Evening star., 1926-10-31
DRAMATIC SOCIETY
FORMS COMPANIES
Central High School Pupils 10
Present Stage Numbers
Each Week.

Central High Schools Dramatic As
sociation has been divided into groups
which have, respectively, organized
| themselves into theatrical companies,
| with a director and assistant director
! heading each company. 1t was an
! nounced yesterday. Every week will
see a contribution from each. There
| is general manager and assistant,
who will arrange the offerings. The
| faculty committee will act as coaches.
censors, critics and counselors, and
regulate the whole course of events.
The groups. with their directors. are:
! The Mines, Jean EckleS; Our Gang.
Owen Norton; the Troubadours, Lois
Hall: the Marionettes, Dot Lewis;
| Artists and Models. Doug WILSON,; the
FaWn's Head Players, Fred HaSklnS;
| the Harlequins, LeOnora COombs; the
Rovers. Orrell Belle Claflin; the Globe
| Players, Bertha Howard; the Puppets,
Miriam McDaull; the Buccaneers,
| Judith Wood, and the Actors, Peggy
! CroiSSant..
t. From Liberty Bells to Mission
Bells" was the subject of an illustrated
| lecture given by Frederick b. Fisher,
member of the Chamber of Commerce
| of Los Angeles, before an assembly
of lower semester students, October 2l.
Members of the G.. O. g., one OF Cen
trails honorary societies. acted as
guides to the building at the first meet
| ing of the Parent-Tea cher Association.
| held October 20 in the school library.
During the meetin Mrs. Ottilie Young
gave a talk on How to Study lien
| ry Gilligan discussed Parent Cooper
alton" In hls talk. the enriched cur
riculum of the school. Alvin w. Miller.
principal, stressed the advisability of
students taking advantages of the
equipment in the domestic art and
science classes, mechanical drawing
department, printing crafts classes
and the shops, by enrolling in them
during free hours.
The guides were: CaroluS 1inEling,
John Beall, Walter Bennett, Edward
James, Austin James Yingling. Stew
art Bea11. Frank Carter, John Nc
Manus, Hugh Buckingham, James
Blose and Curtis Woodzell. The Or
ganization had charge of guides, the
information bureau and the eXhlbl-
ton for the n. E. y. convention
here last Spring.
The Central Radio Club has elected
the following officers: George Wilcox.
| president; Loring Wood, vice presi-
dent: Howard kinZer, secretary: Edgar
SDaiden, treasurer, and Howard Cole,
chief operator. The club now has
20 members. The G.. r. {. has sent
five messages. so far, in the new free
service offered to the school. rms
club is not only for amateurs with
| licenses, but for every one Interested
in radio receiving or transmitting
| The art staff of the Central publlca-
tions. under the direction of Miss sum
NV. visited the Standard Engraving
| Co for October IA. This staff regu-
larlv meets for instruction every
Thursday afternoon.
The publican artists are William
Calfee, art editor of the Review: BEL
Ward. art editor of the Bulletin:
Robert Reineck, cartoonist; Jack
Spicer. Louise Hewston. Virginia
Tiehtfoot, Aurelius Battaglia, Murlel
Chamberlain, Merrie Chlldrey, Jonah
ma SchmultZer, Eugene HaWleN, Lee
Merford, Alex Hopkins, Robert Prae-
torium and Thelma Callahan.
Eight more sophomores joined the
Sophomore Debating Society at it's
second meeting, October 20 On the
ouestion, "Resoldved: That the United
States should enter the World Court,
Walter O'Laughlin and August ron
ne of the negative team fought ana
won the honors from Theodore de Mol
and Robert Llttleford. members OF the
affirmative. Mrs. Young announced
Mr.. Moves intention OF calling on the
best of the sophomore dehaters 10
take part in the upper class oenateS'
Two short story contests are now
being conducted, both of which will
cernter around the Review. The con
test announced by the Review stan Will
he managed in way different from
that of preceding years. Instead or set
ting a date by which all StOrie must be
turned in. the editors have decided 10
offer a prize for the best story pub
Gshed in the ma gaZine during the
school year Members of the staff
are the only ineliglbIes. All stories
must be turned in to Audrey Belt. CON
test editor. There is no limit to the
number of stories which may he hand
| ed in by one student. but each story
must contain at least 1000 words. The
names of the judges and the nature OF
the prizes will he announced later
Glass opinion rules in the other CON
test conducted by Miss Bessie Whit
| ford's thrd-hour short-story class,
| The newspaper clippings dealing with
Babe Ruth and his autographing a
ball for Johnny Sylvester. are taken
as the basis of these competing stories.
| The class was allowed to weave imagi-
native ideas with facts in the con
struction of the stories. Since the
stories have been completed Miss
! Whitford is reading several each day
| in the class. These writer's then vote
upon the best, which will be printed
| in the Review.
The Central Quill Clique met at the
fhome of Elizabeth Ford, October p.
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