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VOL. 47—No. 11
Film, Reception
Launch 'Week'
“Beyond Our Own,” a movie
relating to practical human liv
ing, will be shown for students
and faculty members in 119 Os-
Mond Laboratory (New Physics)
as part of the Religion-in-Life
Week program at 2 o’clock to
morrow.
The film, produced for the Re
ligious Film Association with
Hollywood stars, is the story of
two college graduates who be
came doctors.
A Religion-in-Life Week re
ception given by Arthur War
nock, dean of men, and Pearl O.
Weston, dean of women, will fol
low the movie in the second floor
lolinge of Old Main from 4 to 5
o’clock.
Special guests will be Charles
I. Carpenter, Dr. Roy Dickerson,
Hon. Brooks Hays, Rev. Robert
James, Miss Muriel Jacobson,
Rev. Herbert King, Prof. S. K.
Patro, Rev. James Stoner, Rev.
Alfred Thomas, Rev. Maurice
Trimmer. Father Adrian Veigle.
Miss Mildred Winston and Dr.
Herrick Young.
New York Pastor
Speaks at Chapel
Chapel speaker Rev. William
H. King, pastor of Grace Congre
gational Church, New York City,
will open Religion-in-Life Week
observance in Schwab Auditor
ium at 11 o’clock tomorrow. His
topic will be “Faith, Nucleus foi
Living.”
Reverend King has addressed
student, faculty, church and civ
ic audiences throughout the
United States and in Paris. Ber
lin, and Vienna. He served with
the Y.M.C.A. as National Asso
ciate Secretary of the National
Student Division.
Recipient of professional and
honorary degrees from More
house College, Oberlin Graduate
School, and the Union Theologi
cal Seminary, Reverend King is
now a candidate for the degree
of Doctor of Education at Colum
bia University.
Reverend King will address the
Wesley Foundation at St. Paul’s
Methodist Church at 6o’clock to
morrow night. He will be avail
able for counseling throughout
the remainder of the week.
Religion-in-Life Topics
Include Faith, Marriage
Religion-in-Life Week semi
nars scheduled for Monday are
“Finding Time For Faith” led by
Mildred Winston and James
Stoner, 304 Old Main. 11 a.m., and
“For Better. Not For Worse,”
with Dr. Roy Dickerson, Woman’s
Building Lounge, 4:10 p.m.
“Life’s Lost Dimension,” with
Chaplain Charles I. Carpenter,
304 Old Main, 4:10 p.m. “Ingred
ients for a World Mind," Rev.
Herrick Young and Prof. S. K.
Patro, Atherton Hall lounge, 4:10
p.m.
Dr. Roy Dickerson will lead a
campus assembly, “Before I Mar
ry,” 10 Sparks, 8:00 p.m.
Late AP News
Courtesy Radio Station WMAJ
KEY WEST. Florida—-President
Truman yesterday maintained
that he meant what he said in
referring to Theodore Roosevelt
as “liberal” in his Jackson Day
speech. When reporters asked if
he might have made a slip of the
tongue, the President grinned
and said that Theodore Roosevelt
belongs in the same “liberal”
class with Franklin Roosevelt.
NEWARK—Henry Wallace told
newsmen yesterday that he
would consider the Democratic
Party’s come-home appeal, if “it
proves it’s a peace party.”
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1948—STATE COLLEGE, PENN A.
Four-Year Pen Pal
Telephones Coed
From England
Winifred Imhof. senior journal
ism student received the surprise
of her life when she answered the
telephone Wednesday night.
Greeted with the phrase. “Over
seas operator calling.” Miss Imftof
learned that the call was from her
pen pal. Pamela Mclver-Moore. in
Hastings. Sussex. England. They
have continued their postage
stamp friendship four years.
The English family explained
that they were celebrating the in
stallation of their first telephone
by making a premiere call to
America. Major topic of discus
sion was n trip to England Miss
Imhof hopes to win from her
father by making a 3.0 average
this semester.
Music Department Sponsors
Monthly Student Recital
Student musicians will partici
pate in the regular monthly stu
dent recital sponsored by the
music department in 117 Carneg
ie Hall at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. The
public is invited.
Jo Rotili, piano soloist, will
open the program with the first
movement of Haydn’s “Concerto
in D Major.” William Parsons,
tenor, will sing Kramed’s “Plead
ng” and Wolfe’s “Iris.”
