Pasadena Chronicle, May 01, 1931

Vol. XXII PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, MAY 1, 1931 No. 26 DELEGATES AT JOURNALISTIC CONVENTIONS — ♦ — Semi-Annual Group Welcomed By San Mateo; San Diego Last Saturday PASADENA- PAPERS WIN — + — . Washington Jr .High Is Voted Next President And Gets Fall Convention — f— Chronicle representatives who at¬ tended two separate scholastic press conventions last Saturday, re¬ turned from San Mateo and San Diego after active and worthwhile participation in the semi-annual meets. At San Diego, the Einstein ob¬ servatory dedication news story by Richard Penny won first plaice, and at Sa.n Mateo won second place. East year P. J. C. won first place with Bob Coop’s news story and fourth with Pat Wing’s feature in the lower division sections. Herman Allen, editor-in-chief, and Phil Corrigan, assistant busi¬ ness manager, attended the Cali¬ fornia Junior College Press asso¬ ciation convention at San Mateo. Anona Alexander, Betty Anne Ha- zlehurst, Eleanor Levins, Emil Shwetzer, and Elizabeth Spencer, accompanied by Miss Hazel G. Long, journalism adviser, attended the .Southern California high school press convention in San Diego. For the first time, through co¬ operation of all Pasadena dele¬ gates, Washington junior high school was elected president and (Continued on Page 3) TEACHERS GO TO CONVENTION — f— Foreign Language Instructors Invited to Gather at South Pasadena Miss Kathleen D. Loly, Miss Sara A. Talbott, Mrs. Clara B. Giddings, Miss Mildred F. Roberts, and a number of other local in¬ structors in foreign languages, will be the guests of the South Pasa¬ dena modern language teachers to¬ morrow, when the annual spring meeting of the Modern Langauge association of Southern California will be held at senior high school. Miss M. Olwen Thomas of South Pasadena is president of the or¬ ganization, having been elected at the midwinter meeting. In the aft¬ ernoon sectional meetings, the French, Spanish, and German sec¬ tions will elect officers. “The Reading Approach” will be the subject of Dr. Helen M. Eddy, noted edurator of the University of Iowa, at the general session held in the auditorium in the morning. The general session will also fea¬ ture a German film, Spanish play, dramatized French songs and a French puppet show. At the noon session, held in the cafeteria, community singing will be in three different languages. Music will also be given by the Spanish orchestra and French trio of the high school. Sectional meetings will be held in the afternoon and several noted speakers have been secured. Entrance Exams To Be Given at U. C.L.A. College board examinations in all academic subjects will be held June 15 to 20 in the physics building at U. C. L. A., according to an announcement by John A. Ander¬ son, dean of records. These exami¬ nations give high school recom¬ mendations to those who failed to gain it by recommended grades and admit to nearly all universities and colleges of the United States. Myrna Wilson Crowned as May Queen In Picturesque Ceremony Wednesday TWELVE MAIDS ATTEND RULER IN CORONATION jMable Carberry and Marjorie Shute Also Aspirants For Honor ALICE ASHLEY PRESIDES Hasten Plans Of Graduation Plans for graduation are fast nearing completion, accor¬ ding to Miss Ida E .Hawes, general chairman, who is as¬ sisted dy Miss Emma Bee Mundy, of Muir Tech. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Moon, authors, Homer Grunn, com¬ poser, and Charles Wakefield Cadman, whose numbers are being used, have been invited to the exercises as guests. The Moons are authors of well known Indian stories. ..Mr. Moon is also an artist, and one of his paintings will occupy the first page of the gradua¬ tion programs, while his wife write It he theme page. — Photo by Babe Wood. Myrna Wilson, queen of May festival at Pasadena junior college, with her maids-in-waiting and train bearers as she apeared during the ceremony last Wednesday. Only Five Days