Bryn Mawr College - Bryn Mawr Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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(Flje pilgrim of f yxiqubb Gin 1303 ariJlj % rnmpltatpnta nf 1934 Notttmfor a, 131111 Louis XVI Virginia Ckauvenet Monsieur Lombard Louise Peck Due de Pignon Adola Greely Baron de Brie Katharine Dudley M. Chauvent Edith McMurtrie Mile Bernard Helen Howell Mile Fleuret Marjorie Sellers Mile Parnasse Leslie Clark Piety Harriet Southerland Patience Jeannette Hemphil l Jealousy Ethel Peck Hypocrisy Lucy Lombardi and Marie Antoinette Hope Woods Miss Cerberus Helen Amy Christiana Phyllis Green Curiosities. Martha Rockwell, E. Silkman, Esther Sinn, H. Clough, Elsie Kohn, Sue Swindell. Stage Manager G. Winterbotham Business Manager Helen Amy Musical Director Nannie Adaire When our class prepared to make its ddbut in the college dramatic world, its ambitions soared high. Nothing less than a queen, and she Marie Antoinette of France, herself, did it bring to Bryn Mawr as a Pilgrim of Progress, seeking to get ahead. When one thinks of all that the royal personage might have gained, it seems too bad that she lived so long before the Fall of 1900. The play begins with the ladies and gentlemen of the French Court gracefully amusing themselves at bow-and-arrow practice. With them is the king, whose bad shot has just been concealed by a burst of ap- plause, when the queen enters impetuously. With a little song and words not to be gainsaid, she declares her weariness of court fashion and folly and her determination to fly to America to seek protection and learning at Bryn Mawr. There is a flutter of surprise, a vain murmur