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Vol. XV
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, May 15, 1924
Number 85
SPRING PAGEANT GIVEN TODAY AS MOTHER’S DAY FEATURE
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Campus Politics Open With Class Elections
CANDIDATES FILETeTITIONS F FOR A.S.B. ELECTIONS TODAY
College of Commerce Holds Special Assembly Today for Nomination of Officers; Executive Committee Makes Appointments Tuesday
GUP TRYOUTS TODAY
JUNIORS OFFER TWO PRIZES FOR CONTES7
lodaytimm PROCEEDS HELP ~\ TO BUILD WOMEN’S GYM
Syvertson, Ruiz, Leonard, Cohen Chosen by Elimination For Final Test
CANDIDATES FOR CLASS OFFICES FOR NEXT FALL For Senior Class President: Warren Parmelee anti Holly Adams.
Vice-Prefcident: Marguerite Matson and Virginia Thompson.
Treasurer: Carleton Morehouse, Ernest Judson, and Yale Martz. Secretary: Peggy Sauber, Caroline Leonard, and Jeanette Cecil.
For Junior Class President: Ravelle Harrison, Burdette Ives, and William Moore. Vice-President: Eleanor Rohr and Dorothy Martin.
Secretary: Margaret Farlow and Clare Kaufer.
For Sophomore Class President: Al Mainland, Frank Ferguson, and Art Freston. Vice-President: Helen Morgan, Elizabeth Baker, Evah Ellis, Mary Kane, and Gladys Lee.
Treasurer: Donald Tapley, Lester Heilman, and Ralph K. Beall. Secretary: Eleanor Veale and Eloise Parke.
HOLD COMMERCE ASSEMBLY TODAY
First guns in the big political battle which is coming up on the Trojan campus will be sounded this morning at nine o’clock when polls open for the annual spring class selection. Above is a list of the candidates who are in the running for class offices next fall. Only one office will be uncontested, Le Roy Haines having been chosen unanimously to handle the cash for the future Junior class. This is the first time in many elections that only one office has gone without a scrap for usually several offices are filled by unanimous choice.
But class elections are only an eye 9 opener to the big booming which is to occur during the weeks to come.
Already the campus is infested with student politicians seeking signa tures to petitions for today petitions are due. The Executive committee sends out the word today that this year the rule, stating that petitions must be in a week prior to nominations, will be enforced. So with the setting of Old Sol this evening the forces for the battle will be fully marshalled.
Politics get another boost along the road to the spotlight of student interest when the College of Commerce holds nominations for officers of that school at a special assembly at 11 o’clock this morning.
With the close of elections this afternoon, the campaigning for student body elections will start for in spite of the fact that petitions are flooding the campus, student body politics will suffer a brief relapse.
Tuesday evening brings forth the first dope on who will be at the head of the student body next year.
The Executive Committee will ap-
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Commerce Students Excused From Regular Chapel At Eleven
Commerce Club officers for next year will be nominated today in a special Commerce Assembly in the Old College Chapel at 11 oclock. Pe«-titions for the candidates have been circulating for several days among the students of the college. Today’s meeting will see the introduction of the candidates.
Mr. C. A. Gummere, an authority on financial matters and a special <ec-lurer ir the college .will speak. Mr. Gummere b*»s appeared before Commerce student? before in various kinds jf meetings and has always been received with enthusiasm by his liste.) ers.
Amot'fc other things that wM te brought up in the Commerce Assem-will be a complete announcement of
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IProf. D. Walter Morton, newly ap-
Debate Manager Tuesday,
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for the various offices.
Now comes, the political dope as rumor has it, for only a few of the candidates have nad their petitions circulating freely. Some have been quiet on the matter and so it is hard to state today just who is in the race for each of the offices.
For Student Body president, only one man has come forth with a state-
So also will Dr. Rockwell D. Hunt, the retiring dean .and prof. Emery E. Olson, director of the Metropolitan Division of Commerce. Lyman Johnson, president of the Commerce Club, will make the introduction.
