TUESDAY. JULY 19, 1960 BOOKS ON THE BEACH seemed to be a perfect solution to mak ing studying enjoyable at Whipples till our subject wound up in the infirmary with a case of too much sunburn. Current Productions Begin Final Week The productions at Mateer Playhouse and Boal Barn are going into their final week. At the Mateer Playhouse is being presented Tennessee William's Pulitzer prinze-winning play, "A Streetcar Named Desire." The play is directed by Max Fischer and stars Esther Benson in her only role of the current season Miss Benson plays the part of Blanche Dußois a tormented and tortured woman who comes Jo live with her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, in the French Quarter of New Orleans. David Frank plays Kowalski. Patricia Thompson plays Ko walski's understanding wife. Oth ers in featured roles are Ann Driscoll, Frank Browning, Wil liam Mooney and Scott Webster. Curtain time is at 8:40. The last performance will be Saturday night July 23. Boal Barn is presenting "Love Rides the Rails" subtitled, "Will the Mail Train Run Tonight?" The play is an old time melodrama by Moreland Carey and takes place in Centre County. The heroine, played by Nancy Wilder, whose family owns rail road stocks is being chased by the villian, played by Joe Ser vello, who wants control of her Recommending our fresh fish dinners! Enjoy a seafood feast . . . your favorite fish, extra fresh, extra delicious! Come in and treat your self to good food at very reasonable . . . prices. Menu is tempting! EUTAW HOUSE . . . and your favorite beevrage EM 4-1039 13 MILES EAST OF STATE COLLEGE ON ROUTE TO LEWISTOWN and the stocks. She is being protected by the pure but naive hero, played by Bert Berdis, and his equally pure sidekick, played by Glenn Scheffer. The villians` sidekick is played by Steve Schlow. The last performances will be on Thursday. Friday and Satur day of this week. Curtain time is at 8:30. SUMMER COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Shop Conformity Cited By Osborne A little of the American spirit of competition is going to have to be sacrificed for a little more of the-American spirit of working together, if destitute business areas in many of Pennsylvania's small towns are. to survive, say Dr. Milton S Osborne, head of the Department of Architecture. "The merchant cannot be a man sitting alone on Main Street, trying to put a bigger sign to block off his neighbor," said the man who designed a rejuvenated business district for Hollidays burg, a small town of about 10.- 000 in Blair County. "He must make a little individual sacrifice to become a unique part of a whole complex of shops." "The downtown districts must take a cue from the shopping centers and make shopping a leisurely and enjoyable experi ence." A hodge-podge of non-descript small shops can become a unit that will make the shopper want to park his car and browse around, Dr. Osborne said. "And Pennsylvania small towns can do it," he said. His Hollidaysburg project is at tracting inspectors from several other small towns. "Simplicity and economy are the keynote," said Dr. Osborne, "Often all it takes is a paint brush and a few things the shopkeeper can fix himself." Each town has a character, he said, and all that is necessary is to "recapture the atmosphere of a small business center with the charm that it once had.'! New paint, smaller signs, new 'window slats, wrought iron rail ings, gas lamps and flower boxes restored th e quaint original character of Hollidaysburg. The average expenditure per shop was less than $250, and mer chants reported an immediate up surge in business. "It takes an active. leader and a few determined people to get a project started," Dr, Osborne said. "but once under way it rolls on its own and everyone gets caught up in the spirit." A chamber of commerce is the type of organization that can push such a project, he said. He said an experienced archi tect should be engaged to sketch ideas but cautioned against de signs that are too ambitious or expensive. Each building must be con sidered separately and simple ideas presented so that each shop keeper can use his own imagina tion and originality in carrying out the face-lifting. In this way business areas can, without subsidy, rejuvenate them selves; but it takes that coopera tive spirit, he said. Taylor Named to Post Bernard P. Taylor, executive director of the Penn State Foun dation, has been elected to a 3- year term as a director at-large of the development Division of the American College Publications Association. THE COMPACT STORE 326 E. College Avenue TASTY SPOT FREE PARKING IN CAMPUS SHOPPING CENTER Groceries and Snack Items s, "Too Numerous To Mention" f, c '\\ .4 4 00} Fresh Pastries and Salads •,'• • -',..-i ' ,- ,- A Variety of ) : 11 ,A., Reading Material • Drop In or Place Your Order • 11:4Z.:" \or 44/ OPEN 8:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. (4,, 4 .-;., I "Every Day „ .. Norris to Teach Advertising Course Vincent P. Norris will join the faculty in September as assistant professor of .athrertising in the School of Journalism. Mr. Norris. a native of Scott dale, received his doctor's degree in mass communications from the University of Illinois in June. Ile holds a baChelor of science and master of science degrees front While completing his doctoral Istudies at Illinois he taught an introductory course in advertis ing, and did research with radio and television audiences. He received the Newspaper Ad vertising Executives Association 'Fellowship in 1958, spending the six-week fellowship period with the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press. 'ln 1959 he served a summer in 'ternship with the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency, Chicago. He is a member of Kappa Tan Alpha, the journalism scholastic honorary society. IHEe Master Exams Set for examinations candidates for master of sci ence and master of 'education de grees in Home Economics Will be 'held on Saturday, July 30, at 9 a.m. in .117 Home Economics building. Candidates must sign up in 103-B, Home Economics. PAGE THREE
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