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Vol. XLV
Los Angeles, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 29, 1953
No. 28
Legislators Suggest Basketball ebut for Women Song Leaders
by Charli e Barnett .
A compromise postponing the debut of women song leaders until basketball season s initiated after last night’s ASSC Senate meeting.
Following the meeting, which included debate but no action on the song leader issue, ig Morgan, author of the song leader by-law, and AWS President Joan Vasseur, kesman for the opposition, agreed that SC should try out the female song leader
nal Judging ateforTrolios fated Monday
idea, but not during the present j football season.
The Senate set up the song I leader plan on a trial basis at the j meeting two-weeks ago, but Iasi j night Senator-at-large Joe Thomas moved to toss it out. Under j parliamentary rules, his proposal to eliminate the song leaders must wait for a vote until next meeting.
When advised of the compro-mise move, however, Thomas decided to withdraw his motion.
Compromise Plan Setting the debut time for the song leaders now seems to be up
‘Trolios eliminations will not held until Monday evening be-ise of five weeks tests and the game,” Burt Wilson, Trolios eral chairman, said yesterday, j ^”Leader“ Selection
Alison explained that the committee. Several members said
inations were supposed to e place last Tuesday and Wed-’ay nights but added that too fraternities have com-ned of the dates because of flicting activities.
Too Little Time he Trolios committee concluded t the fraternities had not had imgh time for rehearsal and moved the elimination date Monday evening at 7 in the jdent Union lounge.
‘This definitely is the rehearsal I it will determine who will go j stage the night of Trolios and j will be eliminated,” said Tom I iimlin, fraternity chairman.
No Dress Rehearsal
“It will not be a dress re-, ¡real, but all participants with
after the Senate meeting last night that they would favor the compromise plan introducing the women during basketball season.
“We think that under the circumstances, it would be best to have the girls appear first at a basketball game,’’ Morgan said following the compromise conference. “We believe the song leaders would get a much more favorable response from the student body in a trial during basketball than they would ever receive during the football season,” Miss Vasseur added.
Need Preparation.
Arguing agsinst women song leaders during the meeting, Miss Vasseur told the Senators that she would hate to see the University put in a bad light by a trial
ging or speaking parts must during football which “might ar if they expect to partici- prove ridiculous.” Chimes Presi-
10 Coeds Left
in Homecoming Queen Contest
Ten of “SC’s loveliest,” with swishing cocktail dresses, yesterday swept into the finals of the Homecoming queen contest
The select 10 will appear in the pageant-like finals Wednesday noon in Bovard Auditorium.
The finalists are Judy Shaffer, Shirlee Blalock,- Connie Furse, Mary Jane Mutchler, Dawna Boiler, Shirley Peterson, Betty Met-1 zger, Lynn Scott, Barbara Hines, and Shirley Egland.
Apprehensive glances and nervous hands betrayed the tension ! experienced by the semi-finalists belora they appeared on t.he stage.
TV-Like Interviews
Joel Rapp, SC television major, interviewed the entrants as if they were appearing on a local ! television show. Meanwhile, judg-I es rated the women on the basis of beauty, intelligence, poise, and personality.
“It was tough—awfully tough,” remarked Robert Smith, lecturer in public administration, after the judging. “It was even more so be-cause different circumstances
;e in the show,” Pflimlin con ued.
He concluded by saying that ee things will be grounds for ination. They are:
..—Failure to appear.
—Unprepared for rehearsal.
1,—Obscene remarks.
Official Entrants Fifteen fraternities are offi-Uy entered in Trolios, accord-to Wilson. They -are Phi Sig-Kappa, Delta Chi, Delta Sig-Phi, Chi Phi, Zeta Beta Tau, ;ma Phi Epsilon, Phi Kappa Psi, IU Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Delta Theta, Theta Chi, Tau lta Phi, Sigma Alpha Mu, Kap-
dent Joan Price told the Senate from day to day will cause you
that the song leaders would be “laughed off the field” if they made their first appearance during football season without sufficient practice and preparation.
