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...flying pennants. This year's opening Twelfth Night was greeted with morning-after queasiness by the critics: Illyria became a British seaside resort circa 1830, and most of the cast appeared to be on shore leave from H.M.S. Pinafore, including tremolo-prone Katharine Hepburn, an exponent of the Bryn Mawr school of Shakespearean diction. The Connecticut Stratfordians followed up with a becalmed Tempest. Expected later with some foreboding: Movie Actor Robert Ryan's Antony to Katharine Hepburn's Cleopatra...
...Baltimore, following a long commencement program at the Bryn Mawr School, Gordon F. Scheckells was rushed to the hospital with his jaw locked open from an excessively wide yawn...
Died. Marion Edwards Park, 84, the third president (1922-42) of high-ranking Bryn Mawr College, who did much to liberalize the rigid curriculum by permitting more electives, in 1926 daringly urged her graduates to seek a career-for a year, at least; of arteriosclerotic heart disease; in Plymouth, Mass...
...angry petition, attended a student assembly in abbreviated attire. But if they planned on pushing their long-stemmed rebellion much farther, they could count on a formidable adversary in Millicent McIntosh, 61, mother of five grown children, a niece of fiery Archfeminist M. (for Marry) Carey Thomas, who was Bryn Mawr's second president. Said Barnard's McIntosh, holding on to her generally good-humored state: "If we could be sure about the length of the shorts, or if we could regulate the size of the girls who wear them, it might be a different thing...
...tobacco!" In earlier days, the feeling against smoking by women was so strong that when Carmen came to Kansas before World War I, it was presented against a backdrop showing a dairy instead of a cigarette factory?and Carmen herself walked onstage carrying a milk pail. Not until after Bryn Mawr lifted its smoking ban in 1925 and Chesterfield began luring women smokers (with ads showing a gentleman lighting up, and a woman coaxing, "Blow some my way") did many women dare to smoke even in their own homes...