College News, 1919-11-25, Vol. 06, No. 09

              The College News
Volume VI.    No. 9
BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1919
Price 5 Centa
Pkato by Rolft
'ROSEMARY'
RED BANNER HANGS ON GYM
1921 Wins Final Game 4-2 From 1922
Battering down the Sophomore de-
fence, Captain Warren's team carried
its banner on Monday to the final vic-
tory of the year, with a score of 4-2,
having won with the same score last
Thursday.
At the outset C. Bickley led her for-
wards down to the 1922 goal, where
K. Walker shot two goals in quick suc-
cession. Not even during the last on-
slaught did the Red defence slacken--
each individual member living up to
her best "form.
Spurred on a score of 4-0, two min-
utes before the whistle blew the Sopho-
mores showed the aggressive spirit that
they had hitherto lacked and shot two
goals in quick succession. H. Guthrie,
'22, did good defensive work for her
team.
Line-up: 1921�E. Cecil*, L. Beck-
with�, C. Bickley, K. Walker**, D. Mc-
Bride, E. Newell. E. Cope, J. Peyton,
M. P. Kirkland, M. Warren, K. Wood-
ward; 1922�A. Orbison, E. Finch*, O.
Howard*. P. Norcross, M. Tyler, F.
Bliss, H. Guthrie, J. Palache, R. Neel,
G. Rhoade.
"Prunella"  A  Week from Saturday
Marguerite Clark  Once  Starred  in  Play to
Be  Given  by  Graduates
"Prunella, or Love in a Garden," a
fantasy in three acts, by Laurence
Housman and Granville Barker, will be
presented by the graduate students on
Saturday evening, December 2.
The play was first given at the New
York Little Theatre in 1913, with Mar-
guerite Clark and Ernest Glendinning in
the leading roles. It was reviewed at
the time in the Theatre Magazine as "a
particularly pleasing and poetical offer-
ing."
The action of the play takes place in
the English garden of a quaint nine-
teenth century farmhouse, where Pru-
nella lives, guarded by her three maiden
aunts. Prim, Prude and Privacy. Into
the retreat comes Pierrot with a troupe
of mummers, each symbolic of some
folly of the age. Pierrot paints for
Prunella the world as it really is, woos
her, and carries her away.
After three years of married life Pier-
rot wanders off. is miserably lonely, and
returns only to find that Prunella has
disappeared. He hires the old cottage
in the garden and comes back with his
ragged companions, once the gay mum
mers Prunella returna in despair and
is treated contemptuously by the mum-
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"ROSEMARY" REMINISCENT OF  EIGHTEENTH   CENTURY
DONNELLY REVIEWS SOPHOMORE PLAY
MISS
"Rosemary," a Four Act Play by Louis N. Parker and Murray Carson,
Given in the Gymnasium November 22d by the Class of 1922
SPECIALLY CONTRIBUTED   BY  PROFESSOR LUCY  MARTIN DONNELLY
CAST
Sir Jasper Thomdikc.............Cornell* Skinner
Professor Joream..................  Mane Willcoi
Captain Cruickahank R. N.......Octavia Howard
William Westwood................Emily Anderson
George Minifie.........................Prue Smith
Abraham..........................Katherine Peek
Stiltwalker..........................Elisabeth Hall
Waiter.............................Barbara Clarke
Mrs. Cruickshank....................Serena Hand
Dorothy Cruickshank.................Jane Burges
Mrs. Minifie......................Catherine Rhett
PriaciUa..............................Emily Burnt
Producer�Cornelia Skinner
Stage Manager�Vinton Liddell
Business Manager�Marion Rawson
Rosemary, a Victorian play, absurdly,
delightfully Victorian�was revived on
Saturday evening by the Class of 1922
for an enthusiastic audience. The piece
was well chosen, well cast and produced
with a harmony and interplay among the
actors that did great credit, both to
them and to their coach, Dr. Savage.
The least satisfactory part of the per-
formance was probably the staging and
the furnishing. The waits were long
and a Victorian illusian created only in
the first act, where the long-tailed coats
and top hats of the gentlemen, the bal-
loon skirt, big bonnet and tiny slippers
of the eloping heroine and much talk
about a wrecked barouche and a mud-
hole of a road needed only the setting
of a broken carriage wheel against a
woodland background. Later, in the
breakfast and coffee-room scenes, more
attention to detail was wanted, and Vic-
torian furniture, such as was found for
The Admirable Crichton in 1918, could
surely have been had without too lavish
expenditure of energy and money. The
costumes, on the other hand, were
throughout charming, and the lighting
of the stage owed much to Miss Haupt's
skill.