Remaining for A. S. B, Officer Nominations “Only five more days are left before nomination petitions are clue ; they must be in by 3 o’clock next Friday afternoon,” states Harold Hoover, chief justice, who is in charge of elec¬ tions. Spirit for elections is running high this year. The con¬ test for president promises to be heated with three candidates already in the ring. Other officers* have not so far brought out much response. More candidates are need¬ ed for each of the representatives and A. M. S. and A. W. S. officers, according to Hoover. “It is the duty of every student to serve his school in some way. P. J. C. offers a variety of these, one of them being elective positions in the student body. Show your spirit and either run for an office or have one of your friends run,” says the chief justice. CAST CHOSEN “Tailor Made Man” Vaude¬ ville Acts to Be Presented — ♦— With the entire cast of “The Tailor-Made Man” now chosen, complete details of the all-school production to be given May 22, are rapidly being worked out. Accord¬ ing to Miss Ida E. Hawes, dean of women, this program, featuring lovely music, clever vaudeville acts, and a four-act comedy filled with humorous lines and droll charac¬ ters, promises to be an outstanding event in Pasadena junior college history. One of the entertaining features of the program will be a Southern fantasy, with negro melddies, tap dancing, and music by the girls and boys’ glee clubs, Euterpean and Ny- saean singers, under the direction of Miss Lula C. Parmley. The “X” club will provide novel lighting effects, and Audre L. Stong, director, will present mem¬ bers of the band in short selec¬ tions. Vaudeville numbers are be¬ ing planned for continuity between acts, and the orchestra lead by Hu¬ bert H. Parker, will play popular numbers. “POST” AD MEN ALREADY BUSY Student Solicitors at Work On May 11 Issue; Weiss is Head Students of the advertising staff for the May 11 issue of the Pasa¬ dena Post are now soliciting more than 300 local merchants in an en¬ deavor to make this year’s student edition larger than previous ones. All student salesmen are selling advertising space solely upon its merits and value to the advertiser. Charity to the school will form no part of the sales talk. This issue will be distributed free on May 11 Monday, to all Pasadena junior col¬ lege students at 3 on the campus in place of the Chronicle, which will not be issued next Friday. Following are the positions of the advertising staff: advertising chairman, Joe Weiss; assistant ad¬ vertising chairman, Eugene Pitt- roff; copy desk, Harold Keltz; copy desk assistant, Reuben Weiss; women’s specialty saleswomen, Mary Balden, Jeanette Le Sage, Lillian Singer, Wynona Willey, and Helen Sorenson; financial edi¬ tor, M. D. Hall ; shoe stores, Mor¬ gan Smith; shoe stores assistant, Allyn Clampitt; men’s shops and special signature page, Wesley Daley; charge of Bulldog page, Emil Shwetzer; automobile and radio shops, George Meskell; thea¬ tres, Lucille Bishop; furniture stores, Jean Mitchell and Bill Davis; specialties, Josephine Offley; salesmen, Curtis de Boynton, Phil Corrigan; A. R. Baldwin, staff ad¬ viser. - * - Play, Readings, Musical Numbers Round Out Program Soft music . . . colorful ' gowns . . . flowers . . . glamor¬ ous as ever, the May Queen receiving her crown. In all the 'splendor of royalty, the im- ! pressive ceremonies proceed- ied. Maytime had come again. Culminating the A. W. S. observance of May Day, Myr¬ na Wilson was crowned Queen of May in the junior college audi- torium, Wednesday afternoon. Other candidates for the royal honor were Mabel Carberry and Marjorie Shute. Queen’s Maid The Queen’s twelve maids-in- waiting included Fannie Arnold, Mabel Carberry, Esther Cornelius, Alice Frye, Frances Gardner, Mar¬ garet Gardner, Elizabeth Hassler, Marjorie Rosanoff, Helen Haver, ( Marjorie Shaw, Lila West, and I Marjorie Shute. Trainbearers were Jean Lawrence and Bobby Baker. Welcome Mothers