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Play Shop Gives S Student
One- ct Stage Productions
The College Playshop of the
iramatic Division presented a stu
dio production at the Little The
atre Wednesday night. The' plays
given were "The First Dress Suit"
by Russel Medcr a f t, "Cottie
Wiourns" by Patricia McMullan,
and "The Old Lady Shows Her
IMAals" by James M. Barrie,
which was repeated Thursday at
'the Little Theatre with two other
one-act plays, "The Purple Door
knob" by Walter P. Eaton and
"Letter" by Florence Ryerson and
Colin Clements. These plays were
produced through the combined ef
forts of the following classes: Dra
ol.ll.lcs I, Production; Dramatics 11,1
Stagecraft; and Dramatics 451,1
Directing.
"The Old Lady Shows 'Her ,Med
ells," directed by Janet Dayton, in
eludes in its cast Sidney Fried- I
man, a. charwoman, and Wesley
'Wagner, the Scottish soldier. Mur
ieliSteinman, Gerry Lubow, and
:Violet :Seigle are the other char
women in the play and Raymond
!Boyle. is a priest.
"The First Dress Suit" was di-
WRA Sponsor
Skating Party
• Roller skating will be in step
this weekend when WRA sponsors
a party of said variety in the Coll
;:cum Rink from 2 to 5 o'clock to
morrow. The All-College Co-Rec
affair is for civilians and service
men, according to President Eliza
beth McKinley.
Mary. Ann Jennings, club activi
ties chairman, and Julia Gilbert,
!WRA vice-president, are super
visors.
Tickets which sell for 25 cents
a person may be purchased from
Miss Gilbert, Barbara Smith, Miss
Jennings, Alice Hooper, Mary
Grace Longenecker, Elizabeth
Pike, and Miss McKinley, as well
as Student Union. Servicemen may
obtain tickets at the Service Cen
ter. Tickets will not be sold .at the
door . Saturday afternoon.
Musical recordings will provide.
the atmosphere, and cokes, re
fresheners.
The group will meet in front of
White Hall at 1:45 o'clock.
Women students are invited to
Praynight in White Hall from 7 to
o'clock Saturday.
This week's committee includes
Phyllis Crabtree, presidents' rep
resentative; Elizabeth McKinley,
board member; and Miss Helen
Swenson, staff member.
All sports facilities will be avail
able and refreshments will be
served.
CLASSIFIED SECTION
LOST—Argus 35mm camera in
leather carrying case near Penn
State Riding Club's training ring.
Please return for substantial re
ward to C. B. Zimmerman, 306 W.
College avenue, or call 3183.
lt-comp—PPM
LOST—Brown and gold Shaeffer
"Lifetime" pen. Namt on pen,
Benjamin Cutts. Call Kay, third
floor South Mac.
LOST—One gold fraternity key
with letters "0. D. :K." Reward.
Contact W. R. Gordon, 240 Wood
land Drive: 'Telephone 4486.
It-pd—SC
PW—Three passengers to (Phila
delphia and return weekend of
Sept. 11. Call 4281. It-pd—PPM
'WANTED— Experienced student
to fire furnace in private home
for room. Call 2137. 2t-pd—JH
WANTED—Ride to or near Pitts
burgh. Will share expenses. Call
Bill, 37.4(. '1 t-pd—JH
fRW--To 'Warren, Pa., or vicinity.
'Leave Saturday noon, Sept. 4.
Cad Houston, 3251. It-pd —PPM
LOST--Silver bracelet with hen t
shaped Air Corps insignia. Call
Kappa Alpha Theta 4371.
rected by Betty Bowman. The play
characters were Teddy Harding,
portrayed by Robert Lewis; his
sister, Claire Kohn; her boy friend,
Melvin Cheekum; and Teddy's
sympathetic mother, Florence Gil
lespie.
"Cottie Mourns," directed by
Sally Myers, is the story of an
Ozark girl, Shirley Merman; her
husband, Harry Pebly; a boy
friend . , Henry Simon; and girl
friend. Jane Wyckoff.
"The Purple Doorknob" was di
rected by Josephine Nash and is
enacted by Betty Read, Janet Ap
pleby, and Miriam Zartman. They
play Mrs. Barthlemow, Amanda
Dunbar, and Viola Cole respec
tively.
"The Letter," directed by Anne
Muir, includes in the cast Betty
Moch as Helen Kane, Violet Nae
gle as Parmela Whitney. and Lor
raine Metzger as Dolly Darling.
The stage crew was Grace 0.
Clayton, Grace Goodlin, Lenys
Blews, Betty Mock, Violet Naegle,
and Lorraine Metzger.
The light crew was composed •of
Mary Jo 'McDougall, Anne Raffle,
and James Casey.
The property crew consisted of
Lenys Blew and Grace Goodin.
Josephine Nash, Betty Bowman,
Sally Myers, and Janet Dayton
comprised the make-up 'crew.
Farm Labor Manpower
bilization Nits 1591100
Nearly 16,000 workers have
been placed on farms throughout
Pennsylvania this summer to re
lieve manpower shortages which
began in Lancaster and Franklin
according to a report from the
College Agricultural Service.
Twelve thousands seven hun
dred had been stationed in farm
labor camps and employed up to
July 31: however. the number has
increased by 3,000 since that cen
sus was taken.
A farm labor camp housing 70
women •and girls opened in Aug
ust at Kepler Lodge near Pequea,
Lancaster county. At about the
same time, 102 boys, most of them
from Philadelphia, arrived at Old
Forge, near Waynesboro, Franklin
county.
