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Wit and Skill
Mark Enters'
Performance
Ridiculous,  Tragic  Mimes
Depicted With Equal
Dexterity
By Jane Nichols, '40
Goodhart, October 26.�Angna*
Enters' performance went a long
way toward living up to her en-
thusiastic press notices. As a solo
entertainer she has an uncanny
ability of becoming a variety of
personalities that keep the audi-
ence continually alert and appre-
ciative.
Particularly delightful was Miss
Enters' flair for the ridiculous. It
is the keynote of such pieces as:
American Ballet, Artists' Life, Oh,
the Pain of it, and Field Day,
which succeed in being funny as
well as true to life. Her dance
with an imaginary partner in
American Balleds extraordinarily
clever.
In her more serious moods Miss
Enters can be infinitely sharp-
sighted, as in Time On My Hands,
and Vienna Provincial. Vienna
Provincial was the more convincing
of the two, and succeeded by the
use of original subject matter
where Time On My Hands failed
in employing the rather banal com-
parison of the rich and poor. Queen
of Heaven was the most disappoint-
ing of Miss Enters' numbers. It
is the most stylized thing that she
does and consists of a series of
beautifully studied appropriate
gestures, done much too fast. The
feeling of the Madonna is lost in
a maze of swooping arms and
draperies.
As a Spanish boy-cardinal Misi
Enters reaches new heights. The
brilliance of all her Spanish por-
Contlnued on Page Three
LATIN PRODUCTION
NEARS COMPLETION
CALENDAR
Friday, November S.�Sen-
ior-Freshman party, scaven-
ger  hunt, Gymnasium,  7.30.
Saturday, November i. �
Lrtin   Play,  Goodhart,   8.20.
Sunday, November 5. �
Philosophy Club, Mortimer
Adler speaking, Common
Room, 4.30. Spiridion N.
Marinatos speaking in Dean-
ery, 4.30. Chapel, Rev. John
Suter, Music Room, 7.30.
Tuesday, November 7. �
Current Events, Mr. Fen-
wick, Common Room, 7.30.
Art Club Revived
By New Instructor
,The Art Club has over 30 mem-
bers this year, studying under their
new instructor, Mr. Pasquale Bat-
taglia, who also teaches in the Phil-
adelphia public schools. For the
first time Art Club members have
an opportunity to learn theories of
color and perspective, as well as to
practice watercolor, sketching from
models both nude and costumed,
sclupture and painting.
Four or more exhibitions in the
Common room are scheduled this
year. The first, in early December,
will come from the Rosenwald
print collection. Among the artists
represented will be Daumier and
Blake. The Art Club is hoping to
get an exhibition of originals from
the Museum of Modern Art later
in the year.
Dissimilarity of Twins
Main Problem of Play
The Latin Play, whose name we
are unable to do justice to because
of the deficiencies of the printing
press, will burst forth in all its
glory on Saturday night. We pre-
dict that it will be vastly successful.
At present, the proceedings are
shrouded in a certain amount of
mystery, inasmuch as the director
is confronted with the problem of
making "the boys," i. e. Riggs and
Ferrer, come somewhere near re-
sembling each other. The solution
of this seemingly insurmountable
problem is being guarded in the
deepest secrecy and we are con-
sumed with curiosity to see the out-
come.
From what we can gather, the
scenery will consist of the yellow
velvet curtains peculiar to Good-
hart, and the white fluted columns
peculiar to the Latin Play. The
costumes, it seems fairly safe to
say, will be little short of magni-
ficent.
A dramatic touch is being given
to the production by V. French, '42,
who has stepped into P. Copeland's
shoes at the proverbial last minute.
The dress rehearsal will .be on
Thursday night.
The President�
At the recent meeting in
New York on October 27,
Mi�s Park was elected chair-
man o' the College Entrance-
Board for the coming  year.
Alwyne Describes
Dance Ceremonies
I       Of Bali Islanders
Music Room, October 31 � Mr.
Alwyne of the Music Department
presented a short lecture about the
island of Bali to provide a better
understanding of the Balinese Bal-
let which will be in Philadelphia
on November 3 and 4. The talk
was illustrated by slides and col-
ored movies of the island.
Drama forms an important part
of the ceremonial of Balinese reli-
gion. Shadow plays and dancing
are very popular. The dances are
stylized and familiar to every na-
tive. The Chief dance is the Legong,
performed by children up to 12
years of age. Their training, which
is very rigorous, starts when they
are about four years old. Their
bodies are wrapped with yards of
bandage to keep erect and over
these very beautiful and elaborate
costumes are worn. The Legong
interprets a story well-known to
the island people.