Alice Ashley, A. W. S. president, opened the fete with a welcome to students and their mothers. As the May Day observance is the only 'occasion on which the mothers can | be specially honored, it is with real 'pleasure that this welcome was of¬ fered. Charles Farshay, Merite Thay¬ er, Floyd James, and Norman Ricker, who comprised a saxophone quartet, played “Kittens’ Scamper” and “It Must Be True.” Elva Lois Kellogg and Russell’s “Song for (Continued on Page 3) Restrictive Dance Success at Vista — + — - Attended by approximately 150 couples, the Restrictive Inter-Club dance, held at the Hotel Vista del Arroyo, April 24, proved a great success. The affair was well planned by Vorhees Higgins, president of the organization. He was assisted by Dorothy Husband, secretary. The committee included: Dick Turner, Dick Hirth, finance; Tom Nay, punch; and Mabel Carberry, programs. Leighton Noble’s or¬ chestra provided the music. GLEEMEN SING IN ASSEMBLY Pianos and Violins Round Out Program From Romberg, Cadman, Others Vocal and instrumental numbers were presented in assembly this morning by members of the music department. Two piano solos opened the pro¬ gram, and were followed by a vocal solo, “Serenade” from Romberg’s “Student Prince,” by Eugene Bor- ger. The P. J. C. Men’s Glee club, directed by Miss Carrie M. Sharp, presented “Service,” by Cadman, and “The Sleigh,” by Pountz-Bald- win. “Leibestraume,” piano solo by Liszt, was played by Katharine Shaffer. Emil Briano, talented P. J. C. violinist, gave two solos ac¬ companied by Amy Grau Miller. Joseph Clokey’s “Flower of Dreams” and Warren’s “Autumn Sunset in the Canyon” were given by the Pasadena junior college Girls’ Glee club, under the direc¬ tion of Miss Lula C. Parmlev. Pattee, Anderson Make Interviews About 60 graduates of P. J. C. now attending U. C. L. A. were interviewed by John A. Anderson, dean of records, and Howard H. Pattee, dean of personnel, in an in¬ vestigation trip made to the uni¬ versity last Monday. The students are doing exceptionally well, ac¬ cording to Mr. Anderson, and many valuable suggestions were gained for use in advising future gradu¬ ates from Pasadena. PJ.C. GIRL WINS CONSTITUTION SECOND PLACE Catherine Allen Rates In The District Meet at Glendale Glendale ■ -f ■ ONLY GIRLENTRANT L. A. Times Finals in Shrine Auditorium Tonight; Eight Compete Second place honors were won by Catherine Allen at the district finals of the lower di¬ vision Constitution contest at Glendale last Friday. She spoke on “The Constitution and the American People.” Donald Fareed of Glendale won first place. Finals Tonight The Los Angeles Times finals of this contest will be held tonight in the Shrine auditorium. Representatives from five Southern California cities, one from Arizona and one from Nevada will compete. Miss Allen was the only girl of the nine entrants. This is her first year of competition, while Fareed has spoken in this contest for the last three years. Judges were se¬ lected from Southern California business men. Keen Competition In commenting on the contest, Mrs. Irene Sage Peters, who coached the Pasadena entrant, stated, “All the orations were original and well delivered, and the competition was especially keen.” Handbook Will be Printed in Summer Plans are now under way to pub¬ lish a Pasadena junior college handbook, with Douglas McMann, secretary of publications the first semester, as editor. He will ap¬ point his staff from Sigma Tau Ep¬ silon, junior college onorary jour¬ nalism fraternity. Barkers , Vendors , Play To Be One Day Carnival Highlights Barkers’ cries, pink lemonade, peanuts, popcorn, hot- dogs, shell games, dancing, and the colorful hilarity of the old carnival days will greet students when Mast and Dagger once more opens the annual scholarship fund carnival for a one-day stand, afternoon and evening, May 8, in the men’s gym. Student Will Represent J. C. Last Concert is Under Rodzinski Concluding- the series of student symphony