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Women Make Plans To Edit Friday’s Trojan. Ex-Committee Will Elect Managers Tonight. Junior-Senior Dinner Dance Tickets on Sale. Plans are Completed for Nominations Thursday. Critic Praises Apolliad Program.
Southern
California
Trojan
The Spirit of Troy
“Withholding a diploma for failure to contribute to a ‘loyalty’ fund appears to some to be putting the penalty out of proportion to the offense.” The Old Trojan’s Column.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, May 10, 1927
NUMBER 134
ALL STUDENT ACTIVITY MANAGERS, ONE EDITOR TO BE ELECTED TONIGHT
Nomination and Election of Wampus Editor, Publication Business Managers, and Athletic Managers Will Be Held. . CANDIDATES TO BE PRESENT
Meeting Scheduled For 7:00 in Education Office; Managers’ Recommendation Board Will Meet at 3:00 in Stonier’s Office.
Nomination and election of the Wampus editor, publication business managers, and managers of all student activities other than athletic will be held at the executive committee meeting tonight. This meeting, originally scheduled for the Kappa Alpha Theta house, will be held instead in the Education office, S-357, at seven o’clock.
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SKULL AND DAGGER INITIATES MANY NEW MEMBERS
Twenty-Four Pledges Initiated Into Senior Men’s Honorary on Friday.
Formal initiation was held at tbe Sigma Chi lodge for twenty-four Skull and Dagger pledges Friday afternoon, May Cth. During the meeting officers were chosen for the coming year. Frank Ferguson, was elected president; Bill Henley, -vice-president; and Burdette Henny, secretary-treasurer.
On Saturday evening a dinner dance was held at tbe Newport Beach Club. Leland D. Tallman, president and toastmaster, introduced the special features of the evening’s program which were toasts given by the representatives of the actives, the alumni, the faculty, and the new initiates.
James Mussatti, representing the honorary members, spoke on the “Influence of Skull and Dagger men in the professional world.” Arthur syvertson, representing the new initiates, gave a toast of appreciation and loyalty as new members. Sam Gates, representing the actives made the reply address. Coach Allen Nichols of the faculty gave a toast on the two cardinal principles of Skull and Dagger membership.
are to be present at this meeting. Three minutes will be allowed for the nomination speeches and three minutes for the candidates to accept... Following the nominations the committee
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will discuss the candidates and hold the election. No one but members of the committee will be present during this part of the meeting.
ELIGIBILITY DETERMINED
A meeting of the board that recommends the candidates for managers will be held at three o’clock in Harold J. Stonier’s office, and at that time the final eligibility of those running will be determined. In case there are no candidates for any one office that meets all the requirements, the president, at the request ot the executive committee, will probably take executive action to allow the petitioners to run.
Immediately after this meeting and until five-thirty o’clock, Leland Tallman will be in the office of the student body president, and will confer with all managerial candidates in regard to their eligibility. At the meeting of the executive committee held Friday afternoon they were given until three today in which to fix up their eligibility. Candidates for election by the student body were allowed until tomorrow to get eligible.
JUNIOR-SENIOR DANCE TICKETS NOW ON SALE
Tickets for Annual Farewell Function To Be Sold At Students’ Store.
IS STRICTLY FORMAL
Speeches By Brother Presidents Will Be Feature of Entertainment.
PRE-LEGAL SOCIETY WILL HOLD BANQUET
The Pre-Legal Society will give its annual banquet Thursday evening at Emil’s Chateau Cafe. Tickets for the affair are now on sale and may be obtained from any of the members.
The main speaker of the evening will be Voltaire Perkins. Mr. Perkins is a graduate of the Southern California Law School, and is now one of the leading attorneys of Los Angeles. At the time Mr. Perkins was in Law School, he was president of the student body.
An interesting program in addition to the main speaker has been arranged, and will be announced soon.
