MOONLIGHT’ OPENS TONIGHT
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Summer News
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72 LOS ANGELES. CALIF.. THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1949 No, 12
ear-Old Tot lown to NY
or Operation
by Cliff Dektar
Little Johnny Haynie is in New rk today preparing for what ay be the biggest day of his ung life.
'ou see, Johnny has been blind ce birth and he has t^een flown New York where a world-fa-us eye surgeon will examine to see if a delicate operation ^ild give him sight.
Funds for one-year-old John’s long flight with his mother re collected by the Los Angeles rror in a special drive. The er has collected more than )00 for the tot already and trbutions are still being acted.
hnny’s mother lives in a small iler in Bell Gardens and the for her and her blind baby Id never have been possible hout the contributions of hun-ds of generous Angelenos.
T?e Mirror is still accepting ations in any amount. Con-utors shduld address their do-
ions to the Johnny Haynie forms in writing, contrary to d, the Mirror, Los Angeles 53. opinion of many critics.
Davis to Play Return Dance
The curtain will fall on Summer Session social activities tomorrow night in the Student Union lounge when students, faculty and friends dance to the orchestrations of Jimmy Davis and his band.
Admission to the dance, which starts at 9 and ends
at 12, is 60 cents per person.
Vallee, Scott Cast In Starring Roles
“Mrs. Moonlight,” summer production of the drama department, opens tonight in Bovard auditorium for a three-day run. Curtain time is set for 8:30.
Mary Vallee, well-known for her performances in “Pygmalion” and ‘‘The Late Christopher Bean,” wiJl play the part of Mrs. Moonlight, who -
wishes for a “fountain ot youth” formula
Mr. Moonlight will be portrayed
d
Gerber Offers Twain Speech
Mark Twain's artful artlessness will be the subject of the Eng lish department’s fifth lecture in the current series this afternoon 3:15, in the art and lecture room of Doheny library.
John C. Gerber, associate professor of English and chairman of the communication skills courses at the State University o Iowa, will be the speaker.
Professor Gerber said in an interview yesterday that he vwil attempt to show that Mark Twain had control of literary and artfu
ducation Conferees o Hold Last Meet
ait of a series of three school iinict ration-supervision confer-es sponsored by the School of cation will be held on campus orrow, winding up the 10th r that such meetings have en place during the Summer sini:.
Two speakers will be heard ing the morning in Hancock iitorium. Arthur F. Corey, ex-tive secretary of the California chers association, San Fran-0, will speak at 9:30 on “The ificance of New Legislation
oir to Sing Noon Music
he A Capella choir, directed rof. Max T. Krone, will pre-the music at noon program y, 12:15, in Hancock audi-m. The program in four is a repeat performance of one given last Sunday at iid music camp.
ene Wilcoxson, violinist, will •evented in a graduate retonight, 8:30, in Hancock :ium. The program will inpieces from Schumann, awski, and Ravel. Jack Cros-:11 be the accompanist.
acuity music concert will be Sunday night in Hancock t 8:30. Featured will piano; Glenn xander Murray, n De’ak, cello, en, Rozsa, and ayed.
Affecting California Schools.” Discussion will be led by Dr. Lionel D. DeSilva, executive secretary, southern section, California Teachers association.
Dr. Edgar E. Fuller, executive secretary of the National Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington, D. C., will speak at 10:45 on “Issues in Federal Legislation Affecting Education.” Dr. Fuller is a member of the Summer Session faculty. School Superintendent Nolan D. Pulliam, Redlands, will lead discussion.
At a noon luncheon in the Student Urn on grill, Frank M. Wright, associate state superintendent of public instruction, will speak on “New Provisions for Financing California Schools.” Wright is also on th? faculty this summer. Harry M. Howell, assistant superintendent of Los Angeles city school*, will be the discussion leader
Presiding will be Dr. D. Lloyd Nelson, associate professor of educational administration.
Registrar's
Noticc
Tomorrow is the last day to drop a 6-weeks course with a “W” if the work is passing. After July 22, no 6-week courses may be dropped.
Howard D. Patmore, Registrar.
Cokes and cookies will be available for refreshment. Dress for the evening is sport.
As an added attraction, the Moonmists, a vocal quintet, will be on hand to do some singing. The group has entertained on television, radio, and in nightclubs.
Davis will present music styled in the manner made famous by the late Glenn Miller Fox trots, waltzes, rhumbas, and sambas will be played. Requests will be honored.