“Concerto in D Minor for Two
Violins” with a cadenza by
Hellmesberger will be played by
Genevieve Taras and Birdie Ber
nan with Miss Rotili at the
Jack Nesbitt, tenor, will sing
Grieg’s “I Love Thee” and Car
penter’s “May the Maiden.”
Waltz from the “Suite for Two
Pianos” by Arensky and Lecu
ona’s “La Comparsa” will be
played by Marjorie Mead and
Marilyn Guillet.
The entire program which was
arranged by Miss Elizabeth Rey
nolds, instructor in music, will be
about an hour in duration. Mem
bers of the Louise Homer Club,
women’s music honorary, will
serve as ushers.
Inexperienced Cast Sparkles
In Three Men on a Horse
By Mac White
“Three Men on a Horse” may not be great litera
ture, but it certainly is top-drawer comedy.
Penn State Players, in their revival production
which opened Thursday night, gave it the once
over- with a largely neophyte cast and came up with
a show that drew assorted titters, chuckles, guf
faws, and downright abdominal laughs from an
unusually large and appreciative opening-nighl
audience.
Hank Glass, Thespian luminary, Talent Show
comae, Sheepskin Serenade emcee, and campus en
tertainment bon vivant, carried the burden of the
fun-making with style and finesse, in his first lead
ing role for Players. His entrance picked up a slow
curtain scene before his first on-stage line, his
tread was that comical.
As might be expected from a oast in the main
inexperienced, the show lacked some of the fine
edge of pace and timing that farce requires, a fault
that doubtless will have been ameliorated in subse
quent performances. It bega n with a sparkle, sag
ged a bit in the middle, and ended in the captivat
ing flourish of hilarious activity typical of its ilk.
Almost always there was someone to pick up the
pace after occasional let-downs, fluffed lines, slow
cues, or laugh-masked dialogue. Credit for repeat
edly injecting the show with vitality was shared by
Glass with several others, notably Jean Bickerton
Windcresl Wife
Averts Tragedy
A mother’s foresight saved her
12-week-old son from possible
death yesterday morning when
the family’s trailer home was
badly damaged by an oil burner
explosion.
The trailer belonged to Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Dudley, 315 Wind
crest. Mrs. Dudley had taken her
son to a neighboring trailer as
soon as she noticed that the oil
space heater was not functioning
properly.
The trailer’s contents destroyed
or damaged by the fire are cov
ered by insurance. Mrs. Dudley
reported. College officials are
seeking living quarters for the
family.
Three engines of the Alpha Fire
Company answered the alarm
turned in by Mrs. Dudley.
Seniors Vole On
$5OO Class Fund
Seniors will vote individually
on setting aside $5OO as a perma
nent senior class fund designed
to assure them voting power in
electing College Trustees, Ed
ward Banyai, class president,
said yesterday.
The sum would be set aside
from the class gift tc keep intact
the addresses of members of the
class of ’4B. All class members
would then receive printed bal
lots enabling them to influence
election of the nine trustees
chosen by the Alumni Associa
tion.
Two changes in commence
ment arrangements were made at
Thursday’s class meeting. Gradu
ation exercises scheduled for
June 7 on New Beaver Field will
begin at 2 p.m. rather than in the
morning as previously.
The class also voted to have di
plomas given out by schools in
stead of individually. This will
shorten commencement exercises
by 80 minutes, according to Ban
yai.
As Mabel, ex-follies cutie and girl friend of Patsde,
ringleader of the “three men,” she scored a definite
hit. Always tops in her bandinage with Glass, she
lent a vocal distinction and a stage presence to her
first Players performance that was a major factor
in making the production a rollicking success.
Robert Benson, as the shrewd but adventurous
Patsie, showed much promise in his first-acrt scene
with Mabel, rendering a facial reaction that drown
ed her harangue in laughter. It was a peak he never
reached subsequently.
Aaron Osipow and Buzz Fuhringer, as Frankie
and Charlie, the rest of the titled trio, both turned
in creditable performances. Osipow’s lines were
sometimes lost on the audience, but he was so in
herently comical as to make them forget it. His
climbing onto a bar stool was as good as any line in
the play. Fahringer’s characterization was swift
and sure, and his acting perhaps technically the
best in the casf.
