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Pasadena Chronicle, October 09, 1931
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Theater Parties
POPULAR FOR OCT. 23
Blocks of Seats Soon to
Be Reserved; 35 Cents
for Balcony
Jtealicna (Hit on id
Pep Promoters
SONG, YELL LEADERS
Morley Drury Will Speak
at Footbdll Jamboree
Wednesday
Vol. XXIII
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, OCTOBER 9, 1931
No. 4
ORATORS TO
COMPETE IN
FINALS SOON
Tryouts for Extemporaneous
Contest Will Be Held
Next Monday
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FINALS ON THURSDAY j
Only Upper Division Students
Are Allowed to Speak
in Contest
Preliminary tryouts for the
Arnold extemporaneous con- j
test October 15 will be held
Monday afternoon in room IB. I
Speeches will be limited to 1
four minutes. Winners in this try-j
out will be eligible for the finals ]
which will be given in the social
hall next Thursday.
The contest is open to all upper
division students, topics, as an¬
nounced last week, being based on
the following departments from
“Time”: books, national affairs,
foreign news, people, and sports.
These are to be taken from the
issues of September 21, 28, and
October 5.
Final speeches must be no longer
than six minutes. The final winner
will receive a diamond medal, pre¬
sented by C. 0. Arnold.
Women Win
“In the past three years, two of
the oratorical contests have been
won by women,” says Mrs. Irene S.
Peters, “so there is a splendid op¬
portunity for them.”
Dinner will be served at 6
o’clock, preceding the oratorical
contest. Tickets are 25 cents and
may be secured from the manager
of upper division oratory, Ver.nice
Theisen, or at the student body
office.
Clubs in Charge
The “Club” will have charge of
serving dinner. Sequoia club will
direct all publicity.
Luke Smith, Walfredo Concep¬
cion, and Walter Coupe will be
three of the speakers.
All others who wish to enter
must sign up in room 1-B by 10
o’clock Monday.
Junior College Yell Leaders
Tune Up for Coming Games
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ONE OF NEW STUNTS TO BRING VICTORY
Girls, Left to Right, are Louise Bonds, Muriel Cannon and Marjorie
Harmon. Boys Acting as Pedestals are, from Left, Bill Bogart,
Stephen Salisian and Bert Easterbrook; in Front, Lee Scott.
V1NCENTI IS PEP SPEAKER TODAY
Yell Kings, Song Leaders Instill Enthusiasm
For San Diego and Hoover Games
“Fight, fight, fight, all ye Bulldogs fight, on to victory.”
In a last minute rally for the league-opening San Diego
and Hoover grid battles in the Rose Bowl tomorrow after¬
noon, the entire student body par
Seniors Strut
Next Friday
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All fourteenth year students are
urged to attend the senior class
party to be held October 16, in the
women’s gym. The affair is to be
strictly cord and cotton.
Bob Fellows and his eight-piece
orchestra have been obtained for
the occasion and will provide hu¬
morous skits and songs as intermis¬
sion numbers. Entertainment is
promised for non-dancers, consist¬
ing of cards and other games. Nov¬
elty refreshments are being
planned.
“The aim of this party,” says
Steve Salisian, senior class presi¬
dent, “is better to unify the class,
as well as to furnish an evening of
enjoyable entertainment for all
members.”
.Senior class members may obtain
tickets free of charge all next week
at the student (body office.
| ticipated this morning in an assem¬
bly headed by the pep commission
j and featuring a speech by Louis
I Vincenti, former student and star
| athlete.
Introduction of Coaches John
| Thurman, lower division varsity;
] R. Frank Baker, upper division
! varsity ; and Carl Metten, light-
j weight team, was followed by pre¬
sentation of the captains and first
string men. Upper division acting
captain is Edward Rogers. The
team is composed of Les Miller,
Billy Lynn, Bob McCue, Lewis
! Peters, Howard Barnett, Tab LiorT-
berger, Bob Little, Walter Scholl,
Charles Cotton, and Louis Schroe-
der.
Lower division varsity team con¬
tains: Lambert Westling, captain;
Don Ross, Bill Reese, Lewis Ven-
goni, Bob Pyle, A1 Plank, A1 Hoop,
Howard Haradon, Jack Atkinson,
Bill Duncan, and Stan Riordan.
