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Volume 33—No. 8
Phi Delta Theta Wins
Bezdek Sport Trophy
2nd Successive Year
Beta Theta Pi Rates
Second With Total
.Of/644 Points
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Places 3rd With 661
Phi Delta Theta won the
Bezdek trophy for the 1935-36
intramural sport season, Leroy
M. Sunday.’37, chairman of the
intra-mural board, announced
today.. It .is - the second time
that this fraternity took first
place in the competition, having
piled up 1107 Yi points. The tro
phy, which is to be presented at
the mass meeting the night of Octo
ber 9, will be received by Carl Pohe
’37.
The Beaver House, with a total of
205 points, rated highest among the
non-fraternity organizations. Beta
Theta Pi placed second on the list
with 664 points,.. Sigma Alpha Epsi
lon third with 661, Delta Upsilon
fourth with 535, and Pi Kappa Alpha
fifth with a total of 445 points.
SAE Led Fall Sports
At the close of the fall sports sea
son, Sigma Alpha Epsilon held first
place, followed by Delta Upsilon,
Beta Theta Pi, Pi Kappa Alpha, and
Theta Kappa Phi. Phi Delta Theta
stood in ninth place with a total of
85 points.
Alpha Phi Delta placed sixth with
.403 points, followed by Sigma Nu
with one point less. Kappa Sigma
totaled 373 while Theta. Kappa Phi
placed ninth , with 360.' Beta'Sigma
•Rhp-pilod-up*3so% : .points»;-ft'.-''":—f 4 .*^**
More Standings Listed
• .Sigma Phi Epsilon ranked eleventh
.with a rating of. 313, followed by Tau
Sigma Phi with two points less. Phi
Kappa Sigma totaled 284 to nose out
' Sigma Pi, which had 283. Delta Sig
ma Phi ranked fifteenth with 230
•-points.
• Placing sixteenth was Sigma Chi
with 213 points, leading Phi Kappa
Tau by seven points. Beaver House
had 205 while Alpha Chi Sigma
placed nineteenth with 995 and Delta
Theta Sigma twentieth with 191.
Booth First Freshman
To Win Drum Major
Of College Blue Band
A freshman leads them all again—
this time in the College Blue Band.
Competing with members of all the
upper classes for the position of drum
major of the band, Sidney R. Booth
M 0 was so outstanding that he has
been chosen in spite of his minority
in College years.
The winner of the competition, the
first freshman to crash the band in
its history, will make his debut at the
Muhlenberg football game tomorrow
afternoon.
Booth is a graduate of Gary high
school, Gary, Ihd., and has recently
moved to the state. In Gary high
school bands are big things. Hence
the experience. Prof. Richard W.
Grant said that Booth is not'perfect
by any means, but that he was the
furthest developed of the candidates.
\ The band has been slow in whip
ping into shape this year and will
perform for only a short time be
tween the halves. The first seven
minutes will find the State Champion
State College Junior Drum and Bugle
Corps on the field. Composed of 43
youngsters from nine to sixteen years
of age, the outfit was unable to at
tend the national competition after
winning the state title at Johnstown.
It so happened that a band that
placed fourth in the state trials won
the' national title. Harold Breon di
• rects the bugle section of the outfit
and has instructed the boys in three
part .bugling, a difficult feat for
young players. Newell Townsend *37
has coached the drum section, while
Buck Taylor, local radio dealer, is
drum-master. The corps is under
the direction of a .girl drum major,
Rachel Fulton, and the captain is
Martin Knutsen, Jr.
Library Receives Gift
The recent gift to the College Li
brary-included thirty-four volumes
written by James Fenimore Cooper,
and nine written by Washington Irv
ing. These books are quite a valuable
Accession to the library's collection.
