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S. C. Will Debate U. C. L. A. Tonight. Plays To Be Presented By Drama Shop Tonight. Exchange Rally With Pomona Planned. Dr. Bruce Curry To Conduct Institute. Japanese Consul To Speak Here. Large Audience Sees Deputations Skit.
Southern
California
Trojan
The Spirit of Troy
"Our debaters are out to win tonight. The result should be one of the best debates heard here for some time, We shall be there to back a Southern California team.*’
The Old Trojan.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, February 24, 1927
DRAMA SHOP TO PRESENT PROGRAM
Three One-Act Plays Will Display Campus Talent Tonight.
HELD IN TOUCHSTONE
Student Directors Offer Three Distinct Types of Productions.
Talent from the campus will be on display this evening at 8:00 at Touchstone Theater, when the three •one-act plays. “The Maker of Dreams,” " ’Op o’ Me Thumb," and the “Dreamy Kid” are presented by Touchstone Drama Shop.
“The Maker of Dreams,” by 011-phant' Down, has been directed by Betty Wilkinson. The cast includes Elora Sornsen as Pierrette, Roy Win-born as Pierrot, and Arthur Brearly &F the Manufacturer.
In keeping with the play, the dominant tone of the setting is fantastic.
" ’Op o' Me Thumb,” revealing the love quest of the little laundress Amanda, has been directed by Melvin Cytron. with Avalon Dagget in the leading part. The character of Rose Jordan will be interpreted by Clair Aderer, and that of Mrs. Galloway by Netties May l^appington. Fay Keyzores will play the role of Celeste, while John Dundas will play the part of Horace Greensmith, and Lorraine Lewis that of Madame Did-ier. The setting pictures the scene of Amanda’s humble employ.
Eugene O’Neill’s play, “The Dreamy Kid,” is directed by Eleanor Veale. Doris Crook Johnston plays the part of Mammy, Rosita Hopps that of Irene, Marquita Young, of Celie Ann, and Arthur Strock, the Dreamy Kid. The setting of the plav is realistic, depicting the lives of its Negro characters in their humble
surroundings.
The plays are under the general supervision of Elizabeth Alexander Raede.
NUMBER 88
5. C. Will Broadcast One Act Play Over K. F. I. Tonight
One short play will be broadcasted by S. C. students from station K.F.i. tonight at 8 o’clock. This play is under the supervision of Miss Tacie May Hanna, and is entitled “Oft in a Stilly Night.” The members of the cast have not as yet been announced.
From 6:15 to 6:30, over the same station, the Radiotorial period will feature Professor Lau-rabelle Dietrick, of the Southern California English department, who wirl speak on the noted author, John Erskine, and his sensational novel, “Helen of Troy.”
At 7 o’clock a musical program will be presented by the University, featuring Howard Keer, tenor, accompanied on the piano by Dor-thy Bishop, and Rowena Muckei-ray, soprano.
SKIT IS PRESENTED TO AUDIENCE AT LINCOLN HIGH
EXCHANGE RALLY WITH POMONA IS PLANNED
Rally Committee Sends petition For Assemblies To President.
ASK WEEKLY RALLIES
APPOINT EDITOR FOR NEW SECTION
Bryant Hale has been appointed ed-tor of the Theater section for the ITojan, to succeed Horace Bristol, ho was forced to leave school on -ceount of receiving injuries to his >ack.
Mr. Hale is a transfer from the ansas State Agricultural College, at hich place he was art editor of jfeeir college humor magazine. At hi* university he holds the same position on the Wampus staff.
It is the plan, according to Mr. 3ale, to criticize the most important pictures at the theatres playing dur-ng the week. He intends to have the interview of some well-known ovie star written up in the section, hich appears every Friday in the Trojan. The manager of this department is Robert Service.
“The theater and the Dining and Dancing sections are new depart-ents in the Trojan this year. Both of them are of equal rank with those :f other universities and in some ■’ays they are superior.” stated ieorge Jordan, editor-in-chief of the Trojan.
