VOLUME XXVIII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1926
NTTMRER. J.T
Publicity Secret
Of Success
Thinks Mangum
Deserving Players Often
Left Out; Aggie’s Grid
Success May Be Ex
plained in Story
By HABOLD W. MANGUM,
Sports Editor
The open season for selecting all
star teams is again at hand. Every
state, county, township, and hamlet
has candidates tor
the honor. It is
an obvious fact
that a real all
star team, con
taining the really <
best men is impos
sible. When Rock
ne, Jones, and
Warner gather for
their annual con- I
flab their choice I
is always section-1
al, designed so as
t o satisfy tie vie wetzei
greatest number of readers of the
syndicate they are working for.
A few men from the outstanding
elevens in the East, West, and South
is the ideal arrangement. Publicity
can do more toward getting a man
the honor than playing ability.
That’s not a mere fancy; it’s a fact.
Gene Cook, Washington guard, was
picked by an Eastern writer recent
ly on the second all-American elev
en. Mr. Cook is a pretty accurate
place-kicker, and that is about all.
Anyone who has seen many Pacific
eoast conference teams in action
will snort when he sees Cook rated
so high. How about Brice Taylor
and Fred Swan! How about Fred
Kramer and Bert Kerns? How about
Niswander and Gorrell? Cook prob
ably will not rate even the third all
coast eleven.
The reason? Publicity. Every
time Cook makes a point after
touchdown or kicks a field goal, his
name is mentioned. Hence the dis
tinction.
• • *
Another fallacy of the all-star
team is that many deserving men
playing on small teams are over-j
looked. This reaches the point of j
unfairness. We can name a dozen |
men on small elevens who would un- j
doubtedly twinkle on the best-ad- j
vertised combinations. There is,
Emerson, the Pacific University j
quarterback—a shifty flurry of arms .
and legs who could star anywhere;
Josh Lowell, the brilliant College of j
Idaho back, whom sports critics ad- ■
mit would be an all-American pos-1
sibility with a big league team; !
Meister, the sensational Whitman |
quarterback; Mel Ingram and Wfcl- j
terckirchen of Gonzaga; Casanova,
of Santa Clara, and many others.
Don Heisinger of Gonzaga was' a
better- high school tackle at Wash
ington high of Portland than many
others who are playing regularly
now on conference college elevens,
yet who has heard of Heisinger
since he matriculated at the Spo
kane institution?
Or to get closer to home, there’s j
Vie Wetzel, Oregon’s dependable
halfback, who is being given barely
a tumble by all-star collectors. Wet
zel is not a great ball advancer, but
is one of the best interference run
ners on the coast, and has no peer as
a defensive star. No one gets credit
for tackling, and the-ordinary spec
tator is so busy watching the ball
earlier that the humble interfer
ence runner is as unnoticed as a
new coat of paint on the senior
bench.
Bert Kerns is another Oregonian
who doesn’t have to take his hel
(Continued on page two)
Play Opens
Tomorrow at
Guild Theatre
“Contrast,” 5-act Comedy
Of New England Life,
To be Presented
Production Will Show
For Three Day Period
I Boxes to Be New Feature;
Begins at 8:30
' I 'HE shrewd, yet uncultivated
type of New England farmer
of the period just after the Rev
olutionary War known as the “Stage
Yankee” will be introduced in the
character of Jonathan in the five
act comedy, “Contrast,” to be pre
sented at Guild theater Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday evenings at
8:30.
“Contrast,” by Royall Tyler, has
the distinction of being the first
American comedy written by an
American author. It was presented
I April 16, 1787, at the old John Street
: theater in New York. After its
| early success in the colonies, the
' play was stored in the files of his
torical manuscripts and recently re
vived when Cornell university gave
it as their opening production last
'fall. For the first time a bit of the
theater atmosphere of two centuries
ago will be brought before an aud
ience of the northwest.
Differences Is Theme
The central theme of the play is
the contrast between native worth
find the affectation of foreign man
ners. Mr. Dimple portrays the part
one who, after a trip to England,
attempts to display his knowledge
of the world to his associates. Col
onel Manly represents the typical
patriot of the period so involved in
his country’s welfare as to ‘forget
his social obligations. He offers a
striking contrast to his sister, Char
lotte, and Letitia, her chum, who
consider their social functions over
everything else.
me cast oi cuaraciers luwuuo.
