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Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, Dec. 3, 1948
No. 57
Homecoming Bids Available at Dance
A limited number of bids to the Homecoming dance will go on sale at the door of the Casino Gardens Saturday evening before the dance. Price will be $3.60.
These will be the bids left over from those distributed for sale through fraternities. Ticket sales for the dance have
-★been heavy, and Ed Vierheilig,
Ci.	/-s	homecoming dance chairman, an-
oliseum Openers
1‘boto by Fred tiouxii
ICY ST. JOHN, freshman, is receiving a trophy frcm leen Charlene Hardey after Wednesday's Frcsh-Soph A kiss went with the trophy, but the Trojan photograph-has only two hands and one camera. The frosh won.
osh - Soph Brawlers ow Feuding Verbally
(ther photo on Page 7.	| taking all six events including the
hough the final score of the : sack race, tire-fight, push-ball ccn-,-soph brawl was posted two test, and tug-of-war. ft ago, a verbal feud continues	.
Most spectacular was the push-
I ball contest in which the frosh reply to the sophomore claim , „ , . ... ,
*	j I finally shoved the huge sphere over
mcy were outnumbered.
imen state firmly that it was the sophomore gQaj aft€r repeated
that won for them.	surges back and forth.
Schmidt, sophomore vice- The victorious freshmen were pre-
*ent’ is stl^ nursing **is sented a permanent globe shaped an ue marks, claimed his trophy, topped with a rooter's cap.
L °s‘	were out" i by Homecoming Queen Charlene
*red 20L	Harder.
j sense.” roared back Jack | After the brawl* both cWs re. commerce fre man there ; tired to the Student lounge where JU5 a o.ker snow o. iroshjthey were treated to refreshments
and music by Jack Crawford and lie frosh copped the win by I his Dixieland Six.
Alumni to Fete 23 Grid Team
Members of SC’s 1923 football
team, which helped dedicate the ! Coliseum, and fathers of this year's varsity players will be guests of i honor at the 25th annual Alumni Homecoming banquet tonight at 6:30 in the men’s gymnasium.
The 1923 team, coached by Elmer i "Gloomy Gus" Henderson, defeated Pomona, 23-7, in the first football j game played in the Coliseum. Hen-| derson will be among the guests at the banquet. Two of his assistants in 1923, Roy Baker and Willis O.
I Hunter, will also be there, along with team captain Chet Dolley.
Master of ceremonies will be H.
‘ Eames Bishop. SC '35, now affil-i iated with the Music Corporation of America.
Included in the list of coaches i who have accepted invitations to i attend are the two rival coaches for the forthcoming Rose Bowl I game, Lynn “Pappy” Waldorf of ' California and Bob Voigts of North-> western. Prank Leahy of Notre Dame, SMU's Matty Bell, Ike Arm-; strong of Utah, Dean Cromwell,
| and Jeff Cravath will also be on I the guest list.
Spike Jones and his City Slickers, Jack Benny, and Edgar Bergen wTill provide more entertainment for the event, which has been sold out for several weeks.
Racfio station KLAC will broadcast the banquet from 8:05 to 8:30, with Prank Bull, local sportscaster and disc jockey, at the microphone.
nounced yesterday that expenses have already been met.
More than $203 has been spent for decorating Casino Gardens with cardinal and gold streamers, homecoming themes, and ‘Welcome Irish” banners. A revolving chandelier will reflect cardinal and gold lights on the walls.
The Decoration committee, headed by Bruce Saven and Hal Rosenwald, has spent the last five days working on the decorations.
Homecoming Queen Charlene Hardey and her court will be presented during the dance, and the Notre Dame football team has been invited to attend.
Vierheilig said there is a strong possibility Martha Tilton will appear with Rose as vocalist for tomorrow night. Tommy Burrows’ Campus Combo will fill in for Rose at intermission.
SC Faces Toughest Battle of Season
by Jim Blake
Three years.
The unsmiling Irishmen of Notre Dame need to play only
60 minutes of football against a thrice-beaten Southern California eleven tomorrow afternoon at 2 to complete their third year in a row with never a taste of the bitter blood of
del eat. Never before has a team en-*--—---
Band Will Zip Halftime Show
NOTRE DAME'S EMIL SITKO will try his best to spoil any plans the Trojan coach -may have about an upset in the Coliseum tomorrow afternoon. He is a triple-threat man in the Irish backfield, — and he is only a junior now.
tered the Coliseum with such a phenomenal record.
Of course, they have to win to complete that third year, but the Trojans have rolled over and played dead for the Irish in the last five meetings.
