'Architect Will Speak
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Summer News
No. 3
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
Monday, June 28, 1954
Local Queen Points For National Title
Coed Also Gets Lead Role in 'Affairs of State'
Good tilings also happen in threes. Ask Bobette Bentley, outstanding coed.
Miss Bentley, a June graduate taking post-graduate :k, was named Friday as representative in the tional Collegiate Queen Jntest.
On the heels of this announcement came word that the versatile lass was awarded the ffemale lead in the drama depart-lent’s Summer production of iffaire of State.”
And to complete the cycle of three, the lovely blonde will be married Thursday to Jim Halverson, a 1951 SC grad. #
The second annual national contest is set up to honor “The most all-around attractive, versatile and typical college girl in America.” Judging will be based on a basis of 50 per cent for | beauty and 50 per cent for brains.
Miss Bentley would seem to qualify.
During her four years as a Trojane she has been “Miss TV of SC”, California Maid of Cotton, runner-up for the national Maid of Cotton title, Miss Career Girl of SC, Homecoming princess, Senior Class princess, and “Helen of Troy” in the ’54 El Rodeo. She was selected “SC Queen of Queens” in May in a contest conducted by Daily Trojan staff writers.
On the “brains” side of the ledger, she is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, past vice president of the student body, past president of Alpha Lambda Delta (freshman scholastic honorary), member of Mortar Board (women’s honorary), and an off-school term film actress.
It is not known yet whether the 21-year-old coed will participate directly in the national contest. She may have to faoe a state elimination first. The national finals will be held in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Sept. 10-12.
The winner of the contest will receive $5000 worth of prizes in-clcding an all-purpose wardrobe of designers apparel, a fur piece, a diamond wrist watch, a savings bond, $500 scholarship, and an all-expense paid vacation tour.
Naturally Bobette is excited about the selection.
“I’m. thrilled at the chance of representing the school," she said.
As for her part in the forthcoming play, 6he is equally excited. She was a television major as an undergraduate, but this is her first undertaking in straight drama.
“This will give Bobette a chance to really get her teeth into something this summ<y\” her mother remarked. The production will stage a three-night run in Bovard Auditorium July 22-24.
And she’s getting married already yet!
BIG TIME—Bobette Bentley, who has won almost every title and been a member of almost every organization at SC, now has her sights set on the National Collegiate Queen title. She is shown above during the judging of the SC "Queen of Queens" contest which she won —naturally. Her wide-eyed interviewer is Rocki Rhodes, former Daily Trojan society columnist.
Registration Figures Show Enrollment Drop
Registrar Howard W. Patmore Friday reported a small decrease in Summer Session enrollment fropi 1953. Enrollment for the current six-week session stands at approximately 6700, whereas last year’s total was 7046.
The decrease, however, can be accounted for in night school enrollment. The day class enrollment this year is higher than
Calendar
Of Events
TODAY—Education film, “Passion for Life,” Hancock auditorium, 10 a.m.
Phi Delta Kappa luncheon, South Dining Room of Commons, noon.
TOMORROW—General assembly, “The Middle East in World Affairs,” Sydney N. Fisher, Bovard Auditorium, noon.
Religion in Life Series, “The ‘Benevolent Separation’ o f Church and State,” Dr. Merri-mon Cunirtggim, , 3:15 p.m., Doheny Art and Lecture room.
Frank Lloyd Wright talk, 8:15 p.m., Bovard auditorium.
URA square dance, P.E. building dance studio, 8 p.m.
WEDNESDAY—URA golf tourney, Inglewood County club.
Recreation Institute, 9 a.m., Bovard auditorium.
last year’s. Night school students number approximately 1500 this year as compared to 1988 last Summer. There are approximately 5200 students attending day classes; 5058 were in attendance last year.
Patmore figures that the entire Summer enrollment, including the post-session in August, will run pretty close to last year’s figure. In 1953, 680 additional students attended the postsession to bring the entire Summer total to 7756.
