Thursday, July 23, 1931
American Drama Had Real
Origin in 1920/ Clark Says
’revious Playwrights
Clever Craftsmen,
Critic Thinks
“A full-grown drama lias developed
in this countty from its first bath
eleven years ago," Banett Claik,
dramatic cutie of New Yoik, said m
Ids lecture, “The Ameucan Drama
Comes, of Age,” Tuesday night
Until eleven \onrs ago, America’s
playwrights weie no more than in
genious craftsmen, according to the
visiting lcctuiei, who presented the
fourth of a senes of talks bv visiting
lecturers.
‘Some of these craftsmen seemed, at
times, to point a waveung finger to
ward sonic valuable diama,” lie said,
'but out of the 10,000 to 40,000 plays
written in Aniei icn none can be found
that have ical ait ”
Febiuaiy of 1020 was given as the
date for drama’s birth m Amcuca by
Clark On this date Eugene O’Neill’s
first full-size play was produced. Be
fore this date, accouhng to the speak
er, no dramatic woik in this country
was genuine
“It is better to cry incoherently
thnn to say nothing intelligently,”
;aid Claik. “Before, men like Hearn
were clever nnd nothing moio ”
“The artist tak-s reality, aqd
makes a s\mbol for it which be
lomes reality,” ho said “We ;emem
ier Victonan times, not as thevweie,
nit very likely as Dickens painted
.hem So w ith all ai t.”
Modern di.imatists cate little about
dousing un audience, he -«aid Their
ntcrcst in technique is slight Thcv
iave no set lules, are unhampered
’or this teason, among others, they
re successful
Those new playwrights deal with
any character They do not seek
‘queer’ people or impoitant people,
the dramatic critic said. Paul Gieen
was his example of on 3 who “diops
down hw> net and picks up enough
sharacleis to last him foi a lifetime.”
“And a play i«, first of all, a per
son," he said “All gicat plays ie
volvc about one man ”
Claik told of the inability of pro
ucors to lend the modem play
wrights, binding them and checking
iiem, cutting and revising No poi
nt would dare to touch a comma in
lugenc O’Neill’s woik, he said
“A playwnght in Newark icfused
alf-a-nnllion when a pioducei sug
estod he should cut and revise,” said
lark “The man staived for two
cars, but he’s now among the best
f the modem field ” The man he re
irrcd to was Philip Barry.
“The new school of playwrights
enl with things and people they know
nd know* well,” he declared. “That
: why they wilte glamoioully’’
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Talks on the subject of maintaining
ertility in the apple orchaid, based
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n by members of the horticultural
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;aro, New* Jeisev, Ohio, Massachu
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Grid Game in 1932
According to a newspaper ac
count lcleascd fiom Enston, Penn
State will not play Lafayette on
the griduon in 10.12 because of
rchcdule difficulties. The Lions
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Easton
Two football games for the
Penn State eleven have already
been scheduled for 10.12 Pitt will
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buigh, and Harvard has been sched
uled foi earhei m the season
CLARK FORESEES
DRAMATIC LIBERTY
(Continued from page one)
New York’s expenenccd dramatic
critic believes
“Now, in Europe, if you say that
you once «nvv a play of Eugene O’-
Neill’s, you’ll be feted and invited to
any number of dramatic gatheungs,”
he said. “Europeans are intensely m
teiested in O’Neill and his Ameucan
contcmpoiuucs ”
Most of the cheeks laid upon dra
matists in the past have b-’en remov
ed, Bauctt Clark believes Produc-,
eis no longci tieat playwughts as
something to be slapped to the South
Sea islands while the play is being
rehearsed.
“Hollywood’s chief hindrance m its
attempt to produce genuine drama
rather than ‘lollypops’,” Mr. Clark
explained, “is that there are too
many restrictions One cannot hurt
the feeling of Tiny large gioup, one
cannot afford to offend, o ie must play
first and always to the box-office
“Owen Davis went to Hollywood,"
he said, “at the request of one of the
major studios, to ‘reform’ it At least
this studio suggested that Davis could
do a little reforming ”
“Within a month he left. ‘You
don’t really want to be reformed,’
said Davis ’You couldn’t be satis
fied if you weie leformed’”
“And so American drama will re
man on the stage foi some time,”
Barrett Claik says. “A change in ;
motion picture production is very
much to bo hoped for, but as long as
the ‘lollypops’ satisfy the public,
‘lollypops’ will be produced ”
lie smiles, shakes hands as he rises,
nnd lights a third cigaielte
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iiculturc .md home economics of
fered by the College dunng the lust
twenty-five years, necoidmg to Pro
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Professor Mairs has recently an
nounced a new fiec course n Potato
glowing, piopared bv D E. L Nixon,
“potato wizard,’’ the College roseurch
plant pathologist.
