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♦ SOCIETY ♦ By CAROL HURLBL'RT 39 Dances Scheduled With 19 house dances scheduled for the week-end, a sudden burst of gaiety is sweeping over the campus before the Thanksgiving holidays. * * * Phi Psi Feudal Dance The charm and the graciousness of a manor house of the old feudal style will be the atmosphere of the Fhi Kappa Psi informal dance which will be given tonight at the chapter house. Coats of arms will decorate the Walls and the windows are being done over to resemble painted glass. Robert W. Johnson is general chairman. Patrons and patroness es will be Mr. and Mrs. W. F. G. Thacher, Mr. and Mrs. James Harding, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred West. * # t Sigma Kappa Gives Dance The Sigma Kappa dance which will be held tonight will portray a return to the land of imagination end wonderland. It is to be extrav agantly fantastic and as yet no de tails of the decorations have been given out. Dena Lieuallen is in charge. The list of patrons and patronesses in cludes Mrs. Jennie Burrows, Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Mather, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Robers, and Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Stillman. # t- * Betas Oo “Apache” Beta Theta Pi is going Apache at their dance tonight. The house will be turned into a Bohemia with red and blue checked table-cloths, girls with berets and high heels. Bill Barendrick, with Treve Jones, has charge of the affair. The patrons and patronesses will be Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Gage, Mr. and Mrs. Art Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Riggs, Mr. Hal Chapman. * * * Phi Delta at Eugene The Eugene hotel will be the scene of the Phi Delta Theta fall informal tonight. The ballroom will be formally decorated with palms and colored flood-lights. Ken Siegrist is making the ar rangements. Patrons and patron esses will be Mr. and Mrs. Camp bell Church, Mr. and Mrs. Carl ton Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Wagner, Mr. John Walker. * * * Pledge l’ln Dance Motif The black and gold pledge pin will be used by the Chi Psi lodge as the motif for their pledge dance which will be given tonight at the Golf club. Arthur Babson is in Charge of the plans. The patrons and pa tronesses are: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Neighbor Jr., Mr. and Mrs. W. F. G. Thacher, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hardy, and Dean David E. Faville. * * * 8. A. E. To Have Circus With a reputation for giving some of the cleverest dances known on the campus, Sigma Alpha Ep silon will tonight uphold that rep utation with a circus dance at the Osburn hotel. The walls will be hung with bur lap, as if it were a tent; wild ani mals in circus cages will glare on the assembled multitudes. Don Eva is general chairman. The patrons and patronesses will include: Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Eva, Mr. Edward Lesch, Mr. R. Cogge shall, Mr. utul Mrs. John Stark Evans. Kappa Slgs Use Barn Hay! Hay! Kappa Sigma is entertaining to night with a barn dance. Ye fair co-eds will be shot down a slide from the second floor in order to enter. Old-fashioned buggies will perambulate around the room. Chickens, ducks, turkeys will hang from the rafters, and the usual dark atmosphere will pervade. Jack Burke is in charge. Pa trons anil patronesses are: Dr. and Mrs. D. C. Stanard, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Shields, Mr. S. Stephenson Smith. Hoboes Inhuliit Alpha Hall Hoboes will inhabit the hobo Jungles of Alpha hall at the dance which will be given at the men’s dormitory. The programs are of tin. Trees will grow along the walls and tin cans will lie among them. Dave Totton is chairman for the affair. Patrons and patronesses are: Dr. and Mrs. Leo Friedman, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. ManeruC, Mr and Mrs. Sam Wilderman. * * * O House Becomes Harlem Alpha Gamma Delta turned its house into Harlem, panelling the walls with street scenes and tall sky-scrapers. A tap-dance by a cuhlo’ed man was the feature of the evening. Josephine Damasch was in charge. The list of patrons and patronesses included: Mr. and Mrs. George Godfrey, Mrs. Jeanette Lange, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Hold, Miss Maude Kerns, and Mr. and j Mrs. J. M. Adams. * * * Theta Omega Pledge Dance Green parrots with flashes of brilliant autumn leaves will line the walls of the Theta Omega chapter house at their pledge dance this evening. The chairman is Corinne Car penter. Patrons and patronesses are: Mrs. John Hershner, Mr. and Mrs. Karl M. Pallett, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hawkins. * * * Autumn Leaves Motif Chi Delta will entertain this evening with an informal dance at the Craftsman’s club. Autumn leaves and flowers will be used for decorations. Catherine Duer is in charge of the affair. Patrons and patroness es include: Mrs. May Burkhart, Mrs. Warren D. