DeMille to Bring Moses Up to Date
Southern
California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL XLVIII
72
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1956
NO. 53
'A Christmas Carol' OpensTonight Bovard to Host Five Performances
Calls the Exodus A Modern Story
• A convocation of students and faculty iu Bovard Auditorium at 11 a.m. today will be addressed by Cecil B. DeMille, producer-director whose 70 films have covered a 43-year period of cinema history. All 11 o'clock classes will be dismissed.
The 75-year-old holder of Hoi- by law, law applying equally to lywood's highest professional | all. and not by the whim of any
NO YULE DECOR
ATO Withdraws
Annual Contest
Alpha Tau Omega will not hold its annual Christmas Decorations Content thus year ‘'because of the lack of enthusiasm on the part of rowites,” the DT learned yesterday.
“Unfortunately we have found it necessary to cancel this year's contest.” Ken Niles, ATO president, said.
Wampus Sales Soar Skyward; Editor Jubilant
Cast Will Give Show For Kids at UCLA
Charles Dickens’ traditional classic, “A Christmas Carol,” will be presented tonight at 8:30 in Bovard Auditorium in the first of five performances by the drama department.
Next week the cast will travel to UCLA's Schoenberg
Hall to present four special chil-
“ Tho re is a very notioeabie lack of enthusiasm on the pait of rowites. and more particularly sororities,” Niles explained.
Panhellenic recently voled to limit sorority participation in the contest to door decorations.
Panhellenic members decided against large scale decorations because of the many other activities in which sorority women participate during the Christmas season.
Women Complain Many women have complained that they don't have time for decorations along with studies and other universtiy Christmas projects.
“In previous years fraternities and sororities, vieing for tne two trophy awards, produced large-scale and impressive house decorations that added a distinct Christmas glow' to the row,” Niles noted.
Much Disappointment Rob Kadow. chairman of the annual contest, said. “I am very disappointed in Panhell's ruling which limits sorority participation merely to door decorations. The contest was originated to promole the traditional Christmas decorations and to get everyone in the holiday spirit.” “The altitude taken by Panhellenic and the lack of enthusiasm along the row simply doesn't permit us to promote a success ul contest.
dren’s showings, as part of a program to encourage children's theater and build better future audiences.
Lewis Carlino will he seen in the leading role of Scrooge. According to Carlino, a junior lan-
role of Bob Cratchet, commented that “A Christmas Carol” is a wonderful work in characterization, and that director Howard Banks has done an excellent job with the production.
“It's no mean job trying to
Baxter Plans Yule Stories
Dr. Frank Baxter, professor of English, will give his annuai Christmas Readings in Bovard Auditorium at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 12.
Baxter's readings will feature humorous and serious poems and stories about the Yuletide season.
Wampus sales for the first three hours of the campaign soared to what Editor Frank Galusha believed to be an all-time high yesterday moi nmg.
Armed with more than 1100 issues at 8 a.m.. the troop cf screaming salesmen had sold all available magazines by 11 a.m.
A tie-up at the bindery .vhere the magazine is folded and sewed together stopped temporarily all selling at that time oales were begun again at 3 p.m. as Galusha reported a
“Wampus is over half its dreamed of sales total,” Assistant Editor .lerry Burns revealed yesterday. Speaking from behind a raincoat and pith helmet. Burns called upon Trojans to help celebrate Editor Frank Galusha’s birthday today by buying out the remaining stock of humor magazines.
“Let’s all get behind the team, gang.” he said, “and a big demand for more magazines.”
"tremendous response”
“I was really sorry that I couldn't continue selling througn the noon hour because that time is probably the be.>.t of the day.” Galusha said. "Our table will be up outside the student union all day,” he said.
Many an eyebrow reportedly went up over the magazine's sorority ratings. It is the cus- J tom of the magazine to analvze Row women, and this year the survey was conducted by 1 >ur “suave fraternity type men.”
guage-arts major, the part is keep my family together back-difficult in that it requires a subtle transition of character.
“As Scrooge turns Irom being a crotchety old man to a kindly and sympathetic gentleman, the audience must be made to realize the events that influenced his change.'• explained Carlino.
New Scrooge Characterization
Carlino stressed the tact that audiences have a preconceived idea of Scrooge, and that he has attempted to create a somewhat new character. Carlino commented that the story of Scrooge conveys the story of hope for all people.
