Cappella Choir Will Pre sent Annual Home Concert Tonight in Bovard
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ijusburgh Merchants prepare To Vacate b Waters Rise etin
BTSBl’KOH. Tuesday, April , j pi-Dancer of a serious Jin Western Pennsylvania was L| paw'<l today as rains 1 »|ong <he Monongahela (Afclhcny river watersheds.
BT3BUP.&H. April 26—<l.P>— *a rivers tonight rared toward ptus flood stages tn many Tot wes'ern Pennsylvania Mad. West Virginia, and East-'O'nio.
ijrty.six hours of rainfall, av-three inches of precipita-. brought flood threats to the Ljeny, Monongahela, and Ohio
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, April 27, 1937
Number 124
VARSITY CLUB SHOW TICKETS CO ON SALE THIS MORNING
Spring Prom Band To Play Requests
TO SINC BACH MOTET
Students To Select Most Popular Pieces For Lancer Dance
Inaugurating the first attempt
KUTIE KUHN
Blasting forth with the assertion that this year’s Varsity club show which will be held two nights, May 7 and 8, will be the biggest and best in history, members of the organization will swarm campus for the next 10 days with tickets for the event. Ducats selling for 65 cents for the reserved j section and 40 cents for the unreserved seats will be sold by j members of the club as well as in the cashier's office in thc made by a major all-university
-K Student Union.	j dance to sound out student opinion
More than a thousand reservations concerning the most popular song have been sent out to alumni who hits, the committee in charge of usually show up en masse when the j the all-university spring pvom has athletes go into their annual acts, announced an "all-request hour Fraternities and sororities are also for this Friday night, reserving blocks of seats for the I Students who plan to be present aflair, it was stated last night >>y a1, *'le Prom have been requested Joe Preininger. promotion manager. by Phyllis Hight, dance chainnan.
In addition to campus and alum- to name their three favorite popu-ni spectators, sludent body presi-, 'ar melodies on a ballot ln the dents from all southern California j order of preference. A box will be high schools will attend Fridav i placed near the Student Union night as guests of the ASUSC, cand.v and magazine store during Preininger paid.	i the remainder of the week to re-
ceive tho suggestions of music-mind-BIG SHOW PROMISED	fd Trojans.
This year’s show will surpass any
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a drizzling rain continuing rtonight, the three rivers push-"ciard an expected crest of 36 j by tomorrow noon—11 feet | j flood level. At 8 p.m., the It it the point where the Alle- j f and Monongahela meet to j Hhe Ohio was 314 feet and Was j t at the rate of .6 of a foot tar.
_fcod-wnry merchants were rea-I io man pumas and remove mer- i I ita> to higher floor levels as I imiddy water crept into base-I b for the third time this year 1 •> eolden triangle, Pittsburgh's i I lbusiness district.
I BSTOWX THREATENED
itedenis of flood-famous Johns-i Pa., watched a new flood of I 8t:ney creck and Conemaugh | b creep to the doors of their
Kutie Kuhn, Varsity club president, tossed dignity to the winds last year when he appeared as the Mae West ot the Varsity club show.
Knopf To Talk On Labor
Dean To Discuss Plan To Prevent Strikes With New Weapons
REQUESTS PLAYED
Thc popular songs requested by students will be played by Jimmie Talbert and his orchestra at the prom Friday evening in the Student Union social lounge. Tomorrow and Thursday morning announcements concerning the progress of the competition will be made, while the final results of the poll will be divulged at the dance.
John Rose, non-org admlnlstra-1 tive board member, is in charge of lhe balloting for the scheduled “all-I auditorium during its two night run. ■ request hour" at the all-university j Last night at rehearsal, studio scouts ' spring affair to be sponsored by S from a major sludio viewed two of i the Trojan Lancers from 9 p.m. un-j the acts and immediately took steps j til midnight on Friday, toward incorporating the numbers lounge USED
! thing that thc Varsity club haa presented before. Every act is a hit in it:elf and Wilh special music written especially for the show, tho ; event threatens to pack Bovard
A meeting of all Varsity club men will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock, it was stated last night by President Gil Kuhn. A discussion of the show will be held, and it is imperative that aft members be present and on time, according to Kuhn.
Among the members of the Trojan A Cappella choir who will sing in tonight's home concert, seen above in 1hsir cardinal and gold robes, are front row, left to right: Frances Hiclcs, Louise Brandt, Angela Goodnow, Mary Walton, and Patti Goodnow. Rear, left to right, Paul Elliot, Margar-ette Walker, James Baker, Alice Sisson, David Bradley, Dorothy Flintham, Albert Freedman,
and Paul Mueller.
