College News, 1934-03-07, Vol. 20, No. 16

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VOL. XX, No. 16
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1934
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Reginald Pole Traces.
Evolution of Theatre*
Coal of Future Is Synthesis of
Arts and Enlargement
of Sensibility
HARMONY IS NECESSARY
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Mr. Reginald Pole, speaking on The
Theatre of the Future and Its Sign-
posts, in the Deanery on Monday,
said that the evolution of the theatre
was>toward the synthesis in the the-
atre of music, language, and all the
arts in order to explain the riddle of
the intangible essence of human life
and its adjustment to life around it.
Because people live, breathe, and talk
rhythmically, human life is profound-
ly rhythmic and harmonious. The
great dramatists have co-ordinated
their contemplation of liXe and their
representation of humanity in terms
of the theatre with rhythm in order
to reveal this profound harmony of
humanity.
Drama originally was a religious
festival or a form of dance, which was
essentially democratic and in which
the people participated. The Greek
audiences were part of the perform-
ance and the chorus was the link
which synthesized the actors and the
poetical reaction of the audience.
Greek and Roman culture took large
parts in moulding Western civilization,
and the great Elizabethan drama,
like the Greek, arose from medieval
religious and symbolical plays. But
also in Elizabethan times came the
beginning of the modern psychological
and cultural spirit, for with the dis-
coveries of the world around "them,
men became aware of other kinds of
people and other ways of thought and
\v. re curious about them. Both the
old ideas and the new were synthe-
sized in Shakespeare.
Shakespeare was more than a dram-
atist: He was profoundly a poet, a
psychologist, and a philosopher, in ad-
dition to a master dramatist of the
theatre of his own time. He still ex-
ists because his instinct of represen-
tation' of life in theatrical terms is
especially true and deep. Symbolizing
in himself the hidden cosmic forces of
humanity, and the spiritual impulses
in the individual, he took simple plots
and infused them with an extraordi-
nary spirit of the universal. He took
the drama form of his own time and
put into it his interest in the amaz-
ing piece of work that  is man.
In what is known as his early.per-
iod, he wrote Midsummer Night's
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CALENDAR
Thurs., March 8. Clayton
Hamilton will speak on The
Yellow Jacket. Tea at 4.30 and
the talk at 5.00 P. M. In the
Common Room.
Sat., March 10. Varsity Bas-
ketball vs. Rosemont College�
first and second teams. Gym at
10.00 A. M.
Sun., March 11. Chapel. Rev.
Dr. Malcolm A. Peabody will de-
liver the address. Music Room
at 7(80 P. M. The service will
be in memory of Quita Wood-
ward, '32.
Mon., March 12. Mr. Dhan
Gopal Mukerji will speak on
"The Conflict of the Past and
Present in the East." Goodhart
at 8.20 P. M.
Tues., March 13. An after-
noon of poetry with some Bryn
Mawr poets. Mrs. Wyncie King,
Ly sixth Boyd Borie, and the
undergraduate poetry group.
Deanery at 4.00 P. M.
Clayton Hamilton Will Talk
on Revival of Yellow jacket
Bryn Mawr will again welcome
Clayton Hamilton, theatrical critic,
who spoke in Goodhart last year on
Cyrano de Dcrgcrac, to lecture this
Thursday on The Yellow Jacket. That
play, memorable to theatregoers for
the sensation jj created on the Amer-
ican stage in New York twenty-one
years ago, and for its successful run
abroad, is an American play of Ori-
ental inspiration and charm. The fu-
sion that bold American technique has
effected in a drama of elusive fantasy
colored by the rich poetry and kindly
philosophy of China, has produced an
American classic that, translated into
a dozen or more foreign languages,
has captivated the world.
The authors of The Yellow Jacket,
George C. Hazelton and Benrimo, pre-
faced the play with a statement con-
cerning its conception: "The purpose
of the creators of this play is to string
on a thread of universal philosophy,
love and laughter the jade beads of
Chinese theatrical convention. Their
effort has been to reflect the spirit
rather than the substance." We can
be sure that this spirit will prevail in
the coming Philadelphia production of
the play. Fortunately, even the orig-
inal scenery and costumes are still in-
tact, and Mr. and M*rs. Coburn, whose
names are associated with the very
first triumphant tours of The Yellow
Jacket are bringing with them other
distinguished players � Schuyler
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' oratory Work Offers
-Opportunities for Women
"There is no real halo of romance
about laboratory work in a factory,"
said Mrs. Harold Thurlow in an infor-
mal talk on Opportunities for Women
in Industrial Laboratories on ' Tues-
day, February 27, in the Common
Room. But after a beginning with
routine analyses, and a few years of
work, there is the opportunity to take
a higher degree (Rid go on into re-
search work.