All Coipmeree students are expected to attend today’s assembly. Roll will be taken so that thOiie who are not
AWARD GIVEN BY AMES
Cup to Remain in Trophy Case Of University Before Given Out
Four U. S. C. Freshmen will meet in Bovard Auditorium today at chapel hour for the purpose of carrying on an oratorical battle and determine which Freshman has the most convincing speaking qualities. Arthur Syvertson, Masual Ruiz, Adna Leonard. Jr.. and Harry Cohen were chosen in the elimination manner out of ten applicants to compete in the final tryouts for the Ames Freshmen D-bating Cup, which is given annually by Delta Sigma Rho, honorary debating fraternity
This year’s question is, “Resolved, tnat the preservation of the best interests of the United States demands the election of a Republican president in the coming political campaign. Syvertson and Leonard will take the affirmative, and Ruiz and Cohen will uphold the negative side of the question. Three of these men will be eliminated in the final tryouts today, and the winner will be awarded: the cup by a representative of Delta Sigma Rho fraternity. The cup will be awarded to the winner, but it wTill' remain in the University trophy case for a year, and then it becomes his private property.
Victor Colburn, last year s winner, will receive the cup w'hich he won last year, and which now becomes his personal property. Three pledges to Delta Sigma Rho will also he presented at the exercises today. These men are Al Griewe, Bill Moore and Ray Brennan.
Neal Ames, an alumnus of U. S. C. is responsible for this annual event, and is the person who awards the cup. He will be present at the contest today, and will deliver a short speech. Ames was one of the best known men on the campus when a student of U. S. C. He was prominent in forensic affairs, having won the Bowen cup, and captured many other debating honors. He is past president of the Alumni Association, and an honorary
member of Delta Sigma Rho.
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Reservations Going Rapidly for Annual Junior Play; Rehearsals Are Being Held Daily Under Direction of Miss Voorhees and Miss Hubbard
More persons have entered the ticket selling contest for “The Boom erang,” the popular comedy to be presented by the Juniors May 29th in Bovard auditorium, and according to George Orme, manager of the show’.
ticket sales have increased rapidly.
The ticket selling contest began last week with twenty men and women starting off in the race for the two prizes to be given to the two best ticket sellers. The first prize will be twelve dollars and the second prize eight dollars.
Ellsw’orth Ross, who is handling the publicity for the play, reports that articles which have appeared in downtown and district papers an nouncing the forthcoming presentation of “The Boomerang” on the Trojan campus have created a wide interest among outsiders and have resulted in a demand for tickets. The management states that it is giving the student body the option on the best seats, but announces that
choice reservations are going rapidly.
Rehearsals are being held daily under the direction of Miss Mtidred Voorhees and Miss Florence Hub-hard of the School of Speech. This the fourth week of rehearsal and according to the directors, the play is progressting satisfactorily.
Arthur Hornblow, dramatic critic of the Theatre Magazine and an authority on the drama, said the following in commenting on the play: “ The Boomerang’ is a simple, pleasing little comedy. Altogether' it is a veritable triumph of that skill that makes something out of every scrap. The characters are conspicuously interesting, and the play certainly can be counted among Mr. Belasco’s successful productions.”
Greek Festival to be Presented Under Auspices of Physical Education Department, Featured by Colorful Costumes and Dances
By DOROTHY HERRIMAN
The Dionysia, U. S. C.’s first attempt at establishing an annual spring pageant, will be the chief attraction on the campus today when a hundred co-eds, dressed in costumes symbolizing spring and the ancient Greeks, dance forth on the lawn of the Old College at 3:30.
0 The pageant will also be a feature
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Trojan Mothers Are to be Honored Guests of University Today
PLAN SPECIAL FEATURES
Day s Program Will End With “Mother and Son’' Banquet At Y Hut
ALMA WHITAKER TO SPEAK AT DINNER
Last Press Club Dinner of the Year to be Held on May 20
Idyllwild Inn will probably be the scene of the final rendezvous of the
Press Club members and Trojan staff reporters on Tuesday, May 20, when the last meeting of the year will be held.
