College News, 1944-04-19, Vol. 30, No. 22

              The college News
VOL. XL, NO. 22
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA.,  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1944
Copyright,   i iii�i-.i of
BrVn  M�wr Collrvr. 1944
PRICE 10 CENTS
Emily Kimbrough
Tells Experiences
OfHollywoodTrip
Limitations of Movie World
Discovered by Kimbrough
And Skinner
Goodhart, April 14. Miss Ejoily
Kimbrough, noted author and pub-
licist, presented a lecture on her
adventures and discoveries in her
recent trip to Hollywood to aid in
the production of Our Hearts Were
Young and Gay. On the advice of
her publishers, Dodd, Mead, Miss
Kimbrough made "subtle but fre-
quent reference" to her recent
book We Followed Our Hearts to
Hollywood, from which many of
her anecdotes were drawn.
Miss Krmbrough found the foi-
bles of Hollywood excitements
manifold and various. The whole
adventure began, she explained, in
Cornelia Otis Skinner's office in
New York, where Cornelia, Corne-
lia's husband, and Miss Kimbrough
were expecting a telephone call
from Hollywood. The call finally
came through, and Hollywood ask-
the two authors to "follow our
hearts" to the center of the mo-
tion picture world, to assist in the
filming of Our Hearts Were Young
and Gay.
Miss Kimbrough's instant reac-
tion was "yes." Miss Skinner si-
multaneously  said "no."
"Why not?""said Emily. "Don't
you think it would be a wonderful
experience?"
"Yes," said Cornelia darkly, "I
do. But things always happen to
you." Miss Kimbrough argued
firmly that they were too old to
have things happen to them, and
under pressure Miss Skinner gave
in.
When the adventure was well
under way, Miss Skinner proposed
a startling thought. "Have you
any idea how to write a treatment
or scenario?" she said. "Why, no,"
replied Emily. "Don't you know?
You've been in the theatre for
some time." Cornelia drew herself
up and said, "Never confuse the
theatre with the motion picture
world."
They found, upon arrival, that
Miss Skinner's warning was well
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Calendar
Thursday, April 20
Marianne    Moore,    Deanery,
4:30.
Sofia   Novoa,    Spanish   Club
Tea,  Common  Room, 4:30.
Sigma   Xi,   Cecilia  Gaposch-
kin, Stars and Nebulae, Dal-
ton, 8:30.                     4
Concert: Folk Musicians from
the Virginia Mountains, Rob-
erts Hall, Haverford, 8:00.
Political Discussion Group,
Mr. Yahkuib, Common Room,
8:00.
Friday,  April 21
Charley's Aunt, Roberts Hall,
Haverford, 8:30.
Maids'   and   Porters'   Show:
Gems, Gowns and Gals, Good-
hart, 8:30.
Saturday, April 22
Charley's Aunt, Roberts Hall,
Haverford,  8:30.
Sunday, April 23
Chapel:  The Reverend  Percy
Urban, Music  Room,  7:30.
Tuesday, April 25
Current      Events,     Common
Room, 7:15.
Mr. Berry, Human Nutrition-
al Deficiencies, Dal ton, 8:15.
William Henry Chamberlin,
Japan's Historical Inherit-
ance, Roberts Hall, Haver-
ford, 8:30.
Wednesday,  April  26
Non-resident    Tea,    Common
Room, 4:30.
Spanish Club Invites
Galician, Sra. Novoa,
To Give Songs, Dance
Sofia Novoa, refugee from Spain
and folk music expert, has been
invited by the Spanish Club to
sing Spanish songs and to teach
folk songs and dances in the Com-
mon Room on Thursday, April 20,
at 4.30 P. M.
Well-known in Madrid as a
pianist before the war, Miss No-
voa, a native of Galicia in the
north of Spain, has been interest-
ed in folk music all her life. In
this country she is teaching folk
music and dancing at Vassar, and
at Middlebury  in the summer.
In Spain, Miss Novoa was a Di-
rector of Residence for women
students at the International In-
stitute of Educations. This Insti-
tute, now taken over by Franco,
was the first of its kind in Spain.
Pseudo-Charley's Aunt Plays "Mairzy Doats"
In 1890 Scene in B. M.-Haverford Production
by Darst Hyatt, '47
"You don't know me�I'm no or-
dinary woman!" warns Lord Fan-
court "Babs" Babberley who, plus
a fan and a falsetto, impersonates
Charley's aunt, Donna Lucia
d'Alvadores "from Brazil where
the nuts come from." Played by
Charles Ryrie, '46, the pseudo-
Donna Lucia is the cause of spicy
and hilarious situations in Bran-
don Thomas's comedy, Charley's
Aunt, which will be given on April
21st and 22nd at Haverford Col-
lege by the Cap and Bells Club,
assisted by the Varsity Players.
