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VOL. XVII.
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, April 29, 1926
Number 134
NOMINATIONS RE-OPENED BY EX.COMMITTEE
etitions Again Circulated on Campus; Executive Committee Upholds President’s Action.
Nominations for all student body of-es were unanimously re-opened at a pecial meeting of tbe Executive Com-Ittee yesterday noon, due to the fact t there were not enough candidates or the various offices. Petitions for nomination for any offices may be ee-red in Miss Flock’s office and may culate between nine and three to-orrow. Fifty signatures are neces-ry for nomination.
Burdette Henney was found to be eligible because he lacked one credit f gymnasium. He was recommended to see the Scholarship Committee and ieive their O. K. to his petition and t is expected that he will be in the inning again before elections. The Election Committee has decided that lph Holly is eligible and his name ins been replaced on the Ust.
An Amendment Committee with Le-and Tallman as chairman was ap-;inted on Tuesday to see President on KieinSmid concerning the schol-"ship amendment which was passed ▼ the Executive Committee. Dr. von einSmid reported that his annul-ent of the amendment was mainly >ased on the fact that such a move ight be construed as a lowering of scholarship. The Executive Committee unanimously accepted this report he constituUon therefore remains as before, with a seventy-five per cent *C” average necessary. The eight can-idates who yesterday dropped out of ..he race were declared ineligible be-jcaust- they had not lived up to this re uirement.
ey had not lived up to this require-sent.
Today petitions are again circulating an the campus, and the result will be jinounced tonight.
CO-ED EDITION STAFF
Editor _____________________ Marjorie Hull
Managing Editor__________Betty Baker
Sport Editor___________...Rita Padway
Assistant Sport Editor...........—
_______________________Mynette Ritch
Desk Editors_________________
-----Maud Miller, Dorothy Baker
Editorial Writer....Myra Waterman Reporters—Sue Cables, Mary Main, Betty Budd, Betty Bruce^ Elora Sorenson, Frances Howard, Florence Middleton, Bernice Palmer, Anna Louise Hibbs, Vivian Mur-phy.
PAN-HELLENIC IS PLANNING SECOND DANCE THIS YEAR
May 7th is Date Set For Informal Dance at Surf and San Club at Hermosa Beach.
The second Pen-Hellenic dance of the year will be held on the evening of May 7th at the Surf and Sand Club at Hermosa Beach. This affair is the culmination of the sorority society events of this year. This is the only Pan-Hellenic dance that has been given this semester.
Zeta Tau Alpha, Tri-Delt, and Alpha Delta Pi have charge of the dance, and members of these sororities make up the committee who are carrying out the plans.
The patrons and patronesses will be Dean and Mrs. Karl T. Waugh, Major and Mrs. Warren Bovard, and Dr. Mary Sinclair Crawford, and Mr. and Mrs. Hal Stonier.
The dance is to be informal, and the music will be furnished by Hay Hatfield’s orchestra. Catherine Colwell, who is in charge of the punch, promises great quantities of it.
The last Pen-Hellenic was held in January at the Edgewater Club at Santa Monica and was pronounced a success by all who attended.
OMEN’S EDITION COMES OUT TODAY
aily Trojan Appears Under Supervision of Feminine Staff J Editor Marjorie Hull.
The annual edition of the Daily Tro-
HEALTH DAY PLANS ARE FORMULATED
Plans for the annual health day celebration have just recently been formu lated under the direction of Coach C. P. Nichols, Miss Stephens, and Dr. Alice Goetz.
Wednesday, May 19, is the date set aside on the campus when the stu* dents will receive their annual health lesson from the leading health author-an, edited entirely by the women on ities in Southern California, who are
he stall, makes its bow to the campus oday. The men on the staff, like little hiidren, took their hats and skipped own Uie old steps clapping their ands and chortling in great glee, as e women took the wheel for the ay.
The women on the Trojan staff are 1 experienced in newspaper lines, arjorie Hull, the editor, has been on he staff for three years and was the ditor of the Chronicle and the Car-inal at Pomona High School. Beth tker has had a great deal of prac-ical experience reporting, as have ivian Murphy, Maud Miller and Sue „ables. Rita Padway has had stuff sprinted in College Humor and Col-ge Comics, Bernice Palmer has done <ork for the Times and all of the re-rters have had previous experience prep school papers.
Last year the women’s edition came t in connection with the May Fete, rothy Crowley, editor for the day, at present city editor of the Ingle ood Californian.
coming in an effort to promote better health among the college students.
The physical education majors of the university will assist the instructors in carrying out the program. Morris Folodare, Mary Main, and Bill Srere will handle the publicity for the affair.
