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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31. 1926 VOLUME XXVII NUMBER 9» Dance Drama Prettiest Yet OrchesisAim McDonald Theater’s Stage And Lighting Effects To Add to Color Shakespeare’s Fantasy Will be Central Event Midsummer Night’s Dream Among Features 4 S THE culmination of the work ■^“'done by Orcliesis during the last two terms, the annual dance drama will be presented at the McDonald theater, tomorrow evening, April 1. The performance will begin at eight o’clock. The drama will be the best that has yet been presented, according 'to Miss Lillian Stupp, general manager, since the theater will afford better stage and light ing arrangements in addition to the features on the program. “Midsummer Night’s Dream’’ will be the main event on the pro gram, and although the entire play will not be carried out, the fairy theme has been adapted to the dance form. Three episodes will be shown. In the first episode only fairies are characterized, Oberon and Titania, the king and queen of the fairies, being the leading char acters. “Pyramus and Tliisbe” Shown In the second episode, the Athen ian workmen, who are the only mortals characterized, practice the play “Pyramus and Thisbe,” and the fairies come in contact with the mortals. The third episode brings Oberon and Titania to a happy ending of their difficulties, due to the intervention of the mortals. Costumes have been made by Miss Victoria Avakian’s dress design class and are very elab orate and well suited to each char acter. China silk has been dyed for most costumes, but metal cloth is used in some cases. Scarfs will be used for fairy wings. Stage decorations, which are in charge of N. B. Zane, assistant pro fessor of architecture and allied arts, were finished yesterday. Squares of black, pebbly oilcloth and theatrical gauze are used in all seenery. Theseus’e temple for “Midsummer Night’s Dream” is the most elaborate of the stage set tings. “The Lake of Swans” Repeated “The Lake of the Swans” which was presented at the drama last year, is being repeated by request. Three swans are shown swimming in a pond, with naiads dancing on the stairs of a ruined temple in the background. An arrow wounds one of the swans, and he sings his death song. “Dabs from a Paint Box,” a series of poems of color, written by Etha Clark, will be interpreted. The colors used are black and white, green, brown, red, blue and silver. “Song of the Bargemen” and the “Natoma Dagger Dance” are two of the shorter features, the first being a silhouette representing Russian peasants pulling a boat up the stream, and the latter a dance by Kitty Sartain. The costume used for this is one of the most elaborate in the drama. Those Who Take Part Members of Orchesis who are tak ing part in the drama are Eliza (Conttnutd on page four) Hobson, Quintet Star Engaged to Miss TSoren Announcement of the engage ment of Howard Hobson, senior, to Jennie Xoren, graduate of ’24, was made Saturday afternoon in Port land at a tea given by Miss Gladys Xoren complimenting Miss Margaret Hyatt, whose marriage to Harry Myers, Bachelordon, will be an event of May 8. Miss Xoren and Miss Hyatt are both members of Delta Gamma. Howard Hobson is a three-year letterman in basketball and tjiis term will be the last in his athletic career. He is a member of Phi Delta Theta. Xo definite date has been set for the wedding, but it will probably oeeur sometime dujring the early part of the summer. The engagement was announced at the Delta Gamma and Phi Delta Theta houses last evening. Committee Travels Seeking President Somewhere east of Moscow, Ida ^ ho, Dr. H. D. Sheldon, chair man of the administrative com mittee, and Regents G. I1. Skip worth and Vernon H. Vawter, Medford, the committee appoint ed by the board of regents to investigate possibilities for a president of the university, are traveling in the course of their investigation of available ma terial for the position. A state ment to this effect was made from the office of Karl Onthank, executive secretary of the uni versity. The committee visited Dr. A. H. Upham, president of the University of Idaho, at Mos cow, and left Moscow Sunday for points farther east. It was re ported, but not verified, that their trip will include an inter view with President A. G. Crane, of the University of Wyoming. They will continue their trip until their investigations are completed, Mr. Onthank said. This is expected to take two or three weeks, when the commit tee will return to Eugene to re port to the board of regents. Social Calendar Well-filled For April and May Schedule Not Complete; April 17 