College News, 1941-03-12, Vol. 27, No. 17

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VOL. XXVII, No. 17
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH  12, 1941
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn   Mawr  College,  1940
PRICE 10 CENTS
Markham Tells
How to Soothe
Visiting Ministers
Pyramids, "Italian   Counts
Have   Figured   Luridly
In Her Past History
When we went tn see Ginny
Markham, the new president of the
Bryn Mawr League,, we found her
stretched out on the sofa reading,
appropriately enough, a chapter of
Saroyan's, entitled "The Presby-
terian Choir Singers." She prob-
ably could have given Aram some
pointers, for as head of Chapel
Committee during the past two
years she has had a good deal of
experience along ministerial lines.
Visiting preachers who arrive with
splits in their coattails have had
the garment whisked away from
them and neatly darned, and rec-
tors' rubbers which get left be-
hind are filled with lollipops and
sent home to them. The last time
Ginny tried this trick, however, the
parcel got heated on the way, and
the minister was unable to remove
his rubbers for days and days.
In spite of her urbane appear-
ance, Ginny hails from Wisconsin.
She was educated at Concord Acad-
emy, where she was head of the
House Committee and of the Satur-
day Club. This job entailed plan-
ning picnics and excursions, but
usually ended up by Ginny's wash-
ing all the dishes, late at night.
Ginny spent what must have
been a hectic year abroad. She
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Indian Exhibit Shows
Gay, Brilliant Coloring
Ceremonial and Animal Scenes
- Are Two Main Categories
Specially contributed
By   Adeline   Mills,   '41
The exhibition of Modern Indian
Paintings loaned by Mrs. Margar-
etta   Stewart  Dietrich,  '03, which
j is hanging on the second floor cor-
ridor of the Library, is'pecularily
interesting in that it shows the ef-
fect of modern technical training
on the art of a comparatively
primitive race. The project, fos-
tered by the Bureau of Education
of the United States Indian Serv-
ice and by the Indian Arts and
Crafts Board, is being carried
on in various western schools
for the Indians, and repre-
sents a number of widely sep-
represents a number of widely sep-
arated tribes. The differences in
expression, however, seem to be in-
dividual rather than tribal, and it
i is evident that the same conscious-
ness of foreground design and bril-
liant flat color, already innate in
the race, has been encouraged in
every case. As patterns with very
little modeling, these watercolors
are delightful, but the technical
limitations of their creators make
for a certain monotony. It is inter-
esting to discover reversions to the
south-western sand-painting qual-
ity, as well as a fairly consistent
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Millay Play Efficiently Directed by M. Daly;
Irish Play Affords Producers  Less  Scope
Forum to Consider
Academic Problems
By Olivia Kahn, '41
Goodhart, March 8.�The ladies
Gregory and Millay were feted by
the members of Players Club to-
night. Both were given a pretty
good reception, even though" Lady
Gregory's Rising of the Moon was
shrouded in darkness so great that
those who were doing honor to her
name could scarcely be seen.
Aria da Capo, a fantasy by Edna
St. Vincent Millay, was whipped
into shape in a surprisingly short
time by Madge Daly, '42. It af-
forded pleasing contrast between
the light careless banter of Pierrot
and Columbine, and the grim spec-
tacle of Death astride a cannon
Cueing two shepherds engaged in
a dangerous game. At least one
face new to campus productions
emerged, that of Margaret Hol-
land, '43, who played the role of
Corydon with unusual clarity and
simplicity. Although she appeared
at moments to be slightly nervous,
Miss Holland is an actress Players
Club should keep an eye on in their
future productions.
As Pierrot and Columbine, Eileen
Durning, '41, and Jacqueline Block,
'44, were charmingly callous, their
speech on the whole being better
under control than their actions.
With more time the scene might
have been better paced. Miss
Durning gradually wanned to her
role and her performance was
somewhat better at the end of the
play than when the curtain first
rose. Virginia Nichols, '41, was a
convincing  Thyrsis,  and  although
the role of Phyllis Wright, also '41,
was. comparitively minor, .with the
aid of ingenious makeup she made
her presence very strongly felt.
All in all the play was successful
through the cooperation of director,
actors, and scenic designers.
Somewhat less satisfying was the
production of The Rising of the
Moon. The responsibility for this
lies in the fact that the play does
not really afford sufficient oppor-
tunities for its producers to test
their mettle. Unquestionably Vivi
French, '42, did a fine job of di-
recting but the audience was left
with the uneasy feeling that the
play might have been given almost
as well with only a few hours of
rehearsal and small effort. The
fact that the stage was so dark
was, I believe, a serious fault, for
much of the detail of the acting
was thereby lost.