Colonel Manly, Laurence Shaw;
Dimple, Cecil Matson; Van Bough,
Arthur Anderson? Jessamy, Howard
Van Nice; Jonathan, Ernest Mc
Kinney; Charlotte, Etha Jeanne
Clark; Maria, Constance Roth; Let
itia, Kittye Sartain; Jenny, Mary
Campbell; Betty, Diana Deininger;
Charles, a servant, Perry Douglas;
and George, butler to Charlotte, El
mer Grimm.
Ticket Office Open
Two boxes in Guild theater are to
be filled by persons dressed in cos
tumes of the colonial period. Wed
nesday evening they wilt be occupied
by members of the faculty; Thurs
day evening by representatives of
the Eugene order of Daughters of
the American Revolution; and Fri
day evening bv a selected group of
students.
Tickets will be on sale at the box
office in Johnson hall from 1:00 to
5:00 p. m. today and Wednesday,
according to Harold Whitlock, busi
ness manager.
University Trio Sings
At Heilig This Week
Clare Whitton, Harriett Ross, and
Leota Biggs, members of women’s
glee club, are to sing at the Heilig
theater for the Mu Phi Epsilon
musical fraternity of which they
are members, during the showing of
“Bardelys the Magnificent,” which
is to be given Wednesday, Friday
and Saturday of this week. They
will appear three times daily, at
3:00, 7:30, and 9:30 o’clock.
Attempt Made to Topple Champion
Scribes by Inter-Departmental Ruling
Long Siring of Athletic Triumphs of the “Shack”
Crew in Jeopardy Following Meeting
Roused to a fighting pitch by un
derhanded attempts to hogtie their
athletic teams and place them in
abject helplessness before their riv
als, the valiant Scribes of the sehool
of journalism have thundered a
challenge to the rest of the Univer
sity. They are determined to repeat
their last year’s performances and
cop the championship in the inter
department athletic series even if
they have to compete with one hand
tied behind their backs.
Unscrupulous representatives of
the Geology, Physical education, and
Business Administration depart
ments, and the Law school, say the
Scribes, met with vile intent yes
terday afternoon in a dark corner
in the men’s gymnasium, a build
ing of many dark corkers, and con
spired to prevent the Scribes from
leading the series by fair means or
foal.
When it became known that the
rules of the contest include a pro
vision that team members must be
a major in the department repre
sented, Harold Mangum, manager of
the Scribes’ teams, gnashed his
teeth with fury. Varsity lettermen
and freshman numeral winners and
every major in the departments en
tered below Ike rank of instructor
are eligible to compete. Entries
must be filed with Del Oberteuffer,
chairman of the contest, before
drawings for games.
Basketball and handball contests
start the first week after the open
ing of the winter term. Baseball
| and tennis are scheduled for the
spring term, with the possibility of
| the addition of other sports.
Portraiture Students
Cry ‘We Want Drapes’
A PLEA for discarded drapes!
-**-No, this is not a long drawn
out wail of Dame Fashion, it is
the pitiful cry from the portrai
ture class. • Again you are mis
taken, it is not a plea for drapes
for models but for backgrounds.
Those drapes which the depart
ment possesses have never been
numerous and as the years have
passed they have become fewer.
and sadly bedragled. And now
cruel fate looks on with a grin
as the students do their best to
create a masterpiece of portrai
ture while they must look for
inspiration in the form of a
crude, uninteresting burlap screen
now' and then covered with
drapes which long ago lost their
ability to enhance through re
peated use. The young Sargeants
are now voicing a plea to the
entire campus for discarded
drapes; drapes of any size, shape
or color. Here is a chance for all
good students to come to the aid
of their fellow men. Send along
those drapes which you thought
too hopeless to last another year
. or those drapps put up on the
shelf because they did not har
. monize with the rest of the
room. Help them to be bigger
and better portrait painters and
the contribution will be truly
and gratefully appreciated.
Old Oregon Has
Many Features
In Latest Issue
Semi-Centennial and News
Of Graduates Contained
In Magazine
The long heralded and much-wait
ed-for November issue of Old Ore
gon came off the press Friday and
Saturday. Mailing started Saturday
and will be completed today.
