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Los Angeles, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 8, 1949 NI*M phone Rl 6472
No. 62
ed Rhythms Show fated for Tonight
Pokey, the legend of the amorous indian, Pocohontas, ill be the third and final part of the Red Rhythms program night at 8:30 in Hancock auditorium.
Philip Moeller created the live-actor cartoon for the Fes-/aJ of Arts program which is being presented by students
♦ from the department of speech. Pokey's lines will be read by Mrs. Estelle Karcher Harmon, lecturer in the Theater Arts department at UCLA, who is working for •her PhD at SC.
Reading the part of Rolfe of Somersetshire, England, is Arthur B. Friedman, lecturer at UCLA, who is also working for his PhD at SC. Friedman has had experience producing, directing, and act-
Palomar' Trucking Company Brings Smokestack to Troy
SC was honored in a small way }esterday when the same trucking concern that hauled the 200-inch mirror to Palomar brought in the 7-ton smokestack to be installed in the heating unit of the new Commons building.
The huge stack, 58 feet long and 34 inches in diameter, was secured to the truck and double trailer that was parked in front of the Law building early in the morning. The driver was waiting for 36th place to be cleared before backing into the area behind the Student Union.
After the truck was backed in, rigging crews and engineers, using a crane with a 60-foot boom, lifted the pipe and set it upright in the building.
Shortly afterward, two boilers were installed in the same way and the new cafeteria was one step closer to completion.
Memorial Fund Drive Will End Tomorrow With Grid Flicker
Mimic Added to Dance Cast Troy lrish
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JOE FLYNN Sets Atmosphere
ientation Tea
anhel to Tell ushTipsToday
Panhellenic orientation tea for
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prospective rushees will be held i ay at 3:15 in the student lounge, j is is a compulsory meeting for i onen expecting to go through mal rushing.
lushing tips will be given, in- j 1c ing acquainting the women .h the Panhellenic system, what | wear to rush parties, and when where the parties will be, ac-riing to Mavis Sames, Panhel-lie president.
L rs. Georgette MacGregor will «k on "The Educational Advance of Sorority Membership.” Miss mes will then give the facts on rush parties. She will also ex-a the postcard system for king grades.
jshees will be given rush appli-ions, and will also turn in a jy of their class program, ntertainment will follow the rram. Refreshments will be ed by members of Junior Pan-enic. Sorority presidents and ii chairmen wUl be present to t the new rushees. hairman of the affair is Betty Smith, assisted by Shirley ttley, representing Junior Pan-and Mimi Wagner.
ing in plays.
The role of John Smith of Virginia is read by Harold B. Owen, graduate student. Owen is on the staff at LAOC where he is head of the speech clinic.
The festival program includes Red Rhythms, a group of love songs and sorrows of the American Indian. Red Rhythms consists of a cycle of 28 poems, which, when read as a whole, tell the story of the Indian girl. White Swan, whose lines will be read by Rosemaire Poitras.
As an epilogue, a documentary art film, “The Loon's Necklace,” wiU be shown. The picture depicts the Indian legend of the search for the Loon’s necklace.
“The Feast of the Virgins,” a dramatic portrayal of a Sioux legend in the form of a one-man show, wiU also be included on the program. It will be presented in the interpretative style of 100 years ago in the California of 1849 when gestures were an important part of all dramatic readings. Kenneth j Shanks, graduate student and teaching assistant in the speech
department, will present the reading.
Atmosphere for the number is ! set by the prologue to the legend-drama by Joe Flynn, master of ceremonies for the evening.
Special guests will be Barbara Lohrmann, who will represent Sar-aswati, the Goddess of Speech, and the wife of Brahma; and Harry Lyle, graduate student and assistant in the speech department who will represent Horus or Harpoc-rates, Egyptian God of Silence.
Casa de Rosas Prexy Speaks
Fire Hazard High, Says Dorm Head
ood Bank Unit n Campus Today
C students will have an oppor-ity to boost decreasing Red ss blood bank reserves today m a mobile blood bank unit 1 rigs into operation at the ZTA < se. 914 West 28th street, from • j> 5 p.m.
lood collected will go to the J hospitals for emergency
Forum to Debate Grade Benefits
Hot on the heels of a roisterous controversy over the contributions of students to teachers and vice versa. Delta Sigma Theta is sponsoring a serious discussion of the purpose of grades today.
