Pasadena Chronicle, March 27, 1936

LOCAL PLAYERS ENTER COMEDY IN TOURNEY (Thronide DEBATERS GAIN HONORS IN CONTEST Vol. XXVII Pasadena, California, March 27, 1936 No. 23 First Place Taken At Redlands Glendinning, Patterson Tie With Glendale For Debate Win HELD ON^ MARCH 21 Pasadena Defeated Once As Ten Teams Won Over in Tilt Faced with stiff competition, Dillon Glendinning and Franklin Patterson, of Pasadena junior col¬ lege, tied with the Glendale junior college debate team for first place in winning the Pacific Coast For¬ ensics championship on March 21 at the University of Redlands. The tourney was sponsored by Phi Del¬ ta Kappa, national debate society. Faced with ten strong teams dur¬ ing the session, which began March 19 and lasted three days, the team was defeated only once. Four of the ten teams opposing Glendin¬ ning and Patterson were from the University of Southern California, which college is recognized as hav¬ ing one of the strongest debate sections in the United States. Teams were gathered for this con¬ test from as far east as Wheaton, Illinois, and as far north as Wash¬ ington State. According to Earl D. Davis, debate coach, “the competi¬ tion was very severe as there were teams from several very strong colleges.” Topic Given The topic of the debate was “Re¬ solved: that Congress by a two- thirds majority vote, should have the power to overrule the Supreme court decisions declaring laws passed by Congress unconstitution¬ al.” All four members of the tieing teams will receive first place med¬ als. The Phi Delta Kappa cup will be kept' in this school’s trophy room until the first of the year, at which time it will be given to Glendale junior college. This marks the second time in the last three years that Pasadena has won this particular tourney. In the men’s oratory division, Bob Shuler took third place. Ruth Johnson, in the women’s extem¬ poraneous speech division, reached the finals, where she was elimin¬ ated. Other Teams Others representing Pasadena were Lloyd Howard with Roy Little¬ john, Bob Shuler with Jack Jensen, and Kenyon Howard with George (Continued on Page 2) U. Of C TcHs New Methods Students not eligible for entrance to the University of California un¬ der the “1933 plan” are offered a chance for admittance under the new system recently announced, according to Dean of Records John A. Anderson. Under the new plan the student must be in the upper tenth of his class, with not less than 15 high school units of A or В selected from third and fourth year English, mathematics, a laboratory sci¬ ence, language and history. They must not have more than two units of subject deficiencies in the re¬ quired list. This required list in¬ cludes advanced m a t h e m a tic s, chemistry or physics and an addi¬ tional foreign language. NOTICES TO ВЁГ SENT NEW WAY In order to reduce interruptions in class work due to delivery of messages during class periods, pos¬ tal card notices are to be substi¬ tuted for office call slips in all but emergency cases, said an official announcement from Mrs. White, head of the message office and textbook room. These cards may be obtained at Window One in the records office. “This change has been made necessary by the serious interfer¬ ences with class work due to the delivery of from 400 to 800 mes¬ sages a day. This system is a car¬ ry-over from the old high school days when we had fewer students. We have outgrown it and must have a more efficient method of delivery,” said Mrs. White. Additional information may be had at the message office or at Window One of the records office. - -f - CHANGE PLACES Mrs. Beverly Rimel, former sec¬ retary to Miss Robbins, has re¬ signed and moved to Santa Ana where her husband is located in the law business. Easter Dance To Be Tuesday At Auditorium Sponsored again this year by the senior and sopohomore classes, the annual “Easter Pa¬ rade” matinee dance will be held next Tuesday afternoon in the Gold room of the Civic auditor¬ ium. According to Bill Caldwell and Bill Feasley, presidents of the two classes, the afternoon dance will be free to all stu¬ dents but bids will be issued early next week in the student body office. “This pre-v a c a t i о n dance should be even better than the Easter Parade which was given by the two classes last year, and we hope that the Easter dance will become