College News, 1919-03-05, Vol. 05, No. 19

              The College News
Volume V.    No. 19
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH &, 1919
Price 5 Cent*

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FRESHMAN  SHOW
VARSITY PLAYS OFFER VARIETY
OF EFFECTS
C. Skinner "Rosalind" SUr�Color
In  "Merry  Death"   Symbolic-
Scenery Artistic in "Maid
of France"
CLEVER LINES AND FEW CHORUSES IN FRESHMAN SHOW
Many  Solo   Parts Tax  Amateur   Talent�League  of   Nations   Pageant
Introduces Brilliant Costumes�Blue Tiger Newest Member of
Bryn   Mawr   Menagerie
Dramatic variety, ranging from sym-
bolic color schemes to realistic character
interpretation, will be offered in the three
Varsity plays on Friday and Saturday
evenings. Each play has been produced
under the direction of a separate stage
manager, and all coached by Mrs. Patch,
who coached the Varsity play last year.
Dorothea Chambers '19 has been acting
chairman of the Varsity Dramatics Com-
mittee for Angela Moore '19, who was
away on account of illness.
New Start in Vivid "Merry Death"
Vivid color effects, like those of Leon
Bakst, will be worked out in lighting ef-
fects on the draped scenery and in the
costumes of the harlequinade, The Merry
Death. Fire is suggested by the black
and gold of Harlequin; the lemon and
orange of Pierrot; and the candle flame
costume of Columbine, which will be
flame color, shading to gray-gold.
Miss Babcock, graduate student, who
takes the part of Pierrot, has travelled
with the Minnesota Players, of the Uni-
versity of Minnesota, during Extension
Week, playing Minnie in Pinero's Sweet
Lavender. The play was acted each
night In the country theatres of Hi I If
towns, or even In barns.
For Death, Helene Zinsser 20 has com-
posed her own dance to the Russian
Valse Triste, played by the Varsity or-
chestra. The orchestra plays also for the
dance of Columbine, Sidney Belville '18.
and Harlequin, Bertha Ferguson "21. Miss
Ferguson was Mistress of Dramatics at
Rosemary Hall, where she played Shy-
lock in The Merchant of Venice. Colum-
bine's songs will be sung behind the
Bcenes by Theodosla Haynes 'If.
C. Skinner  Has  Interesting  Part
Cornelia Skinner '22, daughter of OUs
Skinner, plays the title role in the char-
acter play. Rosalind. The part of the
tired middle-aged woman in sloppy carpet-
slippers, who later reveals herself as the
radiant actress-Idol of the day, offera an
opportunity for finished acting- Miss
Skinner took the leading part last urn-
Mr In "The Thirty Piecee," which ahe
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Cast
Annassa.....................A. Orbison
Km i akalo.....................J. Burges
Kale ...........................L. Grim
(Three New Yorkers spending a war
summer and carrying on corre-
spondence classes.)
Peter......................E. Anderson
Pierre ......................P. Norcross
Pledro ..........................O. Pell
(Three heroes of the front, patients
in a hospital for the heart-shocked.)
A Blue Heart Nurse........S. Kirkbrlde
(Matron of the hospital for the heart-
shocked.)
A Christian Ass...........C. LaBoiteaux
Gondolier.....................M. Krech
Venetian Girl ...............K. Haworth
French Artist  ..................P. Smith
Model  ..........................F. Bliss
English Girl.................J- Yeatman
A Reporter..................M. Rawson
Museum Keeper.............M. Kennard
Inmates   of   the    Museum�E.    Hall.   8.
Hand, E. Donohue. C.  Skinner.
Freshman Show Committee�C. Skinner,
chairman; E. Anderson. V. Liddell.
Refreshing frankness and an apt sense
of humor in regard to college institutions
distinguished 1922's Freshman Show,
given last Saturday night. As to plot,
following the tradition of musical com-
edy, "there was nothing in it," "Halls of
Fame" relying rather on a rapid Are of
repartee and well-written songs.
1'nlike former Freshman shows, 1922's
did not end with the rather abrupt intro-
duction of the blue tiger, their class ani-
mal, but closed instead with a well-
executed pageant of the League of Na-
tions.