Morgan, Knight President Tom Graham, and Senator-at-large Bill Van Alstyne argued that the song leader plan should be continued on a trial basis. "The only way to find out the validity of this law, is to try it,” Van Alstyne said. “It deserves a trial for at least one game,” Graham said. Violent Opposition Several women’s organizations have* given violent opposition to Sigma, and Lambda Chi Alpha. | song ]eader plan, but some
Vilson said the themes of the iternities will be announced week.
'welve members of the faculty Tently are rehearsing for what rr\ Nelson, student activities '¿er, defines as “the most hi-^ous Trolios skit in SC his-
y.~
Faculty Participants
Along with Nelson, the 11 other culty actors include Ken 'hanks,	instructor	in	speech;
vussell Caldwell, associate profes-or of history: William Daven-rt, professor of English; Ber-rd Hvink. dean of students; I tio ™j| bert Waldo, IFC coordinator; ’ hn Cooper, associate professor physical education; Robert wney,	instructor	in	physical
tion; James Butler, head of drama department; Charles ding,	professor	of	speech;
;bert Craig, professor of gen-J business: and Tommy Walk-band director.
Prices Set Morgan Lee has	not	yet re-
iled the professional entertaining but promise* some of the ~t singing, dancing, and comedy Its available.
Trolios will be held Nov. 5 at
senators felt after the meting last night that the trial-during-bask-etball compromise may be the answer which will satisfy nearly all factions.
- In earlier action, the Senate unanimously^ approved President Warren Clendening’s a p point-ments of chairmen for two committees. Anne Odin and Seyom Brown will be co-chairmen of the Student Forum Committee, while Al Moore will head the Student Public Relations Committee.
George Hartman, president of the School of Public Administra-seated • as a voting ASSC senator.
A non-voting ASSC Senate seat was approved for Miss Price, president of Chimes, junior women's service organization.
The Senate authorized President Clendening to appoint a committee to assist the Council on Religion in planning a»d stim-
to get a different impression of the same woman.”
To Be Chosen Tuesday The same panel judged the quarter finals on Tuesday.
The 10 women will appear before the entire student body Wednesday noon in Bovard, and the queen and four princesses will be chosen to rule over the Homecoming activities. Each contestant will wear a floor-length white formal gown.
After the judging, Fred D. Fagg, president of the University, will crown the 1953 Homecoming queen.
During the week, the queen will be presented at Trolios Thursday night, ride on her own float in the parade Friday night, be presented again with her court at the football game Saturday afternoon, and reign over the Homecoming dance Saturday night.
He’s Happy “I am tickled to death over the finalists,” said Bud Dimock, Homecoming queen chairman. “Any one of them could be an outstanding ’Helen of Troy.’”
The four judges were Smith; Robert Waldo, interfratern i t y counselor; Robert Miller, economics instructor;’ and Jim McAree, lecturer in general studies.
Send-offRally Slated Friday
A “short but fired-up” rally to ulating interest in Religious Em- see the Trojan footballers off to phasis Week. Formation of the Eugene, Ore., to do battle with Senate committee was requested the Webfoots Saturday afternoon by Student Council on Religion} will be held tomorrow morning President Dan Lucas, who told the in three parts beginning at 7:40, Senators about preliminary plans j according to Jim Lucostic, rally lor the annual event.	|	chairman.
Senate approval was given to The collective rally will be born
bjn. in the	Shrine auditorium.
[oceeds will	go to Troy Camp,	constitutions	ot both the	Indepen-
camp for underprivileged chil-• dent Womens Council and ihe en.	!	Junior	Class	Council.
Established	admission price is	,	Fines	to be Levied
for reserved seats and 50 cents I ines to be lex ied for election general admission.	rules	violations during the recent
'	ASSC	elections were approved
iast night by the Senators. Fines must be paid within three weeks, according to Miss Vasseur, chairman of the Elections Investigating Committee.