a tradition at the junior college,” said Philip Cartwright, chairman of the dance committee for the •ssep ojouioqdos League Test To Be Given In Afternoon Tenth Peace Examination Will Be Offered To Students Today The League of Nations contest examination, open to 11th and 12th year students will be given today from 1 to 2 p. m. in the first tent south of the women’s gym. The questions asked in this tenth na¬ tional competitive examination will be based on “A Brief History of the League of Nations,” official pamphlet of the League organiza¬ tion, with a supplement covering the events of 1935 published by the League of Nations association. The two best papers in the school will be sent to New York for national competition. Prizes Given A trip to Europe, with a stay in Geneva, League of Nations cen¬ ter, next summer will be the first national prize. Twenty-five dollars will constitute the national second prize and five additional prizes of $5 each are offered. To stimulate greater interest in world peace among young people, | the Pasadena Peace council offers to the student winning first place in the' local League examination, the Peace prize cup for one year. The two previous contests for this cup have been oratorical. A new offer made this year is a scholarship to the Whittier In¬ stitute of International Relations, June, 1936, Which will be awarded the student who submits a high ranking examination, and who, in addition, has taken part in the peace work of the junior college. Returns from the national con¬ test are usually received in May, according to Miss Katharine Ken- aga, who has charge of the contest work for the junior college. - - + - Meeting Held By Patrons With a display of the work of the Pasadena junior college busi¬ ness department as the feature of the program, the Patrons’ associa¬ tion held a meeting on Monday, March 23. Mrs. Earl Walker, president of the association, presided over a brief business meeting at which the project of securing a flat rate of a five cent fare each way on the Pacific Electric, for junior col¬ lege students living in adjoining towns, was discussed. Leland Pryor, head of the busi¬ ness department, took charge of the entertainment. Paul E. Bille- ter presented Mason and Clark Mallory, in a duet typing exhibi¬ tion. Norma Thomas, student of Mr. Pryor, gave a short-hand dem¬ onstration, and Betty Tilton, a stu¬ dent in Mrs. Jeannette B. Court- wright’s office practice class, il¬ lustrated the use of a calculating machine. Allison R. Baldwin gave a brief talk on merchandising, Mar¬ tin L. Pearson described the course in acounting, and Miss Ge'orgianna E. Flint discussed the scope of the short-hand course. Following this, Mr. Pryor showed one reel of pictures which he took last year in Europe, when he was a delegate to the National Educa¬ tional association. - ♦ - CLASS MEETS Miss Sara Talbott’s Cicero and Virgil Latin classes held a social at which Miss Talbott told of her recent European tour, and showed many curios which she obtained while in Italy. The meeting was held last Friday evening at 7:30. Players To Offer Play In Meeting Gerstenberger Is Author Of Satire Given In Assembly Today PLAY WITHIN PLAY’ Members Not in ‘Skidding’ To Assist in One- Act Play Offering the one-act play “The Pot Boiler,” Players' Guild, upper division dramatics society, will take over today's assembly per¬ iod. The play follows the “play within a play” theme and, accord¬ ing to persons associated with that group, is a humorous satire on playwrighting in general. Alice Gerstenberger is the author, Jane Clary, Guild member and a leading character in “Skidding,” is directing the assembly fare. She is also vice-president of the drama¬ tics group. The cast for the play includes Jimmy Ross, who plays the lead; Charles Renshaw, Bill Caldwell, Barbara Barnett, Eliza¬ beth Stephens, Sam Zimmerman, and Newell Barrett. Miss Eliza¬ beth E. Keppie, Guild advisor, is faculty director. One of Series Today’s assembly is but one of a series of events upon the Guild’s Spring-Summer program. Wednes¬ day of this week tryouts were held for the Shakespeare festival, to be celebrated on this campus, this year, as well as at Occidental col¬ lege, where the affair is an annual event. Miss Nell Remsberg, Mrs. Helen Stone, Miss Elizabeth E. Keppie, and Miss Jessie K. Pax¬ ton