Pasadena Chronicle, October 29, 1937

OPERETTA CAST CHOSEN PASADENA CHRONICLE : Vol. XXIX Pasadena Junior College, Oct. 29, 1937 No. 8 PJC Forum Lectures Scheduled 24 Noted Authorities Slated To Address Pasadena Citizens Including some of the world’s best public speakers and thinkers, a forum lecture series will start on Tuesday in the Pasadena j unior college auditorium. The series runs from November 2 to April 26, under the direction of David W. Reidy, head of the extension classes. The series includes 24 lectures and forums. Subjects range all the way from politics to cultural as¬ pects, and are diversified enough to be of interest to anyone in Pasa>- dena. Season tickets are on sale for the series in rooms 140C. EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS More than 2000 season ticket books were issued last week, but only a few score are left, accord¬ ing to Mr. Reidy. “Civic groups, schools and church units are all participating in the schedule, and have purchased most of the tick¬ ets in blocks,” he stated. “As the season tickets are priced at only one dollar for the 24 lectures, Pasadena as a whole has become interested in this civic venture and the resulting sale of tickets has far exceeded all expectations.” Civic leaders from Pasadena will lead the forum discussions, to be held as panel forums after each lecture. Mrs. H. L. Mansfield, pres¬ ident of the PJC Patrons’ associa¬ tion; Dr. John A. Sexson, superin¬ tendent of Pasadena city schools; David J. O’Leary, chairman of the Pasadena citizens committee and David W. Reidy will lead the dis- cusions from the stage. SERIES PROGRAM The following is the program for the series: November topic, International Affairs — November 2, Tragedy of Spain, Dr. James Beveridge; No¬ vember 9, Musolini Visits Hitler — Why?, Dr. A. Th. Polyzoides; November 16, Japan in Crisis, Hillfe Lory; November 23, Brit- ish-American Cooperation, The ABC of World Peace, Mrs. Pres¬ ton Stanley Vaughn. December topic, Government — November 30, Just What Is Russia Planning?, Dr. Earl Cranston; De- Continued on Page Three VIENNESE FILM SCHEDULED HERE The first film produced by the famous Vienna. Boys’ Choir, “Sin- gende Jugende” (“An Orphan Boy of Vienna”), opens the series of foreign language movies on Mon¬ day, November 1, at 3:30 o’clock, according to Miss Kathleen D. Loly, chairman of the foreign language department. It will be shown in the Pasadena auditorium. Acompanied by the Vienna Phil¬ harmonic Orchestra and supported by leading actors of Vienna’s re¬ nowned Burgtheater, this great choir of boys has produced a pic¬ ture which for marvelous singing, for intimate portrayal of the boy’s life with its joys and sorrows, and for Viennese and Tyrolean scenes, makes it one of the most popular movies originating in Europe last year, according to Miss Loly. The hero is an orphan, Toni, who is granted admittance into the num¬ ber of these fortunate boys be¬ cause of his ability to sing. His troubles, however, do not end when be becomes a choir boy, but they show that a golden voice is accom¬ panied by a heart of gold. Although he is the star of the play, the film was considered a group effort to such an extent that he is listed only as Toni. Admission will be fifteen cents Tickets for students and their friends may be secured from the German students and language teachers, or at the box-office on November 1. English sub-titles en¬ able all to understand the story. Second Rush Affair Staged By Sentinels The Sentinel’s second rush party of this semester was held Satur¬ day evening, October 16, at Glen Oaks park in Glendale Hills. En¬ tertainment consisted of a barbe¬ cue and dancing. The party was in charge of Peter Burrows and Annette Findeisen. A semi-formal tea, held at the home of Mary Emery on Sunday afternoon, October 10, was the first party of the Sentinels. Officers of the order elected for this semester are Ted Webber, president; Ned Winsor, vice-presi dent; Vesta Stone, secretary; and Peter Bur¬ rows, treasurer. Select Cast For Student Prince7 Music Department Prepares For Performance Sig'mund Romberg's operet¬ ta, ‘The Student Prince,” will be presented by the Pasadena junior college music depart¬ ment as a matinee on Decem¬ ber 9 and the evenings of December 10 and 11 in the auditorium. The Euterpean and Nysaean singers wiU make up the east of 50, with .e, . C symphony orchestra fur¬ nishing the accompaniment. Miss Lula C. Parmley, chair¬ man of the music department, Miss Carrie M. Sharp and Miss Kathryn Barnard are in charge of the vocal ensembles; Milton C. Mohs is conducting the orches¬ tra; Miss Katharine R. Kester is directing the dramatics, and Ihomas D. Stevenson