University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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QlhrtBtmaH (finttrrrt In a University there are many things which have a tradition, or which are founded upon precedent. The Christmas Concert in the future will be one of these things. On the evening of December 18 there was given in the Auditorium of the University the first Christmas Concert. It was unique in many ways. All the music organizations in the school were combined in the program. The story of the birth of Christ was narrated by the singing of carols from many nations. Some were old English without date, French, Belgian, Welsh, and one was from White Russia. W orked in with beautiful effect were the boys ' choir, the chil- dren ' s chorus numbers, and Gounod ' s Nazareth by the Women ' s Chorus. The concert was a wonderful success. iKtllapaugli iirmdrial Friday afternoon, January 30, was chosen to remember Dr. Jesse F. Mills- paugh with an impressive assembly. Events of his beautiful and worth-while life were reviewed and commented upon by four of his closest friends. They spoke of the influence of his personality upon themselves in their years of association with him and his work. The speakers were the Hon. Henry W. Wright, Hon. I. N. Smith, Mrs. Susan Dorsey and Dr. Ernest C. Moore. Dr. Miller sang Tennyson ' s Crossing the Bar, and two numbers were given by the Girls ' Glee Club. 26

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Jail Hau rmllp Just before the Christmas holidays, by the combined efforts of the Press Club and Music School, an e ening of vaudeville was presented in Millspaugh Hall. The huge success of the performance was so not- able that a like event will be staged e ery fall and the Annual Vaudeville will become a tradition. It is difficult to assign the credit for the numerous acts given, because it was the co-operation of everyone that made pos- i. sible the entertainment. Two Alumnae of the University, Ruth Mitchell and Mary Boland, gave the act which calls forth most praise. The Haz-Wuz Beens of working-girl fame will not soon be forgotten. Ballet Ferrique under the direction of Ruth Gentle added a fanciful and delicate touch to the vaudeville. Kap and Bells ' oflfering, the one-act play, The Madonna, was the most sub- stantial number on the program and the most difficult . Kennie and Vic were comedians for the evening and their sallies of wit were highly amusing. Rasp- berries, drawn by Rex Miller for the screen, were of great local interest. Wanted a Wife, a pantomine of bachelor troubles, ended with the usual scene of domestic happiness and left the audience well pleased. Out of Our Line, consisting of a cabaret scene with usual line of entertainers, closed the evening. Ruth Phillips was direc- tor of the well planned program. She was assisted by a committee from the two organizations consist- ing of Irene Cronkite, David Barnwell, Dan Shoemaker and Kathryn Davis. 25

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Sph Maxms (Hanvtntian He that would be greatest among you, let him be servant of all. This was the gist of the message brought from the great Student Vol- unteer Convention at Des Moines, Iowa, by the eight delegates of the Sout hern Branch. The delegates sent from S.B.U.C. were Mary Frances White, Berenice Winkleman, Daisy Law, Henrietta Josleyn, Luverne Mattox, Professor Marvin L. Darsie, John McManus and David K. Barnwell. The entire University of California had the larg- est delegation of any college or uni- versity represented, one hundred and sixty having been sent. The convention was perhaps the most cosmopolitan gathering of stu- dents ever held. Forty nations sent delegates from more than a thousand colleges, the whole totaling nearly eight thousand students. Above the inspiration of such a dramatic spec- tacle as the gathering proved, was the earnest, purposeful intent behind the conclave. In the opening words of the chair- man. Dr. John R. Mott, We have come together that we might catch a vision of a new world. The re- sponsibility and the opportunities of university and college people in the building of a new world, were em- phasized ; the call for leadership in world tasks ; for consecration in life- giving service; for Christian altruism and Christianization work, was echoed and re-echoed throughout the five-day session. The delegates returned to the Uni- versity full of conviction and deter- mination, sensible to the opportuni- ties which are their ' s, to impart some- thing of the mountain-top experience of the Des Moines Convention to their fellows and to keep the fires burning for the next convention four vears hence.