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Service Drive Ends Today; Do Your Bit
Vol. XV
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, May 1, 1924
Number 79
MOCK POLITICAL CONVENTION IN AUDITORIUM TODAY
Present “
COMPOSER AIDS PLAY DIRECTORS
Spring Maid”, Musical Comedy, Tonight 1000 STUDENTS PARTICIPATE
SERVICE CAMPAIGN CONTINUES TODAY AS DELEGATES FR0M STATES
RAISE ONLY S553 IN
APPEAR TONIGHT IN SPRING MAID
Dress Rehearsal Indicates Brilliant Show Tonight
LARGE TICKET SALE
Settings for Production to Be a Distinct Feature
By CHET MACKIE
Tonight the Opera Association . resents its first production, “Th£ Spring Maid,-* the famous musical comedy in which eighty students of the University are to take part. From the interest shown by the large sale of tickets, and after viewing the dress rehearsal last flight, it is certain that the show is to be the greatest musical production ever attempted in the history of the University.
Henry Reinhardt, composer of the music in “The Spring Maid,” is present at the University and 5 assisting in the direction of the p’ eduction.
l^ast night the cast ga e up the big dance at the Hotel Green and pract'c-ed until early this morning, putting on last touches to the show. The rehearsal went off well and progressed rapidly, there being few moments where the .interest slowed. The scenery is colorful and attractive. Ray MacDonald is giving it a setting deserving of much praise; it is rich and handsome and at the same time the best taste has been displayed in the arrangement of fabrics and the color scheme.
The scene of the first act is the courtyard >in front of the hotel at Carlsbad and several shops are grouped close to the hotel. On the right foreground is the famous Carlsbad spring. The first scene of the second act is a village scene. On the left side of the stage is the village inn around which are placed tables and chairs for the serving of beer. A barn takes up the right side of the stage.
The second scene of the sccond act is the forest scene with three trees and the fountain in the foreground. The last scene shows an open air theatre. Here Arch McGee, as a ham actor, ^urlesques Othello.
Marjorie Thomas, who is well known through her many appearances
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CONCERT SERIES FOR ORGAN WEEK
Noted Organists Appear Every Afternoon in Bovard Auditorium
Monroe Sharpless as “Aladar” and Marjorie Thomas as “Bozena,” leading characters in “The Spring Maid” which appears in Bovard auditorium
tonight.
FIRST 1 OF DRIVE
Two Thousand Dollars Set As Goal of Fund for Trojan In China
CASH DONATIONS ARE $232
REHEARSALS BEGIN FOR W FESTIVAL"
Spring Pageant to be Presented By Physical Education Department, May 15
“DIONYSIA'’ IS ITS NAME
Production to be Held on Old College Lawn Instead of Park
Organ week W to be observed next week with a series of afternoon concerts in Bovard Auditorium and nooi programs at Philharmonic auditorium. Many persons of note £>re to apponr in these concerts wmon are :c be free to the public.
The programs in Bovard auditorium are to be given at 4 o’clock ever/ afternoon. The following organists are to appear during the week:
Sunday, May 4, W. F. Skeele.
Monday. May 5, Mrs. L. C. McDowell.
Tuesday, May 6. Charles O’Harer.
Wednesday, May 7, Wm. E. Strof-ridge.
Thursday, May 8, H. E. J. Vernon.
Friday, May 9. Roy Brignall.
Saturday, May 10, Mabel Culver.
'Sunday, May 11, William Ripley Don with choir.
AT PHILHARMONIC AUDITORIUM
Monday, May 5, R. D. Becker.
Tuesday. May 6, Price Dunlany. •
Wednesday. May 7, D. W. Fitch.
Thursday, May 8, Wm. Killgrove.
Friday, May 9, Charles O’Harer.
Saturday, May 10, Dr. Roy Hastings.
Dress rehearsals for the May Festival which is to be given Thursday*1, May 15, will begin Monday afternoon, according to Miss Dorothy Doty, who is in charge of the production.
All material secured for the costumes is being dyed in order to conform with the color schemes to be carried out in the festival, t’ractically all costumes will be completed by the end of this week.
