College News, 1937-03-10, Vol. 23, No. 17

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BRYN^MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1937-
Copyright   TRUSTEES  OF
BRYN   MAWR   COLLEGE,   1937
PRICE 10 CENTS
Originality  Marks
New Tonal Effects
Of Guitar Soloist
Skilled' Technique   Opens   New
Opportunities for Pianistic
Quality
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BACH PIECES OFFER
NOVEL EXPERIENCE
(Especially contributed by Patricia
Ravn Robinson, '39.)
Goodhart Hall, March 2.�Those
who heard Andres Segovia, the dis-
tinguished Spanish guitarist, , were
fortunate in enjoying a recital marked
not only by its unusual originality,
but by real musicianship. The idea of
a guitarist's playing in concert is ar-
resting enough, but Segovia proved
that as much artistry and musical
feeling can be put into a performance
on the guitar as on any of the more
generally accepted solo instruments.
He has developed a technique which
opens to us the unexpected possibili-
ties of his instrument. Combined
with the traditional languorous qual-
ity which we associate with it, he has
produced many new tonal effects, a
fluid pianistic quality reminiscent of
the harpsichord, and dynamics which
one would not think achievable on a
plucked instrument.
In his program Segovia again
proved the remarkable versatility or
the guitar. Only three works were
written originally for the instrument.
These were a Prelude, Theme and
Variations by F. Sor, a Sonatina by
Torroba (dedicated to Segovia) and
an Etude by F. Tarrega. In the Sor
composition, the use of dynamics was
particularry effective, while in the
Tarrega, a work of apparently great
technical difficulty, there was no la-
boring after speed. The music moved
easily, as in a keyboard instrument,
and was marked by grace and sim-
plicity.                              .          -f
Bach, on the guitar, was a new'ex-
perience for many, although the effect
which this instrument produces is
probably close to that which the com-
poser conceived in his work for the
harpsichord. TMe contrapuntal "dif-
ficulties are obvious�one can scarcely
imagine an intricate, four-part fugue
sustained by five fingers alone, as
would be necessary on the guitar.
However, the Prelude, Gavotte and
Loure which Segovia chose did not
present these obstacles, but flowed
pleasantly, with the restrained beauty
of the traditional Bach. In the
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Wednesday, March 10.�Pi-
anoforte recital' by Mr. Alex-
ander Kelberine. Goodhart, 8.30
p. m.                                       ,
Basketball game with Beaver.
Gymnasium, 8 p. m.
Thursday, March 11. � Mr.
Haniel Long will speak on Crea-
tive Writing.   Deanery, 5 p. m.
Meeting of the Philosophy
Club.   Common RotffiffjtO p. m.
Friday, March 12. � Swim-
ming meet with Swarthmore.
Swarthmore College, 4.30 *p. m".
Saturday, March IS.�Basket-
ball game with Swarthmore.
Gymnasium, 10 p. m.
Sunday, March 14.�Musical
service." MnsTc room, 7.30 p. m.
Tuesday, March 16.�Mr. Fen-
wick will speak on current
events. Common Room, 7.30
p. m.
Wednesday, March 17. �
Bridge party for the benefit of
the Virginia T. Stoddard Memor-
ial Fund of the Agnes Irwin
School.   Deanery^Swp. m.
Movies, Emil unS^dje Detek-
tive.   Goodhart, 8.30 p. m.
Thursday, March 18.�Con-
cert by Miss Myra Hess, pianist.
Goodhart, 8.30 p. m.
Friday, March 19.�Swimming
meet with University of Penn-
sylvania.   Gymnasium, 4.30 p. m.
Saturday, March 20.�French
Club play, L'Ecole des Maria.
Goodhart, *30 prm-----�
Dance following play. . Gym-
nasium. .,
Sunday, March 21.�Dr. Chris-
tian Brinton will speak on Art
in th'e Soviet Union. Deanery,
5 p. m.
Sunday service with talk by
Mrs. Harper Sibley of Roches-
ter, N. Y.
Monday, March 22.�Gordon
Child, authority on praWstoric
archaeology, will speaK. Dean-
ery, 5 p. m.
