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Elsa Lanchester, Madhatters
To Star in 2d Forum Show
Commedienne Elsa Lanchester will bring her "Private Music Hall" to Schwab
Auditorium at 8 p.m. Monday in the second program of the Community Forum series.
Presented by Director Paul Gregory, Miss Lanchester will cavort across the Schwab
stage in a program of specialty dances, songs, and characterizations ranging from scrub
woman to glamor girl. Assisting her will be the Madhatters, a comedy quartet who have
scored recent successes at the LOs •
Angeles Ambassador's Cocoanut
Grove and Las Vegas Flamingo.
They have also appeared on ra
dio, television, and in the film,
"Annie Get Your Gun."
Is Dramatic Actress
Ray Henderson, former organ
ist for NBC and recording pianist
for Columbia albums, will ac
company Miss Lanchester at the
piano.
The "Music Hall" was the idea
of Director Gregory, who pro
duced the First Drama Quartet's
performance of "Don Juan in
Hell," starring Miss Lanchester's
husband, film star Charles Laugh
ton. The commedienne and her
specialty acts have been acclaimed
by audiences across the country.
"Private Music Hall" has been
booked for a ten-weeks tour in
the United States and Canada.
Perhaps most famous for her
character roles in flims, Miss Lan
chester is equally known as a dra
matic actress, singer, and night
club impersonator. She has per
formed in London's Cafe de Paris
and New York's Blue Angel.
A native of England, the com
medienne 'has devoted most of
her life to show business. At
eleven she was selected to attend
the Paris dancing — sehpol of the
famous Isadore Duncan. Later she
opened her own dancing school in
London
The Madhatters
upporting comedy quartet
Radio Guild
To Present
The Frogs
"The Frogs of Aristophanes"
Will be presented by the Radio
Guild, in conjunction with the De
partments of Speech and Drama
tics, at 9:30 p.m. Monday over
WMAJ.
The cast will be: Dionysus, Mes
rop Kesdekian; Xanthias, Lyle
Pelton; Heracles and Leader of
the Frogs, John Citron; Charon,
Charles Folkers; Corpse and Lead
er, Ira Apple; Aecus, John Citron;
Maid, Constance Melvin; Lady,
Nell Whaley; Euripides, Robert
D. Reifsneider; Aeschylus, Craig
Sanders; Pluto, Don Barry.
"Frogs," a literary parody on
Euripedes, Greek author of trag
edies, concerns the god Dionysus
who goes to Hades to find a poet.
This is the only comedy in the
Guild's series of four Greek dram
as which includes "Agamemmon,"
"Oedipus Rex," "Trojan Women."
Participants in the three pre
viously presented dramas are Ross
Bannard, Evadna Andersoen, Lois
Lehman. Al Beliasov, Gelda Lee
Anton, Joanne Church, Don Col
bert, Ruth Lyne, Pat Marsteller,
Muriel Stein, Priscilla Mullin,
Ralph Sirota and Mark Wallace.
Production staff has included
John Price, director; Nancy Luet
zel and Diana Koppelman, tech
nicians; Ann Jones. studio direc
tor; Sally Lowry and Patricia
Hathaway, assistant directors; and
Frank Baxter, engineer.
Shipment of Directories
Expected by Monday
Although yesterday's shipment
of student and faculty directories
has been sold out, a new ship
ment is expected today or Mon
day.
Both directories are priced at
35 cents and are sold at the re
corder's desk, 4 Willard. Book
stores downtown also are selling
copies of the Student Directory.
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ear Course
Appeared in 50 Films
While still in her teens she or
ganized the "Children's Theater"
in London to develop local talent.
She joined a midnight play pro
duction group called "Cave of
Harmony," and her stock soared
as an actress.
She met Laughton when they
were cast in the same play, "Mr.
Prohack." They were married a
little more than a year later.
The "real life" couple has ap
peared together in the film s,
"Henry VIII," "Rembrandt" and
"The Beachcomber" and on the
stage in London with the Old Vic
and Sadler Wells comzanies.
Miss Lanchester has appeared
in over, fifty films; among them
"Razor's Edge," "Come to the
Stable" and "Pleasure Island,"
which she completed before start
ing her tour with "Music Hall."
Single reserved tickets will be
on sale for $1.50' at the Student
Union desk in Old Main until 5
p.m. Monday and from 7 to 8 p.m.
immediately preceding . the per
formance. Season tickets admit
ting the holder to the four re
maining forum programs are still
available for $3.