In response to the demand for a new and novel banquet hall, other than the Green Lantern, Idyllwild Inn, near Sycamore Park, on the boulevard to Pasadena, was chosen.
Alma Whitaker .noteworthy feature writer on the Times, and a prominent Los Angeles society woman, has been secured as the speaker of the evening.
Marquis Busby, president of the organization, urges all members and reporters to sign up in the Trojan office and be on hand Tuesday for the event.
Tickets are priced at $1 and may be secured from Peggy Moore. Kling Stoddart, Marquis Busby or Marguerite Matson.
FIVE ORCHESTRAS FOR PROGRESSIVE
Music Promises to be Special Feature of the Affair
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ment that he is in the race. This | in their places in the regular chapel is Hal Williamson, who had charge in Bovard Auditorium will be excused of all rallies this year as chairman of the Rally Committee. Williamson’s petition went the rounds yesterday. He has been active on the campus for several years, having been Sophomore president, and a member of the Executive Committee. the tennis team, the Trojan Knights and of Skull and Dagger.
After having tossed the names of Johnny Hawkins and Solly Seamons around for some time, Dame Rumor has settled on one man as Williamson's opponent. This is Ned Lewis debate manager ofr U. S. C. this year.
Lewis has not come forward with a statement that he will run but many of his friends believe he wil enter the race. Lewis also has been act'^e in campus affairs .especially in debating, and is a member of Sigma Sigma and Skull and Dagger.
Vice-president has one candidate for certain, this being Martha Smith, at present secretary of the student body.
However, some have hinted that Mary Taylor .president of the student body at music, will enter the race. Others have mentioned the name of Gertrude Street as a possible candidate.
Two are in the race for secretaryship of the student body. These are:
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Senior Announcements Ready For Distribution
Senior Commencement announcements are here and ready for distribution at the Associated Students Store, according to Art Metcalfe. It will be necessary for all Seniors to bring their receipts or wait until after those who ordered announcements have gotten theirs. A limited number of both the leather and paper covered booklets, which will be sold at 55c and 20c, only are available.
Junior-Senior Sport Hop
To Bring Classes Closer
By GRADY SET2LER
Conforming with the weather, lat-West styles, and unanimous wishes of all parties involved, a sport dance elite, flavoring of the snappiest college atmosphere, will be given at the Hotel Alexandria, June 7. This popular form of springtime hopping will set a new precedent in the otherwise form of the staid and stiff Junior-Senior banquet, and will tend to bring the classes closer together. It is generally being adopted in Universities where the Senior and Junior classes are so large that no one enjoys the affair, and if they did, perhaps could not find a dining hall large enough to accommodate.
With a U. S. C. Senior class of almost six hundred, it	be almost impossible for the Juniors to entertain at a formal banquet, and with such a dismal prospect in view an dthe high price of feasting places, it would not be expected that
more than a handful of Juniors would appear.
In order that the entire Senior class may be entertained royally, only one hundred and twenty-five Junior tickets are to be sold. Any Senior who wishes to go, may sign up with either of the class president*!, Buck Oudermuelen, or Johnny Woods. Seniors may bring anyone, the dates not being confined to the two classes. Seniors are also reminded that they are the entertainees, and every Senior is urged to attend, and help swell the success of the function, which, according to the program committee, is to be one of the loudest outbursts of every Senior's var ied life. ,
According to Johnny Woods, the affair is to be sport to the extreme of real comfort, and unanimous observance is demanded. All Juniors must get. their tickets immediately.
SANDRO BOLTICELLI TICKETS ON SALE
Other Numbers Included in Program Presented by Italian Club
Although the date of presentation has been postponed, tickets for “Sandro Bolticelli,’' a play by Philip Pizza, will go on sale Tuesday. The play, which is to be given by the Italian Club in the Touchstone Theater, with Clare Kauffer and Ellsworth Ross, seen in “Poor Old Jim,” taking the leading parts. Between acts the School of Speech and probably some of the Denishawn dancers will present numbers.
