MARILYN UNDBERG
BEVERLY McCORMICK
Trovet Living War Memorial contributors reaching 100%:
Alpha Epsilon Phi .......... 100%
Sigma Chi ............................ 100%
Alpha Omicron Pi ................ 100%
Phi Kappa Tau .................... 100%
Kappa Delta ....................... 100%
American Institute of
Engineers ................................100%
Alpha Phi Omega .............. 100%
Phi Kappa Alpha .............. 100%
Pi Lambda Phi ...................... 100%
Minimum of $1 per member equals 100%.
ets Trailing in emorial Donations
Veterans are the big stumbling block in the Trovets’ Living War Memorial drive, which slowed down to a virtual walk yesterday, announced Hal Carter, Trovet president.
“We have been reluctant about placing the blame on Veterans, but continued apathy on their part has forced the --♦ issue,” he said.
[‘Albert Herring"	Proceeds up to 4:30 yesterday |
Vol. XLI
72
Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 6, 1949
No. 60
aies Indicate pera Sellout
by OWEN ANDERSON
Rapid advance-sales of tickets for [the SC Opera Workshop's West kcoast premiere of Benjamin Brit-ken s comic-opera, “Albert Herring.” Indicate that standing-room-only nudierioe* will witness this third an-Inual Festival of Contemporary Arts {feature Dec. 9, 10, 12, and 15.
The popularity of the English Iccmposer's works packed a. predominantly off-campus audience into Jovard auditorium Wednesday eve-ng when Britten directed the SC choral organizations in a perform-ince of his “Saint Nicolas Cantata.”
• Albert Herring’" is librettist Eric 'rozier's adaptation of Guy de Mau-it’s satire, “Le Rosier de Ma-lame Husson.” Crozier, in this idaptation, transferred tihe locale irom Nanterre to Britten's native fcuffok.
SEARCH FOR A QUEEN The opera tells the story of Lox-ord village's search for a virtuous fcirl to be crowned Queen of May. ^fter the disillusioning investigation fias been completed by a busybody laidservant, it is found that the j>nly available virgin is a Mama’s
jy.
Officials of the May day cere-[nonies solve the difficulty by I frowning Albert King of May.
Impressed by this attention as a ke.sult of his variance Irom the lorm, Albert disqualifies himself by lis drunken exploits preceding the fcrowning ceremonies.
COAST PREMIERE Tihe Pacific Coast premiere of the ipera will be directed by Dr. Carl Dbert, head of the SC opera de-jartment. Wolfgang Martin, formerly of the Metropolitan opera, fill conduct the orchestra and play biano accompaniments for the recitatives.
Ebert and Martin produced fAnadne auf Naxos’’ last May. )pera Workshop students Theodore Jppman and Lucine Amara will Iiave starring roles in “Albert Herring.” Both singers were winners of lhe Atwater Kent auditions.
afternoon amounted to a meazly1 $80, he said. The fund totaled $2000 Friday.
“Projects like the Trovet Living j War Memorial are a tremendous i credit to the entire university. If last years receipts, the second largest amount ever collected on this campus, can be exceeded, every SC student should feel proud of his part in the drive,” said Frank O’Sullivan, chairman of the Greater University committee.
“It is very strange that non-vets are contributing more to the fund than vets,” said Carter. “When this idea was first conceived, we intended to include veterans only.”
Norm Evans, donations director, was thoroughly disgusted with veteran apathy. “We have given veterans the opportunity to do something for their buddies who were not as fortunate as themselves, and they have let us down completely,” he said.
Organization support continued to be excellent, with several more groups entering the honor roll. UC has also contributed heavily in the current drive.
“If everybody on campus went without a pack of cigarettes one day and donated to the War Memorial fund instead, we would have $1000,” said Carter.
“Instead of letting “George” do it. you be George for once,” he added.
Barb Lohrmann Chosen Cotton Queen Finalist
Beauteous Barbara Lohrmann, SC's sweetheart queen, has been named first alternate to the California Maid of Cotton Candidate by the State Selection committee Saturday at Fresno.
Miss Lohrmann and the winner,
Estvan to Discuss Teaching Qualities
Discussion of personality traits and scholastic requirements necessary for a teaching career will be led by Dr. Frank J. Estvan. assistant education professor, when he addresses students at 3:15 today in 305 Administration.
The meeting is designed primarily for students who have no definite concept of program requirements for teaching credentials. It is hoped that clarification of the subject will bring many more candidates into the field.
