Page 'Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887. Published semt•weekly during the College year, except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvania Stale College, In the Interest of the College. the students, faculty, alumni. and Mends. TILE MANAGING BOARD JOHN A. BRUTZMAN '35 JACE A. MARTIN 15 Editor Business Manger FRED W. WRIGHT 15 GEORGE A. RUTLEDGE '35 Sports Minor Circulation Monger KENNETH C. HOFFMAN '35 13. KENNETH LYONS '35 Managing. Editor Local Advertising Manager JAMES B. 'WATSON JR. '35 HARRY J. KNOFF '35 Assistant Editor Foreign Advertising Manager PHILLIP W. FAIR JR. '35 JOHN S. MATTHEWS '35 Assistant Managing Editor sort. Foreign Advertising Manager A. CONRAD lIAIGES '35 EARL G. KEYSER JR.'35 News Editor Asst. Local Advertising Alnnutter JAMES R. BEATTY JR. '35 MARGARET W. KINSLOE '35 News Editor Women's Managing Editor MARCIA E. DANIEL '36 ELSIE. Al. DOUTIIETT '35 Women's EditOr Women's News Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS John IC. Rams jr. MG W. Bernard Frounsch MG Vance 0. Packard . 36 Barry B. Ilenderson jr. '36 William P. McDowell '36 John E. Miller jr. MC Donald I'. Sanders '26 Charles M. Schwartz R. '36 13=1 Phlllp C. Eva. '33 William D. Ilerkatnn . 33 Leinianl T. Siel '33 Roland W. Oberholtrjr jr. '36 William ]l. Sklrble '33 Assocititrd'i'e,ll;• " I°i-4 UMU ';!ditorial Office, 313 Old Main__ Applicationmule for entry at the Post Office , State College. Penna., no second-class mutter. Tuesday, April 16, 1935 WASHED UP With this issue, the COLLEGIAN 'passes into the handy of a new staff, a staff fired with ambitions and ideals for making their newspaper greater than any that have gone before. At the same time, the retiring members will retreat into long-sought-for seclusion, content that all efforts have not been wholly in vain. The CoLLEGinx, during the past year, has at tempted to be progressive. A livelier style of pre senting the news was essayed, and a sincere attempt was made to interpret fairly and accurately events and circumstances which seemed 'significant. Despite the best efforts of the paper, considerable criticism was incurred at various times. A word of explanation, not defense, might be apropos at this time. By virtue of contacts and. a knowledge more in timate than the average individual, the editor often knows that much of the "sensational" news which comes to his ears is nothing more than empty campus gossip. To run it would be to undermine the paper's attempt to maintain a standard of accuracy; not to run it calls down the criticism of !'administrative stooge." Next year's staff will find itself confronted with many problems. The .College: is.undergoing• a definite transition period, and. undoubtedly drastic steps will be taken in an effort - to - remedy the situation. This year, the COLLEGIAN has attempted to maintain the 'traditional struggle against certain evils, but the task will be even larger next year. • There are many national problems with which the average undergraduate is none too. familiar. The im minence of war, fascism, militarism, regimentation, and a flood of propaganda which will' attempt to sweep this nation into a war is far too real. With this paper will rest the task of education , and resistance against the growing tendency of curbing free speech and thought. As the term of office draws to a close, the unpleas ant memories of the' year scene harder to recall. In their place comes only the satisfaction which honest effort seems to generate. Four years on a college pub lication is a liberal education in itself. Through its channels, faculty members and campus big shots re veal themselves only as humans. Certain inaccessible offices become easier to enter; many reserves are found to be only defense mechanisms. Most important of all, tolerance and understanding are cultivated. To the new staff, the outgoing seniors have only the sincerest hope that the COLLEGIAN . will be much su prior to this year's. For us, the two nights a week vigil has ended; your task has only begun. REACTIONARY PROTEST As the final editorial is written, it seems to be a familiar topic—one concerned with the reactionaries which daily expose themselves in this town. The latest was revealed with the trouble which the student anti war protest and "Peace On Earth" brought forth. Mutterings were heard