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WELLESLEY, MASS., OCTOBER 22, 1942 __...._.... $11,513 Pledg , ~d Distribution Revealed Shy Maidens Vent Wrath On Axis Alumnae Group By Residential Survey To Service F!und The percentage of Southern By Salvaging Tin Cains For Scrap To Convene on students has increased 20 % over Last Year's Goal Topped as last year's figures, a release Wellesley hasn't any jalopies or an opportunity ! Some enterpris <: War Problems 1,334 Students, Faculty from the President's office of spare boilers to contribute, so it ing voluntee wear riding boots the geographical distribution of went into the kitchen. We all to effec: ~ •' _ 1 rocess-it gives a Pledge Generously Wellesley students indicates. The know about the food problem and smoother finish, they say. Club Heads, Former Class Singing, joking, and friendly At the close of the official can number of foreign students war, but now there's the tin can Presidents to Discuss shows a slight decrease. Other problefl1, too. The metal which horseplay speed the work to such vassing week Service Fund has an extent t hat most groups find War-Time Wellesley reached the grand total of $11,- sections remain in almost the har bors our peas and our corn same position. The total en must somehow be made available their weekly quota completed in 0 btaining a first-hand picture 513.53 with pledges from 1,334 less than an hour instead of in the students and faculty members. rollment of 1,511 · is approxi for shells to be directed at muni of the problems facing Wellesley tio·n plants and destroyers which three hours they were told to allot Thanks to the hard work of the mately identical to that of the College due to the war, the Alum last three years. harbor potential destruction for for the salvaging. A little while nae Council, composed of the Service Fund House Representa ago Pomeroy made a near record u . Hence tin can salvaging ! Presidents of all former classes tives the Fund is only about 1,500 New England 29.9% by finishing in a mere 35 minutes. Each dormitory use up the con and Presidents of the Wellesley short of its expected goal. Middle Atlantic 40.0 % The college trucks transport. the tents of approximately one barrel Clubs all over the United States, There are till quite a number Southern .. . 7.0% tin to the Wellesley Salvage Com of cans a week. Then student vol will meet on the campus Thurst. of individual contributions to come Middlewestern 18.3% mittee which sees that the scrap in. Contributions from Proms, Western 2.5 % unteers get to work one afternoon. Friday, and Saturday, October 22~ reaches its proper destination 24. Junior Show and other college ac Foreign ...... 1.8% Required costume: wor kmen's gloves and old clothes. Props: which is ultimately those shells. tivities are expected to swell the The purpose of the Council will iodine in preparation for all emer Tin can salvaging is no t. only a total to reach the announced goal be to find how they can most ef First Faculty Recital gencies. good outlet for suppressed desires, of $13,000. The total pledged this but it gives one a new slant on fectively support the college in war The first step in the procedure year is far ahead of last years' what goes on behind the swinging time, and how they as individuals Features Mme. Averino is soaking the labels off in the total of 9,871.90 but only $3,- doors of the dining room. Did you can aid t he war effort. The 200 The first faculty recital of the big sinks. N ext. comes t he fun of 857 .20 of the amount pledged this know that ch efs with big white members expected ' to attend wm year will be given in Billings Hal1, . using the large, professional look year has already been collected. hats still reign in some houses in live in Tower Com:-t, Claflin, and • Monday, October 26, at 8 p. m., by ing can openers to detach the ends spite of the draH? The tin can Severance. Number of Amount Mme. Olga A verino, Instructor in of the can. And after t his series crews say the kitchen looks sur Pledges Pledged Voice. Accompanied by Miss Mar of preparations the ca1 ,::; ar e i·eady rea listic in the monel metal armor Thursday's Program Beebe 78 476.50 garet Macdonald, Instructor in for flattening. Following a formal dinner at Cazenove 507.00 that you could hide a herd of cows 68 Music, the program promises many 6 :30 p . m. in Tower Court, Thurs Claflin 647.00 Stepping on tin cans is fun, behind the cans of milk in Stones's ...... 90 interesting presentations. The pub day evening, the members will hear Crofton ...... 17 170.20 we're told by the salvagers. As refrigerators, and sometimes there lic is cordially invited to attend : a group of speeches on how the Davis ...... 71 498.00 an outlet. for suppressed desires it are samples from Tower Court's I is unmatched. To stamp, to war is affecting the college. Mrs. Dower ...... 23 217.00 Consolati e spera mammoth bakery shop. Tin can squash, to crush def~nseles s tin squashing is almost as intriguing Mary Ewing, Dean of Residence, (Conti1iued on Page 6, Col. 5) Domenica Scarlatti cans which can't fight back-and and Mrs. Ralph Church of th e Spesso Vibra per suo Gioco still not feel ungentlemanly-what (Continued on Page 6, Col. 4) Class of '14, President of the Alessandro Scarlatti Two Sections to Hear Alumnae Association, will preside. Galdo Sangue Speaking on "The War's Effect Fourth Marriage Talk Le Violette Junior Show Launched; on the Administration," Mrs. Gia il Sole de Gange Midge Wolfe Announces Lt. Parker Will Theodore Haffenreffer '11, will te11 "Marital Adjustments in Rela Con che Soavita of some of the problems the college tion to Children" will be the topic Claudio Monteverdi Cast; Rehearsals Begin Talkon WAVES faces in that direction. discussed at the fourth marriage . s· , !ti t!Or" The e ffect of the war on the J u111or aow i~ i·eaL-1 r•... · Jer wi:.y Li ... : ten:rn'. H a- riet F. P .