Weather- Fair and Warm VOL. 54, No. 45 Laughton Presents Literature Reading Program Tomorrow By MIKE FEINSILBER Charles Laughton, the man who is reviving the all-but lost art of reading aloud, will present ex cerpts from American, English, and Biblical literature at 8 p.m. tomorrow before the Community- Forum audience in Schwab Audi torium. Laughton’s latest career got un derway when he ambled before a television camera on Christmas eve, 1950, opened a book, and started to read. Before that he. had toured army hospitals; reading to wounded servicemen. Laughton made an immediate hit with his readings. He soon was on the road, bringing “An Eve ning With Charles Laughton” to an average of 50 communities a year. In addition, kinescope re cordings of his readings were presented on television. His tours are just one part of the actor’s busy career. In 1952, Laughton appeared in “Don Juan in Hell” on Broadway, made five movies, and adapted and directed “John Brown’s Body” for the stage. Commedienne Elsa Lanchester, who brought her “Private Music Hall” to Schwab last year On the forum program, is Laughton’s wife. They met when they were in the cast of “Mr. Prohack.” A lit Wards to Cast Town Elections 19 Sn Nineteen Town Council wards -yill elect representatives at 7 p.m. tonight in 103 Wil lard, Byron Fielding, Association of Independent Men elections committee chairman, an nounced last night. ' - Fielding announced the decision following a meeting winski, council president, and AIM president Joe Somers. A' ing the elections were erased at the meeting, Fielding said. He added that 13 petitions for nomination to the council have, been received, and that a legal election can now be run. Twenty-one representatives and alternates are open for election tonight. Fielding said. The council .represents 19 wards. Ward 19 has three representatives because of its size. Bring Petitions Tonight Court Asks Suspension Of Student Tribunal last night recom mended to the Dean of Men’s office that a second semester pre med student be suspended from the University for under-age drinking and two other charges, but that action be deferred, and the entire case be reviewed by the Dean of Men’s office at the end of the current semester. Deferred suspension, it was pointed out, means a student is suspended; he must leave school at the, end of the current semester, but he may ask to be allowed to return, if sufficient reason is giv en. to the Dean of Men. The student was charged with 1. conduct detrimental .to. the name of the university, 2. under age drinking, 3. negligence in the responsibility for the conduct of himself and his date (who had passed out from drinking Nov. 6, following the Junior Prom and had been reported to have been found in the snow) and 4. break ing the university policy of bring ing freshman girls to a fraternity house. He pleaded not guilty to the first charge, guilty to the second and third charges, and uninten tially guilty to the fourth charge. The seven-man Tribunal found him guilty of all but the fourth charge, since they decided that he had justified his plea. In a report to Tribunal from the Campus Patrol and the Dean of Men’s Office, the testimonies of the student and his date were read. The report stated there was no reason to believe there was foul play. The coed, who was tried by Judicial, had been given a three-week campus. (Htr Hailtf |§| (Soil tie more than a year later, in 1939, they were married. Laughton first appeared on the stage in amateur theatricals in his native England after World War I. He has attended Stronghurst College, and the. Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in England. In 1930, the actor came to New York in “Payment Deferred.” He later returned to England, to ap pear in films. Men who do not have the peti tions, which require 20 signatures from the applicant’s ward, can bring, them to the election to night, Fielding said. He recom mended, however, that these men appear a few minutes before 7 p.m. so that their names can be put up for nominations before the main voting begins. In the first election, Oct. 21-23, no petitions for nominations were used. This was a direct violation of the council constitution. Field ing declared the election illegal Nov. 2. ' Wards Named Wards that will elect represen tatives 'tonight are Ward one, S. Allen street (1-301); ward two, S. Allen street (302 . . .); ward three, S. Atherton street; ward four, E. College avenue, Wind crest; ward five, W. College av enue (600 . . .); W. End avenue, Patterson, Butts, Buckhout, and Sparks streets; ward six, W. Col lege avenue (1-599). Ward. 7, W. Beaver avenue; ward eight, E. Beaver avenue; ward nine, Barnard, Gill streets; ward ten, S. Burrowes street, W. Nittany and W. Foster avenues; ward 11, S. Frazier avenue; ward 12, E. Nittany and E. Foster av enues, Thompson street; ward 13, Park avenue, Campus, Ridge av enue, and N. Atherton street (500 . . .). Ward 14, Fairway road, Clar ence, and ■ Hillcrest avenues,. Tay lor, N. Allen, N. Atherton, and N. Burrowes streets, Matin Ter race; Sunset. View, Thomas, Mc- Kee, and Holms streets, and Ad ams, Mitchell, and Hartswick av enues; ward 15, Highland avenue,- McAllister street, S. Pugh street (1-299); ward 16, Miles, Sowers, (Continued on page eight ) 1 STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1953 Ballots Tonight FOB A BETTER PENN STATE But Hollywood beckoned, and Laughton returned to this coun try to play in “Henry VIII,” “Rug gles of Red Gap,” “Mutiny on the Bounty,” ‘The Hunchback of No tre Dame,” “Captain Kidd,”' and a host of other movies. His per formance in “Henry VIII” won the 1933 Academy Award for the actor. Laughton is famous for his ren dition of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. He estimates he has re cited it some 2000 times. When he was in “Don Juan in Hell” on Eroadway last year, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, co-player, kidded: “Sometimes we have to stop him from doing the. Gettysburg Ad dress right in the middle of ‘Don Juan’.” Currently the 54-year-old actor is working with Paul Gregory, his director, on adapting Henry Wouk’s “Caine Mutiny” for the stage! Reserved seat tickets for Laugh ton’s program will be on sale until 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Tickets for the remaining three forum programs, including Laugh ton, Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and Chester Bowles, former am bassador to India, will be sold at the desk today. yesterday with Chester Cher- ■1 previous confusion eoncern- Courf Hears 11 Traffic Cases Eleven students appeared be fore Traffic Court last night in answer to traffic violation charges sent by the court and the Dean of Men’s office. t Of the 11 violators who ap peared, six were notified by the dean’s office for