TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1968
Opening Night
For PSU Theatre
A Plus and a Minus
By ALAN SLUTSKIN
Collegian, Movie Reviewer
In almost every field of study
when an individual attempts an
evaluation of a particular en
tity or achievement, the in
evitable query arises "What
is your frame of reference?"
This infamous equalizer need
not always be defined through
a direct comparison, yet this
approach often establishes an
indelible point.
During the Christmas holi
day I had the opportunity to
view two productions that lend
themselves quite distinctly as
yardsticks with which I have
tried to measure recent ac
complishments in theatre at
University Park. Quite frankly
I realized how very easily one
can becc•me so used to the qual
ity of what they are seeing that
they forget that better things
exist.
I was fortunate enough to get
tickets to a production of "Dark
Of The Moon" at Adelphi Uni
versity in Garden City, New
York. The play was produced
in Adelphi's "Little Theatre," a
most aptly christened struc
ture which just hE.ppens to be
a scene designer's nightmare.
The building is a quonset hut
that was haphazardly thrown
together by the Navy during
the Second World War to be
used as a barracks for the
troops that they were training
on Adelphi's campus. The stage
is approximately the size of
the Pavilion Theatre's, the
wings are similar to the rest
rooms at Beaver Stadium dur
ing halftime of a football game,
there is very little fly space,
and backriage is nonexistent.
Bearing these facts in mind,
the set .'or the opening scene of
"Dark Of The Moon" was
simply unbelievable. It was
perhaps one of the finest adap
tations of the translucent scrim
ever achieves: in non-profes
sional theatre. Depth percep
tion, the illusion of distance,
and the credibility a state
of limbo were all impressions
that immediately placed the
audience in the grasp of. the
play itself.
That evening I found myself
asking why our University
Theatre, with the extensive
facilities available at the Play
house, continually stumbles at
this mosi, important element of
production. In the past few
years the University Theatre
has given us interpretations of
almost every phase of drama.
Coinciding with these levels of
performance have been at
tempts at scene design that
State Dept. Official Joins University
An official of the U.S. Depart- Arts on Feb. 1. He will also
ment of State has been named serve as a professor of political
director of the University's In- science.
ternatioral Program Develop- Brown is a 1948 graduate of
rno.nt. Georgetown University's School
J. Cudd Brown, chief of re- of Foreign Service. He has been
search and planning for the a member of the Department of
State Department's Bureau for State since 1965, working in the
East Asia, will assume his new Office of Development Plan
post in the College of Liberal ning.
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have ranged from an arrange
ment, of platform • to a full
stage set. Concurrently, the
gamut of success is design has
run from poor to fair.
Everything is there but some
thing is Miss]. g. The tangibles
ar accounted for; the shallow
ness that remains must be
overcome by some blending of
talent, imagination, and the
willingness to venture into the
exciting.
At the opposite end of my
yardstick I discovered that in
my final column of last term,
a review of "Guys And Dolls"
entitled "The Little People
Made It Work," I did a great
injustice to Nancy Copperman,
the chorecgrapher. I believe I
described her accomplishments
with the grossl; inadequate
adjectives—"superb" and "ex
citing."
Two weeks ago I was on my
way to Madison Square Garden
to cheer for the old alma mater
in the ECAC Holiday tourna
ment. Since the Garden is only
a few blocks away, I stopped
at the Mark Hellin, , er Theater
and got tickets to the following
evening's performance of "Ilya
Darling."
"Ilya Darling" is based upon
the movie entitled "Never On
Sunday," it stars Mel i n a
Mercouri and Orson Bean, and
is currently enjoying what
looks like a very long run on
Broadway. The show was de
lightful, yet as it drew to a
close I was bothered by some
thing that I couldn't quite be
sure of. As the curtain fell, I
realized that I was being very
unfair. I was trying to compare
the choreography in "Ilya
Darling" with one that it
couldn't play on the same bill
with; and dancing that evolved
from Nancy Copperman's di
rection in "Guys And Dolls."
Onna White, the choreograph
er of "Ilya Darling," recently
won a Tony Award for her
work in "Half A Sixpence."
Among her past Broadway
credits are "Marne," "The
Music Man," and "Irma La
Douce," and "I Had A Ball."
These are the kind of cre
dentials that are not ignored
in professional theatre today,
and yet Miss White lacks the
feeling and excitement that
Nancy has been able to sur
round movement with.
In this case Nancy Copper
man was my "frame of ref
erence" to Broadway. It should
have been the other way
around. Or should it?
DAVID BOYER, president of Delta Theta Sigma, accepts the Red
mobile Plaque from Mike Weiner, president of Alpha Phi Omega,
Bloodmobile chairman. Delta Theta won the campus wide drive by
The drive was sponsored by Alpha Phi.