were judges for the tryouts but winners have not as yet been announced. Of the winners, four will be chosen to present lines from the work of the famous bard at the campus festival to be held April 24. One man and one women will be chosen, within the next few weeks, to appear at Occidental in competition with delegates from other southland institutions. “Copiedy of Errors” The Guild also plans a shortened version of the “Comedy of Errors,” which will first be presented at the Junior Shakespeare club on the 23rd, and then here on the 24th. Mary Lou Henry is the student director, and the cast, composed completely of Guild members, will be announced at a later date. Also slated for the local drama festival is the well-known verse speaking choir, under the direction of Miss Keppie. A few selections will be read at the Junior Shake¬ speare club, and sometime in May the choir will present a forty min¬ ute program for the Ebell club of Los Angeles. - 4 - Semi- Animal Trip Is Made Engineering majors .at the jun¬ ior college completed their semi¬ annual inspection trip Saturday, having seen the operation of sev¬ eral large industrial plants. The Douglas Aircraft corpora¬ tion was the first place on the itin¬ erary of the engineers. Here they were shown the construction of large sleepers to be used by the Royal Dutch airlines and the T. W. A. The Dutch planes will be flown to New York and from there shipped to Holland. Several large planes were also being constructed for the United States army. At this construction base the students were shown the paint rooms and fabrication department. The next part of the inspection was the Warner Brothers studio in Dark canyon. Here they were shown the sound stages with var¬ ious sets in the process of con¬ struction. The group was also shown the property shops, foundry, and storerooms. The last concern visited was the Los Angeles Times building. Here the engineering students were shown the telephoto wire machine, the linotype equipment and the large presses used to print this paper. ASK SUGGESTIONS For the purpose of gaining a clearer knowledge of campus prob¬ lems, the second period Tuesday slide rule class, which meets in tent 45, under Peter Stoner, head of the mathematics department, has set aside an hour each week for discussion of these problems. All suggestions as to problems to be discussed will be gratefully received if left in Mr. Stoner’s box. in the teachers’ room, in the band i building. Five Chosen In Drama Tourney Preliminaries Jane Clary, Natalie Theisen, Paul Brinegar, Don Starr and lack Swann were announced late yesterday afternoon as the winners of the preliminary try¬ outs for the annual Southern California Shakespeare festival to be held at Occidental college April 25. The five were selected* * of a large group, each of whom gave a 30-line selection, por¬ traying two or more characters, from some one of the works of the Bard. Soon after Easter vacation the two finalists to be sent to Occidental will be announced, stated Miss Elizabeth E. Kep¬ pie, Players’ Guild adviser, and one of the judging committee; Miss Jessie Paxton, Miss Nell Rembsberg and Mrs. Helen Stone completed the list. Players’ Guild sponsored the tryouts and will send the two finalists as its entrants to the drama meet. Plans are also be¬ ing arranged for a local Shake¬ speare festival. Vo-Mag Will Print Second Edition Soon 5000 Extra Copies To Be Printed While First Issues Sells To meet the demand from those outside the campus, Vo-Mag will publish a second edition of from four to five thousands copies, for the first time .in its history, ac¬ cording to Dow Parkes, editor. The first edition of 1800 copies was en¬ tirely sold out on the campus dur¬ ing the first week of its publica¬ tion. The date for the second edi¬ tion has not been definitely set, but it will be in the near future. Because of the distinctive nature of its make-up and the number of distinguished celebrities who con¬ tributed to its pages, the Pasadena Board of Education has ordered 1000 copies of Vo-Mag, to be cir¬ culated to all the teachers in the city school system. The junior col¬ lege administration will send other copies to prominent educators in the United States. Vo-Mag is making a special offer to students to mail copies to any address in the world for 25 cents, including postage