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''Merchant of Yonkers'' Promises Evening of Hilarious Entertainment
Many scintillating personalities will appear behind the footlights when the curtain goes up on "The MerWednesday, November 29, 1950 Five Cents chant of Yonkers," Saturday night, December 9. The -------------------------------------characters, in a series of swift moving, rapidly changing situations, against a startlingly effective backCalendar of Events ground, will cut such capers as will keep the audience in an hilarious mood from the first rise of the curtain Dec. 2to its final drop.
STUDEI'<""'l' PUBLiCATION OF PALOMAR COLLEGE
Vol. 4, No. 5.
Vista, California,
Palomar at Oceanside, 8 :00~ ~ p.m. ~
Dec. 5Student Council meeting,~ ~ third period. ~
Dec. 9~ Palomar Players, ''Merchant of Yonkers,'' 8 :00 p.m.~ Little Rose Bowl, Pasadena. Dec. 128tudent Council meeting, third period. Dec. 15-16Oceanside 'l'ournament.
Aviation Classes Will Begin Soon Norma Anderson being greeted by Screen Star Dor othy L a mour at the finish of Hollywood's S a nta Claus L ane P a r ade. Miss L amour is accompa nied by her son. -P h oto by Don Kennedy.
Palomar Musicians Perform For Second Time with HollywoodStars Amid the glitter and sparkle of a Hollywood :-;etting, t he Palomar Band marched to fame last Wednesday night for the second consecvtive year in the Santa Claus parade in that city of make believe. Just a month and three day. before St. Nick was due to slide down the nation's chimneys, the parade, in his honor, was formulated through the combined efforts of Hollywood and the rest of southern California. Stars of screen, radio, and television, and bands from some 200 schools and colleges comprised the main body of the parade, which covered a two and one-half mile route through the heart of the movie capitol. The stars' floats followed the bands which, for the most part, were in the front ranks of the procession. The whole spectacle was televised and broadcast to an estimated 10,000,000 people. Close to a million more lined the par ade route for a first hand view of the numerous celebrit ies and their beautiful floats. The long procession started at the Hollywood Palladium, moved to Hollywood and Vine, down Hollywood Boulevard to T.1a Brea, down La Brra to Sunset Boulevard, and back to the Palladium. The Palomar Comets and Comettes were given a prominent spot on the television screens of America when they wer·e televised ''in action" along the way. 'l'he Palomar · drum majorette, Miss Norma Anderson, was given a very good "close up" by thr televi:ion camera man as the Comets pas ed the reviewing stand. lVIiss Ander on also was photographed while posing with Dorothy Lamour. Miss Tommie Fiore, another lucky Palomar student, was photographed with Spade Cooley. These picture were
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Frosh to Invade SnowKing Realm 'l'he freshman class is sponsoring a snow it ip to be l1t'ld in the near future on Palonuu· :Mountain. The trip is planned for a Saturday to be announced about two weeks before Christmas vacation. A bus will leave the campus about 8 :00 in the morning and will return in the evening.
Sophomores Invited All students-even sophomores -are invited to attend and to make this an annual affair. Each student going on the trip is to provide his own lunch. However, Mrs. Hartley will provide for those who are unable to bring their own. A freshman class committee will obtain sleds, kis and other apparatus for the trip, although anyone who has his own is urged to bring it along. taken by Don Kennedy, Palomar College photographer, at the end of the parade route. As a whole, the parade was regarded as an even higger success than last year.
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Navy Reserve Offers Plan United States Naval Reserve provides a program under which a student may complete his college education and at the same time enroll in the reserve officers' candidate program (ROC) and graduate with an ensign's commission in the reserve, according to the Naval Reserve Training Center.
Classes in pre-flight aviation will start at Palomar College in two weeks according to Dr. Tipton -wood, director of adult education. Final arrangements have been officially completed with the three participating airports and a few minor set backs in conn~c tion with the Hi-Hi Fie ld at Oceanside have been ironed out. As a result the college has an official go a head signal and will beg;in c•LJSSt:S a hour a ·.vct'k rt·om l\fonrlay according to Wood. The equipment for class instmction will be moved from McCo1 mick Field to the former bouk store building on tlH' college campus some time this week end, where classes are scheduled to begin under the supervision of instructor Brnsh, forme"J·ly of McCormick Field. "'(;{----
Felicita Pageant Visioned Ahead A plan to produce a pageant based on the beautiful and historic story of the love of the Indian girl, Felicita, for a soldier of the army of General Kearney, is being visualized as an annual dramatic event of Palomar Land. With a cast chosen from the students and townspeople of this area, with the staging in the rolling hills and wooded draws of Palomar's northern areas, it may rival, at another period of the seasons, the other romantic pageant, Ramona, produced by the townsfolk of Hemet and San .Jacinto. Tt has been pointed out that such a pageant could be combined with Palomar's Fiesta, that eventually it might swell into a dramntic event portraying the battle of San Pasqual with many horsemen and foot soldiers involved, mission scenes and the touching suspense of the young love of Felicita for her wounded Americano.
