Second Showing of Holiday
Cives Favorable Impression
Strength of Play Smooths
Over Few Rough Spots
Of Production
By THORNTON GALE
The second performance of Phil
ip Barry’s scintillating brilliant
comedy, “Holiday," played before
a packed audience in Guild hall
last night. It is the best thing that
has been acted on the campus in
the last four years.
As a play “Holiday” is excel
lent comedy. It is “good theatre"
and no matter who the cast, is
practically foolproof. The acting,
however, was far from amateurish.
A practically finished perform
ance waa given by Mias Nancy
Thielaen in her interpretation of
Linda Seton.
The social comment in "Holiday”
goes far beyond the mere satirical
purpose. It is intensely dramatic
and one subtle situation after an
other is handled cleverly and in
some cases with laudable restraint
The central theme deals with the
problem of a man who is in love
with and engaged to a wealthy and
arrogant society girl. He feels
that the narrow conventional con
finement of wealth will keep his
nose to the grindstone for t.rt" rest
of his days. He wishes to take his
vacation while young rather than
waiting until he is past middle age
and unable to longer enjoy him
self. The romance of far away
places and the lure of romance
calls him. He does not wish to
lose his personality in the symbols
of power and opulence. To tell you
the rest would spoil a good play
you may see.
Miss Thielsen carries herself
with distinction. There is some
thing about her reminiscent of the
great Beatrice Lilly, perhaps her
eyebrows. Her diction is clear and
emphatic. Her performance was
realistic and convincing. She
would do well in comedy parts.
Carl Klippel’s performance of
the young man, Johnny Case, was
remarkably refreshing. He has a
personality that gets over the foot
lights, and creates a personal sym
pathy and interest in what is after
all a slightly vacillating young
man. At times he is slightly in
genious and his interpretation
lacks strength of line, but on the
whole it is the best male dramatic
lead played for a long while.
Helen Mielke, plays Julia Seton,
the loved and lost. She gives a
completely adequate performance
of her part. With remarkable
constraint she avoids stealing the
show, by a too sympathetic por
trayal of the shallow supercilious
society girl. One can leave one’s
seat feeling greatly stimulated by
the contempt one feels for her
type. Miss Mielke deserves plenty
of credit for fine work In a diffi
cult role for any girl to play.
The direction of the play has
been excellent. To Miss Seybolt
should go the appreciation and
thanks of the campus for bringing
back to popularity the Very Little
Theatre movement.
The decore is not particularly
well done. The scenes lack any
convincing reality. And as picture
it is spottily presented. With me
diocre props It is hard to present
eny sort of production, so too
much censure should not be heap
ed unou the designers.
Nick Potter, played by Donald
Confrey and Susan Potter, played
by Jean A. Williams, starred to
gether as comedy team. Panto
mime by Mr. Confrey and the de
lightful mannerisms of Miss Wil
liams were excellent comedy re
lief.
Addison Brockman’s perform
ance of the dissolute son and Em
ery Hyde as the hard-shelled fath
er were particularly fine bits.
Others in the cast who gave
commendable performances and
showed promise of talent were:
Walden Boyle, Jay Downs, Daisy
Swanton, Sanford Platt, Norma
Jacobs.
WHAT SHOW TONIGHT?
Guild Hall — "Holiday,” with
all-campua cast. Comedy.
Colonial — “Anna Christie,”
with Greta Garbo. Drama.
McDonald — “Derelict,” with
George Bancroft. Dram a t i c
comedy.
Heilig "Officer O'Brien,”
with William Boyd. Drama.
Rex — “Trails of Danger.”
Comedy.
Colonial Brings the Garbo
In one of the finest dramatic
pieces of modern times, "Anna
Christie,” by Eugene O’Neill, Gre
ta Garbo comes to the Colonial
theatre today and Saturday.
The picture is a very faithful
rendering of the original play, and
the Garbo does the best work of
her career in the tensely dramatic
role of Anna. It is her first talk
ing picture.
William Boyd at Helllg
William Boyd’s latest talkie,
“Officer O’Brien,” which comes to
the Heilig today, is a story of the
World of crime, of a young police
man whose father is a criminal.
tlniversily High Files
Need More Periodicals
"The library has u list of period
icals that are needed for the com
pleting of the files for the Univer
sity high school," said Mr. Doug
lass, librarian. "Any members of
the faculty having numbers which
they care to contribute for this
purpose are requested to leave
them at the University library.”
