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Press Club Vode
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The Press Club Vode was a vaudeville show produced between 1921 and 1927 by students of the University of California, Southern Branch, in Los Angeles. The series was ended by the university administration in 1927. 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." 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." 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. 
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