and mailing ex¬ penses. “This offer is to acquaint the country with what Pasadena junior college is capable of rather than to make financial profit,” de¬ clared Parkes. “Our hope is that it will increase the reputation of the school.” Robert 0. Schad, curator of rare books at the Huntington library 'has sent copies of the publication to the Cdrnegie institute, request¬ ing them to study the magazine as an outstanding influence of culture in junior colleges. Because of the favorable impres¬ sion the March issue created, no¬ table people have written to the editor to offer literary contribu¬ tions. This is proof that Vo-Mag is securing a place among profes¬ sional magazines. Illustrated by Paul Landacre wood engravings, the March issue was devoted to books and printing, and included articles by, or inter¬ views with Hugh Walpole, Alex¬ ander Woollcott, John Masefield, and Robinson Jeffers. - ♦ - Newman Club To Breakfast With the largest attendance of the year expected, the Newman club of Pasadena junior college will hold its monthly Communion- Breakfast next Sunday, March 29, according to Frank Murphy, presi¬ dent. The mass and communion will take place at St. Andrews church at 7:30 a. m., followed by the breakfast at Hancock’s grill at nine o’clock. James Duff, Stanford graduate and well-known poet and lecturer of the Southland, is the principal speaker. He will include some of his original poetry in his talk. The program for the morning, arranged by Jane Flynn, consists of i a harp selection by Bert Boyer; several numbers by Walter Reed, vocalist and some selections by the girls’ choir of the Y. L. I. Frank Murphy, president of the J. C. chapter of the Newman club, wishes to announce that all Cath¬ olic students are invited, and they can make reservations at the New¬ man club office on the campus or by phoning Wakefield 6666. Wurzpl-Kliinimcrv Is Pasadena Contest Play I In Single- Act Tourney Six Junior Colleges Will Compete In Annual Contest Sponsored By Pasadena Community Playhouse Next Tuesday; Tickets — 25 Cents “Wurzel-Flummery,” a play written by A. A. Milne, will be en¬ tered by Pasadena junior college in the Pasadena Community Play¬ house association’s one-act play tournament to be held Tuesday, March 31, at 2:30 and 8:30 p. m. County winners entering the finals for the junior college division are Fullerton, Modesto and San Bernar- - *dino on the afternoon performance, Music Clubs Perform In Gold^Shell Combined Groups Present Program Sunday, March 22 Combining all the musical and vocal organizations of the school, the Pasadena junior college music department sponsored a program at the Gold Shell, Memorial park, Pasadena, last Sunday afternoon, March 22. The combined men’s and wom¬ en’s glee clubs, under the direction of Miss Lula C. Parmley, and with Priscilla Fox as accompanist, sang the opening and closing numbers of the program. String Quartet Under the direction of Milton Mohs, Ruth Hewitt', Grace Eleanor Wood. Edna Hamm and Mary Tweed, members of the string quar¬ tet from the Pasadena junior col¬ lege Symphony Orchestra, played four selections. With Miss Carrie Sharp, acting as both director and accompanist, the male quartet, composed of Har¬ old Cleveland, Frank Ryker, Wil¬ liam Caldwell, and Harry Gruwell sang several songs. The women’s glee club, under the direction of Stanley Taft, stu¬ dent director, sang with Sarah Flewellyn as accompanist. The men’s glee club, under Miss Carrie Sharp’s direction, and with Pris¬ cilla Fox accompanying, also took part on the program. Present Solos Thomas Lockard and Mary Lou Perry sang solos, with Louise Wil¬ liams as piano accompanist. Mary Lou Perry and Stanley Taft, ac¬ companied by Louise Williams, and Margaret Robbins and Robert Or¬ ozco, with Miss Parmley as ac- cofpanist, sang duets. Natalie Graverson gave a read¬ ing and members of the junior col¬ lege drama department, gave a sketch, under the direction of Miss Katherine Kester. Jean McCrea manager, and Mary Louise and Pasadena junior college, Comp¬ ton junior college and the San Diego Army and Navy Academy will present their plays in the eve¬ ning. The play centers around the theme that there is nothing, how¬ ever contemptible it may be, that a man will not do for money. In “Wurzel-Flummery,” two memlers of the English Parliament are of¬ fered a sum of