The pageant was originally to be given in Exposition Park but due to recent excavations of the plot chosen for production its presentation will be on the lawn of the old college.
“Dionysia” is the name of the pageant and was one of the most important of Greek festivale, held in honor of Dionysus, God of wine. The festival was held each spring as Dionysus recovered from his mid-win-ter madness and conceived the spring. It was celebrated with great profusion of flowers, songs and dances and bore the character of a national feast. This festival was the origin of the drama.
Ninety Students at Work Soliciting Subscriptions; Pharmacy Pledges Complete
By CLIFFORD LEES
At twelve o’clock yesterday, $553.25 had been subscribed to the Service Drive Fund. Of this amount $2-32.25 had been received in cash and the balance pledged. Although no definite tabulation has been made of the showing which is beSng made by the different teams, it was announced that the women’s teams are leading by a wide majority. The campaign continues today, closing this afternoon.
According to Lester Heineman. chairman of the Service Drive Executive Committee, the students will have to show more enthusiasm in the remainder of the campaign or the quota of $2000 will not be secured.
Approximately ninety students are working to secure pledges. Seventy-seven men and women were present ,at the dinner given in the cafeteria Tuesday night. After a short entertainment the students received their final 'instructions.
The College of Pharmacy handed their subscription in yesterday. Instead jf separate pledges,they subscribed in a group showing that they were 'back of the campaign.
There has been some misunderstanding as to the nature of the campaign by people who are new on the campus. Keeping a representative in the University of Peking is a university tradition, and was first established five years ago. It is strictly a student undertaking and its success relys upon the response the student body makes to the service drive. If two thousand dollars is subscribed a representative can be kept in China without asking aid from any outside organization. If the fund is not subscribed, then the committee must fall
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Senator Magnus Johnson to Deliver Short Address on L? Follette; No Nomination Expected in First or Second Ballot
By RALPH HOLLY
When the general chairman of the mock Republican Convention drops his gavel this moining at eleven o’clock in Bovard Auditorium he will call 1000 student delegates to order for the purpose of nominating a president and vice-president of the United States and to transact all business necessary to a poliUcal party undertaking a great political campaign. Forty eight states and five territories will be represented by their full and required delegations. Each state’s quota will be found in their respective places which will be designated by the large placards. Convention procedure will follow closely the real thing.
Senator Magnus Johnson, the farmer-labor leader of Minnesota will be a guest of the convention and he will deliver a short address on Robert La Follette.
To preserve order on the conven-
DATES, FORMAL TOGS TABOO AT PROGRESSIVE
Free Punch to be Feature Second All-University Informal
at
Ellsworth Ross and Selvyi^ Levinson who play principal parts in “The Greyr Overcoat,” Mystery play, in Senior Road, May 7.
MY SI ER Y PLA YLET ON ROAD SHOW PROGRAM
“Grey Overcoat' to be Only Dramatic Offering on Bill; Wampus Bachelors to Present “Horrors of 1924,”
Musical Comedy Take-Off
MONTHLY A.A.E. DINNER TONIGHT IN CAFETERIA
CHAIRMEN TO REPORT
State chairmen of the delegations to the political convention are requested to report to the auditorium at 10:30 this morning.
Members of the A. A. E. are to hold their monthly dinne rtonight at 6 o’clock in the University cafeteria. Ludlow, harbor engineer of Los Angeles Harbor, is to speak on the recent developments of the harbor. Lantern slides, showing past developments, are to be shown.
K. C. Mobarry% president of the A. A. E . is to announce tonight the date of the Engineers’ picnic and the time for the nomination of next semester’s officers.
Tickets for the dinner are fifty cents and from the large sale, a great many are expected to attend.
MUST BE DELEGATES
All those not ambitious to acquire chapel cuts are advised to cigi up urder ‘oire state delegation for t’oe Mock *',jnv ition to be held Thursday instead of chapel, as roll will be taken f< om the l?sts of delegates.
Annual Freshman Debating Contest To Be Held May 15
The annual Freshman debating contest for the Ames Cup given under the auspices of Delta Sigma Rho, honorary deoating fraternity, will take place Thursday, May 15. The preliminaries will be held Thursday, May S, and the finals one week later. during tne chapel period.
