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VOLUME V.
Los Angeles, California, Friday, July 23, 1926
NUMBER 8
PILGRIMAGE PLAY FOR STUDENT BODY IS THIS EVENING
Change of Central Actor Not Affect Showing of Performance
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SEVERAL TROJANS ARE INVOLVED IN BIG AUTO SMASHUP
By
K. CARROLL McKLOSKEY
Though having transferred the part of the Christus, which was played by Mr. William Faver-sham, to Mr. Reginald Pole, who has also assumed dictatorship of the production, the presentation of the “Pilgrimage Play” continues at its own open-air theatre, one block north of the junction of Highland and Cahuenga avenues, in Hollywood. Tonight is the second “University of Southern California Night/’ tickets for which students may purchase at a reduction at the Students’ Store.
The play, which is frequently referred to as America’s Passion Play, is presented in twelve episodes and a prologue of prophesy and an epilogue of promise; thus it covers practically the whole spiritual life and teachings of Christ.
The recorded words as found in the four gospels furnish the literal transcription. which is used throughout. Accuracy of text is stressed, and it is alleged that because of inaccuracy the leading actor was changed. (Another asserted reason for Mr. Faver-sham’s removal was a “too virile” portrayal of the character.)
HILLS BACKGROUND
The hills of the El Camino Real Canyon furnish the setting for the production, and allow for much use of rugged natural scenery. Unusual and strikingly effective methods of lighting are used for the sunrise and sunsets.. The ascension and the transfiguration are produced in glowing colored lights and with cloud effects ihat bring out beauty and a compelling realism.
Costumes are authentic in regard to time and type, having been imported from Jerusalem, particularly for this play.
The well-known Helen Jerome Eddy plays the part of the Mother of Christ. Music is supplied by the Smallman A Cappella choir of forty voices.
The Pilgrimage Play Association is incorporated on a non-profit basis and the undertaking is non-sectarian.
Summer Session Students on Way To Hospital Hit in Collision
Accidents involving many persons connected with the University occurred last Monday afternoon, the major mishap taking place when a police ambulance containing two summer session co-eds smashed into a Studebaker Sedan at the intersection of Figueroa and West Adams streets, injuring four persons, wrecking the ambulance, and badly damaging three other automobiles.
Miss Beatrice Corcoran and Miss Ida Taft, both students at the University, were in the ambulance, the former having been injured in a fall on the cement steps of the Administration building. Miss Taft went along as a friend to assist Miss Corcoran. Proceeding north on Figueroa street, the ambulance had a clear field, ac* cording to the driver, James Peavey, and his attendant companion, Frank Keohane, when a sedan which had formerly pulled up to let them pass attempted to turn left on West Adams in front of the police machine.
FOUR CARS DAMAGED
The ambulance crashed into the private car, throwing it against two other machines parked double nearby, and hurling Peavey into the street, where he struck on his head, sustaining a serious concussion of the brain. Both of the women students wTere badly hurt, and the first ambulance to arrive on the scene took Miss Taft to the receiving hospital, where she was treated for severe injuries to the body and arms. Miss Corcoran also received numerous cuts and bruises in addition to her former injury.
Officer Frank Keohane suffered many bruises and cuts, sustaining what was at first thought to be two fractured ribs. Later X-ray diagnoses, however, seem to indicate that the ligaments were torn without the ribs being broken. Mrs. Keohane, formerly Doris Robinson, is secretary to General Manager Gwynn Wilson.
The sedan was driven by F. E. Shawr, father-in-law of Roy Reames, an alumnus of the School of Law and now chief trial deputy in the City Prosecutor’s office.
Trip to Catalina Tomorrow Will Ruin You for Studying
Student Voyage To Wm. Wrigley's “Magic Isle” Will Stimulate Spearmint Consumption But Cause Decline in Collateral Library Enthusiasm
BY MATTHEW BARR
For thc benefit of those who have grown tired of the view seen through the windows of the collateral library, a group of special courses in seff-enjoyment will be held for all Summer Session students at Catalina Island tomorrow and Sunday. Those who enroll in the one-day session will be charged a tuition fee of $2.60, to cover the cost of transportation from Los Angeles to Avalon. The tKcur-sionists—pardon, students—wishing to remain overnight will be accommodated at the Island Villa for a very small sum.
