College News, 1936-01-15, Vol. 22, No. 10

              The College News
VOL. XXII, No. 10
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1936
CopyrlKht  BRYN  MAWR
COU.KGE NKWS. 1936
PRICE 10 CENTS
Grenfells Spending
' Kay Swift to Play Gershwin Score
Kay Swift is coming to play at the
Winter  Ofj  CamOUS  Deanery on Sunday afternoon, Janu
---------                           I ary 26th, at 5 o'clock.    She is a pi-
"Adventures    of    Lecture-Tours anist and composer and will  lecture^
Far More Harrowing Than;    ! on and play the score of "Porgy and
Those of Arctic"
Bess" which will open in Philadelphia
; the following day.    Miss Swift com
Trained Dogs Render
Blind  Self-Sufficient
Seeing Eye School Trains Dogs,
Teaches Students To Guide
Them Properly
OPERA BENEFIT PLANNED  posed the ballet, "Alma Mater," which  WORK    NOT    A    CHARITY
""*                            the American Ballet did  last winter
(Anjnterview with Lady Grenfell.): m  Goodhart Hal,     she  has  written
"I suprftf our life has been a bit mugic for ^ �Little shows� and h
harrowing, hot of the fireside sort,'
now on the staff at Radio City, where
said Lady Grenfell in a recent inter-|Sne writes the music for their stage
view.    "Sir  Wilfred's  many  narrow  productions,
escapes would have alarmed me, but.     Kay Swift is small, dark and very
ii '   ._______�.-�n- �.,�.. v... *u�. �;.vw.' attractive,  with   tremendous   person-
they were generally over by the time.   ,.           ,'             ,               _, r   ,
,   . ,          _,         ,       ,     .       a'.ity  and  great   humor.     She   plays
I heard of them.   I have shared a few, bl.iniantlVi but she says of her sing.
adventures with him when the ice was  .       �My vojce jg small and not beau.
a bit thin and also on the sea whentiful> but , ging on]y to td, the audi.
we had close calls, but that sort of!ence tne iyrjcs-�
thing i� not nearly so adventurous as j     Her   presenUtion   of   the   �Porgv
. ajecture tour. Once in England some- \ and   Begs�  at  the   Art   Alliance   in
one asked Sir Wilfred what was the! Philadeiphia.  some   weeks   ag0   met
coldest place he had ever been.    He|with great success_
replied:     'A     British    bedroom    in j                  ________________
WThV Grenfells are staying at the Madrigal Singers Come
Deanery, where they have been keep-!           To   Goodhart   Saturday
ing themselves quietly since December j                           ---------
10 and where they intend to remain; The London Madrigal Singers who
until March. It is their usual cus-;are performing in Goodhart Hall on
torn to alternate winters in Labrador Saturday afternoon, January 18, at
rand England; but this year, because 3 p. m-> afford an excellent oppor-
of Lady GrenfelPs recent illness, seek- tunity to hear a practical demonstra-
ing a quiet place where Sir Wilfred' tjon 0f the musical art on which Canon
could carry on his supervising work Fcllowes is speaking earlier in the
in New York, they selected the Bryn vro^c The group is composed of
Mawr campus, where they have so 8even sjngers who are in the United
often enjoyed visits before. Aside states for a two weeks' tour. Bryn
from his ordinary work of supervision I Mawr has been privileged to secure
and a few scattered lectures, Sir Wil- them.
fred is also collecting into book fornij The London Singers not only are
the stories heard from Labrador fish- especially recommended by Canon Fel-
ermen in over forty years of work i0Wes, but also have won wide ac-
with them.                                              | claim   throughout    England    as   the
"I myself have written only one, group which gives the finest and most
book," continued Lady Grenfell, authentic performances of Elizabethan
"called he Petit Noel, written how; Madrigals. The director, Mr. T. B.
many years ago I do not recall. All j Lawrence, does not conduct the con-
my literary efforts since *then havejcerts jn a formal way, as that would
gone into Sir Wilfred's writing, where! Dc contrary to the spirit in which
I begin far behind the proofs in the madrigals were sung at the time of
very first stages of the writing. I j their greatest popularity. Instead,
don't know a thing about medical ithe singers sit around a table in an
work and nursing, not a thing. I am j informal manner and sing in much
at the executive end of our wprk, the j the same way as the original madri-
trying-to-be-the-money-making end.   I \ galists did.