Tne panel session, to be held in Bowne haU at 2:15, will feature three students and three faculty members who will attempt to answer the all-important question, ‘ What Good are Grades?”
Omar Kureishi, Freda Weyen, and Bob Tapp wili match wits with Dr. Tema Clare, Dr. Colin Lovell, and Lenore Smith.
The purpose, benefits, and disadvantages of the grading system will be thoroughly discussed. Instances where the system has been supplanted by other methods also wiM be cited.
Could SC be the next university to experience a disastrous dormitory fire similar to that which caused three deaths at the University of Oklahoma last Saturday?
Blasting the report in the DT that inspections by the fire department revealed that campus residence halls had a very good fire-hazard rating, Andy Anderman, president of the Casa de Rosas, men’s dormitory located at Hoover and Adams, yesterday demanded to know on what basis the inspections were made.
“It is possible that a duplication
CAI to Present New York Times Atom Bomb Film
A new filmstrip, produced by the New York Times and called “Atomic Energy,” will be presented today by the Council on Atomic Implications at 1:10, 310 Bridge.
The filmstrip—a series of still
shots on a length of film—will present the story of atomic energy from the fatal day when Hiroshima was blasted to its more peaceful applications today.
The strip will include an evaluation of tthe Baruch and Russian proposals for the control of atomic weapons.
Baruch advocated the creation of an international organization to control all atomic fuels; effective control and inspection by all nations; and the outlawing of all bombs with punishment for violators.
The Russian plan called for the destruction of all bombs; the establishment of a plan for control and inspection; and the use of the veto power.
of the Oklahoma- fire could occur here. The house, large and rambling, is constructed of wood, and the fire escape facilities are inadequate,” he said.
Last year a fire started in the Casa because of an overheated hot plate in one of the rooms but was put out by the fire department before it could spread to the rest of the house.
“At the time of the fire,” Anderman explained, “a fireman mentioned the fact any delay in the arrival of the fire department could possibly have resulted in complete destruction of the building.”
Fire hazard, as pointed out by Anderman, apparently is not the only disturbing influence to be found at the Casa.
“We welcome with open arms the Senate housing committee's investigations of the living conditions at Aeneas hall and Casa de Rosas, the only two dormitories for men on campus,” he declared.
He was ref .ring to the recently
organized Senate committee composed of Cliff Shinn, Bob Scoilin, Rita Marie Kreiziger, Bob Donaldson, and Maury Avins. Set up following a motion by Scoilin at the last Senate meeting, its purpose is to investigate the conditions in the campus dormitories and the possibilities of an increase in facilities.
“Lack of shades on some of the windows, poor lighting in the dormitories plus the fact that the students must keep their food supplies in cardboard boxes only adds insult to our injury,” Anderman said.
“Poor conditions at the Casa should not come as any surprise to the administration,” he pointed out.
“Included in my weekly schedule is one hour devoted exclusively to voicing complaints, in my capacity as president of the house, to the proper authorities in the administration without results.”
Sigma Chi Sweetheart Field Narrowed to 10
Joe Perlow. impersonator who thrilled a Trolios audience with imitations of everything from well-known actors to gusts of wind, is an added starter to the entertainment lineup for Candy Cane capers, URA’s 9 to 12 Saturday night dance in the student lounge.
He plans to give vocal facsimiles
of Speedie Riggs, F. E. Boone, Boris Karloff, Mr. Kitzel .and the musical arrangements of Harry James’ and Gene Krupa’s orchestras.
The other half of the entertainment will be radio-video star Red Baker, who is famed for his gift of gab and story-telling abilities. Baker achieved fame as an irrepres-
sible fall guy for Orson Welles in the old Mercury theater productions.
Both Perlow and Baker have appeared in professional shows.
Music will be by Bob King’s orchestra. Tickets are 50 cents apiece, and are on sale at the booth in front of Student Union.
