Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887 Published svmi-weekly durinc the College year, except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvania State College, In the interest of the College, the students, fnculty, niumni, and friends. THE MANAGING BOARD JOHNSON BRENNEMAN ’37 ALAN L. SMITH ’37 Editor Business Manager E. TOWNSEND SWALM *37 KENNETH W. ENGEL ’37 Managing Editor Advertising Manager PHILIP S. HEISLEIt *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 Fenturo 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 '33 Fmnch H. Szymeznk '3B Jerome Weinstein '33 Charles M. Wheeler jr. ’3B ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Jay H. Daniels *3B Carl W. Diehl '3B Robert E. Elliott ir. MS Kathryn M. Jenrdxgs '33 Robert S. MoKclyey ’33 John G. Sabella *3B WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Shirley R. Heims '3B Georgia H. Powers ’3B Caroline Tyson '3B Managing Editor This Issuer- News Editor This Issue... Tuesday, October 13, 1936 BLAZES AND BLUNDERS EVENTS Friday night, proved two things. First, that the student body as a whole has realized that bonfires costing more than a thousand dollars are not worth it. Second, that town* children are probably as much to blame as students when such things do occur. The crowd on Co-op conier from 8 until about 9:15 was mildly interested in seeing if anyone was going to start a fire, but scarcely anyone, except for a few town children, did anything about it. The three small blazes which did start were quickly checked by students and by 9:30 the crowd had decided there would be no fire. That they were wrong was not the fault of stu dents. According to those who were present when the fire on Burrowes street and College avenue started it was again high school students who were chiefly respon sible. Fortunately the blaze was small and short-lived so that the damage was slight. If the borough attempts to collect any -damages from the College there should be a vigorous protest. (Aside to the Centre Daily Times:- It was not the first time in five but in three years that students re frained from building a bonfire, on Co-op Corner. As we have mentioned above it was not students who built it and it was not stopped by a sudden shower but by several local policemen and Burgess Leitzel—as a re quest by several students who went to the Burgess’ home shortly after they learned that there had been a fire. (We understand how easy it is for errors to get into stories and we do not offer this as a criticism. We simply feel that the actual facts would not have seemed quite so damaging to townspeople who read your paper as the story which you printed.) THE WPA AND COLLEGE PLAYWRIGHTS ONE OP THE few divisions of thc WPA to escape the criticism of the Republican press has been the Federal Theatre Project. Planned primai'ily to aid actors and others connected with the theatre who were unemployed, this project is Tapidly proving that those wh<‘» were so critical of the plan last winter were wrong. Many at that time claimed that any. sort of government backed theatre would lack vitality and life and would be a failure artistically. Actually neither was the case. Handicapped by limited funds; forced to take actors, directors, and stage hands whom the commercial thea tre did not want; and ’•equired, for the most part, to work with scripts which Broadway producers refused to use; the Federal Theatre Project, in less than nine months, has presented some of the Lest shows in New York. The run of “Murder in the Cathedral” was held over because iof the large numbers who wanted to see it. “Triple A Plowed Under” had a good run. “Injunction Granted,” despite bad notices (principally, we feel, be cause the play takes some rather nasty cracks at a number of newspaper sacred cows) is still playing, al though it opened about the middle of the summer. One of the latest projects of the group should be of particular interest to college students. This is an announcement by Francis Bosworth, di rector of the Project’s Piay Bureau, that during the coming year it will conduct a nation-wide campaign to encourage undergraduate playwrights. They are urging students to submit plays to them. Those that they con sider worthy will he produced in units throughout the counry. Others will be given by the WPA Studio The atre simply for the author's benefit that he may see the flaws and mistakes in his play. For plays accepted the author receives $5O per week and retains sole possession. This is an