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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1924)
Many Alums in California Finding Positions Kelty Heads Group Movies Call Hundreds to Southern Climes (Raymond “Curly” Lawrence, for merly a staff member of the Emer ald and now located in Los Angeles with the United Press, sent the fol lowing letter concerning University people now in that city.—Editor’s note.) By Raymond Lawrence Following the trek of thousands of young men and women from all parts of the United States to Southern Cal ifornia, approximately 70 University of Oregon graduates are affiliated with the newly organized alumni as sociation here. It is estimated that 100 boys and girls come to Hollywood every week seeking fame in the pictures, which is hardly more in proportion that the number of Oregon graduates who have recently located in Southern Cal ifornia^ The main difference, of course, be tween j fche movie-struck aspirants and the Giegon newcomers is that the latter (have been unusually successful in thii -fairy-land of enterprise. Southern City Grows r It would, however, be unfaithful to the characteristics of a Native Son not to mention the unbelievable growth of Los Angeles and its mar velous growth—all of which ought to be particularly appreciated by Or egon readers. Up north, they say, there is a libelous story going the rounds about the Native Son. It has been rumored here that the much-touted Los Angeles chamber of commerce intends to institute crim inal proceedings against the perpet rators of this infamous tale; but the story follows: It seems that a funeral was being held in Portland for a little known citizen. After the minister had fin ished his panegyric, he asked if there were any present who would like to say a word. There was an embar rased silence. Finally, the only Na tive Son in the congregation, stood up and remarked: “Well, if nobody else has anything to say, I’d like to tell you about California.” That’s the way, I am, for I couldn’t resist the temptation to tell you something about California. More interesting, no doubt, would be news about what Oregon graduates are do ing here. There are 41 on my list, but it is said that about 30 more live in and near Los Angeles. The president of the new alumni as sociation in Los Angeles is Eugene Kelty, who is connected with Free man, Camp and Smith, a bond firm. Gene married Betty Pride, an Ore gon graduate. Graduates in Morton Is Teacher An old Oregon man, who was ex ceedingly popular on the campus for several years, is Dean Morton, for merly head of the school of commerce at Eugene. He is now a professor in the business administration depart ment at the University of Southern California, with important duties in connection with the Penny chain of stores. Dean Morton sponsored the first alumni meeting that was held. Mae Ballack is now society editor of the Fullerton News, a thriving newspaper published about 35 miles from the city at Fullerton. For a time she worked on the Long Beach Telegram. Allan Carncross is one of the Long Beach Telegram’s star reporters. Warren Kays and "Morgan Staton have started several community shop ping papers, which have proven very remunerative through a large amount of advertising. Bill Kays is attend ing an optometrist’s school here. Both the Kays brothers for a time were registered at University of Southern California. Fred Howard has an unusually good law practice in Hollywood. He has figured successfully in a number of big suits in the local civil courts recently. Several of the well known film stars are represented by How ard. Claire Keeney, George Stearns and Fred Main have an apartment in Hol lywood. Keeney is looking over the motion picture field, while Stearns is contemplating getting into business here. Main :s busy selling lumber for a wholesale firm. Eisman Hendles Accounts Stan Eisman spends most of his time traveling for the Foster Travel bureau, and handles several large ac counts, which include several famous | Southern California tourists resorts. I Martha Bice is living with Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Smith. Mrs. Smith was formerly Mary Packwood. George McNamee is with the West ern Electric company. Both Carl Weigel and Guy Sacre Bill Hayward Takes Rare Picture of Swedish King By Bill Akers Perhaps the King of Sweden and his valiant henchmen did not dis criminate against Coach Hayward alone in the matter of permitting his royal self to be photographed; perhaps there were others over at the Olympic meet in Stockholm in 1912 who were not permitted to film his majesty. But, to hear Bill tell it, there was a direct conspir acy of man and fate to keep him from obtaining a picture of his Highness. “I expected it to be good,” ex plained Bill, “I figured he’d come out all dolled up in a gold-braided uniform, a diamond-studded crown, and sporting a gold cane. So about the first day, I slipped around to the King’s own private entrance to the stadium with my camera. Well, two guys came along blowing a couple of big bugles, so I got all ready to ‘shoot,’ for I knew that meant the King was coming. “The only person I saw, who, I figured, could possibly be his royal nibbs, was a little fellow in