PAGE BUR Editorial Opinion Two for the Show? Hull wood Las long been crying over the decline of box office goodies with the influx of television movies. It seems that now TVs late show has almost replaced the old double-feature at the local popcorn palace. The recent hits in State College which caused melt male students to toss away the books, "And God Created Woman" and **Peyton Place," appear to have disproved this theory. However, nationally speaking, movie theater owners last week received some bad news in the form of statistics. Average weekly theater attendance has dropped 7,000,000 from 1956 figures and theater owners have suf fered a $5O million loss at the box office. These statistics were included in a report by business analysts Sindlinger & Co. Probably the hulk of the drop-off came in the second rate movie depa: • rnent but this left such a gap that it U lai ONE U.KU 0 , 1 LIKE TO SEE?, cuuld not even be canceled out by the series of big budget films released last year—such as "Sayonara," "Around the World in 80 Days," and "The Bridge on the River Kwai." Five years ago any one of these big-budget films would have been called a spectacular. But today Holly wood has found that the average movie has to be a spec tacular if it wants to draw any shreds of an audience. Independent producer Samuel Goldwyn has said that within a year Hollywood will be producing only half as many pictures as now, but adds, "They will be better pic tures," and sees the industry heading for a "healthier con dition than it has ever known." The top movies produced during the past two years have been listed in the Consumer Reports, published by the Consumers Union of U.S., Inc. Those rated "excellent" include "Around the World in 80 Days," "Bespoke Over coat," "Friendly Persuasion," "LaStrada," "Lust for Life," "Magnificent Seven," "Moby Dick," "Secrets of Life," "Solid Gold Cadillac," "Tea and Sympathy," "S ilent World" and "Ten Commandments." Then on the duller side Hollywood has slipped in some sour notes for mass teenage appeal —"Prison Girls." "I Was a Teenage Werewolf." "Jailhouse Rock." "Don't Knock the Rock" and "Loving You." to name a few. The only entertainment in these seems to be provided by the advertisements. However, we don't believe that theater owners ser iously have to wonder where their next meal is coming from. Although they have suffered a great loss, Holly wood producers have been holding up a good end despite the threat of television movie competition. As long as Hollywood concentrates on quality instead of quantity we do not believe that the movie industry will be destroyed. Instead, it will gain a reputation that will be pretty well guarded—even from the blows struck by TV. Editorials are written by the editors and staff ambers c,f The Deily Collegian and d. est necessarily represent the vices of the University or of the student hod!. A S:udera-Operated Newspaper 011 r gait Trtiltgiatt Successor :o The Free Lance. est 1887 Published Tuesday through Saterday morning during the Cnicersity year, The Daily E•lleeiaa lea student-operated newspaper Entered as attend-ells' matter „Par S. 1534 at the State College. Pa. Pest Office ander the art el March 1„ 1673. Mien Subscription Price: 13.96 per semester SS.N per rear ED DUBBS. Editor STEVE HIGGINS. Bus. Mgr. r HOW ABOUT THIS ONE, tt I WAS A TEEN-A6E CANE. DRIVER'? ~ c... 0 _ 7 ;411111111 v 1..--. • . --- ._--,-_. .—...-. _ .--_-:-., . - 111 IT'S DIFFICULT TO mAa A TYClgkoti wi4EN YOU HAVE A COICE KILLEEN TWO 511 CH OBVIO:SIS FINE PICTURES! \ , - •0 ei ; s, Z tl) maingmpli I DOT THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Other Opinion The Dancing Of Lunatics These are bleak days for count ing gobal blessings, but perhaps there is at least one worth men tioning. If there are intelligent beings on Mars, we can feel confi dent that they are not contem plating an invasion. Their advance patrols must have long since reported io the Martian bosses that planet Earth is just an outsized lunatic asylum, to be avoided like a plague. Picture the situation on this side of the globe objectively, if you still can. America today is engaged in a great debate (if we may dignify near-panic with such a term) and the basic issue is sim ple. Can we snuff out civilization as efficiently as the Russians can? The administration says we can; its critics say we can't. But sides agree that in either event a monumental military effort is row mandatory. A monumental effort to what end? Merely to maintain (or re gain, as the case may be) our place in an armaments race that all concerned have long since agreed is a global suicide pact. An armaments race that, even at the very best, can only pro duce an uneasy balance of terror in which a madman's pushbutton can regulate civilization .to the incinerator. Safety Valve Collegian Thanked For Cooperation TO THE EDITOR: We of Phi Sigma Sigma want to take this opportunity to express our deep appreciation to The Daily Col legian for all the help in our benefit movie campaign for Lar ry Sharp. Without the publicity and won derful coverage, we would not have achieved the success we did . . . We have derived satisfaction from