The new course consists of eight
lessons on seed selection and care,
soil preparation and tillage, harvest
ing and handing the crop for econom
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Eight fiee home study couises are
offeicd in general nguculture, eight
lin animal nulustiy, eight m horticul
tuic, six in dairying, live n home
economics, and seven in miscellaneous
subjects. A punted college bulletin
containing descuptions of all the
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PROF. YVURFL TO TALK
ON GOETHE’S ‘FAUST’
Gives 4(11 Lecture in Drama Series
Tomorrow Afternoon
“Goethe’s Faust, One Hundred
Years After Its Completion” will be
the subject for Prof George Wurfl,
of the Geiman department, in a lec
tuic on diama in room 115 Minoial
Industries building at 3 o’clock to
lnonow afternoon.
The lecture is one of a series on the
diama of many countnes, given by
cxpcits in vauous phases of diama
Previous talks have dealt w ith Greek,
French and English drama.
Prof David D. Mason, of the de
partment of Romance languages, dis
cussed “Francois ib Curel’s The New
Idol” m the thud Tccluie of the series
last Fnday afternoon.
KAPPA DELTA PI, PSI CHI IN
COMBINED MEETING TONIGHT
Kappa Delta Pi, national honoiniy
education fraternity, and Psi Chi, na
tional honorary psychological frater
nity, will hold a joint meeting at the
University club at 7 30 o’clock to
night
Dr P E Davidson of Stanfoid
university will speak on “Charactei
and Moral Guidance,” and Dr G H.
Ficke, of Lafayette college, will dis
cuss “Religious Education ” Faculty
nnd students who are interested may
attend.
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Under the auspices of the Women’s
International Longue foi Peace and
Freedom a Peace Caravan, formed m
San Francisco, California, is now on
its way through the country infoim
ing the people concerning the Intel
national Disarmament Confeicnce to :
be held in Geneva, Switzerland, next
February
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TiiE PelnN STaTE COILEGiaN
Electrical Application To Bacteria
May Solve Man’s Greatest Problems
An application of electucity to the
smallest of living creatines pionmes
a new* appioach to tindei standing some
pioblems in the life of nun, accoid
ing to Dr. M. W. Lisxc, piofc-sor of
biophysical and biological chenustiy,
and Plot. 11. P. Tittsk'i, of the bac
teuological depaitment
These Penn State profcssois aie
actually measunng the decimal dif
lerenco between life and death in Col
lege laboiatones In living bacteria
they find a small decimal chaige
These lmcteim will die if the charges
aie lost.
The experiments show that tins
cleeti ical charge conics from chemical
elements the soil, a fact which
shows that science mnv be able to
discovci how fnimcis can select foi-
Ag Chemists May
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Greens in Future
The possibility that agiicultural
Scientists will be able to pioduce bet
tei golf gicens in the futuie has been
enhanced bv expetnnents conducted
bv the School of Agricultuic, under
the direction of H B. Musset.
Foi the past two years Mi. Musser
has been experimenting with a trial
green. Ho selected 150 pci feet blades
cl grass from thousands of blades on
the finest greens piocuroble Blades of
grass, according to Piofcssoi Musset,
t'lflei like a family of chihhen Some
have a special quality foi putting
giecns, standing uptight in a unifoim
carpet insend of lying in lumps They
also diffei in then coioi and lesistence
of disease
The expci i mental fields, foi more
than one can be developed fiom a
single field, are found to become gieen
eaihei m the spiing, and also stay
greenei in dry weather than legulai
giecns. A single plant in the green
house in Febiuaiy* spieads to a six
toot cncle by nml-summei In la-»t
summer’s thought some lemnined
gieen thioughout an August with only
one-sixtv-foui-hundiedth of an inch
ol rain which followed an unusually
dry July
Mv. Musser believes that this kind
ot cultivation will eliminate a dispute
between the puitisans of two methods
ot producing a good gieen. One side
fnvois seeding, the othei planting cut
tings The College woik in this line
indicates the possibility of producing
strains hardy enough to retain all
putting qualifications veni after pear,
regardless of whether seeded oi cut
tings.
