Student Officers To Be Nominated Today
& South
California
Junior Class Selling Annual Play Tickets
Vol. XV
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, May 22, 1924
Number 88
POLITICS TAKE STAGE TODAY WITH A.S.B. NOMINATIONS
STONIER, OH AND BRENNAN WILL BE STUDENT MANAGERS
Student Appointive Offices Filled at Executive Committee Meeting Tuesday Night; Student Publications Managership is Uncontested; Voting Secret
Kenneth Stonier will be manager of Student Publications, Merle Ott will direct the business end of the El Rodeo, and Raymond Brennan will be debate manager at U. S. C. next year. These men were selected by the A. S. B. Executive Committee at its rgular meeting Tuesday evening. The position of Manager .of Publications had only one applicant, while there were two for the other two jobs. The appointment of the three offices Tuesday evening completes all political activity before the nomination of candidates for A. S. B. elective offices today.
The Faculty Publication Commit-r—-—-
tee recommended to the Executive
Committee, the name of Kenneth Stonier to handle the campus publications next year, and the Executive Committee voted to cast a unanimous ballot for Stonier. This job, while it includes the managership of all student body publications is primarily for the business managership of the Trojan. Stonier has held this position the past year and is well qualilied to continue to act in this capacity.
The appointment of Raymond Brennan as debating manager came as a surprise to many on the campus. As the balloting was secret and the vote cast was not announced, it is not known by what margin Brennan defeated Victor Colburn, present assistant debate manager.
Probably the factor which decided the voting of the Executive Committee in this connection was the presentation by Bill Barber, former debating manager and who spoke in favor of Brennan, of a petition signed by members of Delta Sigma Rho, honorary debating fraternity, and several other members of the debate squad, asking that Brennan be elected by the Executive Committee to the position This petition was presented after talks had been made for both candidates and, owing to the weight it carried, probably swayed the undecided members of the committee.
Brennan, who was recently pledged to Delta Sigma Rho, the highest honor a debater can attain at U. S. C., has made a good record in debating this year, having been a member of the Trojans’ greatest debating squad. He was also assistant debating manager under Bill Barber and is therefore well qualified to carry on the work before him.
As the principal part of his platform, Brennan pledged himself to the Executive Committee to endeavor to contract for an extensive debate trip through the south to Oklahoma, returning by way of the northern states.
Merle Ott, wno has been assistant business manager of the 1924 El Rodeo for the second semester, was chosen to handle the money matters of the annual for the 1926 edition. Ott has had considerable experience in selling advertising, having been a member of the Advertising Sales Practice class this year. He will be a Junior next year. His opponent was George Orme. who will be a Senior next year. Both men were recommended by the Faculty Publications Committee.
USHERS WANTED
There are still a few men needed to assist in seating the crowd for the Junior play, “The Boomerang” on Thursday night. May 29. Those interested should see Al Swanholm.
SENIORS NAMES WANTED
Those Seniors whose names have not been sent in for the commence-menft, announcements, are asked to have their names, the way they wish to have them appear, at the University Book Store not later than this evening.
Buck Oudermeulen, president of the class of ’24, stresses the fact thcs this is absolutely the dead line for these names. All Seniors are advised to make certain that their names are appearing.
All members of the class are urged to attend an important; meeting following chapel this morning. Certain important matters are to be discussed.
SANDRO BOTTICELLI" CONCEIVED IN ITALY
U.
S. C. Student Inspired to Write After Viewing Art of Botticelli
PHILIP PIZZA IS AUTHOR
Lighting After Manner of the Rennaisance to Feature U. S. C. Production
Rehearsals for “Sandro Botticelli,” the one-act play to be presented in Touchstone Theatre, June 2, are showing signs of dramatic perfection. The play, which was written by Phillip Pizza, a student at U. S. C. will be presented under the auspices of the Italian Club.
The play was first written by Pizza several years ago in Italy, when he was inspired to write the play after examining some of Botticelli’s masterpieces. The play was translated by Pizza last fall.
