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I_I EADED by Coach Dean * Cromwell and Manager Burke Long, Captain Bud Houser and fourteen other track and field •tars of the University of Southern California will leave from the Union Depot at 12 o’clock tomorrow bound for the I. C. A. A. A. A. championships in Boston next week—and another champ ion-•hip, claim 12,000 Trojan support-
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JUNIOR-SENIOR DANCE
Last chance to buy tickets for the annual Junior-Senior Dinner Dance is at the Bookstore today.
The affair is formal and will start at 7:30, Hotel Maryland, Pasadena.
VOL. XVII.
Los Angeles, California, Friday, May 21, 1926
Number 149
S. C. CHAMPIONS TO DEFEND TRACK TITLE
SINGERS GO ON STAGE
This morning at the regular rally program the “Maker of Champions ’ will introduce the record breaking track team. The men who are to represent the University are giving up much of their school time and school work in order to be able to take part in the meet. The stiff training schedule is working a hardship on all the men and the time they have devoted will never fully be appreciated. There is one thing that can be shown the men this morning and that is that the Trojan students are with them 100 per cent strong.
If a send-off means anything in determining the victory the men should receive one of the biggest ever accorded Trojan athletic teams. They vl*M not have the S. C. stands to cheer them on at Boston, but will only have to recall the cheers they received before they left their sunny Southland.
A plea it made to all students to take an active part in the rally this morning and also to be on hand at the station when the team leaves tomorrow—and give them good old Trojan cheer. Southern California’s “Big Parade” will soon be leaving—MORE POWER.
Don’t forget these men are out to represent you—Coach Dean Cromwell, Manager Burke Long, Captain Bud Houser, Leighton Dye, Lee Barnes, Kenneth Grumbles, Morton Kaer, Clif Reynolds, Ronald Stever, Ed House, Johnny Par-sons, Alden Ross, Henry Coggeshall, Bill Cook, Percy Niersbach, Joe Aleksi, and Herschel Smith.
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OUTHERN CALIFORNIA will not lj only be represented in the East in athletics thi* year, cut she will also have another organization traveling throughout the largest eastern cities bearing its Cardinal and Gold banner. Manager Horace Judson of the Trojan Glee Club has landed a startling offer for the Trojan singers and will tour the United 8tates for a series of vaudeville performances.
The Trojan singers have signed a contract with the Pantages vaudeville circuit and will open in this city on June 7 for one week's engagement. Following the Los Angeles showing the Glee Club will open a tour of eastern cities and will be on the road for approximately three months.
A clever act is being presented by the Glee Club, starring Sherrill Cohen ,AI Behrendt, and Robert Bechtelheimer. This trio adds the life and rip to the party, while the singers present a group of selection*.
The management added another feather to its hat in scheduling this tour for the singers, for it will give lhe cast a new angle on thc University of Southern California and httraet many who arc not interested }« athletics.
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L-p HE finals of the Ames cup trophy 1 will be held in Bovard Auditorium this morning. Pour freshmen, Elwood Harman. Charles Wight, Marion Garrison and Frank Colston have labored some time In preparation for the finals ^id having been chosen from a large roup that tried out they are neces-rily eager to put their talks over to i audience that is willing to receive. • • •
In other words, kindly give the 4mcs Cup speakers the courtesy hat is expected. “Co-educational institutions" is thc subject that will r discussed—and how interesting should be.
TROJAN GLEE CLUB P|LAYS ON PANTAGES
Act Which Has Proven Popular in Southland Theatres Will Be Used.
BY BOB WEBSTER
After several weeks of negotiation, the Trojan Glee Club has signed a contract with the Pantages Vaudeville Circuit for a concert tour during the coming summer. The Men’s Glee Club will sing in the larger cities of the United States and Canada, sixteen men making the trip.
A one week engagement will be
played at the Los Angeles Pantages
Theatre, at Seventh and Hill, beginning June 7th. The contract provides that if this one week run is satisfac-tory, the Club will be given a long contract for the entire summer. A special agreement has been reached whereby the Glee Club will not sing on Sundays, appearances being made only six days per week.
The regular theatre act, which has so successfully been presented In Southern California theatres during the past few weeks will be given on the tour. The Varsity Trio, composed of Al Behrendt, whistler, Sherrill Cohen, soloist,and Robert Bechtelheimer, pianist, will be featured in the act. They have been appearing with the club during the entire past season.
