Choruses For
Junior Vod-Vil
Are Selected
Twenty Co-eds, Ten Men
Chosen for Parts in
^ Three Groups
First Rehearsal Set
For Monday, April 11
More Character Tryouts
This Afternoon
KITTYE SARTAIN, director of
chorus work for the coming
junior musical comedy, announced
yesterday that the final decisions
for all three choruses are complete,
.and that tryouts are over, as far as
dancing young ladies and young
men are concerned. “ ’Twas a
dreadful task, hut the surviving
lasses have survived every con
ceivable test, and have been picked
to represent the flower of Oregon’s
co-edry,” she said.
To save further suspense, they
^ are: Beauties — Virginia Bailey,
Margaret Bunn, Dorothy Carter,
Frances Hare, Myra Belle) Palmer,
Frances Morgan, Grace Gardner,
Florence Grimes, Mae Tobin, May
Fan Vurpillat, and Esther Maxwell;
Ponies — Josephine Price, Helen
Lutcher, Camille Burton, Charlotte
Carll, Louise Clark, Patricia Hatch,
Louise Storla, Emory Miller, and
Marjorie Jefferies; men’s chorus—
Tom Bunn, Bill James, George Jack
son, Frank German, John Tobin,
David Foster, Tim Wood Jr., Rob
ert A. Muir, Lowell Hoblitt, and
Elton Schroeder.
Success Thought Certain
Now, whatever may happen, the
junior musical comedy is sure to
be a success. The manuscript can
be written in Chinese, the char
acters can stammer their lines, and
/ the last scene can be staged first,
but still the show will be the “talk
o’ town,” for beauty, grace, and
personality are there. Some day
we’re going to go over the qual
ifications of those choruses, one by
one, and then there will be chatter
galore.
Some may reel tnat rair ones nave
been slighted in making the final
decisions, but tolerance must be
shown as the task was as hard as
climbing Spencer’s butte in a wheel
chair. The girls were picked for
all around ability and for adaptabil
ity to chorus work. Some charmers
were long on dancing, but not quite
so good on vocalization, and visa
versa. Some girls sang and danced
well, but lacked flexibility and
stage presence. In many cases, the
decisions were hairline, and not cer
tain until the last moment. Nine
ponies were picked where only eight
will be used because of the inabil
ity of the judges to agree on whom
^ to eliminate.
Beauties to Pose
The beauty chorus was not picked
primarily for dancing, but, adorned
in fine raiment, will be expected to
lend atmosphere to many of the
scenes. The ponies will do most of
the high kicking, and were chosen
mainly for their vivacity and danc
ing ability.
Initial rehearsals will /be held
Friday afternoon in the Campa
Shoppe, beginning at 5 o’clock.
Miss Sartain will outline the parts
at this time, and give some idea of
the motif which will be followed
throughout the production. The
first men’s rehearsal is billed for
8 o ’clock Monday evening, in the
Campa Shoppe. Further character
tryouts will be held this afternoon.
While on this subject, it might be
mentioned that the authors of the
manuscript, Robert Yoke Jr., and
Etha Jeanne Clark, want it under
stood that provisions have been
made for all characters, and that,
V if necessity demands, additional
parts can be created for those espe
cially gifted.
Prof. Howe Teaches
Poetry in Portland
For the first time in his 26 years
of connection with the University,
Prof. H. C. Howe, of the English
department, is offering a course in
the Portland center of the extension
division.
The class, which he has begun
this term, is the Study of Poetry,
and is being given at the sugges
tion of the Poetry Society of Port
land. Prof. Howe formerly gave oc
casional lectures there, but not
within the past twelve or fifteen
. years.
Grave Robbing
Mystery Found
By Journalist
Jones and Sox Caught in
Cemetery in Act Is
Charge
Are vau a scandal monger? Well,
here you are with the juiciest little
bit of scandal there has been for
many months. Although the Uni
versity authorities have endeavored
to keep this dark, the journalists
have at last found out—here’s the
dope:
It was just at twilight that Jackie
Jones and Ed Sox sallied forth in
an auto with items which would
come under the category of digging
paraphernalia. The boys were low
in funds and found it hard to buy
even a small coke for co-eds. With
the fact of having nothing but
keys to jingle in their pockets fac
ing them they bethought themselves
of digging up bodies in cemeteries
and selling them to medical stu
dents for experimentation.
