Page 1'7,-o PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance. establishedlBS7 l'lthlished sennieweel.ls during the College )ea-, except on holiday, In student, of Tne Pennsyl onto State College, In the intere , t at the College the .ttsdenta, faculty. alumni, and fr ends THE MANAGING BOARD A WILLIAM ENGEL SH. '4O Erlltor C RUSSELL FCK '4O, Business Manager Helen I. Cam,. '4O, Women It Utter Fhl ANUFL ROTH 40 BURTON C WILLIS JR '4O Managing( I dhoti Aihonking Manager ROBERT 1, WILSON 40 MORTON NICMAN '4O Spark Fd.tor Circulation Manager 13F.RNARD A NE.WMAN '4O DORIS OUTMAN '4O News Editor Ss alio. SecreiaLY (:FORCE II SCHLFSS '4O JANET STORY '4O Feature Editor Assistant Senior Saeretary PAUL HALM MAN TR 'lO W BRADLEY OWENS 'lO Assistant Managing E Ilinr Asitistant Neon Editor HERBERT NIPSON '4ll PM I I,IS R COItDON '4O As...slant Sports Editor Assistant Worinn s Fd tar Stanntt.ng Editor This Issue News-Editor This Issue__ l'no red asletond dam matter lel} 5 1917, at the poet. off to In SW, (Allem_ rn ender the net of Meech 9, 1879 Tuesday, March 19, 1940 A SENATOR'S ADVICE On hearing that an American Youth Council was forming at Penn State, Senator Davis of Pennsylvania told the Collegian• "Any organwation that calls itself rem e sentative of American youth should be composed of young men and young women fiom every walk of life and hold well dif tel entiated points of view." This same statesman on the Senate floor had previously attacked the Amei ican Youth Congress. "I believe in American youth," the Sen ator said following his attack "I believe in American strength and courage. I believe in the independent spirit from first to last. And believing as I do I am convinced that the great majority of the young men and women of this counts y do not wish to be re prevented as coming to the government pit ",lardy to make demands upon it but iather to present themselves for service to it" Whether Penn State's Arne' ican Youth Council will come to resemble the national American Youth Congt ess (with which it now disclaims all association) remains to be YeL the Youth Council need not fail on that account It is Penn State's council, not the Congress, that we ai e judging. To fudge one by the other is as bad as to judge one Smith by another Smith. No matter what one says, they are not all alike. Senator Davis marked the way when he called for young men and young women from every walk of life, for young men and young women with well differentiated points of view, for American strength and courage, for an independent spirit from first to last, and for service to the govern ment rather than demands on it Jeers for a president who offered advice, cheers for a labor leader who offered only 'alve, Communist resolutions—these are rot for a Penn State Youth Council. If they 'are, that Youth Council has no business at Penn State There are too many other things for a group of wide awake students to do, local things. It can promote discussions that would wake the liberal a) tist out of his dance i ev erie and make the technical student lay aside his formulae. _ It can deal with student jobs and student placement. It can work for better housing It can seek extension of student cooper atives. It can urge NYA extension. It can seek better instruction. It can seek better i ecreational and social facilities for confined groups Tt can urge extended medical service. It can bring in outside speaker s of merit. It can promote student-faculty panels. The Collegian hopes it will A BOUQUET HERE'S A BOUQUET to the Artists' Course Committee who will reali?e two ac complishments when the Cleveland Sym phony Orchestra winds up the series here on March 29. First, the Committee, through its wise selection of numbers for the current series, has returned the former interest in the Ar tists' course program which was sadly floundering in the past few years. The in elusion of such individual artists as Cor nelia Otis Skinner and Fi itz Kreisler, along with famous musical groups, the Don Cos sacks and the Cleveland Symphony, insured 'the Course an early success. Second, the Committee may have struck "on a solution for future program's when they signed the Cleveland group for an af ternoon performance. If successful, future Artists' Course programs may find even more success than that enjoyed this season, by, the double performance method. ' - ' Gridiron Banquet Review: Prof Bonne' was tendei ing the Sigma Delta Chi boys a dinner in one of the