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AND ANOTHER INJURY HITS TROJANS’
eff Cravath, Squad ill Greet Rooters
Martial rhythm of the SC band will call all Trojan root-rs to the “down-to-earth” pre-UCLA rally at noon today meet Jeff Cravath, the football team and the coaching Lff in front of Phelps Terkel.
An SC band member is being selected for a surprise to-
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rrow wher he will be presented *-the Squire plaque as a part Lhe rally program, according to ; jlicity Director Ron Gordon. Members of the football team j be interviewed by Prank Bull, rts comrmnHtor. George Davis, editor of the Los Angeles lald-Expre:.s, will review past [UCLA tangles.
lhe band will form in front of Student Union and march to stand in front of Phelps Ter-where cheer leader Tom Shea his boys will be organizing the |
I jan spirit.
[he Row v.as beating the drums a record turnout yesterday pn the decision was made to |tpone all house lunches until p.m. to allow members to at-b the rail}.
fhe area around the rally plat-will be roped off to provide iding room for the rooters, and Jfic on 34th and 35th streets be halted during the program.
|he whole rally crew of the Tro-Knights will be on hand be-of the expected crowd.
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Sendoff Rally Slated Today To Prep Trojan Team Spirit
“Everybody be there. Everybody yell there. Everybody with pep there. Let’s send ’em in to win.”
That’s the spirit which will prevail at the special pep rally to be held at 5 p.m. today in front of the PE building to let the team know the student body is really back-them.
The 20 minutes of pep were planned by Dick Tudor to give the SC team a special sendoff to their hotel where they will spend the night. An enthusiastic demonstration will show them them the spirit. They’ll find the way, said the rally promoter.
The SC band and the yell leaders will be there to channel the enthusiasm of the rooters, said Tudor. The yells and songs will leave no doubt in the minds of the players that all SC is behind them, he said.
Tudor indicated that SC needs to let the team know that they are “our” team and that the Trojans are wholeheartedly behind them. “We hope everybody will be on hand to root for the team,” he said.
This rally is a special one for the team, and is not connected with the student rally at noon today.
riendly Farce s Frankly Funny
by JOE DIGLES
A seating arrangement that puts the audience on the age. a joke-packed script, and excellent casting make “The ilky Way,” a light farce now running in the Student lounge, pleasant two hours of entertainment.
Producer-director Stan Palmer’s method of presentation,
)wn as "an intimate style of. __
iduction.-’ seats the theater-goers a semi-circle around the actors
to 15 feet away from the ac-l. This friendly atmosphere, ich puts the viewer at ease, has ny advantages over the stuffy foundings of the average play-ise and hearing the lines is not [icult.
he script, filled with wisecrack rapid-fiie gags, is a tribute writers Lynn Root and Harry rk. Working under the handi-5 of presenting the play through-in one room, Lynn and Clork e woven a convincing tale about uny milkman who. becomes a im of circumstances that evenly make him the middleweight fnp of the world.
Burleigh Sullivan, the milkman |ied fighter, is credited with eking out rpeed McFarland, box-" champ, and McFarland's man-r attempts to build up Sullivan a series of fixed fights. The lager then arranges a match Keen the two men and is sent a psychopathic ward after the )t Sullivan defeats the champ. l laugh-provoking windup finds livan buying 500 St. Bernard s with hi* prize money. Pro-Ur Palmer has even imported i of the large dogs into the Sent lounge to give a touch of [ism to the entire affair.
Jill Means, who portrays Sulli-the muscleless milkman, gives all into making his role of a tier-brain weakling a hit. The t of many sarcastic slams, uis shrugs them off with typical
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simplicity. He provides a high moment of laughter with his attempt to revive two unconscious characters by sprinkling them with a few drops of water and applying artificial respiration.
The roles of McFarland, played by Jack Drummond; Spider, trainer of fight champion McFarland, taken by Bill Rowlson; Gabby Sloan, McFarland’s manager, by Wesley De-Pue; and Anne Westley, interpreted by Randy Allen, are models of fine casting.
“The Milky Way,” sponsored by the University Recreation association, will play today and tomorrow starting at 8 pjn.
Artist-Faculty To Highlight Music Recital
Members of the School of Music’s artist-faculty will highlight the third annual Festival of Contemporary Arts when they present a chamber music recital in Hancock auditorium at 8:30 Sunday evening.
Attracting an increasing number of off-campus visitors each year, the faculty recitals are indicative of the School of Music’s growth. These concerts are given without outside help.
Lillian Steuber, associate professor of piano, returns from a successful recital in the San Francisco Marine Memorial theater to join with John Crown, head of the piano department, in a presentation of Francis Poulenc’s sonata for piano.
