College News, 1939-01-18, Vol. 25, No. 11

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A^OL. XXV, No. 11
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1939      BR^or5yrM0Ah^RRcUoSLLEEEQE?T�39     PRICE 10 CENTS
Yale Puppets
Satirize News,
Dictatorships
Sophisticated    Marionettes
Mimic Martha Graham
/             And   Toscanini
BABY PANDA SINGS
BEHIND CAGE BARS
Goodhart, January IS.�Better, if
not bigger, than ever, the Yale Pup-
pets were presented in a: new revue
-entitled It's a Small World, by Harry
Burnett,. Forman Brown and Richard
Brandon. Contrary to the usual mar-:
ionette convention^ the manipulators
were not hidden, and it was possible
to watch the actual movements of
their hands.
The review itself was composed
partly of new pieces and partly of
such old favorites as The Haydn Trio,
The March of Rhyme, the balancing
clowns, Toto and Floto, and the two
lady pianists, Miss Knipp and Miss,
Tuckh. Perhaps the performance
stales on repetition or perhaps a real
development and improvement had'
taken place; but the new scenes cer-
tainly seemed greatly superior to the
old.                                       <
Most of these were of a��trongly
* liberal and anti-fascist nature. One
showed John L. Lewis as an angel en-
gaged in organizing heaven and horri-
fied to find that the heavenly host did
not work in shifts. He was also
anxious to unionize hell, but found it
too difficult because, as his trio of
dwarf union members put it, to the
tune of Heigh-ho:
"The process wouldn't jell,
They're" much  too  keen   on   William
Green's
A. F. of L."
Another scene, the single serious
item on the program, showed a crip-
pled soldier beside a pile of crosses
singing a plea for peace. It was
very effective, but too heavy for such
a fantastic and trivial setting. Equal-
ly anti-fascist, but more suitable were
the satires on the Modern Mikado and
the Sister Act, which depicted Hitler
and Mussolini in flowered skirts per-
forming vaudevilre waltzes and sing-
ing their admiration for each other.
The rest of the new numbers were
largely devoted  to the  arts.    Lynne
Continued on Fas* Four
EDITH BRAUN TREUER
RECEIVES  FELLOWSHIP
Edith Braun Treuer, the Graduate
Josephine Goldmark Fellow from Ger-
many, has been offered a fellowship
by the Family Society of Philadelphia.
This fellowship will enable her to
continue her work at Bryn Mawr,
and follow through with her present
schedule in Education and Case Work.
She will have an excellent chance of
staying on with the Family Society
after the Fellowship. The arrange-
ment can go into effect at once. As
a result, the Josephine Goldmark Fel-
lowship will be available for another
candidate.
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Tuesday, February 7.�Class-
es begin, 9 a. m. Myra Hess
to give piano recital.   Goodhart,
8.30.   ..��_       -     �,*-#�.�    .
Thursday, February P.�Ruth
Murray Underhill-wlll speak on
American Indian Pottery. Dean-
ery, 8.30.
Friday, February 10.�Hilda
Smith, to speak on the Summer
School.   Common Boom, 8 p.m.
Sunday,' February 12.�John
R. Hart will speak in Chapel.
Music Room, 7.30.
Monday, February IS.�Mrs.
Helen Hill Miller will speak on
Government Service. Common
Room, 8 p. m.
Tuesday, February H.�Cur-
rent Events, Mr. Fenwick. Com-
mon Room, 7.30.
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MARTHA GRAHAM AND FRIEND
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SNOW-  INSPIRES     FORT,
SLEIGH RIDE, SNOWBALLS
The snow-covered campus has
brought out the winter sports en-
thusiasts in full force. Undergradu-
ates not content with merely skiing
on the hill by Rhoads, have, devised
more exciting pastimes. Denbigh and
the German House combined to erect
a fort which, decorated with a red
flag, seems to be awaiting a cnallenge.
Merion, bent on really enjoying the
winter weather, hired a horse -and
sleigh on Saturday night. The ride
was complete with sleigh bells, hay to
sit on and lusty voices to sing. In
fact, the music had to cease for a
while in order to let the horses re-
cover from its effects. Three very
athletic and energetic people enjoyed
jumping off and running behind the
sleigh until one almost got left be-
hind when she mistook a down grade
for an up grade.
On Sunday night the Merion sopho-
mores challenged the Merion juniors
to a snowball fight, a challenge which
was first accepted but later rejected
because of the lure of social engage-
ments. The disappointed sophomores
were forced to hurl their snowballs
at the brightly-lighted windows.
Myra
Hess  Concert
To Benefit Workshop
New     York     Audience    Applauds
Famous English Pianist
Myra Hess, the brilliant English
pianist, will give a recital "here on
February seventh for the benefit of
the Theatre Workshop. She recently
played, in New York and her perform-
ance was considered exceptionally
good. Her program was varied, con-
sisting of the Bach D Minor tocata,
the Schubert B flat sonata, and the
Beethoven Pathttique.