Frank Leahy’s great grid machine, which arrives by train at 9:40 this morning has trampled Purdue, Pittsburgh, Michigan State, Nebraska. Iowa, Navy, Indiana. Northwestern, and Washington in order this season and has seven all-American candidates in the lineup. SC. loser to Ohio State, Oregon, and California. has no all-Americans, but the Trojans are primed, loaded, and ready for an upset.
TRIPUCKA LEADS
Leading the Notre Dame attack is Quarterback Frank Tripucka. an understudy to Johnny Lujack last year, but a great quarterback in his own right this season. Tripucka has completed 51 of 84 parses for 10 touchdowns and 614 yards.
Despite Tripucka’s sensational passing record, his exploits- are overshadowed by those of Fallback
The Trojan fast-stepping football band wall zip through a sequence of 10 formations in 12 minutes during the halftime truce at , Saturday's game.
To the tune “A Great Day for the , Irish,” the band will enter the sta-j dium. They will play ‘^Say It With Music” as the first formation depicts a violin and a moving bow.
The famous victory march played from an interlocking “ND.” a cross | formed to the accompaniment of i "Ave Maria,” and a jig by the bandsmen in a shamrock formation will serve to honor the Fighting j Irish.
As a tribute to SC's 1948 national championship baseball team a rep-‘ lica of a baseball bat flanked by i '43 will be formed.
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Roster
Tommy Blasted By 2 'Hoods
Tommy Tropan was blasted yesterday!
Two hooded men swooped onto the campus wielding a long, black, sinister-Iooking hose from whose end poured sand under pressure directly at the base of the Trojan shrine. Before nearby students could stop the assailants, poor .Tommy was engulfed in a cloud of choking dust.
When the dust had settled there stood TT with a spanking clean pedestal, free at last from the ugly, splotched coat of blue and yellow' paint which he had been forced to wear since the UCLA game.
Star-St To Pack Shrine Rally
If the Shrine auditorium rafters don’t sag tonight it won’t j be because the Homecoming rally committee didn’t try.
' Three hours of top-flight entertainment starting at 7:30 will be presented to SC students in this combination Homecoming and pre-Notre Dame pep rally planned by Chairman
--K Jack Graves.
Mays Selected Queen's Escort
pvard Burlesque Scores
Moliere Satire Pleases Critic
The queen’s entourage is complete!
Bill Mays, junior in the School of Music, got the nod in the “Date with the Queen” contest judging yesterday and wrill be making beautiful music with Queen Charlene during the homecoming weekend.
“I can’t believe this.” he gasped when the decision was made. "Where is the Cadillac?”
The queen smiled.
“Charlene is a lovely woman,” he went on, “and this is the greatest thing that ever happened to me.”
The field was narrowed to eight after individual interviews, and the eight made a second appearance in the “smoke-filled room” before the final choice W’as made.
He will escort the queen to the football game Saturday and will shadow her pretty closely throughout the weekend.
Precedent will be broken tonight when television cameras from KFI-TV record the star-studded program, marking the first time that an
SC campus rally has been televised.
Appearance of entertainers Jack Carson, the Mills brothers, “Doodles” Weaver, and Harry the Hipster is expected to keep the program running in rapid-fire order.
Also scheduled tc appear art Pete Daily and his Chicagoans; Art Lund; Billy Farrell of the Bob Hope show; Doris Drew, vocaiist discovered by Frankie Laine; Beryl Davis of the “Hit Parade;” Bob Gentry, Earl Carroll comedian; the Mod-ernaires; Bobbie Ward; the Trenier dancing twins; and Faye Thomas, a Broadway Nellie Lutcher.
Homecoming queen Charlene Hardey and her four attendants will be guests at the rally. Identity of Queen Charlene's “date” for tomorrow will be revealed, along with the announcement of the winning, group receiving a television set from Philip Morris.
Among other personalities to be (ConJnued on Page 7)
by Bon Weinberg
School for Wives.” a French riesque show, opened last night Bovard.
t isn’t the type of burlesque makes baldheaded row seats a get for ticket scalpers. It’s a ire on an era since passed and people whose prototypes are still und.
laywright Mcliere had needle--ght into his 17th-century
;temporaries, and in “School for ves." he uses it to tattoo a lively, dy sketch of the marriage cus— s of the time.
e laughs and jeers at the then-valent Idea of seasoning pros-•tne wives to taste bv giving m a hitch in a convent or some er suitable spouse school. Last ht’s audience laughed too, both he strange customs and at the sely exaggerated antics of iers and cuckolding husbands, olphe. a bumbling husband-is played by Jim McCloskey.
■ McCloskey is nicely frustrated with j his moaning and wig-tearing tirades. and he cleverly carries on | conversations with himself in the j form of asHes.
