Read It in The Trojan
Large Cast Chosen For “Rumpus.”
Classes Elect Officers For New Semester.
Pi Delt Razz Edition Appears Tomorrow. Great Rally Scheduled For Friday Morning. Debaters Elect New Leader.
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The Spirit of Troy
“The congratulations today are to the newly elected class officers. To the presidents, particularly, do we extend our best wishes for the best of success throughout the semester. The cue now to others is loyalty.”
The Old Trojan.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, February 9, 1927
NUMBER 78
RALLY SET FOR FRIDAY
Football Awards To Be Presented To Varsity Football Men.
TO START AT 9:00 A. M.
Big Rally For California Game To Follow Presentation of Awards.
Presentation of awards to the varsity football team, the presence of Coach Howard Jones, entertain-naent, music, and a basketball rally will feature the All-University rally to be held at 9:00 o’clock Friday morning in Bovard Auditorium.
The rally is called for the purpose of presenting to the varsity football team sweaters, blankets and gold footballs in recognition of the work of the team by the student body. A speech by Coach Howard Jones in addition to the presence of the football team will feature tbe rally, according to Art Syvertson, chairman of the rally committee-
Music and entertainment, the character of which has not yet been an-iiounc^d, will make up a program of interest and hilarity.
“Songs and yells, under the leadership of Burdette Henney, yell leader, to arouse the students for the two basketball games with California Friday and Saturday evenings to be played in the Olympic Auditorium, will compose the remainder of the program.” said Mr. Syvertson. yesterday.
Three bells will be sounded throughout the university to call the students to the special rally.
Y. W. GATHERING TO HAVE TALK ON MEXICAN PROBLEM
Chorus of 85f Large Cast Features “Rumpus of 1927
Names of Principals in Forthcoming Production To Be Announced Today.
“The Rumpus of 1927" will feature a great chorus of eighty-five persons when the annual show is presented on March 18 in Bovard Auditorium, according to Grant La Monte, director of the production.
The cast is the largest one to be presented since the famous show made its appearance at the university a number of years ago. Since then, according to Gene Johnston and Hal Chasnoff, the annual Extravaganza has attracted the eyes of college students throughout the country.
La Monte is going to keep the names of the principals of the show under cover until tomorrow, but he claims that they have all been featured in shows on the Trojan campus during the last three years.
At present, Grant La Monte is taking care of the lyrics and the direction of the show. Earl Baldwin has written the book, end Gene Johnston has composed the music. Hal Chasnoff of the School of Music is arranging the music and is assistant musical director.
A fifteen piece orchestra will be used during the show, and tryouts are being held daily in Bovard Auditorium. Those wishing to try out should see Gene Johnston at the Music Box or Hal Chasnoff in the College of Music.
SHORT MEETING OF DRAMA SHOP
Discussion Meeting To Be Ad-dresed By Mussatti On Nicaraguan Situation.
Speaking on “The Nicaragua and Mexican Problem,” Prof. James Mussatti will be the guest of the Y. W. C. A. at a supper meeting which will be held at the Y lodge tonight at 4:30.
Rosetta Hopps, newly elected president of the Y, will be in general charge of the meeting tonight.
Discussion meetings have been held the first Wednesday of every month during the past semester, at which time different members of the Cabinet took charge.
"We hope to bring student interests to a place where they may hold interest, including the problem of student friendship on this campus,” stated Clara Miller, secretary of the Y.
School of Speech To Give Bohemian Dance Next Friday Evening
ADAMS HEADS FROSH DEBATE
Freshmen Debaters Elect Well Known Debater and Athlete as Captain.
Leo Adams was selected captain of the Southern California freshman debate squad at a meeting held in Hoose 206, on Monday afternoon. His election was unanimous.
While a student at Huntington Park High School. Leo Adams made an enviable record for himself both as a
debater and as a track man. In his forensic activities in preparatory school, he was coached by Merle McGinnis, a former Southern California debater and student body president.