A transparent drop will be introduced into the act. A very effective scene will be made using “Neapolitan Nights” and “Serenade" from “The Student Prince” for music. The entire act will reflect a collegiate atmosphere the spirit of Southern California being shown. College songs from many American univerbiiies will be used.
The Trojan Glee Club will appear in the following cities: Salt Lake City, Ogden, Dallas, Memphis, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis. Chicago, De-(Continued on Page Four)
Annual Dance To Be Held At The Maryland Tonight
Junior-Senior Affair Will Scatter Pre-nuptial Gloom; Tickets are Still Available.
To stage an affair that will scatter pre-final gloom on the Trojan campus is the aim of the committee in charge of the Junior-Senior dinner dance to be held tonight at 7:30 at the Hotel Maryland in Pasadena. The affair is formal.
Tickets, which are selling rapidly, are still on sale at the cage in the Students’ Store, and can be purchased any time today.
Committees working on the arrangements for this affair, which will be a formal farewell to the garduat-ing Seniors, have been laboring hard and have accomplished splendid results, according to “Boots” Oudermeulen, president of the Junior class. The plan whereby attending Seniors who hold lucky numbers will receive a refund has been finally arranged.
“Boots” Oudermeulen, Junior president, is to be toastmaster, and Bart Hutchins, president of the graduating Senior class is to be the principal speaker of the evening. The president-elect of the class of ’27 will also speak.
Bill Stewart’s orchestra has been secured for the evening of dancing in the main ballroom of the hotel. Pauline Klene and Eleanor Veale have completed arrangements for decorations; Mabel Smith, who is in charge of programs, has arranged with Gordon Crain for blue leather novelty programs with gold cords. Other members of the committee who have been working on the affair are: Al Behrendt, finances; Bill Stewart, place; Don Parker, music.
Patrons and patronesses for the evening will be President and Mrs Rufus B. von KieinSmid, Professor and Mrs. Elmer D. Fagan, Dean and Mrs. Karl T. Waugh and Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford.
“TEMPEST’ OFFERS UNUSUAL SCENES
Final Touches Being Given To Commencement Play To Be Presented June 3.
Having selected the costumes for “The Tempest,” the producers are now completing the scenery and making final stage arrangements for the annual commencement play to be presented in Bovard Auditorium June 3.
The costumes, furnished bj the Western Costume Company, are of va ried designs. ln the supernatural scenes there will be various animals, including an owl, frog, leopard and teddy bear. Costumes of the Elizabethan court will be of rich design and material. The people on the costume committee have used their imaginations to the fullest extent in costuming the inhabitants of the enchanted isle. Goddesses and dancers in the masque scene wear exotic apparel.
The stage crew is being called upon for more effects than have before been presented at S. C. There was at first some hesitation about putting on “The
TRACK STARS Politics Again In
TO BE RALLY HEADLINERS
Send-off For I. C. 4-A. Stars and Ames Cup Finals to be Rally Features.
Featuring the last Friday rally of the school year, the members of Trojan track squad who will compete in the I. C. 4A. meet at Boston will be introduced individually to the student body by Coach Dean Cromwell. The finals for the Ames’ cup contest will complete the program.
The rally will serve as a send-off for the S. C. track stars who are to go east to defend the title of the I. C. 4A. championship, which Southern California now holds.
Immediately following the send-off. the four surviving contestants for the Ames’ cup will deliver their speeches before the student body. The men who are to compete in the finals of the contest were chosen by preliminary tryouts from among a large group of contestants for the coveted Ames’ trophy.
The successful competitors who will enter the last and decisive verbal battle today are Elwood Harmon, Charles Wright, Marion Garrison and Frank Colston. The Judges who will award the decision are all members of the S. C. faculty and include Elmer Fagan, G. P. Tanquary and John Hill.
WORK STARTS ON NEW FROSH BIBLE
Complete University Handbook is Being Compiled by Staff Under Direction of Editor.
Members of the Frosh Bible staff are again nosing about the campus in search for the statistical figures and facts which are so essential to filling out the space between the covers of the University Handbook.
Willard Brown is to edit the book, and he has chosen* his staff as follows: Donald Pierce will again edit the section on fraternities and colleges; Rita Padway will handle the women’s activities, and Ellis Hampton will be in charge of minor, aud Carrol Houlgate of major sports. Houlgate had the same position two years ago, when he handled it very successfully.
