College News, 1917-05-02, Vol. 03, No. 25

              The College News
Volume III.   No. 25
BRYN MAWR, PA., MAY 2, 1917
Price 5 Cents
BEAU BRUMMEL.   ACT
-THE BALL ROOM  AT CARLTON   HOUSE
BEAU BRUMMEL REMINISCENT OF LAST CENTURY
MISS CRANDALL REVIEWS JUNIOR PLAY
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Beau Brummel," a Four Act Play by Clyde Fitch.   Given in the Gymnasium
April 27th and 28th by the Class of 1918
Specially Contributed by
OR. REGINA K. CRANDALL
CAST
The  Prince  of   Wales   (Heir  Apparent  to  the
Throne of England).........Henrietta Huff
Beau  Brummel  (prince of dandles),
Virginia Kneeland
Klchard Brlnsley Sheridan  (playwrighti,
Mary (Jardlner
Reginald Courtcnnv  (nephew to the Benin.
Elisabeth Houghton
Mortimer (valet and confidential serrant to the
Beau)   ........................Buth Hart
Mr.  Oliver  Vincent  la  self-made merchant).
father of Mariana.........Lorraine Fraaer
Lord Manly (a fop)  ............Louise Smith
Mr. Abraham* (a money lender).
Penelope Turle
First  Bailiff  ................Margaret  Bacon
Second Bailiff  .................Annette (Jest
Prince's Footman  ................Mary Stair
Simpson  ( footman to Beau).....Helen Walker
The I niches* of Ijeainliigton.....Louise Hodges
Mariann Vincent............Helen Scbwmrs
Mrs. St. Audio  .............Jeannette Rldlon
Kathleen  (Irish maid of Mariana),
Frances Riiffum
Ladv Farthingale..........Mnrjorie Williams
A  French  lodging House Keeper.
Marjorie Mackenzie
Like "Patience", "Beau Brummel" be-
longs to the last years of the eighteen
hundreds when fin de siecle was the favor-
ite adjective and came so glibly off the
tongue that it persisted several years
after the turn of the century. Fin de
siecle meant effete, exhausted, possibly
perverse. The twentieth century was to
change all that.
And yet when "Beau Brummel" was
produced in 1890, Edwin Booth was still
playing and Augustin Daly had not yet
gone down before the syndicate. During
the decade to 1900 the playgoer might see
Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, Joseph
Jefferson, Helena Modjeska with Otis
Skinner, Richard Mansfield. Eleanors
Duse, and Sarah Bernhardt hardly past
her prime, besides other pleasant visitors
from France,�Jane Hading, He jane, (o-
quelin. Ibsen and Shaw crossed the
ocean: Mrs. Fiske produced "A Doll's
House", Richard Mansfield "Arras and
the Man", Gilbert and Sullivan continued
to provide innocent and delicious merri-
ment; Barrie appeared aa a playwright
with "The Professor's Love Story" and
"The Little Minister"; Pinero and Henry
Arthur Jones were established in favour.
A Boer War and a War with Spain could
not darken the sky.
Not altogether so bad a time in which
to begin to acquire a taste for the thea-
tre; or for the opera, with Nordica. the
brothers de Reike and Emma Calve!
"Beau   Brummel"   vanished   from   the'
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", "Prince Karl",
and "A Parisian Romance", in which as
Ilaron Chevrial he won his first success.
A revival of any of these is as unlikely as
a revival of "Rip Van Winkle". One and
all they had the same reason for exist-
ence, the opportunity they offer for virtu-
osity; an actor who should depart from
the traditional impersonations would
seem to commit a flagrant offense. These
ghosts of the eighteen-nineties do not
walk except in an amateur production.
Reminiscence could be active last Sat-
urday evening, because the performance
was exceptionally smooth. The other
characters in the play have no other office
than to exhibit and exalt the central fig-
ure; yet the impersonation was always
adequate and in some cases unexpectedly
interesting. Miss Gardiner, who at the
dress rehearsal took Miss Hart's place as
Mortimer, sustained the part creditably
and was particularly good in the last
Kcni'. Miss Mackenzie as Sheridan fairly
resembled the Gainsborough portrait,
and her brief appearance as the lodging-
house keeper was a neat bit of acting.
Miss Schwarz's Mariana was graceful,
sincere and commendably free from af-
fectation; Miss Ridlon's Mrs. St. Aubyn
was a delight to eye and ear; next to
Miss Kneeland, Miss Hodges deserves
praise for a consistently spirited Imper-
sonation of the Duchess of Leamington
and a most contagious and malicious
laugh. The two Bailiffs were models of
frlghtfulness.