Before graduating in 1926, young Adams was champion of the Bay League in the high and low hurdles.
Assistant forensic manager, Marian Garrison, has arranged a very comprehensive schedule for the younger members of the debate squad. At the present time, his plans call for de- j bates on the two following proposi- j tions: “Resolved, That Mussolini is a j benefactor to Italy,” and “Resolved, I That California should abolish' the initiative and referendum.” Those se-	_
lected for the negative of the Musso- Interesting Program With Many
Impersonations Will Follow Short Business Meeting.
With an unusual program scheduled. the Touchstone Drama Shop will hold its first evening meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Women’s Residence Hall. A short business meeting will precede the program.
Included on the program will be several impersonations by Professor Ray MacDonald. MacDonald is extremely clever at doing unusual impersonations, and his perform* ance tonight promises to bring down the house,” stated Marcus Beeks, president of the Drama Shop. Miss Frances Evans will give a Mexican dance; she will be accompanied by Bryant Hale.
A resume of the New York stage by Miss Florence Hubbard will be one of the features of the evening. She will discuss the commercial theater, the repertory theater, ana the theater of university campuses. Included in the discussion of the commercial theater will be reviews of “What Every Woman Knows.” “Broadway,” “The Shanghai Gesture,” and “Lulu Belle.” Miss Hubbard will show, through these outstanding commercial successes, why such organizations as the Theater Guild. the New York Repertory Theater, the Neighborhood Playhouse, and the American Laboratory Theater have been so successful the
With Bohemian informality as the predominant note, the Apache dance given by the School of Speech and the Touchstone Drama Shop will take place Friday evening at the Abbot School of Dancing, 1244 Innes avenue, Hollywood.
“The dance will not be of the conventional program variety,” stated Mary Ella Brooks, president of the School of Speech. “The committee is going to see to it that everyone becomef acquainted with everyone else.”
lini question are Don Stoner and Lorne Matheson. Murlin Lower is the only candidate to be chosen as a second affirmative orator. On the initiative and referendum resolution, first and second negatives are Leo Adams and Clifford Weimer, while the affirmative are Sam Newman and Murlin Lower.
Marion Garrison in commenting on the coming freshman program said the following: “The schedule this year calls for egagements with some of the leading universities and colleges of the Southland. Pomona College, California Institute of Technology, and the University of Redlands have expressed themselves as willing to debate our freshman teams.”
Life, College Humor Carry Reprints From Wampus by Messenger
The distinction of having the first two drawings which be had ever contributed to Wampus reprinted in “Life” and “College Humor,” was the honor reoeived by Marcus Mes-singer, the latest artist discovered by Milton Booth, editor. Messinger has contributed two more drawings to the Movie number of Wamp, which will appear February 17.
Another unique feature of these contributions is that all those turned in before were anonymous and ali attempts to discover their author failed. Messinger is the only artisi who has had the distinction of one hundred per cent reprints in both “College Humor” and “Life.”
TOUCHSTONE DRAMA SHOP
Important meeting of the Touchstone Drama Shop this evening at the Women's Residence Hall at 7:30. Interesting program and short business meeting.
BEAT IT, LAZY SPRING FEVER,
NO TIME FOR YOU ON CAMPUS!
When is spring not spring? Well, when it is the first of February, but tke atmosphere reeks of spring just the same—and the usual malady of spring fever seems to prevail.
Have you cast your eyes around the campus these last few days when the sun has been so bright, and the world seems sort of lazy, and quiet, and warm? Have you noticed the nonchalance with which people saunter to classes? Already we think of tbe beaches, the warm sands and the cold, cold waves.
But a new semester with the pro-
fessor of each study crying for book reviews, and papers—has begun. A good start is essential, for if we slack up now in preparing the every day work, when it comes time for finals it will be twice as ha d to study as it is now, for the real summer will be here.