~ .rker. C'est l'E xtase . . Claude Debussy calendar will be rtiscussed by Dean lecture. Two sections will meet ll Bleaure dans mon Couer now, with rehearsals starting this head of the Naval Officer l'hx:ure separately Monday, October 26, week. The cast was chosen from ment Bureau of the Women's Naval Lucy W ~ lso1 1, and the effect 0i ·~h~ L'Ombre des Ardres war on the student body, the re and Thursday, October 29, at 4: 40 Cheveaux des Bois try-outs by Midge Wolfe, Chair Reserve, will come to Wellesley to man of the Show, Betty Aufsessor, speak informally to students about sult of the new entrance require p.m. in T. Z. E. to consider the Larmes ...... Gabriel Faure ments and the withdrawals of stu Aurore Joan Goodnow, Mar ian Nelson, the WAVES, on Navy Day, Oc problem. The meeting will be J ean Stone, Roberta Jean Richard tober 27. She will have dinner i·n dents will be explained by Mrs. half lecture and half discussion Prison Kerby-Miller, Dean of Freshman. Mamdoline son, and Ann Loeb. Rehearsals the main dining hall at Tower and will be handled Jointly by Mrs. are under the direction of Betty Court with representatives of Col The academic life of the college Florence Kluckhohn, of the Sociol Soir with a special emphasis on those Notre Amour Aufsessor, Chairman of P roduc lege Government and the Place ogy Department, and Dr. Mary tion, and Joan Goodnow, Director. ment Office, which sponsored her departments most pertinent to DeKruif, of the Department of III Midge Wolfe announced the cast visit at the instigation of Miss war effort will be the topic of a Hygiene and Physical Education. Trepak) From the cycle on Monday as follows: McAfee, who wished Wellesley to speech by Miss Louise McDowell, This method of sectional meet Berceuse) "Songs and Dances Dancers observe Navy Day. Professor of Physics. ings in order to discuss the prob of Death" After dinner Lt.. Parker will de Dean Ella Keats Whiting will lems connected with marriage more Modest Moussorgsky Those who will take part in the scribe h er activities, the methods close the meeting, speaking on informally is an innovation this Souvenir de 1non Enf anee dances : Rosamund Gethro, Ann of becoming a WA VE, and what "The Ju tification of a Liberal year. Seniors whose last initial Igor Stravinsky Pringle, Elizabeth Barker, Valerie the WAVES do. Following her Arts College in War-Time." falls between A and L are being La Pie Boisseau, Patricia Ryan, Margaret talk she will remain to answer Business Sessions asked to attend the Monday meet Le Corbeau Cobey, Mar jorie Sheppard, Mar questions and to meet students. Friday will be devoted to the ing, and the rest the Thursday Cana.rd guerite Atkinson, Isabelle Auri business sessions of the Council section. Tilimbon ema, Claire Freedman, Mary Juke Box Adds Melody meetings. A report of the work of Boardman, Estella Levi, Barbara t he Association since the last Coun Lotz, Ella Viall, Nancy Day, To Recreation Lounge cil will be given, and the revision Frances Roche, Jean Stone and Lonely Hearts and Upset Students A nickelodeon is at last gracing of the bylaws of the Ass9ciation Aye Anderson. the upper floor of the Recreation will be dismissed. Se,ek Information Bureau Service Singers Building, and the hall is ready and Entertaining the members of the The songs in the show will be waiting for those who have the Council, the Executive Board will nickels and want to let the
fact that the Industrial Revolution brought an Long Weekend . • . era of abundance where the problem is not K. L. '44 scarcity but the maldi tribution of buying She planned to go to Gloucester, Member To dear old Gloucester town, Boo! power. And watch the nets and seaweed Wellesley freshmen don't seem i4ssocicled U>llee>icle Pres\ And the fi sh piers brown. "The more millionaire a ociety can pro half so awed by the upperclassmen Distributor of duce," declares the editorial, "the le uff er She planned to go to Broadway, as a poor Sweet Briar '46er who Colle6iafe Die>est ing that society will experi n e in the lower To the lights in old Times "was so upset over the menacing Square- qEPRE91!NTeO FO " NATIONAL ADVERTISING 8'¥ brackets, bccau e there are greater tax our e faces of certain members of the To zebra stripe in the Stork Club, · sophomore class that she spent the National Advertising Service. Jnc. throuO'h which to upport the untalented.'' And the rhumba there. College P11blishers Representatwe better part of the evening in an 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK Ill . '\' . The Po t ignores the fa t that it i unequal upperc1assman's closet!" CKICAGO • BOSTOll • Los ,.,..t:'ELf:S • SAN FRI rtCISCO She planned to go to Fort Bragg di t ribution of wealth which make charity To see a lieutenant's bars My Name Is Smith nece sary; that the majority of the "untalent And the bayonets and para~hutes The Wave and Smith have been WELLESLEY, MASS., OCT. 22, 1942 And little jeep-cars. getting along famously, it seems. Puol1shen weelily Septe11;1>er tu June. except during e(L" ·de ire not charity from the rich, but an examination.· anrt school v Dr. Proctor Points to Sleeping, Eating Top "Musts" For Last Word Tryouts Placement Office Lists Career Girls of 1942 "The Generous Soul" as Stay-at-homes over Lo.ng Weekend Last Word is ca1ling in all N ews continues the list of last try-out material; the final dead Model for Inspiration year's seniors and their jobs. by Kay Sears line will be indexed next week, Asserting the superiority of but J oan Hubel '43, E ditor , H elen C. McCulloch, Resear ch, J esus' pr inciple of love over the "Oh, dear ," mourned Lou Dodd my credit just doesn't rate with would like all material at Shafer Moody Investors, N ew York. earlier principle of equa l r equital, '46, "What a time for my Prince the r ailroad company.'' But some by Mo nday, October 26, at 10 Janice H. McGowan, Studying P rofessor T. H ayes Proctor of the Philosophy Department delivered t on man to get appendicitis!" as surprising motives have turned up. p.m. if possible. Everyone is Secr etarial, K . Gibbs, Boston. she slid into a drug store booth to For example, one girl told us that invited to h y out, according t o t he sermon, "The Generou Soul," commiser a te with the other long a man at home was going to get the following r ules : A'l ice McGrillies, Service Manager, at Houghton Memor ial Chapel, weekend st ay-at-homes. "Well,'' himself un-engaged during that lowing r ules : P ersonnel, R. H. Macy's, N ew Sunday, October 18. A ccording to yawned Julie Janeway '46, "Long weekend, so she just can 't return 1. Crit icize Mar ch, September, York. t he idea of love, Professor Proct er weekend in Wellesley is my chance -yet. Smartest student on campus and Oct ober issues, giving Louhe C. Martien, Studying Medi explained, it is "the devoted souls, suggestions for fur ther