Little did they realize they were
acting contrary to the strong arm of
the law. But while exhuming the
body of one Isaac Hartman, they
were carried aw^y by witnesses for
the state, and later arrested and
indicted by the Lane county grand
jury.
In spite of the frantic attempts
to keep this out of the papers, their
trial will take place Tuesday night,
April 12, at the Lane county court
house. G. F. Skipworth, judge of
the circuit court, will hear the case;
Hyman Samuels and Bob Mautz are
prosecuting the alleged villains.
Margaret Woodson and Ed Kelly
are defending them.
This is the first of the weekly
moot court trials which are held
each spring for practical experience
for seniors in the law school. The
evidence and cases are all planned
by the men taking the part of the
lawyers.
Co-eds to Take Part
In Show This Noon
For Fine Arts Fund
Sophisticated evening g o w n s ,
tailored street suits, gay sport out
fits, and dainty afternoon frocks
are to be featured at the fashion
show to be given this noon at the
Eugene hotel by a committee of
town alumnae for the benefit of
the Fine Arts building. The tickets,
which are $1, will be sold in the
lobby before the luncheon, or they
may be obtained from Mrs. Delbert
Oberteulfer, phone 1252R.
A very good luncheon will be
served, according to Mrs. Oberteuf
fer, and the balance of the proceeds
will be turned over to the Fine Arts
fund. Billy O’Brian will furnish
the music.
The eight campus girls who are
doing the modeling for the fashion
parade are Edith Bader, Doris Mel
drum, Janice McKinnon, Bose Rob
erts, Adalia Everts, Jo Ann Patter
son, Esther Setters, and Billie Mart
land. The Dcnsmore-Leonard Shop
is furnishing the gowns and coats
for the occasion, Graham’s store the
shoes, Letitia Abrams the hats, and
the Hastings Sisters are doing the
hairdressing.
“Strings on Us ” Say
Puppets at Heilig
“We kpow there are strings on
us but that’s what makes us work.”
This sounds ridiculous, but it isn’t
when you realize that it takes over
a thousand strings-to run the pup
pets in the show given next Mon
day at the Heilig theater, which is
sponsored by the Women’s League.
Each puppet in the show is man
ipulated by a series of strings, some
times as many as 40 strings are re
quired to make the movements of a
single puppet. The parts of the
marionettes are read by six people
who at the same time manipulate
the controls.
This may seem involved to the
average reader but if one comes to
the show April 11, he will be able
to see the stage presentation and
those who care to may go back
stage and learn of the intricacies of
puppet shows.
M. V. Alcid Leaves
For San Francisco
Manuel V. Alcid, who has just
completed all work for his Master’s
degree except the thesis, left last
Friday for San Francisco where he
will work until next fall. At that
time Alcid will leave for his home
in Vigan, Philippine Islands.
RainbowHues
Atmosphere
Dance Drama
Theater to be Decorated
In Riot of Colors
For Affair
Short Matinee Will
Be Given for Children
Parts Filled From All
Departments
TOMORROW night the McDon
ald theater will be transformed
into a rainbow of color, when the
Orchesis dancers, assisted by Mu
Phi Epsilon, present the Dance
Drama.
The brilliant-hued costumes have
been dyed and designed by the mem
bers of the cast, who also have ar
ranged the staging. The back-drop
used last year, designed by N. B.
Zane, assistant professor in the
school of architecture, will be used
again this year.
Irene Stewart, former University
student, has written the lines for
the different dances. Miss Stewart
has received recognition for |her
poetry from several nationally
known magazines.
Special Matinee for Children
There will be a special perform
ance at four o’clock in the after
noon for the school children of Eu
gene, who will be admitted by
coupons given out at the various
schools. The program will be much
shortened at this time—-only those
numbers being given which will
especially interest the children.