Miss Fraser had probably the most un-
grateful part In the play, that of Mr. Vin-
cent. Only a born comedian could have
continued to "wobble" plausibly during
the Beau's Interminable soliloquy. Miss
lloughton, who acted the part of Regi-
nald, the Beau's nephew and Mariana's
lover, had to find compensation In a pic-
turesque costume and a somewhat over-
v. h.'inent action for lines of insuperable
dullness and sentimentality. Miss Huff
deserves credit for not attempting a more
realistic portrayal of the Prince.
Reminiscence found sustenance through-
out the course of the play; In the pres-
ence of Miss Kb�land's "Beau Brummel"
TRACK MEET GOES  TO  1917
H. Harris for Third Time
is Individual Champion
SIX B. M.'S AWARDED
1917, with 27 points over 1919, won the
track meet last Saturday. 1919 won sec-
ond place and 1920 won third. The
seniors' success was largely due to the
spectacular performances of H. Harris,
individual champion and holder of the In-
dividual track cup now for the third year.
Miss Harris won three of the six B. M.'s
awarded this year in track. Two II. M.'s
went to M. Scattergood "17, and one to A.
Stiles '19. winners respectively of third
and second places in the Individual cIihiii
pionship. A B. M. is given in track for
breaking or equaling a record, or win
ning one of the three places in the indi-
vidual championship.
H. Harris, winning first place in six
events, made 44 points for her class and
broke by two Inches her last week's rec-
ord of 31 ft. 11 Vs in. in the hop. step, and
jump. She failed to break her last walk's
record of 4 ft. 4V4 in. in the running high
jump. G. Hearne '19 won second place
in this event, with the prettiest jumping
seen on the field
(Continued on page 3. column 1)
WILL   SPEAK   ON   "QUAKER   IDEALS"
Authority    on     Mysticism    This    Year's
Founder's Lecturer
stage with the death of Mansfield, as did           (Continued on page 2. colume 2)
To-night Rufus M. Jones, Professor of
Philosophy and Psychology at Haverford
and Chairman of the Board of Directors
at Bryn Mawr, will deliver the annual
Founder's lecture at eight o'clock in
Taylor.    His subject Is "Quaker Ideals".
Founder's lecture is arranged yearly
in memory of Dr. Taylor by the dtNetnn
of the college. A member of the Society
of Friends is always the speaker in order
to give the students some Idea of the
Friendly principles. Four years ago, in
1912 '13, Dr. Jones spoke on the same oc-
casion on "Four Quaker Innovations"
The lecture was not given last year.
History of Mysticism, Or. Jones' Field
On the history of mysticism I'r Tones
is the highest authority in this country.
and. on some phases of the subject In the
world. In his lecture to-night he will
touch upon the mystical element ' in
Quakerism.
SENIOR PRESIDENT
IS "SUNNY JIM"
M. O'Shea Wins Essay Prize
MAY DAY AUDIENCE HEARS
SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDKD
Constance Sidney Hall, senior pi.si
dent, was applauded as "Sunny Jim" by
an enthusiastic May Day audience yester-
day morning in chapel when President
Thomas announced her the winner of the
Mary Helen Ritchie Prize. The first
George W. Childs Essay Prize went to
Monica Barry O'Shea '17 and the second
to Janet Grace '17. Thirteen undergradu-
ates scholarships, four to 1918, five to
1919. and four to 1920. were announced:
SCHOLARSHIPS
James E. Rhoads Junior Scholarship
Helen Prescott, 82.797.
James E. Rhoads Sophomore Scholarship
Marie Litzlnger. 89.931.
JUNIOR SCHOLARSHIPS
Anna Hallowed
Helen Corcene Earns, 78.022.
Thomas H. Powers
Enid   S.  MacDonald, 77.333.
Mary E. Stevens
A. M. Snavely.  74.800.
Special Maria Hopper of $150 from Extra
Fund
E. M. Howes. 73.177.
SOPHOMORE   SCHOLARSHIPS
Mary Anna Longstreth
A   F.  Preston. 79.448.
1st Maria  Hopper
J. N. Cochran. 79.034.
2nd Maria Hopper
M. M. Dent. 77.793.
SENIOR  SCHOLARSHIPS
Anna  M.  Powers
Marian  ()' onnor.  77.293.
Brooke Hall Memorial
Margaret <'. Tlmpson, 87.28.
Special  Simpson Scholarship
Ella Mary Rosenberg. 81.42.
Elizabeth    Ouane   Gillespie    Scholarship,
in American  History
K. T. Sharpless, 78.233.
NATIONAL  HYMN   BY
DR. DE LAGUNA GIVEN TO 191t
Dr. de Laguna has presented to the
class of 1918 a national hymn of which
words and music have both been com
posed by him. The music, arranged
for two parts, .was compo���.! >ears ago,
but the words have just been written