Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 20

              yurka thrills 1,000 students with recitals world return to gold urged by carothers stresses gold standard in talk to members of economics club data on paths of glory tickets for the banquet in honor of the football team to be given by the lehigh home club monday evening at the hotel bethlehem will be on sale until monday noon at the supply bu reau the price is 1.50 a ticket noted actress presents dramatic portrayal of arc of the theatre gives 7 interpretations shifting sets and lighting effects to create war like atmosphere 800 present at dinner sounds^tof be realistic will sponsor lopez contest dialogue and individual acting depend upon staging technique next review to contain amateur song competi tion by bandsman the mustard and cheese pro duction paths of glory will be given tonight and saturday evening at 8:15 p m in drown hall admission price for the gen eral public is 65 cents a person or 1.20 per couple admission to students is free tickets for the play may be obtained at the le high union office society asks lower rating proposal does not con form to constitution of national honorary the january issue of the lehigh review featuring a vincent lopez song contest will appear on mon day dec 14 this contest is open to all graduate amateur song writ ers of lehigh and is being spon sored by vincent lopez in collabor ation with the lehigh review the cover of this issue will be one of typical holiday style a writ ten debate between charles mccoy arts 37 and george yanko arts 37 will appear in the issue the subject will be the faults of the in terfraternity dance orchestra com mittee mccoy speaking for the committee the magazine will also contain two christmas stories one by wil liam dukek ch e 38 and one by p e p white e e 38 there will be a collection of lehigh lore by william gottlieb bus 38 excerpts from old letters sent be tween lehigh and fern sem will be published in this issue mccoy will also write an article on the new oscillograph which is under the su pervision of tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics and astronomy the center spread in the lehigh review will consist of candid cam era shots of the wrestling team in action there will also be the usual disc data by william gottlieb library receives gifts by alumnus zimmele 87 presents 7 books and check top the opening scene with french soldiers in a cafe near the front lines center left a signal corps engineer operating a field telephone center right gen assolant elbert tidd receives plan for attack bottom left quarrel scene in the cafe between private didier cam eron bradley and captain renovant roy hertz while the proprietress mrs ruth whitcomb looks on bottom right an officer receives orders for the attack parsons pictures coming america keith swarthout will give concert alumni bulletin article predicts future maneval to be organist on sunday a new rating for the eligibility of members to phi eta sigma na tional . freshman honor fraternity was proposed wednesday at the meeting of the society the new policy reduces the entrance re quirement to 3.25 provided the pros pect is among the upper 20 mem bers of his class in scholastic rat ing to increase the scope of activities of the society the members found it necessary to form a plan to in crease the number of active mem bers although the proposed plan does not conform to the constitu tion of the national society the lo cal chapter will consult c m mc conn dean of the university in reference to the policy and will at tempt to sound out the attitude of the national society the top-ranking 20 men in the freshman class will be accepted to membership in the society provided their averages are 3.25 or above at the end of the second term the men not initiated in the first semester who are among the upper 20 men in scholarship during the second semester and have at least a 3.25 average will be eligible a committee was appointed to formulate a plan for the use of so ciety funds for improvements of any kind on the university campus after consulting dean mcconn the society will meet jan 6 to give more consideration to the new plan the society decided not to have a group picture of the members in the epitome but rather to use the funds for useful improvement of the university campus dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administration spoke tuesday evening at the ho tel astor on american recovery and the situation in europe at the thirtieth annual dinner of the economics club of new york urging a world return to the gold standard dr carothers stated there is not now known to the world any better basis for control of currency and credit than a gold bullion basis he continued by say ing the first requisite of a man aged currency in any nation is a sound relation of its prices and credit to an international price level and that can best be maintained by an international gold standard and there is no substitute device that has been demonstrated in logic or practice as workable and practical scores experiments there is no prospect of a world prosperity and world security in the nations of the world throwing over board the one anchor of interna tional stability and entering upon