Loyola
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St Ignatius
Feb. 2 and 3
V°L Ylj No. 5 $1.50 Per Year Published Monthly by Students of Loyola College 15c An Issue January 20, 1928
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“THE REAR CAR” CAST SELECTED
■ FTER an extensive survey
of the subscription lists of
this publxation and espe¬
cially of the “El Padre/’ we have
come to the conclusion that, with
the exception of the usual few,
the student body of Loyola takes
the medal for pep and spirit (in re¬
verse gear).
What’s wrong with us? We let
an alumnus address us as a “plate
of cold fish” and get away with it.
At assemblies we pass motions and
in less time than it takes a hum¬
mingbird to bat a wing we have
forgotten that the motion was ever
on the floor. This is not some¬
thing new. It’s the same old story:
“Let someone else carry the burden,
he’ll get credit for it anyway.” On
the eve of a new Loyola it is high
time that this buck passing, burden
shifting spirit lose its foothold on
Loyola and fade into the dim past
never to return. All of which leads
to the ~ same.- con clusio n — that ibis
cannot be accomplished without the
support of each and every man that
calls himself a Loyolan. There are
a few among us who are untiring in
their efforts to put Loyola on the
map, but they cannot do it alone
.As far as the publications are con¬
cerned there are several ways to
become active. First you can and
ought to subscribe to them. Many
of the students have been heard to
squawk because the Loyolan does
not appear on the campus more fre¬
quently; and yet those who howl
the loudest are the ones who do the
least. A larger staff would make St
possible to issue a bi-weekly paper.
As for “El Padre,” a few more
active men on the staff would ease
the mind of the Editor. Wb real¬
ize that everyone cannot do edi¬
torial work and would recommend
that they offer their services to Ed
Lehn, for, after all, the obtaining of
ads is the most important and
toughest task that faces the staff.
The staff have been missing their
lunch periods about three times a
week for three or four weeks just
to make this Year Book something
to be proud of. They have been
sacrificing their pleasures for Loy¬
ola’s honor; and they do not glean
any great credit or personal pres¬
tige from their efforts.
And still every time they call for
volunteer assistance they are met
with sneers and guffaws. Some time
ago a call was made for class cal¬
endars and such great response was
the result that a vast number of
calendar (note the singular) has
been received.
At present the staff has to call
on our high school members for a
cartoonist. This should not be*
There surely must be some artists
in the college — but you have to
volunteer; we caq’t pick you out.
One of the big features of our
coming year book is the introduc-
tion of a literary section. If you
feel capable of helping along this
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New College to be Built at Del Rey
FIRSTCLASSES
START NEXT
The authorities of the college
have announced that ground will be
broken immediately for a new Loy¬
ola University on the picturesque
Playa Del Rey hills, southwest of
Culver City and overlooking the
Pacific Ocean. Plans for the edu¬
cational institution indicate that
when completed it will be one of
the largest Catholic universities in
the world.
The site for the new university
is a 3QQ-acre tract which to date
remains untouched by the forward
march of progress. Within the
next nine months, according to a
program outlined, this will be
transformed into a center of cul¬
ture and learning with three build¬
ings read for occupancy in Sep¬
tember.
The first unit of the university
will include nine buildings, which,
‘t is said, will cost in the neighbor¬
hood of $5,000,000. Later, Loyola
will have a total of 20 buildings
representing an investment of al¬
most $15,000,000.
Plan Huge Stadium
A striking feature of the build¬
ing program is that.it contemplates
the erection of a huge athletic sta-
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‘The Hottentot’
Proves a Gever
Comedy Vehicle
By Jack Coleman
Am’d a barrage of rollicking
comedy and clever acting the Loy¬
ola players again showed their
marked ability behind the foot¬
lights when they presented Victor
Mapes’ popular farce, ‘The Hotten¬
tot,” in their first production of the
current year on the evening of De¬
cember 14. The splendid new
Windsor Square theater was ini¬
tiated into the role of a laugh ab¬
sorber with a finesse that brought a
tingling, breath-taking enjoyance to
the enthusiastic audience.
“Gus” Mclsaac as the lead skill¬
fully portrayed the part of Sam
Harrington, a young man who had
a dread of horses because of an un¬
fortunate accident, but was artfully
introduced to a family of ardent
devotees of steeplechase racing as
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COMING EVENTS
Jan* 20 — Basketball — Inter¬
class Championship.
Jan. 21 — Basketball — Loyola
vs. Shamrock A. C., at Loyola.
Jan. 23-27— Semester ' Final
Examinations.
Jan. 24 — Basketball — Loyola
vs. Southwestern, at Southwest¬
ern.
Jan. 28 — Basketball — Loyola
vs. Christian College, at Loyola
Jan. 30 — Second Semester
opens.
Feb. 1 — Alumni Smoker.
Feb. 2 — Loyola vs. St. Igna¬
tius, at Loyola.
Feb. 3 — Loyola vs. St. Igna¬
tius, at Loyola.