Enough research has gone into the writing and production of this play to make the details as finished as a de Mille movie, it is said. The play opens with a feast tableau in the hall of Lorenzo the Magnificent, in the year 1475, which is expected to. turn out better than the similar scene in “The Ethernal City.” The club is furnishing costumes for the event, while true Renaissance settings are being obtained Ifrom the Western Costume Company.
To put at ease the minds of students vrho have been wondering whether the music for the all-University Progressive Dance will be inspirational to dancisg or inspirational to leaving, the committee in charge has selected five orchestras which promise to produce the most toe tickling music on May 23, ever heard on any campus.
Although the committee has not yet appointed any one orchestra to any particular house, it reports that these orchestras have been engaged: Theta Sigma Nu, Jenkin’s from Dental, Gamma Epsilon, W. E. Seiphey and Phi Kappa Tau.
Favors so clever that to chose them requires lengthy deliberation on the part of the committee are under consideration, and Recording to description, they threaten to destroy any undue decorum that may exist in sji'te of keen music, student-ticket pass keys and plenty of beverage.
Introductions necessary to a good time for all will be performed at the A'.phi Chi house by Ronald Snavely, at the Pi Phi by Bob Green, at the Lambda Psi by Bill Friend, at the
De'.ta Gamma by Frank Beckman, and at the Phi Alpha by Red Haynes.
of the first Mother's Day which the University is sponsoring and which it is hoped will -become an annual affair. Proceeds for the pageant wil) be used as a sinking fund for tht new women’s gymnasium which U. S. C. is greatly in need of.
The pageant is being presented under the auspices of the Women’s Physical Education department. Miss Dorothy Doty, former pupil of Nor ma Gould, has been coaching th« girls for the past three months until the festival '-«uj beauty and fin By FREEMAN HALL	ish. The girls who have solo danc-
If a Trojan were to pass by the; es in “The Dionysia” are pupils of Y. M. C. A. hut tonight about six Norma Gould. Music for the pro-o’clock he would probably see a duction wil! be furnished by four strange sight—a group of perhaps a young women in the University,
COMMERCE SENIORS
Italian Movies Will Be Shown at Meeting
The Italian Club will meet tonight at the home of Dr. Collins, corner of 23rd Street and 2nd Avenue, to see Italian motion pictures which will in-clcde a play by Shakespeare, “Sandro Botticelli,” by Philip Pizza, the play which is to be presented soon by the club, is to be taken up and the business concerning it settled.
All Seniors in Commerce are requested to file their photographs in the College of Commerce office. This is necessary for the permanent records of the office and also for future references which the staff may be called upon to supply.
hundred or more Trojan men and their mothers dining and chatting together would greet his eyes. It has been the aim of the committee in charge of this ‘‘Trojan Mother’s Day” to make the day a campus tradition1, as they feel that it would be a beautiful custom to entertain a Trojan mother at the college for ne day, showing her how the school is run and what a wonderful place the University is.
Even though the d?y the Trojans have reserved for their mother is not in accordance with the national observation of the day, this detail should not in any way lessen the pleasure which the Trojan will have in showing his mother through the college. The admirable part of to day’s program is the spirit with which the women of the school have responded to the call for entertainment. Beginning at eleven o'clock a special Mother’s Day chapel is being held under the auspices of the Associated Woman’s Student Body. One of the features of the chapel will be the final tryouts for the Ames debating cup in ^Icn some of the best speakers in the freshman class will appear.
After the assemblage comes a luncheon on the lawn of the Exposition park. It is through the courtesy of Mrs. von KleinSmid that a charming reception is being planned by the University Women’s Club for the mothers. The reception will be held in the University parlors. Entertainment is also going to be provided.