SU Cafeteria Set For Face-Lifting
Complete remodeling of the Student Union cafeteria will begin in a few weeks as soon as the adjacent Commons building nears completion, it was revealed yesterday.
Elton D. Phillips, university business manager, said that the most significant change in the present cafeteria plan will be the removal of the 36th street entrance to the rear northwest corner of the building. In this way the door will open along side the entrance to the Commons building.
The old and new cafeterias will be linked as soon as the partition between the biddings is removed, making the total seating capacity about 800. The whole interior of the present cafeteria will be redecorated and refurnished so that it ties in with the modern furnishings of Commons.
A coffee shop also will be available to students in the basement of the new building. It will seat
approximately 200 persons.
ELTON D. PHILLIPS Names Change
ZBT’s Nab Burglar In Fraternity House
. . . and now there are 10. Success beamed brightly on the remaining “Sweetheart of Sigma chi” contestants last might as fra-
rophy Still Sought by Slogan Writer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ . ★ ★ cott Suspects Run Around
ack Scott, Homecoming slogan test winner, added a new angle .he “mystery of the missing tro-’ yesterday, when he said he hadn’t received the award, he winning rhyme writer said felt the contest was a poorly died affair.
The day I won,” he said, “I had picture taken for the DT, blit it er appeared. The committee had even acquired the trophy by time the winner was announced, the ticket situation was quite pointing.
realize that this may be a thing to gripe about but I it will straighten things out ext year's winner.” tt, who had been promised s on the 50-yard line in addi-to the trophy, authored the low? famous “Alumni get big hello, while Injun get put below.”
He scoffed at the idea that he coildn't be located. “They found me the same day my entry was de< lared winner. Beside that, they
had my address and phone number. I can't see any reason for it when my friends can find me in less than 20 minutes by using the directory in the Student Union."
“The tickets were near the 50-yard line,” he admitted, “but I didn’t expect them to be on the Stanford side instead of in the SC section.”
Scott said he made several attempts to contact Bill Bird, Home-
Official
Noticc
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. Raubenheimer Educational Vice-President
coming chairman, the week after Homecoming. He said that Bird told him 2t first that he would receive the trophy during Homecoming week in a small ceremony of some kind. He was not contacted during the week, however.
“Later, at the Homecoming rally,” he went on, ‘Bird told me that the presentation would take place at game time or maybe next week. I went up to the student lounge several times ♦' following week to see Bird, but the Homecoming office was no longer there.”
Scott reiterated that Don Gevirtz, chairman of the slogan contest, told him at the UCLA, game that he (Gevritz) had the trophy for him.
Scott made it plain that it didn't matter to him personally, but he said that next year’s entrants should be assured of getting something for their efforts instead of promises.
“I think I’ve been getting the run around,’’ he concluded.
ternity members cast the first of a series of elimination ballots.
The balloting for sweetheart and two attendants is conducted on a “secret eight-point system.-’ The winners will be presented at a formal dance this Saturday night at the Miramar hotel.
Campus beauties remaining in competition are Randy Allen, Alpha Omicron Pi; Joann Clare. Delta Gamma; Joan Crockett, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Maxine Evart, Pi Beta Phi; Helen Harker, Alpha Phi
Anne Kelly, EVK; Marylin Lin-berg, Delta Delta Delta; Barbara Roberts, Alpha Chi Omega; Marjorie Robertson, Kappa Alpha Theta; and Sally Trax, Alpha Gamma Delta. Kathleen Scheiss, Gamma Phi Beta had to drop from competition because of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
At tonight’s dinner another vote will be cast lowering the count to 5 beauties. The final selection will be announced by Sigma Chi President Ed Ellis.
Albert Zech, counselor of men, will attend the dinner this evening. Favors wUl be presented to the entrants.
Two SC students pounced on an armed intruder in a second-story
room of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house early yesterday morning and held him prisoner until police
arrived.
Students Walter Schoenfeld and Jack Hersh awakened about 5:30 a.m. when the door to their room creaked open admitting 23-year-old Stanley Gottlieb, 6469 Long Beach boulevard. Leaping from their bunks the ZBT men grabbed Gottlieb, an unemployed actor, as he prowled through the room.