“The spring prom Is the first event planned by a campus organization to obtain the use of the
into one of their forthcoming pictures.
Oil Kuhn, president of the Vav-A plan which uses honesty and ; sity club and veteran of two shows,	"nninn ’'snrinl 'Jounce for
s> then slowly start to recede, goodwill as weapons ln labor trou- stated following last night s re-	. months " Dointed out Foy
ts a drizzling rain turns into j bles will be described by Dr. Carl hearsal that he was well pleased,	Lnncer president yester-
hipnr. the rivers there are 1 S. Knopf, dean of the School of Re- . with Uie progress that the cast is, r!nv ,’,Thp ,mlnl;Pp was c’hosen l0 si.'d to continue receding from I llglon. at the all-university religion making. Under the direction of trest of 17.63 feet reached late , assembly tomorrow, 9:55 a.m., in famous stage and dance directors i coming. Under orders of ' Bovard auditorium,	j from Fanchon and Marco, Troys
r Dinlcl J Shi’lds, residents | nr Knotif will base his discussion ath,etes l,ave mat,e rapid strides,
Johnstown's low-lvin* districts	,AP V, , '	and are perfecting the difficult roles
unnstowns low-lying districts on a ,etter recelvcd from J. E. Ed-	^ £	t0
gerton, president of the Lebanon	t '^eive coeds representing! disclosed that already a number of
.—----I	Tm,n -Ho present. rweive eoeas, representing importam fUm entertainers have
i ed their homes.
— ! woolen mills in Lebanon, Tenn. ‘ He
lit To Be Given Music Dinner
the class of Trojanette talent, are
| has demonstrated over a period of	,heJalhleTes'In routine j Promised to take part in the pro-
! 18 years that sit-down strikes, pic-	^ numbfrs ,hnl threate„ to sur. gram.
■ keting, use of the nnlitia, and	pnss anything ever before offered a l -
gps are antiquated modes of dealing	coUeglate publlc
with labor troubles Dr. Knop	E1ABORATE KEXS MADE Ideal Secretary
tv members of the School of salfl.	| Elaborate slage sellings and light- 1 _	*
Be will be caricatured in a stu- “That a corporation can actually (jng effects have also been reserved j Tq Rg |_)0crp|Q0Q ■ Kskit during the annual School satisfy labor by sharing knowledge jor the show, Preininger stated. No I nsic banquet tomorrow night | 0{ inCome and expenses, instead of j money, or time, has been sacrificed | “The Ideal Secretary fnojn thc I	rC°m °f EliSabetl1 von keeping directors' meetings secret, in making the event truly worth- Executlve viewpoint'’ will be an-
I has been shown by this manufac- ' Whiie,	| alyzed by P. G. B. Morris, manager
M Jane Giilan is directing the turing concern. Mr. Edgerton's ac- j -xts come to this," Preininger ex-| of the Clark hotel, when he speaks
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I •P'ojram. Waller Slike, recent ■ *Ktd pre:id. nr of the School Itistc student body, will preside.
_ 11 '■ 1'f'i„s for the banquet I I1* played by the University H Wwy orchestra directed by Dr.
| «JoUlrich. Jo.se Rodriguez. ra-' "r of KF and KFI. will ■‘t chief speaker lor the pro-
Music Hour Site Changed
New Recording Machine Procured for Program In Bovard Tomorrow
Tilt symphony Listening Hour will be moved to Bovard auditorium for a trial concert tomorrow afternoon. For this special program, a new Strombefg-Carlson reproducing machine has been procured to play a request program which will include the Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor of Bach, and the Symphony in D Minor of Cesar Franck.
Tlie main objective ln arranging to present the program in Bovard ls to determine whether or not considerable number of persons is sufficiently interested ln a symphony listening hour to warrant any effort to find better surroundings than it has had this year in the School of Music, according to Mlss Pauline Alderman, supervisor of
pasting Alice Joy, social chair- COunt of the plan by which all this plained, ''those eastern schools have j to the secretarial club, 7 p.m. to-& the music student body, who 1 has been accomplished will be a hogged the Varsity club spot-light | morrow evening at the Alpha Chi imeral chairman of the dinner case study of remarkable interest > for many years. Now it’s Troy's i omeea house.
Asters' Theses be 1 om Orf row
-■-'•'rew is the final day for
case study of remarkable interest i for many years, to students in economics, sociology, tUrn to shine. With this show, the commerce, and psychology,” Dr. , gast will be looking westward to Its Knopf stated.	; laurels.”
