Obak’s Koliege Krier
OBAK WALLACE—Editor
Volurnn V
B. E, C. office dumbly
Number 7
Cross-Country
Race Handicaps
Turkey Winners
Monopoly of Prize Birds
To Be Prevented; Even
Chance for All
Still gorged from their five-turkey
debauch resulting from taking all
four places in the donut cross-coun
try races last Saturday, the Terrible
Turks will have another chance to
clean up on the prize birds.
It won’t be so easy today, how
ever, because the race will be run
as a handicap and the best men will
start last to give the slow brothers
a more even chance.
Four fat turkeys, 14-pounders, will
go on the chopping block after the
run. To the first four men finishing
will belong the spoils, and with the
new method in use, a big turnout is
expected.
Clarence Hill, John Kiedemeyer,
Ed Jensen and Fern Kelly, who fin
ished in the order named last Sat
urday, will probably try to corral
another flock of the winged creat
ures. Bill Winter, fifth place win
ner, and Courtney Kelson, sixth,
will have a good chance to figure in
the running, or rather the finishing.
If so, Sigma Chi and Friendly hall
may dine accordingly.
The time is 10:30, and the list
of judges at the finish will be 'an
nounced later. By the time the sport
enthusiasts have taken in the turkey
races in the morning, the Frosh
Rook game and the gridgraph this
afternoon, they will be ready to
quit and devote their time to parlor
athletics in the form of the Sopho
more Informal'tonight.
Officials of the run are: superin
tendent of course, Don Parks; phys
ician, Dr. Romig; timers, Frank
Reinhart, R. Belshaw, Sylvester
Wingard; starter, Del Oberteuffer;
scorer, Peek; judges, G. Craig, Fran
cis Cleaver; Cliff Kuhn and Glenn
Howard. Physical education majors
will be judges of the turns.
Plays
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ing elaborately but inaccurately
through their lorgnettes at some
thing or other out front. Lois Tut
tle as Mrs. Lysander, the local ar
biter elegantiarum of the play and as
such got to prate the most, displayed
a creditable understanding of her
role. Her offensiveness was convinc
ing. Sarah Bennethum as Mrs. Har
rison, and Renee Grayce Nelson as
Mrs. Murphy played the disciples of
the local arbiter elegantiarum. And
the countess—we liked the besieged,
Iowa-born-and-bred countess, acted
by Grace Gardner. She had verve,
and it’s our opinion that nothing
adds more fillip than a good impost
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or with a charlatan accent. Miss
Gardner stirred some starch into
a not very forceful play. In box
three sat the Publicans, defending
themselves from mediocrity and the
snobbery of the Pharisees in box
two. Frances Wardner played Mrs.
Kennedy; Katie Buchanan, Mrs.
Casper; Elizabeth White, Mrs.
Gardiner; and Gwendolyne Foss,
Mrs. Vail (Hurray for Mrs. Vail!).
They all plied their rather savour- j
less speeches efficiently. Friday!
Deininger and Althea Dwyer seemed j
to have little more to do than serve
to explain to the audience that the
matinee-goers were silly women.,
And we knew that already.
The second play, “Sabotage,” by |
Helam W. Walcros and Pol d’Estoc,'
had inherent discrepancies. We won- j
dered why Peter Jones, an electric-:
ian, should be living with Angie, his
wife, and little Jim Jones, his son, ’
in Paris. (The name Jones some
how just doesn't have about it the
odour of Paris. We’re qualified to
express an opinion on that.) And
we couldn’t be induced to believe
that the vernacular used by the
characters ever had its parentage
in France. In such cases it’s al
ways a comfort to be able to blame
it on the translator of the piay.
“Sabotage” had all the grand guig
nol propensities, was of that little
type of French horror play in which
operations, knife-sharpening, and
what not, take place on the stage.
Perry Douglas as Peter Jones was
the electrician, who dealt out to
himself an unwitting irony when he
made a, playful use of his electrical
talents and in the process became
the murderer of his little garcon.
Cecil Mattson took the part of the
gruff Dr. Marks who was called in
to attend the sick child. He treated
the role with possibly more energy
than subtlety. But we regarded his
handling of the surgical scene as
the best bit of acting in the play.
The distressed and tremulous wife,
Angie, was portrayed* by Althea
Dwyer. The play would have gath
ered more force had the stress been
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laid more on the horror of the sit
uation and less on the sentimental
ity of it.
We objected to “Sabotage” as a
play in itself, and wish to speak for
the gibbetting of all plays dotted
with such cliches as—“a little home
all our own,” “Breathe at any
price,” and “Don’t you see I’m go
ing crazy?” A pox on translations!
The third play, Alice Brown’s
“Joint Owners in Spain,” won our
own hearty approval from the first
word spoken. The play has piquant
lines, and the acting of them was
enhanced by a gracious understand
ing of their piquancy by the actors.
Edna Assenheimer and Katie Buch
anan gave some inimitable little airs
to the characterizations of Mrs.
Dyer and Mrs. Blair, two assiduous
old eomplainers in an Old -Ladies’
Home. We were overcome with the
facility of virago diatribes thrown
out at us from the stage by Katie
Buchanan; and never did we doubt
that she might not be Mrs. Blair
but only Katie Buchanan dressed up
in a ridiculous and lovable black
stringed hood. We were charmed by
the droll, unending jeremiads of
Mrs. Dyer and her “I-ain’t-a-well
woman” tremolos. Edna Assenheim
er should receive particular cheers
for her discernment regarding the
quaint toes-turned-oift postures itnd
laplessness of sedentary old ladies.
Altogether we feel that Mrs. Assen
heimer and Miss Buchanan were
right as trivets in that appealing
small play. May their shadows
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were allowed to see of Ruth Peatey
as Mrs. Fuller, another of the in
mates. The slight role of Mrs.
Mitchell, director of ihe Old Ladies’
Home, was piayea decorously by
Grace Gardner.
In ending we would compliment ^
Miss Wilbur, director of the plays,
for her discrimination, not only in
the coaching of the Guild players,
but also in the lighting and settings j
which seem- to us to be no minor con- i
sideration in the persuasive presen-1
tation of amateur plays.
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Coming attractions—Starting a
three-day run on November 15,
“Laddie,” Gene Stratton-Porter’s
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A study lias been made of late
in the school of Obak—why hobos
leave home. One thesis for pastor’s
degree has already been written on
this subject. After reading this ov
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that hobos are, this year, following
the swallow (without handouts) to
the south. Springfield, probably.
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Ignorance
Some foolish and ignorant per
sonage made the statement that
’ignorance is bliss’. A pious idea
but isn’t it better when you know'
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Trained Men
The U. of O. team left on Armis
tice day for a big game with some
farmer lads way up north. ’Twas
said that they went in Pullman to
Pullman—Can one believe that.
Obak hardly thinks it logical but
one can never tell and make final
judgment—wait until their return.
Wise Smacks
Obak has been pondering upon a
question which has brought much
thought and with no result-—why
when a person or an imbecile makes
an effort to wax clever and give a
pun the one to his right without
fail, gives him a swattage in the
arm. These swackages are more
than even the best of pugilists could
stand.
Men
What a subject to relate upon—
A prof, was heard to say—not in
Obak’s school—that for psycologv
experimentation he would like some
people as victims. He was quoted as
saying that he wished sophomores
and men. Why not put the second
graders in this catagory?
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Styles
The men’s horrorary journalism
tong got some new members—they
appeared on the campus of the col
lege on the hill—clad in soup and
fishes which by afternoon looked
well worn. One man was seen with
frock coat and golf trousers—a
word to the wise is sufficient. The
Obak college will take up this far
cry.