must have learned much of my love| Madrigals were sung by both men
of managing in college, for I was on ail(] women; thus the group presents a
the Self-Government and the Under-1 variety of songs, some for mixed
graduate Boards; one year I was head j V(,jceS) some part songs for women's
of choir; I helped to coach the hockey, voices, some classified as folk songs,
team, and was stage manager for alli(,thers as madrigals, and still others
sorts of things. I learned how to runjas regular part songs. In addition to
benefits from my excellent training as songS by Morley, Weelkes, Byrd and
stage manager here at Bryn Mawr." | i)owland, who are among the best
Lady Grenfell was in the class of: known composers of Elizabethan mad-
1906. Although she has since become rjgals, the London Group include in
absorbed in the work of the Grenfell: their program some original composi-
missionsj she knew nothing of Sir Wil-,tions and arrangements done by mod-
fred's work "until after I married� ,,,.� composers in the spirit of tra-
contmued on r-age Thre-             > ditional Elizabethan music.
John Mason Brown Finds Current Season
Proves Shakespeare Popular as "Jumbo'
Deanery, January 11.�This thea:
tre season is especially exciting and
interesting because it has disproved
the rumor, current since Aeschylus'
time, that the theatre is dead, and
because Shakespeare has proved to be
as popular as Jumbo, declared John
Mason Brown, dramatic critic for the
New York Evening Post.
Shakespeare has been saved from
the school teachers and restored to
his medium, after being bound for so
many years by his admirers, from
whom he has suffered as much as
George Washington has from the
D. A. R. Two Shakespearean dramas
have come to life in the theatre this
season: the Katharine Cornell version
of Romeo and Juliet and the Lunt's
production of The Taming of the
Shrew, both of them extremely inter-
esting.
The return engagement of Romeo
and Juliet showed a great improve-
ment in the play since its opening a
year ago. One reason for it is the
absence-of Basil Rathbone's "Gillette-
blade aquilinity," which was not
suited to the part of Romeo. A sec-
ond reason is found in the growth of
Miss Cornell's Juliet. She survives
the ordeal of playing a girl of four-
teen for five long acts, and is the
embodiment of everything tremulous
and young.
The Lunts in The Taming of the
Shrew do for Shakespearean comedy
what Miss Cornell has done for
Shakespearean tragedy. They have
"circused it into life." In most pro-
ductions of the comedy, the induction
scene is omitted; and this omission
changes the whole reason of being of
the play. When the induction scene
is included, as in the current produc-
tion, a play-within-a-play acted by
strolling players who cannot be too
good, is necessarily assumed. Ite
realism cannot be too closely investi-
gated and no questions of logic can
arise.
The Lunts bring "by-play" to their
roles: they have ceaseless curiosity
which makes them search out the
inner meaning of every line, giving
an interpretation rather than a mere
characterization. They provide the
play with a horse-play which Shakes-
peare would have loved; and "the
Minsky touch" is ever present.
Two other Shakespearean plays
have been produced this season, both
by Philip Merivale, and both unsuc-
ContiniMd on Pas* Tkrwa
The Deanery, January 9.�"Dogs
for the blind have turned a helpless,
segregated group into happy, normal
men and women," said Mrs. Harrison
Eustis in her lecture on the work of
the Seeing Eye school for the blind
at Morristown, N. J. They have made
possible for these unfortunate people
education and employment and have
bridged the gulf between the sightless
and the seeing world.
The Seeing Eye was opened for the
purpose of teaching blind people to be
self-sufficient with the aid of dogs.
It accepts as students the up-and-
coming men and women who want
to lead normal, independent lives. It
is not a charity in any sense of the
word, but a membership organization,
ranging from associate memberships
of one dollar to nine dollars a year
to patron memberships of over five
hundred dollars. There is also a
junior committee with a membership
of one dollar which in the future is
to have charge of sending dogs. For
the sum of one hundred.and fifty dol-
lars, which must be paid within three
years, the student receives a dog, four
months' training and living expenses.
His actual cost to the school is nine
hundred dollars, which is covered by
memberships.
Students enter the Seeing Eye in
classes of eight and after a period of
orientation are given their dogs in a
ceremony known as the "turn-over."
The dogs have previously been
through three months of training
under competent instructors. They
arc taught to approach their masters
from behind in order not to trip them,
to see every obstacle that might lie
in their path from an ordinary street
curb to a low awning pole, to ignore
stray dogs and, finally, to lead their
owners quickly and safely through the
heaviest traffic. The supreme test for
I In1 dogs comes when they must guide
their instructors, who are blindfolded.
