Pasadena Chronicle, March 29, 1940

’ST. JOAN' TO BE PRESENTED TONIGHT BY PLAYERS' GUILD SEQUOIA-AEOLIAN INFORMAL DANCE TOMORROW NIGHT Vol. 31 Pasadena, California, Friday, March 29, 1940 No. 24 “GEORGE BERNARD SHAW” VISITS HERE TO PLUG PLAY George Bernard Shaw In Visit To East Campus Little Theater By David Davis Motorcycle officers, photographers, newspaper reporters and students waited expectantly last Tuesday morning for the sur¬ prise campus visit of George Bernard Shaw, famous author, PJC STUDENT BODY OFFICERS SWEAT OVER BUSINESS ACCUMULATED DURING RECENT VACATION PERIOD Important Discussion Over Erickson's Suggestion That Board Appropriate Twenty Dollars For Prizes To Speech Tournament Winners Governors of Pasadena junior college’s student body convened last Tuesday and plunged into the accumulated business of debit and credit as though Easter had never existed. Most important discussion of the day followed Junior Presi- dwent Harlan Erickson’s suggestion that the speech department be appropriated $20 for prizes to winners in intramural speech tournaments. cynic and playwright. The event was heralded as one of the most spectacular publi¬ city stunts ever arranged by any school dramatic organization. Mr. Shaw was attired in a cool palm beach suit and a nat¬ ty sailor hat. As he stepped from his huge limousine, Mr. Shaw was munching a huge, extremely or¬ ange carrot. A tremendous crowd gathered about the aged vegetarian and escorted him to PJC’s Little Theatre, where he will appear this evening to witness the Players’ Guild production of the epilogue of his own work, “St. Joan.” Rumor has it that it wasn’t really Mr. Shaw, but a fake. But you know how rumors are. “St. Joan” is student-directed, produced and acted. The master¬ ful touch of Robert ben Ali, as typified by “Manya” is again brought forth in this Players’ Guild presentation. The cast includes Patsy Pete- ler, Joe Pyle, Jack Dunbar, Don Fuller, Lamont Johnson, Bill Harvey, David Brown, Dan Ben¬ edict and Dan Simon. Grenes Krai, Alan Wood and Sylvester Demming are the tech¬ nical staff. JOHNNY LUCAS PLAYS FOR AFTERNOON DANCE Johnny Lucas and his orches¬ tra, formerly known as the Men¬ tor Street Maniacs, played to a well-attended afternoon dance yesterday afternoon in the women’s gym, east campus. Geri Banfield, featured vocal¬ ist with the orchestra, sang special arrangements of “The Isle of May” and “St. Louis Blues,” while the orchestra swung out with “Pagan Love Song,” “Lady Be Good” and a jam session rendition of the “Blues.” MRA Group Busy Easter Week As many PJC students spent Easter week resting from school or preparing for return, mem¬ bers of several Southern Cali¬ fornia colleges attended training centers of Moral-Rearmament at Webb school, Claremont, and in Pasadena. The groups have been actively engaged in pressing the ideas of Moral-Rearmament into service ever since a big assembly here last semester, participated in by men and women from many ports of the world, and faculty members and students of PJC. Two meetings were held last week. Twenty-five men met in Claremont on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The women’s meeting, held in Pasadena, was attended by 35 coeds; Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Women Invade PJC In German Movie “Drei Maederl Um Schubert,” meaning “Three Women in Schubert’s Life” is the German moving picture to be presented in the Sexson auditorium on Monday, April 1 at 3:30 and 8:00 pm. Fifteen cents admission will be charged for the show spon¬ sored by the German division of the language department. As the title indicates, the pic¬ ture concerns the great compos¬ er, Franz Schubert, and contains many of his most famous pieces. Paul Hoerbiger takes the part of Schubert, while three Ger¬ man women stars play the sis¬ ters with whom he has a series of love affairs. Blind Xylophonist Plays Wilson Places In National Oratory Margie Wilson, PJC orator, added a third place in the na¬ tional Phi Rho Pi women’s ora¬ tory championships to her grow¬ ing list of accomplishments in last week’s four-day national Phi Rho Pi speech tournament at Ogden, Utah. Miss Wilson’s third place was the only victory taken by the five representatives of PJC. Five Pasadenans competed in the tourney, while the PJC de¬ bate coach, William Evans, was honored at the tourney banquet. Mr. Evans was elected editor of the 1940-41 edition of the Per¬ suader, official publication of