William Grey, who enacts the
EducatorsTalk Set for Today
Grace Drier, member of the Board of Education, will speak today before the 11:00 and 1:15 Her younger brother and sister
stage,” said Grey in regard to the many difficulties involved in the play. Gray’s responsibilities included taking care of seven-year-old Eddie Nevvville, who plays the youngest member of the Cratchet family. Tiny Tim.
‘Dickens’ Will Narrate Paul Comi is cast as Dickens, who will appear as a narrator, describing scenes as the play progresses.
Other prominent cast members are Elk Bronstein in the role of Marley, Harry Black-stone as the nephew of Scrooge, and Hal George, Jim Condon and Bill Masten as the ghosts.
Condon, as the ghost of Christmas Present, will wear a I special battery-lighted crown j which he personally designed for • the part.
An active member of the production is Marv Nevvville. Miss Newville's activities include designing and making all of the Cratchet family’s costumes, as well as appearing in the play.
honors whose latest production is "The Ten Commandments, will speak on "Moses and Today.”
The events of the Exodus have been termed "a modern story, applicable to life today” by DeMille. who points out that the struggle currently raging in the world is the same one which began in Egypt between Moses and Pharaoh.
Mose* Freed .Mankind
other man"—and the other— that "people belong to the state and have no souls to use except as the state sees fit.”
Tho first great clash between these two giant concepts was the conflict >f Moses and Pharaoh, DeMille has said.
“Moses was the first to conceive—or receive—the idea that man is a free and independent sou! under God. He freed mankind for the first time to live
These two men lepresent two unfjer laws, not bv submis-ideologies. according to DeMille.
One—that “man should he ruled
D. A. Selection Sets Feather In Troy s Cap
By YVONNE PATTEN
Newly appointed District Attorney William M. McKesson, who has promised a severe shift in the personnel and policies of the Los Angeles prosecutor's office, is a feather in the cap of the SC School of Law.
Bespectacled, 61-year-old McKesson. who was the uncontested choice of the County Board of Supervisors, received his law degree from SC.
When the former superior judge took his oath of office Tuesday he took one of the biggest steps in his career since his graduation from the university. Prom the status of a law sylvania Military College.
sion to some individual.” he has said.
“Since this first liberation, men have never again been content to live in chains.”
From his earliest childhood. DeMille has been a student of the Bible.
Bibl* Hewing Nation
“One of the most important values,” he says, “one I would like to see stressed to the American people, is the reading and understanding of the Bible.”
"I think if this were done regularly in American homes, the prisons and reform schools wouldn't be quite so full. The nation and the whole human race would benefit greatly.”
At today's convocation President Fred D. Fagg Jr. will present DeMille with a copy of “Moses and Eg\pt” specially bound in blue calf.
Established SC Cinema
DeMille was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree by SC in 1939. He also holds an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from his alma mater. Penn-
BAH! HUMBUG!—Lewis Carlino glowers balefully as he portrays Charles Dickens' crotchety old Scrooge in an adaptation of the English novelist's "A Christmas Ca^ol." The show will run five nights in Bovard Auditorium.
observation classes of the School of Education. She will explain the role of the SC student teacher as a part of the fund-raising program to establish an education center here on campus.
The student teacher’s part in the large building program will be in the form of a $15 pledge, payable over a three-year period at $5 per year. The building center will be designed to furnish the entire west coast with the most recent materials, methods and practices in the teaching fields.
Mrs. Drier will speak so that all who are preparing to become educators mav fullv un-
are also part of the cast, portraying Tiny Tim and Scrooge's sister respectively.
Another youngster recruited for the play is Gary Stall, son of acting drama denartment Chairman Dr. Herbert Stall, who will be seen in.one of the flashback scenes portraying Scrooge as a child.
Original Set, Costumes
All costumes and sets for the play are authentic and were designed entirely by students. Paul Siebert designed the set, while costumes were created by Joan Dupuis. Dick Anderson and Miss Newville under the supervision of costume director John Blankenship.
derstand the large task before ! Virginia Bitar, who sang the them and willingly give their leading role in the opera departtime and pledges toward the men^s recent production of success of the new center. i (Continued on Page 4. Col. 6)
Andrea Karres Wins El Rod Title
CALENDAR CUTIES-EI Rod Queen Andrea Karres (r) and her calendar girls will grace the 1957 yearbook's pages. Front: S.