Inn's pi 'vote din ing rooms offer the Giiduon Banquet when Pretty lietzel appealed Smiling, the Pretty once more proved himself a iegulai guy with these words It was a great show Some of the clacks were whizring by my ems pretty fast, but. I think I got the general idea " Pm information on mocks mentioned above, ask anyone who was these This lag is still being mailed This Welch poison who did the pi ofessional entei taming at the banquet insists that he's the teal Popeye blonds as an imposter the fellow who broadcast with Kay Kyser from Plotida the night berme the Gridiron affair . Whether you liked Welch or not (we're non-committal) he does have a claim to fame His 6 foot 7 father was President McKinley's bodyguaid . Which is still nothing to biag about if we remember out History 21 . Attention, Soc. Dept.: r.oloor V Hall .41 Robert H Lane . 41 tat eu 1. bump .40 "For a visiting lecturer in your man age course we suggest Don Rose, lather of many children (13 the last time he was here) Rose, ace columnist of the Philly Evening Ledger, will be in town Apia 8 foi the Faculty LA Dinner . And for a follow-up lecturer, may we suggest Dr Leo Lem ael Florian Houck, Lancaster's No 1 Father Police News: Harry Thompson, kappasig freshman, has a cm Pat Nagelberg hollowed it, pinked it in front of the Skellai Pi 'day night When he came out, no car Off to the local police he dashed, with his tale of laicency and sabotage Off dashed State College's finest to nab the culpi it A little late' Pat saw one of out efficient men in blue questioning two guys inside the missing car But closer inspection proved them to be none oth er than Carl Guckelbeiger and a fellow kappasig This fellow Thompson, it seems, is liberal with his car keys But the payoff concerns Nagelberg, who talked Guck and friend out of a jail sentence, happily went to bed, got up the next day, packed the car downtown, and ended up with a parking ticket Is there no 7usnee 9 9 , Weekend Tale: Bill Miller, Penn varsity end, and Bill Colhei, also of Penn, headed Nittany-ward last weekend to take in the kappa formal with Fay Reese and Knobby Heffei an . Hours went by, and no Penn men it was about 9 30 when the local lassies Cot dates with a pair of du's and it was about 10 00 p m when the Philly lads turned up with a tale of a radiator that burst and a train b ip and taxi ride from Lewistown that took all their bucks . NET RESULT Two coeds learned that this business of importing isn't all beer and spttles More Police News: Copper Kaugh, at his usual station in front of Nittany News, stopped Mike Brotman on the way clown from his apartment Saturday night ''l don't mind if you fellows have crap games in your apartment, but keep it down," the flatfoot warned Mike had an awful time tying to explain that the "Seven, come eleven" spell which had been going on upstaids all evening was part of the sec ond act of the Thespians' "Danger, Men At Work", which Mike had been working on with Morrie Feldbaum, Geroge Fairish, and Ned Start7el Import Notes: Ai t Gatz up to see Marge Kranich for the third straight week Hank Markley all the way from Yale to become the third party in a Chi Dattner- Ted Weiss date Jerry Reiter from Harrisburg visiting frosh Selma Solomon . The NYU fen cers well taken cal e of, as were a bunch of delta chis from Canada, and an unidentified crew of Viiginia U men Betty Shelly's man couldn't make it through the snow Helen Camp's Bob Grape up from Pitt .. Plenty of alumnae back for the kappa'formal Reita Sheen ended the weekend with her ex, sae Pinky Britton Hank Cutter with Skee Dick Marcella Anderson with du flash Jerry Ho warth (he gets around) Jane Anderson with sigmanu Linda Brigman . COLLATERAL READING FOR ALL ENGLISH COURSES A A. S OLD MANIA • In Dubious Battle • The Late George Apley • Middletown • The Hundred Years • The Next Hundred Years • ,Why Keep Them Alive • Personal History • A Farewell to Arms • The Way of the Lancer , • Life With Father • Holy Old Mackinaw • Night Flight • Growth of the Soil • The - Summing Up • Babbitt • 0 Pioneers • Five Contemporary Plays • Listen for a Lonesome Drum • The Enchanted Voyage and all Omnibuses • REEIiER'S Cathaum Theatre Bldg ptN-NArr.; COLLEGIAN FOOT LIGHTS _I by Karel and Josef Capek March 15 and IS Produced under the direction of FRANK NEUSBAUM THE CAST The Vagrant, Bernard Scheciman: the Professor, Herbert Dom. show: Felix, Malcolm Weinstein; Iris. Ruth Shiest:di Clythia, Barbara Davis: Three Butterflies, Lenna