The cast of the Dance Drama is
made up of majors in almost every
department on the campus, said
Miss Lillian Stupp, dancing in
structor. Almost every woman’s
living organization is represented
in the affair.
Committees Placed In Charge
The committees in charge are:
music, Myrtle Jansson, Barbara Ed
munds, Wanda Eastwood, Vendela
Hill; staging, Kittye Sartain, Juan
ita Dietze; dance music, Elda Wil
son; program music, Adelaide John
son; properties, Dorothy Carter;
business manager, Grace Potter;
programs, Beatrice Mason; lighting,
Etha Jeanne Clark; costumes, Con
stance Both; rehearsals, Betty Lew
is; lines, Irene Stewart; publicity,
Mrs. A. E. Boberts; posters, Mrs.
V. H. McGinty’s art classes; gen
eral manager, Lillian Stupp.
Players in Affair Many
Those taking part are Edith Bad
er, Louise Buchanan, Margaret
Bunn, Cavita Campbell, Dorothy
Carter, Etha Jeanne Clark, Eunice
Daniels, Juanita Dietze, Grace Gard
ner, Florence Grebe, Frances Hare,
Una Inch, Nellie Johns, Nina Kitts,
Bernita Lamson, Lucille Larson,
Wanda Lesley, Betty Lewis, Bea
trice Mason, Buth Merrill, Hazel
Nobes, Catherine Osborne, Bosalie
Parker, Joan Patterson, Eleanor
Poorman, Grace Potter, Bose Bob
erts, Helen Bobson, Constance Both,
Kittye Sartain, Miriam Shepard,
Elisabeth Thacher, Pauline Thomp
son, Boberta Wilcox, Elda Wilson,
Julia Wilson, and Genera Zimmer.
The musical numbers will be giv
en by Daisy Belle Parker, Miriam
Little, Doris Helen Patterson, Mel
ba Williams, Nina Warnoek and the
girls’ quartette, composed of Clare
Whitten, Leota Biggs, Harriett
Boss, and Mary Clark.
Dr. Hall Will Appear
At Spokane Meeting
President Arnold Bennett Hall,
who is making a tour of the west
ern universities, will take a prom
inent part in the meeting of the
Inland Empire Education Associa
tion, which will be held in Spokane,
April 6, 7, and 8. President Hall
will appear twice on the general
session program. Friday morning,
April 8, he will address the general
assembly of the Association on
“Why We Don’t Behave Like Cit
izens,” and Friday afternoon his
subject will be the “Intellectual
Basis of Citizenship.”
The University of Oregon will
also be represented at the Associa
tion by Dean E. G. Bobbins, of the
school of business administration,
and Professor H. E. Douglass, of
the school of education. Dean Bob
bins is to participate in the discus
sion in the section of economics and
business administration, and Profes
sor Douglass will read a paper in
the educational research section on
“Standard T^sts and the School Ad
ministrator.”
Goddess of Colds
Visits Campus Life
^T'HE cold spell js over but the
cold spell is just beginning.
Wliat we mean is that when Old
Man Winter gathered up 'his
snow robe and his icicle mittens
and departed, the Goddess of
Colds replaced him. So potent
is her power that at her mere ap
proach students sneeze, and if
they are not feverish next day,
it is only because of good luck
or an especially large dose of
medicine from the infirmary.
The goddess is generous. Colds
are her gifts, and she scatters
them with a lavish hand. She
shows no discrimination against
law students or freshmen. There
is an old adage about the impos
sibility of giving something
away and keeping it at the same
time. This venerable old adage
is wrong, absolutely wrong. For
you can give away a cold and
yet keep it. If you don’t believe
it, ask the man who owns one.
Women Varsity
Debaters to Go
To Seattle Today
Affirmative Will Vie With
Idaho Team Here
Thursday
Frances Cherry and Margaret
Blackaby will leave today for Se
attle to debate University of Wash
ington representatives tomorrow
night. The Oregon girls will uphold
the negative of the question, which
is Resolved, That a federal depart
ment of education, with a secretary
in the president's cabinet, should
be established.