excellent opportunity for amateur play wrights on this or on other college campuses. It is an other instance where the present administration has shown itself to be sympathetic toward youth by offering it a chance to help itself. ALUMNI AND STUDENTS AGAIN complain of the difficulty of getting their proper places when they hold reserved seat tickets. If the thirty-odd members of Blue Key, in addition to the special ushers, cannot see to it that people sit where they are supposed to, then they should be replaced cr given some assistants. BLUE KEY, WHICH WAS OFTEN criticized for failure to follow the provisions of its Constitution in several matters, has apparently managed to silence its critics. It has been decided not to have the Constitution. WE NOTE WITH PLEASURE the recent revival of “The Letterbox.” Contributions are always wel come, although writers should remember that our limi tations of space may make it necessary to shorten any letters of more than 250 words. Workings of the Administrative Ten or so years pass during which it becomes increasingly apparent that for some unascertainablc reason more—many move—girls want to go here than will go around, dormitorially speaking. As this be comes more and more increasingly apparent the. ad ministrative mind ponders it more and move increas ingly until, several years ago, the-Mind decides at the risk of being thought terribly unoriginal that a new dormitory (for women) would be nice. So let ters are written, '-onferences held, opinions aired, ideas formed, architects interviewed, sites picked, sites rejected, plans drawn, blueprints blueprinted, fig ures figured. After the smeke clears the Mind has decided that about $2,000,000 worth <*f building and accessories should do right by our Nells and Holmes Field, on or about the Theta shack, is a hell of a smart spot for the new chez femme- So far so good. But here the Mind reached an impasse. How to break the news to an eager—and probably unbelieving—world ? How the Mind solved that neat little question is revealed by a headline in the Collegian for Tuesday, October G: Parents To Petition New Jeronio Weir stein '3S Francis If. Szymeznk MS Super, Super, Super Why not an Olympic Games movie? Something like “United Artists present ADOLF HITLER’S production of Deutschland’s Olympic Games of 1936 co-starring JESSE OWENS and MRS. ELEANOR HOLMES JARRETT.” It’d be collosal! “With a supporting cast of millions including .Goering, Gccb bels, and the whole Germany army ...” It’s a natural! Any Charge for This Service, Doc? Sign on a blackboard in room on the fourth floor of Old Main: “Do you have a baby in your home? If not, see Dr. Ritenour.” Society Note Chuck Hughes, Bob Beddow, and Dick Clements, phipsi stooges, drove down’to the Birmingham School for Gals the other day in search of a little social life. It seems that as they drove into the drive practic ally every window in the place became alive with Bir mingham beauties in various stages of dress and un dress. Greatly heartened by the stir they had cre ated our heroes entered the sanctum, only to re-ap pear immediately, having been informed by the Bir mingham Powers That Be “not tonight, Josie,” or something. Our dejected heroes climbed sadly into their car and giving a last glance at old “Birm” were startled to discover hanging out of the window on the third floor where nothing had been before a pair of women’s pink silk pants. Correspondence: ■, Got a letter from Israel' K'. 'Shulman'’3G, last year’s Players publicity agent' and sometime actor. Ike, it will be remembered, inhabited that low den, the Beaver Hause, and his letter is revealing. He wondered if we could find out for him who sent him a blank postcard posted from State College on October 7. We quote from the letter: “If the denizens of that last Bohemian outpost (the Beaver House) were the senders (of the card), then I know the reason why they sent it blank. I once asked them to write me concerning “what the boys are doing;” they re membered that you can’t send pornographic litera ture through the mail.” \ Stuff: Eddie Roberts doesn’t like' the new arrangement of the Froth contents page. She liked the old page because “you used to turn to it like you turn to the joke page in Good Housekeeping.” ... Chuck Wheeler borrowed Ben Jones’ car to take his Collegian dance date “to get some cigarettes” and was gone an hour . . . Perin State sophomoric humor reached new t - ■ heights Friday night with the placing of the Nazi flag'S> on the top of the flag pole