UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Summer News
OAST-TO-COAST — Dr. Frank C. Baxter (left), shown receiv-ng an Emmy in February for his excellent "Shakespeare on \J" program, will be on a coast-to-coast network beginning in ugust, it was announced yesterday. KNXT, channel 2, will riginate Dr. Baxter's new show "Now and Ten" for distribu-ion in New York. "Shakespeare on TV" will be shown in an Francisco.
axter TV Show oes To New York
Dr. Frank C. Baxter, professor of English, will go on coast-to-coast CBS network every Sunday night in Au-t with his new television program, “Now and Then,” it 3 announced over the week-end. KNXT, Channel 2, will tinue to originate the telecast, which is seen at 6:30 each Sunday.
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r. Baxter’s “Shakespeare on was also previewed in the area Monday, he program was viewed over San Francisco station KQED, will be a one-unit credit rse, with students taking the
1	at Mills College at the end he series.
n his “Now $nd Then” show, Baxter will perform the pro-m “live” at 3:30 p.m. in the lywood studios so it can reach great New York audience at p.m. Eastern Daylight time, e will be seen here at 6:30 Pacific Daylight Time by ns of a “hot kinescope.” This filmed recording of the show is rushed through the lab-tory for the broadcast. Columbia Broadcasting System work executives in New York re been interested for a long e in putting Dr. Baxter on the nscontinental microwave. They ?e impressed by the success of two “Shakespeare on TV” icational series which were n locally for 36 weeks and ten national and local awards excellence.
V recordings of Dr. Baxter’s ing semester series of “Shakes-:re on TV” started recently on BS-TV in New York City, and r rave notices from TV edi-s of newspapers such as the w York Times and Variety, ohn E. Fields, vice president charge of development, met h CBS executives when he in New York last month to end a convention. It was at t time that details were rked out for the SC professor go coast-to-coast with at least of his new series of lectures.
a For Women udents Planned
'omen students at the univer-will be honored tomorrow af-loon with a tea to be given in Chancellor’s Suite, he tea will be sponsored by -ambda Theta, national hon-•y fraternity for women, and be held from 3 to 5 p.m. iere will be special music at ti., according to Alice L. Car’s, chairman of the event, ucation professors, their s, and newly elected Pi bda Theta officers will be nt.
Music Festival Will Open Tomorrow
The SC School of Music will open its 1954 “Festival of Contemporary Music” tonight at 8:30 p.m. in HAncock Auditorium.
The opening program will include Sonata for Piano, Elliott Carter; Sonata For Viola D’-Amour and Piano, Hans Rudas; Three Pieces for Piano, Arthur Bryan; and “Beloved Stranger,” a song cycle on poems of Witter Bynner by Victor Babin.
Three other programs will be presented July 14, 18, and 21. They will include chamber works by Niels Viggo Bentzon, Elliot Weisgarber, Don Michalsky, Bela Bartok, William Schumann, Halsey Stevens, Richard Donovan, Ellis Kohs, Stravinsky, and Copland.
Calendar Of Events
No. 5
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
Wednesday, July 7, 1954
TODAY — Literature Series, “Thoreau’s Thunder:	Echoes
From Walden 100 Years After,” Carl J. Weber, 8:15 p.m., Doheny Art an<l Lecture Room.
Golf Tourney, Inglewood Country Club, % p.m.
Contemporary Festival Program I, concert of chamber music, Hancock auditorium, 8:30 p.m.
TOMORROW — Lectures on World Affairs, “The Federal Republic Since 1948, John F. Golay, 3:15 p.m., Doheny Art and Lecture Room.
Social ami Round Dance workshop, 8 p-m., dance studio, P.E. building.
Graduate Tea, 3 p.m., Graduate lounge.
SATURDAY—'Trip to Old Mex? ico.
SUNDAY—Faculty Recital, Lillian Steuber, pianist, Bovard auditorium, 8:30 p.m.
MONDAY — Education Series, “Education for Catastrophe,” Robert Brackenbury, Hancock auditorium, 9 a.m.
100 Hear Expert Speak on Author
SC Dean Says Be Critical'
Music Head Blasts People Who Depend On Critics’ Reviews
Everyone ought to be his own music critic, Dean Raymond Kendall of the SC School of Music told the Rotary club at the Statler hotel Friday.
“Too many people wait to read what the critics say in their newspaper reviews before they decide whether they like a piece of music,” Kendall said. Incidentally, the dean is a critic himself on a local newspaper.
“I have a lot of confidence in the public's taste,” the dean said. “If they don’t like some music, though, it may have been because it was badly performed. Of course it may have been a shoddy piece of music.
“If some one doesn’t like contemporary music, why not say so? Some music is a little more complicated. But if a work is valid at all, something ought to come through on the first hearing.”
Some artists are press-agented beyond their talents, the dean observed. “Their agents bludgeon critics for space and good reviews even though the artists may be poor performers.