The A Cappella choir, under the j------
direction of John Smallman, will open the assembly with the chant.
Holy, Holy. Holy," and will close with the chant, "Nunc Dimittis.”
Thc main piece will be Tschaikow'-sky's "Forever Is Thy Lamb.”
'In addition to the choir numbers,
Archibald Sessions will play several organ selections.
Bowen Contest Is Postponed
Omega house.
Invitations have been sent to 44 high school students asking them to attend Wednesday's meeting.
Those students who have been invited to the lecture, were on the U.S.C. campus for Advisement day w'here they were told the advantages of the College of Commerce by Mrs. Olive Booth, Carmen Fraide and Miss Bernice Rickies.
At the College of Commerce ban-
Philosophy Forum To Hear Dr. Henley
‘•There ls a confusion ln the layman's mind between law and Justice. Thc fact is that law is not necessarily Just,” analyzed Dr, W.
Ballentine Henley, acting dean of the School of Government, who will treat "The Legal Concept of Justice” In the ninth philasophy forum lecture today, at 4:15 p.m. in Bowne room of the School of Philasophy.
"I will point out how our legal concepts have been Influenced by the theorist and by the courts, both being influenced, in turn, by the people.”
Dr.i Henley is acting coordination officer and assistant professor of public administration, beside being acting dean of the School of Government.
Dr. Henley ls a member of the Los Angeles Bar association, thc California Bar association, the American Bar association, the academy of political science, the American j war she entertained the YWCA can-
—Courtesy Southwest Wave
Tempo To Be Lecture Topic
Literature Professor Will Speak on Wednesday Series
The Impact of the rush of modern living on literature and fine arts will be the theme of tomorrow's Wednesday lecture, when Mildred Clara Struble, professor of comparative literature, will speak on "Tlie Effect ot Tempo on Literature and Fine Arts."
"We are more aware now than ever before of the influence of tempo,” declared Professor Struble, "and we give lt expression In modern art and literature."
Using the works of Virginia Woolf as an Illustration, Mlss Struble will point out the obsession of time ln literature, as well as the fine arts, the plastic arts, and music.
Mlss Struble has a vital Interest in music and the arts. During the
A Cappella Choir To Give Home Recital
Bovard Is Scene of Tonight’s Program By Choristers
As the climax to thelr recent 1000-mile northern concert tour, the A Cappella choir will present its annual home concert tonight in Bovard auditorium at 8:15 p.m. before an audience which will include ropresentaUve musicians from many southern California cities.
Tlie performance is open to both students and thc public with no admission charged. A special Invitation has been issued to the faculty by John Smallman, the conductor, and 1000 invitations have been sent to musicians and music lovers in the vicinity of Los Angeles.
LAST YEAR'S SUCCESS Presented last year ln the social lounge of the Student Union, the concert drew so laiRe an audience that the limited quarters proved inadequate. Therefore, arrangements have becn made to use Bovard auditorium this year.
Tlie program of selections given on the choir's tour to Han Francisco and Intermediate cities early ) this month will be repeated tonight. A prominent part of the evening's presentation will be thc Bach motet, "Jesu, Priceless Treasure.” a difficult and significant number well received by the northern audiences, states Smallman. GUEST SOLOIST Frances Warren Haynes, mezzo soprano and a well-known oratorio singer ln the West, will be thc guest soloist. Charles Hazeltlne, tenor, and Alice Joy, soprano, will take the student solo parts. John Clark accompanies the choir.
''Oh No, John,” thc A Cappella's contribution to the recent US.C. Pontiac broadcast over NBC, which was broadcast around the world by three short-wave stations, will be on tonight's program, as will "Pine* of the Village.” by Alex Fine, the favorite selection of most audiences. It ls sung entirely ln Russian with a solo part by Alice Joy. SELECTIONS Two selections by F. Melius Christiansen, musician and director of the famous St. Olaf college Lutheran choir recenUy appearing ln concert on the west coast, wilt be sung. They are "Hosanna" and "BeauUful Savior."
