UTHERN
CALIFORNIA
Summer News
HI—No. 10 Loa Angeles, Calif., Wednesday, July 14, 1948 Night Phone RI. 5471
lands Await rojan Books
ore than 67,000 books for the Trojan War Memorial y in the Philippines leave Los Angeles harbor today e American President liner James McKay, e shipment of books marks the end of four month’s for Dave Evans, YMCA president, and his helpers, have
sorted and processed than 100,000 books since the book drive opened April 5. ked in 125 waterproofed n crates, each one weighing 500 pounds, the books cover bjects from agriculture to y. Their destination is the rsity of the Philippines, they will form the nucleus ibrary which will be replen-each year with a similar
ONEY CONTRIBUTED
of shipping the books, $2800, said Evans, was paid th contributions from friends YMCA and persons inter-l the Philippines, books were taken by truck ~eek from the book depot, place and Hoover street, the work of sorting and ig was done. Evans and his s have worked at this job the drive ended May 5.
’inal goal of the drive was books. Besides the huge ent to the Philippines, more 15,000 books have been given hanages and the Salvation Evans said.
BOYS GET BOOKS *e than 3600 books were tak-onday to the LeRoy Boys’
, La Verne, Calif., near Po-This home for unfortunate mderprivileged boys is run r. LeRoy Haynes, an SC us who was graduated from ollege of Commerce In 1927. as Angeles girls orphanage the Volunteers of America ^ed 1800 books for girls, and alvation Army was given than 12,000.
,ns said that the books given Salvation Army were those were not in good enough ion to send to the Philip-They included many good , but excessive wear or mis-pages prevented them from suitable for the Philippines iy, he added.
Accomplished
Organist Plans Bovard Recital
Dr. Irene Robertson, one of the most accomplished organists in the United States, and professor of organ at SC, will present a recital in Bovard auditorium, Friday, July 16 at 8:30 p.m.
The recital is the fourth in a series of 13 recitals and concerts being presented by the College of Music in the Summer Session.
Included among the many selections in the program are Prelude in G minor and the choral prelude on “All Men Are Mortal,” Bach.
She will also play “A Rose Breaks Into Bloom,” Brahms; two sketches, Schumann; and “Claire de Lune,” Sigfrid Karg-Elert.
Dr. Robertson is an associate member of the Fellow-American Guild of Organists and from 1942 to 1944 was the first woman to ever hold the position of dean in the guild’s southern California branch.
She has been organist for the First Methodist church since 1934 and received her honorary doctorate degree of music from College of Pacific in 1947.
gistrar's Notice
students desiring to take al examinations to complete In which they received rk of “Ie" since Sept. 1 should apply at the office e registrar for the neces-authorization and make nent at the comptroller’s of-on or before July 19, 1948. plications cannot be coned unless the lee ot $3 for examination has been
ie schedule of spei'lul exam* ons to be held this term be mailed to applicants as as possible after the appll-ns are received. These ex-tations will begin on Aug. 7,
II. W. Patmore,
Registrar.
Professor Views German Reform
Concurrent witih admitted failure of denazification by Western powers, Dr. James Mulhern feels that “education is only a part of the educational reform" undertaken in the United States sector of Germany.
Dr. Mulhern, professor of history of education, University of Pennsylvania, addresses Phi Delta Kappa’s Thursday luncheon on "Re-educating the Germans.”
“We have instituted a broad project of reform in German political, social, and economic life in our rejuvenation of Germany,” Dr. Mulhern tsaid.
“Re-democratization and reeducation are the only positive aspects in our program in the American sector of Germany, while negative factors in the program include demilitarization, denazification, and deindustrialization.” Dr. Mulhern, who is a specialist on the historical aspects of education, published “A History of Education” in 1946 and is now working on another book, “The History of Education in America.” Born in Ireland where he received hu A.B. degree, he later came to America and received his master’s and doctor’s degree at tjhe University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Mulhern was a visiting professor and lecturer at U.C.L.A. last summer.
Trojan Talent Will Produce Original Plays
Playwriting talent on campus gets a showcase Friday and Saturday nights when the experimental theater presents two original one-acts by student dramatists Jack Gariss and Marvin Kaplan.
Playwrights Gariss and Kaplan, who direct their own scripts, will dish up a pair of comedies replete with social significance.
Garriss’ effort “By the Hair of My Chinny-Chin-Chin” revolves around the distress of a scandalized suburban community which suddenly discovers a man with a
Tickets for the Friday anil Saturday night showings, which commence at 8:30 in Touchstone theater, are available at no charge In the drama office, 120 Old College, today and for the remainder of the week.
beard in its midst. Kaplan’s “Death of an Intellectual” satirizes the hoopla incited by the otherwise quiet passing away of one of the nation’s lesser geniuses.
BROOKLYN GRADUATE Kaplan, a graduate student of Brooklyn college, takes his first turn at direction for the SC stage with the weekend performances. He was seen last semester as the girl-shy bugler in the varsity show "No Love Atoll” and played a major role in William C. de-Mille’s production of “Androcles and the Lion.”
