Seven Keys To Bald-Pate Given Thursday
ife South
California
Elections For Class
Officers Thursday
Volume XVI
ivos Angeles, California, Tuesday, January 20, 1925
Number 42
FRATERNITY RESERVATIONS FOR PLAY TAKEN OFF SALE TODAY
Elaborate Set Designed For “Seven Keys to Baldpate" Required Much Effort From Stage Crew
Comedy, love, action, thrills, suspense, unusual situations, mystery—all the elements that go to make a pood play, are contained in George Cohan's master mystery melo drama, “Seven Keys to Baldpate,” to be presented at Bovard Auditorium next Thursday night, at 8:15.
The cast, the pick of dramatic talent at Southern California, has rehearsed under the direction of Miss Florence Hubbarod, until she has announced that she is well satisfied with the whole performance, and is confident that the production will set a new standard for college plays.
Sp^ech/'faas^'be^n"working wTthf TWENTY SIX^ARSTTY
MEN RECEIVE GRID AWARDS
Presentation of Sweaters, Footballs, and Passes Made By Coach Henderson
Here Are The Seven Keys
Rigt to left, top row: Miss Ruth Seaver, Ruth La Fontaine, Ravelle Harrison, Selvyn Levinson, Bill Hogue, Ray MacDonald; second row : Barton Hutchins, Bill Hansen, Dorothy Davif, Harry Rockerfeller, Clare Kaufer, Genevieve Mulligan; bottom row: Ralph Holly, Lawrence Cohen.
east for individual interpretation. Mrs. Fink’s ability along such lines is well known, and her work is only one of many efforts to make the presentation nothing short of professional.
Ray MacDonald, stage manager, stated yesterday that “Southern California will be surprised when they see the sets we’ve built for this show. They are the most complicated ever used on the Bovard stage, and we've spent a lot of time on them.”
At twelve o'clock today all uncalled for tickets, formerly reserved in fraternity and sorority blocks, will be put on general sale. Many organizations over-estimated the number of seats wanted, and consequently, many good seats will be obtainable, if purchased early.
The following talent is included in the cast: Ralph Holly, Dorothy Davis, Ellsworth Ross, William Hansen, Clare Kaufer, Genevieve Mulligan, Lawrence Cohan (no not George M.), Ruth La-Fontaine, Selwyn Levinson, William Hogue, Ravelle Harrison, Harry Rockerfeller, and Chester Mackie.
CAST WELL KNOWN Many of the above are well known in local dramatic circles, and some of the others, It is predicted by Ellsworth Ross, production manager, will be “finds."
“Those who were unable to get seats for the debate last week will appreciate the wisdom contained in the warning Buy Early!’ ” Mr. Ross stated yesterday. “We anticipate a sell-out, not only because the play is widely known and well advertised, but because only one performance is to be given. And remember—this may be your last chance to laugh until next semester! The exams aren’t far away, and you’ll need a little relaxation, so don’t forget —buy early.”
The demand for seats from off the campus people is unusually large.
Norman Jacobs and his Collegians have been secured to furnish syncopation between the acts of the performance. The orchestra is one well known in collegiate dance circles for its irresistible brand of dance music.
RADIO FANS WILL HEAR GLEE CLUB
Radio fans of Southern California have a real treat in store for them tomorrow night from 7:30 to 8:30 P. M. when the IJ. S. C. Glee Club “takes the air.” The concert will be broadcasted from the K .H. J. station in the Times Building.
The program will be very snappy with a great variety of college and popular gongs. Professor Cogswell has arranged to make this concert one of the best yet offered over the radio in this part of the state. The Glee Club, which is composed of twenty-five strong and “husky” voices, will sing “Cardinal and Gold,’’ ‘Trojan Marching Song,’’ “Kavanaugh,” the “Bugle Song,” “Heidelberg,” “More and More,” “‘Lucky Jim,” “Gypsy Love Song,” the Aimer Mater .and a few others, which according to Horace Judson, “we are saving for encores, even though it won't be possible to hear the applauding of our huge unknown radio audience.”
