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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1922)
DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA TO REPEAT “DISRAELI” Miss Banfield and Mr. Reddie to Play Leads Because so many requests have come to the dramatic department again to produce “Disraeli” by Louis N. Par ker, the play which met with such suc cess at commencement time, will again be played on the campus February 15 and 16. Professor Fergus Reddie and Charlotte Banfield will play the lead ing roles, and the whole cast will be as nearly as possible the same as it was last year. Irene Stewart and Claire Keeney will be seen in their same roles. A great number of students always leave the campus before the commence ment play ia given, and thus miss what is one of the best plays of the year. This will be the first time that the commencement play has been repeated, and it offers the students an oppor tunity to see one of the most powerful plays which has ever been given on the campus. This is the first campus pro duction Professor Reddie and Miss Ban field have appeared in on the campus this year. Elizabeth Melis will play the part of Lady BcaconBfield, wife of Disraeli, which was played by Dorothy Wootton last spring. Charles Fish and Sadyo Eccles also are new members of the cast. The entire cast is: Lord Cud worth, Charles Fish; the Duchess of Glastonbury, Margaret Nelson; Lady Cud worth, Radyo Eccles; Lord Brooke, Vern Fudge; Lady Boorko, Betti Kessi; Lord Deeford, Claire Keeney; Mrs. Travers, Charlotte Banfield; Lady Beaconsfield, Elizabeth Melis; Disraeli, Fergus Reddle; Sir Michael Probort, Edwin Kerch; Bnscot, Virgil Mulkey; Potter, Wade Kerr; Flukes, John Elle stad; nnd the court attendants and the foreign potentates will bo played by other members of the company. UNIVERSITY MAY INSTALL PROFESSORSHIP IN CHINA Committee Appointed to Investigate Campus Sentiment; Chair Would b« For Five Years at $1600 As a result of the visit of Charles K. Edmunds, president of the Canton Christian college, to tho campus during this past week, a committee composed partly of students and partly of faculty members has been appointed to con sider the forming of a University of Oregon professorship at tho Chinese in stitution. The plan proposed by President Ed munds to various American colleges and universities, is that each shall send a graduate to the College to teach for a period of from two to five years and shall pay all of his expenses, amount ing to a minimum of $1500 a year. The committee has been appointed but has not yet met. The primary ob ject of the committee is to sound cam pus opinion on the establishing of a foundation which will enable tho Uni j versity to adopt this play, and also to cast about for means whereby the' needed funds may be raised. LID ON DANCE KEPT (Continued from page one) student health committee, and all stu | dents who can help out are urged to call him al Friendly hall and make ar rungoments. Cooperation is Appreciated Many groups who were to give part ies this week had given them up vol untnrilv previous to the publication of the order’s continuance, and for this cooperation the University health com 1 mittee is very grateful, and wishes toj express appreciation for the hearty re Spouse and support, according to Or. Ttovard. "We appeciate this very, very much,” he said, when discussing tin- situation yesterday evening, "ami we hope that the students will continue it." The committee is very sorry that it is necessary for so many organizations to sacrifice their good tines just now. They have felt, however, that it is much better to give these up, no matter how disappointing, than to run risks of seri ous difficulties Take No Chances, is Plea The committee further recommends that the students interpret this regain tion in its very broadest terms, and that wherever gatherings of any kind ■can be avoided, this be done "Uon’t take any chances in tie spreading of this infection," is their message to the students. CLASSIFIED ADS Minimi m chwrw*. I time. -W times 45c: A time*. fl Must In* limited to R line*, over thi® limit, 5c \«t»r line. Phorw **M. or leave copy with Huaines* office of Kmikaiu, in. t’*\ivi-raity Piv** Payment in advance. Office hour*. 1 to 4 i>. m. LOST A Kappa Alpha Theta pin. Finder please call 840. 01 F3 3. Tailoring and Dressmaking of all kinds. f’all Mrs. A. G. DeVorc, 447 E. 15th, Phone 558 .1, 87 F28tf LOST Delta Gamma pin, Thursday Finder please call 125. 