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Vol. XLI	72 Los Angeles, Calif., Wednesday, May 17, 1950 No. 138
ENTIRE CAST of tonight's opening performance of the workshop opera, "Don Pasquale, is shown above in a final dress rehearsal. Tickets are still available for tonight's, Friday's,
and Saturday's Bovard presentations.
|Comic Opera, Don Pasquale/ Begins Run in Bovard Tonight
The curtain rises tonight at 8:30 }n Bovard on SC’s biggest theatrical >ffering of the year, the English-bcored version of the comic opera. 'Don Pasquale."
According to Bob. Hermann, assistant to Director Carl Ebert, ticket sales have been brisk. Although all top-priced tickets have ^een taken, there are still good ;ats left. There was a quick re-
Ipons^ by off-campus people who aw Eberfs previous offerings here, irhich were described by local and )ut-of-town critics as at least as food as any operatic offering on ,he West Coast.
Everything about the production. |vhiah lias an expense approaching J, is professional, from the sets to the chorus. Lun^e Amara of the ;horus recently signed a contract ;ith the Metropolitan- Opera com-
pany. Another of the chorus. Pat Brinton. sang the lead in the Workshop production of “Ariadne’’ last spring.
SINGS WITH SPARK
If Marni Nixon, one of the principals, sings tonight with a little extra spark to her already sparkling soprano, it may be due to the fact that she just this week sang her way to the finals of the Atwater Kent auditions. She is one of five finalists from a field of more than 3400 from all over the U.S. This assures her of at least a $1000 prize, and a possible $2000. She will be heard over a national network in the finals Saturday and Sunda>.
In spite of the confining dimensions of Bovard’s stage, the sets, according to Hermann, who has seen opera here and abroad, will be i as good as they come. Ebert has
tried to keep them from being too realistic in the interest of art.
Ebert, an artistic perfectionist, stayed up one night this week until 5 a.m. just shifting the 21 spotlights to his satisfaction.
SHOW IMPROVEMENT
In spite of the weather and all-night rehearsals, there are no sore throats or colds in either of the two casts. Ebert and Conductor Wolfgang Martin said that singers and musicians have showed amazing improvement during the last week.
Tickets may be bought at the I ticket, office on the second floor of the Student Union for tonight. Fri i days or Saturdays performance. Those having student body books can have free admittance to the second balcony. After the first act these persons may move to any vacant seats.
No Charge, Maybe
Student Parking Area Planned for Expo Park
More parking space will be available to fall semester students according to officials of the Sixth District Agriculture association.
State architects are currently drafting plans to convert part of Exposition park into a blacktopped parking area, that will be available to students about Sept. j 15.
The area to be converted is im-Imediately north and south of the intersection of Figueroa street and the North and South Coliseum drives. A state official said that he hoped the work would be start-I ed within a month and would be I completed by the beginning of the I fall semester.
Whether or not a charge will be made to students is still undecided, according to the official. He added that SC students will get “every sympathetic consideration"
because of their conjested parking problem.
Entrances will be located on Figueroa street and on both Coliseum drives.
IFC Dance Bids |Sell Till Friday
Three days are left to purchase Ibids for the annual Interfratemity council dance Friday night. 9 to 1. 1 at the Florentine Gardens.
‘ Because of the railroad strike the bids were held up in New Jer-I sey and didn't go on sale until yesterday." said Gene Royer, dance chairman. The bids are $2.50.
David Rose, music director on the Red Skelton show and composer of “Holiday for Strings." will play.
20 Counselors Needed to Staff Troy Camp
Jordan Sutherland. Troy camp co- j chairman, issued an urgent appeal for 20 men counselors for this year's outing of underprivileged children. I
Troy camp will provide a summer vacation for more than 200 youngsters if enough camp counselors can be recruited at SC. Sutherland said.
Students interested in working for one or both camp sessions may attend tomorrow's meeting in 401 Student Union, Sutherland said. The sessions are Aug. 21-30 and Aug. 30-Sept. 8.
According to the camp schedule, each counselor will take charge of seven boys. A knowledge of handicrafts, swimming, and boating is helpful, but not necessary, Sutherland said.
Sutherland added that applicants can either attend tomorrow’s meeting or call him at the Kappa Alpha fraternity house. PRospect 79397.
Today s Headlines
by UNITED PRESS
Labor Boss Urges Holy Crusade
CLEVELAND, May 16—CIO President Philip Murray urged all organized labor today to start a “Holy Crusade” to defeat the Taft-Hartley law and “elect men who will enact civil rights legislation.”
Will Discuss Russ Complaint
| TEHERAN. Iran, May 16—A special cabinet meeting was called tonight to discuss a Russian complaint—which officials called completely without foundation—that Americans lin the frontier area were taking aerial photograpns of So-|viet territory.
