the end of its
development  through   countless   cen-
turies, and forget that in order to be-
come established, it had to create first
a  widespread   popular  appeal.    The
Church, finding it impossible to oust
pagan  ceremonial,  adapted  it to  its
own use; thus the Roman Saturnalia
was   celebrated   as    Christmas,    the
spring   festival  as   Easter,   and   the
worship of ancestors as the commem-
moration of saints, and it is perfectly
natural  that pagan song should  also
have been adapted.   The early Chris-
tians,     like    John     Wesley,     prob-
ably    didn't    see    why    the    "devil
should   have  all   the   pretty   tunes,"
and we actually have direct evidence
of the  incorporation  of pagan cere-
monial into French ecclesiatic music.
Pope Gregory had collected and sys-
tematized  church   music  around   the
year 500, but local tradition dies hard,
and  in   France a distinct Gallican use,
derived from ancient custom, had sur-
vived.     When   Charlemagne   visited
Rome in 785, he proudly took his own
French singers with him.    The Ital-
ians, however, despised them as "rus-
tic," evidently finding traces of folk
song in the service, and Charlemagne
soon   obtained   Roman   singers.     Iff
spite of this scorn, it seems  possible
that the Italians condescended to use
some of  the "rustic"  French  music,
for later many items appeared in the
Roman use which must have originat-
ed elsewhere, and among them is the
so-called  "Foreign  Tune," containing
more    popular   elements    than    the
others, and extraordinarily similar to
an old French folk song, "Le Chant
des    Livress"    (Ottvrez    la    porte),
which must once have been part of the
Gallic marriage ceremony. Even more
obvious   is   this   connection   between
popular    and   ecclesiastic    music    in
metrical plain song, such as the hymn
tune, "O Filii et Filiae," which, par-
ticularly   at  the   beginning   and   the
end, shows a likeness to the old French
"Chanson de  Quete"   (Voiri   venir le
jolie mai).   At this point in the lec-
ture, the choir sang all the examples
cited   above,  and   also  "Le   mois  de
mai."
Catholic ritual is not the only ex-
ample of ecclesiastical adaptation of
folk song. Luther borrowed from
every*available source � plain song,
folk song, travelers' songs�and made
spiritual parodies of secular words,
as, for instance, in the "Abschied von
Innsbruck." The Genevan Psalter of
1539 was founded on metrical ver-
sions pf the Psalms, which even Fran-
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Personal
Molla Brown, of the Class of
'34, who is taking her junior
year in France, received her
diploma at Tours, where the
French group went this year
instead of Nancy, "avec les fe-
licitations du jury." She grad-
uated first in a class of 80 or 90
students.
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