Lightweight captain Charles Cas-
serly has a team composed of Bob
Galbraith, Roy Gertmenian, Russell
Van Duzer, Buck Jones, Bud Wren,
Louis Boisot, Frank Tremaine,
Jimmy Gabriel, “Red” Starrett, and
Jimmie Ware.
News Channel
Undercurrents
— ♦—
“The world is interest mad,”
states Dr. T. S. Elston, of the
science department. “Employ¬
ers of this age want workers
on whom they can rely.”
— 4 —
After a summer of neglect,
80 upper division books are
clamoring to be recognized by
their forgetful owners of last
year, according to Mrs. Mabel
White, manager of the [text¬
book room.
“I now feel well acquainted
with the freshman English
classes,” said Murray G. Hill,
head of the department, after
talking to all the composition
classes last Monday in the lec¬
ture hall.
YELL LEADERS
PROMOTE SPIRIT
Boasting a battery of seven yell-
and song-leaders, Pasadena junior
college will not lack in student pep.
This year’s roster of pep-promoters
is as follows: Bert Easterbrook,
head1; -Steve Salisian, Bill Bogart,
and Lee Scott, member of last
year’s pep commission. In the fem¬
inine department Louise Bonds,
Muriel Cannon, and Marjorie Har¬
mon will lead songs and yells.
These students were chosen by
the board of representatives from
the many candidates upon infec¬
tious enthusiasm, leadership ability,
activity, and other points.
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Singers to Hold
Joint Initiation
Plans for a joint initiation party
with the Nysaean Girls’ Glee club
were made by the Euterpean sing¬
ers at a business meeting October
5.
Bob Crusberg, William Prohas-
co, Bob Bould, and Harold Rogers
are the new members who will be
taken into the men’s club at an in¬
itiation at the home of Royal Wise¬
man.
New officers are: Mar. rice Stan¬
ley, president; George Morgan,
vice-president; and Royal Wiseman,
secretary.
Seventeen Are
Initiates Into
Drama Group
— ♦ —
Seventeen new members recently
added to Bauble and Bells, lower
.division dramatics club, are: Jean
i Melton, Pauline Sutton, Dorothy
j Spencer, Dorothy Jackson, Ray
Yancy, Eleanor Bothell, Pauline
Stevens, Carol Hill, Caryl Moon,
Lenore Cavell, Marie Pashgian,
Donald Mansfield, James Cairns,
Fred Warriner, Hugh Minton, Rus¬
sell Goode, and Phil Roulac.
Committees aiding in the .produc¬
tion of “New Poor,” Bauble and
Bells play, to be presented Novem¬
ber 13, are the following: Busi¬
ness — J ames Cairn®, chairman ;
Bruce Mansfield, Charles Smith,
Hugh Minton; properties — Ray
Yancy, chairman; Lenore Covell,
Fred Warriner, Phil Roulac. Co®-
tume and make-up — Pauline .Stev¬
ens, chairman; Gilbert Somner;
publicity — Pauline Sutton, chair¬
man; Marie P-ashigan, Eleanor
Bothell, Mary Constantian, Marga¬
ret Roth, and volunteers.
Initiation committee for the
club includes: Ruben Weiss, chair¬
man; Leonard Emery, Betty cClin-
tock, Mary Williams, and Bruce
Mansfield.
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Pasadena J.C.
‘ ( A ir- Minded9 ’
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Lighter-than-air craze has invad¬
ed the junior college in the form of
an aviation course instructed by
Stanley K. Stansberry in the new
technology laboratory building.
From 25 to 30 motors will be in
the shop, and after being gone over
thoroughly will be placed in a wir¬
ed enclosure .between the astronomy
building and the women’s gym.
This course covers completely
every phase of aviation with the ex¬
ception of actual flying. The chief
prerequisite is an excellent founda¬
tion of advanced mathematics in
lower division. The course is offer¬
ed for two years in the upper divi¬
sion.
RE-LIVE YOUR
LIFE? CAST
WILL DO IT
“Dear Brutus” Plot Offers
Chance to Make Vital
Decision Again
new parts Announced
— ♦ —
October 23 Set as Date for
Players’ Guild Annual
(P 2 StageJProductipn
If you were given another
chance talive your life, would
you live it differently?