This issue of Old Oregon, Univer
sity alumni publication, is predomin
ately a homecoming issue.* It con
tains stories of the se»i-centennial
and homecoming, held last month on
the campus, together with a number
of pictures illustrating events of
interest during that week.
“The Semi-Centennial Passes Into
History,” is the title of an article
by Raymond D. Lawrence, ’22, who
describes the centennial celebration
and includes excerpts from Presi
dent Arnold Bennett Hall’s inaug
ural address; Dr. Clarence Cook
Little’s installation address; and
from papers read at the history,
science and music symposia.
F. H. Young, ’14, president of the
Alumni association, contributes an
article on “What is Ahead for the
Alumni?” He is anxious for Ore
gon alumni throughout the state to
form district organizations and in
this way make it possible for the
alumni to cooperate more thorough
ly with Dr. Hall’s plans for the
University.
The complete Commemorative Ode
written for the semi-centennial by
Mrs. Mary Lowell Rebec is printed
in this issue of Old Oregon.
• There are other interesting feat
ures including a poem, “The Home
coming of 1876-1926,” by Joel N.
Pearcv, a graduate of the class of
1879. '
News of the classes is larger than
ever this month. Items of interest
from all graduates that were back
for Homecoming have been printed
for those who were unable to attend
this year.
Margaret Morrison,
Former Student, Dead
Margaret Louise Morrison, former
student of the University of Oregon
of the class of ’24, passed away at
her home at Hood River, November
25, after a prolonged illness.
Miss Morrison, who came here
from Bellingham Normal School as
a junior, majored in the school of
journalism. During her senior year
she was associate editor of the Em
erald under Don Woodward, a mem
ber of the news staff of Old Ore
gon, and a reporter on the Eugene
Guard part of the time. She was
also president of Theta Sigma Phi,
national honorary journalism frat
ernity for women.
After leaving here she wfcnt to
the University of Southern Califor
nia for a time, later taking a posi
; tion as secretary to the advertising
i manager of a large department store
| in Los Angeles.
Miss Morrison was a member of
[ Oamma Phi Beta sorority.
“Russian Human Orchestra” To Appear Here Tonight
Twenty-three artists of Symphbnice Choic with Director Basile Kibalchich.
International Tea
Will be Given at
Y. W. Bungalow
Fellowship Committee in
Charge of Affair
Wednesday
The World Fellowship committee
of the Y. W. C. A. will hold an In- j
ternational Tea in the YjJ W. bun
galow between 3:00 and 6:00 Wed
nesday afternoon.
Every effort is being made to in
ject a real foreign tang to the af
fair. Linens, embroideries, and
other goods which have been made
by students in the University of
Darpat in Esthonia will be on dis
play. These things are made by the
students as a means of helping
themselves through college. The
goods will not be on sale Wednes
day, but will be placed on sale
soon, it is announced.
The World Fellowship committee
is working to attain a better under
standing between American and
foreign students, especially in the
Pan-Pacific region because of the
coming student conference at Pekin
next summer. Christina Holt is
chairman of the committee which is
com'posed of eleven girls;
Faculty members, students and
Eugene women are invited to the
tea. The committee and the Y. W. !
C. A. cabinet will act as hostesses.
A group of sophomore girls under
the direction of Frances Dodds,
social chairman, will serve.
Journalism Students'
Announce Betrothal,
Announcement of the engagement
of Miss Jane Dudley to Malcolm
Epley was made at dinner at the
Alpha Omicron Pi house last even
ing.
A journalistic version of the bal
cony scene of Romeo and Juliet, cul
minating in the announcement of
the news, was enacted. Decorations
were carried out in red, Alpha Omi.
cron Pi colors, and black and white, |
Sigma Delta Chi colors.
Miss Dudley and Mr. Epley arei
both juniors in the school of jour- |
nalism. Miss Dudley is on the upper j
news staff of the Oregon Daily Em- j
erald and is a member of Theta ,
Sigma Phi, national women’s honor- i
ary journalistic fraternity, and Al- j
pha Omicron Pi. She is from Oak- j
land, California.
Mr. Epley is a member of Sigma
Delta Chi, honorary journalistic1
fraternity. His home is in River
side, California.
