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1924 Campus Frolics Presented This Week
Los Angeles, California, Friday, December 12, 1924
Number 31
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STARTS MONDAY
UNPRECEDENTED TICKET SALE FOR THIRD ANNUAL ‘FROLICS’
Beauty Chorus of Thirty-Six Coeds, Johnston Melodies, New Situations in Plot Should Make Campus History
By LINN UNKEFER
Show history will be made tonight in Bovard Auditorium, if we are to believe the enthusiastic comments of those who have seen the rehearsals of ••The Campus Scandals,” Southern California’s third annual Extravaganza.
The far famed beauty chorus of thirty-six co-eds, the marvelous melodies of Gene Johnston, a plot that is full of new situations, clever lines, and centers on a mystery that will make Her hang frantically 011 your arm—these are but a few of the things that the production staff promise you tonight and tomorrow night—for the “first time on any stage!”
"For the first time in the history of this university, seats for both performances are practically sold out in advance,” Ellsworth Ross, production manager, said yesterday. ‘ The tickets placed with the Wurlitzer company, downtown, have enjoyed a good sale to the general public. Some idea of the wide scope of publicity that the show has received may be had lrom the fact that articles have appeared in 30 neighborhood newspapers in the city, placards have been placed in 75 public schools and colleges, 25 libraries, 50 clubs and associations, and announcements have been sent to the II S. C. alumni. Representatives from the Orpheum and l’antages circuits who have seen the rehearsals are loud in their praise of the plot, music, chorus work, and the show as a whole. Rumors of proffered engagements from both circuits are persistent, and although it is improbable that such offers will be accepted, the fact that the offers were made speaks highly LA MONT DIRECTS for the quality of the show.
Those who have handled the direction of the production are well-known for their ability along such lines. Grant LaMont ,who has charge of the chorus, has directed ensembles of several hundred in various pageants in the east, and lias assisted in the staging of many presentations for theatrical companies. Hank McCann, director and author of the story, has been prominent in previous extravaganzas, and assisted in the direction of last year’s "Frolics.” Gene Johnston, musical director, wrote most of the music for last year’s show, and is knorwn throughout the south-west as a composer of note. He has organized a twelve-piece orchestra for the pit, j and has rehearsed them for the past month.
Three of Johnston’s numbers have been published, and will be sold at both performances for fifty cents. They are attractively bound in cardinal and gold covers, and are printed on a fine grade of paper.
Twenty-four ushers have been engaged, so that the audience may be seated early. Attractive 12-page pro-
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APPEAR AT RACES
TROJAN GLEE CLUB WILL TRYOUT FOR ORPHEUM CIRCUIT
Huntington Park Theater Scene Of First Performance On Wednesday Night
Professor Cogswell and his Trojan Glee Club will have their first tryout lor the Orpheum Circuit, in the Lyric Theater of Huntington Park, next Wednesday evening, at 8 o’clock. This theatre is the official testing block of the Los Angeles branch of the Orpheum Circuit.
‘‘As a result of many months of hard and earnest effort, the LT. S. C. Men's Glee Club has been whipped into shape, and at last is ready to present a twenty-minute act, which will be used on the Orpheum, and at the many theatres which have booked the club during the coming vacations. Many songs have been worked up, and many have been discarded because it was feared that the theatre-going public would not care to hear the same songs as \vould those people who are in the habit of going to glee club concerts. Professor Cogswell has chosen only the best in his repertoire for this initial try-out, as it will J>e this appearance which will determine whether or not the club will travel the circuit in the summer," said Manager Judson.
BEST JUDGES THERE “The Orpheum officials are so interested in the U. S. C. Glee Club that they have agreed to send their two western representatives to l>os An-geles on that night, in order that Professor Cogswell may have the best judges there.”
“The Trojan Glee Club has a great j many bookings for the week ends and | vacations to come, and it is hoped that this club will measure up to the ones which have gone before it. Never before has the club had such material as it has this year, and the spirit of the club in general is excellent. Mr. Don Fullem, « former Orpheum man, has been sent out to direct the 20-minute act which was written by members of the club, and it is with his help, that we have been able to secure such an earlv trv-out.”
A Few Shining '‘Scandals” Stars
I lie one and onl\ Mr. Henry McCann is doing sonic "villaining" for the “Scandals" stars.
ook scared, however. Baird Wrighter
Ruth Burns. Barbara Wilson, and Bobbie Martin do not says “F’eavens sake. <K "t.”