Bouchal, Elizabeth Reid, Lois Hunter: Victor. Watson Gensler: Otakai, Norman Shandelman: Chrysalis: Ver na Sevast: Male Beetle, William Bartholomew: Female Beetle, Cath arine Coleman, Another Beetle, David Segal: Ichneumon Fly, Leon Rabmownz. Lai va, Jean Hershberger, Male Cricket, Alvin Weinberg: Female Cricket, Sylull Martin: Parasite, Eugene Scheflel: Blind Ant, David Segal: Dictator, Herbert Doroshow: Head of, General Staff, Malcolm Weinstein: Inventor, Coleman Bender: Quartermaster, Nor man Shandelman: Telegrapher, William Swift: Messenger, David Goldsmith: Commander of the Yellows, Wilson Geisler. By EMANUEL ROTH While Nikolai Lenin was appointing Josef Stalin to the , eci etaiy-generalship of the Bolshevik Party and an un known housepamter was plotting i evolution in Munich , while the fiery Mussolini was leading the Fascist_March on Rome, Iwo noted Czech playwrights,' Rai l and Josef Capek, were working to complete "The World We Live In," a satirical insect comedy. Friday and Saturday nights the Players staged "The Woi Id We Live In" and a few thousand Penn Staters who saw the pro duction took it fm granted that the Capeks were two boys who didn't like Hitler et al and a few weeks ago decided to write a play about it Considering that the work was completed before the use of the modern mop of dictators, the play Is most significant and, to say the least, timely But to ',tress the timely phases of "The Woild We Live In" would constitute unadul terated distortion The play was a satire on hu manity—a bitter indictment against hate, greed. superficial ity and all the other debits 'of home sapiens. But the Capeks', being Czechs, were polite per sons and rather than tell us straight from the shoulder what they thought of us. they chose to charge it to butterflies, beet les and anis. The Penn State Playeis turned in a brilliant and polished piece of work in the inteipietation of the insect comedy Playing to un usually large audiences, the Neus baumites were„ enthusiastically received "The World We Live In" was one "ai tistic" play the average Penn States thoroughly enjoyed Colorful costumes, convincing acting and beautiful choreography were combined with a drama that had a message to give and game it well A restrained and utili tarian set—featured by a laige mound-like platform—was appro priately subordinated to lend dom inance to the many complicated movements of the performers To point one's finger to a specific, ele ment in the play and say that it deserves to head the orchid col umn would be manifestly unfair For "The World We Live In" is more than the success of one ele ment—it is the unification of all of them to convey a solitary mes sage, the thesis of the play Are we really like this" Are these lives worthwhile' Bernard Schectman in the lead role of the vagrant-inter preter of insect life turned in his customary convincing per formance. Commendably re strained where others might gushed with emotion. Schect man was fully aware of his role as the bewildered tramp, who, after philosophically view ing the world of hate and greed. pleads for a chance to live be cause "Now I know how to liver Lack of space unfortunately bars a thorough analysis of each member of the large cast and per mits but a superficial treatment of even many of the more im portant characters Herbert Doroshow as the dic tator was outstanding, Malcolm Weinstein first as Felix, a naive, love-struck butterfly , who refuses to be seduced, and later as Doro show's "Goering" in the final act of the regimented ants, further GIVE DAD A Gift for Easter • Arrow Shirts __s2 up • Arrow Ties ..$l, $1.50 •,Interwoven Socks 35c, 50c MEN'S APPAREL ry 146 S. ALLEN STREET Schwab Auddortum raised the high qandard of per to' mance he set for himself in 'The Circle of Chalk" Ruth Shtasel as A is, the butter-fly se ductress, accounted foi a flawless pm tiayal of a rather difficult role, while Baibaia Davis, (000 ooh, boys') playing the part of another buttes by on-the-make, was charm ing The scene between Bill Bar tholomew, the male beetle and his wile, played by Catharine Coleman, was one of the high lights of the evening. Gleefully gloating and bubbling over their "pile." Bartholomew and Coleman transported the audi ence to the stage with a hilar iously realistic piece of acting. Leon Rabinowit7 as the .3 P Morgan of the insect world was adequate Jean Hershberger as the langoious larva was delight fully appealing, Penn State can expect to hear much