College News, 1929-11-20, Vol. 16, No. 07

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College News
VOL. XVI/NO. 7
BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20, 1929
PRICE.   10  CENTS
Vespers
Dr. Home!! Hart will lead the
Bryn Mawr League vesper serv-
ice on, Sunday, �November 24, at
7:30 in the music room of Good-
hart.                                     *   '      '
Second PISyers
Production Successful
On Thursday evening, November 15,
"Aria da Capo," by Edna St. Vincent
Millay. was presented in Goodhart
Hall under the auspices of the Varsity
Players. Continuing their practice of
allowing one week only for rehearsals,
the flayers sfgiln .proved what excep-
tional results they can obtain by short
and concentrated effort. Although this
play was less difficult to perform than
"Riders to the Sea" and did not there-
fore leave such a profound impression
on the audience, nevertheless, under
the direction of C. Dyer,-'31, it attained
an equal success. In fact the lines
were much more distinctly audible in
the production Thursday night, partly
because the players spoke more slowly.
M. Drake, '31, in the role of Colum-
bine, gave perhaps the most finished
performance, as was expected by those
of us who are familiar with her acting.
Her technique and pantomime are, un-
usually professional, her stage presence
displaying ease and a spontaneity of
action. In a charmingly whimsical
manner she twitched her short tulle
skirt and followed the indifferent Pier-
rot. . In Pierrot, P. Putnam., '32, was
confronted with a part more difficult
than the others. She carried it well,
however, showing possibilities of great-
er success with more training and ex-
perience? L. Thurston, '31, in the minor
part of Cothurnus, added a comical
note, and H. Thomas, '31, as Thyrsis,
though a little stage-conscious, in other
respects gave a satisfactory perform-
. ance. The role of Corydon was played
most effectively by C. Sullivan, '30. In
one part Cothurnus says: "The audi-
ence will forget," and in that sorrow-
ful moment as Corydon is dying, the
audience did forget. Miss Sullivan
contributed a sweetness and a sadness
to the little tragedy which was truly
moving, so that' we were almost' dis-
turbed rather than amused when Coth-
r urnus slammed shut his book.
Thus after seeing "Aria da Capo"
and "Riders to the Sea" we await with
increasing interest the next perform-
ance of the Players.
Fighting Varsity
Suffers Defeat
A-Mioofcrr AH Philadelphia defeated"
Varsity 7-1 on Saturday, November
16, the score was closer than had been
feared, considering Varsity's record
this fall. Esther Thomas was the
heroine of the game, this being her
first appearance as goal. She with-
stood the steady bombardment from
All Philadelphia's forwards with re-
markable success, and her stopping and
clearing were among the best points
of the game. The first hatf, while the
teams were still fresh, furnished by
far the best hockey, although the early
playing was slow and messy. Collier
and Ullom filled their places as half-
backs with great skill, and remained
Varsity's mainstays throughout the
game. They were quick at overtaking
and almost unerring in their attack.
Among the forwards, Totten dis-
tinguished herself in the first half,
when the play was largely on the right.
She was equally good in tackling back
and in taking passes, and her dodging
was perfectly timed and very success-
ful. Varsity's only goal was made in
the first half by Longacre, who caught
the ball after Totten had carried it up
the field, and shot it beautifully into the
cage.
The first half ended 3-1; All Phila-
delphia broke through in the second
half to score four times. The backs
played nobly, but they were winded,
and the All Philadelphia forwards de-
veloped skill which was unhinged in
the   first  half.     Time   after   time  they
Caatlane* am Page Feur
Mrs. Fleming Tells
About Collectivity
Russian   Doctrine   Achieved  by
American Financial
Help.
NEW     PLAN      SUCCEEDS
Oil Thursday, November 14, Mrs.
Jackson Fleming, the well-known trav-
eler and lecturer, was guest at a tea in
the Music Room. Mrs. Fleming, who
has traveled extensively in  Russia and
is very conversant with conditions
there, spoke on that subject at Bryn
Mawr last year.. Consequently she was
familiar to most of her audience. "It
is necessary for an understanding of
present-day Russia," began Mrs. Flem-
ing, "to realize that Russia, is working
toward a doctrine of absolute collec-
tivity, and that this experiment would
have failed had not Ford, Owen
Young and other great American fin-
anciers gone to the rescue. The
strength 6f the doctrine of collectivity
is best illustrated by the case of the
Russian boy taken from the wild- law-"
less life, to which he was accustomed,
by a locksmith, who educated hinv and
made him happy in the possession of
a wrist watch and a radio. The Rus-
sian newspapers were filled with com-
plaints against this locksmith, since
he had given the boy a lust for pos-
sessions training him against the col-
lective.