INTER-FRAT DANCE HELD FEBRUARY 3
Only seven ticket? to each fraternity is one of the most interesting and vital announcements concerning the Inter-Fraternity dance .to be held at the Encino Country Club, February 3. In all there will be only a hundred and sixty couples, and as the many unique features of the dance will make it one of the foremost social events, said Chairman Elmquist. and it is expected by the committee that the tickets will all be spoken for before Christmas vacation.
While plans for this affair are still in embryo, the committee, consisting of Ray Elmquist. chairman. Henry lefebvre. and Ed Green .have made known a number of interesting variations from the usual pattern of these dances. The dance is formal, but following the custom introduced last year there will be no corsages. The ten-piece orchestra, presided over by Dick Stith, will be relieved during the evening by a Hawaiian String Orches tra. During the evening a buffet supper will be served.
The favors are an entirely new idea, which cannot be disclosed for'fear some sorority may read and copy, according to one member of the com-n.ittee.
SUPPORT URGED
One week from today the rally for the Missouri game will be held. Beginning with the new year the 10:00 o’clock hour on Fridays will be given over the campus organizations to show what they can produce in the way of constructive entertainment.
Today the annual Bowen Cup contest is to be held and insignia v,on last year by the varsity debators will be awarded. Southern California students are urged to accord the same backing to these other student body activities that they have rendered to football.
NED LEWIS.
Pres. A. S. U. S. C.
DR. WALLER SPEAKS AT SENIOR CLUB
Organization Given Preference On Appearance; Wins Out Over Many Contenders
The University of Southern California band has been selected to play at the National Championship Auto Races which are being staged at the new Culver City race track next Sunday. The band was chosen from among many organizations in Southern California because of its snappy appearances before the sporting public at the Trojan football games this year .according to Hal Roberts, manager of the band.
The band will play at Grandstand A from 12:00 to 1:00 P. M., and will then take part in a huge ceremony for the dedication of the new race track which is considered the fastest and best in the country.
The Trojan band, according to Roswell Allison, manager, has made over thirty public appearances so far this season. Besides accomplishing something which no other college band in the country has ever done in transporting eighty men over five hundred miles to a football game, the band has appeared a*t many functions including the Optomists’ Club banqquet at the Biltmore hotel, several local theatres, all student rallies and football games.
Mission Art Forms Motif
Of El Rodeo Publication
Mission art, in keeping with the name of the book and the location of the institution which is publishing it, is to feature the 1926 El Rodeo, according to a statement made yesterday by Randall Duell, art editor. This motif will be observed throughout the book, both in the plates and in the lettering.
The architecture department of the university is in charge of the art work. Assisting Duell in his big job is Bud Morehead, the president of the Architectural Society. The architects are all back of the work and have already shown their loyalty to it by subscribing to it 100 per cenL Every man in the department has secured his El Rodeo ticket. “WTe’ll not have any' trouble in getting the work done.” said Duell yesterday. “The men are all ready and anxious to help us with it.”
Most of the work will probably be done by upperclassmen but the underclassmen will have a fair opportunity to contribute. According to the plans of the art editor, the different plate’s will be given to chosen men who will turn in suggested sketches from which
will be chosen the best, these to be developed for the annual by the contributor. Much of the work will be in by the first of the year a_c the architects have been working on their problems for over a week now.
Although the actual drawing work commenced only a week ago, Duell has been doing preparatory research work for quite a while. Instead of looking over the yearbooks of other j universities and using the ideas found there, he has gone straight to the sources of different kinds of architecture. “I'm not referring to any an-j nuals but am going straight back to the originals,” he said. Much of his material has been obtained from the Bergstrom library in Los Angeles, the best architectural library west of Chicago according to many authorities, and one of the best in the United States.
A number of the “old-timers” who have worked on El Rodeos in the past have come to offer their services to year's work the best that has yet been turned out at Southern California.
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LAW FRESHMEN TO HAVE FIRST DANCE
By AUBREY IRWIN
Law Freshmen will stage their first get-together Friday night, December 19, when they will hold a reception for the entire Law student body and members of the Pre-Legal Society at the Oakmont Country Club in Glendale. The event will establish a new era in the social history of the Law School.