"Look at me, I'm a disgrace to
my sex", mourns poor Babs whose
trials include being kissed by af-
fectionate young girls and propos-
ed to by mercenary old gentle-
men. Faced with pouring tea, he
calmly pours into the hat of one
of his suitors and proceeds to
stir. Realizing his mistake, he
pours the tea back again with
equal  calmness.
In  spite of the gleeful remark,
"What devils we women are!" pos-
ing as^one of the fair sex begins
to tell on poor Babs. He seeks
consolation in a cigar. Blissfully
he sucks in a deep breath of smoke,
only to be interrupted by the real
Donna Lucia (Katharine Colvin,
'46), who turns up incognito at the
crucial moment and casually res-
cues four separate  love affairs.
The scene is laid af" Oxford in
1890, and charming Victorian cos-
tumes are being made. The pro-
duction is guilty, however, of a
couple of anachronisms. The fake
Donna Lucia, when seated at the
piano, offers either Beethoven or
Boogie-woogie, and at another mo-
ment asks one of the girls to sing
"that charming little ballad
'Mairzy  Doats.'"
Great difficulties face th<? stage
crew: the three acts each require
a change of scenery. Estelle Mor-
rison, '45, assisted by Marce Gross,
'47, and Jean Kelley, '47, is re-
sponsible for some very handsome-
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Alumnae Contribute
Rare First Editions,
Ancient Manuscripts
The exhibit which is now on
display in the Rare Book Room
includes both rare first editions of
the seventeenth century, and man-
uscripts of high value dating as
far back as the ninth century, all
contributed to the college by alum-
nae and their relatives during the
year 1943.
Outstanding in this exhibition
are the Latin and Greek manu-
scripts. The "Tractus Varii," six
Latin manuscripts of the twelfth
and thirteenth centuries, are the
gift of Mrs. John Dozier Gordan
(Phyllis Walter Goodhart, '35).
Made on vellum, the manuscripts
are panelled in blue morocco with
the Arms of the fourth Duke of
Newcastle on the upper cover. A
collection of forty-one fragments
from fifteen Greek manuscripts in
two volumes, dating from the
ninth to the fourteenth centuries,
are the gift of Mr. Howard Leh-
man Goodhart, whose wife and
daughter are both Bryn Mawr
alumnae.
Another Gift
Another gift of Mr. Goodhart is
the early fifteenth century Phil-
lips manuscript, "Eusebii et Auor-
um Epistolae" of Vita Sancti Mar-
tini, with illuminated initials and
original boards that were covered
in the early nineteenth century
with red velvet. This codex be-
longed at one time to the Rever-
end Henry Drury, who was Lord
Byron's master at Harrow. On the
fly-leaf is a note in Drury's hand:
"I consider this a very curious
monkish volume.    1823."
Also on exhibition is an early
sixteenbh century manuscript of
Pierre Mesenge de Rouen, "Sainct
voyage pour visiter le Sainct Sep-
ulcre . . . ". This work, on Gothic-
tooled vellum binding, is included
in this showing because it was the
first manuscript of the group ac-
quired by the library. It was giv-
en in March, 1942.
Among the books being shown,
the edition of Shakespeare, pre-
sented by Mrs. Alba Boardman
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Dr. Payne-Gaposchkin
To Talk on Astronomy
Mrs. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin,
eminent English scientist, will dis-
cuss "Stars and Nebulae" in Dal-
ton at 8:30 on Thursday, April 20.
The lecture is being sponsored by
the Sigma Xi, an honorary scienti-
fic organization to promote scien-
tific research.
A National Reserve Council fel-
low, Mrs. Gaposchkin received her
B. A. at Cambridge in 1923 and
her Ph.D. at Radcliffe in 1925. Her
work on the chemical composition
of the sun's atmosphere won her
the distinction of being the first to
handle the subject systematically.
At present she is doing research
on variable stars at Harvard ob-
servatory.
Common Treasurer
There will be hall meetings
in every hall Thursday evening,
April 20, to discuss and vote
on the Common Treasury and
the resulting changes in the
constitution. It is hoped that
as many people as possible will
attend as a two-thirds majority
is needed to carry the vote.
Indian Society, Religion and Thought
Form Subjects of Yahkub Lectures
Yahkub Discusses Relation
Of Indian Philosophy
To Real Life
Goodhart, April 12. "No tribe
exists which has not had religion",
said Mr. Thomas Yahkub in his
lecture, Landmarks of Indian Re-
ligion and Thought, the second in
a series of lectures on Indian Cul-
ture.
Tracing the principles involved
in the development of religion, Mr.
