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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1940
Page
1
Barnard Bulletin appears as a semi weekly publication during the college year issued by the Undergraduate Association. It is entered as second class matter October 19, 1928 at New York post office under the 1879 act. Subscription rate is 3 dollars per year or 10 cents per issue.
Ruth Blumner editor in chief Naomi Sells managing editor Jane Goldstein associate editor lead the student staff roles at the 1940 issue. The board lists several associate editors and staff across departments including advertising and circulation.
The memo describes policy against distorting faculty submissions and explains a late change to a Mortarboard review. It notes a 485 word draft versus 210 word allotment, a last minute deletion authorized by a board member, and disputes over headline accuracy and fairness to criticism.
A tour of official Washington highlights new government buildings with air conditioning, the Mellon Art Galleries, and a modernized Library of Congress annex. Archibald MacLeish, Librarian, voices the culture versus chaos debate as eight liberal justices sit on the Supreme Court, robes featuring visible zippers and red velvet curtains.
Our week end in Washington was wonderful and alliteration is a vice. We heard a joke defining optimist pessimist and cynic at dinner with lines about cream milk and a pitcher. The exchange ends with a jab about business and "out on the streets."
A paragraph cut from Mr. Hechler’s review criticizes the Bulletin’s Mortarboard section. It notes dull photography and engraving aside from two campus scenes and minor faculty and junior pictures. The Glee Club photo is cited for a blunt bisecting of Director Giddings and blurred distant images.
A provocative yet flawed film based on Not Too Narrow Not Too Deep, Strange Cargo portrays prisoners escaping a colony with Joan Crawford Clark Gable and Cambreau. The drama focuses on survival on a becalmed boat as hunger and thirst bite, with Cambreau offering dignity amid a Gable Crawford romance.
A British funded film set in a Southern France school that teaches French quickly. Ray Milland plays the hero attempting to forestall fate, with Ellen Drew delivering theatrical but unconvincing glamour. The piece notes slow pacing, dated plotting, and occasional wit may save it from outright failure.
Columbia Workshop offered a musical dramatic essay rather than a traditional play. The work frames America as a land of promises fulfilled only by the people, contrasting Jefferson Adams and Paine with those who forget the people for themselves.
A Metro Museum exhibit titled Contemporary American Industrial Art shows modern interior decoration blending old styles with new materials. The display highlights exquisite mosaics, classical themes, and new media such as porcelain on reel plastic and steel textiles, with Eugene living room singled out as a standout.
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