George Hopkins to Give
Piano Hour on Monday
An hour of informal piano music ;
is to be presented next Monday
evening, Dec. G, at 8:15 in the music j
auditorium, by George Hopkins, a
member of the school of music fac- j
ulty. Mr. Hopkins, who is a well
known member of the staff, will
have his program open to the public.
Concert Series Opens
With Quartet Program
On Wednesday Night
The Underwood String Quartet
accompanied by Jane Thacher, pian
ist, will give the first of a series of
concerts, sponsored by Mu Phi Ep
silon, musical fraternity, Wednesday
evening at 8:30 *n the school of
music auditorium.
The members of the quartet are
Rex Underwood, first viqlin, Delbert
Moore, second violin, Buford Roach,
viola, and Miss Miriam Little, vio
lincello.
Miss Miriam Little, cellist, studied
under Hans Hesse of Chicago, a
member of the American Conserva
tory of Music. She later taught at
the University of Nebraska school
of music and was for a time a mem
ber of Steckelberg string quartet.
Rex Underyrood and Delbert
Moore are members of the school of
music faculty.
Buford Roach will play the lovely
old viola purchased by Mu Phi Ep
silon. It is the acquisition of this
viola which enables Mu Phi to pre
sent the chamber music programs
noted on the winter series and is
said to have a very beautiful tone.
This viola is of Italian make, man
ufactured by Julius Caesar Gigli in
1735 in Rome.
The program will be composed of:
Quintette by Cesar Franck—Al
legro, Lento, Allegro, by Jane Thach
er and the quartet.
Andante and Menuetto from the
Quartette in D Minor, by Mozart,
the string quartet.
Serenade by Haydn; Canzonettn
by Mendelssohn Interludium; Fin
ale (Russian Festival) from Quar
tette Op. 2(1 by Glazonnow.
F. S. Dunn Advocates
Labelling of Trees
Professor F. S. Dunn of the Latin
department is advocating a cam
paign to label the various class trees
on the Oregon campus. At one time j
the school of journalism fostered
such a campaign but did not carry
out the plan. Professor Dunn be
lieves the trees are historical and
traditiorfhl and that some effort ;
should be made to show the year of j
the class that planted them. Pro- \
fessor Dunn’s class of ’92 was the
last to follow the old custom.
Not long ago a loud storm of pro- |
test arose because a fir tree was cut
down near Deady. Professor Dunn
explained that the reason for this
was that the tree was rapidly dwarf-!
ing and killing a class tree and he
thinks they should all be protected. ;
Postmaster Expects
Heavy Christmas Mail
—
With the approach of the Christ-;
mas season this year, the University!
depot anticipates a larger rush than
ever before because of the increase
in the number of students.
Three thousand pieces of mail '
are handled every day by the depot,!
with the exception of Monday which j
is busier. So many packages, let-!
ters and papers are in the depot!
that the office force is unable to j
make an approximate estimation of
the mail handled on that day.
wo nthis event in the match with
Faculty to Gain
Place of Honor
• In “Webfoot”
Professors, One in Each
• Issue, to Be Feature
Of Magazine
At last! The profs are coming
into their own. The young, dash
ing seeret sorrow of the freshman
women, the “old darlings,” the good
fellows, the idylls, idols and “ide
als” of an adoring student body are
to be singled out by the “Webfoot"
spot-light and given their “dues.”
In each issue of “Webby” from
now on, there is to be a section de
voted to an instructor who has be
come a favorite of his pupils. It
will come under the heading, “The
I’rof of the Month,” and will in
elude a picture and write-up of the
honored member. Besides the -sat
isfaction the students who already
know the particular instructor, will
feel at seeing his picture, and the
P easure that the prof himself
ought receive from the recognition
ebby hopes to acquaint the
other part of the campus with the
faculty in this way.
Beans and heads of department*
will be “immune” from the selec
tion, only those who are professors
and ‘nothing else but” will be
eligible. There will be but one se
looted an issue, and will start witt
the Christmas number. “Webby’
suggests that those who have a par
ticular favorite hand in his name
as in that way decisions can bo iusi
and unprejudiced.
Hie first issue will appear in i
short time and plans are already
being made for those who wish t,
subscribe for the remaining issues o
the year. These arrangements
be announced within the next fey
days in the Emerald.
