_ / Successor To The Free Lance, Established ISH7 PS ®lte Hatlif @ (EoUwjiatt Ig OF THE PENNSYLVANI. C* 111 Players Turn Back Time Table As 'Love Rides The Rails' In Schwab Op ry House Tonight By M. JANE McCHESNEY “On stage, everybody! Curtain going up, first hct in one minute! Pull out the house lights. Freeze into position!’’ , Those will be the preliminaries to the curtain that goes up tonight at 7:30 for the first of three per formances of the Players’ melo drama, “Love Rides the Rails or Will the Mail Train Run To night?’’ We dropped in on the dress re hearsal of the show last night to hear the above directions shouted across stage. The Phi Mil Alpha orchestra under the direction of Bob Fredrickson plays 'a medley of Strauss waltzes throughout the show, lending a feeling of gaiety to the vivid atmosphere of the melodrama. The curtain opens to reveal the Widow Hopewell, as played by Marion Dougherty, conversing with ..her beautiful daughter, Prudence, portrayed by Phyllis Rands. Both are perturbed by the appearance of villain Simon Darkway, ' Bill Emmons, who threatens to obtain their franchise of the Walker Val ley, Pine Bush and Pacific Rail road. There are only two weeks left to pay the interest on the mortgage and Prudence must pro tect her mother. We take leave of these two when hero, Truman- Pendennis, Bob Hen-man, champion .of - integrity, - - appears to- take- ‘Prudence stroll - ing, chaperoned, of .course, by Har old Standfast, Raymond Boyle. The brilliance of the can-can chorus next comes to. our view as they dance to “Casey Jones.” ' The serene countryside is brought to view as we see dence, Truman and Harold dis cussing the railroad situation. , A contrast to the peaceful wood land scene is that of the villain’s hideout, where many, schemes are brewing. The audience is enlight ened .as to the plans since the Signal Corps Men End 3 -MonthCourse With Farewell Party Penh State’s- contingent of 49 Signal Corps Enlisted Reserves will bid farewell to the campus Apx-il 23 after:a three-months’ stay since the beginning of February. Topping their training period here, the group will have a fare well party at the State College • Hotel banquet room from 9 to 1 tomorrow night, according to Mel vin Kedane, chairman of the af fair. : Enlistees range from a lawyer to a shipyard worker, and include insurainiee salesmen and former college students. The Signal Corps started from the Philadelphia de pot six months ago, and spent the first three months in Altoona, the second three here. They are un dergoing civilian training in elec tricity arid radio. After finishing their Penn State training next week, the men will go back to Philadelphia to await call to active duty in the Army. Talent is plentiful in the group. One student, Donald Christ, is a former leader of an orchestra and wrote'the words and music to “'To night,” a published popular song. Jarie Abramson of Thespian fame is related to Christ and will aid in the entertainment tomorrow. Kedane, general chairman for the farewell party and dance, is (Continued On Page Four) sneering side remarks'reveal their perverted ideas. A definite highlight o£ the show is the male quartet composed o£ Bill Christophers, John Struck, Rodney Wigglesworth and Wesley Wagner who. sing “All That Glit ters Is. Not Gold” in stereotyped barber shop style. . The next scenes are laid in the railroad yards and in villainess’ (Carlotta Cortez) chambers in Paradise Cafe. The plot takes an interesting, twist in these scenes as our friends are becoming more involved in the treacherous plan to obtain the widow’s franchise. „■ “While Strolling Through the Park One Day” is sung by an octet composed of numerous mem bers of the cast. Tension becomes even more ap parent in the next scene when it becomes apparent, that the fran chise is in jeopardy as well as Pru dence. Will the plan succeed?