FR VTERNITY HOLDS SMOKER
Alpha chnptei of lota Lambda
Sigma, national ndustiia! education
fintermty, held then anribal smokui
last Thursday ntght at the Alpha Tau
Omega fxateinlty house One hun
dred and twenty-five members and
their friends attended the smoker
which was addiessod by Di F Tlveo
doie Stiuck, head of the depaitment
of industrial education, and national
president of the grand chapter of
lota Lambda Sigma.
tih/eis to “step up” the electucity in
the hactcua and lengthen then life
A line glass tube enables the Penn
State scientists to measuie these elec
trical chmgcs in bacteria. The tube
ha 1 * been constiucted so that it has
a diffeiencc m potential between its
two ends When bacteria pass through
the tube, then speed is propoitional
t>- the amount of the cleeti ical chaige
in then bodies
Piotessoi Lisso suggests that the
oxpenmunts will help scientists to dis
covei how food peimcute tissues of
both plants and animals, and to learn
moro baout the function of tissues
The expeuments also may possibly
discovei the solution of the living pro
toplasm of cells.
Movie Chats
Less than a ycat ago, liene Dunne
was comparatively unknown to mo
tion pictuie audiences Then she was
given the lolc of Sabra Cravat in
the epic “Cimmaron” nnd hei bnlliant
work earned her to stardom She is
now* veiv much m demand and Metro
has recently boirowed hei fiom Radio
Pictuies to play* opposite Adolphe
Menjou m “The Giont Lovei.” The
littci pictuie has been made fiom
the famous stage play m which Leo
Ditrichstem stalled for so many
yeais The bnlliant cast includes
Erno*.t Tonence, Neil Hamilton, Cliff
Edwards Ilalo Hamilton, Roscoe Ates
and Baclanovn
It lemainod foi Mnunce Chcvnhei,
famous Pausian Punce of Poisonal
i*v, to demonstrate that pictuies
with mu-'ie aie still m demand—if
they aie good pictures’ The out
standing pictuie of tlie summer—with
a iccoid of two months in New Yoik
at ?2 00 pi ices—jis “The Smiling
Lieutenant,” in which Chevaliei sings
a numbei of -.ongs and for which
music was written by Oscar Straus,
noted Viennese composer Mauucc
was last seen m State College several
jcais ago in “Innocents of Pans,”
his fust American pictuie Ho will
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Polly Moran, famous as a paitnei
with Mane Dtessler m some side
splitting comedies, iceently under
went an operation on hei nose that
w«.- designed to straighten the pio-
Uuiling “beak” Some thought Polly’s
caicoi would teiminute with ho chief
beuuty (?) mink gone, but in the
latest Diesslei-Moian comvdy, “Poli
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Lave what is con.ideicd to be then
funniest story to dite Mane’s unique
methods of whipping tile politicians
into line will bung you many a laugh
Tallulah Bankhead, daughter of a
U. S. Senatoi, who went to England
and achieved success on the stage,
then was biought back to America
for pictures, is lepoited to have gam
ed 10 pounds after being placed on a
milk diet at the icquest of Para
mount Her fust pictuie was “The
Tarmslwd Lady ” She is now work
ing on a new pioduction
Aftci thiec yeais of “Sez Yous,”
Flagg and Quilt, famous movie
Leathernecks, are to be given a
change of personality Stalling with
their memorable “What Puce Gloiv,”
these two loughneck Matmos, played
by Victoi McLaglen ami Edmund,
Lowe, have battled each other in!
eveiv pait of the wm Id in succeeding
pictures While it is hkclv they may ,
team together in some futuie pic-!
tures, the chaiacleiizations will be!
quite remote fiom the Flagg-Quirt
formula McLaglen, bv the wav, has
quite a different rale in “Annabelle’s
Allans,” m which he is co-featurcd
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Two famous pictuies of foimei
yeais mnv be leni.ule into sound
pioductions, accouhng to iceently an-
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ennp leniakinp “'llie Hunchback nL
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MARQU \RI)T, lIOFFMW AT
3-D.n CHICAC.O CONFERENCE
To eitei a discus-aon of the new
cnllepe cuniculti established at Chi
capo, ll.in.aid and Yale, l)i Call E.
Maiquaidt. Collepe E\anunei, and
Repisttar William S Ilolfman ate at
tendmp a thice-daj confluence of col
lepe administiative officeis at Chi
capo la-t week.
Tile president of Chicipo uiu\c*isi
t> will speak at the coixiice Dean*
of Ilaivaid and Yule, n-, well as nd
lepe admmistiatois tluouphout tin
countiy, will be inei-ent
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