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2 BARNARD BULLETIN Barnard Bulletin Published semi-weekly throughout the College Year, except during vacation and examination periods by the students at Barnard College, in the interests of the Undergraduate Association. "Entered as second class matter October 19, 1928, at the Post Office at New York, N. under the Act of March 3, 1879." Subscription rate: $3.00 per year; single copy, 10 cents. Not A Pretty Story By Patricia Lambdin About Town Times Have Changed down your spine. Oh, a fifteen mile CURRENT CINEMATA Vol.

XLV Tuesday, March 11, 1941 No. 30 My father tells me sad tales now js nQ problem But herc is olie ow and again about what things were can one analyze the social codes and like when he was a boy. 1 would their changes, when six stories bc- a you i that such re- low on the pavement there is a tiny walk to the little red school house nc Qur Hall IRENE LYONS Editor-in-Chief PATRICIA ILLINGWORTH Business Manager DORIS PROCHASKA Managing Editor RITA ROHKR Managing Editor ELLEN HAMMER About Town Editor MARJORIE LAWSON Advertising Manager MILDRED KOLODNY Circulation Manager KLIZABETH HAITHVVAITE Photography Editor OKI I I A A Jean Ackermann '41 Elizabeth Koenig '41 Grace Barrett '42 Zenia Sachs '42 Clytia A. Capraro ''42 Naomi Sells '41 Jane Goldstein'Ml Sue Whitsett Ml Helen Kandel M2 Phyllis Wickenden Ml EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Deborah Burstein '43 Florence Fischman '43 NEWS BOARD Carol Collins '43 Judith Coplon M3 Denise Donegan '43 Marcia Freeman '43 Doris Landre '44 Florence Levine Martha Messier '44 Eleanor Streichler '44 ASSOCIATE NEWS BOARD Betty Elwyn '43 Betty Farrell '44 Marion La Fountain '44 Marjorie Moore. '43 Beatrice Naegli '44 Judith Protas BUSINESS BOARD Shirley Aranow '43 Lillian Kates '42 Joan Borgenicht '43 Mildred Kolodny '42 Helene Gottesnian '42 Martha Messier '44 Marilyn "43 Atny Zasuly '42 ABOUT TOWN STAFF Mary Damrosch '42 Cecil Paige Golann '41 Roberta Hadley '41 Katharine Hanly '42 Muriel Margolin '43 Madeline Ryttenberg Norma Shpettier '43 Marie Turbow '41 Assisting Managing Editor Clytia A.

Capraro NATIONAL AD CUT! SINS BY i National Advertising Service, Inc. Pu 42O Ave. New YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO Los SAH FNANCISCO 952-618 334 Some back-slapping is without doubt in order.

After conducting an intensive campaign for more participation in student elections, Student Council may find some satisfaction in the fact that a larger percentage of the student body voted in the counting is peculiar to my dominus alone, however; sad tale's of youthful ft i days are the stuck stories of all paternal parents. But anyhow, I bet my father walked farther to school than yours ever did. Because every time that particular phase of his boyhood comes up in the conversation, he adds another mile to. the journey; In fact his recital is now listed in the family records as "How far I used to walk to school, or my trip around the Apparently his trek was not only lengthy, but it covered miles of trackless waste, howling wilderness, unexplored territory, in the mid of winter when wolves were howling behind every thicket. Oh, it was a hard life! And this younger generation would soon perish if suddenly thrust amid similar conditions.

The blood is running thin. The mores are declining. We 1 need to be toughened up. We don't really know what trouble is. Not Really They can't get away with that sort of talk, I'm Life for those going to school still presents a Scylla here and a Charybdis there.

We are now facing one of the greatest problems known to men. It will try our souls, put us on our mettle. We are soon going to be tried by fire and put to the ordeal. It will demand all our energies, the gathering of the best spiritual forces can muster. we ready For Spring is coming! Very Great Problem Indeed! Yes, Spring--and in the city! New York, where every blade of grass little tree bursting into bloom? Or how can one bone lip on the nebular hypothesis, when he can go down on Riverside Drive and watch the P'ords go while the warm air drifts hrough the night? We regret to report that So by the police, slipping across endless frontiers in a perpetual search for sanctuary.