Opportunity will be given for Summer Session Trojans to gain first hand information on the habits of flying fish, the speed of motor boats, the wonders of marine life as viewed through glass-bottom boats, the intricacies of the latest dance vteps, and all those things which make the Magic Isle a wonderful spot for the ideal university.
* Attendance in Monday s classes
PHYSICAL ED. BASEBALL GAME
Summer Session baseball stars, including both men and women in the University, will engage in mortal combat next Thursday afternoon, the 29th, at Belmont Shore. Players from Los Angeles County challenged the “rest of the world,” represented by physical education students from the Middle West and elsewhere, to a game, and the offer of battle was quickly seized upon.
Mr. Schrader has promised to show the local stars how it’s done in Massachusetts, while others will give a good account of their own particular regions.
The student body is invited to attend to root for their own sections, the action taking place in connection with the physical education department picnic at the Shore next week
PICNIC SOON
Could there be an event filled with greater action than a physical education department picnic? Activities of every description are being planned, baseball, volleyball and swimming, along with many others.
Cars will be leaving the University each hour from one o’clock to five.
When? July 29th.
Where? Belmont Shore.
Coming?
AKED DENOUNCES EFFICIENCY AND METHODS IN TALK
All Souls Church Pastor Makes Hot Attack on Lack of Individualism
ENGLISH LIKE TWAIN
is apt to suffer because of the week-end excursion. After a few hours of the island, the joys of summer school will be forgotten, and the most diligent students will become infected with the desire to stay “just one more day. When the chimes play “Aloha
there will be sighs enough to make a gale. No more journeys to
beautiful Pebbly Beach, no more
plunges in the still blue bay, no more
strolls along the moonlit promenade,
no more dances in the Casino or the
Pavilion, no more hikes in the hills,
where wild goats still scamper into
the brush.
RUINS FOR STUDY
If you are satisfied with summer school, do not pay your $2.60 to the young lady at the Students’ Store, because you will never be able to study when you return to school. That is the insidious thing about Catalina. No one who spends a day there can do anything afterward but chew Spearmint gum, and jump at the sound of a steamboat whistle.
Kenneth Stonier offers a source of help to those who wish to make the trip without suffering from nostalgia after returning home. Simply arrange with Mr. Stonier to make the trip by flying boat, Trojans, and you will be so glad to reach land safely that you will have no desire to repeat the trip for some time. Flying boat reservations may be made at Mr. Stonier’s office, over the Students’ Store.
American Humorist Essentially Serious and Always Far-sighted
Denouncing the current American ideals of greater efficiency and methodology and urging a return to more individualism, Dr. Charles F. Aked, pastor of Wilshire All-Souls Church, received a huge ovation from the summer session student body in his Assembly address of last Tuesday morning. The announced subject for his speech was “The Gospel of Mark Twain,” and Dr. Aked used several of the maxims of “Pudd’nhead Wilson” as the point of departure for his plea for greater recognition of the individual.
“I know what efficiency is,” he stated. “It is something that enables a person of superior ability and greater talents to do in a given period what a person of inferior ability and less genius can do in one-half the time.
“As for methods, next to efficiency (Continued on Page Four)
TUESDAY’S PLAYTO REPRODUCE DELUGE
Noah s Wife, Animals, Ark Will i Stalk Before Students in Old Play
Reproducing all the old machinery of mediaeval play-producing, as practiced under the limitations of transporting the scenery and actors from place to place in a wagon. Gilmor Brown’s class in Play Production is now ready for its presentation of “Noahs Deluge” in the student assembly next Tuesday morning at 10:30. To cover the cost of costumes and setting a charge of twenty-five cents has been made, with no reserved seats. There will be no announcements or other preliminaries, according to present plans.
Beginning with the voice of God elling of the plan of the destruction 3f the world, the plav soon shows loah calling forth his family and jlanning the ark. Then comes a description of the animals, and a rare it of mediaeval comedy centering bout Mrs. Noah’s lusty refusal to ave anything to do with her husband’s ship, especially when Noah reft ises to take her fellow gossip along, p inally the encroaching waters of the A, >od drive her into the ark.
IRVING STONE WEDS LONA MOSK
Irving Stone, who received his master’s degree and was a fellow in the Economics department here in 1923-4, was married recently to Miss Ixrna Mosk of the University of California, where Stone has been completing his requirements for the doctorate. The bridal couple left for Europe recently and will spend a year abroad while the bridegroom continues his studies in London, Paris and Berlin.