According to Brown, the air is to make this year’s book an even greater success than was the one turned out last year, which was rated as one of the best publications of its kind published by any university last year.
It is urged that aM organizations
Y. COUNCIL HEARS MUSICAL PROGRAM
Musical numbers of surpassing excellence were given by the Clarion Four, the famous La Verne College quartet, as the feature event of the weekly “Y” Council meeting, held in Tempest because of the difficulty in j aru] individuals on the campus who j the MY” Hut on the evening of May 19
After the assembly tomorrow the track team will adjourn to Bovard Field, where moving pictures will be taken of the I. C. 4A. men.
NEW WAMPUS HAS FEMININE THEME
Beauty and Labor To Feature Issue Which Will Appear on
Campus Tuesday Morning.
Sparkling with beauty, color and originality, a cover design executed by Bryant Hale will adorn the cover of the “Girls’ Number” of the Wampus, which will burst forth upon the campus next Tuesday morning. The issue, dedicated to feminine beauty, will include the contributions of fifteen prose and poetry writers and ten art and cartoon contributors.
The boxes are now open for contributions for the opening issue of next semester, to be entitled the “Nursery Number,” and dedicated to the Freshmem.
“1 feel confident that the students and contributors will give us their utmost co-operation,” says Barton Hutchins, editor of the Wampus, “and help us to make a banner issue which will be able to appear the first week of next semester to greet the new Freshmen.”
Saddle as Class Heads Are Picked
Balloting Takes Pace at Arcade Ticket Offices From Eight Till Three! Interest High.
Politics hold the center of the stage again today, with class elections at full swing on the campus. Polls will open at 8 o’clock and will be closed at 3.
At 3:16 the ballots will be counted in H-206 under the direction of James Musatti, and the returns will be announced as soon as possible afterward. Juniors and Senuiors will vote at the north ticket window and Freshmen and Sophomores at the south.
The Senior ballot will arouse unusual interest, because of the fact that the president elected will be the permanent head of that group. The men running for this office are Bart Hutchins, Burke Long, Ellsworth Ross, Bob Qreen and Jud Dees.
Candidates for the presidency of the Junior class are Lloyd Hersberger, Al Behrendt and Williard Brown; for vice-presidency, Mabel Smith and Reva Hawkins, and for treasurer, Robert Brooker and Russ Nealy. Eunice Riley, being the only candidate run ning, will receive the office of secre tary unanimously.
Gordon Crain and Morley Drury are running for presidency of the Sophomore class; Carroll Greene and Marian Robertson for vice-president; Lois Huse and Jean Summerfield for secretary, and Sam Yokum, Wallace Fris-bee, Stanley Hopper, Bus Blanchard and Hal Silbert for treasurer. Running for executive committee are Wayne Harrison, Howard Edgerton, Betty von KieinSmid, Mildred Martz, Eddie Oudermeulen, Marcus Beeks, Art Beggs, Elvin Parks, Carl Plate, Edgar La Fetra and Marian Chase.
Four men are contesting for the
presidency of the next Sophomore class: Dave Bryant, Dante La Franchi, Jesse Hibbs and Herbert Spencer. For vice-president, Cecil Vigne and Geor-gianne Hanson; for treasurer, Briggs Sandos, Bud Merrifield, Bill Srere and Paul Slater. Francie Lichty is the secretary unanimously. Kenny Becker, Bob Behlow, Velva Clark, Ned Cole, Mary Jo Garland, Red Garrison, Jack Hartfield, Helen Hill, Marion Morrison, Helen Sauber and Saurere Weddle are running for executive committee.
CAPT. HOUSER HEADSTROJAN I. C. 4 A TEAM
Team Members Chosen Yesterday ; Cromwell Confident Will Retain Trophy.
BY RALPH HUSTON
i he “Big Parade” goes inarching in tomorrow noon to Boston. Fifteen Trojans were named yesterday to carry the Cardinal and Gold in defense of the I. C. A. A. A. A. championship against the strongest and fastest track teams in the country.
Captain Bud Houser, the heave and toss man from Oxnard, is to head the Parade to the east. The supporting cast, selected yesterday by Coach Dean Cromwell, will be: Leighton Dye, Kenneth Grumbles, Lee Barnes, Cliff Reynolds, Ron Stever, Alden Ross, Henry Coggeshall, Joe Aleksi, Percy Niersbach, Ed House, Herschel Smith. Johnny Parsons, Morton Kaer and Bill Cook.
