Liberal Arts 4, WEATHER Mixer Ei g tt Cloudy, Moderate, tt it y htr T o ti r • a Toni g Showers VOL 41—No. 62 Students Present Drama Readings A program of dramatic readings will be presented by students of advanced oral interpretation in 10 Sparks, 8 o'clock tonight. The readings will be given in connec tion with the Combined Arts Fes tival and are open to the public. Selections to be interpreted are as follows: • 1. "Here Comes the Bride groom" by Booth Tarkington Jane Weigle 2. "The Little Wife," William March—Jean Book 3. "The Garter," Dorothy Park er—Jo Fox 4. "The Happy Prince," Oscar Wilde—Martha Schell 5. "An Old-Fashioned Ro mance,' William Saroyan Lois Hartswick 6. "Little White Girl," Mrs. Henry. Mencken—Lois Heyd. Students in the class will also present a radio program over WMAJ 9:30 o'clock tomorrow. Al exander Alex will read "My Lit tle Boy" by Carl Enwald; Sara jane Cherashore will read "Pat terns" by Amy Lowell; William Glenn, "Omit Flowers" by Dana Burnett, and Phyllis Ginsburg, "Checkin' on the Freedom Train" by Langston Hughes. The an nouncer will be Robert Littleton. Another feature of the Festival scheduled for tomorrow is an or gan recital by George Ceiga, pro fessor of music, in Schwab at 4 o'clock. Late AP News Courtesy WidAJ Auto Workers . Resume Talks WASHINGTON CIO United Auto Workers and the Chrysler Corporation have resumed nego tiations to avert the strike sched uled for 9 o'clock this morning. Seventy-five thousand workers at Chrysler plants in Michigan, Indiana and California are con tinuing their plans for the walk out. Union leaders say the strike definitely will take place if there is no settlement. The union is asking a wage increase of 30 cents an hour and the company is said to be willing to go as high as •ninc cents. Labor Dispute Continues WASHINGTON—AIthough the nation's railroads are running on schedule, the labor dispute in that field continues unsettled. The heads of the three unions involved paid a call on Secretary of the Army Royall yesterday. He told them he did not yet have the au thority to deal with them on the question of wages but said he would get in touch with them again in a few days. The union men called off their strike Mon day after the issuing of a court injunction. Air Force Bill WASHINGTON T h e Senate and the House approved yester day the bill calling for a 70-group air force and sent it on to Presi dent Truman, while the Senate Armed Services committee ap proved a draft bill providing for the draft of men 19 through 25 years of age. Veterans who saw at least 90 days of service dur ing the war would be exempt from the draft. El Circulo Espanol The annual picnic of El Circulo Espanol, Spanish society, will he held in Fairmount Park at 3 p.m. Saturday. Reservations may he made with a member of the Spanish department or by call ing 4767. Theta Sigma Phi Theta Sigma Phi, women's journalism honorary, will hold a compulsory meeting in 412 Old Alain at 6:30 o'clock tonight. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 12, 1048---STATE COLLEGE, PEINNA, Refund Checks Drop-add refund checks can be picked up at the bursar's office in 110 Old Main, accord ing to Russell Clark, bursar. The office is open during the noon hour in addition to the 8 to ,4:30 schedule. Morgan Wins Speech Contest Harriet Morgan won the $5O first prize in the annual John Henry Frizzell Extempore Speak ing contest Monday. Helen Dick erson annexed second place and a $25 prize. Miss Morgan's winning oratory was entitled "A Rose by Any Other Name" while Miss Dick erson's prize speech was titled "The Stragglers." Contest judges were members of the ,speech de partment. The contest, which is sponsored by the speech department, dates back more than 50 years. The name of the contest was adopted in honor of John Henry Frizzell, first head of the department of speech and former acting chap lain of the College. He retired with emeritus rank June 30, 1946, after nearly 45 years of teaching. Eng. Association Initiates Students Tau Beta Pi, national honorary engineering association, recently initiated and honored. 46 students at a banquet held at the State College Hotel. Samuel P. Bay ard, of the English Composition Department, spoke on "Folk songs —By the People, For the People" while Theodore W. Hissey, retir ing President of the organization, acted as Toastmaster. New Officers At a business meeting immedi ately following the banquet, the following men were elected to of fice for the 1948-49 school year: president, Edmund L. Van Deu sen; vice-president, Eugene Wheeler; corresponding secretary, Walter Kmak; recording secre tary, Douglas Brace; treasurer, William Ewing; cataloger, Chester Cobosco; faculty advisory board member; Prof. M. S. Osborne. Initiates Those men initiated were Rich ard A. Bernhard, Walter Bow ditch, Jr., Arthur E. Boyd, Doug las G. Brace, Chester J. Bobosco, Michael Churney, John R. Diehl, William M. Ewing, Jr., Samuel E. Firestone, John A. Fogle, William Fortune, George H. Fry, Jr., Rob ert B. Giles, Clinton H. Grace, Kenneth Hunter, William A. Junk, Jr., Donald