Hikers To Trek
On Lengthy Hike
The annual 60 mile hike to Mount Wilson has been arranged for Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15, Prof. Ralph l^aPorte announcel yesterday. Trojan hikers are requested to get their entries in immediately. The Sierra Hiking club and the Uni versity of California at Los Angeles have entered stron? teams as usual, and a merry time is insured for all.
DANCES WILL FEATURE MAY FETE ON OLD COLLEGE LAWN TOMORROW
W. C. A. To Sponsor Program To Raise International Student Fellowship Fund; Russian Princess To Personify Spirit of Friendship.
Under the auspices of the Y. W. C.*ty-three countries whose universities
A., the May fete will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 on the la\*n of Old College for students and friends of the university. It is to be staged for the purpose of meeting the pledge made by the Y. W. C. A for the International Student Friendship fund.
The idea of international friendship among college students will be carried out in the fete. Folk dances, representing the different countries will be given, including those of France, Holland, England, China. Italy, Spain and the United States.
Dr. Sonia Puskeroff, Russian princess, will personify the spirit of friendship. It was with the aid of this fund that she was able to escape from Russia and to find refuge in America. Dr. Puskeroff now writes scenarios for the motion pictures and has appeared in minor roles of different pictures.
The International Student Friendship fund had its origin at the close of the late war. Its ultimate aim is to promote a friendship among nations and by so doing to secure peace
and colleges contribute to the fund. During the summer of each year the International Student conference meets in a designated place and next year they will assemble in the United States.
Martha Jayne Gooding is chairman of the fete. Others working on the fete are: Rhoda Phaus, director of the dances; Dorothy Eversman, chairman of the music; Frances Smith, property manager; Eunice Tibbels, tickets; Betty Bruce, publicity; and Dorothy Goodrich, c&stumes.
Mrs. Pearl A. Smith, a teacher in the School of Speech, is in char^ of the pageantry, as well as an advisor. Mrs. Griswsild, a professor in the School of Architecture, ha? planned the staging of the affair. The Women Physical Education department has assisted in teaching the dances to the gymnasium classes and has made the flowers to be sold.
The tickets for general admission to the fete are 50 cents and for the flowers 25 cents. They can be obtained at the Y. V. C. A. lodge, from any member of the organization, or
Ticket for the Junior-Senior dinner dance, which will be held Saturday evening at the Maryland Hotel, Pasadena, are now on sale at the Students’ Store or they may be secured from members of the junior executive committee, according to Ruth Carr, general chairman in charge of the dance.
The dance will be strictly formal and only Juniors and Seniors will be privileged to attend. Unique proprams will be a district feature of the cance, states Miss Carr.
An interesting feature of the evening’s entertainment will be speeches by the president of the two classes, Eddie Oudemeulen, president of the juniors, and “Boots” Oudermeulen, recently elected permanent president of the senior class.
“The junior-senior dance is one of the foremost traditions of the university. It is the one class affair of the year to which only members of the two classes are privileged to attend. The object of the dinner dance is to promote a better spirit of good fellowship between the erstwhile rical classes,” stated Miss Carr yesterday.
HARRY C. CULVER WILL GIVE SPEECH
Founder of Culver City To Address Commerce Conference Dinner on May 18th.
Harry C. Culver ,the man who “bought a barley field and raised a city” will address the C6mmerce Conference dinner, May 18, at the Chamber of Commerce building.
Mr. Culver, who probably knows as much about business as it is possible for one man to know, is the one man responsible for the growth of Culver City, which rivals Hollywood as a center of the motion picture industry.
Doane college and the University of Nebraska claim him as a pasi student, though not as an alumnus. He earned his expenses while in both institutions by selling newspapers, collecting ads for his college dailv and delivering bundles to a laundry and collecting accounts. Later he enlisted in the army for the Spanisb-American war, this interrupting his college education, but was kept from action by typhoid fever. Various jobs as reporter in the Philippines, as an agent of the Treasury department, which involved four years traveling preceded. After this he entered th? real estate field in Omaha, but be cause of illness left there and came to California to recuperate in 1910.
