College News, 1943-11-24, Vol. 30, No. 09

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VOL. XL, NO. 9
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA.,   WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1943
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Granville-Barker
Interprets Skill
Of Shakespeare
Critic Explains Relationship
Of Elizabeth Stage
To Technique
Goodhart, November 23. Shakes-
peare's skill in using the materials
of the Elizabethan stage, and the
art with which he interpreted the
moral and physical realms to his
audience were discussed by Harley
Granville-Barker last Tuesday. He
examined Shakespeare's use of the
bare stage and the consequent em-
phasis on the actor and the poetic
language.
The bare Elizabethan stage dic-
tated the whole technique of Eliz-
abethan plays, said Mr. Granville-
Barker. He pointed out that it
gave the writer freedom for a
panoramic play, since it could take
in all action. The location in some
scenes could be left undetermined;
in others, a single observation was
sufficient to stamp the setting on
the audience's mind. Shakespeare
was free in plays such as "A Mid-
summer Night's Dream" and "The
Tempest" to suggest his atmos-
phere by vivid scene painting.
The Actor
In Elizabethan drama, Mr.
Granville-Barker stressed, the ac-
cent was laid wholly on the actor
and his acting. The fact that boys
played women's roles in no meas-
ure affected Sharkespeare's con-
ception of his feminine characters.
It affected the angle of presenta-
tion only, but had positive as well
as incidental advantages. The ro-
mance of the great love scene in
"Romeo and Juliet" is not in the
least impaired even though a boy
played Juliet.
Once he had created Shylock and
Palstaff, Shakespeare became ab-
sorbed in the portrayal of charac-
ter, first as involved in outward,
and then in inward, conflict. The
audience's acceptance of soliloquy
Continued on  Page  3
Mysterious Origins
Of Disputed Statue
Solved by Carpenter
Common   Room,   November   18.
The statue of the Esquiline Venus
has baffled all attempts at proper
dating, said Mr. Rhys Carpenter,
at a meeting of the Philadelphia
Society of the Archaeological In-
stitute. Explaining the mystery
of the "Amazing Venus," Mr. Car-
penter pointed out that an archaic
head of the fifth century was im-
posed on a copy of an Hellenic
Venus.
The statue, found on the Esqui-
line Hill in Rome, is a female
nude, a Roman copy of a Greek
original, in the formal style of the
fifth century, B. C. This, state-
ment, however, is self-contradic-
tory, Mr. Carpenter said, for in
this period there was a rigid ta-
boo against the depiction of the
female nude.
Statue Examined
Examination of the head of the
statue leads one to date the statue
at about 420 B. C. But at this
time the Greek sculptor neglected
female anatomical detail complete-
ly, placing all emphasis on drap-
ery.
The taboo on the depiction of
nudes was first relaxed in paint-
ing, said Mr. Carpenter, where
the figures lacked the authority
and dignity of marble or bronze.
In introducing the first sculpture
resulting from this trend, the ar-
tist originally produced female
nudes only when he had a justifi-
cation.
Among the first complete nudes
is the Cyrene Venus. A Roman
copy, it reflects an early Hellen-
istic prototype of the late third
century, when the public had been
gradually educated to the appre-
ciation of the art of the nude for
its own sake. In relation to this,
Mr. Carpenter pointed out that the
original of the Esquiline Venus
which is of the same period as the
Cyrene one, would seem to be
placed at approximately 150 years
later than it had been originally
dated.
Continued on Ptge 3
Denbigh Wabbits and Pembroke Hot Shots
Tie After Clash in Terrific Hockey Match
By Darst Hyatt,  '47
Denbigh Wabbits "with super
hockey habits" and Pembroke
"hockey hot shots" fought fur-
iously last Sunday afternoon for
the hall championship to the ac-
companiment of frenzied rooting
by their respective cheering sec-
tions.
Gaping Denbigh hung out of
their windows to stare at the res-
plendent citizens of Pembroke "all
dressed up on Sunday afternoon."
Pembroke's ideas as to suitable at-
tire for a hockey game ranged all
the way from Lucia Hedge's pa-
jamas to Bobby Rebmann's gaily
flowered, strictly abbreviated, and
glove-tight shorts.