Christmas Radio Play
Tryouts Set for Today
Tryouts for Henry Van Dyke's
"The Other Wise Man," a Christ
mas radio play sponsored by the
Radio Guild and th e Depart
ments of Speech and Dramatics,
will be held at 1:30 p.m.. today
in 314 Sparks.
Those selected for the Richard
Andersen-John Price adaption
will be expected to rehearse from
9 a.m. to noon Dec. 13, 2 to 5 p.m.
and 7 to 10 p.m. Dec. 14, and 7 to
9:30 p.m. Dec. 15. The play will
be broadcast over WMAJ at 9:30
p.m. Dec. 15.
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Bird Ailments
To Be Studied
At Laboratory
A new location and a diagnosti
cian will be made available at the
College in February for the di
agnostic laboratory where poul
trymen may study their birds' ail
ments.
The laboratory is operat in g
temporarily in 307 Patterson with
Dr. Stephen Gordeuk, associate
professor of animal pathology re
search, in charge.
The other laboratory is at the
new Bolton Center of the Univer
sity of . Pennsylvania's School of
Veterinary Medicine. The tw o
laboratories
,supplement the poul
try health program and diagnos
tic services provided by the ani
mal and poultry laboratory of the
State Bureau of Animal Indus
try, Summerdale, Pa.
The new service centers are de
signed primarily to identify, pre
vent, control, and eliminate var
ious poultry diseases. Miles Horst,
State secretary of Agriculture.
said.
Elsa Lanchester
Characterizations Monday
7 Employees
Get National,
State Jobs
Seven members of the College
faculty and staff were recently
appointed and elected to various
positions on national and state
wide organizations, which pertain
to their respective departments.
Milton S. Osborne, professor
and head of the Department of
Architecture. has been selected by
the American Institute of Archi
tects to act as educational repre
sentative to a workshop on camp
site development an d mainte
nance.
Edward L. Keller, assistant di
rector of general extension, has
been re-elected chairman of the
American Association of Land
Grant Colleges and Universities.
Ralph W. McComb, librarian at
the College, was elected vice-pres
ident and president-elect of the
Pennsylvania Library Associa
tion.
Dr. Brice • Harris, head of the
Department of English Literature,
was elected vice-chairman of •the
college section of the National
Council of Teachers of English.
Dr. Herbert R. Albrecht, head
of th'e Agronomy department at
the College, .was recently elect
ed national high chancellor of
Alpha Zeta, agricultural honor
ary fraternity.
Lydia Tarr an t, professor of
home economics extension, has
been named chairman of the home
economics extension section of
the division of home economics
of the Association of Land-Grant
Colleges and Universities.
Dr. Arthur L. Hartnett, Jr., pro
fessor of physical education, was
elected a fellow in the American
Public Health Association.
Fraternity Fined $lO ,
For Disorderly Conduct
Kappa Sigma fraternity paid a
$lO fine and costs for charges of
disorderly conduct at a hearing
yesterday before State College
Burgess E. K. Hibshman. The
charge was against two members
accused of throwing snow ballS,
one of which hit a woman on the
face.
Two Attend Conference
Donald Cutler and Marion Ven
zlaysks, seventh semester arts and
letters majors, were among the
representatives of 51 colleges and
universities attending the four
day Student Conference on United
States Affairs which ends today
at the United States Militar -
Academy.
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Phone Rate Rise
To Be Discussed
Representatives of Bell Tele
phone Co. and officials at the
College will meet sometime
this morning to discuss the de
tails of recently revised phone
rates.
The meeting was brought
about when the Public, Utility
Commission authorized a $21.-
227,000 a year rate increase for
Bell Telephone Co., signaling
the end of the nickel pay booth
call in Pennsylvania Wednes
day.
Walter Weigand, director of
the physical plant, and R. Y.
Sigworth, supervisor of utility
of that department, will rep.
resent the College.
Bell Telephone Co. has re
ceived. the go-ahead from the
commission to raise public local
coin box calls from 5 to 10
cents.
Civil Service
Lists 4 Jobs
For Engineers
Openings have been announced
for a mechanical engineer, two
construction engineers, and a con
struction management engineer
at salaries ranging from $5OOO to
$5940 a year by .the U.S. Board
of Civil Service Examiners at
Olmsted Air Force Base, Middle
town.
Applicants for these positions
must be graduates of an ac
credited college or university
with at least 18 months in actual
engineering work.
The construction management
engineer must have at least three
years . experience in addition• to
his degree in civil engineering.
Further information may be
secured at the Olmsted . Air Force
Base employment office in Har
risburg, or in any first or second
class post office.
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