Cinema Appreciation League Meetings Will Be Staged on U.S.C.Campus
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Volume XVI
Los Angeles, California, Friday, July 23, 1937
Number 9
Tea To Honor Dr. Hansen
Conductor Will Be Guest at Affair Given by School of Music Monday; To Direct Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in All-American Concert
The final Summer Session excursion of the first term will be stag-Dr. Howard Hansen, visiting professor of music who will ed tomorrow, when more than 100
Huntington Library is Coal of Tour
Summer Session Trip lo San Marino Arranged by Stonier
Musician
conduct an All-American concert at the Hollywood Bowl July 30. will discuss his program at a tea to be given in the Foyer of Town and Gown Monday at 4 p. m., under the auspices of the School of Music.
The tea honoring Dr. Hansen will f be open to all Summer Session students and faculty members, at an admission charge of 25 cents.
Dr. Hansen, who occupies the Alehin chair of music during the Summer Session, will make his second appearance at the Hollywood Bowl as a guest conductor when he directs the orchestra in his All-American concert next Priday. His first appearance here was in 1930.
PROGRAM SCHEDULED Chief of the works scheduled for the All-American concert is Dr.
Hansen’s “Symphony No. 2.” the “Romantic” Symphony. The oom-poser-conductor will also lead the orchestra in a shortened version of his suite from “Merry Mount,” an opera which was performed by the Metropolitan opera company three years ago.
Other composers whose works will be played by the Hollywood Bowl orchestra under the baton of the U.S.C. visiting professor are Charles Vardell, Burrell Phillips. Edward MacDowell and William Grant Sill.
Vardell will be represented by "Joe Clark Steps Out.” Burrell Phillips’ humorous “Selections from McOuffey’s Readers” will be introduced to the Hollywood audi-and the orchestra will pre-'nt the scherzo from William rant Sill's “Afro-American Sym-
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>WELL IS SOLOIST John Powell will take the stage soloist for a performance of Edward MacDowell’* “Concerto in D Minor ”
Dr. Hansen has appeared as conductor of the Hollywood Bowl orchestra in past years, and his own TNorth and West” symphonic poem was a feature of the Bowl program.
Internationally known for his works for choral groups, as well as for the piano, organ and strings.
Dr. Hansen is director of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. “The Lament for Beowulf” and “Nordic Symphony" are among his compositions frequently played by symphony orchestras of New York, Chicago,
San Francisco. Cleveland and Kansas City, where Dr. Hansen has been 'guest conductor. The conductor 'as originator of the American ‘mposers’ concerts of the Roches-Philharmonic orchestra.
Winner of the first American Iprix de Rome competition, he has been awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Music by Northwestern and Syracuse universities.
Dr. Howard Hansen, Alehin • professor of music and guest conductor at the Hollywood bowl next Friday, who will be quest of honor at a tea to be given Monday by the School of Music in the Foyer of Town and Gown.
Appoint New Band Leader
P. C. Conn, Former Mustang Leader, To Succeed Hal Roberts
P. C. Conn, newly appointed director of the U.S.C. department of musical organizations, will take over his • post in September, in time to organize the 1937 Trojan band before the opening of the fall grid season.
Announcement of the appointment of Conn to succeed Harold Williams Roberts as director of the U.S.C. music units was made Tuesday by President R. B. von KleinSmid.
Already known to southern California football fans for his appearances in the Los Angeles coliseum and the Pasadena Rose bowl as leader of the Southern Methodist university band during visits to the coast of the Mustang football teams. Conn attracted wide-
students visit the Huntington library and art gallery at San Marino.
Planned by Kenneth K. Stonier, manager of publications, the Huntington library tour was arranged through the courtesy of library officials, who allotted a block of tickets exclusively for U.S.C. Summer Session students and professors.
Tickets for which reservations have been made may be obtained today at the ticket office in the University bookstore, according to Marie Poetker, cashier. No tickets will be issued unless reservations were made, and all cards must be signed by the persons for whom they were obtained.