* One won ders how the villains will convince the railroad workers that they will profit by striking. The brutal as saults on both the hero and Harold Standfast, his collaborator, cannot help but stir the pity of the audi ence. Right conquers might, although (Continued On Page Four) Fleming Releases Dance Proceeds Junior-Senior Ball, held last Friday night in Rec Hall, showed a profit of $1,195.93, according to a report issued by Neil M. Flem ing’s office of student.activities last night. Total income derived from ad missions, tax on admissions, booth' rental and checking amounted to $4,175.25, compared to $2,979.32 for expenditures. The complete report follows: Income Admissions 933@53.63 $3,386.79 75 comps. n Tax on admissions 100(<i) .37 372.96 Booth Rental' 43(h) 5.00 215.00 Checking 802(h) .25 200.50 Expenditures Music „ $1,750.00 Decorations (lights, etc.) 35.00 Programs, 1200(h'3 l Ac 159.00 Advertising— Froth $40.00 Collegian 60.00 Window Cards, (Continued On Page Three) Missionary to Speak About Wartime China Rev. Claude L. Pickens Jr., who ax-rived recently from China on the S. S. Gripsholm, will speak to students in the interest of .the World Student Service Fund in 304 Old Main at'7:3o tonight. The topic will be “Chinese Students Under Fire.’’ Rev. Pickens is an Episcopal missionary in charge of All Saints’ Church, Hankow,. China, untii a few months ago. He will be in State College today and tomorrow. Any students intei-ested in prob lems of education in wartime China are invited to attend, ac cording to R. Christine Yohe and Howai-d W. Carlson, co-chairmen of the WSSF committee. Marine, V-l Exam . Freshman and sophomore students in the Marine Re serves and those in V-l who have completed their fourth se mester report for screen ing tests to 105 White Hall from 9 to 11 a. m. and from 2 to 4:15 p. m., April 20. Men in V-7 are not included in this group. Students in the Marines scheduled to take the College English Usage test at this time must take the service examin ation and report to the office 'of FAWS Robert E. Galbraith to set a new time for the Eng lish test. Air Corps Band to Highlight Dry Dock Making their premiere perform ance, Walt Kazor and his new Air Cadets orchestra will occupy the feature spot at the final Dry Dock night club presentation at Rec Hall Saturday night. Composed entirely of Air Crew students, with the exception of Walt, the leader, the band will play five numbers during the hour long floor show. The band is plan ning on featuring the numbers, “I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City,” “One O’clock Jump,” “In the Mood,” “Solitude,” and “I’m Get ting Tired So I Can Dream.” ' • Dancing to the music of Sonny Roye and his Collegians will be gin at 9 p.m., with the floor show beginning a fter v the Players’ show is over at 10:15 p.m. ' “ ■■ Over fifty coed models are be ing featured in the Spring Fash ion-Show, another high spot in the floor- show. Local merchants are cooperating in showing the latest spring fashions for both men and women. Also featured in the. floor show ai-e Miriam Rhein, Betty Freid lander, Curtiss - Wright tapster, William Christoff ex's j Ruth Davies, M. Jane McChesney, and the “Vic tory Easter Parade”'number from “Khaki Waac-y,” with Bill Cissel, blaster; • of ceremonies, singing “Anatole of Paris.” Tickets are on sale at Student Union at 75 cents per couple in 'cluding checking. Annual Livestock Show Features Prize Animals, Traditional Coed Race $4,175.25 Plenty of pork, beef, mutton, and horse meat will be on display at the 28th annual Little Inter national Livestock Show scheduled to take place in the Stock Judging Pavilion, 1 p.m. Saturday. Sponsored by the Block and Bri dle Club, the show will present many featui-es, including the tra ditional Coed Pig Race, a contest that tests the patience and per suasive allure which might be ex ercised by the coeds to make the piglings move. Despite the accelerated program in operation at the College, men and women students have turned out in force to groom the animals. Prizes will be awarded to winners of the contest at a banquet to be held in the Methodist Church, 6:30 p.m. Saturday evening. •- Students, faculty arid townspeo ple are Invited to attend the affair, accoi-ding to Robert R. Pennington, publicity chairman. WAVE to Interview Coeds Ensign Esther .Odell of the WAVES will be on campus - April 27 and 28 to interview coeds in terested in that branch of the serv ice. - - :a state college Local Blackout Interrupts Pan-American Program Half-Hour Dark Period. Marred by Store Lights Only light that didn’t go out on campus last night during the. sur prise blackout was the moon. The siren sounded the first warning at 9 o’clock and the second at about 9:15 p.m. All-clear came through at 9:30. Latin-American Open House adjourned to the first floor lounge of Old Main during the test. Marred only by the brilliancy of the show window lights along College avenue, the darkened town could be seen from Old Main tower only when the moonlight shone on the