This is another In the "Meet Your Advisor” series which is being sponsored by the LAS Advisory council.
BARBARA LOHRMANN Memphis Bound
a Cal coed, were chosen from 18 entrants from schools throughout the state.
Miss Lohrmann, last year’s Sweetheart of Sigma Chi and LA’s “Sweetest Coed,” will enter the Maid of Cotton finals in Memphis, Tenn., on Jan. 3, 1950. The winner of that contest will go on a worldwide tour as ambassador of the US cotton industry.
Other SC beauties in the Fresno contest were Maxine Ewart, Pi Beta Phi; and Jean Gesford. Alpha Omicron Pi. Miss Lohrmann is an Alpha Gamma Delta.
The National Maid of Cotton last year was a University of California coed.
AOPi Winner at Songfest
by DOLORES DIETRICH	Organizations that gave selections
Alpha Omicron Pi captured first and their songs were Alpha Chi jlace at Songfest last night in Bo- Omega. “Dream Song "; Alpha Del-ird before a packed auditorium ta Pi. “Sorority Blues”; Alpha Epsi-rith their rendition of “AOPi Girl.” Ion Phi, “Through the Years"; Al->nd place went to Pi Beta Phi, i pha Gamma Delta. “Sweetheart of ind third place was taken by Delta Alpha Gam”; Alpha Omicron Pi, slta Delta.	I "AOPi Girl"; Alpha Phi, “Alpha
Honorable mention went to Elis- Phi Sweetheart"; and Chi Omega.
i!beth von KleinSmid hall and ^lpha Chi Omega for their songs.
spirited crowd showed their solid Ipproval of the judges’ choice bjr |Night Song"; Jearly bringing the house down, j This year’s judges were Carl Han-ty, dean of University College;
Geraldine Healy, director of the loral organizations of the Los An-eles public high schools; and Dr.
^eorge H. Watson, professor of phi-jphy. Judging was based on pres-itation. arrangement, and quality id diction.
“Chi O Carol.”
Others were Delta Delta Delta. “TH Delta”; Delta Gamma. “Good Delta Sigma Theta, “T.he Name of Delta"; Delta Zeta. "Remember”; Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall, “Coventry Carol"; Gamma Phi Beta, “Gamma Phi Hymn"; Harris Plaza. “Carol of the Bells”; and Kappa Alpha Theta, “Theta Lips.”
Also singing were Kappa Delta,
"The White Rose Song"; Kappa Kappa Gamma. “Picture There a Kappa Key”; Moreland Hall. “Gesu Bambino"; Pi Beta Phi, “Follow the Arrow’’; Soroptimist hou%e, “O Holy Night”; and Zeta Tau Alpha. “Your Zeta Girl.”
The groups were presented to the audience alphabetically by Rita Marie Kreiziger. AWS president.
General chairman of Songfest was Marilyn Wolf. She was assisted by Tollis Compton, assistant ^social chairman; Ruth Scanlon, auditorium arrangements; Pat O'Bryan, contacts; Joanna Cone and Clarita Stone, decorationns; Evelyn Nelson, invitations; Dorothy Schultz, judges; Carolee Counts, posters; Dolores Elder, program cover; Virginia Palmer, publicity; Carolyn Adams, trophies; and Betty Yarxa, ushers.
Nix Offers Helmet as SC-ND Trophy
Football-player Jack Nix, custodian of the much-talked-about Irish helmet, says he’s willing to offer it up as a permanent trophy to go to the winner of the SC-Notre Dame game.
Rumors about the headgear as a j grid trophy have been running as rampant as the Notre Dame backfield. But there’s no official word on it yet.
Nix says the helmet, worn by Irish halfback Larry Coutre, was given him by an aium who sticky-cfingered it after last week's game in South Bend. On the train back to LA, Teammates Art Battle and Al Cantor suggested making the souvenir a permanent trophy, similar to the famous Oaken Bucket and Victory Bell.
Whether the helmet will become a tradition or whether Nix will keep it may be decided this week.
Indian Tribute Show on Tap
by EDWARD BALKAN
“Red Rhythms,” a program of the Institute of the Arts festival presented by the department of speech, is not the title of a Russian pop tune.
The art festival show, which will take place at 8:30 Thursday evening at Hancock, pays tribute to the North American Indian.
The program will present the poems and legends of America's seldom glorified original habitants.