!rime Commission Fingers Hoods
SACRAMENTO. May 16—Crime commission accusations lat racketeers and hoodlums are infiltrating the California „tjuor industry will be presented to the State Board of Squalization at its regular meeting Thursday, board officials said today.
Card Players Ousted Today For Reception
The student lounge in the Siudent Union will be closed this afternoon from 1:30 to 5:30 because a reception being given for students a w ar d e d University scholarships.
The scholarship winners will be the guests of Dr. Hugh C. Willett, director of admissions and registration; Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer, educational vice-president; and Dr. Bernard L. Hyink, dean of students.
Job Openings
Interviews
Scheduled
Job interviews for students have been scheduled for this week by the bureau of employment.
Salesmen will be sought by the Vick Chemical company today at at 9 a.m. when Louis J. Velte Jr. interviews campus job seekers.
Thomas A. Carruth, supervisor, will interview men interested in sales positions with the John W. Yates agency of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance company tomorrow.
The Pacific Coast representative of the Owens-Illinois Glass company will interview industrial engineers tomorrow for work at Corona. 50 miles from Los Angeles, in sand plant operations there.
SC coeds will be interviewed Friday when a United Airlines representative visits campus to seek women for positions as airline stewardesses.
Students interested in the job interviews may contact the bureau of employment, 321 Student Union.
Prizes Sought By 17 Groups
Seventeen fraternities have entered the annual IFC songfest, Chairman Jack Colton announced yesterday.
Tlie competition, to be held in Bovard auditorium Monday at 7 p.m., is open only to fraternity choral groups.
Each entry is limited to a minimum of nine and a maximum of 15 men. The winners in each section will receive identical trophies.
Grads to See UP President Dedicate Hall
Parades, movies, lectures, grand opera, and the dedication of SC’s newest classroom building will mark the annual Alumni Day Saturday, May 20.
Hugh Baillie, president of th^ United Press, will be the day’s featured speaker. Baillie will fly from New York to dedicate the new million-dollar Founders hall on University avenue.
President Fagg will welcome alumni. Gwynn Wilson, president of the General Alumni association, wili give the alumni report.
FULL DAY PLANNED Bernard Brennan, Alumni day chairman, Arnold Eddy, executive director of the Alumni association, and a committee of 14 men and women have completed plans to fill every minute from the first 9:30 a.m. assembly to the performance of the comic opera. “Don Pasquale'’ in Bovard auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
The campus Naval Reserve Offi-cers Training corps will observe the first annual nation-wide Armed Forces day at 11 a.m. on Bovard field with a final dress parade of midshipmen. The presentation of eight awards to outstanding student officers also will be made.
NROTC OPEN HOUSE Open house will be held in Howard J. Callanan Jr. hall, the new NROTC armory, from 1 to 4 p.m.
Also at 11 a.m., a series of lectures and symposiums will be held for graduates of various schools.
Alumni of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences will hear a panel discussion on atomic energy to be given by Dr. Arthur W. Adamson, professor of chemistry', and four physics professors, Drs. Edward Gerjuoy, Otto Halpern, Chester M. Van Atta, and Harvey Hall. PSYCHOLOGISTS TO SPEAK Psychologists Neil D. Warren, William W. Grings, Floyd L. Ruch, and James C. Coleman wiil discuss trends in their profession.
A film on the new abrasive technique which eliminates the conventional drill will be shown to dentists for the first time locally by Drs. Francis Conley and Rex Ingraham. Dr. William Schmitz, San Marino, will lecture on a new vacuum method of dental casting.
Jay Davis Conner, associate state superintendent of public instruction, will come from Sacramento to speak on “Why a Framework for Public Education in California.’’
Social workers will hear John O. Milner, assistant professor of sociology, speak on “Some Determinants in the Differential Treatment of Adolescents.”
"Business Prospects for the Fifties’’ will be discussed by five professors in the School of Commerce.
HALE COURT TRIALS Two senior law students, Morris 1 Sankary and Edward Sanders, will make their final arguments in the Hale court competition, a mock appellate court, before a panel of California judges.
Pharmacists will hear George B. Griffenhagen, lecturer in pharmacy, speak on the history of the profession in California from the native medicine men through the tent apothecary shops of the gold rush to today's specialized prescription.
“What's New in Speech, Radio, and Drama,’’ will be presented by Milton Dickens, William B. McCoard, Alan Nichols, and Lee E. Travis, all of the speech faculty; William Sener, director of radio stations KTRU, KUSC; and James Butler and William C. de Mille. both of drama.
MUSIC DISCUSSIONS “Music Criticism” will be presented for music alumni by John Crown, a performer; Halsey Stevens, a composer; critics Dr. Pauline Alderman and Dr. Raymond Kendall. Dr. Kendall is director of the School of Music. Eric Clark, former secretary of the Metropolitan Opera company, also will participate.