is taking charge of the scenery. Dances will be furnished by the physical education department, under the direction of Miss Elizabeth Jen¬ sen, with the home economics department, under the direction of Mrs. Esther L. Tenison, fur¬ nishing costumes. “The Student Prince,” considered one of the world’s most popular operettas, played for 1250 consecu¬ tive performances in New York at one time. Many Euterpean and Ny¬ saean singers saw the operetta in Los Angeles two winters ago, while Jeannette MacDonald and Gene Raymond presented it over the air r^celjtiy- Miss Parmley expressed the belief that the operetta would be an enjoyable presentation. “This should in every respect equal our former performances of ‘Briar Rose,’ ‘The Red Mill,’ and ‘The Prince of Pilsen,’ ” she stated. CAST SELECTED I’ryouts for the operetta were held Friday with the following students being cast for the pro¬ duction: The Prince, Norman Du- raske; Ivathie, Sylvia Nees; Dr. Engle, Harold Cleveland; Ruder, Earl Davis; Gretchen, Betty Grey; The Princess, Beverly Ar¬ nett; The Duchess, Mary Lou Heckman; The Countess, Dorothy Cooke; Lutz, Bob Hanson; Hu¬ bert, Eugene Baker; Nicholas, Ralph Hilbert; The Prime Min¬ ister, Willard Polhemus; Detleff, Don Hanna; Astorberg, Bill Ewing; Lucas, Walter Reed; Tarnitz, James Stivers; Rudolph Winter. Jim Wallace; Toni, George Grassmueck; Captain Arnheim, Jack Douglas; Lackeys, Erwin Barringer, Bob Young, Maurice Taylor and Jim Wallace; Friends of Ivathie, Alice Larson, Dorothy Cooke and Betty Grey. Members of the girls’ chorus are Eleanor Smith, Betty Emerson, Mary Davidson, Ardith Anderson, Barbara Anderson, Doris Corbett, Eugenia Corbett, Bobbie Evans, Lenore Goad, Kathleen Goble, Ruth Hayes, Evajyn Hoohsema, Alice Larson, Doris McManus, Virginia Throop, Patricia Wortmen, Amy Whitaker, Muriel Zahler, Ida May Jessen and Margaret Dressier. The boys’ chorus includes: John Bercovitz, Randolph Coffman, Bill Creames, LaVeme Deighton, Jack Douglas, Raymond Fischer, Haig Giridlian, Charges Hogle, Murray Huss, Ted Liepman and Dan Mc- Keever. 'Dad's Night7 Theme Of Compton Game The fathers of the football play¬ ers on the jaysee team will appear at the game in the garb of regular players as a specialty for the foot¬ ball bout with Compton tonight. They are planning to wear the numbers that their sons use in the game. In the case of those players whose fathers live outside the state, or those who are unable to attend for any reason, the officials of the city of Pasadena are preparing to take the positions of substitute fathers. In the interval between halves of the game the fathers are to lead in singing a song which will play up the theme of Dad’s Night. The song will be published in the cur¬ rent issue of the Huddle for the benefit of those who have not heard the words. According to Audre L. Stong, dean Orf men, the event will be staged to show the feeling of co¬ operation between fathers and sons with regard to the football of to¬ day as compared to that of yester- day. CSF TO VIEW PLAY “Boundless as the Sea,” an or¬ iginal play by Miss Kathryn Kes¬ ter, will be presented to her drama students at a meeting of CSF to be held next Wednesday at 3 p. m. in the little theatre. Also featured at the meeting, to which all life members of CSF now attending Pasadena junior college are invited, will be the presentation of pins to active members, election of officers, and refreshments. Committee Traces Activity Records Delving into the past and searching for records of the ac¬ tivities of the students that have attended classes at PJC in past years, has- been selected as the project for this year by the rec¬ ords committee. No doubt they will find many fascinating facts about our alumni, which will be of much use in organizing future activities. This course was decided upon at a meeting called on October 7 by Mary E. Gartz, secretary of records and head of the com¬ mittee. After discussing vari¬ ous methods of procedure, the committee decided to divide into five groups, each to be in charge of its own section. The groups are in charge of the following divisions: sc h о 1 a s t i c history, school awards for public display, service point committees, filing and research organization and publicity. The work has attracted the at¬ tention of many students who have volunteered to help on the project. They hope to complete the work soon and present the results to the school. Dr. John A. Anderson, dean of records, has complete charge of all work on this propect. “I think that the work will be beneficial to the school in many ways,” said Dr. Anderson. ARNOLD CONTEST TRIALS SLATED Tryouts for the Arnold extem¬ poraneous contest, held