DANCE MARCH 2nd AFTER THE GAME BUCKNELL BEACON _ Volume 4. Number 12 WILKES-BARRE, PA. Thursdaij, Februarij 29, 1940 THESPIANS PERFORM ON CAMPUS TONIGHT BUCKNELL COEDS SCORN LEAP YEAR TRADITION GIRLS DESCRIBE FIFTY FOUR STUDENTS BACH FESTIVAL The Bucknell Junior College PERFECT DATE Thespians have been granted their MAKE HONOR LISTS INTERESTS STUDENTS first opportunity to present a play for the students at the The third annual Bach Festival Admirable Qualities campus. The three act comedy Unusual Number Of will be presented between March In Boys and 'Girls "Gammer Gurton's Needle" will Freshmen On List fifth and tenth. The program this be given this evening in the year will include four events Lewisburg High School auditor- instead of the three events of 01' Dan Cupid was given the The following honor lists for cold ium. We consider it an honor were former years. On Tuesday and shoulder by the girls of first semester announced B.U.J.C. in a recent poll. that the English Department recently by Dr. Farley. Thursday, March 5 and 7 at hould request the Thespians to Students who have earned an St. Stephen's Parish House the The questionnaire asked: give this presentation at the average of 85% or more: story of Bach will be told with Do you believe that girls campus. The publicity, sale of M. L. Bachman music on the instruments of his should take advantage of leap tickets, and the transfering of L. B. Baker time in a stage setting of the year? scenery were all taken care of by G. W. Bierly period. Bach's magnificent can- What are the qualities you the English Department. In M. R. Brislin tata "Christ Lay in Death's most admire in a boy? fact they even went so far as to G. R. Cuip Dark Prison." will be presented F. V. Girton What are the qualities you for on 8 have the students search a J.. C. Grigger March at the Irem Temple. most admire in a girl? black cat which could be used in R. Guarnaccia Ernest White, the organist at the I. What is your idea of a perfect the play. M. Hopkins Temple of Religion at the World's P. P. Labeda date? The cast drove to Lewisburg Fair, will play an organ recital on H. V. Lewërt According to 85% of the Col- this morning accompanied by sev- R. E. Lynn March 9. The climax of the series will be the Passion of lege's femine population, this is eral other students. It is hoped J. Mandlovitz just another year with an over- that this will be the opening of a C. F. 0. Miller Our Lord According to St. Mat- dose of February. Said one H. S. Miller closer relationship between the thew on Sunday afternoon March bright lassie, "We spend three S. Mintzer 10th. years getting them trained, and dramatic departments and also Nagro J. The Festival should prove to when a year with an extra day the commencement of an annual J. C. O'Malley be of great interest to members of comes aroundwoof! goes our presentation of the Junior College J. F. O'Malley hard work. No thanks, not for i4nts before a campus audience M. E. Parry the college. They will have the me!" Maybe the girls are being M. E. Rees rare privilege of hearing unusual modest or maybe they're just E. Robinson music performed by excellent mus- lazy but it looks as if the boys L. Rossen Camera Club cians. Two embers of the Junior will have to do the proposing G. Rosser themselves. Sponsors Contest W. A. Rulka College Glee Club, Chris O'Malley D. J. Secunda and Henry Lewert, are singing The qualities that the girls find P. H. Trebilcox with the Bach Chorus. Girls most attractive in the boys are: One of the newly created extra- M. A. Waters from the college will usher at all A sense of humor. the Camera H. M. Wruble curriculum activities, R. H. Young performances. Intelligence. Club seems to be progressing by Neatness. are two Students who have earned an FACULTY WIVES leaps and bounds. There Personality. contests in progress. One is a average of 80% but less than 85: DISPLAY TALENTS monthly print contest in which B. G. Achhammer They like best in the members any member of the club may J. B. Aikman The regular monthly meeting of their own sex: B. M. Benscoter of the Campus Club of his best prints and the the submit I. D. Betz Bucknell Junior College was held Sincerity. winners will be selected a by W. G. Carpenter at the home of Miss Norma A sense of humour. judges. committee assigned as S. M Charney Sangiuliano on Monday evening, Friendliness. W. Connelly February 26, The following The other contest is the "Picture Neatness. Packard" contest. In this, the G. I. Dickinson program was given during the D. J. Evans