Popular With Eight Events Dean Virginia Est.erly announced the social calendar yesterday. It is not entirely filled up, but is shows that activities have been scheduled well in advance. April 1—Thursday Dance Drama. April 2—Friday Good Friday. April 3—Saturday Alpha Delta Pi Tea—-Women’s Building. ( Phi Kappa Psi Formal. Beta Theta Underclass Dance. April 6—Tuesday Mu Phi Epsilon Concert. April 9—Friday To-KoLo Formal. Alpha Omicron Pi Informal. Sigma Beta Phi Dance. Kappa Sigma-Sigma Nil Sopho more Informal. Alpha Gamma Delta Dance. Alpha Chi Omega Underclass Dance. April 10—Saturday Track—Stanford—Palo Alto. April Frolic. Delta Delta Delta Breakfast Dance. Delta Zeta Breakfast Dance. Girls’ Oregon Club Tea. April 14—Wednesday Guild Theater Play. Senior Leap Week. April 15—Thursday Guild Theater Play. Senior Leap Week. April 16—Friday Guild Theater Play. Senior Leap Week. Class Dances. April 17—Saturday Guild Theater Play. Senior Leap Week. Thespian Matinee Dance. Kwarn a Formal. Tau Nu Formal. Sigma Chi Dance. Lambda Psi Dance. Susan Campbell Hall Formal. April 22—Thursday Mu Phi Epsilon Concert. April 23—Friday Junior Vod-Vil. April 24—Saturday Junior Vod-Vil. Alpha Omicron Pi Barndance April 26—Monday A. S. U. O. Concert—The Little symphony. April 30—Friday Alpha Xi Delta House Dance. Alphi Phi Underclass Dance. May 1—Saturday Seattle—Relay. Alpha Delta Pi Formal. Alpha Chi Omega Spring Dance. Beta Theta Pi Formal Alpha Gamma Delta Informal. May 2—Sunday Beta Theta Pi Picnic. May 7—Friday Junior Week End. (Continued on page four) Track Squad Hits Up Pace Pleasing Bill Favorable Weather Gives Athletes Chance to Work Out Kinks Return of Flanagan Helps in Broad Jump Distance and Hurdle Stars Approach Top Form TTOPF.S for Bill Hayward’s little group of track men went soaring at the end of the spring vacation training period with the .excellent showing of the men in the final workout last Saturday. Oregon’s track team looks better than it has for the last six years and it is doped to improve at that. “The only thing we lack now is weight material,” said Coach Hay ward yesterday. “The runners are coming along fine: The spring training marked a great advance ment in the team and especially the individual runners. It was better for the material I had out than any vacation period for many years. The fine weather permitted plenty of hard work, so that something could be accomplished.” Flanagan in Good Trim Proe Flanagan, holder of the Pa cific coast record in the broad jump, will take his first workout today in preparation for the Stan ford meet on April 10. He is in good condition now and only needs to get back his old form in the event. The return of Flanagan to the varsity ranks will materially strengthen the team. Last Saturday, at the end of the vacation training for the 22 athletes who stayed over, four races were run off with the pace boosted sky high but with the distances short ened. The two-milers ran for a mile and a half at a pace of 9:40 for the full distance; the milers for three laps at a 4:30 pace; the half-milers for 660 yards at a 2:00 pace, and the quarter-milers for 330 yards at a 51 second pace for the double fur long. High Mark Beached The sprinters and the hurdlers took their workout over the regular distances. But the good part of the pacing was that every man made the high mark set for him by Hay ward. The question is, can they keep that terrific pace in the events for the entire distance. By sending them over the pace at a shorter dis tance the mentor expects ' to work the runners up gradually to the point where they can keep it up for the full route. In the two-mile, Tom Holder, who is hitting his stride this year, ran the mile-and-a-half two seconds under the specified race and could probably have finished the other two laps for a good 9:50 for the event. Ed Neidermeier, his team mate, was barely 2 seconds under the grueling pace. Milers in Close Bace The milers, led by Fern Kelley, the outstanding man in the event, with Keuben Ross close behind him, paced over the three laps for a 4:30 mile pace in good form. Bob Overstreet led the half-mil ers for 660 yards with the fast 1:56 half-mile pace. He lost out on a turn and finished a second under (Continued on page four) Freshman Debaters Meet Linfield Squad Thursday Afternoon Freshman debaters will meet the Linfield college freshman squad Thursday afternoon, April 1. The first year negative team, composed of Melvin Johnson and Boy Hern don, will remain on the campus, meeting the Linfield affirmative in Villard hall at 3:30 o’clock. John Galey and George Mahoney, affirm at^’es, will represent the University at