Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 45

              engraving plant purchase considered by board tne board of publications at a re cent meeting reported itself as be ing favorable to the purchase of an engraving plant by the brown and white no definite action will be taken on the matter until someone who can or is interested in operat ing the plant is found the plant consists of complete equipment for the making of pic tures for publications aside from the use the brown and white could make of the plant the alumni bulletin the review and possibly the epitome would be aided by the purchase of this plant the outfit which can be operated by one man and is listed at 1,250 would greatly reduce the amount of money spent by campus publica tions for the engraving of photo graphs anyone interested in the operating of this machine should get in touch with harry c archer news manager of the brown and white blake society elects officers by roy j hertz arts 38 prom trotters a musical com edy in two acts by ralph skedgell arts 36 setting by john h weigel di rected by albert rights at drown hall april 3 and 4 the characters tommy graham franklin norton ned nelson leonard judith arden charlotte bond calientes vinvent pazzetti louise margaret struble jean ruth pazzetti hurricane mcguire marc heidelberger drunk william dalzell naval officer richard stockton girls chorus thelma clouse alaire bubser ruth bishop mar garet beal charlotte green bar bara heath mildred schmell evelyn suter mary schick georg ine werst e i watson margaret sterrett boys chorus w bailey g l browne g ellstrom j lauder back w o'neill w woodrich a goeppert r duenner r stock ton f king a denarvaez g martin coming when it did in the midst of a heated discussion as to the mer its or otherwise of the mustard and cheese dramatic club prom trot ters justifies all claims made in fa vor of it and then settled itself about its own business of being the gayest entertainment put on at le high in many a moon ralph skedgell's perfect blend of music and comedy is one that pro fessional producers could well copy the music is excellent and the hu morous interludes are so properly placed and timed as to get the max imum of pleasurable results with out ever becoming tedious tunes are fresh if i were to say skedgell's music is unoriginal it would be because no music is original his lyrics for the most part are undistinguished but his tunes have a freshness and sparkle that set all feet tapping and all lips humming if you were the earth is a haunting ballad and the oft-repeated theme where is the moon is a dreamy sentimental song i gotta yen is as catchy a num ber any one would ever want to dance to my love is true is a swell blues song and the love i want is just right for a torch sing er the music is on a par with any ever written for an amateur show and the first three have that certain something that could turn them into big hits reed leads band james reed the mad gum-chew ing maestro directs with gusto the orchestra through his own perfect arrangements of the show's music his best orchestration being that of where is the moon the or chestra made an excellent showing of itself marc heidelberger as hurricane continued on page four faculty adopts new rule easing requirements for freshmen green to speak april 30 thursday april 30 was the date set by the faculty for the annual sophomore engineering comprehen sive examinations at a meeting held yesterday afternoon in the faculty room of the administration build ing at the same meeting the faculty adopted the rule as presented by the committee on standing of stu dents that a first semester fresh man who passes fewer than eleven hours shall be put on probation the previous ruling concerning the fact that freshmen not passing six hours shall be dropped from the university was rescinded it was announced that at the next meeting of the faculty educational club april 20 major james o green head of the department of military science and tactics will ad dress the group on the purpose of military training in college prof r p more associate pro fessor of german read a paper and review of the graduate work at le high since its founding in 1866 as the american association of uni versity professors of accounting his duties with the committee will be the framing of the policies of the organization the original association was formed 20 years ago and its mem bership included both university professors and certified public ac countants professor cowin has been a member for 18 years union sponsors drive for old worn clothes e e society elects officers a i e e to hear dr j t littleton double quartet will broadcast shephardson tells group external differences are exaggerated is head of beta theta pi the existence of a strong bond of similar ideals and purposes be tween all social fraternities a bond in no way weakened by differences in ritual and organization was de scribed to the interfraternity coun cil last night by dr francis w shephardson dr shephardson former chair man of the national interfraternity council and national president of beta theta pi traced the history of the fraternity idea from its incep tion more than 150 years ago to the present day in all its phases he asserted there has been a com mon objective and a spirit common to all groups external differences are over emphasized he explained some 460 separate fraternities now exis tent in the world each believe they have their individual secret hand shake for example but fraternity men have only five fingers to a hand and it is hard to imagine 460 different ways of twisting those five fingers in a like manner added dr shep hardson there is an overlapping of basic purposes tracing fraternity history from the first chapter of phi beta kappa now a scholastic honorary in 1776 down through kappa alpha in 1825 kappa sigma in 1827 and delta phi soon after a regular business meeting of in terfraternity council will be held monday april 20 in drown hall presents program after