The cast is made up of well known Trojan players. Clare Kaufer will play the part of Simonetta, who was Botticelli’s model and his ideal. Ellsworth Ross plays the role of Botticelli, the artist around whom the story centers. William Scotten will play the part of Pietro de Medici, Simonetta’s husband. Botticelli the artist is madly in love with Simonetta who is married to another. The artist is loved by another, Mar-Gheritia, but does not return her love, and the triangle love case is solved by Botticelli joining the church.
Special lighting is being arranged by Selvyn Levinson, which promises to be different from the lighting effects of any previous campus production. The lighting effects will be modeled after those of the Renaissance period and will be changed as the play progresses.
Phillip Pizza, the author, will graduate from U. S. C. this year, and will journey to Italy this summer where he plans to spend two or three years in thar country and write plays.
Tickets for "Sandro Botticelli” are fifty cents.
NOTICE TO USHERS
All men who have signed up for work at the Coliseum during the Olympic tryouts ,are asked to report at the main entrance at ten o’clock, Saturday morning.
DR. ROBERTSON TO REPLACEJR. LOWREY
Lowrey Has Leave of Absence For a Year From Trojan University
WELL-KNOWN EDUCATOR
Dt. Robertson Coming From Berea College Where He Was History Professor
A well known educator has been secured to take the place of Dr. L. T. Lowrey, U. S. C. History and Political Science professor, who has obtained leave of absence from the Trojan institution for a year. Dr. James Rood Robertson will fill the vacancy left# by Dr. Lowrey next semester.
Dr. Robertson is considered one (ft America’s foremost educators, having been connected with some of the largest universities in the country. His record indicates that his education covers a vas». scope. He received his A. B. from Beloit College in 1886. and was just recently given the honorary Lit. D. from Beloit University. He >!s a Phi Beta Kappa, and received his A. M. at the University of Michigan in 1891. He was a graduate student of history and oplitical science at the University of Chicago in 1895. He received his Ph. D. from the University of California in 1908. He was principle of Tulatin Academy, at Forest Grove, Oregon, ifor two years. At the same city he was professor rf history and political science at Pacific University for three years. He was teaching fellow at the University of Oaliiflornia for two years, and was president of the Ohio Valley Historical Society in 1919.
He will cqme to U. S. C. from Berea College at Berea. Kentucky, where he has been professor of history and political science for a number of years. He will have charge of the U. S. History, American Constitutional History, Jackson to Lincoln History and English History classes during the absence of Dr. Lowrey.
POLITICAL AD ISSUE OF TROJAN TUESDAY
Candidates for the various Associated Student Body offices at U. S. C. will have only one opportunity to issue political advertisements this year. This will be in the Trojan next Tuesday morning. The Executive Committee decided last year to do away with all political advertising with the exception of one insertion in a single issue of the Trojan. Tuesday evening, Kenneth Stonier, manager of the Trojan, made a recommendation to the Executive Committee for the amount of advertising to be run. Candidates for President and Editor will not be allowed to exceed 20 inches of advertising. Candidates for secretary and members of the Executive Committee will be allowed a linnch advertisement, while the Yell King candidates will be allotted 10 inches advertising. Copy for all advertisements must be in the Trojan business office, above the Co-op Book Store by noon Monday. If cuts are to be made, pictures for the cuts must be turned in by Saturday.
PROGRESSIVE PROM IS TOMORROW NIGH!
Last All-University Social Affair to be Held at Four Fraternity and Sorority Houses; Is Strictly Informal;
Dates Are Taboo
QUILL CLUB MEMBERS HOLD SPECIAL MEETING
Attention of all Quill Club members is drawn to the special meeting which is to be held tomorrow, noon, Friday, May 23, in the cafeteria committee room. The purpose of the meeting is to vote in new members, the manuscript committee having made a selection of the most promising material among those who submitted manuscript.