Students making the tour (rf the Huntington exhibits must be at the entrance to the library promptly at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow, Miss Poetker said.
Suggested routes to the Huntington estate in San Marino are as follows:
Students going by automobile should proceed along Huntington drive to the San Marino station of the Pacific Electric railway, then drive north on Oxford road to Stratford road. Those motoring from Pasadena should follow California street east to Allen avenue, proceed south on Allen avenue to Orlando road, and proceed east, following the boundary of the estate.
Visitors traveling by Pacific Electric railway should board Monrovia cars (leaving the Main street station at 12 or 1 p.m?) transferring at San Marino station to Sierra Madre cars, thence to the Huntington library stop. They should then proceed north on San Marino avenue to Stratford road, entering through the main gates.
CAW SETS DATE FOR ENGLISH EXAMINATIONS
The English general final examinations, optional instead of English 195 for English majors preliminary to the degree of Master of Arts, in accordance with the announcement under the departmental heading in the graduate year book, will be held for the present Summer Session as follows:
Tuesday. July 27. 2:30-5:30 p. m. Point I, The General Development of English and American Literature. (This is not an examination in English 20ab) Bridge 312.
Wednesday, July 28. 2:30-5:30 p.m. Points 2 (criticism), 3 (Scansion and Poetic Form), and 4 (Written Expression). Bridge 312.
All who are intending to take this examination must notify the undersigned promptly in advance, via his post office box in the Administration building.
Candidates for the degree are expected to come up for the examination, if optioned, at least one semester or session before they are scheduled to complete the requirements for the A.M. All points successfully passed are immediately recorded as matters of permanent record to the candidate’s credit, subject to the rules of the Graduate School concerning candidacy and outlawry of credits.
Allison Gaw,
(•Chairman of Grade Committee, Department of English)
Lecturers End Series Of Meetings
Special Addresses To Be given Next Week by Mims, Coy, Paterson
Three lectures, concluding the series given regularly each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during the first term of the Summer Session, will be presented next week, with leaders in the fields of American literature, education-psy-chology and the social sciences scheduled to speak.
Dr. Edwin Mims, who has outlined the course of American literature from its beginnings in New England, will discuss present day trends in his lecture Tuesday at 4:30 p.m., in Bovard auditorium.
Speaking on “Is the Pendulum Swinging?” Dr. Mims will show the direction in which the literature of today is moving, after its period of post-war disillusionment, which he discussed at length last week.
Dr. Donald G. Paterson, professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, will conclude the weekly education-psychology series. His talk, to be given Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in Administration 206, will have as its theme, “The Outcomes and Implications of Occupational Research.’'
The final address in the Social
Science series, sponsored by the U. S, C. department of history, will be delivered by Dr. Owen C. Coy, professor of history at the University of Southem California. Dr. Coy, nationally known a6 an authority
Screen Directors To Talk Tonight
ACTRESS
SPEAKER
Geraldine Bogdanovic, who starred last night in a public performance of "The Fountain of Youth" which will be presented again tonight for delegates to the Cinema Appreciation league convention.
Edwin Diller Starbuck, U. S. C. philosophy professor, who will be one of the principal speakers at the conference of the Cinema Appreciation league, to be held here today.
tracing the development of the state, will speak Thursday on “California Under Six Flags.”
Lectures planned for the second term will present a group of outstanding resident and visiting faculty members. The program of addresses to be given during the next session will be announced next week, and published in the closing issue of the Summer Trojan.
U.S.C. LIBRARY HAS EXHIBIT OF PAINTINGS
Water colors, the work of three outstanding young southern California painters, are now on display in the Art and Lecture room of the Doheny Memorial library, where they will be hung for the next four weeks.
Arranged by Dean Arthur C. Weatherhead of the College of Architecture and Fine Arts, with the assistance of Mrs. Fisher, chairman of the board of directors of the gallery, the exhibit shows representative paintings of Tom Craig, of Glendale; Milford Zorne, of
Dr. Burton To Speak at Club Meeting
Final meeting of the semester will attract members of the School Administrators club to the Foyer of Town and Gown Wednesday, when Dr. William H. Burton, professor of education at U.S.C. speaks on.