a battle royal of dubious exper iments the trouble with the present cur rency agreement between the united states great britain and france is that nobody knows what will become of it all situation is dangerous former treasurer of the league of nations sir herbert brown ames said that world recovery de pended upon a lasting world peace and in conjunction with this state ment he added that the european situation is in a dangerous state mainly due to the fact that ger many will soon possess the strong est army in the world this fact will more than likely result in the latter's effort to secure the hege mony of all europe however he supplemented this idea with the statement that ger many would more than likely try the conference method of gaining territory rather than risk another world war in brief sir herbert brown ames ascertained that war in europe is not inevitable other speakers at the dinner which was attended by more than 800 persons were hugh s john son former administrator of the n r a and henry l simpson former secretary of state paul d cravath president of the club was chairman of the meeting held after the dinner club to initiate pi tau sigma banquet to follow exercises w l raeder celebrates eighty-second birthday charles h zimmele 87 present ed the university library with seven new books and a check for 63 with which to purchase the latest edition of faraday's diary in seven vol umes this edition was desired for the library but the price prohibited its purchase according to howard s leach librarian the volumes presented include two biographical works on richard harding davis 86 portrait of an era by fairfax downey the sunset song by elizabeth akers songs of september by m a de wolfe 28 one thing leads to another by fred l kelly and west winds california's book of fiction containing short stories by jack london shirley mansfield elizabeth everett and other writers of the west hall society will dine staging technique emphasizing spot-impressionism a principle new to the lehigh stage this season has been utilized in the mustard and cheese club's realistic war drama paths of glory which opens to night at 8:15 in drown hall john weigel i e 38 stage manager in charge of production states in ad dition that the difficulties encoun tered in obtaining the right sound and light effects needed for this technique have been mastered and everything is ready for tonight's performance according to weigel the stage is divided into two complete sets which by using them alternately allow rapid changes in scenes thus gaining the so-called spot-impres sionism effect on which the play solely rests similar to yellow jack the lighting effects are quite sim ilar to those which were usedi two years ago in the production of yel low jack weigel continued by using top spotlights and blue side lights which cast a dull blue haze over the individual set the general morbid war-like atmosphere is achieved he added the sound effects have all been made by the campus technical staff he concluded and everything from the sound of marching to the roar of big guns will be realistically pro duced albert a rights director of the play stated that this has been one of the most difficult shows to pro duce mustard and cheese has ever attempted the success does not depend greatly on the dialogue or individual acting but upon the molding of the general impression which necessitates exact synchron ization of light sound and acting he concluded mccoy's tenth play several points of interest are not ed in conjunction with tonight's performance charles mccoy arts 37 will make appearance in his tenth mustard and cheese play to night during the last three years he has taken leading parts in yel low jack journey's end shan nons of broadway and salt wa ter and he has had minor roles in five others including outward bound front page and whist ling in the dark in paths of glory he takes the role of colonel labauchere who presides over the court martial trial in the last act the curtain will rise promptly at 8:15 in accordance with custom the first five rows of seats will be reserved for members of the fac ulty ivan kuryla ticket manager advises that those desiring good seats should arrive early as there has been an unusual demand for tickets student tickets are avail able free of charge at the union of fice in drown hall col william l raeder 76 one of lehigh's oldest living alumni re cently celebrated his 82nd birthday by giving a hassenpfeffer dinner at his home in scranton among the guests at the dinner were president c c williams and a cornelius executive of the alumni aassociation colonel raeder is still actively engaged in the insurance business in scranton the robert w hall pre-medical society will hold its annual christ mas banquet on thursday dec 17 dr h a rothrock jr chief path ologist of st luke's hospital will be the guest speaker alpha phi omega pledges new men looking ahead an article by floyd w parsons 02 is featured in the december issue of the le high alumni bulletin parsons gives a vivid and powerful description of the coming america picturing the remarkable advances in science which will undoubtedly be made in the future also appearing in the new bul letin is an article by dean c m mcconn those new scholar