“Death” was given an earlier production by Brooklyn college, where Kaplan also produced a series of radio scripts, among them adaptations of Ibsen’s "Hed-da Gabler” and Voltaire’s “Can-dide.” Kaplan directed a staging of “No Exit,” existentialist drama by Jean Paul Sartre.
SHARE TOP BILLING Ruth Kay, Howard Henry, and Philip Chornow share top billing in “Death of an Intellectual” as the wife of the great man, an avant-garde poet, and a radio commentator.
Mary Vallee, Dorothy Marsh, and Jim Weaver play a trio of opportunists who attempt to make the dying man’s last hours as hectic as possible. George Spelvin appears as Howard Brand himself, the gentleman with one foot on a tooled leather volume of Plato, and the other in the grave.
MODERN WARFARE'S THREAT to the holy city of Jerusalem is pondered by an Arab soldier. New methods of mass destruction may prove fatal to the ancient city. j
La Monte to Trace Holy Land Conflicts
Parallelisms in the crusades of the 13th century and the present conflict in Palestine will be discussed by Dr. John La Monte, professor of medieval history, University Df Pennsylvania, this afternoon when he speaks on “Palestine Wars: 1248-1948.”
Editor Reveals Staff Changes
Two veterans of Daily Trojan reporting were advanced to desk editor positions on the Summer News staff by Editor Lloyd Hearn, and several changes in assistant desk editors, copyreaders, and reporters were noted tihis week in the paper’s new personnel lineup.
Stan Cann and Cliff Dektar, former senior reporters, will occupy the “slot” for the remaining three weeks of the present session with F. R. Ashley, who will continue as the third desk editor.
Replacing Cann as assistant desk editor will be Buster Suss-man, reporter and copyreader, who takes his position alongside Vernon Scott and Ray Noll.
Copyreaders for the second half of tihe session are Pete Boughn, Manuel Peraiez, Cann, Scott, and Sussman. Reporters include John Bethel, Reid Bundy, Stan Boggess, Harvey Diedrich, George Gunter, Rita Kory, Martin Litherland, and Art Mesch.
The staff juggling occurs to give all workers a chance to try out for the various positions on the Summer News.
Jitterbugging Now Old Stuff ★ ★ ★ ★ Teacher Tells Good News
“Jitterbugging is on its way out!”
This statement, which should come as good news to the habitues of niteries with postage stamp dance floors, is on the level, according to its author, Professor Jack Reinhard, SC’s dancing instructor.
Jitterbugging was voted out at the recent dancing teachers convention here when the teachers lrom California, Oregon, Illinois, I Colorado, and other areas brought up the fact that it was no longer being taught in their classes.
“The ‘hep’ crowd now' prefers square dances, mixers, and such dances which challenge the dancer more than the jitterbug does,’’ Professor Reinhard said.
“It’s Just that the cycle is mov-1 mg on,” he explained, indicating
that the jitterbug was going to meet its ancestors, the trilby, black h a w k waltzes, charleston, big apple, and the rest.
Professor Reinhard, whose first love is painting, is tihe leader ot Los Fiestores, dancers who are de-scendents of old Spanish families W'ho work throughout southern California to keep the fiesta spirit alive. The group appears at California’s missions throughout the year, dancing during the fiestas.
Going to Europe to study art a few years ago, Professor Reinhard became interested in the Spanish, Portugese, and Italian dances, and began studying them instead of art. He spent two years in studies of the folk dances of Europe and has spent the past decade passing them on to southern California dancers.
Speaking in the series of lectures sponsored by the departments of history, international relations, and political science, Dr. La Monte will give this, lecture, at 3:15 today in the art and lectur# room of the University library.
“In both cases, the crusades and the present conflict,” he said recently, “the wars were started by people who thought themselvea divinely authorized to hold Palestine because of its sanctity In their religions.”
ARABS DIVIDED « “Now, as in the crusades, the Arabs are divided among themselves,” the historian continued, but added that the world would have to wait to see if the parallelism continued in this respect.
In the past, even though divided at the outset of the wars, the Arabs have always managed to achieve unity and drive the Christians out of the country.
“This time,” Dr. La Monte said, •‘it is the Arab Moslems and Christians against the Jews, with the Jews receiving the support of a number of important states. This support is resented deeply by the Arab Christians.”
WRITES ON CRUSADES
Dr. La Monte has been working in the field of crusades for 25 years. He is the author of three books and a number of articles in the field of crusading history, and has traveled through the holy land in the course of his studies.
During the past few' years, he has worked with the American Council on Judaism, an American anti-Zionist organization. This organization, he said, feels that political Zionism is injuring Jews in America by stressing a difference between them and other people.
At the present the educator is editing a large, international cooperative history of crusades in which more than 50 authors are collaborating. They hope to publish the work within the next six years.
Ilegistrar's
Notice
Today, July 14, is the last day to drop a 10-week course without receiving a grrade of F unless work is of passing quality.
Students registered in the six-weeks or 10-weeks summer terra who intend to add postsessiou courses should do so on change of program cards on July 21, 22, or 23. Cards may be sccured in the registrar’s office.
H. W. Patmore, Registrar.