Murray Bring, indepen dent men's representative, introduced a by-law which would dissolve the ASSC Student Union Committee and transfer its duties to the Greater University Committee. The proposed by-law will be voted upon at the next meeting.
In spite of the debate over the song leader issue, last night's meeting was the shortest of the year, lasting only two hours.
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when the Pi Kappa Alpha fire-truck and a motor caravan converge on the Row at about 7:40 am. The combined motor group will then drive to the Commons where short warm-up exercises will be conducted.
Cheerleaders, a small pep band, and followers will then move over to the gym where the entire group will send off the Trojan footballers with noise „and confusion.
“Oregon will be a lot tougher than some people think, and we want our boys to be at the top for this one,” said Lucostic. “Let’s get behind them with this send-off.”
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Women's Flapper Day Contest Deadline Set for Tuesday Noon
Homecoming competition for women Flapper Day entrants was announced yesterday by Flapper Day Chairman Rodger Darbonne.
All women, whether participating in a fraternity entry or not, may compete for the trophy to be awarded for the most symbolic costume. The women’s deadline is set for Tuesday noon. Flapper Day Parade will be at noon Thursday Nov. 5.
Deadline for fraternity entries is still noon tomorrow, Darbonne said.
Fraternities should submit an entry sheet containing the name of the house, name of the house chairman, the make and year of the car, and a brief description of what the entry will be.
“If that information is not yet available, the house should notify me by the deadline of its intention to enter, and submit the other information later,” said Darbonne.
A large 32-inch trophy will be awarded to the winning fraternity at Trolios along with the presentation of the trophy to the woman winning the individual costume award.
Rules covering the female competition state that the women’s costumes must be from the Roaring 20s. Women may either walk in the parade down University Avenue or they may ride in a fraternity entry. Authenticity and originality will be the basis for judging.
“Panhellenic President Virginia Barhouse has given her approval to the women’s event, so this new contest should be very successful,” said Bob Hildenbrand, Homecoming chairman.
The Flapper Day parade will move between Founders Hall and Student Union, where the judges’ stand will be located. Judges will be announced later.
“Shush” Adams, Gamma Phi Beta, won the last woman’s costume award as a moll in Theta Xi’s seven-passenger touring car. She wore false eye-lashes and a beaded yellow gown with a short white fur cape.
Bathing suits, knee-length, pencil-shaped dresses, or other typical Twenties attire will be acceptable for the event.
YEAR S FIRST PLAY
Berkeley Square' Opens Tonight
Homecoming Dance Bids to Sell for $3
Saturday night’s Homecoming dance shoukl be “the biggest thing ever,” according
to Chairman Don Roe. Tickets for the affair will go on sale tomorrow in front of the SU and on the Row for $3 per couple.
Music for the dancing, which begins at 9, will be provided by Jerry Gray and his 16-piece “Band of Today” in the giant Circus Gardens at Ocean Park in Santa Monica.
“There
Daily Trojan staff will meet at noon in the city room. All reporters and copyreaders must attend.
“Berkeley Square,” first major production of the year of the drama department, will open tonight at 8:30 in Bovard audtiori-um. It will run nightly through Tuesday except Sunday.
Written by John L. Balderston, lecturer in drama at SC and former foreign correspondent, the play deals with a modern man, transported back through time, who becomes enveloped in a web of strange customs and happenings.
The play has ben made into a motion picture several times. It concerns a young American who inherits a house in London. Upon leaving America and entering his newly acquired possession, he becomes transported to an era of the past . . . back 150 years.
Many Conflicts
Many conflicts arise because he knows of the future happenings in the world w'hich leads the other characters to think him a devil, or sorceror.
