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Pasadena Chronicle, February 21, 1930
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Volume XXI
Pasadena, California, Friday, February 21, 1930.
No. 18
‘RED MILL’
LEADS MARE
FIRST BOW
Delbert Macbeth, Larry
Smith Lend Capable
Support
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PRODUCTION STARTED
Ruth Riordan, Charles Weale,
Mark Gates Lead Colorful
Cast for Comedy
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Sizzling with vivacity, the play¬
ers in the “Red Mill” give promise
of presenting a professional inter¬
pretation of their roles, if the obser¬
vations of the Chronicle critic are
at all accurate. Ruth Riordan
makes a most fetching Tina, daugh¬
ter of William. Tina intends to
go on the stage and she is the
despair of William’s life. Ruth was
in the prologue of the “Rose of
the Alhambra,” she was also in
the “Maid of Tokyo.” As one of
the four girl leads, she has a
heavy role. Her excellent acting
and dancing coupled with her
pleasing singing voice ensures the
success of her role. The comedy
team Kid, Con and Tina played by
Charles Weale, Mark Gates, and
Ruth Riordan will surely run off
with the show if the rest of the
cast does not look to its laurels.
Mark Gates as Kid Conner
gives a performance which is des¬
tined to draw popular approval.
He has had extensive training.
Aft, Santa Monica high school he
played one of the leads in Gilbert
Sullivan’s “Mikado.” “His comedy
ability is the delight of all who
hear him,” said Miss Lula C. Par-
mley, director of the opera. He
completely looses himself in his
role, and we couldn’t have found
a finer ‘Con.’ I am delighted with
both Mark and Charles Weale.”
Delbert Mac Beth is a “Wow,”
as the dutch inn keeper whose
help leaves him with out a min-
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Student Sponsors
Teach Classes
Featuring talks by sponsers of
the incoming freshmen, the orienta¬
tion classes of the proceeding week
were turned over entirely to the
upperclassmen who have been as¬
sisting with the work of making
the new students feel at home. On
Tuesday the class periods were
given over to playing of games and
general introductions. On Thurs¬
day the sponsers gave speeches on
the student government of the col-
ege. They stressed the complete
democracy of the present system
of student government. The new
form of representative government
and its advantages to the student
were shown.
According to Miss Hawes, dean
of women,, the sponser plan of wel¬
coming freshmen worked out ex¬
ceptionally well, and it is planned
to make this welcome a tradition
in future years.
“Red Mill ” Principals Rehearse for Annual Music Department Operetta
Del Macbeth
Mark Gates
Larry Smith
Ruth Riordan
W.A.A. Bums to
Hold^Hobo Party
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Bums will dominate the college
Friday, February 28, when the W.
A. A. holds its hobo party in the
women’s gym. The men are invit¬
ed, likewise all former members of
the W. A. A. To arrange the de¬
tails of the affair, a special meet¬
ing will be held this afternoon at
3:15.
All entering juniors who are able
to transfer their G. A. A. points be¬
fore February 28 will be invited to
the party.
New juniors in good standing in
their respective G. A. A.’s, upon re¬
ceipt of letters from their club sec¬
retaries will be given a bonus of
100 points, which will qualify them
for probational membership in the
J. C. Women’s athletic association.
After the speedball season is
closed 100 additional points must
be earned before the new girl can
become a full-fledged member of
the W. A. A. Archery, tennis, wall-
scaling, and speedball afford a wide
field of choice for girls to earn
membership in the organization.
League of Nations Offers
European Trip as Essay Prize
Refunds on Lab
Fees at Bank
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Refunds for upper division stu¬
dents ranging in value from one to
five dollars on last semester’s la¬
boratory fees are now being held
at the bank. These refunds are the
amounts left over after the expen¬
ses of the course have been deduct¬
ed. Walter E. Wilcox, bank head
urges all those students who had
laboratory classes last semester, to
call at the bank and receive their
money.
“New students should take their
receipts for paid student body fees
to the bank and receive their stu¬
dent body card,” says Mr. Wilcox.
“It is important that you have this
card as it will serve to identify you
as well as admit you to various
school activities.”
A trip to Europe will be offered
as the first prize to the winner of
the fourth national competitive ex¬
amination for high school students
on the League of Nations, which
will have its Pasadena preliminary
on March 14.
The questions will be based on an
official text called “A Ten Year
Review of the League of Nations”.
This booklet may be secured by stu¬
dents at a low cost. Other copies
of the manual will be filed on the
reserve shelf of the library.
The papers of the two winners
from each high school competing
are to be forwarded to the national
headquarters of the League of Na¬
tions in New York city, and the
national victors are to be chosen
from among them. The first prize,
an European trip, will be in charge
of a qualified representative of the
national advisory committee, and
will offer an opportunity to study
the League of Nations first hand.
Several days are to be spent in Ge¬
nova.
Other places to be visited are Pa¬
ris and London, where excursions
will be made to such places of in¬
terest as the Louvre, the Tower,
Westminister, and' Notre Dame.
