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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1931)
Polyphonic Choir Contests For Best Singing Groups Set For Thursday and Friday* Male Quartet Entries To Be Judged First O o sP Co-c<ls Sextets From Eleven Living Organizations To Sing Next Two 30-Inch Loving Cups Prizes for Winners In Each Division The contests for the polyphonic choir trophies to be awarded the best singing groups representing men’s and women's living organi zations will be held in the music auditorium Thursday and Friday evenings, at 8 o’clock, was the an nouncement of George Barron, president of the University poly phonic choir, made last night. The men will sing Thursday night, each group being represent ed by a quartet. The women’s sex tets will sing Friday night. The auditions will be free, Barron said, and it is expected that supporters of the contestants will fill the au ditorium. Two Cups Prizes Eleven women's houses and ten men's houses signed for the con test last February. Representa tives of each house will be con tacted today by members of the audition committee, Barron stated. The prizes are 30-inch loving cups, donated by members of the choir, and one will go to the winner in each division. The contests will be judged by a competent musician who is not connected with the campus. "For obvious reasons,” Barron said, “his name connot be made known until after the winners have been decid ed upon.” Details of the contest will be re leased tomorrow. Houses Are Named Houses entered in the women's division are: Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Xi Del ta, Beta Phi Alpha, Chi Omega, Delta Gamma, Hendricks hall, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, and Sigma Kappa. Men's groups originally entered are: Alpha hall, Alpha Tau Omega, Kappa Sigma, Oregon Yeomen, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Del ta, Phi Sigma Kappa, Sigma Nu, Theta Chi, and Zeta hall. The marks you get at the end of the term are often determined at your breakfast! Eat right and your chances for success, academic or athletic, are way out ahead. Try the favorite of many coaches—and professors too — the training food for athletes and students alike — Shredded Wheat. Two of these famous whole wheat biscuits, in a bowl of good rich milk and you cross the campus with a will to absorb the dreariest lecture or knock out the stiffest quiz. You can’t find a more health ful and happier combination for a college man’s breakfast than Shredded Wheat and milk. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY “Uneeda Bakers” Landsbury Classifies Nancy Thielsen Recital as Different ) Voice Shown Outstanding Promise, Is Assertion Of Music Dean "Just the fellow I want to see. Sit down over there and listen to this.” "I’d like a statement from you concerning—” "Listen!” John J. Landsbury, doctor of mu sic, and dean of the University school of music, played a ditty. Then he played the same ditty over again. The Pmerald reporter sat and listened. "Which did you like best?” he demanded. "Will you give me a statement for the Emerald concerning—” “The first was the original Mo zart, the second was my mutilation of it.” “What do you think about —" "We’re making up about 800 tests to determine scientifically the popular preference in music styles and —” h “How about Nancy Thielsen’s concert?" “Nancy Thielsen! Why didn’t you say so? Why, I don't remem ber ever having heard a soprano voice which showed greater prom ise. “You know, it is exactly the kind of a voice you would expect to hear at the Metropolitan, or a big box of fice attraction. Not only her exquis site voice, but her artistic discrim ination, her modest and unassuming stage presence, all contribute to make a recital which will be very different from other senior recitals. It will not be ’better,’ it will be dif ferent, in a class by itself. “Few people, especially the stu dents, realize that we have right here on the campus a singer of such outstanding excellence.” “Whew,” sighed the reporter. “Well, maybe ‘them’s strong words,’ but they’re honest, and from the heart.” “Then you would advise going to hear her?” “Absolutely! By all means! Surely! Of course! Yes!” Who Rescues Red Robin?-—Oregon Men Are Heroes "Who rescued Red Robin?’’ “I,” chorus Cap Roberts, George Kerr, and Bob Voegtly. Correct. A certain robin, be lieved to be Mr. Red Robin of the campus, Thursday became entan gled in a piece of string and a branch of one of the locust trees in front of the Administration building. "He was hanging head down and flopping around. We thought he must have gone crazy,” said Cap Roberts afterwards. He and the two other S. A. E.’s looked more closely and discovered the entanglement. One of the three men was hoisted to the tree, from which he broke the branch on which the bird was caught. At a late hour last night, a chafed leg and complete exhaus tion were the only injuries re ported. Mr. Robin refused to make any statement for the press, and made himself scarce in some near by shrubbery. Plans Shaping Up For Annual Soph Picnic on May 23 Swimmers’ Delight Will Be Scene of Week-Enil Revelry Plans for the annual sophomore picnic, to be held this Saturday, May 23 at Swimmers’ Delight, are commencing to take form, accord ing to Bart Siegfried, general chairman, and Larry Bay, assist ant chairman of the event. The affair will be the last spon sored by the class of ’33 in this term. The date has been set for Saturday to avoid conflict with classes and other scheduled events. Aside from the races and refresh ments which are customary of pic nics, dancing will be enjoyed to the music