Being composed mostly of a group of active students who realized the need of reviving campus spirit, the Freshman class, headed by Bill Barber. has set out to start things going.' While several measures .already adopted, have aided in the promotion of this new spirit, they have been confined within the bounds of the class itself. This dance, it is hoped, will have a tendency to unite the institution as a whole.
The design of the affair is of a triple nature; to weave the atmosphere of Christmas into a merriment
That for economic reasons Japan would not go to war with the United States was the opinion voiced by Dr. Frederick Waller in his address before the History and Political Science Club Wednesday evening. Conditions
in the Philippines, China, Japan, Austria, Germany, and Italy in their political and economical aspects were explained by the speaker who was himself in those countries before and after the war. He cited pitiful examples of the results of the war and of the currency depreciation stating, however, that those countries suffering in that way were after all responsible for their condition.
After the talk Dr. Waller answered questions asked by various members of the society. That the hatred and awe with which American prosperity is held by the Germans still continues, and that no solution for the South-European war problem appears possible were some of the answers given to questions asked.
Besides the talk by Dr. Waller the evening's entertainment consisted of two songs by Grieda Carroll, a paper on the History of Ice Cream, by Helen Perrelli, and three selections on a Chinese Harp playred by Mr. Wong, a new member of the club.
STAFF HEADS PREDICT RODEO SALES GREATEST IN HISTORY
Law, Dental, Architecture Subscribe 100 Per Cent Quota; Sale Price to Raise in Three Weeks; $200 in Prizes Given to Subscription Teams
By PEGGY MOORE
“The largest sale of yearbooks ever staged in any institution of higher learning west of the Mississippi.” is the prediction of Burdette Ives, regarding the sale of El Rodeos to start on this campus Monday morning. Over five thousand copies of the book will be printed this year which is a great increase over last year’s allotment.
The sale will be under the direction of tbe El Rodeo sales manager, Burdette Ives, and his three assistants. Jimmy Robertson. Neil Harvey and Ed Barker. Four teams, of ten men each, will be appointed to carry on the drive, ... ......reach team forking under one of the
CROWD EXPECTED TO ATTEND ANNUAL BOWEN CUP FINALS
Nine Speakers Will Try For Recognition in Debate Conflict
One of the greatest crowds ever to attend a Friday' Chapel is expected at today’s meeting, at which time the nine candidates for the six Bowen Cups will take part in the annual Bowen Cup contest. Great plans for this event have been made by Ray Brennan, debate manager, and his assistant, Sam Gates, and there is little doubt entertained as to its success. Cups will be presented immediately after the decision is rendered.
Those who will speak this morning are Lloyd Griffiths, Sam Gates, Lel-land Tallman. Wm. Henley, Stephen Fargo, Art Freston, A. Schilling, Elliot Hendry, and Miss Rosita Hopps. These nine will meet at 8 o'clock this j morning in the debating office for | final instructions, assignments, sub-
J To stimulate interest in a competi-
| tive nature, the business men of the
down town stores have offered $200 in prizes to the person or persons on j the committee selling the greatest | number of subscriptions. Just what I the prizes will be has not as yet been j determined. “It may be a suit of clothes or hiking boots,” says Burdette Ives, “or even a free ticket to a dance, but at any rate it should be worth trying for.”
The sale which is to start at Liberal Arts on Monday, has already gone over one hundred per cent at Law, Dental and the College of Architecture. Last year, during the drive, only twenty per cent of the Liberal Arts students bought subscriptions, but it is hoped that this year they will forestall any danger of being disappointed at the last moment, by subscribing early.
LATE SALES HIGH During the drive which wiU begin Monday, December 12, and continue through next week and the two weeks following Christmas vacation, subscriptions for the book will sell at
, $4.50. $3.00 of which is to be paid now topics, and speaking positions, and ,	a .• _
_ v	.. ... ....	and the remaining $l.o0 upon delivery
j of the book. After the three weeks
I drive has closed, however, it is an-
| nounced the sale price will be $5.00
Another feature^of the drive will be
the presentation of a small pin, bear-
j ing a miniature El Rodeo, to each
subscriber. It is expected, by those ia
charge, that this will do away with
' the idea of approaching the same per-
! son more than once, as has so often
beeu the case in former drives.
Ray states that it is absolutely neces sary that all taking part be on hand.
The judges of the contest will be Merle McGinnis ,of Huntington Park High School; Professor Harley, and Lester Burton Rogers .dean of the School of Education. These three will make their decisions at the close of the contest. Prof. Xichols will preside.