In the tryouts for this contest, the four best debaters will be selected. Ttf:se will be grouped into teat is tiiaoc up of two m*ia. each team inking different sides of the question: Resolved, That the preservation of the best interest of the Untei Stp.tes e’ema^ds the election of a Itevublican Fiesident in 1921.
Ccr> :;ictive speeches will bo six minutvs in length and rebiitta’s will be four minutes. The contest is not
based upon the side winning the debate and no dt« «;<.n is given in this oon nection. The one speaker who most ably prr-Eouts his arguments and re-
b.ittals v* ill bo awaided the cup, several judges leing used.
The Ames contest is an annual event, c‘ .gir-^ted bv Mr. Ames, a former U S. C. debater and memoer of Delta :-?igma Rho. Mr. Ames is denoting the cup to the best speik-er in the imals. The cup is left on .iisplny in the U. S. C. trophy casj for otic year after which it become* th personal property of the winner, whose na’ne is engraved upon it.
Further informa^on will be given later. All lrt^hmen desiring to iry out and who w*sh to 1-now furtner details are atked to consult any rr.e:uber of Deita Sigma Rho.
PLANS FOR ANNUAL BANQUET COMPLETE
Committee is Appointed to Sell Tickets; Meet Before Convention
By FREEMAN HALL
Selvyn Levinson and Ellsworth Ross, both of w lom portrayed their parts well in the “Extravaganza” of this year, will present the one act play,, “The Grey Overcoat,” as the ninth act on the Senior Road Show bill which is to appear next Wednesd^v night, May 7th. Levinson and Ross started acting together some years ago when both were enrolled in the Culver Military Academy in Indiana. Here Mr. Ross carried the lead in the "Man on the Box,” and "The Man without a Head,” and Mr. Levinson starred in “A Musical Proposal” and “A Night at the Inn.” Both took
--O leads in the annual Culver Frolics
and in the summer played on the road in Chicago representing the Culver Academy. In the dramatic club at Culver Levinson was president and Roes acted as secretary.
Coming to U. S. C. last year the pair appeared in various one act plays. Mr. Levinson had the lead in "Lonesome Like” which was given al the Touchstone Theater. This year both had parts in the “Extravaganza,” Selvyn Levinson having the purt of the Jewish salesman and Ellsworth Ross that of the cub reporter. Everyone who saw' the production said that these two were excellent.
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Plans for tie Junior-Senior banquet on May 16, are materializing rapidly, and from all indications it will be the biggest affair of the year. In order to make this event a big success the banquet committee wishes to see the following students in the student body office just before the political convention today: Carlton Morehouse, Yale Martz, Fred Berling-er. Bob Hutchins. Buster Du Puy. Bill Delphy, Bud W’elin, Bill Kinchloe. George Orme, Martha Smith, Katherine Cattell, Marguerite Matson and Helen Green
These people will handle the tickets for the banquet. Tickets $7.50 per couple. It’s worth all of that, according to those in charge of the affair.
HELD AT SAME HOUSES
Date for Affair Set for May 23;
Students Cards Are Necessary
‘ Bigger and better,” says the committee in charge of the second all-University progressive dance which students are now authorized to place in their date books for May 23, and the committee also adds in the same breath that punch will be free and favors are to be given.
Aside from the fact that it is to be bigger and better, this second progressive danc,e is to be a repetition of the successful all-University progressive dance held some time ago. The same houses, Pi Phi, Delta Gamma, Phi Alpha .Lambda Psi and Alpha Chi will be the scene of the gala event, and the Sophomore Executive Committee has promised to furnish the “punch that satisfies.”
Free punch should add considerably to the informality which has already been pre-ordained. Dating of course will again be strictly pass and formal togs are absolutely taboo.
Student tickets are the open sesame to a good time on May 23, and are the sole requirement necessary.
While good music is assured, the orchestras have not been selected yet and any orchestras wishing to play shoulc call up Evelyn Smith at the Dee Gee house and inform her of their ambitions in the matter.
Different men have been appointed to have charge of the different houses, one at each house, but the names of these men have to date not been announced.