Let's study now so that when summer does come, we won’t have a guilty conscience. School will be finished, we will have done our best .and our play time can be enjoyed.
So, spring fever, go away, college kiddies can aot play—’til summer!
past year in producing good, standard drama.
SPECIAL EXAMINATIONS NOTICE
All students desiring to take special examinations to complete courses in which they received a grade of “Incomplete” or “Condition” during the second semester of 1925-26 or the first semester of 1926-27, should apply at ILc registrar's office for the necessary authoritzation on or before Friday, February 18. Applications must show clearly the department, course number, section, present grade and instructor.
Students who fail to apply on or before that date will have no further opportunity for taking these examinations until the regular period of special examinations in the first semester of 1927-23.
The schedule of special examinations to be held this semester will be posted on the bulletin board as soon as possible after the applications are received.
R. B. VON KLEINSMID,
President.
THERON CLARK,
Registrar.
If the Commerce men will not resent it we should like to run a suggestion that was made to us by a Commerce man. It is based on the criticism that the College of Commerce, along with the rest of the campus, is tending toward over-organization. Besides the Commerce Club, to which every student of the college is eligible, and which holds a smoker or get-together monthly, he points out that there are eight smaller, subsidiary groups, each of which meets monthly by itself. They are the foreign trade, general business, advertising, marketing, merchandisnig, accounting, industrial management, and banking and finance groups. There is also the Advertising Club, with its requirements upon the time and interest of the student.
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How this works out, says our informer, is shown by this week’s program, with what he calls its typical conflicts. On Wednesday evening of this week there are to be meetings of the^lpha Kappa Psi alumni, the general business group, and the Advertising Club. This means that several men are unable to attend the functions to which they should go. Besides it means that there are about ten programs to be put on each month in the College of Commerce. The suggestion is that if these men should all get together they could put these programs all on the same evening's bill and have a rousing time once a month that would tie up the interests of all Commerce students and make them feel that they were in on something that is strong and worth while. The suggestion seems to be worth passing Oft
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A bit of explanation regarding the letter that is being run in today’s issue of the Trojan. It is an answer to what we quoted Prof. Fagan, the manager of the Bell Telephone Company as saying regarding Liberal Arts training for engineering work. It should be said that Mr. Lede-boer’s letter is based upon what he has heard the man in question say upon other occasions. Prof. Fagan did not quote him as saying that technical training was rot good, but said that the technical training alone is not best. It should supplement that general mental discipline. It is only fair to a’l concerned that we make this explanation which Mr. Ledeboer neglected to make in his letter.
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Tomorrow the Pi Delt Razzberry will be on the campus. We have taken particular pains not to find out what is going into the paper and not to write for it in order to have the privilege of sounding this one note. Without having seen or heard of one single line that will be in that paper we feel that it will contain three things. First, there will be some really funny stories, a little hard on certain individuals, perhaps, but really clever and of a nature (Continued on Page Four)
Razz Edition Out Tomorrow
Annual Razz Sheet To Be Sold By Pi Delt Pledges On Campus Tomorrow.
Razzing every student enrolled in the University, the Annual Dirt Sheet, product of Pi Delta Epsilon pledges, will appear on the Campus Thursday morning at 7:30.
The scandal sheet is edited by all the pledges, but contributions (“dirt”) are accepted from anyone if addressed to Milt Booth in care of the Information Office and are received by Wednesday noon.
Scott Creager, Sam Friedman, Wayne Harrison, Ed Murray, Harold Silbert, Les Heilman, Milton Booth. Bill Jeffery, and Adna Leonard are the pledges who appeared Tuesday with slugs of type instead of pledge pins.
Attired in original collegiate newsboy garb, the sellers of the Razz Sheet will call their wares from 7:30 a. m. until the supply is exhausted. The information will cost fifteen cents per sheet.