Approximately one hour and 30 minutes is required for the complete program.
j The Bowen Cup tourney prelimin-j aries, originally scheduled for today.
| have been postponed until Thursday I quet held last Friday night, Car-I afternoon, it was announced last! men Fraide, president of the Sec-
--night by Harold Weeks, varsity de- | retarial club, received the first prize
bate manager who is in charge of for service and scholarship, while Graduates Askeo To rile making arrangements for the con-! Jane Benbow, another Secretarial
I club member, received the second
'5 to secure preliminary thesis	^ Applications	j ^ faculty members of the C°l- !	hn«i reouested all
' ' Thi must be siqned June graduates he.ve been request- lege 0f Letters. Arts, and Sciences	'	,
*4 member of ,he thesis com- ed by Miss Erie Decker, of the uni- some of whom were to be chosen	of the cl,lb to fRn up "
Ht according to Miss Ruth versity employment bureau, to have to Judge the preliminaries, are ^e Cwnuierce oiMiIm at jnce it . t secretary to Denn Rock- their applications for work in as holding a meeting this afternoon ^ey plan to attend the meeting on fe™ Hunt of the Graduate soon as possible as summer inter- , and would be unable to attend the e nes n ®
'It ,uriir(* the office views will be held soon.	tournament, it was necessary to put
. “an on that dale.	| Tlie employment bureau has in | off the contest until a later date.
■*Sar5PeWUl en copies of the past, years placed nearly everyone The finals of the tourney will be . re to be turned over to the ; wi10 applied for positions.	I next Tuesday, Weeks said.
"junlttee May 8. copies	___
been fully approved by---
SEFTON INTERVIEW
^ Graduate school officials
“-MlWILL BE BROADCAST
li df n,s will not receive j
'•arn^TV11 June if they fal11 From an ill-«tatured youngster, who was relegated to a n their theses on sched- corrective physical education class in his junior high school w	! days, to the champion pole vaulter of the world there s the
story of U. S. C.'s own Bill Sefton.
The amazing facts which cover the portion of his life between these two points will ^*tajn" classrooms of any high school I brought to light when he wi | U)e country an{j pick out a po- | interviewed today by Prof. Lloyd E. Webster on a broadcast over station KRKD from 3:45 to 4 p.m.
Plications to make a?POINTMENTS
*,tUn? the publications Film 1 called for today JJr m the office of the as-
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candidates for editorial r! .|U1mcluciin* business man-it> editois, are asked to l!C J P	filed with the
1 ^ni !"'*ry bef°re the meet-
tential pole vault champion, but he ] wouldn’t commit himself to anything more specific than this be- i Sefton will tell why it is easier fore bioadca.^i time. He promises for him to face stiff competition in ; i0 lei^ just how lie would go abaitt the coliseum than oil any other ath- rainini his prodigy, adding a word letic field—why, for instance, all of ( concern.ng how U S.C. can find j his best marks have been made in nct oevclcp iuuire champion* in j
the coliseum He will describe what other events he thinks a pole-vaulte could and should double”
.his event.
When queried abci. hi liv of goii g higher. Sefion said hini. h c„.i b, it-, h c.v.iww
Today's Organ Program
Pielnde in D minor ........ ClerambauU
Clerambault was born in Paris ln 1676 and died ln 1749, He was a favorite of Louis 14th, and was made organist to Madame de Main tenon.
Barcarolle ................................. Lemare
‘•Jessie, the flower o’ Dunblaine an old Scotch ballad, has furnished the theme of this charming boat song of Lemare’s.
Scherzo S, mpl onique Concertant .. ...
Lam mem
Lammem, the famous Belgian or-angist, born at Brussels in 1883 was one of the men to whom the organists of the world owe their thanks for the traditions of the great Johann Sebastian Bach. Fetir, at tiie time, director of the Brussels1 Confer,.1 torie. obtfiiied a psnsion fc • him to go o Bres-leu a-d study with the celebrated Adoiphc He: se. who was the greet est of the Bach deeiples.
Journalists Lunch Today
the Listening Hour.
The music will commence at 3 j academy of poltical and social sci-o’clock, In view of the fact that j once.
this is «b special program in the ]_______
Listening Hour series a popular program is planned. The recording of thc Bach composition is a new one which has recently been acquired in extensive purchases for the School of Music recording library.
This year the Listening Hour has presented all of the established symphonic works, including the symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart; several programs of French music; Wagnerian opera; and several unusual works including the Bach ‘ Art of the Fugue.”
Mussourgsky’s "Boris Godounov," and Arnold Schoenberg's "Gurre Lieder.”
A special program of oriental and primitive music arranged by Gerald Strang was presented in one lecture program. Although the Listening Hour has been attracting a regular number of persons since its institution, this will be the first opportunity of testing Its popularity on any wide scale, Miss Alderman emphasized.
tonments and has sung ln public.
Graduated from the University of Washington, she later received her A.M. and Ph.D. degree* there. She has served as an associate ln English at Washington and as a guest professor during summer session at New York university.