The costumes, professional in both col-
oring and design, were as a whole un-
PRESIOENT    THOMAS    DOING    WELL
The operation which President Thomas
underwent at Johns Hopkins Hospital
last Wednesday was very satisfactory,
and her surgeon. Dr. Halstead. assures
her that she will feel very neat relief as
a result, and that walking will be made
easier for her.
Miss Thomas's operation Is the comple-
tion of one begun a number of years ago.
Ha purpose Is the restoration of muscular
tissue which   became contracted as the
usually good, notably those of the farm-
erette, the aviatrix. and the men. The
songs were well chosen and to the point,
but the quality of the voices did not war-
rant the number of solos and duets. In
the dancing, V. Wurlltzer showed excep-
tional grace and skill.
The first act featuring the Long Island
war garden dragged considerably, in spite
of the success with which the three in-
genues, particularly J. Burgess, imitated
the leading lady of musical comedy. As
the French officer, P. Norcross managed
to put personality into a slight part.
When the Christian Ass with his flex-
ible ears had lured the three war workers
to the roots of the tree of knowledge In
"a region below the earth." the interest
of the show increased at once. Anassa's
trial by Are in an atmosphere of unquali-
fied redness gave an opportunity for a
clever take-off of Sophomore sleuthing by
K. Stewart. The scarlet moth chorus of
this act was the most effective of the
show. Following this, the syncopated
scene in the museum furnished a back-
ground for a collection of college hits,
the cleverest of which was ('. Skinner's
interpretation of the "T-shirt air." As
one of the many encores demanded of
her, Miss Skinner gave a comprehensive
survey of the "Red Tape Department" at
Bryn Mawr. S. Hand, lamenting "My
mind is going, see it went," depicted the
daxed victim of First Year Composition.
The anti-climax In the third act, in the
palace of dreams, which had  little con-
nection  with  the rest of the play,  was
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VACHEL LINDSAY CHANTS
AND ACTS IN POEM
RECITAL
Gives Fcur Programs in Twenty-four
Hours � Audiences  in Taylor,
Model School and Rockefeller
Join  in  Refrain
result of a burn received when she was a
child.
"LITTLE GRANDMOTHER" TO SPEAK
HERE
Madame Catherine Breshkovskaya, the
"little grandmother" of the Russian Rev-
olution, will speak here on March 15th.
under the auspices of the History Club.
Madame Breahkovaky, a terrorist In the
days of the Tsar, who has spent half her
life in prisons and exile. Is now touring
the Cnlted States.
Poetic theories of a new school were
demonstrated at Bryn Mawr last Friday
and Saturday by Vachel Lindsay, Ameri-
can poet and imagist. Mr. Lindsay, se-
cured by the Graduate Club, chanted his
poem games with the Model School chil-
dren on Friday afternoon. In the eve-
ning and again on Saturday morning he
read and acted from his poems in Tay-
lor.
Defining college singing, "the rhyme
and metre that gives joy," as nearer to
poetry for democracy than the more con-
servative poetry, Mr. Lindsay opened his
evening program of longer poems with
the "Calliope Yell." His audience chanted
refrains under his direction as he read
"Daniel Jazz" and "John Brown," In
which the liberator is represented aa
judging the world from Palestine.
Animal poems, "The RighteouB Kitten"
and the "Mysterious Cat," began the eve-
ning entertainment.    "The Moon,.....rhe
Grasshopper,"   and  "The  Lion   in India"
(as an encore) were read at the close.
Has  Studied the Negro
"The Congo," a long poem which gives
its name to one of Mr. Lindsay's volumes,
he described as a serious study of the
negro, his savagery, his hope of religion
and his irrepressible high spirits. "The
negro has a religious rather than poetic
genius in his singing." said Mr. Lindsay,
"and bis religion must be a mass re-
ligion." The third section of the poem
was written in memory of Ray Elder, a
missionary to the Congo.
'The Santa Fe Trail." written on a
tramp through Kansas, was chanted
among the longer poems, as well as "Gen-
eral Booth Enters Into Heaven," a poem
written to the cadence of the Salvation
Army hymn. "Are you washed In the
blood of the Lamb?"
Two Lincoln poems concluded the pro-
gram. One of them. "Abraham Lincoln
Walks at Midnight In Springneld. lilt
nola." written In August. 1�14, Is re-
printed In the "Treasury of War Poetry."
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