Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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LOWELL RALLY The 14th of September saw the first rally of the term pulled off in the Auditorium. A good jazz band furnished some popular pieces and got the glad hand. Coach Mush Graff stepped on the stage and called the students. Lack of pep, not enough at the games was what he said, and he didn ' t miss it by an inch. After Captain Jackson made his remarks, Bob Aitken, an Alumni vet, got up and told the boys how hard the team had been working and, although they went down before Poly, that they were going to get Lowell. UNIVERSITY HIGH RALLY. Berkeley ' s first league game was with University High October 12 and there was a rally in the Auditorium that noon. Rush and Hall plunked out some tight tunes that were very pleasing. Mr. Hodge brought back the picture of the old days, when Berkeley pep ran high and the games were played on the California field. Cutterup Calkins and Understung Uren staged a two-round boxing match which ended in a draw. Mush gave the line-up and Captain Jackson gave some inside dope on the team. TECH RALLY As soon as the band started to play, the crowds thronged in, full of pep for the Rouse ' em. Captain Jackson spoke. A little humor was dropped in by Otis Dyar in the form of jokes and a dark-town dance. Mr. Lowell followed Mush Graff ' s speech with a little talk on organized rooting, in union there is strength. He asked the fellows to lay off the hiphipping stunt which occurred frequently at the University High game. The closing feature was a wrestling bout between Rush and Lewis. FREMONT RALLY The noon before the Fremont-Berkeley game pep ran high. Wickes Glass came up with a couple of snappy songs accompanied by his mandolin. Both Captain Jackson and Coach Graff impressed upon the students the importance of the game and that it would be without a doubt the hardest fight of the season. An Alumni sailor, Stevens, told the students about the navy. OAKLAND RALLY The Oakland rally started off with the band, yells, and a jazz orches- trat that wouldn ' t let a fellow ' s feet keep still. After Bag Jackson gave his usual line and Mush had furnished his by saying that the team had been defeated but not beaten, Al Fraga, veteran of past renown, gave his line, which was short but to the point. The last speaker was Pud Davis, who captained the team of ' 15 to a State Championship. ALAMEDA RALLY Football season approached its end with the Alameda game. The rally was pulled off the noon before, in the Auditorium. The main features were some songs by Hatch Woolsey and talks by LeHane, Bob Aitken, and Mush Graff. The last rally closed with a real husky Rouse ' em.

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Vaudeville THE month of September was a momentous one in the history of Berkeley High because of three things — two holidays and the Vaude- ville. And the latter was certainly the top-notch of all the suc-4 cessful Vaudevilles ever produced in our Auditorium. To give it the space it deserves would mean many pages so in this limited space a Hoover- ized account must suffice. As the strains of the overture died away we were let in on the love troubles of Hall Griffiths and Ida Simpson, which were finally solved by administering Mansfield Lovell ' s love potion to cruel Papa Williams. Then the spirit of the times was presented to us in Tay Cutler ' s Sammy Intrudes, whose array of pretty girls made us think that maybe war wasn ' t so bad after all and made Sammy Haven an object of envy. Next came The Doctor ' s Visit featuring more fair ones, who laid a deep plot to trap the handsome doctor and most certainly would have succeeded if he hadn ' t turned out to be a she. Some music , was the unanimous verdict after Virginia Treadwell ' s offering and it was just that — the finest ever offered to Berkeley High. Wickes Glass then showed us how to do three things at once and get away with it, and incidently how to beat the landlady and kid pretty girls. After two pleasing selections by the orchestra, Little Bugs revealed the marvels of science when Bill Inskeep was jolted into the defense of Marian Woolsey by Doctor St. John ' s dope. More music, this time by James Sewell and Cyril Ries, who gave us our first introduction to the big hit A Long, Long Trail, and also a fine bit of humor in their last bit of music. Of course no Vaudeville would be complete without a dance offering, so this time Ruth McBride carried off the honors with her fire-fly dance.