Elliott Levine is the editor of the lining and Dancing section of the rojan and Homan Baxter is the manager.
Deputations Cast Well Received By Capacity Audience; Present Varied Entertainment.
to the exchange assembly with Pomona, one with the University of California at Los Angeles tentatively set for March 25. It also requests a program each week for Southern California students, to be held at Greeted by an audience that filled 1 special hours. In the past there has to overflowing the auditorium of Lin- j been a regular time each week for coin High School, the Deputations rallies, but that system was changed Skit cast presented a program which j at the beginning of this year in fa-won instant welcome on the part of vor of a plan whereby a petition had
the students and the expressed approval of the faculty yesterday morning.
Bud Pentz, who gave a piano selection. Wood and Witty, presenting banjo solos, and Rosita Hopps. who spoke on the desirability of attending a university, together with the regular cast, presented a worthy and commendable program, according to the statement of Sam Gates, chairman.
Those in the cast are: Menelaus King, Harry Baum; Sadie Sewell, Elizabeth Alexander; the Dean, J. MacIntyre; R. A. Blackburn, Carroll Sanholdt; Elaine Knight, Eileen Powers; Edmund Burke, the debator, Webster Hayne; Helen Troy, Woody Lou Hunsaker; Katie Kord, Frances Evans; a “joiner,” Elora Sornsen.
The skit was written by Ralph Holly and Grant La Mont In collaboration, directed by the latter, and scheduled by the business manager, Bryant Hale.
A second cast will be chosen by Grant La Mont as soon as he finishes with the production of the Extrava
Petition Calls For Regular Weekly Assemblies and
Two Exchanges.	I A word about the U. C. L. A.
Plans for an exchange program i	tonight. 1 he charges have
with Pomona College, to be held ! been passed back and forth, with
March 4 if the petition now before more or les seriousness and in-
President von KieinSmid is approved,1 tensity, that that institution has were made at the meeting of the j	, , . ,, .	, _ ,
Rally Committee Tuesday. The men onl>' a bask«ball team and South-who will make the trip to Pomona c ni California only football and are Leland Tallman, who will give an track teams. It is casting no readdress, Was Woodford, Terrel De flection on the Bruins to say that Lapp. Roy Winborn. Tom Bryant, j they wiu make the mQSt Qf Bud Pence .and Woody and Witty, i	. . A	*
who will provide entertainment. 1 <’PP«”umty they get to say they The petition now before President ! defeated the lrojans in another von Kleinsmid provides, in addition activity. If we win tonight, probably we shall do the same. The moral, from our point of view, is not hard to find. Our team is out to win. The result should be one of the best debates heard here for some time, not excepting the exchange 'of pleasantries with Oxford. We shall be there to back a Southern California team. But from the standpoint of the enjoyment to be derived from a real contest it will be worth while to go tonight.
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That the Stanford man who writes the “Bull Session” column and who was responsible for the article referred to in the Trojan the other day does not represent all of the Stanford student body is borne out by a letter to the editor in a subsequent issue of that daily. Omitting names, a paragraph of the letter runs as follows :
“Four months ago when-
to be presented before a special as sembly could be held.
SCROLL OF HONOR IS DEDICATED TO PROMINENT WOMEN
One Hundred Los Angeles Women Have Names On Scroll of Residence Hall.
A Scroll of Honor with the names of more than a hundred prominent Los Angeles women is the latest addition of beauty and interest to be placed in the reception hall of the Women’s Residence Hall, having been viewed for the first time on the occasion of a luncheon given by the Women's Club of the University, of which Mrs. Rufus B. von KieinSmid is president. Wednesday noon in the Residence Hall.
Guests were entertained at the
luncheon by Mesdames von Klein-
ganza. Any one who is interested in Smid. E. W. Clark, Chester Wallace
Brown, Don K. Howes, Felix C. Howes, Albert Sherman Hoyt, Frank E. Eckhart, Judson C. Reeves, Mar-
taking part in the cast may leave his name with Grant La Mont, pending selection of the second cast.
