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

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until the stage becomes overcrowded, while the showy red color scheme, at first pic- turesque, becomes tiresome, and the horse-play obtrusive. The romantic element plays a large part in the tragedy, the love stories begin- ning almost immediately and ending in complications, add many charming scenes and lighten the rather heavy atmosphere. The lyrics throughout were bad, the choruses rarely knew their songs, and when they did the words were hardly worth listening to. Up to the climax the heroine manages to overcome the curse of being a light blue class, but afterward her power of resisting good fails her and she succumbs to her destiny. The play leaves one with an entirely satisfied feeling, however, after the charming and unexpected scene of pure comedy, when the heroine overcomes Na- ture and relapses into that delightful and original hoop rolling chorus. Margaret Ballou Dramatic Errors Our author, ' we regret to state, Does things that are not fair: He brings in people who are not At all essential to the plot — And doesn ' t seem to care! D. T. and this year ' s Freshman class Have no large function here, The Juniors are a blunder, too, There ' s not a thing that they can do To make the action clear. Nelson adds color to the scene And so we let him pass, But those poor lab girls who must stay In Dalton all the livelong day We might delete en masse. We wish the number on the stage Were not so very vast, For we should find it simpler far, Since only very few can star, To have a smaller cast. Doris Pitkin 12

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Prelude to Act I. At our first class meeting, it seemed as if all the important people in college came and spoke to us. Looking calmly back, we see that Les and Charlotte Dodge were there. They sternly impressed on us the importance of keeping the song a secret. In fact, the gravity of their speeches forbids us to quote them in a light article. After the class meeting was over, Peg Hutchins drew me aside, and peering fur- tively around, whispered, Of course, you know I want to see you about the song. I had guessed as much. I wonder now why all the Sophomores had not also guessed it, for no two people could have been more obvious conspirators. We instinctively gravitated toward the graveyard, thinking it a retired spot, and commenced a preliminary examination of the tombstones. No Sophomores were, lurking behind. We were just settling down to scan Tramp, tramp in an elaborate system of dead leaves and nut shells which we thought would give an illusion of un- disturbed nature if Sophs appeared unexpectedly, when a carriage drove up. Two ladies got out. Acting on the first law of sleuth — that all persons shall be considered guilty until proved innocent — we assumed that they were Sophomores in disguise. For some time we watched them with a suspicion which they did not at all understand. I think our inspection of the inside of their pony cart, if they saw it, must have con- firmed them in the obvious supposition that we were insane. At last the song was composed, and we went back to the campus. Apparently the Sophomores had noticed more than we thought, for from the time I was seen with Peg, my room was subjected to thorough searching. The climax came when Edith Rondinella, showing an interest in me that has never reappeared, kept me out of my room by translating my Latin for the next day, while Cornelia Hayman systematically went through everything in my room. She even got a locksmith from Haverford to take the rivets off my trunk, when she couldn ' t find a key that would unlock it. Milly Peacock led three passionate young scientists on a sightseeing tour through Dalton. After examining the curiosities of the geology department, they found them- selves locked in. A thorough search revealed to Milly Carey an exit by the window and fire escape, quite feasible for Meenie and herself. But Queenie was too long to turn the corner. Milly stayed just long enough to absorb from Queenie enough of Robert ' s Rules of Order to last through her various presidential careers. Then she left Meenie alone with Queenie. Wasn ' t that nice of Milly !? Then she descended the fire escape where Milly Peacock immediately joined her. But these were not the only people who did not feel lonely during the first days of college. Our new theme pads and pencils were irresistable to ' 19, who smelled a rat even where none existed. Then they had to stay and explain the vagaries of the English department to us, and with their help most of us flunked. But just before Parade Night we weren ' t particularly interested in themes. Margaret Littell Doris Pitkin The editors are in doubt as to which kind of punctuation they should use.