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Vol. XV
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, February 21, 1924
Number 53
TROJAN DEBATERS TO MEET 1 WHITTIER, POMONA TONIGHT
Brennan, Moore, Lewis and Syvertson Represent U. S.
C.; Occidental Leads in Race for Southern California Debate Title •
After feeling tha joy of victory over Caltech and brushing against defeat with Occidental in secondary forsenic contests, two U. S. C. debaters ere preparing to tackle Pomona at Claremont, and two others are to eomj>ete with Whittier in ^.he Old College Chapel, both contests being held tomjrht. These events will comprise the second round in the schedule of the Southern California Debate League. The question is: ‘Resolved, that Congress have the right to override the decision of the S.preme Court by re-enacting laws declared unconstitutional.”
The first two contests were heldC Thursday night during the week of registration. Ray Brennen and Wil- ]
SPECIALTY ACTS TO FEATURE 1924 MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA
IGAL DRAMA WILL BE PRESENTED FRIDAY
‘Book of Job to be Given by the Stuart Walker Players
liam Moore won from Caltech at Pasadena, while Manuel Ruiz and Arthur |
Syvertson lost to the Occidental team.
U. S. C.’s average in the southern | league is now .500, and victory at the; rest of the scheduled meets is essen- I tial if the Trojan squad expects to,	_
take the envied first place.	STUDENT RATES SPECIAL \
Tonight Ray Brennen and William	-
Moore will champion the negative Portmanteau Players in Los An- j
side of the question at Pomona Col-	geles for the First
le*fe. L<ong; and intensive prepara-,	Time	|
tion is expected to score heavily for them in their attempt to bring home a Victory* Ned Lewis and Arthur Svvertson will take the affirmative
side in the Old College Chapel tonight against Whittier College.
By CHET MACKIE
“The Book of Job,' acclaimed by
drama of the ages, is to be presented tomorrow night in Bovard Auditorium under the auspices of the Artists A new .s>i-iem o: judging debate? Course, the proceeds of which go for has been offered and it will be used tbe erectjon 0f Women's building. The in both the contest tonight. The tickets are go ng rapidlv and a packed old way of having three judges give houge ig expected.
the decis on seems to be in the discard. In the debates with the big universities and colleges of the Pa-
Stuart Walker dramatized “The Book of Job” in 1918 and presented it at the Booth Theatre in New York.
cision he must give his reasons before the audience. Only men who know the debating game thoroughly are
asked to become the judges. , \
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Successor to Prof.
cifc Coast the audience acclaimed the | Criticg watched its production with victore by secret ballot. According keen interest> doubting its SUCCess and to authorities the new way is most were greaay surprised to find ,t one satisfactory. One person is hired to Qf the most novel productions ever judge a debate and in giving his de- presen(ed on Broadway.
The staging of “The Book of Job” is striking and artistic. The lighting is finely handled and very effective.
There is a storm effect that is excel-| lently presented and will prove gripping to the audience. The climax is
Blanks Is Appointed elCM<ll,lgly dramati'
__The organ and an ensemble consist-
Professor Grafton Pedis Tanguary. jng harp_ violin, cello, piano and formerly of the faculty of Manual chimes is used during the presenta-Arts High School, has been appoint- tion. The exquisite music, based on ed to take over the classes left 0]d Hebred Chants, arranged by El-without an instructor of Professor liott Schenck, emphasizes the rel:g-Blanks. who has been granted a jous character of the performance.