Phi Rho Pi. Although not a competitive event, four Pasadenans received a rating of “excellent” in pro¬ gression. They were William Budke HI, Margaret Bolin, Mor¬ timer Brandler and Francis Bradley. Twenty-six schools through¬ out the country sent more than 250 speakers to the tourney which was held at Weber col¬ lege in Ogden. Memorial Contests Held During April The Ruth Doolittle Memorial contest in the interpretation of Shakespeare, will be held April 9 and 23. Students of the 11th and 12th grades are eligible. The require¬ ments are a scene from any Shakespearian play, of 18 to 30 lines, which is to be preceded by a 50-word introduction explain¬ ing the dramatic situation. For additional information see Katherine Kester in 30 C. The Frederick Arthur Smith memorial contest will be open to students of the 12th, 13th and 14th grades. It will be held Ap¬ ril 5, and is sponsored by Play¬ ers’ Guild, and Delta Psi Ome¬ ga. Further information can be obtained from Elizabeth Keppie in the Little Theatre. Mt. Wilson Astronomer To Be Faraday Lecturer Bob Gillette, senior prexy and former star member of the school’s debate squad, pointed out to the board that the speech department had been granted a very generous appropriation at the beginning of the year, and that the $20 now needed for this new enterprise should have been saved and could have been if more forethought had been given. Other board members decided that former expenditures made by members of debate and ora¬ torical squads should not be con¬ sidered in a project which would include every member of the student body who wished to par¬ ticipate. Due to Gillette’s argument, however, the motion was tabled and following an investigation will be voted on next week. Minutes of the meetings of PJC’s newly established athletic board’s first meeting were read. They contained a new motion providing for complimentary passes to all school athletic events for every employee of the junior college. Other comps will be obtainable by the press, Rose Bowl employees, football scouts, scoreboard keepers, and perhaps police and fire depart¬ ment members. James P. O’Mara member of the committee, called attention to the plans for an ice skating rink to be built in Pasadena soon. He suggested that ice hockey be added to the sports curriculum here. Another sub¬ ject taken up was the increased interest being shown by stu¬ dents in many other winter sports. Chief Justice Thuel Schuhart took the floor to ask the board to appoint a male clerk who would swear in witnesses at the coming two jury trials. His rea¬ son for desiring a man student was that females giggle and dis¬ rupt the general morale of the court. Jim Speers was sug¬ gested for this position and re¬ ceived the appointment. Schu¬ hart then announced the sug¬ gested amendments to the new criminal code. The board ac¬ cepted them. The chief justice tendered Warren Allen’s resignation as prosecuting attorney and Louis Irwin’s at justice. Warren Glyass, west campus, was ap¬ pointed in Allen’s place. Irwin will probably take up a post as prosecutor, Schuhart said. TWO ASSEMBLIES TO BE FEATURED ON EACH CAMPUS Awards To Be Presented To Band In Auditorium Men To See Action Harold William Roberts, co¬ ordinator of events, and now acting commemorative secre¬ tary, has been designated to personally present parchment scrolls and medals to musical organizations of PJC in today’s AWS assembly for their 1939 Fair participation. The presen¬ tation will be in conjunction with a fashion show by F. C. Nash and Co. Groups receiving the honors are the Bulldog band, symphony orchestra, Nysaean singers, Eu- terpean singers and the A Cap- pella choir. Scrolls will be pre¬ sented to Dean Audre L. Stong and musical directors Lula C. Parmley, Carrie M. Sharp, Ma¬ bel M. Oakes and Charles Dana. Civic and educational groups who took part on the California program in ’39 are now being honored by presentations such as the one to be held here today. This gesture of appreciation on behalf of the state of Cali¬ fornia came through the cour¬ tesy of the 25 commissioners appointed by the Hon. Culbert L. Olson, governor, with a cor¬ dial invitation to return to the California state building for the Fair in the ’40 season, May 25 through September 29. The AMS assembly today in the men’s gym is featuring box¬ ing and wrestling bouts by pro¬ fessional exponents of the pu¬ gilistic arts. All men are invited to attend and observe the manly