Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 46

              vol xlix — no 46 bethlehem pa friday april 10 1942 price — five cents 725 dates arrive undaunted by snow for spring parties 2 dance bands will play for prom gala weekend is promised as many events crowd 3-day spree of lehigh men and their girls scl program leads off tonight what's cookin courtesy james hosford and jack c lehigh's houseparty the stuff dreams are made of friday 4 p m — houseparty officially begins 8:15 p m — scl program dor othy crawford monologues and character sketches 10 p m.-2 a m — junior prom 2 a m — lookout saturday 8 a m — attend class with dates 3 p m — baseball game colgate taylor field 3 p m — track meet swarth more upper field 3 p m — lacrosse game loyola steel field 4 - 7 p m — maennerchor tea dance 9-2 a m — fraternity and dor mitory dances sunday 11 a m — church 3 p m — houseparty officially ends chester heir to fortune rides hard way to succes ' b & w also to relax measles begin to relax hold on lehigh men scl program will feature solo dramatist petition wins prexy s o k for pathway miss crawford to enact original monologues tonight at 8:15 no brown and white will be issued tuesday this will provide time for the effects of houseparty to wear off be fore we go to press again next issue will be published on fri day april 17 disease which resulted in epidemic in 1936 not called violent m&c to have 2-night stand quarantine is abolished planned musical career lehigh invited to youth rally walk will replace fence at grace hall action praised by williams to perform male animal ; society inducts six plans for banquet 1,009 men sign paper groups will demonstrate local defense efforts tuesday evening by e warren bowden bob chester and his orchestra betty bradley gene howard and cy baker comprising the nation's newest sensation will be featured tonight at the annual junior prom chester whose outstanding engagements include the astor hotel and the new yorker hotel in new york the detroit athletic club and the chatterbox in new jersey is heir to one of america's greatest fortunes his step-father albert fisher is the retired president of the fisher body corporation of de troit but he did not follow the easy path preferring the hard road to success he got his start in music by playing with several small bands in new york but in 1935 he was inspired to form his own band returning to his home in detroit he gathered together the group of musicians who are now among the best in america almost a ball player while attending the university of dayton chester nearly decided to leave his dreamed-of musical profession and enter professional baseball a one-hit shut-out which he pitched while playing on the dayton team is typical of the qual ity of his baseball league scouts from the detroit tigers and the boston red sox tried to make him put aside his saxophone and his music but he turned down what might have been a successful base ball career at first appearance he seems a suave business man he delights in mingling with his dancing cus tomers whom he believes it is his first duty to please built like an all-american half-back he looks more like an athlete than a band leader has show background betty bradley an important member of the band comes from a show business family only 19 her career included singing posi tions with gray gordon and john ny mcgee before she signed with chester a brunette she has appeared in movie shorts and in stage pro ductions her voice has been re corded on victor and varsity la bels by gilbert j barenborg more than 725 girls are visiting south mountain this week end with plans of eating drinking and being merry with the engineers this houseparty coming in the midst of a busy ac celerated program will probably be the most successful yet evidence of this fact was shown early this semester when lehigh men stormed in protest as the ad ministration attempted to abolish the annual spring affair because of the new accelerated schedule highlights of the weekend will be dorothy crawford's program the junior prom baseball game with colgate maennerchor tea dance and the saturday night house dances extra-curricular activities will include seeing the sunrise at the lookout saturday morning's feminized classes and church attendance in tails and gowns bob chester a big success at the 1941 if ball will visit the campus for the second time tonight when his orchestra plays at the junior prom in grace hall midst the strains of chester's melodies will be vocals by betty bradley gene howard and cy baker chester gorham to play supplementing the music of chester will be that of jimmy gor ham popular local leader chester will play on the drill floor and gorham on the gym floor one of the 725 dates will be chosen as miss victory during the course of the evening plans are being made to eliminate all but three of the girls by the use of an applause machine the win ner will then be picked by three judges captain samuel pierce dr claude g beardslee and if pos sible miss crawford the evening will come to a