The most effective expression of the
doctrine is found in the factory where
units are organized into clubs. All
factory workers merge their egos in
this collectivity making the factory
their home, leaving their Babies in the
creche, and young children in the kin-
dergarten. These factories are like
temples of the new religious doctrine
of collectivity. Children are trained
not to believe in God or they will be-
come soul-encumbered and not have
the proper reverence for the collective.
There must be no careerists in theje
groups for every one must syive to
merge himself in the ideal.      �
The new doctrine worked very well
in the factories, but great difficulty was
found in teaching the peasant the value
of such a system. He was a distinct
individual and as such had to be fought.
Teachers went out to explain the col-
lective notion, promising manufactured
articles in retorn for the grain which
Russia needed. The peasants, how-
ever, having discovered .that the pron>
ised articles did not come, kept their
wheat and continued in their old sim-
ple," acquisitive way of life. Russia
then introduced the motion picture into
peasant communities as propaganda, to
show American industrial and agricul-
tural communities. The peasants be-
came interested in this idea of America
removed to Russia, but as they wc^ild
not give their wheat to pay for manu-
factured articles the government was
forced to seek outside aid in their plan.
Mr. Ford, Mr. Young and the Mc-
Donald Company of Chicago sponsored
the new system of the Five-Year plan
to help the peasant realize the collec-
tive notion. When Mr. Ford's new
tractor was failing in America he
started factories in Ireland and all
over Europe with Russia as his market
for this vast output. So America is
helping to establish the revolution and
a doctrine of suppression of the in-
dividual, and Russians have a tem-
porary idea of liking us. This is amaz-
ing in a country in which boys and
girls cannot enter the advanced schools
if they have a parent who is engaged
in buying and selling for profit�what
is known as a Nep man or woman.
Such a child desiring an education
must first renounce his parents. These
New Economic Policy people have be-
come outcasts and the young must
help to make them so.
. Another feature of the new doctrine
is that every boy and girl is trained to
have a world mind and to be able to
teach these ideas to others�every
member a teacher.    An example of the
.
CMtlnmrd on P��e Two
Episodes Presented
By Angna Enters
Contrasting   Personalities   Effec-
tively Harmonized to
Music.
AUDIENCE      RESPONSIVE
Angna Enters
Dulles Discusses the
Stock Market Crash
"I have been very, reluctant*- to come
here this morning," Dr. Dulles began,
in speaking on the Stock Market in
Thursday's Chapel. "First of all be-
cause** everything I must say is bound
to be gloomy; sccolidly, because no
one is just now in a position to know
what will happen to the market; and
thirdly because "what experience I've
had has been very dearly bought.
"We all knew that a break was
coming some thne. The -reasons for
such a collapse can be attributca* to
the general characteristics of the past
few years, and can be divided into two
main classes: fundamental reasons and
occasional reasons. Of the funda-
mental reasons the first is our exag-
gerated idea of prosperity. The sec-
ond is the too sudden increase in the
spending power which meant that there
was muci u/^-vise-spending along with
the wise, and borrowings agYlnst stock
Continued  on Page Three
Liberals Hear of
Labor Problems
On Thursday, November 14, the
Liberal Club held a discussion led by
Paul Porter. Field Secretary of the
League for Industrial Democracy. Mr.
Porter has traveled extensively in
China, Japan, Manchuria and Korea
and studied labor �movements very
thoroughly. As a representative of the
Emergency Committee for Strikers'
Relief, and as correspondent for The
Nation and The New Leader he was a
close observer of the major textile
strikes in Tennessee and North and
South Carolina.
Mr. Porter spoke first of the L. I. D.,
an � organization consisting of about
1500 college students and 3000 persons
out of college who are �joined together
by a desire for intelligent understand-
ing of the labor situation. A new city
chapter of the League in Philadelphia
is giving a dinner Friday evening, No-
vember 22, in honor of Mr. Norman
Thomas, Executive Director of the L.
I. D., who will speak on the question,
"Has Liberalism Collapsed?" Mem-
bers of the Bryn Mawr Liberal Club
are extended an invitation to attend this
dinner.
The discussion centered around the
recent strikes in the South, their origin
and probable outcome.     The  workers
Continued am fmge Two
Double Meeting Results  �
in Sundry Decisions
On Wednesday evening, November
1.3, meetings of the l*-ndergraduatc As-
sociation and of the Self-government
Association were herd in the auditorium
of Goodhart. E. Perkins. '30, presided
over the first meeting. Three items
were attended to.
The first suggestion was that the
studeitts of the College buy a radio for
Goodhart Commons room, This has
long been felt to be a need of the Col-,,
lege, and it has often been suggested
wi|h no very constructive backing. The
result of this last appeal was a mo'-
tion made, seconded and passed, that
each of the undergraduates contribute
45 cents, in order that wc might buy
a $150 Atwater Kent   Radio.    /
The second decision made was that
the tea dance this year be given, not
before ,Varsity Play, but before the
Glee Club perform.,.,ex ;.-. the spring;
The objections to having tin- dance
before the play wire, first, that the
Players do not plan to collaborate with
Princeton, and, secondly, that the first
Varsity play will be a Miracle, and
hardly .appropriate as a tea dance cli-
max.    *.
