Today's Forecast: Fair, Warmer VOL. 1, No, 6 Mateer Play Weena To Play 'Flush' By DEXTER HUTCHINS Beautiful, brown-eyed Miss Deborah Lilla Weena has con sented to play an important role in "The Barretts of Wim pole Street," which opens Mon day at the Mateer Playhouse at Standing Stone. Miss Weena is one of the mast unusual actresses to appear at the Mateer Playhouse she is a 7- year-old pedigree dachshund. Weena will play the part of Flush, Elizabeth Barrett's lap dog. She will be used in the play through the courtesy of Mrs. W. L. Treager of State College, Esther Benson !will play the part of the invalid Elizabeth and Ronald Bishop will por tray Robert Browning in the popular play by Rudolph Bo xier. Leon B. Stevens will act the part of Elizabeth's tyrannical fa ther who has an aversion to Ro bert Browning, and a great liking for strong porter beer. Since he would prefer that his ailing daughter have po r ter than Browning, he spends much of his time trying to break up the ro mance which grows between Eli zabeth and Robert as the play progresses. ' The role of Robert Browning may be Bishop's most difficult work this summer. During past productions at the playhouse he has played a rebellious son and an irate, grumpy boss. As Robert, he will portray a gentle and un derstanding suitor. "Actually this will be my favorite part of the season," he said. "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" will probably be the most lavish production to be seen at the Mateer Playhouse this summer. The play takes place in the Victorian era, and will require costumes of the period and ornate settings. To solve the dressing prob lems, many clothes had to be im ported from Philadelphia. Props and furniture were borrowed from Sta t e College area mer chants. University To Host NCAA Gym Tourney Penn State- will host the 1960 National Collegiate Ath letic Association gymnastic tournament March 18 and 19 at Recreation Hall. This marks the first time in history the Nittany Lions have hosted the NCAA gymnastic tournament. In 1948, 1952 and 1956 the Uni versity was host to the National AAU gymnastic championships and the Olympic team tryouts. The Nitiany Lion gymnasts. are coached by Gene Welistone, who completed his 20th year as bead mentor by winning the NCAA and Eastern Intercolle giate Gymnastic As s o eiation learn titles in 1959. The Lions were unbeaten during the duel meet season and were led by Olympian Armando Vega and junior stars Jay Werner and Lee Cunningham. The National title was the fourth in the past seven years for the Lions. Penn State has had somewhat of an amazing gymnastic record under Wettstone, - who coached the United States entry in the 1956 and 1948 Olympic games. His teams have won nine Eastern team titles and five National Col. ~ „,,...: ...,.,..„ STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 9. 1959 DR. DOROTHY ~I. LIPP. formerly dean of women at the Univer sity of North Dakota, has assumed her duties as dean at the University. Claremont To Present The Claremont String Quartet will continue its summer musical program with a lecture-recital at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Hetzel Union assembly room. At the lecture-recital, the quartet will play a selection and then hold a discussion analyzing the selection. Methods and techniques used by the com poser will be discussed along with actual composition and the overall meaning of the selection. This discussion and analyzing period is held mainly to aid the audience in better understanding the musical compositions. For its first lecture-recital tomorrow• night, the quartet has selected the "Bartok String Quartet No. 1." Also on the summer program for the quartet are evening con certs. The first of these was held Tuesday evening. Members of the quartet include legiate championships and own an all-time record of 80 wins and 27 defeats in dual competition. Wettstone went to London in 1948 as coach of the men's team, to Helsinki in 1952 as an official, and to Australia in 1958 as coach again. He is a masterlshowman and has pro duced record crowds of 6000 or better for nearly all lone meets and several times has managed coast-to-coast tours by national championship teams from Swe den, Switzerland and Finland. Penn State won the NCAA title at Berkeley, California in • March after sweeping the Eastern cham pionships at Pittsburgh, March 7. The Lions defeated Michigan, Big 10 champs, and - Army in thrilling due: meets during the season at Recreation Hall. Back to form the nucleus of (Continued on page nine) FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Quartet Concerts Marc Gottlieb, first violinist, Vladimir Weisman, second vio linist, William Schoen, violist, and Irving Klein, celloist. The members of the quartet are all from New York City and have made appearances throughout most of the United States. This is the second year that the gro up has been on campus as a quartet-in-resi dence during the summer ses sions. They first appeared here last year. In addition to the concerts and lecture-recitals, the quartet will conduct open rehearsals and wu:kshops for anyone interested in learning and understanding more about musical composition. The remaining scheduled even ing concerts will be held July 19, July 28 and August 7. Further lecture-recitals are scheduled for July 17, 21 and 31. Review lWeb' By WILLIAM ALLEN Collegian Drama Critic For the "whodunit" f an s, "The Spider's Web" will surely fill the bill as it's not only a mystery, but a comical play in some parts. "The Spider's Web" opened its week-long run at Mateer Play house at Standing Stone Monday and will close Saturday. It is the third play in the summer