Second and third prizes will be
$100 and $50, and there will be a
Southern California award of $25.
In addition, there are two local
prizes equivalent to $500 each, and
which will be given by the Pasade¬
na branch of the League of Nations.
The committee which is in char¬
ge of the Pasadena junior college
contest, is planning to ask members
of the faculty and other people in
Pasadena who have been to Geneva
to conduct a series of round table
discussions. C. O. Bey, 232-C, in¬
vites any lower division student in¬
terested to see him.
William Leech Lectures Before
“X” Club; Nitrogen Is Subject
$1,000 in Prizes Will Be Awarded $
Best Short Stories, Essays, in Contest
In order to give students of the
United States an opportunity to
win recognition in the literary field,
the Current Literature magazine
is sponsoring a contest with a total
of $1,000 in prizes. The winning
contributions will be published at
the close of the school year in a
book entitled “Literary Leaves by
Tomorrow’s Writers.”
For the best short stories which
prize is $50; second prize, $25;
third prize, $10. The same amounts
db not exceed 2,500 words, the firsi
will be given for the three best es¬
says, not exceeding 1,000 words,
and the best three poems not over
100) lines. Additional prizes of five
dollars and one dollar will he
awalrded for work submitted to
other special contests held during
the wear.
Following are the rules for en¬
tering the contest: Any student un¬
der 21 years of age, in any school,
is entitled to submit manuscripts;
every contribution must show the
name, age, school, grade, and ad
dress of the student, and the name
of the teachers ; every student must
state in writing that the contribu¬
tion is original and is not copied
from any source; contributions
must be sent in by the teacher; all
manuscripts must be received by
June 15, 1930 ; manuscripts will not
be returned; the committee of jud¬
ges will be composed of nationally-
known educators and authorities in
the literary field: contentions
should be mailed to Contest Editor
Current Literature, 40 S. Third
street, Columbus Ohio.
“Civilization will never seriously
suffer because of the lack of nitro¬
gen in usable form declared Wil¬
liam D. Leech in his lecture before
the “X” club members last Wednes¬
day. “The nitrogen problem is not
nearly as serious as in 1896, when
it was stated by the British Aca¬
demy for the Advancement of
Science that the very future of the
white race depended upon an ade¬
quate supply of nitrogen,” was
another startling statement made
by Mr. Leech.
The nitrogen problem has now
been solved. Since the beginning
of the world war, the production
of synthetic nitrogen has increased
tremendously. So quickly has re¬
search work gone forward on the
temested in the contest, to see him.
nitrogen problem that companies
now engaged in the production of
synthetic nitrogen find themselves
in keen competition with each other.
On the other hand, the vast da-
Pasadena J.C. Exchanges
Assembly With Glendale
In an exchange assembly with
Glendale high school, the winners
of 'the recent competitive club con¬
test at Pasadena junior college pre¬
sented an entertainment for the
Glendale student body this morning.
Glendale conducted a contest simi-
liar to the one held a Pasadena and
in this morning’s assembly here the
Glendale winners presented their
entertainment.
The cast of “Miss Civilization,”
the play presented by the Bauble
and Bells’ dramatic association,
which won the Pasadena prize, in¬
cluded John Krumm, Elizabeth Por¬
ter, Donald Matson, Graydon
Spaulding, and Virginia Bunch, di¬
rector. This play, with the Euter-
pian singers’ skit, “A Night in a
Frat House”, and the Players’
Guild sketch, “Call Me Henry”
were at Glendale this morning.
posits of sodium nitrate in Chile,
which are controlled largely by the
Guggenheim interests, still send
great quantities of the natural pro¬
duct abroad. That the Chile ni¬
trate trade has not yet been very
seriously hampered by the produc¬
tion of the synthetic product is
shown by the fact that practically
the entire expense of running the
Chilean government is defrayed by
income from the government tax on
nitrogen export.
There are, in the United States,
several large companies, including
the DuPont processes, that produce
synthetic nitrogen from cynamede,
by the arc process, and by other
methods. Nitrogen sent from Chile
now composes only a fraction of
the total quantity produced in the
United States today.
Nitrogen compounds are vital to
modern civilization because they
compose an important part of the
fertilizer. In warfare they are
used in gunpowder and explosives.
The “X” club requirments for
membership were explained by the
secretary. Students must write
a theme of from three to five hun¬
dred words on subjects outlined by
the club. Initiation, and election of
officers will be held in about a
month at an evening meeting.
Dean of Women Speaks
at First A. W. S. Meeting
“Budgeting Time, Attendance,
and Friendships”, were the points
of the feature talk, delivered by
Miss Ida E. Hawes, dean of wo¬
men, at the first meeting of the as¬
sociated women students this se¬
mester, held last Wednesday in the
Calvary Baptist church.
Miss Katherine Robbins, member
of the Inter-Club council, gave the
girls information and questionaires
concerning non-restrictive clubs,
and explained their aims.
