Brown and White Vol. 48 no. 21

              rev welsh to be guest at annual christmas banquet dec 16 place of study determines grade averaging of dorm greeks lehigh moravian groups to feature christmas selections songs symphony will perform dance also discussed masonic hall to be site due to a misprint in the brown and white of dec 6 the date on which senior ballots and 5 assessments are due at dean curtis's office has been extend ed to wednesday dec 18 an nounced harry d chandler bus 41 senior section editor of the epitome any late remittan ces will be subject to a 2 fine seniors may obtain their bal lots from the arcadia office in drown hall from the offices of george b curtis registrar or neil carothers dean of the col lege of business administration recital dance attract 150 performance of glee club symphony preceeds 3-hour dancing by theodore peters margaret webster talented shakespearean directress and act ress who will appear at 8 15 p m friday in broughal high school has received some of america's outstanding personal tributes for her work in directing maurice evans shakespearean productions and other broadway successes young blue-eyed auburn-haired peggy webster as she is known to her friends on broadway is now directing twelfth night starring helen hayes and maurice evans she is also director of the current theatre guild production of bat tle of angels by tennessee will iams starring miriam hopkins miss webster has worked in both america and england being best known in america as a directress her forty minute streamlined pro ductions of shakespeare at the new york world's fair proved to be one of the midway's most sen sational attractions as an actress in england she has starred in pro ductions at various london and provincial theaters where she has played the leading feminine roles in the best-loved plays of shakes peare ibsen shaw and barrie famous english actors with whom she has appeared include dame sybil thorndike jjohn gielgud and sir john martin-harvey since working with miss web ster helen hayes has lavished praise upon her she's made a feminist of me miss hayes says and lauds her understanding and her tact she's eminently fair and she's fearless said miss hayes george jean nathan the famous dramatic critic conferred on her his annual citation for the best direction of the year in 1939 she has also been cited by durwood howes editor of american wo men as one of the nation's ten most outstanding women nor has admiration of her work traditionally hard - boiled broadway critics have also receiv ed miss webster's work enthusias tically brooks atkinson critic for the new york times has written miss webster is the finest director of shakespeare that this town has ever had his colleague in the offi ces of the new york herald-tri bune joined in with these words as for miss webster after her brilliant direction of this difficult work henry iv i suspect her of being the first lady of the thea ter been restricted to her directing in boston elinor hughes reviewing her performance as masha in the sea gull wrote miss webster's masha is a masterpiece a beauti fully spoken performance aptly mingling the tragic and the ludi crous mordaunt hall another noted new england critic added miss webster is a magnificent ac tress this extravagant praise from america's leading critics has not gone to miss webster's head per haps it is the long tradition of theatrical successes in her family which has played an important part in england's theatrical life for four generations but anyway peggy webster is as modest and unassuming as anyone you're like ley to meet she has few diversions or interests outside the theater her favorite diversion from her long hours as director is to talk about the theater rev augustus a welsh presi dent of the bethlehem rotary club and pastor of the reform church of bethlehem will be the principal speaker at the annual chemical so ciety christmas banquet to be held dec 19 at the masonic temple the singing of christmas songs the annual secret satirical and humorous skit the giving of pres ents to the senior members of the society and to the faculty members of the chemistry department will be the principal events of the ev ening a musical quartet may also sing to members of the society and their guests gen frank d beary chairman of the committee for the restora tion of historical flags in penn sylvania who spoke at last year's christmas banquet dean wray h congdon president clement c williams and a copeland callen dean of the college of engineering are among the guests that have been invited to attend alpha a diefenderfer profes sor of quantitative analysis and as saying and john beriont ch e 41 are in charge of arrangements for the affair diefenderfer is in charge of the tickets and reserva tions and beriont will handle the entertainment curtain time moved to 9 p.m calculate frosh union triad holds its annual formal fraternity group dances to art wendell's band about 150 persons attended the concert and dance presented last saturday night in drown hall by the combined musical clubs mu sical organizations participating included the lehigh symphony or chestra under the management of thomas j kochuba chem 41 the glee club under the manage ment of willard a litzenberger arts 41 and the collegians direc ted by edgar c slack arts 41 the symphony orchestra and glee club were directed by dr t edgar shields director of music according to fred r gilmore arts 41 president of the combined musical clubs the dance was one of the best-attended and most suc cessful ever sponsored by the com bined clubs gilmore said the officers of the clubs were very pleased with the turnout at both the concert and the dance and it is hoped that in the future more students will take interest chaperones for the evening were dr shields and lt and mrs sam uel pierce two stars of the mustard and cheese performance of the broad way success of two seasons agro boy meets girl will be anna marie rohs below and richard j berg arts 42 the play will be given saturday evening in the auditorium of broughal high school immediately after the sche duled basketball game against temple the christmas musical program to be presented this sunday in the chapel by the lehigh and mora vian college for women glee clubs and the lehigh symphony orches tra will be the first such student program to be given at lehigh