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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
THE MANAGING BOARD
JOHNSON BRENNEMAN ’37 ALAN L. SMITH *37
Editor Business Manager
E. TOWNSEND SNVALM ’37 KENNETH W. ENGEL *37
Managing Editor Advertising Manager
PHILIP S. HEISLER ’37 PHILIP A. SCHWARTZ '37
News Editor Promotion Manager
W. ROBERT GRUBB '37 GEORGE W. BIRD '37
Sports Editor Circulation Manager
RICHARD LEWIS *37 IRWIN ROTH *37
TVnturo Editor Foreign Advertising Manager
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 \V. Bierly *3* I’rnncN H. Ssvmeznk ’3B
Jcromo Weinstein ’33 Charles M. Wheeler jr. ’3B
ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS
Jay H. Danhds ’33 Carl W. Diehl *33 Robert E. Elliott jr. ’3B
Kathryn M. Jennlxgs ’3S Robert S. MeKelvcy *3S John G. Sabella *3B
WOMEN’S ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Shirley U. Helms ’3B Georgia H. Powers ’3B Caroline Tyson *3B
Managing Editor This 155ue........
News Editor This Issue
Tuesday, October 6, 1936
THEY HAVE THEIR ART
FOR TWO WEEKS the cast and crew of “Personal
Appearance" worked on their show. Some nights
they rehearsed until two or three oeloek. They
neglected and cut classes to memorize lines or to work
Saturday night they received their reward. A
thousand people saw and enjoyed their play. They got
the inner satisfaction that comes from a good job well
done. Some of them had parents and friends who made
the trip here to see their performance and most of the
east received a pair of complimentary tickets so that
these friends or parents wouldn't have to pay to see
their performance. This little material reward, served
as evidence that their efforts to put on a good show were
appreciated.
A few members of the cast, of course, were not
members of the Players organization and so they didn’t
receive any free tickets. But there all realized that if
they are in a few more plays this year they will be
invited to join this group. Then, after they pay a thir
teen dollar initiation fee, they too will be on the comp
list. It gives them something to work for.
Then, too, the entire company realized that "Per-
sonal Appearance” was a financial success and this
must have cheered them up a lot. They dont share in it,
of course, and know that when the Players have a din
ner and a dance they will have to pay a dollar or two
if they want to go. But they certainly don’t object to
that. They wouldn’t want to spoil their art by any
traces of commercialism.
Usually the cast of a Players production has only
one opportunity to give its show. The long nights of
rehearsal culminate in one brief presentation. It is al
most as if the football team held its weeks of practice
for only one game.
The cast of “Personal Appearance” is pretty lucky,
though. They arc going to give their play again. The
week-end of the Penn Game—that’s the football half
holiday, you remember —they will present the play
here at a dramatics convention. Some of them, of course,
might like to go to the Penn game, but most of these
people who are in shows are taken up too much with
their own work to be much interested in such things
as athletics. They probably won’t mind staying here at
all.
In these days when people are insinuating that
some of our athletes are not quite lily-white, it cer
tainly is a comfort to know that our actors, at least,
FINALE
No one is likely to see a cause-and-effect relationship
between the announcement of Hugo Bezdek’s removal
from office and the startling victory which State’s
football team rolled up against Muhlenburg Saturday.
Still, for anyone with a tendency to believe in signs, the
fqct that within a space of four hours scored its most
impressive opening game win in ten years and also got
rid of its .Director of Athletics seems-like a favorable
augury for the future.
Little move comment on the Bezdek case itself seems
necessary. No announcement has been made concern
ing his successor. The report of the.alumni committee
last spring called for “an administrator—not necessar
ily one who is a physical education graduate—but one
"who possesses great tact and executive ability.” ; The
general opinion seems to be that this recommendation
will be followed.
An improvement in the morale of the coaching
staff should be the result. Knowing that in his own
sport he can do about as he pleases without interfer
ence from the top, a coach will now have the satisfac
tion of knowing that he will not have to take the rap
for policies dictated to him by another. This is in keep
ing witht the committee’s recommendation “that author
ity and responsibility for all coaching should be vested
in the head coach of that sport.”
