Vol XII
Los Angeles, California, Friday, July 21, 1933
Vol. 9
Societies End Conference at S. C.
Dance Drama Series To Be Given at S. C.
Poetry Playhouse Group To Present Short Interpretations
The Poetry Playhouse of the University of Southern California, the first poetry playhouse in America, •will present its second complete program of nineteen one-minute numbers dramatizing ‘ poems portraying the joys and sorrows of the negro race” on Wednesday afternoon, July 26, at 4:15 p.m. in Touchstone Theater, Old College.
“Dark Beauty” is tne theme of the preview performance, which is open to the public without charge, according to Miss Cloyde Dalzell, chairman of the production staff and co-founder, with Dean Kay K. Immel and Miss Alta B. Hall of the School of Speech, of the poetry playhouse.
Members of the summer company of the poetry playhouse who are to appear in the matinee program Wednesday, described as “an adventure with dance movements and dark masses” include the following, all students in a class in “The Staging of Poetry:” Jean Bailey, Ada Baker, Anna Boss, Jayne Crowley, Marie J. Davis, Mildred Delaney, Margaret Dudley, Olive Eckerson, Barbara Ewbank, Henry Lee Ewbank.Jr., Rachel B. Ewbank, Dorothy Gordon, Catherine M. Heseltine, Gwendolen I,. Kik, Sterling Kincaid, Elizabeth B. Kirclier, R. D. Mahaffey, Richard C. Miller, Mary C. McMunigle, Nial Nelson, Janet Pelphrey, Helen C. L. Peterson, Anne Pratt, Mary Rand, Marian Smith, Dorothy D. Snowden, Eunice Speeht, Mary E. Stewart, Harriet Louise Touton, Elizabeth Van Baraeveld, John N. Watson, and Bettina Whitn -y.
1-iHGT PROGRAM The flrst program of the S. C. poetry-players was witnessed by more than four thousand people, including college audiences, audiences at the annual poetry week celebration of the Los Angeles Public Library, momben of service and women's clubs, rnem bers of the National Association of Teachers of Speech, and audiences in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Pasadena, Glendale, Huntington Park and Pasadena.
A verse choir will chant the poems while solo or group dances interpret them.
The complete program follows: When Peter Jackson Preached (Continued on page four)
Lanier Discussed By S.C. Speakers
Dealing with the life and works of Sidney Lanier, famous poet of the south, a public lecture program given last night at 7:30 o’clock at the Ixw Angeles Public library was attended by many studeuts of the S.C. Sum mer Session.
A group of distinguished speakers was presented, including Dr. Garland Greever of the department of English, Dr. Edwin Mims aud Richard Webb.
Dr. Greever read the audience Lanier's Civil War leters. Dr. Minis, biographer of a l^anier lec tured on “Lani«r as a Prophot." Richard Webb's address was on Uie subject “8‘dncy I/in’er aa a Voet."
Final Assembly To Be Held Here Tuesday
An address by Dr. Thomas Nixon Carver, professor of Political Economy at Harvard on “How Wealth Ought to be Distributed” will be the feature of the closing assembly of the flrst session, Tuesday, July 25.
The Musical program for the day will open with the singing of "All Hail.” Charles M. Dennis, dean of the Conservatory of Music, College of the Pacific, will conduct the chorus, with Dean Emeritus W. F. Skeele at the organ. Wiliam E. Hullinger, flute soloist, will play “An-dalouse” by Pessard, aud “Andante Pastoral et Scherzet-tino” by Taffanel.
Second Journey To Mt. Lowe On
Starting tomorow at 9 a.m., the second Sumer Session excursion to Mt. Lowe will find more than 100 students journeying to the mile-high Southern California vacation resort, vacation resort, according to reservation figures released last night by the University Book Store.
With special rates of $1 for the round trip in force tomorrow, a record crowd is expected to assemble at the Sixth and Main street station of the Pacific Electric Railway.
Although the jvirney to Mt. Lowe will be made in special cars, the arrangements for the trip allow returns at any time, and provisions have been made at thp Mt. Lowe tavern for Summer Session students to make use of all entertainment facilities at the peak at new low rates.
