Gift Fraud Must Not Be Repeated— See Page 4 VOL. 53, No. 23 Cecily Gets a Caller CONNIE MELVIN, as Cecily in Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest," receives Algernon Moncrieff, portrayed by Gordon Greer, because she thinks his name is Ernest. The Wilde comedy opened a seven-week run at Center Stage las; night. Quips, Satire Mark Opening of 'Earnest' Considered by, many to be the best modern farce in the English language, Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest", opened a seven-week. run at Center Stage last night with its darting quips and derisions of society in as bril: ' Players chose what is probab] that oh-so-wonderful stylist Wily presented it in most respects on a par with their usual good pro ductions. A good many lines were lost, however,' on a rather un-, responsive first-night crowd that took greater delight in the buf fonery of the third act than the subtleties of the first. English high society of the 19th century is twitted and railed by such lines as "Fortunately in Eng land education produces no effect whatsoever . . . If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the up per classes, and probably. lead to acts of violence . . ." and "The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn." 'Claptrap Plot' These delivered for the most part, of course, with the straight est of faces . . . and coming so T quickly that if they had been pointed up more brthe actors, or appreciated more by the audi ence, half of them would have been drowned out by the laughter accompanying the preceding ones. Playgoers expecting- anything in the way of a plot are bound 'to be disappointed, but then that's the way the eccentric, flower carrying, satirist intended it. What John Gassner calls a "claptrap 'plot" full of intrigue and mis understanding simply serves as a peg for Wilde's wit—the best we've seen and heard in a long *time. Incident Upon Incident And the visual side is impor ;tent, , too, for the stylized stage business—the dainty nibbling of cucumber sandwiches, fot in stance, points up•the barbs so that i the end result is good dramaturgy. Incidents—, each one more re markable than the last—pile upon incidents to make a ludicrous sit tuation from which there would (Continued on page eight) TODAY'S WEATHER CLOUDY COOL • A r 1 A BETTER PENN STATE By BETTIE LOUX iant form as ever. y the most representative work of a e to start their 33d season and Sadie Hawkins Spirit to Rule Dungaree Drag The Sadie Hawkins spirit will reign at the seventh annual Dun garee Drag to be held from 9 to midnight tonight in Recreation Hall. Cwens, sophomore women's hat society, • sponsors the annual girl-ask-boy affair. Blue jeans will be the official apparel for the dance. An added feature of the Drag is the presen tation of a prize to the man wear ing the most unsual home-made corsage. The corsages are pre pared by the women for their es corts. Corsages in the past have included such materials as fruit, candy, vegetables, leaves, a n d cigarettes. A leap year theme • will be car- Iried out in the decoration of Ree -1 reation Hall, Baylee Friedman, dance chairman, said. Jack Huber and his orchestra will play. Pret zels and cider will be served free of charge. Proceeds from the annual affair go toward the presentation of $5O scholarships 'to worthy sophomore women. Last year four. such schol arships were awarded. '-Tickets for the Drag will be available at . the door. The tickets are priced at $1.50 per couple. _ Tryouts Slated For Shaw Play Tryouts for George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara" will be held at 7:15 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in the Green Room, Schwab Auditorium. "Major Bar bara" will be the second show to be produced by Players at Center Stage this season. Persons who have not formerly been associated with Players will try out Monday night. Those who have been connected with Players in, the past will try out Tuesday night. Copies of the play are now available in the• Green-Room. _ Roles are available for six wom en and nine• men. STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, • OCTOBER 11, 1952 State, Lion Parties To Meet Tomorrow The State and Lion parties will hold their first clique meetings of the semester at 7 p.m. tomorrow, as both parties begin preparations for the freshman and sophomore class elec tions to be held Nov. 13. The State Party will meet Kinsolving To Speak At Chapel - Dr. Arthur L. Kinsolving, rec tor of St. James Episcopal Church, New York City, will speak on• "The Mystery within Relation ships" at Chapel services 11 a.m. tomorrow in Schwab Auditorium. A native of New York, Dr. Kin solving has received degrees from the University of Virginia, Vir ginia Theological Seminary, Am herst College, University of Ver mont, Rollins College, Boston Uni versity, and Princeton. He was also Rhodes scholar to Oxford University from Christ Church, Va. A member of " Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsilon, he is chairman of the University Chris tian Mission. He served as trus tee of Vassar College and Am herst College and is at present trustee of Folger Shakespeare Li brary and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Vice president of the Protes tant Episcopal City Mission So ciety, Dr. Kinsolving is also a member of the executive com mittee of the Department of Evan gelism, the Federal Council of Churches. At ' tomorrow's services the Chapel choir will sing "My In most Heart Now Raises" (Bach) and "All Glory Be to God on High" (Lundquist). George. Ceiga, Chapel organist, will play as prelude "Fantasia-C Major ," as offertory "Adagio- Tenth Trio," arid as postlude "We All Believe in One God," all by Bach. WD to Elect Officers The West Dorm Council will elect officers at 7 p.m. Monday in the McKee Hall lounge, Bryson Craine, student government coun selor of the West Dorm area, an nounced yesterday_ Special Displays to Open State Week Observance Special displays in the West Dorm lounge, Pattee Library, Mineral Industries Building, and the Zoology Building will initiate Pennsylvania Week Monday. The Mineral Industries display will include a map of Pennsyl vania printed in England in 1770, relief maps of