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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 32, H)2G
“DON’T SAY THEM WORDS, ALOYSIUS”
“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, oil'llt, j
nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen—ah.” Almost
fifteen, but lie started two steps ahead of us.
Ain’t it a gr-r-rand and gl-l-l-orious feeling to hoar
the fellows in the stands count when they see the
ball being taken back for a penalty? Don’t you
just feel like waving a handkerchief at the sweet
voiced mathematicians when they accompany the
referee’s feet with their tonal vibrations? We’ll
bet Dad counted with you, too. Who’s refereeing
the game, anyway?
Well, the unsullied goal line is a myth of the
dim past, brethren. Marietta sneaked a six-point
er over on us. In the last couple of minutes, too.
Ain’t it a crime and a shame, though ?
How did it happen? Why did it happen?
You saw it, didn’t you, and why should you- ask ?
Or say a single word? They scored and that’s
that.
,We’d have had to experience the same empty
feeling sometime, wouldn’t we? The team’s good :
—granted—but look what’s.coming on later.!
Notre Dame, George Washington, Penn, Pitt, Buck
nell, Syracuse? And if you think these teams arc|
all going to be blanked by Penn State, you’re]
hoping for miracles.
And besides, what encouragement do the sec-1
and and third elevens get other than breaking into j
a game now and then —a game that is already won
and 'which couldn’t be lost if the other bunch
played by themselves? And look at the poor lit
tle opposition—they have to get some joy out of
life! And their biggest joy of the season might
be scoring on Penn State’s third team! We’ll
wager the Marietta Glee Club sang the Marietta
“victory song” long, long into the night.
Then, too, the odds will be larger on the Notre
Dame game!
A SHORT ORDER OF HORSE-SENSE
* Do you know much about the similarity in
the training of colts and the training of men? If
you don’t, ariighten yourself. .
•;' Colts used to be “broken,” you -know,. Now
they are: “ii” hied.” . Time was when a colt was
furiously lashed by his master when he had acted
against his owner’s wishes; nowadays, the lash is
a reminder only.
A little story presents itself.
“I remember,” said the communicative soul,
“that when I was a little chap, I was riding one
day with my father. He let the reins droop slight
ly and the colt pulling the buggy began to galli-,
vant about quite a bit. Father let him go for
awhile, and then he administered a few cuts with
the whip—a lash or two on the belly.
“That act grieved me immensely. The colt
was one I loved—-I had been present when he was
brought into this world, and he had been my fav
orite ever since. I made a wry face, and asked
dad: ‘Why do you do that? The colt won’t hurt
anybody or anything. He’s only a little frisky.’
“Dad looked at me and kindly said: ‘I don’t
mean to hurt him. But he’s not fully trained yet
—and I simply want to attract his attention.’. And
right away, I saw exactly what dad meant.”
College students frisk a but now and then.
And if the reins that guide them—not drive them
—are relaxed for a moment, their, friskiness is
likely to bring about a few cuts of. the whip to
attract attention. But if they are lashed contin
ually—if they are whipped to submissiveness—
they are conquered in soul and body. Conse
quently, their spirit is broken. But if their good
will is gained by.reminding them that they have
obligations which they must fulfil,, then they be
come trained—not broken—and their spirit is the
spirit that breeds self-reliance and honor.
“The Bullosopher’s Chair”
I MAKE MY BOW
Mr. Smithers, call in the boys! A*fter that introduc
tion by the editor last Friday, I think it is about time
for a session. There arc a lot of things to talk about, and
here I go.
j observe, Mr. Smithers, that there is no hetier soda-,
tir e for the chronic disturbances of a healthy student body
than an intelligent bull session. These men around here
aren’t afraid to face the facts, if they realize what the
facts are. And I hope, Mr. Smithers, to call to the at
tention of my friends a number of these facts which here
tofore have been ignored. There are a host of things
which will bear discussion. There are also a large
number of items which, in their present status, will not
bear much discussion without a consequent housecleaning.
And I am particularly interested in the latter.
- President
Vice-President
Treasurer
I observe, too, Mr. Smithers, that a sedative in itself
for irritable disorders is not sufficient. Invariably, it
must be followed by a tonic. And that is our universal ne
glect. Wc do not attempt to follow our housecleaning with
constructive arrangement. In other words, these college
j lads are very apt to follow their noses in many respects.
Their attention is upon the immediate object—letting, the
‘future take care of itself. They don't think; they don't
observe.
Editor-in-Chiuf
Assistant Editor
Managing Editor
Women's Editor
I!. Kaplan ’2B
P. P. Smalt*/. '2B
Mr. Smithers, I wish that to be the strength of this
space so kindly allotted by the editor. Sore spots should
he discovered; but more—they should be healed. And
that healing process demands that we get our minds away
from our ills once in awhile. A world of beauty, or a
world of filth. A life complex, or a life wisely simple?
Observations. «
Business .Manager
Advertising Manager
Circulation Manager
! repeat, Mr. Smithers—observations arc important.
Call in the boys; I want to get acquainted!