The change in name of the “Board of Athletic
Control” to the Athletic Advisory Board,” one of the
minor actions of the committee, is a sensible step. The
board never had any control, but many people unfamil
iar with its function, assumed that it was largely re
sponsible for all athletic policy. Its new name should
make clear its true function.
The committee report makes clear that no change
in the fundamental athletic policy of the College is an
ticipated. It tacitly recognizes that alumni groups and
others have been giving athletes financial aid and will
continue to do so, hut other than warning that “such
activities . . . may result in injustice and in violation
of the spirit of amateur athletics’ the committee very
sensibly has assumed that this particularly activity is
none of its concern.
The report was a long time coming, but it was
Football Notes:
Well, the Nittany line sure made berger out of
the Mules last Saturday afternoon . . . We Donato,
it could have been worse . . . Judging by the beat
ing they took, we think that the visitors will contend
that State doesn’t have a Gentilman on the team...
Buck “MacNamee” Taylor’s announcing had us in a
whirl. By half time ve couldn’t tell the two teams
apart because all we were seeing was red . . . Judg
ing from the performance of the “Champs” drum and
bugle corps during the half, maybe Tommy better
try a co-ed as Blue Band drum major . . . Sid
“Twirl-It” Booth, the new Blue Band baton manipu
lator, has a fancy step that makes Hitler’s goose
stepping legions look like Russian peasants . . . And
speaking of steps, how about the Penn State quick
step? . . . The ambitious Collegian salesman who
nearly knocked us down, shouting, “Hey! Read all
about it! Hugo Bezdek fired. Hey! Hey! Bez
fired.” ...
Woodrow W’. Bierly ’3B
FranciH H. Szymcaak ’3B
We couldn't find out the name of the gent in our
section of the stands who brought his two dogs to
the game. They probably got in on student athletic
books . . . We liked one co-ed’s one-word description
of the Blue Band —smug . . . What makes good
news? New Beaver Field, Neusbaum, Neumeyer,
nude, nuisance, noodles, neurosis, new (policy . . .
Josie Lockhart, Altoona Tribune news-hawk, at the
game, looking paunchy as ever. Josie took the bit
in his mouth and wrote up the Bez story for his
sheet’s Saturday edition, making the Altoona Trib
the only morning paper in the country to carry the
story before Sunday—not counting the Collegian, of
course . . . And practically every kid under ten
years old was sporting a Landon cornflower at the
game . . . We feel sorry for that high note the Blue
Band trumpeters tried for . . . Well, anyway, the
Muhlenberg boys’ red helmets were plenty snappy...
What interest?
Who Am i?
Ross Shaffer registered late and his card had
not gone through -when he went around to I. E. 315
for the first time. Ross stuck up his hand at the close
of the period when Prof. Tommy Thomas asked
whose names had not been mentioned in the roll call.
"What’s your name and class?” growled Thommy.
“Shaffer, sophomore.”
“Psst,” stage-whhpered Bob Dallas, poking Ross
in the ribs, "you’re president of the junior class, re
member?”
Tid-Bits:
Newell Townsend, who is doing the dirt for this
rag’s subscribers’ dance, has picked up a nifty addi
tion to his outfit. Yclept Doris Maunch, she is a
sophomore transfer from Cedar Crest collich and has .;
obtained the spot lola Murray was tried out for be-;..'
cause Doris can sing, too. Her blues numbers, with
gestures ,are supposed'.to be .the'real McCoy . . *.}
—The Maniac
OLD MANIA
+ + +
Dear Maniac:
I am writing you because I am the victim of
a crank letter writer. I figgur you ought to be
interested because you’ve gotten a number of
crank letters yourself. This fellow has been
writing me a letter every day at the Froth office
and signs himself “A Junior.” He puts down a
lot of gags which he figgurs I ought to draw up.
The gags are terrible and I have no way of tell
ing him except youv column. The letters are be
ginning to worry me and I don’t sleep nights. Put
it in your column that she should please quit it or
else sign his name as I’m of a very nervous tem
perament regarding crank letters.