A song cycle by the contemporary Finnish composer Yrjo Kilpinen, which is based on Christian Morgens tern’s poems, will be presented. The cycle will include the songs “The Little Bird Despair,” "In a Ruined Churchyard,” “Death and the Lonely Drinker,” “Winter Night,” “The Sower,” and “Sure and Certain Hope.”
Basso William Vennard, assistant professor of music, will sing the cycle, aided by Gwendolyn Williams, accompanist for the School of Music, who is widely known for her concert work with Mme. Lotte Lehman.
Also on the program is the newly revised edition of Ingolf Dahl’s duo for cello and piano which will be played by the composer and Stephen De’ak, cellist.
Ingolf Dahl is well known as a composer, pianist, and conductor. He is director of the university orchestra and frequently appears in the evenings on the roof concerts.
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by BOB ERBURU
It could only happen at SC.
Old Man Injury has struck again.
Al Cantor, veteran left halfback, suffered a knee bruise last night in a collision with right half Bill Bowers while the pair were running through plays in the Trojans’ last
workout prior to their “Biggest *■- • -
Game” with UCLA tomorrow.
It is not known yet whether Cantor.will be able to play, but his rapidly swelling knee did not look too promising. Bowers suffered cuts about the face but is expected to be ready for duty against the Bruins.
Cantor was slated to start against the Bruins and was being counted on for heavy offensive duty.
NOT FIRST TIME Thus the Trojans will go, as has been the case all year, into a game with numerous players sitting on the sidelines.
Jim* Powers, Wilbur Robertson, and Frank Gifford all will miss
Rooters will be admitted to the Coliseum tomorrow beginning at 12 noon at the students’ gate.
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A RATHER LARGE chunk of responsibility falls upon the shoulders and port side throwing arm of quarterback Dean Schneider tomorrow. He will see his first action on offense in an SC uniform tomorrow, although he did perform quite creditably on defense earlier this year against the Oregon Webfoots. Schneider moves to the QB spot from fullback.
Season Ends Tomorrow
FCs band—110 men (and don’t jet those two cute co-eds out ^t who tap the glockenspiels)— close its most successful sea-tomorrow at the SC-UCLA foot-game in the Los Angeles Col-n.
|laybe the Trojan team doesn’t every game, but the SC band, ^est on the coast, never fails to rge victorious in the music and [■ching competition, bmorrows half-time program have music by the late George shwin while the bandsmen ex-intricate maneuvers to illus-fce each song being played, pew fans realize how much time planning go into each football [me band conoert. fhe SC band puts in about 1180 -hours of work each week for seven minutes performance on 'field.
Jverything is under the baton of rctor Clarence Sawhill, recog-ied as one of the nation's lead-music educators, and Tommy Llker, director of the football
band. Walker was drum major in 1941-43 and 1945-46. and the point-after-touchdown kicker for the Trojan football team in 1947.
Where individual bandsmen will march and stand for each stunt is mapped out on charts, and copies are made for every player. Every stunt is timed, and the directors know how many measures of music it will take for each bandsman to reach his assigned position. Everyone knows to the exact yard line where to stand.
Director Sawhill selects the music, which is specially arranged by Frank Erickson, senior in the School of Music. Another senior student, Howard Talkington, makes the charts.
Special consideration must be given to the placement of drums and tubas. The drums must always be together and in the center or nearcenter of every design so that their beat will be heard simultaneously by every player. The tubas, because of their prominence, must be placed symmetrically about the figure.
Music is rehearsed Wednesday afternoon. Music and marching formations are put together on a practice field Friday afternoon. A final rehearsal is held Saturday morning.
Tomorrow, the band will play “Of Thee I Sing” as it marches onto the field. Then they swing into “Somebody Loves Me” while a big heart with a question mark inside it is formed. A banjo is next for the tune, “Swanee.”
Did you ever see a heart walking? That’s the next stunt as the band plays “Love Walked In.” Two musical notes then dance to “I’ve Got Rhythm.” A clock illustrates “I’m Biding My Time.” Then UCLA will be written out in script letters for the first time to “Strike Up the Band.” An SC stunt will follow, and then a sunset will be depicted as the band plays “When Day Is Done.”
Each band formation dissolves into another smoothly. It all looks simple from the stands, but there’s more to it than meets the eye—or
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Last Lollipops Offered Today
Today is the last day professors must endure languid students idly licking sticky lollipops during lecture sessions.
The annual *Tiek the Bruin” sucker sale, sponsored by Key and Scroll, junior women’s honorary, ends today if sales boom along at the same brisk clip as yesterday.
