WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1952
Dramatic Croups
Seek Talented
“There’s no business like show business” is a familiar feeling;'for most of us are in
terested in the theater from one side of the lights or another. Newcomers to the campus,
not merely content to be'spectators, will find many opportunities in College dramatic activ
ities. '
Three organizations Players, Thespians, and Five O’Clock Theater—offer a wide
range of dramatic productions during the school year. Experience may be gained, not
Junior, Senior
Class Elections
Held in Spring
Forming the primary core in
class functioning, senior and jun
ior class officers are chosen dur
ing All-College elections in the
spring.
Nominations are made for class
officers selected by the’two cam
pus political parties, Lion and
State, through clique- primaries
conducted two weeks before the
campus-wide election. Students
in each class then vote for their
respective class officers.
Class - secretary-treasurers are
members of the interclass finance
committee, Which controls all
student funds.
To be eligible for an office, a
student must have a 1.0 All-Col
lege average and be a member of
the class in which he is campaign
ing for office. He must also be a
candidate of a party which is of
ficially recognized by the elec
tions committee. Class offices are
president, vice president, and
--secretary-treasurer.
Major senior class projects and
activities include the class gift
to the College, the annual Senior
Ball in the spring, the sale of
traditional Lion coats, senior
awards, the Hall of Fame, class
picnic, choosing of the class song,
and cooperation with the faculty
in commencement preparations.
The junior class presents its
annual Junior Prom in the fall
and also sponsors a class project.
Last year the Class of 1953 pre
sented “The Greatest Shows of
the Century,” a collection of 28
long-playing record albums, to
the Pattee Library.
Alumni to Get
Grid Priority
The Alumni Association offers
its members, among other ser
vices, first priority on reserved
football tickets and a subscription
to the Football Letter, a personal
ized review of each week’s game.
The maintenance of biographi
cal and occupational records of
■the 50,000 alumni is handled by
the association, as are class re
unions, the Alumni Institute and
Homecoming Weekend, and the
sponsorship of 65 alumni clubs, 39
in Pennsylvania
Members receive . the Penn
Stater, a quarterly newspaper,
and the Alumni News, issued
seven times a year. Ridge Riley,
executive secretary, and his assis
tant, Ross B. Lehman, handle the
affairs!
District, alumni clubs feature
campus speakers, advance schol
arships, and aid the College with
various projects including the
annual Glee Club concerts heard
throughout Pennsylvania,
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only in acting, but on the tech
nical side as well through make
up, lighting, advertising, costum
ing, painting, construction, prop
erties. and production crews.
To Hold Shindig .
Membership in Players, College
dramatics group, is won through,
participation as actors or on crews
in Player's shows. Each year the
group presents eight plays, four
at Schwab Auditorium and four
at the downtown, arena- style
Center Stage. .
A get-acquainted shindig will
be held in Schwab Auditorium
this week. At the meeting new
students may talk to senior man
agers, explore the facilities at
Schwab, and get full information
concerning membership, positions
open, arid other details.
Anyone may audition for act
ing parts by attending : the sev
eral tryout periods, time and
place of which are - published in
the Daily Collegian and circu
lated on posters. Experience is
hot necessary.
Cast Rehearses Daily
Calls for crew members are al
so made well in advance of a
play. Size of the crews varies
with different productions. The
times that each crew works also
vary according to the require
ments of each show. .Production
crews are 'selected' from the vol
unteers by the senior managers
of /each production division.
After the cast for a show has
been chosen, rehearsals are held
every night except Saturday for
Six weeks.
“The Importance of Being Ear
nest,” already cast, will open at
Center Stage Oct. 10 for a seven
week run. Other plays scheduled
are “Major Barbara,” “Children
of Darkness,” and “Right You Are
If You Think You Are” at Center
Stage, and ‘.‘Twentieth Century,”
“Amphitryon 38,” “Lute Song,
and “Merry Wives of Windsor”
at Schwab.
‘ Players is governed by a rep
resentative £roup of elected offi
cers, senior managers, and faculty
advisers who,make up the board
of control., Officers are elected
from the suggestions of a nomi
nating committee with additional
nominations made from the floor.
Musical comedy is taken care
of by Thespians and MasqUer
ettes, the College song and dance
groups. Masquerettes is the fe
male counterpart of Thespians.
Each year they present a well
known musical comedy hit in the
spring and an original, student
written revue in the fall. , Last
year’s productions were ' Rodgers
and Hart’s “A Connecticut Yan
kee;” and the original “Bottoms
Up ”'
Thespians JSlecl Directors
After doing major work ! on
three Thespian shows a person
may be a member of Thespians
or Masquerettes. Calls are made
well in advance of a production,
and the selections are made in a
manner similar to that followed
by Players.
Departmental ma n a gers and
student directors are chosen by a
vote of Thespian members under
the supervision of Ray Fortunato,
adviser.