Julie Follansbee, '41, was excel-
lent as the hero, strolling around
the stage with what appeared to be
complete confidence. Her voice,
piercing through the fog onstage,
was attractive, whether singing or
speaking, and her movements were
well controlled.
The sergeant, Mary Chadwick,
'44, and the two policemen, Mary
Ellis, '44, and Ann Denny, '43, did
fairly well, although their parts did
not allow for much range in talent.
Perhaps it is heresy to tread on
sacred ground, but might we sug-
gest the Irish theatre be given a
rest for a while?
Vice-Presidents
For   Undergrad
AssV Announced
Dethier,    Crowder,    Resor
Named as Candidates
For Office
The Junior class has nominated
Margot Dethier, Alice Crowder and
Helen Resor for vice-president of
the Undergraduate Association. .
These candidates will be voted on
by the college next Monday.
Margot Dethier
Margot Dethier is a candidate for
vice-president of the Undergrad-
uate Association. She is the second
Junior member of the Association
and therefore is chairman of the
Dance Committee; she is also on
the Freshman Guide Committee
and the Entertainment Committee.
For three years she has been in
the choir and she has also been
Freshman and Junior song mis-
tress. In hfcr Freshman year, she
was the Duchess in the Gondolicru
and as a Sophomore she was the"
Fairy Queen in lolantlie. For
three years she has been on thi
basketball squad. This year she
is basketball manager.
'News' Elections
The New 8 takes great
pleasure in announcing the
following elections: Editor-
in-Chief, Joan Gross, '42.
Copy Editor, Alice Crowder,
'42. News Editor, Sally
Jacob, '43. Editorial Board,
Barbara Cooley, '42; Alice
Crowder, '42; Ann Ellicott,
'42; Joan Gross, '42; Sally
Jacob, '43; Agnes Mason, '42;
Lenore 0'Boyle, '43. Business
Manager, Elizabeth Gregg,
'42. Advertising Manager,
Celia Moskovitz, '43. Promo-
tion Manager, Betty Marie
Jones, '42.
On Thursday, March 13, at 7.30,
in the Common Room, the Curricu-
lum Committee will hold an open
forum to which all faculty and
students are urged to come. The
j topics of the meeting, chosen for
[their general interest, will be:
j Pro and Con Thanksgiving, Long
Paper-itis, Midyears^-Do We Need
Them?, and Are Quizzes Too Im-
portant? They will be presented
for discussion by members of the
committee, and the sense of the
forum will be referred through the
committee to the faculty. Sugges-
tions are requested, and it is hoped
that this meeting will lead to
general thought among under-
graduates about the problems of
curriculum.
New AA President
Shows Avid Desire
For Salads, Plenaria
Farmers' Market Offers Verdant Wares,
But Farmers Remain Romantically Silent
By Agnes Mason, '42
Scrapple and spring flowers,
Mennonite bonnets and hard head-
ed business men, we found, but the
human interest stories that we ex-
pected to gather at the Farmers'
Market weren't forthcoming. The
farmers don't think they are quaint
and don't invite questions other
�than those pertaining to sales.
They are agreeable but busy.
You don't get familiar with a
Pennsylvania Dutchman right off
the bat and you don't violate his
business ethics with personality
questions. (Even a News reporter
at 6.30 A. M. can sense this):
Lancaster Swiss cheese sells at 32
cents a pound, and for 15 cents
you can buy a bunch of narcissus.
The white-painted booths on which
the produce is displayed rent at
two fifty a day. Generally more
than one section is required and the
fresh vegetable and egg man had
10 dollars worth. Although they
came from the south, his tightly
bunched asparagus and ripe toma-
toes had a hand-grown quality dis-
Chris Waples, the new president
of the Athletic Association goes to
bed at eleven-thirty and gets up at
seven-thirty. This would immedi-
ately classify her as an exceedingly
normal individual were it not for
the fact that she is inordinantly
fond of lettuce. She has been
known to have eaten as many as
four salads at a single meal.
She was discovered poring over
Biology notebooks, very uninter-
ested in being interviewed. "Gas-
tcrostomum fimbriatum," she mur-
mured faintly staring at the fresh-
man show cloud hanging over her
desk. "... Plenaria�it's the
problem of regeneration," she went
on disconsolately, and opened a
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Duties   Announced
For Vice-President
Of Self-Government
associated from their chain-store
contemporaries. This same unso-
phisticated appearance clung to the
greenhouse sweetpeas. In the win-
ter, grocery store vegetables gener-
erally look as if they'd suffered, and
flowers from a florist, seem dissi-
pated, but all the produce at the
Farmers' Market was young and
optimistic�a most exhilerating
sight.
