The College News 1936-01-08 Vol. 22 No. 09

Bryn Mawr College Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College News Bryn Mawr College Publications, Special Collections, Digitized Books 1936 The College News, 1936-01-08, Vol 22, No 09 Students of Bryn Mawr College Let us know how access to this document benefits you Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.brynmawr.edu/bmc_collegenews Custom Citation Students of Bryn Mawr College, The College News, 1936-01-08, Vol 22, No 09 (Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1936) This paper is posted at Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College http://repository.brynmawr.edu/bmc_collegenews/542 For more information, please contact repository@brynmawr.edu I • The College 'N'ews VOL XXii, No, CoP1'N-h t Decision Is Reached F, W Fetter Believ Silver ,Act Rivw,',h, harpsichord, the prelude "Wir Glau of absence We regretted ita departure, although we recogni:ed the • " Con of the eilitOTII of Tile Coileue As an illustration of these hidden ben Aile in Einen Gott," the Prelude necessity for it; and we: are delighted that the school can once more usc Nf deeps of existence he quoted the fol· in E nat minor and the Toccata and The Pot Calls the Kl!ttle Black lowing poem: our buildings and that more undergraduates will now have opportunity Fugue in D minor The News talks of the "co'r' back" to participate ill its work The second half of the program will A VEGETABLE TRYST � ", vaTllty dramatiCs Couldn t 'I'he PI ' the da,k unde,- be Si.g/riuf Rhine Journe", at0 IaY d eepin II Sieg The reorgamzatton of the board and o( the relation of the school to News talk 80mewhat of ,' ts own "co mefried'a Death and Bnmnhilde's lnlnlo und gro , the college marks the return to the original plan (or a school conntcted Or Comedown1 u" [at.ion, all from the opera Gotterdiim Tomato above in the light with Bryn Mawr alont The hope e�pressed in 1927 that other colleges e News, it is rumored, is dead; The little tomato was ruddy ntlll mernng would he similarly interested in schools for women workers in industry the mere reporter of coUegb events round, Mo't';n and ,.\,ould perhap! help to organize thcm on their campuses st.'Cms to have The News, it is said, has loat the The little potato was white Aldine: First a Girl, a British film ' genius of its late editor She embeen dlsappomtcd, for the present at least CoOperauon between women s with Jessie Matthews, the English bodied in It the spal'kle, now missing, And redder and redder she rounded dancer, and Griffith Jones The plot colleges in emerprises like that of the Summer School seems to us n above, the constructive criticism it M sadly which sounds very complicated, excellent experiment, a.nd whIle we regret tha.t the ocher women's colleges abuses, the repruentative opinion 80 And palcr and paler he grew, cerns itself with the trials of a female And neither suspected a mutual love, no longer have their former direct connection with the management of, necessary to a true.,.jout'nal actress who impersonate8 a male actor 'Til they met in a Brunswick stew nt dO we the school, we trust that they will IC88Cn their active interest Because t We ofltl n The N eW8 impersonating a female actress : lec tures " te-ups '(.I Many wr ; find? the arrangement III effect since 1927 dId nCSt produce all the results that Arcadia: lIfilliotls in the Air, with f (other peoples' ideas) a fairly good John Howard, Wendy Barrie and Wi! had been hoped for, it is only natural that Bryn Mawr as the college m06t editorial (but scareely of great interlie Howard A comedy about an ama intimately concerned, should resume her position of foster parent cst) and stupid (because it lacks balteur hour The rich girl falls in love We are justly proud of the part played by the undergraduates in ance) criticism qf college activiti es L with the ice eream salesman The Should the pa�r of a college like The following Art Notes were rethe Summer School decision The students who worked at the school story is relieved by Willie Howard Bryn Mawr deterIorate Into a petty cently received on campus: who can be very funny when ap lalll summer �originated a petition which was signed by the heads of the who, have chronicle for students An artist employed in repail'ing the proached the right way college organitation and other representative students: This petition, missed lectures and Bulletin �t colproperties of a church in Ireland, Boyd: A Tale 01 Two Cities, billed lItating the interest of the undergraduates in the school and their carnoat lege activities1 being refused payment in lump sum, as a worthy successor to David Cop­ A Conscientious Objector hope that the final decision might bring it back to the :, eampus wa.s Knt was aaked for details and sent- in his perfield, and in reality, according to Further comment 8OIicited.