Mary Vallee plays Agnes. Arnol-! phe's rule-reared fiancee. Charming and beautiful always. Miss Val-j lee has one especially good scene in which she tells Arnolphe about the amorous advances of a young-| man-about-the-countryside. In an-i other scene she reads aloud Arnol-I phe's set of maxims for a good j wife.
F1 o p p i s h Chrysa'.de. Arnolphe's ; friend, is well-played by E. Ray Scott. He displays his affections effectively and sniffs his snuff like a trouper.
Violently comic, the team of Georgette and Alain, played by Louise White and Marvin Duckies.
| gets the most exercise in the play. They always seem to be crawling on and off stage on their hands
and knees, and they engagingly fall all over themselves when their master, Arnolphe. gives them an order.
Don Elson portrays an unnamed notary whose job it is to have marriage contracts signed properly. He has only a short scene, but carries it off well. It’s a comic part for the intended receiver of his discourse on marriage law has a cluttered mind at the moment and pays no attention to him.
Enrique and Oronte, played by Taylor Murray and Wayne Hoover, enter only during the final moments of the play, but they carry news that unties the premartial mixup. Hoover is competent as usual. and Murray has acquired a crisper delivery since his recent role in “Chris Bean.” although his facial expressions are somewhat obscured by a mustache and a Gorgeous George set of curls.
Michael Galloway plays Horace, sweet Agnes’ true love. He is
cavalier and gentleman enough, but he doesn't seem to have as much fun as the rest of the cast.
Director Virgil Bergman deserves much credit for preserving the lustiness of the comedy, and the excellent costuming clearly emphasizes the period.
The set design and construction, not calling for extreme detail, was well-executed.
Thus, and fortunately for sator-ical playwrights, box-office barbs stay sharp with the passing of time.
“School for Wives” is worth seeing. both as a college production and as a rarely staged classic comedy.
Four more performances o f “School for Wives” are scheduled for Bovard, tonight, tomorrow7 night, and Monday and Tuesday evenings of next week. Curtain is at 8:30. Admission is 50 cents or free with activity books.
Today's Schedule
10:00 Start of Taxi day. Taxis will operate between 28th street and 36th street on University avenue, which will be closed to all other traffic.
12:00 Taxis will be judged in front of Bovard.
12:45 Heliocopter will land at Student Union intersection. Free Homecoming editions of Los Angeles Mirror will be distributed.
1:15 Assembling of taxis and cars for downtown parade. Cars will form on west side of University avenue heading south, the lead car at 36th street.
1:45 Motorcade will leave for city hall .
2:25 Official greeting of Queen Charlene Hardey by Mayor Bowron.
2:45 Motorcade will leave the city hall to return to campus.
3:30 Motorcade will disband on 28th street.
4:00 Judging of floats on 28th street.
8:00 Homecoming pre-game rally, Shrine auditorium.
9:30 Deighanite dance in student lounge.
SATURDAY
10:00 Floats move from 28th street down University avenue.
12:00 Floats arrive at Coliseum tunnel entrance.
1:15 Parade of floats in Coliseum.
2:00 Game time.
Courtesy L.A. Daily >iew«
COACH JEFF CRAVATH. whose Trojans will meet Notre Dame in the Coliseum tomorrow, is doffing his hat at that teams' impressive win record. He might be hoping that Coach Frank Leahy will feel obliged to doff his Saturday.
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John Panelli and Right Halfback Emil Sitko.
Panelli has smashed into and through opposing linemen for an average of 8 4 yards per play. He has gained 638 yards the hard way and is a veteran of last year's 38-7 Irish-Trojan debacle in which he plunged for one touchdown.
Sitko, all-American cousin of ex-Irish all-American Steve Sitko, can boast of two touchdowns in the 1947 SC scramble and is one of the leading ground gainers in the nation with 687 yards. He is known as six-yard Sitko to his teammates because of his remarkable propensity for getting at least six yards each time he carries the pigskin.
In 1946. 1947. and 1948 he averaged better than six-vards per play.
BRENNAN STARTS Other members of the Irish starting backfield will be Terence Patrick Brennan, a three year letter- I man who. until this year, was the workhorse of the Notre Dame back- | field and led the team in scoring j for the last two unbeaten seasons, j An almost certain unanimous (Continued on Page 9) |
Bar Boys to Hop At Barrister’s Ball
The School of Law's annual fall dance tonight at the AltadenaTown and Country club will feature double helpings of music, dancing, and refreshments.
The dance is informal, and bids are $3.
Special guests will include faculty and alumni of the School of Law.
Registrars
Notice
Students who expect to complete requirements for Bachelor's Degrees in January. 1949, should check the list posted outside the Registrar's Office in Owens hall.
Office of the Registrar.