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Knapp, and Mr. and Mrs. Dan Clark. * * * “Paddle Idea" Used The Sigma Alpha Mu pledge will be given at Lee Duke’s tonight and will use the ‘‘paddle-idea” as motif. David Bloom is in charge. Patrons and patronesses are: Dr. and Mrs. Leo Friedman, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Manerud, and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Wilderman. # * * Thanksgiving Baehelordon Motif Ten other dances made the night merry yesterday evening. Bachelor cion used a Thanksgiving idea, dec orating with cornstalks and pump kins. Those in charge were Keith Ma guire and Joe Haslinger. The chap erones were: Professor and Mrs. F. S. Dunn, Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Miller, and Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Morris. * * * Tri-Delts Have Card Danre A card dance, with huge cards hanging on the walls, transparent dice around the lights, dice with candles inserted were used as cen terpieces, and programs which were like hands of cards that shuffle out, characterized the pledge dance which Delta Delta Delta gave. Olive Ritan was chairman. Pa trons and patronesses were: Dr. and Mrs. Robert Betts, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Rogers, and Prof, and Mrs. A. R. Sweetser. * * # A. T. O. Uses Paddies A paddle dance, the motif for which was huge modernistic pad dles, modernistic Greek letters painted thereon, was given by Al pha Tau Omega honoring its pledges. George Vaughan was in charge. Patrons and patronesses were: Dean H. L. Biggs, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Finsley, Dr. Mark Phy. Theta Pledges Entertain Using an “art idea” with origin al and very fine paintings, archi tectural plans and statues, bril liant scarf i and rugs to decorate. Kappa Alpha Theta’s pledges of 1929 honored the pledges of 1930 at a formal dance. The patrons and patronesses were: Mrs. Grace Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell church, Mrs. Dean Walker, and Miss Celia Stoddard. WHAT SHOW TONIGHT? Guild theatre — Last day, “Holiday,” with Nancy Thiel sen. Legit, comedy. McDonald Saturday only, "Derelict.” Drama. Sunday and Monday, “Rain or Shine.” Colonial Saturday only, Garbo in “Anna Christie.” Tra gic drama. Sunday, “Gold Dig gers of Broadway.” Musi-come dy. Heilig — Saturday only, “Of f i c e r O’Brien.” Melodrama. Sunday and Monday, “The Of fice Wife.” Melodrama. Rex — Saturday and Sunday, “Trails of Danger.” Western. Bancroft in Sea Film “Derelict,” with George Ban croft, and playing for the last day at the McDonald, has some of the best photographic work of any pic ture in recent months; certainly the best among sea pictures. For sheer thrill of seeing the action of the ocean in stormy weather, some of the odd shots can't be beat. “Anna Christie” at Colonial In her finest dramatic piece since “Flesh and the Devil,” Greta Gar bo (she talks) is playing the Co lonial theatre for the last time to day in “Anna Christie.” The film is a tense drama of human emo tions. It has a masterly cast, Ma rie Dressier playing the best role of her career, and is faithfully re corded from the famous play by Eugene O'Neill. Willium Boyd l'luys Policeman In tlio role of a policeman des perately trying to save his father from a career in crime, William Boyd is playing for the last time Saturday at the Heillg theatre in ‘‘Officer O’Brien." It is an under world melodrama, with Ernest Tor rence doing the outstanding work 1 in the character of the wayward father. Famous Novel Is Screened The Heilig is bringing on Sun day and Monday, “The Office Wife." stirring novel that sold like fire all over the country last sum mer. it is the story of men who have two wives, one the legal, and the other, the stenographer or sec retary. It is advertised as a pic ture with a moral. Western at Rev The Hex theatre continues its policy of week-end westerns this week with “Trails of Danger," a blood and thunder story of the West when bandits were bold and , ladies were forced to carry fire ' arms. McDonald Features New Comedian Joe Cook, the famous "one-man show," makes his debut in "Rain or Shine,” the McDonald attrac tion for Sunday and Monday. He can, but not only does, it is said, do an entire show by him self. He sings, plays various mu sical instruments, performs acro batic stunts, dances and conjures, I with a little trick shooting thrown in. Louise Fazenda is thrown in as a certain