annually since 1928, are set for November 9, at 2 p. m. in 200C. “Education and Its Influence” has been selected as the general topic. This contest is open to all upper division students, or any twelfth year student taking upper division courses. Upper division students new here are urged to participate, explained Mrs. Irene S. Peters, speech instructor, and should see her in room 30C, or see Jean Val¬ entine, manager of oral arts, or Helen Vaughn, secretary of oral arts. BROAD SUBJECT The general subject chosen by the oral arts committe for this year, “Education and Its Influence,” will be divided into many sub-top¬ ics, one of which will be given to each participant. The sub-topics will be listed on the bulletin boards in the front hall. Finals of the extemporaneous contest are set for November 16, at which time a dinner for the contestants will be held at the YWCA. C. O. Arnold, sponsor of the contest, has been interested in Pasadena junior college, and es¬ pecially in speech work, since his daughter, Fanny Arnold, was a. student body officer and speak¬ er here. Mr. Arnold’s purpose is to encourage speech work at PJC. The winner of this contest is presented with a diamond med¬ al. Another upper division oratory and extemporaneous speaking con¬ test is to be held at Bakersfield, on November 11, 12 and 13. Con¬ testants in this will be representa¬ tives from all schools on the Pa¬ cific coast. Tryouts are scheduled for No¬ vember 2, the time and place to be given in the weekly bulletin. If any Pasadena junior college stu¬ dents are found to be outstanding, they will be sent to Bakersfield, ex¬ plained Jean Valentine. Caplan Issues Publicity Change Department Rules Will Be Strictly Enforced Pasadena junior college pub¬ licity is going on a new basis, effective immediately, accord¬ ing to Max Caplan. newly-ap¬ pointed secretary of publicity. Each department and administra¬ tive office is to have its own show case. Student body publicity will be handled separately. An attrac¬ tive background will be used to liven up the cases, with a title for each in raised letters. Also as part of the program, an effort will be made to make the posters more attractive. Youlden C. Howell, PJC art teacher and new publicity ad¬ viser, has made a ‘Traffic” survey of the campus to determine the points of greatest activity. Using the results of this survey as a basis, new bulletin boards will he placed. Notices will be re¬ moved immediately after the an¬ nounced event has taken place. With this policy the boards will be kept up-to-date. ORGANIZE PROGRAM “Our purpose is to organize the publicity program and create more attractive advertising displays in the corridors,” Caplan said. He has appointed a student chairman to take charge of the publicity for each department. These students have appointed committees to help them when necessary. The chair men are: Ray Richter, Tom Moran, Jim Miller, Don Kubly, Miriam Purdon and Mildred Schmertz. Working with Caplan as under-sec¬ retary is Ed Dube. If these publicity chairmen wish to advertise an event to the whole school, they must pre¬ sent this material to the secre¬ tary of publicity, for an O.K. at least two weeks before the event. Caplan said definitely, “Any material put on the bulletin board without a publicity com¬ mittee O.K. will be taken down immediately.” After being approved, the post¬ ers will be placed on bulletin boards throughout the grounds by _the committee. A limit of 20 posters for any one event will be placed on material of this kind, however. Posters can be obtained from the printshop through the secre¬ tary of publicity at the rate of $1.30 for 25. The art department will make special displays on re¬ quest, for a price determined by the work and materials necessary. “The publicity department is working hand in hand with the art department in this,” Caplan said, “and Mr. Howell has given a great amount of assistance as adviser.” MINISTER TO ADDRESS Y.M.C.A. MEMBERS The first of a series of meetings designed for the men students of PJC will be held in 100T next Thursday, November 4, at 7:15 p. m., according to Bill Davis, president of the college YMCA, and sponsor of the series. The speaker for this program will be the Rev. Wesley Nicholson, who comes from Berkeley. Mr. Nicholson was very active in stu¬ dent “Y” work in the bay area and has only recently come to Pasa¬ dena. The meeting will also include a fellowship period with informal group singing during which time the future plans of the “Y.M.” will be discussed. S.B. DANCE TO SERVE AS 'GUINEA PIG7 FOR 'DATE BUREAU7 EXPERIMENT “Five feet two with eyes of blue, has anybody seen my gal?” So chorus the Associated