leave of absence to conduct a foi- ‘The Book of Job” is a drama that!---
senic contest.	appeals to all classes of people, and | I'Tl^D 1 DV I IfUTC
Mr. Tanguary is a graduate of U. it will appeal especially to those ^'ho | Li J.	JL LlufllU
S. C.. taking his degree in 1916. like fine things and beauty. The province that time he has been teach-1 duction is in no sense one that will ing English at Manual Arts High attract only Bible students and those School, and having a hand in the greatly interested in religion. Tt is training of Ned Lewis, Bill Barber evident that it will be looked upon and Manual Ruiz.	i	(Continued on Page 4)
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PLAYS TO BE OVEN IN CHAPEL; STAGE EQUIPMENT IS NEEDED
“Romantic Age'’ Will be Presented Next Month by the School of Speech in Assembly Period for Benfiet of the Students
In order to raise money to buy stage equipment which is needed tor the presentation of University productions, th*e Executive Committee of the Associated Student Body in conjunction with the School of Speech will stage two plays during the spring semester, the productions to be given in Bovard Auditorium. It is probable that “The Romantic Age' will be presented as the first entertainment. Although no date has been set for this play, the event will probably be staged about March It is planned to give four such plays next year and the entire amount
— C raised in all tihese productions be used to add stage scenery and lighting apparatus to the material now being used by the School of Speech.
A committee from the Executive Committee has been working on the
Committee Appoimed to Make play with H' 1 stonier and have laid
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PREPARING FOR SENIOR ROAD SHOW
Arrangements for Annual Vaudeville
MAY 7 IS DATE SELECTED
plans for such entertainments. The ten o’clock classes will be dismissed cn these days and the play will continue through the ten o'clock class period and the chapel hour. Tickets r ill be sold previous to the enterta n-ments. Admission will be twenty-five cents for all productions, and accord-
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Campus Organizations Are All Asked to Lend Their Cooperation
Preparat ons for the annual Senior	ing to the members of the committee
Road Show which, will be held this	the auditorium must be packed every
year on Wednesday, May 7, are al-	day in order to make the plan suc-
ready being made. The show con-	cessfu1.
sists of a number of vaudeville acts	^ i® probable that the Administra-
and is one of the big successes of	®t' the ^ nivers.ty will add to the
the campus each year	fund thus created until enough is on
A committee, under George Hall,	hand to huy complete stage equlp-
has been appointed and will meet at	ment, probably in time for the annual
12:30 Tuesday in the back of the	Junior P,a>' which will be given this
When the curtain for 'Frolics of 1924” goes up for the second act,
February 29, the audience is going to be treated to some real jazz music played by Gene Johnson’s orchestra, pictured above. This act will also j chapel to work out further plans.1 sPnn&-
be featured by a dance by Miss Rosalind Williamson shown to the right, j Phoebe Sischo, Ruth Seaver Altabelle Fred Salter has been placed in These are two of the many specialty acts in the show.______________j Rosg Bonnie Palmer So]]y Seamons charge of the productions and will
Jazz Orchestra, Novelty Dances, Musical Acts and Chorus Num- and Stan Wheeler are the Seniors who ‘ s*arr work at once on the staging others Among Added Attractions for “Frolics	| make up this comm:ttee, and they 1 e p ays-of 1924,” February 29th promise that this year’s road show
will be the finest yet put on.
“U. S. C. has a wonderful School of Speech.” says Harry Silke, “but the “All organizations on the campus studeDts are handicapped and unable are asked to kep this date open and to Present P'*ays as well as they would to co-operate with us,' said George like to do because of the lack of stage
We want equipment. It is the purpose of the executive committee to put dramatics
on a higher plan than ever before by making possible any sort of production. Xo one will deny that the University needs more apparatus for
Gypsy Pat Smith Speaks On Childhood Days In Glasgow
“Gypsy" Pat Smith, the noted evangelist who is visiting the city and giving daily lectures at the First Methodist Church, spoke Tuesday in chapel. Instead of preaching a sermon founded on a Biblical text he filled in the hour with a humorous account of his life.
