. — Page Eight THE VILLANOVAN Tuesday, March 7, 1950 THIS ISSUE: ARIZIN SOUVENIR INSERT New Exhibit at Library Neath The Spires u The Library Comer . (Continued from Page 2) ation. The latest in the current series Miss Margaret Scherer of the of pictorial exhibits prepared by Education Department of the Olve-It-A-Try the editors of LIFB magazine Metropolitan Museum .of Art. Perhaps you already have de- is now being displayed in the There are 24 panels and some veloped an instinctive Charity second floor corridor of the Col- fifty pictures including, in addi- that makes you tend to soften 0\5\N lege Library, and will continue tion to photographs, reproduc- your reactions against others, to be shown until March 20th. tions of 15th and 16th Century even when the evidence seems new exhibit, entitled AGE engravings, woodcuts; drawings, Volume 25 No. 15 VILLANOVA COU-EGE, VILLANOVA, PA. Tuesday, March 14, 1950 The unmistakeable ; probably you do paintings. Included also is OF EXPLORATION, deals with and not make a habit of nursing T> the great period of discovery, the reproduction of a rare map, hatreds. But it is almost a sure from 1400 to 1650, when the the chart of the new world made Belle Masque Builds Jacques Maritain To bet to suggest that some im- THE GREATEST physical world was expanding in>1500 by Juan de la Cosa who provement along this line is pos- from a flat Medieval island to beached 'or repair Etchlnf was an officer on Columbus' sec- Ships of the Duljch Eaat India Company of Metropolitan MuMUm of sible. It might be a good Lenten Old Theatre Set Give Forum the great whirling sphere the bv WenMl Hollar. 1647. In the ooliecUon of the Lecture ond voyage. Many unusual pic- pictures In Age of Exploration now Renaissance. Art. This picture la one of the fifty side-line to develop this habit little known LJbmry. In 15th Century Europe the tures come from the on view at tiie _. of Charity in considering our Beaumont ,and Fletcher Drama Here Next Monday world of Ptolemy still dominated Voyages of De Bry and of Lin- neighbors' shortcomings; it cer- IV. minds of most men. They Altair the BcndMibcill Games Ceme Requires Unic^e Stage the schoten, as well as from the Tra- tainly will be no waste of time, had heard of the fabulous East, TO vels of Hans Staden and Thevet's Noted Catholic Philosopher and at worst it is likely to Belle Society is in its but they knew little of the ways The Masque Dramatic Universelle. HAMBUBG HEARTH EXPLOR- Cosmographie smooth over some of the abra- second last week of rehearsals in preparation for Conducts Special Forum to get there. AGE OF AVE.. MAWB. PA. The urgent need for a sea t39yt UMCJISm UTN their spring play, *'The Knight of The Burning ATION describes the adventures 2314 sive spots in your contacts with Pestle." Considerable attention will be focused on the of men daring enough to brave route to India plagued all 15th others. Elizabethan replete with appro- Villanova campus next evening, the unknown terrors to find new Century Europeans except the The comedy, Monday March stage settings, is something which has 20th, the distinguished Catholic philoso- ways to the East. crafty Venetians who had mon- priate when never Villanova, and is a chal- pher, Jacques Maritain, will deliver special Portugal was first in the field, opolized all East-West. traffic for been produced at a group. This and Villanova series. His topic sending Vasco da Gama around centuries. What curious results lenge to any dramatic Beaumont lecture in the Forum Fletcher comedy will be a radical departure from will be "The Rights of Man and Natural Law." Africa to find new trade routes came from this need are pictured I and Colleges and Universities At DEN SON any previous production of the organization. to India. Then Spain sailed west in AGE OF EXPLORATION. Referred to by T. S. Elliot as "the most pow- A scale model of the Globe Theatre's inter- for the same reason but dis- The immediate needs of trade erful force in contemporary philosophy". Dr. Mar- ior (illustrated. on Page 7) has been the guide itain attention to himself in covered a new world instead. were not, however, the only im- has attracted world from which the Belle Masque stage crew is con- Then France, Holland, and Eng- petus behind the great discov- this field. A convert to Catholicism in 1906, he structing the set within the Field House stage. has received Doctor of Philosophy degrees from land all entered with force the eries. The Renaissance had be- The finished setting will be comparable to the several European Universities. great game of exploration and gun a a spiritual ferment in art, throughout the country CHESTERFIELD t interior of the Globe Theatre as seen in the film, world trade. in literature, in learning, phil- Since his early teaching