Formal • initiation will be held at the Gamma Epsilon house, Thursday at 4 p. m. It will be followed by a banquet of the Pi Delt Epsilon fraternity at 6 in the evening.
GREAT INTEREST IS TAKEN IN “ON-THE-LEVEL” CLASS VOTING
“Boots” Eddie Oudermeulen, Charles Wright, Sam Newman Chosen Heads of Classes; Eloise Parks, Marjorie Hull, Les Heilman Are New Senior Leaders.
NUMBER OF VOTES CAST BELIES INTEREST
Ruth Carr, Jean Summerfield, Howard Edgerton, Muriel Heeb, Bernice Palmer, Bob Behlow, Loraine Zeigler, Marion Abbot, Albert Kaser Are Cabinet Officers.
“A square, on the level election with the amount of votes cast failing to show the great interest taken,” was the comment of Hank Rohr, chairman of the elections committee, on the class elections held yesterday between 9:00 and 2:00. The numbed of votes cast was not alarming, but showed up well for the spirit of each respec-
LAW STUDENTS TO HEAR SPEECH BY HON. BLEDSOE
Lecture To Be Given in Law Auditorium of Interest To All
Students.
Honored by the presence of Judge Benjamin F. Bledsoe, the law students of the Southern California Law School will listen to an address Thursday morning at 10 o’clock, by the noted jurist.
Judge Bledsoe has chosen for the topic of his speech “The Federal Courts.” Judge Bledsoe is very well qualified to speak on this subject as he was a judge or the Federal District Court of Appeals for a number of years.
He was formerly a lecturer in law at the S. C. Law School, having taught Ethics. He is at present a member of the firm of Morgan, Hill & Bledsoe.
Liberal Arts students, whether pre-legal or not, will find it valuable to attend if possible all of Judge Bledsoe's appearances, which are very inspiring, and no studert should pass up the opportunity.
JOIN’S CONTEST GREAT SUCCESS
S. S. Band-Glee Club Concert Well Received By Audience At Glendale Hi.
That the concert given by the Trojan Glee Clubs and Band at the Glendale High School Auditorium last night was an unquestioned success was shown by the large sa.le of tickets and by the apparent appreciation of the audience.
The Glee Clubs and the Band gave an exceptionally fine program with Mr. J. Arthur Lewis as the conductor. Among the feature numbers, the hits of the evening were a cornet solo by Stillman Wells, accompanied by Pauline Mather, a twelve piece jazz orchestra featuring the songs “Sunday” and “Hello Bluebird,” and a skit by Walter Zamecnik and Edith Linger-felt. The Allan sisters added variety to the program with theiT snappy blues songs.
Credit for the success of the concert should go to Harold Roberts, director of the Trojan musical organization department; Bill Ward, manager of the band; Harold Grayson, assistant manager; and Lee Orndorff, band librarian. Miss Edith Lingerfelt and Mr. Walter Zamecnik, managers of the women’s and men’s glee clubs, respectively, also contributed much to the success of the concert.
*tive class.
The Seniors chose “Boots” Oulder-meulen. president; Eloise Parks, vice president; Marjorie Hull, secretary; Les Heilman, treasurer.
Juniors gave their choice as: president, Eddie Ouldermeulen; vice president, Ruth Carr; secretary, Jean Summerfield; treasurer, Howard EJd-gerton.
In the sophomore class. Charles Wright took the high office, with Muriel Heeb as vice president, Bernice Palmer as secretary, and Bob Behlow to handle the money. The executive committee is composed of Moore, Slater, Sauber, Beattie, Pinck-ly, Hibbs, I^avelle, Bryant.
The pea green class cast a very heavy vote with the following results: Sam Newman, president; Lc-raine Ziegler, vice president; Marion Abbott, secretary; Albert Kaser, treasurer. Their executive committee is composed of Kemp, Ralston. Cook, Melvin, Goode, Fraser, Hancock, Maxwell.