On the tanned shoulders of that fifteen will rest the silver loving cup, which represents the intercollegiate championship, and on those same tanned shoulders, ft is expected, the cup will journey to the Trojan trophy case again.
HOUSER TO STAR Captain Bud is looked upon as the prospective hero of the meet. The great Trojan leader ls expected to wind up his collegiate career—probably the outstanding record of accom plishment of any modern weight man —with a dual victory in the shot and discus, and a possible new record. Houser has captained the Trojans through a wonderful season. They are undisputed dual champions of the Pacific Coast, and bowed to Stanford in the conference meet only because the Redshirts proved themselves one of the best teams in the coantry.
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obtaining the desired effects. However, both “The Enchanted Cottage” and the Extravaganza showed that the stage crew, under the direction of Ray MacDonald, is capable of obtaining better effects with the limited stage equipment than was thought possible.
The play opens with a tempest on the ocean and the storm continues intermittently almost to the end. A cue sheet for the thunder and lightning is being worked out at rehearsals. The “thunder strip” will play an important part in the atmosphere of the play, while a wind machine and dimmers are to te rented to aid in obtaining the desire effects.
are interested in the content of the book see the editor as soon as possible regarding any information they wish to have included as it is planned to have the book out at least four weeks earlier than was the case last year, in order that it may be placed at the disposal of the summer session students. Owing to the rapid growth of the university during the last year, a complete revision of the book will be necessary. Particularly is this true of athletic records which were thought to have almost reached their maximum height, but which have this season been smashed left and right by S. C.’s enterprising varsity men.
at 5:30 p. m.
The number of selections given before the Council ranged from “The Song of the Volga Boatman” to “Steal Away,” an old negro spiritual song. Time and again the quartet was asked to deliver encore numbers. Those who attended the meeting expressed themselves as believing that the I^a Verne College quartet furnished the Y. M. C. A. with the best musical treat that has. been given this year. Stan Hopper introduced the quartet by saying that they were amone friends, since many of the S. C. students had heard the group sing at the last Asilomar conference.
1926 EL RODEO DUE ON MONDAY
Editor Murray Announces Date of Issuance of Trojan Year Book; Marine Motif Used.
Presenting what is without doubt one of the best books of its kind in the country, Ed Murray, editor-in-chief of the annual, today announced that the 1926 El Rodeo would be ready for distribution Monday. According to him, it will be distributed during next week only.
This year's El Rodeo, which is entered in a national contest for annuals, surpasses even last year’s book, which took third place in the national contest The book contains many beautiful and novel features which carry out the marine motif. The cover is said to be the best ever made by the leather company.
There has been about 2300 copies of the book printed. This amount leaves only a very few extra ones; thus anyone wishing an additional copy or anyone that has not ordered one and wishes to do so should place their order today in the Bookstore.
The staff of the annual has not yet been announced beyond Ed Murray as editor-in-chief and Burdette Ives as business manager. The leaving of the announcement of the staff until the printing of the book is a new plan which Murray used to obtain better results from the staff.
LITERARY CLUBS HOLD CEREMONIES
Former President of Delta Sigma Rho To Address Literary Commencement Program.
J. F. T. O’Connor, a partner with Wm. Gibbs McAdoo in the law firm of McAdoo, Neblett and O'Connor, will be the principle speaker at the joint commencement exercises of the literary societies to be held in the social hall of the Women's Building on Tuesday evening, May 25th.
Mr. O’Connor was the national president of Delta Sigma Rh», honorary debating fraternity, for four years. He is an aulmnus of Yale University and was the first president of this organization to come from Yale. There is a chapter of Delta Sigma Rho at Southern California.
While at Yale, Mr. O’Connor won seven contests in oratory and debating. He was the winner of the famous Demosthenes Medal at this institution In 1909.
Mr. O’Connor is also an alumnus of the University of North Dakota, and won the North Dakota State medal in oratory. He was one of the founders of the Ad Altiora Literary Society there.
Mr. O'Connor was a candidate for the office of governor of North Dakota in 1920. He has been prominent in politics throughout the United States for many years.
All of the literary societies on the campus will meet together, diplomas being presented to all graduating Seniors. Gavels will be presented to r& tiring presidents. All Interested students and the members of the four societies are invited to witness th<* ceremonies and to hear Mr. O’Connor speak. The exercises will corrmf'^o* promptly at 8 o’clock.