With truly unusual artistic re-
sources, she brought out the full
greatness of each work. The Bach's
contrapuntal lines and arabesques
were, to quote the Tribune, "traced
with rare clarity and yet with a free-
dom and spontaneity that belied the
deliberative art that had gone into its
structure," and the Beethoven was
played "with equal artistfc powers."
But her greatest achievement was
the Schubert sonata where the per-
former must "supply dramatic value
where there is little or none by in-
tensifying the unique substance and
color of each theme and figure, by
endowing the fullest meaning to.each
element of harmony and rhythm."
Myra Hess appeared in Washington
this fall and was equally applauded
there. Besides this American trip she
has conducted very successfully tours
through England, France, Germany,
Austria, Hungary and Canada.
Vocational Conference
Helen Hill Miller, '21, Senior
Agricultural -Writer in the
United States Department of
Agriculture, will speak on Gov-
ernment Service on Monday,
February 13, at 8 p. m., in the
Common Room. Everybody who
_ia_ interested will be welcome.
Lima Meeting
Reaches Accord
Without Strife
Fenwick     Sees     'Continental
Defense'  as  Advance
In Cooperation
Goodhart Hall, January 12.�Pre-
facing his lecture with the statement
that "the conference was a whirlwind
affair," Charles G. Fenwick gaw his
impressions of the significance of the
recent meeting at Lima, to which he
was a delegate. The Declaration of
Lima, said Mr. Fenwick, "is a great,
fundamental charter of American
liberties."
Although a large part of the press
in this country has been critical of,
or indifferent to, the achievements of
the conference, Mr. Fenwick bejieves
this attitude is based on a misreading
of the true purposes of the meeting.
Taking as its base the resolutions
passed at Buenos Aires in 1936, the
delegates proceeded slowly but sys-
tematically, and finally reached a far
broader declaration.
Mr. Fenwick stressed the point that
the particular value of the whole lies
in the fact that it was accomplished
after exhaustive and free discussion.
No smouldering resentments, which
could hinder future negotiations, have
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RONNY JOHANSSON
DEMONSTRATES DANCE
Gymnasium, January 15. � Every
dance form requires a different tech-
nique, said Ronny Johansson, in her
lectu�* demonstration djf exercises
and dance patterns. But for the
mastery of all techniques a flexible
>ody is essential.
The exercises Miss Johansson
demonstrated were designed to illus-
trate proper breathing, bodily control,
and freedom of movement, and were
chosen so that any person could do
them. The dance sketches were
notable more for their consciousness
of design in space than for their
execution.
Miss Johansson originally started
in ballet, but left it when she found
'its technique too narrow and stylized
for the expression of the variety of
dance types she wished to do. Her
teachers seemed to give her nothing,
so she began to"' develop her own"
interpretations and style of movement.
The fundamentals of proper dance
movement, Miss Johansson believes,
proper fantiMBft freedom, of arm
and leg swing, and controlled relaxa-
tion and contraction of muscles. These
principles, besides being demonstrated
in the exercises, were illustrated in
short composition studies, which were
the most charming part of the pro-
gram. In them were revealed clever-
ness, some.., wit, and considerable
originality. Miss Johansson's very
mobile, expressive face was as great
a contributor to this part of her
performance as was her dancing,
which lacked the superb control one is
accustomed to seeing in professional
dancers.                               A. L. A.
t are
I. R. C. Hears Reports �
On Recent Meeting
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Seven Delegates  to , be  Chosen
To Represent Rouman'ta
At Model League
Common Room, January 12.�The
International Relations Clubs Con-
ference, held at Swa'rthmore last
week, was the subject of a meeting
of the Bryn Mawr I. R. C. Four
members, who had attended, spoke on
the discussions of the committees on
American Foreign Policy, the Far
Eastern Crisis, the*Gcrwuin Refugee
Problem and Europe.and International
Security, and criticized lack of in-
formation in certain cases.
Plans.for the remainder of the year
were outlined with reference to the
model league and a current events
contest on the radio.
President Laura Estabrook an-
nounced that in applying for a
country to represent at the Model
League of Nations in April, they had
been fortunate in receiving, in spite
of a late application, their first choice,
Roumania. The limitation of the size
of this country in no way detracts
from its interest. Haverford won
the prize last year in representing
Finland, which was more remote
from the centers of world interest
than is Roumania, particularly in
the light of the Drang Nach Osten.
Volunteers for the seven delegates
to attend the Model League and the
three to compete with Princeton on
the radio should giwe. their names to
Laura Estabrook before Midyears.
A current events contest over the
radio between three Bryn Mawr and
three Princeton delegates is scheduled
for February 12. Last year Bryn
Mawr defeated Swarthmore in a
similar contest.