A cycle of 28 American Indian poems, which relate the love story of an Indian girl, will be read by Rosemaire Poitras.
Miss Poitras, whose Indian name is Mahaska (White Swan), was born and raised on the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian reservation in South Dakota. She is an English-Speech senior. She intends to teaoh in a government Indian school.
“The Feast of the Virgins,” a poetical legend of the Sioux, and “Pokey,” the legend of an amorous Indian, round out the show.
Joe Flynn, performer on KTLA television, is master of ceremonies.
The festival is held every fall bi the six departments of the Institute of the Arts to show the creative efforts of the departments.
Education
Notice
All University offices will be closed from Friday noon until Tuesday morning (Dec. 23 through 26), and from Friday noon until Tuesday morning (Dec. 30 through Jan. 2).
A. S. Reubenheimer Educational Vice-President
Luckey to Tell How Census Will Help State
How the tremendous growth of California’s population will increase representation in Congress next year and make California more powerful will be described tomorrow by E. George Luckey, vice-chairman of the California Democratic committee.
Luckey will speak on the LAS j Wednesday lecture program at 3:15 j p.m. in the art and lecture room | of University library. “The Shift of Power to California,” will be the title of his non-partisan talk.
Next year’s census will show that j California is the second largest state in the nation, Luckey said, and will increase California’s representation in the House of Representatives from 23 to 32 or 33.
With two senators, California ; will have 34 or 35 votes in the el- { ectoral college and “will be a power to be reckoned with,” Luckey con- j tends.
The govemership of California will become an important future stepping-stone to the U.S: presi- | dency, Luckey said, just as
KATHLEEN SCHIESS
PATRICIA SPENCER
SALLY TRAX
Sigma Chi Sweetheart Title Sought by 20
. . She’s the girl of my dreams. She’s the Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.”
Twenty campus beauties begin a week-long competition tonight to decide who is to be the “Sweetheart of Sigma Chi. The winner will reign at the fraternity’s annual formal dance to be held in the Palm room of the Miramar hotel Saturday evening.
The contestants will be judged tonight and Wednesday by Sigma Chi members on a
-*—■—--K secret eight-point system. Ten of
m	the 20 will return home Thursday
Lurene Tuttle to Give Radio ActingTechnique
The advantages of creating a i by the Southern California chap-
complete character for radio plays, rather than just a voice character, will be discussed in a lecture to-the , night at 7:30 in 145 Hancock hall,
ter of the Association for Education by Radio and the SC radio department.
Admission is free.
governorship of New York has j The lecture will be given by Lu-proved in the past.	j rene Tuttle, radio actress and
Luckey, personal friend of Pres- ! instructor in radio acting, as part ident Truman, has in common with 0f the Festival of Contemporary the Chief Executive the fact thaf Arts.
both were in the haberdashery	j^r students will partici-
business years ago Mr. Truman in pate jn a demonstration of radio Missouri, and Luckey in Colton,
Calif. The President went broke, and Luckey practically did, he admits.
Coming to California when he was 16, Luckey later succeeded in the ranching and cattle business at Brawley, he said.
“If you have nerve and insides you can be a success in California,” he said.
Luckey served in World War I and was a State Senator four years.
Co-op to Discuss Low-Cost Housing
Room and board on campus for $45 a month!
That is the goal of the SO Student cooperative, and ways to reach it will be discussed at a meeting in the basement of the University Methodist church at 7 tonight.
“Many students are forced to live in private dwellings where the cost is far out of line with the quality of the living facilities provided.” George Holgate. co-op president, said yesterday in a campus interview.
“Both UCLA and Cal have good housing cooperatives.” he said. “If all students who want to lower living costs will attend this meeting, we can have the same thing here. With th* proper support,” he said, “we should be able to open our first units in January.”
Henry Zahner, co-op treasurer, is chairman of the housing drive. He will conduct tonight’s discussion and work with the group on plans for the drive.
Other student co-op officers are Carl Peltz, vice-president, and Manfto Roy, secretary.
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broadcasting technique. Graduate student Bill Hines will direct a group of students in an unrehearsed reading of a script and then illustrate how it would be done on a broadcast.
Miss Tuttle, whose first radio assignment was in the old “Hollywood Hotel” series, starring Dick Powell, is currently best known to radio audiences as Effie on the “Sam Spade” program.
Her favorite role on the program, she says, is not Effie, but Spade’s talkative landlady.
Miss Tuttle made her screen de-, but in 1947 in "Heaven Only Knows,” with Robert Cummings and Brian Donlevy.