Valiance To Speak
On Classified Research
The Faculty Luncheon Club
at the University will open the
Winter Term on Monday, Jan
uary 15, with a talk by Theo
dore R. Valance, associate
dean for research, College of
Human Development.
His topic will be: "Classified
Research: To Be—Or Not To
Be—lnvolved."
This is the first in a series
of ten Luncheon Club programs
on the theme, "Penn State's
Response to Today's Social
Problems."
Vallance, a faculty new
comer was appointed prcfessor
of human development and as
sociate dean for research last
October. He came to the Uni
versity from Washington, D.C.,
where he was chief of the Office
of Planning of the National In
stitute of Mental Health, re
sponsible for developing long
range and intermediate-range
program plans and for conduct
ing studies leading to recom
mendations for innovations in
p:ograms of research, man•
power development, and ser
vices.
Other faculty members who
will discuss the University's
Before joining the Federal turer of the year at Sonoma.
Government, he was chairman From 1959 to 1962 he was
of the Division of Social Sci- Chevalier Associate Professor
ences and professor of political of Diplomacy and World Af
science at Sonoma State Col- fairs at Occidental College, Los
lege, Cotati, Cal. A igeles. From 1957-59 he
Brown received his master's
degree in 1952 from American
University, and his doctor of
philosophy degree in political
science from the University of
Oregon in 1956.
Outstanding Lecturer
In 1965, he was named the
outstanding professor and lec-
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the Human Performance Lab
oratory; James F. Petras, as
sistant professo•: of political
science, a political theorist;
David NI. Ricci, assistant pro
fessor of political science, a
specialist in comparative poli
tics; David Gottlieb, professor
of human development, who
has had extensive experience
with underprivileged y out h;
Charles L. Lewis, vice presi
dent for student affairs; Ger
ald M. Phillips, associate pro
fessor of speech, who is con.
ducting a study in Harrisburg
on communicating with under
privileged families; George E.
Brandow, professor of agricul
tural economics; and M. Nel
son McGeary , dean of the
Graduate School, who will dis
cuss his experience as a dele
gate to Pennsylvania's Consti
tutional Convention.
The Fac •lty Luncheon Club,
open to all nembers of the
University faculty, meets each
Monday at 12:15 p.m. in Din
ing Room A of the Hetzel Union
served as assistant professor
of international relations at San
Francisco College.
Brown also spent six years as
a U.S. Foreign Service Officer,
including two years as vice
counsul and six months as act
ing counsul in Mombasa,
Kenya.
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served at 12:15 p.m. and the
program starts promptly at
12:50 p.m. A ten-minute ques
tion period follows the 20-30
minute talks, and meetings end
promptly at 1:30 p.m.
Varied Agencies Give Gra is
A grant of $97,860 for research in atomic chemistry has
been made to the University by the Air Force Office of
Scientific Research. The work will be under the direction
of Philip S. Skell, professor of chemistry.
The Air Force Systems Command, Electronic Systems
Division, has provided $20,000 for a special project, the
preparation of gels with controlled nucleation sites, to be
directed by Dr. Heinz K. Henisch, professor of applied
physics in the Materials Research Laboratory.
The Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction
has made grants of $33,670 for the preparation of materials
for studies in religious literature for use in the public
schools. A grant of $20,196 provides for the preparation of
a student's guide and a teacher's guide for the literature of
Western religions, and a grant of $13,474 provides for a
prospectus for a course in the literature of Eastern religions.
The work is under the direction of John R. Whitney,
assistant professor of religious studies.
A grant of $9,000 for Buddhist research under the direc
tion Chen-Chi-Chang, associate professor of religious
studies, has been made by C. T. Shen of New York, N.Y.
Doran G. Freark, associate professor of industrial
engineering, will develop a graduate-level course in plastic
_shaping with the support of a $3,500 grant from the Indus
trial Education and Research Foundation. The Foundation
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Demand for TecnicA
Students Down in '67
- Competition may be as keen as last year
but recruiters in business and industry
throughout the nation appear to be showing
more restraint this season in making be
ginning salary offers to college seniors. Last
January the number of offers reported for
technical students was up' 25 per cent over
January, 1966.
In the corresponding period this year
there has been a 26 per cent decrease, ac
cording to an announcement by Norman Fris
bey, director of placement at the Univer
sity, one of the institutions participating in
the College Placement Council's 1967-68 sur
vey of beginning salary offers to college
seniors.
The decline in offers is among the sta
tistics compiled by the Council for its first
Salary Survey report of the season. The
true import, however, may not be known
until a greater number of offers have ac
cumulated by the time of the second report
on Mar. 1, a Council spokesman indicated.
By then it should be apparent whether the
drop in early-season technical volume indi
cates a sharp decrease in manpower needs
or whether recruiters have been engaging in
watchful waiting.
