ID Plays at IFC-Panhel Ball
Tatirgiatt
"FOR A BETTER PENN STATE"
VOLUME 49-NUMBER 40
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1949
Spring Week's Here!
Houseparties Start
Saturday house-hoppers will have their heyday tomorrow when
Parisian cafes, harems, boweries, and dude ranches are transferred
to the usually quiet Nittany Vale.
Starting on campus at the Alpha Zeta house, the Big-weekender
finds the AZ's enjoying a Parisian gambling party. Next door the
Sigma Nu's will start festivities with a party in the afternoon fol
lowed with an informal dance in the evening.
Based on an Abrabian Night theme, the Sigma Chi's are plan
ning a Bagdad Ball. After a buffet supper, a costume dance is plan
ned. Across the street, Phi Gamma Delta will have a tropical Fiji
Island dance complete with grass skirts and sarongs. Jack Straley's
orchestra will furnish the Fiji notes.
It will be the annual Bowery Ball at the Phi Delta Theta house,
a costume dance with a Gay Ninety setting. Keeping in line with
the warm weather, Beta Theta Pi will move Mexico to the Nittany
Valley, changing their house to the Beta Hacienda. Dinner will be
served from 6 to 8 p.m. for the brothers and their dates. After that
the dance will be open to everyone.
Moving away from campus the party-goer trips along West
Beaver Avenue to the Alpha Phi Delta Hobo Brawl. There a freight
yard like atmosphere will greet prospective hobos. Next, a tour out
to Allen Street to the Phi Sigma Delta Fish Fling.
Across the street a carnival atmosphere will greet merry-makers
at the Phi Sigma Kappa Carousel Dance. A watering trough, hitch
ing post and a horse and buggy will take guests back to the days
when men were men. The Theta Chi's have changed their house into
a gambling casino in a "Forty Niner" theme, complete with spitoons,
brassrails and sawdust.
Weather permitting, the Chi Phi's will have a choral sing and
barbecue. An informal dance is planned for the evening. Across the
street, Delta Tau Delta will cater to public enemies in their "Under
world Dance." A more sedate theme is in order when you'll walk
into the Tau Kappa Epsilon house. The annual Orchid Dance will
hold top interest for the Tekes.
Kappa Delia Rho will throw its doors open to the public in an
All-College open house tomorrow afternoon while an informal party
is slated for the evening. Pi Kappa Alpha will hold its annual Dream
Girl Dance, a formal dinner dance, at the Nittany Lion Inn. Sneak
ing out of the empty PiKA house, party-goers will find themselves
It the Della Chi Western Ranch. Feature attraction there will be the
Goaiiased as page seems
Tommy Dorsey
Elatill
PRICE FIVE CENTS
PiKA Will 'lmport'
Dream Girl,
Judges
Tomorrow will be a sorry day
for tired turntables and wit hat
ers in the State College area.
Pi Kappa Alpha, not satis
fied with solely local talent for
the judging of its Dream Girl
contest tomorrow night, is irn
porting two disc jockeys to aid
WMAJ's own George Kahl in the
selection of the lucky lovely.
The contest is a major event in
the fraternity's annual Dream
Girl dance, which, this yeah, is
being expanded into a formal din_
ner-dance and moved to the Nit
tany Lion Inn. The blushing
beauty chosen will be presented
with several dozen cut roses and
an inscribed commemorative cup.
Harold "Doc" Dougherty of
radio station WNOW in York will
combine his tastes in femininity
with those of Jack Whitaker of
station WPAM-FM of Pottsville
and Kahl to select the Dream
Girl. As a tribute, the entire fra
ternity will then join in the sing
ing of "The Dream Girl of PiKa."
The platter batters will be pro
vided with plenty of music to
discuss ranging from selections
by the Schad String Trio, which
will play during the banquet, and
the scintillating arrangements of
Sam Correnti's orchestra, which
has been contracted for dancing
from 9 p.m. until midnight.
College Voters
To Use Machines
For the first time since the war, voting machines will be used
for the All-College Elections to be held at the second floor balcony
in Old Main, 8:30 to 5:30 p.m. next Wednesday and Thursday.
William McLain, chairman of the Elections Committee, secured
two automatic voting machines similar to the machines used in state
and national elections. Expecting from 30 - 35 per cent turnout of
students for the elections, McLain said, "These machines should
speed the voting and also familiarize the students with the type of
machine they will use after they graduate"
Classif
The voting classification will
next week's elections. The first
group will be composed of 2nd,,
3rd and Bth semester students
William McLain
who will vote for All-College
officers only.
