How's the Pressure? 275 Pints of Collected Ist Two-hundred and seventy-five pints of blood were col lected yesterday in the first of a two-day Red Cross blood drive on campus. The drive will continue Hetzel Union Building from Free X-Rays To Be Given By Mobile Unit Students, University staff mem bers, and State College residents may receive a free chest X-ray by a mobile X-ray unit which will visit the campus Monday, Tues day, and Wednesday. The unit, under the direction of Dr. M. C. Stayer, of the Bureau of Tuberculosis Control, will be located in front of the University Infirmary at Pollock and Short lidge roads. Hours will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 to 6 p.m. No appointments are neces sary. The mobile X-ray unit is oper ated by the Bureau of Tubercu losis Control of the Pennsylvania Department of Health hi Harris burg. While the visit of the X-ray unit is primarily for University seniors, many of whom have not had chest X-rays since their fresh man year, any other students, staff members or townspeople are welconie to take- advantage of this _ opportunity for 'free chest X-rays. Dr. Herbert R. Glenn, di rector of the University Health Service, said. "It is considered good medical practice to have annual chest X rays," Dr. Glenn continued. "The visit of the X-ray unit offers a good chance to have a chest X ray free of charge." r ---- Review Stark's By TED SERRILL How should Anton Chekhov's play be produced? Newell Stark appears to have taken the view that the Russian master of drama should be played for comedy—not "high" comedy or subtle comedy but a kind of low comedy directly appealing to TODAY'S WEATHER CLEAR AND . WARMER Blood Day today in the card room of the 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The goal' is 500 pints. Red Cross workers from State College expect today's turnout to swell the final total over initial hopes. At least 12 borough nurses will be on hand today to speed the process. One-hundred and sixty-four ( people have pledged to donate blood today. Students are urged to register in the HUB card room before 4 p.m. in order to leave the mobile before 5. 116 Walk-in Donors Walk-in donors totaling 116 kept workers especially busy af ter 1 p.m. yesterday. Altogether 292 students, faculty members, and townspeople appeared at the Red Cross desk. Seventeen were rejected for various reasons. Of the 251 scheduled, 75 failed Ito appear. Many of these are ex pected today. "From past experience," said Mrs. Ben Whisler, chairman of volunteer workers of the State College Red Cross, "we have a very good chance of meeting the 500-pint goal." 18 Workers to Assist Mrs. Whisler reported that six Red Cross workers from Johns town and 12 from State College will assist in today's work. Also assisting yesterday were 10 wo men who registered donors, a typist, and 10 university students. Phi Delta Theta fraternity members have helped to recruit students for the drive. A two-foot trophy will be presented to the fraternity which has the highest percentage of members as donors. A student canteen will be open to blood donors. Doughnuts, milk, coffee and orange juice will he served. 7 Vanya' Humorous the American, to the Penn State student. For "Uncle Vanya." as staged and directed by Stark as a thesis for a Master of Arts degree, was at times uproarious. Many a phrase was turned into a gag line and many an action into a point ed laugh. But "Uncle Vanya" is essential ly a serious and bordering-on-the tragic play. There were times the play could not be and was not funny. At these spots the actors tried to be serious but failed be cause no sooner had they set a mood than a laugh was evoked. And these laughs did not have to be laughs; they could have been played for feeling. The audience didn't help in re ceiving these ambigious lines. Consisting of a sizable part of theater arts majors, it was all too ready to laugh at any word or action of the actors—all friends of theirs- 7 -that reflected on the Titr 13ttitg VOL. 56. No. 127 STATE COLLEGE. PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 25. 1956 FIVE CENTS Final Spring Week Plans Include Carnival Layout Final Spring Week plans and Carnival layout were decided by the Spring Week Com mittee last night. The Carnival will be held at the southeast corner of the golf course. Entrance will be from Route 322 and booths will parrallel the road and extend north in a semi-circle formation with two double rows of booths in the middle. Food concessions will be to the left of the entrance and rides next to the middle booths. Booths will be lined up Donkey Cage Ticket Sale To Begin Tickets will go on sale at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow at the Hetzel Un ion desk for the Donkey Basket ball• Game to be held at 6:45 May 3 in Recreation Hall. Price will be 50 cents. Seven students will compose a team to oppose another team made up of eight professors and members of the administration.• Sfudenfs lo Play Students who will make up the first team will be Earl Seely, past All-University president; B r u c e Lieske, past Association of Inde pendent Men president; Norman Miller, Daily Collegian associate editor; Richard Packer, all-Amer ican soccer player; Hugh Cline, I head cheerleader; Robert Bullock, past Incerfraternity Council pres ident; and Robert Cole, past Town Independent Men president. The group of students has picked as a title for its team CLWDN (Campus Leaders Who Do Nothing). Opposing Team Members of the opposing team are Richard C. Adams, instructor in mechanical engineering; Elmer A. Gross, associate professor of physical education; Donald B. Swegan, instructor in physical education; Dr. Jerome K. Pasto, associate professor of farm man agement; William B. Crafts, as sistant to the dean of men; Don ald M. Cook, assistant director of placement; Lt. Arthur G. Lock ard, assistant professor of air sci ence; and William L. Kjelgaard, instructor in agricultural engi neering. The rules of the game are simi lar to those of regular basketball, except that a player must be on the back of a mule when shooting for a basket. House Presidents to Play A second game will be played among house presidents. A draw ing will be held to determine