Hear ye! Hear ye! On the cold
and vivifying evening of February
the first, starting at approximately
fourteen minutes past eight, the old
grads of Loyola College together
with the new ones, will be treated
to a wonderful smoker in the spa¬
cious Loyola gymnasium. Hun¬
dreds of wonderful cigars of the
best brand and an unlimited num¬
ber of cigarettes will be dispensed
absolutely gratis, with no strings
attached, and a most diversified. pro¬
gram of entertainment, now being
duly and whole heartedly prepared
by the energetic committee in
charge, will be offered for the old
boys who have past through the
doors of Loyola, out into the cold,
cruel world, and are trying to sock
Dame Fortune a knockout blow on
the proverbial proboscis.
It is hoped that with this an¬
nouncement a spontaneous enthusi¬
asm in and for the affair will be
aroused so that the assembled mob
on that night will justify the efforts
of the committee and in order that
a dormant Alumni spirit, usually
dormant after the close of the foot¬
ball season, will be awakened and
sufficiently stimulated to effect con¬
certed action in Alumni functions
for the rest of the year. In fact,
the committees are willing to ex¬
pend twice the amount of energy
and money providing the support
accorded them is reciprocal. The
cigar and cigarette man states that
he himself will gladly incorporate
and establish a manufacturing plant
with the sole purpose of supplying
these Alumni smokers, providing a
gathering worthy of such philan-
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DRAMATIC CLUB TO PRESENT
MYSTERY PLAY AT TRINITY
Once more Loyola’s versatile lead in the field of college
activities will have an opportunity to flash itself into the lime-
1ieht when the curtain rises on the twelfth and thirteenth
of February for the presentation of “The Rear Car,” in the
commodious Trinity Auditori
Glee Club Call
Response Great
LoyOla Glee Club displayed vim
hhd vigor in its first meeting under
he most capable and peppy director
nd organizer, Mr. Devereaux.
Monday, 3:00 p. m., in student
"hapel. Showing every sign of re¬
newed interest and endeavor, a
irowerf ul . glee ~ organization will
soon be developed.
Loyola will no longer feel the
absence of a lively Glee Club, which
has been a conspicuous vacancy
in the cycle of college activity. The
present response to the call of the
director manifests a high spirit and
a real endeavor. Mr. Devereux
expressed his satisfaction with re¬
sults of the initial meeting.
Regular practice sessions will be
held Monday, Wednesday and Fri¬
day at 3:00 p. m. for two weeks,
at the end of which time the club
will be sufficiently organized to
~ecure the most convenient time
for meeting and practice.
The faculty, student body and.
director requests the appearance of
Ait who can talk, whistle or sing at
the next meeting,; which will be
1:00 p. m., student chapel, Friday.
uni. Loyola has progressed
^further upon the dramatic
scale in the production of the
thrilling, chilline, rollicking
three act comedy-mystery of Ed¬
ward E. Rose.
The mystery of. “The Rear Car”
will hold the audience tensioned to
the last drop of the curtain with its
screams, murders, dark, hideous
somethings and laugh-provoking
comedy, all transpiring in the rear
car of the Transcontinental Limited
train.
The success of the play is assured
by the scintilating lights of a well
selected cast culled from among the
ranks of the student-actors, thus in¬
suring the playgoers two hours of
exceptional entertainment.
The role of Sheridan Scott,
the provocative, match-borrowing
“Deflector” and the “get” man of
the mystery who furnishes some of
the rib-splitting comedy, will be
portrayed by Luddy Bremner, a law
student. A more talented person
in the college, other than Mr. Brem¬
ner could not have been selected
for a part demanding such difficult
characterization and finesse of ac¬
tion.
Completing the comedy. . duo,
Miss Ethel McCarthy supports Mr*
Bremner -as Norah O’Neil, who with
true Irish wit and banter contri-
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Jesuit Missionary Addresses College
By Paul Bickert
India! Key of magic, “open
sesame” to rarest treasures in the
storehouse of imagination! Land
of mysticism, of the occult, of
Thuggery.,. "Torrid, tropical days—
soft mooniit nights. The Ganges,
baptismal fount. of a nation, within
nations! The soft wailing croon of
the flute— the bazars — the water
fronts, world’s end for the myriad
evil-appearing wrecks as well as
ponderous palaces of steel.’. The
exotic atmosphere of the Orient.
Grim, impenetrable jungles, the
massive, forbidding Himalayas, 'fur¬
rowed giants unchallenged by time,
unquestioned - by ::maa. -Ctxrwdsd
cities and — the struggle for exist¬
ence — primitive, jungle tribes' and
still the age-old struggle. ,
Fakir, Mohajnedan, Mystic, Amir
nist, a polyglot of races uncom-
bined, t unassorted, uncongenial,
whose sole community lies in the
indelible dye of a. tropical sun. -
Each of the above might well fur¬
nish the headings for several chap¬
ters gleaned from the life of the
Rev. ander Schuern, S.J., who ad¬
dressed the college men, Tuesday,
January 17, 1928, on the subject,
“India.” A life spent in the Mas¬
ter’s vineyard, a half-century spent
in a field as old as creation — a field
embracing more than a third of
earth’s population, cannot, surely,
be reduced to a mere prosaic col¬
umn of cold print.
Two intrepid Americans. . have
achieved fame and fortune . with
camera-recorded histories of primi¬
tive peoples. And thus while we
have had our “Grass” and “Chang”
mark epochs in 'cinema history,- it
was left for a tiny band' of Belgian
priests with a far more lofty ambi¬
tion, ; with an unquenchable: thirst
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