13,000 Expected
For Summer Term
by ED BALKAN
Helen Gahagan Douglas, candidate for the U.S. Senate, got a seltzer water and hay reception from the Skull and Dagger society yesterday at noon as she tried to deliver a political address on the street in front of University library. The action was followed by immediate campus-wide
i ^.criticism from students, faculty, and administration.
The society was initiating new members from the top of a hay truck on University avenue, and their “ceremonies” reached a low in bad taste.
They doused Mrs. Douglas with water and hay. shouted and ranted when she tried to speak, and one
More than 13,000 students are ex-! pected to attend the 6-week and 10-week Summer Sessions begin-: ning June 26, and the four-weeks ; postsession beginning August 7. j Top educators from 40 leading uni-: versities throughout the country will fill faculty positions.
A world-famed Hungarian quar-| tet will play all the string quartets of Beis, Bartok as illustrative material for music 474 during the six-weeks session.
SERIES OF WORKSHIPS Dr. Ned Bingham, associate professor of education at Northwestern university, will conduct a series of workshops on the teaching of science in elementary school, high school, and junior college.
Other special features of the 1950 Summer Session include a graduate professional program for teaching industrial arts, an intercultural education workshop stressing Mexican American relations, workshops in polio for physical therapy gradu-
ates, workshops in library science, and workshops in teaching college English.
DIRECTED TEACHING Education majors will be offered observation and directed teaching in 32nd Street elementary school and Manual Arts high school.
Prominent professors coming to SC include Dr. Lennox Grey, head cf the department of foreign languages and English at Teachers college. Columbia university; Dr. Frank W. Hart, authority on educational administration at the University of California; Dr. Howard M. Ehr-i mann. University of Michigan; and Dr. Earl Kup. curator of the prints division. New York public library.
Others are D. Geoge P. Conger, chairman of the department of philosophy, University of Minnesota; Dr. Willie E. Dugan, director of student personnel at the University of Minnesota; and Dr. James S. McManaway, of the Folger Shakespeare library, Washington. D.C.
Morning Exercise
Change Graduation Procedure
Graduation procedure will be changed this semester at SC.
In the past, commencement exercises were held in the afternoon. They took place in Doheny park, and students wore hoods.
This year the June 17 exercises will take place at 10:30 in the morning at the Coliseum. Only those receiving master of arts or doctoral degrees will wear hoods.
These changes were learned yesterday when William R. LaPorte. commencement marshall, released a schedule of events in preparation
for commencement day exercises.
The custom of having school receptions following the exercises will not be changed, LaPorte said. Deans and faculties of the several schools will receive candidates and their families at informal receptions following the exercises, he said.
In contrast to past commencements held in the Coliseum, LaPorte said, candidates this year will avoid the descent from the Peristyle at the east end of the Coliseum. They will descend from tunnels at the north and south side.
LaPorte said there are more than 6000 candidates eligible for degrees at this commencement. However, only about 4800 are expected to attend the exercise,he added.
LaPorte also said that measur g for academic gowns began this week and will extend through May 27. Measuring will take place in the A special block of tickets is be- Ticket and Service office. 3522 ing held for School of Commerce University avenue, from 9 a.m. unseniors who wish to attend the til 5 p.m. Gowns may be picked up commerce banquet but have not June 15 to 17.
yet purchased tickets, according to !-
a commerce representative.
The tickets may be obtained in the commerce office above the post office. Price is $2.25.
“The tickets are being held to accommodate commerce seniors, as we believe it is to their advan-
HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS Doused
The following telegram was sent yesterday to Congresswoman Douglas by President Fred D. Fagg Jr.:
The University greatly regret* the ill-mannered actions of a few of its students who disrupted your meeting today on the public street adjacent to the campus. This initiation prank was unpremeditated but went beyond the bounds of gentlemanly conduct.
Fred D. Fagg Jr.
President of the University of Southern California.
Commerce Banquet
Tickets Held For Seniors
Crew Smoker To Include Coeds Tonight
Crew week events kick off tonight when a . combined YMCA-YWCA smoker gets under way in the student lounge at 8.
Women have been invited for the first time to the smoker to meet Crew Coach Bob Hillen and team members who will be present to meet students and answer questions in a panel discussion. Movies of the crew in action will be shown.
Second event will be a dinner tomorrow night at 6 at the Phi Gamma Delta house for students and alumni. A half-hour program highlighting the dancing of Jack Colton and the skits of the Trojanality show cast will be presented.
Roundup event is the Saturday “Derby Day Cavalcade” in Wilmington. First to be presented by Congresswoman Douglas. However, the association, the outing will fea- j decided the immediate responsi-ture an alumni \ersus varsity race ,	f0r student body expression
at 2:30. Campus groups will leave 0f regret rested with me. from Bovard at 11 a.m. and food
member of the hay-slinging group, Stan Christie, scuffed with an unidentified student in the listening crowd.