processes of self destruction. Wiliam Webb, AMS president, will direct the event and hopes to have several members of the gym teams give demonstrations. The west campus presents and amateur show with swing band, marimba player and tap dancers. Marjory Garland and Yolanda Ciccareli, of the forth¬ coming PJC Review of 1940, will offer several numbers. Bill O’Donnel, associate AMS presi¬ dent, will conduct the show on that campus. Expression Of Ideas Told Patron's Association Five students, representing five phases of school work Wed¬ nesday told the Patron’s asso¬ ciation some ways in which PJC students may learn to express themselves. In a panel discus¬ sion of the subject “Learning to Express Ideas,” led by Dr. Glenn L. Lembke, they praised the Pasadena school system for the opportunities it afforded but de¬ clared that “it is hard to get students to take advantage of the opportunities in speech, drama, radio and journalistic ex¬ pression.” In addition to the usual ways of communicating ideas, by speech and writing, which were explained by William Burke, ra¬ dio; Robert Hardgrove, journa¬ lism; and Margie Wilson, speech, the use of mathematics and science as expression of ideas was told by Edna Smith and Clifford Hoagland. Warren Allen Resigns From Prosecutor Post Warren Allen’s resignation from the office of student prose¬ cutor was officially accepted by the board of representatives last Tuesday morning. Warren Glass, former deputy prosecutor, was appointed by the board to fill Allen’s position. Allen resigned because of low grades and constitutional work which conflicted with the court job. Louis Irwin resigned from as¬ sociate chief justice (west cam¬ pus) to take the position of dep¬ uty prosecutor for west campus. SCIENCE EXCURSIONS Paul Motsinger’s science sur¬ vey classes of west campus are planning two excursions in the near future. The first will be to the San Diego Zoo, where the students will study various types of animals and their life habits. The second will be to various places of scientific in¬ terest in Los Angeles county. I00F HALL SCENE OF SEQUOIA-AELOIAN HOP The Sequoia-Aeolian clubs open the Spring social season tomorrow night with their joint open informal dance at the IOOF Hall, Los Robles and Wal¬ nut, to the music of Hal Lomen and his band. Dancing hours are from 8:30 to midnight, furnishing ample time for everyone to exhibit their newly learned Easter dance steps, and for those inter¬ ested in seeing the new couple combinations as an aftermath of Easter vacation, it will be just the time and place. Dress is informal. Bids are $1.10 and may be secured from club members, at the student bank, or at the door. WC Students Will Defend Rights All west campus students who are interested in defending their position in the current constitu¬ tion building program and who would like to hear “the other side,” may do so at a meeting to be held Monday at 3 pm in room 212 at the west campus. The meeting will be entirely open; open to all west campus students and east campus stu¬ dents too. This move was felt necessary inasmuch as both groups have expounded their views but have not had the chance to compare them with those of the others. The committee in charge is headed by Bill Webb and in¬ cludes Johnny Kranz and Ernie Blumberg. A constitutional assembly will be held May 7, and a conven¬ tion, the date of which will be given later, will climax the lengthy discussions of democ¬ racy and student needs which have prevailed. 100 Geologists Return From Trip Eating delicious pancakes for early morning breakfasts, view¬ ing beautiful desert scenes and colorful sunsets, sleeping in the open, telling stories around campfires — these are some of the experiences PJC geology students had on their sixth an¬ nual excursion during Easter va¬ cation. The group of 119 students left Pasadena the first day of va¬ cation early in the morning on a motor trip which took them through the Mojave desert, through Death Valley and over the state line into Nevada twice before they arrived home on Thursday, March 21. Most exciting incident of the trip occurred at Ubehebe craters in Nevada when a student, Keith Kelley, after descending into the crater with the rest of the stu¬ dents, attempted to climb out a different way and found him¬ self stuck 50 feet from the top with a 750 drop beneath him, un¬ able to go up or down. He was finally rescued with a rope low¬ ered down from the top of the