Keck, L i Klepper, Walter S. Kmak, Charles W. Knisely, Roger B. Knowles. John S. Kuney, William Levy. Lorenz F. Ross, Jr., Robert E. Manning, Stephen N. Martin, Jr., James P. May, Creston Ottemiller, Reed A. Pratt, John W. Punton, Marlin E. Reinhart, Stewart F. Sando, F. C. Schwenk, Charles (Continued on page eight) Ad Contest A four-piece men's toilet kit from Kahn's Men's Shop heads the list of 22 prizes for the winner of the "It's in the Ads" contest. The list of contributing mer chants who help swell the total value of the prizes to $230.50 are: Book and Record St or e, Candy Cane, Charles Shop, Clark Motor Co., College Book Store, Don Kepler's, Glick Shoe Store, Harmony Shop, Keeler's Book Store, Margaret Shop, Mary Leitzinger, Mitch ell's Dress Shop, G. C. Mur phy, Music Room, McLanahan Drug Store, Penn State Photo Shop, Schlow's, Smart Shop, State Motor Sales, Wolf Fur niture Co., and Young Men's Shop. Brass Band, Fixin's Herald Rec Hall Ag Carnival State College residents and stu dents were amazed to see what looked and sounded like a circus parade rolling along the streets last night. Complete with a brass band, a horse, barker and clown, the gala procession canvassed the town and campus to advertise the "Car nival Dance" to be held at Rec Hall at 7 p.m. Saturday. The band, composed of a trom bone, clarinet, sax, drum, and guitar, traveled on a hay wagon pulled by one of the Ag Hill trac tors. Barker of the caravan, Bill Han lon, promised that everyone who attends the dance will get $5OO to spend on the booths and stands arranged on the College gym floor. Tickets for the farm costume dance are on sale at the student union desk. Wallace Students To Present Film Students for Wallace will pre sent a free showing of the fea ture-length film "Native Land," in 119 New Physics at 7:15 o'clock tomorrow night. The film is narrated by Paul Robeson, stars Howard De Sylva, and features the music of Marc Blitzstein. It is a documentary presenta tion of the struggles of the American people in recent years to win and hold'the civil liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. "Native Land" is being brought to the campus. ,by the Wallace group as part of its drive to de feat the Subversive Controls Act of 1948, which was introduced on the floor of the House of Repre sentatives by Congressman Mundt. Graphically portrayed are re cent violations of civil liberties as uncovered by the LaFollette Sen ate Civil Liberties Committee in 1938. The 80 minute film is corn pletely factual and has received wide acclaim throughout the country. The New York Times, Herald-Tribune, and PM praised the picture highly in their movie reviews. Dancing, Games Mark Ag Frolic The annual Ag Frolic will be held in Recreation Hall at 9 p.m. Saturday night. Pat Patterson and his campus orchestra will furnish the music. A half hour jamboree of square dancing and hokey-pokey will precede the regular dancing. Costumes for the dance are in formal, with barnyard styles be ing preferable, announced Will am Hanlon, chairman. Doald Seipt will be in charge of booths and games of chance. Imitation paper money, supplied by the dance committee, will be used at these concessions. Tickets are on sale at $2 each at Student Union, or they may be obtained from members of the Ag Student Council or commit tee. Committee members are Will iam Hanlon, Harry Shaffer, Don ald Seipt, Art Nesbitt, and Maria Hughes. Chem Speaker The Liebig Chemical Society will sponsor a talk by Dr. H. E. Robinson, assistant . director of research of Swift and Company, in 119 Osmond Lab at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night. Dr. Rob inson will speak on "Nutrition Is Our Business." Following the lecture, the Departments of Agri cultural Biochemistry and Bac teriology will hold open house in Frear Lab. Fee Payment A ten dollar fee to insure a plate for students registering for the fall semester must be paid in Recreation Hall from 9 to 5 o'clock today. Students who pay the fee and meet all other requirements will be ad mitted for the fall session. Critic Speaks In LA Lecture Richard Blackmur, well-known critic and poet, will present a program for criticism entitled "A Burden for Critics" in the fifth of the current Liberal Arts Lecture Series in 121 Sparks at 8 o'clock tonight. Mr. Blackmur will also speak in the Simmons Series on Joyce's "Ulysses" in 121 Sparks at 4:15 tomorrow afternoon. Both lec tures are open without charge to faculty members, students, and townspeople. Mr. Blackmuro at present a Resident Fellow in Creative Arts in the Creative Arts Program at Princeton University, where he is charged with the creative writ ing, aspect of the program, is a young man with a distinguished career as critic and poet. He is the author of two volumes of critical essay s, "The Double Agent" and "The Expense of Greatness," and of three volumes of poetry, "From Jordan's De light," "Second World," and "The Good European." His essay on "The Critical Prefaces of Henry James" was selected to serve as the Introduction to the collection of James' prefaces