The Wabbits, more soberly clad
in dark blue sweaters and dunga-
rees, paraded down to the field
lustily cheering "the girls who
make the beer in the cellars of old
Denbigh Hall." Pembroke popped
out from behind the bushes, march-
ed around the field, singing "Oeath,
Oh Death, This Is Thy Sting."
After much repartee on the side
lines, the most bitterly contested
hockey match of the season com-
menced with a goal for the Wab-
bits. Defending the Denbigh goal
against the furious sallies of Pem-
broke's star center forward, Reb-
mann, Captain Scribner played
center half. "The grand old women
of hockey," Pistol St. Lawrence,
Mary Sue Chadwick, and Ginny
Belle Reed, overcame their anti-
pathy for physical exertion and
fought for the honor of dear old
Denbigh side by side with such
veterans as Marge Richardson,
Trudy Macintosh, and Jane Hall.
Pembroke's eleven, composed
mainly of Freshmen and boasting
an all-fullback forward line, af-
forded fierce competition with
Miss Pleasonton, Nancy Bierwith,
and Rose Bateson holding off the
Denbigh juggernaut of varsity
players.
Each minute the game waxed
more and more desperate and with
the score a 2-2 tie, the players all
but used their hockey sticks as
weapons. Shins and heads were
bashed quite as often as the ball.
The fourth quarter ending in a
draw, a five minute play-off was
agreed upon. In spite of Hercu-
lean efforts on the part of both
the dark blue and the pink-and-
green-and-red-and purple, the tie-
breaking goal was not scored, and
both halls staggered off to Pem-
broke for tea where their rivalry
was forgotten in a song fest of
Christmas carols.
Alliance to Sponsor
Newspaper Lectures
Given by Professors
A four-day course, entitled "A
Study of the Press", will be giv-
en, starting Monday, November
29 by Miss Robbins, Mr. Miller,
Mrs. Cameron and Mrs. Anderson.
Sponsored by the Alliance, the lec-
tures will be held in the Periodical
Room of the Library from four to
six. The course is open to every-
one, with no distinctions as to class
or major subject.
Mr. Miller, Professor of Amer-
ican History, is to present the first
lecture of the series, dealing with
the subject of the American press.
A background to the other lec-
tures, it will cover the relation of
the press to political parties, the
connection between advertising
and newspaper policy and between
radio and the press.
The second lecture, "The Ap-
proach to the Financial Pages of
the Newspaper," will be given by
Mrs. Anderson, Professor of Econ-
omics. It will consist of critical
analysis of what these pages con-
tain and their relation to the news
section. A survey of the econ-
omic background of the subject
will be included.
Mrs. Cameron, Professor of
History, will give an "exhaustive
analysis" of American periodicals
Continued on Ptge 3
M. Lehr Will Indicate
Application of Math
To Photogrammetry
Miss Marguerite Lehr, Associate
Professor of Mathematics, will
speak on "Mathematics in Map-
making," on Wednesday night,
December 1, at 8:00 p. m. in Dal-
ton Hall. This is the first of six
lectures presented by the Science
Club on the postion of the sciences
in the war.
Miss Lehr will discuss the three
types of map problems that utilize
mathematics theory, namely, local
maps and topographic maps and
how to make computations from
them. Since the beginning of the
war, the layman in mathematics
has come more into contact with
the various types of maps through
newspapers and magazines; Miss
Lehr intends to point out that the
layman can understand map theory
without advanced mathematics.
Teaching the Mathematics of
Map Projection in the Photogram-
metry course given here, Miss
Lehr has had actual connections
with map theory. The Photogram-
metry course was first given in
the summer of 1942 by Mr. Wat-
son, continuing through last year
and this summer.
Miss Lehr received her A. B. at
Goucher College in 1919, and her
Ph. D. at Bryn Mawr in 1925. A
President's European Fellow and
a Fellow in Mathematics in 1921,
she was a member of the Ameri-
can Association of University Fel-
lows and Students in 1923 at the
University of Rome. She came to
Bryn Mawr in 1924 as an Instruct-
or in Mathematics and has been
the Associate Professor since
1937.
MacKinnon to Talk on War, Society,
In Psychology Lecture at Assembly
DONALD  W.  MACKINNON
Make China Full Ally
To Gain Mutual Goal
Walter H. Judd Asks
Bellevue-Stratford, November 20.