A quartet composed of Marcus Beeks, first bass; Phil Hohmann, second bass; Ray McDonald, first tenor; and Merrill LaFontaine, second tenor, will offer a few jazzy selections and the beautiful song “Bend Low Oh Dusky Night.” Solos will be rendered by Everett I/eighton who will sing the “Bandelero,” and Ixmis Silva, who is fast becoming one of the most popular radio soloists in Southern California, as is witnessed by the many requests for him to sing again in the near future.
A feature of the evening will be a reading by Ray McDonald, the “Sign of the Rose,” with all due apologies to George Beban. •
Twenty-six Cardinal and Gold sweaters, symbols of one, two or three years of football service to Southern California. were awarded to as many Trojan grid warriors in chapel hour Friday, none other than Elmer C. Henderson, recently resigned football coach of this institution, making the presentation.
It was a most impressive ceremony, and the deposed coach, making his final appearance in Southern California, received five minutes of solid acclamation from the students who gathered for the rally.
Eight of the twenty-six grid men who received sweaters, have just completed their final year of football for Southern California. These included Captain Johnny Hawkins, quarterback; Wallace Newman, full-back and tackle; “Norm” Anderson, tackle; Hayden Phythian. end; Otto Anderson, half-back; Johnny Riddle, halfback; Reginald Dupuy, guard; and Holley Adams, center. According to those present, ex-coach Henderson gave each of the 1924 squad a good send-off.
Those who received sweaters with a double circle on the sleeve, indicating two years of football playing, included “Honey” Earle, half-back; “Hank” Lefevbre, full-back; Fay Thomas, tackle, and next year’s Varsity captain; “Newt” Starke, end; Gene Dorsey, end; Ralph W. Cole, tackle, and Hobbs Adams, end. All of these will be back next year.
Those receiving their first Varsity
CLASSi POLITICAL MACHINERY OILED FOR ELECTION WEEK
All Classes Report Plenty of Candidates For the Various Offices; Few Go Uncontested to Election Ballots
ENGINEERS WILL HEAR R. A. GRANT
Engineering students are to have a special period Friday at ten o'clock in room 205, Hoose Hall, at which time they will be addressed by Robert A. Grant, Chief Engineer of the Southern California Telephone Company.
Mr. Grant will talk on his company's activities in Southern California, and will speak on its program for the expenditure of the twenty million dollar budget for the year.
Mr. Grant takes an active interest in college engineering students ,and according to Burdette Ives, who is in charge of the meeting, it should be worth the while of every student in
the department to attend. Incidental-sweaters included Morton Kaer. half- ]y he gays roll is l0 be.taken.
back; Ted Gorrell, guard; Brice Tay-1	'_____
lor, guard; Bob Lee, half-back; Manuel Laranetta. half-back; Bert Heiser. full-back; Eddie Green, quarterback;
Andrew Cook, guard; Allen Behrendt, guard, and Morris Badgro, end.
Ex-coach Henderson expressed his high esteem for the men who had made the 1924 football season the success that it was, and added that he felt that every individual team member had done his very best during the entire season for the uplifting of Troy.
TORCH AND TASSEL MEETS
There will be a meeting of Torch and Tassel in the offices of the Y. W. C. A. at noon to^ay.	•
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS
Le Cercle Francais will meet Wednesday night instead of Thursday on acc’ount of the conflict with the Junior play. The meeting will be held at the Pi Beta«Phi house. There will be the regular meeting, a program, refreshments and dancing.
PREXY WILL RETURN
President R. B. von KleinSmid will return to Los Angeles. Friday evening on the steamer “Kroon-land-’ via the Panama Canal and New York. Dr. von KleinSmid has been absent from the campus of the University of Southern California since November, during which time he has represented the United States government at the Third Pan-American Scientific Congress held at Iima, Pent. , ^ -i-—-
cNOTED SPEAKER AT CHAPEL TODAY
SPEECH ALUMNAE PROGRAM VARIED
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Evening of Plays Will Become Annual Affair Says Miss Hanna
TROJAN KNIGHTS
Trojan Knightg will have their last meeting of the semester Tuesday evening, Jan. 20 at the Phi Alpha house. Dinner will be served at 6 P. M. and every knight should be there, as officers for the coming term are to be elected. Many other important things will come up for consideration .