Bezdek Trophy Leaders
The first five houses that led
the race for the Bezdek Trophy
. were:
Phi Delta Theta 865
Beta Theta Pi 664
'Sigma Alpha Epsilon 661
'Delta Upsilon 535
Pi Kappa Alpha 445
LF.C. Distributes
New Dating Code
Rules Drawn up Last Spring
Come Back From Senate
Committee Approved
Approved by the Senate Committee
on Student Welfare, the new dating
code drawn up by the Interfraternity
Council last spring has come back to
the Council for distribution among
the fraternities.
Copies' of the agreement w.ent to
the various houses at a meeting Wed
nesday night for individual fratern
ity approval. The signed fraternity
approval will be returned to the Sen
ate Committee for its.approval of the
individual'house.
Rules Outlined
The new agreement is as follows,
in part:
1. That during the period of the
regular college year, excepting the
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter
vacations; unchaperoned women
guests may be entertained in the so
cial rooms of fraternity chapter
houses during the day and evening
until the following closing-hours:
until i: o'clock, which is the closing
hour at women's dormitory parlors,
except that on week-ends of the In
terfraternity Ball, Senior Ball, .Jun
ior Prom, Sophomore Hop,' and the
fall and spring houseparties the
closing hour may be 3 o’clock.
During the period of registration
between semesters and on the night
preceding vacations and holidays un
til 11 o’clock. - -
On all other nights until-8 o’clock,
with the understanding that later
permission'may be obtained from the
Dean or Men or the Dean of Women
in exceptional cases involving out-of
town guests.
2. That at least two couples are
present and the social rooms arc kept
open and well lighted.
3. Each chapter shall be held an
swerable to both the Interfraternity
Council and the Senate Committee on
Student Welfare for compliance with
the terms of this agreement; and au
thority is hereby granted for the sus
pension of the privileges of this
agreement upon violation within the
semester for which the privileges
were granted.
4. At the beginning of each new
semester each chapter shall vote on
the question for applying for a re
newal of the privileges of this agree
ment for the ensuing semester.
5. The application for. the renewal
of this agreement shall be made by
the 1 chapter president to a board com
posed of the officers of the Interfra
ternity Council and of the Committee
on Student Welfare at a time, and
place designated by the board.
‘6. The chapter president shall be
held responsible for the enforcement
of the conditions of this agreement in
his house.
7. During Thanksgiving, Christ
mas, and Easter vacations unchaper
oned women guests shall not be per
mitted in the chapter houses. In case
of violations, penalties shall be in
flicted on offenders by the College au
thorities when their identity is made
known. In suck cases the penalty on
the chapter may be waived; other
wise the chapter will be penalized for
the violation of the agreement.
8. It is understood that nothing
in tins agreement gives any privilege
for the entertainment of unchaper
oned women guests in fraternity
chapter houses during the summer
vacation.
Sackett To Lecture
The first of j a series of engineer
ing talks will be given by Dean Rob
ert L. Sackett, of the School of En
gineering, at the Chemistry Amphi
theater today at 4:10 o’clock. En
titled “The Engineer and Social Wel
fare,” the lecture will be the opening
of a weekly series designed to ac
quaint the engineering students with
problems in every day life,
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1936
Players Open
Season With
Comedy Hit
‘Personal Appearance’
Set For Tomorrow
Night at 8:30
Veteran Cast Headed
By Miss Hunt, Binns
The Pehn State Players will pre
sent a favorite Broadway* comedy as
their first performance of the year
before a Dad’s Day audience in
Schwab auditorium tomorrow night
at 8:30 o’clock.
In what is undoubtedly the first
amateur production of the play that
continued ad a smashing success on
Broadway for many months, the
Players’ presentation of “Personal
Appearance” opens an intensive dra
matic year on the campus.
The success of “Personal Appear
ance” as a comedy has been indicated;
recently since a large Hollywood com :
pany has begun production of the
play into a movie with Mae West in
the featured role.