published un der the title of "The Art of the Novel." Additional essays, reviews, and poems have appeared in many of the most prominent literary peri odicals, including Hound and Horn, of which he was also at one time member of the editorial staff, Nation, New Republic, Poetry Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Re view, Southern R e vie w, etc. Treated in these writings are such literary figures of the present and the recent past as W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, and Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane, Samuel Butler, and Herman Melville. Most recently Mr. Blackmur 'participated in a series of lectures and symposia sponsored by Johns Hopkins on the subject of criti cism, in which were presented papers by Andre Gide, represent ing France, Benedetto Croce, representing Italy, Herbert Read, representing England, and Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, and Henri Peyre, in addition to Black mu r, representing the United States. Engineer Council Surveys Courses Engineering Student Council will survey courses in the Engi neering curricula beginning to day and continuing through Fri day, George Bearer, president of the council, reported yesterday. The purpose of the survey is to improve existing courses in the curricula. Students in the School of En gineering are asked by repre sentatives of the council to fill out questionnaires giving infor mation about the subjects they are now taking. After the results of such ques tionnaires have been tabulated, suggestions for improvements are taken to the heads of the various departments. Last semester this idea was used for the first time on a trial scale, and the program proved very successful. Considerable course improvements were car ried out. This term, plans for surveying have been greatly expanded and (Continued ou page eight.) WilitAnaL.-Aki Tickets Remain For 'While Bear' Seats remain far all three pas. formances of the "Great White Bear," newest Thespian produc tion, and are available at Student Union. Tickets for the Thursday night production which begins at 7 p.m. are unreserved and oast 75 cents. The Friday and Satur day night shows begin at 7 p.m. also but all seats are reserved and priced at $l. The romantic leads are held by Julianne Seashore as Penny, a burlesque beauty, and Robert Ko ser as Bob, son of a College Presi dent. Charlotte Halpern appears again as Mabel Mtur, a charmer with a Brooklyn accent. This time she is linked with Jack Saling, as Buzz, the burlesque troupe mana ger. Other cast members are Bar bara Cooper, Robert Cobaugh, Cynthia Doan, James Dunaway, Tad Komorowski, Ted Mann, Ros lyn McCollom, Virgil Neilly, Aar• on Osipow, Lawrence Pinno, Sel ma Rudnick, Jo Ann Roraback. Serving as production assistants are Raymond Fortunato, Ruth Hatfield, George Kline, Robert Koser, and Russell Teal. The "Bear" plot tells of tbs trials and tribulations of a bur.. lesque troupe in finding work. Rather than join the bread line they decide to go "arty" and pro-. duce a Russian drama. The fact that the team is mistaken for a Russian dramatic group scheduled to appear at Benson 11. helps things immensely. Things really break loose when the team is dis covered to be a "phoney," and threatened with a short jail siesta by the college prexy. But the dis covery of the identity of the "Great White Bear" amazes all and clears up the trouble cloud. Th e chorus line parade includes Alvina Bartos, Jacquelyn Coogan, Irene Dopfeld, Ruth Federman, Ruth Kraftsow, Carolyn Mallery, Jeanne Mayer and Patricia Sutter. The masculine counterpart of the chorus includes Robert Brooks, Lewis Cohen, Mackey Emmert, Paul Farrell, Murray Gubin, Wil liam Hanel, Joseph Reinheimer, Bruce Rozet, James Saling, Fred Silverman, Sidney Simon, Leon (Continued on page eight) Chem School Clubs Hold Open House Operation ABC, in the form of an open hpuse at Frear Labora tories will begin at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night. Operation ABC is sponsored by the Liebig Chem ical Society and the Rod and Coa• cus Club. Dr. H. E. Robinson, associate director of research for Swift and Comapny, will give a talk on 'Nutrition Is Our Business and Yburs" and discuss briefly the importance of nutrition, the three cardinal principles in the nse of food and the attention inane.. try gives to nutrition. After Dr. Robinson's talk, Mis plays on milling, baking, peni cillin preparation, pathogenic bacteria, tobacco research, vita min deficiency, and other phases of agricultural and biologies! chemistry and bacteriology will be shown. News Briefs SAM Officers The Society for the Advance ment of Management recently elected William Ewing, president Robert Boedecker and Richard Brown, vice-presidents; and Jan Fortune, secretary-treasures. Alpha Epsilon Delta Alpha Epsilon Delta, pre-med ical honorary, recently elected Walter Medic, president; James Robinson, vice - president; Frank Bernstein, secretary; Albert Kaz lauskas, treasurer; and Edward West, historian.
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