money if they will take a certain ridiculous name,, .and the solution of this problem fur¬ nishes the plot. Thespians cast in the play are Harold Landon as Robert Crawshaw; Virginia D. Miller, Viola Crawshaw; Lois Ban- kerd, Margaret Crawshaw; Peter Prouse, Richard Meriton; Donald Starr, Denis Clifton, and Jayne Shepard, the maid. Miss Katherine Kester is the faculty director and others assisting in the production are Muriel Rash, stage manager, and Margaret Grubb, wardrobes. The setting and lighting are in charge of William O. Payne and the Silver Screen club. Special Prizes Given According to Mrs. Irene S. Pe¬ ters, who is acting as Pasadena chairman, the Playhouse is awarding special prizes to winners of the contest. A scholarship to the Pasadena Community Play¬ house school of the theater will be given to the boy and girl giving the best individual performances. Characterization and interpreta¬ tion, tempo, direction, voice and diction, make-up and costumes are. the points which will be considered in judging the plays. Hosts and Hostesses Under the chairmanship of Ray¬ mond Frey, secretary of oral arts, the following students have been appointed as hosts and hostesses for the evening: Sam Schwartz, Bill Feasley, Bob Hurt, Dillon Glendinning, Robert Main, Henry Dake, Helen Sperry, Kit Cart¬ wright, Margaret Davis, Jane Lou- ice Clary, Ruthanna Marble, Ruth Johnson and Rosalie Meub. Tickets may be purchased on the campus at twenty-five cents from Raymond Frey and his assisting hosts and Mrs. Peters stated that one ticket may be used for admittance to both the afternoon and evening perfor¬ mances. The director, cast and stage crew of each play of the junior college Henry, Dorothy June Evans, and j division will be guests of the Pasa Paul Brinegar composed the cast, dena Community Playhouse at a dinner to be given in the recital hall, on March 31, at 6 p. m. Vocal Clubs Give Air Show ART EXHIBITS In a few weeks the art depart¬ ment of Pasadena junior college will have the best pieces of work done by the students, shown at the San Diego Exposition. A local artist is mounting the pictures and the teachers of the department are choosing the work to be shown. Week’s News NEWS With an original composition by Vladimir Ussachevsky, former stu¬ dent, as the featured number, the vocal organizations of the school gave a half hour radio program over station KECA at 7:15, last Friday evening, March 20. Debaters tie for first place with The a Capella choir sang the Glendale J. C. in Phi Delta Kappa Prelude-Chorale, and Fugue, writ- meet. Page 1. 1 ten by Ussachevsky. He is an ex- * * ,* |tremely gifted young Russian lad. Pasadena to enter “Wurzel-Flum- w^° was a student at the junior mery” in one-act play contest at ?ollege for some time. From here Playhouse Tuesday. * Page 1. Players’ Guild takes over assem¬ bly, today, presenting “The Pot- Boiler.” Page 1. Principals to convene at Hunt¬ ington hotel April 2, 3 and 4. Page 2. * * * Senate speeches presented over radio Wednesday night on KPPC. Page 2. * * * Faraday lecture speaker to be Dr. Arnold Beckman next week. Page 2. * * * FEATURE * * * Plans for geologists spending blaster vacation at Death Valley on annual excursion. Page 4. * * * SPORTS * Hi Hi Golden Glove tourney opens on Wednesday nivht with preliminary bouts. Page 3. H: * .* Track sou'id travels to Lonf Beach to seek third straight dual meet win. Page 3. he. went to Pomona, where he wrote this number for his graduation re¬ cital. At present this extraordin¬ ary ability is making itself known in the Eastman school of music. _ The Euterpeans and Nysaean singers presented numbers, and Jean Guthrie played a violin solo. BAUBLE AND BELLS PLAY TO BE GIVEN “The Whiteheaded Boy,” por trayed by Harold Landon in th Bauble and Bells play of the sam- name, will not wear a white wig it was recently announced. Th name refers not to the color of hi, hair, but rather to the position hi holds in the family. It is an Iris! name given to thp favorite son ii the family and it is around hin that the plot revolves. The play to be presented at Marshall junio: high auditorium on May 8, in eludes in its cast Rosalie Meub Tom Stevens, Murry Huss, Ruth anna Marble, Charlotte Clary, Do rothy Brown, Harold Landon, Clif , ford Pratt, Stuart Russell, Rar Ona Tarner, Anna Sussman, an< Lois Bankerd.