Veterans in Cast
On no previous occasion in Player
history has such a veteran cast been
gathered for one play. With less
than two weeks in which to rehearse,
Director Frank S. Neusbaum' was
forced to call upon tried performers
in order to whip together a competent
company.
Kermionc. H. Hunt ’3B has been se
lected for the leading role, playing
Carole Arden, a headlined movie act
ress. Miss Hunt, as Miss Arden, has
& roving eye for men. Failing to
make Wilkes-Barre after her car
breaks down, Miss Hunt enters. the
serious business of making’ the gas
station attendant where she is forced
to spend the night.
V ■ m Lead ‘
Edward' T. Binns *3B again is cast
in a lead part, after starring in
Player productions for the last two
seasons. Binns attempts to mix busi
ness with love when contacting Miss
Hunt for the forwarding of his movie
invention.
Completing a lover-combination
that has Had convincing success in
three shows, Lucille Z. Giles '3B fights
for her man, Binns, against the loose
wiles of Carole Arden.
A player unheralded before last
winter again comes through with a
part that will maintain him in a posi
tion of importance in actor circles on
the campus. Morton Wolovsky ’3B,
playing a fast-quipping manager
who must scheme to keep his charge,
Miss Arden, in hanff, enters his sec
ond semester as a Player.
In Difficult Part
Probably the most difficult ami
most skillful performance of all the
parts in the show is that of a stage
struck kid who persistently pesters
Miss Arden. Jean F. Woodruff ’36
was drafted for this role and again
she establishes herself as a top-notch
character actress.
Mother impersonations seem to be
the forte of Beatrice Conford ’37.
After playing such roles with con
vincing ability last year, Miss Con
ford is again a mother in “Personal
Appearance.”
Epsteins
Productions of Alumni
Begins Pittsburgh
Theatre Run
A Penn State theatrical putsch hit
Pittsburgh .this week with the world
premiere of “And Stars Remain,”
written by two local boys who are ;
making good, Julius J. ’3l and Philip
G. Epstein '32, whose first Theater
Guild play opened the Pittsburgh
theatrical season Monday night at the
Nixon theater.
Profs. Arthur .C. Cloetingh and
Frank S. Neusbaum, of-the drama
tics division, Johnson Bi'cnncman,
Collegian editor, Richard Lewis, Bell
editor, and E. Townsend Swalm, Col
legian managing editor, took a pil
grimage to Pittsburgh to see the
twins and their first stage play. ;
“How's Penn State Jessie?” asked
Julius J., by way of making conver
sation for a newspaper cameramen
who was backing into the scenery
backstage of the Nixon in an effort
to get all' of Penn State into the pic
ture. Upon being informed that Penn
State Jessie was no more, the broth
ers asked if there still was a football
Chosen for Role
JEAN WOODRUFF-^36
Who, although a graduate stu
dent, plays the part of a stage
struck kid who pesters ..-die. leading
lady in "Personal Appearance” to
morrow night’s Players show.
Lockjaw Besets
‘Whitey’ Rhoda
Lion Grid Star Weathers Latest
Complications in Battle
Against Odds
Bcilefonte hospital officials would
not admit last night ‘that “Whitey”
Khoda, Lion grid and.mit star who
was severely burned early:this month,
had been afflicted with -lockjaw, but
it was learned from authoritative
sources that he had been?,
Lockjaw serum ‘ has' vpcen given
Khoda and he is improved
days when the complication set in, it
was learned.
Condition Improves
Hospital officials said that Rhoda’s
condition was much better and that
he was waging a grim but determin
ed battle.
No visitors, not even Rhoda’s par
ents, were permitted to see him yes
terday.
Rhoda, it will be remembered,’ was
severely burned with hot asphalt
while working on the new construc
tion . job at the State College high
fchool. Most serious of the burns
Ayerc the ones on his right arm and
on his right hip.
