1931 article titles and notes Vol. III, No. 1, January 10, 19311 "'The Youngest' Proves Entertaining Production of Players' Club. Robert W. Graham Featured in Laugh Provoking Comedy; Unemployed to Benefit" (1 & 8 - AC, CO, CW, GD, and LA) - "Long ago it was decided that the chief aim of the Players' Club should be to entertain its members rather than to educate them or enlighten them on social questions or use them as an element in developing new ideas and methods in the Little Theatre movement."2 Philip Barry's "The Youngest" fit the bill very well. "Antiques, Subject of Woman's Club. Chippendale Furniture Discussed by Instructor at School of Industrial Art. Art Comm. Program" (1 - AE and WO) - Edward Warwick, an instructor at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, spoke to the Woman's Club on "The Chippendale Style in America." "Legion Charity Ball Jan. 14. Tickets Almost Sold Out for Benefit Next Friday Evening. Auxiliary Assisting" (1 & 4 - CW, LA, MO, SN, VM, and WO) - "What was begun as a Benefit Dance for the Unemployed has grown into a Charity Ball sponsored by the local America Legion Post with every indication of becoming Swarthmore's foremost social event of the year." The article listed the "patrons and patronesses" of the dance. Illustration by Frank N. Smith: "Proposed Plans for New School Gymnasium" with caption "Drawings of schematic plans for development of gymnasium and College avenue school buildings" (1 & 4 - BB, CE, and SC) - showed "how the 1.035 acres of ground just west of the College avenue school which was purchased from Swarthmore College last spring might be utilized for the enlargement of the present building into a single school plant." "Fortnightly to Meet on Monday" (1 - AE and WO) - At Mrs. Hervey Schumacher's3 on Haverford Avenue, Mrs. Clifford was to review On Forsythe [sic] Change,4 Mrs. 1 This was the first issue posted for 1931. 2 The article is referring to the distance between the Players' Club's crowd-pleasing choices of plays and an early 20th-century movement in the U. S. "to free dramatic forms of production from the limitations of the large commercial theatres by establishing small experimental centres of drama." From britannica.com/art/little- theatre-American-theatrical-movement (accessed November 30, 2020). 3 A March 27, 1933 obituary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for 60-year-old Hervey Schumacher of Swarthmore mentioned his widow, Florence A. Schumacher. From newspapers.com/clip/60956138/obit/ (accessed November 30, 2020). 4 England's Nobel-Prize-winner John Galsworthy (1867-1933) wrote several works about the British Forsyte family between 1906 and 1922. On Forsyte Change, a later contribution, was published in 1930. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forsyte_Saga (accessed November 30, 2020). 1 Schumacher was to review an article by Ossip Gabrilowitsch,5 and Mrs. Perry was to "contribute an anecdote." "John F. Conway. New Fire Chief" (1 - BB, CO, FE, and SN) – new elected chief of the Swarthmore Fire and Protective Association "Girls' Hockey Team Elects New Captain" (1 - CE, SE, and SS) - Mary Cresson "School Board Undecided on Building Gym This Year. Budget Being Prepared to Show Amount Available for Project; Seek Tax Cut" (1 - BB, CE, CO, SS, and TX) "F. Scott McBride to Speak Here. W. C. T. U. Sponsors Meeting at Methodist Church Wednesday Evening. Anti-Saloon Head" (1 - LQ, PO, and WO) - "Dr. F. Scott McBride,6 famed and widely publicised head of the National Anti-Saloon League of America", was coming to speak in a time slot that was to "take the place of Prayer Meetings in the other churches of the borough and make it possible for everyone to attend." Mrs. W. H. VanAlen, Swarthmore's W. C. T. U. president, was to "act as chairman of the meeting which is expected to attract a wide audience both those in sympathy with prohibition and also those opposed to it." "Select School Seal" (1 - CE) - for junior, sophomore, and senior class pins and rings "Organ Recital at Trinity Church" (2 - AC and RS) - by Lucius Rogers Shero, organist and choirmaster "Chorus Rehearsal" (2 - AC and WO) - of Woman's Club "Circulating Picture Club Exhibition This Month" (2 - AC, AE, PN, and WO) - "Pilgrimages of women's clubs from counties adjacent to Philadelphia will be made this month to the annual exhibition of the Philadelphia Art Alliance Circulating Picture Club." A "picture-lending plan" of the Art Alliance enabled "schools, clubs, libraries, recreation centers, business men and private individuals" to "borrow paintings and etchings by the payment of a moderate membership fee." 5 Gabrilowitsch (1878-1936 - Osip Salomonovich Gabrilovich, per the standard transliteration from the Russian, emigrated from tsarist Russia in 1894 and is best known as a pianist and the husband of the singer Clara Clemens, daughter of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). From imslp.org/wiki/Category:Gabrilowitsch%2C_Ossip (accessed November 30, 2020). 