Women Favor Plans For Student Union in Interviews
VILL MEETS AT ELTA ZETA HOUSE
Quill Club meets this evening at the lta Zeta house, 1125 West 30th eet, at seven-thirty. The meeting ill be short and will be devoted to anuscripts. Members without manu-?ripts will be fined ten cents.
The treasurer, Milton Booth, an mnces that subscriptions to the na-onal magazine. “The Parchment," j lould be sent in direct at once. The j me issue of “The Parchment” will j apear before the end of school.
Sinclair Lewis visited the Univer-ty of Kansas recently and donated 100 to the Dove, an independent stu-'nt publication. He said that the portunity for original expression as a distinct need in the student’s ucation.
Campus won.en are unanimously in favor of the Student Union as is shown by the following statements:
Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford—
“The Student Union is a glorious idea. It will be valuable to the University as a whole because everyone will have a share, large or small, in it.”
Gladys Lee—
“All large universities have Student Unions, and we cannot be behind them With the co-operation of the student body it will be possible to raise a tax of $5.00 a semester to pay for it.”
Marjorie Rice—
“The Student Union will make possible the concentration of all student offices and will provide a real meeting place.”
Jannie Lee Moore—-
* The sooner the better.”
Evelyn Ross—
“We are in great need of a place where the student body as a whole may gather to become better acquainted, and to co-operate with each other in furthering a bigger and better S. C. spirit.”
Dorothy Davis—
“The Student Union will make possible the furtherance of many activities which the students cannot put over now because of lack (Continued on Page Four)
SHAKESPEARE CENTENNIAL IS COMMEMORATED
Students Give Modern and Classic Interpretation of Great Dramatist.
As another step in the Little Theater movement, scenes from Shakespeare will be presented, some in modern and some in classical interpretation, in commemoration of the Shakespeare centennial this afternoon at 3 o’clock in Touchstone Theater.
The cast is composed entirely of girls from the advanced dramatics class. In “The Merchant of Venice” Mrs. Gaither Wright will play the role of Portia and Mary Ella Brooks that of Nerissa. Frances Goodsell will play Juliet and Betty Wilkenson will play the nurse in the scene from “Romeo and Juliet.” In the scene from “Macbeth,” Julia Miller will interpret the character of Lady Macbeth, Eugenia McQuaters that of the doctor and Frances White that of the nurse. Ruth Royal is Julia, and Eugenia McQuaters is Lucetta in “Two Gentlemen of Vferona.” The characters in “As You Like It” are Mary Jean Rogers, Rosalind; Helen Landers, Celia; Elizabeth Pecker, Touchstone; Frances White, Le Beau.
Following the performance in Touchstone Theater, a tea, sponsored by the School of Speech and to which twenty-five cents admission will be charged, is to be given in Athena Hall on the third floor of Old College. The tea is a get-together event for the students of speech and their friends.
ORGANIZATIONS HOLD UP WORK ON S. C. YEAR BOOK
El Rodeo To Appear May 19, According To Ives, if Delinquent Organizations Pay Up.
El Rodeo will come out May 19, if the delinquent organizations have paid for their pages by that time, says Burdette Ives, manager. This money must absolutely be paid within the next two weeks to Mrs. Marie Poetker, cashier in the Students’ Store, if the book is to be out on Ume.
The slowness and neglect on the part of prominent organizations is holding up the work of the entire annual, according to Ives, and if these accounts are not paid immediately the distribution of the book will be indefinitely delayed.
Those organizations who have paid since the last notice of delinquency are; Comitia, Band, Zeta Phi Eta, Educational Society, Phi Delta Kappa, Sigma Delta Pi, Sigma Chi.
Following are the organizations who have not paid: Alpha Pi Alpha, Alpha Kappa Alpha, A. I. E. E., Bachelors, Beta Gamma Phi, Delta Sigma Rho, Delta Sigma Theta, Delta Mu Phi, Delta Phi Epsilon, Delta Phi Delta, Gamma Eta Gamma, Gamma T^ambda Sigma, Societus Societas, Theta Psi, Theta Sigma Nu, Torch and Tassel, Trojan Knights, Women’s Glee Club, (Continued on Page Four)
MATERIAL FOR APPOLIAD NOW IN REHEARSAL
Final Choice of First Program For Year Made By Miss Tacie Mae Hanna.
With the final selection of Apilliad material by Miss Tacie May Hanna of the School of Speech, rehearsals for the first program of the second annual Apolliad are now under way. More than twenty students are collaborating as authors and actors on the program, which will be presented May 13 in Touchstone Theater.
