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VOL. 55, No. 115
—Photo by Logan
KARL HELD SEEMS to be ignoring the lovely Elizabeth Jones
in a scene from William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the
Shrew," which opened - last night for a seven-weekend run at
Center Stage in the Temporary Union Building. The two have the
lead roles in the production.;
Review
Players Present
'Taming of Shrew'
Players' presentation of William Shakespeare's "The Taming of
the Shrew" proved itself to be as sparkling 'as a long, cool drink of
burgundy last night when a small but appreciative audience greeted
the brilliant adaptation which Dr. Walter H. Walters has made for
Players. •
A sharp, snappy cast whipped through their lines with ease,
leaving little to be desired. But
by far the best thing in the
"farce-comedy" is the costuming
—the actors wore just enough of
the many costume items to em
phasize their particular character
traits.
The most hilarious scene in the
play occurred when they "rode?
around the stage in their ancient
automobile; even Shakespeare
would have•been in complete ap
preciation.
Karl Held and Betsy Jones are
absolute gems as Petruchio and
Kate. Held bounded around the
stage with his medals and Rus
sian Tartar's outfit with happy
abandon, and Miss Jones played
the screaming spit-fire with a
smoldering passion.
Rest Good Also
The rest of the cast is not far
behind them either. Nancy Dee
Coulter, as Bianca, plays the co
quette with enough reserve to
withstand her many suitors, and
Larry ' Heller, as Lucentio who
finally wins her, manages to drool
appropriately at the right mo
ments and, look convincingly
love-sick. Miss Coulter, inciden
tally, had the only poor make-up
U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON, April 1 (fl 3 )—
The Senate today voted U.S. rati
fication of the Paris treaties to
rearm West Germany.
The historic vote, designed to
make the German Republic a sov
ereign member of the European
defense chain against Commu
nist aggression, was 76-2. It came 1
after little more than three hours'
debate.
Sen. Walter F. George (D.-Ga.),
chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee which approved the
treaties 14-1 yesterday, said in
opening the brief debate that
ratification would "improve the
chances for a Big Four or Big
Five meeting that will produce
something more constructive and
helpful than stalemate and propa
ganda."
U.S. action had been held off
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job in the show—on first glance
this writer thought she had two
black eyes.
Mark Gladstone made an agree
able sidekick to Heller through
out the play. The audience was
particularly delighted with their
opening scene costumes; Heller
wore a blinding red windbreaker
with "Pisa" on the back; Glad
stone a large red-letter "P."
Ken Williams and Jim Jimirro,
as Bianca's other suitors, do fine
jobs in their roles. Williams fin
ally ends up with Ruth Fitz, as
the Widow, who, with her snap
ping fan, captured the audience.
Emil Haas makes an agreeable
father, too.
The comedy relief roles were
particularly well done by Larry
Jacobson, as Grumio, and Gary
Zinman, as Biondello. Jacobson
won the audience to his side when
he was "whipped" by Held, and
Zinman could replace Jerry Lew
is at the drop of a hat.
The "Taming , of the Shrew"
rounds out just about as perfVct
a dramatics weekend as could
possibly be hoped for on campus.
Approves
proved by the two key partici
pants, West Germany and France.
Legislative action needs to be
completed now in Belgium, the
Netherlands, Denmark and Lux
embourg, and this is expected
to follow within a month.
Only two of the four treaties
in the Paris package agreement
required approval by the U.S.
Senate. They were:
1. The pact ending the occupa
tion of West Germany by the
United States, Britain and France,
and permitting the West Ger
mans to organize their own army
and air force. Action on this has
now been completed all around
and it is expected the actual for
mation of a new Gprman mili
tary force will begin ' some time
later this year.
2. The treaty admitting West
Germany into the North Atlantic
Wreat.v, Quehizallea _as the 15th
STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 2, 1955
Suitors Fine
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Dunlop to Direct
Spring Concert
By Blue Band
The Blue Band will give its
annual spring concert at 3 p.m.
tomorrow in Schwab Auditorium,
under the direction of James W.
Dunlop, associate professor of mu
sic and conductor of University
bands.
The program includes The Na
tional Anthem, The Triumphal
March from 'Quo Vadis,' (Rozsa),
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
(Bach-Leidzen), Bugler's Holiday
(Anderson), Emblem of Honor
March (Danburg), Loch Lomond
(arrangement b y Richardson),
Kiddie Ballet (Hermann).
The second part of the program
includes Overture to Rienzi (Wag
ner), The Rakes of Mallow from
the Irish Suite (Anderson), Be
guine for Band (Osser), Selec
tions from South Pacific (Rod
gers-Leidzen), and the Stars and
Stripes Forever (Sousa).
AIM Board
Asks Probation
For 3 Students
The Association of Independent
Men Judicial Board of Review
has recommended disciplinary
probation for three second semes
ter freshmen who sacked a room
in Hamilton Hall several weeks
ago.
The occupant of the room, also
a second semester freshman, re
ported $lB missing after his room
had been rifled.
The recommendation has been
referred to the dean of men's of
fice and will be brought before
the Senate Committee on Student
Affairs subcommitte on discipline
for approval.
The student who reported the
money missing said he left his
room to attend the EIWA wrest
ling meet in Recreation Hall. One
of the three others involved re
mained in the room and called
two friends to help him search
the room after the first students
left.
Edward Stoops, chairman of
the AIM board, said all three have
admitted to searching the room,
but each one denies having taken
the money. He said there has
been no proof to definitely estab
lish who took the money.
The dean of men's office is in
vestigating further.
Coed Room Drawing
Will End Monday
Present third through sev
enth semester women students
who were unable to draw num
bers on Wednesday or Thurs
day may do so from 8 a.m. to
4 p.m. on Monday at 105 Old
Main.