Necks” Issue Of Wampus
Has Many Illustrations
Pash cover .boiled insides .lots of nictures of funny boys and girls doing funny things with their necks—yes, it is next Thursday, January 27, that the Necks number of the Wampus is due. Its appearance may be guaranteed, as the printing press has not yet caught fire.
A galaxy of wit and humor (galaxy means lay-out—has nothing to do with the top balcony) is waiting for the prudent investor wiio deposits twenty-five cents with one of the members of the Wampus sales force, recently organized under the direction of Sam Gates. 'People who generally have qualms about parting with their money had better padlock their pockets before they buy a halfdozen copies to keep on ice as a safeguard against burnt fingers. Missourians are especially invited to be shown—because they will.
While the pictures are a liberal— or Liberal, take it either way—education in themselves, the written material is even worse—that is, even more
so. Although it is not the sort of thing that the engravings in the Encyclopedia Britannica would normally pick out as a dancing partner, it contains much varied and interesting, as well as entertaining, information.
Among the choicer bits are a passionate skit by Ercil Adams entitled “Her Compromise,” in which the author was forced to insert a strong moral lesson in order to carry off some of his stronger points, “The Swoon River Anthropology,” whose author denies emphatically that he is any relation to Snooky the Snappy Chimpanzee, “A Recipe For Necking.” “A Treatise on Cross-Word Puzzles,” which once and for all explains the connection between “What bit Cleopatra. in three letters,” and “part of the verb to be.” Then besides there is a full page dramatic section, and A Tragedy in Four Moving Acts.
The next number of the Wampus after the Necks number will be the All Greeks. Frats and sororities will be Delta line .and Alpha bets it’s a sell number, or words to that effecL
Alumnae of the School of Speech presented a program of one act plays Friday evening, January 16, under the auspices of Miss Tacie May Hanna’s class in Dramatics for High School Teachers. The committee in charge was composed of Helen Landers, Adelaide White, and Marian Underwood.
The first play on the program was “Embryo’ ’by Percival Wilde with the pupils of Arexia Jamgochian of Fairfax High School in the cast. This play ■was unusual in that it made use of black magic. Miss Jessie Way of San Pedro High School presented her pupils in “The Silken Bully.” The authors, Anne McIntyre Phillips and Michael J. Phillips, w7ere present at the performance of their play and were heartily received by the audience. The play was taken from a story by the same name by Michael Phillips in the Saturday Evening Post.
Jefferson High School presented “The Violin Maker of Cremona” by Francois Cappee with the pupils of Evelyn Dayman taking the parts of the various characters. In the place of “Q” by Stephen Leacock and Basil McDonald Hastings w’hich was to be given by Ethelynne Smith of Huntington Park, the School of Speech presented “Clipped,” a clever play in which the following took part: Vesta Owen, Helen Landers, William Hague, and Homer Merchant.
The Alumnae program was a decided success, according to Miss Hai.na and those who witnessed the plays, and hereafter will be an annual affair.
Dr. Sartell Prentice, well-known as a speaker for the National Security League and for the Red Cross, is to be the speaker in chapel today and Wednesday.
Dr. Prentice is very wrell known in his connection with the Nyack movement of which he is the founder. This movement is backed by a small group of men who feel “that the strength of America is the strength of its religious convictions,” and it has for its purpose the rallying of the citizenry of the country to the support of any organization, regardless of denomination, that is working for the building up of the moral fibre of the country. The movement was originated in Dr. Prentice’s study in Nyack, and he has been active in its cause for some time.
Dr. Prentice was a chaplain overseas during the war and has written two books, one “The Cloud,” dealing with the underlying causes and moral issues of war, and the other, “Padre,” a narrative of his own experience in France.
