Brown and White Vol. 65 no. 35

              tonight at 8 o'clock in broughal jr high school mustard and cheese will tour the south pacific on ak6oi as they stage the famous war play mister roberts thoburn v barker technical director of the club and his stage crew have developed an extremely realistic set complete with life raft and ack-ack guns donald r smith and his light crew austin murphy mort shapiro and bob magnus have worked out the very difficult task of handling over 100 light cues while john wagner property manager has had his headaches collecting the over 400 props and live stock steve miller stage manager and his staff have made a great effort to transform the broughal high school stage into the setting required ken verostick who plays mister roberts ed rand ensign pulver doc played by dick grant and dick corney as the captain are all ready for their task of interpret ing these main roles the fightingest navy crew ever to be assembled on one stage headed by bob silverton and joe moser are rarin to go the saturday night performance has an early curtain at 7:30 sharp for the ifc guests this is the second year that mustard and cheese has offered a play as part of the enter tainment of the monte carlo dance weekend preparing for tonight's performance of mister roberts are from left to right joseph moser 55 david tennant 55 colin hershey 57 ted gorman 57 robert silverton 55 and gil moskowitz 56 the show will start at 8 tonight and 7:30 tomorrow a total of 432 pints of blood were donated during the past two days as lehigh's 1954 blood drive went off very well with the boys being re ported to be in better health this year than in previous years many pints were lost from juniors who had pledged but were turn ed away because they had received injections from the rotc units on monday after a consultation last weekend between red cross officials and dr carl o keck of the health service it was decided to allow the rotc juniors to take their shots on mon day however when the head red cross doctor a woman arrived wednesday she ruled that the stu dents in question could not give blood for a week and therefore turned them away collected from the lehigh family on the first day of blood donating were 193 pints of blood in addition 37 boys were rejected for various reasons — 20 were rotc juniors — making a total of 230 who offered blood twenty of the 230 had no ap pointment but just walked in to do nate alpha phi omega service frater nity helped set up the apparatus for the two bloodmobiles dick glassberg 55 supervised the drive are crest's exotic plants guests in fraternity row what will those idiot pranksters do next that is the question per turbed house mothers at cedar crest are now asking it seems that a group of lehigh boys on some sort of a stunt who were supposed to get introductions to 25 girls from the college are suspected of taking off from the school with the required names and addresses — and two plants but these weren't ordinary plants they were exotic snake plants which closely resemble cacti but don't have any stickers they were stolen sometime friday night and a con scientious cleaning woman reported their absence to the house mother saturday morning other suspects are over-enthusias tic botany students who might have fallen in love with the plants and walked out with them subconscious ly or a group of muhlenberg men who arrived at five in the morning to pick up a girl debaters hit upper 4th at brooklyn the debating society was well rep resented this past weekend at the brooklyn college tournament and at the pennsylvania state debating conference paul zillessen 56 harvey wagner 57 john kuhn 56 and paul greenwaald 57 were the men who went to brooklyn and placed in the upper quarter of the teams entered they de bated on the question that the u.s should adopt a policy of free trade richard davis 54 who was elect ed president of the pennsylvania state debaters conference last year presided over the sessions of the conference this conference was run on a legislative plan in which the debaters attempt to pass two bills one concerning foreign trade and another on the manner of selecting a president although there isn't any competi tion for a team victory the debaters must go through all the parliamen tary procedure to have these bill 9 passed besides davis theodore lawsha 57 andrew hirose 57 robert yam pell 57 charles landis 57 arthur veinott 56 and bruce tritsch 55 were at this conference festival tickets ready tuesday dravo c-2 has drawn first position in the group sale of music festival tickets it was announced today sale of tickets will begin in grace hall at 1 p.m tuesday living group representatives should appear at the time indi cated for their group with in formation on the number of tickets desired and the correct amount for tickets wanted only cash or equivalent will be ac cepted drawing to determine priority in see order page 3 ifc features dixieland jazz play dancing three big events for 3 will be featured this weekend included in the purchase price of a ticket is ad mission to the dixieland session at the maennerchor tomorrow after noon which will feature billy kreachmer's band the two and one half hour session will start at 2 p.m mustard and cheese will pre sent mister roberts at 8 to night and 7:30 tomorrow night and kenneth verostick 55 will play the lead the presentation will be held in broughal junior high school prof h barrett da vis is director george sommer and his band will provide music for the monte carlo dance tomorrow night which will be held in grace hall the annual pledge banquet will be held tonight at 6:15 p.m at the bethlehem mason ic temple tonight members of ifc will meet in various fraternity houses to dis cuss problems house presidetns will adjourn to sigma phi for dinner at 5:30 house treasurers will meet at alpha tau omega for dinner and a meeting at 5:45 rushing chairmen will meet at pi kappa alpha and stewards will meet at phi sigma kappa highlighting the dance tomorrow night will be a casino set up on the lov/er floor the student with the highest winnings of the night will receive a valuable gift silverton hurt in mock fight so you think acting is a pretty soft job eh well then you didn't see the mister roberts rehearsal the other night while attempting to make a scene realistic one talented actor clobbered an opponent in a fight scene and blessed his victim with an unusually outstanding shiner victim of the unwarranted attack was m&c player stanley r silver ton 55 injured while rehearsing a fight scene the unfortunate victim of the assault was chauffered by his assailant to st luke's dispensary where his eye underwent treatment . myron la vake 56 is shown on one of the cots while he was donat ing a pint of blood to the annual red cross drive at grace hall the two nurses and feet on cot at left were not identified summer fall pre-registration begins mar 29 pre-registration for both the sum mer sessions and the fall semester will be conducted from march 29 through april 3 in accordance with schedules to be posted by curricu lum directors on their individual bulletin boards if you do not plan to attend lehigh next semester you should indicate that on a pre-re gistration ticket and forward it to the registrar's annex so that they can account for each stu dent students should consider what courses they want to take before they go in to pre-register so that the choice will be final with the possible exception of failing a course at the end of the semester curriculum di rectors will make the list of courses available to students as soon as they are completed the elements i i spring officially begins tomorrow at 10:45 p.m and the weatherman promises spring showers late to night and tomor-i row to accompany the change in sea son more rain ig expected late monday or tues day total precipitation will be 5 to 1 inch temperatures will remain at the present normal of 40 degrees little change in afternoon tempera tures but tonight's reading will be warmer followed by colder sunday and monday nights volume 65 — number 35 432 donated blood in 54 campus drive friday march 19 1954 lehigh university brown and w hite mister roberts embarks tonight lehigh university bethlehem pa