In the afternoon comes one of the special entertainments and features of the day—the presentation of “Dionysia,” the spring pageant by the U. S. C. Athletic association. The: two dollar admission charged for the 1
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Grace Raoul, Bernice West, Jane Kennicott, and Marion Sischo, and some of the loveliest musical selec tions will be used.
“The Dionysia” is one of the oldest and most important of ancient Greek festivals and was held in honor of the god of wine Dionysus. It was held each spring as Dionysus recovered from his mid-winter madness and intensely conceived the spring. It was celebrated with solemn processions, profusion of flowers, songs and dances, and bore the character of a national feast.
Part one opens with a solo dance by Aurora, interpreted by Xevin Packard. This is followed by the Four Winds dance, Helen Sherman, Sidonia Chassanoff, Etta Stewart and Helen Ingles taking the part of the winds Zephyrus, Natus, Boreas and Eurus. A solo dance, Rain, is next danced by Marjorie Vawter, and is followed by the Rainbow dance composed of sixteen girls. The Sun Dance is next with Marjorie Vawter, Jane Maas, and Edwina Vawter. The first part closes with a solo dance by Evelyn Crist, as the Mes senger of Spring, who comes to herald the Spring dancers. During the Spring Dance Jane Maas takes a solo part.
The second part of the pageant which is supposed to be laid in the Forest near Attica, Greece, opens with the dance of the Vestal Virgins who enter with the sacred flre, and is followed by the Greek Frieze. The three solo dances of part two come next, the Bow and Arrow dance being interpreted by Marjorie, the Pastoral by Edwina Vawter, and the Warrior dance by Grace Adams. The Bacchanal comes next and the pageant closes with the Ensemble.
Six College Glee Clubs Combine For Concert Here
ALPHA KAPPA DELTA TO HOLD ELECTIONS FRIDAY
Tickets for the intercollegiate glee club concert to be held Friday night at the Pasadena High School are on sale at the bookstore and from the number that have been sold, a gTeat many from U. S. C. are planning to attend. The concert is being given under the auspices of the Pasadena Jubilee Association and six Southern California colleges, Redlands University, Pomona, Occidenta. Whittier College, Caltech and U. S. C., are to be represented. i
The program will be made up of several selections from each glee club, and the final numbers will be an ensemble of the six clubs and will be directed by Horatio Cogswell of the College of Music, director of the U. S. C. singers. The ensemble will consist of 155 voices and it will be the iirst time in California that such a number of college glee club men have been heard.
The concert Friday night marks the first step in carrying out the plans of
the intercollegiate glee club conference which was formed last fall at the Vista Del Arroyo Hotel, Pasadena. Tjhe purpose of the conference Is to further a better cooperative spirit between the glee club and the student body through competition with other universities.
The president of Caltech Glee Club is president of the conference, and the director of the Redlands singers Is director of the conference. Plans are now under way for a series of competition to be held similar to the manner of athletic competition. Each school will meet, the other two or three times during the season. The winner will be chosen through the point system as in athletics. At the close of the season the Southern California winner will meet the northern winner. This plan is to begin next year.
Tickets for the concert Friday night are fifty cents and one dollar and still may be had at the Associated Students bookstore.
On Friday evening, the 16th, the sociology honor society, Alpha Kappa Delta, will hold its next meeting at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Clarence M. Case, 1198 Browning Boulevard. There will be the annual election of officers. The members of the nominating committee are Dr. W. C. Smith, chairman. Prof. M. J. Vincent, and Gretchen Tuthill. The main address of the evening will be given by Willis W. Clark, extension lecturer in sociology, wrho will speak on “Methods of Social Research. ’ Mr. Clark has been working in this field for the past seven years and it is expected that he will have original findings to present. At this meeting, also, arrangements will be made for the annual beefsteak fry, which has become a yearly event of much interest. The membership of the sociology honor society is now 72 students and alumni.
INTER-FRAT SMOKER
The professional interfraternity council will hold a smoker at the Armory at 8 o’clock. May 22. It will be in the form of a get-together.