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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1924)
'US OF MOUNTAINS” FAVORED BY CRITICS Stuart Walker to Produce Noted Dunsany Play “The Gods of the Mountains,” Lord Dunsany's play, which is com ing to the Heilig, February 5. with other plays of Stuart Walker's Portmanteau theater, has been nam ed by some critics as “the finest play of its kind in the English language.” It is probably the most famous of Lord Dunsany’s plays and to Stuart. Walker goes the credit of having first presented it as a professional success. .When it was first played, American dram atic critics designated it as the most significant play of the season. Another of Lord Dunsany's plays which will be presented the same night is “The Murderers.” This is a one-act play which combines in a thrilling plot, technical perfection and poetic ardor. These two are the only plays by Lord Dunsany to be presented in the series of Walker productions. Mr. Walker’s “The Very Naked Boy” will also be given Tuesday night, and Wednes day afternoon the company vail of fer Mr. Walker’s young people’s plays, “Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil,” “Sir David Wears a Crown,” and “The King's Great Aunt.” At a recent performance in the east “The Gods of the Moun tain” received nine curtain calls and “The Murderers” seven. “The Book of Job” will be given on Wednesday night, February 6. When this play was first given in New York, it was characterized as being “the most novel production seen in years in a playhouse on Broadway.” When the Portmanteau theater played in Iowa City the students showed greatest enthusiasm over “Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil” and “The Gods of the Moun tain.” The plays will be given at the Heilig theater in Eugene under the auspices of the Eugene branch of the American Association of Uni versity women. The ticket sale is headed by Mrs. L. H. Johnson, who reports the sales are rapid and that increased demands come in daily as the date of the plays draws near er. The tickets are on sale at the Co-op, Linn Drug Co., and Kuy kendall Drug Co. Prices for the young people’s matinee Wednesday afternoon are from fifty cents to $1.00, and for the evening per formances, $1.00 to $2.50. WINSHIP ADVISES US TO STAY WITH GAME (Continued from page one) tional contact, a preparation for life as it is, while the researchers get ac quainted with life as it has been,” continued Dr. Winship who has ob served many types of college students in his seventy-eight years. He speaks in emphatic tones, and after making a statement characteristically shakes his head, as if the matter were closed. In some institutions the foot needs to be put upon the accelerator, in others upon the brake, in the opinion of Dr. Winship. Sc4ne need to be prodded, others need to be held down, but nearly all institutions are reor ganizing themselves, he said in re plying to questions as to what was wrong with many of our educational institutions with their problems of over-reorganization. He was hopeful in his outlook, believing colleges would in time come out of their dif ficulties naturallv. “And what is your hobby?” he was asked. Dr. Winship paused, and having formulated a statement, said, “.Tust now my hobby is educating the peo ple to see that public schools are the public’s school, and that their bene fit is primarily to the taxpayer than to the individual pupil. This is a new angle.” • Besides being the editor of the Journal of Education, Dr. Winship has written a number of books. His latest is “Fifty Famous Farmers,” written together with Lester S. Ivins of Ohio State Teachers’ college, who is also a well-known writer. The author is the father of six children and has eight grandchild ren, one of whom is attending Har vard of whom will enter there an other of whom will enter there next year. His second son is on the edi torial staff of the Boston Globe, one of the leading papers of Hew Eng land. Cambridge. Massachusetts, is the residence of Dr. Winship when he is not traveling. He has crossed the continent fifty-six times in the inter ests of his publication on education. However, we ’ll get no more personal. To get that way is to furnish enter tainment for gossips merely, and is cheap journalism, declared the edu cator as he dismissed his questioner. “Hour Hand” Scores Second Triumph; Swift Moving Plot Well Received by Audience By Margaret Morrison Refreshingly unique in its set ting and dominated by swinging lilting melodies, the performance ; of •' The Hour Hand,”' by Anne Landsburv Beck, scored its sec ond triumph in Eugene last night at the Heilig theater. Ensemble ! parts, smoothly portrayed, lent ex cellent support to the leading char acters, making pleasing whole. Ruth Akers, who interpreted the part of Frieda, the cloekmnker’s daughter, scored her usual success with her sweet, clear voice, which charmed the audience from the very beginning. She also showed unusual finish in her acting, giving a | smooth interpretation of her part. Playing opposite Miss Akers, Richard Adam, who was caste as Arnold, owner of a herd, might per haps have proved a more success ful lover, had he put a little more life and enthusiasm in his part. His voice, however, was particularly pleasing, and his solo numbers were well received. The old cloekmaker, interpreted by Aubrey Furry, was played in his finished manner, and in each of his numbers he succeeded in winning his audience completely. Perhaps the