According to the speaker, being*
By AUBREY IRWIN
To visit a rehearsal of the Frolics of *24, and remain with the chorus into the wee small ho.rs, might easily carry one into the visagry of
Zicgfield Follies, for an excellent chorus of professional attitude h?.s ' Hall, committee chairman, developed during the last few rehearsals under the intense directing of i to put on a worthwhile affair and Gene Johnson and Hank McCann. Yes it is true that success is now in ! need the organization’s backing to the glimmering but a glimpse at the upper region of Mr. McCann's make it a success.” thought factory might discover ninety and nine more hairs missing. ®o t’ar no definite selection of acts Hank says that tthi’e there is still lots of work to be gone over, the bas been made but the committee is success of the production is now assured and thanks to Gene Johnson, 1 a^ready considering several interest- ' Presentations. accompanist who has really been the back bone of the production. ing skits. “We are going to select	want to inte Gene Johnson, who is McCann'sC right, hand man, without whom the' frolics would possibly fail to function, is well known upon the campus, as a musician of merit and is to be given much credit for his efforts in developing a nowerful syncopate production.. 0 ™ tt- j c__
*. * , *	. v. • Some $200 Plates Unreserved for
\\ hile most of his work is being1
dene in developing the presentation he will also star with his orchestra as
RESERVATIONS STILL
University Women's Club Dinner to be Given Mar. 3
the musical hit of the second act of j held at THE BILTMORE
interest everyone in ! each act with the utmost care and dramatics and to tfive all who care to l every one who is placed on the pro- aPPear in s- C- plays a chance io i gram will be of high quality.” said do so” says Miss Hubbard. As it | the chairman. The number of acts now is’ we have to limit our Produc-is to be decided upon later, depending tions to students in the School of upon the length of those selected. Speech. If we had more equipment No price has been decided upon but we would have more to work with it will be a moderate one. “The and cou,d thus Put on plays with price will be as low as is consistent students who are n°t enrolled in our with the type cf entertainment.” said department and thus have more en-Mr. Hall.	tertainments of th s type. Many stu-
dents have also said thev were anx-
"ii Cl-v. u;:r	the play. Hank says: “This feature!	----j The committee expects to make a
^U1 U	— * -	will make some of our most noted ; Fund Raised to be Used on the definite announcement as to the ad- ’ous *° se3 Pl®^ but tbe> could not
Home of Professor Cooke
orchestras look like a thin dime in a I mint.”
Highbrows of the campus will hold Johnson is well known to some a literary seance tonight at the through his accomplishments as a i
Proposed Women's Build-on Campus
Reservations are still open for the $200 plate banquet which is to be
home of Prof and Mrs. John Cook.' composer of popular music, among	.
... , . <<x- „ . . given by the University Womans 522West 48th Street, at 8 o’clock which are his “Never Again and Six, ”, l ' , „ . _ __________
sharp. Such a seance is generally	and Seven-eights.
called a Quill Meeting in college	The chorus numbers, cleverly in-
vernacular, but in the language of	terwoven into lines of the play, are
the English department it may be	amusing and interesting to the utter-
called even a Conflab of the Im-	most and will include a wide range
mortals.
born in a gypsy camp was a decided distinction and advantage over the ordinary birth in a house, “which.” he said, “is too common, too common.” Digs at the thrifty Scotch were scattered throughout the talk. He related the joke about the Scotchman who walked nineteen miles to see a football game and then didn’t see it because he was too tired to climb the wall, and then explained that the reason all Scotchmen had a sense of humor was because it was a gift.
Mr. Smith told of his life in the picturesque gypsy camp, how he ‘became a Christian and later converted his mother, father and sister. Sixteen months of schooling was the only education he ever had and came after he was sixteen years old.
His father drove him from the camp on finding out that he had be
of song and dance hits, revolutioniz-
Club, iMarch 3, at the Biltmore Hotel. The end which this occasion has in view is to raise funds which will be used for the construction of an adequate Woman’s Building on the University of Southern California Campus. This building will include the offices of various campus organizations, common rooms and
In a special Social Service meet-1 H th , waited Quill wrote- inS it through the dark ages of about | ^ub rooms- the gymnasium, the ing to be held this afternoon at S:15 “	^ated Doe, will 1880 d°w“ 10 ,he	height or j H“me	Department and
*l" bC f0rm a	! wncowtion. Leave it to ramnoa.»«' aISO	« » dormitory for
a limited number of girls.