-The following is a list of the per
iodicals needed: Forum for July,
■1927, gnd May and October, 1929;
Survey for August and November
1, 1928,Oece*nber 16, January 1,
and January 15, April 1, June 1,
November 1, of 1929, January 15,
1930; Literary Digest, June 22 and
October 19, 1929 World’s Work
for December, 1925, May, 1927,
uud March, June, December, 1929.
Dr. \\ right Speaks
"Present Social Culture and
Problems of Mexico” was the sub
ject of the speech given by Dr.
Leavitt O. Wright, professor of
Romance languages, to the Fort
nightly club at a meeting held at
the Eugene hotel at 2;30 Thurs
day afternoon.
While police methods of break
ing up a Columbia student demon
stration were being protested by
college officials and students, Mel
ville J. Berlow, a law student, was
freed of a charge of disorderly con
duct in connection with the dem
onstration.
In the cast are Ernest Torrence,
playing the father, and a support
ing cast of merit.
“Derelict” at McDonald Theatre
George Bancroft, one of the fin
est talkie stars, comes to the Mc
Donald today in "Derelict,” a
drama of the sea.
The film is one of the most cost
ly, the most spectacular pictures
of the sea yet filmed. The produc
tion staff was faced by tremendous
technical difficulties. Their success
adds much to the picture.
With Bancroft are Jessie Royce
Landis, William Boyd, and James
Durkin.
ltex Has Western
“Trails of Danger,” is the pic
ture at the Rex theatre starting
today. It is an all-talking western
picture filled with love, regenera
tion, and thrills among the desper
adoes of the old West.
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SO CAST lilitlADWA V
They Star in Holiday
A'*’A«t/Msy, ■ A\ ://rr
Here arc two of the principals in the campus play “Holiday,”
which concludes a four-day run at the Guild theater tomorrow night.
On the left is Emery Hyde, who is playing the “heavy” role. On
the right is Jean Williams, who plays a comedy part.
Williamson Says
Book Not Written
On This Campus
Author States Oregonian’s
Impression Is Wrong;
Written at Stanford
That his book "The Donne Tra
dition" was not written in “the
shade of leafy Villard” was de
clared by George Williamson, of
the English department of this
University. A review of this work
in the Sunday Oregonian of Sep
tember 7 seemed to give the im
pression that very little in the
form of literary production had
ever been accomplished on this
"beautiful, somnolent campus,"
but that Mr. Williamson was an
exception.
The author firmly denies that
he has upset any Oregon tradi
tions of indolence by writing a
book on this campus. The book,
he states, was written on the
Stanford campus as his doctor’s
thesis.
The most cosmopolitan review
of “The Donne Tradition,” declares
the author, appeared in the Octo
b e r, 1930, issue of "English
Studies," written in English form,
at Florence, Italy, by Praz, an
Italian scholar, who teaches in the
University of Liverpool. To add
another nationality, the article
was published in a Dutch journal.
Another review of Mr. William
son's book was written by William
Lynn Philips in tho September
issue of Scribner's. There was
also s review of this book in the
July 31st edition of the London
Times and in the July issue of the
Bookman.
And still more articles are being
written on this work. Morton
Zabo, one of the editors of Poetry
and Magazine of Verse, will re
view “The Donne Tradition” in
verse. Another writer who will
comment on this book in print is
Pierre Le Gouis, whose review will
appear in the Revue Anglo-Amer
icaine.
Lucille Day Will Talk to
Student Church Groups
Miss Lucille Day, of the student
volunteer movement, who taught
religion in Turkey at a time when
all teachers of Christianity were
put in prison, will address all stu
dent church groups which will be
'guests of the Wesley club Sunday
jevening at 6 o’clock at the Metho
dist church.
Miss Day will give the assem
bled groups a message of the world
challenge of friendship. Her topic
will be "What Are You?”
Following this Miss May will
talk on "The Rebirth of Turkey”
al the evening church service at
the Methodist church at 7:30.
Sunday morning at 9:45 Profes
sor Calvin Crumbaker, associate
professor of economics, will have
charge of the Wesley club service.
His topic has not yet been an
nounced.
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Women’s Weekly
Hike Slated for
Sunday Morning
Sports Manager Redkey
To Conduct Jaunt Up
Skinner’s Butte
A short hike will be held Sun-;
day morning at 8:30 when Ella
Redkey, manager of the sport, will
lead all girls, interested in hiking
and who turn up at that time at
the Women's building, on a morn
ing jaunt up to and around Skin
ner’s butte.