New Adviser Asks
for More Debaters
Expressing a desire for more
eleventh and twelfth year students
to turn out for lower division de¬
bating, Cecil C. Stewart, newly ap¬
pointed adviser for the lower divi¬
sion debating class says, “I am
arranging for debates with other
schools in order to give any per-
institutions in order to give any
person so desiring an opportunity
to participate in inter-school de¬
bates.
“Plans are being made with Los
Angeles high school for a debate
to be held in about six weeks.” Mr.
Stewert is also planning for de¬
bates with Long Beach and Alham¬
bra high schools in the near future.
Reorganization of the Forum
cluib, as a basis for the promotion
of lower division forensics will be
an important factor in the deve¬
lopment of a lower division debat¬
ing team,” Mr. Stewart continues.
A class to be organized soon will
take up the principles of debating,
reasoning, and form, and give the
student practice in class and inter-
•chool debating.
“Because it forms a background
for law, salesmanship, and other
professions requiring persuasive
U. D. DEBATE
LEAGUE TO
END SEASON
Chaffee and Citrus Will Be
Last Opponents March
6 and 7
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CHAIN STORES, QUESTION
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Pasadena Has Chance at Title
for District by Defeating
These Teams
Preparations are being made by
Pasadena for the last upper divi¬
sion league debate of the season
with Citrus junior college and
Chaffee Union junior college. The
encounters will be held March 6
and 7 respectively in 200-C at eight
in the evening.
Pasadena will have the negative
of the question, Resolved: That
the expansion of the chain store
system is detrimental to the best
interests of the American people.”
A chance at the championship
for this district will be given the
local squad if they win from the
undefeated Citrus team. San Ber¬
nardino also remains undefeated,
and is scheduled to meet Citrus
soon.
Coach Glenn L. Lembke says
“Competition is going to be keenly
felt, as the outcome of these de¬
bates will have a decisive bearing
on Pasadena’s standing in the
league. Chances for winning the
league championship are so close
that it is evident that all squads
will make a great effort to have
the strongest contestants and most
convincing material possible.”
Two practice encounters on the
question were held at the Los
Angeles junior college, February
15. Donald Maclsaacs and Alfred
Escherich took the affirmative
side in the morning. Delbert
Brown and Edward Davis argued
for the negative side in the after¬
noon.
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Seven Librarians
Meet in Pasadena
Seven visiting junior college li¬
brarians, including Mr. Kerr of
Pomona, were entertained with a
luncheon last Tuesday by Miss
Winifred Skinner, head of the Pa¬
sadena junior college library. The
meeting was for the purpose of dis¬
cussing ways and means of per¬
suading 400 junior college librar¬
ians to attend the first national
meeting of junior college librarians
to be held in Los Angeles the last
week of June.
Miss Skinner, through the aid of
Los Angeles librarians, is sending
out a special letter of invitation to
the junior college librarians. She
will be in charge of the conference.
Y’s Give Valentine
Party for Frosh
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, In honor of the new students,
a valentine party was given by the
Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A.
last Friday evening in the women’s
gym.
Preceding the program, Mr.
Hippier led in playing games in the
outdoor gym. James Scott, Pres¬
ident of the Y. M. C. A. presided
over the program which was open
ed with a one act play, “Outwitted”
presented by Joy Hallward and
George Simon. Mable New and
Pauline Heinrich gave a duologue,
“The Umbrella.” The big “P”
club and Pragma club presented
apparatus and tumbling stunts,
and Mrs. Miller led1 in singing and
teaching new students the school
songs.
Decorations were effectively
carried out in a valentine motif.
The committee in charge: George
Coates, Ernest Caldwell, Bill Van
Houten, Helen Lovelace, and Grace
Myer. About 350 people were pre —
sent.
‘Night Ride’ Draws 1000 Students;
Leading Actor Appears infPerson
By Doug McMann
Publicity Bureau
With an estimated attendance of
over 1000, the student body ushered
in a new era in entertainment his¬
tory, for presenting for the first
time anywhere, “The Night Ride,”
which featured the personal apper-
ance of Joseph Schildkraut, its
star, in the auditorium last Wed¬
nesday at 2:15. Added attractions
which completed the bill and added
to the variety of the afternoon
show were an Our Gang comedy
and several acts of vaudeville, in¬
cluding Stong’s Musical Review.
The Novelty Trio rendered several
selections.
As the purpose of the show was
to create some loose cash for the
Kamehameha football deficit in¬
curred at the Hawaiian Islands
several months ago, approximate
one half of the student body jar
med the doors of the auditoriui
demonstrating some real scho
“spirits.” This purposeful ente
tainment should have attracted e
ery student enrolled in the juni
college.
It might be mentioned, in
со
junction with the recent student i
monstrances, that if the hubbi
from a certain select few, who c
cupy the front rows, talkie eqi
ment, will be a useless addition
our auditorium. The silent versi
of “The Night Ride” was made ve
effective by the throat gurglings
some of our “bald-headed1 row.”
The school is really indebted
the organizations contributing
the eucess of this program, espei
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