PA.GE FOUB. College Installs Benches To Aid Weary Students Over Worked , studen;ts and visitors weary from too much sight seeing wilt (Have mlore plates to rest their bones next. Spring as the remillt 3.0 new benches now being installed as a gift. tor the class of IR& te Me got develloped :from ci(virplinint of an elderly visitor to the eampue, 'who liked th e place so tinfoil that he remained to take a course Those Player Shows Don't Just Happen If you think a Player's siltow just happens, stop over at Schwab ,some night. Last night When we walked into Ole Thespian room Where Fran Gass and her costume crew were Working the first thing we noticed Were larg e donut-shaped muslin cushions. Mrs. Scott, faculty de signer of todiumes, explained that ihese are bustles to filare skirts. Sh e continued that the codtttme design, is from the 1660 period but "treated• in a rniedern way rather Chan in reproduction of the au thor's original idea. "The set and costumes were de :4gned in delicate filambouyant rococo to bring out the author's ridicule of the hypocondriac." Every now and then ther e Was an interrupiion as one of the =St took a break from the Little The ater stage tor a fitting. Lois Harts wick walked in, with her York shire terrier, Judy, while w e were there. Leaving the ThiesPlan room, w e met, Dual' Sipes, student designer of scenery, costumes, furniture and properties. He commented, The show is something bolder than Penn State Players have . tried before." A yellow quilted sateen sofa Caught our eye while we talked , to Ernest Bentner, furniture crew head. The sofa and a snake-like table, both Made from scratch, are to b e decorated wiith rococo out from tin awns by Gordon Fiske's • scenery Construction crew. In the property cage, there were gold papier-mache mortars and pesitils, song Sheets comiplete to 'notes and bars, and a pink add wihate striped mock syringe. Riusty Weingarten e - xplairts, "You may never see the props closely. - but they must be as nearly aUthenitk as ptosstible." Alter climbing three flights to the Player's loft to watch Ann Otunawayls paint crew we found the flats finished and locked up. 'eaving Sehlvtab we realized how. much goes on behind the :icenes to make the Show a success. 'Skiers Heel Colgate The ski team swings into ac tion with its first regular meet against Colgate University -at Hamilton, N. Y., Saturday, Neil Fleming, graduate manager of athletics, announced today. in Vie Summer of 1943. In a letter to President 'Hazel, he lamented the absence of places 'to sit and enjoy the scenery. A member of the donating class, who is president of a large Pitts_ buret steel company, offered to conStrolcit the benches if the class paid for their erection. The 'total of 50 benches will 'replac e the old green park jobs spent most at their time in fraternity row. A desirable view and lack of in terference with future building developments were considered in the sites chosen for the benches, according to George W. Ebert, superintendent of Grounds and Buildings. Where, Oh Where Have The thrisfmas Trees Gone? Christmas is now as dead es last year's snows, with nary a trace off the gay trimmings and tinsel that adorned every corner of the campus. Did goblins carry away the 37 Christmas trees, , and the four truckloads of greens pro vided by Grounds and Buildings? "I can account for a few of them," said Walter W. Trainer, supervisor of maintenance for grounds and buildings. "Many Of the sorority houses offered their trees and decorations to poor ram ilies, or to churches. The trees that were thrown outside for col lection (b eif or e vacation blew around in the wind a hit, but we finally gathered them up," "The larger trees, like the ones in Old Main, were collected Sat urday and taken out Three Mile Road, past Farm No. 7, to the col lege dump. There they were tossed into the incinerator and burned." And what hiappened to all the mistletoe that hung, unnoticed and unneeded, in all the lounges? None was collected, for it had just disappeared. Guess it went where the Christmas spirit goes. Stresses the Job Of Young farmers • Chauncey P. L a ng, assistant state 4-IH Club leader of the Col lege, will speak at the New Jer sey State Meeting of Older Rural Youth at Trenton, N. J., January 21, on "Opportunities and Re sponsibilities of Older Rural Youth in the American Way of Life." On Monday, Lang spoke at the quarterly staff .conference of the Extension Service of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture in Wash ington, D. C., on the subject of "Older Rural Youth Program in Pennsylvania." THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Art Expert