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May 17, 1937 (10 pages)

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NEVADA CITY NUGGET MONDAY, MAY 17, 1937 ° ~ OF HAMLET TO BE PRESENTED SAN FRANCISCO, May 17. —A eycle of three plays based: on the Hamlet theme was recommended for production to WPA Federal Theatre units throughout the country by the Play Policy Board of the project today. The Play Policy Board, which includes regional directors of the Federal °Theatre, recommends and passes on plays for the units of the project. c The proposed trilogy is composed of “Ambleth.” written a century or more ago by Oelenschlager, an outstanding Danish dramatist; the First Quarto Edition of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet: “’and the recently introduced Varkeangoff version of “Hamlet’’. “With these three plays performed on three successive nights the audience will not only be given an insight into th technqiues of three different peridds in theatre history, put will also gain some understanding ‘of the different social periods from which these plays stem,’’ said Play~Policy Board of the WPA Theatre Project in recommending three versions of Hamlet for Federal Theatre production. “Ambleth’”’ tells the Hamlet story os closely a spossible to the original as closely as possible to the original let story as it actually happened,” according to the Play Policy Board, and is: further labeled by this body as ‘§ sing, well-constructed melo-drama.”’ Shakespeare did not have access to the 4th century sources but found his material in a French romance distantly based thereon. The Danish play, if produced in conjunction with the First Quarto Edition of Shakespeare’s ‘‘Hamlet,’’ would become, in the opinion of Mr. Motherwell, not merely an historical curiosity but an -+object lesson in the artistic handling of almost identical material by ‘two dramatists, one, of great talent, the other, a genius. The board suggests that these two plays be done by the same company, with identical casting for the characters in each, and that it be toured to high schools, colleges and isolated communities dependent on Federal Theatre for such dramatic experiments. The Varktangoff version, produc-.ed recently in ‘Moscow, with the alteration of many lines, makes ‘“HamJet’? a totally different play. Hamlet himself, is characterized as an extrovert and a practical politician, but the rest of the play is so modified that this new concept does not destroy the play’s logic, ie 4 No Trespassmg or Hunting Signs. PRINTED ON CLOTH. For sale at the . Hiram Motherwell, chairman of the]. nee” WALKING OFF WITH THE CUP. “= Woodbury College Wins Trophy Again Two Woodfury College co-eds, members of the -caa that won the International O.G.A. trophy in competition with LOS. ANGELES, May 17.—(Special)——For the third consecutive year competition of more than 500 schools of many nations ended with the International O. G. A. trophy awarded to Woodbury College. Other schools with high rating in the world contest are: Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College; Humboldt ‘College, Minneapolis,-Minn.; Thornton Academy, Saco, Maine; Assumption College; Bangkok, Siam; Se Louis. College, Honolulu, Hawaii: Halifax Academy, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Morse College, Hartford, Connecticut. The award was made at the dedication of the new $350,000 “home” of Woodbury College on the 54t1 birthday of the school. R. H. (Pop) Whitten, president of Woodbury, officiated at the dedication and awarded more than 50 individual medals to members of the 496 students on the Woodbury team in the contest. Vierling Kersey, superintendent of the Los Angeles Public Schools and former state superintendent of schools, gave the congratulatory address. _. Woodbury is setting a precedent The Nugget Office. — in progressive education and I feel i (} afeoke dee BD wn ae oe shee ese he Ys Hee Hee) . No Home Is Too Gift seeF OF.. Someone at each session of the HOMECRAFT INSTITUTE. COOKING SCHOOL Grand, No Home Is Too Humble To Be Beautified By Flowers BEAUTIFUL SPRING FLOWERS—PLANTS—CUT FLOWERS—POTTED FLOWERS teeileieeinieieieteioieinietetoies Flowers for Special Occasions—Table Centerpieces Corsages, Gift Bouquets FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS ‘Call or Phone us your orders. exactly when and where you wish it. FOOTE’S FLOWER SHOP We will see that it is delivered Phone G. V. 420 more than 500 schools in all parts of the world, take the cup to the trophy room. that this college is more than marking a 54-year milestone for, like other progressive schools in America you are showing today an example of the education of the future,’ said Kersey. “College of Progress’ Week, a vreek of celebrations and festivities at Woodbury, is featured by open rouse in the new building with alumni, educators and the public inspecting the new “streamlined college edifice. BANK OF AMER. TO ERECT BLDG. FOR EXPOSITION SAN FRANCISCO, May 17.