crater. PJC Well Represented In Music Festival The junior college music de¬ partment of Pasadena will be well represented at the Junior College Music Festival April 2, when the members of the A Ca- pella choir under the direction of Lula C. Parmley and Mabel Oakes, and the 39 members of the symphony orchestra, play with the combined groups from the southwestern states. Students To Decorate If the opportunity presents it¬ self, the west campus painting class will decorate an old house in Pasadena. The house, not yet selected, must be vacant for six weeks and very much run down in order to demonstrate the stu¬ dents abilities as remodelers and to show what the west campus handicraft classes can really do. Here is an opportunity for some¬ one who may have a house in need or redecorating or knows of such a house, Fredric Green, instructor, announced. Friton-AWS Coffee Hour West campus Tritons and AWS have invited all women students to come to the annual Coffee Hour. For girls interested in Triton this is an opportunity for them to become acquainted with the club, officers said. Later there will be a joint meeting of the Triton with the east campus, with a pot luck supper served. CHEMIE CLUB OFFICERS New officers recently elected to the Chemie club for Spring semester aure Clifford Hoagland, president; Elisheira Gutmann, vice-president; Philip G. Young, secretary; and Joe Peachman, treasurer. Membership to the Chemie club is restricted to upper divi¬ sion students interested in chem¬ istry. Pierce Knox, blind high school student of Oakland, will be the featured artist of the April 5 assembly. Pierce is acclaimed as the best xylophonist of all American high schools, having won the national first prize at Cleveland, Ohio, three years ago. Because of his amazing ability he played an engagement at Ripley’s “Be¬ lieve It or Not” at the San Fran¬ cisco World’s Fair. The assembly will also feature some star of the networks whose name is not known at present. COSMETOLOGISTS HEAR Miss M. Quick, director of the employment bureau, presided at an informail discussion March 4 at the west campus cosmetology classes. The class discussed the placement of girls in homes by the junior college. An under¬ standing between employers and employees makes working con¬ ditions easier for both, she said. W. H. Christie, astronomer connected with the Mount Wil¬ son observatory, will speak for the 13th Faraday lecture, April 18, at the west campus auditor¬ ium. His topic is “What the Stars Tell the Earth.” Mr. Christie was born in Eng¬ land, worked at McGill Univer¬ sity in 1912 as a medical labora¬ tory assistant, came to British Columbia in 1914, went over¬ seas, and returned to the Uni¬ versity of British Columbia, where he received his BA in 1927. He was astronomer at the Do¬ minion Observatory at Ottawa, and came to Mount Wilson in 1929. He works under the direc¬ tion of Dr. Walter S. Adams of the Mount Wilson Observatory staff, and is a stellar astronomer specializing in Photometry and Spectroscopy. He is an expert in his field and known for his Friday night lecture on Mount Wilson. PLYMOUTH PLANT VISITS A working model of the Ply¬ mouth automobile plant was exhibited to the west campus auto mechanics classes Tues¬ day, March 26. The model is enclosed in a full length glassed-in trailer, and includes a scale copy of the largest building in the Detroit branch of the Plymouth factory. Mr. Crocker, of the advertising di¬ vision of the Chrysler corpora¬ tion, was in charge of the dis¬ play. ‘April Showers' Theme Qf West Campus Fete “April Showers” will be the theme of the Mother-Daughter banquet to be held April 4 in the west campus cafeteria at 6:30 pm. Tickets are on sale at the box office window at 35 cents per person. Helen Savory, general pro¬ gram chairman, is planning to have a renowned woman speak¬ er to give a few highlights on home decoration. There will al¬ so be musical entertainment. EAST CAMPUS MUSIC HOUR Wednesday, 11:20 and 12:20; Thursday, 11:20 and 12:20, 200C “Music of Rimsky-Korsakov” 1. Tale of the Young Prince and the Young Princess (from the Scheherezade Suite) 2. Flight of the Bumble-bee 3. Caprice Espagnol WEST CAMPUS MUSIC HOUR Wednesday, April 3 at 12:20 Summer Idyl . Rothledger Melody of Love . Eugelmann Andantino in D Flat . Lowden Intermezzo in E . Major Miniature Suite . Rogers (a) Prelude (b) Intermezzo (c) Pastorale (d) Loccata In the Luxemburg Garden Gertrude Gilbert, guest organist