Apolliad Program To Be Broadcasted Soon
That the Third Annual Apolliad program of original contributions will be broadcasted over the radio provided that the material submitted is suitable, was learned today from the University Speech Department.
The material submitted is very promising, according to Miss Hanna; and in a few weeks the report of the various committees assigned to look over the material will be made, announcing the percentage of plays and stories chosen. Miss Hanna asks that auhtors be patient until this report is made.
Trojan Advertisers Save You Money.
Notices
All aollem maiit be brought to tbe Trojan office nt 716 Went Jefferson St. or phoned to HUmbolt 4522. Notice* moMt be limited to 35 words.
Dr. Carr Publishes Book On Backgrounds Of Religion, Ethics
Dr. H. Wilson Carr, professor of philosophy at the University of London and visiting professor at S. C., has just had a book, "Changing Backgrounds in Religion and Ethics,” published by the Macmillan Company of New York.
In this book Mr. Carr takes the stand that the problems of truth and goodness have completelj changed in the modern world, and the old problems such as the idea of God, creation, individuality, ethics, personality, survival .freedom ,pain, and evil look quite different in the new setting. which points the way to distinctly altered solutions.
So. Calif. Ad. Club To Meet At Twin Cedars
Future plans for the Southern California Advertising Club will be discussed by Prof. Moriarity at the Advertising Club dinner at Twin Cedars Inn this evening at 6:30.
A special feature of the talk to be given by Mr. Moriarity will be a review of other similar university advertising cluubs.
NEW RULES BY FACULTY PASSED AT WASHINGTON
Faculty At University of Washington Raise Standards of Scholarship.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, Feb. 8.— (PIP)—Striking changes in faculty scholarship rulings, under which upper division students will be dropped from the University upon failure to earn grades of A, B, or C in two-thirds of their registered hours each quarter, and lower division students the same, who fail to maintain these grades in two-thirds of their hours for two consecutive quarters, were announced by the registrar’s office to take effect next October.
Under the old rule on scholarship, a student was dropped from the University if he failed to make the grades for three consecutive quarters. A two weeks’ period, after which no changes in registration will be allowed, was also prescribed by the factulty, to take effect next fail.
Activity Books To Go On Sale At Law School Thursday and Friday
Second semester activity books will be on sale at the Law School Thursday morning and Friday morning and also Thursday evening. They will only cost 50 cents and entitle the holder to admission to the remaining events on the athletic schedule.
The reason they are obtainable for 50 cents is that the Law School buys the El Rodeo for the students in law.	--------
“Y” CABINET OFFICERS
Y. M. C. A. cabinet officers tomorrow, 12:20, at Y M. C. A. El Rodeo pictures.
Y. M. C. A.
The usual council dinner and meeting will be held at the Y. Hut this evening at 5:30 o’clock.
NOTICE
Rally Committee meeting 12:30 today. Student Body President’s office.
QUILL MEETS
Quill will meet tonight at 8 in the English office. All members are urged to be present and to bring manuscripts.
FORMER ARCHITECTURE STUDENT
OFFERS INFORMAL EXHIBITION
A double attraction in the way of an informal exhibition is being offered this week and next at the School of Architecture. Seymore Thomas, ’27, is arranging a display of some of bis delightful sketches and color compositions ma-de during his trip abroad last fall. Mr. S. M. Spaulding, prominent local architect ,is showing artistic photographs he filmed in Europe a few months ago.
Seymour Thomas was a Junior in architecture last year and in the space of a year's time has already accomplished considerable progress as
a landscape architect. It was his ideas that made possible the tasteful arrangement of the grounds around the architectural building.
The photographs taken by Mr. Spaulding are of peculiar value in that they deal with the same subjests now being studied for the senior design problem. Mr. Spaulding Ls also the present acting senior patron.
Throughout the current semester the local school will arrange exhibits both local and foreign. Students and the general public may drop in practically any time and find work of interest on display.