Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887 Published semi-weekly during the College yonr, except on holidays, by students of Thu Pennsylvania Statu College, in the interest of the College, the students, faculty, alumni, and frivnds. THE MANAGING BOARD JOHNSON BRENNEMAN *37 ALAN L. SMITH ’37 Kditor Business Manager E. TOWNSEND SWALM *37 KENNETH W. ENGEL *37 Managing Editor Advertising Manager PHILIP S. 11EISLER *37 PHILIP A, SCHWARTZ ’37 News Editor Promotion Manager W. ROBERT GRUBB '37 GEORGE W. BIRD <37 Spurts Editor Circulation Manngcr RICHARD LEWIS *37 IRWIN ROTH ’37 Feature Editor Foreign Advertising Manngcr MARION A. RINGER '37 JEAN C. HOOVER *37 Women’s Editor Secretary M. WINIFRED WILLIAMS '37 REGINA J. RYAN ’37 Women’s Managing Editor Women’s News Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Woodrow W. Blerly *3S Francis 11. Sivmcxak ’3B Jerome Weinstein ’tiS Charles M. Wheeler jr. *3B ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Jny H. Dawivls *3B Carl W. Diehl ’37 Robert E. Elliott jr. *3B Kathryn M. Jennbgs '3B Robert S. MaKclvey ’3B John G. Sabella ’3B WOMEN’S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Shirley R. Helms *3B Georgia 11. Powers ’3B Caroline Tyson ’3B Managing Editor This Issue. News Editor This Issue Friday, October 2, 1936 “IT BETTER BE GOOD” PENN STATE’S “best football team since the days - of scholarships” (A statement, by the way, which would be more accurate if 1929 were substituted for “the days of scholarships.”) opens its season Saturday with everyone agreed that “it better be good.” Alumni who are interested only in winning football teams will not be put off much longer with tales of poor material or poor training facilities. Most of the mater ial they have sent up here themselves and they are not likely to be critical of their own selections. With a large number of veterans and the “best sophomores in sixteen years,” according to a United Press sperts writer, alumni will put little credence in the excuse that has been working for six or seven years. Alumni are awaiting the fall of one head. If that doesn’t produce results they will go after another. This year’s team must win five games if it is to be “successful.” It can be done. In only two games will the Lions be definite favorites, but in three others the odds will be übout even. Tired of moral victories, al umni are going to demand that this season’s team pro duce the other variety. It it doesn’t they will begin to sharpen the ax again. CAN’T IT? GOOD 100% patriotic Americans who read of poli tical arrests in Fascist Italy and Germany turn the page with a “Thank God for the Bill of Rights; that can’t happen here.” Can’t it? . On Wednesday of this week Earl Browder, Com munist presidential candidate and four companions were thrown into jail by Samuel Beecher, mayor of Terre Haute where Browder was scheduled to speak. The official charge was vagrancy but Beecher an nounced that he had ordered the arrest “to protect our citizens’ lives, property, and pursuit of happiness.” Those are fine sounding words, but has the Mayor of Teipe Haute ever heard that there shall be “no law * * * abridging the freedom of speech.” In burying the Red Scare Tuesday night President Roosevelt also announced himself opposed to “any other alien ‘ism’ which -would by fair means or foul change our American democracy” How about this latest example of Fascism?—de nial of the right of freedom of speech? When Browder protested to Washington, Attorney General Cummings announced that the arrest was not a Federal problem and that the Department of Justice would take no action since no federal law had been vi olated. What about the first amendment to the Constitu- • Even the conservative Federal Communications Commission - has shown itself more interested in freedom of speech than Cummings. When on August 28 the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph radio station WCAE denied Browder the right to broadcast, the Commission ruled that as a candidate for a political party legally on the ballot he had the same right to time on the air os Lon don or Roosevelt. But perhaps Mr. Cummings is afraid that his go ing to the rescue of the Communist candidate might provide the Republican party with enough ammunition for another Red herring. HEALTH NOTE To Dr. Grover Glenn, local physician, goes this ■week's orchid for distinguished service. Not that Dr. Glenn did anything out of the ordi- nary. A boy at the Phi Sigma