McMinnville. The subject chosen for discussion is, “Resolved: That the policy of federal subsidies accompanied by federal supervision be discontin ued.” The no-decision, cross-question style of debate, evolved by J. Stan ley Gray, University forensic coach, which was inaugurated in the var ,sity debate with Utah recently, has been adopted by the freshman in the Linfield debate. I -f Gilbert as Student Taught Instructor J>rof. W. L. Whittlesey, grad ate of the University of Ore gon in 1901, economics instructor in 1901-02 and now professor of political science at Princeton university, writes to the Oregon ian to correct an error made in the columns of that paper and gives some facts about Dr. James H. Gilbert, acting dean of the college, that ane interesting. The statement in the Oregon ian said that Prof. Whittlesey “was one .of the first instructors in economics under Dea l Gilbert in 1902.” Mr. Whittlesey says .n correc tion, “Let’s straighten that out. James Henry Gilbert, U. O., 1903, now dean, is one of the best students I ever had, and looking at my rather dusty and worn University of Oregon class re cord, one finds him listed in the ‘sophomore class in the princi ples of economics’ from Septem ber 27, 1901 to_ June 13, 1902. Our future dean’s record is pos itively monotonous, his marks ranging from 95 to 99 (on a scale of 100), final result A. “If James Henry Gilbert had not Been tardy on November 13 and November 27, 1901, his record would be inhuman. He was never absent, never unpre pared and taught me a- lot, but I was giving the course.” _i_ Song Contest Weeks Plaiined For Ea F. West, Chairman, Calls The aim of the University Song Week, which is to be held from April 3 to 10, followed by the con test week, April 10 to 17, between organizations, is do popularize Ore gon songs and to acquaint new stu dents with them, says Fred West, chairman. Song week is expected to become an annual affair. Many changes have been made in Oregon songs and several new ones added to the list. The Oregon Pledge song will become the Alma Mater hymn, according to changes recom mended by the Traditions commit tee. During the first week, Oregon songs will be sung within the houses and halls under the direction of the song leaders for each organization. A musical assembly will be held April 8, with the Glee Clubs and other special features on the pro gram. During the second week commit tees will visit each organization to judge the group singing. The win ning group will be given an award, the nature of which has not been announced, Mr. West states. A meeting of all organization song leaders, or a representative appointed by the house president, will be held tonight in Yillard hall at 7 o’clock, and it is necessary that each group be represented. The song week committe is made up of: Fred West, chairman; Mary Benson, Audrey Harer-Lane, Wal ter Cleaver, Allen Smith, Frances Hare and Beatrice Peters. Meeting for LeJ Tonight at 7 Me :rs Results Expected Later From Collection Drive The Student Union pledge collec tion drive, held during the holidays, while not successful in collecting a large amount of money at this time, served as a reminder to those who i have pledged. Many new addresses . were recorded, and returns from those visited are expected later on. Those in charge of the drive ask that all reports be made as soon as possible. Philosophy Students Invited to Lectures Profespor Stephenson Smith, of the English department, beginning this morning at 8 o’clock in room 202, Villard hall, will give a series I of lectures on Abelard, Aquinas and Roger Bacon, in his class in the i literature of the medieval world. The lecture will be open to all phil osophy students interested in the | scholastics. Junior Stunt Plans Veiled In Mystery Many Surprise Features Already Worked Out By Directorate Vaudville Program to Contain Unusual Acts Evening to be Replete With Entertainment SECRETS galore characterize the k“' present plans for Junior Vodvil, in fact there are so many soc rets that it is difficult to know just what should be told. • However, there are surprise features which are being planned and worked out by the various members of the di recorate that will make good their boast that this year’s event will be bigger and better than ever. At least it will be so if the adding of new features and the improvement of the usual events will have any influence. Schedule Advanced As matters now rest the director ate is a month ahead of schedule in th,e work it has to accomplish for the Yodvil. This dojes not mean, though, that everyone can ease up and get a case of spring fever, since the directorate expects 'the organizations that /will (take part in the activities to show as much pep and cooperation as ever in putting everything over. The Junior Vodvil always is con sidered a good entertainment and more is expected of it this year than usual. Not as many’acts turned out as were expected, and there is still a little time for aspirants to try out. Those acts which have turned out and which were accepted by tho committee are suggestive of an un usual program. 