Continue.? on  Face Three
College Calendar
Thursday, January 16 � Dr.
Edmund H. Fellowes will lecture
on English Madrigals with Lute
Accompaniment. Goodhart Hall,
8.20 p. m.
Saturda"y, January 18�Con-
cert by the London Madrigal
Singers.   Goodhart Hall, 3 p. m.
Monday, January 20�Mid-
year Examinations begin.
Sunday, February 9�Mme.
Anisora Stan and her Rou-
manian dance group will appear
in a series of folk-dances. Dean-
ery, 5 p. m.
Monday, February 10�Mr. I.
A. Richards, the Flexner lec-
turer, will speak on The Inter-
pretation of Prone. Goodhart,
8.20 p. m.
Puppet Performance
Wins High Approval
High Artistic Level of Theatre
Set in Skillful Manipulation
By Puppeteers
SATIRE   IS  UNSURPASSED
Roumanian Dance Group
* Comes to Deanery Feb. 9
The Entertainment Committee of
the Deanery has arranged to bring
Mme. Anisora Stan and her Rou-
manian dance group to the Deanery
on Sunday, February '.>, at 6 p. ni.
Mme. Stan's group will appear in au-
thentic, richly embroidered Roumanian
costumes, and will present a program
of authentic folk-dances and songs.
The dances, according to reliable eye-
witnesses, have complicated and vigor-
ous steps, and there may be an op-
portunity for those interested in such
exercise to learn how tri execute the
"Batuka" or the "Sirba," as two of
them are called. Some of the dancing
is accompanied by a cymbalon, "a sort
of grown-up zither," which will appeal
to all those who saw the Yale Pup-
peteers.
Mme. Stan is particularly interested
' in bringing to the youth of this coun-
try some conception of the real Rou-
manian folk ways. She has her cos-
tumes dyed, sewed and embroidered
by her own workers. An exhibit of
Roumanian crafts which she will
bring contains laces, beautiful pieces
of metal thread embroidery and ex-
amples of other typical Roumanian
arts. All of these articles which will
be on display and for sale are made
in the authentic peasant fashion and
are not the usual type of commercial
souvenir. The exhibits will be on dis-
play and for sale.
It is hoped that the Roumanian Am-
bassador will be able to come to the
college and enjoy Mme. Stan's pro-
gram.
Art Alliance Offers
Junior Memberships
The Philadelphia Art Alliance has
agreed to allow two of its members,
Mrs. Reginald Jacobs (Sophia Yar-
nall, Bryn Mawr, ex '23) and Mrs.
Kimbrough Wrench (Emily Kim-
brough, Bryn Mawr, '21) to propose,
for Junior membership, Bryn Mawr
undergraduates.
Mrs. Jacobs and Mrs. Wrench spoke
at lunch in the halls on the last day
before the Christmas holidays, point-
ing out the conveniences of the Art
Alliance as a club. It is located at
Eighteenth street and Rittenhouse
square. Its restaurant is attractive,
its bar very gay, and its food de-
licious. There are rooms available
for members wishing to stay in town
to dress or to spend the night at a
charge of seventy-five cents and two
dollars respectively.
There is a large sitting room with
a piano on the second floor, available
without charge for parties if food is
ordered from the restaurant. Other-
wise the charge for it is $10 in the
daytime and $15 at night. There are
always exhibitions of interest in the
galleries. The current one of African
Art and the modern painters influ-
enced by it is one of the most dis-
tinguished to be given in this country.
A calendar of events is mailed to
members once a month and the events
themselves are of wide variety and
consistent interest.
Mrs. Jacobs and Mrs. Wrench hope
that the undergraduates will join the
Art Alliance. The dues are $10 a
year for Junior membership and the
initiation fee has been waived. It is
suggested that those interested join
immediately to get the full benefit for
1986, as membership now will run
until October, when it must be n
newed for another full year. Appli-
cation blanks are available at the
Publication  Office in  Taylor  Hall.
Notice to Subscribers
There will be no News during
the Midyear Examination period.
The next issue will appear Feb-
ruary 12.
Alumnae   of   Bryn   Mawr
Are  Finding   Employment
(Reprinted from the New York
Times of January 12.)
