Pasadena Chronicle, March 20, 1936

SPARTANS TO DANCE AT AFFAIR oticna (П]шпс!с TRACK TEAM WILL MEET LAJC Vol. XXVII Pasadena, California, March 20, 1936 No. 22 RICC Plans Investigation Into Breach Of Rules Plan New Curricular Addition Will Educate Ability In Technique Of Actual Broadcasting Mother-Daughter Banquet Change In Arrangements Completed perjQ^[ Jg Proposed TALENT TRAINED Cox Of KNX Speaks To Faculty On Radio School Here By Jack Burtt Meeting to discuss a projected radical change in the curricula of Pasadena junior college, the fac¬ ulty and students heard Leonard Cox, program director of radio station KNX present his views on the matter of adding a course in training for the radio to the courses already offered here. Would Be Unique Mr. Cox talked and answered questions for almost an hour as the interested faculty entered into the general discussion of the plan. If this course is added it will place Pasadena junior college in a posi¬ tion unique in that no other pub¬ lic school offers a course anywhere nearly approaching the proposed addition. This course would seek to train talent for the radio: both dramatic, musical, literary and speaking. Aside from these posi¬ tions, future technicians, artists, publicity agents, salesmen, steno¬ graphers, and office assistants will it were trained. Stressing the fact that there are no reliable or legitimate radio training schools in America, Mr. Cox said, “The radio company of today has not time for the training of talent, although some have tried it, and it is therefore, and logically, up to the schools to take over the job. The radio business, like any other, must have a continuous source from which to draw its ma¬ terial. The big jobs in radio, writ¬ ing, acting, selling, directing, and a host of other occupations, are held down by a relatively small number of men and women. We must have fresh material to take their places. Lacks Training “There is today in this country a great amount of talent suitable for radio, but it lacks training. The ability to project oneself over the ether is only gained through intensive practice, training and ex¬ perience. Most of this native abil¬ ity could find a niche for itself if it were trained. “And not only do we need dram¬ atic artists and dramatic writers, cast includes all members of the (Continued on Page 2) Players Will Give Satire Vo-Mag Sale Complete As Classes Vie Past Records Broken By Salesmen; Trophy To Be Awarded Players’. Guild, upper class dra¬ matics society, will entertain the associated student body, next Fri¬ day, with the play “The Pot-Boil¬ er,” written by Alice Gerstenber- ger, when that group takes over the assembly period, according to Charles Braden, secretary of acti¬ vities. The play, a comical satire on play writing, will show the pro¬ duction of a drama, following the “play within a play” theme. The cast of characters includes Jim Ross, who plays the lead, Charles Renshaw, Bill Caldwell, Barbara Barnett, Elizabeth Ste¬ vens, Sam Zimmerman and Newell Barrett. Patricia Denslow is the student director, and Miss Eliza¬ beth E. Keppie, drama instructor, is faculty adviser. GRADUATE LIST POSTED BY OFFICE Lists of candidates for gradua¬ tion in June have been posted, ac¬ cording to Mrs. Barrington of the records office. The tentative list may be consulted on the north bul¬ letin board of the cafeteria, fac¬ ing the library. Any students who have been omitted or included by mistake are requested to report the error at Window No. 1, in the Records of¬ fice. All candidates for June grad¬ uation are expected to call at win¬ dow No. 1, Records office, for graduation check cards, regardless of whether or not their names ap¬ pear on the bulletin board. With arrangements for Kathleen D. Loly, chairman of the lang¬ uage department, as guest speaker, a Bauble and Bell's play and Mexican songs, final plans for the annual A. W. S. Mother-Daughter - *ibanquet were completed last Wed¬ nesday, according to Alberta An¬ derson, general chairman. Held at the Arcade Tea room, for the sec¬ ond year, the dinner is at six o’clock, Thursday, Mareh 26. Tick¬ ets are fifty cents per plate and will be sold by members of the A. W. S. board and cabinet in the student union office every day next week during the lunch period. Holding two contests, the A. W. S. officers have been active throughout the past week augment¬ ing ticket interest for the banquet with two tickets to the Biltmore Bowl to the woman student who sells the most tickets, the minimum number set at 20, and a five-pound box of candy offered to the school club or organization outselling their competitors. Students wish¬ ing to compete should apply at the student union office. Are Mexican Program arrangements follow the Mexican motif. The guest speaker, Miss Loly, will comment on Mexican customs and traditions. Dressed in native costume, Con¬ stance Orozco will sing several Mexican songs. She will be ac¬ companied by Marijean Voseipka. Bauble and Bells members will en¬ act a short skit. Kathleen Cart¬ wright, secretary of interior rela¬ tions, selected by the A. W. S. officials, will act as toast mistress. Marjorie Betts, president of the Associated Women Students, will preside over this social event. She said today that the Mother-Daugh¬ ter banquet is an annual social event toward which mothers and daughters always look forward. A. W.’ S. officials responsible for arrangements are Alberta Ander¬ son, general chairman, Carolyn Munn, program; Sarita Henderson, decorations; and Margaret de Haan, favors. - + - - - With a practically complete sell¬ out of 1800 copies the first day of sale, Vo-Mag, vocational magazine, and All-American honor winner, broke all previous sales records, according to Dow Parkes, editor. One thousand copies of the maga¬ zine were sold by subscription alone, while freshman and junior contestants could not supply the deniand for the publication at the beginning of the contest last week. Special Features Among the special features in the issue is a wood engraving of Hawk Tower, by Paul Landacre, Los Angeles artist, which is copy¬ righted by Colophon, book collec¬ tor’s quarterly, published in New York. This wood engraving has never hefore appeared outside the pages of Colophon. Permission to publish it was granted Vo-Mag by Elmer Adler, outstanding Ameri¬ can printer. The winning class has not as yet been announced, but represent¬ atives of both groups of salesmen expected to win the trophy, at the beginning of the contest on March 17. A banner will be awarded to the winner as a revolving trophy, which will be displayed in the Stu¬ dent Union building. Elect Sales Force Preceded by two days during which subscriptions were taken but no actual Vo-Mags issued, the sales and distribution took place on March 17 and 18, last Wednes-- day and Thursday. Salesmen for the classes were members of the class councils, recently chosen. Individual students who sold the most Vo-Mags are to receive awards as did their classes. The junior salesman who sold the most magazines will be given two tickets to the Biltmore Bowl, with corre¬ sponding compensation for the freshman winner. Winners in the contest are to be judged on a basis of points, dis¬ continued on Page 2) PLANS DISCUSSED FOR CLUB DANCE Plans for the annual dance, ten¬ tatively set for May 1 or 8, were discussed at the Triple “J” meet- Dancing To Be Offered For Pasadena junior college stu¬ dents who wish to learn to dance, a course in ballroom dancing has been planned for beginners. A se¬ ries of eight lessons will begin in the men’s gym next Thursday, March 26. A nominal charge for the course will be maintained, $1 for the eight lessons. The afternoon of March 26 and every Thursday thereafter for eight weeks is to be reserved for the instruction in the men’s gymnasium, with Miss Ford, noted ballroom artist, as the in¬ structor. All students who are interested in elementary ballroom dancing ing held on the campus, on last j are invited to take advantage of Wednesday morning, during club period. Jbe hall and orchestra committee has started negotiations for securing an outstanding orches¬ tra and hall for the informal dance, according to Shig Kawai, presi¬ dent. Members on the committee include Jimmie Ivirita, Seesue Fu- jimoto, Kimi Tomoyasu, Hid Taka- yama, Emily Uchiyama and Tachy Wakiji. the course, according to Anna Katherine Jones, secretary of so¬ cial affairs. They are requested to contact Miss Jones or counselors for further information. FORMER STUDENTS TO SING ON TRIP J.C. Students Given Chance As Amateurs Opportunities for amateurs are open to Pasadena junior col¬ lege students in several атаь teur shows now under way, ac¬ cording to Charles Braden, sec¬ retary of activities. Aspirants for honors may participate in junior college restrictive com¬ petitions, as well as the city wide contests. Plans are in nucleus for an inter-organization amateur show to be given in a future assem¬ bly, but they are not definite enough as yet to warrant detail. However, an active amateur unit that is already in progress has attracted a number of jayseeites during the past weeks. The “Discoveries of 1936,” sponsored by the Shriners’ club, and open to anyone in Pasadena, has had the “Jaysee Trio,” Bull¬ dog band singers, and other rep¬ resentatives of the junior col¬ lege in competition with other amateurs from the age of four to about fifty, during some of the past programs at McKinley junior high school. Robert Ringle, Donald Erdman and Chesney Carver, former Pasa¬ dena junior college students, will leave Claremont, March 27, on a tour with the Men’s Glee club of Pomona college. The trip, which will take them to the bay region of California, will last until April 6. Among other things, including 14 engagements at schools, clubs, churches and theaters, the Glee club will be heard over the air on the Sperry flour program, Tues¬ day, March 31. Eleven Charged With Violation Of Silence Before Bidding ACTION DELAYED Previous Motion Is Not Illegal On Technical Grounds Defeating by a vote of 11 against to 8 for, a motion in favor of dropping all