beautiful end some where atop south mountain sunrise at the lookout is a sight no girl should miss saturday morning will find the classrooms unusually bare but a few stout fellows will escort their dates to their 8 o'clock classes much to the delight of the faculty 3 events scheduled last fall houseparty saw lehigh play a poor ursinus football team to a scoreless tie the engineers hope to give a better show at 3 o'clock saturday afternoon when they meet the colgate baseball team on taylor field the swarth more track team on the new track and the loyola lacrosse squad on steel field some couples leaving the sports events early will want to attend the maennerchor tea dance most experienced dates have visited the maennerchor and will not wish to miss it this spring the town-dorm dance will be the feature of the saturday night house dances 200 couples are ex pected to attend 16 other dances will be held at various chapter houses and neighboring country clubs the majority of these dances wil be informal seven of them being record dances another trip to the lookout or some other scenic spot will occupy the rest of saturday evening church attendance in the morning will be lower than usual and some of the church-goers will ap per in evening clothes the campus and train stations will present a sad picture sunday afternoon when 725 couples linger over parting kisses the weekend which took so long to come will have passed in a few fleeting min utes o earner to study at purdue measles have come to lehigh again a total of 29 active cases have been recorded as of thursday mor ning but only two men contracted the disease wednesday and it is hoped that it may be releasing its hold on the university where a total of 47 cases has kept stud ents from attending classes of the cases so far reported four have been in private homes eight in fraternity houses in the city and 35 in campus fraternities and dormitories measles are not uncommon to lehigh in 1936 108 cases were the result of an epidemic which swept through bethlehem last year also just about house-party time the disease caused five fra ternities to go under three-day ob servation periods typed as german measles this year however although the disease is slightly more prevalent it is not as violent and it has been decided that no observation per iods will be imposed on living groups there need be no fear of a quarantine period which will force students to fall behind in school work this year's variety of measles typed as german measles is of a very mild form the day before the rash breaks out the patient often experiences headaches and a general let down feeling accom panied by an unpleasant itching sensation the rash lasts for about a day and after that the patient is often quite unconscious that he has the measles students seldom miss more than a week of classes because of the disease all lehigh students have been invited to attend the youth and democracy rally which will be conducted tuesday night in brou ghal high school youth groups of bethlehem are sponsoring the rally in cooperation with the youth division of the office of civilian defense purpose of the rally which will start at 8 15 p.m is to demon strate that all bethlehem's youth will take part in the national de fense effort it is also being con ducted as a part of a general mor al raising campaign george neilson director of youth activities for the ocd in the third region will be a guest at the rally there will also be a speaker whose name will be announced later other features of the rally will be talks by two of bethlehem's youth and several of the city's re ligious leaders music by the beth lehem municipal band and the salute to the flag which will be led by a soldier from the troop unit quartered at the bethlehem armory some of the youth groups co operating in sponsoring the rally are christian endeavor lutheran youth people boy scouts girl scouts the ywca and ymca catholic youth group the a.l.a and the junior councilors drinker section 4-b elects johnston to leave soon yacht club sees movies dorothy crawford the one woman theatre will present a program of original character sketches at 8:15 o'clock tonight at broughal high school known in europe as well as in the united states miss crawford is ranked with ruth draper and cornelia otis skinner by critics a brilliant monologist her character sketches cover the entire range of emotion and experience and are given with extraordinary tech nique as a child miss crawford show ed such promise with music that her parents put her under the best of teachers she wrote many orig inal songs several of which have been published was music director she first came in contact with the stage when maurice browne and his wife ellen yon valken burg engaged her to direct the music for their productions soon she was playing young girls and old women and painting scenery proving that a true artist can not only act but do other jobs con nected with the theatre taking advantage of an oppor tunity to travel around the world miss crawford studied many for