ships which give an official ex planation of the new lehigh finan cial grants samuel fuller 31 gives a description of life behind the mi crophone in the business of be ing uncle sammy the details of the climax of le igh's football season are described in the article everybody takes his hat off e robbins morgan explains problems encountered in his duties as director of the place ment service in the placement year crashing glass sounds knell of 14,000 test tubes yearly pi tau sigma honorary mechan ical engineering society will initiate 11 upper-classmen at 6 o'clock to night in packard laboratory the initiation exercises will be followed by a banquet in the sun inn prof fred v larkin will be the guest speaker the men being initiated are phil lip j welch m e 38 henry h dent i e 37 robert w vogels berg m e 37 tlbert h barclay m e 38 matthew r collins m.e 38 william g turnbull m e 37 john s hoppock m e 38 robert e henning i e 38 vance p edwardes m e 38 john h wei gel i e 38 and william kranz m e 38 scout group takes 10 at meeting wednesday vagaries of fate disconcert brown and white reporter the fifth in a series of programs sponsored by the student concerts group will be given at 4 p m sun day in the chapel d k swarth out eng 40 xylophonist q r keith arts 40 baritone and r k maneval bus 3b organist will per form the program will be as follows announces h a snyder ch e 39 program director nola arndt andantino in d torrelli par ade of the wooden soldiers jes sup aloha oe lilliuokalani all to be played by swarthout keith will sing who is sylvia schubert hear me ye winds and waves handel when the roses bloom reichardt and three welsh traditional songs men of harlech once to every man and all through the night as his part of the program maneval will play boellmann's suite gothique the student concert series will be resumed on sunday jan 10 with a piano-organ recital by miss ruth becker myers pianist for the bach choir and dr t edgar shields university organist as a special fea ture the liberty high school or chestra will be presented at the con cert on jan 17 the orchestra will be directed by joseph ricapito 20 valley classical league elects dr mcdermott by henry schick heckman proving that advance publicity build-ups had far from overrated her acting ability blanche yurka last evening apepared before a high ly critical audience of lehigh stu dents and by her dynamic interpre tations of leading roles from some of th.c world's greatest plays suc ceeded in winning unanimous ap proval that in a school composed large ly of technical men supposedly hav ing no taste for the cultural and aesthetic nearly 1,000 persons as sembled a quarter of an hour before the curtain time to hear a dramatic portrayal of the arc of the thea tre is significant of high though possibly skeptical expectations that these same persons main tained through an hour and thirty minute program of scenes from plays of which many had never heard let alone read and at the close gave miss yurka three curtain calls is definitely a high tribute to the dramatic ability of this talented ac tress miss yurka's popularity with her lehigh audience is an even greater compliment in the fact of her rather handicapped beginning in the first place she appeared ten minutes late when one considers that most of the audience had already waited fifteen minutes for a program that it was not too sure it would enjoy he can readily see that the ten-min ute delay was not conducive to the success of the famed actress eve ning secondly when miss yurka made her introductory remarks she began with an affected intonation which did not go over well with the rest less group she had before her al though she maintained this intona tion throughout the greater portion of her explanatory remarks her sub sequent portrayals more than com pensated for this and for her de layed beginning that miss yurka is extremely versatile is apparent from the large variety of roles she portrayed last evening she began with the magis trate scene from aristophanes lysistrata playing the parts of both lysistrata and the magistrate the ease and naturalness with which she changed from one part to another is especially commen dable it did not appear in the least out of the ordinary that she should carry on both ends of a conversa tion from lysistrata miss yurka changed to the melodramatic role of electra in sophocles electra both scenes portrayed from this play were emotional soliliquies which she handled quite adeptly without the slightest touch of the mellerdramatic miss yurka next turned to a com edy role when she re-enacted a part that helped to make her famous — the nurse in the garden scene from shakespeare's romeo and juliet she announced that in her broad way presentation of this role she had been assisted by 50 pounds of padding but that tonight you will have to help me by imagining be fore you a very heavy and amorous woman with a backache after bringing down the house with her amusing characterization of juliet's nurse miss yurka as sumed the role of a shallow selfish coquette in way of the world congreve this she followed with a portrayal of hedda gabler from ibsen's play by the same name by far her most impressive and well-enacted role of the evening was in her