This year, 800 additional students are expected to show up for the four-week grind, which will bring the 1954 total to around 7500.
Many of the Summer time students are primary and secondary school teachers taking specialized courses.
F. Lloyd Wright To Criticize U. S In Bovard Talk
America’s foremost critic* of its native architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, will give his answer to “What’s the Matter with America” in a specially donated speech tomorrow evening at 8:15 in Bovard auditorium.
Wright, now in Wisconsin, is making a special trip west for his appearance. He is due to arrive in Los Angeles via airplane at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow. He will leave the Southland Thursday.
The talk will be given under the co-sponsorship of the Municipal Arts department and the SC School of Architecture, with Wright donating his services and paying his own expenses. Net proceeds from the lecture will be used to help defray costs of municipal art I---------------------------------—
events such as the current Wright exhibit, “Sixty Years of Living Architecture,” in Barns-dall Park, Vermont at Hollywood boulevard in Los Angeles.
The 85-year-old Wright, d?an of American architects, is one of the century’s most caustic critics of contemporary civilization and culture.
In a recent California appearance Wright made several biting remarks about Southland architecture and Los Angeles life. He is expected to amplify these remarks in his talk.
By Friday approximately 175 tickets for the Wright speech had been sold at the SC ticket office. Ducats are still available at the ticket office, second floor student union, for $2.75 and $1.75.
ASSEMBLY
Exclusive TV Show Runs On Closed Circuit
“Getting Acquainted,’’ SC’s own television show goes on the air this morning.
Well—it doesn’t exactly go the air, that is, nobody will see it.
Television production class 343 will produce a campus personality show this morning over a closed circuit, which means the program will not leave the studio.
The star of the show will be Kay Cantonwine, SC senior in merchandising who was one of the 12 finalists in the recent “Miss 102” beauty contest. She will be interviewed in professional TV style, and will explain some of the exciting tilings she has done, such as design robes for “Gorgeous George,” the wrestler.
Too bad it is a closed circuit show.
Paul Uumaine, producer-di-reefcor of the show, said that this will be the first of several closed circuit shows, staged by the class this summer.
“It sure is great of Kay to come in and help us out,” he said.
Official
Notice
Monday, July 5, will be observed by the university as an official holiday. Classes will not meet and all university offices will be closed.
J. E. Fields
R. D. Fisher
A. S. Raubenheimer
Problems of Middle East To be Aired
The second in the summer ser. ies of general assemblies will be held at noon tomorrow in Bovard Auditorium. Featured speaker of the program will be Sydney N. Fisher, professor of history at Ohio State College.
He will speak on “The Mid-, die East in World Affairs.” Recognized as a potential hot-spot of the world, Fisher will describe the oil situation that exists and the circumstances of the East-West conflict.
“I will also discuss American interests in the Middle East and describe present Arab-Israel prob-lems,” he said.
The Ohio State professor is currently teaching history courses here and will continue through the six-week session.
Ju.ie Lusk, SC piano student, will perform at the assembly.
Chairman of the assembly series is Summer Session Dean John D. Cooke. He will preside at tomorrow’s program.
“I am very pleased with the success of the first assembly,” he said. “I only wish a few more people could have been there.’* Approximately 100 people heard University of Chicago Prof. Philip M. Houser last Tuesday.
KAY CANTONWINE
Canyon Trip Reservations Still Available
Reservations for the URA-spon-sored trip to Grand Canyon this weekend will be taken until tomorrow at 9 p.m. but no later, Dr. Tillman Hall, director of the URA, emphasized Friday.
So tar 13 have signed up for the excursion, Dr. Hall said, and we have room for 60. Signees may see Hall in 112 P.E. buiicT-ing.
The trip to Grand Canyon will be the second in a series of eight this summer put on by the university. Last Saturday a group from SC traveled to the Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino.
Those persons making the Grand Canyon trek will leave Friday at 4 p.m. via train and arrive back Monday morning.
Cost of the trip will be $38.19 for the round-trip train ticket and cabin, plus meals bought by each person.