Two one-act plays written by students in Dr. Allison Gaw’s Play writing class will be the dramatic features of the bill. “Princess-In-a-Tower,” by Dorothy Davis, is a fantasy by Roy MacDonald and his class in stagecraft. The second play is a realistic tragedy with its setting among mountaineers. It is called “Landing Places,” and Chet Mackie is the author.
Poems, stories, and music on the program include material by Floy Bernice Palmer, Betty Humphrey, Edith King, Virginia Child, Fred J. Arendt, Marjorie Hull, Bertha V. Pressey and Calvin Hendricks. ‘Monsieur’s House,” by Floy Bernice Palmer, will be read by herself. “Big Chief.” by Marjorie Hull, will be interpreted by Elaine Buttrud, while Julia Miller and Edna Jo Carrico, School of Speech students, will read poetry by Edith King, Virginia Child and Fred Arendt.
Carroll Green will read an essay “On Collecting Beauty,” by Betrha Pressey. The music on the program this year is by Calvin Hendricks and Betty Humphrey.
School of Speech actors who will take part in the two plays are, Betty ven KieinSmid, Virginia Roediger, Ruth Smith, John Atwell, Stanley Ewens, Charles Wright, Ruth Burns, Catherine McCullev anud Mrs. Alice Ferry.
To obtain invitations to the affair, all who are taking part, including authors, actors, playwrights and composers, are requested by Miss Hanna to call at the School of Speech the first of next week. Those taking part will be allowed as many invitations as they wish.
TROPHY PRESENTED FOR STAR VAUDEVILLE ACT
Audience Applause Will Aid in Judges Decision as to Winner of Silver Loving Cup; Many Good Seats Still Available in Downstairs Section.
GIRLS FROM PREP SCHOOLS INSPECT S. C. CAMPUS LIFE
W. S. G. A. Superintends Entertainment of High School Girls in Visits To Campus.
To interest preparatory school women in a college education in general and in the University of Southern California in particular, the Women’s Self-Government Association is sponsoring a series of entertainments for high school women of Los Angeles and vicinity. Ten to fifteen representative seniors are chosen by the viceprincipals of the high schools to be guests of S. C. for one day.
Arriving at the campus shortly after noon, the girls are shown about the (Continued on Page Four)
A huge silver loving cup will be awarded the act which is jutfged the most entertaining on the program for the Senior Road Show to be presented in Bovard Auditorium tomorrow. Arrangements were completed yesterday afternoon by Bart Hutchins whereby the J. A. Meyers Company will present the trophy. A committee of judges, comprising ten students, faculty members and alumni who have been prominent in campus theatricals, has been selected to make the decision. Each of these persons will vote on the acta and the presentation receiving the greatest number of votes will be aocielmed the prize act of the evening.
Announcement of this prize is expected to give added: stimulus to the Road Show, which is already claimed one of the moat entertaining of the long series given during past years. Actors will not only be playing for the success of their individual acta but to impress the judges. Note will be made by those acting as judges of the amount of applause following each
feature.
At the completion of the act, “Seventy-seven Years Ago,” the votes of the judges will be collected These will be counted by another committee back stage and the winner will be announced and the award made near the end of the finale, which is a composite act including all talent of the evening and will not be entered in competition for the cup.
Seven presentations will be listed in the program as eligible for the prize. The show opene with ‘Wheels of Mirth,” presented by Cewley and Smith. Second spot has been given to “Stop Time,” featuring Bernard. Andreen and Larkin. “Romiet and Julio,” a farcial travesty on the famous drama, is programed for the third position. This will be followed by “The Merrie Music Makers." in which two prominent alumni entertainers in the persons of Voltaire Perkins and Dafferd Wilson will be seen.
The fifth act brings three Senior dramatic students, when Clare Kaufer, Ellsworth Ross and Selvyn Levinson present the one-act play. “Poor Old Jim.’, The “Varsity Trio,” comprising Bechtelheimer, Cohen and Behrendt in what is billed as “Songs and Mondey Business,” occupies the semiwindup location. The last regular feature is the “Seventy-seven Years Ago” musical production starring Miss Ga-briello Bellanger, Wes Woodford and Eddie Blaine, assisted by a corps of chorines. The grand finale, which presents the entire cast of fifty actors, will wind up the show.
UNCENSORED WAMP DESPITE RUMORS COMES OUT TODAY
Downtown Papers Cause Trouble But President von KieinSmid Approves Issue.
Today an unpurified, uncensored Wampus, as the culmination of much delay and a great amount of talk, is making its appearance on the S. C. sampus. This disturbance was caused mainly by city newspapers and was entirely without the sanction of the university authorities*.