“Let Us Be As Exact as Possible.”
The School Administrators club will end its first term activities Wednesday, and discussion of future plans for the organization will precede Dr. Burton’s address, according to President Nate Wilson.
Speaker at the regular meeting of the club Wednesday, July 21, was Dr. Harl R. Douglass, professor of education from the University of Minnesota. More than 200 members of the club heard the visiting professor discuss modern trends in edu-action and administration.
Reservations for the closing meeting of the club must be made in advance, President Wilson announced.
Tickets will be available Monday in the education staff office, or of the regular Wednesday meeting from class representatives of the of the U.S.C. Men’s Faculty club.
STAGE TROJAN NICHT AT PILGRIMAGE PLAY
Banquet Is Feature of Convention
‘How is a star found?” Director Sylvan Simon, of Universal Motion Picture studios will answer this question in a speech to the guests at the Cinema Appreciation league i banquet at 7 o’clock tonight in the Foyer of Town and Gown.
Director Fred Wilcox, of M-G-M studios wil talk on “Screen Test Technique and Requirements ” and Art Director Ralph Jester, of Cecile ! B. DeMille studios will speak on “Industry and Educators.” Rouben Mamoulian, of Paramount studios, will speak on “Motion Pictures as an Art and an Industry.” Mamoulian directed “High, Wide, and Handsome.”
. The master of ceremonies will be Dr. Garland Greever, professor of English at U. S. C.
PROGRAM IN TOUCHSTONE
Following the dinner and speeches, the banquet guests will adjourn io Touchstone theater, in Old College, for the rest of the program, where the Virigina Hall Johnson group will perform a ballet act, “Beach” and “Promenade.” Mary Jane Hungerford, instructor of dancing at U. S. C„ Sally Kronish, Marion
Sponsored by the Summer Session and the Summer Troon the history of California, and jan two special Trojan nights will be staged at the Pilgrimage Gay, and Jeanette Kiel will take author of many historical volumes pjay Wednesday and Thursday, July 28 and 29. Special half- part in the dance. Miss Hunger-
Dr. Bush Addresses Men's Faculty Club
Dr. Henry Miller Bush, professor of sociology and head of the division of social sciences at Cleveland college, Western Reserve university, addressed an audience of resident and visiting faculty members Wed-
19 Students Have All A s'
Twelve men and seven women
price tickets will be available for U. S. C. students and fac- ford is scheduled to have the lead-ulty members, through arrangements made with Lloyd D. ing role in the ballet dance which Mitchell, Trojan alumnus, who is managing director of the wil1 take Place on Au&ust 5 ** the
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Sludent tickets, priced at 50 cents for the regular $1.00 seats. j unfilmed film will then be given, and 75 cents for the $1.50 seats, ^ stage presentation of a play will be placed on sale next week in usj11** technique, entitled The Poun-the ticket office of the University tain °* Youth, was written and di-Book store.	rected by Iva V. Adkins, who re-
1 ceived the commendation of Frances Opening its fifteenth season in j^arion when the winners of the completed the spring semester of I gala fashion, the play goes into its Uj g q scenario Writing contest the U.S.C. school year with per- second week Sunday. Presented on y^ed her house recently. “The feet scholastic records, according to strictly non-profit basis, the play pountain 0f Youth” was given last reports issued yesterday by Theron has won the acclaim of critics and night tQ Summer Session students.
Clark, registrar.