In the tale of the actors Miss Skinner
as Sir Jasper Thorndyke was the out-
standing success. She played the first
three acts with spirit and charm and
finish, with Victorian distraction and
sentiment, and looked the very contem-
porary of the Prince Consort. She was
really of the period when "tight-waisted
whiskered beaux and keepsake beauties
adored each other with a leisure, a re-
finement and dismay impossible at other
dates." Rut it was in Act IV andI its
contrast to the foregoing that M.ss
Skinner1* power showed. As nonoge
n.nan her quavering decrepitude, vague
sweetness, half forgotten reminiscence
and sudden irritability was a most ac-
complished piece of acting. Remember-
ing her parents the audience was not
surprised by the distinction of Miss
Skinner's performance, but none the less
wholly delighted.
The other chief parts had been work-
ed up to a point where it is per.haps un-
just to name one before another. They
one and all had individual merits. As
Dolly Cruickshank Miss Burgess* role
was second in importance and difficulty
to Miss Skinner's and much of her act-
ing gave pleasure to her audience, in
particular appealing "Will-y-um" in
Maude Adams' tradition, and her very
pretty reading of her diary. Her co-
quetry, however, was probably too mod-
ern and obvious. Miss Burgess seemed
not to realize that Victorian young la-
dies broke manly hearts in complete in-
nocence and ignorance of what
they were doing. Only in her goodby
to Sir Jasper did she show real feeling
and imagination for the part and win
the sympathy of the audience for her
"cruelty".
Miss Anderson as West wood looked
the role extremely well and acted with
ability. Particularly good was her sud-
ten turn of anger in Act III. Miss An-
derson's destiny on the Bryn Mawr stage
seems to be that of unhappy lover, and
we hope to see her in the part again and
again. Captain Cruickshank, who "had
been with Nelson." also could hardly
have been better cast. Miss Howard
was delightfully burly and big-voiced and
unmanagably managable. The comedy
of her bluster and her bad throat she
rendered capitally. The Captain's wife,
Mrs. Cruickshank. gave Mis* Hand an
opportunity for character acting of which
she made admirable use Her playing of
the liveliest bits was remarkably good
and deserved special praise among the
achievements of the evening. Miss Will-
cox, as Professor Jogram. on the other
hand, had the very thankless part of
foil to Sir Jasper�and of dry-as-duft at
that'�a role that she sustained very con-
sistently.
Among the minor characters, a word
wants to be spoken for Miss Peek's Ab-
raham. Miss Burna't gay little Priscilla.
and Miss Hall's enunciation as the stilt-
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MAY DAY WINS HUGE MAJORITY
Proceeds WiU Go to Alumnae Drive
May Day will be given next Spring
for the benefit of the Endowment Drive,
according to a vote of 329 to 24 taken
at a joint meeting of graduates and
undergraduates yesterday.
This will be the fifth May Day given
at Bryn Mawr. The last was in 1914.
The fete which would have fallen in
1918 was given up in favor of more di-
rect war work.
The organization of May Day com-
mittee, etc., will be taken up immedi-
ately after Thanksgiving.
HUGH WALPOLELPROVES A
SKILLFUL RACONTEUR
Recounts Well Chosen Anecdotes of
Life in London and Russia
Conversations with Arnold Bennett
and Henry James and adventures in
war-time Russia were among the rem-
iniscences with which Mr. Hugh \\ al-
pole, British novelist, held a delighted
audience  last   Thursday.
Warning his hearers at once that they
would learn little about his ostensible
subject, "Creating a Novel," Mr. Wal-
pole divided his life into three periods,
the "early English or unconscious," the
"pre-war literary London period" and
the years spent in Russia during the
war.
"According to Arnold Bennett," laid
Mr. Walpole, "the moment a novelist is
born he is done for. However, I attrib-
ute my starting to write to a bad mo-
tive. From the age of eleven I longed
to make the family sit up and think
me  a remarkable  person."
"I happened to spend my youth in a
Ioiir succession of cathedral towns, and
that early atmosphere of my school days
lingers more actively than any other. It
seems hard lines that in a novelist the
same background should be always
cropping up. He can never escape the
ghosts of his youth."
Mr. Walpole described with enthus-
iasm the years previous to the war spent
in Chelsea in a circle of young writers
and artists. "It was a wonderful time
in the literary world." H. G. Wells'
best work was appearing and there was
great excitement over Bernard Shaw
and his plays.
Describing his first meeting with the
late Henry James. Mr. Walpole told
how to his embarrassment the great man
presented him with an extraordinary top
hat lined with red silk and insisted that
he wear it home "Mr James," he Matte*
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