89-F2. 3. ROOM FOR RENT Two Mocks from Music building 1925 Harris street 90 FI 2. LOST -Brown bather bag contain ing two books, notebook, and papers, P’ense leave at Y Hut for Rov Yeat, h , SWEETSER TO CONDUCT BIBEE LECTURE SERIES Relation of Christianity and Science to be Discussed The first of a series of lectures on “The Christian Faith in the Age of Science” by Professor Albert R. Sweet ser, head of the department of botany, will be held this afternoon at 5 o’clock at the Y. M. C. A. Hut. This series of lectures is given under the auspices of the Student Volunteers, the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. In the lectures Professor Sweetser will touch on the main aspects of world Christianity especially as they regard the field of science. He is one of the most popular lecturers on Bible sub jects on the campus and has conducted courses similar to this before. Last year the subject of Medical Missions was taken up by the class taught by Professor Sweetser. Among the subjects to be treated under the course will be the following: The Bible and the Spade, The Biolo gist’s Bible and the English Bible which are grouped under the head of the Foundations of Faith. The other subjects are grouped under the Fruit age of Faith as follows: Lone Labra dor Land, Sky Pilot to the Lumber .Tacks, Salvation in the Slums, Living stone in Africa and The Mission of Medicine. There will be no charge made to stu dents taking the course which is open to all interested in the entire series or in particular lectures. The lectures, which will be illustrated, wil be held each Wednesday afternoon at 5 o’clock. STUDENTS TO TAKE TRIP Opportunity to Study In French School is Offered; Cost Is 3625 Stanford University, Stanford, Cal., Jan. 31.—(P, I. N. S.)—American stu dents and teachers will be given an op portunity to take a ten-weeks’ trip through Franco next summer, at an ap proximate cost of $625.00. The trip includes six weeks study at a French university. Students who successfully complete the required six weeks will be given a certificate of study by the French universities. Full information regarding the trip may be secured from La Comite des Voyages d’Etudes, 281 Fifth avenue, New York. VEATCH OREGON DELEGATE Campus Man is One of Committee of Twelve to Meet In New York liov Veatch will leave Thursday for New York whore ho will represent the Northwest district of the students’ Y. M. C. A. at its National Committee of Counsel. He is one of twelve members in the United States. Tho convention is to be on February 10, 11, and 12. They will consider the national prob lems of tho Y. M. C. A. work among students. SCHROFF ON ARTIST JURY Seattle Scene of Painters Exhibition; Instructor’s Work to be Seen Here Professor A. H. Schroff of the fine arts department of the school of archi tecture and allied arts left Friday for Seattle, where he is on the jury for the annual Northwest Artists’ Associa tion exhibit, which is being held there now. The exhibit consists of a large number of paintings by artists of the northwest. Professor Schroff will bring back his own exhibit of 92 canvases, which has received a great deal of praise from critics in Seattle, and will exhibit them in Eugene at the Chamber of Commerce rooms later in the month. During Professor Schroff’s absence, his classes have continued their work. He is expected to return to the campus later in the week. VACHEL LINDSAY POET (Continued from page one) ing, common men, and yet men ever moat uncommon since they created new worlds every day and gave glimpses of it to those less fortunate than themselves. Yeats suspected that Lindsay was one of the few men in America who had that divine spark of unconventional conceit, that spontaneous exuberance and those oft-recurring fits of ecstacy which have characterized true bards of all ages. So Vachel Lindsay came to dinner. Here is the story of one who knows much about that dinner: “It was one of those long, lazy, form al, painfully precise, dress—suity affairs which you would expect canny Harriet to stage for patrons of “Poetry, A Mag azine of Verse,” when William Butler Yeats was in town: plenty of critics and pseudo-poets and wives and daught ers of packers and contractors; many felicitations and much dry-speechifying; old lions and young lions with their in effectual yelping. “Finally, when