Swarthmorean 1931 April 11

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Swarthmore, Pa., April 11, 1931
$2.50 Per Year
"THE BAD MAN"
AT PLAYERS'CLUB
John  Dolman Directs and Stars
in Drama of Mexican
Border
ROLES    ADMIRABLY    CAST
"The Bad Man", which may be termed John Dolman's play from both the
standpoint of acting and directing, has
been entertaining large audiences of
Players' Club members every night this
week. Admirably suited for the limitations of the Woman's Club stage and
excellently cast, the production has
met practically unanimous approval.
Here is what approaches melodrama
full of heroes and villans, gun play,
cowboys, accompanied by the stamping of horses off stage. Whether it
was accepted as real drama or satire
depended upon thc spectator, for it was
interpreted with sincerity and understanding which to many people actually
approached   realism.
It is a fast moving play, full of
entertaining characters who, as portrayed by the Swarthmore actors,
made thc most of their lines. With
a crowded stage most of the time and
a great deal of action, the characters
handled themselves with ease and presented graceful natural pictures at all
times.
The production was also admirable
in that in spite of the name, which
gives the impression of a one-man production, the parts were quite evenly
divided, or else were so well done as to
assume proportions of similar importance.
John Dolman as Pancho Lopez, a
Mexican bad man, appeared in amusing contrast to his role in "Thc School
for Scandcl", which he directed last
year. His latest triumph, however, only
added laurels to his already burdened
crown. ~"Hfc> JtM\\ evident enthusiasm
for the role was equalled only by the
responsiveness of his audience. Aside
from his own interpretation, his directing was at all times evident to any who
chose to be critical.
John R. Brownell, who likewise was
outstanding in Mr. Dolman's play last
year, appeared to unusual advantage in
"The Bad Man" in thc character role
of an invalid uncle. Seldom has anyone made an inanimate object on the
Players' Club stage perform as Mr.
Brownell did his wheel chair. Poor
casting or interpretation of Uncle
Henry's role would have made the play
quite a loss for most of the audience.
Helen Robey Glenn, as Lucia Pell,
a victim of a cruel mistake, was the
righteous heroine in a most sympathetic
manner. Misunderstood by her true
lover, abused by her selfish husband,
and designed upon by the unscrupulous
Lopez, poor Lucia found beauty and
happiness only in the sunsets. Mrs.
Glenn's voice was particularly effective
in her role and her action was alway.s
attended by grace and ease.
After these three came the other
characters, all well trained and responsive to the dramatic situations which
followed one another in rapid succession. James H. Hornaday, a hero in
his own inconspicuous way, was convincing as the sincere, conscientious
lover of Lucia. Stafford W. Parker,
Lucia's mistake, was certainly one of
the dirtiest, most contemptible vil-
lians that ever trod the stage of the
Woman's Clubhouse.
Elmer E. Melick, as a loan shark,
also left little to be desired in the way
of villians, while Elizabeth D. Hunter,
his fickle daughter, certainly had many
of the characteristics commonly associated with Mexican senoritas. S. Felton Bickley was convincing as a
strong, clean man of the open sage
brush, and to an opposite extreme
Robert C. Powell and J. William Simmons made the most of their roles as
right and left hand men of Lopez.
Ethel L. Dolman added atmosphere
in the role of a half-breed cook, while
Clarence G. Myers and Joseph Reynolds completed thc cast in the roles
of big, strong rangers.
HOME AND SCHOOL
MEETING MONDAY
The Swarthmore Home and School
Association will meet Monday evening in
the High school auditorium. D. M.
Melchior of Lansdowne, superintendent
of secondary education at Girard College
will be the speaker. Special music will
be furnished by the school and a social
hour will follow the program.
On May 5th, the Hedgerow players
will present "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary," for the benefit of the Home and
School scholarship fund, in the H. S
auditorium.
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RECEIVE BIDS FOR
NEW GYM MAY 14
Plans Changed to Provide Larger
Shower and Locker Rooms
for Girls
TAX       RATE      UNDECIDED
Bids for the new gymnasium-cafeteria building which is to be added to thc
present College avenue school will be received May 14 it was decided by tht
school board at the regular monthly
meeting Thursday evening.
The only change in the original plan?
discussed at the past few meetings provides for larger quarters for the girls-
shower and locker rooms previously it
had been planned that shower rooms for
both the girls and the boys should be
built into the basement of the second
unit of the improvement. Now the plan
has been changed so that the entire basement will be devoted to the girls, thereby
giving them quarters large enough for
many years while the boys will be given
temporary locker rooms and shower
rooms in the East end of the basement
of the present building, where the girls
locker and shower rooms and the cafeteria-are now located.	
The present shower and locker rooms
for the boys in the west end of the basement will be utilized for expanding the
heating system. This will make it necessary for boys going from the new locker rooms to the gym to walk the distance
of the corridor through the basement of
the present building but their new quarters utilizing thc present cafeteria will be
a great improvement over the present.
A tentative budget for the coming
school year was presented by Frank R.
Morey, supervising principal of schools,
which will be studied by thc members of
the board and acted upon in reference to
the tax rate at the May meeting.