In addition to the 19 undergraduates who had all “A” grades during the semester. Registrar Clark's report listed 281 students who received ‘‘B” or better in every sub-! ject during the term. In that clas
public alike as the most beautiful who acclaimed it as an interesting
play on the American stage.	an£j novej production, as well as
In addition to preserving its in-	instructive, herent spiritual truths, the produc- f The players in “Pountain of
tion is offered as a stirring drama	youth” are John Martin, who plav-
based on the most remarkable story	ed Zazara; Fern Grotetein, Miss
in the history of mankind—life of	Wilson; Dorothy Crider. Marianna
nesday noon, speaking on New sification, as in the “A” group, men the Christ. It brings an especial Mjcoiay Geraldine Bogdanovic Deals Here and Abroad.”	1	..... - 1	J ’
PROVINCIALISM' IS TOPIC OF LECTURE
Claremont, and Rex Brandt, of Riv-
spread interest here by his unusual grsjde. All three are members of
arrangements and unique band ( the California Water Color Society.
The library exhibition was sug- , _ .	^
gested by Paul Sample. U.SC. fine ! Tue!?,ay by	f 1 P*,< MyS . "1 An,e™“s
himself j Brightman, chairman of the board 1 have “our rcots in the air ”
drills.
The new Trojan band leader is a graduate of Oklahoma A. and M., having received his B.S. degree in 1927 and an M.S. in 1933. Before taking charge of the Southern Methodist band. Conn was director of the Oklahoma state championship band at Cushing, and band master at Northwestern Teachers ly modern, college in Alva. Okla.	Two of the outstanding
arts instructor, who is world famous. Many of the paintings show suggestions of Sample’s power and simplicity. All of them are notable for their strength, their use of strong color and simple line. Not modernistic, they are thorough-
Dr. Benjamin Fiies East To Lecture
Dr. Harold Benjamin, visiting (professor of education from the [university of Minnesota, lectured Summer Session audiences at xtreme ends of the continent this ~eek. traveling 2741 miles between ‘lasses.
Scheduled to lecture in Boston, iss.. Monday and Tuesday. July
and 20. Dr. Benjamin kept the style, and their informal entertain-ppointment on the Atlantic coast, j ment.
nd returned here in time to meet Harold William Roberts, who re- , , . . . . , . .. . . , ., , im iciumcu xicic mi- , _ ,. : ,. , results of sketching trips to other point, such as the use of “r is classes at 8 a.m. Wednesday, cently resigned the directorship of |	___________
jhaving traveled more than	5400 the department of music organiza-
iles.	j tions to enter the musical instru-
The U.S.C. Summer Session	pro- ment business, first gained recog-
essor boarded a TWA plane	Fri- , nition as a director during his un-
“Provincialism” was the subject! out any appreciation of the respon-of a lecture given at assembly sibilities of social reality. Odell
nerict
No
of the Graduate School and of the travel can cure a thoroughly prodepartment of philosophy in Boston vincial mind, university.	! “Secondly, the aesthete mind is
Dr. Brightman defined education the attitude of one who appreci-as the appreciation and the con- ates his own tastes and pleasures, quest of provincialism. Provincial- Such a mind is at home at home ism was defined as loyalty to the but nowhere else. It appreciates
outdistanced women, 151 male stu- message of hope in this day of	Marianna Nicolay (of thirty years
Dr. Bush’s lecture was a feature dents having no grade below “B,” cross-purposes and wide-spread un-	agQ); Edith Faunt, Mrs. Jasper:
ttt.j j x 13Q women achieving that dis- rest.	Hal Walker, a doctor; J. C. Porter-
tinction. j A caS|. jqq enacts the numer-	field, an interne; Charles Martin,
Ruth Watanabe, who was grad- ous roles of the play which is di-	Pop Wendal; Fleda Belle Harrell,
uated last June from the School rected by Robert G. Vignola, for	Sary; Wallace Murray. Wallace;
of Music, completed her ninth se- many years associated with stage and	Harold Crabill, Carlen.