which of the presidents who ap plied will play in the game. Only four players on each team play at one time_ Alfred Klimke, University Lion, and Nicholas Pantages, Frothy, (Continued on page eight) actors real-life personalities. Of course, Chekhov did not write pure drama or emotional or dreary tragedies. His plays were, instead, a kind of tragi-comedy. But this production was no tragi comedy. Stark also attempted to modern ize the play. Written in Russia, it has been translated several times into forceful theater—a theater of several decades ago, but presumably quite effective. Stark simplified much of the language and revised some of the duller and more wordy parts— he Americanized it. This is fine if the effect derived is the effect wanted. The play we saw is apparently the play Stark wanted to present and although we would have preferred to see the "old-time" Chekhov we com pliment the director on the re sulting production. As modern theater it was fun- (Continued on page eight) MR A BETTER PENN STATE in alphabetical order in order of their categories. There will be four rides for the Carnival consisting of one merry-go-round, one flying sauc er and two ferric wheels. Food concessions picked for the Carni val by the committee are the Home Delivery Pizzeria, Sally's Sandwich Shop, Nittany Dell and the Pepsi Cola Bottling Company. Faculty to be Judges Faculty and town alumni will act as judges for the Carnival. Judges for the true presentation category are Mrs. Robert E. Gal braith and Robert E. Galbraith, professor of English composition; Mrs. Victor B. McCrea and Cap tain Victor B. McCrea, captain in the department of naval science; Mrs. Harrison M. Tietz and Dr. Harrison M. Tietz, professor of anatomy and physiology; and Mrs. William G. Noyes and William G. Noyes, instructor in music educa tion. Judges for the original cate gory are Mrs. Lloyd Heckendorm and Lloyd Heckendorm, town alumni; Mrs. Eari Linderman and Earl Linderman, professor of art education; Mrs. James M. Coogan and James M. Coogan, assistant director of public information; and Mrs. C. P. William Fisher and C. P. William Fisher, town alumni. Parody Judging Judges in the parody division are Mrs. Danial F. Riva and Danial F. Riva, colonel in the de partment of air science; Mrs. H. L. Stuart and H. L. Stuart, town alumni; Mrs. Edward T. Flebotte and Edward T. Flebotte, manager of the Progressive News Agency; and Yar G. Chomicky, assistant professor of art education. The theme for the Spring Week Carnival is Show and Song Titles and is divided into three cate gories presentation, (close ad herence to original show or song), parody and original. The winner in each category of the Carnival will receive 45 Spring Week points. Entrants will be judged on four qualifications —good taste, development of theme, quality of production, and ticket sales. Bus Court Order Stirs Alabama MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 24 (EP}—An order to stop segregation on city buses brought angry threats of reprisal today from city and state officials who vowed to keep the races apart as long as possible. Despite the decision from Montgomery City Lines Inc.. to abandon its policy of separate seating of white and Negro pas sengers, there were no reports of actual mixed seating on the first day. An Alabama Journal reporter who spot-checked the buses said all the Negro riders he saw were seated in the rear, the part re served for members of that race under the traditional segregation pattern. Neither was there any indica tion that the bus company's ac tion in refusing to continue en forcing city and state segregation laws would bring an immediate end to the boycott by Negroes who have refused to patronize the segregated buses since Dec. 5. Leader Issues Statement A leader of the bus boycott, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., is sued a statement saying "there will be no change in our position immediately" and that the pro- Tottegiatt 39 Groups To Appear In Carnival Thirty-nine groups have bees entered in the Spring Week Car nival, Daniel VanDuyne, Carni• val chairman, has announced. Entrants in the true presenta tion category are Alpha Gamma Rho and Phi Mu, "Damn Yan kees"; Beta Sigma Rho and Inde. pendent Women, "The Boy Friend"; Delta Chi and A and level Thompson, "The Mikado"; Delta Theta Sigma, "The Black. board Jungle"; Kappa Sigma and, Delta Zeta, 'Palace Saloon"; Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Nu, "Basin Street Blues"; Phi Kappa Psi and, Alpha Omicron Pi, "Nighttrain"; Also Pi Kappa Alpha and Al. pha Gamma Delta, "Toast of the Town"; Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Delta Gamma, "Can-Can"; Sigma Alpha Mu, "Stalag 17"; Tau Kap. pa Epsilon and Gamma Phi Beta, "Alabamy Bound"; Triangle and Atherton Hall, "Lookce Here"; Theta Kappa Phi and Woman's Building, "John and Marsha". Parody Division Groups entered in the parody division are Alpha Chi Rho. "Damn Nittanies"; Alpha Chi Sig ma and Mac Allister Hall, "Rear Window": Beta Theta Pi and Chi Omega, "The Man With the Hairy Arm"; Delta Sigma Phi and Kappa Delta, "Plantation Situa• tion"; Delta Upsilon and Zeta Tau Alpha, "Show Boat"; Phi Kappa and Theta • Phi Alpha, "This Is Your Life", (Continued on page two) Miss Penn State Entry In addition to the list of names for the preliminaries of the Miss Penn State cont es t, Margaret Pearce, to be sponsored by Theta Kappa Phi, will be interviewed at 9:05 tonight at the Presbyterian Church on W. Beaver avenue. test would go on for the time being. King said some action may be taken, however, at a mass meet. ing called for Thursday night. He said the Montgomery Improve ment Assn., of which he is presi dent, probably would make a rec ommendation or at least "discuss alternatives" to ending the boy cott. Executive Board Meets The statement was issued fol lowing a meeting of the executive board of the Improvement Assn. which was formed to support the boycott. King said the Negroes were still awaiting word from bus com pany Manager J. H. Bagley ois their original demand for employ ment of Negro drivers on pre dominantly Negro routes. Bagley wasn't available for comment.
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