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BUSINESS MEN'S ASSN.
ADDS NEW MEMBERS
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Recital
Madeleine Chauveau Minorsky of 333
Vassar avenue will give a costume recital at the Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, the evening of April 21. The recital will be followed by a dance. Mabel
Fraser will accompany Madame Chauveau.
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Some of the children who participated in The Swarthmorean's Easter Egg
Hunt last Saturday morning, waiting for the signal to start for the College
Campus.
Hundreds of Children Take
Part In Easter Egg Hunt
With nearly three hundred children
and fifty parents participating, Swarthmore's first annual Easter Egg hunt on
the College campus sponsored by The
Swarthmorean took its place last Saturday morning along with Swarthmore's
Santa Claus, the Fourth of July celebration, and other borough events which
are high lights in the year's activities
for the children.
Nearly four hundred small parcels of
candy Easter eggs had been hidden on
the campus early Saturday morning by
Henry Hoot, superintendent of grounds
and buildings at the College, and Robert E. Sharpies, editor of the Swarthmorean. It six of these parcels were
small   strips   of   paper   which   told  the
finders that when presented at the office
of The Swarthmorean they would be
given a live bunny.
Other parcels held slips of paper which
entitled the finders to large chocolate
Easter eggs which could also be procured
at The Swarthmorean office.
The winners of thc live rabbits which
had been displayed all week in the windows of the Swarthmorean office, were:
Gene Maxwell, of the Elmore Apartments, Mary Bonsall of Cornell avenue,
• Robert Bair of Cornell avenue, and
George Troxell, Jr., of Dartmouth avenue. Chocolate Easter eggs were won
by     Billie    Thorpe,    Timmie    Mercer,
j Gladys Dorothy Kimtnell, Ralph Shelley'
, and Charles Dravo.
CONTRACT FOR
UNDERPASS LET
Work    to   be    Underway    Next
Week;  Sinclair  &   Grigg
Successful Bidders
COMPLETION DATE SEPT. 30
The contract for the construction of
the undergrade bridge, sewer, approaches,
and other incidental work in the elimination of   the grade  crossing  at  Chester
road and the Pennsylvania railroad was
awarded early this week to Sinclair &
Grigg for 117,831.25 work to be started
at once and completed by Sept. 30, 1931.
The bids were as follows: Sinclair
& Grigg, $117,831.25; Young Bros. Inc.,
$156,838.50; Brown-King Construction
Co., $130,713; Brann & Stuart Co., $187,-
304.55; James McGraw Co., $139,779.25;
J. Joseph Mcllugh, $124,522.80; Forbes-
Murphy Construction Co., $119,534;
Pennsylvania Paping Co., $150,309.95;
Golder Construction Co., $157,797.50.
Mr. Temple expressed pleasure with
the bids saying that the contract had been
let at a very reasonable figure which
would probably bring the entire costs
of the project to a lower total than originally expected.
Equipment for beginning the work
started to arrive in Swarthmore yesterday and by the first of next week work
will be well begun. One of tlie first
steps will be the removal of trees on the
parking along Chester road opposite the
Shirer 'building. Walton's real estate
office will also disappear within a few
days. Arrangements have already been
made to remove and replant the trees on
the College property north of the railroad west of Chester road.
The detours around the improvement
will probably not go into effect for two
or three weeks.
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Use Old Church
For Bible Study
Jacob Mcschlcr, president of thc
Swarthmore Business Men's Association, who announced that seventeen
new members had been secured in the
past three weeks.
The Swarthmore Business Men's Association held their monthly dinner meeting at the Strath Haven Inn Tuesday
evening. Following the dinner, Jacob
Meschter, president, announced that seventeen new members had been added to
thc Association in the past two weeks
bringing the total membership to within
two of fifty. Membership is restricted
to business men whose office or place of
business is within the limits of the borough.
The Association went on record as being emphatically in favor of a temporary
roadway across the railroad just east of
Chester road while the underpass is being
built. A committee will call upon council and the R. R. to urge that this be
done.
The old Leiper Church, (Fairview
Church), located on Fairview road, just
outside the borough limits, a half-mile
east of South Chester road, has been
renovated and improved for use as a
Bible study center for the residents of
Delaware County and vicinity.
This church is one of the old landmarks of the county, having been founded in the late 1700's; the Leiper family,
well known in the history of Delaware
county, was among the charter members.
The original church was partially destroyed by fire in the early 1800*5, and
upon the old foundations the present
building was erected. It is praiseworthy
to note that a place of such historic interest is being preserved and put to this
practical use.
The Bible class will meet in this
church every Monday evening at 8:00
o'clock, under the teaching of Rev. William A. Dean, pastor of Aldan Union
church and one of our most prominent
local bible teachers. The meetings arc
sponsored by no denomination, but by a
group of representative and notable people in Delaware County; and members
of all churches in this vicinity are invited to participate in this movement.
The first meeting was held Monday
evening, April 6th; and in spite of the
inclemency of the weather, the class was
well attended, there being quite a number from Chester, Swarthmore, and
vicinity present. If these meetings receive proper support, it is hoped that
later in the season speakers of national
reputation may be brought to this historic center.