Delta house was sick— grippe. One of the brothers called Dr. Glenn, asked him to come out and see the patient. Dr. Glenn did so. Of course it was a rather nasty night. It was rain ing and the call was made rather late—about ten-thir ty. But that’s all in a doctor’s business and Dr. Glenn did only what anyone would expect him to do. Why, then, the orchid? Because earlier in the evening three other local physicians had refused to make the call. Moreover, they didn’t even bother to think up good alibis. The first one that the brothers phoned said that he would call in a few minutes, then phoned back to say that he had decided not to make any more trips that night. The second had a patient and was quitting for the night after he had finished with him. The third merely said, “Send him to the Infirmary.” Students who expect to be ill anytime this winter should, we feel, arrange to have their attacks at hours and in weather a little more convenient for local physi- CAMPUSEER -- i ■ i ■ ■■■ ■ nsr mum.* 1 11 1 • Pittsburghesque: In rc Campy’s obviously framed and definitely libelous telegram in last issue: "We are willing to ad mit we were in Pittsburgh where we saw the world’s priemere of Penn State’s own Epstein bros.* show, “And Stars Remain,” but who the hell are Brenneman and Lewis? Funnier than the Epstein twins’ show, “And Stars Remain,” was the trip from P-burgh to Stets Collieh as travelled by Profs. Cloetingh and Neus baum, Mrs. Cloetingh and Harry Lerner, publicity dept, pitcher hawk. After the show Monday night the quartet set out for home at about 12 o’clock with drama-man Cloetingh at the wheel. If all went well, 3 o’clock should see them safely bedded down in their several couches, they thought. After about an hour of more or less smooth sail ing somebody—probably Mrs. Cloetingh—made the intelligent observation that they hadn’t passed Wil kinsburg yet. Confirmation of this astute statement was quickly forthcoming when a huge sign around the next bend revealed that YOU ARE NOW ENTER ING WEST VIRGINIA. Charles M. Wheeler, jr. ’33 Francis H. Sxymczak ’33 Upshot of the trip was that it took the quartet about eight hours to cover the 145-odd miles from Pittsburgh to State College and Profs. Cloetingh and Neusbaum arrived in town about ten minutes late for their 8 o’clock classes. PITTSBURGH PICK-UPS: We wonder who is the “3” student sent here by the Pittsburgh Alumni Club to pacify Registrar Hoffman who complained the club was sending muscle not brains? . . . Paul Hirsch, Thurm Tejan, and Rosie Watkins looking sleek, and prosperous in the Wm. Penn lobby . . . Trying to make casual conversation while having their pictures taken with three publicity dept stooges for the P-burgh press all the Epstein dramatists could think of to talk about was “and how is Penn State Jessie?” . .•. FIRST NIGHTERS: Look-alikes-from-the-back: Clifton Webb and Branny Erskine . . . Seen between the acts: A tuxedo with a London sunflower on the lapel,- which is our idea of the heighth of redund ancy . . . The smoky city’s 400 didn’t seem to like seeing themselves panned on the stage . . . .Typical remark: “Well, it does have clever lines.” . . .Helen Gahagan’s negligee in the second act . . . Helen Ga hagan . . . And Lucy Trenchard, who acts more like a Theta than the Thetas do, can park her shoes, etc., ANYTIME. (Note: This offer not open to Thetas). We hope the typographical error in the Pitts burgh Poet-Gazette is not prophetic. For “And Stars Stars Remain,” that paper wrote “And Twins Re main.” ... OBITUARIES: As though going to. Pitt was not enough, Carriek’s favorite son, Frankie, “The Sex Mad Wombat from Brazil” Hillgartner, is teaching a Reformed Church Sunday School class . . . And Bill Skirble, who should know better, will go to work for Hearst’s Pittsburgh next week . . . Co-ed Club Disappears STATE COLLEGE, October 1 (PU)—FLASH! Gone. Disappeared. Departed from our midst as completely and mysteriously as that quart of beer we drank yesterday. College officials completely baffled. Local police also baffled, as usual. Despair rampant. Foul play suspected. All clues being followed. Anx iety reigns. FLASH! FLASH! “Will the VANDALS who stole the “Co-ed Club” sign from the 326 East College ave. dormitory P-U-L-L-E-A-S-E return same? Please, please, please.” . (We are-beginning to suspect the cc-eds of steal ing the signs off their.’ own doors •in order to get a little free publicity for their clubs -. . .) DADS and Mothers, too have found The Cor ner a pleasant place to eat breakfast, lunch ® and dinner while vis iting sons and daugh ters in State College. The Comer ' unusual + + + —THE MANIAC FOR CAMPY THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN # Midsummer Nights Dream 7 Shakespearean Film Viewed By Local Authority From New Angle By W. S. Dye Jr. The movie version of Midsummer Night’s Dream i« an excellent exam ple of the collaboration that always must exist in the production of any play. Most people do not realize when! they see a play by any dramatist that, at best, the production is only about one-third the work of the playwright himself. The director and the actor have joined forces with him, so that what is presented is as much theirs as his. In this version of Shakes peare’s very interesting comedy an even larger number of forces have been joined. Besides the dramatist and the actor, there have been added to the saff a world famous director in the person of Max Reinhardt, a staff of technicians and research artists, and finally the services of one of the greatest of modern cqmposers, Felix Mendelsohn. 1 One can almost understand -why the play that seems to many to be a most curious mixture should have appealed to the young composer Mendelsohn and why he should have returned to tho composition of more music for the play in his middle age. If I were ask ed to define the motif of the play in musical terms, I should be inclined to call it, “Variations on a love Theme” for in spite of its apparent hopeless mixture of themes, the play is just that. Over against the calm love story of Theseus and Ilippolita are set the tempestuous love story of Helena and Demetrius, the tyrannous love story of Gberon, the ridiculous love story! of Titania for Bottom, and the sat irized romantic and tragic love story of Pyramus When the Ger man composer took the play and set the music to it, all of these themes were worked into the musical setting. Fairies, mortals, and - clowns all ap pear in their varied natures in a sort of helter-skelter mix-up in the music as in the play. Both of thesr* elements appear in the movie vei-sion of the play, woven together in much the same fashion as Mendelsohn intended them. In addi tion, through tho medium of the mo vie technique and movie camera, the fairies that previously we have had to imagine, those tiny people, “no bigger than a worm, pricked from the lazy finger of a maid,” dance and sing, and climb the '"moonbeams, while Puck sports among them* in all -his vigor. None who love or even admire Shakespeare should miss seeing this sort of production. It may not, of course, accord fully with what your imagination pictures from the poetry of the play, but, then what play of he great Bard on stage or screen could live-up to the expectation of its readers? CINEMANIA “Three Married Men,” with Ros eoe Karns, Mary Brian, William Frawley and Lynne Overman comes to the Catßaum tonight witn a touch of sophisticated comedy and some lighthearted quips which escaped the morality boys unc<a»- sored. While it isn’t something you would take your maiden aunt who wears a Landon sunflower to see, .you might sneak in yourself. Situ ations are rather funny.. At the dittany, “Piccadilly Jim,” with Robert : Montgomery, v <Frank Morgan, Madge Evans and . Billie Burke, promises more of the kind Notice to All Fraternity Caterers McKEE’S FRUIT MARKET is now able to take the best of care and give the best of quality at the most reasonable prices, both wholesale and retail. We have a very complete line of Fresh Fruits and Vege tables, the quality kind that you have been looking for. McKEE’S FRUIT MARKET',,. Wholesale and Retail ' 1 305 East Beaver Ave. Phone 2404 DAD'S DAY And we are showing the latest styles in Suits, Topcoats and Men’s Furnishings for College Men Suits $25.00 Topcoats $22.50 WE INVITE YOU TO VISIT OUR STORE HARRY W. SAUERS On Allen St. State College T)*A • EK.'E The Music Room 1/Ultf EMERSON RADIO Major-Captain Duel Avoided by Salute With Apology Building up to an atvlul letdown can perhaps best describe it. It all started when Captain Wil liam V. Dennis, Jr., head of the Cam pus Patrol, decided to buy himself a , new uniform for the new college year. The outstanding thing about the new uniform was the cap, quite a braided and colorful affair. Blue Band boys, ROTC banders, and even those not interested in mu sic have always noted the distinctive headgear of Major Wilfred 0. Thomp son, also braided' and colorful. When