Found to be carrying a loaded .32 caliber German pistol in his hip pocket, Gottlieb was quickly surrounded by scantily clad ZBT men. He offered no resistance, but tried to persuade his captors to let him leave the building.
Taken to University police station, Gottlieb confessed taking $60 from rooms in the ZBT house and $35 from “four or five other houses,” said Det. Frank Ginder, investigating officer.
Schoenfeld said he was the first to hear the prowler.
“There wasn’t much to it,” he said. “I heard the door open, and the guy came in. He went to the other side of the room first, and I poked Jack Hersh. Jack sleeps in the bunk above me.
“Jack slipped down to the edge of my bunk, and when the guy came around to out' side of the room we jumped on him. Then
the lights were turned on, and everybody came running into the
room.
“We didn’t know he had a gun until the police came and frisked him,” Schoenfeld said.
Hal Engelson and Al Nirenstein, the captors’ roommates, were awakened by the noise of the struggle.
“I jumped up and turned on the lights,” Engelson said. “There are bureaus in the center of the room, so I couldn't see anything until I ran around and found Walt and Jack on the floor wrestling with this guy.”
“He kept saying he was just looking for a fraternity guy named Tom Phillips,” Engelson said. “We told him that he was in Zeta Beta Tau, but he said he didn’t understand Greek letters.”
Gottlieb wanted to use the telephone, Engelson said, but fraternity men detained him until University police arrived a few minutes later.
Police handcuffed Gottlieb and emptied his pockets. They found j
the gun and several wads of money.	l_OUnOP
Detective Ginder quoted Gottlieb i	®
as saying he “carried the gun for protection.”
Comic Opera Cast Double As Stage Crew
by OWEN ANDERSON
Opera Workshop rehearsals of Benjamin Britten’s “Albert Herring” are definitely unconventional.
Dr. Carl Ebert, director of the comic-opera, has not been forced to waste his time pacifying temperamental prima donnas.
Instead, the operatic cast is sharing the work and responsibility of staging the opera as well as mastering its roles. The singers have worked on props, wiring, and the erection of scenery.
Both leading ladies, neither -'ne of whom resembles the typical Metropolitan amazon. have struggled up to the balconies with heavy spotlights which they wired into the stage’s electrical system.
The stage work is being completed under the direction of Mrs. Evadna Blackburn who was lecturer in stage technology for the drama department up to the time of her resignation last summer.
Bovard auditorium’s inadequate resemblance to a stage has created many problems for Mrs. Blackburn and her assistants Bob Herman. John Newton, and Bill White.
Broken-down pulleys 60 feet above the concrete stage forced Mrs. Blackburn to ride stage hangings to the top of the auditorium 20 times to complete the repairs. The customary ladder to reach the top of the stage isn’t present in Bovard auditorium.
Another difficulty was the lack of lighting equipment needed to produce the dramatic effects for the opera. Mrs. Blackburn paid for the construction of a new switchboard and installed it in the wings of the stage so that production sets would be highlighted to Dr. Ebert’s requirements.
The direction of the Opera Workshop production’s many phases is being done by Dr. Carl Ebert who has planned the staging with a stylization of every visual and auditory detail.
Ebert, one of Germany’s greatest actors, turned to direction when he was head of the German National theater and later turned his attention to opera.
A part of the third annual Festival of Contemporary Arts, the opera will be performed Dec. 9, 10, 12. and 15.
. . . will be closed today from 2 to 6 p.m.
Film Slated For Bovard
SC plays Notre Dame tomorrow —in Bovard at 12. The first complete pictures of the 1949 battle which took place at South Bend will be shown to students bearing contribution receipts to the Trovet Living War Memorial f ind. This showing will mark the official closing of the present drive to provide scholarships at SC for some of the children of World War II combat dead.
Newsreel shots shown in local theaters have created a great deal of interest, according to the Trovet office. The shots show an SC style I of attack not seen locally, claim I enthusiastic fans.
The atmosphere in the Trovet office was considerably brighter yesterday after one of the drive’s most successful days. Contributions to the Living War Memorial reached a new high for a single day during the campaign.