Thirty-one per cent of the member-
ship of last June's graduating class
at Bryn Mawr College is employed
in paid jobs, according to a survey
by the Bureau of Recommendations.
Besides the twenty-three members
of the class of seventy-four who have
been successful in finding remunera-
tive positions, 6 per cent more hold
unpaid apprentice jobs. Fifteen of
the graduates are teachers.
Reports of the class of 1934 to the
bureau indicate that more than 41
per cent, or thirty-seven of the eighty-
nine members, have paid jobs, twelve
of which are in the teaching field.
The non-teaching positions for the
two years included in the reports are
spread over a variety of occupations.
The greatest number are in the secre-
tarial line, where eight are listed.
Five others have clerical jobs which
are partly secretarial.
Five graduates are doing social ser-
vice work and four are selling in de-
partment stores or bookshops.
Among the others, two are on the
stage, two are working in laboratories,
two are doing editorial work, two are
hostesses and two are agents for lec-
turers.
Continued  on Pa�e Six
Deanery,   Sunday,   January    12.�
The puppeteers of the Club Guignol
i in  New  York  undoubtedly have  ful-
filled their artistic mission in writing
"a  new  page   in  the  history  of  the
I theatre  of  this  country."    The  per-
I formance  in  the  Deanery was  illus-
I trative of their skill  in  the field of
satire, caricature, aesthetics, drama-
tic talent and of distinctive ability in
songs and music.    The success of the
Yale   Puppeteers  was  so great  that
further efforts  will  have to be  held
in Goodhart Hall.    The Deanery was
far too crowded, and  for very good
reasons.
Mr. Forman  Brown, the  composer
(of the songs, lyrics and tunes opened
I the performance with an explanation
of the reasons for revealing the pup-
peteers themselves.    People are curi-
ous, and therefore as a new experiment
j in  puppetry,  the  men  who  pull   the
strings are disclosed.    The delightful
! Haydn Trio was the first act on the
I small  stage, a  traditional act.    The
� uncomfortable  pianist,  the emotional
| violinist  and  the cellist  who  played
, with his head have performed over a
j thousand times.    It was an uncanny
feeling suddenly to feel oneself look-
ing   at   puppets   as   real   as   human
| beings.
Douglas Fairbanks strutted on the
stage after the trio. Mr. Fairbanks
is one of the puppets made on the
west coast. Puppet-portraits of stars
enabled their company to remain on
the west coast two years. Seeing
oneself in action is a sure box office
draw. Doug was the usual romantic
cabcllero with a plume in his hat and
a romantic song to sing with abandon.
Lillian Harvey then appeared ex-
actly as she was in the puppet per-
formance of the movie / am Suzanne?
The grace of her dance was exquisite.
Mr. Brown explained that her lavish
costume was representative of the
way Hollywood spends money even
on a puppet. Buying costumes fd~r
the performance in / aw Suzatttu was
I amusing�a trip to the store and "a
'� half-yard of tulle, please. That ought
| to be enough for six ballet skirts."
The "lady who swung by her
I knees" could easily outdo the man on
the Flying Trapeze. A good old-
fashioned master of ceremonies sang
the song of the lady who "swung in
an elegant are" and of the sorrow of
the lads who never saw her any other
way  but  upside down.
The amusing caricature of Walter
llampdcn transferred the action from
! Hollywood   to   Broadway.      Hampden
i strutted   upon  the stage  in  the  "per-
Contlnued on   Pate  Four
Latin Classes Hear Lecture
Taylor Hall, January 13.�Miss
(Lake's lecture for the Latin classes
[on Archaeological Evidence* of Lie it's
Historn of Roman People was well
illustrated by pertinent slides, which
were interpreted in their relation to
the ancient peoples of whom Livy
writes.
Historians have investigated the
truth of Livy's vivid stories; and
archaeological discoveries have pointed
to concrete facts. Rome was founded
by people from Alba Longa, and cer-
tain graves discovered in the Roman
Forum correspond to graves found in
the Alban Hills. The burial urns, jars
and implements which have been
found aid historians in their search
for the customs of the early Romans.
The Etruscans have long been a
confusing problem in history. It is
thought that they came originally
from Asia Minor and migrated to
the west coast of Italy. Their ceme-
teries, monuments and ornaments, the
tomb decorations and statues which
have been unearthed, are indicative
of high attainment in the arta. The
famous bronze statue of the wolf and
Romulus and  Remus is an example.