investigations against restrictive clubs charged with violation of the traditional “hands-off” policy, the Restrictive Inter-Club council met, last Wed¬ nesday, with an indefinite post- ponment of the entire problem. Preceding the motion for ignor¬ ing the investigation, Restrictive Organizations Sequoia, M. O. S., and Phenix charged 11 of the 26 organizations comprising the coun¬ cil with violations of the ordin¬ ance. A discussion as to the cor¬ rectness of the definition of the silence period, that lasts from Wednesday at midnight before bid¬ ding time until the actual distribu¬ tion of bids, was held. Change Period As a result of the latter dis¬ cussion, it was moved that the silence be observed from Thursday at midnight until Friday, when the bids will be distributed. It was referred to the organizations of the council for a vote by all of these groups, with subsequent am¬ endment to the council’s constitu¬ tion. The charges of breaking silence were made at a meeting of the council last week, when no definite action was taken. The only result of that meeting was to pass a motion to the effect that all clubs, definitely proved guilty of illegal rushing, should be placed on probation, and not allowed to rush or bid any new members dur¬ ing the first four weeks of next semester. This ruling, however, was pronounced illegal by Helen Sperry, council president, and was dismissed on a technicality. Is Outgrowth This latter action was an out¬ growth of the wording of the con- continued on Page 2) Tlu’ Causes Explained The pre-nurse and pre-medical divisions of the Aesculapian club held discussion on influenza and lung diseases, during club period Wednesday, March 18, in Tents 34 and 35. Wynne Pearson took charge of the pre-medical meeting. Stating that 51 percent of rock miners suf¬ fer from dust in the lungs, he revealed some startling facts con¬ cerning causes and effects of the disease, and related some incidents of consumption scandals in mines. In the discussion held in the pre¬ nurse section and conducted by Edith Bakke, the importance of influenza victims going directly to bed, remaining there, and obeying doctor’s orders, was stressed. The causes of flu were enumerated, and methods of treatments were told by various members of the club. With a brief account of the epi¬ demic of 1918, and some compari¬ sons of that with the figures of the recent influenza seige locally, the meeting was adjourned. Club Accepted By Council At Recent Meeting Approved by the Restrictive Inter-Club council at its meet¬ ing on Wednesday afternoon, a new restrictive club will join the ranks of the 26 others im¬ mediately. The group is called the D. A. C. club. Officers of the group are John Trowbridge, president; Bob Hurt, vice-president; Bob Stapleton, secretary and Orval Larkey, treasurer. The club ad¬ viser has not yet been an¬ nounced. Members of the club are Bill Stidham, Ray Fox, Bob Han¬ sen, Bob Westerbeck, Bob Coates, Regnor Qvale, Hal Smith, Stan Schuster, Howard Bachman, Dave Bowman, John Taylor and George McRoberts. Payton Jordan is an honorary member. Dance To Be Held In Gym In Afternoon Freshmen and Juniors To Dance To Music Of Hal Lomen Announced as a tie-up for junior and freshman class Vo-Mag sales¬ men, an afternoon hop, to which all members of the two groups are especially invited, with all other associated student body members conditionally asked, Class Presi¬ dents Tom Sommerville, of the jun¬ iors and Bob Dickinson of the frosh, told plans for an afternoon dance to be held next Wednesday in the men’s gym. Hal Lomen and his orchestra, who has played at beach cities and other Southland places, will fur¬ nish the music for the occasion, an¬ nounced the entertainment commit¬ tee. Plan Features In line with the hop, many other features are planned by the two classes for the April period, said Sommerville. Patterned after the Senior-Sophomore week, last sem¬ ester, the two classes are gradu¬ ally formulating definite ideas for the period. Included in the month will be the issuing of a publication similar to the Senior-Soph “Bred,” composed of all student work. Creating the traditional rivalry of two factions, the Vo-Mag sales contest has precipitated a feeling of competition between the two groups, that is expected to hold over, and last through the events planned during the month of April, says President Dickinson. Jane Hazenbush is chairman of the decorations committee for the afternoon event, while other mem¬ bers of the two class councils are arranging all other details. Week’s News Annual Dramatics Contest Is Announced By Players With the annual Southern California Shakespeare contest at Occidental on Saturday, April 25, and a local festival in honor of the famous bard to be held on this campus the day before, Players’ Guild, upper division dramatics group, an-* - - - nounced this week the tryouts for Г?