Identifier: palmofalphatauom5719alph (find matches)
Title: The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Alpha Tau Omega
Subjects: Greek letter societies
Publisher: (Champaign, Ill., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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and won the award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as the finest short subject of the year. I'm under contract to Warner Brothers, he told me recently, so I suppose that I'll be here for a while. I like the stage and the screen equally well, but I do want to get back to New York and act in a stage play again. It isn't very likely that John Litel will appear on Broadway in the near future,though, for in addition to his contract he is deeply involved in plans for a ranch house which he and his wife are building at Encino in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California. We have five acres of land and an orange grove, he explained as he showed me photographs of the property. PENN TAU INITIATE All of this seems a far cry from the difficulties and hardships of the early days he spent in trouping. A native of Albany, Wisconsin, John found his way to the famed Wharton School of Finance, Philadelphia, in the fall of 1911. In due course he was pledged and JOHN LITEL OF HOLLYWOOD AND BROADWAY 401
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JOHN LITEL WITH JOAN BLONDELL in a scene from the sensational newspaper story Angle Shooter, a Warner Brothers production. Initiated by Tau chapter of Alpha Tau Omega, one of his fellow neophytes being Alfred H. Williams, now head of the Department of Geography and Industry at Pennsylvania and a member of the A T O Vocational Advisory Board. After leaving Penn he went to New York where he became involved in the popular post-collegiate pastime of selling insurance. But even then his thoughts were turning to the theatre and he studied a the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, later landing a job in a stock company that was playing in Albany, N. Y. in Under Cover. With the outbreak of the War John enlisted and was assigned to the Princeton unit of the American Ambulance Corps. This unit was loaned by the United States Government to the French, and for the duration of the World War the men saw service in the French division. But the theatre was not neglected, for the talented men in the service got to g

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