Successor To The Free Lance, Established, ISS7 ._ jp|| Mi\t flatly @ (EoUpgiatt ;||| VOL; 41—N0.-sCV ■ -be held on" the steps of Old Main, .. weather permitting; otherwise' it will' be held in Old Main, lounge, according .to ithe Pan-American committee. After the. introductory program, - ' the Latin American students will - gather in the Hugh Beaver room . to answer’ questions about their , countries. At the same time Latin ; American.movies will be shown in the Little Theatre. Rhumba and •• popular. dancing will be held in - i 405 [Old Main..- A : special feature of the program will be an exhibition of the conga , and other novelty Latin American dances by Senor Anibal Rojas and partner! WEDNESDAY.MORNING, APRIL 14, 1943, STATE COLLEGE, PA. Spring Fashion Show Is Highlight of Final Dry Dock Show • Over 50-campus models will be featured in the Spring Fashion Show at the final Dry Dock pres entation to welcome the Army Air Corps students to the College be ing held in Rec Hall on Saturday night. Betty Christman and Suzanne Clauser are in charge of the fash ion show, which is only one fea ture of the floor show. - Local merchants are cooperating in presenting the . latest spring fashions in both men’s and wo men’s apparel. The’ fashion show will be divided into three acts, featuring different styles of spring clothes. The first act will be set at Rec Hall during some sporting event and will feature Raymond Soren son, gymnast. “On the Mall”- is the title of act two and wili fea ture sports clothes. Formal attire will be shown in the third act. _ Dry Dock favorites, Betty Fried lander, Curtiss-Wright tap special ist; Miriam Rhein, William Chris toffers, Ruth Davies, and M. Jane McChesney, will also be featured in the floor show along with Walt Kazor and his Air Corps orchestra. The “Victory Easter Parade” num ber from Thespian shows and the Can-Can Chorus number from the Players’ show are also included. Tickets are on sale at Student Union at 75 "cents per couple in cluding checking. Air. Corps stu cents. ' Cap and Gown Orders Orders for caps and gowns will be taken at the Student Union desk from 8 o’clock to morrow" untilnoon Saturday, -according to Wallace M. Murflt, ; president -of Skull and Bones. ; All seniors graduating in May are-urged to place their orders during the specified time. ! A deposit of five dollars will ; be ;necessary when the order is " placed. Murflt stressed the fact /that..duplicate receipts will be issued this year since many stu dents lost ones they received last year. A charge of 25 cents will be made for these receipts, and one dollar for the late re turn of the garment. Student Organizes Air Corps Cadets Into 'Hot Lick' Band When Walt Kazor, mechanical engineering- senior, began .hli ca reer as a KP to a bunch, of air .cadets out at Barracks -30 neither the school, Walt, nor the pre-pre fligljt students realized-'how far reaching -the results would' be. But today -as Walt Kazor and his Air Corps Band -both the Army and the College have representatives -from both sides who are capable of carrying on their own gqod-. will campaign/" : Two weeks ago the Phi jfappa Tau house along with seven other fraternity houses lost pre-war glamour and admitted ilve hun dred GI boys. There was one dif ference at the new Barracks 30. One of the students working in the kitchen could play the piano, had studied for ten years, and liked nothing better -in his spare' time than to let himself go on a “pile of ivories.” Those soldiers, like those at the- other houses, liked music, liked to dance, and therein lies I the story. I “I didn’t know any of the fel OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Military Weekend Features Mil Ball, Revue, and Dance One of the, biggest military weekends ever , to be held at Pdnn State will be featured by Mil Ball; a brigade revue of all Infantry, Signal Corps, and Engineers in commemoration of all Penn State men who have been killed in this war; arid the Scabbard and Blade dinner dance. From eight until midnight Fri day, April 30, the Penn State Aris tocrats will play for the last big dance o/ the semester. Mil Ball will be a closed dance with a 550- couple limit, according to Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Edward Glock, entertainment committee chair man. Each junior and senior ROTC officer will receive two bids, and a limited number of bids will be given to Air Corps Cadets and En signs, Glock stated. Advanced men may wear cadet uniforms or other formal attire. I Those who are not in Advanced | ROTC may wear their basic attire | or formal dress. j Pershing Rifles, Basic ROTC j honorary, will handle all checking ' free of charge. The brigade revue, which will be held Friday afternoon, will, be the largest parade of future Army men ever assembled. All those who are in the Infantry, Signal Corps, and in the Engineers will partici pate in the parade. .The whole • s'erVice-'fJ'Hl’be'iTr’thenioiiy ’of Penh State men who have been killed in this war. - Scabbard and Blade, Advanced ROTC honorary, will hold a din ner dance at the Nittany Lion Inn Saturday,- May 1. This affair will be closed.