K. B. Kilborn '2-
W. .I. .McLaughlin ’23
SESSION ONE
Say, you Smithers, what’s happened to the “Y”? The
Praying Band ain't as much in the public eye as it was.
Blood seems to be turned red. Honest, I saw a couple of
the Chryslers smoking the other day. Looks like they’re
getting human. Think you ami I might go to the Hut
and get acquainted?
“For nonconformity the world whips you with its dis
pleasure. And therefore a man must know how to esti
mate a sour face.”
SESSION TWO
“Listen, you all-collich loafer! Did you ever hear the j
story of Tony Morano? He was an Italian immigrant kid
who was brought to this country when he was twelve. His
uncle “iming” him, and took him out on a job with a rail
road section gang. Tony was a water-boy. His uncle
could read; just about enough to get by the immigration
officers. Out on the section, Tony used to watch the
freight trains go by, and he would catch the shapes of let
ters and numbers off the ears. With clay or coal, he’d
mark ’em on a shovel and coax his uncle to tell him what
they were. That’s the way he began to read. Tony was
a Penn State student when he was twenty. That’s going
some for eight years, considering the start he had. Loafer,
| if you had half his hunger for knowledge, and none of his
handicaps, how far could you go? Would it bo worthwhile
to find out?
-Benjamin Kaplan
Loafer: “0, hum! Wish I had a date. Wonder
what’s on at the movies? Say, wasn’t that a honey Babe
Ruth socked yester—cigarette me, somebody,” ’
SESSION THREE
Mr. Smithers, I want to have a talk with you alone. I
I don’t think some of the boys will like what I’m about,
to reveal to you, and I don’t want to hurt their feelings
right off the bat. No doubt after what I say there will be
some sort of slam at this paper from the thing I'm about
to hammer—but that would be bum sportsmanship.
Sir, I want your honest opinion on a certain question.
Don’t you think it’s about time the gentlemen who edit our
j comic supplement, commonly known as Froth, wise up.to
I their horrible staleness? We’re tired of the old wheezes
j on bottles and logs, popping corks and drooping negligees,
i In fact, I suspect the men are rather tired, themselves,
| of the dirt.
Why don’t they wake up to the fact that there is some
live-wire humor on this campus—clean stuff and actually
clever? Why, sir, I believe every man hero, several times
a day, has a good chuckle over some clever remark, or an
amusing situation, or a right funny joke. Smithers, how
many laughs did you have today? And don’t you think
these jokes would have made others laugh? In fact—here
it is—l imagine that the funny editors are too lazy to get
on the job and absorb some of the clean, honest-to-good
ncss wit that abounds on our campus, and use some ma
terial for a change that won’t disgrace the college.
A few of Frothy's idle hands should find labor, .else
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1 REMARKS ! BY
Mr. A. E. Thomas wrote “Her Hus
band’s Wife”; N. D.; Zimmerman
made it. As a.three-act farce, it was
perhaps the best example of "laugh
and-the-wovld-laughs-with-you, weep
and-you-weep-alone-ishness” that I’ve
ever seen. I enjoyed it—it was done
1 quite cutely—and the lack of lavish
I praise in this tract isonly because I
I am today inclined toward emphasiz-
I ing important minor details that the
Players forgot.
The Players, cast in, as, by, and
with Zimmerman .as The Character,
succeeded fairly well in their interpre
tation of “Her Husband’s Wife” in
the Auditorium Saturday evening.
Zimmerman, when in character, was
the acme of interpretive perfection.
The audience hung on. his words, and
| if he delayed his delivery the least,
I the gallows' trap'was.dropped from
| under its feet. Every line of Zim
merman’s was a confession of the
great possibilities which are his, and
which he shows in every role he por
trays.- Without him, the play would
have been, a Hop.
If, however, he sees this, he must
not think he is a Booth or a Mantel
he is not. Though with more coach-
I ing and a few. years more of exper-
I ience, he might be able to break into
the profession at some time in his
life. .. .
There is no second in command.
Honors are “easy” for the rest of
them. R. W. Huston served well the
1 muse, but his effeminate manner,
which accentuated itself- in his con
trolled and studied gestures, pulled
down a banner whiclrmight have been
his. Huston would do well to culti-
I vato his voice for a more masueline
tone, although, if the directors of the
J Players see lit, I’ll agree, too, that
I Huston is a valuable man when he is
well cast. .
J. IT. Vance amused the gallery
with another of his very endurable
drunken escapades. I think he was
selected to play Stuart because of his
ability to interpret The writhing of
ho snakes in the nasal whine which is
his and his alone, thank heavens!
Vance is really capable of doing the
“tale-spinning toper” to the delight of
the depraved—and deprived. He
missed a capital chance to come out
on top of the pile whcn’he refused to
work up his ire in a scene .which'was
meant to lie his very own. A'.man
should get truly mad when lie is treat
ed in the highly improbable manner
which Augustus Thomas has worked
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out in this play, but Vance went
through only the motions, conserving
his “spirit,” most likely, for his attack
on the decanter.