First Pep Rally Slated
Tonight at 7:30 O’clock
The first pep rally of the year
will be held at 7:30 o’clock tonight
in Recreation hall, it was announ
ced by Walter S. Wiggins *37, head
cheerleader.
Freshmen will be required to as
semble in front of Schwab audi
torium at 1:30 o’clock tomorrow
afternoon. From there the first
year students will go to the foot
ball game in a body.
uthor Guild Drama
team and were assured that there
was.
Fresh from Hollywood after two
years of scenario writing, les frercs
Epstein were worrying around the
rehearsals of their collective maiden
effort for the legitimate stage, won
dering what scenes they ought to re
write. Out on the coast, both Julie
and Phil were responsible for a scries
of scenarios, among which*were “The
Little Big Shot,” by Julie, and “Love
on p. Bet,” by Phil. Julie wrote for
Warner Bros., while Phil wrote 'for
RKO.
It all started in Professor "Cloe
tingh’s Lit. 90 class, in which Julie
Epstein first began to write theater.
One of Julie’s first one-acters, “Be
fore Dinner,” came out of that class
and was subsequently published in
the May 1930 issue of the Old Main
Dell.
While in College, Julie boxed in the
115-lb. class in 1929, ’3O, and ’3l. In
29 he took the Eastern Intercollegi
ate championship in his weight and
became captain of the team in *3l.
When he was not- punching the bag,
Julie punched a typewriter and wrote
lyrics for several musical shows. He
,was a frequent contributor' to the
Bell in which his first published works
Nittany Football Team To Open
50th Season With Muhlenburg
Before 1,500 Dads Tomorrow
Dr. Clausen Will Speak
In Sunday Chapel
At 11 O’clock
Dads’ Organization
To Name New Heads
Approximately 1,500 guests,
the parents of students at this
College, are expected to attend
the annual Dad’s Day this week
end. The celebration is spon
sored by the Association of Par
ents of Penn State and is under
the direction of Prof. Edward L.
Keller, of the department of en
gineering extension, who is sec
rotary of the organization.
The program will open with the
annual business meeting of the Asso
ciation of Parents of Penn State to
ba held in the Little Theatre, Old
Main, at 10:45 o’clock tomorrow
morning. Charlotte E. Ray, Dean of
Women, will address the group. She
will ■discuss “The Women of Penn
State.” The election of officers of
the organization and appointments to
the various committees is' the main
objective 65 the meeting.
Turner Heads Association
The Association of Parents of Penn
State is headed by Hulett M. Turner
of Towanda. J. N. Hobart is vice
president and Professor Keller is sec
retary and treasurer. The board of
directors is composed of Louis Cor
son, Samuel Fausold, Mrs. F. W*. Hal
ler, George F. Hellick, I. M. Jaffc,
W.- Whitely King, Mrs. Merrill W.
Nace, J. F. Rentz, the Rev. Andrew
'Siepockjymid "Albert *ll/ &mith.'-‘'“~"^~"
The Nittany Loon football team
will introduce sports into the pro
gram when it meets the Muhlenberg
eleven on New Beaver field at 2:30
o’clock tomorrow afternoon. Tickets
to the game can be purchased at the
gates for the price of $1.14.
Smoker Planned
A. smoker and entertainment for
fathers and their sons will be held on
the main floor of the Armory at 7
o’clock tomorrow night. Entertain
ment will be supplied by the Varsity
Quartet of the College and the Thes
pians, who will put on a short show,
J. Lloyd Larkins ’36 acting as master
of ceremonies.
Following the smoker, at 8:30 o'-
clock will be presented in Schwab au
ditorium “Personal Appearance,” a
comedy, *by the Penn State Players.
It will be their first production for
this season and the cast is composed
of veteran actors, among them Ed
ward T. Binns ’3B, Morton Wolov
sky ’3B, Lucille Z. Giles ’3B, and Her
mionc Hunt ’3B. The play has a local
touch, the main action taking place
in the vicinity of Wilkes-Barre.