In order that the luncheon may be a hundred per cent profit, one member of the committee who has played the part of fairy godmother to several other such enterprises in this city, has made known her intentions of meeting the entire expense of the affair.
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To Hold Special Social j The meeting will be prefaeeu by in« the modern chorus- Much stress
Service Meetinz Today important business transactions. | is now beinS P,aced uP°n the evolu-service lVieeimg loaay w for	of the Wooden , tion Of the ed and co-ed chorus carry.
in Women s Hall, reports will be made be collectedi it is said> from those syncopation. Leave it to Campus
by members of the Social Service
Committee of the Y. M. C. A. Madge
who have not as yet coughed up
Chorus of '24 for originality.
their coveted shekels.
Other than the main attraction, sev-
Irwin is chaiiman of the committee.1'..... " '	eral individual specialty acts are to
In addiUon to the reports a program j The directors for locating the Cook presented. A big syncopated, high of special music has been arranged domicile are as follows: Take a ; p0wered ba.ll0t danCe by R0sa.liiid Wil-
for the meeting.	I Grande Avenue car to 47th Street;
Elizabeth Kemp, President of the walk south to 48th Street and east Y. W. C. A., urges all women who are to 522^ West 48th Street. Enter interested in social service work to the house via the front door, is more attend.
liamson will poss bly head the bill of specialties in close conjunction with a Marimbaphone-xylophone duet ore-sented by the Artists, Jimmie Heub-
Senior Committee Announced By President Oudermeulen
advice reported for Quill members, i ner and Clint Talbot. Those w'ho
know Rosalind are advising their friends of her ability so a big hit is expected. Huebner and Talbot must bo credited with a novel feature to be expressed in the form of original compositions and popular attractions. Of
The following committees will act for the Senior Class of ’24. as named
come a Christian. The great inspir- b>' President “Buck’ Oudermeulen
ation of Christ and the revolutionizing effect it had upon his life,
Buck announces that he has not besc-able to see every one and so in
he gave as the reason for devoting their presentation, it is hoped that his entire life to evangelical work, they will meet with the approval Mr. Smith closed his talk by saying the entire class. The committee3
that he hoped others in his audience! “re-
_____...	. . , Finance: Archie Roberts, Chairman:
would feel as inspired as he had Walter Sykes. Lyman Johnson. Worth
Coleman. Apatha Callahan. Katherine Wahls tr on.
Social: Marjorie McComber, Chairman; Hazel Brown. Helon Morton Hall. Maurine Stevens. Pnv Edwards. Dave Cleveland. Waldo King-.
Commencement Announcements: Art Metcalfe. Chairman: Gus Tapley, Loretta Balcom.
been by Christianity. “For” he said. “If Christianity could work such wonders with an ignorant gypsy boy. how much more should it do for you who are being given every chance.”
Martina Lanning. Francis Vale, Eli- j course, this act, being something new neth RC°admpbenE1Ril1^thBuSeh7en' Ken’ ! musical entertainment will greatly Baccalaureate Sunday: w. Wendell quicken the evening. Both men are
Rhodes. Chairman; Helen Snowball, nij	-__... ...	,
Ethel Christy. Florence Johnson. Alice	wizards with the hammers and
have previously appeared on vaudeville circuit. Hank himself is also contemplating a specialty dance and while this act is to be encouraged it is not yet assured. Hank says that n case he condescends to do so no such dance as his will have ever been
Senior Chapel: Marparet Ederin, I Chairman.
Scallin, Beatrice Dunnack, Richard Reeves.