from many points. Some doubted if the members of the Players' cast could speak English or visited the barber shops regularly; others wished to display machine guns and educate the young er generation to be men; others deplored the fact that today's youth were reluctant to be shot through the middle while the band plays gaily. The crowning touch, however, was the tearing down of posters which mentioned the nasty word, "Pence," and threatening of bodily harm both to him self and his property if the . owner of a building did not have some advertising removed from his windows at once. Needless to say, he removed it; he can be blamed but little. It is a shame that free thought should be endan gered this way. If Communism, Socialism, or any other proposed form of government is as fallacious as the old guard would believe, why does not the old guard allow the clean-cut, clear-thinking, one hundred per cent American to study the facts and draw his own conclusion? Does not the old guard. have the courage of its convictions? Does the old guard realize its own weaknesses, but feel that rather than attempting to defend its theories through intelligent discussion, it should use the mailed first to maintain the present system? Patriots . State College has, it seems, in addition to its foggy students, its mentally constipated Burgess, and its absent-minded professors, a group of those who, having nobly served in the last war for their country, are hound and determined that, damn it, people from this College aren't going to be given any opportun ity to find out that there are some who don't think that bayoneting of other students is the best way in the world to settle financial controversies. We re- fared to several gentlemen who proudly refer to themselves (over the telephone) as "The Amorian The Penn State Players, as you may remember, planned a production of "Peace On Earth" for Fri day night. As part of the publicity for the show, there ware a great many posters displayed in win dows about town. In one window was a display, connected with the play, of anti-war and anti-arma ment posters. About ten o'clock Thursday night one bourgeois had a telephone call at his home in Bellefonte. "This MEil __Telephone 5111 is the American Legion in State College. We don't like that display of war posters in your window. Un less you have them all down by midnight, there just won't. be any window." He, of course, didn't want to lose his window. He called a stooge. At eleven soinething, the stooge took them down. That's all very interesting. Even more inter esting is the fact that Kermit Gordon, Players' Pub- licity man, got wind of the reactionary putsch Thurs day afternoon, and called Policeman Yougel. Mr. Yougel wasn't terribly interested. Mr. Yougel, we now learn, is a member of one of our prominent ex veterans' leagues. Did somebody say something about Fascism? Futile A lot of weird things happened all over the country in connection with the Anti-War strike Fri day. At Columbia, W 2 are informed by Froth editor man Bowles, who has just returned from the big city, that that great liberal, Nicholas Murray Butler, opposed the strike. The students planned one any way. Then some wags got an idea. Thursday night, the wags hoisted to the twin flagpoles in front of the administration building, two flags, that of the U.S.S.R., and that of the Socialist party. To the flagpole bearing the Socialist banner, they added a pair. of dirty black trousers, just for the decorative effCct, sort of. Informed New York news papers sent photographers early Friday morning, to flash the somewhat. unusual . sight. They wanted a breeze; so that the .various banners might float in the breeze.. They waited. The flags hung limply. They waited soma mare; still the banners refused to move. At noon, while the photographers still stood vaguely, and not too hopefully around, the news papermen still diddled. They never (lid get the pic tures—the wind just wouldn't cooperate with the rad ical movement. About Town & Campus: To Eddie Binns, all glory for• his guts in at tempting to add to Anti-War strike numbers with his "R.O.T.C. Men, Drop your Guns, STRIKE!" sign. Of course the R.O.T.C. men laughed, but who ever gave an animated monkey-suit credit for• intel ligence? .. Jess Hawkins had some little difficulty getting into his car along about four o'clock Saturday afternoon—especially after he'd ripped the door han dle off ... Phil Evans, the greatest little key-amasser• of them all, has a new one—Sigma Omicron Lambda. We don't know just what it's for, and there seems to be some doubt as to whether he does ... To rnank Neusbaum and his many Players, orchids for the best play we've ever seen on this campus—and may the petition to have it given again have many sign -THE MANIAC P,r , 11 ,14 )P ;( : / /;;..:,) ,44 ' <„,..," : '-' 4 ? , •,. .. N., p, ~,,, ,-.Y...,. \ \'• -"---:, ',,,.