College News, 1943-03-24, Vol. 29, No. 20

              The College News
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VOL. XXIX, No. 20
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1945
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Bryn   Mawr  College,   1943       ^KH-C    IV   LC1XI3
Webster Relates
Staging Problems,
Acting Experience
Battle   Scenes,    Costumes,
Minor Roles Present
Difficulties
Goodhart, March 20.�The con-
veyance of the warm, human qual-
ity of Shakespeare's plays is the
task of the producer, stated Miss
Margaret Webster in her lecture,
Shakespeare: Alarums and Ex-
cursions. In a personal approach
to Shakespeare, Miss Webster re-
lated her experience as an actress
and then the various problems
which she has faced as a producer
of his plays.
Miss Webster's theatrical back-
ground brought her in contact
with Shakespeare's plays when
she was a small child. Later, the
experience gained acting in a
"pastoral tour" of England and
before unfashionable but discrimi-
nating audiences at the Old Vic
showed the full theater values of
Shakespeare. Her first directing
assignment, that of handling 800
women of Kent in the crowd
scenes of.Henry VIII, was an aid,
she said, in the later directing of
Richard II with Maurice Evans.
One of the difficulties of produc-
tion of this play arises from the
lack of individuality in the minor
characters, which must be devel-
oped by the director. In Henry IV
the problem is rather to contrast
the three strong main characters.
The insoluble problem of Shakes-
peare's battle scenes comes out in
Continued or  Pace Three
Moore Will Consider
Problems of Future
U. S.-Soviet Relations
"America and the Soviet Union
in the Post-War World" is the topic
to be discussed by Miss Harriet
Moore, Bryn Mawr, '32, at the third
war assembly, Wednesday, April
7, at 12:30.
Miss Moore began her study of
Russia soon after her graduation,
living in Russia and learning to
speak the language fluently. Dur-
ing her stay, she also gained prac-
tical knowledge about the internal
affairs of the country. She was in
Russia in 1934 at the time of the
assassination of Kirov. After her
return to this country, Miss Moore
worked for many years with the
American Russian Institute. She
was the executive secretary of this
group- and editor of the Ameri-
can Review on the Soviet Union.
She has recently joined the Insti-
tute of Pacific , Relations, which
deals with the whole question of
Far Eastern affairs,, including In-
dia, China, and the Philippines.
At Bryn Mawr, Miss Moore ma-
jored  in  Politics.    "Besides  being
("omnium  mi   rage  Foui
Elections
Self-Government Associa-
tion announces the election
of Diana Lucas, '44, as Vice-
President; Virginia Thomas,
'45, Secretary, and Elizabeth
Potter, '46, Treasurer.
Undergraduate Association
announces the election of
Anne Sprague, '44, as Vice-
President.
The Sophomore Class an-
nounces the election of
Yvonne Townsend, Vice-Pres-
ident, and Julia Turner as
Treasurer of Athletic Asso-
ciation.
Miss Bourke-White
To Talk, Show Movie
On African Situation
Margaret Bourke-White, first
accredited woman photographer
for the United States Army, will
lecture on The War with the
American Forces in North Africa,
in Goodhart Hall, Tuesday, April
13, at 8:30 p. m. This lecture, one
of her first since her return to this
country in February, will be based
entirely on her experiences, and
accompanied by her own movies of
the North African front.
As the first woman ever allowed
to fly in the lead plane of a bomber
squadron during an attack, Miss
Bourke-White has been able to
obtain some unusual pictures of
the fighting over the Libyan des-
ert. She left the United States
for England in the summer of
1942 to take over her duties with
the AEF. On her way to North
Africa, a few months later, her
boat was torpedoed, and she was
forced to abandon ship, losing
everything except her camera, her
cold cream, and enough film to
take complete pictures of the sink-
ing.
Miss Bourke-White is a leader
in the- comparatively new field of
photography, having travelled all
over the United States to produce
two documentary social surveys in
collaboration with Erskine Cald-
well. While working as staff pho-
tographer for Time and Fortune,
Continued on  Pase Three
18th Century Charm
Highlights Production
of French Club Play
Tuck, Laneres Give Excellent
Renditions; Able Direction
By M. Guiton
Specially Contributed
By   Barbara   Kauffman,   '43
The fluent French and excellent
staging of the French Club's pro-
duction   of   Marivaux's   "Les   Jeu
de  l'amour  et   du   Hasard"  offset
the usual difficulties confronting a
play given in a foreign language.
j The diction was authentic and the
I meaning   was   conveyed   more   by
| intonation than by acting.
