Pasadena Chronicle, February 24, 1927

^ШИШ& I .'Ч ! I I^ILdPl raoj VOL. XVIII PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, FEB. 24, 1927 NO. 18 ORATORS TO Scholarship Fund PREPARE FOR ^reat ^ emanc ^ MANY PRIZES _ Chance to Gain Honor and Distinction Presented in Three Events Race is Open to All Ail High School Students Are Urged to Try Their Talent in Contests A chance to g-ain honor and distinction is offered to the Pasa¬ dena high school orators in three oratorical events that are being sponsored by the F orensics com¬ mittee. Cash prizes, individual fame, and achieving glory for the school are the inducements that are held out to the palaver artists. Advertising Contest The first of the series of speeches is the Advertising Ora¬ torical contest that is being sponsored by by the Merchants Ad- Faced with the heaviest demand in its history, the Scholarship Fund of Pasadena high school is carrying on as well as it may with its dwindling funds. Thirty - five Pasadena high school graduates now in college are there only because the Schol¬ arship fund is helping them with their expenses^ Most of them would not be able to go to college at all if it were not for the fact that students and teachers, both of this and of other “generations” have given of their time, energy, and money to establish and main¬ tain the Fund in working condi¬ tion. Loans have been made this year to thirty-five different individuals, which far exceeds the total of any previous year. This, despite the fact that scholarship requirements have been tightened, loans limit¬ ed almost entirely to Pasadena Junior College freshman and soph¬ omores, and upper division stu¬ dents in other colleges; and not vertising club of Pasadena. Mr. I more than three hundred dollars a Sydnor of the P. H. S. Bookstore, is in charge of the event. The speeches are to be three minutes long and they are to deal with constructive suggestions in the way of new ideas for advertising The first prize is a silver loving cup that will be presented at the luncheon following the orations. Any high school student is eli¬ gible to compete for the reward. This contest will be held on March 28, 1927. Interest in Constitution In order to create and per¬ petuate an interest in the Con¬ stitution of the United States; in order to increase the respect of the youth of America toward the supreme law of the land; the many newspapers all over the nation are co-operating in an en¬ deavor to put across one of the best oratorical contests ever — • namely, the National Constitu¬ tional Oratorical contest. Any high school student under 19 years of age who is well up in his studies is eligible to try out for this contest. Any phase of the constitution can be taken as the subject of the aspirants’ theme. Some of the suggested topics are: The Constitution, America’s Contribution to the Constitution; Washington and the Constitution, and like subjects. In order to facilitate the handling of this immense contest, the United States is divided into seven districts. These dstricts in turn are dvided into sub-districts. In each one . of these districts are several schools. Pasadena High School, however, is such a large school that it is a district in its self. For example, the winner of the contest at P. H. S. will compete in the semi-fihals, the winner will go to Washington, D. C., and the winner there will try for first honors in the interna¬ tional contest. This event will take place on April 1. Cash prizes and a trip to Europe, honor and a reputation as an orator, constitute the re¬ wards of this contest. Last year, Toshiro Shimanou- chi, now in junior college, took first in P. H. S. district. Redlands Declamation This contest is for the male members of this school only. The speeches are to be 10 minutes long, and they must be a decla¬ mation. The winner of this con¬ test will represent P. H. S. at Redlands university as it is being sponsored by that institution. The prize at Redlands is a silver cup. Pasadena has won this cup twice and if P. H. S. can win it again, the cup will stay here permanently. This contest will be held in May, 1927. The dates of the different contests will be an¬ nounced later. The Redlands declamation will terminate the forensics program of the semester. year may be loaned any indivi¬ dual. Up to the present the total number of students who have be- nefitted by the Fund is 151. The total amount they have borrowed is $43,573.74, and the amount they have paid back is $10,716.50, the repayments amounting to 24per cent of the total loans. This is considered a good propor¬ tion when it is considered that so many of these young people are still in college, or just out. The Fund began the year with a balance in the bank of $4460.28, has received gifts since amounting to $352.94, repayments totaling $1580, and has earned interest a- mounting to $105.04. It has loan¬ ed so far this school year $3975, and has a present bank balance of $2523.26. At this rate the asso¬ ciation will be completely out of money before the end of May, and will have nothing on which to begin nexxt