"A slave China is an unbeatable
competitor, but a free China is
potentially the world's greatest
market," said the Honorable Wal-
ter H. Judd, Congressman from
Minnesota, in an address on
"American-Chinese Friendship" at
the United Nations Council lunch-
eon.
Not only military but political
help and reassurance must go to
China now. The Chinese Exclu-
sion Act must be repealed, the
Chinese put on a quota basis and
given naturalization rights just as
other immigrants are. Such a move
would bolster China's morale, and
make not only China but all of
Asia more friendly, Dr. Judd ex-
plained. The ultimate result
would be of great advantage to us,
as well as to the establishment of
a world peace, for China can be to
us what our own West was, a "de-
pression-absorber."
Enumerating four ways to gain
security, Dr. Judd eliminated the
methods of escapist isolationism,
world conquest, or attempts at
"buying" the world, as physically
impossible, and pointed out the al-
ternative of joining the world as
equals striving for common goals.
Continued on Ptge 3
Will Stress Value of Study
Of Mental Breakdown
During War
Donald W. MacKinnon, Profes-
sor of Psychology and an outstand-
ing authority in his field, will
speak on "War, Sanity, and Soci-
ety" at the third War Alliance as-
sembly to be held on Wednesday,
December 1, at 12:30. His lecture
will concern future application of
psychological knowledge gained
from the study of mental break-
down in civilian and military pop-
ulations.
Mr. MacKinnon has worked ex-
tensively on the problem of per-
sonality in war. In 1940, he was
asked to serve as a member of th*
Conference on Psychological Meth-
ods for Personality Selection to
make a preliminary survey of
methods for detecting favorable
and unfavorable personality traits
with respect to military service.
This conference was called by a
subcommittee on neurotic behavior
of the National Research Council
and made its findings available to
those responsible for the person-
nel selection of the armed  force*.
Writings
As a member of a subcommittee
of the Council, he assisted in the
preparation of a book which would
make available to men in the arm-
ed forces the facts of psychology
that would be of vital importance
to them in their military service.
Mr. MacKinnon's chapter in the
book, Psychology for the Fighting
Man, published this year by the
Infantry Journal, has been includ-
ed in the more advanced edition
that is now being compiled as a
textbook to be used in military
schools and colleges.
A specialist in problems of per-
sonality development in psycho -
pathology, Mr. MacKinnon has
worked in collaboration with mem-
bers of the Harvard Psychology
Clinic upon several occasions. He
has contributed a section to a book
by this group of distinguished
psychologists, Explorations in Per-
sonality, and a chapter on the
structure of personality to the two-
volume handbook, Personality and
Behavior Disorders, which is being
published this month by the Ron-
ald Press.
Continued on Page 4
Nusbaum, Director of "Letters to Lucerne",
Writes Play Slated for Broadway Opening
Absentees
Students not planning to eat
meals in the halls must indi-
cate the meals at which they
will be absent on lists posted
in the halls. Those who fail to
comply with this rule are sub-
ject to fines.
By   Joy   Rutland,  '46
Winner of three dramatic
awards and author of a play
scheduled to appear on Broadway
this fall, Richard Nusbaum comes
to Bryn Mawr for the third time
to direct "Letters to Lucerne."
Mr. Nusbaum is at present con-
nected with the American Theatre
Wing as director of production.
Known both as director and play-
wright, his productions number
over 150, and several of his own
plays have won distinction in the
dramatic world.
Among his own works, "Parting
at Imsdorf" has won three awards,
including the Maxwell Anderson
award for verse drama. The Lunts
have taken an option on his "Sec-
ond Best Bed", and "Indian Sign"
is now being cast for production in
New*�"�fl�: He was among the
authors represented in Dodd
Mead's "Best Plays of 1940."
In addition to actual theatre
work, Mr. Nusbaum organized the
first professional television show
in America. Since the beginning
of his career in the theatre, he has
been connected with nearly every
branch of the drama. His work
with Haverford extends beyond
the direction of many productions
there for he has taken a personal
interest in the players who dem-
onstrated special ability.
The production of "Letters to
Lucerne" which the Player's- Club
will present early in December
represents Mr. Nusbaum's fourth
year as director at Bryn Mawr.
Other plays under his direction,
which have been joint productions
with Haverford are "Hay Fever."
'^Margin for Error" and "Hotel
Universe." Those who have work-
ed under him have remarked on
Mr. , Nusbaum's psychological
handling of the actors.