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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1922)
‘MERCHANT OF VENICE’ HEBE FOR FIRST TIME Taste for Shakespeare on Campus to be Tested As f;ir as is known “The Merchant of Vcni-c,” which will be staged in the Guild theatre next Wednesday and the three nights following, has never been given in Eugene before. This play , which is really quite difficult to pro duce because of the numerous settings and scenes will likely be one of the best plavs produced on the campus this season. The support which this play receives from the faculty and students will prove whether or not the campus people are interested, in tihe, better things in drama and literature. Much Work on Costumes Unlimited work is being put on the settings and the costumes and it is expected that these two features will add much to the attractiveness of the production. Professor Fergus Tteddie ; and Charlotte Banfield. whose work in the department of drama and the speed' arts has received much favorable com ment from capable critics, will play Shylock and Portia respectively, while, the whole cast will be composed of students who have been seen on the Guild stage before and have done com mendable work there. Every year at least one Shakespear ian play is produced on the campus and they have always been quite popular with the students. This year the cam pus may have the opportunity of see ing “Hamlet” ns a commencement play, but that has not yet been thoroughly decided. Other Campus Favorites Claire Keeney, who is me of the mos. capable Guild theatre stars, will be seen in another comedy role. Hilda garde Ttepinen, who played the diffi-I cult role of Kate in “The Wedding Guest,” will also be Been again. Nor veil Thompson who was last seen in a campus production in October when j he played the leading part, in “Why Marryf” and Edwin Keech who played an important part in “Swan whito” will have leading parts. Antonio will be played by Harrell Earsen, who played in Pygmalion and “Disraeli,” and Nerissa will be played by Sadye Efcles who hns been seen in several small roles this yenr. The entire cast is well selected and an the rehearsals have been going along nicely it is thought by those in charge that this production will be the suc cess that is hoped for. GIRL DEBATERS PLEDGED BY FORENSIC FRATERNITY Zeta Kappa Psi Chooses Six Women to Honorary Organization; Varsity Material Selocted Yearly The library stops were the scene of Interest this morning when Zeta Kappa Psi, women's honorary debating fra ternity, pledged six new members just before the student body assembly. The girls who received the purple ami white j ribbons and corsages are: Kurllne | Coulter, Helen l'urdham, Florence Furu set, Blanche lioss, Edna I,argent and i Dorris Hikes. Zeta Kappa l*si pledges every year Nt*Veriil girls who have shown up well in the women's doughnut league debates, and who give promise of good varsity material, as well as ehnson members of the varsity team. Fledging usually takes place later lu ttie year, just be fore the second student body meeting of the Spring term, Imt owing to the fact that the debate series was com plated prematurely this year, pledging! was held earlier. Y. W. COMMITTEE TO MEET Working Program for Association Will be Decided Upon Tin Investigation committee of the Y. W. C. A will meet at the Bungalow Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock to con tinuo business begun at the meeting held last week The commission, which consists of faculty representatives.; members of the advisory hoard and students, was recently appointed to de cide upon a working program for the association on the campus. The committee is endeavoring to dis cover the greatest problems which con front the "Y” as a factor in the relig ious life of the University and then to solve them to the advantage of the 655 women members of the association. Students read the classified ads: try using them. CLASSIFIED ADS Minimum eh»i-|*v, 1 time, -fu*; - time*. 4:*c ; ft time*. $1 Mu*t lx* limited to ft Htu«. over thin limit, ftc i>t»r line. Phone 951. or leave copy with Hualnea* offioe of Kvikram*. i»> l'ntv« t>\tv I‘rvoa. Payment in advance. Office hours. 1 to 4 V'* DRESSMAKING— Kcasonabl prices. All work guaranteed. 120 M14 5. LOST -A silver riug with Abyssin ian crest, on west steps of Villard hall, Tuesday. Reward. Kinder please call Augusta DeWitt 68$. 119 MU'.S. WORLD MAGAZINE SERVICE 1 will place your subscription to any magazine in any language, science or profession at lowest rates. George O Ooodall, 1790 Kairmouut Blvd., Eugene. Oregon Telephone 320 R 121M10 2 FOREIGN LITERATURE AND TRAVEL BOORS POPULAR Oriental Fiction Supplants That of England and America; Charge of Five Cents a Day Permits Collection of Latest Novels. Books of travel and the orient and foreign literature are rapidly taking the place of American and English fiction in popularity, according to .Mrs. Mabel K. McClain, head of the circulation de partment of the University library. This ie aside from the new books which go into the rent collection. The rent collection now contains 33 books and is maintained so that the new est fiction can be had while it is new. A nominal charge of five cents a day is charged for the use of the books and most of them have proved so pop ular that it is necessary to sign ahead for them. Of this collection “Main Street” is still the most popular. Three copies are kept busy continually. Tarking ton’s “Alice Adorns” and May Sin clair’s “Mr. Waddington of Wick” are also exceedingly popular. “Alice Adams,” which went into the collection August 30, has circulated 51 times. The anonymous books by “The Gentleman with a Duster” are also kept busy. They are “The Mirrors of Downing Street” and “The Glass of Fashion.” “The Mirrors of Washington,” anonymous, is a similar volume. .All are satire on prominent figures in society and politics of England and America. “If Winter Gomes” by Hutchinson and “Dust” by llaldemau-Julius are also taken out a great deal. The books of travel, which have recent ly been in great demand, partly because of the research being done by students in the Trade Routes classes and partly for general interest, are such books as Fred erick O’Brien’s “White Shadows in the South Seas” and “Mystic Isles in the | South Seas.” O’Brien’s “White Sha dows in the South Souh” 1ms been in the library more than a year and it was only