Herb Rossman’s antias as the apoplectic Mr. Car
ver added mosf satisfactorily to the confusion of
the final moments. Overdrawn of necessity, his
characterization would doubtless have been more
convincing had the show’s pitch been higher at his
entrance.
John Devlin, as the eet-rich-quick bartender
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Foresters Inaugurate
TUB Ballroom Tonight
Forestry Ball first All-College dance in the Temporary Union
Building, will feature music by the Campus Owls tonight. Th*> dance,
lasting from 9 until 12, is informal.
No tickets will be sold at the door tonight. However, there are
stall a few tickets, at $2 a couple, available at Student Union this
morning. Because the capacity of the dance floor at TUB has not
Disarmament Plan
Gels AVC Support
Centre County chapter of AVC
has amended two clauses of its
policy to be submitted at the na
tional convention in August.
The clauses as amended pro
pose full support to a plan of dis
armament through the United Na
tions and condemn all totalitarian
nations whether left or right :n
nature.
The previous clause concerning
condemnation of totalitarian
states was directed singly toward
the Franco government in Spain.
AVC’s original disarmament
plan lacked any instrumentation.
The amended plan will place con
trol of disarmament in the hands
of the United Nations.
Thespians Seek
Skits, Scenarios
Thespian script writing contest
ends next Saturday, Bob Koser
said yesterday.
Manuscripts should be submit
ted to the Student Union desk
no later than noon.
Prizes are being offered for
three scenarios and three skits.
They will be judged by a com
mittee headed by J. Ewing Ken
nedy. The committee is made up
the Thespian board of control
and various undergraduate mem
bers.
Thespians need good material,
Koser said, and the contest is
open to all students of the Col
lege including those who were
graduated in January.
Contest rules are available at
the Student Union desk.
Creditable Performances
PRICE FIVE CENTS
been determined, sales for the
Forestry Ball have been limited to
325 couples.
The lounges and soda foun
tain of the TUB will be open to
students not at the Ball, as wall
as those attending the dance.
The department of forestry, in
the School of Agriculture, is spon
soring the dance.
Sam Anthony is dance chairman
of the Forestry Ball. Donald Ben
son is in charge of advertising
and chairman of the ticket sales
is Paul Sdheffey.
College Glee Club
Tours Five Cities
Penn State Glee Club un
der the direction of Frank Guile
is planning a series of concerts in
five eastern Pennsylvania cities
early in April. The tour will con
clude with the club’s annua!
spring concert in Schwab Audi
torium Sunday afternoon, April
11.
Cities included in the tour are
Harrisburg, Beading, West Ches
ter, Kingsiton and Scranton. The
College Alumni groups are spon
soring three of the concerts.
The program will feature num
bers by the varsity quartet, with
James W. Beach and William H
Parsons, tenors; Robert M. Koser.
baritone; and Virgil E. Neilly.
baiss. Thaddeus S. Komorowski
baritone soloist, and John E.
Kelly, piano soloist, will partici
pate in all performances.
Accompanists are Raymond H.
Robinson and Paul B. Margolf
John B. Nesbitt has been appoint
ed business manager for the tour.
News Briefs
Sigma Tau
Recently elected officers of
Sigma Tau. engineering honorary,
are John Keller, president; Charles
Knisely, vice-president; William
McClain, treasurer; Walter Robb,
corresponding secretary; Thomas
Stanziola. recording secretary, and
William Barrett, historian.
Students for Wallace
Students for Wallace will meet
in 417 Old Main. 3 o’clock tomor
row. to discuss the statewide con
vention. March 7. and to clarify
the objectives of the Wallace pro
gram. A talk on civil liberties aad
academic freedom wib also be in
cluded.
Phi Mu Alpha
Phi Mu Alpha, national men*;
music honorary, will entertuu
prospective pledges at the Thefc
Xi house from 2 to 5 o’clock to
morrow afternoon, according u
Paul Groves, president.
TUB Sells Froth
Froth’s Confusion issue will b
on sale at the TUB and other usua
places Tuesday. The issue lea
tures an article bv Dr. Clifford A
Adams on “Are Undergraduat
Marriages Successful?”
Windcrest Nominations
Nominations for officers ‘.o th
Windcrest Boro Council will b
made in Community Hall belwee
S and 1 u.m. next Tuesday. C’oui.
cil elections will be held belwee
noon and 7 pan. Tuesday. Match 1