During her teaching career, Miss Struble has been a member of Phl Kappa Phi, Mu Phi Epsilon, the
Ait Neeley, publisher of the Alum ni Review, will entertain at lunch eon today the senior students who j national committee on publications, will edit the Senior issue of his sigma Kappa alumnae, the Daugh
magazine in June. They are to assemble tn the student senate chamber at 12:15 p.m.
Elmer P. Bromley, of the Alumni association, will confer with the student writers, and there is also possibility of having Byron C. Hanna present, Neeley announced last night.
Seniors who will attend are Worth Larkin, Dee Welsh, Genevieve Jasaitis, Jack Pegues, Stan Roberts, Cal Whorton, Frederlcka Taylor, Isobel Millier, Maxima Me-Clay, Ben Gulick, Milt Transchel, and Lionel Van Deerlin.
ters of the American Revolution.
Clark Asks Candidates For Degrees To Report
All candidates tor first degrees ln June whose names are not Included in the list of candidates posted on the registrar's bulletin board are requested to report to the office of the registrar, by Theron Clark, registrar. Clark asks that the candidates comply with this requesl Immediately.
Settou *aj* he could go Into ter- jiecord ol lt let-i 7 . uuhc3.
Comely Coed Quest Continues
Continuing their quest for comely coeds, U.S C.'s connoisseurs of feminine pulchritude will begin the second day of their survey ol sor- j the Wesley club, at a meeting of ority corners at 10 o’clock this! '•hat group today. The gathering morning.
The purpose of the canvass ls to find 20 charming and energetic wo-I/-. i rv.U men to assist members of Sigma I ^*ree* Orthodox Sigma, men's honorary service fra- I trenity. in a charity drive to provide funds for a two-week vacation at a mountain camp for poor children.
Self-asserted critical judges are Mauri Kantro, Sid Smith. Fred 1 Skull and Mortar Keenan, Willis Stanley, and Bob
Trapp who will pass judgment on Members of Skull and Mortar, each coed's beauty and personality, honorary pharmaceutical organlza-Tnese qualifications will be aver- tion for men. will meet ln 304 Sci-aged with the girl's willingness to ence building at 9:50 am. today, serve thc university and its student according to f.»asy Masuoka, secrc-body, Kantro said yesterday.	Uaiy of the society.
U.S.C. Organizations
Wesley
Miss Ellen Studley. a teacher and missionary ln China for many years, will be the speaker to be Introduced by John Trevor, president of
will be held in the University ! Methodist church at 12:20 o’clock.
Greek Orthodox students will meet for luncheon tomorrow in 321 Student Union at 12:20 o'clock. Reservations may be made in the Religious Conference office.
Antidotes
Plans for the pharmacy ditch day
will be discussed at a meeting of the Antidotes, organization for women in the College of Pharmacy, ln 30 Science building at 9:S0 a m. today Peggy Wood, president, announced yesterday.
Argonauts
"My Philosophy" will be the topic of Dr B A. G. Fuller's address to
the Argonaut club, honorary philosophy society, at its meeting tonight, 7 o'clock, in Argonaut hall of the School of Philosophy.
Alpha Eta Rho
To nominate officers for next se-uester, members of Alpha Eta Rho, international professional aviation fraternity, will convene today at 12:15 p i in Elisabeth von Kleln-
Supreme Court Upholds Negro Communist
WASHINGTON. AprU 26—(TPI— The supreme court, in a 5 to 4 decision today, freed Angelo Herndon, Negro communist organizer sentenced to 18 to 20 years In Georgia on charges of inciting an insurrection.
Justice Owen J. Roberts, who has sided with the “liberal” element of the oourt ln several notable controversial case* recently, read the opinion of the court. The dissenters were Justice* Willis Van Devanter, Jame* Clark McReynolds, George Sutherland, and Pierce Butler.
Herndon was convicted under a Georgia reconstrucUon day* statute making lt a crime to incite to Insurrection. The charge was based on his admission that he wa* a Communist party organiser and on document* found ln his possession at the time of his arrest. The case came to the supreme court from Georgia’* highest court, which had refused Herndon freedom on a writ of ha beaus corpus.
Herndon’s conviction became * oau.se celebre when the American Civil Liberties union Interested Itself ln his freedom and the Communist party held numerous protest meeUngs.
KANTRO CALLS SICMA SICMA MEETING TODAY
‘•The time: 1:30 p.m.
"The place: The social lounge ot the Student Union.
"The reason: Important business.''
Thu* Mauri Kantro, president, described this artemoon'c Sigma Sigma meeting. "Prompt attendance is Imperative,’’ he stated, "as there are many affairs to be