This is not a pretty picture, nor is it a particularly exciting OIK-. Oddly enough, misery hardly makes for It is the story of a former army officer 'linds Our Night is technically a weak film. We regret, it because that makes it fit meat for critical dissection. It is child's play to list such obvious defects as its episodic character, and the fact that it is drawn out, and in places repetitious. the refugees which it chronicles are also episodic and of tragically repetitous, is That the lives who fled Germany because of his times Symptoms I'm sure that I don't know what to do about the whole thing.

My something the metropolitan film intentions are the best in the world. I mean to study. Sometimes I even TM like to study. And certainly it's no lie that I have to study. But lately, oh I don't know, only lately, things give pne of the best performances have been funny like.

Know what I mean? That is, well, have you noticed how the snow is thaw- critics seem to have neglected. It is difficult to label this film: it is hardly entertainment. If you care to watch Frederic March of his career, you'll find that here. There is rather less of Miss Margaret Sullavan than one would distaste for the Nazi regime, and of the two "Non-Aryan" waifs (Ford and Miss Sullivan) whom he befriended. It's a storv of hungry bitter men, of treachery and disappointment, of lovaltv and heroism.

Adapted as it is from Eric Maria Remarque's Flotsam, it is based on its noted author's experiences as a refugee in Europe where, for a time, he peddled ing, ground's getting muddy, grass expect, and a good deal more of goods from house to house. Rer- is'greener too? I'm suddenly find- one Glenn Ford, late of The haps its one weak spot is that his ing myself outdoors an awful lot, Lady In Question and undoubted- young lovers, like their author, taking walks, getting fresh air, and ly one of the major finds of the are finally given a chance to es- singing to myself all those old songs about June the moon and you. This is a tough problem we're up against, kids! Cure What are you-all going to do about year. Only by implication is this an anti-Nazi film. You can't boo it? Some of my friends are going vei 7 terrifying.

cape, even to the United States. Only at this point do his protagonists emerge less as a per- the swastika because it doesn't sonification of current tragedy, appear very often. Even Eric than as a Hollywood hero and Strohiem's Hun, 1941 style, is not heroine who deserve a happy end- So Ends Our ing. But this a relatively minor to make mint-juleps, put them in the frigidaire 'till they're nicely chilled, and then race down to the -Night is simply and tragically the point. story of the German refugees who without passports, roamed the Drive with them, where they intend streets of forei capitals, hunted Technically, So Ends Our Night could be improved upon.

See it. E. H. to sip them under the shade of one of Robert Moses' trees. Gee Whiz! Don't let's even think about it.

Guess we better meet the matter with gravity and fortitude. It's also good to create a different atmosphere, since there's only ten weeks of college left, and a good year's work to So I'm working "Pepe Le Theater Pepe le Moko is the original, inatiori or emotions that may be French production of the novel by D'Ashelbe, done in Hollywood with Charles Boyer and rr and called Al- Hedy gicrs. The French do not stop to bother with the technical details that the American director is aroused by fine shadings as well as bold outling? But superlatives become clich- and oure. unadulterated es, pure praise, unnecessary. We have only one major fault to find with Pepe le Moko and Jean Gabin.

11 1 5 1 U.LJVJ, VCV41 tt i A JL on the following scheme. I ve hung noted for the contrary, they And that is the abominable Eng- stockings up on my mantle-piece, arouse the emotions of their au- lish Why, oh whv are I 4-4- I diences by the superb acting of such titles as "She's sure a nifty and placed cotton batting around the window-sill to look like snow. The fe counts. Where you can count the electric fan is turned on and the 1 1 1 election than has voter! in the hktorv u- lumcu on, anu tne lan idealism which pene- election man nas voiea in me msiory ro bms on the finders of one hand. o- a mv no- Ami i'nct the cast, by the realism rather number" allowed to desecrate the of the college.

i We would like, however, to address this editorial to the 334 who did not vote in these last elections. robins on the fingers of one hand. Where you pass by Central Park and yourself reciting, "This is the forest Where the slight draughts of air breezing in the window with their fragrance of fresh We ask for your comment on under- pretzels, send little tingles up and graduate elections. Don't you believe in student government? Are your days at Barnard so crowded with activity that five minutes too long a time to spend just voting? We are confident that only a few of your number would answer iiTthe affirmative to the above questions. gale is blowing.

