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              The Maroon LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LA., FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1929 VOL. VII No. 13 VAUDEVILLE SHOW BY THESPIANS SET FOR 12TH OF APRIL Two and One-Half Hours of Fun Promised by Actors in Novel Bill The Thespians will make their next public appearance with a two-and-a-half hour vaudeville program on April 12. This type of show will be something novel for the Thespian organization as it is the first time the society has attempted a presentation of this kind. The bill will include three skits and several individual numbers. Rehearsals began last week and the actors taking part have been busily engaged both day and night in an effort to make it a pronounced success.The skits will include a one-act comedy, "The Laziest Man in the World," by Carl Webster Pierce. The cast for this includes Clyde de la Houssaye, John Oulliber, Joseph Blasi, and Nicholas Masters. "Come Out Of It," another one-act comedy, includes Julian Humphrey, Bently Byrnes, Alden Echezabel, and Misses Aline Leftwich, Ducote and Charlotte Roccaforte, in its cast. Both skits are being directed by Gerard Rault. "The Lamp Went Out" will be a skit presented in pantomime. It is under the direction of Paul Ganucheau, and the cast includes Misses Marian Ouliber, Helen Fletcher, and Maude Valiant; Leon Sarpy and Wilmer Watkins. Joe Egan will have a blackface monologue. Mark Malloy and Carl Buchanan will present a dialogue, as will Robert Ainsworth and Emily Nunez. J. D. Bloom and Tim Dug- Kan will render several banjo duets. WWL WILL INCREASE POWER TO 5000 WATTS AFTER RADIO DISPUTE WWL is prepared to go on the air with an increased power of 5000 watts as soon as word is received from the Federal Radio Commission regarding the recent WWL-KWKHKVOO controversy, announces Rev. O. L. Abell. All necessary apparatus has been installed and several improvements made which will enable the university radiocasting station to serve listeners-in with even greater facility than heretofore. An auxiliary broadcasting studio has been fitted out in the room, next to the present studio, which formerly served as a waiting room. The availability of this second studio will enable WWL to maintain a constant and uninterupted program by alternating from one studio to the other, thus eliminating the usual intermission between numbers. Father White Is Judge Rev. Lawrence White, S. J., was one of three judges in the Washington Essay Contest held by the New Orleans States last week. The others who with Father White, chose the best papers submitted by students of grammar and high schools of this section were Miss Cora Mcßryde of the J. P. Benjamin school and E. A. Parsons, prominent New Orleans lawyer. MUST HAND CHEERLEADER NOMINATIONS IN BY TUESDAY EVENING All nominations for varsity cheerleaders during the 1929-30 athletic season must be turned in to members of the Student Council before Tuesday evening, according to announcement by Harvey Strayhan, Council president, Wednesday. An innovation is to be attempted in that the cheerleaders will be selected by popular vote. The Council states that any student may nominate another for one of the positions, provided the nominee will be a member of either the junior or the senior classes next year. That is, he must be at present either a freshman in the law or the pharmacy departments, which embrace only three-year courses; a sophomore in the arts or the dental departments, or a junior in any department. When all nominations are in the hands of the Council, eight will be selected and submitted to the general student body to be ballotted upon and the two receiving the greatest number of votss Trill be designated to aid "Sally" Strayhan and Joe Bowab with the cheering brigade next year. Stanley Baron, at present the third of the yell leaders, will graduate from the law school in June. DR. R. J. RUTH TALKS IN MARQUETTE HALL Students of all departments enjoyed a two-hour educational motion picture program in the Marquette Auditorium recently in conjunction with a lecture delivered to them by Dr. Robert J. Ruth, a research physician connected with the E. R. Squibbs and Sons Company of New York. "Sunshine From the Sea" and "How Science Prevents Infectious diseases" were the titles of the two four-reel films. The first showed the value of vitamins A and D to the human body gave the ways in which they were produced naturally from the rays of the sun and artifically from materials in the science laboratories. The latter film treated of the toxins that spread from a wound not properly cared for and illustrated how they may be combatted by anti-toxin injections. Dr. Ruth is touring the south in the interests of the Squibb Company. The local presentation was made possible through the efforts of Dr. J. J. Crasser, dean of the college of pharmacy. Nat'l. Electrical Group To Award $500 in Prizes Seven prizes totaling $500 will be awarded by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association and the National Electric Light Association for the best slogans to promote the use of electric heat in industry. Each contestant may submit not more than three slogans and each slogan must be accompanied by an analysis not exceeding 100 words. Preference will be given to brevity in slogans. The awards will be made on the basis of the best slogan and analysis. First prize will be $250, second prize, $100 third, $50 and fDur of $25 each. SPANISH PLAYERS PREPARED TO GIVE QUINTERO COMEDY Cast Well Rounded Out Under Direction of Miss Emma Douglass The Spanish Dramatic Club will be prepared to appear behind the footlights following examinations in the arts and science department after the Easter holidays, according to information from members of the cast who have been rehearsing their parts for over a period of three weeks. Indications point to a record crowd to be on hand to witness the best presentation ever attempted by the society. "Fortunato," a three-act comedy written by the Quintero Brothers, famous Spanish dramatists, is the vehicle in which the Spanish ThespiansTHE WOLF To Be Distributed On Campus During Latter Part of May, Announces Staff The university annual, The Wolf, will be distributed on the campus during the latter part of May, announces the year-book staff through Bob Ainsworth, assistant editor. The 1929 Wolf will contain eight scenic views in natural colors and will be featured by an original theme never before used as a subject for work of this sort, and especially drawn for the present annual. The theme, which will be