characterization of elizabeth in anderson's elizabeth the queen this scene was so well received that miss yurka gave an encore and re-enacted the tribunal scene from tale of two cities classical club elects 2 crash and another test tube bites the dust down in the chemistry building where the trail to higher learning is marked with broken glassware like the whitened skulls on the great alkali plain the sup ply room is constantly passing out equipment to fill in the places of the breakers bottles and glass tub ing smashed in the cause of science dir you ever wonder just how much equipment the supply room gives out a little investigation shows that chemists in the making are hard on supplies every years sees the destruction of over 14,000 test tubes more than a mile of them if we may be allowed to place them in the proverbial end to end po sition the useful breaker suffers casual ties to the tune of some 3,800 brok en or lost in a year the acid scar red gentry manage to consume 5,000 feet of rubber tubing 3,000 6-inch squares of metal gauze and 2,000 wash bottles in a year's time miles of tubing the glass tubing used in the labs dr horace w wright head of the latin department and dr wil liam c mcdermott instructor in latin were elected to offices in the classical league of the lehigh val ley meeting saturday afternoon at the allentown preparatory school dr wright was elected to the exec utive council and dr mcdermott was elected vice president of the league to make wash bottles elbows joints and generators amounts to nearly 300 pounds a year representing sev eral hundred feet over one mile in actual length everyone uses bottles in the lab about 2,500 of them are broken per year while no less than a thousand sponges are put out of commission in the same time equipment is not the only worry of the supply room the actual chemicals which must be distributed for lab use run into tons in one year the total weight of the sul furic nitric and hydrochloric acid plus the ammonium hydroxide used is well over 6,000 pounds the first semester of freshman chemistry alone requires an aver age of three and one half pounds of chemicals per man which amounts to more than half a ton from these figures it may be seen that henry huettig john schu macher and george ritschel the genii of the supply room have plenty on their minds playing nurse-maid to a fragile family chemist spare that test tube i seven sophomores two juniors and one senior were pledged to al pha phi omega national honorary boy scout society at a meeting of the lehigh chapter wednesday at drown hall the pledges were as follows robert merkle ch e 39 robert werden i e 37 charles brown met 39 carl martinson chem f 3b wayne o'neill arts 39 robert easton i e 39 robert w rich ards ch e 39 evans lilygren e e 38 harry kipe met 39 and albert goeppert met 39 there will be no meeting of al pha phi omega as had been tenta tively planned at the business meet ing held on dec 2 the next reg ular meeting of the society will be at 7:30 p m wednesday jan 6 at drown hall the construction of the alpha phi omega fireplace will be started on the first saturday after the va cation theft of his car the reporter was so surprised he was speechless for a few minutes when he regained his composure he tried to explain the situation to the indignant car owner with little success finally he persuaded the man to accom pany him back to the brown and white office to see the faculty ad viser who offered the use of his car when the situation was again explained to the wrathful man he insisted upon seeing the car in ques tion and trying his keys in that car he was granted that privilege and found to his satisfaction that his keys fit the door and ignition of both cars apologies were made and accepted by both parties but bad luck stuck to the report er for the rest of the evening on his way back from the north side he ran out of gas it's the innocent that pay that's the belief of a certain brown and white reporter after his experience with an automobile sunday night this reporter had an errand across town and to save him some time one of the faculty advisers of the brown and white offered the use of his automobile he told the reporter that the car was parked be side fritz laboratory the unsuspecting reporter took the keys and found a car that fit the description parked on packer avenue aside of fritz lab he un locked the door got in and stepped on the starter then hell broke loose a man came tearing out of an ad jacent house rushed to the car seized the reporter and demanded an explanation about the attempted dr william c mcdermott in structor of latin was elected to the vice presidency of the classical league of the lehigh valley at its semi-annual meeting on saturday dec 5 at the allentown prepara tory school a paper by dr mcdermott on the ape in latin literature will be read by title at the 68th annual meeting of the american philologi cal association dec 28-30 in chi cago this society is the oldest latin and greek association in the united states bethlehem pa friday december 11 1936 scenes from paths of glory brown and white price — five cents mustard and cheese give paths of glory tickets now on sale vol xuv no 20 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