10 Acts Selected This year there will be about 10 acts in the Vodvil and these will be short, making the length of time taken up by the whole show approx imately two and a half hours. The early ticket sale idea has been dis carded and this year reserved seats only will be on sale two weeks in advance. The committee has also decided upon a limitation of tickets per person in line so that they will know just how many tickets are being sold and how they are being distributed. They will be on sale at fifty and seventy-five cents. Oregon-California Radio Debate Dated The university of Oregon and University of Southern California radio debate will be broadcasted April I? beginning at 8:30 o’clock, over KGW station, the question be ing “Resolved that war, except in cases of insurrection or invasion, should be declared by direct vote of the people of the United States.” The listening audience, in this de bate, will act as judges, sending bal lots to the KGW broadcasting sta tion, Portland, Oregon. These must be received at the station within five days, after which the results will be published in the Portland Oregonian. The Oregon debaters are Donald Beelar and James Johnson. The names of the California debaters have not been received here, says J. Stanley Gray, debate coach. Frank Reinhart And Mary West Married The marriage of Mary West, ’27, to Frank Reinhart, ’27, took place Thursday afternoon at four o’clock at the St. Paul’s Episcopal Chapel in Salem. Miss Dorothy Carter, a 'student of the University, was maid of honor anil Roland Reinhart, bro ther of the bridegroom was best man. Only the immediate friends and relatives were present. After the ceremony the couple j came to Eugene where they will make their home. Mrs. Reinhart is a member of Al pha Omicron Pi. She was in the Glee Club and on the Emerald stuff last year. Mr. Reinhart is manager of baseball. He is a member of Sig ma Chi and Alpha Kappa Psi. Mr. and Mrs. Reinhart arc at j home in the Colonial apartments. Bids for Pavilion To be Opened Today a meeting of the finance committe of the University this morning at 10 o’clock, bids for the financing of the new basketball pavilion will be opened and recorded. Two proposals were submitted two weeks ago to various inter ested bond houses and banks on the coast, and if the bids are found favorable, construction will start on the pavilion not later than May 1. After the opening of the bids, a joint meeting of the finance committee, student building com mittee and the board of regents will be held at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. At this meeting the final building construction plans for the pavilion and the plans for financing the building will be submited. Action on the plans is expected to be taken today. Bids for the bonds will be •opened before L. II. Johnson, comjptroller of the Univorfeit^y, Karl Ontliank, executive secre tary of the University, and Ted Larson, chairman of the student building comihittee. Whiting Williams Expert on Labor Here This Week Social Service Worker And Author to Speak at Next Assembly Whiting Williams, social service worker, lecturer on labor problems and editor of articles and books dealing with the psychology of the labor problem, will address the first assembly of the term Thursday at 11 o’clock in the auditorium of the Woman’s building. Special music will be provided by John Stark Evans, assistant dean of the school of music. 'Mr. Whiting, who is known throughout the country as a special ist on labor, teaches short courses on the psychology of the labor prob lem in Harvard and Dartmouth, and is adviser to employers of several hundred thousaW workers. Ho is a graduate of both the Harvard and Dartmouth graduate school of busi ness administration. His best known book is “What’s on the Worker’s Mind.” To gain an insight into the life ■of the worker and what is upper most in his mind, Mr. Williams in 1919 left his position ns vice-presi dent of a steel company and became a journeyman laborer. He drifted around coal mines, steel plants, and round-houses in America for seven months, after which he went to Ger many ns a comlinon laborer. He spent time in France, Italy, and in the Ruhr