College News, 1933-03-08, Vol. 19, No. 14

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The College News
VOL. XIX, No.  14
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1933
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CopyilKht    HltYN   SIAWU
C(H.i.i:i:k ni:\vs. 1933
PRICE 10 CENTS
Saks Presents Showing
of Spring Fashions
New   Hats   Are   Bizarre;   Suits
Jaunty; Evening Jackets
Turn Military
PARIS     COPIES     SHOWN
On Thursday, March 2, Saks�
Fifth Avenue, of New York City, pre-
sented a showing of the spring fash-
ions from their Petitea Modemes
shop in the Common Room of Good-
hart, under the Suspices of the Col-
lege Netvs and the Lantern. This
new shop is sponsored by a.lumnae
of the various women's colleges of
the East, and is contributing a per
cent of the profits on all sales toward
scholarships funds for each of the
six colleges involved. Bryn Mawr
was greatly privileged in having the
first showing here, as the costumes
displayed had not even been seen by
the press. Bryn Mawr students
modeled, assisted in the sale of ac-
cessories In the May Day Room, and
co-operated with the Saks' managers
in directing the whole showing.
The dresses and suits that were
displayed were those that are spon-
sored by Saks as illustrative of spring
fashion, and many of them were cop-
ies of Schiaparelli and Patou models.
It would be impossible to describe
and comment on every costume, but
some of the innovations were too
startling to be passed without men-
tion. One of the most unusual feat-
ures of the showing was the new line
of hats, high-crowned and often of
fabric straw or simply of knitted
fabrics. If last season's hats might be
said to perch, these have hardly
alighted. The angles are precarious
and very jaunty, to say the least.
They suit excellently the jaunty
spring suits, many of which are in
the famous pepper-and-salt check
that has been revived this season.
One of the most striking models in
the show wore a black-and-white
checked, tailored suit, with a high
white ascot, tied right under her chin,
and the new Agnes beret�which is
a knitted affair, fitting close to the
head, and terminating in four out-
rageous peaks at the very top, add-
ing: inches to the ordinary stature of
the wearer and making her look for
all the world like Mercury about to
take off. Other striking suits had
capes that fell just below the waist
over skirts of matching material and
tailored flannel jackets of contrasting
solid oclor. These suits were also of
checked woolens.
Evening jackets were a great feat-
ure of the collection, and many Paris
copies were shown. They are all very
military, except for the femininely
puffed sleeves, which accent the
broadness of the shoulder and the
slimness of the waist. Some of them
have three-quarter puff sleeves, some
full-length, and some elbow-length.
All of them puff somewhere. Some of
(Continued   on   Fage  Two)
CALENDAR
Thursday, Marfh 9: Geor-
gina Pope Yeatmdn will speak
on Architecture and Landscape
Gardening in the Common
Room  at 5.15 P.  M.                -
Saturday, March 11: Bryn
Mawr 1st and 2nd Basketball
teams vs. Rosemont 1st and
2nd at 10.00 A. M.
SundAy, March 12: Chapel.
Dr. Rufus Jones will speak in
the Music Room at 7.30 P. M.
Tuesday, March 14: Mr.
Frank Lloyd Wright will speak
on Modern Architecture in the
Common Room.
,   Ctfct of Freshman Show
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Dr. Carpenter Inspects
Date, Origin of Greek
Evidence  Indicates  Absence of,
Alphabet in Greece
in 700 B. C.
Madehjn Brown, Margaret Kidder, Anne Reese. Peggy Veeder,
Honura Bruere, Barbara Baxter, Doreen Canada ij. Eleanor
Fabi/aii. Jane Matteson, Ellen Stone.
Lantern Needs Greater
Field of Experiment
Cast of Lady Windemere's Fan
The following cast for Lady
Windemere's Fan has been an-
nounced by Mrs. William Flex-
ner (Magdalene HupTel), di-
rector' of the spring V&rsity
Dramatics play. The Princeton
cast will be announced next
week.
