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SC Orators Vie for Bowen Cup
Speechmen Compete in Annual Contest
Aspirirg Trojan orators will at-Itempt to place their names alongside .the immortals of SC forensic listory today, as they compete in the annual Bowen cup extempo-•aneous speaking contest.
The contest is a real test for mtstanding speakers, since only one lour is allowed to prepare a seven-linute speech. It was originated by |:he Jate Judge William Bowen of >s Angeles, founder of the Bowen foundation, which annually contributes three identical gold cups to (hose adjudged the bert speakers.
DRAWINGS HELD
Drawings for subjects will be held it 1:30 p.m. in Bowne hall. Con-[estants will draw three subjects on current affairs and retain one, paving an hour for preparation. Speeches will commence at 2:30.
Contestants who have thus far lignified intention to compete are Vivian Clarke, Mark Allen, Tyler [acdonald, Bob Meyer John Tice, [arvin Meyer, Mildred Carman and ?orge Dell.
In the contest’s quarter-century existence, only one woman has ^er placed first, although several ive won cups.
DINNERS LISTED Winners last year were Seymour
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USSR, World
Speaker Will Tell Russia’s Fight Against Nazis
Richard Atkinson, World war veteran and former president of the Los Angeles Adventure club, will choose “Russia and the World Today” as his topic for an address to be given at the International Relations club luncheon today in Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall.
In his speech he will relate Russia's great s howinr; against the nazis today, besides explaining her position in the world following the conflict.
During ,the first World war Atkinson and 10 other men from Harvard university were chosen to represent the United States in Russia. They encouraged friendly relations there and studied conditions of the country. Since that time Atkinson has lived and traveled in the USSR, learning the language and observing the Russian way of life.
This speaker was the last foreigner to leave the battle during the Russo-German war of 1916-17. This was shortly before the treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed in 1917. Atkinson spent a year at the front during the first World war.
As a member of the American Press commission in Europe and a student of international affairs he has had dealings with the Russian, Chinese and Japanese people.
The luncheon session will begin at 12:10; the price wili be 55 cents per plate. Dr. J. Eugens Harley in Bridge hall is in charge of reservations.
Radio Croup Traces Early Instruments
Actors Swing Into Practice
Thespians Will Remodel Touchstone Theatre
Players of the Drama Workshop are now in rehearsal for their forthcoming production, “These Three—Tonight,” the proceeds of which will go into the remodeling of Touchstone theater, announced Joan Miles, Workshop director.
“We realize that because of gas rationing the campus is
becoming more and more a center
Plot to Set Up Count of Paris as Rule! African Empire as Revealed by CBS
Development of keyboard instruments from the 17th century to inocur and John Baird, now in j the present day will be traced by
le midst of a debate tour; and phraim Konigsberg. Recent first-[ace winners were Edward McDon-;11, 1941; Wallace Frasher, 1940; id Earl Bolton, 1939.
[The contest is conducted by the ►bate squad, under the direction Dr. Alan Nichols, coach.
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the radio depa&ment in a series of musical broadcasts beginning Jan. 22.
Dr. Max Krone will direct the musical shows, first of which will be broadcast from Hancock hall. Mme. Alice Ehlers will be featured at the harp, and John Crown, assistant music professor, will preside at the piano.
Fourteen weekly shows at the university are planned Each week the works of a different composer will be studied. The interesting point is that the music will be
Initiates and membeis of Phrat-?s must make their photo ap-|:ntments by Friday, announced played on the type of instrument mny Lowe, yearbook editor. | upon which it was composed.
C Asked to Donate ooks to Servicemen
In the red, white, and blue boxes placed in the main en-mce of the Student Union, the foyer of Bovard, and inside main door of Edward Doheny library can be placed books |d more books for the Victory Book campaign.
As the nation enters its second week of campaigning, the I Chicago.
lerican Library association and [other organizations are collect-books for boys in the service, the number of men in the armed ;es eager to find good reading terial is greater than civilians imagine, stated Miss Christine >ick, university librarian. Miss emphasized that the type of fature service men were reading a high caliber and includes lh in the line of technical fields, pvigation, mathematics, history, lance, travel, and exploration [the most popular t\pes of books
Eitzen Gives Marital Advice
Personality Tests Will be Given
Are complications likely to arise from wartime marriages?