—First position has been signed by the Bank of America, exposition officials announced yesterday. Bank of America, which 000 building .as fully exposition branch is expected handle business' aggregating es, concessionaires and exhibitors. nor, comptroller of the currency. ’ Citing direct benefits which the World’s Fair will bring to the Pacific Coast, L. M. Giannini, president of the bank, said: “Tourists spent $375,000,000 California alone last year, it is estimated, and the exposition should greatly increase this total in 1939. More than 4,000,000 persons are expected to visit California during the year, and a paid attendance at the exposition of more than 20,000,000 in position undoubtedly will prove to be a stimulus to industry and business throughout the west.’’ The World’s Fair bank will have at least twelve tellers’ windows and a minimum of 25 employees, some of whom will be able to converse in almost any language with foreign safe deposit boxes, the building will have art glass windows depicting the fornia and a gigantic mural displaying points of interest in the state. The building will be situated on slips and the amusement zone. Mr. and Mrs. Will Jeffrey and son Charles, and Mrs. Jeffrey’s sister, Mrs. Ida Guenther, ‘will go to the bay district this week to attend gradfrey’s son, Will, who graduates May 22 from University of California. Mrs. D. G. Nesbit of San Diego who “eame up last week to visit her cousin Mrs. D, Walmsley in this city, is quite ill. She was to have joined her husband a delegate to the Odd Fellows comvention in Sacramento Friday but the doctor’s orders were for several days of rest. = contract for an entire building at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exhas exclusive banking privileges on the exposition grounds, will erect at $50,equipped as any of its 479 other branches. The to more than $20,000,000, including the accounts of visitors, exposition employA permit to operate a branch has already been issued by J. F. O’Conadmissions seems probable. The exvisitors. Complete with vaults and. ™ agriculture and industries of CaliTreasure Island between the ferry uation exercises of Mr. and Mrs. JefMINIMUM WAGE LAW IS SIGNED FOR TEACHERS SAN FRANCISCO, May 17.—Hailing the teachers minimum salary law as another’ great step forward in California’s humanitarian and pypogressive legislation, the board of directors of the California Teachers As. sociation today in a public statement commended the members of the legislature ‘and Governor Merriam for the passage and signing of the bill. By the provision of the bill, just enacted into law by the governor’s signature, the minimum salary of teachers in the public schools is fixed at $1320 per year, or $110 per month. The bill was initiated and sponsored by the California Teachers Association. California law, according to Roy W. Cloud, secretary of the California Teachers Association, requires at least either a four year university, or a four year state college course before an elementary teaching certificate may be granted. In order to secure a‘ secondary certificate, or one entitling the holder to teach in high school or junior college, another year of post graduate university work is'necessary, or five years in all, Cloud explained. In spite of the fact that teacher requirements in California are the highest in the United States, with the
possible exception of.one other state, public school salaries are still considerably below the annual average of clerks, bookkeepers and_ stenographers and far below the average wages in industrial pursuits. Until the passage of the teachers minimum wage law, sponsored by Senator Tickle of Carmel, minimum salaries for teachers have. varied greatly in various districts of the state. California has over 1500 one room schools, or 38 per cent of all the elementary schools of the state. In these one room schools is an attendance of 25,000 pupils, an average of sixteen pupils per school. Some schools have more, and some as few as six pupils the lowest limit permitted by state law. The result has been that, in many rural communities, a teacher is often required in one school room to teach pupils in every grade from the first to the eighth. Teaching in many of these schools is carried on under adverse conditions, especially in many mountain counties. Nevertheless teachers of from four to five years of college training have been compelled to labor in such schools for an average salary of $1200 a year. “The enactment of the minimum salary law,’’ said secretary Cloud, ‘‘continues California in the proud position of the nation’s leader in educational progress. “Small enough as the minimum wage now is, it is nevertheless a distinct encouragement to students who are ambitious to enter the teaching teachers SAN JUAN FORMS HYDRAULIC ASSN. UNIT FOR RIDGE By KATHERINE BRAITHWAITE A local unit of the California Hydraulic Mining Association was organized at a get-together meeting of the mining men and women and potential hydraulic operators of the North San Juan Ridge district which was held at the National Hotel in that community on the evening of May 13. The motive for this meeting was to consider. the nominees of the election of officers for the mother association. The: North San Juan Ridge members of this association live so far from the cities where all of the regular meetings are held it is impossible for most of them to leave their work and drive to Auburn, ‘Colfax or even to Grass’ Valley twice each month. Consequéntly thé majority of the members