abont a $12 palm beach suit and a straw hat. I decided that couldn't be him, so didn’t take any picture. I figured maybe the King might have been out the night before and didn’t want to get up so he had sent his secretary. But it wasn’t. I had missed a chance to take the King’s picture.” Bill then told how his duties and fate and a few other things kept him from trying to secure his Royal Highness ’ photo until long toward the last of the meet. It was the King’s custom, them, to walk down a special incline built from his box to the place where the win ners gathered to receive their prizes. The King would take the prize, then give it to the Crown Prince, who would present it to the winner with a short speech of com mendation. “Do you know,” explainel Bill, kniting his brows, “I tried to get onto that field with my camera every way I could think of, that day; and always some big husky blond-whiskered guy would shove me back. I even borrowed one of the prize winners’ bath robes and wrapped my camera in that, but some bird spotted me then. It was getting time for the King to do his stuff and I was afraid I would miss him, so I beat it around to the grand stand. “I managed to get in about where the King was; just about the time the buglers were sounding off to let every body know the King was getting ready to walk down this long gang plank they had laid for him down into the arena. This gang plank,” assured Bill, “was covered with a nice, soft, red plush carpet. The King was dressed up like a King ought to be. All I could see was the back of the ‘old boy’s head.’ Then a scheme came to me. “The King and the Crown Prince started down the gang plank and all the guards and all the people were looking at him. Nobody saw me. I gave the King a good start and then took down the gang plank after him. That red carpet was just as soft as it looked, too. I just tore down past him, then, when I got about 10 feet beyond, turned and ‘shot’ him. He looked rather surprised and so did everybody else; but I didn’t stop to say how do-you-do, or any thing like that. “No, they never chased me or put me in jail; I guess they just figured me as another one of those ‘crazy Americans’; but the best of it was, when the movies came out showing the King coming down to give out the prizes, about the most noticable thing one could see was me running with my camera. But I’ve got the picture.” In Defense of Modern Jazz * ^ ¥ A Riotous Improvisation By Frances Morse Maurice Ravel, who visited this country in 1920, informed Prof. Ed ward Burlingame Hill of the music department of Harvard university that “jazz was America’s only original contribution to music.” Another writer has said, “The elements of jazz are the raw materials of all music presented with primitive sim plicity. The rhythms are strident. The melodies simple and sharply ar ticulated, and the form concise.” The same writer continues that the folk songs of continental Europe have been the deposited sentiment of cen turies of submerged folk life, and into their lyrics have crept the un mistakable element of rusticity. Until the middle of the nineteenth century the “Massamensch” was the silent agricultural population of the continent, the music of which was, therefore, necessarily out - of - doors music, which looked away from weary labor, yet reflected i^s shadows throughout its wildest abandon. The modern “Massamensch” is a creature of paved, lighted streets, whose music is jazz, throbbing with life, and laughter and vitality. The orchestras of Peri and Monte verdi, 300 years ago, were trained to improvise counterpart expertly. The music of the Hungarian and Russian gypsies, is a pattern of riotous im provision, restless in mood. The su preme test of players of American jazz is the ability to improvise ex pertly. Thus musical history repeats itself. It is not possible to deny the exist ence of jazz. But there is good playing of jazz and bad playing of it the same as there is good and bad playing of Chopin. A few years ago our writers of popular song found that their work lacked co’lor, and they developed a device for harmon ic hue and we had our “blues.” Jazz is native born, out of the con fusion and complexity of present-day American life. The “turgid songs of saxophones,, the capers of clari nets, the darting influence of flutes, the high lights cast by drums and xylophones,” these combine to make music so recklessly fantastic, so hi lariously grotesque, so superbly exotic, that it is an uncomparable creation. In good jazz each player is an or iginal contributor of musical color. Good jazz, subject to unclouded criti cism, reveals some finer lineaments, which at least should subject it to the benefit of honest doubt. In view of all this, is it possible to dismiss jazz as merely “the cha otic and unreliable accompaniment of modern dance perversions?” are with the local office of Bond, Goodwin and Tucker, a bond firm. Ruth Fowler lives in Pasadena and is attending Occidental college. Bill Jenkins is studying dentistry at U. S. C. Athletes With Vernon Oregon is well represented on the baseball clubs training in this vicin ity. Gordon Slade is making a big hit with Bill Essiek, manager of Ver non. “Cutey” has been doing some