Lady   Windemere,
Janet Marshall, '33
Duchess of  Berwick,
Miriam Dodge, '33
Lady Agatha.. Betty Lord, '35
Lady  Plymdale,
Margaret Kidder, '36
Lady Jodborough,
Marie-Luise Elliot, '33
Lady Stutfield,
Elizabeth  Morrison, '33
Mrs. Cowper-Cowper,
Barbara Korff, '33
Mrs. Erlynne,
Honora Bruere, '36
Maid   ___Madelyn  Brown, '36
Guests..........F. Swab, '35
F.  Porcher, '36
E. Trowbridge, '34
VERIFIES   NEW    THEORY                       -   "-------      * .
______                           : Source    of    Strength    Lies    in
"It would be hard to know what i       Unique Personal Interest
really happened when the Greeks be-1                   Here Possible
gan to write," said Dr. Rhys Carpen-|
ter last Friday evening, when he de-  SLIGHT AMBITION NOTED
livercd  the  Horace  White  Memorial I
Lecture in Goodhart Hall, "but mod-:      (SpeciaUy  Contributed  by   Miss
ern  archeologists  have   recently  put:                   Cornelia Meigs)
forth  a  hypothesis  which defies  the {     The  Lantern,  with  its new, deco-
theories   of   the   old   classicists  con-j rated cover, is once more before us
cerning the dates of the origin of the ; and giyes rjse> by itg pregencef to the
Greek alphabet and of the art of j consideration of certain questions,
writing." The Homeric scholars are; What is ^ we ask for in a college
being refuted by means of the gen-: magazine? what are its advantages
eral evidence of history, epigraphic and disadvantages in comparison with
archeology, ancient tradition and or-, those of the perjodicais in the com.
dinary  common  sense.                          �� petitive world?    Does this  magazine
A renewed examination of the facts j of our own college fulfill its oppor-
was occasioned by the discovery, fifty I tunities and its purposes?
years ago, on the island of Cyprus,, 0ne thing which we hare a rignl
of an ancient bronze bowl, bearing to cxpm of such a journal |, that
an inscription in letters which re- jt. average should be very high. Ws
sembled those of both the Greek and \ should be ab,e to sit down to read it
the Phoenician alphabets, proclaiming with the secure feeiing that it *fl] be
that the Governor of the Phoenician j fm, from the morbid, the showy, or
settlement of Arcitium was a vassal j lhe bana, It comes out of a body
of Hiram, King of the Sidonians. Thisjo{ contributors who are clear-think-
was immediately thought to refer to i ing vjgorous and intelligent, and it
Hiram, King of Tyre and Sidon, who should neVer betray our trust in what
sold cedar-wood to Solomon for the \ tney can do. We do not expect from
Temple. At first the bowl was dated < tht,m the nnished performance of pro-
by his reign, 969-936 B. C, and the ,, ssional writers; but we do look for
birth of the alphabet set at the same hlJ|1,,stv of opinion and the vision of
time, although the earliest writings reaj jmaginatin.
dates from the seventh century. The
Phoenicians   wer,"1   called   Si.lonians,
.    Old Clothes
Anyone      having      any
old
clothes or other u eful articles
of apparel, or household goods
is urged to communicate with
Josephine Williams, Merion
Hall. Articles collected are to
ba sold at the Devon Horse
Show for the benefit of the
Bryn   Mawr   Hospital.
Freshman Show Sets
Higher Standards
Show   is   Like   Comedy   Drama
With Incidental Songs;
Music Unusual
SURPASSES PREDECESSORS
While   magazines  in  a  larger field
from the name of their greatest city,
but in the tenth century a man such
draw material from a larger circle oi
authors,   all    more    experienced   and
some of them famous, a college peri-
as the B.bl.cal Hiram   King of Tyre   odica, has & source of strenf,th whjch
and   Sidon,  was   probably   not   king
over his entire race.    Since, however,
this   might   have   been   true   in   the
eighth or ninth century, the archeol-
ogists examined the court annals of
Tiglath-Pileser III, and found a list
of the Sidonian kings from 1000-700
B. C, among whom was a Hiram II,.
who reigned in 740 B. C. This date
has been selected for the bowl. Fur-
ther proof of the accuracy of this
date is to be found in the Mohabite:
Stone (850-840 B. C), whjch tells
how   Ahab,  King of  Israel, 'declared
not one of these others can   possess.