Miss Erma Gast, as Irene Randolph,
would have been out of place had she ,
not been permitted to use her crying ,
cloth all evening. She could ween as ,
realistically as any.“sob sister” of ,
the Loin—in fact, bettor. Rut she
“teared” so distinctively that she was
at fault with her other registrations.
If she could he hired to weep between .
sections of “The Big Parade,” she
would receive a large sum in “toarcy
alties.” (Pun.)
A pleasing voice, a sweet and snap
py smile and the emotions of a grand
father’s clock—Miss Elinor Rankin
ns Emily Endow. She was the fem
inine model of Tarkington’s “Seven
teen”—flirtatiously.* But when she
should have shouted to the last row:
“I’m shocked!” and fainted dead
away, she whispered: “/’»i xhocked”
and looked around in amazement be
cause I blew my nose and the audience
was listening to the blast.
.Who played Nora—Miss Doty or
Miss Krause? Everyone around me
said Miss Krause, but the program
had Miss Doty as Nora. Do programs
cost so very much? “The-girl-who
played-Norn” was the ordinary run
of color-blind female servant, but now
and then she exchanged feet for the
limp. She did a darn good job on
her makeup, however. An so did ev
eryone else, now that I recall.
The scenery was rotten—disgrace
ful. Don’t get me wrong—l know
that the fewer changes in a short
play, the better. And I know that
good playwrights concentrate upon
trying to have three-act plays use one
set for the whole she-bang—but why,
in the .wide, wide world— why use
| that damnable brown and grey ami
Mack panelled stutV—(l found myself
| tracing each right-angled shadow
continually)—when something much
more harmonious and pleasing to the
eye could have been pressed into ser
* vice? Oh, the horror of it all—the
‘ pathos—the terror—the tremors that
! coursed up and down my back when
; the curtains drew apart for the third
J act—in front of that brown junk!
' More attention to details, my' dears.
\ The little things niv necessary.
—The Playgoer.
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[~ Grid Gossip
With the season's preliminaries
safely under our belts, we permit our
selves a gloating smile or three when
we cogitate upon our'one hundred and
sixty-five (lGo) points total.
misfortune exacted her tribute
from Notre Dame Saturday, sending
•Joe Boland, giant tackle, to the side
lines with a broken leg am! Fred Col
lins, fullback, in pursuit with a frac
tured jaw.
An innovation in collegiate football
circles made its appearance Saturday
when tile Naval Academy played and
won a grid double-bill, topping Drake
by a 2*l-7 count and blanking the Uni
versity of Richmond, 2G-0.
Joe Ivrall, modest lad, denies that
he is an “Aggressive Guard,” as set
forth in the COLLEGIAN caption,
lie says he plays left guard.
This witticism was justly reward
ed in the third quarter Saturday
wiien Hal Hastings found it neces
sary to clip the lumbering Joseph be
fore he could flatten his Marietta
Shades of Aristotle! Ed Garbisch,
three-time All-American center and
captain of the Army team in 1U24,
nut in an appearance on New Beaver
Friday afternoon. We admired him
from all angles, but had to be revived
with oatmeal water when he mention
ed an “inherent ambition.” Do foot
ball players have such diseases?
The other All-American present
was “Bed” Grifliths. They stood
cheek by jowl for fully five minutes
but; there were no photographers pres
ent.
Don Grcenshields says his blond
hair locks are receding from his fore
head because of tiie alkali water in
the Track House -showers. Believe
us or not, that's a bald fact.
Cv’s ninety-five yard dash for a _.. , _ , ,
touchdown from kkk-olf revived stag- Frlli:, - V I > ml Saturday
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Tuesday, October 12,
You feei as badly as we do abo||
the pernicious penalty epidemic SaJ
unlay. But even Stone-face
cracked a faint and unwilling
when he saw fpiir successive penalty I
inflicted. The total yardage nccej]
sary for a first down at that pbid
was forty seven £r|
Chief Yougel appeared incensed I*l
cause Ford, Marietta guard, wore ej|
number. He insists that in the fd
ture all vehicles must be properly ju
censed. This will apply to Carr'oi
, Syracuse. : I
’Twas the hist quarter of the Marl
ietta game. Frank Mcrriwell, nil*!
Wilkes, was tensed on the bench read*
to dart into the fray. The leoa-jJ
head of the squat Bo>:dek turned a»|
motioned him to report. Wilkes
surprised and somewhat hurt wlgd
Bill Elliot, a fraternity brother, afcj
interpreted, the gesture to read “(y
!in there. Elliot. 7 ’ Before the astoJ
ished Wilkes could collect his hclori
and other articles of correct appall
for afternoon grid wear, Bro. Eilid
had usurped his position on the pfed
ing field. '.-A
Tuesday—
RICIIAKI) DIX
in “The Quarterback”
Wednesday—
DOROTHY GISII
in **Xell (iwyn“ ;
Thursday and Friday—
FLORENCE VIDOR
in “You Never Know Women”
Flense note—“So’s Your Old Maaj
scheduled for showing these days, n
are compelled to postpone.
NITTANY THEATRE
Tuesday—
GILDA GRAY
in “Aloma of The South Seas”