in front of Old Main . . . High-pants Freudenhoim and Dud Himoff are vicing strenuously for the favors of Joanne Walker . . . OLD MANIA Mind: Dormitories For Women; Hear Dean Ray On Topic + + + ♦ -*• + + + - + + —THE MANIAC THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Letter Box To the Editor: I have had the privilege of reading yonr recent interesting satire on the medical profession as it exists in State College. I wonder if you re alize how little has been accomplished through it in cementing a decent feel ing between the local physicians and the student body. I also wonder what sort of a feeling of insecurity may have been aroused in the minds of your student readers, your parent readers and your faculty readers, bearing in mind that many of this latter group depend on the advice of these same physicians who are refer red to in rather unwholesome terms. It is rather disagreeable that such an issue might be made from one in cident when I know (if the other physicians in town have attended as many students as I have) that the student body as a whole has never suffered greatly from want of atten tion when it was requested except in the case of an incident such as you have referred to, which is not com mon. I have never hesitated to recom mend the Infirmary for the student who is HI enough to be confined to bed, and who cannot attend to his own wants. The attitude of a stu dent body towards a division of the College which is well equipped, pro vided with adequate nursing, care at the hands of graduate nurses and di rected by two registered physicians is difficult to'undcrstand. The tradi tional “thumbs down” attitude with regard to the Infirmary was one of the first discoveries I made when I became a student at Penn State. As I see it now, with the eyes of a phy sician, I can see no justification for this attitude. I can surely see it as an advantage to the student if for no otlmr reason than the proper bed care and nursing -which is provided as com pared with the ridiculous attempts made in the average fraternity or rooming house to secure these import ant contributions' to the welfare of the sick. In addition to calls on a nasty night, with the hour at ten-thirty, there may be some other phases of his life that might be called a “doctor’s busi ness.” One of these may he that the doctor is just as willing to protect his own health as the patient is anx ious to secure his. There have been a few times in my own life when at the close of a busy day, mind and body alike are so completely exhaust ed that'another call appears as a per sonal insult and as an outrage. It is totally unnecessary for a physician to furnish an .alibi. As I read your editorial, and even if the statements are correct, they all appear as straightforward answers. . However, jf I amithe pl&rsician who said he had a patient and was quitting’ for the night after Be had finished with him, and I suspect'that I am, I can safely say that the true remark was nicely juggled to make it more effective for purposes of ridicule.' As a former news editor on the Collegian staff I ask you if you must prant sensational stuff like this, at least get it accurate. Students who expect to get ill this winter should request treatment when they become ill and'not wait until th<? late evening or early morning hours to call a physician, as three out of four who call in the night have done in the past,. and incidentally they should pay their bills. Come down sometime and,l’ll show you the rec ords of enough deadbeat students to make you wonder how any physician who held that many could ever look at a student again. And., here’s !a, little tip. If; at first, 'you ; dbh’ti succeed,''call him back 1 the second time and tel! him your patient is very ill and you' have tried every other doctor in town—even tell him that all the rest out on maternity cases if you wish. He may swear and be mad as H——l but tRe chances are ten to one he'll come. Very truly yours, ; E. H. Coleman To the Editor: This letter represents the opinion Laundry Worries? Why send your laundry home when you can have it done here for practically the same amount that it costs to send by Parcel Post home and back? We now offer to the students a special BUDGET bundle which saves them money, bother, and time. Two or three students may “budget” their washng together as one wash and send it for the low rate of twenty cents', per, pound. Minimum bundle $l.OO. (Average student’s wash ing weighs from two to three pounds.) All laundry called