On the same night, here, at 8
o’clock, Pauline Winchell and Irene
Hartsell will take the affirmative
of the same question against debat
ers from the University of Idaho.
inis is tne second women's debate
of the year. Oregon, Idaho, and
Washington are the members of the
tri-state contest which, beginning
with this year, is to be held annual
ly for three years. According to
the agreement entered into by the
three colleges, the negative teams
will travel each year. The Oregon
system of cross-questioning will be
used; that is, twenty minutes is
given each team for constructive
speech, each argument followed by
ten minutes cross-questioning by the
other team, with a summary and
rebuttal speech of ten minutes, by
each side.
This is Frances Cherry’s third
year of debating and Margaret
Blackaby’s second year. Pauline
Winchell and Irene Hartsell, who
compete here Thursday night, are
debating this year for the first time
on the regular varsity team. They
were both on the freshman team last
year.
April Webby to Show
Influence of Spring
In Cover and Content
Junior week-end will receive a
good deal of mention in the next
issue of the Webfoot which will in
clude fancies that strike the young
men in the spring. Staff writers
and artists are busy making pre
parations for the first number this
term.
The deadline for contributions, as
was announced last week, will be
next Saturday, April 9. Students
have turned in a good deal of ma
terial for this issue already, but the
editors want more so that they may
have a more varied list from which
to choose.
Although it is not definitely
known now, it is rumored that the
cover of this issue will be in three
or possibly four colors.
A1 Clark, who has amused the
readers of the Webfoot with his
funny tales, will have another story
in the magazine this time. Mr.
Clark, who is really a musician by
profession, also wields a wicked pen
and has contributed to several mag
azines in southern California.
Benefit for Fine Arts
Held in Springfield
A motion picture entertainment
for the University Fine Art ibene
fit will be given this evening at
the Bell theater in Springfield.
John Gilbert in “Bardelys the Mag
nificent,” and feature dances by
Bob Warner will be the attraction
to aid in fund raising for the Fine
Art building by Springfield.
String Music
Tonight Ends
Concert Year
Emilie Lancel, Contralto,
To Assist Quartette in
Final Recital
| Student Body Tickets
Serve for Admittance
Six Groups Included in
Program of Evening
jf I ■'HE Underwood String Quar
tette and the assisting artists,
Emilie Lancel, Dean Landsbury and
Aurora Potter Underwood, have ar
ranged a varied program for their
concert this evening, which is to
be given in the M. E. church at
8:30. This is the last, of a series
of concerts, sponsored by the A. S.
U. O., to be given this season. No
admission will be charged of those
holding student body, cards or sea
son tickets.
The quartet, Bex Underwood, first
violin, Delbert Moore, second violin,
Buford Roach, viola, Miriam Little,
violincello, was organized about two |
years ago by Mr. Underwood. Sinco
then it lias gained greatly in pop
ularity here in the Northwest. This
last season it has given concerts in
Portland, Ashland and Klamath
Falls.
Underwood Finished Musician
Bex Underwood has had a wide
experience in concert and group
playing. After attending the Con
servatory of Paris, he had exper
ience in concert playing throughout
Germany and England before re
turning to the United States.
The quartet is known for its well
balanced ensemble. Moreover, no
one instrument in the group dom
inates over the others, as is some
times the case. J. L. Wallin, music
critic of the Portland Journal, says
of its recent Portland recital:
“Exceptionally well balanced en
semble was perhaps the outstanding
feature of the performance—a thing
of utmost importance in quartette
playing.”
Soloist to Aid
Emilie Lancei, contralto from
San Francisco, lias deserted the
operatic stage to devote her time
to the concert platform because she
feels she does her best work in
concert, where she is free and alone
to give of her inmost self, with
no scenery, no costumes or fellow
artists to help or hinder: only her
own natural and cultivated re
sources to carry the day. She says:
“I feel that on the concert platform
I can be myself and give my best.”
