Today's Forecast:
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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