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P ar ade Head Grateful
Da\·id J. l\Inlloy, director of the Santa Claus T1ane Parade bas written a letter of appreciation to £Toward Kay, Palomar Comet band director for the part his musical organization played in the dramatic spectacle. A token, in the fo1·m of a gift, will be pre,q mtcd to the organization as something more tangible, according to Kay, from the parade comm ittee.
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Much Mechanical Variety Displayed On Palomar Faculty Parking Area By Rex Staffor d
Then there's "H-bomb one If variety is really the spice of half,'' a three tone vehicle of life then t he par king lot at Palo- dubious vintage that joins the mar College is a multi-flavored daily race up the ''speedway'' example of life at its very ulti- to the parking lot, then departs screamingly at night amid mate. sworls of San Marcos alkali. A tour through the lot will Many rare old antiques may acquaint one with almost every known conveyance from present be seen daily trying to compete day style to back beyond the with the zip and gravel-throwing roaring twenties. Regal beauties of their younger brothers and of the highway parked beside souped up competitors. onl~r to variegated monstrosities of yes- go down in defeat. And so goes teryear and ''doodle-bug'' cre- the eight cylinder version of ations of our European neigh- campus life among the students. Color, speed and noise seem to bor. . On the campus, juggernaughts of army origin roar constituted the audacity of the noisily among the build ings dis- girls and boys outside their class rupting classes and creating r·oom activities and is a constant minor dust storms to the dis- challenge to the sanity of the comfort and chagTin of students more conservative faculty members. A few of the e latter are and faculty alike. The pet of the college is a even showing a few spasmodic ''hot rod'', with the appearance spurts of dash and color themof yesterday and the speed of selves. Profe or Smith, for extomorrow, owned by playboy ample, has been graduated to the Heavenrich of the swab and station wagon class, and when daub department. The prof's Mrs. Smith isn't around, he even pride and joy is an under-slung gets to drive it. job finished in red and black When arti t Heavcnrich tires and profusely spattered with of his "speed demon," he switches to his Fiat.. a dainty chrome.
Taking the leading role in the pageant . of costume , sets anrl action is Cathy Burt, well remembered by many students for her award-winning performance as Mrs. Bramson in "Night Must Fall". As the attractive and clever Mrs. Levi, she lures the miserly Mr. Vander-gelder, competently played by Don Sheahan, to New York, where they are involved in a breathless hide-andseek with Mr. Vandergelder's two incompetent clerks, Cornelius and Barnaby. The comic clerks, well-played by Nick Barnhill and Ronald Kenney, join forces with the vivacious, fun-loving, irresponsible Mrs. Molloy, portrayed by Mary Lou Hill, and the poor working girl, Minnie Fay, played by Norma Anderson. Gwen Moore, as shy little Ermengarde, and Harold Cotton, as Ambrose Kemper the artist, will provide much of the fun when they attempt to elude Mr. Vandergelder. Also lending their share- of merriment to the play are Fred Miller, as the cabman, Wanda Castellani, as Miss Van Huysen, Melden Lash, as Melchior Stack, and Bob Downing and Ralph Witten as waiters.
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Veteran Classes Visit New Homes The veterans 'classes of Ernst Drews and Murray Johnston visited and i n s p e c t e d two homes \V ednesday in their study of house construction under John Findlay. The group was first escorted through the spacious and beautiful residence of Hans Doe, nearing completion, on Oreavo Drive, by the owner. This is a· concrete block house, combining many of the features recommended by modern architects and is far enough from completion that much was learned about construction practices with this material. From Oreavo the veterans drove to Taylor Street and wer e . hown through the attr active new home of John Page. This house is built of redwood timbers, laid up like the traditional log cabin but with a tongue and matchino· groove milled on th top and bottom edges of the timbers to provide a tight joint. Thi is a new building development and appears to offer a solution to the housing problem of many families of small means who wish to construct their own homes. little- model of French aristocracy and origin about the siz of a large per am b11lator . . . economical, too ... As a general rn I e, however, the faculty looks askance on any show of juvenile idiosyncracies among it. members. Dignity and established :-:P.datenrss make up its code.