rooftops. Eventually, after about 20 minutes, the store lights were doused' and the blackout was complete. Latin-American Open House was in full swing on four floors of Old Main when the warning sounded. Music and dancing ceased while the crowd went to the shelter in the first floor lounge. The re freshment stand there did a land office business, having been prac tically deserted a few minutes pre viously. Players continued with their dress rehearsal in blacked-out Schwab with the singing and or chestra audible on the campus in that neighborhood. Simon Dark way and Dirk Sneath took full advantage df the blackout to per petrate their vilest deeds. All posts on campus were man ned, and several incidents staged were completed, successfully. A plane landing on Holmes Field, one of the incidents, burst into flame, but was put out policemen on the spot and six persons were captured. Articles Returnable Af Student Union Articles 'ranging from fountain pens and slide rules to typewriters and wallets. containing money have been found and are return able to owners at Student. Union. A wallet containing a rather large sum of money was found outside the check room at Junior-Senior feall. The owner may obtain it upon identification. Tickets for the Players’ show, “Love Rides the Rails or Will the Mail Train Run Tonight?” may be purchased for 55 cents. Dry Dock tickets go on sale today and will •be sold at Student Union for the rest of the week. Coeds Absent From First Symphony, Now Take Over When 50 men don’t want any women, that is news; It was a sit uation contrary to all psychologi cal fact in which Hum Fishburn found himself when he attempted to increase the size of the College Symphony Orchestra back in 1929. In that year the department of music and music education was formed and Professor Fishburn acquired, along with the orches tra, this anti-feminine atitude on the part of the men in the already established symphony. The wom en in the department wanted to be included in the organization and Hum knew only one way to quiet this “unwanted element.” Wno knows but that Phil Spi ts lny got his idea from Hum’s solution? He formed an all-girl 40 piece symphony orchestra and Morse Discusses Other Nations' Views Air raid sirens at 9 o’clock last night interrupted Pan American Open House in Old Main where 125 Penn State students, faculty members, and townspeople gath ered to celebrate Pan American Day. • Beginning at 7:30 p. m., the celebration endured the short spell of darkness, then continued ns i crowds gathered in the first floor lobby, which was bordered with Latin-American flags, to join in the festivities. The introductory program was conducted in an informal fashion, with All-College President. Jack It Grey, acting as master of cere monies. After the “Star Spangled Ban ner” and an introductory com ment by Grey, the girls of the Louise Homer Club and the Mu sic Department sang a group, of Latin-American Folk Songs, con ducted by Mrs. Willa 'W. Taylor, Following these selections, Senorita E. Castaneda, of Mexico, gave a short talk on the Latin- American Viewpoint. ; Adrian O. Morse, Assistant to the President, gave the-Penn .State Viewpoint on Latin-American re lations in a short address, Mr. Morse stressed the fact that the College is for a better understand ing between-' the- Americas. He believed, however, that this un derstanding can come only through interest, knowledge, and then understanding. Mr. Vito J. Di Vincenzo, of the (Continued On Page Three* Cap and Gown Orders Orders for caps and- gowns will be taken at the Student Union desk from 8 o’clock today until noon Saturday, according to Wallace M. Murfit; 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. Murfit 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. for a year the College boasted two symphonic groups. In 1930 the men broke down their barriers and all because of a French horn, an oboe, and a ’cello. The male group wasn't its mellow self without these orches tral stand-bys and in order to get the instruments the men had ty take the musicians too, who un fortunately were women. And so it began. By 1937 The Symphony has a woman concertmeister. Dorothy Anderson ’36 claimed individual ity not only through this honor but also by being the only coed ever to receive a varsity tennis letter. This year two coeds are officers of the Symphony Orchestra Asso (Continued On Page Two)
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