Besides stimulating the appropriate spirit of the day, the flashy red bears apparently help to break the dismal atmosphere of ten-weeks exams, for students snatched the bruin caricatures at the rate of 250 an hour during the initial sale yesterday. .
Whether the enthusiasm is due to the cute blonde manning the booth, the number of veterans with kids in the ‘lollipop” set, or the fact that one of the bigger, better candy bears will sustain a checkless veteran for 72 hours was not immediately determined.
Caravan Rally To Launch Notre Dame Football Trek
Trojan gridmen will leave Los Angeles next week for South Bend feeling that the whole school is really behind them if current plans work out, according to Knights Morrie Johnson and Tom Shea.
The whole student body has been urged to come to Union
station Tuesday in a huge car cara- *-
van to cheer them. Seven busses
FBI Agent Gives Scoop On Spies
Spies operating in an innocent-appearing doll shop in New York city during the last war sent military information to enemy agents in South America, an FBI agent told the Faculty Men’s Club Wednesday.
Logan J. Lane of the Los Angeles FBI field office, speaking at the club’s regular luncheon meeting in EVK, used the case to illustrate his point that enemy agents do not necessarily carry cameras, or even look like spies.
Logan also said that there are no individual foreign spies wandering about the United States doing espionage work.
“No one person could gather enough information effectively," said Lane. “Every agent for a foreign government must be a member of an organization.”
Lane told how the FBI started in 1908 with 12 investigators charged with enforcing one law, the White Slave Traffic act. Today it has 120 federal laws to enforce plus being responsible for the protection of the nation’s internal security.
Although the FBI has only 10,-000 employees, including clerks, stenographers, and messengers, and less than 4000 agents, it has them placed so that a man can get to the scene of a crime within two hours. Lane said.
have been chartered to take pedestrians to the station. All car-owning Trojans were urged to get in the act, which gets under way at 5 p.m.
Fraternity and sorority houses were asked to set their dinner hours ahead to 4:30 to allow time to join the parade.
Tanner bus lines is trying to secure an omnibus so that band leader Tommy Walker and his crew can ride on the top. Trona and Tann%r are furnishing the rest of the seven busses.
Trojan Spurs and Amazons will be busy this weekend decorating the trams in front of the Acacia house. Tentative plans call for the movement to start for Union station at 5 pjn. Tuesday. The Trojan Special train leaves the station at 6.
The fully uniformed band will play several numbers before the departure of the team.
SC Co-op Okays Housing Measure
Members of the SC Co-op approved three of the four measures presented before them at a recent meeting.
The questions of cooperative housing, association with other SC co-ops, and incorporation by the state were all favored.
The vote on changing the work shift system has not been counted as yet. Even if this measure fails to pass, there will be some reorganization of the work program, said Phil Clark, newly-appointed work chairman.
Official
Notice
The offices of the University will be closed for the Thanksgiving recess from Nov. 24 to Nov. 26 (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday).
A. S. Raubenheimer Educational Vice-President
Fine Arts Auction Set for Nov. 28
SC’s Christmas auction of fine arts will be held Nov. 28. Paintings, drawings, and prints now on display in Town and Gown will be included in the sale.
The auction will be held in the patio of Harris hall and will include drawings and prints by students and faculty members. Some pieces of sculpture and ceramics will be auctioned. The Southern California Print Making society will present a series of original Christmas cards for sale.
All artists have agreed to sell their work at very low rates for the benefit of students. A large volume will be auctioned off at $5 and less. The auction is sponsored by the faculty of the department of fine arts.
The art display is being given in connection with the university’s third annual festival of contemporary arts to give some idea of the type of study and the art interest at SC.
the tilt, along with Harry Anderson (who reinjured his leg Wednesday night), George Davis, Jim Monson, and Don Burke.
The newest injury puts a damper on Trojan hopes tomorrow. The Cravathmen had regrouped their forces well after the Powers injury, but no matter how hard they try they just can’t shake off this injury jinx.
ODDS FLUCTUATE Cantor’s injury will have an effect on the team’s morale. Each time they bounce back from injuries, they get knocked down again. Only a tremendous show of Trojan spirit, similar to the team’s performance against Notre Dame last year, will pull this one out of the fire.
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SC May Get Parking Space This Spring
More than 3000 parking spaces may become available to SC students sometime in the spring semester as the result of a state program to clear and blacktop 18 acres of land for Coliseum parking.
According to John Truitt and Allen Arthur of the Greater University committee, Louis Venator, executive secretary of the sixth agricultural district, which controls Exposition park, told them that demolition of buildings in the area bounded by Menlo, Exposition, Vermont, and Santa Barbara would begin in two months.
