Pasadena Chronicle, April 20, 1934

PURCHASE SWEETHEARTS’ PASS (jjtycomde PURCHASE SWEETHEARTS’ PASS Vol. XXV Pasadena, California, April 20, 1934 No. 25 'Sweethearts’ Looms Upon Operatic Calendar As Outstanding Musical Production For Year MUZZY CROONS FRIDAY Fio-Rito Debutantes Will Harmonize Next Week In Assembly Do-Re-Mi | JAYSEE IN PLAY CONTEST Lower Division’s Entry Awarded Third In Annual Meet In line with the succession of popular professional entertainers comes Muzzy Marcellino, young vo¬ calist of Ted Fio-Rito’s orchestra, and the Three Debutantes, also features of the famed musical group, who will provide the tunes for next Friday’s assembly. Marcellino is known by no first name and has always been “Muzzy” to his orchestra and the public. According to the Mu¬ sic Corporation of America, the young tenor received his “break” when as a student at Galileo high school of San Francisco he sang a few numbers when Ted Fio- Rito appeared at an assembly. The maestro recognized his tal¬ ent and engaged Muzzy to sing with him Friday and Saturday nights until he graduated from school. Since then he has been a regular member of the orchestra. The three songsters include Dor¬ othy Hill, Marjorie Briggs and Betty Noyce, former students of Univ. of Southern California. They were first heard at the Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles. From there the sing¬ ing trio migrated to San Francisco with Ted Fio-Rito and quickly won the hearts of the orchestra fans while at the St. Francis hotel. Marjorie is an Illinois blonde, Dottie a brunette from Arizona, and Betty a red-headed Okla¬ homan who once aspired to be¬ come a teacher. James Williams, secretary of ac¬ tivities, who arranged the program, says, “The three Debutantes are types that will please everyone. There is no fear of a scanty at¬ tendance.” Hal Grayson, well-known col¬ legiate maestro, played for the stu¬ dent body at this morning’s assem¬ bly. Junior collegians have stepped to his music at the Civic auditor¬ ium. He received his start direct¬ ing his men while at U. S. C. From there he went to the Roosevelt hotel, Hollywood; radio broadcasts fol¬ lowed. He can now be heard over KFWB originating at the Club Del- mar in Santa Monica. The orches¬ tra has many fans among the col¬ legiate, as the youthful members contribute to the dash and pep of its tempo. P.TXWiUGive Charity Drama “The Late Christopher Bean,” a play under the sponsorship of the Pasadena Teachers’ association, will be given at the Community Playhouse April 26. Proceeds will go toward estab¬ lishing a fund for under-privileged and handicapped children in sec¬ ondary schools. Prices at $1, 75 and 50 cents, tickets may be obtained from E. E. Sauer, foreign language instructor. Holders of scrip must exchange the scrip for tickets at the box of¬ fice of the Community Playhouse. Muzzy Marcellino and not the Debutantes but they will all sing in Assembly next Friday. Op en House For Women Sports Clothes Feature Of A.W.S. Fashion Show To Be Given “The Far Away Princess,” Pas¬ adena’s lower division entry’ in the j annual Pasadena Community Play- ! house one-act play contest, was awarded third place in the tourna- jment, while the upper division play, I “The Land Of Hearts Desire,” tied ' for fifth place with Taft junior ] college. Official junior college results were as follows: first, Modesto; ’second, Compton; third, Fullerton; fourth, San Diego Army and Navy academy; fifth, Pasadena and Taft; and sixth, San Bernardino Valley junior college. In the high school division, Tustin union high school placed first, Santa Monica second, Pasa¬ dena third, San Bernardino fourth, San Diego Army and Navy academy fifth, and Santa Paula union high school sixth. Vaughn Soil, a Compton play¬ er, and Charles Beardslley, rep¬ resenting Modesto, were award¬ ed acting honors for the girls and boys, respectively. Marjorie Gowan, from Tustin high school, and Druce Henderson, a Santa Monica thespian, duplicated in the high school contest. Pasadena’s play, “The Far Away Princess,” by Herman Sudermann, was the story of an athletic young poet who fell in love with a make- believe princess. When he later met the real princess, he was sur- Mills College Is Offering Award To P.J.C. Co-ed Upon recommendation of the president of Mills college and the committee of awards, trus¬ tees of the college designate Pasadena junior college as one of the 25 honor schools in Cali¬ fornia invited to send a special representative to Mills college next year to study as a trustee scholar with young