overeating, long-sit ting and all the means of modern bore, dom had reduced the banqueters to the I last stages of ennui, the guest of thfl evening asked the young prairie-dog of Illinois to add his barking to the chorus. The crowd yawned. Lindsay could not escape,—probably did not want to. The long-suffering patrons of the arts pre pared to endure another sacrifice in the name of American poetry. He rose and began to chant ‘ ‘ The Congo. ’ ’ ‘ Fat black bucks in a wine barrel room, Barrel house kings, with feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and pounded on tho table, Pounded on the table, Beat an empty barrel with tho handle of a broom, Hard as they were able, Boom, boom, BOOM, With a slik umbrella and the handle of a broom, Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM. ’ “The jaded audience came to life. Not a person thought of going home. The heavy rhythm and barbaric imagery High Grade Stationery Wo find in our stock a number of broken lines of high grade stationery which we are going to clean up at much less than regular retail prices. Look at this lot and you will be convinced. The CO-OP IT’S YOUR STORE Social Center is what we are striving to make , | -the Hotel Osburn It is the logical and most attractive place to stage your formal. roused a strain of the savage in them which is not too far beneath the thin veneer we call civilization. Lindsay went on, with the husky voice and wierd whispers, full-throated shouts and wild gesticulations of the professional exhorter. ‘THEN I had religion, THEN I had a vision, I could not turn from their revel in derision; THEN I saw the Congo creeping through the black, Cutting through the forest with a golden track.’ ‘ ‘ He swung his arms and pounded on the table like one of his inspired Congo cannibals. The sing-song cadences of his syncopated chant rose and fell like the voice of a Methodist in in the fervor of an alter call. ‘ Then along that river bank a thou sand miles, Tattooed cannibals danced in files; Then I heard the boom of the blood lust Hong And a thigh-bone beating on a tin. pan gong, And, ‘BLOOD’ screamed the whistles and fifes of the warriors, ‘ ‘ BLOOD ’ ’ screamed the skull-faced lean witch doctors. ’ ‘ ‘ They saw fierce, black warriors run ning down the Congo banks in the aban don of the blood-lust; bones cracked and groans went up; fires flared up along the river’s edge and fifty naked cannibals danced and shrieked like demons from the Pit drinking human blood from hu man skulls. But the chanter did not stop. He told those proper patrons of poetry all about Mumbo-.Tumbo and the thousand savage gods and wicked devils of the Congo; softened his voice and pictured negro fairy-lands, chanted of Jacob and the angles and the shining golden stairs and ended with the death of all the jungle rites and heathen supersit tions. Recognized as Great Poet “He sat down. The people came out of their trance and crow-ded around him and told him he was a great poet and a great reciter. Vachel smiled. He had known all that long, and long ago. But they plied him with edulation. Here was inspiration! Here was a prophet in their on city! A new lion, and Lordy! how he roared! So they kept him in Chicag# for three weeks or a month, put a social string around his neck, a golden bit between his teeth and ex hibited him in the parlors of the rich patrons of poetry. Then he escaped; went back to his golden city of Spring field and wrote the ‘ Chinese Nighten. gale.’ “Well, Lindsay says he does not want to be known merely as a “ chanter ’ ’ and a “jazz poet.” And he is correct. He is much more than a Chanter, but still, he is a Chanter and has put the spirit of American Jazz into verse. He will never be able to live it down.” Our Reputation as Shoe Repairers 35 years in Eugene is your • assurance of satis faction. Miller’s Shoe Shop 43 W. 8th . Eugene They’re Home Made The most delicious vanilla and chocolate almond caramels and they’re made right here in this store For Your Dinner Parties Any desired flavor of home-made mints, if you like in shades of pale YELLOW and GREEN. They’re the ideal mint for the parties. Our Stock of Imperial Chocolates is more in quality than you could possibly expect. Can you buy better candy? You’d know if you had eaten any. Keep coming and stay satisfied ! Table Supply Co. With acknowledgments to K. C. 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