days at the Institute Henry V. produced by Sir Laurence Olivier. It osophy, and science. And the Catholique de Paris, he has specialized in the Fifty Pictures Displayed will rise twenty-one feet from the present stage Age of Exploration and the scholastic system of St. Thomas and lectured on and constitute three tiers. The first level, known AGE OF EXPLORATION was Renaissance are but two names Thomist philosoi^y at several European univer- as the inner-stage, is used to depict general assembled under the direction of for the period of creative energy sities, including Angelicum, in Rome, and of scenes from the play as called for in the script. that was bursting over Europe. Geneva, Fribourg, Milan, Oxford, Bonn and Lou- The second level is used for interior scenes and SECOND SEMESTER LOO vain. Dr. Maritain has also lectured at the Insti- Is the largest-selling cigarette. the third is a musician's balcony. The sides of AY . , WVIL tute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, and the Uni- the Elizabethan stage on the second level are also versity of Chicago. Monday Frosh Nominate used to represent different scenes in the play and .'< >w>^ :00 for ,, . From 1945 to 1948, Dr. Maritain served 7 —Music Monday (;. as :':''(:':' "' inthis case, the homes of Merrythough and Ven- ^ 7:20—Sports j Continued from Page 1 DOROTHY HART Ambassador of the French Government to the ' •' turewell respectively. Another characteristic of 7:30—Record Rendezvous .. Hughes, C&F; Frank Rafferty, Holy See. In 1948 he accepted the position of ... 8:00—Anything Goes the Elizabethan stage is that it does not require ..- Lovely Denison Alumna, says: Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Ad-^ 9:00—TurntabJe Time C&F; Eugene Schramm, C&F; scene changes. The action moves from the outer 9:30 Ave Maria Hour Bart Star- vanced Studies, Princeton University, which posi- — John Mooney, Engr.; stage to the inner stage and is integrated from 10:00—Music to Study By "Chesterfield was my cigarette in tion he holds today. key, Engr.; Richard Cashman, one level to another. This accounts for the fast college and it's my cigarette today. Tuesday Arts; George Kaelin, Engr.; moving theatrical plays in that particular era. Dr. Maritain has written several books. Some 7:00 Music for Tuesday Daniel — Paul Solami, Arts; They're always MILDER." Since all productions in the Globe Theatre took of his publihed works are "Formal Logic," "The 7:20— Sports O'Connell, Arts; James Moser, in afternoon. plans Person and the Common Good", "An Introduc- 7:30—Record Rendezvous place the Belle Masque to Philosophy", 8:00— South of the Border Ed.; and Steve Hamas, Sc. The make use of modern lighting ^fects to further tion to "Are and Scholasticism", 8:30—Opera list of nominations is to be sub- create this atmosphere. A circular seating and "Art and Faith." His most recent book, Study By 10:00—Music to mitted to the offices of the Chap- arrangement has been proposed for the audience "Existence and the Evistent," was published in 10:30—Turntable Time fa/n lain, Vice-President, and the in order that they might also experience the feel- 1948 and has been widely received. • M Wednesday Deans of the various schools for ing of actually being seated in the Globe Theatre. ' (Continued on Page 4) approval. Approved candidates CO-STARRING IN SI II Everyone Goes to will then be eligible for election. OUTSIDE THE WALL See Villanova vs. A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE Frosh Pick Mooney And « Juniors Enter Dates Duquesne '•*-r ^ Hamas In Council Election In Queen Contest Tiiursday WIUIAM MOWAtD DOaME UMAtV ^ *V ^v'^- 7:00—Music for Thursday MNOON UNIVfKITT 7:20—Sports ?A Rendezvous Freshmen went to the polls in statistics, the Arts candidates 7:30—Record The Queen of Junior Week As a token of assurance that 8:00—Radio Theater last Thursday, March 9th., to led in the balloting as a group, ^^^Hygtt^P^ contest enters its second week the contest is on the up-and-up, 9:00—Jazz, etc. elect two student council rep- garnering 154 tallies, the En- : r 9:30—Turntable Time today. As yet none of the con- the VILLANOVAN is running %m resentatives. When the final gineers following with 100. The Recreation Committee of 10:00—Music to Study By I'ii: r^ test oflScials have been deluged this week two of the entrants in tallying had been completed, In addition to the top five the N.R.O.T.C. Unit has an- Friday ,<':." by the flow of pictures coming the contest. This policy will be Steve Hamas, of the School of men in the totals, other nom- nounced that tentative plans for Music Friday in, but then it is still early in continued till Junior for 7:00— for Arts and Sciences, and Jack inees included Eugene Hughes, Week • a Sl>ring Formal, to be held on 7:20—Sports > the game.