j This is the power of personal inter-
est. All that we read in such a paper
as the Lantern is colored by our
knowledge of the people who carry
it on and who write for it. Our in-
terest does not  have to be arrested;
i it is already there.    We find pleasure
, in success and feel anxiety over any
threat of failure, far more than we
: would ever concern ourselves about
any magazine-at-large.
In   examining  the   February   Lan-
, i tern in this light, it is scarcely possi-
war on Judah.    This inscription re-1                    ,     -    ,.    ,              ��    .
� �           ;   .    ,,     ,    �_��   �   �   �    ble to speak of all the contributions
sembles   archaic   Greek   ones,   and   is               .     .   .  .        .          �,,
thus obviously earlier than the Cy- j c*ccPl J" b"ef J,eview/ �C Btory'
prus o*e, which bears a stronger re-' Lo� Th� ^'ffhbor, has the atmo-
scmblance to the later, classical sPhere �f ""ess and gay bal-
,.      ,                                                     '; loons and sudden mischance, such as
] only  creative   imagination   can   add
to   Coolcy's   Cases   on   Persons   and
cases human.   The action
moves a trifle slowly, Tiere and there,
just as  it  is slow  in getting under
The evidence now seems to indi-
cate that there was no alphabet in """, ~ , "
Greece before 700 B. C. An Aegean
script had been in existence, but by
1000 B. C. the Greeks had lost the
art of using it. Consequently, the
eighth and ninth centuries were a
period of decline, and of oral tradi-
tion only. Gradually, however, an
alphabet was grafted from the Phoe-
nician, possibly in Cyprus. The pro-
cess was completed by 720, and a
knowledge of it had spread to dis-
tant points by 700. There could have
been no books for fifty years at least,
so the earliest use of the new alpha-
bet in 680 was not in literature, but
in names inscribed on tombs and
rocks.
The antiquity of this rude writing
is proved by the fact that "accidents
(Co.itlnued  on  Page  Three)
way in Justice and Mrs. White. That
tale arrives very satisfactorily at the
climax of the policeman's unhappy
dilemma, but it might have arrived
sooner. There is the beauty of real
romance   in   the .two   sonnets,   Con-
Frank  Lloyd  Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright, archi-
tect of the famous' Imperial
Hotel in Tokio, and the great-
est genius of modern American
architecture, will speak in
Goodhart on Tuesday, March
14, on "The Future of Archi-
tecture"
stance Cathedral and Jeanne D'Are.
To one who has a certain fondness
for the much-worn English language
w.th all its imperfections, the con-
dueling expression of Swupsek, the
words "frisk flibbertigibbet," gives
a sense of jarring. The little poem,
however, achieves a gay tempo suited
to its subjtance. The beginning of
The Hoot has some vagueness and al-
most too much of abstract idea, but
its later discussion has unusual and
beautiful phrasing. There is dis-
tinctness and excellent character in
iIn' dialogue of Unsung.
That unsleeping enemy of all good
literature, the printer's devil, has
b 'en peculiarly harsh with Portrait.
but has not been able to obscure the
fact that there is much food for
thought in the sonnet and a stimulat-
ing fillip to one's own ideas in the
last two lines. The two critical arti-
cles offer some really able opinions.
Mostly Murmurs makes the subtle
but sound point that Cavalcade is
truly enjoyable only to those whose
own memories can span the compass
of its history. The review of Ann
Vicksrs puts its finger upon the real
weakness of this type of novel, the
fact that characters are Introduced
and dismissed merely as they serve
the narrative of a single person's life
instead of being made interesting in
themselves. Lasiiy, the Board has
done well in extending the element of
personal interest into the advertis-
ing pages, so that, by means of some
very good pictures, we can associate
the offers of merchandise with the
people we know.