year. It must de¬ pend on further payments and on the continued support of classes, clubs, and other organizations who have helped it in the past. The drive held last year, in which the junior college and high school sen¬ iors took leading parts, put the Scholarship Fund temporarily in very good condition, but the heavy demand of this year has reduced the balance until the vanishing- point is again in sight. Thirty needy and active borrowers, with a possible maximum of three hun¬ dred dollars each, soon reduce a bank balance. The Scholarship Fund must have more help this year. The need of thirty P. H. S. boys and girls now in college and dependent upon it for their further education demands it. The benefits of the scholarship fund this year are widely distri¬ buted, both as to individual stu¬ dents and as to colleges. Of the thirty-six students now being helped by the fund five each are attending the Southern Branch and Broadoaks; four each, California Institute of Technology, U. S. C., Pomona, and Pasauena junior college; two each Berkeley, Ore¬ gon Agricultural college, and Uni¬ versity of Washington; and one each at Mills college, Davis Agri¬ cultural college, Occidental college and Los Angeles Library Training school. There are exactly the same number of men and women using the fund this year — 18 of each. The good that this fund has done is beginning to be more ap¬ parent as the number of its col¬ lege graduates increase. There are several such young profes¬ sional men and women just be¬ ginning their careers in Pasadena and in other neighboring cities. So far, teaching leads, but dentis¬ try, medicine, law and business are running it a close second, with the ministry and other types of professional work beginning to be represented. Announcement of Immense Cast for Opera “Briar Rose” Made by Director Wi ell Known Fun ‘DOWN WITH Poker Comes Here In announcing the cast for the ’ opera “Briar Rose,” which is to be presented March 16, 17, and 18, Miss Lulu C. Parmley, head of the music department, states that she is highly enthusiastic over the splendid progress being made on the opera and the fine spirit of co-operation which has ; been evident since the beginning of the rehearsals. Of interest to the student bodies of P. H. S. and P. J. C. will be the fact that many of the leading characters in the opera were prominent in the cast of “The Marriage of Nannette.” Donald Novis, Harold Thomp¬ son, Floyd Brehm, Donald Ander¬ son, Frank Graham, Leroy Custer, Donald Wilcox, Eunice Erikson, Dorothea Benson, Maxine Doersch- lag and Katherine Kuhn, all will be remembered for their splendid work in last year’s opera. A gorgeous, spectacular pro¬ logue, consisting of three entirely different scenes, will be a feature of the opera. There are to be eight big musical numbers in the prologue. The prologue will open with a striking scene at a carnival with the peasants celebrating the birth of the princess, “Briar Rose.” A striking feature of this scene will be the processional of soldiers, altar boys, archbishop, Lucette, nurse, bearing the child on a pillow, the king and queen, and several court ladies and gentlemen and pages on their way home from the cathedral where the christening of the little princess took place. The flower girls’ and milk maidens’ dances also occur in this beautiful scene which is laid in the king’s . great ban¬ quet hall, and the kng and queen are giving a banquet in honor of the occasion. The fairies come to bestow their gifts. The wicked fairy, Renaulda, has not been in¬ vited and after all of the fairies have given their gifts, she ap¬ pears and says that “Briar Rose” will prick her finger on a spin¬ dle at the age of 15 and die. Luckily, the fairy queen has not given her gift, and so, although she cannot do away with Ren- aulda’s curse entirely, she can make it less cruel by changing it to a several years’ sleep. The king orders that all of the spin¬ dles in the land be destroyed. The third scene opens with the peasants in wild confusion, taking their spindles to be burned. 4 spectacular flame dance concludes the prologue. Fifteen years elapse between the prologue and the first act. At the end of the second act oc¬ curs the strikingly beautiful sleep scene. Exquisite satin costumes, daz¬ zling head-dresses set with beau¬ tiful jewels, and absolutely new and stunning stage setting will add to the beauty of the produc¬ tion. The cast of the prologue, as you meet them, is as follows: Johann, a huckster, Gustav Ciliax; Dirk, an old peasant, Irwin Rust; Cornelia, son of Katmika, Elea- nora Molander; Katinka, peasant woman, Berenice Dorman; Marie, milkmaid, Dorothy Lichnog; Anna, a flower girl, Violet Cardwell; Elias, huckster, David Connelly; Ambrose, the Royal cook, Marion Worrell; Messer. Jacobus Halber- nack, Major Domo, Donald Ander¬ son; Fairy Queen, Katherine Kuhn; Clovis, King of Lorovaine, Floyd Brehm; Clothilde, his queen, Eunice Erikson; court jester, Don¬ ald Jones; Renaulda, the wicked witch, Mary Margaret Davies; and the archbishop, Dooley Duthie. The cast of the acts, as you meet them, is