Hot answering previous charges. The six viola tors were fined $1 each for their first violation. One offender was fined $1 for having an unregistered car, and was warned by the court to regis ter his auto before further viola tions were incurred. Another stu dent was charged with two viola tions. The first violation was sus pended. He was fined $5. Two other offenders were assessed $5 for double violations. The next meeting of the Traffic Court will be Nov. 30. . CIO Leader Brownell to CLEVELAND, Nov. 17 (A 3 ) —A top. CIO leader today called for Atty. Gen. Brownell’s resignation. On the heels of this demand, the CIO convention formally con demned Brownell’s charges against former President Truman as “a disgraceful chapter in American history.” Joseph A. Beirne, president of the Communication Workers, drew applause from 700 conven tion delegates when he called for Brownell to quit “for malfeasance in office and for not carrying out his constitutional duties.” ' Beirne was arguing for adoption of the resolution blasting Brown ell, and it was adopted 1 unani mously. .. The convention’s other major action today was ratification of an agreement, already, adopted by . ♦ . . Housemothers: tXjXUU str s rr Dean of Men, IFC Reach Accord On Dating Code The Interfratemity Council and the Dean of Men’s office have agreed to follow the interpretation of the IFC unchaperoned dating code in effect at the beginning of the year until a more workable solution than the University’s new interpretation can be formulated, according to a letter received yesterday by the Daily Collegian from Thomas Schott, IFC president. : Neither Schott nor Dean of Men Frank J. Simes was avail able for further comment last night. The decision, according to Schott’s letter, was the result of a recent IFC meeting in which the new interpretation of the code was declared unenforceable. It was decided that a list of griev ances against the code should be drawn up and presented to the Dean of Men. This was done, and the agreement to follow the old code was reached, the letter said. 'lnterpretation Not Clear' Schott said, “It was decided I that the interpretation of the code j was not, and still is not clear to either the administration or the i IFC.” • I Under this agreement, the in terpretation of the code will re vert back to last semester’s in terpretation: that the only social functions that require chaperones are those which are planned in advance and in which a majority of the members of a house parti cipate. ' Under the administration’s in terpretation, chaperones would be required in all cases except inci dental dating. This would mean that chaperones. would be neces sary for all orchestra and record dances, pledge dances, exchange dinners, Friday and ' Saturday night parties, functions on house party weekends and similar ac tivities. IFC Opposiiion The IFC opposed the new in terpretation because it felt it would be impossible for any house to secure the necessary chaper ones for all these events. The group also felt that presence of chaperones at all such events would be undesirable. One solution to the problem, proposed by IFC, was a perman ent reinstatement of the dating code as it was formerly inter preted. This was considered the most favorable Solution by the group. A second solution considered was the possibility of fraternity housemothers. . This alternative was turned down because it felt that. most fraternities, would be unable to bear the added finan cial burden and that most houses do not have adequate facilities for quartering housemothers. The third alternative discussed was acceptance of the administra tion’s interpretation of the dating code. Asks Resign the AFL, to stop “raiding.” This is the tactic of one union group trying to persuade another's al ready organized workers to switch their union allegiance. The no-raiding agreement won convention ratification by unani mous vote. ' I The agreement has been de scribed as a necessary first step towards eventual merger of the AFL and CIO into a, single labor federation. By DON SHOEMAKER Schott letter on page 4 Problems Of WDFM Discussed By ROGER BEIDLER The board of directors of Station WDFM in an informal meeting yesterday discussed progress made by the station, the problem of obtaining equipment, and the specific program sched u 1 e re leased by the station. The program schedule which has been projected by the WDFM staff falls into three categories: 1. Programs for production when the station first goes on-the air. 2. Programs for presentation in the near future. 3. Long range plans for' pro grams in the future, perhaps a semester or two ahead. Most programs released will fall into the first category. These in clude live or taped staff recorded and transcribed shows. Live and Taped Shows Under the live and taped staff shows fall programs which will be general information for the listener on news and sports, so cial activities, a look into the ad ministration and examinations of the various organizations on the campus. News broadcasts will be Associ ated Press releases handled by the Station WDFM staff in conjunc tion with the Daily Collegian. Campus news will be handled in the same manner. Various facul ty forums, interviews with facul ty members to acquaint listeners with their jobs and activities, and informal discussions with admin istrative personalities to learn of their outside interests and activi ties will be given. Musical Programs The staff, has provided for disc jockey shows and various musical programs. Popular records for dancing and listening head the list. Other presentations include broadway musicals, operettas, op era, semi and light classical music, symphonies, and new high fidel ity recordings. A cultural pro gram featuring lectures on learn ed subjects, recorded plays, poet ry and book reviews is also on the agenda. A large variety of programs is included under transcribed pro ductions. Several national net work presentations including mu sical, scientific, political, and ed ucational programs are on the schedule. Mackey Discusses Progress David R. Mackey, faculty man ager of the station, discussed the progress being made by the sta tion. He said the large staff with which he has been wprking is still green, but stated they are com ing along in fine shape. He also said the group has progressed as far as possible with physical fa cilities The. missing parts for which the station has been wait ing, he added, should be procured sometime in the near future. Mackey also said that dry runs, programs that give students con (Continued on page eight) Junior Prom Refunds Friday is the deadline for Junior Prom refunds. Dance programs ' "-'v be exchanged at the Studer/c Union desk in Old Main for a re food of $1.50. FIVE CENTS
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