laugh hit. Colonial lias Big Musl-Comedy Winnie Lightner, and a line up of performers that would make Ziegfield envious, including Ann Pennington and legs, comes to the Colonial on Sunday in the musi comedy hit, “Gold Diggers of Broadway.” Rated as much super ior to the ordinary type of filmed musical shows, the picture is done in technicolor. Tremendous I scenic effects are some of the big t features. Lantern Slides Will Show Greek Theatres to Class Lantern slides depicting the Greek and Roman theater will be shown at 11 o’clock Monday morn ing in 107 Oregon, Dr. Clara Smertenko, instructor of Latin and Greek, announced yesterday. The class in Latin comedy, which meets at that time, will be open to any students interested in the slides. The presentation will take the place of the regular class work, as Dr. Smertenko will be spending the week in California, where she will attend the Pacific coast branch conference of the American Philological association. Sigma Pi Tau lias Guest Walter F. Patrle, past president of the Portland Delta Upsilon Alumni club, is a guest of Sigma Pi Tau during a short stay in Eu gene. Mr. Patrie is traveling on business. He is a graduate of the University of Washington. Vice-President Here Burt Brown Barker, vice-presi dent of the University, arrived in Eugene yesterday in order to ad dress the American Association of University Women at the Osburn hotel this noon. -: Pi Sigma Adopts Rules for Award Plaque of Mythical Horse Will Be Prize At a meeting of Pi Sigma, Latin honorary, Thursday afternoon the following rules were adopted to he used in making an award for ex cellent work in Latin. 1. Candidates shall be ready to take courses numbered .'100 or over. 2. Only undergraduates shall be eligible. 3. Candidates shall submit to a competitive examination, the time and place of which shall be an nounced two weeks in advance. 4. Papers shall be submitted to at least one faculty member of an other institution in addition to two local instructors. 5. The department shall send uniform instructions to all judges tor ranking the papers. 6. These provisions shall be pub lished before the examination. 7. The prize shall be awarded at the banquet held in the spring term. The award being given by Pi Sigma is a plaque of the mythical horse, Pegasus, carved in wood. It has been on exhibition in the Co-op for several weeks. Cool Weather Brings on Annual Autumn Ailment The present cool spell, accord ing to infirmary records, is in creasing the epidemic of colds on the campus. For some time the health service has not had to cope with this popular autumn ailment, but yesterday two cases of colds were admitted to the infirmary. The students confined to the care of the health service at the present time are: Betty Prindle, Zelpha Houston, Phyllis Wold, Lloyd Brough, Virgil LaClaire, Donald McClintock, and George McFarland. Store Comptroller Talks To Class in Accounting H. F. Pupke, comptroller of the May Company store in Eugene, addressed the accounting system class in the school of business ad ministration on Thursday concern ing himself with the subject of "Department Store Accounting,” in which he discussed the methods of purchasing, the mark-ups and mark-downs, and the retail method of inventory. On Monday he will return to the campus to address the same class on the subject of the handling of the recording of sales and the dis tribution of expenses in depart ment stores. Etchings ami Sketches Are Displayed in Gallery An exhibit of etchings and sketches done in water color by W. F. Mcllwraith is being shown in the gallery of the school of ar chitecture. The sketches were made while Mcllwraith was in Europe last spring, but the etchings have been made at different times in Port land where he has resided for the last few years. Mr. Mcllwraith studied at the Art Student's League in New York under Mr. Twachtmal, well known teacher. Before coming to Port land, he was interested in adver tising art in New York. SUNDAY AT SEVEN $1.50 per Couple — For Reservations — Call Springfield 194 LEO’S VARSITARIANS Dance at Midway Student In Far-away Turkey Takes Course Through Mail Haif the way round the world, Helen Sahagian, 17-year-old Ar menian girl, is registered in Con stantinople, Turkey, for a Univer sity of Oregon correspondence course in the elements of English composition. Miss Sahagian is at the present time residing with Mrs. Lucile Mc Donald, a former University of Oregon student in journalism, at the American consulate in Alexan dria, Egypt. Of the circumstances under which the Armenian girl works, Mrs. McDonald writes: "You can’t imagine how discour aging it is to try things like this under the present conditions—no libraries, in a country with poor