Vollmer Speaker At Survey Club Meeting
The students of the University are invited to join with the sociology students in hearing an address by Chief of Police August Vollmer, Thursday evening at six o’clock, at the regular monthly meeting of the Survey Club. 300 S. OHve> St. Dinner will be served at $1.25 a plate. The Chief will speak on “The Policeman and Social Work,” and the meeting will be adjourned at 8:30 to allow students to keep other engagements. It it necessary to make reservations for this dinner, which may be done through Miss Burke, at the Sociology Office.
tion floor and to act as general sergeant sat arms two genuine policemen have offered their services. Captain Murray and Patrolman Kelly of the University station will be on duty today to reprimand neglectful politicians, if unmannerly tactics are used in the contention hall.
State representation numbers from one for Alaska to eighty-eight from New York. Each delegate will wear the official badge of the convention designating his state. All states will have one leader knewn as chairman and he will act as chief spokesman for his delegation. James Mussatti, presiding officer of the conclave will be seated on the stage surrounded by secretaries, clerks, pages, and press representatives.
Most significant to the assembled delegates will be the naming of the standard bearers of the grand old party in the coming campaign, but many other matters must first be discussed if the normal order of business is followed.
Managers for all candidates claim a victory. None claim a nomination on the first or second ballot, but by some political manuevering and demonstrations each expect to waver opposition. A surprife to many witnesses will be the strength that is expetttd to be shown following the naming of Robert La Follette. The name of the nominator of the senator is not known. Certain leaders
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HENRY VICTOR TO ADDRESS AD CUSS
Three Other Advertising Men Are Scheduled to Speak This Month
Spring Majid Tonight.
Subscribe to the Service Campaign.
DELEGATIONS FILLED
Students who signed up for state delegations after chapel Tuesday will find their assignments to state representations posted on the bulletin board in the foyer of the Administration building .this morning. Badges for delegates can now be obtained at the book store.
Ballet Of Twenty To Be
Feature Of Musical Play
One of the big features of “The Spring Maid,” the musical comedy to be put on tonight by the Opera Association, is the ballet of twenty of which Rosalind Wrilliamson is director. The ballet is to appear throughout the entire show in special numbers and in tne finale of each scene.
The ballet in one number in the second act portrays animals and here will tell the legend of the founding of the Carlsbad Springs. This scene will be a beautiful forest picture and a beautiful pantomimic dance will be dene. Special lighting effects and unique costumes will add color to this
number.
Rosalind Williamson will portray a rabbit; Dorothy Reel, a bird; Maxine Bettler, a parrot; Ruth Sampson, a bat; Jeanette Cecil, a moth: Dora Druce, a butterfly; Kathryn Ginsburg, a dragon fly; Helen Waldron, the hunter, and Marjorie Thomas, the fairy princess.
Besides the ballet’s numbers. Miss Williamson ■is to give several solo dances. Her big number is to come in the first scene of the second act when .accompanied by the Hungarian rhapsody, she impersonates Lady Twinkietoes, the royal court dancer.
Continuing the pan that was followed last semester, the Advertising Class will have a talk this morning by Henry Victor on “Street Car Advertising.” Mr. Victor is manager of production for the Pacific Railways Advertising Company, and is thoroughly familiar with his subject. All students who are interested are wel' come to attend the talk in Engineering during first period.
The second speaker to address the ad class this month will be Harold Scott, manager of the merchandising department of the Examiner. Hi« subject is to be. “Newspaper Merchandising Service.” and will cover rather completely this important branch of the newspaper of today. This talk will be given on May 8.
On May 15, the class will hear a
taik on “Advertising Campaigns” by Henry E. Millar, a prominent advertising agency man of os Angeles.
“Lithography'’ will be explained at length on May 22 by Howard I. Isom, advertising manager for 'the Western Lithograph Company. This talk is particularly interring because so few people understand the process according to Marc Goodnow, heai of the Journalism Department.
All these talks are given under the auspices of the Journalism Department and are for the purpose «f enabling the students of advertising to come in closer contact with the practical side of the advertising line. According to Mr. Goodnow the talks which have been given this year have been very successful.