Although the emotional level, in
| the main, rested at a low point,
' verging occasionally towards mo-
| notony, the long one-scene acts
were livened by a continual re-
! grouping of characters. An eight-
| eenth century charm was main-
| tained throughout.
Emily   Tuck   made   a   charming
Silvia, presenting the varied emo-
| tions of a spirited girl who enters
i an unconventional situation. Yvette
j Laneres as Dorante was an under-
I standing presentation of the cour-1
teous pseudo-valet who reluctantly
falls   in   love   with   his   disguised
betrothed.    Both hero and heroine '
were  distinguished   by   their  per- j
feet command of the language and
comprehension of their roles.
Mary Virginia More provided
individuality and humor in her de-
piction of a valet substituting for
his master. Her comic acting car-
ried conviction and was performed
with great finesse. Francoise Ple-
ven and Hanna Kaufmann played
their parts with enjoyment and
competence. Florence Senger's
rendition of Mario injected spirit
into a part which might otherwise
have remained inconspicuous. She
did not turn comedy into farce,
and her acting was always kept
within well-judged limits.
Although there was a sense of
nervous tension at the start, it was
quickly overcome. Unfortunately,
some lines were lost when the too
rapid delivery became inaudible.
M. Guiton directed the produc-
tion with unusual ability, which
was apparent in the artistic detail
of action and nuances of speech.
Proposed System of Wardens
Vetoed by Undergraduate Vote
Ration Cards
Students are reminded to
collect their ration cards at
the Comptroller's Office be-
tween 11 A. M. and 1 P. M.
on Thursday.
Hamilton Conference
Outlines Organization
For Post-War World
French Sailors Invade Campus, Inn, Greek's;
Find Jitterbugs, Sunday Studying Strange
By Ann Aymer, '45
The pseudo-calm that cloaks the
Bryn Mawr spring fever and exam
frenzy was disturbed the other af-
ternoon by the sound of "Tout va
tres bien, Madame la Marquise"
sung in the distance. Suddenly
through Pern Arch came some 20
French sailors, running and skip-
ping towards Taylor, accompanied
by some grad students and mem-
bers of the French House. A few
bespectacled, pig - tailed heads
emerged from smoking room win-
dows to see the unique sight of
"les marins" from the French bat-
tleship "Montcalm" picturesquely
posed on senior steps, having their
picture taken.
Ever since the "Montcalm"
docked in Philadelphia and its crew
met some of Wyndham's residents,
French sailors have become a com-
mon sight at Bryn Mawr. Stu-
dents are getting used to walking
In spite of the fact that "OK"
is virtually the limit of their Eng-
lish, the Frenchmen pop out occa-
sionally with an English sentence
like "It gives me pleasure of seeing
you" or "you are varrry beautiful."
They apparently learn the funda-
mentals of our own and every other
language from Government-issued
manuals containing certain coined
phrases.
When the sailors come to visit
the girls in Wyndham, they spend
most of their time playing French
records and walking around cam-
pus. The cloisters fascinated them,
because they thought that people
were buried under the plaques. The
library awed them and the idea of
students studying on Sunday
brought a burst of horrified groans.
They love America and are very
interested in everything. One sail-
or is going to Chicago just because
into the Inn and hearing a raascTT Tie  has   heard  so  much  about  it,
line voice ask the bewildered wait-
ress for "un verre d'eau, s'il vous
plait." The "Greek's" has wit-
nessed their amazement at Ameri-
can "zwing," and at jitterbugging
which they love to watch but can-
not do.
and he expects to be met at the
station by cowboys, Indians and
gangsters. They often comment
on the kindness of the Americans
towards them and are very appre-
ciative^�but, France is still first in
their affections.
Hamilton College, March 18-20.
Plans for a new world organiza-
tion based on the Atlantic Charter
climaxed the meeting of the model
United Nations Conference at
Hamilton College. Twenty-three
Eastern colleges took part and rat-
ified the report calling for a perm-
anent international legislature
with a police force at its disposal,
international development of de-
pendent areas, economic collabora-
tion and  disarmament.