The Kebijar is danced by a
young man in the center of a
square made by the orchestra. His
Continued on Page Four
Play Given
Of Education
In Democracy
Union Girls, Maids, Porters
fain With Students
In Production
Music, Food, Energy
Characterise   Dance
Gymnasium, October 28.�The
Bryn Mawr League presented to-
night to its Bryn Mawr and Haver-
ford public, the second square dance
of the season. Decorations were
modestjy Hallowe'enian; refresh-
ments consisted of cider and cook-
ies. Christian Sanderson's orches-
tra, graced this time by two femi-
nine members, furnished music
while Bill Harm called the figures.
Though fairly small in number,
the company was both eager and
energetic. There were few formal
intermissions, but the dancers
proved undaunted, remaining en-
thusiastic even in the strenuous
waltz which was requested for the
last number of the evenipg.

LIVING NEWSPAPER
fECkNIQUE SHOWN
By Joan Gross, '42
Education and Democracy proves
the effectiveness of the Living
Newspaper as a medium for pre-
senting political and social prob-
lems and suggested the possibilities
of spotlight technique in dramatics.
It was a successful beginning; it
calls for further work arid experi-
mentation in the same field.
The play was sponsored by the
Players' Chib, the Industrial Group,
and the A. S. U. The coordina-
tion of three such goups ^ts the
maids and porters, the undergradu-
ates, and the neighborhood union
members was an accomplishment in
itself, while their purpose, enthusi-
asm and spontaneity lent the per-
formance an unusual emotional
appeal.
The scenes illustrating the strug-
gle for free public schools, negro
and workers' education, were all
varied and .entertaining, especially
when Kristi Putnam raced around
the gym balcony announcing "I'm
Harry Hopkins, I'm a very busy
man," with Mary Kate Wheeler as
Hilda Smith pattering after her.
Mary Kate's dramatic slide down
the    fire    pole    was    a    triumph.
The maids did a magnificent job
with negro education. The scene
in which the doctor refuses to visit
;he Wgro section of town was mov-
ing and unexaggerated. and Hilda
Green's appeal to a college dean
for admittance to medical school
proved one of the most convincing
speeches of the play. The workers
rom the Industrial Group pre-
sented a clever and effective scene
which utilized the spotlight tech-
nique to its full advantage. They
stood in a row, representing a belt-
line, their arms moving to the pre-
Contlnued on Page Four
f News' Tryouts
All sophomores who wish
to try out for the News are
asked to come to a short
meeting in Goodhart, on
Thursday, November 2, at
1.30 p. m. There will be
fewer articles assigned ana
greater choice given than
formerly, and most of the
tryouts will be provisionally
accepted to work on the
News for a few weeks be-
fore the final selections are
made.
Program Proposed
By Industrial Group
Gymnasium,. October 27.�After
the Living Newspaper play, the In-
dustrial Group held a meeting to
plan its proceduifc for the year. It
was decided to devote the first
semester to health and the second
to propaganda.
The next meeting, on November
15, will be given over to housing,
nd the two following meetings to
a study of workers' health prob-
Vms. The group hopes to have as
^uest speaker Dr. Alice Hamilton,
a specialist on Occupational Dis-
eases.
The meetings for the rest of the
year will center on propaganda.
The Industrial Group will coop-
erate with the International Rela-
tions Club, which has chosen the
same topic for its main study of
the year.
New Variety
Of Courses
Giveti Maids
Assembly  Outlines
Place  of Education
In Our Government
Goodhart, October 27.�In the
second college assembly of the year.
Education in Democracy was dis-
cussed by Miss Park, Miss Mc-
Bride, and Miss Jean Carter, head
f the Hudson Shore Labor School.
Anne Louise Axon, president of the
Undergraduate Association, giving
reasons for the choke of subject,
said that in the present state of
the world it is necessary for us to
re-examine the fundamental con-
cpts of our government and de-
termine the strength of its foun-
dation. Education is, of necessity,
one of its strongest pillars.
Miss Park, speaking on education
and democracy at the college level,
pointed out that our years at col-
lege constitute "a small rehearsal
for democracy." The implications
of democracy are not connected
with college life or curriculum, but
with the fact that we are at the
point of voting.
Democracy, continued Miss Park,
is often confused with some form
of oligarchy or even with anarchy.
Democracy is not liberty, but the
power of the people. As members
of a privileged group it is our
business to see that that power
is fully understood and spread.
