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Tuesday, December 15, 1936
“IT’S A PLEASURE”
(Continued from page one)
cent; the faculty has been increased; new schools and
departments have been established; new buildings have
been erected. Vet the success of Dr. Hetzel’s presi
dency does not lie so much in these material changes.
It is rather that in that time Penn State has been estab
lished as one of the most liberal colleges in the East.
Most students hero do not realize this fact. We
hold peace demonstrations. We agitate for the aboli
tion of compulsory ROTC. We hear professors speak
critically in class of religion, capitalism, and other sac
red cows. We present plays that ax*e socially conscious.
Our publications are uncensored. We take these things
for granted. It is only when we hear of other colleges
which have warned, disciplined, and even expelled stu
dents for the same things that we do here that we re
alize how fortunate we are.
It has not always been easy for Dr. Hetzel to.main
tain tills attitude. In addition to being an edueaor, a
college president must also be a gcod business- man.
When he has been trying to get appropriations and en
dowments he has often been under pressure from alum-
nij politicians, and trustees to set up here a stricter sys
tem of discipline so as to curb student freedom. Alumni
who object to purity in athletics, parents who object to
impurity in plays, and townspeople who object to prac
tically anything have all tried to force the President to
carry out their wishes. They have almost all failed,
yet Dr. Hetzel has usually withstood their demands
without at the same time causing ill-will.
The fact that the College went through the recent
depression without any serious retrenchment is a tribute
both to the President’s executive ability and his skill in
handling the people upon whom appropriations de
pended.
. In a collegiale world so full of fake liberals it is a
genuine pleasure to find a real one.
. LETTER TO SEVEN H. P.’s
(with tightly rolled umbrellas)
As admirably British as their tightly rolled um
brellas, a brave little group of seven M. P.’s of assort
ed British parties arrived in Madrid last week. After
calm inspection of the scene of carnage they radioed
home: “We make no comment upon the military situa
tion, but a city of a million inhabitants is being sub
jected to attack from the ground and from the air. . .
Starvation is at work and epidemic seems inevitable . . .
We doubt if the magnitude of the appalling catastrophe
is fully understood.”— Time, Dec. 7, 1936.
To seven M. P.’s (with tightly rolled umbrellas):
I read your radiogram as quoted in Time and
would like to inform you that although State College is
a very small borough hidden away in the mountains of
Pennsylvania, thousands of miles from Madrid, we are
fully aware of “the magnitude of the appalling catas
trophe” you mention. And furthermore, gentlemen,
we arc doing something about it!
•Backed by America’s great reputation and tradi
tion of aiding victims of misfortune all over the world,
we here in State College are coming to the aid of the
hundreds of thousands of homeless, destitute and pov
erty-stricken people of Spain. While you British M.
P.'s are viewing with alarm and issuing radiograms
pregnant with horror, wo here in State College are act
ing to aid these desperately needy people you so vividly
describe.
Sincerely,
E. Townsend Swalm,
Chairman,
State College Spanish Relief Committee
BUT NOT AT STATE DEPARTMENT
(Continued)
At Northwestern University last week, President
Walter D. Scott announced salary raises of 10 per cent
and 6 per cent for nearly all staff members, effective
January 1, 1937.
OLD MANIA
Dept, of Admiration, Commendation,
Congratulations (Little Used):
To Messrs. J. Richard Clements, Robert S. Giv
ler and anybody else who had anything to do with
getting the best band here since Casa Loma, that old
caster of many brickbats ami few, few bouquets, the
Maniac, tosses a slightly faded rose. (We’ve had this
rcse for a long time, which accounts for the slight
withering). Tommy Dorsey's “Annie’s Cousin Fan
ny,” & “Trombone Man Is the Best Man in the
Band” were swellegant.
Speaking of Soph Hop, Swing Music, etc., brings
to our mind a new disease which is sweeping the
country. We have had “Golf Widows,” “Sat. Night
Club Widows,” even “Miniature Golf Widows,” but
now it’s “Hot Jazz Widows.” We’ve gotten 'round
about complaints from Mrs. Eddie Nichols and Doris
Runiage about how good swing music is so good it's
practically sacrilegious or something to dance to it.
The idea is to hang onto the band stand and vibrate
or leave your partners in some secluded corner and
go off and talk to the band boys in some foreign lan
guage.
Wo tried to get the name of the gent that passed
out in front of the band stand, but failed. We believe
his swoon was not entirely due to the swing music.
Fes Tibbet, sophomore class prexy, lost much of
his cordiality last Friday when the important looking
individual to whom he had just spent twenty min
utes explaining the swell arrangements made by the
committee for the Dorsey boys said.: "Maybe you bet
ter talk to Mr. Dorsey over there. I’m just the bus
driver.”
♦ ♦ ♦
STINKER CLUB
(Honorary Onerous Society)
James H. Plummer '37
George Elile Sisson ’37
Terror Strikes in Beliefonte:
It all happened over in Bellefonte the other night
to eight alphaphidelts in search of LIFE. Joe Scar
pello, Joe Saporito, Joe Scarlat, Nick Semenza, A 1
Vichinrelli, Jack Di Girolamo, Sal Sala, and Gus Fa
ramelli, disdaining the tepid entertainment facilities
of the Boro, were “doing” Bfte. Along about quar
ter to twelve our heroes weaved out of their upteenth
gin mill to find a covy of comlies (you know—GALS)
lining the sidewalk. With little or no effort on their
part our boys soon became friendly with the gals and
were just getting around to that lino about the etch
ings when the Terror started. Roughly, and in no un
certain terms, a harsh voice roared in their sixteen
ears: “Hey, you! You get the hell out of this town
—FAST!” Looking back only enough to ascertain
that the entire Bellefonte police force (both of them)
were the - originators of this terrifying order, our
heroes got.