“In the long run the public is not far wrong in its likes and dislikes in music or its performers,” he said.
Phyllis Althof, soprano; and Bill Teaford, pianist; entertained the audience. Both are graduates of the SC School of Music.
Lawyer Series Starts Summer TV-Schedule
‘‘Know Your Lawyer,” a nine-week series of television programs sponsored by the Los Angeles Bar Association, the women’s division of the Chamber of Commerce and the School of Law, began on KTHE, Channel 28, July 4, at 7:30 p.m.
Charles E. Beardsley, Los Angeles attorney and past president of the State Bar of California, gave the opening lecture on “Law in Our Everyday Life.”
On July 11, Ira N. Price II, Los Angeles attorney, will speak on “Lawyer Service for $5 to $10,” and Dean Robert Kingsley of the law school will discuss “Lawyer Service Without Charge,” describing the Legal Aid organization.
Panel discussion on “When Do You Need a Lawyer?” will be given on July 18 and 25 by Superior Court Judges Frank G. Swain, Mildred L. Lillie and Daniel S. Stevens wjth Dean Kingsley as moderator.
Personal Conflict of Henry James Told
A conflict in the personal life of Henry James, noted American author, was brought to light yesterday noon by Dr. Carl J. Weber, professor of English Literature at Colby College.
Dr. Weber told the story of “Henry James and his Tiger Cat” before an audience of apprroximately 100 people at the third regular Tuesday General Assembly.
Summer Session Dean John D. Cooke opened the assembly by announcing Dr. Oswald Ragatz, associate professor of music at University of Indiana. Dr. Ragatz played two selections on the large Bovard Auditorium organ.
Dr. Weber, who has made
detailed study of the correspondence of Henry James, began his talk by explaining that the Tiger Cat in the title was a human one, an English author named Miss Violet Paget. Her title was given her by James himself.
The episode between James and Vernon Lee (pen name for Miss Paget) has only been revealed recently through the discovery of additional letters written by James.
Weber explained that the explosion of what began as an interesting friendship was brought about when Miss Paget used James as a character in one of her short stories thereby ridiculing him.
Weber pointed out that it was always James’ belief that characters for novels should not be taken from real life. James’ brother Witliam, while not expressing the same feeling was quoted by Weber as saying “The using of a friend for copy shows a lack of appreciation for human intercourse.”
Thus It was that James, “having once been scratched by his tiger cat never came near her again.”
Weber told most of the story by reading letters of James, Miss Paget and their friends, and filling in the events that went in between.
“I will stick close to tb? manuscript, for to paraphrase these letters would remove the flavor of James,” Dr. Weber said.
Rubber Plant To Hold Open House Here
Open House will be held Wednesday, July 14, from 3 to 5 p.m. by the new TLARGI Rubber Technology Foundation laboratory on the southwest corner of W. 36th Place and Hoover St., it was announced over the weekend by Dr. Harry L. Fisher, director.
All students of chemical engineering and chemistry and faculty members in those departments are specially invited.
Summer Session students and faculty members who may be interested in the $65,000 worth of rubber manufacturing and testing equipment are welcome to inspect the facilities, Dr. Fisher said.
The laboratory, which is part of the School of Engineering, was equipped with new machinery by rubber manfacturers in this area. The foundation was established at SC by The Los Angeles Rubber Group Inc. (TLARGI).
On display and in operation will be a Banbury mixer, four-rolled calendar, rubber mixing rolls, extruder, weather-ometer, vulcanizing press, and equipment to test the strength and aging of rubber.
Los Angeles is second only to Akron in rubber manufacturing. The foundation and laboratory were set up to conduct research in synthetic rubber and to train technicians for the industry.
SC GRAD RETURNS
German Political Structure Mapped
Germany’s political structure was explained in detail Thursday afternoon, as J. F. Golay, SC graduate and Rhodes scholar, spoke in the Doheny Art and Lecture room. It was the first in a three-lecture series to be conducted in the next two weeks.
Golay outlined the differences between the federal organization of the Federal Republic ^>f Germany, and that of the United States. He was formerly executive secretary of the U.S. high commissioner’s office and secretary-general to the allied high commission in Germany.
Horizontal Powers He pointed out that the basic law follows German constitutional tradition by making the division of powers a horizontal one. Strong legislative power is therefore concentrated in • the central
government, but the primary responsibility of administration lies with the constituent states.
He also explained the importance of the Bundesrat (Germany’s federal council of states) in the federal set up. This council exercises control over the legislation of the federation and prevents the central government from seizing state powers. '
Strong Foreign Service
He indicated that the Unitod States, if it plans to fulfill the responsibilities of western leadership, must strengthen its foreign service.
Golay’s next lecture will be Thursday at 3:15 pm. in the Doheny Art and Lecture room. At that time he will survey economic and political developments in Western Germany since, 1948.