Continued on Pas* Three
Dt. Adler To Hold
Address On 'Faith'
�> At Philosophy Club
Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, Associ-
ate Professor in the Law School
of the University of Chicago and
Visiting Lecturer under Scott Bu-
chanan at St. John's in Baltimore,
will address the Philosophy Club on
Sunday, November 5, at five o'clock,
in the Common Room. The subject
of his paper will be Faith and
Reason.
Dr. Adler'?  ,wn pnilosophy is in
the traditior  ol Aristotle and St.
TVmas Aquinas.    Miss M. J. Mc-
Campbell, president of the Philoso-
hv Club, considers Dr. Adler's ad-
'ress last year on the subject of
'Plurality   and   Logics"   the   best
>aper that has ever been read to
he PI ilosbphy Club.    In it he de
clared that there is only one logic.
;ut below that one there are many
logic*, each built upon and arising
from the particular system of each
:nilividual   philosopher.
Mr.  Adler  has  written   several
books, among them, Dialectic; Art
nd Pi itdence, Und What Man Has
Made of Man.
Racial   Problems   Studied;
Biology,   Languages,
Poetry  Taught
The idea of classes for the maids
and porters is not a new one. Yet it
has always an experimental quali-
ty, and this year's program gives
evidence of fresh interests and pos-
sibilities. There is an unusual va-
riety of new classes, almost all of
them in subjects requested by the
maids and porters, and taught by
undergraduates who are interested
in their respective fields.
The problems and history of the
negro race are being discussed with
a large group by Bess Lomax, '41.
Although it had'beeh first planned
as a historical survey, the maids
have asked for a study of contem-
porary social conditions of the ne-
groes, involving some explanation
of the background and history of
the present problems. This will in-
clude anthropology as well as pure
history, and will demonstrate the
fact that the negro race must face
the same general social, political,
and economic problems that con-
front other members of society in a
less intensified form.
The glee club, the dramatic club,
and the gymnasium classes in bas-
ketball are always popular and af-
ford much-needed opportunities for
relaxation and social recreation to
both maids and porters.
Because of their obligations to
speak in churches or clubs several
maids requested this year a class in
public speaking. This is being
taught by Mavis Dunlop, '41, and
Continued on Page Four
ACTIVITIES   DRIVE
OVERSHOOTS GOAL
Peace Council, Summer
School    to    Get    Extra
S. Marinatos Plans
Archaeology Talks
On November 4 and 5. Dr. Spiri-
don N. Marinatos, head of the ar-
chaeological section of the Greek
Ministry of Education and profes-
sor of prehistoric archaeology at
the University of Athens, will give
two lectures. The first lecture will
be on Cretan Cults and Minoan
^Survivals in Religion in the Com-
mon Room at 4.30 Saturday after-
noon, and the second on Dr. Mari-
natos' excavations at Thermopylae,
will be at 4.30 in the Deanery.
Dr. Marinatos is the most dis-4
tinguished Greek archaeologist in
the field of Cretan excavation. He
was the head of the museum in
Crete for a number of years, and
has carried on excavations at vari-
ous other sites.
The Activities Drive made 4,-
533.35 dollars, topping their goal
by a wSde margin. The amount of
money which exceeded the alloted
budget will be put to use by such
organizations as the Peace Coun-
cil, the Summer School and a spe-
cial fund to cover campus emer-
gencies.
Some of this fund has already
been used to cover the cost of the-
Latin play, so that no admission
need be charged.
Miss Park, who gives 200 dollars
every year to the Summer School,
donatei t'is amount to the Activi-
ties Drive to be used for the Sum-
me- School. The faculty and the
-r: duates also Cooperated, and
every resident of Radnor made
some contribution, if only ten cenjs.
Th? halls which  reached or ex^"
ceded their quota are: Wyndham,
Pembroke   West,    Rhoads   North,
Rhoads   South,   and   the   German �
House.
A committee was formed to ad-
min i ter the funds consisting of:
Kristi Putman, Rhoads North, El-
len Stone, Rhoads South, Alice
Crowder, Pembroke East, Susie In-
galls, Pembroke We&t, Mabel
Faesch, Denbigh, Ann Cambell,
Merion. Representing campus or-
ganization are: Susan "Miller, the
Summer Camp, Nancy Howard,
the Bryn Mawr League, Helen
Cobb, the Summer School, Eleanor
Emery, Players' Club, Emily
Cheney, the News. This committee
elected a executive body headed by
Charlotte Hutchins and including
Vivi French, Chris Waples, Anne
Louise Axon and, Louise Morley.