Tuesday, March 23.'�Mr. Fen-
wick will speak on current
events. Common Room, 7.30
p. in. .
Meeting of the Philosophy
Club.   Common Room.
Wednesday, March 24.�Miss
Cornelia Otis Skinner will pre-
sent a group of modern mono-
logues and the Loves of Charles
II.    Goodhart, 8.30 p. m.
Undergraduates Display Musical Talents
In   Delightful   League   Entertainment
Gordon     Grosvenor     Perfornj*^'
With the Skill and Emotion
Of an Artist
The Deanery, March 5. � Nine-
tenths of Bryn Mawr missed one of
the pleasantest Deanery events of the
year, the League Musicale. It proved
conclusively two things: first, that the
college is talented artistically as well
as academically, and secondly, that
it should be encouraged in such de-
partures from its conservative intel-
lectual path. In short, the League is
to be congratulated�it has scored
something in the way of a triumph.
The Deanery underwent a series of
transformations. To some, perhaps,
this phenomenon passed unnoticed,
they saw throughout only easy and
uneasy chairs drawn up and occupied
informally in one-half of the room.
But even the chairs changed their
character. At first they were unmis-
takably Deanery, but suddenly they
stiffened and�hardened into the sim-
ple wooden chairs of a German Raths-
keller and the room itself became very
cheerful and smoky and beery. Eight
peasant girls were singing Volkslieder
in native costume, while a belederhos-
ened youth accompanied them on the
accordion. The youth was Herr
Amelia Forbes, and his harmonious
companions the Frauleine Beck, Dolo-
itz, Gregory, Herron, Matteson, Pen-
field, Solter and Steele. They sang
songs which every German lover loves,
and- ended  with the  merry "yahoo!"
sort of shout that brings tears of
reminiscence to one's eyes.
After they had filed out and when
Grace Dolowitz had seated herself on
numbers of cushions at the piano (is
there no East Indian piano stool which
would match the rest of the Deanery
furniture and could be utilized by our
up-and-coming virtuosos?) we had a
strange fancy that we were in Wash-
ington's Mayflower Hotel listening to
one of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend's Mu-
sical Mornings. Probably every city
has its Musical Mornings, so there is
no need for explanation. At any rate,
Miss Dolowitz played Bach's Prelude
in B flat and Schumann's Ende vom
Lied, and very skillfully, too. The
loud applause which greeted her was
followed by the appearance of Harriet
Hutchison, who removed a pillow and
began Mozart's Sonata in C major.
It made us wonder even more fer-
vently why people waste so much of
their talent on the practice rooms in
Goodhart, as we presume they do.
If we wese prepared for well-exe-
cuted composiHons on the piano, our
Musical Morning gave us a pleasant
shock as Lydia Lyman let soar her
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Perfection is,Goal
Of Individual-Being
Mr.     Weiss     Stresses     Pursuit
Of Art, Science, Philosophy
For Knowledge
MAN   BASICALLY   MORAL
Music Room, March 3.�Man is es-
sentially a moral and a self-conscious
being who* if he is to understand him-
self, must pursue art, science and
philosophy, according to Paul Weiss
who delivered the eighth and last of
a series of lectures on The Nature of
Man. The individual is continually
striving toward perfection; perfection
here meaning the ability to embody
within himself all reality. Complete
philosophy is the first step toward
this perfection, but since it has lost
the details of actual objects it is
necessary to supplement philosophy
with art and science. We find through
these combined methods that we are
most effectively ourselves only when
we act with respect to others. A
man can only be human if he is moral
in respect to his fellow-men.
If we investigate man perceptually
we find him to be a collection of
multiple, independent traits. How-
ever, if we view him speculatively
with the insight of an artist, we find
that man's characteristics are inter-
twined to constitute a dynamic unity.
When we trace this unity through-
out our lives, from birth to death, we
find our identity not in external
things, our physical bodies or in the
fact that we are conscious, but in cur-
ability constantly to evaluate things
in the universe according to the way
in which they would make us more
perfect.