Five O'clock Theater, an exper-
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Pivot, Inkling
Include Student
Literary Talent
Two campus publications which
serve as outlets for creative stu
dent writing are Inkling, a literary
magazine, and Pivot, a poetry
magazine. Both appeared on cam
pus for the first time in the spring
of 1951. ' ,
Inkling, which is the fourth at
tempt'to publish a literary maga
zine, includes fiction, poetry, and
short essays. As it is hot a staff
written magazine, a call for stu
dent-written " material will be
made shortly. A literary board
will judge the material submitted
and determine what will be used
for publication.
Candidates will be called
shortly for the various staffs,
which include promotion, art, ad
vertising, production, and circula
tion, and the literary board.
The third issue of Inkling,
which is sold for 25 cents, will
appear this fall, John Hoerr, edi
tor, has announced. He also indi
cated that if • the fall issue is
successful, a spring issue will be
published. Previously only one
issue was published yearly.
Pivot is the only poetry.maga
zine to be published at Penn
State, and is one of few college
poetry magazines.
Although most of the material
published is written by students
in English Composion 13, a poe
try workshop, any student may
submit material which will be
judged by the. staff and Prof. Jos
eph L. Griicci, faculty adviser.
An open meeting will be. held
shortly’ .at which time the . staff
for the fall issue will be selected,
Professor Grucci said. A new
staff will be chosen later in the
year for the spring issue.
The $25 Fred Lewis Pattee poe
try award is presented each year
for poetry which appears in the
magazine.
imental workshop, is often
thought of as a stepping-stone to
greater heights. A good place for
inexperienced actors and actres
ses to begin, statistics show that
those who begin here usually ad
vance to parts in Players’ pro
ductions.
Once each week during the
second semester the group pre
sents, script-in-hand, short, one
act plays by students written in
Dramatics 21 and 421 classes. All
work, including-directing and the
solving of technical poblems, is
done by students. Thirteen plays
were produced last year.
Casts are chosen from students
who tried out for Players shows.
Rehearsals usually require seven
to eight hours and are held in the
daytime.
In the play-writing class each
script is carefully criticized after
the first writing, rewritten, and
then briefly enacted. Anyone may
submit a play, to these classes if
he wishes it considered for Five
O’clock Theater production.
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Pattee Library Has
335,185 Volumes
There’s an old Penn State custom of saying “I’m going to the
library” when you don’t want to disclose your destination. When
you do go to the Pattee Library, however, you’ll find a modern build
ing with 335,185 books available.
In addition to books, the library subscribes to approximately
3200 periodicals, maintains a New York Times and Philadelphia
Inquirer file, and has audio-visual
aids and photostat departments. -
The College library consists not
only of the main library building,
at the head of the Mall, but also
reading and reference rooms in
Osmond Laboratory, Mineral In
dustries Building, Home Econom
ics Building, Main Engineering
Building, Forestry Building, Pond
Laboratory, Agricultural Building,
and Patterson Hall.
Place Books on Reserve
An index to books in all li
braries on campus is in the circu
lation room, where most books
may be taken out. Also on the
second floor is a reference depart
ment, which contains dictionaries,
almanacs, biographical indexes,
etc. At the same desk students
may taken out bound copies of
periodicals for use iri the room
only.
Books for required reading are
located in the reserve book room
on the first floor. Also on the
first floor is an open shelf room
and a newspaper room.
A collection of more than 1700
educational films and recordings,
including many in foreign-lan
guages, is available in the audio
visual aids library, in the base
ment.
Open Daily
The library has set aside two
rooms on the fourth floor for Penn
State publications and historical
material about the College.
Library hours are 7:50 a.m. to
10 p.m. Monday through Friday,
7:50 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and
2 to 10 p.m. Sunday.
The library is actually older
than -the College itself. It had 195
volumes in 1858, and a year later,
when the College opened, the
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number had jumped to 1500.
The books were kept in a dingy
room, and there was no librarian
until 1874 when Prof.- William
Buckhout took the job. He kept;
the room open an hour each day
day for those who wanted -• to
use it.
During the 1889-90 session the
library moved to better quarters,
on the second floor of Old Main.
In 1903 it was moved into Carf
negie Hall, a $150,000 gift of An
drew Carnegie. > -
In .1926 the library’s rating
grew from medium to large aa.it
passed the 100,000 book mark. The
present building, to which a new.
wing is being added, was com
pleted in 1940 and named for Fred
Lewis Pattee, former professor-of
English literature and author-of
the Alma Mater. .......
College to Receive
Scholarship Grant
A grant of $5OOO for continua
tion of the Foundry Educational';
Foundation program at the Col
lege has been approved by the/
board of trustees of the Foundry
Education Foundation, Cleveland,
according to Marion J. Allen,''
president.
The money is used for scholar-"'
ships to engineering students
taking the foundry options. The”
program centers around the De
partment of Industrial Engineer-'
ing.
The new grant brings the total
received by the College to $15,00Q”
since entering the program in
1950.
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