Thus far this year, 1,738 offers to tech
nical students have been reported by the
115 representative colleges and universities
participating in the Council's annual study.
At this time last year there were 2,344 of
fers.
The biggest factor in the decline is the
reduced activity of the aerospace industry.
Traditionally, aerospace offers have account
ed for the largest share of the volume in
CPC Salary Survey reports. Last year at
this time they made up 29.5 per cent of the
total offers; this year the proportion is only
15.6 per cent, with 386 offers as against 924
in 1966-67. The chemicals and drugs group,
another leading force in the recruiting
marketplace, has also made fewer offers
to date, but the decrease has been smaller.
This year, chemical firms account for 6.4
per cent of the total compared with 8.2 per
cent a year ago. The data, limited to male
students, cover actual offers made from
Sept. 1 to Dec. 12.
The number of offers for non-technical
students has dropped also, but only slightly.
A total of 739 offers is included in this re
port as against 786 last year.
THE BACH ARIA GROUP
with nine world famous instrumental and
vocal soloists—Friday in Schwab!
WILLIAM H. SCHEIDE Director
SAMUEL BARON Flute
ROBERT BLOOM Oboe
NORMAN FARROW Bass-Baritone
MAUREEN FORRESTER Alto
BERNARD GREENHOUSE Cello
RICHARD LEWIS . Tenor
LOIS MARSHALL
OSCAR SHUMSKY
PAUL ULANOWSKY Piano
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Offers to advanced-degree candidates
have declined in number even more sharply
than those for bachelor's-level students. The
master's total is down 40 per cent while the
doctoral-candidate figure is 45 per cent lower
than last year.
In term of average dollar value of of
fers to bachelor's candidates, the chemicals
and drugs group is in the midst of what
appears to be a paradox. Last June, at the
end of the 1966-67 recruiting season, it stood
third-both in volume and actual dollar value.
This year, in the first reporting period, it
has dropped to seventh in volume but has
risen to the top in dollar average, going
from $715 to $747 a month.
Electronics employers, first in June at
$7lB, are currently second with an average
offer of $742. Tied for third at $735 are aero
space and electrical machinery.
The metals industry, however, has re
corded the largest percentage increase since
June, raising its average offer 6.7 percent
to $729. Next in line are the automotive and
utilities groups at 5.9 percent. The average
automotive offer is $732 while the utilities
figure is $721. Construction and public ac
counting are close behind with 5.2 and 5 per
cent increases. Public accounting firms are
continuing their uptrend in recruiting ac
tivity and, despite the lower volume in so
many other areas, they have made almost
as many offers as last year.
By curricula, chemical engineering stu
dents are continuing to receive the top dol
lar offers. Their average has gone up 6 per
cent to $777. Next are mechanical engineers
at $753, a gain of 4.6 per cent; electrical en
gineers at $752, an increase of 3.3 per cent;
and industrial engineers at $749, up 5.9 per
cent. Aeronautical engineers, third in June,
have slipped to sixth with an average figure
of $744, a gain of 2.8 per cent. The average
offer for all technical curricula is $748, a rise
of 3.8 per cent from the June closing of $720.
Most of the non-technical curricula have
experienced only slight increases in aver
age dollar value since last year. Neither the
humanities nor the marketing curricula have
gone up a full percentage point, while the
average for business students has gained but
1.8 per cent. The current dollar averages are
business, $624; humanities, $591; and market
ing, $589. The one exception is accounting
which has risen 4.2 per cent to $664.
has also made a grant of $5OO to the department of indus
trial engineering to be used to stimulate student and
faculty interest in work relating to the needs of the forging
industry.
Union Carbide Corp. has given welding equipment
valued at nearly $5,000 to the same department. Benjamin
W. Niebel, professor and head of the department, adminis
ters the two departmental gifts.
A traffic signal controller, valued at $775, has been
given to the department of civil engineering by the Bliss
Eagle Signal Co. Benjamin A. Whisler, professor and head
of the department, is in charge.
Digital data logging systems equipment, valued at ap
proximately $5OO, has been given to the department of
mechanical engineering by the Instrument Society of
America. Dr. Richard G. Cunningham, professor and head
of the department, is in charge.
The Council on Library Resources, Inc., has provided
$5,000 for an international conference on bibliographical
form and style, administered by Harrison T. Meserole, pro
fessor of English.
An unrestricted grant of $l,OOO to the College of Busi
ness Administration has ben made by Humble Oil Educa
tion Foundation. Dr. Ossian R. MacKenzie, dean of the
College, administers the grant.
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pleasure to hear."
—New York Times
"All were extraordinary. All deserve the
mightiest of mention."
—New York Herald Tribune
"The Bach Aria Group received an ova
tion. It was an extraordinary concert."
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