-Eds bill as followa': to the "PreSident of the Bryn Mawr Bo ud of Trustccs We understand the critics, an artistic and workman Embellished Pontius Pilate and like production; but, apparently, noth that this action, particularly the care with which the petition was l)ut a new ribbon on his Christmas Banquets, ing for them to go into 8pasms over and signed, did carry lOme weight in the final decision o( the bo.ud bonnet 5.11 6d (which, if you will reme.mber, they Skits Are Gay, Festive Put a new tail on the Rooster Perhaps the m06t satisfying aspect of the Summer School decision did in the case of its Pl'edecessor) is the cooperative spirit with which the representatives of the board of of St Peter and repaired Ronald Colman stara Continued from Pace On his comb 10 6d the school and of the Bryn Mawr Board worked togcther 'The willing­ Earle: DatlCe Band, starring Buddy ridden hOBts; Re-vamished and gilded the Rogers He may be all right, but the ness of the representatives to meet each other half way and their eager­ We can give you no liquor to drink left wing of the Guardian only time we saw Buddy Rogers was down these toasts ficas 10 6nd a satisfactory solution, has resulted in the prCSCllt arrange­ Angel 9d from the side aisle of a large motion She toasted the guests with rhymes, ment We arc particularly Impressed by the fact that the newly C9nsti· picture palace, from which situatiOl among which were the following WaBhed the Servant of the tuted board of the !Chool has not had its policy defined (or it III any High Priest and put Carbsck of his head looked perfectly the gems: mine on his Cheeks 6.11 5d flat Granting that this may.,have fC&rictmg acnse We hope that in the two-year trial penod provided for To that high�powered salesman and Re-newed Heaven, adjusted been an optical illusion, we still know in the prcscnt arrangement, this freedom of action will achieve perma­ shop-keeper, Eleanor, two Stars and cleaned the just what to expeet: America's Boy nently satisfactory results We not know what course the school will She overcharges us, yet she keeps Moon 78 10d Friend with some new popular music semn' and sellin' more pUT!iUC in the future, but we can be confident that whatever policy and Put additional Rays to the Sun Europa: The New Gulliver, the (To Mrs Nahm) procedure and re-animated the names adopted, the members of the board will be actuated by a Can it be the quest of know ledgee pleasantly Rusaian propaganda fUm of Purgattlry and restored common desire to share our educational acted for the most part by lurge with women workers Makes studcnts ·take geology1 sorne souls 68 4d company of puppets Or is it the chance of smilin' and III IIldustry fu!-newed the names of Hell, Fox: Profe"ioJtal Soldier, with Vic blinkin' I)ut a new tail on the Devil, tor McLaglen and Freddie Bartholo­ And nirtin' and wlnkin' at Abraham of the "Illustrated Londo News" di8' mended his hood and did mew More, this department cannot Lincoln1 � appeared, just to mention two 111several odd jobs for the tell you (To Dr Dryden.) stances 78 lOd Karlton: KiM LodJl, with Aline Mc At the end of the dinner four wan· he' A part of the charm of this Library dering Re Mahon, which recently came to Phil" minstrela entered playing The editon take ItO re,-pollaibili.tll is the nnd re-adjusted his Wig 48 delphia from New York, ap(>eal's on i.!l£e strlcted freedom from Christmas carols They were Janc lor opinl oll.' ezpreued in !hie column s u pe rv o Cleaned isi n 'and unnecessary rules in the ears of Ballaam's the ac::reen Lewis, Betty Bryan and Janet Thom To the Editor of the College N.w,,: the use of the maguines and books Ass and shod him 3s 2d Stanton: Riffraff, with Jean Harlow wit.h their violins and Betty Reed with This ia the third year that the It is a great pity that because of the her 'cello All were drel8ed in bright­ Put Sarah's new Earrings in 2s 4d and Spencer Tracy Love cornes to Chriatmaa number of HL'IIIu8tration" action of a few outlaws we should Hle Tuna·l1sh lactory, menaced, as cblored Old English cdstumea foraged Enlarged the head of Goliath has been