At the conference of the Interna-
tional Relations Clubs were 200 dele-
gates from places as distant as In-
diana State University. The world
total of these clubs, backed by the
Carnegie Foundation, is 1100. The
Bryn Mawr delegates reported the
discussions of the three sessions.
Mary Brown, '42, criticized the
committee on American Foreign Pol-
icy as uncertain of what it was dis-
cussing. The chief issue was isolation
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Storrs Bares
Crucial State
of Palestine
Fenwick Disparages
Censorship  Rumors
Emphasizes    Relation   of   Lima
Resolutions to European
Peace .^Parleys
"I saw no sign on the part of the
Peruvian government to censor news
dispatches sent out by our delegation,"
said Mr. Charles G. Fenwick in an
nterview to the News following his
lecture on the Lima Conference. Re-
ports that papers of delegates had
been. searched are also, he believes,
greatly exaggerated. Whether pri-
vate newspaper correspondents had
encountered censorship or not Mr.
Fenwick was unable to say.
Returning to a subject which he
had banned to reporters at his lec-
ture, Mr. Fenwick said, "Throughout
the conference, my thoughts were on
Europe�on how to formulate agree-
ments at Lima which might offer a
basis for European settlements." Sev-
eral resolutions were purposely
phrased in universal terms, such as*
all nations," and "for world order."
When asked*"to discuss his experi-
ences In Peru outside of, the confer-
Continuod on Pace Two
Bequest to College
A bequest of 20,000 dollars
has been made to Bryn Mawr
College by Amalia F. Morse.
Her Will also provided for a
trust fund of 100,000 dollars to
be set up for Linda B. Lange,
�03, of Philadelphia. Dr. Lange
is Professor of Bacteriology and
Immunology at the Women'*
Medical College of Pennsjrlva-
nia.
Jewish   and   Arab   Opinions
Outlined With Reasons
For   Enmity
BRITISH PROBLEM^
IS RECONCILIATION
Goodhart, January 16.�In his leq-
ture on Palestine, Sir Ronald Storrs
reviewed the causes of dissension be-
tween Jews and Arabs in that coun-
try. Because of .the high official po-
sitions that he has held in Egypt, Pal-
estine, and Cyprus from the first years
of the war to the early 1930s, his com-
prehension of near eastern peoples
obtained by long contact with them,
and his speaking knowledge of both
Hebrew and Arabic, it would have
been hard to find a better informed
speaker on the subject than Sir
Ronald.                                          *
From the beginning he admitted
that his personal view was pro-semitic
in regard to the problem of Palestine.
He outlined the history, of the Zionist
movement from its birth in the brain
of the Austrian-Jewish journalist,
Herzal to the present-day organization
financed by Jews all over the world.
British cooperation, enlisted by war
services of Weizmann, a Manchester
chemist, was clinched by the "Bal-
four/ Declaration" in which Great
Britain promised to do all in her
power to help the Jews in Palestine,
provided that their establishment did
nothing to impair the religious and
civil rights of the non-semitic popula-
tion. Jewish immigration into that lit-
tle country of 10,000 square miles area
has reached enormous proportions.
Finally Sir Ronald referred very fa^
vorably to the hard work that the
Jews have done toward cultivation of
the land in a productive modern man-
ner, and the establishment of modern
qxport centers at Jaffa and Tel Aviv.
On the other hand he described the
bitter disillusionment of the Arabs
who had hoped that when rkf of the
Turks, the British would develop Pal-
estine for the Arabs as they had de-
veloped Egypt for the Egyptians. So
far as they could see the Jews had
no more right to Palestine than the
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Psychologists Test
'   Primitive Mentality
Music Room, January 10.�The
work which has been carried on in the
study of African primitive groups,
hitherto limited, is now, according to
Dr. Sherman Oberly, professor of
psychology at the University of Penn-
sylvania, being explored much more
extensively.                   �
Dr. Oberly lectured on the results
of his expedition into the African
bush country of Liberia; movies were
shown, illustrating the life of the na-
tives he encountered in that almost
impenetrable country and the type of
work they did.
He explained the methods used to
test psychologically the mentality of
the people. Their attention had first
to be attracted and their fear of con-
tact with strangers overcome. This
was. accomplished Jjy offering a cake
of soap to everyone who w*ou!d volun-
teer to be tested. Five hundred and
fifty cases were thus obtained before_
the end of the trip.
Intelligence tests were;�on the whole,
a complete ^failure. The reason for
this is not their lack of mentality but
their lack of understanding and
knowledge. Consequently the only
type of test which could be effected
was that which involved numbers and
number combinations. Age was not
taken into account except that the sub-
jects were put into rough categories
of childhood, maturity, and old age.
There is so little on which to base
a psychological test of an uncivilised
people that it is practically impossible
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