He is a graduate of Amherst College and Union Theological Seminary.
LOLLYPOPS ON SALE
Delta Zeta will sell lollypops on the campus today for the benefit of the A. W. S. scholarship fund.
An unusual number of candidates were reported in the political ring, after class meetings were held last Friday. Elections will be held Thursday and the results read at the production of “Seven Keys to Baldpate” that night. The only offices to go uncontested were the vice-presidency of the junior class, secretaryship of the junior and senior classes and the office of treasurer In the senior class.	,
A list of popular candidates was drawn up at the senior meeting of last Friday noon. Well known campus lights were nominated for each position, the roll including: for president, Bud Welin, Ernest Judson, and John Woods;; for vice president, Dorothy Haldeman, and Vivian Meade; for secretary, Dorothy Crowley; and for treasurer, O. K. Krause. Dorothy Crowley and O. K. Krause were unanimously chosen to fill their positions.
A report of the finance committee brought joy by its announcement of the greatly improved financial condition of the class ,the Senior-AIumni dance of last month being responsible for the change. Announcement was also made by Dorothy Haldeman of the expected arrival of the senior announcements. which she said, were entirely original in mftke-up.
Nominations for class officers were in order at the junior class meeting, Friday, January 16.
Marjorie Rice and Jennie Lee More were the lone nominees for vice-president and secretary .respectively. Ronald Snavely and Ray Elmquist will contest for the presidency, and Leroy “Red” Haynes and Leighton Dye will fight to hold the money.
The date of the junior prom was discussed but nothing definite was settled. A resolution was adopted to support the junior play, “Seven Keys to Baldpate” one hundred per cent.
Bill Stewart, Alvin Drum, Van. Johnson, and Grant LaMont are the four candidates for the sophomore presidency. At the same meeting, held last Friday in the Touchstone Theatre, Beth Baker, Eloise Larke and Cecilia Zolelin were nominated for the vice-presidency. Gladys Lee was unanimously chosen secretary, and Dave Davies and Lloyd Pantages are in the race for treasurer.
A report of interest was made by “Boots” Oudermeulen, of the traditions committee, “Boots” requested that all sophomore men appear in front of Bovard Auditorium Wednesday noon, wearing their shirts for an El Rodeo picture.
Willard Brown, president .appointed a committee composed of Van Johnson, chairman, Miarjorie King and Gladvs Lee to Investigate a suitable date for a dance to be held in the near future.
Freshman nominations which were held in the auditorium last Friday, noon proved to be unusually successful as evidenced from the promising group of candidates which were nom* inated at the recent meeting. Over two hundred students attended the meeting engaging in the spirited campaign and brilliant nomination (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)
NEW DANCE SCHEME MEETS FAVOR OF COMMITTEE
Future University Dances Will be Held On or Near Campus
At a special meeting of the A. S. U. S. C. Executive Committee held in the Tower, at noon yesterday, a summary of the points connected with the proposition of holding dance on the campus, was presented by Professor A. F. Blanks, acting for Dr. Karl Waugh. Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, important points in the communication included provisions for dance hall, proper chaperons, and a set closing hour. Under the new plan it will be permissable for certain exceptional affairs to be held off-campus whereas accommodations can be made for a more elaborate affair. The committee accepted the report unanimously.
The report as read by Professor Blanks was as follows:
January 13, 1925. Professor A. F. Blanks,
School of Speech,
Univrsity of Southern California.
My dear Professor Blanks:
I am giving you a summary of the points connected with the proposition to permit the holding of dances on the campus, in order that, as faculty member of the Student Body Executive Committee, you may take it up with the students. Dancing has heretofore been forbidden on the campus of the LTniversity of Southern California. Student dances given by classes or other University groups have been held in hired halls and club rooms, in different parts of the city, sometimes at considerable distance from the University. There has been considerable criticism of these dances, both from within and without the University. Among the criticisms may be mentioned the following: (1) Lack of control of the dance by the University group, permitting strangers and perhaps undesirable persons to enter and mix with the organization giving the dance; (2) lack of adequate chaperonage through which the University might exert beneficial supervision; (3) lateness of hours, the dances sometimes running beyond midnight, and even when they close at midnight, the distance from the campus J entailing sometimes an hour or more for the return trip to the University or the students’ homes; (1) the expense to the students necessitated by the high charges made by the hotels' and clubs that have dance halls to rent.