Yahkub said that it arose as man's
natural response to his environ-
ment, the very necessity for self
preservation which he possessed
in common with animals. Through
his very dependence and insuffici-
ency, man develops a religion de-
termined by what he desires from
the "powers" and what he thinks
of them. The second great prin-
ciple is the desire of all men to
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Oppenheimer Shows
Place of Drugs, Food
And Bacteria in War
Yahkub Says Better Society
Purpose of Caste System
In India
Dalton, April 18. "Successful
prosecution of the war involves
the development of both military
and civilian personnel, since sol-
diers and civilians are both physi-
ological machines," stated Miss
Oppenheimer, in her discussion on
"Bugs, Butter, and the Blitz"
Tuesday evening.
Miss Oppenheimer, assistant
professor of Biology, treated the
nutritional maintenance of the or-
ganism as the "butter" part of her
discussion. "In order to handle
problems of nutrition one must
know how foods are handled by
the organism, what foods are nec-
essary, and the chemical constitu-
ents of them," Miss Oppenheimer
explained. Work carried on in ex-
perimental stations by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture has been very
beneficial in spreading information
concerning nutrition.
The "bugs" part of Miss Oppen-
heimer's    discussion    dealt    with
germs and microorganisms related
to them.    Treatment for diseases
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Goodhart, April 17. Delivering
the third of his lectures on Indian
culture, Mr. Yahkub discussed The
Web of Life in India. Declaring
that one half of the world is based
on foundations which India sup-
plied, Mr. Yahkub described the
social pattern in which Indian life
moves, and the -purpose of the
caste system.
Indian society is based on "con-
stant intuition of the unity of life
and the recognition that it is the
greatest good." To grasp the
meaning of life and to order it in
accordance with its fundamental
truths is the ideal of Indian phil-
osophy, considered by Mr. Yahkub
the greatest of India's gifts to the
world.
Life Mr. Yahkub described as a
curve, whose outward contour is
characterized by the temporal
quality  of  self-assertion, and   the
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development. Because Indians be-
lieve the soul is in the grip of
these two curves, they consider
self-assertion an inevitable part
of life, not an evil, but a youthful
tendency.
Belief in  Heredity
The Brahmin believes that even
the ideal society must provide op-
portunities for the fulfillment of
desire, Mr. Yahkub stated. They
believe that society should be rul-
ed by an intellectual and spiritual
aristocracy. Another of their be-
liefs is that of heredity, from
which is derived the caste system.
The art of craftsmanship is passed
from father to son, and each suc-
cessive generation continues the
duties of the caste into which it
is born.
The principal behind the caste
system, Mr. Yahkub said, is that
each man should perform a single
duty in society and not attempt to
perform the functions of others.
Indians believe that it is a natural
law that left to itself the ego as-
sumes its natural place, and social
ambition is to be eschewed.
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"I'll Be Back When 1 Get Some Pants", Ends
Mysterious Plot of Gems, Gowns and Gals
by Nicole Pleven, '47
Nobody was splashing scarlet
paint in Goodhart tonight. Nobody
was swinging perilously from the
ladders. I heard no cries of splin-
ters and nails, although there was
something about not sitting on the
sacred sets of the Mikado. In fact,
the stage seemed relatively calm
until the famous Maids and Por-
ters cast of Gems, Gowns and Gals
started to sing the glories of fem-
inine beauty, preparatory to their
performance in Goodhart on Fri-
day night.
The Gals are courageously fac-
ing the man shortage which has
hit even the campus. Taylor's
Pearl and Pembroke's Minnie, it
seems, are partners in crime in a
setting of extravagantly-gowned
mannequins, while Ezra, a porter
in disguise, waves a fan with all
the grace of a New York matron
fussily choosing a dress for her
daughter's coming out party. But
watch for the final "I'll be back
when I get  some  pants."
Combining elements of Sherlock
Holmes detectivery and disguise
upon disguise, with much of musi-
cal comedy thrown in, the story
decides whether the involved lov-
ers will live happily ever after. It
all appears to depend on what is
in the hem of a certain sapphire
dress�prize item of the design-
er's collection, not to mention the
ingenuity of the disguised manne-
quin and her disguised customer.
Evening gowns, the family jew-
els, wax figures, and no les.- than
'a cannon" serve to complicate
matters and eventually foil the
villain.
Nicky, French House's pride, is
both effective and a heroine. In
the musical line, Al from Denbigh
has fortunately recovered from a
sore throat to sing with' Nicky a-
romantic duet. Louise, Dorothy
and Evelyn are keeping up the
standards of singing well - known
to all of us since Christmas caroll-
ing, but dancing and remodelling
are new   featured   attractions.
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