Stpdying Los Angeles from the real estate standpoint he decided that the city was not close enough to the beaches, so bought a strip of land suited to his ideals. He chose th« present site of Culver City and started projecting. Immediately after a real estate boom in Los Angeles came simultaneously, the World war and a slump in business. After a serious consultation with his creditors he was allowed tiem to meet his debts. He developed the city through excursions, advertising, by inaugurating the Junior Vanderbilt cup races for boys under 16 who had made their ow nears, and by introducing auto polo games, until it is today the center of a thriving motion picture industry ,and one of the most prosperous of the outlying towns of Los Angeles.
Mr. Culver is primarily a salesman; he believes in himself and this explains his phenomenal Success in the face of difficulties.
Scholarship Ratings Are Late. “Loyalty Fund” Lacks Loyalty Element.
No Co-operation Friday Evening.
Political Copy Warning is Made.
NOMINATIONS PLANNED FOR SHRINE RALLY
Classes Will Be Dismissed At 10:50; All Colleges To Be There.
through education. There are twen* at the entrance.
TODAY’S CHAPEL TALK
Borden Parker Bowne. First figure facing south.
“The Interpreter of God.”
Many students are complaining about the delay in getting out the scholarship ratings of the fraternities and sororities. For some reason this report is later coming out this year than it has ever been, unless we are misinformed. It does not do much good to bring this out if it comes too late to enable those organizations which have dropped their averages to bring up their standing. As far as we can see the students are justified in asking that some action be taken to bring the reports out at once.
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At the last senior class meeting a motion was passed to add $2.50 to the diploma fee of each senior. This money is to go to the alumni loyalty fund. We are all for the alumni association, have said so before, and still believe in it. But there does not appear to be much loyalty about paying money when the penalty is the denial of a diploma. Some of the members of the class have been deploring the fact that the amount was not set at $5, as in previous years. Under the circumstances $2.50 is plenty, if not too much. Withholding a diploma for failure to pay appears to some to be putting the penalty out of proportion to the offense.
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A lot of people missed a good time by not coming down to the Elks’ Temple Friday evening. It was a splendid dance and those who were there enjoyed it. Undoubtedly it is hard for the various organizations to find dates at this time of the year to get in their formals. But five or six organization functions on the same night as an all-University affair looks badly to outsiders, detracts from campus spirit, and is a financial loss to the student body. There was a lack of co-operation somewhere showing Friday evening.
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Copy for the political advertisements in the annual election edition is due next Friday. Let no one complain that he has not been warned. The special election edition will appear on Wednesday morning, the day before elections. On that day, and on that dav only, will the friends of candidates be given an opportunity to get their qualifications before the student body in printed form. Presidential nominees will be allowed to buy a $12 space. The limit for the less important offices will be $9. A maximum expense of $7.50 will be allowed to executive committee aspirants. There will be no advantage given in the matter of space, all advertisements being run in groups with the others of competitors.
TALLMAN TO PRESIDE Plan Separate Rallies At Each College Before Election Day.
Plans are all completed for the big all-University rally at the Shrine Auditorium Thursday morning for the purpose of nominating candidates for student body offices. Arrangements have been made for all schools and colleges of the University to be present.
Classes will be dismissed at 10:50 and promptly at 11:00 nominations will be opened by Leland Cameron Tallman, president of the associated students. Nomination speeches will be made for president, vice-president, secretary, Trojan editor, El Rodeo editor, and Yell King. Executive committee candidates will be on the platform and be introduced by the presiding officer.
Some time between Thursday and election day, which will be May 19, rallies will be held at each of the separate colleges to introduce the candidates. According to Tallman, it has been felt that the professional colleges in the past have had slight chance to get acquainted with the candidates and that such a rally will materially better conditions.
Y. M. C. A. CABINET WILL HEAR CRAIL
Congressman-elect To Speak At Dinner Meeting Wednesday on “Impressions of Washington."