im the nobly foolish," who are t he to catch up on some sleep before is the one who had three enticing cal Social Service, W estern Re Mother comes here ; she knows per invitations for long week-end; she provements. t rue creators of value. fectly well that cosmet ics can't couldn't make a choice, so ended 2. Criticize t he t hree articles serve. Throughout ancient times Pro put t hese dark circles u nder my up by asking all three friends to (to be f ound on the desk in Marilyn Miller, Teaching F rench, fesso1· Proctor continued, ' there eyes." Gett ing right down t o funda come to Wellesley. P.S., they're the Office, 136 Green) , and High School, Duxbury, Mass. were two standards of good con mentals, all the stay at homes all coming ! tell why they would or would Mar tha M. Miller, Curtiss-Wrig ht duct: conformity to custom, and put sleeping and eating at the top Another Tedeeming f eature about not be s uitable L ast Word Compan y, St. Louis, Mo. the "ancient myth of justice," the lex taii onis. Although the lex of their MUST list. To sleep for staying in Wellesley, accor ding to material. J ean M. Mont ague, Bonding Dept., talionis has often been misinter two days and then observe Sun the expert pr ocTastinat ors, is to 3. Sell five subscriptions, if Employers' Group Ins. Co., Boston. pret::d as a principle of r evenge, day as a day of rest seems to be finis h all those little "t hings to possible. Marilyn MoTse, Selling, Hale's it marked a gr eat advance in man's the most popular vacation sport. do.'' " Like buying a new bulb for Music Stor e, Wellesley. moral thinking because it inferred A few or iginal souls promise to the 20 watt candle I've been study P r iscilla Morse, A:;sistant t o Chief the returning of an equal good for var y the r outine with frequent ing by,'' said Oden Makay '46. Clerk, Federal Savings and Loan, Alumnae Council- an equal good, as well as an equal and frightful m eals. "Sardine "And I may even get my bicycle Nat ick, Mass. evil for an equa l evil. sandwiches and caramel sundaes tires pumped up.'' One of the Vil (Continued from Page 1) Josephine Morton, Training Squad, If this principle were true, how at midnight, three nights in a r ow, fire wardens claims her special give a t ea at 4 :00 p. m. Friday R. H. White's, Bost on. ever, this world would not be just, and I'll be ready for eight more project is to learn whether the Janet E. Mueller, Banker's Trust weeks of higher education," gloats evening, in the Recreation Build for no ma n would make a grea t windows are open in a fire drill and Company, N ew York City. contribution and t he world would Barbara Chapline '46. Some of the ing. The Emer iti Professors of the shut in an air raid, or what . Three Laurie L. Murr ay, Chemist, Du never be any bett er from genera less daring claimed that a bar rel students intend to stagger the College ar e also invited. P ont Company, Wilmington, Del. tion to genera tion . "Morality in of coke and two car tons of Ches library staff by repor ting for the "What Wellesley Alumnae A re Grace Nangle, P er sonnel, Hygrade equal t er ms cannot inspire to terfields (adv.) would see them officially conducted tour of the Doing and Can Do, as Clubs and Sylvania Company, Salem, Mass. boundless cr eativity." safely t hrough. archives which they have missed Individuals in the War Effort" Marybelle N eal, Society Desk, In As the ultimate goal, P r ofessor Of course the ominous threats to so far. A set of roommates at dianapolis Time3, Ind., Indiana. Proctor insisted, people must ac toss off a few sour ce themes or will be the subject around which Eliot have carefully preserved a Margaret Needles, Statistical, cept the sta ndard of God's perfec bring the psych reading up to date stack of Sunday New York Times, the Friday evening session wil1 Guar anty Trust Co., New York t ion. The good man has morality wern handed out by some. We in ordeT to read $1.80 worth of center. Mrs. Ber naTd Chandler '14, City. with the inspiration of c reativity. found one sophomore who has them. Chair man of the National War Beatrice Norton, Civil Service, "He only is a wise man," Professor spent the last three days painting Washington, D. C. Service Committee of the Alumnae Proctor asserted, "who wants his a Do Not Disturb sign, but in Sue Gray Norton, Laboratory, Na TAKE A TIP Assoication, will preside over the pupils to be wise, even wiser than general the gals plan to rise above tional Cancer Institute, Bethesda, meeting t o be held in the Great he.'' Thus, teachers, doctor s, and the pressing problems of para Maryland. Durgin Park's Hall of Tower Court. social workers have to get away mecium and the Gr eek historians. from the idea of moral equality, Main literary pursuits will be the THE PLACE TO EAT Representing the womens' serv Dorothy W. Olsen, Junior Statis and give more t han they receive. answering of letters-one provi ices, Lieutenant Joy Lawrence '26, tician, F ederal Deposit Insurance In that under the pr inciple of dent student has already laid in Associate Director of the WAVES, Co., Washington, D. C. love, religion is the inspiration to a supply of penny postal cards. will address the group briefly on Louise H. Ormond, Studying medi creative activity, Professor Proctor "At least I have to get ar ound to C.A. Corner the part that the WAVES play in cine, Rochest er Medical School, argued, cience and religion are the letters I got all last summer," the war effort. Miss Maybelle Rochester, N. Y. complementary. Loss of one means she explained. At an impr essive candlelight Blake, Chief, Womens' 01·ganiza Ruth E. Palson, R. H. White Com loss of t he other , becau e both are Most of the girls who intend to se1·vke in Shakespeare, Louise Bel t ion Unit, United States Treasur pan y, Boston. necessary parts of the search for stay on campus live too far away cher '43 President of C.A., in er's Department, will speak on the Mary-Elizabeth Paul, Technician, truth. to squeeze in a trip home. And stalled the C.A. House R epresenta work of women in government Hercules Powder Co., Wilmington, Since man must inter pret God agencies. there's always the comment about tives as m embers of the Upper Del. through man, it is essential that an on-campus vacation which Buzz Cl ass Council and t he Freshman Miss Mar tha Shackford, Profes Margaret I. Pfau, Teaching Kin he interpret God through man at