Students will have an opportunity to discuss this subject with Dr. David D. Eitzen this afternoon at 3:30 and tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. in the YWCA house when special bull sessions on the subject of “Wartime Marriages” are held.
Dr. Eitzen and Margaret Salskov Card, student leader, will be ready to answer all questions spontaneously, and the discussion will not be limited to an hour. These discussions will conclude the series of talks on this subject by Dr. Eitzen.
Written questions may be given to Mrs. Ruth Grant, Y executive secretary,
The psychological barriers involved in wartyne marriages, and personality traits helpful in marriage and getting along with men have been the main subtopics which have been discussed in the past.
Only those who attended the previous lectures are asked to attend the sessions today and tomorrow.
Many of the women attending the series were given personality tests which were later ana’yzed by Dr. Eitzen.
The talks were started for the benefit of women students who were unable to decide whether wartime marriages were advisable in face of the uncertainty of the future. (See page two for marriage panel summary).
Senate Adds Amendment
An amendment to the ASSC constitution proposing that the chairman of the radio council be added to the dramatics council in the capacity of a voting member was unanimously passed at the last meeting of the senate.
The proposed amendment was submitted in a letter to Bob McKay, ASSC president, from Lynn Randle, of the SC radio department. The amendment went into immediate effect.
Flying Freight Arrives
of activity for members of the university,” Miss Miles said. “This fact has been one of the main factors in our idea to modernize Touchstone theatre.”
Miss Miles explained that the naval air cadets often use Bovard auditorium for a classroom and so the use of the auditorium by the drama department has been abandoned.
The Drama Workshrp players have renamed the auditorium in Old College, and it is now known as the Touchstone Little theatre. Miss Miles hopes that the students will think of this drama center as a place where they may go to enjoy the performances of their colleagues.
“These Three—Tonight,” which will be presented Satuiday, Jan. 16, and Monday, Jan. 13, at 8:30 p.m., is a series of three plays of one act each.
“The Wedding,” directed by Pauline Frederickson, is the first of the three plays. Peggy Weber, who played in “George Washington Slept Here,” and Allan Williams, formerly assistant stage manager, have been cast in the leading roles.
Other members of the cast are Ed Dolan, of ventriloquism fame; Carroll Brinkerhoff, romantic lead in “George Washington Slept Here”; Jessie Kinsley, a former member of the little theatre in Texas; Ed Kelly and Leonard Kibrick.
The second presentation is “Land’s End,” directed by Joan Miles. The leads are Norman Linn, lead of “George Washington Slept Here,” and Loralie Newkirk. Other players are Glenn Holsinger, who appeared in “The Passing of the Third Floor Back,” and “You Can’t Take it With You”; and Ben Sheldon, who has played in previous campus productions.
The last play is “Last Boat From Jersey,” a musical drama written by Ashmead Scott. The leading roles are to be played by Nancie Sheldon, who played the lead in the all-U show; Bill Chapman, who had a singing part in “George Washing-
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Ready!—Lights Camera, Action But No Action
Girls arc so easily duped.
Girls enjoy looking into the lens of a camera—-especially a movie camera.
But someone pulled the celluloid over their eyes last night when an unscrupulous male representing himself as a casting director made enticing overtures to the would-be actresses. He promised fame, fortune, and $10.50 a day.
Purporting to represent a major picture company, he phoned at least five sororities and asked them to send 10 girls to report at the coliseum at 7 a.m. with coats—that’s what he told them.
After the heady intoxication had cleared from before their starry eyes, they investigated the deal. Calls to every Hollywood bigwig failed to confirm the story.
A special Daily Trojan posse was sent out at an early hour this morning to make a reconaissance of the area and to Intercept any zealous young hopefuls who remained.
DENVER. Jan. 13—'U.P)—1The nation’s first aerial freight train landed safely in Denver late today after a history-making four-da> trip from
Graduation Bids Now Available
Invitations for the commencement exercises are available now at the cashier’s desk in the Student Union .to graduating students, according to an announcement from the president’s office.