taken from the Magazine have to resort to unpleasantly rigid re­ and extended his Ie" S 2d usual, by the big industrial boss from the costume closet in Goodhart Room, shortly after it has been put strictiana The only alternative is to i Victoria: Ah Wild'entelut! wit! To the straina of "Adeste Fideles" Put new stones in David's there for every one to lee n is an ketlp such rnagnlnes in the Librarian's aUng , 8s Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery alii everyone retired to the Showcase to inte.ruting and valuable number full Offic4! and to require any one who watch the freshman skjt, which con� Dceorated Noah's Ark 3s Eric Linden The film js faithful 10 , of beautiful plates When such a wishes to read them to sign for t:lem the ol'iginal play version and Eri(' tered around the extraordinary ex­ Mended the shirt of the Pro(limagazine il taken by the unlCrupulous there This obviously limits their usc, gal Son and washed his Linden is perfectly cast in the 1)81·t pressions we all are prone to use borrower, the rest of the college ia de- which \s oontrary to the policy of this hands and face Ss which was played in New York h)' Giving a titeral venion of "She Iwept prive.d of Ita Ulle The Library IUb- institution However, it may be around the room," Dorothea Peck Corrected 10 Commandments 68 6d Elisha Cook, Jr -scribea to thi type of periodical from nec:easary to adopt this course if these wielded a hearty broom as' a sign of LocQI Moyits a general fund, for the entire college unknown persona continue to dine­ J-jer di8a lp�oval of our inappropriate pounds, 16 shillings and pence l Seville: Wednesday and Thursday community, to read in the :�bgazine gllrd the rights of others And very cheap at the price, we language The piece de flat.daraee (;ary Cooper and Ann Harding in Room, and not for one person, only, must say Sincerely yours, ho ever, was May Chow' IwOrd Peter lbbetton: Friday and Saturday who may prefer to UIJe it elsewhere LoiS A REED, CIUI4Irto, dan«, executed with exquiSite grace Carole Lombard in Hands AeroH� th, Librarian THE MA;D'HATTER, • 1.10 important that our periIt i and perfect coOrdination Tubl.; Sunday, Monday nd Tuesday odicat filet be complete In the elle Rockefeller Hall entertained ita MutinJ/ 0, the BONtltlli Wednesday in qucnion, the replacement of mlulng To the 'Editor of The College NelD.: Ch,;stmas party guests w;th a pqe- , In Philadelphia Tho Cruaadu 'X "\ numbe.ra can be done only at grealer Dear Madam: ant representing the various religibns Wayne: Thursday, Frid{ly, Satur expen_, Iince single copies more Will you kindly permit me as an of the world Altara w� act up to Broad: Want G PolU:t:m4n a my day, Muti_¥ 0, th BOlttltJ/; Sunda)' than t.boee included in the yearly sub- old friend of Bryn Mawr to make a Buddha and Vishnu, while one of the tery melodrama b y Rufus King and Nft'odG, with Buster Crabbe; Monda) IC.ription It hal bem necaaary in short comment in the colwnnl 01 your busta from Taylor Hall repreaented Milton Lazurus, continueslo� the rest and Tuesday, Peter 166et.o" i Wedncs the put few yean, to replace many college new,paper! Whenever it il the G·rek e deitiea Worshippers kneel· of this week It i8 considered a sat­ day, Sylvia Sydney in MaTJ/ Surnll mi.;unc awnben of maguina, ape- poaaible for me, I attend dramatic per· ing at these &brines- we.re inte.rrupted irla�9qt lpeeimen of ill speciee, with Fu.gitive all lette.n published must be properly present and expressed his 1_':::==:::2�!!�!:!����=�:=:���;������====-J I��I ::;::�::: I i ::: an := Th • a ,� not ; WIT�� �� () _-' written are Public Opmton I ' ag,a.ntagcs ���::i� ��� �i 'H�� � • • _ dally the popalar Eqli.ab 0DeI One fonnancet of the college, and I wu b y the ainainc of aDarela, fully' the required number of thrilJs, and Ardmore: Thursday, Friday aJH , , La n1Ullben of the uPIuk:b" were happy to be pretent at the: recent per_ equipped with 'halOet and win , who ahould prove popular in New York Saturday, Marx Brothers in A' \'igltl taken; Iut RIIIIDeJ', eipt nu.ben fonnanee o f "The S an." I lhor- drew the cu rtai n from a gokien frame Estelle Winwood and Judith Wood at tM Opera / ' Page Three THE COLLEGE NEWs • BaaketbaU Ranks Empty AI Practice Cotllleln ",c"" , The outlook for the ballketball !lea· /lOn seems none tOO bright at Campus Notes Vocalionm Talk 11 Dr Margaret MeAlliat.er Jane:way Bryn Mawr, '20, will apeak on Opportuxitielf lOT' lVonutK '" Medieine in the Common Room, Ft-:day