recently that it was in for a long enough period to be catalogued. Maughan’s “Moon and the Sixpence” is another Btory of tho south seas that has been very [Kipular, although it is now nearly two years old. The interest iu this type of books is believed to bo caused by the great amount of traveling done by students during the war. Tho places described no longer seem like so much of a fairlyland, but more like a reality. Tho motion pictures have had a great effect on cortian books also. Dumas and Ibanez are continually in demand, and especially their “Three Musketeers” and “Four Horsemen of tho Apocalypse.” .lust before the Four Horsemen was pre sented at the Eugene theatre there was almost a panic to read the books and tho four copies of tho “Four Horsemen” which the library possesses returned dog eared and were sent to the bindery. Books by Knot Hamsun, the eminent Norwegian author, are also in great de mand. His “Growth of the Soil,” which won for him the Nobel prize last year for the best literary contribution of tho year, is always signed far ahead. “Pan” and “The Dreamers,” now books by him, wore recently added to tho rent col , lection and have been very popular. De Maupassant, Zola and Nexo are! tlier foreign authors who are attracting much attention. Nexo's “Ditto Daughter nf Man” is another rent book that is circulating continually. Poetry has become less popular among the students. Service continues to be the most read American poet anil Mase field the most popular English. There has been a decided slump in the popu larity of 11. G. Wells. There is now an entire shelf ol liiy works iu the Kuglisl fiction section of the library which a few years ago was vacant nearly all the t imo. A record of the students in the Uni versity doing the most consistent reading of modern literature has been kept by the circulation department. While the books are used a great deal by most of the students, the ones doing the greatest amount of reading are E. .1. Hayeox, Donald McDonald, Mae Ballaek, Rather ine Watson, Hope MacKenzie, and Arthur Johnson. A number of new books have been added to the rent collection during the past week. They are Burnett: “Head of the House of Coombe”; Anderson: “Triumph of the Egg”; Hergesheimer: “Oytherea”; Hemon; “Maria Chape laine”; Kay-Smith: “Jaonna Boddess” and Walpole: “The Young Enchanted.” Of these Hemon’s “Maria Ohapelaine” is supposed to be of the greatest literary value, according to the reviews given it by critics. UNIVERSITY MEN AIDED BY Y. M. LOAN SERVICE Service of Association Includes Help for Working Students; Fund is Established The University Y. M. C. A. has ad ded another feature to its policy of friendly helpfulness to men, in the shape of a small loan fund which is to be used to tide some of the men over small financial crises, such as the payment of laboratory fees, according to L. P. Putnam, secretary. People are not always prompt in paying the boys for work done, but the University, like time and tide, waits for no man, and the need of a few dollars to pay some fee is often just as crucial as that of a business man who seeks credit :it the banks, the secretary says. Many of these boys have the courage to come to the University and to stay here on very slim financial resources,” said Mr. Putnam, “and it is these that we aim to help. The fund lias been going on in a small way for some time, but now we wish to make it a perma nent feature of our work, and to es tablish a fund of say $75 which would ! be constantly circulating among the boys throughout the school year. All the loans which we have made this year have been promptly returned when the need was past, and we have taken particular care that the need was great before issuing the money.” Many a boy has gone to Mother Don nelly for encouragement and financial aid and some few have gone unosten tatiously to her and left small sums to be used to help some fellow that needs it. CLUB HAS UNIQUE PROGRAM Matching Puzzles and Other Spanish Games Enjoyed by Members Putting together Spanish puzzles was an original idea instituted at a meet ing of the Spanish club Wednesday even ing. Large advertisements were made in Spanish and painted in bright color®, then cut into uneven pieces. These were distributed to the members and when all those possessing pieces to one puzzle had put them together they met and carried oh conversation in Spanish. Another game was the matching of Spanish paintings and authors, and this with a number of other Spanish games were heartily enjoyed, proving the success of the idea. Hubert Schenck was in charge of the program. Twinkle, Twinkle! How’d You Like to Be a Movie Star? i Phone 87 for full particulars —Louise Lovely V HAUSER BROS. Outfitters to Sportsmen and Athletes Footballs, Basketballs, Baseballs, Guns, Ammunition, Sweaters, Raincoats, Jerseys Outing Clothing and Boots Chippewa Packs and Boots Safety Razors and Blades Flashlights and Batteries Agents for Thos. E,. Wilson Athletic Goods College Bar 10c EVERYWHERE Delicious Ice Cream with Milk Chocolate Coating Manufactured by Eugene Fruit Growers Ass’n Home of College Ice Cream THE KREMLIN, MOSCOW JWost of the famous buildings of the world are equipped •with Otis Elevators ThE KREMLIN is the citadel of Moscow. The walls of the triangular enclosure were built in the year that Columbus discovered America. Much of the history of Russia — a dark tale of intrigue, mystery and bloodshed— was enacted in the Kremlin buildings. The present Great Palace dates back only to Napoleon’s day, for his soldiers burned the old palace. There are two Otis Automatic Push Button Elevators in the Great Palace. There is another Otis Elevator in the Nicholas Palace. This is significant %{ the world-wide scope of Otis activi ties. From the first crude hydraulic elevato# to the mod ern miracle of automatic vertical transportation, Otis has led the way and even now is continually developing new and better methods and machinery.’ OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY Offices in all Principal Cities of the World ) THE MAN SAID, “Are you hungry, fella?’’ I ANSWERED BACK, “Fella, do I look sub-normal? Where do we eat?’’ He led the way and I’ll never forget the meal we had. It happened at the IMPERIAL LUNCH 4 Boston Ferns FREE SATURDAY, MARCH 11TH EXTRA FINE PLANTS These are the finest ferns obtainable. Fine large plants, all potted. 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