comedy-burlesque part of the joval Frau Kessler in the person of Eunice Parker, de serves mention as one of the most perfect bits of fun in the whole opera. In her solo number, Miss Parker was natural and unaffected and won the audience many times ] over. Reginald Montague, a traveler from England, played by Bert Holloway, lacked the power of con ; viction in that he failed to be as 1 truly English as the average stage Englishman is supposed to be. His [ comedy bits were not made the most of, though he succeeded in raising a laugh from his audience several times. Robert McKniglit, who again took the part of the Bailiff of the village, was pleasing in liis solo parts though his lines lacked en thusiasm at times. Edward Sox, the Austrian spy, lacked conviction, although he too, has a pleasing voice and was well received in his solo parts. Though the general effect of the opera was one of brilliance and a swift moving plot, a great deal of prompting was apparent, and an uncertainness was felt by the audi ence in several places. The dances, directed by Siemon Muller, assisted by Mrs. AV. F. G. Thachgr, were beautifully inter preted in every instance, the es pecially difficult “La.sjt Festival Dance,” being executed with all the grace and skill that one would ex pect of professional artists. To one who has seen the opera for the second time, the remark able improvement in small places is particularly apparent and though there are many more bits which need smoothing over, the swing and momentum which is felt so keenly, all through the acts, speaks well for its future success as a stage produc tion. EDUCATION IS URGENT NECESSITY IN CHINA (Continued from page one) dormitories on the campus. The faculty consists of 100 Chinese in-, structors, and 50 American teach ers. “The work taken up begins with kindergarten and goes up through the college education, with special emphasis placed on the phases of higher learning,” said Dr. Edmunds in describing the institution. Chinese students as a whole feel more responsibility as to service for their country than do the Ameri- j cans. And while they work for honors in their work as is American custom, they are not working for the grade only, but for the good o| their country, said Dr. Edmunds. “They are .very serious-minded and diligent, for they realize they are the primary factor in developing the vast resources, and the advance ment of China.” Athletics compose the biggest form of activities in the Canton Christian college. Soccer is the major sport, though tennis, basket ball and volley ball are also popular with the Chinese students. Boys and girls alike dug out their own athetic fields, and fixed them up. It is interesting to study the way in which tljese students use their imagination in modifying and de veloping their own games from those adopted from the western games in this country, Dr. Edmunds said, telling of the way in which Chinese men box and wrestle with out touching each other. “At least they have worked out a plan that might be called “safety first,” he said. “The institutional life as it is now, is a new thing to these stu dents, but they respond quickly to the type of campus life which is modelled on the plan used in this country.” There are two distinctive facts about the Canton college, that is distinctive of China, in that it is non-denominational, and co-educa tional. The institution is not prim arily a religious college, though Bible study is given, and regular Sunday school and chapel services held on the campus. “ Chinese polities make no differ ence to the college,” Dr. Edmunds declares. “When one party falls, we can cash a cheek from the old administration on the new, as all people in the country, no matter their politics, realize what the col lege means, and how valuable it is to China.” At the present time the institu tion is in need of one instructor in each of the subjects of chemistry, economics, history, French, and Ger man in the college, and in general science, and English in the high school department. Teachers going there sign up for three years. They are given a small salary and have their expenses paid for both ways. It is really an edu cation to go, because of the travel ing itself, Dr. Edmunds said. On his various trips to and from Can ton, lie has gone by way of the Suez, through Siberia, and Panama. When bandits were mentioned, he forget his serious attitude for a few fminutes, and smilingly said, “Yes, I have had my caravan at tacked twice by bandits.” He told of how on one of his survey trips in 1916, his caravan was attacked by bandits, but he escaped, and all his papers saved, though they had been scattered. Again he told of an American worker in China who was captured last spring, and was in the hands of the bandits for 160 days, and as a result of the long captivity, two of the bandits were converted. During his conversation, Dr. Ed munds mentioned Miss Amy Dunn, Miss Helen Hall and Walter Belt, til Oregon people who are in China teaching. Students seeing Dr. Edmunds in ■egard to the teaching work may 'ind him him through the Y. M. 3. A. or the Y. W. C. A. or at the Hotel Osburn. Extra! Moses Produces Laws They made radical changes in Hebrew life. Are they prac tical at the present time? Could we practice them on the U. of 0. campus? We will dis cuss these and other ques tions next Sunday at the Wesley Club Men’s Bible Class M. E. Church 9:45 A. M. ADVANCED STUDENTS WILL MAKE PANEL Finished Work to be Placed on Outer Wall of School of