Airs. Thurkrw described her own ex-
periences as fairly typical. During
the summer before graduating she ap-
plied at the Fairfield, Connecticut,
olant of the DuPont Co., and got a
job as analyst. The laboratory at the
plant consisted of the testing bench
and a small mill for developing new
products, and it was her business to
do all the routine chemical anlyses.
She would take various tests on the
leatherette which was made in the
plant and on the new products which
were being developed. These were
for chemical composition and for ag-
ing. In this connection the physicist
comes in because there is a great de-
mand for new testing machines, as
well as new methods for the chemist.
After the first routine work is
learned one must adapt one's college
training and use it as best one can,
for the work consists mainly of regu-
lar tests. The next step is to control
work in which one a-signs the analy-
ses* discovers new methods of testing
and handles sales complaints and
queries of why the goods act in a par-
ticular way.
There are few' women in higher re-
search work now but some have been
very successful in it. The Eastman
Co., H. J. Heinz and General Electric
"mploy women in various laboratory
capacities. But beside industrial work
proper there is a wide range of labora-
tory possibilities. Many women be-
come research assistants to doctors or
do regular hospital analysis. There
are also the Public Health Depart
ments, which employ bacteriologists,
and chemists,0 and the Government
Civil Service for chemists, bacteriolo-
gists, physicists or engineers. Exam-
inations are held for the Government
positions whenever there is a vacancy
and those who have registered their
names with the Bureau of Standards
are notified to take them.
Another type of job in industry is
that of the chemical librarian who
compiles bibliographies and assists in
getting literature for research work.
Women are usually employed for these
positions, which are open in most of
the large companies. There is also an
opportunity in the chemical testing
staff of a big retail company like
Macy's, which employs four or five
chemists to test goods.
Laboratory jobs have been very
scarce for the last few years, but
things are opening up now and it is
well to send one's name to some gen-
eral bureau such as the Institute of
Women's Professional Relations or the
Employment Club for Chemists and
Engineers.
Mannings Impressed
by Travel in Mexico
Continuity   of   Civilization   and
Charm of People Stressed
in Joint Talk '
COURTESY IS UNIVERSAL
At the meeting of the International
Club last Tuesday evening, Mr. and
Mrs. Manning spoke in turn on Mcx.-
ico, the experiences they had and the
impressions they gained there dining
a month's trip last summer.
'Mrs. Manning experienced in her
visit to Mexico a feeling of its strange-
ness,�"there is no sense that it be-
longs to you"�and, above all, a sense
of the continuity of its civilization.
On.climbing the great plateau, and
journeying past gay haciendas and
acres of beautiful maguey plants
(used for wine), one gains almost
before one is aware of it the whole
feeling of the Spanish colonial sys-
t( m. The solidity, the weight of the
Spanish Empire, "undoubtedly the
most enduring empire the world has
ever seen," can still be felt in Mexi-
can architecture. This was some-
what modified at Mexico City to suit
the building conditions, for Mux leu
City was once a lake. No one has
ever touched rock there, And the whole
city sinks and rises during earth-
quakes. Architecture is, however.
heavy i verywhere in Mexico. Even
the workmen's houses at the silver
mines are massively built.
The spot where Mrs. Manning IVM
most strongly the connection bctwi <'n
the Spanish and the Indian civiliza-
tion was at Cholula, a sacred place
of the Toltecs, which continued to be
sacred to the Aztecs. Here on top
of each Indian shrine, the Spaniards
popped down a little Christian church
though with the usual Indian deco-
rations'�so thai Indians were, neces-
sarily, worshipping Christ at the
same time that they worshipped their
gods.                                      _____________
News Competition
All those trying out for the
Editorial Board of the College
Xtics are requested to come
to the News office 'in Good-
hart at 6.00 P. M. on this
Thursday. Candidates arc also
reminded that all articles as-
signed for the past week for the
competition must be in the hands
of the editors before that time.
New assignments will be given
out oh Thursday.