mester of straight “A” grades. Vir- screen. Very effective lighting and	pEW TICKETS REMAIN
ginia Cassell, graduated from the scenic effects were evolved by Ad- j	^ remaining tickets to the
School of Letters. Arts and Sci- rian Awan, technical director.	may fae Qbtained for $L50
ences, made perfect grades in four j Mitchell announced that in the	from Rose Walton, secretary of the
of her eight semesters. Others stu- ig37 season performances will be	cinema convention, in the office of
dents making all A grades during | given njghtiy at 8 o'clock except	the department of cinematography,
the term ending in June uere. i Saturdays. Thc Sunday showings	Members of the convention who
Edward P. Courtney, Betty Eber- have been added for the first time	have purchased the $2.00 ticket
hard, Frederick P. Ely, John Han- in the play’s history.	which includes the benefits of the
na, Darrell Janzen, Arthur J. Kno- Heading the cait of players is	convention, a year's subscription to
del, Carl J. Kuehnert. E. Virginia Nelson Leigh, who made an un-	“Cinema Progress,” membership in Lane, Arthur Manella, Michael Mo- i common success last summer when ! the Cinema Appreciation league, a
dell, Vladimir Morkovin, Virginia he stepped into the role of Jesus	trip on Monday to Universal stu-
Pallais. Lillian Palmberg. Walter B. j 0f Nazareth on short notice. Others	dies, and a visit Tuesday night to
Shelley, Kenneth Sieling, Helen Use- ( m the ca:t are Be ty Blythe. Dor-	the R. C. A. recording laboratories.
works j unique values contributed by ona’s J its own province but never con-Conn ia well known in the south among the 15 hung upon ihe walls own group, home, region, or coun- , quernsits provtaialism. for his band innovations at local of the art and lecture room are try. It was said to bring variety REFORMER MIND and state festivals. His bands are "Newhall Ranch.” by Zon.es, and and color as opposed to the stand- “Tlrndly the reformer mind is noted for their colors, their modem “Cabazon Tunnel" by Brandt. Sou- ard.aation of newspaper features or the^ attitude of one who wushes to
them California landscapes pre- totalitarian states.	enlarge certain provinces. There is
dominate in the exhibit although : Peculiarities in dialect were used at *east some appreciation and also several of the paintings are the by the speaker to illustrate the !some conquest of provincialism in
by
this reformer mind, but it lacks the
sections of the country.	Easterners, and the differences be-	values of travel and beauty that
The exhibit is open every after-	tween American and British Eng-	the trailer mind and the aesthete
noon, and all Summer Session stu-	lish or between German in Austria	mind know how to enjoy. It is too
dents and faculty members are in-	and in Germany.	tense, although reform is a pro-
aftemoon, arriving in Boston th a day to spare before his spell Monday morning lecture. While Bc*ton. Dr. Benjamin took part an educational conference wThich sted until noon Tuesday.
The return trip was made in 18 ours, regular TWA schedule, bring-ng the “flying professor” back to U.S.C. campus in time to meet 8 o’clock class Wednesday morn-
edentials
Applicants Tor credentials in school administration and supervision who have not met the requirements for field work, will in 306 Scince at 12:45 Tues-July 27, where Dr. Hull wiU **rt*Motioni oo prooedurea in *«>*% for the coming yew.
***** B. i*O0Bnk Otto.
dergraduate career at; U.S.C.. when ,	, ,
he organized the first collegiate "a-n ^eSt(p!Ga> Trojan band. During the past 15 years he has been in complete charge of the organization, and has deevloped it steadily until it has become nationally famous.
One of the largest college bands | in the United States, as well as one j of the most colorful of all marching units, the Trojan band, in conjunction with other units of the department, has appeared in concert j in every city in California. Under !
Director Conn. the band is expected to continue its growth.
vited to attend. Dean Weatherhead
VON KLEINSMIDS SAIL ON SOUTH SEA CRUISE
BOOKS ON EXHIBIT
A display of atlases and books on California is on exhibit this week at the University Book Store, acoondine to Dan Moffamara. man-
Dr. and Mrs. R. B von KleinSmid today were enroute to the South seas aboard the S.S. Monterey, on the first lap of a cruise which will take them to Australia and New Zealand.
President von KleinSmid will visit univer*iites in Australia and New Zealand on his cruise, which will keep him away from the U. S.C. campus for more than six weeks. He will return to Los Angeles in time for the opening of tiie fall semester in September.