Simons, S. Hurd, G. Bergen, S. Newburn, C. Butler. Rear: S. Ruckel, S. Keiser, S. Gardner, L. Hickey, M. Engelhardt.
Theta Will Act As 1957 Queen
Andrea Karres, Kappa Alpha Theta, will serve as queen of the j 1957 El Rodeo.
After a campus-wide search for the most beautiful SC coeds. Queen Karres and 11 Calendar Girls were selected Thursday by members of the El Rodeo staff and campus leaders.
Their beauty and personality separated the finalists from 45 contestants. Each Calendar Girl will represent a month of the school year in the ’57 El Rodeo, according to Tom Pflimlin, editor.
The girls of the months were: Miss September. Sherrie Keiser, Pi Beta Phi; Miss October, Shirley Gardner, Independent: Miss November, Linda Hickey, Kappa Alpha Theta; Miss December, Mollie Engelhardt, Alpha Phi; Miss January, Sara Simons, Pi Beta Phi;
Miss February. Susan Hurd, Alpha Phi: Miss March, Glennel Bergren, Delta Gamma; Miss April, Sharon Newburn, Kappa Alpha Theta; Miss May, Carol Butler. Delta Gamma; Miss June, Sharon Ruckel, Alpha Delta Pi.
Judges making tbe selections weie Bill Lachs, El Rod associate editor; Jack Casey, Knight president; Charles Swan, IFC president; Ernest Mergenthaler, card stunt chairman; Don Williams. contest chairman; and J. Albert Trescony, chief talent scout for MGM Studios.
SC Air Group to Hear Flyer Speak on Red Aircraft Today
All SC students interested in learning about aviation are expected to fill the International Student Lounge today at 2:30 when the University of Southern California Air Force Association Flight holds its first meeting.
Gil Horacek,. temporary Flight Leader (president) said that many students were enthusiastic about the new organization because there has been “nothing like it at the university in a long time” and it is a good chance to “bind together all those interested in aviation.”
Plan Formed in Summer
The idea for the USCAFA occurred to Horacek during last year’s spring semester and he outlined the program and plans last summer so that he could present it before the ASSC Senate and have it approved.
Working with Horacek last summer was the president of San Fernando Valley Squadron of the Air Force Association, t Bob Feldtkeller. i As a consequence the USCAFA I is sponsored and assisted by this organization and membership in the club entitles the purchaser i to belong to tho AFA and have j their lapel pin and magazine.
Escapee to Speak
Activities of the new club will include a Polish escapee from Russia who will speak on tech-
student. McKesson has risen to the $23,000 a year District Attorney’s position.
Superior Court Appointment The initial law studies of the Kansan began at Colorado College. He earned his degree from SC’s law school in 1922. Former
He helped establish the cinema department here in 1928. with the Society of Motion Picturt Arts and Sciences. His brother, the late William C. DeMille. headed the drama department for many years.	'
In additfon to two Oscars. De-
Governor Warren appointed Me- Mille has been awarded the Irv-Kesson to the Superior Court in ing Thalberg memorial award
1944.
The new' prosecutor held that, position until this week when supervisors selected him for the the District Attorneyship.
McKesson has criticized the handling of the Evelyn T. Scott disappearance because the District Attorney's office worked seven months without calling on the police for aid.
Wants More Competence
for “consistent high quality of production achievement.” one of the most coveted honors in the film industry.
Foremost Prodticer-Director
DeMille has been voted by motion picture exhibitors across the country the foremost producer-director of the industry. He has received this title for eight consecutive years, since the nationwide poll was started by Exhi-
Another of McKesson's criti- bitors Magazine.
CAPT. J. S. GESTSON
. . . wants officer material
US Marines To Interview SC Regulars
The Marine Corps officer pro-
niques and new projects in air- curement team, headed by craft behind the Iron Curtain j Capt. J. S. Gestson, will be on and the Northrop Aircraft Co. campus Dec. 12,13 and 14 in the vice president who was a World International Students ^Lounge War II aqe pilot.
Faculty advisers for the club are Major Carl Swartz, assistant professor of air science and John L. Goodwin, associate professor of air transportation.