as follows: Franz, the royal gardener, Frank Gra¬ ham; Sir Martin, a courtier, Harry Fosdick; Lady Mignon, a friend of Princess Briar Rose, Maxine Doerschlag; Peterkin, as¬ sistant of royal gardener, Donald Wilcox; Mythyl, a maid servant, Helen King; Princess Briar Rose, daughter of King Clovis and Queen Clothilde, Virginia Yerxa, Mme. Lucette, nurse and chap¬ erone of Briar Rose, Dorothea Benson; Florizel, Prince of Tus¬ cany, Donald G. Novis; Conrad, Robert Kidder; Rainmond, James Urquhart; Sylvain, Wayne Grif¬ fin; Drago, son of Renaulda, wicked witch, Harold- Thompson; Tallynick, the royal tailor, Leroy Custer; Spinning Woman, Harriet Nelson; Prince Balarean, Richard Young; and Prince Gorgonzola, Robert Jayred. Annette Brail and Elizabeth Jane Abberley are the ladies-in¬ waiting. The fairies are Mary Novis, ‘ Virginia Roess, Annette Traylor, Ruth Gaudy, Frances Anderson, Katherne Millard, Julia Spencer, Clarice Padgett, Isabelle Fox, Martha Fisk, and Mary Martha Campbell. Roy Anger and Stanley Brill are the guards. Attendents to Prince Florizel are: Wayne Griffin, Robert Kidder, Donald Jones, Gustav Ciliax, James Urquhart, Roger Anthes, Charles Lindsey, William Warden, Sidney Ganulin, John Leberman, and Paul Crawford. Walter Marto, Robert Jayred, Max Miller, and Paul Crawford. Assistants to the royal tailor are: Louis Lopez, Eugene Barr, Ken¬ neth Walker and Raymond Hall. Bernice DeGrow and Vivian Frederickson are court pages. Special dancers are: Florence Washburn, Mary Funfguld, Maur- ine Scott, Madeline White, Con¬ stance Pike, Marjorie Hoban, Jeanette Hirsh, Catherine Greer, Jean Seares, Dorothy Secrest, Mary Young and Margaret Binke- ley. June Wright, Mildred Morrison, Lois Crump, Altie Lucy Miller, Wayne Griffin, Charles Lindsey, Richard Klepper, James Urquhart, and Robert Jayred. Choir boys and embassies are Alvin Mitchell, Glenwood Sande- fer, Allan Gibson, Donald Moore, John Frederickson, and Walter Scott. Assisting Miss Parmley in the production of the opera is T. E. Morrissey, who for several years has coached the dramatic incidents of the operas-. At last it is here. Clean whole¬ some and refreshing entertainment, embodied in the person of one Jer¬ ome Shaffer, entertainer de luxe, will visit P. H. S. on Tuesday, March 1st, 1927, at 3:30 o’clock in the high school auditorium. His program is entitled, “Art, Music, and Foolishness.” Mr. Shaffer has traveled the United States over, putting on pro¬ grams before high schools, colleges, and churches in an endeavor to prove that entertainment can be clean and yet be amusing. Those students who were able to hear this gifted man last year can perhaps testify as to his ability. Faculty members and those on the administration committees of the many schools he has visited, eagerly recommend him to others. Students all over the nation have expressed their appreciation of this man’s act, or program, by second¬ ing the recommendation given by their principals. He has a unique program. It does not consist of but one line. It contains a variation that is com¬ mendable. His act is made up of classical songs, popular songs, (sung as they are and as they should be) dramatic selections, an¬ ecdotes, humorous stories, jokes, burlesques and many other features SLANGTSTHE PLEA TODAY Use of Better English Is Being Fostered in Nation- Wide Efforts P.H.S. Has Programs Classes and Clubs Unite to Show Proper Use of Words and Forms The following article was taken from the “Christain Science Mon- iter” in regard to Better Speech Week that is being held all over the United States from February 20 to February 26. In this mamoth program being held all over the nation this week, Pasadena high school is also tak¬ ing an active part. All of this week, the forensics committee has given instructions to all of the teachers as to short five minute programs in an endeaver to help the speech of the students of P. H. S. A skit in tomorrow’s assemblies that go to make up a good enter- j win climax the Better Speech tainment. This program is said Week ‘CHRONICLE” GAINS FAVORABLE COMMENT An article on “Front Page News¬ paper Makeup” by Irving D. Tes- sler appears in the January edition of the “Scholastic Editor”, and in¬ cluded in a large illustration of twenty of the leading high school and college papers, is the front page of the “Chronicle.” Mr. Tessler is an authority on the sub¬ ject and to have the “Chronicle” picked by him as an example of good workmanship is no small honor. There are many important fac¬ tors which together give a good ef¬ fect on the front page of a paper. Balance must always be present. If one size of type is used in one place, all the other type used must fit in with the general plan. To the outside the front page makeup of a newspaper may look simple enough, but just let that same out¬ sider step into the composing room and he will see several men work¬ ing constantly to keep the front page an object of pleasing form to the reader. A first impression is the most lasting. This statement is as true in newspaper work as in an other line of work. The impression one