TUESDAY EVENING LECTURE COURSE TO BE PRESENTED
“Economics for Executives” is the subject of a new Tuesday evening lecture course dealing with recent developments in applied economics, to be given here beginning March 1, under the auspices of the Los Angeles Advertising Club, according to announcement of H. J. Stonier, president.
Dr. W. D. Moriarty. professor of economics at Southern California and Educational Director of the Los Angeles Advertising Club, is to head the series of twelve Tuesday night discussions, to be given from 7 to 9 in Bovard Auditorium. The course is open to both men and women.
tin V. Beiger, Charles A. Parmalee, M. Burdock, Sloan Orcutt, Walter Fisher, and Miss Mira Hershey.
In addition to the hand-illuminated parchment scroll bearing the names of the donors whose efforts have made the Residence Hall possible, a permanent tribute to early benefactors of the women’s dormitory at Southern California has been placed in the Memorial Fireplace, upon which fourteen “Pine-Tree Titles” are engraved with the names of Mesdames Martin V. Beiger, A. S. Hoyt, E. W. Clark. Sloan Orcutt, M. J. Murdock. Charles C. Paimalee, Frank E. Eckhart, F. C. Howes, W'alter Fisher, Judson C. Reeves, R. B. von KleinSmid, Miss Mira Hershey, and Mr. Raphael Herman .and a title representing the University of Southern California omen’s Club.
DR. M. STRUBLE
Trojan Advertisers Save You Money.
Deputation Members Are Appointed To Fill Vacancies
Marian Abbott. Leo Harris, and Paul Wood are the three appointed to membership on the Deputations committee selected from among those who submitted applications for the vacancies, according to Sam Gates, chairman of the committee, in a statement made yesterday.
Interest, capability, talent and willingness to work were the qualities considered in the selection.
Graduate Student Body LEADS DISCUSSION to Give Tea in Women’s Residence Hall, Feb. 25
Members of the graduate student body will meet at a tea in the Women s Residence Hall Friday at 3:30. at which time two of the members will discuss the subjects they have chosen for their theses.
David LeFevre has chosen as his subject "Thorndyke and His Intelligence Test, With Its Relation to the College StudenL” Sam Gates will talk on the subject, ‘‘A History of This University.” There will also be several musical numbers on the program. which is in charge of Dorothy Girot. chairman of the social committee.
Trojan Advertisers Save You Money.
Freshmen groups of the Y. W. C. A. held their regular meetings yesterday noon at the lodge for the purpose of discussing the benefits derived from a college education.
The discussion was conducted by Dr. Mildred Struble, of the English department, who emphasized the importance of working on an organized plan, and the development of independent thinking in the individual. According to Professor Struble, “Since college is a place of idealism, it affords a wonderful opportunity to cultivate high ideals.”
Another meeting will be held on Monday at noon in the Lodge, at which time the nomination and election of officers will take place. This statement was made by Rosita Hopps, president of the Y. W. C. A.
DR. BRUCE CURRY WILL CONDUCf INSTITUTE
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Has Led Many Programs in Study of the Bible.
HERE TWO DAYS
Coming To S. C.
U. C. L. A. and California Christian College To Attend Sessions.
Dr. Bruce Curry, one of the leading Bible teachers in this country, will conduct an institute on the Southern California campus . on Saturday and Sunday, March 5 and 6. He will lead discussion groups on Saturday morning, afternoon and evening, and twice on Sunday.
Dr. Curry has led Bible study programs in many of the largest universities throughout the United States. He has made a study of religion and problems of students as few men of the present generation j have.
The University Committee on Re-j ligious Interests, appointed by the President, has heartily endorsed the Institute which Curry is to lead. Plans for the Institute are being made by the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.
The University of California at Los Angeles and the California Christian College have been invited to attend the Institute, and advance reservations indicate that • more than one (Continued on Page Four)
DR. BRUCE CURRY Who will Conduct Institute on Campus.