The cast includes, in the principal roles, Pat Madgwick portraying Helen Pettigrew, Barbara
Hines as Kate Pettigrew, and Pat Bradley as Peter Standish.
Author Is SC Lecturer
“Berkeley Square’s” auth o r, now a lecturer on the drama faculty, was a noted foreign correspondent of the old New York World.
Howard M. Banks, assistant professor of drama and director of “Berkeley Square” has said, “I feel that Mr- Balderston has written a play that has weathered time. The idea of a drama within a situation like the one present in ‘Berkeley Square’ is intriguing and stimulating. The play contains richness and beauty in every aspect.
Tickets are $1 for orchestra and 60 cents balcony. Activity Books holders will be admitted free.
Tickets may be purchased at the ticket office in the Student Union, from any drama student,
at a booth located at the entrance
to the Trojan Grill, and at the door of Bovard auditorium at the time of performance.
All Candidates See Easy Win In Ugly Race
With just two days remaining in the Sophomore Council’s “Ugly Man” contest, all candidates are claiming an easy victory.
However, Bob Wallach, sophomore class president, announced that ail four nominees are so closely bunched that predicting a winner is impossible.
Winner of the “Ugly Man” contest will be announced tomorrow night amid “breathless” speculation at the “All-U Ugly Dance,” Ends Week The dance, which climaxes a week of active campaigning for “ugly queens” Ken Shanks, Bob Maners, Harry Nelson, and Tom Nickoloff, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Lounge, third floor Student Union.
Shanks, in predicting victory said, “This is the first election I have ever been entered in in which I expect to win legally. I hope that all my enemies on the Independent Men’s Council will vote for me and for what I stand. Remember, it’s legal to stuff the ballot boxes, so start stuffing.” Ton^ Insulted Disputing Shanks’ contention that he would win in a walk was Tom Nickoloff. Nickoloff stated, “Although I am insulted that a man of my good looks and charm should be nominated for such a disgusting position, I urge all the Panhellenic women to back me to the hilt, since proceeds go to charity.”
Harry Nelson, on hearing the campaign speeches of the others, remarked, “I admit that the rest of the fellows are uglier, but if my rich friends on campus come through, I’ll win by a nose.” “The reason I’m running last,” wailed Bob Maners, “is because I’m just too handsome and the Independent Women are reluctant to humiliate me, their idol. But if they would understand that being chosen ugliest means more to me than anything, I know they’ll come through for me.”
The voting booth is open from 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. today and Friday in front of Student Union.
Voting is accomplished by dropping coin or paper currency in the container bearing the name of the favorite candidate and his sponsoring group.
Admission price to the dance, W'hich is open to everyone, is 50 cents. The dress is sport clothes. Music will be by the Acacia combo. Refreshments will be served.
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Truman Critic To Speak at Music School
Paul Hume, Washington Post music critic and object of one ot former President Harry S. Truman’s famous “cuss letters” will present a special lecture, “Musical Journalism—1953,” in 133 FH tomorrow at 12:15 p.m .
Hume, considered to be one of the best-versed musjc critics in the East, is known for his ability to call things as he sees them. His talk will concern the work of the music critic on metropolitan dailies.
This forthrightousness on the part of Hume has twice vaulted him into national prominence.
The first occurrence was three years ago when Hume, covering Margaret Truman’s musical debut in Washington for the Post, wrote that Miss Truman's vocal abilities were of doubtful merit and added that he believed she lacked genuine talent.
He Sold it!
Promptly a letter from then-President Truman, written on official White House stationery, arrived. According to Hume, it contained language unfit to reprint. Feeling that the publication of such a message would be detrimental to bot^h the President and the government, Hume sold it to a collector of rare American letters with the understanding that it was never to be made public.
Hume's second brush with national notoriety happened in September of this year. Helen Trau-bel, world famed metropolitan Opera soprano, announced that she was quitting the opera company in favor of night club en* gagements.,
‘Blues’ to Wagner
In a press conference held by Miss Traubel, Hume asked if she thought W. C. Handy, writer of “St. Louis Blues,” was as good as Richard Wagner, world re-nouned German operatic composer.