Ideas can have two relationships;
one to the objects outside the indi-
vidual, the other to the individual it-
self. Ideas (which directly reflect
man's inner nature often distort the
nature of external objects. This kind
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KELBERINE WILL APPEAR
IN   GOODHART   RECITAL
Alexander Kelberine, who will give
a piano recital in Goodhart Hall on
Wednesday evening, March 10, was
soloist with the Philadelphia Orches-
tra twice last season. He made his
first New York -recital appearance
since 1932 at Carnegie Hall on March
16. Durftjg his career he has been
soloist with Molinari in New York,
with the National Symphony Orches-
tra, in Washington and with the Peo-
ple's Symphony Orchestra in Boston.
Mr. Kelberine is Russian by birth,
but came to America in 1923 for per-
manent residence. He was taught by
the famVus Lisztian, Alexander Siloti.
In 1928 he made his.American debut
with the distinction of being the first
to be presented by the Julliard Musical
Foundation. At the invitation of
Molinari, he toured Italy and ap-
peared in Paris in 1931 and 1^32. At-
tracting the attention of the public
and the critics in 1932 by his recitals
of Bach and Beethoven, he has com-
manded respect and admiration not
only as a brilliant contemporary mu-
sician, but as a distinct personality
and teacher. Mr. Kelberine will be
heard with Stokowski on April 2 and 3.
Rhythm, Sound Marked
In   Miss ~AxIams'. Poems
Lyrics    Show    Original    Treatment
Of Traditional Themes
SPRING VACATION MAY
START    ON    MARCH    25
At a meeting in the Common Room
on March 9, the Legislature voted to
send two recommendations to the
faculty, one asking that-the beginning
of spring vacation be changed from
March 26 to March 25, and a second
that it be changed to one o'clock on
March 25. The recommendations are
the result of the problem arising
from the last day of classes coinciding
with Good Friday v when students who
wish to go to church are excused
from classes. As a substitute for Fri-
day classes, the suggestion was made
that the time be made up on the Sat-
urday after vacation. The reason
that two recommendations were sent,
although most members wished to
have- the date changed to one o'clock
Thursday, is that the Faculty Com-
mittee may feel that an entire extra
day of classes which the second re-
quest would entail is undesirable,
whejjplHr-the Friday classes which
would be missed if the first petition
were granted would mean only one
Saturday morning.
The Legislature also discussed
changing the form of college elec-
tions in order to shorten the time it
takes to complete them and to make
them more efficient. Although a legal
change can only be effected in a mass
meeting of the student body, plans
were considered to have all except
the officers of the four big associa-
tions elected by the classes they rep-
resent and not by th^entire college.
This contemplated change would
eliminate the evil of voting for un-
known people, <and since th,e different
classes could vote on the same day
Without repetitions in the nomina-
tions, it would shorten the time of the
elections considerably.
Deanery, March 7.�The sense of
rhythm and sound which distin-
guished Leonie Adams's poetry was
evident in her reading of her poems
last Sunday afternoon. Selections
were read from High Falcon and
Those Xot Elect, and several more
recent poems which -have appeared in
periodicals.
Miss Adams writes in the tradi-
tional English lyric forms, modified
to give flexibility to her own natural
feeling for music and rhythm. This
flexibility can perhaps be partially
conveyed by the following lines from
her poem Caryatid:
"Not at midnight, not at moi'ning, O
sweet city,
Shall we come in at your portal, but
this-girl, your servant,
Bearing on her head a broken stone
In the body shaped to this
Poised no less for the burden now the
temple is fallen."
Some of Miss Adams's poo*? arc
devoted to descriptions of nature in
which her ear for sounds and delight
in color are distinctive. Grapes Mak-
ing, a poem which particularly de-
lighted her audience, has a delicate,
sensuous flavor which is artificial in
detail but real in the mood which it
conveys as a whole\ Her fertile de-
scriptions of summer and autumn, as
in Country Summer or The Bounds
and Garlands Done, have an original
treatment of the traditional. The
nature descriptions have, as in most
of her poetry, an overtone expressing
the recognition, not necessarijy a sad
recognition, of the mortality of nature.
But it. is not only in descriptions
of nature for itself unrelated to other
themes-that Miss Adams writes her
best poetry. In The Horn, written,
prosaically speaking, on the straight-
to-the-grave motif, a sense of damp-
ness and death are contained in three
pointed, simple lines:
"The mist is risen like thin breath
The young leaves of the ground smell
chill
So faintly a're they strewn on death."
