Late AP News. Courtesy WMAJ
Senate Group
Approves Pact
WASHINGTON—The proposed
Atlantic Alliance has been given
informal approval by the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee!
The Senators met with Secretary
of State Dean Acheson for nearly
three hours yesterday, discussing
the provisions of the treaty. The
committee chairman, Tom Con
nally of Texas, says the treaty
should be signed in about two
weeks.
In addition to the United States,
the signers are expected to in
clude Canada, Britain, France.
The Netherlands, Belgium, Lux
embourg, and Nor wa y. Some
other countries, Denmark in par
ticular, may join the negotiations
before the pact is signed.
Pension Plan
WASHINGTON—The Ho upe
Rules Committee heard yesterday
that the proposed Rankin pension
plan would cost the pation 125
billion dollars. Budget Director
Prank Pace declared, "It is not
possible to justify" the veterans
pension program backed by Mis
sissippi Congressman Joan Rank
in.
Brown Heads
Committee
-•o1d Brown, a member of
Ten's Debate Squad, was
chairman of the Commit-
on Human Relations and
Fundamental Freedoms at the
Ohio State Conference on Public
Affairs which was held in Col
umbus, 0., March 3,4, and 5.
The resolution presented by
Brown and Richard S. Schweik
er, another member of the squad,
was accepted by the assembly.
The resolution stated—"Be it
resolved by the
Conference
Foreign Affk
that the Uni
States govei
ment should
tend the lif e
t h e Institute
Inter - Americ
Affairs for ft
years by i•
creasing the
nancial suppi
to $10,000,1
per year a_
thatthe scope of
the institute include social, econ
omic, and cultural development
of all the nations of the Western
Hemisphere."
The conference was in the form
of a model legislature, and United
States Foreign policy was dis
cussed. Francis Sayres of the
State Department was the princi
pal guest speaker.
Altoona Theatre
Presents Hamlet
A four-day showing of Laur
ence Olivier's production of Ham
let will be presented by the
Strand Theatre in Altoona with a
special discount for students, an
nounced George P. Long, mana
ger.
The film will be shown from
Tuesday, March 15, to Friday,
March 18, at the Strand Theatre.
Students and faculty members
may obtain coupons at the Eng
lish Literature department, 204
Si arks, which will entitle them
to purchase reserved tickets for
$l. The regular performances
will be at 2:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Theatre Presents Lyon's 'Rewrite'
By Jack Reen
Tom Lyon's "Rewrite," present
ed yesterday by the Five O'clock
Theatre, displayed depth of per
ception hitherto absent from the
Little Theatre boards this semes
ter.
The story of a newspaperman's
dissatisfaction with his "com
placent" job of rewriting every
day tragedies was not slowed
down by talky repetition, shades
of which were seen in Steve
Perialas' "Apartment with
Mother" two weeks ago. Nor did
the play have the fresh spontane
ity of last week's "St. Levy's,' by
Hank Glass.
The theme at the three-scene
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"FOR A BETTER PENN STATE"
VOLUME 49-NUMBER 23 STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1949
Daniih Speaker
Depicts Trends
In Architecture
Lars Marnus, Danish architect
and educator, will speak on "Con
temporary Architecture in the
Scandinavian Countries' in 110
Electrical Engineering building at
8 p.m. today.
His collection of 400 photo
graphs, depicting the latest archi
tectural trends in Scandinavian
countries, will be displayed on
the third floor of Main Engineer
ing Building all day today.
Marnus, who studied at the
Royal Academy in Copenhagen,
and in England, France and the
United States, is on an 18 month
lecture tour cf American colleges
and universities. His lecture is
sponsored by the department of
architecture.
People Too Crowded
Marnus has called today's av
erage house a "heaping up of ob
solete and halfway modern ma
terials." He also stated that
"people live too crowded in some
parts of the big cities. In an
apartment upon the tenth floor is
no place to rear children. They
should have an open place in
which to play."
Students, Profs
Meet Informally
Depart mg from the usual class
room basis of contact between
professor s and students, the Lib
eral Arts Student-Faculty Mixer
tonight will give students and
professors an opportunity to meet
of an informal basis.
Sponsored by the Liberal Arts
Student Council, the mixer will
be staged at the Tub from 7 t , 10
p.m. today. All students and fac
ulty in the Liberal Arts School
are invited to attend.
Entertainment, Dancing
Entertainment, dancing and re
freshments are on the evening's
schedule, according to Karl Bor
ish, chairman of the mixer.