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STORY HOUR TELLS
OF GREAT WORKS
COSMOS CLUB HOLDS
DINNER AT SPRINGHAVEN
STANDS HIGH IN
CLASS AT LEHIGH
An especial but much deserved honor
has recently been awarded Gilbert Allc-
man, Jr., of Wallingford, who was graduated at the top of his class from the
Swarthmore High School last June.
"Bill," as he is familiarly known, is a
Freshman at Lehigh University. Because
of his fine scholarship and high averages,
he has been placed among the six best
students out of four hundred and more
at his university.
The January program of the Story
Hour will be given on Thursday, April
16 at the Woman's Club at 3 o'clock.
Mrs. Helen Hall will have charge and
after a short talk on "The Boy, Mark
Twain" by Mrs. Oscar Gilcreest, the
play, "The Prince and the Pauper," will
be acted by the Arliss Club with the
story by Mrs. Hall.
"Constructive Deeds" was the theme
requested by the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom on April
2 at the Woman's Club. The everlasting memory of noble deeds was manifested from Moses (told in story and
dance by Sylvia Forster and Mrs. Gilcreest) to the hero Charles Lindberg
(done by Mrs. Robert Reed and an
awaiting group of French children in
tableux.)
Pasteur was second on the program
and Mrs. Lawrence Stabler with films
revealed the many discoveries and cures
of this famous and indefatigable worker
in science.
Joan of Arc and St. Catherine (posed
by Doreen Mitchell and June Avery)
was the background for Mrs. Charles D.
Mitchell's talk on the unselfish and Patriotic life of Joan. Mrs. Lawrence Stabler sang the stirring Marsaillaise.
Mrs. Franklin Gillespie played for
Mrs. Stabler and also played "The Hebrew National Anthem" for the dance of
Miriam.
It is hoped that the one hundred and
forty children  and  thirty  adults  in  the
audience received thc impression of "The
ideal" which the Story  Hour,  with  no
rehersals,  endeavored to  convey.
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Needlework Guild
A meeting of directors of thc Swarthmore branch of thc Needlework Guild of
America is called at 2 o'clock at thc
Woman's Club for Tuesday, April 14.
Members are urged to be present.    This
is the first meeting of thc year.
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Another Swarthmorean was in an automobile accident this week when H.
Bardwell Lincoln, 123 Ogden avenue, received head injuries when his car figured
in a collision at 12th and Potter streets.
Chester, Tuesday morning. Mr. Lincoln was treated at thc Chester hospital
and permitted to return to his home.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ryan announce the
birth of a daughter, Carolyn Yvonne,
Sunday April 6th. Mrs. Ryan will be
remembered as Vivian Roach.
After slumbering fitfully for nearly
five years, the Cosmos Club, that historic organization which Swarthmore's
younger generation hears of only in
whispers followed by guffaws of laughter, met again last night presumably for
the last time.
During the years since the last regular
meetings about five years ago when
Claude Smith was president, the club
treasury has boasted about $159.00. The
thought of this money lying unused in
the bank has been too much for some of
the members with the result that last
night's party was expected to bring the
bank balance down to zero.
Dr. Arthur E. Bassett acted as toast-
master at the dinner which was held at
the Springhaven Club and the program
consisted largely of reminiscences of the
club's more active days.
Those who had expressed their intention of coming up to Thursday night
were: Charles G. Thatcher, Elwood H.
Garrett, Paul Frecdley, Geo. Warder
Cresson, John W. Pittock, Claude C.
Smith, Elric S. Sproat, G. H. Effing,
Herbert Bassett, Harry L. Miller, E. E.
Pyle, Louis King, Harold Ogram. William Bullock, J. Clarence Myers, A. S.
Robinson, Warren Paxson, Wm. R.
Main, Wallace M. McCurdy, W. L
Thorpe, Gurden Jones, C. Clayton
Wicks, Frank Kneedler, Edward Bassett, Percy Webster, Victor D. Shirer,
J. D. Durnall, C. Walter Durnall, Ed. S.
Lukens, Louis Agnew, Joseph Seal,
Harry Neal, Frank H. Griffin, Ben Collins, Chas. E. Price, E. Leroy Mercer,
John Mathews, Evans Mickle, B. E. Ef-
fings, Wm. H. Thatcher, Albert N. Garrett. Sr., William R. Landis, Horace
Seal and Dr. Earl B. Kistler.
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TWO SWARTHMOREANS
FIGURE IN ACCIDENTS
Burton Alva Konklc, of 323 Cornell
avenue, author and historian associated
with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, was knicked down by an automobile and received cust and bruises Tuesday evening as he was crossing the street
after leaving the train at Morton.
Mr. Konkle was removed to the Taylor Hospital at Ridley Park where he is
still confined. His injuries however were
not serious and at present he is suffering
mostly of shock.
The driver of thc car which struck Mr.
Konkle was John Plum, Franklin street.
Morton. He told police he could not see
Mr. Konkle because of thc rain. Plum
took him to the hospital and will be given a hearing after Mr. Konkle has sufficiently recovered.
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