These criticisms touch upon real difficulties. and it is the hope of the University to help in the solution of some of these difficulties. To that end it ha,s been suggested that if the students would agree to cooperate in doing away with the cause of these criticisms, the University would, for its part, permit dancing upon the campus —that is to say, the Administration will offer the basketball pavilion and the women’s gymnasium for such dances as can conveniently be accomodated there, and will further arrange for the use of larger halls, when needed, in the immediate vicinity of the campus, such as the Armory in Eposition Park, making only such charge for these as will pay the cost of upkeep, such as lighting, cleaning, etc., provided the •students will agree to hold all dances in these designated paces on the campus. The students should agree also to such rules concerning closing hours
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Herman Peace Prize Award Attracts Great Audience
WOODEN HORSE ON WAY TO CAMPUS
PROFESSIONALS TO MEET
There will be an important, meeting of the delegates to the Professional Interfraternity Council at the Xi Psi Phi house tomorrow evening at 7:30. Some very important business will be taken care of, so please be there.
Before w’hat was probably the most notable gathering ever assembled In Los Angeles, the presentation of the Raphael Herman Peace Award of $25,-000 was made to Dr. David Starr Jordan in Bovard Auditorium last Friday afternoon.
William Gibbs McAdoo, candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, presided over the ceremony, which followed a reception in the parlors of the President at which Mrs. R B. von Klein-Smid was hostess.
Dr. Jordan gave a short speech in acknowledgement of the award, which was presented by Dr. Augustus O. Thomas, President of the World Federation of Education Associations. Mr. Raphael Herman, donor of the award, told of the plan of the contest. Other speakers on the program were Henry M. Robinson, prominent Los Angeles business man and a member of the Dawe’s reparation committee, Dr. R. A. Billikan, Nobel Prize winner of Caltech, and Col. Milton A. McRae of San Diego, a personal friend of nearly all the great American statesmen of
the present time and for many years a close friend of the donor.
Numbers on the program were given by the University of Southern California Band and by the Glee Club of Polytechnic High School.
The key-note of Dr. Jordan’s prize winning plan was that permanent peace can be brought about only thru education.
Mr. McAdoo, in his introduction, pointed out that both Mr. Herman and Dr. Jordan were Californians. He emphasized the fact that the jury was totally unaware of the names of the writers of the manuscripts and that it w'as made up of men of international reputation.
Mr. Robinson spoke on the peace project as a representative of the business men of the world, and expressed in behalf of them, his hearty approval and cooperation.
Dr. Millikan stated that he believed with H. G. Wells, that “civilization is a race between catastrophe and education,’ ’and said, “if this is true, all hope of progress is wrapped up in
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The belated “Wrooden Horse” will appear oh the campus .according to the latest information .either the last | of this week or the first of next. Date of publication for the first issue has been advanced several times, due to conflicts with dates for WTampus and other unforseen difficulties.
The first issue this year is the largest that has even been printed, and will contain about forty or fifty pages. Among the contents are: “Circe on the Campus” a story by Leslie Baird; ‘The Unanswered Call” a one act play by Consuelo Tachet; Poems by William Scotten, Ercil Adams, Philip Piazza. Bernard Breene, Leslie Baird; A dictionary or directory of various modern day literary personalities by Charles Casley; Reviews by Al Tachet and others; and an article on H. L. Mencken by the editor, Carey McWilliams. Several minor changes may be made but this grouping is substantially correct.
The magazine this year will appear in a new cover, it being more or less a custom of the editors to chanee the cover. Sale of the magazine is being arranged for by Chet Mackie, its business manager, and the time and date of sale will be announced later. The price will be the same this year as previous: twenty-five cents.