Dr. Landsbury and Aurora Potter
Underjvood are both members of
the faculty of the school of music.
They have both had a considerable
experience in concert work as well
as in chamber music.
Program of Affair
The program, of about an hour
and a half in length, is as follows:
1. Quartette—Op. 26 ....Glazounow
Interludium
Finale
2. Aria from “La Favorita” ....
.Donizetti
Go, Lovely Rose, Rodger Quilter
Sea Wrack .Hamilton Harty
Miss Lancel
3. Quartette—Op. 16 ....Beethoven
Andante Cantabile
Rondo
(For piano, violin, viola and vi
olincello. Piano, Dr. Landsbury)
4. Apres un Reve .Faure
Mandolin .Debussy
Hymne au Soleil .
.Alexander Georges
5. Gavotte in B minor .
.Bach-Saint-Saens
Spinning Song .Wagner-Liszt
Isolden’s Liebes Tod .
.Wagner-Liszt
6. Quintette .Carl Goldmark
Scherzo, Adagio, Allegro
Mrs. Underwood and Quartette
Botany Teachers Plan
Hike; to Gather Moss
If weather conditions permit this
week-end, a party of four instructors
and assistants from the botany de
partment will make a trip to New
port for the purpose of collecting a
special kind of moss, known as Liv
erworts or Hepatic moss, of a very
dark green color, and plentiful in
that particular locality.
Those who will make the trip are
Miss Lourene Taylor, instructor,
Wilbur Hayden, MiBS Hazel Hay
den, graduate assistant, and Miss
Ethel Sanborn, also instructor in
the department.
Students Trust
Clouds to Hold
No Raindrops
Collection of Umbrellas
Slickers and Golashes
Note at Depot
Bare headed, un-sliekered men
and umbrellaless co-eds are the
spring forecasts from the University
depot.
Neither optimism or weather re
ports are the source of them either.
No, the 59 umbrellas, the dozen or
two yellow water-shedders, and the
varied assortment of hats and caps
hanging tagged, tout forgotten in the
‘found’ closet, speak for themselves.
Their owners must have been suf
fering from over confidence in the
discretion of Jupiter. Or perhaps
they .just wanted cause for another
spring inroad upon the family pock
etbook.
Goloshes must still be a wanted
article of milady’s wardrobe, how
ever, for only one pair answered
present when roll call was taken
yesterday. The ravages of campus
walking on stockings and shoes may,
or may not, have something to do
with this matter.
A few grown jack-knives, several
tested compacts, and the usual as
semblage of pencils and pens are
also numbered am,ong the idlers.
‘Losts’ aren’t the only things
hanging around the depot; there is
beside the little) matter of 4,000 or
so daily letters and bundles. Cold,
cruel, accurate figures show that
28,779 specimens of that variety
journeyed thither the last week be
fore exams—probably silent pray
ers enunciated on paper.
The moral is: mail home your
laundry and bring back your slick
er.
All-Star Women
Swimmers to Hold
“Wire” Meet Friday
The entrants in the telegraphic
swimming meet in which tho wom
en 's all-star swimming team is go
ing to participate at 5 o’clock on
Friday afternoon have undergone
one substitution.
The University of Washington
has dropped out and the Illinois
Wesleyan college of Bloomington,
Illinois has taken its place. Tho
participants now are: University
of Oregon, University of Montana,
and Wesleyan College.
Oregon women who will partici
pate are Iono Garbe, Olive Banks,
Dorothy Brown, Margaret Pepoon,
Beth Ager, Virginia Lounsbury,
Myrabelle Palmer, and Ellcan Farg
har.
Eight events have been scheduled.
The first is a plunge for distance;
then there are seven races. There
are three 40-yard races in different
strokes, a 20-yard back stroke, an
under-water swim, a 100-yard free
style, and a relay free style. Mem
bers of the Amphibian club, swim
ming honorary, will give stunts to
supplement the races.
No admission will be charged, and
the meet is open to the general pub
lic.