Does the character of the writing
in the Lantern, therefore, and in this
number of the Lantern, satisfy its
readers in regard to those things
which they have a right to expect of
it? Does it have good quality in gen-
eral, better qualities in particular;
does it have individuality and the
�aspiration of effort which are mor�
interesting than smoothly perfect
performance? The answer might be
that it has exceedingly good work,
but, according to one opinion at least,
that work might be better. Not the
members of the Lanteni Board, but
the contributors upon whom they
must depend, could improve it great-
ly by enlarging their field, by mak-
ing more ambitious attempts, even
at the risk of having;to destroy the
results a few times before achieving
what is desired. There are other
forms of poetry besides the free verse
and the sonnet, but who experiments
with them? At Bryn Mawr, every
girl acquires great sKill in criticising,
summarizing and telling about what
she reads. If she could exercise that
same faculty more freely upon what
she sees and feels, the Lantern, as a
result, might shine with a brighter
light.
This year's freshman show, pre- ,
-scnted Saturday, March 4, in Good-
hart, is so far superior to any Fresh-
man Show we have ever seen in col-
lege that we hesitate even to criticize
it. Judged by the standards of past
freshman shows, there is little to be
said about it, save that it seemed to
be the ideal toward which the per-
formances of the last four years, at
least, have been striving. Judging by
the standards which it set itself-r-and
there can be no higher praise than to
say that it set new standards�there
is a great deal to be said, and we
shall try to say it.
The show as a whole this year was
more like a play, with incidental
songs and even more incidental chor-
uses than has been the tradition in
the near past. It was more compact
in plot, more interesting in charac-
terization, and more finished in line;
but it did lose the opportunity that
the typical musical comedy show af-
fords of putting a great number of
the class into the show, and giving
everyone who has any talent a chance
to show what she can and cannot do.
It was perhaps a better show because
it did not do just this, but we feel
that there is a question here that fu-
ture freshman classes might well con-
sider. Also, so like a play was it,
that, when the chosen few did arise to
sing or dance, we were almost shock-
ed at this musical comedy convention
in what we had just accepted as com-
edy drama. The great exception to
this was the first act, where the lines
and the songs and the choruses fol-
lowed one another with an ease and
a charm that was definitely Gilbert
and Sullivan. If this touch had been
maintained throughout the show, it
would have gained not only in even-
ness, but in effectiveness.
Play by play the show had its high
-pots and its low spots, it began
in high; Madelyn Brown as the pe-
tite maid, and Sally Park as the
butler�whose accent baffled us for
quite a while�were enchanting. The
large feather duster was a touch we
shall not soon forget. The opening
song was a triumph of Gilbert and
Sullivan technique; Marian Chapman,
who wrote all the music for the show,
(( "<>i� r iiiii!�� 1   on   T'UKe   Two)
League Plans Trip to
Social Service Center
(Especially  Contributed  by
Susan Torrance)
A transition into the carefree
world of the "Children's Village" is
offered to all those who wish to join
the Bryn Mawr League's next visit
to social service centers this Thurs-
day afternoon. The "Village," a
unique experiment in recreation, is
inhabited and governed for two after*
noons a week by four hundred of
Philadelphia's   slum   children.
With their vivid imaginations they
turn themselves into miniature fami-
lies, storekeepers, school teachers,
firemen, policemen, judges, lawyer*,
mayors, congressmen, doctors, nurses.
and manufacturers, and imitate in an
idealistic way the civics of the real
world in which they will soon take
an important part. This "game" has
been going on for 10 or more yean
and has become well known as one of
the outstanding projects in social
work with children.
Everyone is cordially invited to ob-
serve this interesting event at the
playground   on   Thursday.   March   9.
This is the second trip sponsored
by the League. The first one to the
Light House proved to be a delight-
ful, informal and therefore especially
fascinating way of discovering just
what is being done for the many les-
fortunate people in the city.