The third decision was to accept the
very kind offer of an alumna of the
college to subscribe in the name of
Rryn .Mawr to a kind of lending library
of modern paintings.
The Self-Government meeting was
presided over by O. Stokes, '30. The
first business brought up was an
amendment to a resolution of the As-
sociation. It was suggested that un-
dergraduates who had received special
permission from a member of the
Board be allowed to dine and dance
at places on the approved list, in
Philadelphia, until.it VIS lime to catch
the 11.35 train. This motion Was
pa>sed  with a   large   majority.
The second business brought up was
a continuation of the discussion of last
week. Miss Martin, in the name- of
the Board, made a motion to the effect
that students who had registered at
the Infirmary a certificate of permit
frUm a doctor at home, would be al-
lowed to keep alcoholic beverages, for
medicinal purposes, in their rooms.
The administration of the infirmary
had approved of this idea, and are plac-
ing it upon their-own book of rules.
After a good deal of difftUMiofl of
wording, and some quibbling as to
policy, the motion was passed with a
tremendous tnajority.^^
.i g'.'L i:'-
Angna Bntert, the chorwnifme, pre-
sented a program of her Kpisodcs in '
Goodhart Hall, Friday evening, No-
vember 15. for the . benefit of* the
Regional Scholarship Fund and under
the auspices of the Bryn Mawr
Alumnae Association of Eastern fenn-'
syhaiiia'.and Delaware. Angna Enters
creates and interprets "episodes" vary-
ing in character from the symbolic to
the burlesque; to each, in the few mo-
ments allotted, she surrenders her en-
tire self, tlw> being of a dancer, an
artist and a mimic, except her exquisite
sense of irony and humor.
The wide stage was hung with black
velvet draperies, the shade changing
as different lights were cast; the ac-
ce-sories were of the simplest, if used
al all, but Enters, l>.\ a single gesture
or a look, peopled and furnished the
.bare space.. Music, from Beethoven
and^frebussy to Sousa and jazz, came
softly and continuously from behind
the scenes, ceasing only occasionally
to be effective through its absence; the
rhythm was identified with Enters'
every movement and the overtones vi-
brated with her emotions; the harmon-
ization of the personality she had as-
sumed for each composition, and the
accompaniment she had chosen, was so
perfect that the music spoke for the
silent dancer. In the episode, Enter/ft
grasps any character, Mediaeval Ma^^
donna^ schoolgirl, Parisian cocotte,
and condenses the emotions within that
character's scope � heightens them,
mocks them, or sounds their pathos.
She interprets a whole life in her mo-
tions, sometimes actual dancing, in the
swift changes of expression in her
eyes and on her face, and in the inter-
play of her personality with those per- '
sonalitics living in her imagination.
One episode is a moving tableau, an- -
other a dance, another a humorous im-
personation�-#I1 arc controlled by the
latent artistry and sympathy of En-
ters herself. * The breathless succes-
sion of compositions completely alien
in theme, the juxtaposition of "Cake
Walk�1897" and "Queen of Heaven,"
sweeps the audience from hilarious to
almost fearful applause, but so smooth
-is the sequence that what might seem
dissonant contra^, beeeme harmoni-
ous "bppbsiTions. fii fhe "symbolic" in-
terpretation of the Madonna the precise
meaning is obscure; in the impersona-
tion of the Parisian adventuress the
subtle significance is hardly caught, so
rapid   arc   the  changes   of   expression.
Angna Enters opened her program
to the nisuic of Straus' "Geschichten
aus dem Wiener Wald"; she is a
Viennese Fraulein little B*y little
abandoning herself to the waltz and
to her parttrer; her eyes shine with
exuberant ficrman coquetry, and her
pink skirts swirl about her and her
invisible omipanion. Enters, the simple
German girl swaying to the waltz, is
transformed in "Feline" into a demon;
her fingers become claws; her black
skirts wave behind her; her arms arch
mcnancingly "only to drop softly; in
her sinuous movements the muscular
strength, the stealth and the egotism
of the feline form become diabolic and '
human. "Promenade" is welcome.
comic relief; the Paris shop-girl awaits
her promenade companion; the high
brown'shoes that impatiently tap the
ground, the,.green furbelows, the black
bonnet with � ribbons bunched under
the chin and the parasol, when coupled
with her impatience, her zest in the
perusal ol her magazine, and her
shrewd look-out for all that goes on
about her, compose an ^ngaging
comedy. No atmosphere could be
farther removed from that of Parisian
gaiety than that of "Moyen Age"; a
Mediaeval madonna, such as was con-
Contiourd   oa  Pa(*  rear