Miss Traubel hesitated and her husband objected to the question as unfair. Hume, determined to‘ get a good story,- insisted on an answer. Finally the opera star admitted that she liked Handy as well as Wagner. This disclosure rocked the music world and netted Hume his “big story” which was distributed by the Associated Press throughout the United States.
Questions and Answers
Realizing that students will want to question Hume about these exploits, the School of Music has arranged for a question and answer session immediately after the lecture.
won’t be a moment’s letup all night since continuous entertainment will keep the show at a constant pace.” said Roe.
“It will be the biggest thing we’ve ever had. We’ve never had such a large place as the Circus Gardens before. There’ll be no problems of space either inside or outside the dancing site this year,” said Roe.
Intermission Numbers
The Circus Gardens accommodations include a large dancing floor, more than Aough parking space, and plenty of room to sit and watch the continuous entertainment.
The a tone mentioned continuous entertainment will feature the eight-piece recording orchestra of Jacque Robinson at Jerry Gray s intermissions and the Arthur Murray dancers in specialty numbers.
Jerry Gray, bandleader who recently skyrocketed to the top of 1 he Decca recording list, is known as the man who arranged the Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw hits. His was the hand behind the pen that wrote “String of Pearls'’ and • Pennsylvania Six-Five-T h o u s-and.” He also created the hit that “made” Artie Shaw, “Begin the Beguine.”
Rise to Fame
Gray, who has been one of the most financially successful name bandleaders to play at the ia-rnous Hollywood Palladium, stai l-ed his own band after the late Glenn Miller died in an airplane crash in 1944.
Since then he has steadily risen to fame. In the last few years he shot into fame as one of a select group of bands that play for millions of American ballroom dancers each year.
Chairman Don Roe announced that souvenir bids to the dance will be given out at the door.
In other Homecoming preparations, banners will go up along University Avenue tomorrow, and bumper posters will continue to be sold for 10 cents apiece at the booth in front or the SU.
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The vending of 3OO0 Homecoming souvenir buttons will highlight the start of SC’s Homecoming Week next Monday, Nov. 2.
The large cardinal and gold buttons will be sold for 25 cents, throughout the week according to George Ott, souvenir chairman.
Half of the proceeds of the souvenir sale will go to the University. The other half will go to a rally committee, which is planning a huge rally tentatively slated in the Shriqe Auditorium, prior to the UCLA or Notre Dame football game. “A good cause,” commented Ott.
Ribbon Attached
This year’s button, larger than previous ones,- is 2l* inches in diameter, and has an attached ribbon inscribed with the Homecoming slogan and the words “Homecoming, 1953.”
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pick olthe lour (1. to r.), Harry Nelson, Tom Nickoloff, Bob Maners, and Ken Shanks.
VULTURE
A few remaining copies of the SDX Annual VULTURE are on sale for 15 cents in the Student Union Gift Shop News Stand.
EngineersGet $4000 Grant
A gift of $4000 for scholarships was made to School of Engineering by the AiResearch Manufacturing company of Los Angei s. it was announced yesterday Robert E. Vivian, dean of the engineering school.
Selected on a basis of high academic records and exceptional ability in the field of mechanical engineering, the awards were made to two seniors and a graduate student.
George A. Sopp, 24. of 1215 Mulberry street, Compton, who is doing research work in theoretical fluid mechanics, received a $2000 fellowship.
' Scholarships of $1000 each were awarded to seniors James J. Armstead, Jr., 22, of 3702 '¡s East 58th street, Maywood, who formerly attended East Los Angeles Junior College and to Bruce R. Walker, 24, of 1568 Whitfield Road,. Pasadena.
Both are members of Pi Tau Sigma honorary fraternity in mechanical engineering.