concerts, Pasadena jun¬ ior philharmonic orchestra will pre¬ sent a concert this afternoon under he direction of Artur Rodzinski. George Borthwick, who has been prominent in P. J. C. forensics ac¬ tivities, emerged victorious in the upper division Constitution contest, Council Planning Booth at Carnival j which was held in room 1-B last — • — j Tuesday. By reason of his victory Plans for a booth at the carnival w;jj represent P. J. C. in the May 8 were discussed at the junior Constitution contest at Redlands council meeting last Monday. A university on May 8. committee was appointed by the.j Bernard Melekian and Donald vice-president to submit sugges- 1 Mclsaacs tied for second ; other tions to the council May 4, when Г contestants were Donald Mitchell final arrangements will be made. I and William Dunkerley. One featured attraction will be the great American melodrama, “Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model,” or “Jake, the Clothes Horse,” writ¬ ten by the “Alger” boys, and di¬ rected and produced by “P. T. Bar- лшп.” Hot dog stands run by the A. W. S., a “bar,” maintained for all comers by the Aeolians; delirious strawberry shortcake whipped by “The Club”; popcorn, potato chips, and peanut vendors impersonated by the Gunaikes; shell games run by the Abracadabra, Areopagites, and Baccalaureate clubs; and a past, present and future fortune telling booth conducted by the Sor- elle club, will be some of the nu¬ merous attractions. Members of the cast in “Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model,” are as follows: hero Dan McNamara; heroine, Doug McMann; father, Larry Smith; bartender, Jack Plot- kin; villainess, Bud Miller; addict, Jimmie Scott; announcer, Len Mc¬ Gee; and trainman, Ed Kilius. The play, to be produced and directed by Gwen Dodge, was written dis- jointedly by Larry Smith and John Krumm. The carnival will last from 2 until 5:30 o’clock in the afternoon and from 7 until 11 in the evening. A seven-piece orchestra will play for the dance which will be held in the men’s gym. DEBATE SQUAD MEMBERS TALK — ♦ — Speakers Face Bakersfield . Opponents, Discuss Trade Adoption William Dunkerley and Winston Trevor, members of the upper di¬ vision debate squad, argued for the adoption of free trade against two speakers from Bakersfield junior college this morning. This after¬ noon Jerome Hull and Bob Ryan will meet two representatives from the same team on the free trade question with sides reversed. Dixie college from St. George, Utah, furnished opposition for the upper division debaters in a series of oral arts contest last Wednes¬ day. In the afternoon two non-de¬ cision word tilts on the free trade question were conducted. In the first, George Borthwick and Jerome Hull defended the negative for P. J. C., while in the second the Pas¬ adena representatives were Win¬ ston Trevor and William Dunker¬ ley, who argued for the affirmative. An extemporaneous contest was held in the evening in the social hall. Tom Brady, Barbara Phillips, and William Anderson were the Pasadena entrants. This event was not judged. Bob Ryan and Jerome Hull, up¬ per division debaters, met Citrus junior college in a non-decision de¬ bate last Tuesday in room 200-C on the question of international free trade. Citrus will meet Los Angeles junior college soon for the Southern California championship. Four Films Shown To German Classes Opportunity was given to all faculty and students today to wit¬ ness four motion picture reels sponsored by Mrs. Clara Giddings and Elmer Sauer, junior college German instructors, during each period, in 200C. Films showing Germany Old and New, Scenic Wonders, A Traveler’s Paradise, and Berlin and Potsdam were shown to students at U. S. C., Polytechnic, Hollywood, and Fair¬ fax high schools, Los Angeles, dur¬ ing the week. Southern California modem lan¬ guage teachers will be privileged to new the films at the associa¬ tion meeting tomorrow at South Pasadena high school.