the easter holidays the lehigh union will conduct its annual old clothes drive the drive will be for the purpose of acquiring old clothes to be turn ed over to charitable organiza tions in the city the clothes will be collected under the direction of men ap pointed by each living group they will be taken to drown hall from where they will be dis tributed to the organizations des ignated holds chess meet sloan discusses butler 12 new men chosen at friday meeting twelve new members and the new officers were chosen for the robert w blake society philosophical course society last friday evening eugene h sloane instructor in english also spoke giving his views on samual butler author of the book the way of all flesh after sloan's talk a business meeting was held during which time new members and the following of ficers were elected d t steven son arts 37 president h e towne arts 37 vice president and r k maneval bus 38 secretary treasurer the new members consisted of four juniors five sophomores and three freshmen they are john drury arts 37 nelson leonard ch e 37 p j potochney arts 37 e r rista bus 37 r f feilbach arts 38 d w edwards arts 38 morris mindlin arts 38 j p murphy arts 38 p e p white e e 38 j o sabol arts 39 r g scoblionko arts 39 and l c stoumen arts 39 cast will repeat comedy to accommodate over flow from other nights curtain rises at 8:40 after being forced to turn away more than 200 people from both the friday and saturday evening per formances of prom trotters william s hutchinson ch e 36 president of mustard and cheese dramatic society announced that ralph e skedgell's musical comedy would be given again at 8:40 this evening tickets purchased for pre vious performances will be good for admission at 8 o'clock friday all of the 550 chairs in drown hall auditorium had been filled when only standing room was left many students gave up their seats to young ladies and their escorts by 8:30 spectators were sitting on the windowsills rad iators tables and banisters and others were standing along the walls 700 crowd hall when the more than capacity crowd of 700 persons had been jam med into the auditorium the com mittee began turning latecomers away the second performance was attended by an equally large crowd among tnose turned away saturday night were three directors of the bethlehem steel company ralph e skedgell arts 36 the author of the production stated that the saturday night perfor mance was much superior to the one given tne previous evening this was partly due to the fact that one of the choruses of where is the moon was eliminated and the dia logue at the close was partially re written and polished i think that jim reed james h reed bus 38 deserves a lot of credit for the work he did in arranging the musi cal scores and directing the orches tra he said dean praises plan dean c m mcconn who at tended the saturday evening show ing said that the musical comedy was very clever and successful students will be admitted to to night's performance upon the pre sentation of their bursar's receipt tickets for the public can be se cured for 57 cents at the lehigh union office club initiates 17 elects officers military honorary pledges 10 men corning engineer to speak on uses of glass new glasses and their application will be discussed by dr j t little ton at the bethlehem meeting of the american institute of electrical en gineers to be held at 8 o'clock fri day evening in packard laboratory before the meeting there will be a dinner at 6:30 p m in the sun inn at broad and main streets dr littleton is the chief of the physical laboratory of the corning glass works at corning n y his talk will deal with the application of glass to new uses such as build ings thread and rugs it will also show the advantageous use of the physical properties of glass as in glass to metal vacuum seals ultra violet transmitting and absorbing glass fluorescing glass and others tne question of heat treatment of glass and its effects will be ex plained and illustrated there will be slides and colored motion pic tures showing stresses in glass the next meeting will be held on may 8 in pottsville to head school to sing on station wbal in baltimore april 16 from 3:30 to 4 p m the double quartet under the di rection of harold e towne arts 37 student manager of the group will sing from 3:30 to 4 p m fri day april 16 over station wbal baltimore after a short concert at 10:30 thursday at baltimore poly technic high school the eight singers and their ac companist will entertain 900 boys at the school with popular songs col lege tunes and piano solos a new arrangement of where is the moon hit song from ralph sked gell's prom trotters by r e herrick assistant alumni secretary will be given its premiere perfor mance there the men making the trip are a g ueberroth jr ch e 39 w a r lobst ch e 38 j l swalm ch e 36 h e towne arts 37 w r pierpont art 39 n j leon ard ch e 37 v r wilson m.e 36 g c grow arts 38 and c y haas ch e 38 pianist the presentation is being made through the efforts of the alumni association in an effort to interest high school students in the general outside activities of the university dr wray h congdon director of admissions is in charge of the pre sentation although he will not go on the trip o to attend art convention garth a howland head of the department of fine arts will attend the annual convention of the college art association to be held on april 8 9 and 10 in new york city student concert group plays records five records of the works of richard wagner and franz liszt were played on the capehart set in packer memorial chapel sunday evening in the third program spon sored by the student concert group e def tidd arts 37 concert director announced that the next concert april 19 will be a national istic program and will comprise the works of smetana dvorak tschai kowski franck moussogorsky and grieg the group hopes to present stu dent artists in the near future o miss schmidli engaged to dr alfred rheineck the engagement of miss