Barber '46 candidly added, "Well, Council. Also as part of this cere sor of English Literature, will ad- der gar t en, Youngstown, Ohio. his best, as in the Sermon on the mony, which took place Sunday, dress th ~, uncil br iefly. Joan R. Pinanski, Studying Social Mount. "The paradox of our re Miss Ball Lectures October 11, the initiates r eceived Work, Simmons College, Boston. ligion," Professor Proctor ex To Knoxville Groups gold crosses, the symbol of the Council Guests Jean J .. P.!'att, P ersonnel, The plained, "is the unfairness of God." World Student Christian Federa Chairman of the Council Pro Breeze Company, Newark, N. J. Yet the unfairness is the unfair "Inter-American Organization tion, from Margar et Williams '43, gram is Virginia Weakley Robert5 Elizabeth M. Porter, Quaker p1·oj ness of love, as shown in the par and Post-War Reconstruction" was Senior Vice-President of C.A. '26, and special guests at the ect, Mexico. able of the prodigal son. the subject of a lecture given by House Representatives Council will be Mrs. Jane Hemen Elizabeth K. Ralph, Engineering In conclusion, Professor Proctor Miss Margaret Ball of the Welles way Gordon '30, President of the Assistant, Foote, Pierson Co., urged that the people give up their ley Political Science department, C. A. house representatives plan to spread the movement, already Kansas City, Missouri Club; Mrs. Newark, N. J. petty selfishness and do the maxi on October 17, to the World Affairs Virginia Ballweg Krieg '31 of the Elizabeth W. Reid, Engineering mum good of which they are Study Group of Knoxville, Tennes begun in some hou.ses, of holding Sunday evening hymn-sings. Mun Indianapolis Club; Mrs. Sarah Assistant, Curtiss-Wright Co., capable. "All that we can do see. On the same day Miss Ball, 1 ger and Shafer have found these Landers Howard 33, .Vice-presi Paterson, N. J. when we have done all is not holder of a Social Science Re dent of the Toledo, Ohio Club; MaTianne B. Rigner, Studying So enough." search Council fellowship, was also gatherings very popular. Representatives will also inau Mrs. Ora Rimes Kingsley '22, of a cial Work, Simmons College, Bos the guest speaker at a luncheon new club in southern Connecticut; ton. Free Press sponsored by the Y.W.C.A. of gurate informal discussions on Mrs. Kathryn Miller Smith '33 of Patricia G. Roos, Claims Adjuster, timely subjects in the houses. (Continued from Page 2) Knoxville. the proposed Long Island Club; Liberty Mutual Ins. Co., Cleveland, and Miss Charlotte Mahaffey '16 Ohio. somewhat off the beaten path, the of the Wilmington, Delaware Club. Elizabeth B. Rose, Assistant to dimout makes it more than ever Educational Director, Framingham undesirable for persons to leave it Chapel Speakers Reformatory, Framingham, Mass. without company. Professor T. Hayes Proctor, of Betty Sarafian, Chemist, ArthuT Blanche Pricha1·d McCrum, the Philosophy Department wi'll D. Little Co., Cambridge, Mass. Librarian. Hannah R. Schiller, Graduate As lead the chapel services Friday sistant and Studying Political Referendum morning, and Saturday morning. Science, Princeton Univer'3ity. To the Wellesley College News: Mrs. Elizabeth Hodder, former Katharine Schmid, Metallurgical This is addressed to those mem PTofessor of History at Wellesley Lab. Curtiss-Wright Co., Caldwell, bers of t he Wellesley community College, will lead the devotions. N. J. who will vote on the Massachusetts Marjorie R. Schooley, Scientific ballot this November third. Every Aid, Bureau of Standards, Wash citizen of Massachusetts owes it to New under-arm ington, D. C. himself and to his community to Anita R. Schrier, Studying Law, vote 'YEW on the Birth Control Cream Deodorant Columbia University. Referendum. Massachusetts and safely Sarah W. Sel1s, Malaria Research Connecticut are the only two states Laboratory, Rockefeller Founda in America which legally interfere Stops Perspiration tion. with the right of the physician to Betty R. Semple, Analytical Chem prescribe for his patient as he sees ist, Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, fit. Women whose health necessi Mich. tates the use of' contraceptives are Olive E. Sengstacken, Navy, Wash unable to obtain medical advice. ington, D. C. This law affects most seriously the Elizabeth G. Sharpe, Clerical, underprivileged women. The edu John Hancock Life Ins. Co., Bos cated and the rich are able, in 1. Does noc tot drctSet or men•a ton. most cases, to obtain contracep shirts. Docs not irritate akiA. Alice Shepard, Medical School, 2. Nowaitingtodry. Canbeued tives, and, by going to another right after shaving. Ya1e University. state, receive proper medical ad 3. Instantly stops perspiration f« Mary Simmons, Laboratory Tech vice. W e are fighting a war against 1 to 3 days. Prevents odor. nician, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, dictatorship; shall we allow a 4. A pure, white, greaselns. Ohio. stainless vanishing acam. powerful minority to destroy medi Virginia B. Simpson, Engineering S. Awarded Ap;>roval Soa.l o( ca1 freedom? We are fighting for American Institute of Launder A3sistant, Curtiss-Wright Co. equality; shall we allow a law €, 1:J'~ being harmless to Elizabeth L. Skean, Studying which affects only the poor and the Business, Katharine Gibbs. ignorant? Every member of the Grace F. Smith, .Payroll Per college community MUST go to the sonnel, Western Electric Co., Kear polls and vote to abolish this law ney, N. J. which fosters needless suffering. Mary B. Smithers, Studying Phar 1943. macy, Boston. Air Raid Jacque1ine M. Sparks, Laboratory, To the Wellesley College News: Calco Chemical Co., Bound Brook, Notices of air raid signals have (Continued on Page 7, Col. 2) (Continued on Page 7, Col. 3) WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, OCTOBER 22·, 1942 5 ctrampu~ Shows Rousseau Overtones 'Miniver' Downs At Fall Opening Ruth Posselt ls Best in Ourrent Systems 'Barrets' Tops The I nstitute of Modern Art at Modern ,Compositions 210 Beacon street, is opening ' its Ruth Posselt's concert in Alum For World State Barn's Record fall seaso~1 with an important nae on Wednesday, October 12, showing of works by Henri (le showed that she is a violinist whose The final scenes from Mrs. Douanier) Rousseau, the gr eat forte lies in playing modern music. Miniver and the closing elegance HIS IS THE ARMY, due here In Smash Hit