Mr. Alwyne Presents
Notable Piano Recital
Performance Reveals Delicacy of
Touch and Sympathy in
Interpretation
VARIOUS MOODS SHOWN
1936 Swimming Team
Scores First 47-41
Daniels Takes Diving Cup. Tics
With Bill for Individual
Cup Award
(Especially    Contributed    hij
.   Peter Page)
.Monday evening Mr. Horace Alwyne
presented a beautiful and brilliant re-
cital of piano works in Goodhart Hall.
The hall was well filled with an audi-
ence which responded to Mr. Ahvyne's
playing with hearty applause. The
conceit was consistent with the splen-
did work the pianist has always ac-
c 'm'plished.
TLe   first   part   was   devoted   to   the
'37   WINS   SECOND   Mill I
/ 11 niiiHie-^f Bach, opening with Mr. Al-
Everywhcre in Mexico there are re-
mains:�the little towers for defense
and the shrines on the wall out from
Mexico City, the pyramids of the sun
with their flat tops and extraordi-
nary geometrical arrangement at Te-
otihaucan. No remains have given
more accurate information about the
earliest peoples of Mexico than the
skeletons�dating back to two or three
thousand years before Christ�which
have only recently been excavated and
may be seen under the lava cap at
Pedregal. Their skulls are small with
no characteristics of the Aztecs who
lived there later. The agricultural
implements beside them show that
they were not completely nomadic. It
is presumed that the first inhabitants
of Mexico were Asiatic peoples, who
came over the Bering Straits and
down, ten or fifteen thousand years
before Christ; but they left no re-
mains,    y
The Gulf of Mexico was a sort of
independent sea around which Mexi-
can civilization grew up, especially in
Yucatan. The Mayans arrived at the
highest civilization reached by the
tribes of Mexico, without European
influence. Although .this race still
bears an extraordinary resemblance
to the Semitic peoples, their temples
resemble those of Java. Their written
history started possibly about 500
B. C. This is, however, a matter of
conjecture, as the early Spanish
priests destroyed all their "heathen-
ish" writings, especially hieroglyphics.
They had a calendar and were well-
versed  in  astronomy.
(Continued  on  Papre   Seven)
Business Board
Competition for positions on
the Business Board of the Col-
lege News is now open. Will
all candidates please see Bar-
bara Lewis, Pern East, between
1.30 and 2.00, for instructions
concerning the competition. All
those who have not been Blessed
with editorial genius are urged
to come out for the Business
Board, and are assured that
they will have not a dull
moment.
The second interclass swimming
meet was much closer in its results
than the first. 1937, aided by the ad-
dition of Simpson and Seltzer, won
two firsts, three seconds, and one third
place tO win the meet with a total of
20 points. 1934 and 1936 came in
close behind with 18 and 17 points,
rc-pcctivcly. to win second and third
places. 1930 led the college for the
two meets with a grand total of iri
points, with 1934 in second place with
II. The individual cup award went
to Daniels and Bill, who tied for it.
On Fi iday Daniels started the meet
by breaking her own record of 58
made the week before by clocking 57.12
seconds in the SO-yard dash, with A.
Van Vec ten i head until thi last lap,
coming close to the old record with
i 59.8  seconds.
Bill took first in both the side stroke
and crawl tor form, winniqg in the
latter even! over Whiting, who placed
second. 1934 missed Mitchell, who
was out with a bad knee, -nd who
usually brings first honors in the
event.
Duncan swept the field in the '10-
yard backstroke in 81.8 seconds, to
beat Mitchell's old record of 82.1, her
classmate, Woodward, close behind in
second place in 32.2 seconds. Jarrett
took third place for 1934.
Simpson led Wylie all the way I"
win by .2 of a second in the 40-yard
free style in the first heat, timing 25.0
seconds to take first in the event.
In the diving, Daniels took the cup
for the third year with a total of 40.6
points over Butler's score of 32.7
points. Daniels averaged 7.8 points
on the required dives, but received 8.5
on her Flying Dutchman, a spectacu-
lar and nicely executed dive of excep-
tional difficulty. Wylie gets nice
height but loses on form and entry.
Seltzer did beautifully on the straight
front and jack, but�to our disap-
pointment�faded out on the back dive
and the half twist. With a little more
practice she should be able to place
in this event.
Losing out in only one lap, 1930
took the relay, with 1937 in second
place, and  1934 third.