Thank you very much for your interest in
this matter.
THE FE'NN STATE COLLEGIAN
<§> FOOTLIGHTS ♦
“Personal Appearance,” a comedy
in three acts by Lawrence Riley, pro
duced by the Penn State Players un
der the direction of Frof. Frank S.
Neusbaum in Schwab Auditorium on
Saturday, October 3 at 8:30 o’clock.
The Cast
Gladys Kelsey Jean Woodruff
Aunt Kate Burnaby—Jean Weldin
Joyce Struthers Lucille Giles
Chester Borton (Bud)
Edward Binns
Mrs. Struthers (Adie)
Beatrice Conford
Clyde Pelton Harvey Levin
Gene Tuttle Morton Wolovsky
Johnson Donald Geiger
Carole Arden Heimione Hunt
Jessie Dorothy Clarke
In the third act of “Personal Ap
pearance” Tuttle, Carole Arden’s man
ager, makes a remark which might
well have been applied to the audi
ence. “I have,” he says, “a Holly
wood type of mind.” The fact that
the Dad’s Day audience obviously en
joyed itself should be an answer to
those champions of purity who argue
i.hat upon such occasions, purity and
wholesomeness are required. In fact,
the most frequent criticism seemed
to be, “Why did they leave the ‘itch’
off the curtain line?”
Handicapped by only two weeks re
hearsal Director Neusbaum and a
veteran cast got the play into as
good shape as could be expected of
amateurs in such a short time.' It
was sometimes apparent, for exam
ple, that the actors were fumbling
for lines, particularly toward the
close of the second act. While there
were no obvious fumbles there were
other spots in the last act when the
principals had to concentrate so much
tin remembering speeches that their
delivery of them suffered as a result.
I<- is unfortunate that Neusbaum
had no one better available for the
lead, the role of Carole Arden, ex
waitress and present movie star, al
though Hermione Hunt did as well
as she could in the part. She had the
physical qualifications but little to
go with them. Her performance was
not actually bad, but there was no
Letter Box
To the Editor
In the time which I have passed
here at college, I have been subjected
to many examples of undergraduate
imbecility. However, it seems to me
a new low was struck Thursday eve
ning at the Cathaum, when a group
of morons, unable to appreciate a
cinematographic masterpiece them
selves, had to display their stupidity
by spoiling the-, pleasure of the more
intelligent, jneigbers .of the. audience.
If a large number of the latter left
the theatre, not with the feeling of
elevation which such a work of art
as “Nine Days a Queen” produces,
but rather with feelings of disgust
and indignation, I am sure the feeble
minded clowns referred to above
must feel highly gratified.
Dugan
Of course a letter to the Collegian
can do nothing to rectify such inde
cencies, since the people for whom it
is intended are undoubtedly of too
infantile a mentality to read any
thing more difficult than the comics,
but there is a certain satisfaction in
expressing one’s feelings to others
who may have sentiments.
On the other hand, the Collegian
might copy a review from some other
paper or magazine instead’ of making
wild leaps into the dark. For alj-that
matter, any even moderately educated:
person should know that Jane Grey
was not married to, Henry the Sev
enth, her great-grandfather, . who.
died twenty-eight years before she
was born. * ■ ■: ■
time during the play when she gave
any evidence that she really under
stood the character she was portray
ing. Her nearest approach was in
the.last act in the scene when Tut
tle “appeals to her better nature.”
The best performances, it seems
to this reviewer, were those of Mor
ton Wolovsky, as Tuttle: Jean Wood
ruff, as the mcvie-struck Gladys: and
Edward Binns as Chester Boiton.
Wolovsky’s role was the most diffi-
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lines depended upon delivery rather
than content for their laughs. He
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played, perhaps, in the second scene
of act two, but that can be overlooked
as it probably heightened the come-
Harvcy Levin was the best of the
minor characters. Only one of the
two newcomers, Jean Weldin, had an
opportunity to do anything and she
was handicapped in the part of Aunt
Kate by her youthful figure and voice.
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