6 Francis Scott McBride (1872-1955) was born in Ohio and ordained as a Presbyterian minister after studying at the Muskingum College and Allegheny Theological Seminary. As a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon League's board of directors, McBride became involved in prohibition advocacy, as of 1911 working for the League of Illinois. In 1924 he became superintendent of the National League. From westervillelibrary.org/antisaloon-mcbride (accessed November 30, 2020). 2 "News Notes" (2, 3, 4, & 8 - SL) "Dr. Ellis Talks on Old World Conditions" (2 – CO, DC, EA, FN, IP, IR, PO, SA, and SN) - Returning from abroad and speaking at the Rotary Club of Chester, Dr. William T. Ellis argued that although communism was not going to spread, "dictators are on the increase instead of diminishing and today the countries of Europe are in a race preparing for war, which probably will have its inception where the World War was born, in Jugo-Slavia." A conversation with Sir John Reeth in London made it clear to Ellis that the British 'realize that imperialism must go', and that this applied to India, China, and the "muddle" they had created in Jerusalem. "Dr. Ellis was in Berlin when Hilter [sic] became prominent. The Swarthmorean mingled with crowds in front of the Reichstag", and learned that the 'young people . are fed up on the former classification and social ostracism as practiced in pre-war days.' They wanted peace, and 'it [was] up to America to show the world the way out.' Ad: "Swarthmore National Bank and Trust Company" (3 - QA) - balance sheet of the bank's assets ($1,677,870.92) and liabilities ($1,677,870.92) as of December 31, 1930 "'Pinwheel' Opening at Hedgerow Theatre'" (4 - AC) - "Pinwheel," whose first performance was that evening, marked the Hedgerow's 72nd production. Also being staged were "A Doll's House" by Ibsen and "Like Falling Leaves" by [Giuseppe] Giacosa. "Church News"7 (4 - RS) – Methodists, Presbyterians, Friends, Episcopalians, and Christian Scientists "Classified" (5 - CE and QA) - "Wanted - Gentleman whose business requires considerable traveling wishes to place boy and girl in Swarthmore home, convenient to High School. Homelike surroundings and good environment essential. Telephone Swarthmore 960." "Sheriff Sales" (5 - RE) "'Strictly Dishonorable'8 Opens at Broad" (6 - AC and PN) - "Brock Pemberton's production of Preston Sturges' enormously diverting comedy" featured Cesar Romero in the Philadelphia cast. "Hollyhock Seeds" (6 - GN and LP) - These seeds "from the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Russell on the Brandywine" were available at the Hollyhock Gift Shop. The 7 As was the case in December 1930, the Wesley A. M. E. Church was not listed among Swarthmore's religious institutions. 8 Having premiered on Broadway in 1929, this play was made into a film in 1931 and again in 1951. See imdb.com/title/tt0022437/ (accessed December 1, 2020). 3 announcement was followed by a poem by J. R. H.9 that began 'O for a garden of the olden time'. "New Books at Public Library" (6 - BB) "Population Increase" (6 - BB and SL) - Swarthmore's population rose from 2,350 in 1920 to 3,405 in 1930, as recorded in the U. S. Department of Commerce's 15th census. "Interdenominational Tea on Wednesday" (6 - IR, LX, RS, and WO) - at the Methodist Church with a talk on "The Rising Tide of Expectancy in South America" by Miss Martha Harman, "chairman of the Chambersburg Interdenominational Summer School of Missions" "Birth Control Clinics Described in Swarthmore Woman's Book" (7 – CP, CR, EU, OB, SL, SN, and TS) - "The Swarthmorean has found it opportune this week, while scathing condemnations of birth control are being broadcast by Pope Pius XI, to call attention to the courageous and highly intelligent work on the same subject which has just been released in book form by a Swarthmore woman, Caroline Hadley Robinson."10 The book, Seventy Birth Control Clinics, was based on Robinson's experience at birth control clinics in the U. S. and Europe, and it was published in Maryland, where "the laws prohibiting the dissemination of information concerning birth control are not as strict as in Pennsylvania and other Eastern states." Its publication, however, put Robinson at risk of a $5,000 fine and five years in prison. Much of this article reproduced favorable reviews of the work, including one from the American Eugenics Society's publication, which pointed out that the target audience - "social and health workers in family welfare groups and in family medical centers" - were "in direct contact with those strata of society which stand most sorely in need of contraceptive advice." The Swarthmore Public Library was given a copy, "affording the people of Swarthmore an opportunity to read it." "H.