Pennsylvania, dis plays of minerals found in Penn sylvania, and a Pennsylvania in dustry art gallery: The West Dorm' lounge display will include exhibits from the various schools of the College. Members of the Woman's Student Government Association will ar range the display today, the center of which will be a detailed replica of Independence Hall that was found in the basement of Bur rowes Building. Work by Pennsylvania artists and architects will be exhibited in the Pa tt e e Library. Approxi mately half of the display, under the direction of Dr. Harold C. Dickson, professor of fine arts, and Elsa Lisle, circulation librar ian, will be devoted to the work of the 'late Dr. Warren, -B. Mack, former head of the - - Horticulture department The Psychol6gy department has rgiatt in 121 Sparks, while the Lion Walter Sachs, State Party clique chairman, and William Walters, acting Lion Party clique chair man, urged• freshmen and soph omores interested in politics and student government to attend the meetings. According to the elections code, which governs actions of student political, parties, preliminary nom inations for the sophomore and. freshman class offices will be held Oct. 19, while final nomina tions will take place Oct. 26. Orientation Planned Tomorrow's Lion Party meet ing will be devoted to the elec tion of a clique chairman and vice chairman. Other business will in clude opening nominations fo r freshman an d sophomore class clique officers, and preliminary interviewing of persons interested in working on publicity and con tact work for the coming elec tion campaign, , Class clique officer nominations are not listed on the State Party agenda. In order to orient fresh man and sophomore students un familiar with the Penn State pol itical party system, Sachs said the party organization and functions will be explained. Previous to these opening clique meetings, steering committees of both parties have been meeting. The major issue_ resulting is the proposed joint fund-raising cam paign by the parties. It has been suggested that a book of Bibler's Little Man on Campus cartoons be • sol d. during Homecoming Weekend. If the plan is carried through. the parties will split the profits from the sale and use this for their political campaigns. In previous years the parties have staged individual fund-raising campaigns. Committees to Meet Campaigning for candidates will begin no earlier than 12:01 a.m. Nov. 6 and will end before 8:30 a.m. Nov. 13, election day. Further limitations set up by the elections committee include the maximum of $l5O to be expended by either arty clique during the campaign. Members of the steering com mittees of both parties will meet at 2 p.m. tomorrow. The State party will hold its meeting at Acacia, while the Lion Party will meet at Phi Gamma Delta. developed a special exhibit in the Zoology Building to show its con tributions to the commonwealth. These displays will -be open to the public all week. Other activi ties will include the showing of films in 119 Osmond Wednesday evening an d the competitive motorcade, to be held before the homecoming football game Satur day. The motorcade will begin about 12:30 p.m. and circle Beaver Field, according to Fred M. Coombs, chairman of the Pennsylvania Week committee. In case of rain. the motorcade will be •held on College avenue starting at 11:15 a.m. Sororities, fraternities and inde pendent groups may enter_, •the motorcade. Groups wishing to en ter floats must do so before Thurs day at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Grid Stars Flunking Not Harmful— See Page 4 Party will meet in 10 Sparks. Draft Forms Available Monday Approximately 2100 applica tions for the Selective Service college qualification tests will be distributed between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in the second floor lounge of Old Main, Frank J. Simes, dean of men, has announced. To receive applications, stu dents must have their Selective Service registration cards and numbers unless they have recent ly reached the age of 18 and have ye t received registration forms. To be eligible for the test, the applicant, on the testing date he selects, must intend to request oc cupational deferment as a stu dent, must be satisfactorily _ pur suing a full-time college course leading to a degree, and must not previously have taken the test. The tests will be administered at the College Dec. 4 and April 23. Applications for the Dec. 4 test must be postmarked on or before midnight Nov. 1 and those for the April 23 test on or before March 9. Students may also obtain appli cations for the tests at their local draft boards. The college qualification test is used by the Selective Service sys tem to provide local boards with evidence of the relative qualifi cations of registrants for College work. Fraternities Contribute $llO For Lion Suit Fraternity contributions in the "Dress the Lion Day" drive con ducted by Androcles hatmen Thursday amounted to $llO as of yesterday, and more is expected, Philip Greenburg, Androcles Lion suit campaign manager, has an nounced. The hatmen solicited at th e fraternities during the noon and evening meals Thursday. At their campus and Corner Room booths, the hatmen collected $32.70. A $5 donation by Philotes, inde pendent women's social group, and a $1 contribution by Anthony Tornetta were made at the Daily Collegian office yesterday. These figures added'to the fra ternity contribution and the $l5B collected earlier in the fund drive have brought the total to $306.70. Approximately $4OO is needed to replace the shabby Lion suit. Greenburg asks that all hat men who solicited fraternity con tributions turn them over to him as soon as possible. Dance Tickets on Sale Tickets for the Autumn Ball. priced at $2 per couple, are on sale at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Jack Huber and his or chestra will play for the dance to be held Oct. 18 at Recreation Hall. Independent Out Today The Independent newsletter will be distributed today. It will contain a feature article on Leonides, women's inde pendent group, as well as the regular sports coverage on in dependent intramurals. FIVE CENTS
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