In the production of “Dear
Brutus,” to be presented Oc¬
tober 23 by Players Guild, eight
persons entering an enchanted for¬
est on a midsummer’s eve, live
their lives again.
Enter Forest
After entering the wood the
haughty lady marries the butler;
the discouraged artist who failed'
becomes a successful painter and
has a® his companion his daughter,
for whom he has longed; the bril¬
liant lawyer Perdie, who in actual
life has fallen in love with another
woman, once more courts his wife;
the arrogant wife of a discouraged
artist becomes a poor beggar-
woman ; and the dilatory Mr. Coade
dances to his own music produced
on a whistle. A.11 these queer situu-
ations are unraveled in the third
act of Sir J. M. Barrie’s famous
drama.
New Parts
Four parts in the cast not an¬
nounced last week are: Mr. Coade,
played by Tom Nicoll; Mrs. Coade,
Brunhilde Stankowitch; Joanna,
Lila West; Mr. Purdie, Gilbert
Ralston. The name of the person
taking the part of Lob will be kept
a secret until the night of the per¬
formance.
The production committee for j
“Dear Brutus” is headed by the
following: Maurice Stanley, busi¬
ness; John Krumm, publicity, and
Lorraine Warren, house. Miss Eliz¬
abeth E. Kep pie’s Drama Produc¬
tion class 22A and Dorranee Gould
of the Silver Screen club will assist
in the staging of the play.
Guild Members
The following have been elected
to Players Guild : Betty Lawyer,
Leone Richards, Joan Sawyer,
Betty Larkin, Jean McCrae, Brun¬
hilde Stankowitch, Catherine Allen,
Shirley Ellis.
Vivian Andre, Leta Houston,
Jack Hamilton, Gilbert Ralston,
George Keysers, Allen Daily, Paul
Arvin, Tom Nicoll, Gerald Lewis,
and James Bruce.
Will Preside
At Jamboree
Bill Thomas
DRURY WILL
BE SPEAKER
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Former Trojan to Address
“Football Jamboree”
Next Wednesday
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Morley Drury, All - American
football player in 1927, will speak
at the “Football Jamboree” to be
staged by the A. M. S. next
Wednesday in the auditorium.
Drury, who played against Pasa¬
dena in his high school days as an
athlete at Long Beach Poly high,
will be introduced by Dean of Men
J. P. O’Mara, a friend of long
standing.
Recognition of
“spirit of football’
the .planning of
which will be in
celebration of football season and
send-off for the three junior college
football teams.
In addition to the talk by Drury,
a tap dancer os yet unannounced
will offer several numbers. Leigh¬
ton Noble’s band will play popular
selections. Yell leaders will head a
pep rally.
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ARMY BAND
ENTERTAINS
HERE TODAY
United States Band Founded.
By General Pershing
Gives Concert
SOLO TO BE HIGHLIGHT
John Henry Lyons Will Give
Explanations; Slides
Will Be Shown
“Pershing’s Own,” the Unit¬
ed States Army band founded
by General John J. Pershing
as the official A. E. F. band
during the World War, will
present a program in the junior
college auditorium this afternoon
as the first of a series of young
people’s concerts.
Celebrated by critics the world
over, this famous .band, in addition
to playing a large program, will
stage a demonstration of instru¬
ments. A euphonium solo will also
be highlighted.
Lyons to Comment
John Henry Lyons, superinten¬
dent of music of Pasadena schools,
will offer explanatory comments, as
he has done since the young peo¬
ple’s concerts were instituted six
years ago. Slides have been pre¬
pared to show composers and
scenes pertaining to them, and will
be flashed on at all concerts.
Success Marks
First Dance
— 4—
Success marked the first student
body dance of the year held Tues¬
day, October 6, in the women’s gym.
It is estimated that 15 dollars profit
was made, which will be added to
the student body fund.
Jack Layng broadcasted over the
.public address system, with Jane
Leberman crooning “When the
Moon Comes Over the Mountain.”
Bob Fellows’ orchestra proved pop¬
ular in their first school engage¬
ment.
Prof Lectures to
Mineral Students
German Students
Will Attend Opera
Thirty-five German students will
attend an opera party to see Wag¬
ner’s “Tannhauser” at the Shrine
auditorium tomorrow night.
