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

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PAGE President Thomas Receives 64 Psychologically Speaking 66 The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strained By Us Either 68 The Circus 69 Fuzzy Wuzzy 70 My Athletic Life at Bryn Mawr 71 Class Officers 72 Athletics 73 ACT IV. The Epilogue 75 We ' ll Tell the World 76 1923 :... ' V . . .). . ! ' . . 77 The Ingenue Parts 78 Family Circle 79 Hoculty 81 The Diary of an Association President 82 To Rockefeller 83 The Passionate Pagan 84 1921 85 A Seance in the Deanery 86 To Merion 88 Thus the Little Minutes 89 Out of the Past 93 Without Benefit of Clergy , 94 Exercise 95 Our Banner 95 Under Fire 96 May Day Try-Outs 99 We Are Seven 100 CHARACTER PARTS: I. The Stock Broker 102 II. The Licensed Poet 103 III. The Visiting Englishman 104 IV. The Effete Iceman 105 May Day 106 Bridge 107 Graduating With Honors 108 Sunny Jim 109 Come Now and Listen 110 The Innovators Ill The Lyric Quality 112 1922 113 Class Officers 114 Athletics 114 Dramatis Persona? 117 10

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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE The Light That Failed, a Criticism 11 Dramatic Errors 12 ACT 1 13 Prelude to Act. 1 14 The Only Ones That Didn ' t Care a Damn 15 Where There ' s a Will There ' s a Way 17 Leading Ladies 18 One Girl ' s Influence 19 Periods of Exercise 20 Drives 21 Swinburne to His Hockey Stick 22 To Pembroke East 23 M. Carey ' s Chicken 24 In the Spotlight 25 Class Officers 26 Athletics 26 Movie (Entre Act } 28 ACT II 29 Pooling the Faculty (Side Show } 30, Overiure 31 1918 34 They ' ll None of ' Em Be Missed 35 Pembroke West 36 The Students ' Building 37 Minstrel Show 38 To Missionaries 39 Mob Scene 40 The Irreligious Side of Gym Meets 41 President Taft ' s Visit 42 Cut Cards, Their Joys and Sorrows 43 Senior ' s Garden of Verses 43 Our Educational Movie 44 The Editors Do Not Hold Themselves Responsible 47 Those Sister Classes 48 Radnor and Co 49 A Socialistic Experiment 50 Athletics 52 Class Officers 54 ACT III 55 Paradise Lost 56 Mme. Riviere 57 Milly ' s Freshmen 58 From the Critic ' s Seat 60 To Denbigh 61 Artificial Stimulation 62 The Athletic Championship 63

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The Light That Failed (A CRITICISM) The comi-tragedy of The Light That Failed, produced under the auspices of 1918, is an interesting study of inheritance and an excellent example of the old time moral- ity play; the only immoral element, Dr. Potter, we shall leave for a red class to criticize. It would have been easier for the critic if the author had omitted the fourth act, which is really little more than an epilogue, the only justification for which is the publicity given to the rather charming old English May Day scene. The heroine is engaged in a struggle against the curse of being a light blue class throughout the play, while the conflicting emotions for ' 19 and ' 18 afford an inter- esting bit of character drawing. The heroine is possessed of many good qualities, of persistence, energy, and is above all a good sport, but she has one great flaw which is the cause of her undoing — an over-developed sense of humor. This sense of humor is apparently a family trait and proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the sins of the parents are visited upon the children. Just as she is about to gain her objective, her sense of humor gets the better of her and frustrates her efforts. And yet it was the sense of humor which made her not care a damn for the opposing forces of man, nature and the elements during that perilous first act. The three seemed bent on her undoing, Hel circumventing the carefree young girl by the intricacies of college eti- quette, the office by tying her down with red tape and the drives by sapping the vitality of the growing girl. The outstanding characters in the first act were well cast and managed to keep the attention of the audience centered upon them, they were all picturesque characters and added spice to the play. They were set in splendid relief to the naive and in- genuous voung heroine, who, by her delightful disregard of all convention made many a dramatic moment, and kept the audience in a state of suspense. Good as the char- acter studies were in the first act the play occasionally lapsed into mere horse-play which reached its height in a hand-to-hand fight in a public street. This fight, although bad from a purely dramatic viewpoint, gave the theatre a tremendous amount of pub- licity, described as it was all over the country. A good deal of straight humor was added by the comedian. C. M. K. A., who, by his quaint drolleries and acrobatic stunts, called forth many a hearty laugh from the audience. One of the chief faults with the structure of the play is that the climax comes in the middle of the first act when the heroine was voted fresh, after that great event with its wonderful staging and truly tragic moments, the action falls steadily, reaching a rather tragic denouement when the heroine is forced to call in Billy Sunday to save her soul and lead her back to the trail. Most of the conspicuous characters leave at the end of the first act, and altogether too many new characters are introduced, 11