AWARDS ARE PRESENTED
As a special feature of the chapel today, debating honors and awards to last year's winners will be presented. The six Bowen Cups .won last year, will be given their winners, and debating pins will be awarded to those earning them in inter-collegiate debates laslt season. Those who will receive one of the much-cherished and extremely valuable Bowen Cups include Ray Brennan, Willard Schurr, Art Syverston, Adna Leanord, Manuel Ruiz, and Jerry Mayo. Debating pins, bearing the Southern California insignia. will be awarded to Ray Brennan, Art Syverston, Adna Leanord, Manuel Ruiz, Jerry Mayro, Ned Lewis, Bill Barber, Bernard Brennan, and. Al Griewe.
According to Ray Brennan, today's
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On January 9. a special chapel will be given over to El Rodeo. At this time a play and snappy program will be presented. Ellsworth Ross, who is in charge of the affair refuses to give forth any information regarding the production until a later date.
PRESS DINNER GIVEN AT CHATEAU CAFE
Members and Trojan Staff Are Invited; Ted Cook \A^ill Speak
Why Not Have Tom Wamp In Your Home Christmas?
By HELEN SCHEUER
If you want to give the sheba or shiek a Christmas present that she or he will appreciate more than anything else—give a U. S. C. Kitty. No,
of superb excellence; to develop the	the furry, scratchy variety—but
feeling among those Pre-Legal stu- j the genuine Tommy Wamp kind which dents now contemplating a legal ca- j wil1 appear on the campus December reer, to probe that I-aw is a live in- j 1* just before Christmas vacation, stitution ;and to draw the entire Law What better example of Trojan <wit student body together as a group witfi can you take home—than this repre-a common interest.	; sentative student magazine which
DANCE COMES FIRST	your whole family as well as home
Many social functions have been f friends can enjoy? planned among the diffeffrent campus Wampus publishers are more en-groups for that night; but, according thusiastic than ever over this edition to Barber and his social committee, as they feel that the work therein none will equal this Oakmont affair, would be hard to be surpassed by any The club quarters have been reserved similar college publication.
for some time and many novel ideas j and features are being planned by the i committee. From orchestra to decorations, each detail will be the last min-: ute in quality and style, with special attendants to servo for every need, j Those who are authorities in the
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Wrampus cover will be on display soon in the book store. The magazine will go on sale early Thursday morning.
Some of the feature articles are: “Cinema Hodge-Podge,” by Al Tachet j time. ’23: “Hedge Reverse,” a football story j $2.25.
with local color by Okey King, last year’s Wampus editor; “Tee for Two," a short golf story' by Al Wesson ’24,
Wampus editor for 2% years and an adventure of Willie Live by “Teet”
Carle ’24, Trojan editor last year.
Grady Setzler ,Wampus editor, asked that everyone sign his work, so due credit can be given. He also said, “Because of the mass of good material from alumni writers, which filled so much space, much of the material from the undergrads like all Examiner, cats, will show up later. Timorous contributors are asked not to lose hope.”
Members of the Press Club of the University will hold their second dinner of the semester next Tuesday evening at the Chateau Cafe, as announced by Ralph Holley, president. All members of the Press Club, as well as other members of the Trojan staff, are invited to attend.
An interesting program has been planned, with Ted Cook of the Examiner staff, as speaker of the evening. Mr. Cook is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Journalism and is thoroughly sympar Lhetic with the college students’ attitude. He has spoken to the club before, at which time he was employed by the Los Angeles Record. Later he became associated with the William Randolph Hearst interests as conductor of the “Coo-Coo" column in the
Reservations for dinner, which is to be offered at 95 cents a plate, may be made through Ralph Holley, presi-
lt is suggested that students take’ dent; Chet Mackie, secretary; or Dot advantage of the holidays and pre-l Crowley, vice president of the organi-pare food for Wampus as he will be zation. Dot Crowley, acting as social
hungry after the holidays.
500 extra copies of this Old Grad's
chairman ,is responsible for arrangements for the dinner, which will be
edition will be printed so that alumni served promptly at 6:30 o’clock. The may be assured of receiving copies. Chateau is located on Ihe northwest Subscriptions may be obtained at any * corner of Witmer and Shatto streets. The price for 12 issues is All reservations must be in the hands
I of the committee by Monday noon.
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