furnished by George Webber's five-piece orchestra. A committee meeting will be called for later in the week. The general chairman, appointed last week by Bart Siegfried and James Travis, class prexy, are: Larry Bay, assistant chairman; Bob Goodrich, music; Esther Hayden, publicity; Rudy Cromelin, trans portation; Marguerite Tarbell, re freshments; Scott Milne, grounds; Harold Short, features; Corwin j Calavan, patrons and patronesses. Psychologists of Pacific Coast To Gather Here Soon Meeting Will Be First Held Outside of California For Group The annual meeting of the Western Psychological association will take place on the campus June 12 and 13, according to word received by the local department from Paul R. Farnsworth, of Stan ford university, secretary of the association. The meeting will be attended by professors, students, and other persons interested in psychology from all the western states, and this year's session at Eugene will be the first held out side of California since the associ ation was formed. The program for the gathering i includes sessions for both morning j and afternoon, and the annual din I ner to be held Friday evening. All i meetings will be held in Condon hall. Robert H. Seashore, associ ate professor of psychology, has been appointed local chairman for the convention and is answering questions for those planning on coming from other states. The University dormitories will be at the disposal of the visiting psy chologists during their stay here. The program for the meeting as tentatively set follows: Friday, June 12 Program at psychology laboratory, 10-12 and 2-1. Annual banquet and presi ! dent’s address at Nimrod Inn on the McKenzie river near Eugene. Saturday, June 13 Program at psychology laboratory, 10-12 and 2-4, followed by a trip to Oregon I State college at Corvallis. Sunday, June 11 First annual golf tournament at Laurelwood. PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT Alpha Xi Delta announces the pledging of Ruth Staton of Eu gene and the pledging and initia tion of Miss E. Lenora Casford. head of the periodical department at the University library. Order of the O To Crash Society With Barn Bust All-Campus anee Is Slated For Friday Evening At the Igloo An all-campus barnyard bust on a large scale is to be the outstand ing social event of the present week for at the Igloo Friday night the Order of the O will en tertain with its second annual brawl. The Ten Commanders, new cam pus band, have been billed to pro vide the music, and those in charge are working up several unique fea ture acts to fill out the amusement side of the program. The an nouncement was made last night by Roy Hughes, Chairman in charge. All doors leading to the floor will be barred, Hughes said, and entry to the giant barnyard will be exclusively by way of a 30-foot greased slide zooming down from the balcony of the pavilion. All comers will make their landings into a life-size hay stack at the foot of the skids. "Hick” costumes and miscellan eous others, the more interesting and the more original the better, will be in order, the lettermen de cree. In line with its all-athletic back ing, the dance will have for pa trons and patronesses the entire coaching staff and the entire phy sical education staff, with their wives, Hughes announced. Order of the O members are selling tickets in the fraternities and halls, and 250 are on sale in the office of the graduate mana ger in Friendly hall. George Chris tenson is assistant chairman for the dance, working with Hughes and Kermit Stevens, Order of the O president. ‘HOTEL UNIVERSE’ CAST LIVE REALISTIC PARTS (Continued from rage One) technique. He has been good, but he has never been completely con vincing; he has never been abso lute master of himself and his stage until last night. Last night he was par excellence. With these two should be men tioned Norma L. Jacobs, as Lily Malone, and Carl F. Klippel, as Stephen Field. Norma Jacobs, like Mr. Brockman, has heretofore been good. Last night she was an ac tress. In the beginning she plays the part of an ultra-sophisticated, bitter, disillusioned woman of the world. She was just that: ultra sophisticated, bitter, and disillu sioned. Under the spell of ‘‘Hotel Universe” she relives a scene from her childhood. She is graceful, lovable, and she is unfortunate. One finds the reason for who and what she is: Lily Malone. Mr. Klippel, as Stephen Field, surpasses himself. He is a psychic on the verge of death. He is a great man. Those of the audience who were not gripped by the strangeness of the play before came fully under its spell when Mr. Klippel, grey-bearded and with a feeling of the hereafter tangibly about him, came on the stage. As for the rest of the cast, they were excellent. Ottilie Turnbull Seybolt, as Hope Ames, was fully the woman whose convention bound mind and maternal instinct, are too strong to be torn away by unconventionality. She was too wrapped-up in her family affairs to think. Jack Stipe, as Norman Rose, was slightly stiff at the begin ning. When he, too, came under the influence of the past and turned to his Jewish beginnings, he lost this. He unbent. He was no longer Jack Stipe, he was the Jewish Rose, merchant. Walden Boyle, as Tom Ames, was especially good when he re verted to his boyhood, “under the piano.” He handled his whole part with ease and a certain grace. Jean Williams, as Alice Kendall, was good throughout, but didn't distinguish herself until the sleep walking scene. Then she was a woman as are all women. She was universal. Felix Legrand, as Felix, the : Dr. Ella C. Meade I OPTOMETRIST > < [ “Orthogon soft light lenses