(may he forgive me) asked that the Bull in Bull Session be tossed out, I in all the arrogance of my first quarter, leaped to that column’s defense. May God forgive me!”
At least two students there did not like it, which may or may not represent much more student opinion, but to be fair to our northern neighbor we might admit that these two probably come as near representing Stanford as did the columnist.
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There is a school of collegiate journalism that takes the position that anything is permissible in a paper that can “get bvM if it makes the students read the sheet. That is, the test of a successful paper, according to these editors, is the number of people who read it and with what exclamations they greet its arrival. We found that feeling pretty prevalent at Reno. Such a position, carried to its logical extreme, would stop at nothing. Personalities and gossip would be the best fodder. The limit would be what the administration will stand for.
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We believe that is a wrong policy. A paper should be thoroughly alive to the real campus issues. It should give the campus the facts which are of legitimate interest to it. (Bv “legitimate” is meant facts which are of interest for their bearing upon the life and progress of the campus rather than because they provide “juicy” reading for avid scandal collectors.) To continue, the paper should be so put out as to ma1/ every student want to read it and feel that he misses something if (Continued on Page Four)
JAPANESE CONSUL SPEAKS TODAY ON CONSULAR DUTIES
Japanese-American Relations is Subject To Be Discussed By C-Ohashi This Morning.
Japanese-American relations will be the topic of discussion when C. Ohashi, consul of Japan at Los Angeles, speaks on the duties of a consul before Professor J. Eugene Harley’s class in International Law this morning at 11:25 in S-353.
That Mr. Ohashi is eminently well fitted to undertake the discussion of his subject, is attested by his record in the Japanese Foreign Service. He has held a number of the most important posts in the United States to which a member of the Japanese Consular Service can be appointed. Coming to America in 1922 as attache to the Japanese Embassy at Washington, where he served throughout the Conference on Limitation of Arms, Mr. Ohashi was appointed consul at Seattle in 1923 and consul at Los Angeles in 1925.
As vice-consul attached to the Japanese Consulate-General at Mukden, Manchuria, Mr. Ohashi received valuable knowledge of his nation’s policy in the Far East.
Professor Harley announces that all those who are interested are welcome to attend the class today and hear Mr. Ohashi.
SEATS FOR BENEFIT BANQUET BRING HIGH PRICES
Affair Staged By University Women's Club Brings As High As $250 a Plate.
MARTHA WIGGET HAS PLANS FOR JUDICIARY COURT
Notices
All aotlrm matt be brought to tbe Trojan office nt 716 W»*t Jffttrion SI. or phoned to HUmboIt 4522. Notices ma*t be limited to 35 word*.
SKULL AND DAGGER
There will be a special Skull and Dagger meeting tomorrow noon at 12:20 in the student body office to consider a new basis for selection of members.
DEPUTATIONS CAST
All members of the Deputations Cast will meet in front of Bovard Auditorium at 12 o’clock sharp Friday, to go to San Fernando High School.
VARSITY AND FROSH DEBATERS
There will be a meeting of varsity and freshmen debaters this afternoon at 4 o’clock.
PRESS CLUB
A meeting of Press Club to discuss election of new members and plans for homecoming dinner will be held in tbe Trojan office today at 12:15.
Martha W’igget, newly elected chairman of the Women’s Self Government Judiciary Court, plans to make this court, an innovation this year, a success by following the plans recently worked out.
The court, a new branch of self government for the women, handles all cases of infractions of the rules by unlucky co-eds. The jury is to be composed of one representative from each sorority. This group of fourteen will have final authority in the punishment of offenders, except in the case of expulsion.
House mothers turn in reports of infractions to the secretary to the Dean of WTomen, who determines what girls will be brought before tbe court. The court meets every Tuesday in the office of the Dean of W’omen.
When the girl has been convicted, a report is turned in to the Dean of Women, who in return reports it to the Welfare Committee, but the final authority rests with the court.
WILL DISCUSS CONDITIONS IN CHINA
Bill Henley and Arthur Syvertson Uphold Negatives For S. C.