•;:.•^••••-' •x-...., ,5 - 7'1.:- - - \ \ (4/---; ''-•,:-'.=. ;- . --- - 7 . • ."4- < • ,`, ~,,,,..., . OLD MANIA . v A, et\ t \I-:,,,......, 7,..5. C: , , \ / 1 1 ,. ...) ‘, • .. 1 , ACTI 0 N IN COMFORT The new sportswear for this season gives you just that—Action in Comfort. Smart Polo Shirts—Slacks—Sweaters—in fact everything for the man of action They arc here for you—come in and see them. STARIC.BR9SEMARPER) HATTERS HABERDASHERS TAILORS Tat', PENN STATE COLLEGIAN "Peace On Earth," a play In three acts by George Sklar and Albert Malta, produced by the Penn State Players, featuring a cast of fifty-six students under the direction of Frank Neusbaum, in Schwab auditorium, on Friday night. - Rarely, but wonderfully, there comes along a show which the critic, risking neither his neck nor his name, may review without resorting to apol ogy, equivocation, double entendre, or the other 'concomitants of praise cov ertly intended to damn, slightly or generously. "Peace On Earth," as presented by the Penn State Players, was such a show. We feel (and we aren't taking any courses from Director Neus baum),.that it was the best Players show we have yet seen. We have, of course, a number of reasons for indulging in the superla tive. One of them is the script itself. We have a regrettable suspicion that some people, who didn't see the show, stayed away because of a preconceiv ed notion that "Peace On Earth" is a dirty red drama in which all the characters froth with anti-social ve nom. We want to correct this idea because we sincerely hope that the play will be presented again. "Peace On Earth" explains, with stark, but entertaining, accurate, and acceptable logic, how mars are bred. We liked it because, in addition to being skill fully written, it was written about something—something timely, dyna mic, and universal. The efforts to which the authors went to make "Peace On Earth" a play worthy of the concept, are ev idenced in the intricate but gripping stage effects which they concocted to reveal the innumerable forces at work when war is in the making. ' Which brings us to something else. As it exists in script, "Peace On Earth" is a play calling for direction which will guarantee the swift and accurate response of about fifty-six people to about 5,600 cues, stage craft that will afford rapid-lire changes in scenery, properties, and lighting effects, and a large number oC entrances in which only superb timing and pitch can render effective. It is, when staged, the type of pro duction that either clicks or doesn't —and on Friday night it clicked., Practically the same point might be made about the roles represented in the show. Most of the principals must register as highly , individualized types. Were any of the roles merely ."attempted,!' the resultant character, along witlu his lines, would verge on the ludicrous. .In.other words, "Peace On Earth!( is not a diverting, little ,drama •,well-suited for use ,by ,high schOol and Church groups. Because the Penn State Players took this story Of a college professor, who is unwillingly drawn into a tan gle of humanity shouting a great propagandist peen in which every note represents a life, and presented it masterfully by supplying the nec essary stagecraft, the sincere inter pretation, the convincing characters necessary to successful production, we hand out our orchids with very little stint. If we were omnipotent people we would return, in the form of unbro ken hours of rest, the sleep which Frank Neusbaum lost getting "Peace On Earth" to the point of perfection it reached Friday night. At the mo ment, he's our personal nomination for the man about campus with the greatest number of new laurels to lean on. And, before we run out of space, may we congratulate the members of Penn State Men On Your