RussianChoir
Will Appear
Here Tonight
Twenty-three Artists
Will Sing; Students
Admitted Free
“Human Orchestra” Is
Praised by Critics
Volga Boatman’s Song
Feature on Program
TONIGHT the Russian Sym
phonic Choft, of which Baaile
Kibalchich is conductor, will sing
in the M. E. church auditorium at
8 o ’dock under auspices of the A.
S. U. O.
1 To those holding student body
tickets no admission will be charg
ed. Tickets must be brought to the
concert for they will be punched
at the door, managers announce.
A new artist or new musical or
ganization appearing in New York
seldom receives the unanimous ver
dict of the metroplitan press, but
when the verdict ’ is unanimously'
favorable, even enthusiastic, there
can be no doubt as to the musical
value of the artistic attraction.
Choir Thrills New York
When the Russian Symphonic
Choir made its unheralded New
York debut in two recitals, the re
ception was more than favorable.
Here is what a few of the New
York papers said:
New York Herald.—The per
formance deserved admiration for
its accuracy and perfect control,
each of the men and women of the
choir seeming as much under the
conductor’s direction as instrumen
tal players of a well drilled orches
tra.
New York Times.—To New York
it was a delight to hear the Volga
Boatman’s “El JTchnem” as it
has rarely been sung here.
New York Journal.—One of the
most thrilling experiences we have
had in the concert room this sea
son was the performance of a
“Credo’’ by Gretchaninoff, the
words intoned with a resonant in
tensity by a young mezzo of the
choir against a background by the
other singers.
The “Song of the Volga Boat
man,” and the “Credo,” are bath
included in this evenings program.
Thp complete program follows:
Sacred Songs
“Ancient Melody” .
.Arr. by Kibalchich
“Chant de Cheri\J>ins” (for six
voices) . Glinka
“Easter llymn” . Tschesnokoff
(Soprano solo by Mme. Ivanova)
“Pater Noster” Count Cheremetieff
“Credo” . Gretchaninoff
(Alto solo by Milo. E. Stetzenko)
“Prayers of St. Simeon” ...Strokin
(Basso solo by Mr. Grebenetzky)
“Lord, Have Mercy” .Lvovsky
Classical Music
“Andante Con Moto” (from Sym
phony No. 5.Beethoven
On the occasion of the centennial
of the composer’s death.
“Night” .Rubinstein
“Oh, Heart o’ Mine” (from opera
“Russalka”) .Dargemizhslty
(Messrs. Mamonoff and Shedko.
soloists)
Church scene from “Christmas
Kve” .Rimsky-Korsakoff
“Little Gypsy” .Zolotareff
“Plaisenterie” .Nikolaky
(Continued on page three)
Two Students From Russia Live
Farthest From University Campus
Vasily Kniaseff and Benjamin Civray Journey
12,000 Miles to Attend College Here
What student in the University
lives farthest from the Oregon cam-1
pus?
The race is over and the winner [
has been picked. It really should1
be winners, for Vasily Kniaseff, j
graduate student of chemistry, and
Benjamin Oivray, senior jn eco- j
nomica, both hail from Kazan, Rus
sia.
Kazan is on the Volga river, about
1000 miles southeast of Leningrad.
It is a city of about 250,000, and
is nearly 12,000 miles away from
Eugene, Oregon. It is the birthplace
of Feodor Chaliapin, the great basso.
There is an interesting legend
connected with a high tower of
Kozan which, according to Mr.
Kniaseff, looks like the famous
Eiffel tower of Paris. In the 17th
century when the Tartars occupied
Kazan, Ivan the Terrible beseiged
the city. The Tartar Czarina was
hidden in the tower, and when she
saw that the city was going to be
captured, she threw herself down
from the top, rather than be taken
by the enemy.
Mr. Kniaseff came to this country
among the 700 students sent over
from Russia between 1921 and 1925,
by the Russian t National Student
association.
“I did not speak any English
when I arrived here in August,
1921,” said Mr. Kniaseff. “ I took
two hours of English in high school
and also attended night school until
January when I entered the Univer
sity. Of course it was very hard.
I had to spend much time with a
dictionary. Now it takes me 15
minutes to translate, what used to
require three hours.”
Mr. Kniaseff and Mr. Oivray came
here from the University of Cali
fornia.