Not only will students of the
Liberal Arts chool •be in a posi
tion to meet the instructors in
formally, but the mixer is also de
signed in an effort to get students
of the school better acquainted
with each other.
Council President
Brown
President of the Liberal Arts
Student Cour.cil is Jean Moore;
Karl Borish is general chairman
of the mixer.
Patrica Bender, Clare Lefkoe,
Corinne Mittel - - lan, Sylvia Ock
ner, and Howard oßsen serve on
Borish's committee.
deLevie Conducts
German Program
Beginning March 14, Dr. Dago
bert deLevie, assistant professor
of German at the College, will
present a radio program over
Station WMAJ each Monday,
Wednesday and Friday night from
8:55 to 9 o'clock.
The program, conducted in Ger
man, will consist of news from
Germany as well as a discussion
of current topics concerning Ger
many.
fantasy was sometimes obscured
by muddled diction and a disturb
ing rustling of the scripts. The
idea of the man's realization that
his life was beginning to run in
a stereotyped rut was weighted
down by deep, dark implications
that never seemed to come to the
surface and materialize.
Experimental Technique
On the credit side, the play is
noteworthy for the introduction
into the Five O'Clock Theatre of
a more intense and experimental
technique which greatly enhances
its dramatic stature. The style of
production was highly reminis
cent of Players' presentation last
18 Month Tour
Discuss O'Neill
Frank S. Neusbaum, admin
istrative head, Motion Picture
and Recording Studio and pro
fessor of dramatics at the Col
lege, will present the second in
the series of Wednesday Aft
ernoon Readings at the Col
lege Library at 4:15 p.m. today.
He will discuss the plays of
Eugene O'Neill.
Players Give
Poetic Fantasy
A smoky mountain background
forms the setting of "Dark of the
Moon," Players' production which
will begin a three night run in
Schwab Auditorium March 17.
The play, directed by Robert
Reifsneider, instructor in dramat
ics, has been called a poetic folk
tale. It is the story of a witch-boy,
who, desiring to become human,
marries a mountain girl, Barbara
Allen.
The `fconjur woman" who
affects the change stipulates that
he pan remain so only if Barbara
is faithful to him for a year. The
conflict resolves itself around that
point. Leads are played by Rich
ard Evans as the witch-boy and
Diane Scuderi, the mountain girl.
Tickets priced at $.60 for Thurs
day night and $1 for Friday and
Saturday nights will go on sale
at Student Union Monday.
Frosh Queen Polling Places
To Close This Afternoon
Developments in the search for the outstanding Penn State
freshman coed continue to materialize as the balloting at Student
Union and the Daily Collegian office approaches this afternoon's
5 o'clock deadline.
Finalists will be Marjorie Alsberg, main campus; Patricia
Bowles, Swarthmore; Rosemary Larsen, Erie; Shirley Long, Harris
burg and Mary Lou Pollock,
Hazleton,
After the judging tomorrow
afternoon, the Allencrest will
fete the five finalists and five
student judges at dinner.
A cavalcade of new converti
bles will introduce the girls to
the town, on their way to the
premiere at the Cathaum theater.
Prior to the showing of the
technicolor collegiate comedy,
"Mother Is a Freshman," the
finalists will be introduced, and
the winner announced and pre
sented with the Twentieth Cen
tury-Fox gift of $lOO .
Stuffed Animal
A stuffed Penn State animal
from Metzger's has been added
year of O'Neill's "The Great God
Brown."
Individual performances were
fair; the break from conservatism
seems to have been too abrupt for
the actors. Tim Hayes, as the dis
gruntled rewrite man, was
especially uneasy, even for his
type of role. As his wife, Inga
Hoffmann seemed naturally at
ease even though tormented by
her prosaic existence.
Representative Roles
As a copy boy and Hayes'
father, Hurley Graffius and Frank
Fatsie were convincing in their
roles, representing the newsman's
ambitious past and the sordid, un
successful future that he antici
pates.
6 Ring Teams Await
El BA Title Fights
Competing at Rec Hall this weekend for the Eastern Intercol
legiate Boxing Championship will be six teams—Army, Catholic
University, Penn State, Syracuse, Virginia and Western Maryland.
The meet will mark the 26th renewal of the fight for bitterly
contested boxing supremacy in the East. To the winning team goes
the Edward J. Neil Trophy, first awarded in 1941 as a memorial to
Pub Acquires
Radio Console
Additional recreational equip
ment including a radio-phono
graph console has been added to
the Pollock Union Building during
the past week, George L. Dono
van, manager of student activi
ties, announced.