in this district had no instructions with which to carry out the routine required by the present association. C. E. Clark of Relief Hill was invited to this meeting to explain the regulations of the balloting. He also gave the members a general summary of what has transpired at other meetings in other towns. Mr. Clark was further asked a multitude of questions which had long remained unanswered among the miners of this district. During the course of the questioning of Mr. Clark it became apparent to the miners of the North San Juan Ridge district that the sensible solution would be to elect a president, a secretary, and a treasurer and form a local unit of the mother association of the California. Hydraulic Mining Association in the town of North San Juan. Geologically and geographically speaking the North San Juan Ridge district is the largest and the richest hydraulic region in California. Therefore it is but a natural consequence that a local unit of the hydraulic association be formed in this community. The organization of a local unit is the only practical way of attending to the many problems “When we consider that, better than 1,500,000 pupils—approximately one quarter of the population cf the state—are enrolled in schoots from the kindergarten to the junior college, some idea may be gained by the general public of the real magnitude of the educational problem in California. “To carry on theduties prescribed for instructors in this vast school system only, the finest of teaching personnel is sought. “By the minimum salary law present teachers, numbering literally thousands, especially in rural communities, receive ,recogirition, and worthy types of students will be attracted to school work by the encouragement of at least a fixed minimum salary with which to begin that will arise before and after the dam at the narrows is completed. A local unit will be absolutely necessary before and after the actual mining has begun. A local unit would be the clearing house for the many coming \;problems which will develop as the work progresses, AS most of these problems will be local business they will be properly taken care of on home territory where the people of jthis district will be assured these problems will receive the consideration due to them. W. E. Oden was elected president of this new branch of the California Hydraulic Mining, Association and Mrs. Katherine Braithwaite secretary treasurer. The meetings will be held the first and third Thursday of each month at the National Hotel in Nor. San Juan. The time is eight o’clockand every member throughout this district is urged to be present as often as possible and give their full support. Royal Freeman, president of the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce, was guest speaker at the -meeting last Thursday evening. Freeman is familiarly known a sthe father of the hydraulic association. It was due to his leadership that a group of. community minded, far-seeing men of this region of California sponsored and organized the California Hydraulic Mining Association February 22, 1936. Through the guidance of this organization the important factors of again resuming gravel mining in the. region of California have ‘bee consumated. And it will be through its future efforts that the North San Juan Ridge will again come to life and be a sceng of mining activity that will far surpass the mining days of 1849. HAWAIIAN GEESE ARE EXAMPLES OF EVOLUTION BERKELEY, May 417.-——In =the striped goose that ranges the island of Hawaii science has a living example of adaptive evolution, according to Alden H. Miller, assistant professor of zoology at the University of California. The Hawaiian goose is not migratory and, unlike other geese, avoids all bodies of water and even marsh es. It has chosen as its range only the most barren and arid areas of the island. Its young are not raised on the water and the goose seems to be able to do without all water except the dew on ithe vegetation that it eats, Although it can swim, the Hawaiian goose never uses swimming as a means of escape or of foraging. The effect of this life on barren, rough country ‘can be seen in the development of the wings and feet of this peculiar bird. The webs of the feet used in swimming have become very reduced in size, while the nails have ‘become larger, thus allowing the goose to run more easily. AS the bird became completely insular and gave up even short migratory flights to nearby islands, .the powers of flight have became materially reduced. At the same time the goose has becom more adapted to walking and profession. their career.”’ climbing over rough ground. 1 . ? WECARRY order. WE CARRY ONE OF THE GRAND PRIZES and COOKING SCHOOL. PR is Beautiful ift to You FROM OUSE DRIVE-IN MARKET to be given on Friday, May 21, the last day of the HOME CRAFT Institute The freshest Vegetables—the freshest eggs—the most luscious berries—the finest citrus fruits—choicest apples— Best bacon and other cold meats—that any market affords. a full line of GOOD GROCERIES at all times and can fill any DRIVEIN AND SEE US NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY HIGHWAY OPEN 7 A. M. TO 8 P. M.—SATURDAY 9 P. M. OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY Seti RTE a)