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.
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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
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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
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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.”
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The Mystery of the
Cook’s Pet Parrot
Vr*«y
vVciH
A FUNNY paper recently.
SLIPPED ME a good laugh.
WITH A wheeze about.
\ ...
A FAMOU8 ventriloquUt.
AND WHY he had quit.
& THE VAUDEVILLE stag*.
IT 8AID he discovered.
HE OOULD make more jack.
SELLING WOODEN parrota.
SO WHEN I got home.
I PASSED the Joke.
TO OUR cook, who owns.
BOTH A speechless parrot.
AND A sense of humor.
BUT SHE muffed It.
BECAUSE SHE didn’t know.
WHAT A ventriloquist wa*.
SO I had to explain It.
AND ON the way out.
I BLEW just a whiff.
OF CIGARETTE smoke.
AT HER amusing old.
FOOL OF a parrot.
WHICH NEVER talks.
AND I said, "Poll.
HOW D’YOU like ItT** )
AND TO this day.
IT’S GOT me guessing.
WHETHER IT was cook.
OR THE blamed bird.
WHICH SQUAWKED back.
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