Her lecture tonight is sponsored
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Cuties and Candies At Noon Today
Today, for you, for free: a smile, some candy, and perhaps a song.
A carload of feminity will come down University avenue at noon, dispensing peppermint-striped candy canes to all Trojans giving the ign of the out-stretched pplm.
It’s all part of the advance ballyhoo for the URA dance, the Candy Cane Capers, Saturday, 9 to 12 p.m. in the student lounge.
Rumor has it that a bevy of Swim club lovelies has spent many grueling hours on its theme song, “If You Think Candy’s Sweet. There’s Some Gals You’ve Got to Meet—Namely, Us.” in preparation for its candy-giving tour of the campus.
Dance tickets, priced at 50 cents, will go on sale today. They may be purchased at a booth in front of the Student Union or at the dance.
Dance Club To Give Show
There’ll be dancin’ girls and guys in the Physical Education building at 8:15 Friday night when the dance club presents an admis-sion-free terpsichorean session.
Director Lois Ellenfeldt promises that Marie Johnson's bit as an artist's mental creation will “chill a timid audience.”
Miss Johnson is paired with Edward Earle in “Fireworks,” a psy-• chological study of a crazed artist struggling with his thoughts. The artist is raunted by the objects of his imagination until he brings them to life.
Earle was recently cast in Crescent theater’s campus pesentation i of “The Little Foxes.”
Other dances will be “Bedtime Story With a Moral"; “Lonely Pillar”; "Hanging of an Innocent Man"; “Rufus-Rastus”; “Pilgrim of Sorrow"; “Kleptos"; and “Dancc of Triumph.” These titles will be acted out by Ross Brow-n, Kaliope Candianides, Ralph Oliver, Dick Shackleton, Martha Strout, and Dorothy McKenna.
Dr. Eilenfeldt will open the show with a lecture and demonstration.
when the field will be reduced to five. Final selection will be made Friday.
* Identity of the “Sweetheart of Sigma Chi” will remain secret until the night of the dance, when Ed Ellis, fraternity president, wiU reveal the winner and her two attendants.
Barbara Lohrman, Alpha Gamma Delta, reigned over the fraternity last year. Her two attendants were Jean Danforth, Delta Delta Delta, and Betty Knight, Kappa Kappa Gamma.
The women will wear formals tonight and date dresses tomorrow evening. Chancellor Rufus vrtn KleinSmid will be tonight's honored guest. Favors will be presented to the contestants at each meeting.
The 20 contestants, selected from sorority houses and resident halls on campus, are Barbara Roberts, Alpha Chi Omega; Carolyn Cohrt,
I Alpha Delta Pi; Elaine Levy, Al-! pha Epsilon Phi; Sally Trax, Alpha Gamma Delta.
Randy Allen, Alpha Omicron Pi;
' Helen Harker, Alpha Phi; Deidre Broughton. Chi Omega: Marylin Lindberg, Delta Delta Delta; Joann Clare. Delta Gamma; Barbara Merrill, Delta Zeta: Kathleen Schiess, Gamma Phi Beta; Joan Crockett, Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Marjorie Robertson, Kappa Alpha Theta: Patricia Spencer, Kappa Delta: Colleen Moran, Phi Mu; Raliegh Minter, Phi Sigma Sigma; Maxine Ewart, Pi Beta Phi; Beverly McCormick, Zeta Tau Alpha; Anne Kelly, EVK hall; and Doris Bonham, Harris plaza. Willard hall has no contestant.
Honor Roll
Pianist Strasburg Performs Tonight
The School of Music will present Richard Strasburg in a graduate piano recital at 8:30 tonight in Hancock auditorium.
Strasburg, a student of John Crown, was heard in a recent Music at Noon program when he played selections from the works of Debussy. He transferred to SC from the Oberlin conservatory.
His program will include:
Sonata in A Minor, K. 310, Mozart: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24. Brahms: "La Terrasse des Audiences au Claire de Lune.” “Soiree dans Grenade.” and “L'lle Joyeuse,” Debussy; and Sonata No. 3, Op. 28, Proko-fieff.
RANDY ALLEN
ANNE KELLY
ELAINE LEVY
BARBARA MERRILL
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JOANN CLARE
MAXINE EWART
HELEN HARKER
DEIDRE BROUGHTON
CAROLYN COHRT
BARBARA ROBERTS
MARJORIE ROBERTSON