Men Students as they rush pell-mell into the student body offices in the student union. The cause of the offices’ sudden popularity? A date bureau has been organized! For your date with your dream man (or your dream girl per¬ haps) to the Student Body dance at the Civic auditorium, Wednes¬ day, November 10, it’s the an¬ nual ball you know, you need simply register with the date bu¬ reau. Interested girls are to bring in their names, personal details, characteristics, and pos¬ sibly a picture. She may also add a detailed description of her preference as to an “ideal man.” The boys, in turn, who would like to meet their dream girl may find her by coming in and listing their qualifications desired. If they meet the preferences which the girl desires, they may have her telephone number. From then on it is up to the fellow to get the date. Girl’s applications must be in by Nov. 5, and the fellows must come in for their dates not later than Monday, the ninth. This bureau was started by Jean¬ ette Eastman, secretary of social affairs, and will be carried out un¬ der her supervision by Dorothy Le Baker, Stellanne Lotz, and Jack Burtt. Several colleges, including UCLA, are finding these date bur¬ eaus, run by the students, to be very popular and successful. If this experiment proves successful for the student body dance, it will be carried on in the future as a tradi¬ tion. Already the idea is being ac¬ cepted with applause. President of student body, Bob Stapleton, says, “My name will be in!” Bob Coates, chief justice, says that he will be the first in line. Vir¬ ginia Phillips, cheer leader and president of Alphometa, says, “If it can succeed at UCLA, it certainly should be a success here.” “It will afford more chances for students to become acquainted and have a better time. It will also do away with a great deal of snobbishness,” says Vernon Leif, AMS presi¬ dent. AWS - WAA Meet At Vista Next Week Southern California Junior Colleges Slate Meeting In Pasadena For Second Consecutive Year; 19 Schools Participate Pasadena has been chosen for the second consecutive time as the meeting place for the annual conference of Asso¬ ciated Women Students and the Women’s Athletic Associa¬ tion from 19 Southern California junior colleges. The confer¬ ence is to be held Friday and Club Women Prepare For Halloween Dance Tomorrow Night Hallowe’en motifs will provide the “spooky” atmosphere for the Women’s Restrictive Inter-Club Council dance to be held October 30, at the Monrovia women’s club. The dance, traditionally formal, will this year be infomDal to coin¬ cide with the festive spirit of Hal¬ lowe’en, it was announced by Bar¬ bara Milliken, president oTWRIGC, who is in charge of the affair. She is assisted by Roberta Johns, chairman of the decoration com¬ mittee, Sis Hayes, in charge of the dance floor, and Claudia Moore, chairman of bids, and their re¬ spective committees. Decorations for the dance will, of course, be in keeping with the spirit of the night and the oc¬ casion will call for much in the way of decorations, it was an¬ nounced by Roberta Johns. “The Monrovia women’s club will lend itself well to a dance of this type,” said Sis Hayes, “as its big rooms and large dance floor will be adequate for the record crowd expected.” The dance is a closed affair, with bids issued only to members of the girls’ restrictive clubs. It is com¬ pletely sponsored by the girls un¬ der the direction of Miss Milliken. Men students will attend ony by invitation, issued by club members of the ten women’s restrictive clubs at Pasadena junior college. There will be no stag line. Each girl at¬ tending will bring her own date, and there will be no mixup from too many men at a result of gen¬ eral ticket sales and unrestricted bid selling. Ray Simpson’s orchestra will play for the evening. Player's Guild Selects Members At Tryouts Ten potential actors and ac¬ tresses were taken into Players’ Guild at tryouts held last October 20. The winners in the competition were: Richard Hamilton, John Pirn- ley, Deane Rockwell, Edward Fer- riter, Beverly Jane Arnett, Dixie Galloway, Charlotte Bougardt, Beth Henry. Betty H. Luster and Vir¬ ginia Underwood. Miss Elizabeth Flint, adviser of the club and Linn W. Hattersley, of the faculty, acted as judges. Stu¬ dent judges were Roy Winder, Rog¬ er Tierney, Rosalie Meub, Rachel Reid and Virginia Miller. The in¬ itiation will be held Friday evening, October 5. Roger Tierney, Rachel Reid and Miss Flint are reading plays to be considered for presentation throughout the year. 250 GEOLOGISTS HUNT MINERAL SPECIMENS In the largest mineral collecting trip ever held in Southern Cali¬ fornia, 250 persons, including mem¬ bers of the Mineralogical Society of Southern California and geology students of Pasadena junior college, treked to Soledad canyon on Sun¬ day, October 17, to obtain speci¬ mens for geological study. Eighty cars were in the contin¬ gent, the Mineralogioal Society of Southern California playing host to the students on this highly-educa- tional trip. Almost 150 geology enthusiasts toured to Cajon pass last Satur¬ day, October 23, to view the rock and mineral formations found there. The highlight of the day was the visiting of the famed Vasquez rocks made possible through the cooperation of Hollywood Produc¬ tions, Incorporated. Two instructive trips are in store for the coming month; one to the Santa Ana mountains which con¬ tain one of the largest accumula¬ tions of fossils in Southern Cali¬ fornia, and the second to the gold mines of Solada mountains near Mojave. FURNISHES PICTURES The picture of the ROTC detail hoisting- the flag that was presented to PJC by the Elks, and the pic¬ ture of a group of restrictive club girls rehearsing for the dedication week parade were furnished by Max Hole, 540 S. Greenwood street, amateur photographer. Saturday, November 5 and 6, at the Hotel Vista del Arroyo, with Pasadena junior collegians as hos¬ tesses. The AWS board, WAA president, Big P president, secretary of so¬ cial -affairs, clerk of the student body board, and the Spartan presi¬ dent will be sent by their organi¬ zations as official delegates, but any girl in the school is invited to make reservations with Miss Cath¬ erine J. Robbins, dean of women. CONFERENCE THEME The theme of the conference will be “The College Woman and the Modern World” and the fol¬ lowing is the schedule of events: registration, recreation, including swimming in the new Vista pool, table tennis-, badminton and get¬ ting acquainted, Friday, Novem¬ ber 5, 4-6 p. m.; formal dinner, Friday, 7:00 p. m.; breakfast, Saturday, November 6, 8 a. m.; group conferences, Saturday, 10:15 to noon, and luncheon, Sat¬ urday, 12:30 p. m. The distribution of duties, which was planned at a meeting of the Southern California junior college deans of women at Glendale junior college Saturday, October 16, is as follows: Pasadena, housing and registration; Pasadena WAA, lun¬ cheon on Saturday with entertain¬ ment around the Vista pool; Fuller¬ ton, banquet; Compton, printing of programs; Citrus, place cards; Glendale, entertainment Friday evening; Chia.ffey, meeting of the AWS presidents; Los Angeles jun¬ ior college, music; Santa Monica, breakfast; Pomona, favors; San Bernardino, corsages; Santa Ana, chairman of social committee con¬ ference; Long Beach, WAA presi¬ dents’ meeting; Santa Monica, other officers of WAA; Pasadena, sports managers ; group conference, Antelope, Central, Brawley, Ocean- side-Carlsbad. The system of a co-operative conference, in which each junior college has a share in the plan¬ ning, is found to be very desir¬ able,” said Miss Robbins. “Fur¬ ther information on the confer¬ ence may be obtained in my of¬ fice.” OPEN HOUSE HELD IN DEAN'S OFFICE The semi-annual AWS open house was held yesterday in the office of Miss Catherine J. Rob¬ bins, dean of women. Refreshments were served to students visiting the office between 2 and 4:15 o’clock. Th,e affair was arranged by Lil¬ lian Wallis, AWS representative. Serving under her as hostesses were the members of the AWS board and cabinet, consisting of Rae Williams, president; Betty Mo- shisky, vice-president; Jean Ford, vice-president; Barbara Patten, sec¬ retary; Ramona Martin, treasurer; Maudie Toland, senior representa¬ tive; Margaret Drake and Ruth Nelson, junior representatives; Ja- n-ine Cheely and Eloise Dorn-, soph¬ omore representatives; Peggy Ing¬ ham and Virginia Spahr, fresh¬ man representatives; Mary Gartz, WAA representative; Norma Owen, colored representative, and Midori Satomi, Japanese representative. The purpose of the gathering wias to give old and new students another -chance to make new friends and renew old acquaintances. Miss Robbins described -the meeting as a “come and go affair” and was pleased by the attendance of so many members of the student body and faculty. WEEK'S NEWS 24 lecturers slated to address Pasadena citizen’s in PJC Forum lecture series . Page 1. * * * Cast for Euterpean-Ny-saean op¬ eretta, due December 9, chosen. .. . . . Page 1. * * * Alpha Gamma Sigma, national honorary scholarship society an¬ nounces members for coming se¬ mester . Page 3. * * * 19 Southern California junior colleges send delegates to AWS- WAA convention at Vista hotel. PJC Patrons addressed by Dr. J. W. Harbeson . Page 3. * * * Extemporaneous speaking con¬ test plans announced . Page 1.