Dr. Clausen Will Speak
Scheduled on the program-for Sun
day is the Chapel exercise in Schwab
auditorium. The speaker will be the
Rev. Bernard C. Clausen of the First
Baptist Church of Pittsburgh. He
will use as his subject “Did I Remem
ber?”
Students Here Attend
Premiere of ‘And
Stars Remain’
appeared. He was graduated in Lib
eral Arts.
Phil Epstein was enroled in jour
nalism, and subsequently was elected
to Sigma Delta ,0111, journalism hon
orary. Phil also boxed, punched his
way into the intra-mural champion
ship, and was a member of the var
sity squad. Phil, like his brother Ju
lie, was a consistent contributor to
the 801 l in which his “Heartbreak,
Hardboiled* T appeared in September,
1931. He was active in dramatics
as well, taking the lead in “The Mask
and the Face” and several other
shows. Both were members of Phi
Epsilon Pi, social fraternity.
“And Stars Remain” finishes its
run at the Nixon this week, and
moves cn to Washington next week
prior to'playing Before hyper-critical
New York audiences. Both Julie and
Phil believe that the show will be
considerably improved in the next
week or two, during which the rough
spots will be ironed out and parts of
the script revised,
Will He Smile Tomorrow?
CAPTAIN CHERUNDOLO
The smiling Lion grid captain
will lead Penn Slate into a major
battle instead of the usual opening
day sel-up ivhen Muhlenberg comes
here tomorrow.
Bezdek Decision
Due Tomorrow
Trustees Consider Committee
Report Today for Final
Action on Situation
A final decision by the College
Board of Trustees on the status of
Hugo Bezdek, director of the School
of Physical Education and Athletics,
will probably be announced sometime
tomorrow, it was learned today.
Semi-official reports of the find
ings of the special Trustees’ commit
tee to investigate the entire athletic
sitUation”hereV'
committee members earlier in the
week.- This report is being consid
ered today and will be acted upon
finally tomorrow morning at the
meeting of the entire Board with Dr.
Ralph D. Hetzel, College President.
At Work All Summer
The committee has been at work
for over four months, starting its in
vestigation shortly after the publica
tion of tKe report of the special
alumni committee on athletics last
June. It was this report which
recommended changes of leadership
in the School of Physical Education
and Athletics.
During the summer this commit
tee has been at work questioning and
interviewing individuals connected
with athletics here. Some time ago
they met to discuss the whole situa
tion and to recommend certain chang
es, but it was not until this week
that their findings were drawn up.
Today, they will probably agree
upon a report to the Board as a
whole and tomorrow that report will
be voted upon.
If the Board reaches a final deci
sion—and it seems likely that they
will—student?, faculty, and alumni
will know definitely whether or not
Hugo Bezdek will continue to hold
his present post or whether some one
will be selecte'd to replace him.
Student Board Pays
For Bonfire Damage
To Town, Local Barn
A hangover from last year’s trou
blesome bonfire was finally settled at
the first -meeting of the Student
Bonid, Tuesday afternoon, when the
Board approved the payment of $l5
to W. R. Gentzel, a townsman, for
the damage done to his Lavn door.
The Board also authorized the pay
ment of $30.34 to the men who were
hired by the borough to clean up the
wreckage.
Recommendations were made by the
members of the Board for positions
on the traffic violations committee.
Three men students and three women
students are to bo chosen to sit with
three professors in-consideration of
student traffic problems.
What Is the Board?
The Student “Board is composed of
Dean oi Men Arthur R. Warnock and
eight students, including the presi
dents and representatives from the
various classes. The membership this
year includes Prank A. Osterlund,
president of the senior class; Johnson
Brcnncmnn, editor of the Collegian;
Leroy M. Sunday and Richard M.
Smith, senior representatives; Ross
P. Shaffer, junior president; John S.
Moeller, junior representative; Fes
W. Tibbott, sophomore president;
and George W. Haines, student rep
resentative on Borough Council.