French p~inter of the late 19th A look at her program gives a of E lgar's P omp a,nd Circumstance TNovember 16 is being published and early 20th centuries. The ex clue to her own preference bring the realization that here is in book form, according to the Birdsall, Alcorn Very Fine hibition, which is an abrido·ed edi Handel, Veracini and Cesar Franck more than just a st ory of family New York Time. . An edition of 1,000 copies selling for a mere In Two Leading Roles; tion of the one earlier presented at were the only non-modern com misfortune in the saga of war. the Museum of Modern Art in colla posers represented. Although she Hatred for the enemy is not the $100 each will be sold for the Direction Excellent boration with the Art Institute of played the Handel Larghetto and burning passion. There is a ques benefit of the Army Emergency Chicago, will be on view through the Ver&cini E minor Sonata with tion in tead-"What failed that Relief. Something about the book Barnswallows Dramatic Asso that will be of interest to theatre November 14. understanding, we did not feel that humanity must suffer?"-The ciation presents The Barrets, a goers (in addition to its fabulous Was Considered Naive the e pieces were demanding fugitive Nazi pilot is not at all play in three acts and five scenes enough to give proof of her power price) is the impressive list of by Mcirgorie Carleton, Directed by Most of Rousseau's radical con a human erratic, but man, the temporaries-such as Cezanne and to interpret 18th century music. those contributing to the printed A . Eldon Winkler with T echnical race, is responsible. version: Maxwell Anderson, Alex Van Gogh, were considered crazy Neither is the well-known Is Propa,ganda Procluction supervised by Robert F ranck Sonata a test of any vio ander Woolcott, Hendrik Van and outrageous by the critics of That the picture Mrs. Miniver J. Wade. linist's ability to understand the Loom, Olin Downes, Os·car Levant, t he time. Rou seau suffered the is pl'opaganda we do not dispute. THE CAS'l' music of the 19th century. It is John Kieran, and Deems Taylor (in order of their first appear.a.nee) even wor e fate of being consid But it does not point at Hitler as Henrietta Barrett ...... Patrida Bell ered harmless and naive. Recog pleasing and beautiful but hardly to name a few. Milly ...... Laura Lee MacGillivray profound. Miss Posselt saw the man's ant agonist. The exact nature George Barrett .. . . Phillip rtuppenthal nition of the importance of his of the antagonistic force is left to * * Octavius Barrelt s tyl e· as a highly personal and so.nata as a whole and played it HILE WE ARE DISCUS · R bert M. Montgomery with enough restraint to keep it the audience, but allowing emotions SING MAXWELL ANDER Edward Moulton Barrett expressive one has been long in full sway we inevitably reach the W J ohn Walter Sullivan coming, but the present exhibit from sounding mushy. Her pow SON, his E ve of Saint Mark, de- John Kenyon ...... James Tryon ers as _a violinist--her phrasing same conclusion :-Humanity, by pite a dissenting vote from Woll Arabel Barrett. . .J ean Edmunds should put an end to the idea of its own faults has br ought havoc E lizabeth Barrett. . Elizabeth B irdsall Rousseau as a crude folk painter. and variety of tone color-were in cot Gibbs of The New Yorker, upon itself. This idea is so radi Wilson ...... Shirley Green Certainly the influence of the full play. seems to be regarded as a genuine Captn.in Surtees Cook cally new to a motion picture deal J ohn H . ::viitchell popular painting which had existed hit a mong the Broadway critics, (Continued on Page 8, Col. 2) ing with the present World War, Robert Browning ..... John M. A lcorn in Europe since 1800 was the pre a state of affairs far more favor :Miss M itford ...... Dorothy Stempf that our second thoughft-after dominating influence, the style able than the half-hearted recep the initial flare of emotionalism Gen eral unc1erstu dy. . .. John Bau er upon whose elements Rousseau tion that the play had while try Violinist Likes died down somewhat-was that The Barnswallows have a hit in built. One sees this in his use of ing out in Boston. Accor ding to our strong sympathies for the The Barretts. We might even say centralized perspective, immobile, Brooks Atkinson , the play's semi Miniver obstructed more logical a smash hit if the phrase is not frontally posed figures, strong con Today's Music comic southern character, Francis too undignified to be applied to a trasts in proportions, and clearly thinking. Marion, may be based on a far by Jane GiitM-ie An investigation of the propa drama dealing with characters so marked contom·s which set each better known character of real Ruth Posselt is not only an ex ganda system involved yields some literary and correct. The Barn unit of the composition off against life, Private Hargrove-of Fort ceptional violinist but she is also a surprising r esults which even more swallows have every right to feel the next. Even his early works Bragg and Henry Holt and Co. Inc. firmly establish the original con proud of their production, for it show a color sense and feeling for charming and gracious person It will be remembered that it was even immediately after such a victim. Except for the Nazi pilot was largely through their efforts organization which lift them out of Mr. Anderson, wandering ar ound strenuous performance as she gave there is no other reference to Ger that Mrs. Carleton's play was re the folk painting class. Fort Bragg in search of atmos ceived with such cheers of pleasure in Alumnae, October 14. Her many or things German! In pre phere for his play, who discovered in Alumnae Hall last week-end. It seems to this critic however natural sincerity and enthusiasm vious war films we may find slash the works of Marion Hargrove, that the presence of minutely rea made the Green Room seem like a ing thrusts at the Reich in its pr in who is now a corporal, and put (Continued on Page 8, Col. 3) listic detail (another folk painting different place. ciples and actions. Here, were it them into the hands of their pub characteristic) is overemphasized The topic of modern music in not for the sequence involving the lisher. in criticisms of his work. Certainly terested her greatly. "\.Jh, yes, I 'm Luftwaffe pilot, we would never * * * 'Seventh Cross' much detail is included, but