course of the evening; Mrs. Farley (Note the conspicuous disre- best pictures of a 1940 Packard Gacha played two selections from Chpin, in will gard for the requirement of in- taken any setting be J. Gelb Mrs. Arthur Bernhardt sang "Ah telligence in the girls.) awarded five automobiles, $3600 R. J. Grancey Sweet Mystery of Life" and "I in cash prizes, and 150 awards of L. A. Greenbaum Love Life", and Mrs. David Here, fellows is the girls idea merit. Mr. Meighan of the Ace S. GrOh Brown reviewed the book 'Maud" of the perfect date: The boy L. Those present Mrs. A. amateur photography Hoyle were J. must be a gentlemen in all ré- Hoffman D. R. Kersteen Brennan, Mrs. D. J. Gage, Mrs. spects, should be a fairly good department explained the rules K. Kressler Joseph Miller, Mrs. David Brown, dancer; he doesn't have to be to the club and thinks the com- E. J. Labak Mrs. Wilfrid Crook, Mrs. Roy good looking for his personality petition is quite fair. Anyone J. B. Lewis Tasker, Miss Betty Klinedinst, should make up for that, his térested may receive pamphlets M. B. Pincus Mrs. Michael H. Harper, Mrs. conversation should be intelligent M. Seeherman William Schuyler, Miss Norma and witty above all, there should ting the rules. (Perhaps you D. M. Thomas Sangiuliano, Mrs. A. F. Bernhardt be a noticeable lack of desire to '1 b the lucky one to win a L. A. Wilski Mrs. Voris B. Hall, and Mrs. go in for a lot of "petting". 0 Packard!) A. Zakiewicz. George R. Faint. Think you can qualify? PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor Page Two THE BUCKNELL BEACON Thursday, February 29, 1940 THE BUCKNELL BEACON STUDENTS DIRECT The Dishwashers of B U J C Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania SUCCESSFUL PLAYS Co-Editors Mary Brislin, Ruth Guarnaccia They work in the lunchroom All hours they are free On last Wednesday evening, ReportersElinore Smulyan, Irene Betz, joy Bodycomb, Malion From work in their classes February 21, the Junior College Of BUJC (????) Waters, Louise Baker, Shirley Higgins Ruth Lynn, Muriel Thespians presented an unusual Rees, Lillian Rosen, Lilyanne Babski, Pearl Kaufman. entertainment in the form of three They like waiting on table one-act plays. These plays were and especially the "eats" Business Greenbaum, Lillian Brennan, Zelcia Mangel directed by students in Art 141 But doing the dishes StaffLydia under the supervision of Miss Just gives them the creeps! Florence Mangel. Norma Sanguiliario. A large audience of parents, friends, and Now after the students Advisory Board students received the plays en- Have eaten their fill Mrs. Michael Harper. Elwood Disque thusiastically. The boys roll their sleeves up And work with a will. The first of the three plays, entitled The Boor, was directed by One of them washes Advertising rates: SOc per colurna-inch Two column-inches 75c Jane Nagro. Its plot was con- And one of them dries One year $4.50 per columi-inch; two column-inches $6.50 cerned with a young man, the And between them they get "boor" played by Wallace Perrin, All the suds in their eyes. who, having come to claim a The ghost that now haunts them PUBLISHED EVERY TI-TREE WEEKS BY THE STUDENTS OF BUCKNELL sum of money, meets, falls in From morning 'til night UNIVERSITY JUNIOR COLLEGE. WILKES.-BARRE, PENNA. love with, and proposes to the Is called "Dishpan Hands" LLEWELLYN BROS. INCORPORATED beautiful, young widow of his Its the housewives 'blight'. debtor. Ruth Lynn was the irate widow and Kenneth Kressler her Now, the moral of this i: faithful, long suffering servant. "To lotion be true" 'Les just like the boys, EDITORIALS Kathleen Wintermute directed This ghost should haunt you! Flood Control, the second and most melo-dramatic of the series, In a cabin in a canyon, one end of Youth Conference. The Youth Congress had on its QUIP list for discussion many problems which has been converted into a CRACKING TFIE of vital interest to young America, flood-control lake, an obstinate Williams, Headlines in the press of the but no solution can ever be young woman, Newbold arrived at when they are viewed who wants to be alone with her We enjoyed having our Allurn- country featured the American their Youth Congress, meeting in Wash- through the light that seems to work offered hospitality upon ni Cookies home for the holidays. request to two gangsters and their ington to attract the attention of illuminate the particular branch (We call them cookies 'cause of so-called American youth. ''brain", who most surprisingly Congress and to awaken in its Schwager.