The policy formulated at the
first of the term of a "hike a
month” has been changed. From
now on short hikes will be taken
every Sunday, averaging five miles
or more on each trip, and longer
over-night hikes will be taken at
the end of the month. There will
be no more long hikes this term,
however. Next semester Ella Red
key has planned, weather permit
ting, to journey on some “snow”
hikes, as well as the conventional
trips.
Thirty girls, or about half of the
original number signing up for
hiking as a W. A. A. activity,
have been on one or more of the
hikes planned or have turned in
mileage for individual hiking. Tt
is not too late to turn out for hik
ing, and 6-11 girls interested or
who need other campus activity
are urged to turn out for the hikes
as they are scheduled.
If it is an impossibility for
women to meet or attend the offi
cial hike3, they may turn in an
account of mileage covered, start
ing point, and destination of any
hike made in the presence of a
W. A. A. member. In the same
manner any W. A. A. member may
turn in a list of girls hiking with
her on any hike of more than five
miles. A box will be placed at
the entrance of the Women’s
building to receive the slips.
Geology Studes
Make Big Model
ttTT’S a hexaeoralla:” said the
geologists, as the reporter
stared in amazement at the
queer-looking object before him.
“We’ve been working on It for
two years. A hexaeoralla is a
sponge or coral, and to buy a
model of one would cost a lot,
so we made this one.”
The students went on to ex
plain that the model had been
sculptured and painted by the
paleontology class of Dr. E. L.
Packard, professor of geology.
The work is a cutaway to show
the internal structure of a coral.
It is about 14 inches high and,
according to its makers, is ashes
of roses In color. The work was
done by Harold Fisk, Howard
r-Handley, Harry Wheeler, Ed
ward Schenk, John Allen, Rich
ard Bogue, Meredith Sheets,
Ruth Hopson, and Margaret
Williams.
E. H. Hedrick Will Speak
Before Education Group
E. H, Hedrick, superintendent
of schools at Medford, Oregon, will
be guest speaker at the meeting
of the school of education on No
vember 23. according to announce
ment made by Franklin Anderson,
president, of the organization. Mr.
Hedrick, who is a prominent edu
cator of the state, received his
B.A. degree from the University
of Oregon in 1916 and his M.A.
degree in 1929.
The meeting of education stu
dents will be held in Gerlinger hall
at S o’clock next Tuesday evening.
In addition to the address by Mr.
Hedrick, the program will include
music and refreshments. A short
business meeting will be held to
decide upon a name for the or
ganization and to discuss some
matters of policy.
From Other •
COLLEGE
• CIRCLES
Landmarks Disappear
Two famous landmarks at the
College of the City of New York
have mysteriously disappeared.
One is the historic saber in the
hands of the statue of General
Webb, and the other is a bust of
Mercury. Both are believed to be
in the possession of some student
prankster.
Four Sisters in Same School
Charlotte, Miriam, Rachel and
Louise Slonaker are believed to
be the only four sisters in the
United States all enrolled in the
same college. All four are under*
graduates this year at Muskingum
, college. They live in Pittsburgh.
Wesleyans Too Numerous
Agitation has been renewed this
year on the Wesleyan university
campus to have the name of the
university changed. For some time
now the change of name has been
the subject of much discussion,
the chief reason for the proposed
change being that the institution
is so frequently mistaken for Wes
leyans in other parts of the coun
try, such as West Virginia Wes
leyan. Ohio Wesleyan, and several
others in the mid-West.
Later Hears at Oberlln
Romance, never lacking at Ober
lin college, now will have a better
chance than ever to flower on the
campus.
The joint student-faculty council
has announced that the hour at
which co-eds are required to be in
their “dorms” Saturday nights has
been changed from 10 to 11.
Heretofore co-eds have been al
lowed out after 10 only for special
dances and parties.
A Different Slant
Princeton university alumni,
meeting in Chicago, appointed a
committee to find out if Prince
ton’s scholastic standards are too
high, and if they are keeping foot
ball material away from the school.
Two Die From Paralysis
Two students of Carleton col
lege have died in the undergrad
uate epidemic of infantile paraly
sis, for which the college has been
quarantined.
Remember the . .
folks at home...
“WE WRAP FOR MAILING”
Walora Candies
857 East 13th
“Sez
When the Train
Pulls In
And you realize that you
are home, you will be ashamed
if the "folks” see you when you
do not look your best. Run
into the Eugene Beauty Shop,
in the Eugene Hotel building,
this week before you leave, and
get a wave. Perhaps you will
want your hair washed, too, by
the competent operators. Then,
in the rifth of vacation festivi
ties, you will be assured that
you look your best.