similar programs at colleges in the vicinity in past years have pro ved popular and it is hoped that lehigh students will show suffici ent interest to make the program a success according to dr t edgar shields director of music the au dience as well as the glee clubs will enter into the singing of some of the christmas carols which will make up the program as christ mas eve this year marks the 199 th anniversary of the naming of beth lehem the song jesu rufe mich from which the name of bethlehem was taken will be featured by the glee clubs the girls glee club will enter first carying lighted candles and singing o come all ye faithful followed by the lehigh glee club the candles will be put out dur ing the program and will be re lighted for the recessional which will be joy to the world says fred r gilmore arts 41 presi dent of the combined musical clubs which are sponsoring the carol program other features of the christmas program will be songs by the com bined clubs accompanied by the symphony orchestra and a reading of the christmas story from the scriptures by dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy the entire program will be under the direction of dr shields math contest participants dwindle but definitely temple basketball conflict avoided by change ; tickets available tree thieves to answer to police dean warns just part of our service . . . wherever there are more than 3 people who might be hungry you'll probably find the eats man and his portable restaurant the interfraternity council at a meeting last night in drown hall adopted resolutions concerning scholastic and freshman regula tions and decided upon the status of fraternity pledges living in dor mitories according to roy s zachary arts 41 president of the council it was decided that the status of fraternity pledges living in dormi tories will be determined accord ing to where the pledge does most of his studying whether in the fra ternity house or in the dormitory if he studies mostly in the dormi tory then his semester grades will be averaged in with those of the others in his section and vice ver sa to arbitrate difficulties if any difficulties should arise between a fraternity and a dormi tory over this question a peaceable solution should be attempted be tween the fraternity president and the dormitory section president if a solution is not thereby success fuly reached the case will be pre sented before an arbitration com mittee composed of the interdormi tory and interfraternity councils and two other men from each group the above resolutions were a confirmation of similar adoptions made by the interdormitory coun cil wednesday night the council also heard sugges tions about securing an orchestra for the interfraternity ball to be presented on feb 15 kay kyser glenn miller hal kemp jimmy dorsey and will osborne were suggested as possibilities and it was decided to secure one of them for the dance if possible the em pire ballroom was selected tenta tively as the site of the affair said zachary it was also decided by the coun cil that christmas baskets for the poor will be sponsored this year each fraternity is to provide a bas ket thomas heads session the union triad held its annual formal dance staurday evening in the ballroom of the hotel bethle hem about 100 couples attended and danced to the music of art wendell's orchestra the union triad is composed of sigma phi delta phi and kappa alpha social fraternities which were formed within two years of each other at union college in 1825 and 1827 and are the original na tional fraternities the triad's dance at lehigh is customarily the first fraternity affair of the sea son the committee was composed of arthur h rich bus 42 sigma phi william l archer bus 41 kappa alpha and james h kid der arts 42 delta phi senior interviews increased by war harold p thomas head of the department of education presided over an afternoon session of the fall meeting of the lehigh valley planning conference saturday in the faculty room of the adminis tration building dr thomas also attended the morning session of the conference which met at moravian college un der the sponsorship of the co-op erative commission for the study of teacher education in pennsyl vania again fraternity freshmen at the direction of fraternity up perclassmen have been steal ing christmas trees all living groups are hereby warned that no further effort will be made by this office to obtain police leniency for students commit ting such depradations they will be turned over to the po lice for action as the police see fit furthermore living groups which permit freshmen to steal christmas trees will be liable to disciplinary action the respon sibility is primarily upon the shoulders of the fraternity offi cers they not only must make it clear to freshmen that these trees are not to be stolen but they must see to it that orders to freshmen to procure christ mas trees are carried out in a legitimate manner i trust this warning is clear and there will be no further for ays on personal property those living groups with stolen trees still in their possession will protect themselves best by either paying for them in full or restoring them undamaged to their rightful owners wray h congdon dean of undergraduates with the freshman math contest reaching its final stages competi tion has dwindled almost to a minimum according to william c walker ch e 43 chairman of the contest committee now lead ing in the competition is david f cox e e 44 the contest has suffered from an apparent lack of interest or genuine mathematical ability said walker about 15 contestants were originally in the competition but this number has gradually dwindled until there have been only two solutions so far submitted for the fourth problem the contest which is sponsored by the newtonian society offers prizes of five three and one dollars for the highest scores cox has answered correctly three out of four possible solutions to date walker stressed the fact that en trants who submitted solutions to earlier problems are not necessar ily out of the running because they failed to submit subsequent solu tions the fifth problem which is the last in the contest also carries with it the highest value in the scoring a correct answer to this problem may put you into pay dirt he said the fifth and final problem is as follows given a