And just before I turn in at night I read the "Eve of St. marvelous winterish poem. You know it, of course. It begins I think with the lines, to be in England, now that April's 'there!" trates their sets, design, photog- French language, whole But on the we thoroughly enjoyed raphy, and make-up. American Pepe le Moko, fell madly in critics have said that Pepe le with Jean Gabin, and can easily Moko has a tendency to drag on understand the "3,000 widows and on with none of the breath- who would mourn Pepe's de- lessness which drove on Algiers, mise." Have American critics no imag- X.

S. i Dear Madam am roud to sa ha had the lore- thousands of men in countries now In the March issue of the "Bar- sight and courage to join the dem- under Nazi subjugation who nard we learned that the Barnard Student Council and the Columbia Student Board were cooperating in formulating plans ocratic struggle against this or- would be onlv too willing to der of blood and force, in the in- terest of this university's continued existence, should we not sponsor instead a rally for to the allies, immediately? could be done to encourage participation Peace is a noble thing. But in Peace means On Sat- 1 1 I c5 A conducted a query last year at for a Peace Rally set for Friday this time in an attempt to discover what April 18. these davs, it is ridiculous to crv 7 "Peace! Peace!" when there is no pegce. Perhaps, a year ago, universities in Holland, Denmark, elgium, Norway and Rumania in undergraduate elections.

Among the twenty-five suggestions there were perhaps one or two that were practical. We are, however, again soliciting suggestions from those of you who have good rea- were sponsoring peacemlYies also, sons for not voting in college dections. i should like first to inquire: If vou have thought about the has either of these organizations 3 why don't you write a letter to Bulletin or bring the matter up at the next Representative Assembly meeting? Elections Aren't Over Back-slapping may be in order, but we recall now that the number of votes cast decrease week by week as the interest in elections wane. urday, March 8, a New York Herald Tribune editorial concerning 7 ui munitions, trans- the Lease-Lend Bill read: "The noru mm-nv- i i. I medical supplies A rr the tight.

The most important aspect of war today is production. Germany fell in 1918 not under a military onslaught of American soldiers. but rather under a great i in morale and an outpouring of American munitions, trans- the right to sponsor a peace rally in the "interests" of its respective student body? The rally will undoubtedly adopt the slogan, "Keep America Out of War." In effect, cooperate with the Axis powers. This is typical of the befuddled thinking that characterizes too many student leaders who claim to be enlightened. In the interest of a future peace that Americans will be willing to overwhelming defeat of the isolationist amendments will come as a disturbing shock to the Xazi and Fascist leaders who had been hopeful of facing a divided and weakened America," The antithesis of peace, af course, is war--that bogey word that has terrified the minds of youth throughout the world.

If we interpret "war" to mean active participation in combat, this stand is quite justifiable. I am not in favor of sending an A.E.F. to Europe. But we have sufficient assurances that such an arniv will and food. fear, than are the Fascist states, although superficially their ideologies differ.

If anyone doubts this, I beg him to read Jan Valtin's stirring autobiography, "Out of the even the condensation in March's "Readers Not only will the reader's hatred of Naziism be intensified, but the revelation of theory in practice speedily disillusion him. Mr. Yaltin "writes, "We des- i A can be sure that a college- pised the bourgeois ideals of a sponsored peace rally will delight the Barnard and Columbia chapters of the American Student Union. Adhering to policies out- lor them by the Communist Party (and no one is so naive to believe any longer that the connection is not strong and direct) the "Junior Fifth as it was recently termed, advocates 4 4 settled existence, of marriage and love, of ownership and law and order. We were the youth of international conspiracy.

Our job was destruction utter, uncompromising destruction--of capitalist society My attitude toward conventional respectability a derisive one. Policemen were enemies. God was a lie, invented CIO i America complete isolation from by the rich to make the poor be the European struggle. When the war has been prolonged to exhaus- never be necessary. 1M mat -fluid iv-iua iu ucvci UC I1CCCSS We would like to remind you that the accept in the interest a world fare is fought uy aumu same Don'ts mentioned in our editorial order that will be based on coop- anized forces.

However, it an Friday's election go for every single eration and decency, in the inter- vasion of the continent should 1 1 des Stalin content with their yoke Shall we "appease, or shall fight We students shall soon be election held in the next seven weeks. est of our government, which, I ever be required, there would HP 1S leSS des oum be tic. less tounded on hate and OitUVJlVi-ll LO O' in and mop up the remains; called upon to choose. America, 01 course, will cooper- Soviet Russia is no less despo- Sincerely, Vernon Barnard '44.