Th e RCA radio-phonograph is
similar to the one in the Sim
mons Dormitory playroom, said
Mr. Donovan. There are 13 rec
ord albums available and 125
loose records for student use upon
presentation of a matriculation
card at the PUB office.
"So far, classical music is ahead
of popular disks by a four to one
ratio," said Donovan. Students
are also invited to play their own
records on the PUB phonograph,"
he added.
Although an outside aerial has
not been erected, students can
get past the Nittany mountains,
tuning in radio programs from
Pittsburgh and other more distant
places.
Other equipment recently add
ed includes a piano, lounge chairs,
Carom boards and a table-soccer
game.
It is possible, said James S.
Kline, assistant recreational dir
ector, that more table-soccer
games soon will be added.
- Open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., the
PUB is located in the old Pollock
Circle dining commons• Male stu
dents are invited to use its facil
ities, but for coeds, it's "Off Lim
its "
to the prizes which will be won
by the Penn State Queen.
The door of the theater will
be open to the public at 7 p.m.,
the presentation ceremonies be
gin at 7:45 and the film starts
at 8 p.m. Regular prices will pre
vail, according to Robert Neil
son, manager.
World Federalists
Plan Panel Talk
Five students will participate
in a panel discussion on "Students
Look at World Government," to
be held by the local chapter of
United World Federalists in the
library of the State College High
School at 8 p.m. tomorrow.
Thomas Hopkins, Corbin Kid
der, George Brehman Jr., Harold
Brown, and Daniel Sell will com
prise the panel, and Dr. Brice
Harris, head of the English Litera
ture department, will act as mod
erator.
..Dr. Harris announced that the
public is welcome to attend the
discussion. The Fairmount avenue
entrance to the high school will
be used.
Red Cross Results
Fraternities $ 81.87
Sororities . 13.14
Independent Men 2.30
Independent Women .. 7.02
Total .... .
$104.33
PRICE FIVE CENTS
the Associated Press sports writ
er who was present at most of the
tournaments during the 1930'5,
then turned war correspondent
and lost his life -in the Spanish
civil war.
The history of the EIBA dates
back to the days when this na
tion. was emerging from World
War I. It was formed in 1921 but
its first actual tournament was not
held until 1924.
WON TITLE
That first tourney was spon
sored by Penn State. That year,
the Nittany Lions, then and now
under the tutorship of Leo Houck,
won the first championship kr. cal
legiate boxing.
In 1919, Penn State had figured
in the first collegiat e dual meet
with the University of Pennsyl
vania.
Last year' s championships were
held at Charlottesville, Virginia.
with the Cavaliers acting as hosts.
Showing littl e Southern hospital
ity, the Virginia team swept the
team title by scoring a runaway
total of 30 points and capturing
six individual titles.
It was the first Eastern cham
pionship for a Virginia team. The
Virginians have been active in
MBA compettion only since 1941.
MARKS
Penn State and Syracuse hold
*he top winning marks, each team
copping the team title seven
times. Army and Navy each show
four titles with Coast Guard and
Maryland each owning one team
crown.
Navy dropped from the colle-
Continued on page three
News Briefs
Petroleum Eng Society
A movie entitled "Oil from the
Ground" will be shown at the
regular meeting of the Petroleum
Engineering Society in 225 M.I.
at 7 p.m. today.
Home Ec Club
Home Ec Club will meet in the
Living Center at 7 p.m. today and
will hold a coffee hour in the Liv
ing Center from 9 to 11 a.m. to
day. Coffee and cookies will be
sold.
Agriculture Eng Club
Agriculture Engineering Club
will meet in 105 Ag Engineering
at 7 p.m. today. The speaker will
be Prof. John R. Haswell of agri
culture engineering extension.
Hebrew Class
The Intermediate Hebrew class
which meets at the Hillel Foun
dation on Wednesdays will meet
at 7 p.m. tomorrow.
Flying Club
Penn State Flying Club wilt
meet in 1 Carnegie Hall at 7 p.m.
today. A film on meteorology,
which will be of practical value
to private flyers, will be shown.
Critique
Persons interested in working
on the promotion staff of Critique
magazine will meet in 124 Sparks
at 7 p.m. today.
Club '.51 Meeting
"Invest in Tomorrow, Today"'
will be the topic for discussion at
the Club '5l meeting in 304 Old
Main at 7:30 p.m. today.
Ag Hill Breeze
The Ag Hill Breeze staff wilt
meet in 103 Agriculture at 13:14
p.m. today.
Relations Club
Dr. Vaclav Mares, assistant pro
fessor of economics, will speak to
the International Relations Club
in North East Atherton Lounge
at 7:30 p.m. today.