Davis and his orchestra have played at the Catalina Casino, and for many international service organizations
Davis comes back to the SC campus by popular demand or students who attended the all-U dance July 8.
The University Recreation association is sponsoring the all-U dance once more. According to Chairman Alexander Aloia, surprises are in store for those who attend the dance. Students may come stag or with dates
MARY VALLEE . moonmad
by Dan Simon Scott, who appeared with the American Repertory theater last season. Jan# Moonlight, the daughter, will be played by Charlene Hardey, who has acted in several experimental theater productions of the drama department.
Other members of the cast include Adele Cook, Violet Muse, Tom Burdick, Larry Harmon, Bruce Savan, and Barbara Mur-phy.
The three-act play, by Benn W. Levy, follows the Moonlight family through three generations of aging. Time races from 1880 tc 1928. The plot revolves around the fears of Mrs. Moonlight, who is afiaid of losing her youthful beauty and in turn, her husband. Her v/iLh to stay forever younj provides some interesting experiences.
Tickets lor the production can be purchased at the university ticket office for 50 cents. Tickets will also be available at the door.
Forum Discusses Civil Rights Law
I2G on Campus
A final count on Summer Session enrollment showed a total of 12,379 students on campus, Registrar Howard W. Patmore said Tuesday.
Eight hundred new students are expected for the four-week post-session beginning August 1. he said.
The international Covenant on Human Rights being drafted . by the United Nations should be enacted into law to help keep world peace, v. forum audience at the Schooi of Law heard last night.
In contrast another speaker said tre proposed document is an attempt to effect a revolutionary change in international law.
James Simsarian, state department adviser to Mrs. Eleanoi Roosovflt, US representative on the UN Human Rights commission, defended the covenant. Dr. Carl-Christol Jr., visiting associate professor of political science, opposea it.
The covenant, similar to the Bill cf Rights in the US Constitution, would guarantee on an
Fighting Time Pandit Says
India is in the headlong rush of a two-year-old nation trying to catch up with the rest of the world, said Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, India’s first ambassador to the United States, in an address in Bovard auditorium Monday.
Half the population must be taught to read and write in the next 10 years—the standard of iving must be raised—agriculture must be improved, she explained.
“India has something to give its neighbors that can’t be long delayed,” she said. “Time is against us.”
“A set of threatening circumstances is developing in Asia. India is the only eastern nation with a stable government and a background of democratic processes. India can become a powerful force for stability and peace in the world because of its strategic location.”
Former ambassador to Russia, Mme. Pandit was obviously referring to the Soviet Union, although she did not mention it by name.
“As the world grows closer together,” she said, “men’s minds seem to grow farther apart. The path of war has been tried and failed. Wars solve no problems, but only create them. India is staying out of power politics so as to have strength to work for peace.”
Freedom came suddenly to India on Aug. 15, 1947, Mme. Pandit said.
In a country where the literacy rate is so low she is “ashamed to mention it,” a 10-year mass education program has been launched to teach half the population to read and write.
The average life span of only 27 years in India, as compared with 62 in the United States, poses a serious challenge to the nation to improve the standard of living, she said.
It is not enough just to give the people medical care and better sanitation, she said. They must first get enough to eat. And to do that, India must produce more food itself instead of depending on imports, the ambassador said.
international basis the right to life, protection against torture, slavery, and forced labor, arbitrary arrest or detention, and freedom of movement and residence and freedom of religion, assembly, and association,
Th? American Bar association’s belief ihat the covenant would “maue individuals rather than states rhe subject of international contra!’ was outlined by Dr, Christ'jl.
“Theie is a feeling on the part of the association that the UN Human Rights program will effect a profound alteration in the American constitutional system," he said. “Through treaties the federal government might be given powers not enumerated in the Constitution. A serious unbalance between the powers of the federal and state governments might result.”
He pleaded for more time and study by all nations “in an effort to understand all the implications in the UN Human Rights program.”
Dr. Hugh M. Tiner, president of Pepperdine college and president of the Southern California council for UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural organization, presided.
Graduate
Notice
Tuesday, July 26, is the final day to present to the dean of the graduate school petition for admission to candidacy for the master's degree (Jan. 1950) on basis of:
(a) a satisfactory score in the graduate record examination and
(b) satisfactory thesis outline and bibliography.
This petition must be endorsed by the student’s chief adviser.
Emory S. Bogardus, Dean, Graduate School
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