more of her Veina Sevast, Dave Segal, Syb il] Mattm, Alvin Weinbeig—to mention but a few—contributed greatly to the polished and 'ef fective nanslation of a difficult assignment , Beautifully executed dancing movements played a major part in making Capeks''deama throb bing, vital and exciting. To direc tor Neusbaum, scent and costume designer Mrs Dorothy Scott, and dance director Miss Jessie Cam eron as well as the mammoth con tingent of actors and dancers— congrats for an exhilarating eve ning , The final scene, highlighted by the dramatic death of the vagrant and the insects about him was im pressive and added a powerful fin ishing touch The scene was one which Director Neusbaum wanted the audience to remember, and to prevent the rupture of the atmo sphere and train of thought the scene created, curtain call was eliminated In the word, of Neu, baum "The final scene carried the theme of the play The vagrant who has viewed the hate and green and superficiality of the world has finally learned how to live, but death removes him The implica tions and thought which the-scene pi °voices would be thoroughly dis rupted by the curtain call " Watch for "Out Town," State Senator Henry P Lanius, York county, has given one of his senatorial scholarships to be awarded through a contest con ducted by the Disabled Veterans of Foreign Wars Your Assignment for Easter Week ONE CUTE DATE for INTERFRATERNITY BALL with GENE KRU featuring IRENE DAVE April sth Rec Hall Conference Has National Theme Experts Will Discuss Occupational Problems .Ate you wonder lug about a wo man's chance in yout chosen voca tion or in some other position'' Then don't foi get to attend Min lai Board's All-Women's Conference here on Ain il 11, and you'll find the answer to your problems Experts will lecture during the afternoon on education, physii al education, home economics, and liberal arts, followed by a rounn table discussion on avocations Because of the success of its Leadership Conference last , year, Mortar Board, cognisant of a lack of adequate Info] matron , among women students concerning fields they intend to enter, chose voca tions as the subject fa this yew conference M Eugenie Fl ode! wk. '43 has been added to the conference pub licity committee Women Debaters Active During Next Two Weeks On War-Guilt, Isolation In foul of the live meets sched uled for the next two weeks, wo men debaters will discuss "Resolv ed, that the basic blame for the present European crisis rests upon the allied 'powers," and, in the oil.- er, "Resolved, that the United States should follow a policy of is olation toward all nations 'rival:- ed in international or civil confl.ct outside the western hemisphere" Mary M Greenbei g '42 and II Helen Gordon '42, alb motive team on "basic blame," met Randolph- Macon men here last night Up holding the negative side of this topic, Barbara Varden '42 and Ger tiude H Hecht '4l will debat.t. Col nell women on their campus to morrow, and Miss Hecht and Jo sephine H Beljan '42 will oppose Syracuse women away on Thurs day On Wednesday, Match 27, Lep lesentlng the affirmative policy of "isolation," Miss Gr eenberg ace Marjorie A Kronick '42 will met Boston University women here, and Miss Beljan and Hilma R Eisen '92 will debate Pittsburgh women lon "basic blame" ,at Gatlin= the next night EASTER GREETINGS! F. D. KING MOTOR CO. DO YOU KNOW that you can walk from College Avenue to Ag Hill Without seeing the sky, by means of underground tunnels? FROMM'S JUST TO REMIND TOO that it would be a good idea for yoit - to taut - with mother and dad about that CLASS RING you've wanted 'Tell them that you would like td order It when you return here after vacation from . THE L. G. BALFOUR CO. BRANCH OFFICE LOCATED IN SAUER'S 109 S. AL 1 14111 7 1' t ..*' ' 4 • Na 4;/ UYV . 0 a 'W EASTER GREETINGS FROM STORCH MOTOR CO 224 E. College Ave. Phone 21 ..............m.m Make if a HAPPY EASTER! Forsee Trouble and Have Your Car Checke Before Leaving— ECKLEY'S GARAGE 116 McALLISTER STREET BOALSBURG. AUTO BUS, LINE • , ANNOUNCES SPECIAL BUSSES FOR EASTER VACATION Leaving Stale College Hotel, March 20 BUSSES LEAVING ,STATE 10:30 A.M., 12:30 P.M., 3:15,P.M. Connecting With East Bound Trains 11:36 A.M., 2.02 P.M., 4:23 P.M. Reservations Must Be Made In Order - To Be Guaranteed Transportation on Aboie Date. Tickets may be purchased at State Col. Hot Taeidary - : Maich fa, 1 A HAPPY EASTER TO ALL EGOLF'S
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