The initiation of those chosen will take place next Wednesday evening the place flo be decided on at the meeting tomorrow noon. Ovher important business is to be transacted so it is expected that every member will be present.
At the meeUing held last Thursday evening, May 28, Chet Mackie was elected chancellor for next year. Other offices were left to be filled at a later date. Katherine Kirker, present president, sent in a Setter of pesitfnatlion which was refused acceptance because of the short time leift until the end of the semester.
Informal Sport Dance For Juniors And Seniors June 7
By FREEMAN HALL
The Junior-Senior affair this year, informal!—such a thing seems hardly probable after the traditional Junior-Senior (formal dinner dance has for so many years been carried out by the members of the third year class. Yet it is this information that is given out by John Woods president of the Junior class in regard to the Junior-Senior hop. This year it was found that the cost per individual for a din-ner-dante would be prohibitive; consequently the decision to change the event to an informal sport dance.
The changing of the character of the dance from formal to informal received some little opposition and criticism, and in face of it the com mittee in charge, which is headed by John Woods, and composed of Yale Martx, Bob Hutchins. Fred Berlinger, Bud Weiin, Martha Smith, Kitty Cat-toll, Oarleton Morehouse ,Bill Kin-chloe, George Orme. Buster Dupuy. Harold Dougher, Helen Greene, Bill
Delphy. Marguerite Matson and Betty McConnell Bowring, changed the affair back to formal. Tuesday, however, Chairman Woods announced that the final decision was that the hojj would be an informal sport dance.
Only one hundred and twenty-five tickets will be sold to Juniors, due to limited space on the Hotel Alexandria ball room floor. Seniors should sign up with their president. Buck Oudermeulen or John Woods for their tickets. Only one of the couple is required to be of the Senior class. These tickets may be obtained by tne Juniors from any of the above committee.
The Alexandria Hotel has been chosen by rhe committee as the place of the dance and the date has been decided upon of June 6 .instead of the previousl yannounced date, June 7. The reason for this change is the Sophomore dance which is scheduled to be on the 7th of June.
By KAY POTTER
“Funnier than the Wampus,” says the committee for the all-University progressive dance which is to be staged in four fraternity houses on West Twenty-eighth Street, Friday, May 23, when they were questioned concerning the favors which have been so widely heralded. And “funnier than the Wamp" is all the satisfaction you can get. But they did hint that they aren't the kind of favors that go with formal togs, and that formality of any sort will appear ridiculous.
9 Cords? Brogues? Yes, that’s the spirit the committee wishes to create! Sort of a gay, Bohemian, devil-may-care atmosphere is scheduled to be present in the Alpha Chi, Pi Phi, Lambda Psi, and Delta Gamma houses tomorrow evening.
Punch, apples and jazz! All that is requisite to a reg'lar dance has been predestined to be the starkest reality that was ever stark—tomorrow night. But don’t forget your student tickets or you will find yourself out of luck and the dance too. “Absolutely no acquaintances will be recognized without their cards, in spite of the fact that their faces seem familiar,” said Evelyn Smith, student body vice-president who has been working harder than usual that the affair may be a success.
Steady daters and straight program fiends are due one evening of diversion before the annual cramming season, and with this humane ideal the committee has chosen men so widely acquainted that they know almost every one and will act as special hosts at each house and introduce the students to their fellow-students.
Ronald Suavely will be at the Alpha Chi Omega house to act as official “introducer,” Bob Green will do the same at the Pi Beta Phi house. At the house of Lambda Psi, Bill Friend will help hide the hats in places that they will remain till they are needed to be worn to the Dee Gee house where Frank Beckman has agreed to see that everyone has plenty of punch.