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LOST
An amethyst bar pin. Reward if re-rned to M. L. Karr, Room 310 Wom-s Residence Hall.
CROMWELL SIGNS FOR NEXT YEAR
Coach Dean Cromwell’s sixteen year reign as track mentor at the Univer-i sity will not be broken next season,
• the noted coach having signed up to 1 direct the Trojans next season. This ! dispels rumors that Cromwell wrould leave the Trojan institution. “The Smiling Dean” took charge of S. C. track men in 1909 and with the exception of the seasons of 1913 and 1914 has been at the head of the Trojans I ever since.
The past season was Cromwell’s greatest. His team won the Pacific Coast dual meet championship, was | second in the conference meet, took the I. C. 4-A championship and won top honors in the N. C. A. He then took his team as the Hollywood Athletic Club to Philadelphia to win the National A. A. U. title.
After six weeks of coaching track, Cromwell left yesterday on a business trip to Salem, Oregon.
Missouri Twins On Campus Like Southern California
Olive and Opal Mitchell Attend U. S. C. as They Have Done Everything Else—Together. Look and Dress Alike and Have Record of Full Similarity
Introducing the twins!
Do vou know that the summer session boasts two sisters so nearly alike that they can scarcely be distinguished*" Probably you do, for they not only look alike, but in dress they are exactly alike, and you can't help noticing them on the campus. If you’ve a class in Constitutional History, in California School Law, or in Lduca-tional or Vocational Guidance, moreover, you have them for classmates’* and of course you can’t tell them apart.
They are Opal and Olive Mitchell, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Mitchell of Licking, Missouri, and this summer is their first in Southern California. Graduates of Southwest Missouri State Teachers’ College, and carrying life teaching certificates for their
♦state, they have had two years’ teaching experience in Missouri, in elementary schools at Thayer and at Licking.
Like the rest of the Middle West, Olive and Opal wanted to see Southern California, so they came out late this spring, and have already become confirmed enthusiasts, expecting to teach here in the fall. Thus far they have always been together, even to teaching in the same schools, and naturally they would like the same good fortune in the Southland. CLOTHES SIMILAR For they don’t like to be separated any more than they like being differ ent in their dress—and their clothes certainly very similar. Dresses
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alumnae in Meeting
Members of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority who are attending the Summer
Session at the University of Southern California are invited to attend the monthly meeting of the alumnae association which is to be held tomorrow, Saturday, July 24, at Santa Monica in the form of a beach party, according to Miss Helen Haller, president of the organization. Those desiring to go may see Miss Haller in the Business Office at U. S. C. regarding arrangements.
Students in the Summer Session are reminded that their Permanent Enrolment Cards are due In the office of the Registrar
are
of identical Canton crepe, bearing the same shade of Copenhagen blue, and (Continued on Page Four)
FAMOUS TRIO TO PLAY HERE LAST DAY OF SESSION
Chamber Music Group Will Give Program Before Special Assembly
Fulfilling a wish of long standing on the part of the Department of Music, that division of the Summer Session will offer a strong program of music at a special assembly on the last day of the Summer Session, August 16. The entire student body is invited to hear that I»s Angeles Trio at that time, and classes will be arranged to accommodate the special hour. The trio, comprising May MacDonald Hope, pianiste; Sylvain Noack, violinist, and Ilya Bronson, ’cellist, is one of the leading chamber music groups on the Pacific Coast, and will present a program from modern composers of note as well as from classical authors.
Sylvain Noack, violin soloist, con-cert-master and assistant conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, is a native of Holland.
When seventeen years of age he became a first violin of the famous “Con-certabouw Orchestra” in Amsterdam, at the same time entering the Conservatory as a pupil of Andre Spoor. After graduating from this institution with the highest distinction he took private lessons from Professor Bram Eldering. After some years as con-certmaster in Europe, he was called to Los Angeles in 1919 to be the con-certmaster and assistant conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra, in which position he has gained great popularity by his many successful appearances as a soloist.
Ilya Bronson received his musical education at the Imperial Music School in Odessa, Russia, and continued his studies In Leipsic, where he w’as awarded the Reinecke Scholarship as “the most talented pupil.” Mr. Bronson has been connected with leading orchestras and Chamber Music organizations since the beginning of his professional career.
In New York with the New York Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestra, Mr. Bronson won a high place as an artist of exceptional abilities. Mr. Bronson is at present solo-’cellist of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles.