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

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Ladies and gentlemen, each week the makers of Textbook Cookies ( He Who Reads May Eat ) present for your entertainment one of the world ' s great dramas. Tonight we bring you Loi ' e In A Mist, the dramatic story of a girl who loved, not wisely, but too well. We are lortunate in having with us that famous actor, i I f A John L. Slewis, who will portray the leading I £TCc LTC Ol tf IC vlP role of Jim Smith, fiance of Jane Cadwalader, played by Mabel Traybel. In addition to the leading players, there is a large supporting cast. As the scene opens, the lovers are in Jane s home, and are quarreling hotly. Jane: Darling, I do want to marry you, but 1 cant — im (slowly, emphasizing each word): You ve got to fight for what you want! You ve got to fight for your rights. (At once there is a large uproar in the studio . . . crashes and shouts.) Shouts: We want the Tarzan playJ Dear Brutusl (Sound of feet shuffling and tap-dancing.) Chorus: Were the Sneaks, ha, Ka, From the Greeks, ha, ha. Tranio: Quiet! Quiet! Why the racket out in front? Where do you think you are — borne; ' Linda: Let s have some fun in this house before you leave it! All I want, by way of enter- tainment, is just one good tap-dancer. Julia: Isn t it marvelous? — oh what a New Year! Announcer : Please, please! Quiet! What s wrong! Agi (interrupting): No, your highness. If you will permit me to say so, this is the happiest night of my life. . . . Vega and Capella may be seen to best advantage tonight. Alexandra: What is Vega? Agi: A green star which is a thousand times brighter than the sun. Guiderius: Fear no more the heat o the sun! Simo: The sun is always with us just like death and taxes. Announcer: Please, please . . . True-olue Harold and Little Nell (singing loud- ly): On a Bicycle Built for Two. Messenger: Pentheus lay on the ground utter- ing a thousand groans, for he realized that death was near . . . his mother was the first to begin the sacrifice . . . she seized his right arm, and bracing her feet against his miser- able thigh, pulled off his shoulder . . . and as for his head, the mother seized it. (Continued on Page 82) 12

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Highlights in the ears 1 News 933- ' 934 OCTOBER 1Q . . . Parade Night festivities, absent from the campus the previous year, were resumed. The freshman song, to the tune of The Old Grey Mare , was parodied by sopho- mores, one of whom discovered the tune and words by eavesdropping on Wyndham roof. OCTOBER lj . . . Freshmen received Ian- terns from sophomores in the dignified and tra- ditional Lantern Night ceremony in the Cloisters. OCTOBER 16 . . . Jane Addams, in the first of the Anna Howard Shaw Memorial lectures, inaugurated a celebrity-studded lecture season, including such speakers as Vera Micheles Dean, James Stephens, Edna St. Vincent Mil- lay, Alexander WooIIcott, Shane Leslie, Clay- ton Hamilton, Stephen Vincent Benet, Dhan Copal Mul erji and Dr. Arthur H. Compton. OCTOBER 21 ... A reception attended by QOO alumnae was given President-emeritus M. Carey Thomas upon the occasion of the open- ing of the Deanery as an alumnae house. Undergraduates gathered to cheer the retired President as she returned to the campus. OCTOBER 25 . . . Flash! Class of 1937 largest in ten years, had high smoking and sleeping percentage and potentially good pos- ture, statistics showed. OCTOBER 51 . . . The freshmen were given a scavenger hunt by the seniors, and the prize won by the Hardenbergh - Jackson - MuIIer - Seltzer team. Included in the list of articles to be procured were Mrs. James Chadwick-Collins in evening dress and baby bonnet, members of the faculty in red neckties, mousetraps, empty beer bottles and live dogs. NOVEMBER 7 . . . Flash! Plug-in radios lawful. Miss Park announced, causing sighs of reliel among those who had heretofore con- cealed them in fireplaces and large flower vases. DECEMBER 20 . . . Flash! Plan lor a comprehensive examination in the major field proposed by Curriculum Committee. To test the power of the students to use and apply the information which they have gathered from courses and reading, said Mrs. Manning in a News statement. DECEMBER and JANUARY . . . Interest in Katherine Hepburn ran high, what with her successful picture. Little Women, her very bad performance in a worse play, The Lake, and a Screenlana Magazine article referring to Bryn Mawr s soaring eagle. FEBRUARY 24 . . . Those freshmen who passed succesfully through ordeal by bluebook put on a melodram a, Never Darken My Door Again, which was highly praised. Sophomores failed to discover the class animal, a small green turtle. MAY 1 . . . Splendid weather made memor- able the first Little May Day to be enjoyed by the Class of 1957. Hoop-rolling, songs, sau- sage and strawberries had their parts in the tra- ditional festival. MAY 11-12 . . . The Glee Club was ac- corded plaudits for its production of The Gon- doliers, in which many of the Class ol 1937 had minor roles. 14