triangle with the bisectors of the base angles equal prove that the triangle is isosceles the solution for this problem must be in walker's hands by the first tuesday after christmas vacation jan 7 final results of the contest will be announced within two weeks of this date postal inspector outlines job to government group eta sigma phi to consider political and legal athens interviewing of seniors by in dustry has commenced at a rate unprecedented since 1929 it was learned from e robins morgan di rector of placement this unusual rush of interviewers can be attri buted to the expansion of industry caused by the war in europe he said last week the general chemicals company interviewed chemists and chemical engineers yesterday the eastman kodak company inter viewed arts business and engin eering seniors while the standard oil company of ohio interviewed men in ch e m e and i e cur ricula yesterday and today a westinghouse representative talk ed with seniors in all three colleg es and a dupont representative in terviewed men in chem ch e m e i e and met e curricula godshall attends model league of nations meeting jerome walsh postal inspector stationed at easton discussed the duties of postal inspectors friday before the classes in government according to ernst b schulz asso ciate professor of political science walsh laid emphasis on the vio lations of federal law in the mis use of mails schulz stated eatsman frank s mckenna met e 41 is vending his wares to some customers during his trek through the campus last night among the various living groups eta sigma phi honorary class ical society will meet at 8 p m thursday dec 12 in the home of horace w wright head of the de partment of latin announced harold king arts 41 president papers on the political and le gal institutions of athens will be presented by john f hamblin arts 41 and sumner w reid m e 42 king stated curtain time for boy meets girl the fall production of mus tard and cheese which will be presented in broughal high school saturday evening has been moved to 9 p m according to albert a rights director of dramatics this change in time will enable students to see both the basketball game with temple which will begin at 7:30 p m and the play boy meets girl is a fast mov ing satire on hollywood mass pro duction of quickies two scenario writers who are at a loss to pro duce stories for a dude cowboy star are saved by a baby born to a studio waitress the baby be comes a child star overnight but the writers lose their rights to do his scripts and also their jobs the manner in which they regain their jobs provides a fast and humorous ending to the play kluger berg in leading roles the two writers will be portray ed by conrad e kluger arts 42 and richard j berg arts 42 who were in the club's presentations of dead end and idiot's delight robert n gusdorff bus 42 who will play the part of the movie producer had the lead last year in our town anna marie rons will take the part of the studio waitress kilborn gordon bus 42 will play the cowboy star and ed ward l blossom arts 44 will take the part of an extra both of whom are rival suitors of the waitress dress rehearsals will be held thursday at 7 30 p m and friday because of the webster lecture at 10 said rights students can get their tickets which are for reserved sections by calling at arcadia office in drown hall other tickets are 75 and 50 cents reserved seats for a student and his date are 1.00 75 cents for the date and 25 cents for the stu dent tickets go on sale today wilson l godshall associate professor of diplomatic history and international relations attended the meeting of the continuation committee of the model league of nations at the model league head quarters in new york the league which was repre sented at the meeting by delegates from the states of new york new jersey delaware maryland and pennsylvania discussed plans for meeting at lehigh next spring yayyyy eats sandwiches ice cream cinnamon buns ..." is a familiar cry on south mountain as the eats-man announces his presence while many make use of the service offered by the eats man how many know of what goes on before the eats man arrives the eats service is a campus concession run at the present time by john h stives i e 42 of delta upsilon although originally a two man partnership the pres ent system is run by one man with the next most important man be ing the sandwich man who is now john h norwood met e 42 the the bach choir will be heard in a nationwide brodacast over the columbia network at 4:30 o'clock sunday afternoon dec 22 singing eight of bach's chorales according to dr ifor jones director of the choir continued on page four dr preston b carwile associ ate professor of physics was re-el ected president of the lehigh val ley southern society at an informal meeting of the organization held last monday evening at the same time miss mary e wheatley head cataloguer for the library was el ected to the board of directors the lehigh collegians dance or chestra under the direction of ed gar c slack arts 41 will open an indefinite engagement at the em pire ballroom this friday evening bethlehem pa tuesday december 10 1940 a brilliant record qualifies miss webster as entertainer boy meets girl stars price — five cents epitome wants seniors 5 assessments dec 16 vol xlviii no 21 lehigh university broun and white council agrees on status of frosh pledges musical clubs plan program this sunday local pastor will address chem society coining up . . . today 7:30 p m — faculty rifle club meeting in armory basement wednesday 6:00 p m — eta kappa nu for mal initiation in room 452 packard laboratory 7:30 p m — eta kappa nu ban quet at hotel bethlehem 7:30 p m — glee club rehearsal in drown hall 7:30 p m — intramural debating lambda chi alpha vs tau delta phi 8:30 p m — varsity basketball lehigh vs princeton away thursday 4:00 p m — hockey club meet ing in room 258 packard lab oratory 6:30 p m — phi eta sigma ban quet in the university room hotel bethlehem 7:30 p.m — university placement bureau personnel talk by r a lambert of the laros silk company room 208 packard laboratory 7:00 8:00 9:00 p.m — intramural debating drinker house lounge 8:00 p m — e f brouse district forester will speak before the sportsman's club in room 466 packard laboratory all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper i association z 12