Plans for the Summer Session excursion were made by Kenneth K. Stonier, who arranged with the railway company and the resort enabling studeuts to take advantage of rate reductions for the trip.
S.C. Professors Play at Beach
If the men professors seemed a little anxious to get through with their afternoon classes, yesterday, it was because they were in a hurry to join their compatriots in a beach party and dinner at the Surf and Sand club of Hermosa beach.
The party, given for the men’s faculty and for the men iu the administration department, began* at 4 p.m. with swimming in the ocean and club pool.
Various beach games, some strenuous and s<>ine less so were enjoyed, while lying “either on the sand or verbally” was indulged in by the less athletically inclined.
In the evening a dinner was served in the club dining room, into the spirit of which everyone entered heartily.
Dr. I{. R. G. Watt was in charge of the affair.
INVITATION GIVEN
Studeuts of the Summer Sen-sion are invited to visit the Chime room in the House Jit* rary, Mudd Memorial HaJI of
Philosophy, according to Frederic C. Maker, chimes master, ’hiring the summer mouths the chi.ties are played at 1°-Ir. nxarv da .
S.C. Students To Be Guests Of Fraternity
Honoring women students and Summer Session faculty members, Pi Lambda Theta, honorary education fraternity for women will entertain at a tea from 3 to 5 p.m. today, in the Women’s Residence hall. All members of the Summer Session staff and their wives and husbands are invited to attend, and all women students in the Summer Session are urged to visit the Residence hall this afternoon.
Mrs. Ethel H. Flood-Moyse of Glendale high school and junior college, is president of PI Lambda Theta. Other officers of the sponsoring organization are: flrst vice-president, Margaret Saylor; second vice,-president Mrs. Florence Bertine Watt; treasurer, Margaret Smith; recording secretary; Genevieve Hale; corresponding secretary, Mabel Mathews; keeper of records, Alice Green; and historian, Mrs. Zelma Huxtable.
Serving on the tea committee wrere Ruth Capito, Florence Stringer, and Lena Alice Sturdy.
Former Los Angeles superintendent of schools Mrs. Susan M. Dorsey, an honorary member of the fraternity, and Mrs. Arthur Heineman, assistant state superintendent of public instruction, will also attend the tea.
Officers of Pi Lambda Theta last night expressed appreciation for the work of Miss Julia Howell and the School of Music in arranging the music for the afternoon, and for the poster work obtained through the efforts of Miss Jessie M. Todd of tht» art department.
Short addresses will he given by Dean Lester B. Rogers, vice-president Frank C. Touton and Dr. Clyde Milton Hill.
Faculty Club Members Meet Today
Departing from tradition, the S.C. Faculty club is inviting women as well as men faculty members to attend :heir regular weekly meeting at 12:10 p.m. today in the Women’s Residence hall.
For the speaker at the luncheon meeting the club has obtained Dr. Rolf Hoffmann, professor of German at the University of California at Los Angeles, who will talk on Hitlerism and modern Germany. Hoffmann is especially equipped to speak on this subject in that he has had personal contact with the situation, according to L»r. Edwin D. Starbuck, social chairman of the Faculty club.
Reading of Eliot Poems Scheduled
Miss Elizabeth van Bar ne veil will read from the poems of T.
S.	Eliot Sunday at 8:30 p.m. in the Women’s Residence hall, it was announced yesterday. Miss Barneveld, a student ot Miss Cloyde M. Dalzell In the School of Speech, has selected representative verses for her reading, including some of the lesser kno^'n works of the American poet.	‘ I
The reading Sunday was suggested by Dr. V. L. O. Chittick, visiting professor of Comparative Literature from Reed college. Dr. Chittick has been placing emphasis on Eliot and his works during the past two wreeks iu his course on Comparative Literature eqtitled “Contemporary Classicism.'’
Summer Session faculty members, students aud their interested friends are invited by Miss Dalzell and Dr. Chittick to attend the leading, which will be given in the drawing room of the Women’s Residence ball.
Mask Groups To Join in Concert
A joint program of the Summer Session orchestra and the Summer Session A Capella choir will be given Thursday, July 27, at 11 a.m. in Bovard auditorium, it was announced last night by Miss Julia Howell of the School of Music.
