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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
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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
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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
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