The commission on political or-
ganization outlined a program in
which the emphasis fell on demo-
cratic procedures, provision for
peaceful change, and the posses-
sion of force to effect international
decisions. Representation in the
legislative body calculated on the
basis of national existence, popu-
lation, literacy, and an industrial
index was a novel feature, as was
a modified form of the cabinet sys-
tem for choosing the executive
council.
A permanent police force under
a military committee with power
to enforce the decisions of a World
Court comprised the main plans of
the commission on the enforce-
ment of peace. This police force is
apportioned on the same basis as
the representation in the legisla-
ture, and operates on a world-wide
basis.
The commission on world eco-
nomic integration provided for a
permanent world economic plan-
ning commission. It further re-
solved that nationally determined
import and export quotas be abol-
ished. An International Bank
functions as a developmental out-
growth of the Band of Interna-
tional Settlement.
The fourth commission, human
rights and their international
protection, failed to get its resolu-
tions ratified at the plenary meet-
ing. Russia and several other
powers felt that its provisions took
the management of purely inter-
nal affairs out of the hands of the
national governments. Lack of
time prevented the arrival at a
compromise solution.
Continued on Pane Three
Hall    Discussions    Follow
Petitions Expressing
Disapproval
Following a week of campus dis-
cussion the new wardening sys-
tem has been opposed by the stu-
dents by a vote of 268 to 112. The
Administration's plan, presented
at a mass meeting on March 15 by
Frances Matthai, was discussed
with the wardens at hall meetings.
Students were asked to vote for or
against an eight-weeks trial pe-
riod.
After the mass meeting two pe-
titions were circulated in the
halls. Signed by almost every stu-
dent to whom they were presented,
these statements expressed the
general campus disapproval of the
whole idea. In its place it was
suggested that some system of stu-
dent wardening could and should
be attempted.
Conferring with the Adminis-
tration, the officers of Self-Govern-
ment and the Undergraduate As-
sociation agreed that the students
should be asked to vote to signify
that they would be willing to coop-
erate with the new system for a
trial period after Spring vacation.
During this period such changes
as seemed necessary were to be
made. At the end of this school
year students were to vote again
on whether to continue the Taylor
system or try still another. This
formed the basis of the hall meet-
ing discussions preceding the vot-
ing.
Fellowships Awarded
To Rush and Tibbets
Alwyne Displays Skill
In Pianoforte Recital
Goodhart, March 23. � Mr. Al-
wyne's pianoforte recital on Tues-
day evening combined emotional
depth with technical power. He
showed himself equally capable of
meeting the exacting requirements
of Liszt's Weinen, Klagen, varia-
tions on themes by Bach, and of
rendering a Brahm's Cradle Song
with the utmost simplicity of ex-
pression.   �
In the first half of the program,
Busoni's arrangement of the Bach
Chaconne was particularly strik*
ing, the idiom of the violin being
the most convincingly adapted to
that of the piano. The Paganini-
Liszt Caprice, La Chasse, showed
an appropriate lightness of touch.
With the group of Brahm's com-
Continued on  P*�e F'.<ur
Goodhart, March 23.�The Fan-
ny Bullock Workman Fellowships
were awarded to Margaret Tib-
bets and Margaret Rush at the
graduate assembly'. The speaker,
Professor J. M. Cowan, Director
of the Intensive Language Pro-
gram, discussed Recent Linguistic
Research and Implementation in
the Unusual Languages. He em-
phasized that the United States
was as poorly prepared as possible
for actual warfare and such func-
tions as propaganda.
Margaret Tibbets, a fellow in
History, took her A.B. at Wheaton
in 1941 and her M.A. at Bryn
Mawr in 1942. Her thesis is en-
titled Political Parties under Oliv-
er Cromwell. Margaret Rush, fel-
low in Economics and Politics, re-
ceived her A.B. degree from Earl-
ham College in 1939 and her M.A.
from the Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy in 1940. The sub-
ject of her thesis is Repatriation
of Prisoners of War.
At the outbreak of the war, said
Mr. Cowan, there were in this
country only 50 students of Japan-
ese and of Malay, and none of
Burmese.
The aim of the American Coun-
cil of Learned Societies is ulti-
mately to produce implementation
in American scholarship in lan-
guages. The immediate aim is to
give service in the war effort. An
intensive language program is be-
ing planned in cooperation with
the government to train officers
and men in languages.
We regret to announce the
death of Dr. Henry Zimmer
on March 20. He was to have
given three lectures on Indie
culture.
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