+ + ♦
“She No Longer Loves You if...
.. . she goes-on Penn-State houseparties.”—Drex
el Di’cxn'd.
■f -f +
Stuff:
Barbara Bowes, decorative & efficient Student
Union Office secretary, sets the keynote for that of
fice. She graduated from Sleeper’s Business College,
Chester, Pa. . . . This dept, would hate to have to
devote a whole column to Prof. R. E. Murphy (his
pupils call him “Lullaby”). He is reported as not
honoring honest-to-God doctor’s excuses, etc. . . . And
Art 71 Blue Books Saturday morning after Soph*
Hop . . . Graham Luckenbill, who didn’t make out in
the soccer election, is still confident he will be soccer
manager . . . Kutzer Richards is rehearsing in Max
Reinhardt’s "The Eternal Road,” which will open im
the Big- City Dec. 27, 28 or 29. He’s living at The
Langwell, 123-129 W. 41th st., N. Y. C., and wants
his friends to drop in over Xmas ... Bob Dannehower
attended deltachi "Shipwreck” dance in brilfiant
plaid underwear shorts & nonchalantly wore same
costume to ernr rm . . . Town Swalm still swears that
it really was a little black & white dog . . . feechtur
story which didn't get in this issue tells all about the
purty red & green lights atop Our Building. Adds
that they look marvellous from a distance . . . The
surrealist exhibit of object d’art in the Froth office is
par excellence ... .
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Evans Will Represent
College at Convention
Marshall K. EvaAs ’3B will repre
sent ' the College at the Intercollegi
ate Conference on Government which
will meet in Philadelphia Friday.
This conference will deal with the
formulation of plans for the spring
meeting of the group in Harrisburg.
Miss Genevieve Elatt, graduate as
sistant in political science at the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh, and co-founder
and executive director of the confer
ence, will be the guest speaker.
Last spring thirteen students at
tended the conference. Student-elect
ed officers from the College are Wil
liam V. Jackson ’39, second assistant
clerk, and Roy Wilkinson ’37, parlia
mentarian. This spring the delegates
will act as a state legislature.
♦ FOOTLIGHTS ♦
“Post Road,” a play in two acts
was presented by the Penn State
Players in Schwab auditorium Sat
urday, December 12, under the di
rection of Arthur C. Cioetingh.
George living Tershow
May Madison Preble __ Anne Boyer
Wesley Cartwright, Thomas Frymoyer
Bill Cal Evans
Celia Betty Reyburn
Emily Mddison r Pauline Lowe
Jeeby Cashier Claire Robinson
Dr. Spender —; Jack Wolgin
Nurse Martin Henrietta Cutter
The Girl Elizabeth Jervis
Matt Richard Ponemon
Virgil Demis Leo JBaker
Jay Jack Mishler
Mrs. Cashier Mary Hatton
Mrs. Canby Katherine Holden;
“Post Road,” Saturday night, suf-j
fered the death of most, amateur col-1
lege theatricals; slow death with tor-1
ture. After fighting the late comers
for the first quarter of the initial act j
the show rose to a certain of point of
intereset by the first act curtain. But
the first scene of the second act be
gan the inevitable decline of interest
and vitality until, by the final scene,
the actors were very, very tired of it
all and the audience was beginning
to dose. Truly, the outburst of shoot
ing and screaming that Was supposed
to be the climax, was very frighten
ing, coming out o? that vast stillness.
Because certain bluenoses and pur
ity leagues have protested the sexy
plays seeq hereoEputg lately, we get,
as a result, a play'with a, fairly novel
situation, a few’ good gags, stock
characters (Henpecked husband doing
a worm-turning act, sinister gang
sters and phoney preachers), complete
lack of motivation and a dull and sil
ly play.
A play like this with a largely in
experienced cast, gives a boring even
ing. Miss Lowe as Emily had the only
real graps on a character and with
experience should do big things. Mr.
Tersuhow’s George had the virtue of
loudness at least. But the Bad Guys,
Reverend Cartwright and Dr. Spend
er, were lost characters devoid of con
viction and without interest as played
by Mr. -Frymoyer and Mr Wolgin.
Miss Boyer, as the jabberiny. May,
had something but simply was not
convincing. In general, the cast was
; largely unintelligible and awkward.
And, really, we couldn’t excuse Miss
Boyer and Mr. Tersuhow for being so
amused at themselves.
We had heard it said that Mr.
Cioetingh was a master technician
and from his handling of the radio
business and all’the inexplicable al
arums and excursions, we agree. But
how about the blank spots on the
stairs; why those stairs in the side
of the wall that you had to break
your back to get out of; and why the
i total darkness at the telephone, the
livid yellow trimming and the flicker
ing lamp that had no spot on it? We
wouldn’t quibble .about such insigni-
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Speaking of direction, we always
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supposed to hang right along and not
drag endlessly even through only two
acts. The characterization in the show
was only touched superficially, the
whcle production uninspired and dull.
We Believe that a dull evening at
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