Home-Coming !
“Sue" means the home-com
ing that you'll know next week
when vacation time comes! Of
course you will want "to make
a good impression when you
step off the “special," and, as
a gentle reminder, you can’t
expect to look well-groomed if
your shoes need a shine. So
take a few minutes off tomor
row and drop in to the Campus
Shine Shop on Thirteenth and
get one of their famous shines.
They still have their special
tickets, too, with eleven shines
for a dollar!
Pewter !
Who doesn't like to make
their dining table look nice ?
McMorran and YVashbutne have
the best-looking pieces in pew
ter that “Sue'' has ever seen.
The darlingest three-piece tea
set with a low, squatty tea-pot
that just makes one yearn for
the old days of "tea hour." An
other cute ornament as well as
useful is a candelabra—a tradi
tional companion of the mantel
and side-board. In pewter it's
so complementary to Early
American schemes. There are
many other pieces of pewter
that "Sue" found, so reasonable,
too!
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Thanksgiving
V acation
Thanksgiving vacation is very near and “Sue” advises
you to stop in at the following stores to purchase some
little, adorable gift that would be appropriate to take home
to the folks. ‘‘Sue” hopes that all of her friends will have
a nice Thanksgiving dinner, but don’t eat too much turkey
so that it will spoil the rest of your vacation!
Alterations ?
Do any of your clothes need altering,
“ay the hem-line, sleeve, neck-line, or perhaps
there is too much fullness? “Sue” knows of
the best place where co-eds may take their
clothes to be made modern. The place is the
U. of O. Ko-Ed Shop next to the College Side
and, believe me, whether it’s sport, informal
or formal dress, you can certainly have it
altered right. If you care to have an entire
new dress made, the "Ko-Ed” will be glad
to be at your service.
Lest We Forget
Our manners during Thanksgiving vacation, ."Sue” reminds
us that the polite thing to do is to bring a small gift of apprecia
tion to your hostess, whether she be your’mother or youf best
friend's mother. The most suitable gifts "Sue” has found are
the modernly shaped, colored glass bowls and vases that the Ori
ental Art Shop is showing this week. There, next to the Eugene
Hotel, you can also find clever brass candlesticks and dainty
miniatures that any hostess would be pleased to own and you
would be proud to give.
Study Time
Can be made pleasant if you can
curl up in . a loose lounging-robe with
some comfv slippers on your feet.
Brightly colored, practical, and well
fitting—the good-looking bedroom slip
pers that Buster Brown's are featuring
now are just the thing for the cold eve
nings ahead. With values to $2.98, they
are all priced this week at $1.19! ‘'Sue"
thinks that's a real bargain! Drop in
to Buster Brown’s on Willamette and
get a pair in your favorite shade—and
Sue wagers it will be much easier to
study.
“Reigning
Beauty”
Your outfit isu’t complete
unless you carry one of the
adorable silk umbrellas which
Densmore and Leonards are
showing'. The cutest bird and
animal heads you ever saw.
Not only bird and animal heads
on the handles, but also on the
tips. You’ll certainly be “smart"
if you carry one of these um
brellas which come in any shade
to suit your fancy. “Style plus
protection” is the motto of
“Reigning Beauty” umbrella,
and it is one to keep so “Sue”
found out.
Found:
Costume Rings
"Sue” found the most attrac
tive sterling silver costume
rings at Laraway’s Jewelry
Store. If you have any partic
ular stone which you would pre
.fer you’ll certainly find it
here. A darling onyx studded
with marquesate makes an
adorable finger ring and so rea
sonably priced. To make your
Thanksgiving vacation complete
you must get one of these new
accessories. * You'll certainly be'
the* envy ■> of.; the folk's at hoftie
when, you - can “f}*sbi;» such, $.
ring; before tfceir. eyes, ’,.,
Flowers for
Thanksgiving
H6.Ve yoii ever seen a table
' beautifully decorated without-;
flowers’?t „ Qf . course- not-, and -
especially on Thanksgiving you
will wanf some flowers to adorn
your table, to make the decora
tipns complete. Should you be
compelled to stay here for
Thanksgiving, •'She" would cer
tainly "say it with flowers" to
the folks at home through the
Florist Telegraph Delivery As
sociation, of which the Univer
sity Florist is the local repre
sentative.