Major Captuin Dennis' stealing 1 of’ the cap design, there were rumors of a blood less feud that promised' to develop into something more serious. A bat tle was contemplated for between the halves of the Muhlenberg game. The letdown came yesterday. . In stead of a duel of police men's weapons, there ex change of soft-spoken, words. Said the Captain to the Major, “I apologize.” The Major's answer was a smart salute. of comedy that P. G. Wodehouse has been dishing out for the last several years. The picture is from ■his book and concerns itself with a romance between a cartoonist and a society girl. Robert Montgomery, as the cartoonist, puts his girl’s rich family in the funny paper's, with resulting situations that on ly the fantastically funny stuff of P. G. Wodehouse can put across. The plot has all sorts of weird complications which give Prank Morgan, Robert Bencnley and Eric Blcre a chance to go into their dances. It seems .that the Pelt fam ily, a tribe of wealthy Americans sojourning in England, is taken for a ride by on American cartoonist who signs himself ‘'Piccadilly Jim.’.’ The strip goes over with the fun loving Britons until Piccadilly Jim bumps into the heiress of the fam ily and gets in love. Wallace Beery, having success fully freed himself of his tradi tional bad-hombre. roles sometime back with “Ah, Wilderness,” re turns as another small town mer chant roustabout in “Old Hutch,” teaming up with Cecilia Parker. “Old Hutch,” as the name sug gests, is jobless by choice and by profession until he accidentally dis lodges a rock pile and finds a hun dred one-thousand dollar bills. In the mad scramble to get rid of the money, Old Hutch runs afoul of the bandits, gets himself taken for a ride and finally winds up with a Ss,odo.dollar reward. You’ll recog nize the corner drug store and the town derelict in this one. It plays at the Cathaum tomorrow. At the Nittany tomorrow, “Don't Turn 'Em Loose,” with Lewis Stone, Bruce Cabot ■ and Betty Grable, gets into the prison par ole situation. Like many another Repairing Shining Penn State Shoe Repair Shop Call for and Delivery ; Service 123 W. Beaver, Slate College State College, Pa. Free Delivery controversy there is so much to be said on ’both sides of the pri?on pa role system that the picture barely, has time to present a few funda mental arguments. Like ~ rF ury,” this picture has definite social im plications presented in the conven tional heart-throb manner. Monday, Max Reinhardt's pro duction of Shakespeare’s “Midsum mer Night’s Dream” will be shown “Peaking' A 111 GAT'D R $ We want to show yoti the very swankiest thing for Autumn genuine Slioghuck. ox fords with .. alligator trimming grays: and Worn', with' Pride' by fff illio ns BOTTORF BROTHERS ENTRANCES ON ALLEN AND BEAVER WHEN the class of 1917 was at college, a long distance telephone call toolf (on the average) more than ten minutes to he put through. This time has been whittled down gradually, so that now the connection is made in an average of 1.4 minutes—nine out of ten of them while you hold the line. But this is only one phase of the relentless effort to improve. Your service is belter today because voice transmission is clearer—interruptions and errors less frequent than ever before, • America demands fast but sure telephone service—and BUCK TAYLOR Friday, October 2, 193.5 both at the Cathaum and Nittany theatres, 'sponsored? locally by Uie Dell and the department of Eng lish literature. Released fronv'the road recently, the Dream will play here at regular,prices. By special 'arrangement with the management, free admission will.be gained to the show with every subscription .-pur chased to the Dell, which will -go on sale Monday and Tuesday. ALLIGATOR SKIN S NEW VOGUE IN MEN’S SHOES Alligator skin, perennially pop ular for luggage, has invaded the footwear held and is being effectively used as a trim for men's shoes this Fall, according to a bulletin by the stylist of a leading magazine for men.., In combination with soft, nappy reversed calf -leather, the .hide of; the ■ saurian lends itself ’to striking - effects,. declares ' this authority. .He predicts"that-m'cii* .who-, want- to keep'• abreast.of fashion’s newest dictates.will be enthusiastic over this smart and novel shoe trimming. It's the New FMEEMM SHOE .College' mdn and.women , find after 7 P. M. a convenient time, for long distance calling. Moreover, most rates are lowest then.
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