The camps will be kept open
until November 1.
THE C.:OLLEGINA
Army Air Corps Men
Conduct Naming Contest
For Paper, 'The Orphan'
The Army Air Corps men re
ceiving instruction at the College
are singing the praises of their
four-page tabloid, "The Orphan."
Originally started a few months
ago as a sideline, the task of put
ting out the paper has developed
into a full-time job. "The Orphan"
now possesses a complete editorial
staff and gives up-to-date coverage
of Air Corps activities on the cam
pus.
Pictures, cartoons, features, col
umns, editorials, and straight news
• articles comprise the paper which
is not an official War Department
publication.
A campaign is now being con
ducted by the staff to find a per
manent name for the paper. The
present name. "The Orphan," was
giVen to the publication because
no other suitable name could be
found. It was called "Penn Prop
Patter" a number of weeks ago,
was changed back to "The Orphan"
for the time being.
Each time a quintile of aviation
students from the 330th Army Air•
Corps CTD is sent to another
school or training base, a new staff
must be elected since most of the
positions on the, paper are left
open.
The present editorial staff of
"The Orphan" follows: Edward
Bejan, editor-in-chief; Stanley
Chazen, news editor; John Wil
liamson, feature editor; Edwin
Lewis, sports editor; Grant Steth
man, photograph editor; Michael
Cannata, circulation manage r;
Stacy Mathas, cartoonist; and Ger
son Zubkin, Ed Carlson, Robert
Perry, Robert Breiling, Walter
Jebe, Otto Peterson, and Wilfred
Gallagher, reporters.
Penn Stale Club Holds
Armory Dance Friday
'The Penn State Club will hold
a social dance in the Armory from
8 to 12 p.m. 'Friday, according to
William R. 'Folk, chairman. The
dance is free and open to every
one.
Nominations for executive 'pos.
Mons - are now open and a meet
ing will be held in the Penn
State Club room in Old Main at
7:30 p.m. Tuesday for all men
who are interested ; according to
Ray A. Zaroda, president of the
Club.
Men. In Service
(Continued frOnt page five)
was later transferred to the Air
Force. Taking his basic training at
Santa Anna, Cal., he was grad
uated from bombardier school at
Phoenix, Ariz., in January, receiv
ed his wings in May at Monroe,
La., and was transferred to Camp
Boise, Idaho, before going to
Wendover Field.
For extraordinary achievement
with anti-submarine flights by the
Northwest Africa Coastal Air
Force, Tech. Sgt. Walter R. Lowry
'4l has been awarded the Air
Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster. At
present he is stationed at Langley
Field, Va., awaiting an assignment
to another theatre of war. He en
listed We day war was declared,
was shipped to England last No
vember, transferred to North Af
rica at Tunis and Bizerte. He has
about 40 operational missions to
his credit. ' •
Among the Navy V-7 students
at Notre Dame who will receive
commissions as ensigns this month
are Jim Drylie, Jim Gotwals, Tom
Mitchell, and Dick Stebbins. . . .
Dave Gordon and Fowler Bounds
are in the Army Air Corps at Santa
Anna, Cal. . . . Dave See is in the
Infantry at Ft. Bragg, N. C., study
ing radio. . • . Paul Bost is at
Camp Robinson, Ark., in the Me7.;-
ical Corps. . . . Alex Taylor is
with the Navy V-12 at Cornell. •
In the ASTP at Stanford Uni
versity; Cal., Cpl. Leonard ~Bach
'43 is in the foreign area language
course. A C and F student at the
College and former business • man
ager of the Collegian, he's .now
studying Japanese and anthropol- I
9gy,.along with a few other things
(62 hours in all).
Busy Beaver
Walt Gerson '43 has been a busy
little beaver in his off hours down
at Camp Wheeler, Ga. He thinks
now he has collected the name,
home address, class, company, and
platoon of every man down there
—total, 143. Too bad the column
isn't .lonacr so we could include
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1943
them all. But we hope you're all
having fun. They must have a lot
of spare time down there if Walt
has the time to do all that.
A letter arrived the other day
from Chuck Adams ex-'44, who is
'an MP at New Cumberland, Pa.
He was surprised recently while
making his rounds to hear a bunch
of recruits giving out with a few
Penn State songs. It was the boys
who are back here now in ROTC.
It was supposed to be quiet, but
his old spirit intervened when he
thought he - •ought to shut the boys
up. So he left it to another who.
wasn't quite so pakial to the Nit
tany Lions. Also, he likes getting
the Collegian (plug) and hopes to
get back to finish college some day.
He says, "I don't have any ambi
tion to be a cop all my life." .
Daniel Peters has been pro . -
moted to first lieutenant at the
Fourth Ferrying Group, Municipal.
Airport, Memphis, Tenn. He was a
flight instructor before going into
•
the service.
There's a nice letter with a lot
of that old spirit in it from a
couple of the boys klown at Ft.
Bragg, N. c. Sorry we don't have
room to print it, but it was appre
ciated. anyway. The boys are Pvt.
Jack Penrod, A/C. James Frame
Jr., Pvt. Hugh Ridell Jr., and Pvt.
Mort6n Peck. There are about 300
State men down there. Maybe
some slack week we'll have room,
for the letter.
Keller Releases
If Ball Costs
(Continued rrom Pfige One)
of financial success may
cribed to the inability of obtaining
a band for a Saturday night en
gagement and the resulting dearth
of servicemen' at., the ball. How
ever, many servicemen were pres
ent when Maestro Will Osborne
played for one solid hour before
the ball, Keller added.