There is to be no charge for these invitations. Because the graduation exercises are to be held in Bovard auditorium, it is requested that students do not ask for more than 10 invitations so that theie will be seats for the guests ot all.
Ski Patrol Unit to Organize
SC ski enthusiasts are invited to attend a noon meeting tomorrow in P.E. 205 where the possibility of forming a National Ski patrol unit on campus will be discussed by Corty Hill, section chief of Southern California.
The ski patrols are composed of from 5 to 25 men or women civilians who are required to be third class skiers and to have had 30 hours of Red Cross work.
Service is purely voluntary.
The work, which is all jear round, involves rescuing plane wrecks, patrolling uninhabited areas, making maps, evacuating duties, and preparing for arctic work. The patrols cooperate with the FBI and the forest service.
Definite areas are assigned to each unit, and extra gas is available for patrol work.
Dr. Bacon to Meet Fire Watchers Tonight
An important meeting for all who signed up as fire watchers will be held today at 7 p. m. in 119 Old College, according to Dr. Francis Bacon, counselor of men.
The meeting will oe one hour or less in length. Full instructions will be given to the fire watchers concerning a future event not yet disclosed to .the public.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13—(U.P.) correspondent reported from allie ters tonight that French Royalis set up a monarchy in North Afric vasion and that “certain” Royalis
assassination of Admiral Jean Darlan.
In a broadcast to American listeners, Collingwood said that Dar- u lan "apparently was killed because he refused to play the game with the Royalists.”
The Royalists included men in high places in North Africa, Collingwood reported, and they apparently hoped to set up the Count of Paris, youthful pretender to the French throne who has been in Algiers incognito for two months, as monarch of French Africa.
MISHAP OCCURS The monarchist coup appeared to have been set for Christmas eve, the night of Darlan’s assassination, but “something went wrong,” Collingwood said.
“It is now possible to lift a corner of the veil surrounding the internal politica in North Africa,” Collingwood said. “Since the Allied forces landed there, a violent conflict has raged for control of French Africa and a chance to rule France.
“On the one side stood the liberals and the republican <, who stood to gain most. On the other stood the fascists and semi-fascists.
THREATS MADE “Outside the two stood the royalists—the key to the situation—attempting to capitalize on the conflict. It is they who precipitated the spectacular events and tried to set up a monarchy in French North Africa.”
Collingwood said that following the failure of the monarchist coup, and the assassination of Darlan, threats were made against prisoners who were arrested shortly after the slaying.
French authorities are investigating these threats and “it is rumored that Royalist leaders are among those implicated,” Collingwood said.
History Remains in Curriculum
History 177 is being offered after all.
Contrary to a recent report in the Daily Trojan, history 177 is not being dropped by .the university, Dr. Frank H. Garver announced yesterday.
The course is not offered in the regular university program, but it ls given on the University College curriculum, Saturday morning at 10:30.
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Co-op Housing to Be Discussed by Dean
Dean Moreland has announced that a meeting to discuss plans for cooperative housing will be held on Friday at 3 p.m. in Administration 256. All SC •women interested to co-op living are urged to attend.
Two More Trojans Get Navy Wings
| Navy wings of gold were won by I Dwight Anderson Jr. and William Harwood, former Trojans, last week at the naval air training center in Corpus Christi where both received reserve commissions.
Harwood was commissioned in the United States marine air corps re-
He volunteered for flight training last May and received preliminary instruction at the Los Alamitos base.
Anderson and Harwood were graduated Jan. 8 and were in the class addressed by Rear Admiral AlfrpH TT Mnntzomc]
Technicians to Show Clay as Ersatz Metal
Research activities of a movement, which is nation-wide in its interest and whicn began on the campus five years ago, will be the subject of demonstrations and addresses Saturday when the ceramics department of the College of Architecture and Fine Arts holds a conference in Harris hall, beginning
at 9:30 a.m.
Teachers and technicians from three major clay companies will participate in the project designed to study clay as a medium for replacing metals needed in the war emergency, according to Prof. Glen Lukens who is directing the conference.
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