Visit to NEW YORK Strip at a new, modern hotel, where the modest rates give you more to spend on other things and, popular with college men and women. Conveniently located in the smart Beekman Hill sec tion, overlooking the East River 5 minutes' walk from the Grand Central or Times Square Zones. All Rooms Outside Single from $2.00 a day Attractive Weekly or Monthly Roof Solarium—Game Rooms Cocktail Lounge Restaurant BEEKMAN TOWER (Panhellenic) 3 Mitchell Place 49th Street One Block from fast River FOOTLIGHTS the technical stair who aided in carry ing. out Director Neusbaum's sugges tions—as suggested. In dealing with the cast we face a handicap in that its size denies an in dividual analysis of the players. Those that we fail to mention should attribute their omission to the fact that they were, shall we say, outnum bered, rather than outdone. Of the cast, we can't help feeling that Edward Binns, in the role of Professor Peter Owens, easily eclip sed anything which he has previously done. We have seen people that we felt possessed what is called the "feel" of a part. Finns had it. There were three others who im pressed us as having caught the spirit of their roles with a great deal of ac curacy. Batty Leann, as Jo Owens, was admirably our conception of the solicitous faculty man's wife. Jules Vernik managed to give a lot of the genuine to Fred Miller, the leader of the strikers, while Frank Warrington, portraying John Andrews, a muni tions manufacturer, had everything— the nervous fumbling with lapels, the hunched stance, the dictatorial, but unhurried speech, and the outward evidences of greed and cupidity. Among the other bits that we liked were: Joe Lockard as a hard-boiled 'and. hard-headed copper; Jack Maize as the chalk-faced Bishop Parkes; Don McGovern as Bill Prentice, a drunken alumnus; Sylvia Schindler as a propaganda-shouting blues singer; 'Torbert gemerolf as Bob Peters, a student who got the gate because he EIRCE SCHOO OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION COLLEGE GRADE COURSES Business Administration Secretarial Accounting General Business 70th Year Book, Address Secretary PHILADELPHIA DRIVING HOME? Let us service your car before leaving. Tires, Gas, Oil, Repairs Clark Motor Co. 120 S. Pugh Packard 120 Now On Display ASatisfetory Service , by a • Modern Sanitary Plant Penn State Laundry 320 W. Beaver Ave. Phone 124 Damaged by a Dog-Denter? &let 1 ....., r ;'. 1 1". : 1 4:. q F.t. 1....,..Ct ~....•.......;, . .., , 5,., - . ........, . or. j ams . v . ,.. 4.. AT TRYING 'TIMES .... TRY A .cmo s otA, OLD GOLD tried lo exercise the right of free speech; the excitable speeches of Theresa Alravintz as Rose, a striker whose brother has been killed; the German dialect of John Kreeger in the role of Max, a sailor; the calmly belligerent- denials of Israel Shulman as a judge; Beatrice Conford as Lena, a striker; and the tremendously effec tive manner in which the lighting and entrances were handled during the kaleidoscopic period when Professor Owens was in jail. We have but one other thing to say. It is seldom that an audience is so enthralled by the play itself that it fails to respond with appropriate applause as the curtain closes. That's conventional. But extraordinary, is a moment of suspense when the patrons sit for perhaps half a minute before they remove themselves from the play to the evening in the theatre— and then applaud terrifically. This, too, happened Friday night. To us, that momentary hesitation was a much greater tribute to "Peace On Earth" than we could succeed in pay ing if we typed all night.. So wo. won't. -.J. B. B D. W. Lee Called Home Donald W. Lee, instructor of English composition, left here Wed nesday for Patterson, N. J., because of the death of his mother. EASTER CA\ DY WHITMAN'S and MAILLARD'S Wrapped : Mailed or Delivered THE CORNER UNUSUAL . , When Horace Hippohoof drops one of his rock. crushers on Ermintrude Muggins' dainty instep,... Ermie simply grips the injured dog in .one hand and a sympathetic Old Gold , in the other. Old Gold has a talent .for soothing stepped-on feelings. Tuesday, April 16, 1935 Musser Joins Senators Dnn Musser, forme• infield star o - the Nittany Lion baseball team, ha: been adcle'd to the squad of the Her risburg Senators for this season. 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