our work for Larry, and we believe that Collegian should share this satisfaction because the paper's contribution was so im portant . . . —Phi Sigma Sigma Sorority • Letter cut Florida Atums To See Films "This is Penn State," a sound and color movie filmed from a student viewpoint, several of the recent season's football films and a University speaker will con stitute the program at the annual meetings of two Florida alumni groups. Ridge Riley, executive secre tary of the Alumni Association, has requested staff members who will be in Florida in March and who are interested in serving in a speaking capacity to contact him. The meetings are scheduled for March 8 in St. Petersburg and March 11 near Lake Worth. Gazette Christian Science Organisation. T p.m.. l'iS Chanel Cede Classes for FCC amateur radio, tech nician and novice class examination, be. gin 7 p.m.. 219 EE Hine! Advanced Hebrew Class, 1:30 p.m.. Foundation f.. , :olantan Legion of Mau. 7:30 Center Newman Club Fraternity-Sorority Com- =Mee. 7 pan.. 107 Bourke Society for Indastris/ and Applied Mathe matics. Dr. Rana A. Pennfaky. professor of meteorology. "Stochastic Analysis Ap plied to Atmospheric Turbulence." 7:30 p.m.. 214 Willard MIMBEMIMI WDFM Staff Sleeting. 8 p.m.. 316 Sparks UCA to Sponsor Party At Ice Rink Tonight The University Christian Asso ciation will sponsor a skating party at 7 tonight at the Univer sity ice rink. - Refreshments will follow at 9 g. m. in the Eisenhower ChapeL Froth Will Be Sold at HUB Froth will be on sale today at illte.iietzel Union Builsiitte —The Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield. Mass. TODAY Man on Campus ~.3 7 • „,/ the Senate Is Slipping WASHINGTON, Feb slipping. Sometimes it has seemed that only death or a political knockout could pry a senator from office. But when Harry Flood Byrd (D.-Va.) said today he will not run for re-election this year, he became the fifth senator to reach such a con clusion. Previously Sens. Edward Martin (R.-Pa.), who is 78; Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R.- N.J.), 77; William Knowland (R.-Calif.), 49; and William Jenner (R.-Ind.), 49, said they had had it. They gave various reasons —Byrd, for example, has an ailing wife—but they add up to a surprisingly large group to leave the Senate voluntar ily. . In some ways, Byrd's deci sion is the biggest shock. True. he will be 71 on June 10. But he has made such a career of going his own, and often lone ly, course That he had become an institution. During the 25 years he has been in the Senate, Byrd's statements calling for snore economy in government have become a part of the scenery, like the reading of Washing ton's Farewell Address in Con gress every Feb. 22. Successful in the newspaper business, successful as an ,ap ple grower—he and his part ners raise such a large crop every person in this country could have one of their apples —Byrd brought into govern ment this fiscal philosophy: "You don't save money by spending it, junior." So in 1938 he was saying: "We have at Washington to day the most costly, the most wasteful, and the most bureau cratic form of government this Republic has ever known or ever been afflicted with." And though government has OH,BOY, YOU SHOULD NAVE am TRE 11 CHARLIE VALENTINE I WAS GONG TO !I i 9 BROWN.. MAKE FOR YOU! if i C '4t * ' -: 1 v.i..i....: , LN .-.-: M ... 4.5-.. ...i4il o f vyi 4 -......0 1 yr ro am kAlli A 1I AD SatkE REAL NCE RED BUT T4EN ITHOLY6 . 4T TO MYSELF. •PAPER, AND SOME WHITE LACE . ItAUGH.INAT A RIDICULOUS AD SNEUTTLEEZER HEARTS._ ~.LitscSiTE OF TLvtE AND EFFORT!" . • 1 1 . ' \I - • ry c m i L i ‘ i --... . I ,lt ,/ op „i. , • iiii , i 1 Ak. urA_f_ 'l' ft. i .....1110 a - ' .l MA WWI I Mil &fa , Am a 1 ~,, --..-..... ...:1;:z..- - -..,:::;: -- • --- 7 143 0 - --= - ="...:.07:-.• —___—__ ,i_____Ni -- THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 13. 1958 by Dick Bible or What? 12 (,P)—The Senate must be steadily become larger and costlier, Byrd has fought it stubbornly ever step of the way. Byrd pointed out 'that in 1934 he had been one of the few senators to oppose the Nit tional Recovery Act, that its 1935 he was one of five to vote against the Wagner Labor Act, that in 1938 his was the only vote against • the Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation. "In the Senate I have fought many lone battles," he said. "Rightly or wrongly, I have not always trod the popular road." But if Byrd had his troubles on the national scene, he did well at home. Few senators manage to re tain their hold on state politics. Byrd did. The so-called Byrd organi zation can't be compared too closely with a city machine. but political observers have pointed out it has been effec tive. Generally speaking, what Byrd has wanted, so has Vir ginia. And what Byrd hasn't wanted, Virginia wanted no part of either. • Byrd, of course, is too mod est to admit this. The man whose plump cheeks are as rosy and jolly as the apples he sells once put it this way: "That I have had some small voice in the affairs of Virginia for more than a third of a century is a source of deep satisfaction to me."-
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