eign languages learning native songs and tucking away in her memory odd and colorful charac ters who were later to emerge in her repertoire portrays all types miss crawford portrays charac ters of italy spain france ger many holland sweden russia england ireland scotland and sioux falls lowa before imper sonating a foreign character she gives as much study to the langu age and its translation into equiva lent english as she does to her motivation and character her fame is not confined to the united states two years ago she was greeted with ten curtain calls by the usually conservative aud ience in a london theatre cecil warner instructor in mechanical engineering will leave this fall to go to purdue to study for his doctor's degree he is doing research on air-flow at pres ent the male animal forthcom ing mustard and cheese produc tion will play for two nights april 24-25 to make certain that all stu dents are able to attend the petition for the two night show has been approved by dean wray h congdon six new members were inducted at the same meeting joseph f kemmer arts 43 ross p vachon bus 44 sheldon s zalkind arts 43 lewis f page e.e 44 alan d hindrichs i.e 43 william r sultzer arts 43 tentative plans for a mustard and cheese banquet in may were discussed at the meeting wednes day night it was decided that all mustard and cheese members and competitors and also all actresses will be invited the financial report on the dra matic workshop play ah wilder ness was given a deficit was announced due to large produc tion expenses to renovate room a move to renovate the mustard and cheese room in drown hall was discussed members of the club will receive keys to the room when the work is complete a committee to correlate the work of mustard and cheese and the dramatic workshop was form ed at the meeting members of the committee are joseph f kem mer arts 43 donald w kurtz e.e 42 ross p vachon bus 43 and william c kirshner chem 43 mustard and cheese wil con tinue to function this summer in conjunction with the accelerated program one or two plays will be presented a move was made at the meeting to change the pre sent mustard and cheese point system for use during the summer but no action was taken on the proposal the proposed walk between grace hall and williams hall will be constructed as soon as arrange ments for its location have been completed pres clement c williams has approved a report and petition for removal of the barbed wire fence in front of grace hall and con struction of a walk down the hill toward williams hall john h dudley m.e 42 originator of the petition presented the petition signed by 1,009 students to andrew w litzenberger last tuesday the president said that the fence would soon be taken away he has requested mr litzenberger to make a survey of the area in front of grace hall and to choose the most favorable spot for the walk original plan altered dudley's report suggested a walk originating at the steps which lie directly across taylor street from grace hall the walk would run parallel to the east end of wil liams hall and would terminate at the street which passes in front of the coxe mining laboratory not at the williams hall parking space as originally announced litzenberger believes that such a walk would be so steep that strong supports would be needed at the base since these supports would be detrimenital to traffic along that street another arrange ment is being considered the walk will probably originate at the spot proposed by dudley but instead of running towards williams hall it will run eastward parallel in the front of grace hall the path will continue in this direction until the elevation has decreased and the distance to the road has increased this walk will have a more gradual slope and the steps will end several feet from the road thereby eliminating the necessity for large supports at the roadside dudley's work praised williams praised the petition and the work of dudley which started continued on page six james p mulhern bus 43 has been elected as the new leader of the lehigh collegians the col legians will continue to play dur ing the summer session walter e okeson university treasurer is confined to his home due to a case of the grippe at the recent elections 4-b drinker house bernard j egan met.e 44 was elected president donald s johnson m.e 44 sec retary-treasurer stanford l wil lis met.e 45 sophomore repre sentative theodore g megas met e 45 athletic manager bruce johnston associate direct 01 of fritz laboratory will leave shortly to accept an appointment with the navy in the bureau of yards and docks johnston will serve as a structural engineer in the design division at washington d c the lehigh yacht club met wed nesday evening in packard labora tory movies of intercollegiate rac ing at harvard brown and yale were shown after the movies there was a short discussion on racing and the rules of intercolle giate yacht racing brown and white brown and white — first with all the lehigh news z 612 dudley's petition wins — no-man's land will be no more