COMPLETE
CAMPUS
COVERAGE
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Encounter No Longer
Regarded as Easy
One for Lions
Kick-off Scheduled
For 2:30 Tomorrow
By CHARLES M. WHEELER, JR.
Baring its fangs for the first
time, the 1936 edition of the
Nittany Lion football team will
launch the 50th year of Penn
State football when it preys up
on mule flesh from; Muhlenberg
on New Beaver field tomorrow
at 2:30 o’clock.
Scheduled originally as a
warm-up game, this encounter
with Muhlenberg assumes no such
light proportions as game time draws
near. Blessed with the experience of
one full game, victory-gorged at that,
these Mules promise to be tough ba
bies to saddle.
Heading the rodeo will he State’s
bid for All-American honors for the
year, center and captain, Chuck
Cherundolo. Luther Bart h~, Roy
Schuyler, Tommy Silvano, and Red
O’Hora will possibly be the only sen
iors who may accompany Chuck into
the first game of their final season.
Line-up Fairly Definite
The Lions who will meet the Mules
m the first hand-to-hand combat seem
pretty definitely to be the boys who
have lined up in the three weeks of
pre-season practice. Carrying the
ball other than the two seniors men
tioned will be the hard-running soph
omore sensation, John Patrick. Sam
-my-Donnto will-hold“down the block-'
mg post.
Against Muhlenberg a questionable
offense will be severely tried for the
first time. Only game work will prove
whether the Lion can get by with a
minimum of good blocking. And if it
does, it will be violating all the estab
lished concepts of good football.
Penn State and Muhlenberg have
met three times, the Lions winning
quite handily the first two. But it is
that last 1933 affair that is so well
remembered, when the Mules sur
prised with a 3-to-0 victory, the re
sult of Red Weiner’s accurate place
ment.
No doubt such upset ideas are stow
ed away in the heads of the Mules .as
they prepare for the battle, admit
tedly with a few pet tricks tucked up
their sleeves. And the Lions prob
ably have ideas of revenge stored
away in their noodles.
Swamped Lafayette
Last Saturday, Muhlenberg made
mcriy with a 19-to-7 victory over Er
nie Nevcrs' Lafayette team, their
i first in 18 years over the Leopards.
Long runs were made in the game by
; Tom Kennedy and their ace hack,
IGutekunst, each for 50 yards.
During the week’s work, Coach Bob
Higgins set up a Muhlenberg team
for dummy scrimmage and in general
toned the gridders for their day's
work tomorrow. Earle Edwards who,
with Marty McAndrews, scouted the
Mules last week, spent a good deal of
time explaining the plays Muhlen
berg used. But it is generally thought
that the Mules will have a lot of stuff
ready for use that they did not dis
play Saturday.
Against Lafayette their .running
attack was much more effective than
their passing. And their running
attack featured weak side plays, if
the Mules were playing to the Lion
?couts and exhibited only enough stuff
to win, it is likely that the local boys
will have a few surprise packages
dumped in their laps upon which a
split second decision may mean a
whole lot.
Lions Arc Untried
The only basis upon which the Li
ons can be judged is their 48-to-0
rout of an unorganized fresh team
and their spirit .to date.
Revelations wall come thick and
fast tomorrow.
Penn State ■
24 Adessa L.E.
3 Schuyler L.T.
22 Toretti or __L.G.
25 Barth
1 Chcrundolo _C. Eagle 10
9 Economos __R.G Reppert 15
10 DcMarino __R.T Young 27
18 Barantovich R.E Dietrich 1G
35 O’Hora or —Q.B. Lning.lo
5 Wear
21 Patrick
Muhlenberg
Mattfso 12
- Bloom 14
Poust 7
.—L.H.— Gutekunst S
HunsicTcer 28
—F.B. Farrell 20