оп “d have ready for ro¬ tation 30 or more lines portraying the two contests. Two individuals, a man and a woman, according to Miss Elizabeth E. Keppie, ad¬ viser and director of the Guild, will be sent to the Occidental contest, and six or eight contestants will he chosen after the tryouts to pre¬ sent cuttings in the local festival. Tryouts will be held in 1C next Wednesday, March 25, at 3 o’clock. Anyone interested in dramatics may enter, stated Miss Keppie, provided they be in the upper di- two or more characters. The judges for the tryouts will be Mrs. Helen Stone, Miss Nell Remsberg and Miss Elizabeth Pax¬ ton, members of the oral arts com¬ mittee. While plans are not as yet com¬ pleted for the festival here, it is possible that the Verse Speaking choir will present lines from the work of Shakespeare, in addition to a cutting, by members of the Guild, of “A Comedy of Errors.” NEWS Final decision on charges against 11 restrictive clubs postponed until future meeting. Page 1. * * * Vo-Mag is complete sell-out, as freshmen and juniors vie in selling contest. Page 1. * * * Spartans follow St. Patrick’s Day motif at dance, as leap year affair to be given. Page 1. * * * Juniors and freshmen to give afternoon dance with all school conditionally invited. Page 1. Final deadlines for taking of pictures for Campus are announced by editor. Page 2. 4* ^ Debate team authorized to jour¬ ney to Kansas to participate in na¬ tional tourney. Page 2. FEATURES “Engraver’s shop perfect place for murder,” says writer, as trip through plant described. Page 4. * * * SPORTS Coach Otto Anderson’s track team to meet LAJC runners on Horrell field tomorrow, as win ex¬ pected. Page 3. * * * Cathedral high and El Monte Lions on schedule for Freshman tracksters. Page 3. Spartans Hold Leap Year Hop Frank Vane’s Orchestra To Play,? Lone Males Not Admitted IN MEN’S GYM St. Patrick’s Day Will Be Theme For Service Group’s Dance Frank Vane's orchestra will play for the Spartan leap year dance, which will be held tonight in the men’ gym with St. Patrick’s day as the theme. Bids, which are green and silver, are being sold by all Spartan mem¬ bers, or may be purchased at the door tonight. They are 25 cents and no unescorted males will be admitted. Is Second Dance According to Marjorie Bettan- nier, Spartan president, the pro¬ ceeds of the dance will supplement student body funds given the club to provide sweaters for active members. This is the second dance sponsored by the service group, the first being given last Spring. Decorations for the dance are under the direction of Helen Sper¬ ry, and they will carry out the Irish theme. Betty Lewis was in charge of the bids. Other Spartans repsonsible for arrangements were Alta Paquette, orchestra and Har- riette Hills, publicity. Are Patrons Patrons for the dance will be Dr. and Mrs. John W. Harbeson, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. O’Mara, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Anderson, Miss Cath¬ erine J. Robbins, Miss Ida E. Hawes, Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Stir¬ ling, Mr. and Mrs. Alison Baldwin and Fred G. Young. The Spartans completed plans for the dance at a pot-luck supper held at the home of Betty Lewis in South Pasadena, Wednesday night. The executive board in charge of all activities this semes¬ ter includes Marge Bettannier, president; Eloise Jones, vice-presi¬ dent; Lila Renner, secretary and Carolyn Munn, treasurer. Will Exhibit Art Works Pasadena’s first annual civic art exhibition, which is sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, is open to' the public at Carmelita gardens until March 29. “The purpose of this exhibition is to stimulate an interest in the creative work of Pasadena’s artists and to educate, the citizens of Pas¬ adena to the fact that the artists in this community are doing some of the best work in the United States,” said A. M. Wedemeyer, art instructor at junior college, member of the fine arts committee of the Junior Chamber of Com¬ merce, the jury of awards for the exhibition and chairman of the hanging committee. Francis Baxter, former junior college art student, was awarded the only honorable mention of the sculpture exhibited. Of the four honorable mentions of paintings one was done by King Brock, a former junior college student. DRAMATICS CLUB TO LEARN BROGUE With “The White-Headed Boy” selected for their annual play, members of the Bauble and Bells club, lower division dramatics group, are learning to speak the Irish brogue, according to Miss Katherine Kester, adviser and fac¬ ulty director. The Irish comedy is scheduled to be presented at the John Marshall junior high school auditorium on May 8. Bauble and Bells members cast in the play are Rosalie Meub, Tom Stevens, Murray Huss, Ruthanna Marble, Charlotte Clary, Dorothy Brown, Harold Landon, Clifford Pratt, Stuart Russell, Mary Ona Turner, Anna Sussman and Lois Bankerd. Jack Farnsworth, stage manager, and Miss Jean McCrae, assistant director, are others as¬ sisting in the production. — - ♦ - DEBATE IS GIVEN Walrus club, campus discussion group, met in tent 15, during club period Wednesday, to hear a de¬ bate on the question, “Does Pre¬ paredness Lead to Peace?”