for arid returned beautifully washed and ironed (Including shirts.) Not only; doing away with the bother of packing and Parcel Posting it home, but also gives the mothers at home the relief of this extra work and packing. The COLLEGE VALET SERVICE 113 E. BEAVER AVENUE “IT’S SMART, THEY SAY—TO SEND THE VALET WAY” of a large proportion of students, parents* and townspeople—a ‘propor tion larger upon reflection than upon the first impression. It concerns the Players’ production, “Personal Ap pearance” on Saturday night. This reaction is not that of a Victorian old-maid, nor is it the impression of a dogmatic, religious ascetic or a squeamish, hot-house variety of hu man-being. I express the real con viction of the majority of that au dience of thoughtful, -dad-respecting college students, their parents and townspeople in this year 1936. Unlike most of the Players' shows during the past three years, “Person al Appearance” was a very smutty, an extremely low comedy. It left a distinctly bad taste.. To admit that sex aspersion and fluent profanity offer the only opportunities for laughs is, to say the. least, an in sult to the intelligence. “Personal Appearance,” the Dad’s Day show, although well enough act ed, wasf utterly foreign to all the deep, worthwhile things Penn State stands (not stood) for. It was foreign to all the finest in life, to all the bases upon which anything endures in God’s world. We felt about it afterward, as wc often feel after a movie,—that it was a waste of perfectly good money and time. For many parents, it cre ated an impression which Ponn State’s founders and present admin istrators oppose for the good of the institution. Since this was an exception in the long line of worthwhile plays, we feel it is still perfectly safe to entrust the the future selection of shows to Mr. Cloetingh and Mr. Neusbaum. Very, very sincerely, Robert W. Young, ’37 We Women By MARION. A. RINGER This is the first year that fresh man class meetings have not been compulsory. Some of the freshmen this year have preferred seeing the best movies, which inevitably come on Monday nights, to class meetings. One thing we get from Polit Sci ence, is that primary elections are more important than the finals. It is too late, now, to worry about the primaries, but you can put your two cents in on your final officers. These meetings are expressly for you. At every meeting there is a se lected speaker who has something vi tal to offer you. If their suggestions are taken seriously you’ll find out in a year they have had more than a grain of salt in them. Unknown to many students, W. S. G. A. has a loan fund for women needing financial aid in finishing their college course. One advantage of this fund over others is that interest upon the loan does not begin until September a year after graduation. Loans are made preferably to jun iors and seniors who have justifiable qualifications. Inquiries may be made to Gene Ziegler or Dean Ray. DIAL 2403 CINEMANIA Tonight, “Libeled Lady,” with the four-star cast of Jean Harlow, Will iam Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy plays at the Cathaum. The story, as the title suggests, is all about newspapers, the original script having been •written some time ago by a certain star reporter on the Chicago Tribune, since lured to Hol lywood. The story moves through a suc cession of incidents in which an.heir ess bring suit against a great news paper and one-time reporter. The one-time reporter, who is William Powell, is rehired and eventually winds up in a romantic clinch with the heiress, Myrna Loy, or should. A return engagement of Alexander Korda's “The Private Life of Henry VIII” plays at the Nittany tonight and tomorrow night. Although most of the publicity on this film has been unquestionably vile, the picture repre sents one of the most artistic histor ical jobs London Films, have put out. Since it was first released a few years ago, the then practically unkno\vn players, with the exception of Charles Laughton, have come into stardom and were made by the picture. They were Binnie Barnes, Merle Oberon and / Where Is SALLY? FALL BOOK NOTES A SAD PARENT’S GARDEN OF VERSE by Ogden Nash, 132 pages, $2.00. (Simon & Schuster) Now that Ogden Nash is a father, his reflections on children come with a new mellowness: “Many an infant that screams like a calliope Could be soothed by a little attention to its diope.” So, without attempting to review his new book, we dedicate to him this which lias come on as an acute attack of