alternoon, January 10, at o'clock All those who are interested are cordially invited to attend Tea will be served at quarter of five since last year's first and aity teams have nearly all · or left college Good material among the freshmen is to be for and expected M Brl'dgroan and P H asse are left from last year'a varsity t e" m ' .Hasse will PTobablY 1eave hCl" aId and take up her te' at ,,'dc c" tion at guarlji as Bridgman's mate Two forwards, a jump and a side center have yet to be S�kel, who starred as a forward the second team last year, may a up well LI'keWlsc man, plays a promising P10 Second Varsity's ranks are not 11 fuller Washburn is the only 'ema;" , ing good guard, and P Jsckson E Smith are still here to hold the jumping center position, but the exception of these, the second 12 seems quite destitute ' Christmas vacation was a busy one for �any member othlthe faculty ProfelJS()rs from the Uitin, Geology, Biology and Psychology Departments were partieularly active in attending meetings and readi?g papera Yor.k and �ead a paper entilloo, ! CON! of the whole study procram "Some Non�CoJonial Colonii of Au- Cultural subjects also loomed large gustUII." At thia lame n}eeting M r • A wid, variety of course was offHolland, (omlerly of the Bryn Mawr c.t.td fj1d it wa frequently felt that faculty, read a paper, "Janus and the great et coneentution on a amaller Bridge Read." She 180 attended the number of topic which could be ademeeting of (he Arehaeological Society quately r treated would have been n and read , a paper, "Via Vilia to more satisfactory arrangement Tttis Herodotus." change of emphasis occurred in 192'7 In 1927 an effort w.a made to Dr Wa�on, of the Geology DepartDr Belson, Qf t�e Psychology J;)e- ment, att4lllded a meeting of the stimulate inlereat in the establishpartment, spent fiJ'e day In Wash- Mineralogy Society of America at ment of thi type oI.school on other inglon, C., working with Dr Deane which he read two reports, the ftrst college ca.mpu8es.besldes Bryn A-lawr Walter Hampden and Katha.rine Judft, of the Cblorimetry 8",,;00'o,y title only "Emplaeement of Gran- In line with this policy representa Cornell , or the Bureau of Standarda on the ite at Springfield, near Philadelphia," tives of· Vassar, Mt Holyoke, WeI· A Well Known Leadi"ng Man he ma'hema"Ica1 theory anp "The- Alteration of Gabbro near lesley and Smith were put on the subjecI 0f t The Lady Who Swung by Her of color Dr MacKinnon directed a Philadelphia, Pennsylva board ot directors, and the number nia." Knees conference of psychologists held in Dr Blanchard, or the Biology De- of Bryn Mawr women fell to a'bout Wyndham from Deeember 29 tftl DeLittle Egypt read a paper at a meeting two or three The president of the Thia conference, which I : :�� :n: the American Society Of ZOOlogists college was no longer tM chairman Momenta Javaneaque : each year during the Christmas 11 Princeton December 30 His of the board The curriculum W8Jof The Bo x.ing Bout is especially mterested was, "The Eff«t or Adrenalee- simplified and unified in order to alThe Rocking Raconteur of experimental Upon Blood CholesteroJ." The low longer time to be spent on a The Theatre Gilded '- behavior 0, of Dr Tennent hu been given single economic subject The sc.hool ' Y�ar& from Now: ThIrty af the group la made up praiile in the December laaue of although really a joint project, ap���� �:I, FIorenoo MeG ce I ' ' Ud'ed psych0IoglSla wh0 S he public &II primarily 11 in an article on notable eei peared to t � 0emud Shaw one time or another W ·th I 0r K urt B ryn Mawr concern Actual1y, 1he events or the year 1936 8h'Ir1ey Temp1e ' 1ty 0f BerI'In Lewin, of the UnlVers Miss Woodworth, of the English Dc- connection of the eehool with the col M.rlan · DaVles ' > •• group, a1though compofIICU lIartment, attended a meeting ot the 1ege was extreme1 y Ind'Ireel and , , ad'mg Lady The I)sychOIOgistS, IIlC es a ew 1 U( f ' h cre was no automatic link betwccn Mode!"n Language Association which t The March 0f Rhyme from the c1osel'I reIated fieId8 Willi held du r ing vacation in Cinci n the Bryn I' Iawr board 0f d'nectora ' Numerous freshmen turned out 14 St Moritz Ballet p, y"h;; ' , ''' Y psychounalY8is, and th�t ot the Summer School lIati, Ohio the varsity tryouts in response to 15 Strings., sociology The papers and The 1934 IeSlion of the lIChool Dr Ernst Diez, of the Art OeplIl"lurgent call made for new "u;'.d -thil year were largely concerned ment, sailed for London shortly before