stock 'productions of the University's Department of Theatre Arts. The mystery, by Agatha Christie, evolves around a well to•do English family which moves to a country home in Kent and becomes involved in a murder in which everyone wants to get into the act of playing "detective." Detracting considerably from the solid performances of Leon Dean Lipp Starts Duties Coeds will have to take the lead if any changes in women's regulations are to be made—because Dean of Women Dorothy J. Lipp said she does ,not intend to impose any changes on the coeds. The new dean of women began her job Monday. She appointed in April to succeed Dr. Pearl 0. Weston, who retired July 1 with emerita rank. Any change in rules has to grow out of the local campus situa tion, Dr. Lipp said in a Collegian interview, but decisions from schools of comparable size should be taken into consideration "College women are adults or in the process of becoming adults," Dr. Lipp said, "and they are capable of making decisions and doing the right thing." She said coeds who don't need regu lations are often boxed in by them. The coeds' system of living) should be based on the mid-point i between women who don't need many regulations and the trouble makers, she said. Dr. Lipp explained that to o l create such a system, campus wide opinion must be studied." Coeds are more capable of find ing solutions for problems in their way of living than the dean of women," she said, "because it is the coeds themselves who are affected by the solution." She said it would be easier for the dean of women to set up the rules, but that doesn't make adults out of the students. There must be rules of some sort, Dean Lipp said, and wom len's rules differ from men's b - !cause society expects a different living situation for women than men. She said she would back de cisions of the Women's Student Government Association, even though she might not agree with all of them. Dr. Lipp termed herself "con servative" on the question of freshman women's hours. The purpose of hours in the fresh man and perhaps the early sophomore year, she said, was to encourage beginning students to study. On the question of whether women should be required to live in the residence halls, Dean Lipp said part of a woman's college experience is residence-hall-liv ing. However, she said, women should- be able to live downtown if they are working in someone's home, much older than the other coeds in the residence halls, or (Continued on page nine) Contains Suspense, Comedy B. Stevens, Ronald Bishop, Peggy! Lang and the most humorous Es ther Benson, ,was the acting of Don Petersen, Ken Evans and Frank Browning. Inspector Lord, played by Pet ersen, was greatly overplayed and on several occasions Petersen missed his lines. Constable Jones, played by Ken Evans, looked as though he had just got off a boat, for he bobbed around the stage in such a manner as to detract from the other actor's perform ances. Elgin the butler, played by Frank Browning, had trouble keeping his accent when he was forced into many lines of speaking at one time. When he fir s t appeared, he was wel comed but later hilt appearance and forced acting were notice able -to the crowd. Bishop, who played Hugo Birch, ,the local Justice of the Pease, was as funny as they come rgiatt Patience, Responsibility See Page 6 Band Series To Begin On Sunday The Summer Sessions Band, under the direction of James W. Dunlop, will present its first concert of the summer at 7 p.m. Sunday cn the steps of the Pattee Library. The band, which will present a series of three concerts during the summer sessions, is composed of undergraduate and graduate students as well as high school students. The high school students are on campus this summer for the annual Band, Orche'stra and Chorus school conducted by the Department of Music and Music Education. The school will con tinue through August 7. The concert on Sunday will open with the national anthem. 'Selections to be played are: "Em blem of Unity March," J. J. Rich ards; "Prelude and Fugue in D Minor," Bach-Moehlmann; "Al lerseelen," —Strauss-Davis; "Ti toro," Taylor-Osterling; "Ode," Ralph Hermann; "Ampariot Roca," Jaime Texisicr; "Music for a Carnival," Clare Grundman and "My Dream Sonata," Van Heusen and Osser. On the lighter _side of music, the band will play selections from the hit Broadway musical "Gip" arranged by Loewe and Bennett. The concert will close with "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa. The second of the three sched uled concerts will be held Sun day, July 25 at the same time. In the event of rain, the concerts will be presented in Schwab Auditorium. Saturday Classes Mid-Session classes will meet on Saturday, July 11. These classes will be held this Saturday to compensate' for class es missed on Monday, Jane 29, ithe day of registration. and his expressions during the discovery of the body scenes brought laughter from the crowd. Mildred Peake, the old-lady gardener who assumed a hidden identity, was most ably played by Esther Benson. Miss Benson's accent and motions about the stage were comical as well as most fitting to the part of an old gardener. The plot is slow in the begin ning but quickens when Oliver Costello, played by .Mike G. Matoin. is killed and his body is hidden by Clarissa Hallsham- Brown, who is forever "suppos ing" things. The police find out about the murder anri a long investigation begins which leads to nowhere except ration alizations by entire cast. Suspicion is cast upon each other but finally the murderer is discovered. The question is who killed Oliver Costello—that's the imystery. FIVE CENTS
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