The results of the meet were as fol
lows:
80-Yard Dash�Daniels, '34; A. Van
Vechten, '36; Evans, '37.
40-Yard Backstroke�Duncan, '37;
Woodward, '37; Jarrett, '34.
40-Yard Free Style�Simpson, '37;
Wylie,  '36;  A. Van  Vechten, '36.
Side Stroke�Bill, '35; Seltzer, '37;
Landreth, '34.
Crawl�Bill, '35; Whiting, '36; Lan-
dreth, '34, and Meneely, '34, and Van
Vechten, '36, tied for third.
Diving�Daniels, '34; Butler, '34;
Morley, '36.
Relay � 1936 (Wylie, Whiting,
Bridgman, Cohen), 1937 (Evans, Dun-
can, Woodward, Jackson), 1934 (Me-
neely,   Butler,  Daniels,   Landreth).
Totals�1934, 18; 1935, 10; 1986,
17; 1937, 20.
Grand Total�1934, 41; 1935, 22;
1936, 47; 1937,'22.
1934 � Daniels, Jarrett, Meneely,
Landreth,  Butler.
1935�Bucher, Hemphill, Lord, Bill.
1936�Van Vechten, Cohen, Morley,
Wylie, Anderson, Bridgman, Whiting.
1937�Evans, Duncan, Woodward,
Jackson,  Simpson,  Seltzer,  Fulton.
wyne's arrangement of the Choral
Prelude. "Now Conns the* Gentiles'
Saviour." Thin followed Four Pre-
ludes from "The Well-Tempi red
Clavier," No. 9 it, K. X,. s i� K Hat
minor. No. 22 in B flat minor, No. 21
in 1! Hat. These were chosen so as
to present various moods of Bach's
writings   and   were   rendered   with   a
delicacy and feeling that showed the
pianists'* full comprehension of EHi
underlying intention of the work. The
group was concluded   with  a   number
(by Couperin, "La tendre Nanette,"
and of  Scarlatti, "Siciliano."    These
i possessed a tenderness ami lyric qual-
ity to which the audience was readily
endeared.
The   second   group   brought   forth
ime of Mr. Ahvyne's best work. The
group contained a  Berceuse and  Im-
promptu (in F sharp, Op. .'!(!) of Cho-
pin, and a Ballade  (in D major, Op.
110), and Scherzo (in E flat minor. Op.
1) of Brahms. The B( rceuse was
very quiet and the bass part Was 36
written and so rendered as to produce
a dreamy and almost romantic at-
mosphere.   To the Ballads of Brahms,
i in itself a beautiful work, we owe
the success of this group. But the
Scherzo is a rather dull monotonous
piece and its one saving grace is its
strong infusion with the spirit and
tempo of Schumann.
The final group included Liszt, "II
Penseroso" and "Valse oubilce;" Rach-
maninoff, "Prelude in B minor, Op. .
32," Two Preludes by Scriabin (Op.
Ill, No. 15 in D flat) and (Op. 16,
;No. 3 in G flat), and the Scherzo and
March from "The Love for Three
Oranges," by Prokofieff. Combined
in this group are pieces of deep emo-
tion, vivid  imagination and spontane-
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Mrs. Manning Discusses
Professions for Women
Speaking in chapel, March 1, on op-
portunities for women in business,
Mrs. Manning stressed the point that
women everywhere find themselves
faced in business with the difficulty
of rivalry with men. Consequently,
� woman to forge ahead in the busi-
jness world must have the best train-
ing possible�especially in medicine,
; where the school one has attended
counts enormously at the ln-ginning
of one's career. She must also have
a good backing and good connections.
With these prerequisites, she may
enter either a branch of work in
; which women have already achieved
success and might even be preferred
to men�as in the medical care of
children�or a branch in which she
is so good that she is confident of
rising to the upper rank. In the lat-
ter sort of work, to put herself on an
equal basis with men, she must have
outstanding knowledge, great person-
ality�especially in the practice of
law�and tireless energy. One is
bound to succeed if one keeps going
in the same direction, even if it la
only by the expedient of wearing out
the rest of the human race. These
three qualities women are quite as
likely to possess as men.
A professional attitude is essential
to a woman who takes her profession
seriously. Many women enter busi-
ness as a fad, only putting a half of
their full energy into their work and
ready to withdraw at a moment's no-
(i'ontinued  mi   rage Thr��)