Mrs. Carolyn Powell will give a
preparatory lecture tonight at the
home of Mrs. Clara B. Giddings.
Eugene C. Leuders, Mrs. Giddings
and her husband, Joseph R. Gid¬
dings, have planned the party.
Students taking mineralogy and
geology were interested in the
meeting of the Mineralogy -Society
of Southern California on October
2, at which Professor Woodford,
head of the department of geology
at Pomona college, spoke.
Professor Woodford’s subj eet
was “Crystallography,” describing
crystals and quartz in rocks.
Edwin Van Amringe, science
teacher at P. J. C., is secretary of
the society.
Board Elects
Court Clerk
Election of Alzira Rendall as
clerk of the court was the main
business of the board of represen¬
tatives Tuesday morning. Wendell
Hendricks, previously appointed,
withdrew.
Jack Wormell was appointed ar
editor of the “Cam.p-us” the first of
this rank to be appointed by the
board.
Thirteen persons added to the
junior council are: Harriet Gould,
Maryland Holmes, Charles Golds¬
worthy, David Nelson, Michael
Sheehey, Alfred Ludlow, Don
Flynn, Leroy McBurney, Suzanne
Kellogg, Marjorie Morse, William
Lord, Carl Mallory, and Ellsworth
LeBoyteaux.
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Debaters Choose
ics for Season
Band Program
Following is the program:
March Slav — . Tschaikowsky
Prelude . Beghon
Solo for Euphonium:
Beautiful Colorado . DeLuca
the universal i Variations of a Folk Melody.. Short
has resulted in I Demonstration of Instruments
the jamboree, j March : La Flor de Sevilla.... Sousa
the form of a Rhapsody (Based on American
Theme) . Wood
a. Danzon: Fuerza
у
Luz
Galimany
b. Spanish March: La Girald-a
Juarranz
Solo for Xylophone:
Rhythmic Classic . Green
The Dance of the Serpents
Boccalari
1812 Overture . Tschaikowsky
The Star Spangled Banner
Student tickets are 75 cents.
Adult rates are $2.50 for general
admission, and $3.50 for reserved
seats. Only season tickets will be
sold, according to Miss Lula C.
Parmley, music department head.
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Тори
CRITIC SPEAKS
Sogo Matsumo, graduate of
Yale, noted historian, lecturer,
critic and connoisseur of art, spoke
to a group of interested P. J. C.
students of art last Monday, dis¬
playing several original prints of
paintings noted for their color and
detail in the foreground.
“Resolved that Military Training
Should Be Compulsory in Secon¬
dary Schools” will be the question
to be answered by the lower divi¬
sion debaters in the first part of
November.
Milford Fish has been chosen as
upper division debate manager, but
no question for debate has as yet
been decided on.
According to Coach
С.
C. Ste¬
wart about 30 studefits are now
enrolled in debate classes. “This
large number -shows an unusual in¬
terest in debating,” says Mr. Ste¬
wart. Class debates are being given
as practice for the students.
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BRADEN SPEAKS
“Business as a Vocation” was
the subject of A. C. Braden’s talk
to orientation students Wednesday
in the auditorium.
This is the first of a series of vo¬
cational talks to be given during
club periods. Although they are
primarily for orientation students,
everyone is invited.
Rockwood Will
Attend Meet
Presidents from every junior col¬
lege student body in California will
attend a convention at Berkeley on
October 16 and 17. Bob Rockwood,
local student -body president, will
represent Pasadena. Steve Sali-san,
senior representative, will be acting
president in Bob Rockwood’s -ab¬
sence.
The convention is to be held for
the purpose of bringing together
the presidents and getting views
the 6-4-4 plan and also learning
methods by which the schools can
be improved.
Rockwood intends to carry the
message of goodwill from the entire
student body to those of the other
representative® who will be present,
and to tell them of the cooperation
and spirit shown here.
‘ Unemployed 9
Rush Office
Application for service points
for school work are rapidly
pouring in to the various de¬
partments of the school. Miss
Catherine Robbins, dean of
women, has been busy assign¬
ing applicants to various tasks,
as student body officers, assist¬
ants, musicians, debaters, serv¬
ice clubs, and the various ath¬
letic activities open to students.
Points are -given according to
the importance of the work done
by the students. At the end of
the year they are permanently
recorded.