Venator said that he was very much in favor of making the proposed parking area available for student parking. He suggested that the students take over the area on a contractual basis and pay only operating costs or the minimum ure by the state.
The money for the project, M million, was loaned by the state oq a self-liquidating basis, said Vesa* tor. Main revenue, he added, win be from Coliseum crowds.
Truitt stated that the flrnikff ff committee would continue Its plant to improve university parking fa* cilities and would work on srrang»> ments for the utilisation of the pro* posed Coliseum area
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Cartoon Characters To Join Game Stunts
Tomorrow’s pasteboard stunts will feature cartoons of six comic strip characters whioh were drawn on the regular SC card-stunt charts by the cartionists for stunt designer Bill Hobba.
Hobba adapted drawings of Donald Duck, Napoleon, Jiggs, Moon Mullins, Joe Palooka, and Steve Canyon so they could be worked into a theme depicting the traditional crosstown rivalry.
The first stunt will be “Hi Ucla,” done in a blue-and-gold script spellout. It will be followed by a caricature of the Bruin and then a block SC which will turn into the Trojan Sword.
UCLA’s Bruin will spring from a tree at Tommy Trojan, who will be guarding the victory bell. An explosion of color will symbolize the following fight.
The remaining animated stunts will show the progress of the battle in the lower third of the card section while the section’s top two-thirds will depict the cartoon characters.
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck, George McManus’ Jiggs, and Clifford McBride’s Napoleon will be flashed while the battle in the lower part of the section is motionless. The Bruin is inert under the Trojan’s foot. The Trojan is looking at the cartoons above him.
In the next stunt the Bruin has
come to life and he too looks al the portraits of Willard's Moon Mullins and Ham Fisher’s Joe Palooka.
"while Tommy Trojan watches the last caricature, Milton Caniffs Steve Canyon, the Bruin begins to get to its feet.
A “Buy U.S. Treasury Bonds’* message will take the cartoons' place while the Trojan and Bruin shake hands.
Another explosion is then pictured. When the smoke clears the entire card section will show Tommy Trojan’s sword in the Bruin’s back while Tommy rings the victory bell.
The last stunts will depict an 80 bandsman, a Christmas Seal, and the Trojan horse. They will end with the usual written SC signoff.
These will be the last of Bill Hobba’s card stunts which have been responsible for the SC card section’s nationwide fame. Bill has designed the stunts for four years and has spent one to three hours working out each of the 14 to 19 stunts that were flashed each half-time. Hobba’s assistant, George Bissell, will take his place next year.
Coliseum gates will open at noon tomorrow. Knight President Bert Coffey has asked everyone who received one of the 1500 megaphones* distributed at the first game this year, to bring them to the game.
Stop Gap Plays Delight Crowd
by JOANNE GEE
A gay and laughing crowd left the Stop-Gap theater last night when the curtain fell on the first performance of the experimental theater’s three one-act plays.
Laughter was a relief to the audience after the tragedy of “Portrait of a Madonna” by Tennessee Williams, the story of a frustrated old maid who lives in a dream world.
In reliving the memories of events in her life which happened years before, the elderly woman believes that the man she loves returns to her apartment every night to deprive her of her honor.
Fayne Blackburn, who portrayed Miss Lucretia Collins, gave an excellent performance. Her acting was overly dramatic in spots, especially in her long monologue in which
she reminisces in the memories of happier days. Audience relief comes when Miss Collins discloses that a child is expected, but a cold chill again hits the audience when the doctor and nurse enter the room to remove the woman to an asylum.
Audience reaction began to warm up when the curtains parted on “Wurzel-Flummery” by A A Milne, an English comedy at its best.
Edward Marsh who plays Robert Crawehaw, M.P., a stodgy old Englishman, was excellent in his portrayal. His stiff-legged walk and natural wit stole the show. Cor-inne Chernin, who portrays Mrs. Crawshaw, showed herself as a second Billie Burke in voice and gesture.
Others in the cast, Grady Galloway, who is cast as an easy-going M.P., and Gadge Cook, as Craw-
shaw’s daughter, gave fairly good portrayals. Larry Hannon, in his role as an spiring playwright and “solicitor,” was as good as usual.
“The Pot Boiler” by Alice Gerstenberg, was a just choice to end the evening. The hilarious comedy provided added relief to the audience after the depression of “Portrait of a Madonna.” Everyone, including the cast, enjoyed the play. It is a farce about a director who is producing his own play with third-rate actors. The drama depicts the flareups in temper and temperaments which he encounters.
The three dramas will run tonight and tomorrow ijight. All the production work is done by the students of the experimental classes under the supervision of Dr. James H. Butler, associate professor of drama.
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