seemed for various reasons unsuc· Since no varsity squad has been yricked with problems of child and animal vacation began, to attend an exhibi- ceuful The original purpose 0,( thu Jean Holzworth, '36, yet, thel·e has been a motley crowd at psychology Among th08e of Chineac Ilrt Ilt Burlington school did not appear to be fulfilled Receives the practices and the promising prosthe meetings were Drs Kurt Criticism of the school came pnrticupeets have been hard to spot It the University of Iowa; Kurt (rolll the conservative!: but Inrly Contlnue4 from Pace One &cems quite poaaible, however, ka, of mith College ; Edward C others, too, questioned its aduill Is Reached several good freshmen will be gc CECELIA YARN SHOP Games at Party Delight ground and that her work formed a Dr and Mrs Max Diez attended a tunds by which the school was The average number Settlement Children well�rounded .hole Her poem SEVILLE ARCADE of the Modern Language As- tained Htuden� was about 100 with Mussolini's efforts to conquer aociation in Cincinnati, Ohio The curri· Dr BRYN MAWR, PA culum was directed to the needs or Christmas seems all too far off now, Africa Diez read a paper on TIle High School All contributions had to be sent to Course and the College CouT8e in GeT"­ the workers, with economics as but it has probably not been forgo� ten by some or the children from the Professor Dorothy M Robathan, of 1;llI n at the meeting of the Pennsyl Wellesley, before December Last vania branch of the lI1.odern Language St Martha's Settlement House spring Dr Broughton suggested to Association, at Harrisburg Philadelphia The party which Miss Holzworth thst she enter the Bryn Mawr League had for them Miss Taylor, of the Latin Depart December 17 put them al1 in fine contest and during the summer he menl, at a meeting of the American its tee cream and cake put both with her about it She A.,eI, I"g;,,1 Society in New York, and girls Into a talkative frame worked on her entnea almost steadily read a Ilaper on .8eats and Peillos' MONTGOMERV ANOERSON AVEI., ARDMORE, P Ardmore 4&40 mind; an active period of games fol· since last June Qr the Parthenon Frieze." lowed the feast: and finally presents MillS Holzworth is delighted and attended a meeting of lh(' EOI)' P.rlriNfI from the Chrilltmas tree, at which all surprised at winning the contest The Philological Society in New had stolen furtive glances, were dis.- committee set the following deftnite tributed specifications concerning the pen,ling r Katherine Docker and Sally Park of the money : the winner must MAIN LINE GRILL both should be congiatulated for their the prize money, unless temporarily by the committee for an excused ability-t o give children a good Lancuu�r and Lou�lIa Ave• That is what the League Chrisbnas ccptable reason, sueb as illness or war, in the eighteen months following the Party was for, and the children's \ WAYNE spirit showed that i t was uo:: ::-::; ;': "" , : :;:: :-;: :::: -:-: d '11'CCtors 0( ,he coIIege thaI In cer- I r II - M£d J , , d re �- , : p'�" taO1ft •In.tanees economlca had been Bryn Mawr Confectionery taught by propaganda and that there INul I S"'u "/£ T.we, 8/ .,.) _ ndency to make Ihe ICh00I a J,C The Rmdnvou 0f the Coli Gin a mouthpiece of the labor movement '1 aay 5.ndwic:hn, Oeliciou Sund r'IaI tudy , m.�-�d 0f a pIace 0( Impa Superor Soda Senok ' Th'l' was nol I' n -Ad W 'I" ,h 0_10 M, '- ""'- =_ (_ Continued from Pll.U Ttlr I -.v ����'���'�-���:� ;��'; -"� ;-;�:�;� If you pryer low - elad "'''ntn� sUpp"r _vo o(f.r Go fine ••I.elion Mod.&.I pic.lured i of Q.\1 b\a.ck c.r'4.p a.l 41!).- , or in silv r l)roc.a.d lho.l ",,11 not t.o"" h., o.l lI4 )O Olh r 10 h l from ,6.1, Claflin 1000 Chut.llat Stl'OAlt • Rong-Kong, too, uspended payments o( i1ver, but the Secretary of the Treasury at once stopped buying, al­ though the constitutional legality of ueh an action il a moot point In early December, 1936, there were no bids for twenty million ounces offered in London and no price quoted The United States i not entirely out of the m.rket, but we have been blddine for only about five per cent of the oft'erinp GREEN HILL FARMS City Line and Lano"Cf:r Ave Overbrook.Phil.delphia A reminder that we would like to of your parent and CIIrt friend wheneve.r they come to t.ke vilit you L £U,SWORTH METCAU1, M ,n' BRYN MAWR COLLEGE INN T E A ROOM Lundwon 4Oc 50c - '7Sc Dinner sSe - ,1.2' Meals a carte and table diboll; Doily and SuncI.oy 8.}0 A, M, to 7.30 p, M, Afternoon Teal BIllD