WM. BOWEN PRESIDES
Question of Deate is Timely and of Vital Public Interest.
With many guests paying as high as 1250 a plate, a benefit luncheon was staged by the University W’om-en’s Club, at the Women's Residence Hall, yesterday noon. Approximately 200 women interested in the future of the University attended the luncheon.
Mrs. Rufus B. von KieinSmid, president of the club., states that one of the primary purposes of the affair was to raise money for the purchase of a grand piano for the Women’s Residence Hall. A minimum of $1 a plate was charged, but several of those who attended donated much more.
A program was presented by the Mu Phi Epsilon trio and the Women’s Glee Club. The Glee Club, under the direction of J. Arthur Lewis, sang four numbers, “The Moon Drops Low,” “Land of the Sky Blue Waters,” “A Londonderry Air,” and ‘‘The Lilac Tree.” The girls appeared in their new uniforms of white flannel trimmed in cardinal and gold. |
The valentine motif featured the decorations of the Residence Hall. Programs were hand-made, and small snapshots of the building were on the cards.
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Advertising Manager Will Speak To Group
Alpha Kappa Psi, professional commerce fraternity, will be addressed by Mr. Cook, assistant advertising manager of the California Fruit Growers’ Exchange, at their meeting in Dean Cunningham’s office tonight at 7:15.
Mr. Cook will speak on some phase of advertising. Pledges as well as acUve members are expected to be present, according to Charles R. Collins, president of the fraternity.
Should the present policies of foreign governmental control in China prevail? Both sides of this question will be championed when the debate team of the University of California at Los Angeles clashes with Southern California’s representatives in Bovard Auditorium this evening at 8 P. M. Judge Wm. M. Bowen will preside at the contest.
QUESTION IMPORTANT
The formal wording of the proposition to be debated is, “Resolved, that foreign powers should immediately relinquish foreign governmental control in China, legations and consulates excepted.” Myern Smith and Charles Shotland are the two crack debaters of California who will uphold the affirmative side of the proposition, while Bill Henley and Arthur Syvertson, veteran S. C. orators, are to maintain the negative side of the China question.
With the United States Senate and the Houtee of Representatives constantly passing resolutions condemning or upholding the present policies in handling the Chinese problem, and with leaders in public life expressing their views upon the situation, the committee in charge believes the question to be a particularly timely and vital one.
CHANG TSO-LIN
Chang Tso-lin, the Pekinese war lord, recently gave his opinion of the Chinese upheaval as folows:.. "I am fighting not only in behalf of China, but in behalf of the world. The menace of Bolshevism is a world menace and the Cantonese are Bolsheviks. Whether I win or lose is personally indifferent to me, but if I lose someone else must pick up the spear and hurl it at the hear* of Communism. If I win I shall stand for a just revision of China’s international treaties, but not for their abrogation, which is the object of the Cantonese.”
Opposed to this view of the situation are the beliefs of the Cantonese armies and the powers who have as* sembled the giant Pacific fleet to protect the- lives and property of their nationals.
Captain Arthur Syvertson and Bill Henley have been studying the negative side of the question for many weeks. The past few days have been devoted by them to practice debates with George Lawrence, Leo Harris, and Charles Wright in preparation for tonight’s struggle. According to Debate Coach Alan Nichols a very close contest and keen competition is expected when Southern California meets the ^niversity of California at Los Angeles in Bovard Auditorium this evening.
Gyro Club To Observe University Day At Meeting Today
Today will be University of Southern California Day at the Gyro International Club, an organization founded in Los Angeles in 1925 for- the purpose of bringing young business men into a social service club and friendly relationship.
Dean Fisk of the Associated Students’ Store, chairman of the day, states that Dr. Roy Malcolm, professor of Political Science, will give the principal address. A musical program given by “Tiny” Sanholt, Berwin Riske, and Virgil Springer, soloists of the Trojan Glee Club, will be an added feature on the program.
Meetings are held each Thursday noon at the Masonic Club, 619 South Grand. Harry Silke, former S. C. student body president, is president of the club.