its very excited about it," she said, know with whom England was at HE ONLY NEW PLAY on the rendering is not what I would call "especially Russian music.n The war-the body of the propaganda TBoston hor izon, as yet un reali tic. Take for instance the Shostakovitch Preludes had been rests with this point. anounced in these columns, is an Recounts Flight exotic leaves which are present in sent from Russia by plane only a Germany Not To Blame item called The Great Big Door his jungle landscapes. They are all short while ago. "I know they Obviously, when the life and step scheduled for the Colonial very definitely stylized. Even in the The Seventh Cross by Anna sounded tiny after the big Seventh happines~ of mankind is so com November 12. Nothing seems to Seghers. Translated from the Ger foreground, which is quite close to Symphony that Koussevitzky play pletely upset there must be some be known about this work except the spectators eye in Rousseau's man by Ja11nes A. Galston. Little, ed last week, but I like them for basic element to blame, but where that it is based on a novel of the paintings, the forms are modelled Brown and Company. 338 pages. what they are,'' she remarked. lies the indictment'? Mrs. Miniver same extraordinary title. Its prin quite generally and no attempt is Seven plane trees in the yard of Miss Posselt does not think that does not suggest the condemnation cipal players are Louis Calhertt made to show each little vein. A the W esthofen Concentration college audiences respond very dif of the pilot or others like him and Dor othy Gish, Boston's former comparison with the still life Camp, each with a board nailed ferently from usual city audiences. each alone has played a microscopic Life With Father stars. studies of Dutch genre painters across it like a cross, each waiting "I like their youth-they are so role in this diastrophic tragedy. * * * or Caravaggio should bring out for one of the seven who had es interested and unprejudiced. They Too, the picture lays no blame to ARON RICHMOND'S CON the difference to which I allude. caped. One by one, four of these seem to feel no restraint about ac the country, Germany, so the search ACERT SERIES will bring to Rousseau cannot be neatly Boston such outstanding celebrities men were brought back and made cepting modern music along with must go deeper. to stand there as an example to the pigeonholed in the category of as Rachmaninoff, Kreisler, Heifetz, classical." Slowly but certainly, by eliminat other prisoners: there was no hope realist painters, of folk artists, or and Marian Anderson during the Her main interest outside of ing one cause then the other, there for them. Two were already dead. of the surrealists. His special tal coming winter season, probably music? At that question her is but one factor left-man himself But in the end, the plane trees ent is one for expressing by ap as glowing a collection of artists glance turned toward Mr. Richard must have erred. Somewhere the were cut down as an admission of propriate plastic values the exotic, as Boston has ever heard. Burgin, who was standing a few all important was neglected, some defeat, for the seventh never re dreamlike qualities of his subject feet away. "My husband, of where a fundamental principle was * * * turned. matter (I am referring here, of (Continued on Page 7, Col. 1) course, to his jungle landscapes). course," she answered readily, at overlooked, and this was reflected The main thread of this story which point Wellesley's own violin in catastrophic consequences. It is the escape of George Heisler, This handling is to be distinguish ed from the interest in the psycho teacher and (the Boston Symphony may seem doubtful that the propa -Where all the new pictures play- the seventh prisoner. Much depend Orchestra's Concertmeister) bowed ganda inherent in Mrs. Miniver ed on himself, but much also de logical, and its portrayal by essen tially literal means, which consti 1ow and blushed deeply. Yes, mar was ever meant to reach such high ST.GEORGE pended on those who helped him. riage and a career can mix beauti philosophical ground. However, if Desperately he thought back on tutes so much of surrealistic art. FRAMINGHAM A partial analysis of his master fully, if you've been wondering. his friends, his former wife, his (Continued on Page 6, Col. 3) Mat. 2. Even. 6:30. Laat sh1>w 8:00, piece, The Dream will perhaps Ask the Burgins, they've tried it! family, the woman he loved, to de Sat., Sun.-Continuoua ~ll cide who could be depended upon. make clearer some of the means Heeeee~eeeeeeeMeeeeeeeeeMMeeeet::it=1t=f~~ by which he attains his effect. No ordinary proof of friendship SUN. Thru WED. would do now, for this was the last 'The Dream' •STAGE• analysis, the extreme trial. Some In this painting, the rendering "Mr. Sycamore." Final Week. COLONIAL Cary Grant-Jean Arthur of color, proportion, and space is whom he counted on failed him; "Life with Father." Final week. WILBUR Ronald Colman In others whom he had never known in many ways unnaturalistic, but "Priorities of 1942" SHUBERT and who could expect only danger (Continued on Page 8, Col. 1) "Guest in the House" with Nancy Kelly PLYMOUTH "Talk of the Town" and death themselves from this Gilbert and Sullivan MAJESTIC connection helped him and in so Rachmaninoff Sun. aft., Oct. 25 SYMPHONY HALL - On Same Bill - doing found themselves oddly changed. COLONIAL In Prospect "The World at War" Documentary (Continued on Page 6, Col. 2) NATICK "The Pirate" with the Lunts. Opening Oct. 26 for two weeks. Ma.tinee 1:45 Evening-s 8:00 SECOND THEATRE GUILD PLAY. News - March of Time Sunday Continuous ' to ll "Junior Miss" with Cora Collins, Peggy Romano, Robert Allen. Opening Oct. 26. COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE Thurs., Fri., Sat. Oct. 22, 23, 24 Wellesley Hills "The Great Big Doorstep" with Dorothy Gish and Louis Calhern. THURS. - FRI. - SAT. Mats. at 2: 1 5 Eves. ot 7 :45 Bud ABBOTT and Lou COSTELLO Opening Thur., Nov. 12. 11 Pardon My Sarong11 "This is the Army" the Irving Berli·n musical. All service men Ann Sothern .: Red Skelton Now Playing in the cast. Opening Nov. 16 for two weeks. in Engagement Emls Tuesl1ay Irene Manning - -Craig Stevens "Sweet Charity" with Lucille Gleason, June Walker, Harlan Continuous show Sunday 11 "Panama Hattie" beginning at 5 "Spy Ship Briggs. Opening Nov. 2. Greer Garson anl1 Walter Pidgeon EXTRA! "THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY" Mischa Elman Sun. aft., Nov. 1 - On Same Bill - "MRS. MINIVER" Don Cossacks Sun. aft., Nov. 8 -also-- Official Government Film in Color Julie Bishop "The Battle of Midway" Richard Travis Sun., Mon., Tues. Oct. 25, 26, 27 WELLESLEY THEATRE TICKET AGENCY in Wed.-Thurs.-Fri .. Sat. Oet. 28-31 Wallace Beery - Marjorie Main WELLESLEY THRIFT SHOP Barbara Stanwyck - George Brent 11 Jackass Mail11 34 Church Street, Wellesley1 Mass. "Escape from Crime" "The Gay Sisters" Tickets to all Boston theatres and concerts -also-· Van Beflm - Patrieia. Dane News - March of Time Kay Kayser in 11 Hours: 9 to 5:30 Tel. WEL. 0915 "My Favorite Spy" "Grand Central Murder ~.Q~WWUdWQ;;;;u::::lQUuWW~WQQWQQQQ;;JUQ~WQ4Y.. WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, OCTOBER 22', 1942 Unity Club Formulates Ford Hall Forum Brings Ho No~ Decorating Ideas for College Stem Program for this Fall Speaker to Boston from "Equality of Opportunity in Australian Battle Front IN Fro.mMrs ..Bloom's 'Curtain Factory' America" was the subject for dis cussion at the meeting of the Wel "As I Saw the Australian Front" by Jean Werner lesley College Unity Club, Mon will be the topic of Martin Agron day evening, October 12. Out of sky, noted reporter and radio com Down in the basement of Green particular room or building. the discussion, according to Jean mentator, when he speaks Sunday Hall a little room marked "Mrs. Mrs Bloom has a finger in al 0 Mark '44, P resident of the club, evening, October 25, at the Ford Bloom" has long mystified patrons most all the interior decorating there emerged plans for three con Hall Forum. Ford Hall Forums of the nearby Book Exchange. A done for college buildings. For crete services which the club will are held every Sunday in John glance inside at gayly flowered the new Simpson Infirmary, her carry on this fall. To bolster the Hancock Hall, 90 St. Jam es Ave material spread out on a table largest project recently, she morale of men in hospitals, the nue, Boston, at 8 p.m. littered with thread, pins and scis planned draperies and chair cov club will provide magazines and Mr. Agronsky has just returned sors, and at a business-like desk erings for all the bedrooms, as well playing cards for the invalids. from Australia, and brings news over in one corner provokes even as those in the doctors' offices, Writing letters to men in the serv of the latest developments ~om more curiosity. nurses' and maids' rooms. For ice is another project. As a third bined with long range predictions Here in this sunny basement the penthouse, lounges and wait project members of the club will based on first-hand knowledg e of room behind the scenes, Mrs. E. B. ing rooms, a professional deco act as hostesses at the Temple men and events in Geneva, Pales Bloom works out schemes for keep rator from Boston, Miss Dawson, Place Center for service men in tine, Ankara, Melbourne, and Port ing the college well decorated. She was employed. Boston, October 31, November 7, Darwin. is seldom seen behind her desk, In the old part of SimpsO'n, Mrs. and ovem e '] 14. however, for she is more likely to Bloom planned living rooms for Coming speakers in Ford Hall be off somewhere measuring for doctors, nurses, and the house man Forum's program are Max Lerner, 1J o m tion Bureau- Rabbi Stephen Wise, Colonel Car cur tains and rugs, doing research ager. She was particularly suc rcontinued from Page 1) on pr kes and materials, buying cessful with the house manager's los P. Romulo, last man off Bataan material, lamp shades, rods and living room, a charming little room conflicts of the Social Schedule and Aide to General MacArthur; fixtures. Only part of her work (to the right as you .enter the book, and appease little boys from Jay Allen, well-known for eign cor consists of planning color schemes, front door), which was designed the village who want to go up in respondent; Helen Kirkpatrick, which are submitted for approval in fifteen minutes flat. the Tower by themselves, and take America's foremost woman war to the Dean of Residence, depart Another project was remodeling care of the money from the ticket correspondent; Louis Adarnic, Ely ment heads, heads of houses, or Agora society house. But her big booth, and although visitors are Culbertson, and others. whoever may be in charge of the gest job, Mrs. Bloom declares, is few and far between because of the There is no admission fee to taking charge of all the casement war, we still select and train a these meetings. A collection is curtains for Severance, Tower, skeleton squad of campus guides taken at the door. 'Seventh Cross'- Claflin Stone and Davis. Down . .. figuratively speaking.'' in her' basement workshop, college Miss Maynard was in the midst (Continued from Page 5) curtains have been turned out by of explainiJ!g that one of the chief 8ervice Fund- A. A. Notes Step by step, the desperately the thousands. "I practically see functions of the office was to be (Con tinued from Page 1) curtains in my sleep," laughed pleasant, to chat with information Lois Ladd '44, Carolyn Spauld r elentless concentr ation camp au Mrs. Bloom. seekers, and generally propagate Eliot ...... 13 131.30' ing '44, Dot Swearingen '45, Helene thorities followed his trail. They When she first came to Welles a friendly, at-home spirit, when a Elms ...... 24 194.00 DeLone ''45, Gloria Levy '45, Ruth found the doctor who had band ley nineteen years ago, Mrs. Bloom student panted in, a harrowed in Fiske & Other Strang '45 and Phyllis Fox '44, aged his hand, the riverman who worked alone. Now, however, she formation please expression in her Graduates .. 4 85.50 were the seeded players who tri had swapped jacket s with him. has an assistant to help with the eyes. As we slipped out the door Hcmestead 33 189.00 umphed in the quarter final round They _received hints from people sewing, as well as Jess-of crew we hear d her ask, "Is there a Little ...... 27 267.50 of t he singles tennis tournament. whom George had never noticed or considered. They learned that he house fame-to handle rods and hotel in Boston near the Pioneer Munger -- .. ' 110 664.00 Other winners were Martha El fixtures. Nevertheless, she man wher e a man can stay?" Noanett 54 461.50 liott '43, Marian Miller '46, Emily was in Hoechst from Fuellgrabe, one of the men who had escaped ag es to keep continually busy. She Nor umb ::: ga 9 79.50 Hobart '46, Dorothy Hughes '45, has had no special training for P omeroy ... . . 71 410.65 and Eunice Stunkar d '45. with him and who had given him Salvage- self up, The Barrets- Free Press- Postage Necessary For Alumnae Notes Calendar (Continued fr om Page 7) 'l'Jrnr sday, October 22 : *8 :15 a .m., (Continued from Page 5) V-Letters Going Abroad Engaged Chapel. L ead e r, Miss Lucy '\Vilson. wil1 force us to change our present Virginia Hope R eid '42 to Ensign 3 :30 p.m ., Long w eek -end begins. 6 :30 Birds·all Exceeds Past Record mode of life. The Post Office Department J oseph S. Bowma n, U .S.N.R., M.I.T. p. m., T ower Court. Open ing Dinner '42. a nd P r ogra m of the 'l'wenty -second Elizabeth Birdsall's Elizabeth Must we wait until the time urges the public to make sure that Married Alum n ae Council of t he W ellesley Col Barrett was one of the finest comes to get ready? Shouldn't we lege Alumnae Associa tion. Members postage is affixed to all V -Letters M a rjorie L ee Gettys ' 42 to D a vid t hings we have ever seen in a be preparing now for what is to P eck, R enssalaer '41. of the a d m in is tration will discus s "The being mailed to the armed forces -0- E ffect of the W a r on t he College." Barn production-or in any amat come instead of waiting until it is Friday, October 23 : *8 :15 a .m., overseas. Postage may be either Mem oria l Ch a pe l. Alumnae Council eur production. There was a re upon us? Aren't we being blind College Notes Chapel Ser vice. Lea der, Professor T. straint and warmth in her perform as to our responsibility not only to thr ee cents for ordinary postage Hayes P rocter . 9 a .m. - 4 p.m., P en Engaged dleton H a ll. Alum nae Cou ncil Ses ance t hat lifted it above even the our country, but also to our cause? or six cents for air mail. Ch a rlotte Eva ns '44 to Pierre H enri s ions. · 4 p.m. - 6 p.m ., Recr eation excellence of her acting in the We must acknowledge the possi It is advisable to send V-Letters B oucheron, Jr. Building. Alum nae Association Board better written roles of Liliom and bility of drafting college women as N ancy J a ne W a t er s '44 t o Lt. H. K. T ea f or Council Members. 8 p .m., going out by way of San Fran Joyce, R .C.N. G reat H a ll, Tower Court. Alum nae Pygrnalion. There was an unusual labor and arrange our courses and Council. W ar Se r vice Program. Lead set our ideals accordingly, for very cisco by air mail, since traveling Births e r, Lois Kugle r Cha ndler '14, Chair gentle firmness in her Elizabeth A d a ughter, Joa nna Elizabeth, to m a n. Speak ers: L t. J oy L a wrence '26 that proved a serious and t hor ough few of us now feel that we could time is cut by about three days. Mr. a nd Mrs. R obert Green H a ll, III fro111 the WAVE S to spea k for the directly aid the war effort by (Julia Schmidt ex-'43). Service and Miss Maybelle Bla k e from study of the character as well as a All V-Letters once received at the T re.asury W a i· S,avings Sta ff t o greater maturity as an actress than skilled defense or farm work. San Francisco or New York are speak for the Government. *9 p.m. - F .L. and D.C. '45. 1 a.m., Alumnae H a ll. W ellesley U nit she has ever displayed before. In given the quickest dispatch over Campus Crier ed rations Carnival Ba ll. .rick et s the light of the high quality of her Lost Souls seas. $2.20 per couple. Lost: D a rk green P a rker Pen , silver Saturday, October 24 : *8 :15 a.m., portrayals, this is the greatest To the W ellesley College News: top, n a me o n it. P lease r eturn t o Memoria l Ch a pel. L ea d er, M rs. E lis praise we can offer. For several Sundays now I have N aomi Buch olz, Pomeroy. a beth Hodder. 9 a .m. - 12 noon, Pen dleton H a ll. Alum n ae Council Ses John Walter Sullivan's Edward seen ensigns and soldiers wa nder sion. *10 :30 a .m . - 8 :30 p .m ., A lum n ae Moulton Barrett, never failing in ing around the campus looking for H a ll. W ellesley Unit ed Nation s Car Radio Program n i val Ba zaar . Booths under the !> p on its stern cruelty, ran a close second some one to show them around, WBS will be off the air tomor sors hip of nation.al groups of the to Miss Bir dsall's performance. He go for a drive or just to talk to. Un ited a t ion s. Ch a ract er istic a rti row but will resume its after cles for sa le a nd fl oor sh ow at inter was hampered, however, by a role It seems a shame that t here is 110 dinner hour Mo-nday, October 26. vals. Ad mission 55 cents. *12 noon - t h at was somewhat overdone. John place where they could go, and 12 :30 p .m., Galen L. Ston e Tower. obtain names of girls who would Next week's programs are as Car illon Mus ic. Miss R is ley and Mrs. M. Alcorn as Robert Browning was follow: Scott. 12 :30 p .m ., Tower Cou rt. Clos suffiently boyish and poetic, but be willing to entertain them for ing lunch eon. 8 p. m ., A lumnae H a ll. the afternoon. Would it be possi Mon.day, October 26 Exhibition of Intern a tiona l D a n ces. his perfor mance might have been 7:·00 Anti-Blues Serenade Admission 55 cen ts. T ickets for a ll more varied, and his continuous ble to post a list on the class 7:30 Drama U nited Na tions Ca ~·niva l Events m ay pacing back and forth across the boards on which girls could sign be obtained from Mrs. Edward ;F. Ste if they planned to be free the fol 7:45 Campus Organization Pro vens, 10 Hawthorne R oad, '\Ve l~3s l ey stage in the third act suggested Hills. T el. W e i. 0666 . lowing Sunday and would be wil gram Sunday, October 25: The us ua l ch a p first night nervousness rather than Wednes~ay, October 28 el service w ill b-e omitt ed. 10 :30 p .m ., the mental anguish of a man whose ling to give "these lost souls" Long week -en d en ds. some of their time ? This list could 7:00 Your Wellesley Reporter M on day, October 26: *8 :15 a.m., love has refused him. 7:15 The Literary Corner Ch a pel. Lea der , M iss Lucy '\Vilson. be left at the Information Bureau 7:30 Classical Music 4 :40 p.m., T .Z. Jjj. Ma rriage I .. ecture. Montgomery Does Good Job at Green Hall. 7 :45 p.m., Recr eat ion B uilding. Math '43. ema tics Club . 8 p .m ., Billings H a ll. Robert M. Montgemery as the Son g Recita l, Mm e. Olga Averino. J11nior Show- Tuesday, OctobQ.r 27: *8 :15 a .m., seventeen-year o1d Octavius turned