basin working as a miner with the Germans. In Italy he met and talked with the fascisti. Orchestra And Glee Clubs End Successful North Concert Tour After a successful northern tour, the men ’s and women's glee clubs and the University orchestra, un der the leadership of John Stark Evans, director of the glee clubs, and Bex Underwood, orchestra di rector, returned to the campus. After combined concerts at Sa lem and Portland, March 23 and 24, the girl’s glee club disbanded and the men went on to Hood Biver, The Dalles and Bend. Eugene Garl and Boy Bryson wrere soloists. The orchestra went from Port land to Longview, Astoria, and to St. Helens. Due to the efforts of alu-mni and students of the Univer sity, said Mr. Underwood, excellent support was given in Astoria. The most popular features of the two combined performances given at the Heilig theatre in Salem and at the Civic Auditorium at Port land were “The Highwayman” by Andrews, sung by the glee clubs; “Londonderry Air,” violin solo by Delbert Moore, adapted by Bex Un ment of four violins, viola and piano; and the finale march and chorus, “Hail Bright Abode,” by Wagner, featured by both glee clubs and orchestra. Send Emerald Home, Aim of Spring Drive Student Workers Named For Contest Which Ends Saturday Prizes Offered for Twelve New Orders Off - Campus List Second On Pacific Coast rJ'HE spring term drive to “send: the Emerald home,” begins to day and will last until Saturday night. Members of living organi zations have been chosen by James Manning, circulation (manage*, to solicit the students. The drive last term was successful. About 150 sub scriptions were taken and practic ally all old subscriptions were re newed. This made a total of almost. 400 subscriptions for the fall and winter term drives. Much interest in the drives has been shown by parents and friends, both personally and by letter. The coming term is one of interest tot parents as well as students and Uni versity activities are best described in the columns of the Emerald. Circulation Iiarge The present circulation of the Emerald is more than 4000 copies, with a mailing list of about 1200. The Daily Californian is probably tho only college paper on the coast that has a larger subscription list This due to the fact that Califor nia has almost three times the num ber of students that Oregon has. Soventy-five cents is the sub scription rate for this term. Any one .not living in an organination, should subscribe at the Emerald, office. Copies of the Emerald for tho period of the drive will ber saved so that no out-of-town sub scriber will miss a copy. A prize of a year’s subscription to the Emerald will be awarded to oach committee worker who se cures 12 new subscriptions. Last term prizes were given to six com mittee members. Ifames Listed The organization representative* appointed for this term’s drive com mittees are: Clara Ellis, Alpha Chi Omega; Mildred Bateinan, Alpha Delta Pi; Barbara Blythe, Alpha Phi; Marian Barnes, Alpha Omicron Pi; Viviam Harper, Alpha Xi Delta; Helena Oates, Chi Omega; Harriet Wied nlan, Delta Delta Delta; Mariam Phy, Delta Gamma; Elizabeth Hay ter, Alpha Gamma Delta; Eleanor Doughty, Delta Zeta; Mary Louisa Dutton, Gamma Phi Beta; Frances Plimpton, Mable Fransen, Hendricks hall; Constance Roth, Kappa Alpha Theta; Beatrice Peters, Kappa Kap pa Omicron; Geneva Drum, Girl’s Oregon Club; Frances Hare, Pi Beta Phi; Feme Hays, Sigma Beta Phi; Frances Cherry, Annette Heckman, Ruth Newton, Susan Campbell hall; Marion W.agini, Tau Nu; Vena Gas kill, Thacher Cottage. Men Appointed Wilfred Long, Alpha Beta Chi; Hugh Biggs, Alpha Tau Omega; Herbert Lewis, Beta Theta Pi; ffi Slocum, Chi Psi; Dick Gordon, Delta Tau Delta; Kirk Bolliger, Friendly hall; Calvin Horn, Kappa Delta Phi; Bob Warner, Kappa Sig ma; Harvey Woods, Lambda Psi; Ward Beeney, Phi Delta Theta; Ed ward Crowley, Phi Gamma Delta; Francis McKenna, Phi Kappa Psi; Bob Nelson, Theta Chi; David Nel son, Psi Kappa; Bill Prendergaat, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Dick Jones, Sigma Chi; Howard Osvold, Sigma Nu; Glenn Potts, Sigma Pi Tau. Ninety-Eight Students Placed on Honor Roll Ninety-seven of the ninety-eight students who made the unofficial, honor roll for the winter quarter are registered from the state of Oregon. This number, of which 51 are vvomer and 45 men, is an in crease of two over the fall quarter of this year. Of this total of 98, twenty-fivo are registered from Portland, ac cording to information compiled at the school of journalism. Thirty two students who were on the honor roll last term again were listed for high point honors in eeiholara^ig) this term.