carrred out throughout the volume, is "The Jesuits' in Louisiana." The main division pages which will depict this idea will also be in natural colors. Other division pages which are the work of Prescott Smith, staff cartoonist, are devoted to a humorous treatment of the main theme. With the completion of most of the work on the present volume, the staff is already turning its attention to the 1930 edition. The staff, which will handle next year's Wolf will include Bob Ainsworth, editor; Paul Azar, assistant editor, and several others not definitely decided as yet. INTRAMURAL CAGERS BEGIN COMPETITION Preliminary games to decide which team will represent each of the four departments in the intra-mural cage race began last weelc in the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Law. As a result the sophomores Arts five and the freshman lawyers came through to the championships in their respective departments. The spoh Arts five eliminated the freshmen by a count of 22-19 in the opening game of the Arts series and the esniors staged a belatd rally to overcome the juniors by a 21-20 score. In the finals the sophs had little difficulty in vanquishing the seniors by a 44-27 count. Paul Petrie led the victorious assault on the basket for the second-year men while Ed Gendron, senior forward, played a nic egame for the losers. The first-year lawyers defeated the seniors by the convincing score of 16-7 in a contest featured by the close guarding of both outfits. DEBATING SOCIETY FORMS AS DISTINCT GROUP; RECTS OFFICERS Harvey Strayhan, senior arts student of Shreveport, La., was elected president of the recently organized Debating Society at last week's meeting. Other officers elected to serve with Strayhan were Harold Rouchell, vice-president; Gerard Rault, secretary, and Carl Buchmann, treasurer. Organized for the purpose of promoting intercollegiate debating and affording its members an opportunity to develop their individual talents along these lines, the Debating Society succeeds the Thespians as the sponsors of debates at the university, and will handle all details connected with the coming Oklahoma Baptist University verbal clash on April 23. A feature which is expected to prove both interesting and beneficial to the members is the introduction of a series of inter-club debates which will be inaugurated shortly. In addition to the above-named officers, the charter members of the Loyola Debating Society include Edward Conway, Paul Ganucheau, Robert Ainsworth, Rene Nicaud, Nestor Morales, Patout Burns, Mark Malloy, James Steiner, and R. Montet; Rev. Andre de Monsabert will act as faculty advisor. A committee on bylaws is composed of Strayhan, Rochell and Rault. PRIZES OFFERED FOR ESSAYS ON COLLEGE Two prizes of $500 each are offered by The American Mercury magazine for articles by college graduates of this year discussing their experiences in college. One will go to the best article recived from a mal student and the other to the best from a woman student. All aricles should be between three and eight thousand words in length. Each must be the original work of a student graduating from an American college with the class of 1929, and taking an A. B. or its equivalent. All manuscripts must bear the full name and address of the author, the name of the college attended, a statement of the course followed, and the degree, to be taken. The closing date of the contest is July 1, when all articles must be in the hands of the Editor of The American Mercury who will be the sole judge of the competition. Two prize-winners will be printed in the September issue of the magazine. In case others are reeivd that seem worth printing, offres will be made for them. Council Gives Dance In Gym on April 5 Loyola students will disport themselves in overalls, or aprons, as the case may be, at the barn dance to be given by the Student Council in the gymnasium on the evening of Friday, April 5. The Councjl urges all students who attend to help carry out the theme of the party by donning their country raiment and coming prepared to have a thoroughly good time. CLASS PROMS WILL BE SPONSORED THIS YEAR BY COUNCIL May 10 Has Been Selected As Date of Soph-Frosh Affair Loyola will have a freshman-sophomore and probably a junior-senior prom this year. Announcement to that effect was forthcoming from the Student Council Wednesday, following a me«ting of the Council and a meeting of members of the two lower classes, at which tentative plans were laid for the promotion of these affairs. Harvey Strayhan, Council president, has already secured the Tip Top Room of the Hotel Roosevelt for the evening of Friday, May 10, on which date the two lower classes will give themselves over to the spirit of merry-making. Though as yet no definite date has been set for the upper-class affair, it will probably be staged during the week of May 21. Both proms will be under the direct supervision of the Student Council, who will appoint committees from the various classes to take charge of specified details of the affairs. Each student who intends to be present, and the Council announces that it expects every Loyolan to work with it in putting the proms over in fitting style, will be taxed in the neighborhood of three dollars, for which he will be allowed the privilege of inviting one outside guest in addition t his own date. The number of people expected to attend each prom has been estimated at about 450. At the lower-classmen meeting, members of the freshman and the sophomore classes pledged their support to the project and will begin work shortly on the details. A meeting of the upperclassmen will be called soon to discuss the juniorsenior prom and to appoint a committee to work with the Student Council in promoting the affair. VIRGINIA GLEE CLUB WILL APPEAR TONIGHT AT JERUSALEM TEMPLE Members of the University of Virginia Glee Club, some forty in number, will be heard this evening, at 8:15 in a concert program at the Jerusalem Temple under the direction of Arthur Fickenscher, dean of music at Virginia and a widely known pianist and composer. The Virginia singers have appeared in Washington, Baltimore, and Richmond and were asked to sing for Movietone by the Fox Movie Corporation. Their repertoire include selections from opera, old sacred songs, folk songs, old English songs. American compositions, humorous songs, sea chanteys and songs from other countries. A block of fifty-four seats has been reserved for Loyola students at this evening's performance. These may be obtained from Rev. William Ruggeri, dean of men, at a price of $1.00 each. (Continued on page 6)