women rep¬ resenting 50 other outstanding schools of the nation. Dr. John W. Harbeson has re¬ ceived a telegram from the president of the college, bring¬ ing this information. More de¬ tails will' appear in the next is¬ sue of the Chronicle. HERBERT OPERA IN DUTCH SETTING DUE APRIL 26-27-28 Adding entertainment to social pleasures, A. W. S. will present a fashion show Monday afternoon when they hold open house in the social hall from 2 to 4 o’clock. All , . , , jaysee students, both men and P^ed to find she wasn’t the girl Flag Mourns Half-Masts Self Students who were observant enough to notice the strange an¬ tics of Old Glory upon the cent¬ ral campus flagpole last Tuesday, marvelled at the persistance with which she semaphored the de¬ cease of some unidentified person. Although hoisted to her usual height, with the usual accomp¬ anying ceremony by the custom¬ ary color guard, she insisted on stealthily creeping down the standard, with the aid of certain lax ropes that were probably not correctly adjusted. The result of the phenomena was a hasty investigation into the well being of various faculty members for whom the half-mast salute might have been a fare¬ well acknowledgment. men women, are cordially invited to at¬ tend the get-together affair. Showing the latest in beach togs and tennis outfits, will be Kay Butller, Virginia Davis, Ber- tille Glanville, Virginia Green, Eloise Jones, Jean Meffley, Sadie Sellers, Coline Upshaw and Betty Wangerien. The costumes, cour¬ tesy of Nash’s, will be displayed at 2:30 and again at 3:15. Under the supervision of Alta Paquette, general chairman, deco¬ rations featuring the “Sweethearts” theme are being directed by Shir¬ ley Chamberlain, chairman; Laura Moran and Margaret Whitney, while refreshments are being pro¬ vided by Virginia Snipes, chairman; Marjorie Youngblood and Barbara Hill. Hostesses for the affair will be Marian Howell, A. W. S. president; Pauline Stevens, first vice-presi¬ dent; Caryl Moon, second vice- president; Marjorie Betts, secre¬ tary; Mary Corn.ett, treasurer; and the A. W. S. cabinet, composed of Anona Alexander, chairman; Mar¬ jorie Bettannier, Katherine Dil- worth, Dorothy Jester, Edith Jones, Dorothy Marsh, Alta Pa¬ quette, Helen Phillips, Joanna Pu- pis, Anna Shields, Lenore Wilcox and Marjorie Youngblood. Students To Show Talent Natalie Theisen and Morton Dry- den are the lower division students who have been selected to repre¬ sent Pasadena in the Shakespeare festival, which will be held at the Cumnock school in Los Angeles, April 21. “Romeo and Juliet” is the play from which Natalie Theisen has selected a part to give, while Mor¬ ton Dryden will present scene from “Macbeth.” Miss Katherine Kester, dramatics teacher, said that “Pas¬ adena is expecting a great deal from these talented young people.” A committee of faculty judges who were Miss Nell Marie Rems- berg, English adviser; Miss Har¬ riet McClay, English teacher; Mrs. Irene Sage Peters, English instruc¬ tor; and Miss Georgiana Flint, business education teacher, select¬ ed the entrants for their advance¬ ment in the Shakespearean field. The winners of the festival will re¬ ceive a bound copy of Shake¬ speare’s works. Two years ago Fred Warriner won first place in the contest for Pasadena, while Margaret Miller took third place. he imagined her to be. “Aria Da Capo,” Tustin union high school’s winning play, was a clever satire on war and war-mak¬ ers, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, while Santa Monica’s “The Boor,” was a story laid in old Russia about a creditor who came to collect his money and stayed to woo the widow of the debtor. “The Game of Chess,” entered by Modesto junior college, was a story of how a grand duke out¬ witted a radical who entered the palace to kill him, and Comp¬ ton’s entry, “The Ace Is Trump¬ ed,” showed how a gangster was I tricked into getting killed by a sweetheart of a man he killed. Fullerton’s play, “Highness,” was a story of Soviet Russia. The plot centered about twp half- sisters, one a peasant ancl the other a princess. The sister of peasant blood sacrificed herself in order that the princess could find happiness. ^ Miss Elizabeth Gilliland, Mrs. Katherine Von Blon, Ray McDon¬ ald, Leslie Palmer and Harrison Ford judged the junior college plays, while Mrs. Harriet L. Green, Miss Margaret Penney, Miss Mary Virginia Inloes, Dr. W. F. Newman and Harold Turnery awarded points for the high school plays. Robert Chapin acted as judge su¬ pervisor. The San Diego Army and Navy academy orchestra provided music