The members of the Theta Sigma Nu, Jenkin’s from Dental, Gamma Epsilon, and Bill Delphey’s orchestras have been conserving energy all week that they might play with record-smashing pep Friday evening. “Bring your student body tickets (CONTINUED ON PAC=E FOUR)
CANDIDATES TO APPEAR BEFORE STUDENT BODY
Final Week of Political Activity to Start at 11 O’clock Today; Nominations Will be Devoid Of Usual Surprises
Politics buzzed last night behind closed doors, and lights shone behind drawn blinds far into the night for Political Managers were grooming their candidates to withstand the tenseness of the Zero hour. And Zero hour it will be, for at exactly eleven o’clock this morning twenty-one candidates will go over the top and enter into the political battle in earnest. Many an hour has been spent this week by the politicians in rounding up speakers to nominate their candidates, and many other hours have been put in by the candidates themselves pondering over just what they shall say to make the best impression.
° And today is the starting- of a busy, busy week for the candidates. No sooner will the nomination assembly be over
FREDERICK WARDE 10 SPEAK TUESDAY
Noted Shapespearian and Mission Play Actor to be Chapel Speaker
Frederick Warde, dean of American Shakespearean actors and eminent scholar, has accepted an invitation to speak to the students in chapel, Tuesday. This was the information re ceived recently from the office of the chapel committee. This will be the first time that the actor has spoken in chapel although he is well known to many students.
In Los Angeles Mr. Warde is remembered chiefly foi his famous interpretation of Fra Junipero Serra in the Mission Play which is produced at San Gabriel. For three years the venerable actor played the part of the historically significant priest who was instrum^ital in founding the sys tern of missions throughout the state of California.
Throughout the country, Mr. Warde is known as a famous classic actor, being especially well known for his characterizations of Shakespearean (characters. During his fifty years walking the boards he has played with Edwin Booth and Madame Mojeska. For many years he headed his own company, playing in all the important theatrical centers of the nation.
Mr. Warde is an authority on the works of Shakespeare, having written many scholarly papers on the great dramatist. Recently he has delivered a series of lectures in various Los Angeles churches on the Christian aspect of the bard’s plays. The actor new resides in Los Angeles and considers it his permanent home.
Art Department To Hold Week Exhibit
Exhibits of all design and still life work by students in the Art Department will be held in Room 110 otf the Architecture Building. The exhibition will last for a week, beginning on Monday, May 26. It is being held under the auspices of the Art Department, and everyone interested in work of this type is invited to view the work done by the students.
Graduates To Hold Class Picnic Friday
There will be a picnic to Griffith Park Friday, May 23. All members of the Graduate Class are invited. The party ■will meet in front of Bovard Auditorium at 3 p. m. and return about 7 p. m. Come and bring your own supper.
All who expect to go are requested to leave their names at the office of tlhe Graduate School today, in order that sufficient transportation may be obtained.
ALPRA GDI ALPHA 10 BE INSTALLED HERE
“Tau Pi'’ is Granted Chapter By National Honorary Journalism Sorority
ONLY CHAPTER ON COAST
Founded at U. of Tennessee As Sister Organization of Pi Delta Epsilon in 1919
Alpha Chi Alpha, National Women’s Honorary Journalistic Sorority, has granted a charter to “Tau Pi,” local honorary society of uppercl&ss women journalism students, and will install the Zeta Chapter on this campus before the close of the semester.
Alpha Chi Alpha was founded at the University of Tennessee in 1919 and has a membership of 101 in that chapter. It is a sister organization of Pi Delta Epsilon, National Journalism Honorary for men which was installed here May 17.
The purpose of the sorority is to work for the improvement of college publications and through them all phases of college life and to encourage women in the field of journalism. Eligibility rests upon actual achive-ments upon one or more college publications for a period of two years and to have attained the position of associate editor upon one publication.
The local organization, “Tau Pi” is composed of upp«r<class women on the Trojan and Wampus and has been active in assisting the Press Club during' the past year.
Alpha Chi Alpha recently granted a charter to Northwestern University but U. S C. will have the only chapter on the western coast.
Active members in the Zeta Chapter will be Peggy Moore. ’24; Marguerite Matson, Dorothy King and Dorothy . Crowley, '25; Dorothy Herriman. ’26. Pledges are Clara Gilbert, ’24, and Betty McConnell Bowripg. ’25. Alumnae members are Julia Mc-Corkle, Madge McConnell and Josephine Clancy. Miss Alma May Cook is an honorary member of the organization.