�   It is axiomatic that homebaked
bread   has   romantic   connotations I
but did you realize that the same is ;
true of 20 unbroken feet of coiled i
sausage?     Has   your   spirit   everj
kindled  to  corn   meal  mush  that
looks like marble when ousted from
its pan, or your heart leapt up iG
the  sight  of  spices  hanging  like
weeds from a.stringl   What about
an orange pierced and completely
hidden  by  cloves, unpopped corn,
and unroasted chestnuts?
Why does a Pennsylvania Dutch-
man keep himself to himself so
much, or is it that the secret of
preserving his local color? He
certainly cannot be compared in
volubility with an. A. & P. clerk. \
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Calendar
Thursday, March 13.�
Curriculum Forum, Com-
mon Room, 7.30 P. M.
Saturday, March 15.�   .
Basketball   vs.    Rosemont,
Gym, 10 A. M.
Square-   Dance,    Gym,    8
P. M.
Sunday, March 16.-�
Art Club Exhibit and Tea,
Common Room, 4.30.
Monday, March 17.�
Vocational Tea, Katherine
Gibbs'    School,    Deanery,
4.30 P. M.
Tuesday, March  18.�
Anna   Howard   Shaw  Me-
___morial   Lecture,  Dr.  Ruth
Fulton Benedict, Anthro-
pology and the Social Bases
of Morale, Goodhart Hall,
8.30 P. M.
Non-Resident    Tea,    Com-
mon Room, 4.30 P. M.
. Current Events, Miss Reid,
Common Room, 7.30 P. M.
The vice-president of the Self-
Government Association attends
executive board and hall president
meetings. Whenever the president
is absent, the vice-president must
take over her duties. The vice-
president is automatically a per-
mission-giver and is one of the
three senior members on the board.
Questions covering everything from
policy to the freshmen handbook
are discussed by the president and
the vice-president and by the board
as a whole. Naturally the vice-
president must work in close coop-
eration with president.
Alice Crowder
Alice Crowder is a candidate for
the vice-presidency of the Under-
graduate Association. She is treas-
urer of her class for the second
year in succession. In her sopho-
more year, she was chairman of
the Publicity Committee of the
Bryn Mawr League; she was
sophomore member of Undergrad,
Peace Council representative for
the Art Club, a burly slave in the
Latin play and part of the crowd
in Bartholomew Fair. She is a
member of the Art Club and of the
Players Club and has appeared in
the Gondoliers and Iolanthe. She
will also be in Pirates of Penzance.
During both sophomore and jun-
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Grass, Alas!
When the snow melts,
please do not walk on the
grass. It is having a hard
enough struggle for existence
as it is, without being tram-
pled by the pitter-patter of
heedless feet.
Glee Club Practices 'Pirates of Penzance;
Luckv Ladies Will Sing in Haverford Show
By Sally Jacob, '43
Gilbsrt and Sullivan rule su-
preme. This year the Glee Club
has decided upon the Pirates of
Penzance" to vie with the French
oral for honors on the week-end of
April 26. Moreover the female
characters (unhappy male chorus!)
are going to combine with the
Haverford boys and give a joint
production the followinjrnveek-end.
Mr. Alwyne and Mr. Willoughby
have charge of direction and mu-
sic respectively; all parts have been
assigned; serious rehearsals are
under way. To a few very recently
accepted pirates they are not only
serious but also bewildering. Set-
tling back proudly as members of
Glee Club at last, the prospective
buccaneers enjoyed Mr. Willough-
by's enchanting trills on the piano.
Then suddenly a rousing ha! ha!;
ho! ho! completely startled them
out of their composure. Glancing
anxiously at their scores, they fin-
ally found the n6tes of daughter,
but by- theti  their comrades were
singing about � their vegetable
knowledge. After furiously flip-
ping the pages for half an hour,
the pirate recruits had learned
when to contribute a weak ha! ha!,
ho! ho! only two beats behind the
others. Louise Allen, Carla Adelt,
Margot Dethier and the other old
troupers are not particularly con-
cerned ye�* Oiiiiij Jhwn.....i*il InTists
that the Major-General's song is
not as difficult as it sounds "to
those who have to listen," and she
certainly has not been practising
nearly so vociferously as has her
understudy.
Having been pushed ahead a
week�the German oral and the
Geology Field Trip were a bit too
much competition�this year's op-
eretta is of necessity rapidly shap-
ing up. The men's and girl's chor-
uses are meeting together already.
The principal parts are as fol-
lows:
Mabel  ..........Louise Allen, '42
Edith ...,......Mary Rambo, '43
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