Booths will be open today and tomorrow morning for last-minute contributions.
The Trovets got a plug from Bob Hope on his radio show Tuesday night when the comic told his na* tion-wide audience of “the biggest goal line drive of all.”
Local disc jockeys also have given the campaign a boost with their steady plugging for the drive.
The committee has requested that the checks of pledged organizations be turned in at 405 Student Union by Monday to facilitate the accounting process.
100 Students Need Rides
Rides are needed by more than 100 students who have signed ud for Alpha Phi Omega's vacation car pool. Although arrangements have been made for 40 homeward-bound Trojans, more cars are still needed.
Of the total number signed up, 15 have asked for rides to places in California, mostly around the bay area.
Others need rides to nearby western states, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, with several students wishing lifts to Las Vegas and Reno.
Rides to midwestem states have been scarce. Students signed are bound for the Dakotas, Minneapolis, Detroit, Indianapolis, Columbus, Cleveland. Kansas City, Mo., and Omaha.
For drivers who want to make expenses over the long ride home, and a few who may like company, this system has a lot of promise, according to APO publicity man Dick Zigrang.
“Already UCLA and LACC have shown interest in the project,” he claimed. Possible plans for an inter-school exchange of rides is being considered for the future.
Applications may be made In 220 SU today until 1:30 p.m. and tomorrow until 4 p.m. Next week there will be a booth in front of Bovard.
California Growth Told
Honor Roll
Fatal Apple
. . . winners please leave your names and phone numbers with the Daily Trojao city editor so
Troeds may award your prizes.
Trovet Living War Memorial Contributors reaching 100%: Alpha Epsilon Phi	.
Alpha Epsilon Pi Alpha Phi Omega Alpha Omicron Pi Casa de Rosa~>
Beta Theta Pi
American Institnie of Engineers Kappa Delta Phi Kappa Alpha Phi Kappa Tau Pi Beta Phi •
Pi Lambda Phi Kappa Alpha Sigma Chi Zeta Beta Tau
Minimum of $1 per member equals 100%.
There were no new additions to today’s Honor Roll.
by MILT GOODMAN
E. George Luckey, vice-chairman of the California Democratic committee, cleared his throat yesterday in the art and lecture room, apologized for his poor reading voice, and then proceeded to read verbatim from a prepared script to a rapidly dwindling audience.
Before Luckey cleared his throat, he announced that his lecture was completely non-partisan, and therefore there would be no question and answer period.
“The greatest growth which has occurred in California was in the first 10 years of its existence due to the gold rush, and in the last 10 years due to the general migration westward,” he said. An explanation of how the population shift affected representation to the i House of Representatives in almost every state followed.
“Of the 23 California representatives, 13 come from Southern California and 10 from Los Angeles
county,” he explained, emphasizing the population shift to the southern part of the state.
Luckey said that after the 1950 census is taken, an estimated five new members of congress wili be apportioned to California which will mean a readjustment of House membership from various eastern states.
“Population growth has brought wage increases. The per capita income for California residents has increased from $801 in 1940 to $1686 in 1948, an increase of 110 per cent,” he said.
“Civilian employment has increased 58 per cent, farming income has increase 230 per cent, and private residences, public utilities and public construction have increased 330 per cent.”
Retail stores reflect the trend of growth and prosperity, he said.
“The so-called rivalry between the southern and northern parts of this state has been entirely done away with. We go forward today
as one state whose success and problems are common tq all,” he said.
Luckey compared the present westward push to that of the frontier days. “There is no section of the country which has shown such marvelous growth and which, therefore, presents the opportunities of advancement as the very state in which we live.”
“Population increases mean constantly added working prices tfhich in turn mean more payrolls and sales. As industrial and financial power shift, so does political power,” he said.
Contrary to the belief that California has too large a percentage of aged persons in its population, Luckey said that 8 per cent of the state’s residents ore over 65 years of age. 38 per cent between 21 and 44. and 32 per cent 21.
Luckey, who makes his living by raising cattle in the Imperial valley, is a personal friend of President Truman.