Class Gift: Okey King:. Chairman;
K. C. Mobarry, Cecil Carle, Evelyn Smith.
Class Numeral: Morv Jones, Glen C. Dud lev. Nancy Cavanaugh.
Senior Faculty Game: Lyndon Robb.
Chairman: Addison Varney, Dewey Niles. Bud Kerslake.
Commencement WeeK: Lester Hein-eman. Chairman; Lucile Hace. Clyde given before. For uniformily acceler-
KlVk^'Mama^er^lar^y.^’ oil^^chu! j ated originality let Hank pr?sert his macher. Marion Joslin.	j stuff.
Ivy Dav Committee: Dorothy Rob- i „. , erts.’ Chairman; Ruby Moore. B. c. Tickets are now on sale in the Buckley. Elzo McCluske>.	Arcade of the Administration Build-
Senior Road Show': George Hall,
mission price and the character of the	(*° so *)ecause the pla>s were given
acts in the near future.	at ni*ht- Therefore, we welcome this
__idea of putting on plays in the morn-
TORCH, TASSLE MEETING	ing as we fell sure the students w 11
Torch and Tassle will meet in the	become more interested in our activf-
suditorium at 12:30 o'clock today.	ties.”
Brazen Sophomore Maidens Make Dates for Novel Dance
Coyly buying tickets for the Sophomore Leap Year Dance, rhe Sophomore m3idens give evidence of their intentions to carry out a good tradition by inviting their men to the leap year dance of the Sophomore class. Tickets went on sale Tuesday after the posting of two rioutously lo<ud gold
^and blue placards announcing the dance, and the Sophomore officers, who are in charge of the sale of
Few Tickets Remain For Philharmonic
A few tickets are still available for the orchestra concerts at the Philharmonic Auditorium this week,
tickets, report that the fair damsels are not the only people buy ng the tickets and that a fine crowd is expected.
The dance, which the Sophs have
and may be secured at H. J. Ston- planned since before finals, is to be ier's office for the special student ; held in the Pasadena Women’s Club rate of one dollar for the five cor.- of South Pasadena across from the certs, or twenty-five cents for one South Pasadena High School, Friday
number.
A rcticA tmosphere Beginning To Thaw On Trojan Campus
“T!he old order changeth, giving place to new,” but not without much protest, according to reactions during the past few days of the campaign for a ‘ Hello and Smile” spirit on the campus of the University. Scores of “modernists” gave evidence of their acceptance of the idea by hearty cooperation. but a great number persisted in remaining in the deep ruts of past custom.
evening, Feb. 22.
One feature of the dance is to be the awarding of a silver loving cup for the best dancers present, following the tradition of former class dances. Rumor also has it, that th« punch will be concocted under the personal supervision of Sidney Beach
ing. Many good seats are left.
in the tearing down of the feudalists	and al, Sophomores know of the repu
spirit,” said Harry Silke, president	tation of gidney Beach tQ make pa,ate
of the student body.	tickling punch. Whispers of favors,
“It’s the follow-up that counts,” sa d	and red white and b,ue serpentine
Wilbur Oudermuellen, senior class	have algo ]eaked out> an(] gjnce the
proxy. “We must continue the good	mus;c wiU be furnished by fhose japz
spirit throughout the year. We are	experts who brlphten up clajJ8 ^
yet a long way from the ideal condl-	semblies. what more can be desired :n
tion. but we are headed in the right	the way of a regular ,
direction/’ Buck intimated that most	Tickets are sellinR ^ ^ thg gum
cf the difficulty was found in the	of one do]lar and can bp obtained
“I feel that, considering the decided ranks of the younger girls on the	from rh„
individual'stic or ‘gropistic’ attitude campus.	___
that has existed for so many years. Various suggestions have b^en of-	Posit on? on the Trojan Staff for the
the few days of smiles and hellos fered to those sponsoring the move-	second semester are now open for any
I have really accomplished a grea; deal ment since it was launched Monday.	Wh0 care to work
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