gets of the front page of a news¬ paper has a great deal to do with the later interest shown in the paper. to be a good prescription to chase away those “Monday blues” and permanent frowns from the faces of the grouches. Mr. Shaffer will present part of his program, or something similar to it, in an assembly, so that the students may rest assured that they will get their money’s worth. Herbert Resner, commissioner of Entertainment, urges every one to keep the date in mind and not to miss this afternoon’s entertainment if possible. “Postpone your other engagements, and come to see this show; you will never regret it as long as you live. We are very for¬ tunate in being able to acquire the services of this talented individ¬ ual.” Resner produced one argu¬ ment which he maintains should be reason enough for the entire stu¬ dent body to attend. “We have never charged such a low admis¬ sion for any after school program of any kind. The admission fee is but 15 cents and I don’t believe that there is one student who cannot save 15 pennies between now and Tuesday afternoon at 3:30. How¬ ever, the most important feature is this — the proceeds of this pro¬ gram will go to the Assembly Pro¬ gram Fund,” declared the commis¬ sioner of Entertainment. While the writer was conducting the interview for this story, Mr. Griffith, ex-football coach, was passing by and when asked for his opinion on this subject, he said, “I think that this sort of an enter¬ tainment is the best thing for he young people. They like it. They get a big kick out of it. I wish we could have more programs of the same sort.” So don’t forget. Who? — Jerome Shaffer. Where? — H. S. Auditorium. When? — Tuesday, March 1, 3:30. Why?- — To have some real fun. What? - — - Good clean entertain¬ ment. How Much? — Only 15 cents. at Pasadena high school. ASSEMBLY- WOMAN SPEAKS TO FACULTY “Is the clock running Willie?” “No ma, it’s just standing still and wagging its tail.” Father — Son, when Abraham Lincoln was your age, he was working for his own money. Son — Yes, and when he was your age, he was president of the United States. At the last faculty meeting, on February 2, Miss Elinor Miller, the assembly-woman from this sec¬ tion, spoke on “Educational Legi¬ slation” and the various fields con¬ cerning education dealt with in the Senate. _ The schools consider Miss Miller a very valuable asset for intro¬ ducing educational measures into the senate because Miss Miller has for some number of years conduc¬ ted a school of expresion in Pasa¬ dena, and because she is well versed in law. Mr. Ewing presented Miss Mil¬ ler with a beautiful boquet of flowers. Dean Harbeson was then intro¬ duced as the new principal of the Pasadena High School and Junior College. The Courtesy Committee presented Mr. Ewing and Dean Harbeson with large baskets of flowers from the faculty. WASHINGTON — In an effort to arouse children and grownups to a greater appreciation of the Eng¬ lish language, Better American Speech Week has been inaugurated by the General Federation of Women’s clubs, and February 20- 26 is the week proclaimed. “The common language heard upon the street, or even in the homes where there are young people, is a fearful and wonderful thing,” said Mrs. Katherine Know¬ les Robbins of Chicago, chairman of the Better American Speech committee of the General Feder¬ ation. “Although our language probably will never be brought back to the fine dignity of the King James version of the Bible and the works of Shakespeare, we may, however, come back to at least a respectful handling of our mother tongue and the great in¬ terest among layman, .and edu¬ cators as shown in lectures, maga¬ zines and newspapers supplement¬ ing the work of the General Fed¬ eration, is most encouraging. “Vocabulary study is one of the latest and most fascinating developments in language work, and it has been found to assist materially in eradicating the use of slang. One learns to feel a pride in tjie number of words in good standing that are at his command, for language and dic¬ tion can be a great asset. “What is going to counteract the undermining influence of the bad and often vulgar English of the newspaper ‘funnies? And what shall we say about the cheap sentiment and bad grammar of the popular songs with which our homes are flooded?” All women’s clubs, schools, churches and other organizations interested in better American speech are asked to plan some suitable observance of the week by the organization of study classes of different kinds by the preparation of programs that will arouse the interest of whole com¬ munities, by poster contests, plays, lectures and radio talks. Some suggestions for good speech follow: “Do not leave off the syllables of words; “Say a good American ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in place of an Indian grunt, ‘umhum’ and ‘nupum’ or a foreign ‘ya,’ ‘yep’ and ‘nope’; “Do your best to improve American speech by speaking pleasantly and sincerely; “Try to make my country’s lan¬ guage beautiful for the many boys and girls of foreign nations who come here to live.”