Congressman-elect Joseph Crail will address the “Y” Council at its regular Wednesday dinner meeting tomorrow evening, according to Don Newcomer, chairman of the program.
Mr. Crail has only recently returned from Washington, D. C., where he had been working for the Boulder Dam project. He has chosen as his subject, “My Impressions of Washington.” While in the Capitol, Crail was a guest of President Calvin Coolidge at the White House and attended many state functions.
The dinner will commence at 5:30 in the “Y” Hut and any man on the campus is eligible to attend.
WOMENS EDITION MAKES APPEARANCE ON CAMPUS NEXT FRIDAY MORNING
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Friday’s Edition To Be Edited By the Women of the Daily Trojan Staff; Men Will Take the Day Off.
WOMEN’S EDITION IS TRADITIONAL
Rita Padway Will Act as Editor-in-Chief; Eunice Martin as Managing Editor; Karmi Wyckoff, Sports Editor.
Mere males of the Daily Trojan will take a rest Thursday, when women of the staff take complete charge of putting our Friday’s edition of the Trojan. Reporting, editing, and proof-reading for the sport page as well as for the front ftgge and the feature page, will be done entirely by the co-eds, w'thout any masculine assistance. Rita Padway will be editor-m-chief for the day, with Eunice Martin as managing editor, and Karmi Wyckoff as sport editor. ---♦ The feature page will be taken
“AS YOU LIKE rr’ IS
care of by five co-eds who are of the
FINAL SPEECH „ PRODUCTION
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Annual CommenWmfent Offering is Modernized Interpretation of Shakespeare Play.
Presenting a modernized interpretation of the Shakespearean play, entitled, “As You Like It,” the School of Speech will present their annual commencement play, in Bovard Auditorium, June 2 at 8 o’clock.
In order to carry out this interpretation modern costumes, scenery and version will be used. Jacques, a character in the play, is to be an egotistical dramatic story teller, instead of the traditional philosopher, and Touchstone a modem wisecracker instead of the old court jester as set forth in the time of Shakespeare.
In modernizing the Shakespearean plays, a loss in its artistic flavor but a gain in dramatic significance ^s entailed, according to a London newspaper.
The settings will be of modern simplicity, stated Miss Florence B. Hubbard, director. “We will depend a great deal upon lights for our effects rather than the change of scenery,” she stated.
The cast will be as follows: Helen Pargellis will take the part of Rosa-lin; Malcolm Chambers, Orlando; Uno Miller, Jacques; Sherrill Cohn, Touchstone; Avalon Daggett, Celia; and Frances Shultz, Audery.
NOTICES
All notice" m«nt he brought to the 'Trojan office at 716 Went Jeflfer»on St. or phoned to HUmholt 4522. Notice* must be limited to 33 word*.
SENIOR ROAD SHOW TICKET COMMITTEE
Kathryn Privett wishes to meet the following today noon in Dee Talmari*s office: Vernon Dales. Crawford Peek, Jane Schlebecker.
ROAD SHOW USHERS
All who wish to usher at Senior Road Show see Ray Pinkert, in 205 Science building, between 1 and 4 Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday at latest.
INTER-FRATERNITY COUNCIL
An important meeting of the interfraternity council has been called for tonight. The meeting will be held at the Theta Psi housk, 2245 South Figueroa street at 7:30.
Trojan Advertisers Save You Money.
regular staff, Vivian Murphy continuing as editor, with Betty Baker, Bernice Palmer, Muriel Keeb, and Lor-ra.ne Young as assistants. Headline writers for the day will be Sue Cables, Ruth Sharon and Irene Schmitz, with Frances Howard acting as Mr*v write man."
Two members of the sport staff. Betty Brace and Fern Kuhry, will assist Mabel Russell in editing the so-citey column.
