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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1917
Page
2
In New York the Canterbury Pilgrims offers pleasant entertainment with engrossing acting and warm audience reaction. Ober and Mason provide lively performances while de Koven’s score and Leitmotive reference draw mixed praise, and the production ends on a buoyant note with satisfied theatergoers.
The Newman Club held its annual dance last Monday evening in hall and drew about forty five couples with members and alumnae in strong attendance. Chap erons were charming and the event featured rapid one steps ending with Home Sweet Home as midnight neared.
On Thursday April 19 Mrs Henry Wise Miller Barnard 99 author of Come Out of the Kitchen will speak at the chapel. On Monday April 23 Student Forum will occupy the chapel period for the last time this term. Miss Holmquist is expected Thursday of next week with a definite announcement to follow in the next issue.
On Thursday last the class of 1917 was entertained at tea by Brooks Hall Seventeen. The tea was very enjoyable, aided by Senior dignity. No one grabbed cake between four and six, and each person accepted at most one piece.
Senior tuition at many colleges is $23.50 covering a class book Alumni Review senior prom banquet and graduation costs. Juniors fund the Red Cross after votes to skip the prom. Two units will depart in May for the American Ambulance Field Service in France. A wireless telegraphy course is offered the only one at a women’s college. An apartment house with twenty seven flats and on floor kitchenettes will be built for faculty. Immigration class conducts field visits to immigrant meetings. A Penn faculty class will meet to hear military lectures and drill with nearly 200 students in the Student Battalion. Seniors will be excused from June exams in B-grade subjects.
The critique praises Mme Ober for her clear Ili goun enunciation and questions an American opera around Tomorrow by Mr Mackaye. It argues the play’s depth of feeling is translatable to stage and notes Louise’s modern, colloquial humor. The piece hints at potential Puccini-like impact if such a composer arose.
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