No definite date has been set for the installation but it will probably take place this month.
Important meeting of those in "The Boomerang” ticket selling contest is to be held this noon in the Trojan office. George Orme asks that every contestant be present.
Lower Floor Sold Out For (<The Boomerang” May 28
than the candidates will have to start on their tours to the various colleges off the campus. Here they will indulge in the art of handshaking and meeting new friends. Here they will also be called upon to speak before crowds who want to know what the candidates have as their platforms.
A few high-lights have developed which are as follows:
1.	Every candidate must be on the stage in Bovard Auditorium by eleven o’clock this morning.
2.	These candidates will either have to speak or stand when they are called up after they have been nominated.
3.	There will be no opportunity for the candidates to speak before the students at Law th^s year.
4.	Advertising will be limited to
one ad in the Trojan, space for which is limited, and copy for which must be in by Monday noon.
5.	Nomination speefches will be limited, and only the presidential candidates will be allowed to make an acceptance speech of any length.
Following the plan which was instituted last year, all candidates will be on the platform when chapel starts today. This plan is being used in order to give the students a chance of seeing everyone seeking an office. The candidates for each office will be nominated, following which each will have an opportunity to speak.
Nomination speeches for Student Body President will be limited to three minutes, and the two candidates will each have three minutes in which to make acceptance speeches. Nomination speeches for vice-president, secretary, editor “Trojan,” editor “El Rodeo,” and Yell King will be limited to two minutes. Those candidates who wish to speak will be allowed one minute in which to do so. Nominations for members of the Executive Committee are not to be over one minute in length.
Asserting that political speeches during class time disturbed the work
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OFFICERS ARE ELECTED FOR COMMERCE CLUB
Cooperation and suggestions from the Morosco Theatre is helping the Juniors in an appropriate and effective staging of their annual play, “The Boomerang,” the well known comedy they are presenting on May 29 in Bovard auditorium. Members o' the stage staff have been conferring with the Morosco management so that the stage management and lighting effects may be similar to that given by the Morosco Theatre when “The Boomerang” played there a few years ago.
Ernest Judson, production manager, announces that the large ticket sale has made it possible for an elaborate presentation to be made and that the Junior class is sparing no expense to make the staging impressive. The sets are to be the finest that have been seen on the Bovard stage.
George Orme, publicity manager of
the play, announced yesOprdav that the ticket selling contest is doing well and that the girls are in the lead. Twenty dollars in two prizes of twelve andj eight dollars each, are to be given. Almost* the entire lower floor has been sold out and George Orme urges students to put in their reservations in the near future If good seats are desired.
Miss Florence Hubbard of the School of Speech, director of “The Boomerang,” stated yesterday that the cast is now finishing with the third act and that the play should be ?n fine shape by the 29th. According to Miss Hubbard ,the cast is doing well with the parts. Grady Setzler and Elton Hawkins are taking the leads and are to be supported by Helen Humiston and Gertrude Street. Others in the cast are Willard Schurr, Martha Smith, Miss Cecil and Mary LangdoD.
Marie Albertson w^as elected vice-president of the' Women’s Group, Leslie Harding, vice-president of Foreign Trade; Warren Parmelee, treasurer, and Rebecca Robb, secretary, at the Commerce Club elections held yesterday. All new officers were installed at the Commerce Club banquet last evening. Other offices in the club were filled without opposition.
Trojan Band Is Well Received
On Tour Of South
U. S. C- s band, now touring the Southwest, is being received with enthusiasm at every town at which it is playing, according to a telegram sent to the Trojan yesterday'. The band played before large crowds at Anaheim, San Diego High Schcol, San Diego State College and Camp Kearney. Last night the band gave a street parade at Orange and later played a concert. The men went through its famous formations during the street parade.