The second group, 4th and sth
semester students, will vote for
Junior Class and All-College offi
cers, and the third group, 6th and
7th semester students, will vote
for Senior Class and All-College
officers.
Allows Split
The voting machines, secured
from a Jamestown firm, allow
the voter to either vote a
"straight" or "split" ticket. Since
there are only two machines, an
operator will be present during
the voting to adjust the machine
to one of the three classifications.
The voting procedure is a fol
lows:
1. Register at the voting tables
under proper semester and re
ceive voting classification card.
2. Present classification card
to machine operator and vote.
3. All men will also fill out a
• ate baliet £cc A.A. °them.
Spring Queen Crowning
To Highlight Gala Dance
Tommy Dorsey, the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing,'
swings into Nittany Valley tonight for the IFC-Panhel Bal
at Recreation Hall from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. tonight.
During intermission of the ball, highlighting Spring
Week, will be the crowning of Spring Queen, Lois Kenyon.
Another feature of tonight's dance will be the finals of the
fraternity and sorority song fests. A 14-inch gold-engraved trophy
will be awarded to winners of each group.
IFC-Panhel Song Contest
In the fraternity group, Lambda Chi Alpha and Beta Theta Pi
will vie for honors in the IFC song contest, while in sorority section,
Alpha Omicron Pi and Delta Gamma will compete.
Tickets for tonight's dance are on sale at Student Union until
4:30 p.m., and will be sold at the door of Recreation Hall during the
dance. Tickets are priced at $4.00 per couple.
Featured with the Dorsey band are the four Clark Sisters,
known as the "Sentimentalists" and Charlie Shavers, sensational
colored trumpeter.
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The TD band has been the incubator for some of the most im
portant names in show business in recent years. His alumni include
Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, Jack Leonard, Dick Haymes and The
Pied Pipers.
Denny Dennis, A New Sensation
His present protege is Denny Dennis, a sensational British sing
ing star who'll appear with Dorsey tonight. Dennis began singing
with Ambrose and his orchestra in England and rose to such promi
nence that Paul Whiteman offered him a singing job in this country.
That, however, was in 1939 and Dennis joined the R.A.F. instead.
After the war Dennis began
singing on BBC. He quickly rose
to be the number one singer in
Great Britain. Then along came
TD and Dennis signed.
Singing with Dorsey in his re
cent New York engagement,
Dennis is quickly rising as one
of the newest and most popular
singing stars in the American en
tertainment world.
Heading the ball committee are
co-chairmen Adelaide Finkelston
and Jack Fast. The members of
the dance committee are Delores
Jelacic, Lillian Skraban, Thomas
DeMar and Sam Tamburo.
cation
be divided into three groups for
Rain Prediction
Halts Carnival
Until May 12
A prediction of continuous rain,
overcast skies and a low temper
ature made by the College weath
er station at 7:30 a.m, yesterday
forced the postponement of the
Spring Week Carnival. After a
consultation with the weather
station, the co-chairmen of the
committee George Bearer and
Abram Bosler decided upon the
postponement. It was announced
over radio station WMAJ at 8 a.m.
Bearer, Bosler and James Dun
away, chairman of Spring Week
committee„ have emphasized that
the postponement is not a can
cellation. Tentative plans call for
the holding of the carnival on
May 12, the day before the Sen
ior Ball.
Harold Manson, outstanding
journalist, author, and political
analyst, will be on the College
campus next Tuesday and Wed
nesday to present his eyewitness
facts on Palestine and the Middle
East.
Sponsored by the Intercollegiate
Zionist Federation of America,
the noted political analyst will
bring topics for discussion into
various classrooms next Tuesday
and Wednesday, and will speak
on the Hillel Hour program of
Station WMAJ, 8:45 p.m. Tuesday.
A general meeting for students
will be held on the campus Wed
nesday night. Time and place wit
be announced later.
Teamed with his wife who
travels, works, and lectures with
Bearer him, Mr. Manson will present
Carnival will definitely be held topics entitled "From the Pales
at some future date." He added tine Front: An Eyewitness Re
that there would be even bigger port," "American Policy on Pales
and better plans at that time. tine: An Analysis," "America,
Charles L. Hosier, instructor of Palestine and the United Nations,"
meteorology, last Tuesday pre- "Power Politics and Palestine,"
dieted showers for yesterday but and "Trends in World Politics."
said that it is especially difficult His lectures are being made avail
to predict weather for two days, able to American audiences ta.
• advance this time at year. iCaortieseaci as pep e eigkle
According to Dunaway, "All
groups who had planned on hav
ing booths are urged to keep all
their materials and plans as the
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Bosler
Harold Manson
Manson Speaks
On Middle East