alice schmidli secretary to andrew w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds to dr al fred e rheineck of louisville ky was announced recently at a tea held at miss schmidli's home dr rheineck who received his master's degree in chemistry here in 1930 obtained a doctorate degree from the university of wisconsin and is now connected with the de voe reynolds company in the re search department at louisville next issue april 21 with this issue the brown and white suspends publication un til tuesday april 21 samuel bell 20 gets headmaster post kneale samuel bell ch e 20 will become headmaster of the abington friends school elkins park in june it has been announced in philadelphia bell is at present head of the de partment of english at the chest nut hill academy chestnut hill where he has taught for 12 years previously he taught at the u s naval academy at annapolis a member of the glee club and of course societies he was pres ident of his fraternity delta up silon in his senior year collins addresses sun inn banquet sunday the international relations club held its initiation banquet sunday evening at the sun inn when 17 new members were taken in and the list of officers was announced major carter collins assistant professor of military science and tactics spoke at the banquet and pointed out the relative strength and size of the military forces of each country in doing so he stressed russia's strong mechanized army and japan's army of discipline giv ing actual figures of the respective armies the newly elected officers of the club are f e thalman arts 37 president jacob blumenthal jr ch e.'37 vice president m.s lord ch e 38 secretary and c h mccoy arts 37 treasurer scenes from skedgell's musical comedy hit prom trotters to be presented again tonight in drown hall new club wins 2 matches from u of p the chess-nuts lehigh's newly organized chess club lost its first in tercollegiate meet by a score of 4-2 when it journeyed to philadelphia saturday afternoon to meet the uni versity of pennsylvania chess team of the six lehigh players partic ipating only d askin e e 36 acting president and l.c stoumen arts 39 won their matches the other players were w e road strum e e 38 d e wheeler eng phys 38 d santmyers eng 39 and d c bradley ch e 38 o o shier 29 is engaged the engagement of miss lola ruth swezey to oscar b shier m a 29 was announced recently miss swezey is a graduate of mt holyoke college while at lehigh shier was a member of the pi kap pa alpha fraternity and now is an associate member of the sigma xi honorary research fraternity and the new york lehigh club he is employed by the brooklyn edison company brown weller lewis lin senmeyer named ; horner,'9b speaks the student branch of the amer ican institute of electrical engin eers at a meeting thursday evening in packard laboratory elected the following senior electrical engineers as officers theodore r brown president robert n weller vice president clay e lewis secretary and john z linsenmeyer treasurer leonard s homer e e 98 spoke on his experiences in the develop ment of new electrical industries and clark o bartlett e e 36 spoke on electro-mechanical anal ogies at the meeting discusses episodes mr homer told of many inter esting episodes in his life as an elec trical engineer since his graduation from lehigh he was very optimis tic upon the general outlook of in dustry he firmly believes in the american people and that they will come out of the depression being a much better group of people for it he said that the world war was a great tragedy but that it brought the people much closer together mr homer is the retired vice president of the bullard company of bridgeport conn he was director of the united states chamber of commerce in 1929 he is the donor of the thesis fund for the best pa per presented on an assigned elec trical engineering topic prof stanley s seyfert director of the curriculum of electrical en gineering also spoke at the meeting after being introduced by clay e lewis president of eta kappa nu honorary electrical engineering fra ternity lewis then pledged john linsenmeyer to eta kappa nu scabbard and blade plans to initiate later scabbard and blade national hon orary military fraternity selected ten third year men for membersnip at a meeting after the smoker held for the candidates last wednesday evening at the armory these men who will be pledged at the regular weekly drill on the first monday after the easter hol iday are r e crispen c e 37 m l jackson eng phys 37 h s krauter ch e 37 w h mapes i e 38 n g reed m e 37 l a ramsey i e 37 d m scott bus 37 g l snyder c e 37 r p wascher ch e 37 and r w vogelsberg m e 37 the date of the initiation will be decided upon as soon as permission has been granted by the national of fice taxi driver marc heidelberger don't take no guys free and char lotte bond better come across with that fare lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday april 7 1936 operator needed for new machine cowin appointed to advisory post vol xliii — no 45 prom trotters is fine blend of fresh tunes and comedy price — five cents soph exams for engineers set on april 30 will present musical show again tonight similar ideals of fraternities are described will serve on committee of accounting group roy b cowin professor of ac countancy has been appointed to the advisory committee of the newly formed american accounting asso ciation which was previously known roy b cowin girls are all alike — especially judith — nelson leonard to frank norton playwright composer pianist ralph skedgell at the keys director albert a rights makes up pat pazzetti under the lights while other members of the cast rush things am i not ze great lovaire — ze casa nova it is not pat pazzetti teenks it is ze insult but frank norton doesn't seem perturbed ruth and pat pazzetti and peg sterrett lead the chorus for college widows riding for a fall member intercollegiate newspaper association 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