Women who will be student
teaching in the fall will draw
numbers before 4 p.m. on
Monday.
Paris Pacts
member. This has been approved
finally by 10 member nations
and West Germany. It has yet to
be approved by Denmark and
Luxembourg and by the senates
in Belgium and The Netherlands.
The two other pacts, not re
quiring U.S. action, would "Euro
peanize" the Saar and enlarge the
Western European Union to in
clude Italy and West Germany.
Sen. William Langer (R-N.D.),
who voted with Sen. George W.
Malone (R-Nev.) against the treat
ies, predicted that "the Saar ques
tion will rise up and haunt the
signatories of this treaty and in
my opinion will be one of the
causes of a world war."
Malone, who a 1 s o opposed
NATO, contended the effect of
the Paris treaties was to require
the United States to go to war
when countries whose actions it
does not control go to war. •
Niatt
McComb Says Library
To Begin Checking Books
At Doors to Curb Losses
In an effort to cut down on the number of missing books,
a system of doorchecking at the Pattee library will go into
effect in the near future, Ralph W. McComb, University 11.
brarian, has announced. Checkers will stand at the doorway
to make sure that books aren't accidentally taken from the
library.
• McComb estimated that approx
imately 1000 or more books are
missing from the library annually.
However, he said, most students
do not take the books with intent
to keep them. "A large percen
tage take the 'books absent-mind
edly, or else are too busy to
charge them out."
Books Get One-Way Trip
"There are a few who take out
books and never return them,"
McComb said, 'but usually we get
most of the books back." Some
are coming in and some going out
continually; and the average miss
ing is approximately 1000, he said.
The problem is more irritating
to the students, because they are
the ones that suffer, he said.
"The mutilation of periodicals
is a real problem," McComb said.
" Books can be replaced but not
periodicals." Ever since periodi
cals have been put on an open
shelf, many students have been
ripping articles and pictures out '
of them, making them practically
useless, he said. McComb said
there is little there can be done
about the problem except to take
the magazines off an open shelf.
This he does not want to do, since
an opgn shelf periodical rack
makes for faster service, he said.
Optimistic on Service
When asked his opinion of the
service in the library, McComb
said "With a large library, it is
hard to maintain speedy service,
but we feel that our service is
just as good now as before when
we had a smaller library." •
McComb said that in some in
stances service js much better.
For examples, he cited the new
periodical reading shelf, and the
addition of books to reading
room. "The addition of mechani
cal gadgets, like the pneumatic
air tubes, has also helped," he
said.
(Continued on page eight)
Press
Cited
Patience, fortitude, and understanding were cited last night by
James C. Hagerty, press secretary to President Dwight D. Eisen
hower, as ideal standards of the American press to use in explaining
United States foreign policy most clearly and truthfully to the world.
Hagerty spoke at the closing session of the fifth annual news.
paper editors' seminar at the Nittany Lion Inn. Included in the
gathering of about 90 Pennsyl
vania editors and University rep
resentatives were nine Latin
American newspapermen.
A common fault of American
newspapers is the presentation of
the incomplete and often one
sided aspects of news, Hagerty
said. Better bonds between the
United States and both the free
world and "iron curtain" nations
would be forged if the press be
gan to expand its coverage of
news, informing its public of both
sides of international problems
and agreements.
In a question and answer ses
sion, Hagerty clarified points on
the Yalta papers question, tele
vised presidential press confer
ences, and the appointment of the
United States' new "secretary of
peace "
Hagerty said he agreed with
Pres'dent Eisenhower that the re
cently released Yalta papers
By LARRY JACOBSON
OK Honor
Group Taps
13 Men
Omicron Kappa, local leader.
ship fraternity, has tapped 13 jun
ior and senior men to bring the
membership of the University's
newest honorary fraternity to 37.
New tappees are Burritt Haag,
David Meckler, John Russell, Ir
win Weiner, Allan Schneirov,
John Sink, John Carpenter, Ben
jamin Sinclair, John Collett, Karl
Schwenzfeier, Hugh Cline, Carter
Brooks, and Ronald Weidenham•
mer.
The OK Circle, which was
chartered by the Senate Commit
tee on Student Affairs two weeks
ago, will apply for affiliation
with the national leadership frat
ernity, Omicron Delta Kappa, at
the end of a year. The Senate
Committee requires all honorary
fraternities to exist as local or
ganizations for a probationary.
period of one year before they
can apply for national recogni
tion.
Junior and senior men who are
in the upper 35 per cent of the
men in their college scholastically
and who are outstanding in one
field of student life or a leader
in two or more fields, are eligible
for membersh4. in the OK Circle.
The movement to establish an
ODK Circle at the University was
stated in September by Sinclair.
Dr. Robert Bishop, national sec
retary of ODK, was at the Uni
versity in February to instruct
the organizational committee in
the requirements and objectives
of the national fraternity.
Standards
by Hagerty
By TED SERRILL
should have been made available
to the public long ago. However.
he supported Eisenhower's belief
that the papers should not have
included the casual conversations
which have raised furors in dip.
lomatic circles.
He disagreed with persons who
believe the recent radio and tele
vised presidential press confer.
ences have been censored. Certain
sections of dialogue are sometimes
refused verbatim publication oe
broadcast because they might be
used by Russia as a wedge against
the United States in propaganda.
He said that he also tries, in
his job as press secretary, to pro.
hibit broadcast of negative an•
swers to questions and any repo.
titive questions.
Reaction as a whole to the ap
point ment of Harold E. Stassea
to a Cabinet position as a "secre
tary of peace" by Eisenhower
has been favorable. be NAL
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