In order that there should be no trouble concerning this issue of the Wampus, after it appeared on the cam pus, those in charge of the magazine took it to the authorities beforehand and now it has the complete approval of President von KieinSmid.
Jokes and articles which the down town newspapers termed “objection able” remain untouched, exactly as they were to begin with. Those in charge, however, feel that this issue of the Wampus is up to the set stand ard and should cause no more comment.
The “Lass Issue,” which will be the culmination of Barton Hutchins’ editorship, will be out the week before finals. Copy is due for this issue May first
FAMOUS ALUMNAE ARE AMONG NUMBER OF WOMEN GRADUATES
PREPARE PROGRAM TO FETE MOTHERS
Reservations Must Be Made Before Friday for Mother and Son Banquet.
That all reservations for the Mother and Son banquet to be held in connection with the Mother’s Day program May 5 at the “Y” Hut should be made not later than Friday, was the statement made by Glenn Turner, Y. M. C. A secretary, yesterday.
The program, which will be carried out by the men of the University under the direction of the Y. M. C. A., is the third of its kind to be put on by that organization. This year the Y. W. C. A. plans to entertain the mothers on the same day.
When the mothers come to the chapel at 10 o’clock in the morning they will register and be assigned to (Continued on Page Four)
BY MYRA
Where are you going, my pretty maid? I’m going to be famous, sir, she said.
The men are not the only ones who have sent illustrious alumni to grace the halls of fame of this university. Investigation shows that there have been many women who have made their mark in the world in the lines of law, journalism, medicine and on the stage, whereas most of the men who are famous have a claim in the line of athletics only, according to JJosephine Clancey, head of the university publications.
Prominent among those who have made a name for themselves after leaving college are Mabel Walker Wildebrandt, ’16, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, and District Court Judge Georgia Bullock, ’14. Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters, ’09, is a well - known weight-reducing expert and dietician, while Dr. Ethel Leonard
WATERMAN
is a medical missionary who has spent eight years of service in China and has just returned to the United States.
In the line of journalism, Ruth Canary now holds a position on the Chicago Tribune and Barbara Miller is with the Los Angeles Times. Helen-ita Lieberg is an actress of some note and is now with the Pasadena Community Players, having an important part in their latest production. “Hay Fever.” Barbara Guerney is also an actress and has had parts at the Majestic with Edward Everett Horton. Margaret ^IcKee is now in New York whistling. Ida May Wells is a prosecuting attorney in Los Angeles at the present time. Frances Wood is also acting in New York, while Miss Josie De Court, ’25, is a director of girls’ work in the Tacoma Community House. Gladys Hill, ’17, is a concert singer in Washington, D. C.
Candidates Must Reserve Space In Political Issue
Every candidate who is placing an “ad” in the advertising copy of the Daily Trojan must see Bill Teetzel either today or Friday of this week in order to make necessary arrangements. Copy must be in by Friday, April 30.
Candidates for the office of student body president, vice-president, secretary and editor of the Trojan may each purchase sixteen inches of space, being limited to two columns, eight inches deep.
Aspirants for the editorship of El Rodeo may have twelve inches; two columns, six inches deep. The executive committee candidates are allowed two columns, five inches deep.
Advertising must be paid for in advance, according to Bill Teetzef, advertising manager of the Trojan.
GAY COSTUMES AT ARCHITECTS BALL
Carnival Spirit Will Prevail as Architects Dance at Hollywood Club.
Final arrangements are now being made for the annual Mardi Gras Costume Ball to be held by the School of Architecture at the Hollywood Woman’s Club, tomorrow night, according to Fred Hageman. advertising manager.
According to the architects, the atmosphere of the club room will be
transformed from the stately and dignified to the opposite extreme by the decorations and confetti which will make their appearance in keeping with the carnival spirit of the affair. At the door will be masked inspectors to assure the builders that all costumes are suitable. If they find cause for complaint the wearers will be refused entrance.
The committee in charge announces that a limited number of tickets will be sold to students outside of the School of Architecture. Heretofore this has been strictly a school dance.
Acting as general chairman of the arangements Is Frank Baden, a Junior in the School of Architecture. Working in the various departments under Baden are: Entertainment, Clayton Baldwin, Helen Landers, and Henry Wall; decorations and favors, Frank von Rehder, Lyle Curtis, and Paul Heady; music, Curtis Chambers; refreshments, Carl McEIvy, and Doris Johnson; advertising, Curtis Chambers, Fred Hageman, and Graham Latta; place, Leonard Cutshall
ELECTION WORKERS
All men who signed up at the Aj^ pointment Office for election work: on Friday are requested to meet in Touchstone Theater at 7:30 Thursday night for a short meeting in order to receive instruction as to duties.