To Lecture On Folk Art Donald A. Shelley, curator of paintings and sculpture at the New York Historical Society and specialist. in Pennsylvania Ger man folk art, will present the first lecture of the Lucretia V. T. Simmons series in Room 121, Sparks Building, at 4:15 o'clock Monday afternoon. , The series was started at the College this year in memory of Dr. Simmons, teacher of German for 36 years and head of the de partment of German .from 1916 to 1939. Shelley's lecture, titled "Penn sylvania Geman Folk Art," will be illustrated with lantern Slides of outstanding specimens of these early arts and crafts and will deal with the history and development of typical forms and designs. A member of both the Pennsyl vania German Society and the Pennsylvania G e ran an Folklore Society, Shelley has been carry ing on specialized research in the field of for German folk art for 10 years, contentrat ing upon the art of Fractur Writ ifig and its relation to the Various oth e r Pennsylvania decorative arts and crafts. In connection with this study, he has traveled widely over eastern ,Pennsylva nia, as well as Europe, in search of fine individual specimens and private • collections of Fractur. Shelley, a brother of Dr. Philip A. Shelley, head of the depart ment of German at the College, is l a native of York and is of Penn sylvania German ancestry. He was a former student of Dr. Sian mons, having received a bachelor of arts degree in arts and letters from the College in 1932. Continuing his studies at Har vard University in the Fogg Art Museum, where he specialized in the history of art, he received his master of arts degree in 1983. He then continued his work in the Institute of Fine Arts he New York University where he is cora pleting requirements for his doc tor's degree in American Art and is writing his thesis on Pennsyl vania German Fractur Writing. Shelley's museum training be han in 19315 with his appointment as one cif the first Rockefeller Foundation Internes assigned to the Brooklyn Museum. Later he served two years as director of an experimental Children's Mu- seum in Queens, New York. In 1938, the American Associa tion of Museums in Washington, D. C., 'sent him to Rhineland to study the European background Of our Pennsylvania German Arts and to visit the many modern Folk Art Museums in Southwest Germany and in France contain ing exhibits of those arts , and crafts which are so closely 're lated to, and so often confused with, our own early Pennsylvania German products, The New Beaver football is Mowed weekly and marked tor eadh sdheduled event. Forum-- (Continued from page one) Brotherhood and madhinist and dislrick representative after that. He has organized farm coopera tives, and sat on two national labor boards, The National Labor . Board and the National Labor Re lations Board. Mr. Golden is a member of the ptillicy committee of the War Man agement Board. Although his flor mral education was not extensive, he has various educational capaci ties. H e was founder and president of the Philadelphia Labor College, Field Manager for Brookwbod College, . Katonah, N. Y., and Trustee of Antioch College. Co-author of the hook, "Dynam ics of Industrial Management," Mr. Golden is a memlber of the policy committee of the Trade- Labor Management committee at Yale. Mr. Batt, representing manage ment, received his MA from Fur . - LET CLASSIFIEDS SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM! COLLEGIAN CLASSIFIEDS BRING QUICK RESULTS NOTICE HOFBRAU -BELLEFONTE CLOSED DURING FIRE REPAIRS WATCH THIS PAPER FOR OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT SEN - I R S. SUBSCRIBE . .• TO THE COLLEGIAN GET YOUR SUBSCRIPTION -- BEFORE GRADUATION Mail or Phone the Collegian Office for , Your Subscription Carnegie Hall Phone 711 THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1941 due in 1901 and his Doctor's in 1933, after study at Drexel and Stevens Institute of Tedhnology. He was a membe r of the Inter national Committee of Scientific Management, and chairman of the Board of American . Management, An. honorary . member of the American. Society..af. Mechanical Engineers, Mr—Batt was once vtice4ohairman of .the Wa r Produc tion Baard. He was also member to the National Planning Associa tion and Was a deputy member of the Combined Production and Re sources Board of the United State's, Great Britain, and Canada, There are 120 stage seat tickets still availlabi e at Sttalent Union. arid 'at the box office of SChwab Auditorium, Jo Hays, ticket man-. alter. for. the. Forum, •reports. The tickets . are on sale .at 7 5 cents • each. 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