Press Club Vode
The Press Club Vode was a vaudeville show produced between 1919 and 1927 by students of the University of California, Southern Branch, in Los Angeles. The series was ended by the university administration in 1927.[1]
The show was a yearly event on the campus for five years until that time, the Los Angeles Times reported. "For the last two it has assumed somewhat the proportions of a professional performance . . ." and was noted as the "sole original musical revue of each scholastic year".[2]
The deans of men and women were supposed to enforce a costume code and check the scripts for offensive language, but the event was criticized by university officials. UC Southern Branch Director Ernest Carroll Moore said the Vode tended to "vulgarity and exhibitionism, rather than any kind of uplift. It is the least worthy thing we do at the university".[3]
A post-show party in 1927 ended in heavy drinking. Six students were suspended and eleven others reprimanded, and the Vode was never produced again.[1][3]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dundjerski, Marina (2011). UCLA: The First Century. Third Millennium Publishing. p. 330. ISBN 9781906507374. Search this book on
- ↑ "Students to Stage Revue," Los Angeles Times, March 7, 1926, image 38
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Garrigues, George. Loud Bark and Curious Eyes: A History of the UCLA Daily Bruin: 1919-1955 (MA). University of California, Los Angeles. pp. 17–18.
External links[edit]
- Photo of Margaret Kelly, the lead of the "Press Club Vode of 1926" at the University of California, Southern Branch, April 25, 1926
- Photo of Wally Halstead, Bud Ralston, and Dot Hill, rehearsing for the 1927 edition
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