Geii ead D)own Faculty Group To Give Drama Written In 1732 Harry Allen Will Direct .Production; To Be Done In Ancient Style Ncll Gwyn's Company, a group nacle up of faculty members inter- 1 :sted in dramatics will present a 200- rear-old English play, "The London Y4crchant," by George Lillo, Dec. 13 md 14 in the Laboratory Theatre, it gas been announced. Harry R. Allen, '33A, prominent in tudent dramatics- will direct the :roduction, which will be staged in he manner that it would have been )ut on in 1832. The play was first >roduced in 1732. This special production will be pre- ented with a prologue entitled Vv hen Crummles Played," written by roducer. The prologue, which was rranged from material in Charles Jickens' "Nicholas Nickleby," serves >o introduce the theatrical company >f one Vincent Crummles. Among those who are taking part .n the production are Prof. Benjamin :Vheeler of the history department, Prof. James O'Neill of the speech de- partment, Prof. Warner Patterson of the French department, Prof. Charles nudson of the French department, and Mrs. Lois Maier, Mrs. Ella Aiton md Mrs. Ruth Kress. author of the O'Connor-Hull beer bill tefeated in the last session. While the crowd chuckled Hill told Af a barbecue at which members of -ongress and others showed their :agerness to drink 4 per 'cent beer, and described some personal experi- ments with beer-drinking in Sweden. 'our pints of 4 per cent beer proved all he could drink, he said, and did lot intoxicate him either. lie Lost J Bet! Reed Harris Says Fraternities A r e 'Anti-Progressive' College fraternities are described as the chief campus bulwarks against progressive thought, in the Decem- ber issue of Revolt, intercollegiate socialist review published by student member of the league for Industrial Democracy. The author of the critical article is Reed Harris, former editor of the Columbia Spectator, whose suspen- sion last April for criticism of uni- versity authorities evoked a general student strike and attracted national attention. Harris is a fraternity man who resigned as president of his .hapter because he was convinced, As h estates in Revolt, that "fraterni- .ies, which in theory are merely or- zanizations for promoting friendships and congeniality, are dangerous to apy progress in thought because of their complete reliance on the past. By their independence upon tradi- tion, however outworn, they serve to perpetuate all that is worst in Amer- ican tradition." Harris believes, though, that fra- ternity members who are seriously interested in economic and social problems can act as a leaven upon the larger group. "In any important change in the general attitude of students the fraternities must play an important part," he said. court and confronted with a parking violation charge. The student lived some 200 miles from Madison and was entirely at a loss to explain how the family car received a parking ticket. Attempting to unravel the mystery he called his father on the telephone. Dad good-naturedly ad- mitted that he had driven the 200 miles to Madison to check upon his son and had been checked up him- self. (Associated Press Photo) Bertram Johnson (above) Univer- sity of Missouri student, was forced to appear in this garb after he lost a bet with Lawrence Ely, star Ne- braska center, that Missouri would beat Nebraska in football. Dad Checks Up On Son; Checked Up By Police MADISON, Wis., Dec. 8.-Some time ago a University of Wisconsin student was called before the traffic STATIONERY as a XMAS GIFT We Are Featuring the FINE PAPERS of CRANE -. WHITING & COOK ~- EATON The Best of Quality at Moderate Price UNIVERSITY W AHStt BOOKSTORE 316 State Street MWIP wolow MMA."IIII I iI B--%JY A BAnd eihIr WI THWHAT S. And what you save will be the difference between $5.00 and $3.50. Times being what they are there is really no telling how far one may go with so neat a sum as $1.50 deviltry in the soul. in the pocket and sufficient So notable a saving should certainly mean some- thing to the imaginative ones among you unless, of course, you already have a battleship.