credit, prohibitive tariffs on paper and similar imported articles. Try ing to buy theme paper was a typ ical incident. We waited three days for the best stationer in town to rummage in his warehouse for a pad of something that remotely resembled the brand used at home. When the McDonalds return to the United States, they plan to bring Miss Sahagian with them to enter the University of Oregon, wtiere she wants to study medi cine. Miss Sahagian has made higher than a II average on the first 12 lessons in her course, although she is forced to write laboriously I in a foreign tongue. Physical Eil Majors Will Hike to Bahly and Caves Phi Epsilon Kappa, men’s na tional physical educational honor ary, is sponsoring a hike for physi cal ed majors to Baldy mountain and the Coburg caves today. The affair is planned as a social get together. At their Wednesday night meet ing the honorary was entertained by a talk given by Wendell L. Van p,oan of the education department. The honorary is featuring a series of speakers at its weekly meet ings and all members are urged to be. present. National Red Cross Roll Call Is Successful Here The National Red Cross roll call being conducted on the campus among the living organizations, faculty members, and members of personnel and the administrative staff, has been very successful so far, according to Dr. Philip A. Parsons, dean of the school of ap plied social science, who has gen eral charge of the campaign. “We are well pleased with the interest that has been taken in the drive. Both students and members of the administrative staff and faculty have been generous in their ■contributions,” Dr. Parsons said. Articles Lost at Bell Field At Grad.Manager’s Office _1 Some of the personal articles lost i by Oregon women at the Oregon Oregon State game last Saturday can be obtained by identifying them at the University graduate manager's office in Friendly hall, where they have been forwarded from Corvallis. According to the letter received by “Doc” Robnett, assistant grad uate manager of the University, from Bernard Hafenfeld, assistant j graduate manager of Oregon State I college, the list includes a number j ol umbrellas, gloves, purses, pens, and pencils, which were found un | der the Oregon women rooters’ 1 section at Bell field. Independent Men To Hold Special Meeting Monday The Independent Men of Oregon will hold a special meeting Mon day night at 7:30 in the men's lounge of Gerlinger hall, for the purpose of completing ratification of the new constitution, selecting a name, and discussing the part the organization will take in Inter national week, according to Clifton Culp, temporary president. The constitution was ratified, with the exception of the article “Eugene’s Own Stare" McMorran & Washburne PHONE 2700 Modern Designs Rayon Pajamas With the wide drape leg— they are not only smart . . . but very comfortable. New Designs S. P. CUTS FARES FOR Thanksgiving HOLIDAYS .10 Round Trip Portland SPECIAL TRAIN Wednesday, November 26 Leave Eugene .. 1:00 p. rn. Arrive Portland 4:30 p. m. — Returning, Nov. 30 — Leave Portland . 6:00 p. m. EQUALLY LOW FARES TO ALL POINTS In Oregon and Washington on sale November 23, 26, 27. Return Limit, Dee. 1. Phone 22C0 for Details Southern Pacific F. G. LEWIS, Agent concerning the name, at the meet ing last Monday night. At the first meeting after its adoption, the organization will nominate new officers. Mu Phi Alpha Sponsors Program for Vespers A musical program given by members of Mu Phi Alpha, nation al music fraternity for men, and a reading by Professor W. F. G. Thacher will constitute the ves pers service to be given at the mu sic auditorium at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon. George Barron will play Tschai kowsky's Andante Cantabile on the organ. Gifford Nash, baritone, and Hadsey Crawford, tenor, will both sing. Nash's selection is the aria “Draw Near All Ye People” from Mendelssohn’s “Elijah.” PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT Hermian club, women’s physical education honorary, announces the pledging of Vivian Coss and Mary Wilburn. “Mathematics and Music’ To Be Topic for Meeting The Mathematics club will hold its second meeting of the year on Monday, November 24, at 8 o’clock in Westminster house. Kenneth Kienzle, senior in mathematics, will read a paper on “Mathematics and Music." A short business meeting will precede the speaker's talk. Music will furnish the entertainment for the evening, and punch will be served. All members, including graduate assistants, are urged to attend. Eugene Mattress and Upholstering Co. Upholstering and Mattress Rebuilding Of All Kinds 1122 Olive Phone 812 Special Offering H. Q. Z. 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