whimsey: From changing often, changing pronto, Nash is writing Esperanto. In the nursery—an abhorrence— It never .rains but .comes in torrents; Hemingway can hunt the kudu And not endure what we and you do. In Africa’s mud old Hemingway splashes, But Nash in the nursery, gnashes and gnashes, And parodies poems of the poet, Stevenson; As we parody parody, just to get even, son! « * # A WORLD I NEVER MADE by James T. Farrell, October 22, $2.50. (Vanguard) The first edition of this book will be limited to the number of copies ordered before publication date. CATALOGUE by George Milburn, 279 pages, $2.00 (Harcourt, Brace) Better read this thin, rich slice of Americana and discover what happened when the fall deluge of Sears, Roebuck and Mont gomery Ward catalogues swamp the small town Conchartee. Milburn’s first novel, the funniest book so far this season. THE ENCHANTED VOYAGE by Robert Nathan, 187 pages, $2.00. (Knopf) An amusing satirical fantasy by the author of ONE MORE SPRING. Hector Pecket was a carpenter and he dreamed of sailing to the Bay of Fundy and other romantic places; he was a Viking anchored to the Bronx. He built an uncaulkcd boat without a keel and named her the SARAH PECKET for his wife, a practical woman. She was irked about the ark, the dreaming, and the fact that Hector did odd jobs of carpentry for less than cost. It didn’t .help matters when she.put wheels on her and sold her to' Schultz, the butcher, to use for a ham burger stand. Pecket stole the boat from the butcher on a stormy night and headed for the Caribbean. On his way south he picked up a wait ress, Mary Kelly, who dreamed of the good life that is lead in the movies. And another itinerant, a combination scissors sharpener and dentist. He was a realist heading south, but who would like to have been going north to see if pemmican is really good for the teeth. Mary and Williams, the dentist, fell in love enroute. At Beaycr Dam, Virginia, Hector sent a card to his wife and wrote “Greetings from Valparaiso.” Soon afterward he was put in jail for harpooning a hen. Meanwhile Mrs. Pecket is heading for Beaver Dam. As she was bailing him out he did Pecket’s charge for the boat. The enchanted voyage ends as our hero ran off the road into the river. Hector and crew are saved, but not Hector’s illusions which went down with the boat. MORE POEMS by A. E. Housman will be published on October 2Gth. English and American editions are to be issued simultaneously. As the first printing will be small, an advance order will be necessary to secure a first edition. $2.00. (Knopf) Here is a partial list of the many books to be published at re duced prices on October 20th. It looks like National Reprint Week: ..‘Sinclair Lewis: IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE, $.98 Somerset Maugham: CAKES AND ALE, $.89 William McFee: THE HARBOURMASTER, $.89 Richard Aldington: ALL MEN ARE ENEMIES, $.89 Stephen Leacock: GREATEST PAGES OF AMERICAN HUMOR $.89 Aldous Huxley: BRAVE NEW WORLD, $.89 Arnold Bennett: IMPERIAL PALACE, $.98 Ellen Glasgow: THE SHELTERED LIFE , $.89 Siegfried. Sassoon: MEMOIRS OF A FOX HUNTING MAN, $.89 Christopher Morlcy: HUMAN BEIN.G, $.79 Theodore Dreiser: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY, $.98 •« KEELER'S » Cathaum Theatre Building Tuesday, October 13, 1936"* Robert Donat. Laughton, of course, plays a terrifying Henry. Tomorrow at the Cathaum, Victor McLaglen, whose work in the “In former” indicated to a doubting pub lic his abilities as an actor, and Bin nie Barnes co-star in the academy a ward winner, “The Magnificent Brute” McLaglen docs the part of the ideal ized steel worker who fusses around with molten metal in the daytime and spends his enormous salary chasing blondes at night Great stuff for the steel industry. At the Nittany Thurs day. • ' Thursday at the Cathaum, Shirley Temple is again with us in “Dimples.” With her is Frank Morgan, Stepiii Fetchit and a cast of goons. As the story goes, Shirley is a street singer eking out a living for herself and her old grandfather, Frank Morgan, who also picks pockets on the side. Shirley sings and dances, also plays “Little Eva.” Sackett at Meeting Dean Robert L. Sackett is attend ing a meeting of the committee on Engineering in Colleges of tlie Amer ican Society of Civil Engineers in Pittsburgh which will he held from today until Friday. The purpose of the meeting is to make plans for fu ture contacts of engineering colleges. State College
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