UNIVERSITY’S FUNCTION'
“Josiah Royce appreciate vincialism without pointing need of conquering it,” Dr. man said.
I'
fer
| vince that must be recognized.” The true aim of education was pro- described as a fourth type, the cul-t the tured mind or the cosmic mind, right- “Such a mind has respect for all provinces in the republic of let-
lich, and Harold Weeks.
Fraternity Men Hear Lecture By Dr. Bohn
othy Fay Southworth, Mildred	may attend the banouet by paying
Wheat, Belle Mitchell, Montague	50 cents more at the cinematog-
Shaw, Stanley Price. Dr. Cleveland	raphy office.
Kleihauer. Robert White and many____'___
other principals.
The Pilgrimage Play is given in its own unique outdoor theater in the hills of Hollywood at Cahuen-ga and Highland avenues. Since its inception approximately 610,000 “The persons have seen 635 performan-Dr- ces of the renowned drama which Frank Bchn. feature writer for the is regarded as one of the really New York Times, emphasized the great theatrical productions of all need for intelligence in government time, at the regular weekly luncheon of _
Speaking on the topic, Braintrust in Government
Phi Delta Kappa fraternity.
Ev. Bohn pointed out that from 1761 to 1789 the destiny cf the American people was in the hands of theirmcst brilliant and well educated citizens; Jefferson. Madison, Hamilton, Washington, and Franklin were among the best brained men of their day.
He explained that unconquered ters,” said the lecturer. “It values provincialism leads to hatred, divi- | nationalism and also international-sions. fears, and wars among reli- ism; it appreciates nature and also gioris. classes, races, and nations. It j ideals. It sees that truth, or the was declared to be the function of mind of God. is the one goal of all the university to help overcome pro- culture. If this be so. the worst vincialism instead of producing the ; calamity that can befall a nation spirit of “good old Siwash” or, even is the provincializing of truth and worse, departmentalizing knowledge of God. To make a civilization de- stated Dr Bonn, the incc.lcctuals until provincialism is required for a pend on the rejection of God or to have failed the country. Little ra-degree.	treat God as a convenient tool for tional thinking has becn done re-
The actual results of education attacking such a nation is equally garding the basic problems of our with reference to provincialism were provincial.”	’
taken up under four heads.	in conclusion, culture was defin-
First.” Dr. Brightman said, “the ed as a sincere regret at not know-
However, for the past 100 years,
trailer mind is the attitude of one who travels everywhere but is at home nowhere. This te a superficial oonqttesfl ci provincialism with- against none, A
ing everything, and again as the understanding and appreciation of aU provinces with fanaticism for or
social order.
“Today,” he said, “there is a greater need than ever for university trained men in government. President Roosevelt has taken the right sttep in selecting college professors as hte advisors.
DR. BRUCE BAXTER TO PREACH AT WILSHIRE CHURCH
Dr. Bruce Baxter formerly dean of the School of Religion at the University of Southern California and now president of Willamette university at Salem, Oregon, will preach at the Wilshire Methodist Episcopal church Sunday at 11 a. m. His subject will be “A Lost Saying of Jesus.”
Dr. Baxter is the first of several noted preachers who will occupy the pulpit during Dr. Willsie Martin's absence on a vacation trip to Europe.
Stray Creeks To Dine and Dance Tonight
Members of the Stray Greeks organization will stage a dinner dance at 9 p.m. tonight at the Biltmore Bowl, it was announced yesterday I by Charles Espey, president of the fraternity and sorority group.
Reservations for the dance must be made before noon today, in the office of Dr. Francis Bacon, counselor of men, Espey announced. Tha price of the dance is $2.00 per couple. More than 20 couples have placed reservations, Espey stated yesterday.
More than 40 members attended the regular Tuesday luncheon meeting at the Cottage tea room. July 20. Four new members were initiated into the organization, Espey declared. They were Dorothy Baring, of the College of the Pacific; Bonnie Keller, of the University of Arizona; C. H. Stewart, of Iowa; and Etta Lee Presnall, of Oklahoma 4 State Teachers college.