Architecture A sculpture relief panel repre senting the different art expressions is to be made by the advanced stu dents in sculpture under the direc tion of Avard Fairbanks, professor of sculpture. It will be placed on a wall facing on the inner court of the school of architecture and al lied arts. Last year this type of work was begun' with a panel of “Art Serving Truth” which is now above the west entrance to the arts building. The new panel is not yet fully designed, and will probably under go changes as the work progresses and the students grasp the prob lem more fully. The central figure, according to the present plan, will be Creation, with Labor kneeling on the left, and Ambition on the right. The forms of creative ex pression will be represented by symbolic figures of Music, Sculp ture, Painting, Architecture, Litera ture and Drama. The work on the panel vfrill be done at a Wednesday night class arranged especially for the ad vanced students. Y. M. C. A. DISCUSSION GROUPS SUCCESSFUL Men Take Interest in First Series of Campus Talks, Reports H. W. Davis The first series of the Y. M. C. A. discussion groups were held last Tuesday evening in twelve of the campus fraternities and living or ganizations. according to II. W. Davis, Y. M. C. A. secretary. The group, led by Dean Bovard, at Friendly hall, and composed of some thirty men, carried their dis cussion an hour overtime because the subject, evolution, was so in teresting. More houses have undertaken to formulate discussion groups this year than ever before, said Mr. Davis. Thirteen have signified their willingness and several more have not as yet decided. This num ber has caused Mr. Davis to enlist seven more faculty members as leaders. Each leader prepares him self on only one subject and leads a different group each Tuesday night. In former times a leader was assigned to a particular group for the entire course and had therefore to prepare himself on all the sub jects. The new arrangement will require him to study but one about which he may become thoroughly informed. The additional leaders are: W. B. Mikesell, H. W. Davis, Clias. E. Carpenter, Roland Miller, W. P. Boynton, W. E. Milne and John F. Bovard. One new subject, “Eu genics,” has been added to the list. It will be taken by Mr. Carpenter. MANY SECURE WORK THROUGH Y. W. C. A. More Than Seventy Find Regular Positions; Others Have Various Odd Jobs _ I Up to January 31 more than 200 I University women had secured! work through the campus Y. W. C. j A. employment department, Miss Florence Magowan, secretary of the association, said in giving a con- j servative estimate yesterday. Of these 200 or more women, 72 are in regular positions, of which'[ 14 are working for their room and board, 12 for their board, and 46 are earning from $10 to $25 a TODAY for the Rain RADIO BOOTS frjf ©-•wnai. ^FOOT'*TAlP^ 828— WILLAMETTE —828 month. The remaining number is 1 placed with various odd jobs. The 72 women in regular posi tions are earning in approximate money value, $2,836. Those em ployed at odd jobs are making $580.20, making a total of $3,416.20. The work done by the women in cludes, general housework, cleaning and ironing, care of children, serv ing, sewing, typing, clerking, cleri cal work, and telephone work. Housework leads in the types of work listed. PLANS ARE MODIFIED AFTER CAMPUS VOTE (Continued From Page One.) and women's houses working to gether to prepare the floats. The committee will spend particular eflorts on the lighting system so that every float may be properly illuminated. Acts to be Reported The vod-vil committee urges that all persons with possible acts re port and get to work at once. Casts for the acts should be selected and practice begun. Tryouts will be announced later. Acts have been offered by Phi Mu Alpha, Mask and Buskin, Mid-Nite Sons, Imogeno Letcher, Thomas Short and Morry Clark, Freda Runes and Don Park. The Junior Week-end directorate will meet Monday afternoon at 5:00 o’clock in Condon hall. Tues day afternoon at 5:00 there will be THE CASTLE TODAY Last Day The ‘Flaming Youth” Girl in a lilting love romance. Thrilling nose dives in soaring aeroplanes—auto smash ups— run away horses — baseball home run wallops—all in an exciting round of fun and action. * COMEDY “Over Night It Rained” • Continuous performances every day. Whose Birthday Comes This Month? Flowers are the most appre ciated of birthday gifts. They are so expressive of your regard and so inex pensive. She would rather have a few flower^ than many more dollars worth of something else. Just furn ish us the date and your in structions and we will see she gets them at the proper time. One sorority has the very pleasing custom of re membering each sister’s birthday with a corsage. The University Florist 993 Hilyard Street I | a general committee meeting in the ' same place. SHORT STORY WINNERS AT NEVADA ARE FAIR CO-EDS University of Nevada.—(By P. I. N. S.)—After seven weeks of try | iug for the prize in “best story j contest,” conducted by the Sage brush, the university student paper, ; the women members of the staff have come out winners with a score ; of nine as against four for the men. The contest was inaugurated | to stimulate the staff to better ef | fort, and every week the two stories which were judged best were posted. Bead the Classified Ad column. I We buy and sell and exchange new and used goods. Give us a trial. Men’s Exchange 31 E 7th Street Out They Go! 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