Banquet Set By Linguists
to interview students for the Marine officer training programs offered to college men and women.
The platoon leaders class for freshman, sophomore and junior men is designed to train high-caliber young men for positions of leadership and responsibility as commissioned officers.
After attending two six-week summer training courses al Quantico, Va., and earning a
cisms is that the District Attorney’s office is run by inexperienced men. In his turnover in personnel, the former SC stu-
This vear, by vote of some 500 film editors and critics, DeMille was among the first five chosen for a future Motion Picture Hall
(Continued on Page 4, Col. S) 1 of Fame.
Water Kept Pure By SC Foundation
The tall, semester banquet of bachelor 's d<,g members of the Classical _Languagea. Cluo : |hjs program are commissioned
will be held Saturday, Decem ber 8 at Carl's Restaurant (Flower and Figueroa) from
Second Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.
Ground officers are subse-
uf?. w o 30 P m • a'cordin,g *° quently assigned to furthe. club ‘amS‘ presldent 01 ,he schooling at Quantico. and avia
tion officers go to Pensacola.
Highlighting the banquet as Fla f for 15 l0 l8 months of the featured speaker will be flight training. Members of the Dr. John Wesley Robb, h£ad of plC enjoy complete academic the under-graduate department of religion at SC. His topic is “The Wellsprings of Religious F'aith from the Greek Poets.”
Entertainment will be pro-
freedom, no military classes or drills to attend during the school year.
Seniors and graduates are eligible for the Officer Candi-vided by the Two Sons of Troy, date Course or the Aviation Doug and Eric Nelson, with Officer Candidate Course. Fol-songs and musical accompani- lowing a ten-week training ment. Also, Mike Anderson will course at Quantico, OCC grad-present a “Christmas Concerto” uates are commissioned and of carols which will be sung by continue on for an eight-month guests at the banquet.	i basic course.
By ARNOLD COLE
Situated behind the main engineering building is a small bungalow that is probably better known nationally than it is on the SC campus.
Unpretentious in appearance, it nevertheless houses a research foundation that insures your getting an uncontaminated drink of water.
Named the Research Foundation for Cross-Connection Control. it is a non-profit organization of SC dedicated as a public service to the Southern California community.
Devices Prevent Backflow “In essence, the Foundation tests devices that are used to prevent contamination of public potable waters by backflow-through the water mains,” said Dr. Kenneth C. Reynolds, head of the department of general engineering and supervisor of the Foundation.
Through research, development and testing, the Foundation seeks out causes of backflow and devices and evaluates systems by which it may be prevented.
Hospitals and Sewerage “Two places where contamination of water supply is most likely to occur is at hospitals and sewerage disposal plants." Dr. Reynolds said. "Actually, the danger exists any place where polluted water can come in contact with potable water.”
“For instance, last year a restaurant telephoned the health department and said patrons were complaining that the coffee tasted salty. A check revealed that a ship in the harbor was taking on sa11 water for ballast and was filling fresh-vvater tanks at the same time. A back-| flow of salt water was created i that contaminated fresh water
mains for 90 blocks.” he said.
Recognized Need
The American Water Works Association, prior to 1943, recognized the necessity of approved backflow prevention device* being used w'herever contaminated water might mix with potable water.
Dr. Robert E. Vivian, dean of the SC School of Engineering, complying with the need, established the Foundation in 1943.
In a meeting last month at SC, a committee from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power approved a report, which if adopted, will set the standard for testing devices for the city. The report was written by Dr. Reynolds, Professor E. Kent Springer of mechanical engineering. and the late Capt. Walter H. Albach of the SC School of Engineering.
L.A. I^eads Nation “Los Angeles leads the nation in the use and testing of backflow' prevention devices. If the city adopts the specifications set forth in our report they may become standardized for the nation,” said Dr. Reynolds.
“This laboratory at SC has the largest and best facilities west of the Mississippi river for testing actual prevention devices,” Dr. Reynolds added. “It is recognized both city-wide and nationally for providing data on the characteristics of these prevention devices.”
“As a result of a conference Tuesday with three representatives from the Department of Water and Power, the Foundation is planning to inaugurate an extensive research program which might well affect the design of backfow prevention units by providing new experimental data never before collected,” Reynolds concluded.