Later in the poem she uses the dark
image of a hare "with a spectre in
his eye" who speeds? unwittingly as
human being, to the snare of death.
It is a pleasure to find a poem such
as Send Forth   the  High  Falcon- in
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Theater  Workshop
Plan to be Aided
By   Miss   Skinner
To Give^Series of Monologues,
Receipts of Which Will Go
To Memorial Building
PROGRAM TO INCLUDE
THREE MODERN PIECES
The first step toward the realiza-
tion of a theater workshop for Bryn
Mawr will be taken on March 24 by
Miss Cornelia Otis Skinner. At that
time Miss Skinner will return to her
alma mater to give a performance of
her monologues at 8.30 in Goodhart
Hall. The receipts from the perform-
ance will go to a fund for the build-
ing of the workshop. According to
the small committee of Mrs. Otis Skin-
ner's friends, the new project will be
called the, Mrs. Otis Skinner Theater
Workshop in hbnor of Miss Skinner's
mother, who died recently.
Mrs. Skinner, beautiful and talented
in her own rrfchj^jrave up her career
for her daughter, who she was de-
termined should not grow up under"
the influence of the stage. A chance
mo6(fing with a Bryn Mawr alumna
convinced her of the advisability of
living near the college. For a number
of yen's she lived on faculty row, and
then \ 1921 built a house on Gulph
Road. During this time she had the
closest relations with the college,-and
while Cornelia was attending the
Baldwin School did a great -deal of
dramatics there. Students were al-
ways eager to visit her, and at all
times received a gracious welcome.
Her only official connection with the
college was in her directorship of the
1920 and 1924 May Days. Mrs. Skin-
ner had always* been a grca,t student
of pageantry. From 1914-20 the feel-
ing for pageantry in May Day was
slowly developing. The 1920 produc-
tion, under Mrs. Skinner, became more
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DANCE CLUB TO TAKE
PART IN EXHIBITION
Dance After French  Play
The Dance Committee wish_e*
to announce that a dance will be
held after the French Club play
on March 20 from 10.30 until
2.00 in the Gymnasium.
What Plays Do You Want?
W anyone has any sugges-
tions as to plays or collected
works of playwrights not suffi-
ciently represented in the h^
brary, will she tell F. Hoxton,
Mefmn, G. Leighton, Pembroke
East, or A. Marbury, Rocker'
feller?
In keeping with the widening artis-
tic fields at Bryn Mawr, the Dancers'
Club will take part in a performance
in New York on April 23, at the an-
nual convention of the National
Physical Education Association which
will be held at this time. Represen-
tative groups from twelve colleges in
the east have been invited to paKtici-
patc in this dance exhibition, and to
present their type of dancing to the
public.
As far as is known, Bryn Mawr is
the only exponent of the Duncan-
School, although it is of a modified
type in some of its detail. Basically,
however, the technique.is Duncan.
The club is also planning to present
a performance this spring in collabo-
ration with Mr. Wyckoff. The aim of
this production will be primarilly to
evolve new combinations and tech-
nique in lighting Hans' Schumann,
composer and musician in the* club
has also*^prked out a scheme of mu-
sical tone and lighting that the or-
ganization intends to use.
Election of new members will take
place some time in the near future.
Members have been observing pro-
spective candidates in the first year
class for several weeks. It is hoped
that a' large group can be incorpo-
rated into the club to "further its
growth and maturity.     �
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Choir Music for Sunday
The Rev. Ernest C. Earp
rector of the Church of the Re-
deemer, Bryn Mawr, will be in
charge of the service and will
give a short aefdjess on Sunday.
March 14.        *
Brahms   ........."Ave  Maria"
Schiiln rl
"    "The Lord Is My Shepherd"
I'alestrina........"Crucifixus"
Vittoria "Jesus dulcis memoria"
Bach......"O Praise, the Lord"
TaM*  ........"Nunc Dimittis"
Byrde. ."Loode Downe, O Lord"
Handel   ..."Hallelujah,  Amen"

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