League Heads
For Next Year
AreNominated
Marion Barnes to Oppose
Esther Hardy for
Presidency
Elections to be Held
At Library Tuesday
Two Candidates Running
For Each Position
AT THE first Women’s League
mass meeting of the term, held
yesterday in Alumni hall of the
Woman’s building at 5 o’clock, an
nouncement was made of the nom
inees for next year’s Women’s
League officers. They are: presi
dent, Marian Barnes, Esther Hardy:
vice-president, Frances Plimpton
Edna Ellen Bell: treasurer, Marion
Sten, Marian Leach; secretary,
Jo Ann Patterson, Edith Dodge; ser
geant-at-arms, Sylvia Selmour, Bea
trice Milligan; reporter, Dorothy
Baker, Maudie Loomis.
Voting Next Tuesday
Elections will be next Tuesday in
front of the library steps and the
polls will remain open from 9 until
3 o ’clock.
Betjring officers are: president,
Kathryn Ulrich; vice-president,
Catherine Struplere; treasurer, Ma
rian Barnes; secretary, Nancy Peter
son; sergeant-at-arms, Elaine Craw
ford; reporter, Margaret Long.
The newly elected president and
Kathryn Ulrich will attend a na
tional Women’s League convention
this month, to be held at North
western University in Evanston, n
linois.
Frolic Discussed
Other business brought up at the
meeting was a discussion of the
manner in which stunts are now put
on at April Frolic. For the last
two years the stunts have been pre
sented by the freshman, sophomore,
junior and senior classes, while pre
vious to this, half of the women’s
houses on the campus alternated in
producing them. It was decided
that the latter method had proved
to be much simpler and a motion
was made t* the effect that it be
the regular custom used at April
Frolic.
Doan Virginia Judy Esterly an
nounced that Mrs. Cheryl Scholz,
dean of women at Eeed college, who
is conducting a University tour to
Europe this summer, is on the cam
pus and will make an appointment
with anyone interested in making
the trip. Appointments with her
can be made through Dean Esterly.
Harl R. Douglass Will
Read Paper at Spokane
Harl It. Douglass, professor in the
school of education, left yesterday
for Spokane, Washiugton, where he
will represent the school of educa
tion at a meeting of the Inland Em
pire Teachers’ association. He will
read a paper before the group on
“Developments in the Testing
Movement of Interest to School
Administrators. ”
Blanding Sloan Exhibition Offers
Variety of Moods and Expression
Etchings an«l Block Prints of Famous Modernist
Hold Message Even for That School
An art that breathes the thoughts
of one of the country’s most ver
satile artists, that betrays a nature
given to impishness, satire, joking,
ironic philosophizing, and sensitive
ness, such is the work that is por
trayed in the collection of etchings
and block prints now hanging in
the exhibiting room of the art
building. The work is that of Bland
ing Sloan, modern of modernists, and
his work holds a surprise for those
who are not particularly interested
in the work of the modernists as
well as for those who are. For the
uninterested, it will perhaps suggest
something that the school is striv
ing toward, the message of the mod
ernists. If they get an inkling of
this, they are repaid for going.
Then too, it has been said that no
one ever sees a Blanding Sloan ex
hibition without going away feel
ing a little richer intellectually
than he was when he arrived. For
those who are interested in the
modern movement, the surprise will
be pleasing, for they will recognize
some interesting work and what
they will consider several steps to
ward the ambition of every sincere
modernist, the representation of
man’s deepest emotions and feel
ings.
In the works of Blanding Sloan
one finds expressed at times a deep
satirical meaning; at other times
the outstanding characteristic is a
tender sympathy, and at still other
times they reflect an artist who ia
primarily a poet at heart. Name
any characteristic of humanity and
you will be almost sure to find it
suggested in some manner in the
etchings and block prints in the
exhibition.
Sloan is one artist who cannot be
classified, so diverse are his works
and his ideas reflected in them. Per
haps the nearest one might come to
placing him in a certain category
of professional identity, if it is nec
essary to do so, would be to call
him one of the new-theater artists.
Even at that the title is general.
The exhibition will be hanging
all month and campus and towns
people are invited to visit.