for the occasion. Mystery Is Play Theme Perhaps nothing more celebrated for dark deeds existed than the sin¬ ister inn, The Black Flamingo, on the road to Vienne la Chateau in Northern France. This constitutes the setting for the mystery play by Sam Jenney to be presented by the Players’ Guild on May 18 at John Marshall junior high school auditorium. The play takes place at the time of the French Revolution, be¬ fore the execution of the king and queen and the nobility. The Black Flamingo inn, where the nobility would flee and rest on their way to the borders, and where the thieves were quick to take advan¬ tage, furnished the setting for many a robbery, with frequent murders. Here the noble fugitives would awake in the morning with their treasure gone. The complete cast will be an¬ nounced next week. Free Dance Draws Many Japanese Theme Adds To Color Of Afternoon Entertainment A bit of old Japan was trans¬ planted into the women’s gym Wednesday for the first free after¬ noon student body dance in re¬ cent years. Jack Talbot’s orches¬ tra, on a platform backed by the famous Mount Fujiyama and bor¬ dered with a bamboo fence, fur¬ nished the music. Festive decorations included a roof of many-colored Japanese flags and dozens of gay lanterns. Japanese girls attired in native costume, of which Fumiko Sama- shima was chairman, served re¬ freshments. These girls included Karou Wakiji, assistant chairman; Hanako Tagashira, Sophie Tajima, Anna Seiki, Takeo Wakiji, Setsuko Uchida, Yuriko Kondo, Chiyeko Mikuria, Mary Takeuchi and Ma- saka Wakiji. The refreshment committee consisted of Mersie Booth, Emily Bettanier, Marjorie Bettanier, Orval Larkey, Edward Raymond and Dick Gorby. A variety of dance numbers and several specialty selections were included on the afternoon’s pro¬ gram. George Brown, pianist; Helen McGowan, dancer; Marjorie and Margaret Day, tap dancers; and five little Japanese girls, who performed a typical Japanese dance, were the featured artists. The Japanese girls were Fusae Hamone, Hirol Yamane, Susie Ni- shikawa, Mieko Nomura and Fu- jiko Sameshima. According to Loretta Melton, sec¬ retary of social affairs, this dance was considered by members of the social affairs committee as the out¬ standing event on its social calen¬ dar. New Bureau For Publicity As a major part of the Chron¬ icle publicity service, a special news department, headed by Vir¬ ginia Bell, has been organized for the purpose of distributing to newspapers in Pasadena and sur¬ rounding vicinities, school features written by students of journalism and members of the Chronicle staff. This organization shall be known as the Chronicle news-pub¬ licity service, and will be composed of such writers as Ellen Christian, Alice Flynn, Irving Kornstein, and Jack De Marais. Junior college news is to be played up in this news-distribution experiment. Forensics Taken Into Phi Rho Pi Complete Sell-Out Of Tickets For All Three Nights Is Predicted; 200 P.J.C. Students From Music Department Take Part In Musical Comedy By VIRGINIA BELL As one of the major attractions of the Spring semester over 200 students from the music department, under the direction of Miss Lula C. Parmley, will present Victor Herbert’s musical comedy, "Sweet¬ hearts." The opera is to be staged at 8:30 on the evenings of April 26, 27 and 28 at the John Muir Technical high school. The comedy-opera story of the Princess of Zila- nia, who is trick- ed out of her throne by a co¬ quettish maiden, who in turn is disposed of by a rascally knave, is sparkling with humor and re¬ plete with vivaci¬ ous sentiment. Opening on a stage without players the set- | ting is of a color- ' ful Phi Rho Pi, national junior col¬ lege honorary forensic fraternity, initiated five new members on the eve of April 14, at the home of James Williams. Those initiated were Roberta Atchley, Dow Parkes, Joe Phillips, Chester Radford and Bob Trumbull. Members of the honorary frater¬ nity are selected on the basis of past achievement, attitude toward forensics, and general desirability. Debate Coach Earl D. Davis is ad¬ viser to the group. Tenure Law Change Is Suggested Present Teachers’ Ruling To Be Considered By Legislature Modification of the present teach¬ ers’ tenure law, and reorganization of the State Board of Education, were the main topics of discussion at the California Teachers associa¬ tion council meeting, held April 14 at the Palace hotel in San Fran¬ cisco. The meeting was attended by 125 delegates, representing 43,- 000 California teachers. Changes in the present teach¬ ers’ tenure law, agreeable to both the teachers’ council and the California trustees’ association, were suggested, and will be pre¬ sented to the state legislature at its next session. The proposed changes, if put into effect, will culminate a disagreement of sev¬ eral years standing between the two organizations. Florence C. Porter of Bakers¬ field, a member of the State Board of Education, characterized the set¬ tlement of the tenure problem as the outstanding accomplishment of California educators in the past few years. It was suggested that in the future, members of the State Board of Education be elected by popular vote instead of being ap¬ pointed. Also, if the proposed plan is adopted, the state superintend¬ ent of schools will be chosen by the board instead of being elected by the voters. Another highlight of the meet¬ ing was the election of John A. Sexson, superintendent of the Pasadena city school, and one of the Pasadena representatives, to the vice-presidency of the State Board of Education, and to the board of directors. Other Pasadena representatives were Ruth Newby, representing the kindergarten teachers; Drummond MeCunn, president of the Pasadena Teachers association; and Leland Pryor, head of the jaysee business education department. Dr. Harbeson To Be Envoy Dr. John W. Harbeson will rep¬ resent Pasadena junior college at the annual Spring meeting of the Southern California Junior College association, to be held on the Po¬ mona college campus tomorrow. “I am trying to present to jun¬ ior college people,” said O. Scott Thompson, principal of Compton junior college and president of the association, “some of the very fin¬ est work in the country being done on liberalizing the curriculum.” Dr. A. A. Douglass of Claremont college will address the meeting on aspects of junior college curricu- lums, with particular reference to liberalizing the curriculums some¬ what as the University of Minne¬ sota, University of Chicago, and the University of Indiana are do¬ ing. Dr. Harbeson, former president of the group, has been asked by Mr. Thompson to lead the second discussion, with particular refer¬ ence to the University of Chicago. Dr. N. V. Ricciardi and Dr. M. E. Hill will lead the other two discus¬ sions. Election of officers is another feature of the assemblv. Dutch Christina Welles iul , garden. Tire ar¬ ray of colors throughout the pro¬ duction is carried on by the cos¬ tumes of the peasants, the soldiers, the Dutch, and modern costumes. Because of the large cast and the success of pasit operas, tickets are made available for three nights instead of the usual two. With the anticipation of a complete sell-out о n Friday and Saturday nights, Miss Parmley ad¬ vises a n early purchase of tick¬ ets for all three nights, particu- 1 a r 1 у Thursday. Tickets are now on sale at the Hancock Music company at 331 East Colorado street or at the P. J. C. ticket of- pce Wialter Pollock The cast consists of Sylvia, Princess of Zilania, as portrayed by Christina Welles; and Prince Franz, heir presumptive to the throne, acted by Walter Pollock. Two parts are to be divided be¬ tween players. They are Liane, a milliner of Bruges, as played by Ruth Fassett on Thursday and Friday, and Phyllis Lockard on Saturday. Dick Hanna and Harp¬ er Welch will share honors in the role of Hon. Percival SMngsby. Comedy parts will be done by Fred Warriner as Mikel, a diplo¬ mat of Zilania, and Mary Lou Rit- tenhouse or Dorothy Shaw in the character of Dame Paula, pro¬ prietress of the Laundry of the White Geese. Petrus Von Tromp and Captain Lourent will be taken by Norman Bock and Merle Bartoo, while Paul Munroe and Barney Hayes are the footmen. The six daughters of Dame Paula are: Jeannette, Mar¬ guerite Schmidt; Clairette, Fran- ( Continued on раде four) Guffaw Well At Correct Time It is a distinct art to be able to laugh convincingly at a trite or unappealing joke, even when it is presented in an interesting manner by an intimate associate. Imagine, then, the depths of pro¬ found misery into which Miss Clara B. Biddings’ sixth peribd German conversation students were plunged lust Tuesday. Not only were they' obliged to register incredulity, sympathy, and ire, as the content of the oration (presented in German, by a German correspondent) de¬ manded, but they were actually compelled to guffaw heartily at jokes that many of them but half comprehended. And woe to the unfortunate one whose ignorance of the lan¬ guage would lead him to laugh at the wrong time, or with the wrong inflection for the occa¬ sion.