Among the lowly reporters for the day will be Marjorie Hull, assistant editor of the Daily Trojan, who, last year, was editor-in-chief of the Women’s Number. Miss Hull has been on the Trojan staff for four year*, wears the gold Trojan key awarded for outstanding work, ie on the Wampus staff, and is president of Alpha Chi Alpha, honorary journalism sorority. Although she will be assigned to cub reporting, it is expected that Miss Hull will be tbe star reporter for the day.
The editor-lnchief for the Women’s Number, Rita Patfway, is a senior, and has been a member of the Trojan staff for three years. She attracted attention during her sophomore year as th* writer of Hank O'Hare's letters, and a year later received the gold key awarded for outstanding work on the Trojan. Shfc has also been on the Wampus staff for three years, receiving a Wampus key last year, and is a member of Alpha Chi Alpha, honorary journalism sororrty.
Karmi Wyckoff, sport editor for the day, is a sophomore. She has been senior editor of El Rodeo for two years, and is one of the most consistent and reliable members of the Daily Trojan staff. She is a member of Sigma, professional journalism sorority, and was recently pledged to Alpha Chi Alpha. It is pointed out that two years ago Marjorie Hull was sport editor, and the voilowlng year editor-in-chief of the Women’s Num-iContinued on Page Two)
POETRY AND MUSIC ARE DECLARED 5 TO BE BEST ON APOLLIAD PROGRAM
Prominent Los Angeles Artists Act as Critics Friday Evening; Tribute is Paid To Creative Ability in Fine Arts as Students Present Original Themes.
ROAD SHOW REHEARSAL
Scenic rehearsal for Road show Wednesday avening at 7. Full dress rehearsal Thursday at 7.
STUDENT FELLOWSHIP
Student fellowship meeting today at noon in the Y hut. Election of officers for next year. All members please be there.
W. A. A.
Open W.A.A. meeting today at 12:30 in the Women’s gymnasium for the nomination of next year’s officers and to give out minor awards.
FROSH DEBATERS
All frosh debaters are to meet in »H-206 at 2 p.m. today. Affirmative Mussolini team goes to U. C. L. A. Also at 8 a debate with Polytechnic Law on Initiative and Referendum Important for all to be present.
Engineer Roundup tickets are on sale at Students Store for 25 cents. (Continued on Page Two)
By KARMI
Tribute was paid to creative ability in fine arts Friday evening when prominent Los Angeles artists as critics, members of S. C. faculty and friends of the contributors gathered in Touchstone theater to hear the Third Annual Apolliad program. By a general consensus, the poetry and the music was considered the best of the program, preference being shown to them over the short story submitted and the drama produced.
“Sisteen,” a poem of impetuous youth “wondering why time stand9 still”; “Gauntlett,” suggesting tbo invitation to seek out shadows; “The Brute,” a characterization of the moon; and “Necessity,” symbolizing life in the “Coming down the mountains to the valleys for bread and butter” were four poems of which Dorothy Marie Davis was the author.
Antoinette I^arsen was the author of “Dusk on Palos Verdes,” a choice bit of poetical reflection on the futility of splendor. “I Want to be a Little Wind” by the same author was enchanting in its spontaneity and whimsical nature.
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♦	“The Fountain,” a word picture of one’s thoughts, was cameo-iike in its clarity and in its charm and appeal. The poem was contributed by Esther M. Brown.
Musical numbers, “The Saucy Floweret,” by Calvin Hendricks, a Trio in G Minor by Clara Spelman, and “Dance Futuristique” by Gilbert Bowers, showed definite promise of talent which when further developed will some day be recognized.
“The Saucy Floweret,” a snatch of song of spontaneity and charm, was so well received that a second song, not on the program, was demanded. “I Would Play For You” was sung, and was well received ss the first number.
Trio in G Minor as a trio for piano violin and violincello was well balanced in construction and portrayed an understanding of musical composition.
“Dance Futuristique,” a composition for piano reminiscent of Debussy, showed recognizable promise in the student. In itself, though, it was (Continued on Page Two)
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