The orchestra will he directed by Professor Alexander Stewart, and the A Capella choir will be under the direction of Charles Dennis, dean of the Conservatory of Music of the College of the Pacific. Both organizations have beerl working five weeks on the program, and a creditable performance is promised.
One of the special features of the program will be the playing by students of one movement of a Beethoven string quartet. The Allegro Ma Non Tanto movement from Opus No. 4 will be played by Lauren Rhodes, first violin; Emanuel Heifitz, second violin; V>»ner Montgomery, viola; and Montague Machell, cello.
The program for the orchestra and choir includes the following numbers:
Processional March: Entrance of
Montezuma ........ Henry Hadley
| . From the Opera “Azora”
Overture: “Rosamonde”..............
...................................... Schubert
Andante from Cello Concerto. ..
................................... Goltermauc
With orchestral acconu iment Soloist: Montague Machell Symphony: “From the New
World” ........................... Dvorak
4th Movement
Round Table Meeting Held In Mudd Hall
Sociology Groups Hold Two-Day Joint Conference
Valuable Keys In Purse Lost Here
Lost ln the Student Uniou Monday, July 17, a women’* handbag containing valuable k*ys was still reported missing laM night. The owner is anxious to retrieve the purse because the keys belong to outt of the university of-Sr
Trojans Appear On Radio Hour
Featuring Eleanor Sharkey, soprano, ani Miriam Ronjtin, pian ist, the Universit^^JT Southern California Schog^of Music will present a Sumfay afternoon program over KFI, July 23 fnpm 2:30 to 3, under the direction of Prof. Horatio Cogswell, head of the voice department.
The program will include:
I. Piano
Ecceiaise .............. Beethoven
A Giddy Girl...................Inert
Mlriaxn Ronkin, pianist 1J. Soprano
0	Divine Redeemer....Gounod
1	Light the Blessed Caudles ......................... Proctor
The Piper of Ix»ve......Carew
Eleanor Sharkey, soprano, accompanied by George Lawson. III. Piano
R^nde Cappiiclese................
...................... Mendelssohn
Miriam Roi
Twelve prominerft speaker* addressing round-table sessions of the joint meeting of the Pacific Southwest Academy and the Pacific Sociological Society discussed major points in the conditions and trends of secondary and higher « education in a two day conference which closed here yesterday.
Meeting in Mudd Memorial Hall of Philosophy, members of thc Pacific Southwest Academy and the Pacific Sociology Society gathered in three round-table coufer ences under the direction ol Southern California education leaders.
SCHOOL FUNDS
Opening the first round-tab!« session, Walter E. Morgan of the state department of education, spoke on “Sources and Distribution of School Revenues,” describing changes made by recent legig lation iu the State of California.
As a result of the Riley-Ste*art tax amendment, Morgan declared, the state will assume broader control over the public school systems.
“Under the old financial set, ups,” he stated, “elementary schools received about 80 per cent of their support from local and county property tax and the remainder from the state. The new amendment provides that the state shall take over the ccuufy's share of the support and the state will also have to derive its monej from other sources."
SIZE DROPS
At the same round-table, N Bradford Trenham, of the Califor nia Taxpayers Association, de clared that immediate decrease) in the cost of common schoolinf are in order.
Showing by statistics the recem decrease in school enrollment. du»
,to lower birth-rates each yeai since 1921, Trenham declared lower school registrations are to be expected in future years.
The third speaker at the same meeting was H. S. Upjohn, of the Long Beach school system. “The Philosophy of Public School Finance" was the specific topic of his address. Briefly stated . the
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Tea Is Given for Women Students
Members of the Faculty Wives club entertained visiting women professors in the Summer Session and the wives of visiting faculty members at a tea given Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock in the patio of Mudd Memorial Hall of Philosophy.
More tli m 100 guests atteudcdi the informal tea and reception in the Memorial hall patio, which proved to be an ideal seating for the affair.
The tea was arranged by the Faculty Wives club, with Mrs. William Ralph. LaPorte, president, being aasisted by Meg. dames Frank C. Touton, Lester
II.	Rogers, George Finley Bovard, William 1>. .Moriarty and Jojopl*
M. McCormack.