fine fielding at short, and his stick work may beat out Warner, a big leaguer. Kit Carson is trying out for the Vernon pitching staff, and Essiek says that with a good season’s experience Carson will be his most promising youngster. Lyle Bigbee, once an Oregon baseball star, is with the Seattle club. Homer Bugsbee spends most of his time in Los Angeles, between fre quent trips to San Francisco. Eloise White and Grace McKenzie say they are never going to return to the north. Hairy Mills is feature organist at Lowe State theater, one of the larg est in the city. Frank Seaiefe, who was graduated with high honors from the Harvard sehool of medicine, is practicing in San Pedro. Evelyn Robson and Cynthia Hobbs both live in Long Beach. Joe Seaiefe is proprietor of a ga rage in Hollywood. College girls who get married are unusually hard to keep track of, in the matter of names, which is apro pos of Harry Smith’s sister living in Glendale. Nadine Bohlander expects to spend the rest of this year in Southern Cal ifornia. Hildred Hall lives in Glendale. Eachael Husband is assistant pale ontologist at the Los Angeles mus eum of arts, history and science. She ! has been actively engaged in inves tigating the petrified human skele tons, believed to be between 10,000 and 25,000 years old, which were re cently discovered in a sewer excava tion here. Glenn McGonegal is doing art work for the Pickford-Fairbanks motion picture company. Harold Evans is correspondent of the United Press association in the Los Angeles bureau. Recently Evans assisted in covering the start of the around-the-world* airplanes flight at Clover field, Santa Monica. Horace Vincent is. an accountant with the Western Showcase and Fix ture company. Emery Insurance Agency Representative for OREGON FIRE RELIEF ASSOCIATION 37 9th Avenue West Phone 667 Fisher, Regent of University, Is Dead (Continued from page one) -- - | first semi-weekly paper printed in ! the stalte. In 1896, the Herald, : while he was in Salem that Mr. Fisher received his first appoint i inent ns a member of the board of | regents of the University. Mr. Fisher was an honorary mem i bcr of the University of Oregon 1 chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, nation which had been consolidated with the Review, another Rose burg paper, became a daily publication. At this time, Mr. Fisher’s health began to fail and he went to Boise, Idaho, where he hoped the climate would better agree with him. \\ liile there he founded the Evening Capital News, which is now one of the most influential papers in the state of Idaho. From Idaho, he came to Eu gene and purchased the Guard, which he published for several years. His next venture was the purchase of the Capital Journal of Salem. While in Salem,- Mr. Fisher aud Mr. J. E. Shelton, present manager of the Guard, repurchased the Eugene paper. Mr. Shel ton came to Eugene and took charge of the paper at once, while Mr. Fisher remained in Charles H. Fisher Salem until the sale or the Capital- al honorary journalistic fraternity Journal, some years later. It was for men. Results of Gridiron Practice Are Given (Continued from page one) should, with practice, be able to punt and pass and should any one of them carry the ball with ease, a valuable triple man might be developed. It is impossible to more than mention the names of these men out for the generalship of the squad, but with some summer prac tice, the problem of the man for the position will no doubt be somewhat easier to solve. Among the varsity lettermen out during the spring practice were: Captain Reed, Bailey, Terjeson, Mautz, Shields and Wilson. Prac tically the whole frosh football squad was also on hand, and the daily turnouts were strengthened by the presence of several new men. With the graduation of many of the varsity squad from last year's team, it will be necessary to fill the majority of gaps left by the gradu ating men, with members of the frosh football team from last year. This will mean an exceptionally young and light team. But the use of sophomores on the varsity will not handicap the team in the at tainment of plenty of speed. In summarizing the results of the spring football practice, there arei some very important benefits that have been derived. First, the foot ball men havei acquainted them selves with a new coach and his new style of play. Second, they have a good working basis for next fall. Third, and probably most im portant, they have learned to like and place their faith in a man who will guide the varsity football squad for the next three years to come. When Oregon lines up against the Stanford eleven in the fall, it will be with considerable interest that colleges will look upon the using of a new system of play on the coast. Yost football, or the style of play taught by Maddock, will then get its initial test on the coast YALE PRESIDENT AGAINST COACHES ON FIELD Yale University—Dr. James R. Angoll, president of Yale univer sity, recently stated that he be lieved coaches should be banned from the field while a match game was in progress, and declared his hopes that Yale might become a leader in spreading the system to other athletic activities. 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