eliminate glare and distortion.” I : PHONE 330 :| 14 West Eighth 1 French waiter, has only a minor part, but this he did well. As I have said, “Hotel Universe” was a confessional: for the actors, because they lived it; for the audi ence, because they could see them selves as typified in every part. In the beginning the colors, the graceful poses of the women, the business of the stage, were notice able. At the end, they were com pletely swallowed up in the action, as they should be. Two or three times, cues were clipped, lines bungled, but these can easily be overlooked. Ottilie Turnbull Seybolt, with this play, has produced the best and most finished production of her career as a director at the University. The production staff deserves great credit for effective stage settings and lighting that did much to add to the balance and total effect. “Hotel Universe” is a production that no one should miss. ELMER ADAMS DROWNS IN SURF AT HECETA (Continual from Tcigc One) south of Heceta beach along the | course of the rip tide. One of the heaviest surfs in j years was running at Heceta beach i Sunday, the breakers extending far out and the waves being very i high. The surf was so rough that j the coast guard crew was unable to get a boat over the bar for use in the search for the body. Graduated in 1929 Adams was born in Eugene No vember 2, 1906. He graduated from the University of Oregon school of business administration in 1929. He had been employed! at the Co-op ever since. He was very active in the Obsidians, of which he was a charter member and a leader or “chief.” He was a member of the Gleemen and of the Baptist church, where he sang in the choir. He is survived by his parents, Professor and Mrs. Percy P. Adams; a brother, Wilbur; two sisters, Mrs. Reuben C. Young and Catherine Adams; and a grand- i mother, Mrs. Mary E. Livermore. | Entertainment at Salem Will Mark Inter-City Affair School of Social Science To Aid in Sponsoring Movement A big community entertainment and dinner at Salem on Friday, May 22, will mark the celebration of the inter-city community move ment, when Eugene and other towns near Salem will take part. P. O. Riley, Hubbard, president of the Marion County Federation, has charge of the arrangements and is being aided by the school of ap plied social science at the Univer sity of Oregon, which is sponsor ing the inter-city movement. The best of the talent from the 52 organized communities of the Mdrion County Federation of com munity clubs will take part in the entertainment at the Elsinore the atre on the evening of May 22. Elimination contests are now in progress, which will leave but six entrants for the final night, at which time the winner will be de termined. The University of Oregon band, under the direction of John Stehn, will be taken to Salem to take part in the program, with trans portation furnished by the Eugene service clubs and the Eugene chamber of commerce. A big community dinner will be held honoring the band at 0 o’clock, with the service clubs and cham ber of commerce of Salem as the hosts. Community leaders from all over the Willamette valley will be pres ent for the entertainment, which is the largest of this kind to be held. It is hoped to stimulate co operation between communities with this celebration, and to pave the way for future meetings. Otto Frohnmayer Recovers Otto J. Frohnmayer, freshman in the law school, is returning to the campus today from the Pa cific Christian hospital, where he has been convalescing from an op eration for appendicitis. WHAT SHOW TONIGHT ? Heilig — “The Perfect Alibi,” i all English cast. McDonald — “The Secret Six,” with Wallace Beery. State — Double bill of “Madon na of the Streets,” and “Con spiracy.” Colonial — George Arliss in ‘Old English.” “Secret Six” Fair Show “The Secret Six,” highly touted J as a masterpiece of life with the ' racketeers, was disappointing, of course. The plot was garbled, the secret six themselves having a minor part. Wallace Beery and Jean Harlow weren't good. Beery was miscast. Miss Harlow has only one expression and she uses it on all occasions. However, there are a number of thrilling moments in “The Secret Six,” and it is worth seeing for the splendid acting of minor members of the cast. New Murder Mystery at Heilig A new kind of murder mystery melodrama is “The Perfect Alibi," playing today at the Heilig. Planned craftily, by A. A. Milne, performed carefully by an intelli gent English cast, the film informs the audience in the beginning of every action of the criminal. The audience at all times is the only one to know the solution. Plenty worth seeing. “Old English” Returns A rare comedy is “Old English,” starring eminent George Arliss, and returning today for a Colonial run. It is not often that one finds the combination of a star such as Arliss, a play of John Gals worthy's, and direction of intelli gence brought together. LOWEST FARES IN YEARS! $450 to the /^\RIENT and Back STRICTLY FIRST CLASS % The once-in-a-lifetime trip becomes a vacation voyage. You can go this summer at a cost no more than that of an ordinary vacation. These roundtrip fares, strict ly First Class, are in effect April 1 to July 31 . . . Re turn limit October 31. Yokohama $450; Kobe $465; Shanghai $520; Hong Kong or Manila $565. Stopovers. Enjoy the Orient this sum mer at a cost no more than an ordinary vacation. Enjoy days at sea on the famous President Liners. Your ticket includes meals, an outside stateroom with twin beds . . . all the luxuries of a great ship . . . Let us help you plan your finest and most unique vacation. 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