- Speaker Will Address Education Honorary Pi Lambda Theta, national wo men’s education honorary, will have as speaker at their meeting in Southwest Atherton- Lounge at 7 o’clock -Thursday, Miss Ruth Trevorrow, graduate student, who wiil discuss “My Experience in War Industry.” A business meeting will follow to elect a delegate to attend the national convention in Cleveland, Ohio, from June 19 to 22. lows,” says piano player Walt Ra zor, • “but ■ some of' them seemed pretty frightened- that first night by this setup. At first we just didn’t pay much attention to each other/ One 'night after ~I was through-in the kitchen, ! started to fool around at the piano. It wasn’t long and . . .” -Well,- every -good jitterbug or music lover can easily visualize the results. . Of the numerous cadets -who had crowded around Walt in a few minutes, there were some who in their eagerness to continue said program recommended several of their fellow cadets who could play instruments. Walt perked up and results followed swiftly from this point on. Private Charles Stewart, former trombonist with the late Bunny Berrigan’s orchestra, and Private Bruce Unwin, drummer, brother of Ken Unwin, now drummer for Vaughn Monroe, whose headquar ters were also at Barracks 30, were ' summoned almost immediately. (Continued On f’ciQC Two) Directs Symphony Professor Hummel Fishburn, head of the department of music, will direct the College Symphony Orchestra in a concert in Schwab Auditorium at 3:30 p. m. Sunday. The concert will be presented as the fourth in the annual compli mentary series sponsored each Spring by the department of music. Players Present Typical Drama A little descriptive gem on the Players’ program for “Love Rides the Rails or Will the Mail Train Run Tonight?” is a clear-cut pic ture-of the'melodrama. Tt is said lliht the show is reputedly a “sem sational,. seething, simmering, sen timental, sincere, sympathetic, sparkling, soul-stirring, stupen dous, stunning spectacle.” The whole program is written in the olci-style method of the turn of the century. Little. tidbits such as “be kind to the matronly madam beside you—she may be some body’s mother” and “‘please do not ask for telephone numbers of the Can-Can Chorus—-there’s a 50-51 chance -you'd get them,” are typir cal of clever little quips included on the “programme:" - Such veteran Players as-Marian Dougherty, Phyllis Rands, Wil liam Emmons, Robert Herrman, Raymond Boyle, Milton-Dolinger, Janet Dayton, Betty Friedman, Harold Chidnoff, Anna Radle, Douglas Peck, and Richard Heim are the dramatis personae directed | by Lawrence E; Tucker. Specialty acts including such songs as “All That' Glitters Is Not. Gold,” “My Mother. Was a Lady,” and “Kissing on the Sly” will also add to the atmosphere, which promises to be pungent with melo drama. Forensic Council Donates To Red Cross, WSSF Forensic' Council decided .at a meeting last 'night .to .donate $l.O to the. Red'Cross and $l5 toWSSF, acrording to Dorothy Brunner, president, At the next meeting the council will be completely reorganized be cause. many students will not be here next semcstei*. Howevei\ ten tative plans wei’e made to con tinue with the radio forums in Lewistown. Two topics for these forums ai-e “Consumer Problems” and “Student Government in War time.” ■ Arrangements were also made for speech and forensic contests to interest the service men. The council, which is the gov erning body of speech organiza tions on campus, aids in extem poraneous speech contests. PRICE: THREE CENTS Six Semi-Finalists Survive College Speaking Contest Final Competitions Set For Saturday Night Over 50 undergraduate students competed last-night in the pre liminary eliminations of the an nual - All-College extemporaneous speaking contest. ■ The 50 were placed in-groi;ps of approximate ly five persons - each,- ’from which §ne person .from each'group, was selected for the semi-finals, which were...held .immediately following. The board of judges was compos ed of speech department mem bers. The ten students who survived the preliminary eliminations in cluded .. David Brumberg. William H. Cissel, Helen Dassenbaugh, Gaylord Greenlee, Robert Hart man, ' Howard Horne, Florence Jaffie, Saul Koznck, Gertrude Rosen, and Rosalind Schnitzer. These contestants then 'competed in the semi-finals in 121 Sparks. David Brumberg, Gaylord Greenlee, Florence Jaffie, How ard Horne, Gertrude Rosed' and Rosalind Schrjitzer successfully passed the eliminations and semi finals. They will speak in the finals Saturday for first' and sec ond prizes of. $5O and $25. Robert Hartman and Saul Koznck were selected as alternates. . ; Speeches-■ in the .eliminations were five minutes .long while each contestant must speak- from eight to ten minutes in the finals ac cording to Clayton H. Schug, as sistant professor of public speak ing and chairman of the contest committee. Students spoke on the .same topics in eliminations and semir tinals, but new subjects must be chosen for the finals, Schug add ed. i Members, of .both men’s and women’s debate teams were eligi ble for the competition..but they, may npt speak on debate topics in the final. According to the. x-ules of the contest, persons who have competed in, but did not-win-pre vious speaking matches were also eligible. hiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiKiimiiniiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiMiiiiHiKiin LATE NEWS FLASHES! .iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiniiiiiniiiiiiHiHiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii*- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. NORTH AFRIC A-^-Racing. forty- , eight miles a day, the British- Eighth Army was. reported by. of ficial sources here to have swept— thirty miles' beyond Sousse, . the .- last- Axis- port below Tunis. Ad vances were also reported l by. the :. First Army in the" Medjes-El- .* Bab-Munchar. area. -Allied* planes - also again bombed- the Axis* air base at Oudna. and started* many fires. MOSCOW—Russian successes were reported on the Smolensk u front and in the Donets River, sec- - tor, according to the Russian-Mid night Communique. LONDON British bombing planes were over Northern Fx-ance and Germany again ac cording to reports from neutral sources heard here. WASHINGTON— Despite per sistent American bombings, tho Japanese have nearly completed a long l’ange air base on Kiska and Attu in the Aleutians and may be operating in two weeks** the Eleventh Bomber Command disclosed last night. |