“I didn't mind the shower at bit,” Miss Douglas said after the seltzer and .hay barrage. “I only wish I had had something to squirt back.”
George Prusseli, Trojan Knight president and winner of the YMCA award as “an outstanding champion of Christian ideals," was the only initiate, of those questioned, who admitted taking part in the action.
WAS KEYED UP
Prusseli said he was keyed up with "initiation excitement’’ and joined the “hay-and-seltaer water party” without thinking of the seriousness of the situation.
The Knight president said he would apologize to Mrs. Douglas for his part in the regrettable affair.
ASSC President Bob Padgett said yesterday, “I am glad now that I did not accept t.he bid to Join Skull and Dagger.
“I first considered calling a special Senate meeting to ask that the group offer its apologies to
tage to attend tne banquet,” said a commerce representative. “Many prominent businessmen will be at j the banquet, and valuable contacts may be established between the students and these men.”
The banquet is an annual affair • sponsored by the School of Com- | merce which brings together commerce students, alumni, and prominent Southland businessmen. The banquet will be held in the i Foyer of Town and Gown Friday at 6:30 p.m.
Special guests will be Claude Adams Putnam, president of the NAM. and Ruth Batkus, commerce senior recently chosen “Better Business Girl” by Alpha Kappa Psi, national commerce fraternity.
and refreshments will be provided for $1 at the Coast Guard boai-house. Tickets for the jaunt still are available in front of Bovard.
Through sponsorship of the events during the week, the association hopes to collect a $1000 fund to buy equipment. The one shell SC now owns was given to the association by the University of California.
The narrow 60-foot shell, on dis-
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OFFERS APOLOGIES
“I shall offer the apologies of the entire student body to Mrs. Douglas and hope she understands that the childish actions of this group are not representative of the thousands of fine Trojans.
“It is regrettable that the members of one of the supposedly highest honoraries have brought such disgrace on the university.” George Woolery, LAS president and one of theose being initiated, said he did not think there was a ringleader in the action. He considered the incident regrettable.
“I shall personally offer my apologies to Mrs. Douglas, regardless of how Skull and Dagger feels,” he said.
Mrs. Douglas, after removing her
A mouse will chase an animated soSed coat’ fmally started w talk-
. The congresswoman teed off on cheese down a two-story slide into ^ Communistic theme
Delta Tau Delta s annual Mardi “\v> can keep Communism out of Gras party at the Delta house Fri- this Country,” she said, “by provid-day 8 to midnight.	j ^8 J°bs for the unemployed and
; assistance for th? needy.
Other costumed party-goers will. we d0 ^ Communism „m
also enter down the 160-degree slide .iose jts appeal for the under-onto a “wharf.” Docked at the privileged groups.
“wharf” will be the Delt Show “This nation cannot go forward
if every progressive measure introduced in the Congress is stifled with cries of Communism,” she continued.
BOOS AND CHEERS The voters must make a choice—
CLAUDE A. PUTNAM Will Speak
Boat.
Ta.; Firehouse Five Plus Two will play on a platform representing a firehouse on the show boat.
A prize will be given for the most unusual costume. Costumes will be chosen from periods of American [ for 01 against the principles of the history.	80th Congress, Mrs. Douglas said.
_j Her address was punctuated with
j boos and cheers from the noisy crowd that surrounded her speech - trailer.
. . . new members will meet at 3:30 “I don't know what I was p.m. today at the Pi Beta Phi squirted with.” she said, “but I house.	hope it wasn’t beer—I hate beer.”
Mortar Board
Official
Notice
In observance of the Memorial Day holiday, classes will not meet Monday, May 29, and Tuesday, May 30.
All university offices will be closed May 30.
A. S. Raubenheimer.
Educational vice-president.
Library Hosts Uninvited Baby
If you’ve ever heard anyone say, “you can find it in the library," you will know now that it is true.
Yesterday a 15-month'-old Negro baby was fourd in the women's lounge in the library basement.
The baby, which was reunited with its mother yesterday afternoon, 'belongs to SC student Mrs. Thelma Rucker, according to University station police.
Mrs. Ruckertold the police that she usually brings her baby tc school every day and leaves it with a woman at 38th and Hope streets. Yesterday her car broke down, she said, and in a hurry to get to class she left the baby asleep in the lounge a little after 8 a.m.
Library attendants, discovering the baby four hours later, were unable to obtain any information concern-
ing the infant, and called the police.
A policewoman took the baby to University station about 2 p.m. Ten minutes later, Mrs. Rucker came in and claimed the child.
She said then that she had left | the baby in the lounge while she went to class and had just returned j to the library to get it, where she ■ was informed that it had been ' taken to the police station.